[baby jingle rattles happily, and then zooms back to the front to crouch down and look at the guests at the table outside the vent. harrow doesn't notice anything strange about the crystal, for now, but she'll get the impression that it's very important to somebody.
the table seems to be wide enough that perhaps they could run down the middle and avoid the worst of the nasty hands grabbing for meat. there are also plates stacked up that they could maybe hide behind, as well as several forks and knives that are about the size of swords, for the four of you. the guests are very entranced by the meat - you get the impression that they might be distracted if you're quiet.
across the room is an open door, leading out into what looks like maybe snow.
as they're discussing, two of the guests that are shoulder to shoulder grab for the same piece of meat. one of them, a massive brown haired woman makes a horrendous squawking sound and slaps at the other, an equally massive blonde woman. they dissolve into a shrieking, squawking fight on the floor, but it's... pathetic, because neither of them can move very well.]
Luckily for Sheila, she does not recognize either of these ladies and therefore can't be traumatized by this. Hooray!
But she hums, nodding at Harrow's suggestion.]
Well... They're eating, and apparently not very athletic? [Watching the two giant ladies fight. Terrible. She gesticulates as she continues, acting out some very bad charades.] Maybe we can quietly sneak past them, and hide between all the other crap on the table if they look our way.
[Countdown to how long they have before Flurry throws another horrifying thing at us.]
[ unfortunately, he does recognize one of the ladies.
his reaction, at first, is a weird feeling that the brunette looks familiar? and then, you know, it can't be? the last he checked, she wasn't into feederism? but the more he stares, the more it just kind of sinks in. ]
Ichika?
[ he moves a little closer to the edge, not quiet jumping down yet but still closer than he would have gotten ten seconds ago before discussion. ]
[ unfortunately, vira also recognizes one of them.
they're so sad and unsettling to watch that it takes her a moment as the gears in her head turn, but vira suddenly freezes up, letting out a quiet, horrified noise. her usual poise evaporates instantly, clearly shaken in her wide-eyed stare. ]
Katalina?
[ anyway she definitely looks like she's about to jump down there. plan who? ]
[Shit. Fuck. It takes her a moment to understand what's going on, what they're looking at, but then it clicks.
She's holding her by the hand already, but she'll reach to grab Vira by the arm. She's not strong, but she will at least make it so if she jumps, she'll be brought down with her. And - sass(afras) aside, she glances between Vira and Sasazuka with concern for both.]
Don't. Consider the likelihood that this is an illusion meant to provoke you. Don't allow it to.
[jingle baby makes an alarmed sound at vira and sasazuka's distress, moving to pat them gently. they can't reach either vira or sasazuka's head, unfortunately, but they pat their leg instead, trying to help.
the two women seem to get tired fast, and stop fighting after a minute. they slowly drag themselves back to the table.]
She looks between Vira and Takeru, and then gently pats Jingle on their shoulder, for being such a good eldritch baby.]
... She's right. And it wouldn't even be the first time we've seen something impossibly fucked up. Remember the bleeding stars? I bet it's exactly like that. Come on.
[Pr...obably... It's unclear if she actually believes what she's saying or not.]
We can take a minute if you need to calm down, but we should get moving. This is no place to raise a kid.
[ he knows they're likely right, and that whatever this is, it's just to mess with them. it takes him a moment to really respond though, his eyes fixated on ichika. ]
Come on. We're wasting time.
[ they can't hold hands while jumping down, but he'll go to scoop up their baby. it's... mostly because he is less likely to do something stupid if he is holding onto them. and then he'll hop down to the table and will set chuck jingle down once they're there.
sometimes you are rattled and don't actually wait if the others says ok about moving but that's fine. ]
[ vira is not incredibly responsive, though all their words (and poor jingle's efforts) do seem to reach her enough that her abject shock crinkles into a vicious glower, her voice low. ]
You're right— [ of course this horrible garish thing isn't katalina ] how dare they make such a mockery of her—!
[ anyway she manages not to drag harrow down with her in a rush (or like, maybe she does, harrow is a strong independent gal and can jump into danger if she wants), but she's hopping after sassafras, quickly grabbing one of the knives on the table before they crouch behind 'cover,' aka a towering pile of meat. ]
[That's how she already feels, because these motherfuckers took her comfort sword? But yes, as long as Vira seems to have her head about her (anger counts), she'll let her jump down. She'll jump down as well, darting behind a pile of plates and reaching out to grab a fork for herself.]
