At the sound of Gwynne's voice Bakilas spins and points his guns, realising who it is he once again sheaths his guns. "I am unharmed and Storm has already turned down my offer of blood, as if he would drink blood from one of your type after rejecting mine" He mumbles to himself "Thalali seems to be fine. What minions do you speak of? Should we fight or run?"

[ 01-14-2004, 11:10 PM: Message edited by: shadowhound ]

<font color=CCCCCC>A chittering sound reminiscent of a horde of spiders grew louder, shortly after Gwynne entered she was followed by several... things, crawling across the walls and one on the ceiling with legs that seem more like bone spurs than full appendages.

They were about two feet tall, with eight legs supporting a human head, of the four you see now three have the heads of very young children, the fourth looks like it has been reconstructed to appear more youthful. (ooc Bakilas with your background you recognize many of the faces as having belonged to missing children over the past 10 years).

The large pool of blood is growing smaller as it seeps through the floor.</font>

[ 01-15-2004, 09:27 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]

<font color=steelblue>Storm

"Gwynne, I am fine...for now. I have it under control."

He picks the human up easily.

"Let us just get out of this place! Do any of you know a way out?"

He looked around the room for some hope that a door or window was overlooked and that there was more than one way out of this place than through the creatures.

"It would cost me, but I could activate my ability to run fast again, and shield the human as I go."

Without waiting for permission, that is exactly what Storm did. Concentrating on pure speed and agility, Storm tucked the human in as close as he could to his body and ran, jumping over creatures, or dodging them. Many of them were reaching for him, trying to stop his progression, and were tearing away at him, but he ran on, screaming the whole way. </font>

OOC>>>It would be cool for backup...you know shoot some of these things to get them away from me? I assume I am taking some damage here. We'll discuss what to do with the girl when we get outside, and have lived through this ordeal. Man...the boss is gonna either thank me or butcher me for this one. If I go down, it's been great knowing you all!

ooc: in Mr. Burns voice "Excellent, muahahahahaha"

OOC>>>We are only missing Azrael, right?

Can the DM make a post about him, like doing something to explain his absence and all that?

Maybe set his PC aside to come back to later, if he ever does?

ooc: already been taken care of, lets hope your fellow leeches will come to your aid quickly or you may join him.

Thalali
Thalali watches Storm bolt across the room with lightning speed. He picks up his guns from the ground, reloads them, and shoots them at the creatures in order to distract them from Storm.

[ 01-15-2004, 01:22 PM: Message edited by: T/-/alali ]

Bakilas draws the automatic pistols that the boss lent to him, he aims at the creatures and holds down the triggers sending a stream of bullets tearing into them.

OOC>>>Waiting on DM to post creature reaction before I post.

<font color=999999>Storm and Mistral

The creatures claw and bite at you as you streak past, your incredible speed allows you to avoid the vast majority of their strikes, as you are simply not there when the strike would have landed.

As you reach the main receiving room where you enterred the house you see only the creatures down the stairs behind you, the room is otherwise empty of (un)living things. The monsters down the stairs continue to advance down, ignoring you now that you are past them, and you hear the sound of gunfire, accompanied by shrieks of pain.

The Lab

Hearing is nearly impossible in this hellish pit, the constant "pop" of gunfire, mixed with the screams of the dead and dying creatures ensures that the few sounds you can hear, you don't want to. Thalali has recovered from his beating, but his arm will take longer to heal, although the pain of the injury is gone now. finally the sound of gunfire is replaced by a *click* *click* informing all that the guns need reloaded. There are at least a dozen dead and dying once human creatures ,with only three more or less unharmed.

Gwynne as you look around for something to attack with you notice a bigger problem than three spider-heads, A large man seems to be forming behind you as the blood pool that had seemed to be shrinking actually grew into the shape of a man, the blood clots and solidifies, causing you to watch transfixed in horror. Vlad has reformed while his minions distracted everyone else, and from the gleam in his eye, he's out for blood.

The first thing lunges for Bakilas but falls short as one of it's legs snaps off, and it's distracted by the pain. a second one however manages to bite into your leg with it's razor sharp teeth, causing a great deal of pain, and tearing out a bit of flesh as well as ripping your pants. Thalali managed to avoid the lunging attacks of the spider-thing that attepted to throw itself at him, clawed legs forward in an attempt to impale you on it's razor shapr legs.</font>

ooc: your move :D

[ 01-16-2004, 02:36 PM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]