(Gimme Shelter) Down on the Farm

[Yumyumcrow]

The farm is a long strip of land and the farm house sits right at the back, a point of light and shadow. It is framed by a series of older out buildings, rustic things from earlier decades. Lights frame a rutted track connecting the farm buildings to the street, but its patchy.

An overgrown orchard squats rudely by the fence at the street end of the property, deep in shadows and rich in menace.

Can I have Dexterity + Stealth + 2. Specialties for outdoors or shadows, etc will apply. If the group or an individual wish to explore a specific spot, let me know.

[Konrad Roth]

  Sneak, 3suxx

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-14 14:22:05		Konrad Roth rolls 10 to sneak through the farmland [DEX+Stealth+Sp1+2] (10 Again)		4, 8, 7, 4, 9, 7, 8, 2, 3, 2		3 successes

Activating his heightened senses, Konrad listens for the sights and sounds of movement from the farm house and the outlying buildings. While the farm house may be the suspected location for the sanctuary, the outlying buildings could easily be converted into a resting place for daysleeping Kindred. Of course they'd be awake now.

The orchard looked like the best way for a concealed approach as opposed to the rutted track. Konrad gestures towards this before moving to the fence. He bends down and cups his hands together, indicating that he can help them both to bypass the fence if need be, depending on how tall the barrier is or if they can just go around it.

[Garrick Marlon]

White eyes take in the farm and Garrick frowns as he looks over how the buildings are set up. A lot of places to hide for quite a few bodies. Too bad the Archon isn't here, then again fucking up in front of her would be bad. Sense already focused to the world around him Garrick nods back to Konrad before making his own way over to the Savage Priscus. At least humans will have a hard time seeing us in there.

Taking a moment to make sure that the pistol and knife are properly secured Garrick looks over the fence and tries to figure out if it can be overcome without leaving anyone on the other side. That or somehow cut into to make an entrance way.

  3 suxx to Sneak

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-15 23:17:20		Garrick rolls 6 to Gimme-Farm Sneaking(Dex+Stealth+2=6) (10 Again)		8, 5, 10, 3, 5, 7, 10, 7		3 successes

[Alice Hart]

Pulling up the rear, Alice activates her heightened senses, as she slips into the shadows of the grass. Low on the ground, with the precise stillness, and the quick movement of a Weeping Angel Alice follows after Garrick, and Konrad.

Stopping at the fence Alice eyes the two, Konrad ready to give a boost to get them over the fence, and Garrick, looking for a way around. (She thinks.) Before her cousin grabs his knife and potentially make a racket. Alice motions to her eyes and up, over the fence. Hoping the others interpreted her gesturing as a peekaboo scouting venture she steps into Konrad's hands so she could get the boost needed to see what's on the other side of the fence.

And this is the reason The Doll is actually a Wraith

  7 suxx Sneaky sneak

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-17 15:25:45		Alice Hart rolls 7 to Sneaky Sneak (Dex3 + Stealth2 +2) (10 Again)		10, 10, 9, 9, 8, 6, 10, 6, 10, 1, 6		7 successes

  1 suxx Perception

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-17 15:40:59		Alice Hart rolls 6 to Perception (Wits3 + Comp3 ) (10 Again)		4, 8, 2, 4, 2, 5		1 success

[Yumyumcrow]

The fence, such as it is, is lengths of barbed wire strewn between posts. Barely substantial, the nasty looking wire nonetheless is set at just the right height to be an inconvenience; dried grasses tangle and snarl the lengths of wire. Fortunately Konrad picks a good spot by one of the posts where the weight of vegetation has made the wire buckle. Up and over they go. Up and over...

...And then they are skirting the breathing dark of the orchard.

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-18 03:15:40		Someone rolls 2 to Wits + Composure -2 Penalty (10 Again)		3, 2		failure

They are three ghosts: Garrick and Konrad. One supposes Alice is close by as well she has all but blended into the night; she appears here and there - a slash of white against a tree; a wraith wrapped in shadows.

They close on the outbuildings and the main house. Heightened senses pick up snatches of conversation, bursts of music from a radio. Someone is up. Flash of movement from the lit portions of the farm - yes, three mortals are working lazily on a battered pick up.

Lights from a basement at the closest of the outbuildings, scything out from a narrow strip of windows at ground level.

[Konrad Roth]

No Beast registers from these flushed figures. It's probably safe to assume they're Kine. Maybe a Herd or even Ghouls in service to the Sanctuary. No sign of Brady or Rhayna yet. It looks to be a typical farm house with typical farmhands.

Konrad looses sight of Alice and is surprised by how well she's blended in considering her alabaster skin. Camo might've helped of course. Nonetheless he makes the gesture at the back of the house and continues to move through the orchard towards the light source from the basement. It seems like the Kindred could move to and fro between the basement and the outbuildings as they pleased without calling too much attention to themselves.

[Garrick Marlon]

Damn she's good. Knowing that she got over the fence as well Garrick assumes that Alice is somewhere close by as he moves forward slowly behind Konrad. Hopefully the three people working on the pick up are just mortals. Hiding the monster is more common than Garrick would have thought before coming to Sacramento.

I need to find a better job. Follows a quick realization that getting hold of a suppressor for his pistol will require more than Garrick knows. Shaking his head at himself the Haunt pauses before nodding towards Konrad. Moving cautiously Garrick works to stay close enough to Konrad to see more signals but far enough away to be hard to spot. It takes more than Garrick realizes as he falls into a pattern of look, plan, wait, move, look.

[Alice Hart]

A typical farmhouse, manned by typical farmhands greets her Franken-purple eyes, and the light coming from the basement draws her attention as her ears catch soft sounds emanating from the radio, and stolen mementos of conversation.

Seeing the gesture from the savage, Alice nods, unseen as the three continue their oh so slow and careful movements through the orchard and toward the sickle of lamp light, drawing them towards it like a beacon. Hopefully such a literal light in the dark wasn't a trap.

As the conversations continue around them, Alice, much like Garrick, hopes that the farmhands were kine, and not obfuscated monsters, as was glaringly common among the Kindred of Sacramento. Then a thought struck, as she tilts her head to the side, would she be able to hear their heartbeats if they had them?

[Yumyumcrow]

Life carries on at the farm. A burst of laughter from the trio working on the pickup truck. A curse. Someone just got oil in the face.

Around them the farm breathes in the night air. A scrape escapes from the basement, perhaps?

[Konrad Roth]

With the farmhands distracted by their tomfoolery, Konrad moves out of the orchard towards the light of the basement window, interested in inspecting the scraping noise he had heard. Could the delivered Kindred rest inside, biding their time in a makeshift Haven? Or would Brady or Rhayna be there, scheming the takeover of the Prince's Domain?

He gets low to the ground as he peeks through the glass covered portal.