Tutorialogue

Francis

That was fun oh a shriek gotta go run away from the screech while humming City Escapy to Myself.

Swaltzer Rickenduffle

You walk up to the spinning girl and take her hand.

Swaltzer's Strength vs. Francis' Strength check: 80% - Strong Francis victory

She looks you dead in the eye.  "Rolling around at the speed of sound!" she says, before taking off running opposite of that shrieking noise.  A moment later, you see the one in the intimidating jacket run back into view, before continuing past you.  He's clearly not in a good way.  And it doesn't take you long to realize why - some large, bulbous silhouette is barely visible in the fog, coming from the same direction he did.


Various Luck rolls - Hidden

Francis McStein

The guy with the mustache tries to shake your hand, but you aren't going to stick around here for any reason.  You begin humming and sprinting in the opposite direction.  You come across that other lady from before.  She's on the ground.  Looks like she tripped.  Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything immediately behind you.


Kayla Lyptus

You start running away from the shriek.  You make it a few hundred feet before something catches your ankle and you trip.  Ow.  You look over your shoulder to see what you fell over.

Kayla's Spot Hidden check: 4/40 - Strong Success
Kayla's Sanity check: 26/75 - Success

It's a... corpse.  You're entirely sure this guy's dead, torn nearly in half by... something.  You choke back the urge to vomit, and manage to force yourself to stay calm and analyze the situation.  You notice something glinting from his waistline.  That faint outline - looks like a pistol.

One of the others, that athletic lady, comes up on you before you pick yourself up.


Cyrus Thompson

You run.  And run, and run.  The thing seems to notice, and you can hear it following you at a distance.  You seem to be outpacing it well enough, though.  You happen to pass back by the guy with the mustache.  If you don't want to stop and say anything, you can continue on to find the ladies.

Help up the girl. I have the time to help her up.

Then let her know gotta go faster. Oh and that danger can be lurking around every turn. Trust me you gotta live and learn

All Investigators besides Kayla Lyptus

You continue to run through the mists. Everything looks the same, you can't find any sense of bearings. There's no paths, this whole place looks exactly the same. You do occasionally catch glimpses of a few other people running in the same direction.

Whatever that thing is, you can still hear that same sound well behind you - you seem to be putting more distance from it, but you have no idea how to lose it.

You hear a quiet, masculine voice calling from somewhere up ahead, a bit to the left. "This way. Hurry."

Try to figure out if he can be trusted. Maybe...Psychology or Psychoanalysis? Uhh...Listening? What do I roll for that?

Kayla Lyptus

You grab the pistol. With some effort, you manage to catch up to the other lady just in time to hear a voice calling out from the fog: "This way. Hurry."


Cyrus Thompson

Cyrus' Idea roll: (hidden)

You don't sense any malice hidden in the voice. And, despite the soft tone, it seems... confident, somehow. You get the sense whoever it belongs to knows the area pretty well.


Swaltzer Rickenduffl

You continue to run, arcing around to run in the opposite direction...

Swaltzer's Luck check: 71/70 - Failure

...and you almost immediately come upon the source of the crawling noise.

Swaltzer's Sanity check: 81/50 - Failure
Swaltzer takes 5 SANITY damage

It looks like a snake. A giant snake. A giant snake covered in bulbous veins. A giant snake covered in bulbous veins with a giant wing jutting out of its back. And it's crawling right towards you. It's at least 5 times your size, big enough that it could easily swallow you whole.  Now might be a good time to pick a different direction to run.