Knee-Deep in the Dead

[Sierra]

<El-Cideon> OOC: actions? Cor specified you guys were sitting near the back of the auditorium so Yomi would be close enough to scan Selene for DEMONS. This means you're on the other side of the room from the guy being attacked (~90 ft). The creature has no visible assistance at this time. Also, I believe Yomi wanted to roll a knowledge check to see if she recognizes this thing. K:A fits best.
<Erin> OOC: Can I roll one? <_<
<Erin> OOC: I'm actually more interested in the summoning than the demon though.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+2
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+2 and gets 11."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> OOC: I'm hesitant to say yes in this case because it's Yomi's area of expertise and you'd be totally outshining her. There just isn't a more specific knowledge for ZOMBIE GOASTS and the like
<Nadia_Chekova> OOC: I was wherever the cool kids were sitting but now I'm hiding at the edge of the room with whatever cover I can get
<Erin> OOC: Is it sane to conclude that the demon would have been summoned just now, or would I have no idea? And I just came in when this started.
<El-Cideon> OOC: You don't really have any way of knowing that when your only real information is "something came through the floor." >.> And there are tables everywhere, Nadia!
<Erin> roll 1d20+14 knowing stuff is basically my job since magic isn't good for this
* Hatbot --> "Erin rolls 1d20+14 knowing stuff is basically my job since magic isn't good for this and gets 19."12 [1d20=5]
<Erin> roll 1d20+7 initing
* Hatbot --> "Erin rolls 1d20+7 initing and gets 16."12 [1d20=9]
<Yomi> roll 1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+1 and gets 14."12 [1d20=13]
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+7
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+7 and gets 24."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+5 hungry ghost
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+5 hungry ghost and gets 21."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20 poor schmuck
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20 poor schmuck and gets 5."12 [1d20=5]
* Retrieving #HometownHeroes modes...
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Nadia > Hungry ghost > Erin > Yomi > Announcer'
<El-Cideon> The assembled crowd rushes out of the auditorium in a panic as the apparition attacks the announcer, screaming in a panic! OOC: Nadia.
* Nadia_Chekova doesn't believe she has any ability to fight a horrible demon such as this, so she keeps herself hidden and creeps towards an exit herself to escape without just getting caught up in the stampede.
<El-Cideon> There are wide doors to the left and right of the room, through which most of the crowd is struggling through. There's also a door in back to the garden, which Rena recently used.
<El-Cideon> At the front of the room, the apparition reaches out for the terrified announcer!
<Nadia_Chekova> Nadia follows Rena's example!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7 attack
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 attack and gets 14."12 [1d20=7]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d4 CON
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d4 CON and gets 3."12 [1d4=3]
<El-Cideon> The announcer is visibly weakened by the creture's very touch, growing pale and sallow right before your eyes! OOC: Erin
<Erin> Erin stumbles towards Yomi, just barely manging to avoid tripping over her heels! She mutters something arcane and pokes Yomi in the shoulder, surrounding her with a hazy green aura. "A hungry ghost! It must be a distraction!" She glances wildly around the room, looking for anyone who seems to be acting with purpose-
<Erin> -and not just fleeing the scene.
<El-Cideon> Nadia finds a few guests with more presence of mind rushing through the mostly-empty garden towards the foyer. The door across from her is standing open, possibly from Rena's recent passage. Erin can see no one in the crowd actively directing or participating in the ghost's attack, though an obviously stunned Selene seems locked in indecision.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Yomi
<Yomi> "There's more," Yomi tells Erin quietly. "I can't do much until Rena returns. Can you bind them?"
<Erin> "What? No."
<Yomi> "That leaves just this knife, then." Yomi grins, flipping the silverware to catch it by the handle. "I'll distract the ghost, get the announcer out of the way!" Without letting Erin a chance to respond, she launches herself towards the ghost, bounding from table to table!
<El-Cideon> OOC: double movement, I assume, so Yomi moves to 30 ft away. Announcer's up.
<Yomi> OOC: I could run? But sure.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Or you could do that!
<El-Cideon> The panicked announcer seems more than glad to have someone around to occupy the spirit's attention! Without a word of thanks, he shrieks in terror and stumbles away, moving towards the garden door with all possible haste. As he passes, Yomi can see he's in a very bad way indeed, bones showing clearly through his skin where a moment before he was hale and hearty: OOC: Nadia.
* Nadia_Chekova seems mostly safe where she is and peeks back through to see what's going on, watching as Yomi engages the ghost while the announcer flees in her direction. Where the hell are the Germans during all this? Did anyone mention them during dinner before everything went to merde?
<El-Cideon> There were a few of them in the crowd (in full uniform, this being a formal event) before the trouble broke out. Nadia can't see any around now. OOC: ghost
<El-Cideon> The spirit howls, a restless moan of desperataion, and swipes at Yomi instead of following its previous target!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 and gets 14."12 [1d20=7]
<El-Cideon> OOC: AoO for what good it'll do. >.>
<El-Cideon> OOC: Erin can go if you're going to pass on agile riposting?
* Yomi experimentally swipes her silvered knife against the ghost, lamenting that it is a weaker demonic spirit and not something she could actually kill with cutlery using a lot of dedication.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+11 and gets 15."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> But the ghost proves an elusive target, ducking Yomi's wild strike! OOC: now Erin's up.
<Erin> The announcer seems to be evacuating himself, so Erin runs over to Selene! "You! Where's the Psuedomonarcha being kept?" she yells, shaking the woman on the shoulder!
