The Other Half

[Malcolm Green]

"Sure thing," Green replied. He reached for his bag of tools - if for no other reason than to support his cover. "Its weird. So... I just want to cover all the bases, you know. Friend of mine noticed your mom was having some problems with the pipes, yeah. Thought I'd do him a favour and take a look - see if I could help."

The wording was deliberate, even if he managed to slip it in so casually. The mountain had noted the old pictures. He had noted the easy familiarity between the old woman and this unsworn Changeling. He had even caught a glimpse of her beneath before the Mask was hardened. So he threw down some salt to gauge her reaction.

He took a step forward as he shouldered his gear.

"What are you doing down there?" He added as casually as he could. "I wouldn't have pegged a basement a good spot for household plants."

[InvertedMonkey]

As one of the first to emerge from the kitchen, Ramona has drifted nearest the door. It's a simple matter of a few steps, and a muscular arm reaching out to grasp the door and push it steadily closed, at "Zoe's" invitation. The ogress hides her irritation, not with Zoe's reaction, but with it's cause. Nathan never hardened his fucking Mask. Idiot. No wonder the hob took an interest in him. And now, any chance they had at preserving their cover in front of a fellow Changeling, they'd now blown. On the one hand, establishing that we're all Lost here could work in their favor. On the other hand, it might not. Six to five and pick 'em, whether this'll end up good or bad. But by failing to mask himself, Nathan had reduced their available options. "Lead on," Ramona tells Zoe.

[Nathan Griffin]

His eyes hadn't left the door, and he immediately caught side of the new 'ling once she entered, and noticed the look she gave him. It didn't take her long to hide herself. Pointless. He was not impressed.

"Yeah," he stood up and grabbed the backpack, "let's check it out," his mouth was moving weirdly, as if he was chewing something even though there wasn't anything in his mouth. Her being a changeling didn't put him at ease. If push came to shove, he could still feel the Wyrd clinging to him.

[Malcolm Green]

Green took a moment to adjust, hunching as he shuffled through the dimly lit chamber.

"Eh. Don't know yet. Kitchen's fine. Stove seems in good order. So... you know; time to start working off a checklist until we find the source of the problem."

The mountain made a show of checking what pipes he saw. It was slow going given his size and the crowded nature of the basement. His movements allowed him to check the few pipes he saw and sweep his gaze around looking for weaving equipment: Zoe had mentioned she was exploring weaving, so the mountain expected there to be a loom - or at least weaving materials close at hand.

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-04-17 03:31:31		Green to check for weaving tools rolls 5 to Intelligence + Crafts (10 Again)		2, 8, 5, 5, 8		2 successes
2016-04-17 03:30:57		Green to check the pipes rolls 5 to Intelligence + Crafts (10 Again)		6, 6, 7, 5, 5		failure
2016-04-17 03:29:36		Green to deceive rolls 5 to Wits + Subterfuge + Mantle (10 Again)		5, 8, 10, 10, 9, 7, 10, 4		5 successes

"Yeah. Whats behind that door? Mind if we check?"

[InvertedMonkey]

Setting down her toolbag, Ramona produces a flashlight again, clicking it on to look up at the ceiling. She keeps an ear on Zoe as she inspects the construction of the house, looking for the join of the suspect wall, and the place where the oven must rest. Though at this point, it seems unlikely that those are related to the true problem. "You been down here long? Hear any strange noises, smell anything weird?" She asks Zoe absently. "Do you know if there's a maintenance crawlspace down here?"

  Inspection: 1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-04-17 20:48:30		Ramona Bohannon rolls 5 to Int + Craft (ToH) (10 Again)		3, 1, 5, 5, 9		1 success

[Nathan Griffin]

It was darker downstairs, but the Hunterheart didn't take his eyes off Zoe. There was a golden glint to them that only stood out all the more down in the shadows. It did him no good when it came to improving his vision, but she didn't know that.

"Actually," he interceded, "we can't know for sure whether its pipes or not. Anything could have gotten in here and holed up in your... studio. God knows what it would have been eating, but you'd be surprised at what a stray dog who's really hungry will sink its teeth into."

He didn't try to look around, like the others. There was a sort of thickness to the Wyrd, like he could almost feel it weigh on him. He wasn't ready to drop it quite yet.

"Hmm?" he returned the woman's attentive gaze and smiled. It was a perfectly innocent smile, apologetic even. Or at least, it would have been in anyone else's mouth. "I think I'd remember."

There was a little voice in the back of his head, whispering. If she tries anything funny, I'll bite her into pieces. See if she still wants to check out my face while blood's shooting out of her throat. He'll eat her little brownie too, if it came to that. He had to stifle a little laughter at the idea.

"Plus, I'm not from around these parts. Before coming here I used to work at a high-security prison out of state, for three years or so. I'd keep the inmates from running off, drag them back if they got too far... y'know, that sort of stuff. You sure don't look like jail meat to me, though."

He tried not to look at Green or Ramona while he talked. His eyes stood fixed on Zoe, waiting for her reaction.

  3 suxx

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-04-19 19:29:55		Nathan rolls 10 to to STR + Intimidation + Favored Fate (10 Again)		6, 8, 5, 7, 6, 10, 2, 7, 5, 10, 2, 5		3 successes

[Malcolm Green]

Green said nothing as he completed his "search."

Denied access to what lay beyond the door, he frowned. He grunted and stared at the screened off space, stretching out with his Kenning. If there was something there, he hoped to gain some sense of it.

Please do the necessary rolls for Green's Kenning