Search Party Log

[putuporshutup]

Who: Whichever idiots want to go out into the woods and figure out what killed April
What: Search Party!
When: Thursday
Where: The Lobby/The Grounds/The Forest
Rating: PG-13 otherwise tag your threads

She wouldn't normally care, but with the castle shifting to resemble anything remotely like her world, Meg was on edge. When she found April - or what was left of her - decorating the castle halls, that concern switched to full blown alert mode. The demon spent the night and half the morning poking around the castle, looking for whatever had done it on her own to no avail. By noon, she had circled back around to the lobby and stood there glaring at the pile of weapons, wondering what the hell the catch was.

Finally, she cracked open her journal. By now, more people surely would have seen the carnage.

"All right," she sighed heavily. "Anyone wants to go out and find what did it, meet me in the lobby."

Comments

Forest

[putuporshutup]

[deductiongeek]

[ Conan was hardly about to allow a search for a murderer to happen without him. But he also knew that there would protests to allowing a child to come along on a possibly dangerous mission.

So obviously the solution was to follow some of the others without telling anyone and without letting anyone know he was there until it was too late to send him back to the castle.

He moves quietly through the forest, keeping a close ear on the sound of footsteps up ahead.]

[toobravehearted]

[ The Doctor's hearing is very good, better than a human's. When there's the sound of rustling and slight movement coming from behind the party, he starts to hang back. What if what they're looking for is actually looking for them instead?

Veering off to the side, the Doctor puts himself behind a tree, quiet and waiting. What he does see makes a spike of frustration in him when things really are fraught enough.

Leaning forward as the boy passes, he reaches out a hand to Conan's shoulder, hopefully getting a good enough grip on his clothing in the process to stop him from running and he whispers quickly and quietly. ]

It's me, don't call out. What are you doing out here? [ The irritation in his voice should be apparent. ]

[deductiongeek]

[Conan doesn't even try to twist out of his grip. Instead he crosses his arms and scowls. He winces a little as the motion pulls at the half-healed stitches in his arm.]

What do you think I'm doing here? There was a murder, and the evidence leads out here,

[toobravehearted]

[ When he's satisfied the Conan won't shriek or immediately run away, he relaxes the grip he has on Conan's clothing. ]

I don't much care if it leads to the moon right now, you are still injured and are about half the height of me or anyone else. How can you be so foolish?

[deductiongeek]

What else should I do? I saw the group that was leaving on this trip. You have fighters, but none of you are detectives.

And I've done far more dangerous things than this before.

[wendigoooo]

[Conan perhaps isn't as quiet as he thinks he is, and something that lurks in the woods is drawn to his location. It's fast and it's smart, and for a while it just stalks him. Learning the way he moves, sizing him up and preparing to attack.

He won't provide all that much meat, but he'll do.]

[deductiongeek]

[Conan didn't believe in the supernatural. He didn't have any kind of heightened sense or special ability.

What Conan did have was good instincts. He knew when he was being watched, even if the reason behind that knowledge was not something he could put into words.

And right now he was very certain that something dangerous was watching him. Slowly, he drops one hand down to his belt. If something was there, he wanted to be ready to trigger his soccerball.]

[wendigoooo]

[The child seemed an easy enough mark, and it would likely draw out more. The Wendigo would make quick work of this one. He clearly knew it was watching, but that made it easier to intimidate and misdirect. In a flawlessly human sounding voice that sounded like it was coming from the opposite direction, the monster called out.]

HELP ME! HELP! PLEASE! HELP ME!

[deductiongeek]

[Conan's head jerks in the direction of the cry. He knew it could be a trick. It could be a trap. Likely even, considering his certainty that something had been following him.

But he couldn't risk being wrong about this.

He takes off running towards the sound. ]

[schrodingersghost]

Danny floats through the forest, above and slightly to the right of the others. Occasionally he phases through a tree when it gets in the way.

"...Did anyone else just hear something?"

[deadlybanker]

Giovanni had not left with the group but it was the sound that drew him to them. Whether it was the group itself crashing through the bushes or something else when the Italian Assassin arrived he saw only those of the castle. Had... the thing some how slipped past him?

"Have you seen any sign of what you have all been tracking?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Not a thing," Danny says bluntly. Not that he even knew what they were looking for, really. He was mostly just here to do the punching. He'd leave the tracking to people who actually knew what they were doing.

