Colt's fingers aren't THAT stupid, so he gets it on his second try, and then falls to the ground in front of the window when his boots run out of time.
He quickly hides in a standing position adjacent to the window, and keeps his eyes on his surroundings should the Lord appear. He also keeps his eye on the window. So that's two eyes, and two places to keep them. Good odds.
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**As she jumped through the window, the source of the moans became clear. It was the trophies.
What had from outside seemed to be stuffed animals were now revealed to be, in fact, people. They were posed in outlandish fashion, and many had even seemingly been perversely sewn together with pieces of dead animals to create the illusion of bizarre hybrids. They had clearly been taxidermied by an expert hand, their eyes replaced with glass and elegant stitching evident down their sides from where their innards had been replaced with stuffing, and they were just as clearly still alive. The gristly statues twitched horribly in their forced poses, groans of unending agony leaking from their stitched mouths as their dull glass eyes stared dumbly off ahead of them.**
**Arl stares at the trophies. For the first time since she had left her bloody hometown the girl was deeply disturbed by what she saw. The Lord WAS like the butcher. No, worse. Or not? Could they.. could they still be saved?
Arl walks up to one of the victims and studies him or her more closely. She only received basic training from Doc but she at least tries to estimate their chances. They had to have been here a long time, right?**
**From what Arl could tell as she inspected the trembling, whimpering person-statue, he had been fully processed through taxidermy. In other words he had been hollowed out, preserved, and then fitted over some sort of mannequin frame to keep his boneless form posed artfully. There was no possible way in even a cruel world that this man or any of the others should still be alive, and like Stately they still were.**
**She crept down the dimly lit hall, her footfalls muffled entirely by the wretched moans that filled the manor. Besides the horrible mannequins, the manor seemed completely dead; Arl found no indicator that anyone actually lived here. It almost seemed like a installation, or perhaps the most horrifying art museum ever dreamed by man.**
**Arl carefully opens any doors she comes across and looks inside. She tries to position herself so that a sudden axe flying through the door or something won't be the end of her.**
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**The rooms were guest quarters, predominantly, and they were all in use. Sort of. Each room had been given over to a particularly well-dressed living mannequin, the tortured sacks of living skin posed reading books and lying in bed as they were "tended" by mannequin servants.**
**Arl checks to see what the victims are reading before moving on to the next room. She doesn't want to leave without saying anything but she doesn't have anythin.. wait. She flashes a blade at the mannequins and gives a determined nod as she heads off. Okay, now to the next room**
**The reading mannequin seemed to have some sort of blank journal in her hands. And if the blinded, defeaned manequinn noticed the blade flash, Arl certainly couldn't tell.
There were only five rooms on this side of the manor. If Arl and Colt wanted to progress further, they would have to move through the large double door at the end of the hall.**
**The doors, exactly as had been described, just had more posed "guests" inside of them
The door swept halfway open, revealing a main chamber stuffed to the rafters with hunting trophies, most of them traditionally still and quiet but a few of the newer looking pieces of the twitching, tortuously alive variety. A great serving table had been laid out, food that had once been fine but now rotted nauseatingly upon its fine silver trays feeding the cloud of flies that buzzed about the room. Twitching guests groaned through their stitched mouths, posed like happy guests at a feast around the table. The host, Lautremont himself, stood atop the horrible dinner table with his bow drawn and nocked.**
Lautremont - "You've made the party! How splendid!"
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**Arl's sword and shield glow a faint grey as she gets ready to block the arrow. If nothing immediately happens to Colt she runs into the room as well, curving around the table as she tries to get behind the Lord.**
[53]
**Lautremont casually took a step off of the end of the table, using his weight as Colt began his charge to flip the table like a lever to send Colt flying wildly through the air as he release the arrow straight at Arl.**
**Arl cuts a veil to swallow the arrow as she charges the Lord. When the arrow is swallowed she alters the aura to become a slightly brighter red-grey, as if the arrow had made her weapons stronger.**
[54]
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**Lautremont did not seem to have planned for that, not did he seem to have noticed that Colt was not sent flying as he quickly notched and released another arrow into the air, causing a chandelier hanging from the ceiling to come crashing towards Arl's path.**
Lautremont - "You honestly think your penny-ante deceptions fool me? You stupid, stupid girl."
**Arl wants to banter, but something inside her tells her to shut up and fight. Pay attention. Keep fo.. the chandelier!
Arl activates fen's champion as she speeds up and leaps, her belt boosting her into the air as her shield collides with the decoration in mid-air. The rest of her soon follows as the girl thrusts the falling object at Lautremont with everything her body can muster.**
[55]
**The chandelier's glass shattered, exploding all over Arl and her shield as the metal ring of the decoration was sent hurtling towards Lautremont. The noble lashed out with his bow, smashing the projectile away as he let go and drew a wickedly curved dagger from his side.**
Arl's shield protects her face, and her leather armor prevents the rest of her from becoming a pincushion. That leaves the floor before. The lord might think her unprepared, but little does he know that Arl is no stranger to this situation! Why, the last time this happened the glass covered floor was coated in acid and on fire.