[chuck jingle is happy to be held. they wrap their arms tightly around sasazuka and do their best to stay quiet and not rattle when he jumps down. they seem reluctant to be put down... and when they're placed, they stay where they are, crouching and starting to shiver.
the guests around them continue to eat - they don't notice the jumpers yet, distracted by their food. you are now armed with a knife and a fork, and also have a baby that doesn't want to move.]
Sheila jumps down alongside the others, but she doesn't make a grab for any weapons. Let the joth (jock and goth) squad get the cool cutlery swords. The fact that their baby doesn't want to move is bad, though, and she will offer to hold their hand or piggyback them if necessary. Please do not get vored, Chuck Jingle.
Regardless of whether they accept or reject the offer, she will silently glance at the rest of the group to make sure they're all good before searching for an opening. Any opportunities to sneak the next convenient cover while the guests are looking in another direction?]
[ if they want two hands then sasazuka is also here.
for now though, he just stares at ichika for a moment and then turns his attention to the exit. do they have a better view of the it now or is it still just vague snow? if there's an opportunity to move he will. he'll also grab a utensil since you never know when you may need one. ]
[ she lets mom and dad deal with their baby, narrowing her eyes on the dining party and this grotesque illusion of Katalina, which only serves to make her angrier, gripping her 'sword' tightly.
If there's an opening, she's going to move towards the side of the table closest to the exit, darting between cover to do so. Is it a clean shot from here to the exit? ]
[Likewise, she'll trust Sheila and Sasazuka to handle baby. She'll follow closely with the others, trying to date behind plates, carrying her stupid fork. to defend herself and Sheila if needed, since she has her hands full.]
[the baby quietly tries to climb sheila? please hold them. this is very scary. they will be here, resting their paper bag head against her shoulder. they're not like, the best thing to carry around because they're made entirely of angles, but it's okay, they're trying to be still so they don't accidentally jab her.
the four of them can see the endgoal a little better now - there's snow, and past that, another door, with a flickering green EXIT sign over it.
each of the four of you wait until you think you have the right timing, and dart through behind the plates and piles of meat. as you do, one of the guests notices. he lets out a noise that sounds more like an animal than a human, and swipes across the table to try and grab sheila. a red haired woman is shoved into the table by his swipe, and she hisses, trying to fight him over who gets to pick sheila up.
of course, this alerts the other guests. all eyes are starting to turn to the living pieces of meat scrambling by on their table.]
[They? Did not properly negotiate this kink? Calm down, Joel.
Regardless of whether or not she believes her words from earlier, her husband is currently trying to eat her and she is not into that — so it's time to fucking move. She will do whatever she can to make sure she keeps a secure grip on the baby, barely reacting even if they do end up jabbing her. But she's gonna book it, attempting to weave through the objects on the table in a way that it 1) obscures their position, and 2) makes it difficult to grab them without bumping into other shit first.
[ she scowls as the table sees them, her gaze landing solidly on 'katalina' with raw steaks in her hands and looking like she's about to blow a gasket. her shoulders tremble with anger. it's all completely unacceptable, though sasazuka's point diverts her attention very briefly. ]
Is it the child...?
[ since sheila is carrying a scared babby, it's easy enough for vira to catch up and follow after her, holding her cutlery defensively at her side in case she needs to slash at any more greedy hands. no touching their mom or demon horror child. ]
[Harrow snarls, wielding her fork, at the man and red-haired woman as they try to menace Shiela, trying to give her the chance to escape. When the red-haired woman reaches for her, Harrow doesn't hesitate before slamming the trines of the fork into that hand, meaning to draw blood.
And then she sort of takes the face in, the grotesque approximation of a face, that shock of red hair, those awful glasses. There's something throbbing under her skull, something painful, a headache at first and then a hammer to the delicate frontal bone. She's never seen this face before in her life, and she can't bear to look at it for a second longer. Fortunately she doesn't need to, as the hammering in her frontal lobe becomes a sharper pain, her vision blurring, her legs numb and collapsing under her, blood beginning to trickle from her nose and dripping to the ground.
