So Begins A Life Anew

[Kailaria]

New Moon

The crowd begins to thin as the sun begins to set, slowly leaving Elektra Powers more and more alone as she shreds around the park in another street practice session. The blond kickflips into a backwards grind down a rail, then finishes it off by leaping off the rail in a 520º turn to the applause of those remaining.

"Thank you!" she says, waving as she rides over to her stuff. "If you like the shredding, come to the tournament next week!"

The rest of the onlookers disperse, leaving Elektra to towel off a bit before making her way back to her apartment, weaving her way through the streets gracefully on skateboard back.

[Lesingnon]

The night is a dark one, of course you'd expect that when the moon's face is hidden in the night sky from the world below. Sure teh street lamps help, but they can't reach everywhere. And deep shadows, the uncertainty they represent, do trigger one of the most primal emotions of the human psyche.

Fear.

Of course, in the supposedly civilized places of the world it's more like a simple sense of unease. Usually...but tonight something seems to be different. And Elektra can fast feel that unease mounting, slivers of fear slipping into the edges of her consciousness. There, was something over there? She could swear she saw something.

[Kailaria]

What was that? Elektra thinks. She wants to go see what it is, confront it, and tell it to back off like she eventually did with the "skater gang" back in Orange County, but something holds her back.

She starts skating away, part of her confused at this choice of action, a smaller, growing part telling her it is the right thing to do.

[Lesingnon]

She can't help but feel that getting far, far away was indeed the right choice to make. Probably something to do with how that mounting fear continues to bubble and churn within her gut. But then...was that it again, in the shadows of that alley in front of her?

[Kailaria]

Too predictable... It keeps finding me...

Elektra stops and switches direction, pushing as hard as she can. She goes down another alley, trying to look for any method with which to lose her pursuer: a wall to leap over, a fire escape to climb, anything to lose it.

Must keep moving...

[Lesingnon]

Three options present themselves to Erica in the alley. There's a chain link fence that could be jumped, that dumpster looks like it's just high enough to let her reach that fire escape, and there's a door that she might be able to slip through. But is it locked, could she really reach the fire escape? And how easily could she be followed taking the various options?

Decisions, decisions...

[Kailaria]

Elektra quickly makes a decision. Door too risky... Fence too easy... Escape... Fire escape... Harder to chase up than across...

She climbs up on the dumpster, leaving her pride and joy, her Girl Power skateboard, behind the smelly stepstool to hide her tracks. Finally, she throws her all into making the leap, reaching for the closest point to grasp.

2 suxx

2011-04-06 12:38:26
Elektra rolls 10 to jump to the fire escape (STR + Ath) (10 Again, WillPower)
2, 7, 10, 7, 5, 7, 9, 1, 2, 5, 3
2 successes

[Lesingnon]

Elektra's fingers close around the metal grating of the fire escape, and with some difficulty she's able to pull herself up onto it. And from there she has little difficulty timing to the roof. Or she'd normally have little difficulty doing so, at least? But are those...four paws on the narrow, angled rungs that form the ascent instead of her normal hands and feet? Hard to say with the way conscious thought is being subsumed by primal instinct.

Though one thing is clear. The frustration with hints of fear bubbling in her chest...just begging to be let loose as a howl to split the night...

[Kailaria]

Frustration mounts within the poor woman.

I need... to go higher... Why can't I?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Run.
Can't.

The fear and frustration culminates in her sitting on her hind legs, whimpering before letting out a desperate howl to express these primal feelings of a canine with its tail between its legs.

Whyoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?!?

[Lesingnon]

Come on now, usually we have people flocking to a First Change...