<El-Cideon> Selene jolts as if shaken out of a trance. "How did--where did that--oh! There's a vault somewhere on the grounds! The most valuable items should be there...Who IS that? Does she think she can kill a ghost?"
<El-Cideon> OOC: Yomi's up.
<Erin> "I don't know, but she'll do better at not getting killed by it than anyone else around! This is a distraction, someone's after your goods! You've got to take me there!"
<Yomi> The knife is as useless as she had expected. Ah, if only she had known there would be weakling ghosts around! They have to be the only ones she cannot hurt without her sword, the lowest on the demonic food chain. Still, that is not the same as being unable to do a single thing.
<Yomi> All Yomi has to do is present an appealing target to the hungry ghost, while focusing all her efforts on dancing around its strikes until Rena returns!
<El-Cideon> OOC: full-defense Yomi is in effect~
<Yomi> OOC: Total defense~
<El-Cideon> "It's...I haven't been everywhere, but I know it's not in any of the sitting rooms. The governor's chambers on the second floor or one of the service areas here, maybe," Selene says. Meanwhile, the anncouner continues his flight from death at the hands of an unholy horror and barrels right out through the garden.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Nadia's up. Make a listen check before you go?
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20 Rena
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20 Rena and gets 6."12 [1d20=6]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Nadia > Hungry ghost > Erin > Yomi > Rena'
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20 and gets 10."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Carry on.
* Nadia_Chekova decides to see where the Germans went, circling around to find another way into the mansion away from the fracas in the grand hall so she can hunt for Wermacht.
<El-Cideon> The garden has exits into hallways to your left and right in addition to the auditorium and foyer doors. Sounds of running echo on both sides. OOC: leaving the garden? Which direction?
* Nadia_Chekova chooses the sinister path and goes left!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 46."12 [1d100=46]
<El-Cideon> Nadia enters the h all to find guests scrambling past her towards the building's main entrance. A pair of guards there is attempting to herd the guests forward in a more orderly fashion, with limited success. OOC: ghosty
<El-Cideon> The ghost howls in frustration at this annoyingly evasive meal and swings at Yomi again!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7 he can only hit with a crit by this point
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 he can only hit with a crit by this point and gets 11."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> But Yomi proves too swift a target and dodges the strike! OOC: can try AoO again if you want.
<Yomi> OOC: No thanks
<El-Cideon> OOC: Erin, then.
<Erin> A vault! She didn't see one in the service area, so Erin decides to try the governor's room! If she can just squeeze through the crowds and head for the stairs...
<El-Cideon> OOC: heading out which direction, Erin?
<Erin> OOC: Whichever one is closer ot the stairs.
<Erin> OOC: If I don't know, left
<El-Cideon> OOC: they're basicaly the same distance to the stairs, so sure.
<El-Cideon> The crowd has dispersed enough by this point for Erin to make it out into the hall. She can remember being in this area before: there's a storage room right across from her and a laundry room a little down the hall. OOC: Yomi, still on defense I assume?
<Yomi> OOC: Yep
<El-Cideon> At this point Rena tears through the garden at a full run and races up beside Yomi with a cloth-wrapped bundle that shluld prove most welcome indeed!
<El-Cideon> OOC should, even. And, Nadia.
* Nadia_Chekova decides to slink up the stairs using the bannister for cover to avoid being seen by guards or panicked guests as she goes hunting Germans!
<El-Cideon> This is easily accomplished given the current circumstances: the guards are quite busy trying to keep the guests in line and everyone's fearfully looking back down the hall, not up to the second floor. Oddly, there's a pile-up at the front door but no one seems to be leaving... OOC: ghost
<El-Cideon> Another roar of pained yearning erupts from the ghost as it this time opts for a less tricky meal--Rena.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 and gets 26."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d4 CON
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d4 CON and gets 2."12 [1d4=2]
<El-Cideon> Rena shivers but maintains her composure somehow as the ghost's cold grasp steals away some of her life! OOC: Erin.
<Erin> Erin heads down the hall to the stairs, preparing to head up them and start hunting for the governor's office!
<El-Cideon> A few stragglers rush past Erin as she heads down the hall towards the main stairway. There's a large amount of people gathered at the front entrance and growing hubbub of distressed clamor. OOC: yomi.
<Yomi> "To exterminate those who spread the taint of death to the human world," Yomi says, slapping the release latch on her pneumatic exorcism sword, "that is my mission!" As the sword erupts from its sheath, Yomi grasps the chain connecting the two and directs the blade at the hungry specter, pulling the sheath into her hands so that Rena could retreat safely.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+8 fighting defensively
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+8 fighting defensively and gets 12."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> OOC: miss
<Yomi> roll 1d6 first action point of the game?!
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d6 first action point of the game?! and gets 4."12 [1d6=4]
<El-Cideon> OOC: still missed by 1. >.>
<El-Cideon> Again the spirit ducks under Yomi's slashing blade, but at least Rena has an opportunity to slip away from the creature and retreat towards the garden door. She snatches a knife from a table but seems uncertain whether stabbing something with the consistency of vapor is a good idea.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+1 Selene init?!
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+1 Selene init?! and gets 17."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Go, Nadia. You're on the second floor, haven't seen anyone up there yet.
