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[Thread] Dwarven Vow #1: Let's all work together for a peaceful world!

Who:

ruin_mania,

mothercullen,

firsttophase,

jinga_magiiro
What: Forming a patrol group to help vampire victims
When: Now
Where: Room 817
Rating: uh, PG?

Raine finished gathering everything together that she thought she'd need to go patrol the halls. Staff - check. Journal - check. Healing gels for minor injuries - check. A few Poison Bottles - may not work, but no use in not bringing them. Now all she ahd to do was wait for the others and they could set out.

Raine hoped they would be able to find the victims in time or, better yet, prevent anyone from getting hurt in the first place. Eating people was not considered acceptable behavior where she was from.

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Sam padded down the hall, checking the room numbers. He'd never had call to come down to this floor, so he double-checked the placard beside the door before scratching at the door lightly (the room smelt like paper and ink and medicine, nothing worrying). It felt odd not knocking, but what can you do when you don't have knuckles?

He sat back on his haunches, waiting to be let in.

Raine opened the door and--

"Oh!" she exclaimed, her eyes lighting up with something between interest and nostalgia. "Why, you're the size of an arshis! You must be Sam's wolf," and then, in a much quieter voice, she added "and you're just adorable." Yes, a horse-sized wolf was adorable to her. Go figure.

She gestured for him to come inside, not quite sure if he'd fit through the door but assuming he would, since he'd presumably been living in someone's room before now. "Come in, come in. I suppose it's not too much to hope for that you're the kind of wolf that understands human language?"

Esme was working her way over towards Raine's room. Upon seeing Sam, she swallowed, she knew that his idea of the way to deal with this situation would differ greatly from her own. She tried to remind herself that Raine had specifically spoken of this being a mission to help victims and not a mission to take Jasper down.

She walked over towards the door and towards Raine. "You must be Raine?"

Raine smiled brightly. "Yes, that's me. You would be Mrs. Cullen, then? I've seen your husband a bit around the clinic. Please, come in; I beleive we're only missing one more member now."

She guided Esme into the room. Unfortunately, since Raine's world was devoid of vampires, she wasn't aware that vampires and werewolves were traditionally enemies....

((ooc: btw, since y'all both have a good sense of smell, you can smell that Raine isn't entirely human - though unless you've smelled Yuan or TOS!Alice, you wouldn't recognize what she does smell like.))

Sam paused to let Esme enter the room first, sneezing as she went past him (vampire smell, eugh). He made a quiet "whuff" at Raine, tipping his head towards her- why, yes, he can understand you- as he trotted into the room and found an out-of-the-way place to settle himself.

He liked the girl already. She smelled... off, but it wasn't very common for someone's response to be "a giant wolf, how cute" instead of running in terror, and that counted for quite a bit.

"Oh good," she said in response to Sam's reaction. "That will make things much easier. Now we're just waiting on a--" and she ran her finger down the page of ehr journal-- "Tsubasa, and we should be all ready."

She frowned a bit as she considered the situation. "I will admit it is a little strange to find a type of enemy I haven't fought before. I've catalogued over three hundred monsters back home throughout my journeys. Granted, I understand this one is a person, not a monster; still, with all the legends my world has in common with others, it's unfortunate I don't have any vampire experience to fall back on."

She cleared her throat before continuing. "As I understand it, it can take up to several days for this venom to make its way through the body. Since it's been several days already, I think the first course of action should be to look in the less-frequently traveled areas of the castle and see if we can't find anyone who's already been bitten. It also might give us an idea of where they--there are two of them, correct?--are spending their time."

She gave a polite nod to Sam as she entered the room first, pausing for a second at being sneezed on before sighing and continuing into the room. She had noticed a bit of something different in the scent of the woman, but she did not bring it up.

"Well, you don't have to worry too much about that experience, I can tell you what you need to know. And this wolf here, knows things too as he comes from the same world." She prayed that Sam would play nice because she did not want to quarrel, she really did not have the patience for it, but she was not about to reveal Sam, he'd chosen to hide himself for whatever reason, it was his call to show himself as human.

"It can take up to several days, but it can also be quick. It really depends on where the bite is."

Raine nodded briskly. "Excellent. First of all, are there any particular places we should focus on or avoid? Are they likely to attack often, or do you think they'll only, ah, feed, when they need to?" What a disgusting concept, anyway. Raine supposed it was no worse than the occasional rogue dragon, but in her experience monsters had to be pretty sick before they'd actually eat a human. Attack and drive off, yes, that was why adventurers traveled in groups, but....