When she speaks, it's with a slurred voice, incomprehensible, something that sounds a little like grughnshhn, and then she just collapses right there.
both vira and sasazuka manage to stab away two hands coming for sheila and the baby - which would be great, if harrow didn't pass out. because the second jingle sees harrow fall, they let out a godawful sound. it's something like a tornado siren and a t-rex. it grows in volume pretty frantically, and the baby just... wriggles out of sheila's grasp.
sheila is able to do exactly what she wants to do - she obscures her position and the guests lose track of her immediately. she is functionally invisible for this round.
however, vira is not quite as lucky. she does get in a stab into one of the greedy hands coming for her, but the guest is so furious that he's been stabbed that he backhands her across the table. she goes flying forward and crashes through several stacks of plates - they shatter around her. this probably results in a lot of nasty cuts, and either a broken arm, or a broken collarbone, your choice. on the other hand, she's now pretty close to the exit.
francy is dead so i'm skipping sasazuka for now, but he does get knocked around a bit by both the guests trying to grab him and also, chuck jingle, who zooms past him at top speeds to get to harrow.
which is a good thing! because harrow gets picked up by the red haired woman, and eaten. she gets... mashed around a bit, and probably breaks a bone or two while she's in the mouth of this thing. fortunately for her, baby is very fond of its parents. chuck jingle, still making that tornado siren sound, skids to a stop in front of the red haired woman, and snaps their fingers.
the red haired woman explodes! it is very messy and disgusting, and all of you are now coated in gore. the other guests seem wary.
harrow is now... free, i guess, on the table, kind of chewed up a bit but alive, as the baby tries to drag her across the table, away from the rest of the guests.]
[THEIR BABY RAN OFF AND THEY ARE NOW COVERED IN GORE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Unfortunately, despite being the luckiest bitch here, she is doubling back to help Harrow and Jingle the moment she realizes what happened. Sasazuka and Vira will have to maybe not die by themselves for now? It's fine. Here's to hoping the guests aren't going to give her diarrhea as well, because there is probably some extra chunky salsa in her mouth after all this. Terrible. Horrible. 0/10.]
sasazuka's whole brain just turns off for several seconds as he computes what just happened. this is disgusting and terrible. but as sheila goes after baby and harrow, he's going to run in the other direction to vira to check on her. ]
[ harrow seems to have had a stroke and gently vored, they've been found out by the giants, vira is absolutely sure she's broken something, and now they are covered in blood and viscera.
there's been better days. vira grits her teeth as she forces herself up and off the broken shards, unable to bite back a pained wince. ]
It's fine—help Harrowhark! We have to keep the path open for them!
[ she isn't in much condition to help drag anyone, but she holds her stupid steak knife in her good hand, getting ready to stab again if sheila and jingle need any assistance.
even if their baby did just explode a lady, they don't know what their capabilities really are. ]
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Thank you. [Does it do anything? Can she notice anything about it besides it being a little orange charm with a circle?
. . . Anyway, moving on to this horror show. She's hungry, but also so absolutely revolted that she can barely stand the idea of eating.]
It looks like we'll have to jump down. But let's talk through our plan.
[Are there any knives or forks on the table? Something they'd be able to pick up?]
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the table seems to be wide enough that perhaps they could run down the middle and avoid the worst of the nasty hands grabbing for meat. there are also plates stacked up that they could maybe hide behind, as well as several forks and knives that are about the size of swords, for the four of you. the guests are very entranced by the meat - you get the impression that they might be distracted if you're quiet.
across the room is an open door, leading out into what looks like maybe snow.
as they're discussing, two of the guests that are shoulder to shoulder grab for the same piece of meat. one of them, a massive brown haired woman makes a horrendous squawking sound and slaps at the other, an equally massive blonde woman. they dissolve into a shrieking, squawking fight on the floor, but it's... pathetic, because neither of them can move very well.]
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Luckily for Sheila, she does not recognize either of these ladies and therefore can't be traumatized by this. Hooray!
But she hums, nodding at Harrow's suggestion.]
Well... They're eating, and apparently not very athletic? [Watching the two giant ladies fight. Terrible. She gesticulates as she continues, acting out some very bad charades.] Maybe we can quietly sneak past them, and hide between all the other crap on the table if they look our way.