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Nadia > Hungry ghost > Selene> Erin > Yomi > Rena'
* Nadia_Chekova starts stealthily exploring to find Germans who are possibly doing bad things like stealing from the innocent but oh so rich and she surely doesn't need all this stuff widow!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 83."12 [1d100=83]
<El-Cideon> As she rounds a corner, Nadia spots three of the Germans. The one who looks to be in charge is rather corpulen--you suspect if he put on any more weight he would be facing some manner of disciplinary action--and has thinning blond hair. Another has the insignia of a medic and is attending to the third, a standard grunt with an obvious injury on his arm. They presently have their backs turned to Nadia. A dead guard is lying on the ground before them. OOC: roll move silently if you want to avoid notice?
<El-Cideon>  A dead guard is lying on the ground before them. OOC: roll move silently if you want to avoid notice?
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+15 like a shadow i am
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+15 like a shadow i am and gets 25."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 Seargeant
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 Seargeant and gets 8."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10 Medic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 Medic and gets 20."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> OOC: mook can't make it even with a 20. You pass unnoticed for now.
<El-Cideon> The ghost swells a little in grim satisfaction as it assimilates Rena's energy into it's own, then returns its attention to Yomi!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 and gets 14."12 [1d20=7]
<El-Cideon> OOC: now you can AoO and actually do stuff!
<Yomi> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+8 and gets 14."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Hatbot doesn't want you hitting anything today, does he?
<El-Cideon> Again the spirit proves too tricky for Yomi to catch. Her battlecry appears to have inspired her audience, though--out of nowhere Selene seems to have acquired a whip, which she lashes out at the ghost. "I can only hope this actually works!" she cries out.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 and gets 24."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100 50% miss chance
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 50% miss chance and gets 26."12 [1d100=26]
<El-Cideon> The whip cracks through the space occupied the ghost with what sounds like an unnatural sonic boom, but the spirit seems unperturbed as its body ripples harmlessly. OOC: Erin.
<Erin> Erin heads up the stairs to the corridor there and peers down either side, looking for some room that screams 'office'!
<El-Cideon> The second floor has a lot of doors ringing the walls. A glance inside an open one shows them to be mostly guest rooms. Much like on the first floor, the halls circle to the left and right around the central well that houses the garden. What stands out more is Nadia, peering around a corner at something Erin can't quite see yet.
<El-Cideon> OOC: If you're moving up to where Nadia is, yeah, move silent is on. >.>
<Erin> roll 1d20+3 this will end well
* Hatbot --> "Erin rolls 1d20+3 this will end well and gets 12."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 Sergeant
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 Sergeant and gets 21."12 [1d20=15]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10 medic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 medic and gets 16."12 [1d20=6]
* Erin sidles up to Nadia, intent on relaying her important information after having a fit of temporary insanity and forgetting about her telephony jewel.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+1 mook
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+1 mook and gets 11."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> The officer and the medic turn at Erin's approach, the former ready with a luger in case of any trouble. "Who--" he starts, obviously ready to fire at a moment's notice but not doing so yet. Nadia seems to not be what he was expecting and he relaxes a little. Though he's still not happy. "Why aren't you fleeing with everyone else?" he snaps, sounding more irritated than a nything else.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Yomi.
<Yomi> If she were alone, if this were the only ghost menacing people in the area, Yomi could afford to play with it. But it is past time for her to switch gears, fighting the specter as aggressively as she can!
<Yomi> "Back to the darkness with you, unclean thing!" Yomi cries out, releasing the ghost-slaying sword to whirl through the air, clipping the specter twice along its path.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+12
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+12 and gets 17."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Nadia can respond if she intends to do so in some nonviolent manner. Dialogue is free~
<El-Cideon> OOC: Hit.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+7+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+7+1d6 and gets 26."12 [1d20=13][1d6=6]
<El-Cideon> OOC: also hit, obviously.
<Yomi> roll 2#2d6+9
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 2#2d6+9 and gets 32."12 [2#2d6+9 = 14, 18]
<El-Cideon> The ghost shrieks, this time with pain and terror, almost sounding human this time as its form wavers and dissipates into motes of dust and then vanishes altogether. OOC: ghost is dead. Nadia, time to determine whether we stay in combat rounds or not~
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Nadia >  Selene > Erin > Yomi > Rena'
<Nadia_Chekova> "There's a jam at the door, I can't get out that way," Nadia replies innocently.
* Yomi catches her sword and sheathes it in one smooth motion, turning towards Rena and Selene. "My thanks for the help. There are more of them throughout the mansion, and I intend to destroy each one. Would you like to come?"
<El-Cideon> OOC: roll bluff, Nadia? While technically true, that's totally not what you're up there for. >.>
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+16
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> "I would be more than glad to stay at the side of the most dangerous woman in the mansion," Selene says graciously. Rena walks up to Yomi's side, a little the worse for wear. "Why don't we just leave?"
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14 Sergeant
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 Sergeant and gets 27."12 [1d20=13]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+4 medic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+4 medic and gets 6."12 [1d20=2]
<Yomi> "We must stop the demons and specters who would prey on the mortals," Yomi patiently explains to Rena. "Demonic energy draws more of the same towards it in a vicious circle. In time, the place itself can become haunted, and keep on producing yet more of it. To leave means to abandon those who live here."
<El-Cideon> The officer narrows his eyes in obvious skepticism. "No. No, I don't think so." He aims the gun more directly at Nadia now, though he hasn't turned the corner enough to spot Erin and realize it was actually her footsteps he'd heard. "You're obviously not one of the servants, or I'd kill you right now. I *will* want a better answer, though. What are you here for?"
<El-Cideon> Rena frowns. Incomprehension is apparent. "Then we go farther away?" she says with a shrug.
