"There are two people talking. We are in an alleyway near the courthouse. It's daytime. There was an incident but everyone here is alive and will be okay."
William exhaled something slow that tried to be deep before it made him cough again and the expression contorted into a familiar sort of pain. This wasn't a first for him. He couldn't breathe. It had very little to do with the sensation of having a collapsed lung and having to do something physical and more to do with the fact that there was this oppressive, intent feeling that there was no real way to breathe in. The impending feeling of things closing in and there's nothing you can really do about it. No avoiding, no bargaining, just the inevitable that you can't really do anything about and the water's high and it doesn't matter if you can swim because the-
His eyes stayed closed and the two conscious people with him could have asked any number of things but his focus was somewhere else. Perhaps on something parallel (no, more parody than parallel.) For some people, they lose a grasp on what is real when they've been taken for one Hell of a bad trip, for others all it takes is a slip.
"There are two people talking," he said, an affirmation, holding onto real things when the world was trying to move, "we are in an alleyway near the courthouse. It's daytime. There was an incident but everyone here is alive and will be okay."
It seemed to be enough, the reminder to be present, but then there were questions to answer.
"I don't know what happened, I can go back and check later if you want to come," he told Ned. William was already headed to the car.
"Are you guys going to be okay to handle this?" he said.
I really, really, really don't want to get in the car, he said without saying.
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Prone to Quiet roll.
Noel-witness
Witnessed!
the devil
Thanks!
The devil
Iiiiii forgot wound penalties.
Int 3 + enigmas 3 = 6 -2 (wound penalties) = 4, diff 7
Dice: 4 d10 TN7 (1, 5, 7, 7) ( success x 2 )
William exhaled something slow that tried to be deep before it made him cough again and the expression contorted into a familiar sort of pain. This wasn't a first for him. He couldn't breathe. It had very little to do with the sensation of having a collapsed lung and having to do something physical and more to do with the fact that there was this oppressive, intent feeling that there was no real way to breathe in. The impending feeling of things closing in and there's nothing you can really do about it. No avoiding, no bargaining, just the inevitable that you can't really do anything about and the water's high and it doesn't matter if you can swim because the-
His eyes stayed closed and the two conscious people with him could have asked any number of things but his focus was somewhere else. Perhaps on something parallel (no, more parody than parallel.) For some people, they lose a grasp on what is real when they've been taken for one Hell of a bad trip, for others all it takes is a slip.
"There are two people talking," he said, an affirmation, holding onto real things when the world was trying to move, "we are in an alleyway near the courthouse. It's daytime. There was an incident but everyone here is alive and will be okay."
It seemed to be enough, the reminder to be present, but then there were questions to answer.
"I don't know what happened, I can go back and check later if you want to come," he told Ned. William was already headed to the car.
"Are you guys going to be okay to handle this?" he said.
I really, really, really don't want to get in the car, he said without saying.
---
Prone to Quiet roll.
Noel-witness
Witnessed!
the devil
Thanks!
The devil
Iiiiii forgot wound penalties.
Int 3 + enigmas 3 = 6 -2 (wound penalties) = 4, diff 7
Dice: 4 d10 TN7 (1, 5, 7, 7) ( success x 2 )