[Countdown to how long they have before Flurry throws another horrifying thing at us.]
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his reaction, at first, is a weird feeling that the brunette looks familiar? and then, you know, it can't be? the last he checked, she wasn't into feederism? but the more he stares, the more it just kind of sinks in. ]
Ichika?
[ he moves a little closer to the edge, not quiet jumping down yet but still closer than he would have gotten ten seconds ago before discussion. ]
What the hell did they do to her?
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they're so sad and unsettling to watch that it takes her a moment as the gears in her head turn, but vira suddenly freezes up, letting out a quiet, horrified noise. her usual poise evaporates instantly, clearly shaken in her wide-eyed stare. ]
Katalina?
[ anyway she definitely looks like she's about to jump down there. plan who? ]
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She's holding her by the hand already, but she'll reach to grab Vira by the arm. She's not strong, but she will at least make it so if she jumps, she'll be brought down with her. And - sass(afras) aside, she glances between Vira and Sasazuka with concern for both.]
Don't. Consider the likelihood that this is an illusion meant to provoke you. Don't allow it to.
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the two women seem to get tired fast, and stop fighting after a minute. they slowly drag themselves back to the table.]
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She looks between Vira and Takeru, and then gently pats Jingle on their shoulder, for being such a good eldritch baby.]
... She's right. And it wouldn't even be the first time we've seen something impossibly fucked up. Remember the bleeding stars? I bet it's exactly like that. Come on.
[Pr...obably... It's unclear if she actually believes what she's saying or not.]
We can take a minute if you need to calm down, but we should get moving. This is no place to raise a kid.
[The baby is theirs now. They are raising it.]
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Come on. We're wasting time.
[ they can't hold hands while jumping down, but he'll go to scoop up their baby. it's... mostly because he is less likely to do something stupid if he is holding onto them. and then he'll hop down to the table and will set chuck jingle down once they're there.
sometimes you are rattled and don't actually wait if the others says ok about moving but that's fine. ]
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You're right— [ of course this horrible garish thing isn't katalina ] how dare they make such a mockery of her—!
[ anyway she manages not to drag harrow down with her in a rush (or like, maybe she does, harrow is a strong independent gal and can jump into danger if she wants), but she's hopping after sassafras, quickly grabbing one of the knives on the table before they crouch behind 'cover,' aka a towering pile of meat. ]
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[That's how she already feels, because these motherfuckers took her comfort sword? But yes, as long as Vira seems to have her head about her (anger counts), she'll let her jump down. She'll jump down as well, darting behind a pile of plates and reaching out to grab a fork for herself.]
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the guests around them continue to eat - they don't notice the jumpers yet, distracted by their food. you are now armed with a knife and a fork, and also have a baby that doesn't want to move.]
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Sheila jumps down alongside the others, but she doesn't make a grab for any weapons. Let the joth (jock and goth) squad get the cool cutlery swords. The fact that their baby doesn't want to move is bad, though, and she will offer to hold their hand or piggyback them if necessary. Please do not get vored, Chuck Jingle.
Regardless of whether they accept or reject the offer, she will silently glance at the rest of the group to make sure they're all good before searching for an opening. Any opportunities to sneak the next convenient cover while the guests are looking in another direction?]
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for now though, he just stares at ichika for a moment and then turns his attention to the exit. do they have a better view of the it now or is it still just vague snow? if there's an opportunity to move he will. he'll also grab a utensil since you never know when you may need one. ]
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If there's an opening, she's going to move towards the side of the table closest to the exit, darting between cover to do so. Is it a clean shot from here to the exit? ]
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the four of them can see the endgoal a little better now - there's snow, and past that, another door, with a flickering green EXIT sign over it.
each of the four of you wait until you think you have the right timing, and dart through behind the plates and piles of meat. as you do, one of the guests notices. he lets out a noise that sounds more like an animal than a human, and swipes across the table to try and grab sheila. a red haired woman is shoved into the table by his swipe, and she hisses, trying to fight him over who gets to pick sheila up.
of course, this alerts the other guests. all eyes are starting to turn to the living pieces of meat scrambling by on their table.]