<Yomi> "Sometimes, you need to stand up and fight for what you believe in!" Yomi exclaims. "This is one such thing for me. I cannot allow malevolent demons to attack humans. I could never run away from this duty!"
* Nadia_Chekova doesn't like having a gun pointed at her, and with her most plausible response shot down she does the logical thing and pulls her head quickly back around the corner, then uses the old ninja trick to quickly climb up the wall and brace herself against the ceiling over the doorway so when they come running after her she'll be nowhere in sight!
<El-Cideon> Rena's face is blank. "I will help you because you helped me and because it has not been made clear how else I am to return the favor," she concedes. Outside the auditorium, you can hear occasional screams mixed with the constant running of feet. "Well, you are the fearless leader," Selene says cheerfully. "Lead on?"
<Erin> With Nadia abruptly pulling back in face of this threat, Erin opines to follow suit, only she dashes into a nearby guestroom rather than running up the walls!
<El-Cideon> OOC: climb check I guess, Nadia?
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+11 and gets 24."12 [1d20=13]
* Yomi opts to nod curtly in acknowledgement, intending to discuss things with Rena afterwards, and heads towards the room on the right. If no ghosts are feasting on people there, she would need to spend a moment to take a second look for their presence.
<El-Cideon> Nadia scales the nearest wall! Given the spotty light, being up high might be enough to keep her out of sight. The Germans rush around the corner to find...no one there! They look around for a moment, the officer seeming even more annoyed now. OOC: going to ask for a hide roll while you're at it. +5 because the light's crummy and people tend to not think of looking up.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100 argh
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 argh and gets 86."12 [1d100=86]
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+20
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+20 and gets 37."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 Sergeant
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 Sergeant and gets 33."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> OOC: yeah, they can't top that even with awesome rolls.
<El-Cideon> After a moment, the soldiers give up and start down the stairs, the officer dismissing the search even as he insists the others keep an eye out for that strange girl as well as "the other two."
<Nadia_Chekova> Once they're gone Nadia gently lowers herself to the ground then creeps around to where the Germans were loitering before above the dead guard.
<El-Cideon> Yomi and her companions find themselves in a hallway outside the auditorium. There's a door to their left (the one Erin entered by the day before) as well as one across from them. There are sounds of screaming echoing from inside this one. To their right the hallway extends back towards the garden and the front entrance.
* Erin peeks out from behind the guest door after the descending Germans, and curses to herself quietly. "Yomi, the germans are heading down the stairs!" she mutters into her communication orb. "They may have already got what they came for!"
<El-Cideon> The dead guard clearly died from a bullet wound. Judging by the state of the walls here, he gave some of his own in return. Further down the hall is another dead guard and a German corpse with a nasty head wound.
* Nadia_Chekova elects to follow the trail of destruction and corpses, hoping to find out what the Germans were doing up here.
<Yomi> It is a difficult choice, but Yomi opts to follow the screams for now.
<El-Cideon> The start of the violence looks to have been one of the guest rooms. Inside is another German corpse, dead in a sitting position as if taken by surprise.
* Nadia_Chekova takes a quick look around the room to see if it's been searched already, then backtracks to catch up with the departing deutschlanders.
* Erin starts to rush through the second floor, trying to locate the governor's office at long last now that the germans have gone.
<El-Cideon> Yomi's door opens up into a kitchen, a rather grand one about thirty feet wide with plenty of facilities for cooking a great feast for a large amount of people. there's a central island with ovens and the like and sinks around the walls. (more)
<El-Cideon> There's also a guest in fancy dress dying quite unpleasantly in the grip of another ghost. A man in a tuxedo, his body seems to lose all cohesion and melt away into component parts as the specter feeds on him. Two guards look on, seemingly apathetic.
<El-Cideon> Amidst Yomi's belongings, something suddenly rises in heat, as if trying to alert her to its presence. (OOC: that is, assuming you have the main orb with you.)
<Yomi> With a loud battlecry, Yomi charges at the ghost! Even if the man in its grasp is beyond rescue, that specter would not take another life!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Strike last line, then.
<El-Cideon> OOC: roll init again if you're launching into another fight.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+1 and gets 15."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+1 Selene
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+1 Selene and gets 21."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20 Rena
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20 Rena and gets 4."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+5 ghost
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+5 ghost and gets 7."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 guard A
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 guard B
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 guard A and gets 7."12 [1d20=5]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 guard B and gets 13."12 [1d20=11]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Selene > Yomi > Guard B > Ghost = Guard A > Rena'
<El-Cideon> Upstairs, Erin finds the second floor mostly empty. The governor's offices are fairly obvious by being in a separate wing at the back of the building, above the auditorium. The door is locked, however.
<Erin> Erin bashes on the door for a moment- "Is anyone in there?!"
<El-Cideon> The Germans aren't in evidence by the time Nadia gets downstairs. Most of the crowd by the front door has dispersed; some bang on doors or windows with apparently little success. It looks like nothing will open. No guards are in sight here.
<El-Cideon> There is no answer from the other side of the governor's door.
<El-Cideon> In the kitchen, Selene launches herself at the feeding ghost, obviously doing her best to restrain nausea at the sight of the disnitegrating man. "Foul spirit! Avaunt!"
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6
<Nadia_Chekova> "Did anyone see which way three men just went from down the stairs?" Nadia demands, grabbing a random socialite. "One of them was wounded!"
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 and gets 14."12 [1d20=8]
* Erin first disguises herself as a moustached man in a suit, then pulls her gun and blows a couple of holes in the side of the door. It shouldn't be too much trouble to get the lock open or force it down after that.
