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Saebyeoks Odd Encounter Sr Novel 250102
In the midst of a wintry night outside the Succubus Club, a peculiar group forms almost by happenstance. Sae-byeok emerges from the club, intent on an adventure, followed by Finn and a tipsy Madeline. Their night takes a sudden turn when a grubby messenger on a motorcycle dispatches Sae-byeok on a rescue mission to save a civilian lost in the woods. Despite Sae-byeok's initial reluctance, encapsulated by her 'ghetto's disgusted snarl' and sarcastic remarks about the wealthy and their problems, the trio inadvertently bands together for the task at hand. With Sae-byeok at the wheel, they venture into the chilling night, the streets minimally illuminated by the crescent moon above.
The journey takes a chaotic turn as they are ambushed by a horde of giant rats in the woods, where the intended rescue plays out more like a scene from a grotesque comedy. Misidentifying their target for a monster in the fog turns to horror as they realize it's actually the person they were sent to rescue, surrounded by the vermin. Amidst the screams, gunshots, and revving engine, the team fights off the rats with whatever is at hand—Finn with bare fists, Madeline with a glaive, and Sae-byeok, the self-proclaimed vampire, using the car as a weapon. In the frenzied endeavor to save the civilian and themselves, the line between heroism and madness blurs. The incident concludes with the group narrowly escaping the rodent onslaught, their vehicle and themselves battered but alive, pondering the bizarre turn of events that transformed an ordinary night into an extraordinary tale of survival.
(Sae-byeok's odd encounter(SRNovel):SRNovel)
[Wed Jan 1 2025]
At the Patio Walkway of The Succubus Club
A short path leads from Devilwood Drive and parking to a rather plain
looking warehouse building from the outside, considering the nature of the
business. Most of the sleek flash seems to be saved for the inside, lights
and the beat of music flooding out with foot traffic as the door swings open
and closed. The space outside is, however, thoughtfully well-appointed.
There's a few benches and tables with metal patio chairs to the side of the
building entrance, a few leafy potted plants, and sand-filled ashtrays for
smokers to step out to.
It is night, about 19F(-7C) degrees, and there are a few dark grey stormclouds in the sky. There is a waxing crescent moon.
(Your target's been contacted to help find a civilian who's become lost in the woods.
)
Sae-byeok steps out of the Succubus Club in an excitable expediency that makes her mark to rob on Deadwood. From whence she has come, a strip club, therefore, must have been an exciting experience to the Kim-uninitiated.
Sae-byeok(OOC) Do we want to stay in the bar, or be just outside?
Finn heads out of the club, seeing Kim still standing there. "Hey there Kim" He greets the girl, heading over as he helps a slightly intoxicated Madeline make her way out also
Madeline staggers through the main door along with Finn, leaning on him for support.
Sae-byeok turns over her shoulder, knee placed triumphantly on the bumper of her car like a fallen foe.
Sae-byeok says "Oh, hi!"
Finn says "Why are you kneeing your car? What did it do to you?"
Sae-byeok says "Haha Finn we don't need reasons to hurt people!"
Finn rubs his chin, he certainly liked the sentiment. He wasn't sure he agreed with it fully, but she had his heart with that one. "Go on then, I suppose. Try not to hurt yourself."
Sae-byeok kicks her car and doesn't break her foot.
Madeline looks around the street, "Which car was yours?" She slurs Finn.
Finn shakes his head "I just got here, I've not got a car yet." He tells Madeline
Here, outside in the crunchy snow, the flakes of it drifting down and making everyone horribly cold unless they happen to be wearing six different layers of warmth or enjoy the cold like a FREAK when they should be trying to enjoy warm weather. At least it's fairly pretty with all the stars out and twinkling, the relative small town having fewer streetlights then the bigger cities, and the snow putting a muffling layer all over everything.
Cold, cold, and more cold, though many may be warming up from their insides and the fill of liquor that might prevent frostbite by increased bloodflow but cause hypothermia because it does so by having that heat pulled deep from within's someone core. Anyway regardless of how that all works Sae's earbud suddenly beeps loudly twice before the arrival of an ugly-ass motorcycle that looks like someone took a harley, said, that wasn't fast enough, and then hewed off everything until they had a stripped-down bike which is one nitro away from turning into a blazing fireball with an equally grubby person on top that would either instantly burst into flames or melt. "HEY FUCKER!" They call out loudly to Sae-byeok. Great.
They waggle a lorenz attractor. "I'm headed home, long fucking shift. But there's someone stuck in the woods southwest of here past the fucking - docks and west. Last anyone saw them. Their family's rich and helped pay for it. Go fucking help them." And then - off they go, not leaving a chance to respond beyond being angry at the choking cloud of smoke they leave behind them. from their vehicle, their dark-streaked track quickly being covered by the gentle drifting of snow.
Pretty easy to see how someone would get lost with all this white.
Finn raises an eyebrow at the biker as he turns up, marveling at the man's spectacularly bad tastes in motorcycles before watching him head off just as quickly as he'd arrived. He looks over at Kim, who was assumedly still kicking the car and raises an eyebrow at her "Who the fuck was that?"
Sae-byeok immediately adopts a ghetto's disgusted, argumentative snarl, making an ugly gesture to the riding man, "Ehhh? Rich chaebol pay's nice but he is too busy? Stuck in forest ooohhh NO so bad for them, eeeeauuh??"