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Regardless of whether or not she believes her words from earlier, her husband is currently trying to eat her and she is not into that — so it's time to fucking move. She will do whatever she can to make sure she keeps a secure grip on the baby, barely reacting even if they do end up jabbing her. But she's gonna book it, attempting to weave through the objects on the table in a way that it 1) obscures their position, and 2) makes it difficult to grab them without bumping into other shit first.
LET'S GO LESBIANS (+ SASSAFRAS), LET'S GO... ]
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he hurries across the table, ready to like, stab any hands that come too close to them. ]
Why are they going after Sheila...?
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Is it the child...?
[ since sheila is carrying a scared babby, it's easy enough for vira to catch up and follow after her, holding her cutlery defensively at her side in case she needs to slash at any more greedy hands. no touching their mom or demon horror child. ]
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[Harrow snarls, wielding her fork, at the man and red-haired woman as they try to menace Shiela, trying to give her the chance to escape. When the red-haired woman reaches for her, Harrow doesn't hesitate before slamming the trines of the fork into that hand, meaning to draw blood.
And then she sort of takes the face in, the grotesque approximation of a face, that shock of red hair, those awful glasses. There's something throbbing under her skull, something painful, a headache at first and then a hammer to the delicate frontal bone. She's never seen this face before in her life, and she can't bear to look at it for a second longer. Fortunately she doesn't need to, as the hammering in her frontal lobe becomes a sharper pain, her vision blurring, her legs numb and collapsing under her, blood beginning to trickle from her nose and dripping to the ground.
When she speaks, it's with a slurred voice, incomprehensible, something that sounds a little like grughnshhn, and then she just collapses right there.
So that's fun!]
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both vira and sasazuka manage to stab away two hands coming for sheila and the baby - which would be great, if harrow didn't pass out. because the second jingle sees harrow fall, they let out a godawful sound. it's something like a tornado siren and a t-rex. it grows in volume pretty frantically, and the baby just... wriggles out of sheila's grasp.
sheila is able to do exactly what she wants to do - she obscures her position and the guests lose track of her immediately. she is functionally invisible for this round.
however, vira is not quite as lucky. she does get in a stab into one of the greedy hands coming for her, but the guest is so furious that he's been stabbed that he backhands her across the table. she goes flying forward and crashes through several stacks of plates - they shatter around her. this probably results in a lot of nasty cuts, and either a broken arm, or a broken collarbone, your choice. on the other hand, she's now pretty close to the exit.
francy is dead so i'm skipping sasazuka for now, but he does get knocked around a bit by both the guests trying to grab him and also, chuck jingle, who zooms past him at top speeds to get to harrow.
which is a good thing! because harrow gets picked up by the red haired woman, and eaten. she gets... mashed around a bit, and probably breaks a bone or two while she's in the mouth of this thing. fortunately for her, baby is very fond of its parents. chuck jingle, still making that tornado siren sound, skids to a stop in front of the red haired woman, and snaps their fingers.
the red haired woman explodes! it is very messy and disgusting, and all of you are now coated in gore. the other guests seem wary.
harrow is now... free, i guess, on the table, kind of chewed up a bit but alive, as the baby tries to drag her across the table, away from the rest of the guests.]
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[THEIR BABY RAN OFF AND THEY ARE NOW COVERED IN GORE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Unfortunately, despite being the luckiest bitch here, she is doubling back to help Harrow and Jingle the moment she realizes what happened. Sasazuka and Vira will have to maybe not die by themselves for now? It's fine. Here's to hoping the guests aren't going to give her diarrhea as well, because there is probably some extra chunky salsa in her mouth after all this. Terrible. Horrible. 0/10.]
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sasazuka's whole brain just turns off for several seconds as he computes what just happened. this is disgusting and terrible. but as sheila goes after baby and harrow, he's going to run in the other direction to vira to check on her. ]
Hey!
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there's been better days. vira grits her teeth as she forces herself up and off the broken shards, unable to bite back a pained wince. ]
It's fine—help Harrowhark! We have to keep the path open for them!
[ she isn't in much condition to help drag anyone, but she holds her stupid steak knife in her good hand, getting ready to stab again if sheila and jingle need any assistance.
even if their baby did just explode a lady, they don't know what their capabilities really are. ]
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