<El-Cideon> But Selene is wholly unsuccessful in striking the spirit, even distracted as it is! OOC: Yomi.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+14 charge~
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+14 charge~ and gets 34."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> OOC: ...Okay, then!
<Yomi> roll 2d6+9
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 2d6+9 and gets 21."12 [2d6=6, 6]
<El-Cideon> A gibbering Briton in a suit manages to point Nadia towards the western hallway (OOC: opposite side of the building from Yomi's fight).
<Nadia_Chekova> Nodding in thanks Nadia hurries in that direction, slowing down once she's in the hallway and walking with more focus on quietness and stealth.
* Yomi viciously yanks her sword out of the ghost, and turns in place, picking up momentum to behead it!
<Yomi> roll 1d20+12
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+12 and gets 23."12 [1d20=11]
<Yomi> roll 2d6+9
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 2d6+9 and gets 19."12 [2d6=5, 5]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Selene > Yomi > Guard B > Guard A > Rena'
<El-Cideon> Two shots from Erin's gun are quite sufficient to shatter the lock on the door. Peering inside, she sees a lushly-appointed office with doors to the left and right. She can't see anyone here at the moment.
* Erin starts going through doors in a clockwise direction, although she's starting to think that her guess of coming up here in the first place was the wrong one, given the lack of signs of intrusion other than her.
<El-Cideon> The ghost shrieks in rage as it's denied full enjoyment of its final meal, vanishing into a mist and leaving the melted remains of its victim to splatter on the floor. The two guards look at Yomi in surprise before quite professionally drawing their guns and taking aim at her.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8 guard A
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8 guard A and gets 16."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8 guard B
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8 guard B and gets 17."12 [1d20=9]
<Yomi> OOC: AC19 after charging
<El-Cideon> OOC: that...yeah, barely misses.
<El-Cideon> Two bullets zip by Yomi's head and shatter tile on the wall behind her. Without a word, Rena rushes forward to stab at one of the men!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9 charge
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 charge and gets 26."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d4+3 damage
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d4+3 damage and gets 6."12 [1d4=3]
<El-Cideon> The guard takes a knife to the gut, spluttering in surprise and pain! "What--crazy bitch!" OOC: selene's up, going to reply to Erin/Nadia first.
* Yomi draws herself up, pointing the blade at the remaining guard, her eyes acquiring a dangerous glint to them. "I'm a defender of humanity, but knaves consorting with specters test my conviction sorely!" she says menacingly. "Drop your weapons at once or be unable to use your limbs for the rest of your pitiful, natural lives!"
<El-Cideon> Erin finds the other rooms empty. The right door leads to a room apparently designed as a nursery, quite dusty and seemingly unused for a long time. The left door leads to a bedroom with a grand canopy bed and a portrait of the widow Ellis and man with a regal-looking beard.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 62."12 [1d100=62]
<El-Cideon> Nadia finds an empty hallway as she proceeds along, though now and then her feet squelch in something that would likely be very unpleasant to look at it if she cared to. She passes the sitting rooms, one with guests shrieking in terror at the arrival of another ghost. At the end of the hall the storage room door is opened.
* Erin mutters a quick spell under her breath as she searches, scanning the rooms for magical interference as she should have done a long time ago!
<Nadia_Chekova> Nadia can't really help the woman deal with the ghost, and can only hope she proves a filling enough meal to delay it turning its attention to the sexy catburglar. Sneaking along and hugging the wall, avoiding putting her feet in anything that squelches, she approaches the storage room!
<El-Cideon> Selene whips at the injured guard as he bleeds and swears in pain!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 and gets 15."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> roll 1dd2+1+1d6 sonic damage
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1dd2+1+1d6 sonic damage and gets Error: Number of sides must be integer greater than 0."12
<El-Cideon> roll 1d2+1+1d6 sonic damage
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d2+1+1d6 sonic damage and gets 8."12 [1d2=2][1d6=5]
<El-Cideon> The man is left reeling as a thunderclap breaks out beside his head, but he remains standing, if tottering wildly! OOC: Yomi.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 31."12 [1d100=31]
<Yomi> Yomi's glare intensifies, as she hopes to freeze the guards in their place and knock some sense into their skulls!
<Yomi> roll 1d20+10 I can be scary!
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+10 I can be scary! and gets 30."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> Erin finds her hall empty as well, save for unsightly patches of god-what-IS-that-are-those-BONES on the floor as she reaches the foyer.
<Erin> OOC: Hmm. I x'd my last action in lieu of casting detect magic, but if there's nothing to see I would continue on.
<El-Cideon> The untouched guard looks at his bleeding companion and quickly drops his weapon (OOC: there's no way they could beat 30). The wounded man swears and clutches his gut as he does the same. "Keep her away from me!" he roars at Rena.
<Yomi> "Are you in league with the demon forces?" Yomi asks, approaching, her sword still trained on the guards. "What is going on here?!"
<El-Cideon> The storage room is presently occupied by two Germans--the wounded soldier she saw before lies dead on the ground along with one of the house guardsmen. The officer is fiddling with the lock on a door at the back of the storage room and having little success. OOC: move silent hijinks again~
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+15 and gets 16."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10 medic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 medic and gets 13."12 [1d20=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 Sergeant
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 Sergeant and gets 10."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> The officer continues without noticing Nadia's presence. Eventually he grunts in frustration and pounds the door with his fist. "It has to be here. Where else would they keep it?"
