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{{Infobox Log
|name      = The Veil Breach pt. 2
|summary   = The Laughing Hyena
|icdate    = Thursday
|ictime    = Just After Sundown
|players   = Clarimond (Storyteller), Mikhail, Misa, Silvana, Velok
|location  = Prospect
|prptp     = The Veil Breach
|spheres   = [[Mage]] and [[Mortal]] and [[Shifter]] and [[Vampire]]
}}

== Log ==
Alley

{{tab}}Before you is an alley off one of the city streets. Bits of litter are scattered all over with tiny piles of stinking refuse near the few trash bins deep in the far corners. Deep shadows lengthen around and about, only broken by neon, palescent, casted reflections from a hanging lamp up above.

{{tab}}The dark sounds from between the crusted buildings seems to send shivers up one's spine as a cool wind forever wisps though the narrow corridor. Shrieks of stray cats and sharp squeaking of dirty rats ring in a deathly, sickening tone against the thick, grime encrusted walls. Forever here is night, forever darkness...forever loneliness.
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Clarimond arrives in her 2014 Dodge Sedan. Her two ghoul bodyguards step out with her. The valet remains in the driver's seat, her happy smile never even hinting at fading. As Clarimond approaches the building, she frowns, knowing what is up there, "Such abominable practices.." She points to the fire escape, "Up there? That is the way?" Lars nods, "Yes m'Lady." Clarimond stares at the knob-less door, "And you say that the door's mechanism was disentigrated last night?" Lars nods again, "Yes m'Lady." Clarimond sighs, "This is going to be eventful."

Mikhail seems ever so slightly disturbed that someone found his SUPER secret email.. consisting of his first name, a period, his last initial and gmail... He watches the new person arrive as he stands near from the ground at the moment.

{{tab}}Arriving this time at the alley is far different than last time. Last time, Misa had tricked Velok into showing up, making him think she just needed to pick something up and going to find the severed head. This time, the pair are coming here purposefully. Velok parks the car a good enough distance away so it's not spotted. When he gets out of the car he stretches, raising his arms up over his head and interlacing his fingers to pop his back. He rubs over the silk fingerless wrappings he's wearing, then sets out on a brisk pace down the sidewalk with Misa at his side, coming nearby to the Alley. He nods appropriately towards Mikhail, the 'Sup dude' nod, then stares at the new Sedan and the happy valet, then at Clarimond. New girl, doesn't recognize. Must evaluate.

Silvana is actually the last to arrive or was she the first and has been just checking the area and see who arrives it's really hard to tell because well her car is not parked out here but actually away. She seems to really continplate what she saw on this videos and sharing. She finally grabs her laptop and steps out adjusting her coat before she casually makes her way to join the group.

Mikhail returns Velok nod, and nods to Misa. His head tilts up towards the fire escape indicating that people are already going up. He looks over at Silvana, "Any luck trackeengk monstyer?" he asks her.

Clarimond is staring at the door quietly, her ghouls are around her. Lars is nodding to those arriving while Sten watches the fire exit, his shotgun in hand, ready to put holes in anything that tries to harm his beloved mistress. Clarimond does not appear to notice anyone arriving. She just stares.. and stares.. and stares at the door.

{{tab}}Velok's still at the entrance of the alleyway, looking between everyone. Apone is next, and the man receives the same 'sup dude' nod that Mikhail got. Silvana's greeting is far more polite, Velok raising his hand to briefly wave at the woman and smile. Then his eyes go back to Clarimond, and he moves closer to Mikhail. His voice lowers, and he drops into unmistakeable Russian. <R> "Who's she? The blonde?"

Mikhail shrugs, replying in Russian, <<Dunno.. the other guy seems to know her,>> he says nodding to Lars. Again he nods to the fire escape since she's at the top, <<Should we go up?>> he asks.

Silvana takes a breath as she looks to the others "The bum is out cold in the car if you want him let me know" she comments as she looks up the stairs.

{{tab}}Velok reaches up, brushing his chin with his fingers in contemplation. <R> "Maybe she's the one they were talking about yesterday." Velok shrugs, looking back towards Silvana and returning to English. "I hope he didn't struggle too much. Do you have him bound?"

Clarimond approaches the fire escape and then grabs onto the bar. Before she begins to climb, she finally turns to look at everyone else who is gathered. She smiles at them and starst to go up the ladder. Her ghouls are in tow behind her. The driver ghoul is still in the car, and she seems to be jamming to some VERY fast music. She is sit dancing behind the wheel really fast.