Sae-byeok removes her friendship bracelet and puts on her sunglasses. Friend times is over, replaced by cool time.
Madeline is trying to process everything through the fog of appletini in her head. "So what was that all about?" She asks, pointing her finger wildly in the direction of Sae-byeok.
"Ehh? 'Business' but like not business because." Sae-byeok remarks dismissively, getting into her car. "I have to save someone's life and you should help me because I'm cold, helpless, and pregnant."
Madeline looks up to Finn, with a half-serious accusatory look. "You didn't do that to her, did you?"
Sae-byeok says "No! Boyfriend."
Finn double takes between Madeline and Sae-byeok, clearly some internal conflict going on. "... Fuck" He says after a while before heading over to the car, looking back to Madeline "Get home safe, alright?" He says before double taking "No, I'm not that stupid" He tells as he gets into the car.
Sae-byeok's car turns on with a scream of its transmission. It hates being turned on.
Sae-byeok calls out, rolling down her window.
Madeline opens the rear passenger door, "Yes, I am." She states simply, getting into the car as well.
Finn looks over his shoulder back at Madeline with a raised eyebrow, an exasperated look on his face "Am I the only human in this goddamn town?"
Everyone has made a grave mistake as the moment all doors are closed, Sae-byeok floors the car.. In park.
And then it's not in park. It's in drive, peeling out across frozen pavement diagonally before traction shoots them forward.
"Probably not, but who knows?" Madeline teases with a giggle.
Finn squints his eyes "You weren't going to suck my blood the moment we were out of public sight, were you?"
Sae-byeok jerks the wheel to hit a rodent passing the road, then tuts as it flings itself into trees. "..Tch, could have used that blood."
"No! I'm not a vampire!" Madeline shouts, indignantly.
Sae-byeok hops a curb to avoid a red light.
Sae-byeok says "I am totally a vampire."
Finn shudders "If you need blood I've got plenty I suppose ..." He says, unsure of what he was exactly getting himself in for, looking back to Madeline "So what are you, then?" He asks her before deadpanning at Sae-byeok "Fuck off, no you're not." He tells her, not willing to believe she was also a vampire in addition to everything else she was.
"My fridge is filled with blood!" Sae-byeok argues with childish cadence.
Finn says "Isn't that for your ritual shit, though?"
Finn says "Also, that's creepy as fuck."
Sae-byeok says "Eh? No, I just get straight from tap."
Sae-byeok taps her arm.
"One of my ancestors is a greek god." Madeline says, playing coy.
The blizzard intensifies as they drive down dusty roads and through extreme weather conditions, the headlights only illuminating a few feet - worsened, when the mist rises, the roads slick and icy and dangerous and Devilwood never being particularly well-lit in these conditions. Man whoever it is is probably screwed. Oh well. Down back roads they go, the sickening CRUNCH and SQUEAK as Sae-byeok absolutely DESTROYS wildlife and Madeline denies her probably vampire nature while Finn interrogates her. Though Madeline has a reflection? So does Sae-byeok. You can totally see her reflection in the rear view mirror. She's totally full of shit (vampires have reflections).
Down roads Sae-byeok tears up and down until she approaches the address that beeps in hear earbud, of last seen. And then there's... silence. Quiet, blissful silence. A long pause. And then.
Sae-byeok can hear it. The squeaking. Screaming mingled with it. Finn and Madeline see - something? Someone? Indistinct, shapes moving through the trees, beelining towards them, the fuzzy thing in front flailing at them and staggering towards the lights of the car in desperate, desperate panic through the trees.
What do OUR HEREOES do now?!!
Finn nods slowly at Madeline's words "Ahhhh, I see why you were so into me now. You mistook me for one of your kind." He tells her "I suppose that makes sense."
Finn looks out at the creature in front of them "Uhhh ... I don't suppose getting out of the car and punching that thing is very advisable?" He queries the two other people inside the vehicle, looking between the two of them "Either of you know what that thing is exactly?"
Sae-byeok pts the vehicle in reverse, to gain a small distance, then honks at the creature. She draws the rune of eis across the dash and outside, a layer of ice shields the bumper of her car and forms into a mad-max spike impalement. She revs her engine, then, puts it into drive.
"Yeah, sure. If it helps you sleep at...!" Madeline looks through the windshield at the creature, "No idea! Hit it with the car!"
Sae-byeok says "IT'S DEAD!"
Finn nods his approval at the idea "Yeah, probably a better idea than trying to punch it."
Finn wonders briefly if that thing might be the person they were looking for, in some kind of ragged clothes being tossed by the wind, but ultimately decides he's okay with taking that risk since it was more likely it genuinely was just a monster
Sae-byeok says "Who knows!"
Sae-byeok says "We will see when it's ON THE GROUND!"
Finn says "Fuck it up, Kim. You got this."
Sae-byeok MIGHT got this.
Just before Sae-byeok runs over the fuzzy shape running towards them, all the occupants in the car realize that it is a person bundled up in a huge pile of clothes and flailing is a human being as the mist lifts and the things around them are dozens of hungry giant rats that are searching for an easy meal in the depths of winter and ohhhh no no there goes the headlights and they freeze like a deer from the wicked vehicle encrusted in spiky ice by Sae-byeok with Finn and Madeline trapped in the vehicle as SHE'S ABOUT TO RUN OVER A CIVILIAN THE MANIAC and there's trees everywhere, branches whipping off the glass and window and around ohhh shiiiiiiit.