[deadlybanker]

Truth be told, Giovanni had no great wilderness survival training himself. When he tracked a murderer he usually did so in the towns and cities where they lived.

"It must be something the castle dreamed up but... Are we even sure it would have taken to the forest?"

That castle did have so many places to hide. It might even have been one of the residents? It was too soon for him to rule anything out.

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine walks with the rest of the group as she scans the forest for possible signs of disturbance. Some of the group might have a problem with a teenager coming along, but she doesn't care. She's faced plenty of dangerous things in her lifetime. What's one more? Her bow and quiver are visible, and Dairine is carrying a lot more that's less visible.

She just hopes they don't have to go far enough that they reach the Dead Zone. Otherwise she'll be limited to archery alone.]

[im_the_doctor]

[ The eldest Doctor joins the group as they head out to the forest. He seen the trunk of weapons in the lobby, but he'd passed right on by. He didn't believe in weapons. Whatever happened, whatever they were going up against, there was a better way to deal with it than violence.

He'd seen enough violence and he was about to contribute to it. If anything he expects he'll be the voice of reason when they find whatever it is they are looking for.]

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine had also joined in, feeling as though it was her duty as a wizard. Something killed a person. It might be one of the Lone One's goons but even if it wasn't, killing increased entropy locally. She had to make sure it wasn't too much. Dairine might try talking to whatever they found at first, if only for the Oath's sake. However, the bow in her hand implies she isn't above harming it either.

Noticing the Doctor, she gives him a slight nod.]

[im_the_doctor]

[ The elder Doctor looked over at Dairine and nodded in return. He didn't like the idea that she was out here with them. In his mind, children should be allowed to be children. Play, laugh, go to school, whatever. They shouldn't be exposed to ... well all of this! At least not for a couple more years!

Still, he knows that she's a skilled wizard and that where she comes from she's dealt with this type of thing before. Maybe not quite the same but close enough. He just vows to keep an extra eye on her.

And her bow. He nods towards it. ]

You know how to use that?

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine would oppose to the extra attention if she knew about it. She is perfectly capable of handling herself in danger. While still going to school, playing, and laughing.

Her grip on the bow shifts a little when he comments on it.]

Yeah. I've been training.

[toobravehearted]

[ Whatever was going on between the Doctor's and probably wasn't being spoken about, didn't matter right now to the younger when something more important and immediate was going on right under their noses. It couldn't be allowed to carry on.

Which is why the Doctor stands next to his elder and unsurprisingly - is thinking the exact same thing. Five is unarmed, having passed the trunk in the lobby with naught but a tight lipped scowl. The Doctor's greatest weapon was his wits. ]

We're possibly going to have to split up. It's not just about looking for the thing that caused April's murder. It's watching our friends as well.

[im_the_doctor]

[ The elder senses his younger self beside him. There is a disturbance in the air between them. Something that wasn't there before and while it's there now certainly wouldn't get in the way of backing the other up or preventing them from working well together.

He nods as he looks of the group forming.]

Yes. That does sound like a wise choice. Any idea what we might be up against?

[toobravehearted]

[ Their friends do have a tendency to go off half-cocked but it's not just about that; it's watching them to make sure they are safe and he nods. April's death was terrible to hear about but for all they know whatever did that could be an innocent party... ]

Just the... No. Possibly large, possibly fast. For it to go unseen in the castle and for what it did, speed has to be an ability. An animal, some type of beast perhaps. It can't have much in the way of thought going by what it did.

[wendigoooo]

[The tall, thin man will be the third specimen the Wendigo drags back to its lair. After handling the other two, it has little patience left and it's eager to satisfy its appetite. When it makes a run at the Doctor, attempting to knock him down with claws flying at his face, it will seemingly come out of nowhere.]

[im_the_doctor]

[ The Doctor had been listening and feeling out his surroundings but the Wendigo is fast, much faster than the Doctor had expected and he's taken by surprise. Lunging backwards as the creature claws at his face his trainer catches an exposed branch and he falls backward landing on his rear.

Crawling backward as fast as he can, he tries to reason with it. ]

Hello. You don't have to do this. We can talk about this. What exactly are you anyway?

[wendigoooo]

[All he gets is a growl in response as it lunges forward again, looming over him. Even if the Wendigo was once human and knows perfectly well what the doctor is doing and understands perfectly, it has no reply. It doesn't reason with food. This time, it aims to rake its claws across his chest.]