Silvana just gives her head a shake as she has a laptop with her for obvious reason. She waits to see what everyone is doing. Silvana does answer though "Bound and sedated for now, nothing I can't bring him out off"

Mikhail tilts his head towards Silvana, but he's starting to approach the fire escape since that seems like the place to investigate. As he passes Silvana, though, he asks, "Any luck trackeengk ze monstyer?"

{{tab}}Velok shrugs his shoulders, nodding appropriately to Silvana. "Good. Bonus points if you dunked him underwater and just held him there so the smell got away." Speaking of which, Velok smells /good/, as if he knew he was going to smell terrible at the end so he used every possible scented awesome he could get his hands on. Maybe that will combat the smell of dead people. Velok moves away from Mikhail as he talks to Silvana, glancing towards the happy dancing valet driver, then towards Clarimond. "Hi!" He says, getting closer and putting on a rather jovial tone, but avoiding the bodyguards. "Who are you?" Velok does seem a bit nervous, flexing his fingers carefully. He's up front, given that Clarimond is still a rather strange woman in a strange crime scene staring at a strange door.

Clarimond kicks her heels off so that she can climb easier. Her block stockings collect rust on the bottoms of her feet as she ascends. Lars remains at the bottom of the ladder while Stenn ascends with Clari. Lars addresses Velok, "The Lady Harcourt bids you good evening. She is here to observe this most horrible scene of heathenry and death. She offers her aid in the investigation and desires a quick resolution to this veil breach. This emergency transcends sect, faction, and species. The Lady Harcourt is honored to meet you and the rest gathered."

Silvana looks to Mikhail "I got some interesting footage" at least we hope that's the case cuz well we will all find out at the same time. She sees everyone go up and follows apperently bring up the rear.

Mikhail follows Velok, possibly acting as a safety net for the man who seemed so concerned with heights yesterday. His large form moving just ahead of Silvana. Despite his weight he seems to handle himself lightly.

{{tab}}Velok stares up towards Clarimond, even as Lars is talking. "The Lady Harcourt." He repeats, his brow furrowing and then looking back towards Lars. "Well, that certainly takes me back." he comments, reaching up and rubbing at his forehead. He steps away to the side and nods towards Mikhail. "You guys can go first." He says, though his voice drops down a bit. "Going up is easy." He mumbles, shaking his head slightly.

Mikhail starts taking rungs of the ladder, following the Lady Harcourt to the top of the fire escape and leaving Velok behind.

Silvana will be bring up the rear and pauses at the edge as she regards everyone and just seems to be waiting for someone to say something or do something as she just seems to be tagging along.

Clarimond reaches the top with a big smile. She looks out at the sky and slowly turns her gaze to the door. It's opened still from the previous night as if no one has even been inside. She gestures to the door and Stenn opens it, shotgun quickly moving into an aiming position. He cocks the gun dramatically and swoops inside, aiming in every direction that he turns, his professionalism, and skill quite military. It's clear that he is trained to fight. Clarimond follows him inside when she doesn't he gun shots and takes in the scene of death without visible emotion. She doesn't seem to care that she is in a room full of rotting bodies in her stockings.

Misa is dressed for business as she makes her way up after all the others... and for her that business is... probably one that should not be mentioned in polite company... she wears tight fitting leather pants, and a somewhat loose tank top with a fishnet shirt. Her still white bleached hair is tied up in short pigtails. She stick close to Velok for now with a cloth bundle strapped around her back.

{{tab}}With everyone getting towards the top, and Clarimond's Stenn busting in and making sure no one's in there, Velok leans up against the side of the building, fairly careful to avoid an edge. He peers back around towards everyone, looking to Misa and Silvana especially. "I'm guessing that means everything's safe, or else we would have heard gunshots, probably her military man screaming, and then I'd have to be all 'Grrrr'." He's jesting, keeping the fact that they're about to hit a wave of awful smell and dead bodies.

Clarimond watches Silvana, she recognizes her from the vampy neutral zone. A small smile comes over her, so much for certain.. alliances. She addresses Silvana, "Come dear, let us see what your.. what are they called? Cam.. camer? Either way I am assured that this.. device has recorded these devils doing their evil."