Madeline braces herself against the back seat of the car.
Finn thought he was making a calculated risk endorsing this plan, but man is he bad at maths.
Sae-byeok honks viscously at the woman and only changes her direction marginally
Finn says "Kim I think that's our guy"
Sae-byeok clips the person instead of running them over as they do their best to roll out of the way, Sanctuary getting involved so that they get away with only bleeding bruises. "You maniac!" Squeals the woman in vicious upset, her bundled cushions protecting her. Probably. Probably. The vehicle skiiids sideways, sending up a sleet of snow and ice directly into the field of ravenous rats, some of them slapping or slamming into the side of the vehicle with thuds or thumps. Quick! Finn and Madeline what are you doing while this madwoman drives?!
Sae-byeok has a large glaive, a long spear of rebar, and some sort of hunting rifle in the backseat.
Madeline is holding on for dear life in the back seat, furiously trying to buckle her seatbelt.
Finn is just kind of here for the ride. He's a normal ass dude and has no powers. He's getting himself ready to hop out of the car and square up with some rats once the car comes to an inevitable stop, but until that happens he's just trying to make sure he doesn't tense up too much when they hit something!
Sae-byeok slams on the breaks!
Finn has time to grab a weapon! And he better act fast, those squeakers are trying to get into the car! In the mean time Madeline's numb, drunken fingers fumble with the buckle at the same time as the woman tries to frantically grab at the door "Ahh! Ahhhhh!" She says as giant rats suddenly jump at her, trying to smack them off while a mittened hand tries to get to the back door open with desperation. Sae-byeok unlocked the back doors right. Right?!? RATS OH NO THEY'RE EVERYWHERE AND ALL OVER THE CAR though at least two of them went crunch under the wheels, and three others sent flying.
Nope. When the car is put in park, however, they are! Sae-byeok attempts to open her door, grabbing a block from underneath her seat and trying to fit it through the gap and fire.
Madeline tries to fend off the rats, while searching for anything sharp, maybe a broken piece of glass or something to cut at them with.
Sae-byeok grabs a glock* not a block.
Finn has time to grab a weapon, but ... doesn't? Maybe he's stupid, maybe he just feels more comfortable with what he knows, but either way he's going bare handed on this one. He scrambles out of his seat into the back, trying to open up the door the woman was scrambling at! As soon as he does, he leans back, takes a firm grip on anything around him, and raises his foot up in the air as he starts delivering brutish heel stomps to as many rats as he can as the woman (hopefully!) gets into the car!
Finn and for climbing through the car to the back
A painful, violent ringing of ears as a gun is discharged in an enclosed space. Hope everyone's wearing earplugs! They didn't break through the glass - they're big rats but still, you know, rats, and right next to Madeline is a giant pointy glaive that looks like some stupid fragile fantasy bullshit that belongs in someone's cosplay. Sae-byeok is a huge nerd. Of course they try to squeeze in as soon as the door opens leaving Finn with a faceful of fur and hauling the woman's crying dumb ass in while Madeline can poke at them and the bigger man tosses and throws them in. "Aaaaaaaaahhh!" She says, intelligently and helpfully while (more helpfully) flailing and kicking a dog-sized red eyed rats.
There's a lot of blood and chaos going on. Violence is definitely happening, and there's blood, and a lot of fuzzy bodies!!! The woman's in the car!!!
Sae-byeok doesn't know how to do "O's" in a parking lot, so she just floors the car and spinns the wheel all the way to the right.
Finn says "Drive! Fucking drive!"
Sae-byeok then, everyone shunted into the door that isn't open, attempts to steady the car and kick off!
Sae-byeok says "RAT! GET RAT OUT OF MY SEAT!"
Finn flails about, trying to hook the door closed with his foot before trying to grab any rats he can and hurl them off of the people in the car! He tries to steel himself to just accept that his hands are going to get bit to shit doing this, trying his best not to flinch any time that happens
Sae-byeok yells for sake of her seats, looking in the rear view mirror while she drives at an alarming speed forward.
Finn attempts to contort himself in such a way that he can grab the rat in the driver's seat! Pulling it over to his section of the car!
Madeline makes an attempt to fend off the rats with the glaive, being as careful as she can to not damage the upholstery.
Finn is surprised Sae-byeok could even fit a polearm into the back of a car, he's even more impressed Madeline is able to effectively use it as a weapon in the confined space
The vehicle goes thump, crunch, whump, thud, splatters of blood across the frozen ice that's steadily melting beneath the heat as bodies are tossed out, aside, the woman thoughtfully passing out while Finn deals with a screaming, squealing animal. Did you know rats at that size sound more like pigs? All that squealing and grunting! And they have internals a lot like a person's, so, same thing, really, as Madeline gets blood everywhere and they get back to the road, having successfully SAVED SOME RICH BITCH while motoring off home on the road. It's eerily silent in comparison to what they were once doing.
Oh yeah and there's a rat head sitting in the back. Good job everyone!
"Ugh!" Madeline grabs the rat head with her blood-soaked gloved hand and tosses it out the window. It hits the pavement with a sickening thud.
Sae-byeok's head shimmies side to side, "You can't."
