Café de Nuit

Suddenly, a howling sound can be heard, by you cannot determine from where it comes.

You see the the clouds in the foggy sky move with terrible fastness, change from white and grey to black.

Within a minute, it starts to rain, like you have never seen it before.

The raindrops are hard and hurt on your skins.

It rains so much that even breathing is difficult.

"Let's get out of here people, there's evil magic all around. And avoid the bridge".

"I guess we should try to cross the bridge.... better than to turn back..... help....carry Lodissio!!!" Jarryd has to scream, the loudness of the sudden storm is to high, he can barely hear himself.

I hope this is the right call - he thinks to himself - or this is going to be the shortest expedition of my life...

Picking himself up for the second time today, Nicolas looks around with a stunned expression.

"I don't know what it was...only, it was terrible, more terrible than I could describe!"

Then he sees his other companions jumping and yelping from pain.

"What is this place?" He demands, "Where have we been taken?"

Before he can get a response, the sky shifts colors, and raindrops the size of stones begin bombarding them. With this final catastrophe, he deicdes it's best to run.

"Somebody help me with Lodissio!" He yells, himself rushing to the wounded satyr's side, attempting to pick him up.

[OOC: If nobody helps Nicolas lift Lodissio, he'll try for a couple more seconds, then leave him and run towards the bridge...]

Avra runs over to Jarrys and Nicholas and helps them with Lodissio: "If only he were conscious, he might know a way to get out of here... Why don't we try the surface of the water?..."

Avra supposes there is no time for it and rushes accross the bridge with the others.

[So, who is on the bridge so far? - I count Tavian, Shana, Avra and Alarnik.]

The howling sound repeats. Wind and ice mercilessly blow from the sky against you.

It is difficult to understnad you own words in this most unnatural storm...

And in all the chaos, suddenly something chokes with Alain and brings him down...

Shana is on the bridge, torn between staying with the group and just making a run for it, defaulting to staying with the group as the rain makes walking, much less running, difficult. She's trying to load her crossbow, although whether it will work in this weather is another question...

[Am I right in believing we have not had any rest since the last fight?]

[You had a few hours before you entered the vale, but nothing sufficient to regenerate...]

Assuming nobody is holding his rope anymore, Tavian is going to reel it in so it doesn't get caught on something. He will then continue across the bridge.

The ground stopped moving, but then came the blizzard. Squinting his eyes he watches as the others make their way towards the bridge and become vague shadows as they venture deeper into the heavy storm.

He curses. Now was not the best of times to cross such a sketchy bridge, as it seems that even the weather has turned against them, but there is no other choice.

Waiting for the last of the group to step out onto the bridge, Stocker does likewise, taking extra care with each step that he takes on the icy surface of the bridge.

((For the sake of suspense, Stocker didn't count right. He knows nothing of Alain's struggle, as he thinks he is on the bridge up ahead of him.))

[So, you move on leaving Alain alone...? Cool...]

With my size and position (with the whole group on the bridge behind me) I cannot see Alain and am most concerned with getting across the bridge.

Desdichado wrote:And in all the chaos, suddenly something chokes with Alain and brings him down...

Alain suddenly, as if gripped by an unseen force about the throat, reaches to his own neck as he struggles for air. He stumbles foward a few steps, seeing everyone make for the bridge, trying to get someones attention. He falls to his knees as his thoughts become more lost in panic! He begins looking to the ground for a loose stone or anything he can throw out to the people on the bridge to get there attention.
When nothing can be found he tries to get up to his feet, falling foward out toward the bridge. He lands hard on his stomach, also hitting his face on the ground, he then tries to crawl foward onto the bridge after the fleeing party member.
Sounds are becoming more distant as his head fills with blood and a steady ringing fills his ears. His eyes feel as if they will burst from there sockets. The veins bulgde from his hands and arms as he still tries to pull himself foward. In a last ditch effort to rouse someones attention, he draws his sword and pounds the pommel againts the bridge, trying to produce a steady beat as he hammers the sword pommel againts the walk way of the bridge.
Pang...Pang...Pang...Pang...goes the steady sound of his pounding as the world grows darker.

Can Avra hear Alain? If so, he stops and tries to find enough strength and courage to turn back and help him over the bridge with the others...

BigBadQDaddy wrote: Alain suddenly, as if gripped by an unseen force about the throat, reaches to his own neck as he struggles for air. He stumbles foward a few steps, seeing everyone make for the bridge, trying to get someones attention. He falls to his knees as his thoughts become more lost in panic! He begins looking to the ground for a loose stone or anything he can throw out to the people on the bridge to get there attention.
When nothing can be found he tries to get up to his feet, falling foward out toward the bridge. He lands hard on his stomach, also hitting his face on the ground, he then tries to crawl foward onto the bridge after the fleeing party member.
Sounds are becoming more distant as his head fills with blood and a steady ringing fills his ears. His eyes feel as if they will burst from there sockets. The veins bulgde from his hands and arms as he still tries to pull himself foward. In a last ditch effort to rouse someones attention, he draws his sword and pounds the pommel againts the bridge, trying to produce a steady beat as he hammers the sword pommel againts the walk way of the bridge.
Pang...Pang...Pang...Pang...goes the steady sound of his pounding as the world grows darker.

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After an initial panic attack, Alain comes to sense and realizes that he isn't under attack. Something ran into him...

A small human bundle, smaller than him, but not as small as Tavian. If he removes the dark cap of from the seemingly unconscious figures that choked with him, he will realize that the reason for his near heart-attack was not a horror of the night, but a palid and half-frozen young girl...

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From the direction from where you came, the howling can be heard again.
Mixed with loud barking - hundreds of loud barkings, louder than the sound of the rain... Coming near...