Silvana makes her way over to well set it up so that they can see what she captured "Camera ma'am" she says in a rather soft and polite tone of hers.

Mikhail stands by the door.. he does not like the idea of stepping in the place. Not with that gagging smell. Even with the door open the smell of rancid human flesh just won't go away.. He watches Sylvana set up her laptops to catch what the voyeur cams captured

Misa stands between Velok and the edge at least, likely trying to avoid the smell. Misa stops and thinks for a minute before looking to Velok in one of those "Aha" moments, even as she rocks on her feet, teetering just a little over the edge to scare the crap out of him. "Hey, sorry to bring up Kat again but... like you said that smell clings. Whoever's been in and outta that place is gonna REEK of that. You know someone else like her she can prolly smell out where they stay in th daytime."

{{tab}}Velok looks towards Misa as she teeters, and he GLARES. Oh yes, he glares. What a jerk. He watches then slips into the room with all the dead people, not at all caring. "I don't know anyone like Kat, but it shouldn't be a problem." He says back to Misa, glancing towards Clarimond and smiling towards her. "Shall we watch the video?" He asks, nodding his head.

Silvana moves to the camera that she hid outside and removes something from it before attaching it to her laptop as she already had gotten the thing ready to be viewed. She doesn't seem to say anything so she lets the others see what she has already seen.

Mikhail seems more concerned about the entryway, but to the extent it's protected by Mr. Shotgun, he gets closer to try and see what the video shows..

Clarimond|| The room remains empty for a time. The footage shows the hanging bodies, the black slop dripping from them, some flies buzzing around. Eventually a young woman, no older than 18 or 19 enters the building. She is dark skinned, probably of mixed African/European heritage. She snoops around and then takes a piece of flesh and gobbles it up. She grins, her eyes turning yellow. Then she screams in ecstacy, her body contorting, and she starts making hyena noises. The girl jumps about the room leaping onto a hanging corpse, and tearing it from the chains. This goes on for some time before she shifts into a normal hyena, if one could imagine anything about her to be normal. Later as the sun begins to set, which would be a few hours before any of us arrived, the well dressed man enters the building. He begins to laugh manically, apparently for no reason. His voice is a bit high for a male, as if he isn't quite as masculine as most. He then screams in a bloody rage as he sees that one of the bodies was torn down. He kicks the corpse, then jumps on it, and does the nasty with it. He finally stands, putrid gunk all over his suit. He is seething, watching the door now. The White Coated man at last steps in, the time is about an hour before we arrived. He speaks in a strange tone of voice, as one VERY mad, "We knew this would happen.. she wants the corpses too. I made you this way, I gave you the Sight, you can see as we do. You will never be a childe of Malkav you stupid Ventrue shit, but you will see as we do.. as much as I allow." He holds out his hand, and grins, closing his eyes to boot. Suddenly the well dressed Ventrue goes maniacal, screaming, glaring around the room with a crazed look in his eyes, "They are ALL MY PRETTIES. I AM THE PRINCE. THIS IS MYYY DOMAAAAIIIN." Then he charges out the door, screaming all the way. The White Coated Man is cackling with insane glee, sneering, chuckling darkly, "Ahhhhahahahahaaaa..." His laughter is cold, remorseless. He is clearly amused. He leaves the building...

But seconds later there is a force of wind that breaks the door open, smashing the lock so that whatever repairs were made are now moot. That is why you were able to enter again tonight. There is a rumbling sound, a gutteral voice speaking a strange language, and then all the chains sway as if the wind has picked up again. Then all is silent and still.

Mikhail grinds his teeth a little watching the vid, his thick brow furrowing as he carefully examines the first person on the video, but he also looks at the other two as well. He frowns a little at the words 'Malkav' and 'Ventrue' but doesn't seem to recognize them.

Misa moves the bundle form her back into her hands as the video plays, turning herself so she can face the door anthe others at the same time. "Huh, never thought I'd see that." she says... not saying what apart about it is confusing to her.

{{tab}}Velok sets up in the creepy room with the creepy nasty disgusting dead bodies/rape victims so that he can watch the footage. He stands in the back, of course, given his height. He remains fairly quiet the entire way through as Silvana no doubt fast forwards through the slow parts. "That's just unsanitary..." Velok mumbles in the back at the necrophilia. It's the hygiene Velok seems more concerned about. When the video ends he looks back up and around the room. "Ventrue and Malkav." Velok seems to recognize them, but he looks back around for Apone. Dang, still no Apone. He just blinks a couple times, then back around the room. "Well then..."