Finn pauses a moment, clears his throat, and pats the woman on top of him to check her for consciousness "... Right then." He says in his painfully british accent as he sits up, carefully maneuvering the woman off of him and into his lap. "Is everyone alright?" He checks, looking between Sae-byeok and Madeline "Check yourself for scratches and bites"
Sae-byeok looks at her ripped sleeves and shrugs.
Sae-byeok says "They not break skin."
Finn shakes his head, muttering something about 'fucking demons' under his breath
Madeline checks herself, using her superpowers as a registered nurse. "I'm fine, I'll just need a shower... ugh..." She looks over her ruined outfit in disgust.
Gross. Well, back to home. And all that. Everyone has plenty of scratches but, nothing serious and it should all heal up tomorrow without infections. Finn discovers the woman is breathing and probably fine? And the blood is probably not hers. Away they go, to drop her off at the address Sae-byeok gets. For now... that's the adventure complete.
And back they go... to a more normal time.
Finn(ooc) thanks chief, fun event!
Sae-byeok(OOC) Rats!
Finn(ooc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXQwx1EolD8
(A member of The Sapphire Martyrs approaches one of your characters with a seemingly innocent request for help. They've lost a precious item - a sapphire amulet - and they need assistance to retrieve it. Unbeknownst to the characters, the amulet is a powerful artifact that the Martyrs plan to use to speed up the Earth's destruction. As they help the Martyr retrieve the amulet, they slowly uncover the true nature of The Sapphire Martyrs and their horrifying plan. The characters must decide whether to return the amulet, potentially dooming the earth, or to keep it and face the wrath of the Martyrs.)
This is certainly not a quiet night. Far in the distance from his quaint little trailer in his quaint little trailer park, Colton can hear an ever-present, ongoing explosion of fireworks, fizzing and popping across the sky bright enough to light up his trailer colorfully whenever the light filters in through his windows. A whooping and cheering is heard every now and then of ongoing festivities an hour after the new year, the usual early-to-bed Haven crowd still awake and thriving.
Closer to his residence, there's a scuffle of unfamiliar feet upon the ground, a shuffling of movement, close - in fact, it's close enough that it might just be coming from his backyard.
Yep, that's his backyard alright, and a stranger within, wandering here and there as though in search of something.
Quietly, privately, concealed within the confines of his home, Colton stands before his bathroom mirror, dressed to the nines and beyond in the bespoke suit that Sophie Wilson'd had tailored for him. He really isn't a materially-oriented guy, or someone obsessed with appearances... but who hadn't imagined themselves dressed up in an ensemble that surely cost tens of thousands of dollars? He smirks at himself in the mirror, then pulls a very serious, secret service agent's mask over his features, lifting a hand to his ear as if to better listen to some order from on high.
And then, interrupting his /very private/ moment of boyish fantasy, there's some shithead in his god damn fucking yard. He lets out a sigh, then steps back into his bedroom, carefully removing the suit jacket and dress shirt and laying them on the bed - unrumpled - before he stomps out to the back door in just his pants and shoes. Those'd take too long to change over. He shoves the door open, glancing around for whichever interloper decided to trespass right as he'd bounced back from the goddamn new moon, and growls, "Can I fucking help you?"
Colton's met by crickets. The woman in his backyard jumps as though startled, a deer-in-the-headlights look on her face, and there's a sweeping look all the way from Colton's feet to his face, lingering for far too long on his chest and arms with undeniable interest before she straightens up, running her tongue along her lips a little nervously and taking far too long to answer. "Oh hi, yes actually," she answers, deciding to take him up on that even if he wasn't being literal. "I, uh, lost something? Around here? Sorry, I didn't mean to trespass," She lets out an awkward little laugh, definitely not too apologetic.
She's an ordinary-looking woman, with brown hair in a bun, bundled up in warm winter clothes, with nerdy spectacles perched on her nose. Definitely the kind of woman who'd have gotten bullied in high school for being a nerd. She continues on after a pause, trying not to let her gaze slip down to Colton's chest again - and damn, isn't he cold? It's fucking cold out here. "It's a necklace, very, umm, sentimental. Do you think you could give me a hand?" Preferably without putting his shirt back on, thanks. "You'll know it when you see it. I probably dropped it somewhere around here earlier when I was visiting a friend?" Her voice lilts a little on the last phrase, but she clears her throat and just flashes Colton a brief, awkward smile.
It is safe to say Colton has his nipples on high beam against the brumal chill, yes. However, that's very much besides the point. "We've just done yard work recently," he grunts, openly irritated by the late night visit. "So unless your friend is Maddy down the street, then no, it's not behind my damn house. Check in with the Westhaven Administration building on Cromwell Avenue - in the /morning/. We keep a lost and found inventory. I can't promise much if it was very valuable, though. People here are poor and hungry. Not saying it's justified, just that I wouldn't be surprised if it got stolen. Sorry if it did. If we don't have it in the lost and found, just describe it to my cousin Chet and we'll keep an eye out, alright?" He doesn't say it out loud, but inwardly he ends his words with, 'Now please fuck off.'
The woman's face falls a little bit, even if she tries not to look /too/ disappointed - and mostly fails at it, to be fair. She doesn't specify whether Maddy was her friend or not, just nodding slowly along with Colton's words after he's finished talking, and she lets out a little bit of a sigh. "Thanks, I'll check in with the Administration," she tells Colton, giving the yard a sweeping glance once again just in case she can find a glint of anything precious upon the ground that she didn't already find. It's followed by another sigh, and she backs away a little bit, to the boundary of Colton's yard and then on to the little path leading away. "I'll look around a little more, if you don't mind. Sorry for bothering you, Mister Moore." Maybe she's seen him around town before to know him. Maybe she's just guessing. Either way, she's walking slowly along, a flashlight out and being pointed towards the ground while she walks along, taking herself out of Colton's immediate territory.
