[RP] The Adeline Family Excursion 2/2

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"But Geoffrey..."
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“I have him! Hold the line!”
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The one confronting the two brothers lunges forward, a whirlwind of fur and teeth and claws. Its claws rip across the forearms and chests of the men, leaving bloody gashes in their wake. Ranauld's chainsword bites far more deeply into its side, and it howls. The mother and daughter team fair better, blocking and deflecting the animal's attacks. Though its bite punctures Maria's shield in several places, its claws shriek off without damage. Anais's greatsword smashes it into the ground, and it goes still. The third, seeing an opportunity, charges her from behind.
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Illyana raises her shield and tries to strike the third with her sword as it passes her holding her guard
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"Fucking hell!" Geoffery spits out as he covers his bloody chest and reloads his pistol after pulling the trigger multiple times to disconcerting clacks. Anais is too distracted due to her trying to make sure the first cur is dead with a final powerful lop to its neck. Maria turns to thrust at the second beast.
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Wincing at the pain across his forearms and chest, he grits his teeth harder and swings again. Hoping to still this monster’s heart.
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Though it takes terrible wounds, the beast completes its charge and sinks its teeth into Anais's shoulder, puncturing her plate with its monstrous jaws. Its claws scrape across the metal, trying and failing to find purchase. The one confronting Geoffery and Ranauld, badly wounded, dodges and disengages with inhuman grace and begins to flee.
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"Aaggghhh!" Anais yells as she tries to fling the thing off and Maria is engaged with the beast trying to hack it off of her daughter. Geoffery lines up one last shot and squeezes the trigger.
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The monster keens as the bullet impacts in its shoulder, but keeps bounding away.
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"Shit!" He turns to his sister and mother.
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“Damnit!” He turns and charges to assist in dislodging the beast from his sister. “What are these things?!”
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"Not daemons?"
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Anais once again tries to fling the thing off with her strength.

Geoffery tries to line up a good shot on the thing while exasperatedly saying, "these are nae faerie nor devile, yes!"
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With a terrible, horrendously painful wrench, the thing is thrown loose, landing heavily on the ground. It tries to rise, but its legs collapse from under it.
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Anais smashes it into the ground with multiple strikes.
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Illyana tries to bash it's face with her shield and follows with her sword while its down.
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Her blood is up and it's in her nostrils as she continuously hews downward.
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Maria watches out for more beasts.

Geoffery checks his magazine.
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It dies soundlessly. The only sounds around them are of blood dripping and their own heavy breathing. Anais's shoulder wounds burn and bubble as the hideous acid of the thing's mouth eats away at her flesh.
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"Aaaaggggghhh!" Anais falls down to her knee as she paws at her shoulder.
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There are several bloody puncture marks.

Geoffrey, with his tremendous medical knowledge and skill, manages to treat his sister's wounds enough that she's in no immediate danger.
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He finishes cleaning out the wound with alcohol and puts a patch on it and in a moment of losing her guarded nature Anais nods to him and hugs him with an arm.
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A trail of dark green ichor leads away from the alley in the direction that the surviving beast fled.
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Anais stands up with her blade and she looks silently to the others to see if they want to go on. Maria is a little shaky but wants to continue the fight. Geoffery loads his gun one more time and nods
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He nods to the both of them. “It’s weak and hurt now. I suggest not letting it get far.” He looks to his wounded sister and brother. “Can you carry on?”
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They nod.
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The monster is not particularly subtle. It's fleeing towards the outskirts of the city, towards the swamp that surround the port.
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They run off over them.
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Eventually, the trail leads into the a a decrepit settlement that looks like it's been abandoned for years. A crumbling mill stand in the center of the village, and the blood trail terminates inside of it. The sails the crown the structure creak as they move. As you approach, a sound like ten thousands corpses being torn apart greets your ears.
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Geoffery looks at the booze in his hand and sees if he can find some promethium. "Let's burn that fucking place."

Anais has never been more proud of her brother.

Maria is unsure.
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“Agreed, but keep our guard. Last thing we need is for another to show it’s maw.”
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(You do have the flamer. Are you trying to torch if from the outside, or are you entering?)
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Anais goes with her flamer to torch the outside and trap the things inside.
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“Be ready everyone...” He holds the chainsword in front of him while keeping his ears out. Ready for the damned things to come through a wall at this point.
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Geoffery overwatches the entrance.