Silvana has at least seen this so she doesn't react to the mention of Ventrue or Malk at all. She just lets the others watch making sure they see all the footage of how they came in what way they went and so on. She isn't really one to answer questions and let the other decided what the next move is.

Clarimond frowns at the entirety of the footage, "Barbaric. I've seen depravity amongst Kindred before, I have seen others lose their minds, their humanity entirely, but this? It is.. in excess. And that noise at the end? The wind? The voice? It is as if one was casting a spell or some wraith were angry at the disturbance."

Mikhail turns to look over at the bodies.. so many bodies... "Vould eet be surprise eef zere vere ghost?" he asks, looking back at all the death. Moving closer to Silvana, he asks her, "Yu know of anysseengk fursser about ze first vone? Nd ve steel need to find man vees cellphone camera..." he notes.. Tilting his head and looking around the group he then asks, "So veel yu destroy footage?"

Misa doesn't make a comment about spells and ghosts. All that stuff can be handled by others. Finding people though, that Misa can do. "Well now we got voices, and we got faces, now we just need their hunting ground... gonna be hard to nail that one down. The bodies aren't all the same age or sex..." she looks around the room. "I'm not even sure there's this many missin people in this city."

{{tab}}Velok folds his arms across his chest, then slowly reaches up with one hand and starts to rub his eyes. He looks down, standing close to Misa, and keeps rubbing. "Four problems, Mikhail." Velok comments quietly. The rubbing of his eyes stops and his hand splays out up over his forehead, fingers slipping into his hair and combing through it. "We have two men who, as Apone so appropriately put it, view society as a buffet. We have a hyena that they've lost control of, who no doubt killed the six men downstairs. We have a man with a cellphone camera and.." He stops, looking up. His blue eyes survey the room once more, looking around then finding the naked blonde chick from yesterday. "It's completely likely that with this much death, some did not make it to their completion. A wraith is entirely plausible." His eyes finally settle on Misa. Although he's talking to the room, he looks to her. "So which one do we deal with first, or do we split up?"

Silvana takes a moment and brings out a map of the city on her laptop, yes she has one and it has been circled "Their grounds seem to be around this area, some of the people that they have gathered were last reported around these areas" and she has little points for some.

Clarimond pauses for a moment as the others speak, "Splitting up could be dangerous for some. I wouldn't even suggest it. But it is my opinion that we should deal with the veil breach first. If this.. person.. leaks the footage, it would place us all in grave peri-"

(Rolls)

Clarimond says, ""..peril. Would any ofyou be willing to take such a risk?""

Mikhail frowns "Ze hye-" he breaks off and looks around suddenly. His point that the crazy hyena bitch is likely to be captured on many more cell phone cameras, and that the old cellphone footage might already be on the web suddenly isn't so important.

Silvana would probably be the first to do this as she suddently reaches into her back pocket and draws her gun "We are in trouble, we need to get out of here"

Mikhail jerks to look at the door, "Somesseengk here." he says, turning to square himself towards the door, but the way his head is jerking, looking around he doesn't seem to have a clear idea where or even what it is.

Misa is a little slow picking up what the others are seeing, but she's not slow to respond to someone pulling a gun. She opens the end of the bundle quickly with her hand, but can't quite get her hand inside before whatever happens does.

{{tab}}"Splitting up is more dangerous but grants a faster reaction time. Some of us are also better at finding..." Velok's voice trails off and his head suddenly turns towards the door. His fingers flex, but oddly enough he doesn't reach back for the bow strapped along his back. "things...then others.." He says, a smile spreading across his lips.

Clarimond|| The crushing/scratching sound of something climbing is VERY much audible now to everyone. Snarls, a hayena laugh, and a roar fill the room. A thud and clang indicates that the monster has landed on the fire escape. 9 feet and 800 lbs of evil crinos Ajaba fill the doorway..

(Three Round Combat. Mikhail is clawed for 3 Agg from Hyena and shifts, Silvana stabs and cripples, Misa enhances, Velok finishes in third round. Hyena is incapped.)