The journey takes a chaotic turn as they are ambushed by a horde of giant rats in the woods, where the intended rescue plays out more like a scene from a grotesque comedy. Misidentifying their target for a monster in the fog turns to horror as they realize it's actually the person they were sent to rescue, surrounded by the vermin. Amidst the screams, gunshots, and revving engine, the team fights off the rats with whatever is at hand—Finn with bare fists, Madeline with a glaive, and Sae-byeok, the self-proclaimed vampire, using the car as a weapon. In the frenzied endeavor to save the civilian and themselves, the line between heroism and madness blurs. The incident concludes with the group narrowly escaping the rodent onslaught, their vehicle and themselves battered but alive, pondering the bizarre turn of events that transformed an ordinary night into an extraordinary tale of survival.
(Sae-byeok's odd encounter(SRNovel):SRNovel)
[Wed Jan 1 2025]
At the Patio Walkway of The Succubus Club
A short path leads from Devilwood Drive and parking to a rather plain
looking warehouse building from the outside, considering the nature of the
business. Most of the sleek flash seems to be saved for the inside, lights
and the beat of music flooding out with foot traffic as the door swings open
and closed. The space outside is, however, thoughtfully well-appointed.
There's a few benches and tables with metal patio chairs to the side of the
building entrance, a few leafy potted plants, and sand-filled ashtrays for
smokers to step out to.
It is night, about 19F(-7C) degrees, and there are a few dark grey stormclouds in the sky. There is a waxing crescent moon.
(Your target's been contacted to help find a civilian who's become lost in the woods.
)
Sae-byeok steps out of the Succubus Club in an excitable expediency that makes her mark to rob on Deadwood. From whence she has come, a strip club, therefore, must have been an exciting experience to the Kim-uninitiated.
Sae-byeok(OOC) Do we want to stay in the bar, or be just outside?
Finn heads out of the club, seeing Kim still standing there. "Hey there Kim" He greets the girl, heading over as he helps a slightly intoxicated Madeline make her way out also
Madeline staggers through the main door along with Finn, leaning on him for support.
Sae-byeok turns over her shoulder, knee placed triumphantly on the bumper of her car like a fallen foe.
Sae-byeok says "Oh, hi!"
Finn says "Why are you kneeing your car? What did it do to you?"
Sae-byeok says "Haha Finn we don't need reasons to hurt people!"
Finn rubs his chin, he certainly liked the sentiment. He wasn't sure he agreed with it fully, but she had his heart with that one. "Go on then, I suppose. Try not to hurt yourself."
Sae-byeok kicks her car and doesn't break her foot.
Madeline looks around the street, "Which car was yours?" She slurs Finn.
Finn shakes his head "I just got here, I've not got a car yet." He tells Madeline
Here, outside in the crunchy snow, the flakes of it drifting down and making everyone horribly cold unless they happen to be wearing six different layers of warmth or enjoy the cold like a FREAK when they should be trying to enjoy warm weather. At least it's fairly pretty with all the stars out and twinkling, the relative small town having fewer streetlights then the bigger cities, and the snow putting a muffling layer all over everything.
Cold, cold, and more cold, though many may be warming up from their insides and the fill of liquor that might prevent frostbite by increased bloodflow but cause hypothermia because it does so by having that heat pulled deep from within's someone core. Anyway regardless of how that all works Sae's earbud suddenly beeps loudly twice before the arrival of an ugly-ass motorcycle that looks like someone took a harley, said, that wasn't fast enough, and then hewed off everything until they had a stripped-down bike which is one nitro away from turning into a blazing fireball with an equally grubby person on top that would either instantly burst into flames or melt. "HEY FUCKER!" They call out loudly to Sae-byeok. Great.
They waggle a lorenz attractor. "I'm headed home, long fucking shift. But there's someone stuck in the woods southwest of here past the fucking - docks and west. Last anyone saw them. Their family's rich and helped pay for it. Go fucking help them." And then - off they go, not leaving a chance to respond beyond being angry at the choking cloud of smoke they leave behind them. from their vehicle, their dark-streaked track quickly being covered by the gentle drifting of snow.
Pretty easy to see how someone would get lost with all this white.
Finn raises an eyebrow at the biker as he turns up, marveling at the man's spectacularly bad tastes in motorcycles before watching him head off just as quickly as he'd arrived. He looks over at Kim, who was assumedly still kicking the car and raises an eyebrow at her "Who the fuck was that?"
Sae-byeok immediately adopts a ghetto's disgusted, argumentative snarl, making an ugly gesture to the riding man, "Ehhh? Rich chaebol pay's nice but he is too busy? Stuck in forest ooohhh NO so bad for them, eeeeauuh??"
Sae-byeok removes her friendship bracelet and puts on her sunglasses. Friend times is over, replaced by cool time.
Madeline is trying to process everything through the fog of appletini in her head. "So what was that all about?" She asks, pointing her finger wildly in the direction of Sae-byeok.
"Ehh? 'Business' but like not business because." Sae-byeok remarks dismissively, getting into her car. "I have to save someone's life and you should help me because I'm cold, helpless, and pregnant."