Anais plans to rejoin her family at the end of the torching.
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As the flamer crackles into life, but before she can begin the burning, the ripping sounds abruptly stop.
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Maria holds her shield up near her family and waits.
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Illyana holds her shield up and looks toward the door.
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Sounds not unlike slithering approaches the door, and you can all hear a faint growling from inside the building.
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Anais continues on
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Illyana looks toward Maria.
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Maria nods at her.
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As she sends the first burst of superheated promethium at the decrepit, wooden building, two more of the xenos abominations burst out of the doorway. Whatever was making the slithering sounds remains inside, unseen.
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Anais turns her flamer onto the beasts.
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Eyes focused on the two before him, he readies himself again. Letting the three in front shield so he can slash the creatures from the side.
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Illyana braces and raises her sword.
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As one of the creatures screams as it is burned alive and the other roars as it is slashed, two bursts of energy rip out of the darkness inside the mill. They slam into Illyana and Anais, blowing through their plate armor like it isn't even there, disintegrating chunks of flesh below. The burning alien charges Anais, wild with pain and rage, as the surrounded beast desperately claws and bites at anything close to it.
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Anais feels her chest and she grits her teeth and continues to shoot. Geoffery goes to shoot whatever sent out the lasers. Maria goes to drag Illyana out. "Children, we need to go!"
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Illyana tries to hold her shield as cover.
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“Go! We’ll cover you!” Ranauld charges the weakened creature and tries to sink the gnawing chain into it.
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It slashes him across the face, digging four deep red lines against his head. It makes a terrible gurgling sound as the chainsword rips its life away. The one charging Anais lunges at her and goes limp in midair as it passes out from the agony. Its heavy body slams into her, knocking her to the ground. Sensing weakness, the figures inside slither forward, and you can all see what looks like nothing but writhing piles of maggots, horrifically holding a gross parody of the human form. (Joe, test against fear 3.)

They line up shots at the prone Anais and the retreating Illyana.
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(Can’t be scared of what I can’t see! Rolled 5.)
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"NO!" Maria charges at them in a rage. Anais tries to climb from under the beast. Maria , unfortunately, drops Illyana.
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Illyana tries to raise her shield and move to a secure location.
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“WHAT IS THAT THING?!” Unable to see clearly through facial pain, Geoffery charges with his mother at the creature.
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Geoffery yells at them, "hey you bloody fucking maggots! Take a shot at me you stupid bastards!" He waves as he starts to step back.
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The one aiming at Illyana switches its target to the man so graciously charging into point-blank range of it. The other maintains its line of sight on the crawling warrior. They both aim for the center of mass and pull their triggers, sending bursts of desiccating force at their targets, completely ignoring the shouting sage.
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Geoffery looks in horror and tries to find soldiers or anyone that can help.

Anais continues to try to heave the beast off of her.

Maria charges forward and attempts to take the shot aimed at Ranauld.
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The shield and flak combined manage to slow down the blast a little, but it still rips a hole through her side, but doesn't slow her. The shot at Illyana finishes the process of cutting her arm off, as the second severs her shield arm at the elbow. Ranauld and Maria are now within sword range of the things as Anais manages to shove the beast off of her.
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Anais shouts, "this is impossible! Retreat, NOW!" As she goes to burn the two worm beasts.
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Illyana screams.... and screams as her arm hits the ground.
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One of the creatures slides out of the way with utterly inhuman movement, but the other is caught in the blast. It makes a disgusting writhing sound as it burns, but doesn't collapse.
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Anais screams in blood curdling fury as she rages into a frenzy and charges the other. She stays low to the ground and keeps her greatsword to her side.
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Ranauld sees the odds starting to climb higher and higher against them. “Damnit! Fall already you bastards!” Another swing at the standing pile of maggots that tried to end him.

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Maria keeps on, not letting her daughter's words outweigh her need to make sure they don't die. She leaps up and brings her sword down in a reverse grip.

Geoffery runs to find guards, anyone that can help.

Anais prays as her entire being is set to end these things.
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They both start to line up shots at Maria and Ranauld, but are hampered by the closeness somewhat. They take longer than they previously did to aim their shots, and neither manages to target Anais before she reaches engagement. The one engaged with the chainsword wielding young man tears a deep and bloody gash across his leg as he slices maggot after maggot off of the pile. The abandoned village offers no help.
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Geoffery goes to see if he can find something to make a makeshift firebomb.
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He manages to scrounge up some oil, a bottle, and some cloth.
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He puts it together and tries to scrounge what he can to use.

Anais corkscrews her body clockwise in a mighty rending strike using her body's force and her inertia to put what she can into the attack.

Maria thrusts at the worm things, making sure to give her daughter room to strike.

Geoffery starts to make his way back.
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With a yowl in pain, Ranauld tries to bring the chainsword across this creature’s midsection, similar to as if he was trying to gut it.
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Geoffery runs to the flamer thrown on the floor to engage the igniter when it's time.
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Illyana grabs her shield (and arm) and retreats.
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The burning monster slowly shrinks under the assault, dead and dying maggots sloughing off of it. It drops the gun and wildly swings its arms at the wounded women in front of it, going for the weak and missing sections of their armor. It spurts ac bloodlike substance, coating both of them in burning acid. Ranauld's blade rends across the monsters, doing moderate damage as it struggles to reform after the steel's passage. It, too, drops the firearm and attempts to engulf him in its mass, choking the life from him.
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Maria grits her teeth and tries to fight through the acid swinging. Anais does not care as her entire body is engulfed in rage and gives swing after swing after swing to the thing.

