Session 2
1-17-24
Company
Every night, V practices some sort of physical exercise. Practicing swordplay, hand to hand combat, etc.
Della is very religious, often sets aside time to make small altars and offerings. They talk to their plants, and in fact speaks to most things around them that they interact with.
Ophelia always sleeps with her back against something, always keeps her stuff on hand.
October 14th
- company is a group of soldiers who have been corrupted, their armor melts into their flesh and they are similar to zombies. Eden knows that the beasts company normally has a commanding officer with some sense, who acts as their-As they travel towards Vollendorf, seeking an inn for the night, a passing traveler warns them of the beasts company sighted in the area
- He also tells them there is a town called Respite up ahead
As they approach the town however, it becomes clear there is no life to be found here. Cautiously, V approaches one of the homes and peeks through a window. He sees an empty house, with a pool of blood seeping out from underneath the bed. Opposite that home, sounds can be heard faintly, and Della creeps closer to see if they can hear inside. With their ear pressed to the door, they make out a muffled clinking of metal and sounds of squelching flesh. From so close they can hear similar sounds coming from nearby.
The party gathers together again and discusses the situation. Della is hesitant, but the rest agree to investigate further. Eden offers to go into the empty house with the bloodstain beneath the bed and see if he can gleam from the corpse how they died. With V accompanying him, they do just that. There’s a woman under the bed covered with gouges along her left side. Upon touching her shirt, Eden see’s her last moments were running from her assailants and hiding under the bed where she died of blood loss.
They leave and rejoin the party. Warily, they move together to the house across the road with V in the lead. Though he tries his best to be quiet, the door creaks loudly as he touches it.
Inside are three humanoids, once soldiers, now creatures with armor melted into their flesh. They’re in the midst of tearing a body apart but stop and turn to look at the party. V steps back, closes the door, and reports this to the party.
-Soldiers come out-More come out as they fight, the commander appears across the main road
-Della shapeshifts into a fucked up bear that gets bigger until its massive
-V has a weird gut response to seeing big della bear, he gets a sense of deja vu and a wave of anger passes over his expression before it
-Della notices this, and that notes that the feeling seemed to have taken him by surprise
-Ophelia immediately jumps to accusing Della, saying their magic seems unnatural and twisted. She asks if Della’s been twisted by the beast.
-Della is taken aback by the accusation in a way that makes it clear its true. She sheepishly says she’ll explain once they’re out of the town
-Eden says he wants to investigate the rest of the homes to look for survivors, but there are none. As they move he stops at a bloodied teddy bear on the road. When he touches it, he sees the bear was dropped by a child as they fled the town in the arms of their mother. He decides to take the bear with him and as he does, V asks what he is doing. Eden briefly explains his empathic ability.
-They make their way to the towns inn, also abandoned save for the dead innkeep. With only one staircase leading up, it seems like a safe enough bet.
-As they settle in for the night, v goes to talk to della and as about what she is. Della begins to explain druidcraft.
-When prompting further, V explains the reaction he had seeing them in their bear form, wondering if Della might know why seeing it elicited such a strong feeling. Della isn’t any more sure than he is however.