Madeline looks up to Finn, with a half-serious accusatory look. "You didn't do that to her, did you?"
Sae-byeok says "No! Boyfriend."
Finn double takes between Madeline and Sae-byeok, clearly some internal conflict going on. "... Fuck" He says after a while before heading over to the car, looking back to Madeline "Get home safe, alright?" He says before double taking "No, I'm not that stupid" He tells as he gets into the car.
Sae-byeok's car turns on with a scream of its transmission. It hates being turned on.
Sae-byeok calls out, rolling down her window.
Madeline opens the rear passenger door, "Yes, I am." She states simply, getting into the car as well.
Finn looks over his shoulder back at Madeline with a raised eyebrow, an exasperated look on his face "Am I the only human in this goddamn town?"
Everyone has made a grave mistake as the moment all doors are closed, Sae-byeok floors the car.. In park.
And then it's not in park. It's in drive, peeling out across frozen pavement diagonally before traction shoots them forward.
"Probably not, but who knows?" Madeline teases with a giggle.
Finn squints his eyes "You weren't going to suck my blood the moment we were out of public sight, were you?"
Sae-byeok jerks the wheel to hit a rodent passing the road, then tuts as it flings itself into trees. "..Tch, could have used that blood."
"No! I'm not a vampire!" Madeline shouts, indignantly.
Sae-byeok hops a curb to avoid a red light.
Sae-byeok says "I am totally a vampire."
Finn shudders "If you need blood I've got plenty I suppose ..." He says, unsure of what he was exactly getting himself in for, looking back to Madeline "So what are you, then?" He asks her before deadpanning at Sae-byeok "Fuck off, no you're not." He tells her, not willing to believe she was also a vampire in addition to everything else she was.
"My fridge is filled with blood!" Sae-byeok argues with childish cadence.
Finn says "Isn't that for your ritual shit, though?"
Finn says "Also, that's creepy as fuck."
Sae-byeok says "Eh? No, I just get straight from tap."
Sae-byeok taps her arm.
"One of my ancestors is a greek god." Madeline says, playing coy.
The blizzard intensifies as they drive down dusty roads and through extreme weather conditions, the headlights only illuminating a few feet - worsened, when the mist rises, the roads slick and icy and dangerous and Devilwood never being particularly well-lit in these conditions. Man whoever it is is probably screwed. Oh well. Down back roads they go, the sickening CRUNCH and SQUEAK as Sae-byeok absolutely DESTROYS wildlife and Madeline denies her probably vampire nature while Finn interrogates her. Though Madeline has a reflection? So does Sae-byeok. You can totally see her reflection in the rear view mirror. She's totally full of shit (vampires have reflections).
Down roads Sae-byeok tears up and down until she approaches the address that beeps in hear earbud, of last seen. And then there's... silence. Quiet, blissful silence. A long pause. And then.
Sae-byeok can hear it. The squeaking. Screaming mingled with it. Finn and Madeline see - something? Someone? Indistinct, shapes moving through the trees, beelining towards them, the fuzzy thing in front flailing at them and staggering towards the lights of the car in desperate, desperate panic through the trees.
What do OUR HEREOES do now?!!
Finn nods slowly at Madeline's words "Ahhhh, I see why you were so into me now. You mistook me for one of your kind." He tells her "I suppose that makes sense."
Finn looks out at the creature in front of them "Uhhh ... I don't suppose getting out of the car and punching that thing is very advisable?" He queries the two other people inside the vehicle, looking between the two of them "Either of you know what that thing is exactly?"
Sae-byeok pts the vehicle in reverse, to gain a small distance, then honks at the creature. She draws the rune of eis across the dash and outside, a layer of ice shields the bumper of her car and forms into a mad-max spike impalement. She revs her engine, then, puts it into drive.
"Yeah, sure. If it helps you sleep at...!" Madeline looks through the windshield at the creature, "No idea! Hit it with the car!"
Sae-byeok says "IT'S DEAD!"
Finn nods his approval at the idea "Yeah, probably a better idea than trying to punch it."
Finn wonders briefly if that thing might be the person they were looking for, in some kind of ragged clothes being tossed by the wind, but ultimately decides he's okay with taking that risk since it was more likely it genuinely was just a monster
Sae-byeok says "Who knows!"
Sae-byeok says "We will see when it's ON THE GROUND!"
Finn says "Fuck it up, Kim. You got this."
Sae-byeok MIGHT got this.
Just before Sae-byeok runs over the fuzzy shape running towards them, all the occupants in the car realize that it is a person bundled up in a huge pile of clothes and flailing is a human being as the mist lifts and the things around them are dozens of hungry giant rats that are searching for an easy meal in the depths of winter and ohhhh no no there goes the headlights and they freeze like a deer from the wicked vehicle encrusted in spiky ice by Sae-byeok with Finn and Madeline trapped in the vehicle as SHE'S ABOUT TO RUN OVER A CIVILIAN THE MANIAC and there's trees everywhere, branches whipping off the glass and window and around ohhh shiiiiiiit.
Madeline braces herself against the back seat of the car.
Finn thought he was making a calculated risk endorsing this plan, but man is he bad at maths.