Although.. she wasn't jumping then. Arl keeps her shield facing the lord as she briefly stabs the floor with the tip of her sword to slow her fall. Her boots might protect her from the shards but not it'd be wise to not pound into them from the heavens.
[56]
Epic World! Because seriously! It's the awesome!
And don't forget to do your shopping at The Newe Haberdashery, the finest vendor of magic items and oddball services ... Ever!
**Colt might have caught Lautremont off guard if he hadn't screamed. Instead he only caught the man quasi offguard, Lautremont whipping around to try and flank Colt with quick strikes from his vicious blade.**
He quickly hides in a standing position adjacent to the window, and keeps his eyes on his surroundings should the Lord appear. He also keeps his eye on the window. So that's two eyes, and two places to keep them. Good odds.
Colt Wyrmbane
Olivar'Romov
Detective Taskmage
Darby, Esteemed Adventurer
Mike, the Situation
Herschell Ratliff, Merchant of Finery
Yaagh, the Pummeler
And don't forget to do your shopping at The Newe Haberdashery, the finest vendor of magic items and oddball services ... Ever!
Arl, as she leaps past Colt - "I'll take this one".
**She moves down the hall.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
What had from outside seemed to be stuffed animals were now revealed to be, in fact, people. They were posed in outlandish fashion, and many had even seemingly been perversely sewn together with pieces of dead animals to create the illusion of bizarre hybrids. They had clearly been taxidermied by an expert hand, their eyes replaced with glass and elegant stitching evident down their sides from where their innards had been replaced with stuffing, and they were just as clearly still alive. The gristly statues twitched horribly in their forced poses, groans of unending agony leaking from their stitched mouths as their dull glass eyes stared dumbly off ahead of them.**
Arl walks up to one of the victims and studies him or her more closely. She only received basic training from Doc but she at least tries to estimate their chances. They had to have been here a long time, right?**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Arl - "We need the lord alive. He might know how to save these people."
**The girl starts moving deeper down the hall before Colt has a chance to respond.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Colt Wyrmbane
Olivar'Romov
Detective Taskmage
Darby, Esteemed Adventurer
Mike, the Situation
Herschell Ratliff, Merchant of Finery
Yaagh, the Pummeler
And don't forget to do your shopping at The Newe Haberdashery, the finest vendor of magic items and oddball services ... Ever!
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
There were only five rooms on this side of the manor. If Arl and Colt wanted to progress further, they would have to move through the large double door at the end of the hall.**
She kicks one of the doors open, shield and sword ready.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
The door swept halfway open, revealing a main chamber stuffed to the rafters with hunting trophies, most of them traditionally still and quiet but a few of the newer looking pieces of the twitching, tortuously alive variety. A great serving table had been laid out, food that had once been fine but now rotted nauseatingly upon its fine silver trays feeding the cloud of flies that buzzed about the room. Twitching guests groaned through their stitched mouths, posed like happy guests at a feast around the table. The host, Lautremont himself, stood atop the horrible dinner table with his bow drawn and nocked.**
Lautremont - "You've made the party! How splendid!"
"GGYYYAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" he said.
[60]
Colt Wyrmbane
Olivar'Romov
Detective Taskmage
Darby, Esteemed Adventurer
Mike, the Situation
Herschell Ratliff, Merchant of Finery
Yaagh, the Pummeler
And don't forget to do your shopping at The Newe Haberdashery, the finest vendor of magic items and oddball services ... Ever!
**Arl's sword and shield glow a faint grey as she gets ready to block the arrow. If nothing immediately happens to Colt she runs into the room as well, curving around the table as she tries to get behind the Lord.**
[53]
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
[54]
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
[61]
Colt Wyrmbane
Olivar'Romov
Detective Taskmage
Darby, Esteemed Adventurer
Mike, the Situation
Herschell Ratliff, Merchant of Finery
Yaagh, the Pummeler
And don't forget to do your shopping at The Newe Haberdashery, the finest vendor of magic items and oddball services ... Ever!
Lautremont - "You honestly think your penny-ante deceptions fool me? You stupid, stupid girl."
Arl activates fen's champion as she speeds up and leaps, her belt boosting her into the air as her shield collides with the decoration in mid-air. The rest of her soon follows as the girl thrusts the falling object at Lautremont with everything her body can muster.**
[55]
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Although.. she wasn't jumping then. Arl keeps her shield facing the lord as she briefly stabs the floor with the tip of her sword to slow her fall. Her boots might protect her from the shards but not it'd be wise to not pound into them from the heavens.
[56]
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
[62]
Colt Wyrmbane
Olivar'Romov
Detective Taskmage
Darby, Esteemed Adventurer
Mike, the Situation
Herschell Ratliff, Merchant of Finery
Yaagh, the Pummeler
And don't forget to do your shopping at The Newe Haberdashery, the finest vendor of magic items and oddball services ... Ever!