{{tab}}The Hyena lands on the fire escape with a sickening thud as everyone starts to get prepared. The creaking of the fire escape is sickening to anyone that might have been relying on it. Nuts and bolts fly just as everyone is preparing to engage. The Hyena leaps into the room with a snarl that would send nightmares into little kids. The Hyena leaps inside as Misa charges, and the fire escape makes the last metallic noises before it crashes in on itself, plummeting down and collapsing within the alley. A loud gunshot fills the room as a bullet wizzes through the air, clipping the hyena and only infuriating it more. Misa manages to get a single chilling kick on its legs, but that does nothing to hamper. The Hyena leaps forward and slashes at Mikhail, leaving dangerously disgusting aggravated marks along his chest. Mikhail tries his best to dodge but can't.
<br>{{tab}}Silvana has had enough, that much is clear, as the sword is unsheathed. She dutifully steps forward, just as Velok is retrieving his bow and aiming it towards the creature. Silvana weaves around a misplaced pile of dead bodies and with a beautiful flourish, slices a crippling wound into the Hyena, the creature letting out a bellowing yowl that turns into an evil snarl. The Hyena shoves at Mikhail but does nothing, kicking out a back leg with scary claws to try and slice Misa. The Asian woman beautifully twirls, using the momentum to flurry her sword at the shifter, landing her attack on the already cut wound without worsening it. Mikhail starts to grow larger, into his Sokto form.

{{tab}}With the creature attacking Misa, Velok seems to have had enough. The arrow is loosed and the string reverbs, like a deadly harp, the projectile flinging through the air and embedding directly into the wound Silvana and Misa already encouraged.

Mikhail suddenly isn't bigger anymore. He's still pretty big.. but as the arrow finds its home he moves to catch the creature, which after getting hit like that is no longer huge or monstrous.. just a woman... who eats people..

Silvana watches the creature fall and steps back and cleans her sword before sheathing it in the place she had it as if she didn't just draw a sword at all nope she looks compose and all together she didn't even break a sweat or anything.

Misa doesn't lower the sword yet even after the thing goes down. She points the tip momentarilly at it as it selowl starts to turn into a woman. There's obviously a moment of clear thought before nodding to Mikhail and running to the ledge to see if any more company is coming.

Clarimond watches the fight with interest. Her own power takes time to maximize, and she is in no position to prepare. Stenn moves in to takea shot but she grabs him, gesturing him to guard her. She will send him in if he is needed. But it is clear quickly that they can handle themselves. She is not sure if Lars or her driver were attack. She doesn't worry about that yet. Once the creature is down, Clari rushes to the ledge, and looks down. Lars is propped against a wall, blood tricklking out. The sedan is untouched. She thinks of her beloved inside..

Mikhail looks at the wound, and is surprised.. She's alive... Oh the arrow did damage, but somehow.. almost like it was intended to be so it barely missed the areas that would have finished her off completely.

Misa kept smiling the entire fight it's worth noting. The smile only got bigger as the creature drew it's attention to her... even now there's still the slight grin on her lips. She shakes her head though looking back at the others. "Well I don't see anymore comin but we needa medic downstairs."

Clarimond|| The Ajaba is down.. you win! She is incapacitated! What you see now is an injured, but beautiful young woman of mixed African/European descent. Light brown skin, green eyes, black hair, athletic body. She cannot be any older than 18 or 19. She breathes slowly and is unconscious. (Appearance 5)

Silvana looks down the side of the street and hmmphs a bit.

{{tab}}Velok slowly lowers the bow down to his side. His other hand reaches up and one might spot that his thumb is bleeding, Velok pressing the thumb into his mouth and sucking on it until it stops, because he's weird. The bow is slowly tucked along his back so that it stays in its position, stretching out his arms. He stares towards the beautiful woman, furrowing his brow. "Nope. She ate flesh." He whispers quietly, apparently an anti-that's hot maneuver. He walks over towards the body and the embedded arrow, then down towards her face. He reaches down and takes the arrow, pulling it unceremoniously from her body.

Mikhail picks up the woman. He's got a nasty gash in his chest, and looks at her wrists and ankles trying to figure out how to restrain her... His eyes bulge as Velok RIPS the arrow from her body without anything resembling a doctor's touch, "EAZY!" he says sharply, "She may note know vhat she do... Eef she bed.. I veel take care of eet..."

Misa turns around in time to see Velok moving towards the girl. "Wat wait wait you're suppo..." She winces as the arrow is removed. "Well too late now." She looks to the others. "If they fed her she's gonna survive just about anything we do to her... it also means she prolly will do anything they say. Needa get her outta here before she gets up and the others do their... things to her."