Sae-byeok honks viscously at the woman and only changes her direction marginally
Finn says "Kim I think that's our guy"
Sae-byeok clips the person instead of running them over as they do their best to roll out of the way, Sanctuary getting involved so that they get away with only bleeding bruises. "You maniac!" Squeals the woman in vicious upset, her bundled cushions protecting her. Probably. Probably. The vehicle skiiids sideways, sending up a sleet of snow and ice directly into the field of ravenous rats, some of them slapping or slamming into the side of the vehicle with thuds or thumps. Quick! Finn and Madeline what are you doing while this madwoman drives?!
Sae-byeok has a large glaive, a long spear of rebar, and some sort of hunting rifle in the backseat.
Madeline is holding on for dear life in the back seat, furiously trying to buckle her seatbelt.
Finn is just kind of here for the ride. He's a normal ass dude and has no powers. He's getting himself ready to hop out of the car and square up with some rats once the car comes to an inevitable stop, but until that happens he's just trying to make sure he doesn't tense up too much when they hit something!
Sae-byeok slams on the breaks!
Finn has time to grab a weapon! And he better act fast, those squeakers are trying to get into the car! In the mean time Madeline's numb, drunken fingers fumble with the buckle at the same time as the woman tries to frantically grab at the door "Ahh! Ahhhhh!" She says as giant rats suddenly jump at her, trying to smack them off while a mittened hand tries to get to the back door open with desperation. Sae-byeok unlocked the back doors right. Right?!? RATS OH NO THEY'RE EVERYWHERE AND ALL OVER THE CAR though at least two of them went crunch under the wheels, and three others sent flying.
Nope. When the car is put in park, however, they are! Sae-byeok attempts to open her door, grabbing a block from underneath her seat and trying to fit it through the gap and fire.
Madeline tries to fend off the rats, while searching for anything sharp, maybe a broken piece of glass or something to cut at them with.
Sae-byeok grabs a glock* not a block.
Finn has time to grab a weapon, but ... doesn't? Maybe he's stupid, maybe he just feels more comfortable with what he knows, but either way he's going bare handed on this one. He scrambles out of his seat into the back, trying to open up the door the woman was scrambling at! As soon as he does, he leans back, takes a firm grip on anything around him, and raises his foot up in the air as he starts delivering brutish heel stomps to as many rats as he can as the woman (hopefully!) gets into the car!
Finn and for climbing through the car to the back
A painful, violent ringing of ears as a gun is discharged in an enclosed space. Hope everyone's wearing earplugs! They didn't break through the glass - they're big rats but still, you know, rats, and right next to Madeline is a giant pointy glaive that looks like some stupid fragile fantasy bullshit that belongs in someone's cosplay. Sae-byeok is a huge nerd. Of course they try to squeeze in as soon as the door opens leaving Finn with a faceful of fur and hauling the woman's crying dumb ass in while Madeline can poke at them and the bigger man tosses and throws them in. "Aaaaaaaaahhh!" She says, intelligently and helpfully while (more helpfully) flailing and kicking a dog-sized red eyed rats.
There's a lot of blood and chaos going on. Violence is definitely happening, and there's blood, and a lot of fuzzy bodies!!! The woman's in the car!!!
Sae-byeok doesn't know how to do "O's" in a parking lot, so she just floors the car and spinns the wheel all the way to the right.
Finn says "Drive! Fucking drive!"
Sae-byeok then, everyone shunted into the door that isn't open, attempts to steady the car and kick off!
Sae-byeok says "RAT! GET RAT OUT OF MY SEAT!"
Finn flails about, trying to hook the door closed with his foot before trying to grab any rats he can and hurl them off of the people in the car! He tries to steel himself to just accept that his hands are going to get bit to shit doing this, trying his best not to flinch any time that happens
Sae-byeok yells for sake of her seats, looking in the rear view mirror while she drives at an alarming speed forward.
Finn attempts to contort himself in such a way that he can grab the rat in the driver's seat! Pulling it over to his section of the car!
Madeline makes an attempt to fend off the rats with the glaive, being as careful as she can to not damage the upholstery.
Finn is surprised Sae-byeok could even fit a polearm into the back of a car, he's even more impressed Madeline is able to effectively use it as a weapon in the confined space
The vehicle goes thump, crunch, whump, thud, splatters of blood across the frozen ice that's steadily melting beneath the heat as bodies are tossed out, aside, the woman thoughtfully passing out while Finn deals with a screaming, squealing animal. Did you know rats at that size sound more like pigs? All that squealing and grunting! And they have internals a lot like a person's, so, same thing, really, as Madeline gets blood everywhere and they get back to the road, having successfully SAVED SOME RICH BITCH while motoring off home on the road. It's eerily silent in comparison to what they were once doing.
Oh yeah and there's a rat head sitting in the back. Good job everyone!
"Ugh!" Madeline grabs the rat head with her blood-soaked gloved hand and tosses it out the window. It hits the pavement with a sickening thud.
Sae-byeok's head shimmies side to side, "You can't."
Finn pauses a moment, clears his throat, and pats the woman on top of him to check her for consciousness "... Right then." He says in his painfully british accent as he sits up, carefully maneuvering the woman off of him and into his lap. "Is everyone alright?" He checks, looking between Sae-byeok and Madeline "Check yourself for scratches and bites"
Sae-byeok looks at her ripped sleeves and shrugs.
Sae-byeok says "They not break skin."
