Re: Peiquok Town Hall
Cara, Shiva
The two women wind up focusing on the same group of soldiers, two of which are actually women, one of which is a man.
Stealth and awareness checks
Cara
11+8+2 vs Soldiers 12, success.
Shiva
6+8+6 vs Soldiers 12, success.
The trio doesn't notice the blonde nor the albino-like woman...
Cara
8+5+2 vs Soldiers 13, success.
Shiva
7+7+4 vs Soldiers 13, success.
...however, the two women spot one another and realize that one another are basically after the same thing.
The male soldier tells the one who's stumbled, "it's getting worse, isn't it?"
The brunette -- the one who hasn't stumbled -- grumbles, "you know what, fuck Peiquok; I never liked this place even when it wasn't straight out of a bad horror story. We should just pick up and get the hell out of here; townies'd be happy enough to get out on their own, too."
"You know we can't do that," the man tells her, giving her a hard look.
The blonde -- the woman who'd stumbled -- pauses in rubbing her head and tells the both of them, "look, I'm fine, alright?"
"Bullshit you are," the other woman confronts her. "You got that feeling where you're getting torn apart by a hundred different fucking tentacle-things?" When the other purses her lips, the brunette continues, "or something like it? Everyone here's getting something, and if the higher ups aren't going to give us a fuckin clue..."
"Calm down," the man tells her, then double-checks to make sure that the both of them are quiet. "They need backup down in the park, so we're going there whether you're chasing ghosts or not. That's too close to the townies; if they begin panicking, there aren't enough of us to hold them all and God knows what will happen if they scatter." He casts the two of them a meaningful look that tells them to stop worrying. "It doesn't matter what this town is full of, it's our job to protect these people."
"Yessir," the two reply, one a little less enthusiastic than the other. the three eventually make for the door, though a single guard now stands there, his hands straying nervously to the butt of the rifle slung over his chest. From there, they head out into the rain, leaving Shiva and Cara to wonder what, exactly, they're fighting...
Melissa and Morgan
((Waiting on Janna's post, then I'll get to you two.))
Jen
The young woman finds herself having a hard time conversing with the terrified newcomer, as two medics are wrestling to hold her down. "Snakemen!" she gasps, "all kinds of foul get as God is willing to put on this earth!" She nearly bites an attendant before being forcibly restrained. "That's only the tip of it, only the very tip! Let me go, they're coming to feast!"
Either the medics have injected her with some sort of tranquilizer, or the woman has passed out on her own, but she collapses back on the cot, unable to answer any of Jen's further questions. Everyone else in the small room has gone silent, though the boy who'd been weeping is now outright bawling.