<Erin> Thoroughly revolted by the corpses she gets to see, Erin leans against a wall to catch a breather, and tries to pay attention to what's going on around her. OOC: Listening, in other words
<Erin> roll 1d20+11 spellcraft
* Hatbot --> "Erin rolls 1d20+11 spellcraft and gets 23."12 [1d20=12]
<Nadia_Chekova> Great, so the Germans are clueless. Nadia considers luring the ghost to them, but sees little point other than petty vindictiveness. She decides to repeat her earlier trick and hide up against the ceiling until they leave, then she can put her lockpicking skills to the test against the door the Germans can't beat.
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+11 climb
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+11 climb and gets 17."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> "Bloody look around for yourself, will you?" the uninjured guard barks at Yomi, cowed enough to not fight but not enough to restrain his attitude. "This is why we weren't supposed to let in surprise guests," he gripes to the wounded man (who is leaning against a wall an clutching his bleeding stomach). "Who let her in, anyway?"
<Yomi> "Shut up about that!" Yomi snaps. "How many are there?" She only counted five, but there was no time before they emerged. "Are more going to be summoned?"
<El-Cideon> Nadia finds her efforts not quite sufficient to make it up the wall, but at least she doesn't fall and make an unseemly racket. Inside: "Dammit. Watch for anyone that comes running," the officer says as he takes a gun to the door. A the sound of a gunshot echoes off the walls, though from the sound of the officer's continued grumbling the lock was more than up to resisting the assault.
<El-Cideon> "Eight," the guard says, withering a little under Yomi's glare. "There were eight of 'em. Should still be plenty to do the job even if you've killed a couple more by now.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 85."12 [1d100=85]
<El-Cideon> Apart from screaming from other rooms of the house, Erin finds herself alone with just a couple distraught guests sobbing in corners.
<Yomi> "What is the damn point of it? Are you trying to summon a greater demon with that?"
<Nadia_Chekova> Hmm... maybe it's time for an alliance of convenience? No, they'd just kill her as soon as she got that door open for them. Nadia resumes scrambling up the wall to hide before a ghost comes floating over at the noise.
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+11 climb
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+11 climb and gets 31."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> The guard laughs bitterly. "Hah, no, one demon was enough. One that told us about the ritual? Looked right through me, I swear. Brr."
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 3."12 [1d100=3]
<Yomi> "You fools! Did you think you would be left alone after this?!" Yomi exclaims. "What is the purpose of the ritual! Tell me if you want to live!"
* Erin decides to head to the edge of the premises and see what happens if she tries to leave; the pushing and shoving earlier indicate a barrier of some kind, but is it the doors being sealed, or something else?
<El-Cideon> Pretty soon that gunshot does indeed draw attention. A pair of guards walk down the hall just after another ghost rises down from the ceiling above and enters the storage room. Hopefully Nadia's high-altitude hiding place will keep her safe? OOC: hide, same mod as before
<El-Cideon> Erin finds she can turn doorknobs and unlatch windows just fine, but anytime she tries to push one outward it's blocked by a mysterious invisible force.
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+20
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+20 and gets 24."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> "Just doing our duty to an old commanding officer," the guard grudgingly admits. "Should be enough from all these guests to bring him back, if what the demon said was right."
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7 ghost (guards can't beat that)
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 ghost (guards can't beat that) and gets 8."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> The ghost and the guards both pass right by Nadia, there's a shout and more gunfire as the ghost enters the storage room.
<Yomi> As she expected, but the utter stupidity of some people--! "Yes, the demon could not have lied," she says as scornfully as she is able to, gesturing at the guards with her sword. "Rena, tie them up. We can't let demon worshippers go free. If they resist, they die."
* Nadia_Chekova holds her breath, her muscles straining to keep herself braced against the ceiling as she waits out the carnage.
* Erin starts to pick her way back through the mansion, wandering around in search of her companions. The continuing screams make her start blocking her ears, and for the life of her she can't recall a time when she felt more powerless.
<El-Cideon> "Oh, I can help with that," Selene says with some enthusiasm. There's some twine lying around the kitchen alongside the various cooking implements, which seems to do well enough.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+1 Dex check for Selene bondage~ (d20 modern has no use rope skill, Dex check it is)
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+1 Dex check for Selene bondage~ (d20 modern has no use rope skill, Dex check it is) and gets 15."12 [1d20=14]
* Yomi grabs the guns, taking a moment to look around for the closest of the ghosts.
<El-Cideon> OOC: that's +20 too, my bad.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+20 Rena tying up injured goon
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+20 Rena tying up injured goon and gets 22."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> Both of the guards are carrying Browning pistols and metal batons. The men offer no resistance.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 5."12 [1d100=5]
<Yomi> Once this matter had been settled, Yomi chases down the hall towards her next target!
<El-Cideon> Soon both of the Germans rush out of the storage room and across the hall into the auditorium, the officer looking notably paler and malnourished than before. The ghost and the guards soon sweep through after them, leaving Nadia alone.
* Nadia_Chekova carefully drops down once they've passed and then into the room, fishing out her lockpicks to get to work on that door that hopefully hasn't had its lock shot into uselessness!
<El-Cideon> Erin finds another empty hall as she walks along. It might be best not to think about what she's stepping in. At the end of the hall is the storage room she saw the day before, the door standing open.
<El-Cideon> The lock is a very sturdy and professional job and the bullet did little to hinder its functionality. It will take some work to get past it.
<Erin> Erin's gun hangs loosely in her palm, and she approaches the room and peers around the doorframe.