Silvana looks down the ledge again watching to make sure they might not have more company coming. She look back to the others as they tend to figure what they will do with the woman. She doesn't seem to like much of the choices but she doesn't say much or offer much at least not right now.

Clarimond|| As everyone tends to their wounds and the new captive, something else is stirring in the background. Something approaches..

{{tab}}When Velok looks towards Misa, his eyes reveal he knows what he did with pulling out the arrow. "She ate the flesh, and probably killed just as many people in here as the other men." He comments, waving his hand and looking down towards the woman, then towards where Silvana is looking. His eyes widen a bit as he sees the fire escape is...gone. Uh oh. The hairs on the back of Velok's neck stand up and he /stares/ past Silvana. "Earthbound..." He says quietly, and suddenly he looks nervous. Very nervous. He turns and reaches out towards Misa, then Silvana, trying to tug her away from the door. "Get back, back from the door."

Mikhail turns to face what he senses, but is still holding the woman. Gently he sets her down and steels himself, looking like he's ready to take on what he senses with his bare hands...

Silvana was about to say something but Velok beats her to it and then pulls her away from the door. She looks at him then watches what is coming.

Clarimond|| The air grows cold, there is a slight hum, more of a vibration in the air, very low frequency. The energy vibes, if one could sense them, are full of dispair, fear, hatred, and bitterness. There is nothing good in this spirit. All the windows suddenly break at once and a cold wind blows in.

Mikhail glares at... the air!!! and it's coldness. When the windows shatter he moves to protect the beautiful woman who ate people. His eyes move over Misa and Silvana, glancing to Velok and expecting him to help at least one of them.. He seems to take it for granted Stenn will protect the Lady Harcourt.

{{tab}}Velok seems VERY nervous. Not exactly fear, but something probably close to it. He's pulling Silvana and Misa away, further in towards the room of dead bodies and away from doors and windows, those sorts of things. "Very...strong. Deadly. Dangerous. Time..." He mutters, then shakes his head and lets the pair go when they're a safe enough distance away. He did leave Mikhail and the girl there though, apparently this thing is strong enough to worry Velok.

Misa moves to the opposite side of the doorway from whichever Silvana ends up, clearly setting herself up to flank anything that might come through. She seems strangely unaffected by the glass blowing out comparative to before. Yes, she's nervous, but not nearly as frightened by whatever this is than she was by the Hyena.

Silvana covers her head as glass shatters and she frowns as they are in the stinky room. Definately not in the place she wants to be

Clarimond|| The wind carries a voice, the voice booms like thunder, and to those mortals out there, it seems that a storm has arrived. A foreign tongue is spoken. The words do not go on for long and suddenly the wind stops as if It is waiting for a response.

Mikhail blinks, still crouched low, using his body to shield the unconscious form from the shattered glass. His dark eyes dart around looking for a place that an attack might come. When the silence come he looks all the more on edge.

{{tab}}Velok's eyes widen as he hears that tongue and he suddenly looks over to Misa, then over to Silvana, then Mikhail, then his eyes settle on the Hyena woman. He stares towards her, even if she's protected by Mikhail. His eyes linger while that silence waits, then he turns to look to Misa. Should she look back, he smiles for a couple seconds. Those blue eyes turn back towards the oncoming storm, and his mouth opens. He answers the response in the same sounding, difficult to understand language.

Silvana has heard the language but doesn't seem to get all the words as she looks to see who seems to understand what is being said.

Misa watches Velok, or more specifically his eyes as she waits for a sign on where she needs to act. Off of reflex she stabs one of the nearby bodies in the neck just to be safe... she doesn't like how some of them moved.

Clarimond|| The wind picks up again, faster, harder, more bodies fly off the chains, spraying gunk, blood, and pus everywhere. The booming voice laughs sardonically and speaks more words. Anyone standing is immediately knocked to the ground or flung by the wind!

Silvana definately moves against a wall when bodies start flying she doesn't want to be in the way of that or get stuff in her. She gets knocked down and is not going to be happy.

Mikhail grips the ground, continuing to shield the woman. His eyes continue to search for a visible appearance of the wraith. He doesn't seem to understand the language being bantered back and forth.