She tapped her foot impatiently, hoping that Tsubasa would get here soon so they could start patrolling. She hoped there wouldn't be any attacks at all; but, knowing that was unlikely from the tone of Dr. Cullen's warning, instead hoped they could get to the victims before it was too late.

Sam wished he could contribute but or all that he'd made it his life's work to protect his tribe from vampires, he'd only gone after the nomadic ones coming through his territory. Also, he couldn't speak. But it certainly seemed to him like vampires would attack humans whenever they got half a chance.

Sam flicked his ear and bared his teeth at Esme, hoping they would get the hint that she had the answers.

Raine sighed. "All right, I think we've waited long enough. I'll leave a note for Tsubasa to page us on the journals--" and she started scribbling on a loose sheet of paper-- "so let's go ahead and start looking. I'm thinking we should check every hallway from here on down, and then search extensively on the first floor because there's so much down there. Sound like a good idea?"

She fixed the note on the outside of her door. It said, "Tsubasa - contact me over the journal to see where we're at."

Esme glanced over towards the wolf, watching him bare his teeth and then turned back to look at Raine, so that she could try and answer the questions given to her. With a deep breath she began.

"Jasper doesn't want to be in the middle of heavily crowded places, least of all where people are expecting him. There may be people who can defeat him here, so he'll avoid as best he can. I wouldn't guess he's still in the woods though as it's too scarcely populated. I'd think the best place to either find him or avoid him is somewhere around the castle, out of sight, but close enough to the others." The second question made her look over to Sam again, he'd always wanted to judge them on their hunger, and she didn't want to add to their dislike.

"Vampires from our world, seem to have an unending thirst. And if we aren't hungry, the scent of human can make us hungry. It's that much harder when their is actual human blood that has been spilled and not just human flesh. And there are those are us who have practiced control can keep our thirst under control, but it's never easy. Jasper does not feel the need to keep himself controlled and therefore, he could feed as often as he wanted, for the sheer thrill of the hunt."

She felt embarrassed at that, that even she had a hard time not wanting blood if it was there to be had, but she had learned control over the years, and she could deny herself. Not that the wolves would give her family credit for that.

Raine nodded thoughtfully. "Then I think perhaps the place we should begin is the clinic - the most likely place for blood to be scented. From there, we'll investigate the first floor and the immediate surroundings, and if our worlf friend picks up any sign of the two we seek we can deviate from that course and follow him."

Wasting no time, Raine began to move towards the elevators.

((ooc: if you want we can just stop here and say "they roam around" and we can pop up randomly on the "encounter" threads?"))

Sam stood, shaking himself out, and padded over to Raine's side, keeping pace with her. He wasn't used to taking orders, but it was as good a plan as any. He nudged her hand with his nose and gave her a lupine version of a smile. That... might not have been as comforting as he meant it, but the intention was clear.

((OOC: I'm good with that.))

The giant wolf reminded Raine so much of Noishe (http://www.myblog.fr/albums/Tales-of-Symphonia_3/605673.jpg) that, for the first time since coming to the castle, she actually felt a pang of homesickness. "Let's go then," she said. "If you find any fresh trails, please let us know."

Meanwhile, Tsubasa had been busy running up the stairs and making a quick stop at his room to grab his "Before-You-Realize-It" cream that he made for emergencies. It wouldn't help with poison but it was possible that it might heal up any bite wounds or the like.

Of course, this had taken a little bit of time and so when he dashed up to the 8th floor, he saw a little band of people making their way towards the elevator. A wolf was part of the group so it must've been Raine and the others.

"Hey--" Tsubasa shouted, already in his Magiyellow outfit as he ran towards the group. "Are you Raine Sage?" he asked as he got closer to the people, "My apologies for taking so long, I had stopped by my room to grab some stuff that might be helpful."

[ooc: Orz. Late and fail mun is late and fail. My apologies for being gone and then also not realizing thread. :/]

((ooc: is all good!))

Raine nodded and smiled at the newcomer. "Tsubasa, is it? We're just about to set out now. This is Esme," she said, pointing to the other woman, "and I'm not sure if this wolf has a name but he's helping us out as well, and he understands human speech."

She crossed her arms and frowned. "I just hope we can be of help."

((ooc again: annnd so feel free to respond to any "halp I'm being nommed" thread. :D))

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