Topic: The Corruption Hidden Beneath the Surface... Subject: No time like the present!
When the woodsman had first staggered toward them, Ch’dau was all but set to leave his companions where they stood and face the abominations alone if that’s what it might have come to. Had it not been for Kith’s words, in fact, the big Kazari might have done just that. In deference to his dear friend’s caution, though, Ch’dau mustered what patience he could manage and waited as the woodsman’s injuries were tended by Cedric and words buzzed in the air like flies about his ears. No sooner had the bedraggled man’s wounds stopped seeping than he, too, seemed ready to charge back to his family no matter what hell might lie between him and them.
"This way!" he cried, frantically leading the way. "Tha cabin es jest over tha ridge!"
Beyond the ridge, the scene that awaited them was much as Ch’dau might have expected. The man’s sturdy little cabin stood there, it’s windows shuttered against the shamblers that milled about the place but it’s door was rent and ripped from its hinges.
“Gods, no!” the man wailed, “Ella! Boys! Please 'elp them! Oh, gods! Mother, save them!”
Your Mother won’t help you any more than She helped Crandel, Ch’dau thought even as a growl welled in his chest. He shifted anxiously, wishing that Aranwen would give the order to charge the horrors…
"I see five of the undead," Gib murmured. "If there are only the five, we have the advantage. Speed could be our advantage. We might be able to get two of us through the door of the cabin while the rest tend to the corpses."
…The Silver Cat tugged his blades free and nodded, his eyes keen on the zombies. Only five, he snarled, and no sign nor sound of a laughing one. Easily done. The woodsman’s dread had become a palpable thing; seeping through the mist-laden air and testing the cat-man’s patience. The growl had reached up from his chest and into his throat, threatening to burst from behind his teeth at any given instant...
"The risk we take is in not knowing what's waiting for us inside the cabin," Gib continued, drawing his sword and readying his shield, "There's nothing scrambling down there. We could take the time for a scout to investigate."
…Whatever words came next from the warrior priest were lost to Ch’dau’s ears. Between the roar trapped behind his teeth and the battle-anxious blood ringing through his skull, the Kazari had no more patience for speech…
"Time???" the woodsman wailed, "there is no time! They 'ave broken tha door, they are in tha 'ouse! Me wife an' children are in there! If all ye plan ta do is scout about, then give me a blade, an' let me die wit 'em!"
…Enough!!! Ch’dau snarled inwardly even as, outwardly his calm broke and his roar escaped, No more words!!! Leaping from his anxious crouch the battle-mad Kazari hurtled toward the cabin, prepared to lay waste to anything that stood in his way. “NNNNGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!”
((OOC: Oops! Kitty snapped! With any luck, though, the zombies outside will focus on him and give the others a moment, at least, to get inside and/or manage a flanking effort of some sort. Meanwhile, the psycho-cat will be trying a new zombie mince recipe. ))
Posted on 2018-10-25 at 18:53:19.
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