(DwO) Dealing With What No One Else Will

[Robert Cross]

Cross hacks at the fetid blockage with his shovel. As he works, establishing an inhuman rhythm, his mind seems to shut off. Layers and layers of filth wash over him due to his own labors and those of his companions. Their hoses dissolve the fatberg, but what is dissolved thereby covers him with more and more of the grime, now loosened and liquid. After a while, to his companions, he must look like something born of this mass of filth and waste. Every inch of him is covered with the gross detritus of human civilization.

And yet he works. And works. And works. The shovel stabbing, shearing, wrenching, tearing.

Here in this dark and foul place, the Burned Man truly looks the monster he knows deep down he is. A single thought surfaces before dissolving again in a mind given over to the blankness of an infernal, seemingly endless, labor: Good.

  5 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-21 16:00:37		Robert Cross rolls 12 to Attacking the Blob: str3 + 2vigor +3 hose1 +3 hose2 +1shovel +1 heightened senses - 1Crafts (untrained) (10 Again) (10 Again)		7, 4, 7, 9, 10, 8, 8, 10, 6, 6, 7, 2, 6, 3		5 successes

But then, suddenly, something seems different. Some change in the fatberg's consistency or disposition. Cross steps back, a piece of the grotesque accumulation detaching itself, vaguely humanoid in shape.

21 suxx achieved!

[Parable]

To say the job was unpleasant would be an understatement. With their heightened senses the burned man and the doll can feel every fleck of… stuff that lands on their skin. Feel it slowly glide down scarred skin and porcelain perfection. Feel the texture of the residue it leaves behind. The film of grease, the streak of brown. They can even taste it. Even with mouths firmly closed particles invade nostrils into the backs of their throats. That slight sweetness of blood barely perceptible underneath everything but still distinctly there.

While Greenberg doesn’t share in that experience, he isn’t spared either. The darkness of the tunnel can’t conceal the disgusting scene before him as water peels back layer upon layer of fat from the walls. He sees the rivulets of filth flowing back towards him. He sees what the water would normally hide. Things that could have once been described as sanitary devices. No more.

And through it all the squelching and they shifted their feet in the muck. The plink, plink, plink of diseased water droplets and they scattered around them.

It took almost three hours of revolting work. Three hours of tireless undead muscles being moved by Kindred will and Vitae. Then the mass shifted. They could hear it gurgle as it started to collapse. And as it did a new sound arose as they shut off the water hoses. A thousand terrified squeaks, the flowing of water over a fur and rotted food, and a rumbling from the sky above. Without the water spraying they could hear it. The pitter patter of water still hitting the sewers below through the man hole. It had apparently started to rain on the streets above.

The fatberg cracked like a damn and a rush from behind came pouring out. A mass of panicked sewers rats discharged through the opening created by the dissolving remnants of the fatty mass. The terrified rodents swarmed towards the nightmares clothed in dead flesh, black eyes wide and white incisors flashing in fear.

Initiative!

[Alice Hart]

Initiative 14

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-23 15:11:26		Alice Hart rolls 1 die for initiative		8

[Robert Cross]

RAT FIGHT!

  Initiative 6

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-23 15:09:13		Robert Cross rolls 1 die for initiative		1

[Parable]

  Rats' init is 11

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-25 07:46:44		The Swarm rolls 1 die for initiative		8

Alice 14, Greenberg 11, ROTSs 11, Robert 6

Saber is up first

[Alice Hart]

"AhhhHHH!" Alice shrieks as the rancid coated rodents spewed forth from the dissipating fatty mess. "Nonononnononoo." She mutters under her breath as she shakes her head in denial.

This fetid hell was straight from the doll's nightmares.

Reacting on instinct the doll pulls the trigger on the hose, pushing back the rats before their beady hellborn eyes, and nasty gnawing teeth could draw nearer.

  2 suxx

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-07-27 00:18:55		Alice Hart rolls 5 to Attack the Rats (Dex 3 + Firearms(-1unskilled) +3hose) (10 Again)		7, 9, 10, 1, 4, 1		2 successes

[Alice Hart]

Batter up! Greenberg Matrixchild

[Parable]

The rats sweep over the trio, squeeling horrifically as high pressure water sweeps over them in return. They are left briefly swimming from the surge before tiny paws once again meet the flotsam of the disintegrating fatberg. The scramble and claw with sharp nails over any surface that will give them grip. Surfaces like the scarred skin of Robert. The rats run up his boots, his pants, and over his shirt. Most are content to simply scratch but a few bite in their panic. And those that taste the sweet unholy vitae just under the skin, suddenly start biting all the more.

The swarm deals 2 bashing to Robert.

Cross is up