<El-Cideon> Erin finds...Nadia! And only Nadia. Phew.
* Nadia_Chekova doesn't delay, slipping her picks inside and starting to work the mechanism!
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+11 and gets 25."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> Yomi finds another pair of guards watching over a devouring ghost in the next room. Both the guards look up and shout at her arrival. "There! you heard those gunshots, right? It must've been them!"
<El-Cideon> OOC: init the third~
<El-Cideon> The lock defeats Nadia's efforts, at least on this attempt. The mechanism is very intricate and she can tell she's got some work ahead of her.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+1 and gets 21."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+5 ghost
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+5 ghost and gets 7."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+1 Selene
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+1 Selene and gets 17."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20 Rena
<Erin> "Nadia, thank god," murmurs Erin, sagging. "We should find Yomi, there are still many hungry ghosts, judging by the screams..."
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20 Rena and gets 10."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 Guard C
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 Guard C and gets 3."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 Guard D
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 Guard D and gets 17."12 [1d20=15]
<Nadia_Chekova> "If anyone can survive this it's Yomi," Nadia replies distractedly as she tries to unlock the door. "We can't get out, we need to find what's responsible - the Germans seem clueless and the guards are working with the ghosts."
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Yomi > Selene = Guard D > Rena > Ghost > Guard C'
<Nadia_Chekova> OOC: taking 20 for 31, I know it'll take a minute or two.
<Yomi> "I leave the guards to you!" Yomi calls out loudly, already charging at the abominable ghost!
<Yomi> roll 1d20+12 not actually charging, yes
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+12 not actually charging, yes and gets 29."12 [1d20=17]
<Yomi> roll 2d6+9
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 2d6+9 and gets 14."12 [2d6=1, 4]
<El-Cideon> With the quiet rolling of tumblers, the lock pops open at last.
<El-Cideon> The ghost howls as Yomi's blade slashes through it, causing its form to waver indistinctly. Selene immediately follows up on the attack wuth one of her own!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 and gets 15."12 [1d20=9]
<Nadia_Chekova> "Got it! The Germans really wanted to see what's behind this door," Nadia sighs in satisfaction, hiding her lockpicks back in her dress before she opens the door to claim her prize!
<Erin> "The guards are? But why would they... oh, right. I heard there was a vault either down here somewhere or in the governor's office. I checked out upstairs but couldn't find anything, so it might be here," she responds, following after Nadia.
<El-Cideon> Both of the guards seem intently focused on shooting Yomi, as she's the one killing the ghost, and one fires at her just as Selene's strike flies wild!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8 guard attack
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8 guard attack and gets 26."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d6+1 damage
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d6+1 damage and gets 7."12 [2d6=4, 2]
<El-Cideon> A bullet thuds into Yomi's shoulder as Rena rushes forward to slash at the offending soldier!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 28."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9 threat?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 threat? and gets 26."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d4+6 damage
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d4+6 damage and gets 10."12 [2d4=2, 2]
<El-Cideon> Rena slashes the guard across the face, leaving blood pouring down and dripping off his chin!
<El-Cideon> Meanwhile, the ghost drifts downwards through the floor, moaning softly as it makes its escape. The injured guard turns immediately to his attacker, backing a few steps away and opening fire on Rena!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8 and gets 18."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d6+1 damage
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d6+1 damage and gets 4."12 [2d6=2, 1]
<El-Cideon> Rena takes a bullet in the thigh but seems as unperturbed as ever! OOC: Feel free to line, Yomi. Gonna catch up on the others now, though.
<Yomi> Cursing at her failure to finish this ghost off, Yomi assaults the guard who shot at her, driving the tip of her sheath into his vulnerable throat!
<El-Cideon> Nadia finds a descending staircase before her. Cold air drifts up from below. It twists out of sight but you can make out low chanting and a flickering glow against the wall that suggests candlelight.
<Yomi> roll 1d20+8 nonlethal
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d20+8 nonlethal and gets 17."12 [1d20=9]
<Yomi> roll 1d6
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 1d6 and gets 2."12 [1d6=2]
<El-Cideon> OOC: hits anyway.
<Yomi> roll 2d6+9
* Hatbot --> "Yomi rolls 2d6+9 and gets 17."12 [2d6=3, 5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+3 fort check to not pass out
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+3 fort check to not pass out and gets 14."12 [1d20=11]
<Nadia_Chekova> "Sounds like we'll need your magic skills..." Nadia glances back at Erin before she creeps downstairs. "Could use Yomi's cutting skills, too," she mutters under her breath.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d4+1 rounds out
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d4+1 rounds out and gets 3."12 [1d4=2]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Yomi > Selene = Guard D (down 3 rounds) > Rena > Ghost > Guard C'
<Erin> Erin seems pale. "My magic is.. useless here," she confesses. "This gun is all I can use, and to actually..." She takes a deep breath, and starts to follow after Nadia. "But this must be where the enchantment sealing the house is maintained. If we can stop it, then at least some people can escape!"
<El-Cideon> The stairway proceeds down for something like twenty feet before Nadia reaches a landing of bare stone. A stack of crates blocks off most of your view of the room into which the staircase opens, at least at first. Walk five feet or so forward and you'll be in full view of whoever or whatever is in the room at large. The chanting is obviously very nearby, likely in the center of the room, and just as obviously latin.
* Nadia_Chekova uses the crates for cover and peeks around, counting on the chanter(s) to be distracted.