Finn shakes his head, muttering something about 'fucking demons' under his breath
Madeline checks herself, using her superpowers as a registered nurse. "I'm fine, I'll just need a shower... ugh..." She looks over her ruined outfit in disgust.
Gross. Well, back to home. And all that. Everyone has plenty of scratches but, nothing serious and it should all heal up tomorrow without infections. Finn discovers the woman is breathing and probably fine? And the blood is probably not hers. Away they go, to drop her off at the address Sae-byeok gets. For now... that's the adventure complete.
And back they go... to a more normal time.
Finn(ooc) thanks chief, fun event!
Sae-byeok(OOC) Rats!
Finn(ooc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXQwx1EolD8
(A member of The Sapphire Martyrs approaches one of your characters with a seemingly innocent request for help. They've lost a precious item - a sapphire amulet - and they need assistance to retrieve it. Unbeknownst to the characters, the amulet is a powerful artifact that the Martyrs plan to use to speed up the Earth's destruction. As they help the Martyr retrieve the amulet, they slowly uncover the true nature of The Sapphire Martyrs and their horrifying plan. The characters must decide whether to return the amulet, potentially dooming the earth, or to keep it and face the wrath of the Martyrs.)
This is certainly not a quiet night. Far in the distance from his quaint little trailer in his quaint little trailer park, Colton can hear an ever-present, ongoing explosion of fireworks, fizzing and popping across the sky bright enough to light up his trailer colorfully whenever the light filters in through his windows. A whooping and cheering is heard every now and then of ongoing festivities an hour after the new year, the usual early-to-bed Haven crowd still awake and thriving.
Closer to his residence, there's a scuffle of unfamiliar feet upon the ground, a shuffling of movement, close - in fact, it's close enough that it might just be coming from his backyard.
Yep, that's his backyard alright, and a stranger within, wandering here and there as though in search of something.
Quietly, privately, concealed within the confines of his home, Colton stands before his bathroom mirror, dressed to the nines and beyond in the bespoke suit that Sophie Wilson'd had tailored for him. He really isn't a materially-oriented guy, or someone obsessed with appearances... but who hadn't imagined themselves dressed up in an ensemble that surely cost tens of thousands of dollars? He smirks at himself in the mirror, then pulls a very serious, secret service agent's mask over his features, lifting a hand to his ear as if to better listen to some order from on high.
And then, interrupting his /very private/ moment of boyish fantasy, there's some shithead in his god damn fucking yard. He lets out a sigh, then steps back into his bedroom, carefully removing the suit jacket and dress shirt and laying them on the bed - unrumpled - before he stomps out to the back door in just his pants and shoes. Those'd take too long to change over. He shoves the door open, glancing around for whichever interloper decided to trespass right as he'd bounced back from the goddamn new moon, and growls, "Can I fucking help you?"
Colton's met by crickets. The woman in his backyard jumps as though startled, a deer-in-the-headlights look on her face, and there's a sweeping look all the way from Colton's feet to his face, lingering for far too long on his chest and arms with undeniable interest before she straightens up, running her tongue along her lips a little nervously and taking far too long to answer. "Oh hi, yes actually," she answers, deciding to take him up on that even if he wasn't being literal. "I, uh, lost something? Around here? Sorry, I didn't mean to trespass," She lets out an awkward little laugh, definitely not too apologetic.
She's an ordinary-looking woman, with brown hair in a bun, bundled up in warm winter clothes, with nerdy spectacles perched on her nose. Definitely the kind of woman who'd have gotten bullied in high school for being a nerd. She continues on after a pause, trying not to let her gaze slip down to Colton's chest again - and damn, isn't he cold? It's fucking cold out here. "It's a necklace, very, umm, sentimental. Do you think you could give me a hand?" Preferably without putting his shirt back on, thanks. "You'll know it when you see it. I probably dropped it somewhere around here earlier when I was visiting a friend?" Her voice lilts a little on the last phrase, but she clears her throat and just flashes Colton a brief, awkward smile.
It is safe to say Colton has his nipples on high beam against the brumal chill, yes. However, that's very much besides the point. "We've just done yard work recently," he grunts, openly irritated by the late night visit. "So unless your friend is Maddy down the street, then no, it's not behind my damn house. Check in with the Westhaven Administration building on Cromwell Avenue - in the /morning/. We keep a lost and found inventory. I can't promise much if it was very valuable, though. People here are poor and hungry. Not saying it's justified, just that I wouldn't be surprised if it got stolen. Sorry if it did. If we don't have it in the lost and found, just describe it to my cousin Chet and we'll keep an eye out, alright?" He doesn't say it out loud, but inwardly he ends his words with, 'Now please fuck off.'
The woman's face falls a little bit, even if she tries not to look /too/ disappointed - and mostly fails at it, to be fair. She doesn't specify whether Maddy was her friend or not, just nodding slowly along with Colton's words after he's finished talking, and she lets out a little bit of a sigh. "Thanks, I'll check in with the Administration," she tells Colton, giving the yard a sweeping glance once again just in case she can find a glint of anything precious upon the ground that she didn't already find. It's followed by another sigh, and she backs away a little bit, to the boundary of Colton's yard and then on to the little path leading away. "I'll look around a little more, if you don't mind. Sorry for bothering you, Mister Moore." Maybe she's seen him around town before to know him. Maybe she's just guessing. Either way, she's walking slowly along, a flashlight out and being pointed towards the ground while she walks along, taking herself out of Colton's immediate territory.