{{tab}}One of the bodies seems to have jingled in the perfect way and collides with Velok in the wind, knocking him off his feet and towards the ground. "This just gets more and more interesting." Velok says quietly in English, apparently upset. He pushes himself back up a bit and looks towards Hyena. . "He wants the girl. The Hyena. He wants us to give her to him." Velok starts to say. "I think we just found the one in charge." He furrows his brow "He's saying she's bound to them, and the only way we're going to be able to stop her escape is to kill her. Otherwise she will do whatever she can to get back to her masters..." He pushes himself back up to his feet, standing there defiantly against the storm as he once again talks in that weird language.

Misa is suddenly bashed against the wall had before flying forward and smashing on her stomach onto the floor. She berings her arms in to catch her fall... neither impact seems to bother her much actually... she even makes a destinctive sound as she runs into both surfaces, like someone in riot armor running into cement. The sword is sent skittering off however.

Mikhail's lets his eyes scan about, "Eef eet believe zat, vhy ask for heer?" he asks over the wind. "Eef she can note be saved.. Eef she eez so far goan she VEEL be keeled, but.. eef she ken be saved..." he says, and smiles at the nothing, "Yu veel have ze deveel's own time takeengk heer..." he says.. is he bigger again? he looks bigger.. and more feral...

Clarimond|| Wherever the Earthbound is, he isn't happy anymore. The wind howls, the strange language is spoken again, and a loud boom, and crush sound is heard from the eastern wall. Car alarms go off, a woman screams, "MY BABY! NOOOOO!!!" And the presence is gone.

Misa gets back to her knees and turns towards the others. "It's right though, she will claw, steal cheat an kill to get back ta the others until we... fix this." she sems to be directing this to Mikhail more than anyone else. "And of course even after we fix it she could still have been just as bad." Misa runs towards the door again as she talks to the others. She looks around carefully for the problem and tries to gauge her changes of jumping across to another building or window.

Silvana isnt' sure what the darn thing is saying and that's just frustrating though when the scream of my baby comes out Sil doesn't say hidden from the win she runs out the door to see where the heck this baby is or what is going on.

Mikhail blinks staring towards the Eastern wall, but he doesn't move away from the girl. Oh, he looks PISSED as he stares up at the walls and the screaming winds.

{{tab}}The moment the word Baby rings out, Velok is moving. Everyone within the room can clearly see that he's moving far faster than he should. Very fast, as if he was imitating the flash. For Velok, everyone else is just slow. He still rushes over towards the door, looking down towards the watch on his arm. His arm reaches out and slaps against the wall on the edge of the doorframe, practically leaning out and staring off in the direction of said baby. Wind, lots and lots of wind, it's not hard at all to redirect enough to push against the stroller, pushing it out of the way of the careening car. Both the effects dropped, and Velok suddenly becomes very aware of how he's leaning out of an open doorway with a 30 foot drop below. "AH." He says, shoving himself backwards onto his ass away from the door, scootching with his legs to get farther away

Clarimond is not quite as shocked as she should be. She has seen a lot of things in her long life, she is jaded to much that would frighten a fledgling, but this rotted matter on her corset?! That is the last straw! Clari stomps towards the window, and hurls obscenities in French in the direction that the winds came from!

Mikhail blinks.. Did Velok just blur to the door? He watches the man leand out and then lean back in. "Deed yu stope ze veend?" he asks still blocking the woman's body with his larger form...

Silvana blinks as she was getting ready to go out the door but Velok just flies past her and raises a brow thankfully someone is going to save the baby.

Misa was seriously one step from throwing herself through an adjacent window and back out when Velok acts. She pauses for a moment and kneels down next to him, brushing some gunk off of herself before giving him a hug. She whispers something to him before getting to her feet. "As I was saying... the thing is somewhat right, she's going to lie, steal, cheat and kill to get back to the blood." she looks over to Mikhail. "Do you have experience enough with that or are you going to need help?"

Clarimond is collecting her ghoul and approaches the ledge, "We will.. have much to discuss tomorrow night. I need rest.. and a bloody shower." Stenn takes his mistress in his arms, and jumps down.. yes jumps down. He lands safely on his feet because he has fortitude and potence. What a badass! The wounded ghoul is also collected and the trio return to the Sedan to drive away. Sirens are heard coming, and it is soon apparent from the voices below that someone was in the car that was thrown by the wind. An elderly gent at that. Dead on impact but the coroner will need to make his report. As they say: You cannot save them all. A test of wills has begun and the Darkness has struck hard.