Geoffery says, "stand back from yours, Anais and mother!" As he readies the flamethrower.

"Blessed be the Emperor, who teacheth my soul to war and my body to fight," Anais chants along with other prayers she has memorized from the Lectitio Divinatus as she continues her assault.
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Muffled screams can be heard from the Maggot/Ranauld mound as he tries to wiggle himself out of its grasp.
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Eventually, the burning thing shrinks away to nothing as the last of the component creatures succumb to the fire. The infested wounds it left will take weeks to fully heal, but one monster, at least, is dead. He can feel one of its limbs trying to force his mouth open as maggots writhe against his lips and tear at the flesh of his body leaving bloody trails wherever they touch.
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Anais continues on to the next and Maria does as well as they try to hew the thing off. Anais, with her gauntlet-covered hand, attempts to tear the mass away from Ranauld's body.
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(Gags.)
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Geoffery feels impotent but tries to be useful as he burns the remains of the first creature.
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Illyana sits by shaking and holding her severed arm as she blankly watches her brother struggle.
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Just as the young man feels his jaw being wrenched down, the creature releases him as it is unable to maintain its hold while being attacked from three sides.
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Anais throws the mass on the floor and continues to hew into it.

Maria is trying to continue against her exhaustion but she feels her strength leaving her.

Geoffery sees that her words will not get through to Anais right now and just holds the flamer to wait for the space to clear.
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Wide-eyed and in a desperate attempt to finish the thing that nearly forced his jaw open. He launches his sword against the creature as many times as he is able besides his sister.
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It quivers and feebly tries to escape, but is ripped to pieces by their devastating strikes. There is no sound but what they make in the aftermath of the battle. Though most of them are terribly wounded, they are all alive.
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Anais attempts to calm down.

She takes big heavy breaths.

She falls on her knee and leans against her sword. Her mother does the same.

Geoffery goes to Illyana to patch her up.
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Illyana is looking pretty pale holding her arm and shield.
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Anais begins tearing up and looks toward her mother. Her mother looks back and holds her arms out.
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Ranauld limps over to Geoffery and takes the flamer. Aiming at the pile of maggots and burning them till nothing but ash and soot remain.
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Geoffery reassures Illyana she will be fine as he stops the bleeding.
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Illyana is in shock and crying.
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Anais goes to her mother's arms and silently sobs into her shoulder.

Geoffery makes sure Illyana is stable and goes to hug her.
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Illyana tries to return the hug and stares at her stub.
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A strange, keening sound starts to rise from inside the windmill. It's not the sound from before, but it's not entirely dissimilar.
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"We will get a new arm for you. A better one. Father will make sure of it." Geoffery pulls her to him. Anais hears the sound and looks her mother in the eye with understanding as she stands up and picks her greatsword back up.

Maria tries to stand up but can't.
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Illyana nods and holds the shield to her chest. Shock is a hell of a drug.
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Maria looks back at her daughter with a mixture of empathy and respect.
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Ranauld’s eyes snap to the building and unleashes hellfire upon it. Aiming at the doorway first before spreading the fire to the walls, hoping to catch the entire building of fire.
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It takes a while, but with enough fuel the entire structure is aflame. The keening turns into a shrieking, and a tremendous stench of rotten, burning meat fills the air. Eventually, the sounds cease, and all that remains is the roaring of the blaze.
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Geoffery lets go of Illyana and gives her a confident nod as he tends to the others.

Maria and Anais collapse onto the ground.
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Ranauld watches the fire, terrified now that something may jump from the hell flames. Looking back for a moment to see his family, though injured, smiles as none of them are gone. Slowly the endorphins and adrenaline wears off and the pain in his leg slowly causes him to collapse.
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Geoffery cleans their wounds and patches them up as he goes to find transportation from outside the settlement.

He gets them all situated to get back to the shuttle.
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It takes quite some effort, but eventually, they are all packed back onboard the shuttle and heading back up to the ship that will carry them to meet Chaucer. The captain is waiting when they board, and his eyes widen at their states. "Well, I guess there WERE monsters, of a sort."
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Anais begins to snarl words at him as Maria looks at her to stop her with tired eyes and Anais stops.

"Yes. I assume your friend will be happy?" Geoffery asks.
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“Monsters and men made of maggots. This night has been a continuous night terror and I would like it to end soon please and thank you.”
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"Hmm, I see. Well, thank you for your efforts. Yes indeed, this will be most beneficial. With the night killings ended, tensions in the city will diminish considerably, and waiting out the siege will be trivial."
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He just nods and heads to whichever room was assigned to him and falls face-first into the bedding, “Unless the ship is on fire don’t wake me.”
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It takes quite a while for his numerous and badly infected wounds to heal, but once they have he has a number of rather dashing facial scars.