<El-Cideon> Up in the servants' quarters, one guard falls to Yomi's attack, dropping unconscious to the ground. Selene whips at the remaining man.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 and gets 25."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d2+1+6 sonic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d2+1+6 sonic and gets 9."12 [1d2=2]
<El-Cideon> Deafening force batters the guard! Rena follows up by making a jab at the wounded man's throat!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 and gets 20."12 [1d20=13]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d4+3 oh he's dead no matter what
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d4+3 oh he's dead no matter what and gets 4."12 [1d4=1]
<El-Cideon> Rena slashes open the man's throat and he falls forward spurting blood all over her nice new dress. OOC: free act, Yomi.
* Yomi isn't sure what to say here, and in the end doesn't bother. "Make sure the other one is bound," she says, already seeking out her next target. She'll have to go all out against it.
<El-Cideon> Nadia sees the widow Ellis standing before a stone table, upon which is a very well-preserved corpse of what might once have been an imposing, bearded man. An unearthly glow arises from the corpse; as Nadia watches, one of the ghosts drifts down from the ceiling, drapes itself over the corpse and vanishes into it. (more)
<El-Cideon> The widow herself is draped in arcane-looking robes and doing the chanting. Three guards stand around the room watching; a fourth, holding a submachine gun, stands right next to her. Only this last seems to be actively watching for intervention.
<El-Cideon> OOC: roll hide, Nadia?
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+15 and gets 21."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+1 haha he needs a 20
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+1 haha he needs a 20 and gets 3."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> Nadia is able to hide around the crates unnoticed! The widow's ominous chanting proceeds; Erin can make out verses about a spirit returning from beyond the viel and being bound back on Earth, and things of that nature.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 72."12 [1d100=72]
* Erin is willing to be quiet whilst trusting Nadia to do her thing, even as the connotations of the verse start to build a fury within her.
* Nadia_Chekova turns around and puts her finger to her lips while facing Erin. Then she backtracks to carefully climb over the crates, ever so quiet and keeping to the shadows at the edge of the candlelit room, creeping around its perimeter to reach the widow and the guard at the far end.
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+15 move silently
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+15 move silently and gets 26."12 [1d20=11]
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+15 hide
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+15 hide and gets 18."12 [1d20=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+1 spot because no one in the room can beat that MS roll
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+1 spot because no one in the room can beat that MS roll and gets 3."12 [1d20=2]
* Yomi rushes out towards the next source of screams, looking for either guards, ghosts or stairs leading below!
<El-Cideon> The ritual proceeds without Nadia's presence being noticed, the machinegun guard's alertness serving him not well at all here.
<Nadia_Chekova> Getting position at the back of the room, Nadia slinks up behind the guard and then grabs the machine gun from him while he's distracted!
<Nadia_Chekova> OOC: sleight of hand or disarm?
<El-Cideon> OOC: sec. I'd say the latter given the size of the object, but I want to check both real quick.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Yeah, definitely disarm. Too big for SoH.
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+9 attack
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+9 attack and gets 28."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> The guard finds his gun wrested from his hands suddenly by the unseen Nadia! Everyone in the room turns to look at his surprised gasp!
<Nadia_Chekova> "Nobody move!" Nadia barks, roughly jabbing the old broad in the back with her machine gun as she steps back from the guard after snatching it. "Or the mademoiselle gets it!"
<El-Cideon> The head guard yells at you suddenly. "No, leave you alone! You don't--"
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 concentration
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 concentration and gets 8."12 [1d20=6]
* Erin sidles up to the edge of the crates whilst Nadia lays out of threats, pointing her own weapon at the back of one of the guards and gazing at the ritual with dread.
<El-Cideon> The widow Ellis jolts in surprise to look at you. "What--who--?" The eerie light emanating from the corpse suddenly dims, then takes on a sickly purple color. "No. NO! What have you done?!" the woman shrieks. The body on the slab jerks around suddenly as if a puppet with broken strings and the widow's screaming intensifies as a sickly, unclean sensation creeps into everyone in the room. (more)
<El-Cideon> The head on the corpse swivels from side to side at an unhealthy angle, as if the neck was shattered, and the body jerks into motion off the table. The skin visibly discolors before your eyes, a sick, purple rot setting in but somehow not stopping it from moving. It roars the howl of a tortured spirit as it lurches towards the widow with hands outstretched!
* Nadia_Chekova panics and skitters backwards a few steps at this unsettling development!
<El-Cideon> OOC: 'kay. Init's going to have to happen here since, well, MONSTER. Anyone within 30 ft of the thing needs to make a fort check, too. Room's about 40 ft wide, Erin conceivably is out of range, everyone else isn't.
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+7 init
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+7 init and gets 18."12 [1d20=11]
<Nadia_Chekova> roll 1d20+5 fort
* Hatbot --> "Nadia_Chekova rolls 1d20+5 fort and gets 12."12 [1d20=7]
* Nadia_Chekova is now known as Ebiris
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20 abomination init
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20 abomination init and gets 4."12 [1d20=4]
<Erin> roll 1d20+7 init
* Hatbot --> "Erin rolls 1d20+7 init and gets 24."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 widow init
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 widow init and gets 22."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+3 guard captain init
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+3 guard captain init and gets 19."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 guard A
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 guard A and gets 12."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 guard B
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 guard C
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 guard B and gets 11."12 [1d20=9]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 guard C and gets 6."12 [1d20=4]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Erin (24)> Widow Ellis (22) > Guard Captain Poole (19, disarmed) > Nadia (18) > Guard A (12) > Guard B (11) > Guard C (6) > Abomination (4)'