Reclaiming the Day

[Edzilla]

Ooc- Low gothic is plain English ark, but I'll assume you meant Chicharician.

Rafael was suprised to hear his own tongue, part of it reassured him, despite the rapidly setup rating situation.

"Estoy regular, era un regalo del mi maestro..." he uttered, not once taking his eyes off the surroundings before following Calliope, keen to get away from whatever that big thing was. He drew out his knife, holding it in his off hand. They could see it's good condition compared to the shotgun, making it clear that he had some affection for the blade.

[mantisstalker]

Drake back peddled as fast as he could still on his back when the creature turned to dust. He stood up quickly and shook off the things remains with shaking hands before giving a slight nod to Calliope accepting the knife. "M-most of my battalion called me med before this. Always seemed like an over used nick name." As he finished Drake let out a hollow laugh before turning away still shaking to pick up his rifle.

"Anyone hurt?" He piped up as he straitened into a standing position again. It looked by everyone's vitals the they where OK but the patches didn't pick up cuts or other small things like shock so it was always good to check.

[Tyamius, Shadow Lord]

With the sound of the scream the roaring got closer as if drawn to it, the remaining shadows fell to pieces as a large dog like figure came barreling through an alley! Its maw dripped with liquid shadow as it stopped sniffing for the group. Before anyone could move any father it vanished reappearing on the other side of area, repeating the process until it caught up to you, its maw opened and an inhuman voice poured out. "Here psyker psyker...feed my pet and i'll let the others go...i just want your flesh and bone!" the voice said.

The shadow hound waited, its mouth now closed to see what you would do.

ooc-think corehound pup from wow so its literally the size of a small tank

[Yuno]

Calliope's jaw fell and she answered the creature in a second. She reached towards her belt and threw four knives at it in the same motion. She drew her rifle and charged in front of their psychics firing. "I don't know who you are, but if you want them you're coming through me."

The creature roared in response and charged right at Calliope who wasted no time in moving to the side and grabbing onto the shadowy mass. Her nimble feet and fast hands soon had her on its head where it began to snap at and bite her even as the shadows curled around her. But that didn't dissuade her. "It's only dark sand." she muttered firing the rifle against the creature's head. "Concentrate fire together on its face." she yelled as the creature snapped at her grazing her arm as the shadows began to herd her towards the creature's maw.

[Esiphas]

Cal was frozen in place, the Shadow hound terrified him. A the others attacked it, Cal heard a single word of the order Calliope shouted. 'Fire'. Giving a weak nod, Cal threw his mind into the immaterial, and baited a tiny silver of red anger into existence. A flame started in his hand, which grew and grew as the the energy all around fed it like Oxygen would feed a normal fire. Cal drew his hand back, waited for the Shadow hound to stop moving, then slung it like a baseball. It hit the side of the beast and exploded in a shower of red flames. Each bursting into sparks as it touched something.

[Tyamius, Shadow Lord]

As the fire touched the hound it started to eat away at it, several seconds later over half its body has died away. Its roars could still be heard over the gun fire as it batted Calliope off of its head. Before it could deal any real damage it fell apart, the shadows vanishing. "I'll find you sooner or later..." a voice echos out. Silence falls once again around you, no movement around at all.

The next street branches off into several streets, its fairly straight and completely empty. the three streets that branch from this main one lead into a few housing developments, the main street leads to the military base where the final communication came from. The road is about 15 miles to the base, so you are faced with a choice. Rest and regroup in one of the houses while you stock up on any could be weapons and supplies, or you can head straight for the base...

[Yuno]

Calliope was thrown off and she landed carefully, skidding backwards on her feet. She straightened flicking a stray bit of shadow off her shoulder as it turned to ashes. The fall and climbing had caused her shirt to rip more in the back reveal the cuts and birthmark far more fully so that the design of one wing was evident. She turned towards the others with a cocky grin. "Well. That was certainly fun." she looked at the houses and the base. "You wanted to contact command, so we should head for the house." she slung her rifle over her shoulder walking in that direction whistling slightly as she went. She ran a hand through her rumbled black hair as she walked. "Bring it shadow (please do not swear)." she muttered as they reached one of the houses. She tried the handle finding it was locked she motioned the others to stand back and slammed her foot into it breaking it open.

She strode inside for a look around. Her feet set down on glass and she sighed noticing most of the windows had been shattered. She crept through the house encounter one of the small shadow creatures and dispatching it with a knife to the head. Finding nothing inside she jumped out the side window climbing onto the porch of the much larger development to push the doors open and walk inside.

[Esiphas]

Cal nervously followed Calliope, checking his hand and such to check he hadn't been twisted by the warp power. He remembered that one big on the black ship, who's back turned into a statue garden and crushed him to death, before reanimated him as a stone zombie. Sister Mileena had turned I to dust with a blast of her Melta gun, but Cal still remembered the fear of watching his friend turn. To something horrible. "Emperor save me, I'm such a coward." He muttered to himself.

[mantisstalker]

When the creature attacked Drake gave a yelp before spraying what few bullets where left in his mag at the creature. When his rifle clicked empty he ejected the spent clip and fumbled to reload another before dropping it. "Oh come on! Not now! Not now!" He muttered to himself as he went onto his knee's and began to search for the clip. After a while his HUD showed its outline and he quickly made to grab it. That was when the creature exploded covering in an avalanche of ash.

Coughing he managed to fight his way out of the smothering blackness and stand up finally able to reload. He looked around confused as to where everyone else had gone before spotting them and running towards a nearby house. "Hey wait for me!"

[t⊗theark]

ooc- Sorry Ed, that's what I meant, I forgot to brain.

When the creature initially asked for a psyker, Malden feared for the integrity of his very soul. He tried to tap into its mind to deceive its perception into not knowing they were there making them effectively invisible, however the creature didn't seem to have have much of a capacity of intent on its own. There was a sense of an intellegence beyond the immediate form and it was not so easily fooled. Knowing that this was a fools endeavour he too followed Calliope.

He noted Drake's absence and so reached out with his mind, searching for him as he fled. When he found him he noticed that the creature had disappeared. He got him to notice where they were but he couldn't help but hear something else, something bigger.

[Tyamius, Shadow Lord]

ooc- Just a note, as the week wears on we will be putting this on hold until I come back. I leave Thursday night for a larp event and will not be back until sunday night.

As you enter the house you encounter 2 lone shadows dragging about. They are easily able to be dispatched with causing a fuss and the voice doesn't notice as you would do so. The house is two stories, three bedrooms and two bathrooms with working plumbing but no hot water as the power is out. A mat on the front porch reads 'Welcome' and the kitchen is stocked with non-perishable items but I wouldn't open the fridge if I were you!