Mikhail looks at injured woman, "I may need hyelp..." he admits, "But I heve peoples I ken asks, and somesseengk I vont do dry..." he explains to Misa. His feral features perk up at the sound of the sirens, seeming to hear them a bit early, and his large form quickly scoops up the girl and moves to take her with him.

{{tab}}Velok's eyes squeeze shut as Misa hugs him, not doing anything to prevent the hug. He's breathing quite heavy, either from the actions, or from a sudden 'face your fears' moment. He's not entirely able to get his breathing under control, not answering Mikhail for a little while. "The baby, innocent." Misa stands up and he's reaching up to rub at his head, shaking it and opening his eyes again. He takes one deep breath, holding it, then exhaling and jumping back up to his feet next to Misa. "She'll do whatever she can, which means we need to do whatever we can." He looks over to the door, then to Silvana, and he...smiles.

Silvana raises a brow as she looks towards them "Oh yes you will need help alright. Do you have a safe place to take her?" she wonders

"I seenk so..." the larger Russian replies. Looking down at the woman, then out the door. Carefully he shifts her to a fireman's carry so he has his hands.

Misa nods to Mikhail. "It's an addiction. It's... different but it's still an addiction. Go try what you need to... if that doesn't work, you know you can find me." she says to Mikhail putting a hand on his shoulder. "If you're takin care of her you're the only one about to go through worse than her." She then turns her attention back to Velok, kneeling down next to him. "Hey, you did good, I'm proudaya. You made it all the way to the door." Ahhh positive reinforcement.

{{tab}}"Just keep her bound, as best as you can. Don't let her escape." Velok doesn't actually think that Mikhail will let the girl escape, but worth saying anyway. He smiles towards Misa, then looks at her. "I did, rather impressive really. Next time I might be able to look down." He jests, though it seems to make him feel better. He looks back towards Silvana, watching the woman. "Your men don't have like, a lift? Or a ladder? Or ropes?" He asks, since Silvana seems to have everything.

Silvana takes one of them deep breaths and looks from one person to the other "I'm not sure about the furry part, but I can tell you that breaking this addiction can also kill her or make it worse. If they call her there will be little you can do to stop her" she points out before she looks at Velok "I can get you a rope up here if you like yes" she has rope kinky

Mikhail nods to them, "I veel see vhat I ken do..." he then climbs out the door and works his way down, climbing down the wall of the building like a rock wall at the gym. He then hurries away before the sirens draw too near, heading south.

Misa rolls her eyes. "Literally the ONE time I went on ona these things without rope, the ONE TIME we need it. Teach me to think 'Oh no, there's stairs.'" She mutters in Mandarin to herself for a few moments before giving Silvana a wink. "Somethin ta be said for another girl who remembers the rope though."

{{tab}}Oooo, rope. Yea, that's the stuff. Velok looks back towards Mikhail, and the sirens. "They need to be fast." He says to Silvana, looking to her, since the three of them probably can't survive a thirty foot climb down a building like Mr. Shifter. "We need to do something about these bodies" He looks back towards Misa. "We need to burn it. The smell is going to fill the alley, then someone's going to call the cops and we have prints in here and they'll find the place. We need to burn it."

Silvana takes a breath as she waits for the rope to be tossed up it's actually easily done. She then guestures to Velok "Go one you know how to repell down right?

Misa nods to Velok. "If yer givin the burn order I'll call it in..." she says peering over the side. She smiles a bit again and looks over to Silvana, cutting off Velok's response. "He's gonna need someone to go tandem with 'em. Prolly best you do since ya know whatcher doin better."

{{tab}}Velok nods, pushing himself back up to a standing position, but he still avoids the edge. "Do it, because there's nothing left we're going to get from here. Burn it all. Burn the entire fucking building to the ground." Velok's a bit angry? "Let them come back, try to skitter up the wall and know their days are numbers." He turns to look to Silvana in response, looking towards the rope. He opens his mouth and gets cut off by Misa, looking to her, then back to Silvana and says nothing.

Silvana looks back at the building "Burning it will be simple can also make it implode as well." she shrugs and moves to tie off the rope securing it before, she hmms and looks at Velok and guestures for him to come over "Come over here"

Misa giggles to herself about something before taking a few steps closer to the door to look inside. Someone on the other side picks up, but they don't speak. "Tsao. Bring down the blindfold."