CLOSED

[nonvenomous]

WHO: Barrow, Ellis, Richard, & Wysteria
WHAT: Ill-advised Rift tampering to summon a magical cat.
WHEN: Cloudreach
WHERE: Beneath Darktown.
NOTES: Blood and probably gore, will update as it goes.

Deep beneath the bowels of Darktown:

Shades stalk through acid green-limned ruins towards the sound of combat, standing water strangely still around the ripples cast off by their lurching pursuit. Behind them, the veil pulses where it’s freshly slit, a half-submerged rift spilling Fadelight across the surface, filtering through the shadows of confused fish.

The water is only knee-high, but it’s everywhere, weighing at armor, dragging at feet.

A scream echoes through the chamber, rising shrill through the darkness, cycled into rounds by the stone ceiling carved out far overhead.

Raised up some ten feet, seated crisscross on the platform of a crumbling statue, Richard Dickerson pauses in his incantation to watch the skeletal shape of a terror demon unfolding itself slick from the water before him. His left hand is still amidst a snarl of inky black smoke, palm turned up to the dagger in his right, the incense in his brazier alight with green embers. Near eye to eye with the demon at this height, he flashes the point of the blade swift across his life line and squeezes his fist.

Blood dribbles and hisses into the brazier.

The incense bursts into green flame.

YOLO.

Comments

[thereneverwas]

He could very well just trundle on out alone, but Barrow instead politely opts to wait, hammer slung up over his shoulder as he watches the others situate themselves.

The faster they're out of this cave, the better.