Topic: Anton and Kiril - Assassin's Honour (Read 45614 times)

Not Aman · « **Reply #50 on:** May 06, 2015, 10:16:23 pm »

Anton grunts, as he pulls out the stake from his heart, and quickly rushes to kiril, to remove it from his brother.

He heals his wounds, and looks to his brother.

"We need to go find our sire, brother." He says with urgency.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #51 on:** May 07, 2015, 07:31:53 am »

Kiril slowly brushes himself off, looking around the now empty church and muttering to himself.

"Does he really expect us to be of any use to Basilio? We were utterly helpless. He announced his presence, then walked up and staked me."

Not Aman · « **Reply #52 on:** May 07, 2015, 07:49:56 am »

"We didn't realize he was to attack us. With this knowledge we should be at least able to inform Basilio, brother. We can't waste time." Anton states, as he motions for Kiril to follow, and he begins to head towards the tavern (grabbing a body to drain, and stat boosting)

Drakilian · « **Reply #53 on:** May 12, 2015, 03:45:17 pm »

The bathhouse is empty at this time of night, knocking at the door Jorgi eventually comes to open it. The big man looks at the two bleary eyed.

"Sirs, what are you doing here?"

Not Aman · « **Reply #54 on:** May 12, 2015, 03:46:23 pm »

"Jorgi, do you know where Lord Basillio is?" Anton asks.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #55 on:** May 12, 2015, 06:52:48 pm »

"Lord Basilio's life is in danger," Kiril impatiently interrupts. "Husayn told us about his haven here- the assassin is almost certainly already inside."

Drakilian · « **Reply #56 on:** May 12, 2015, 07:25:46 pm »

Jorgi looks askance at the two cainites.

"Follow me!" he yells, and takes off running in the direction of Basilio's villa.

Not Aman · « **Reply #57 on:** May 12, 2015, 11:49:06 pm »

Anton nods, and follows the ghoul.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #58 on:** May 13, 2015, 02:49:41 pm »

Kiril follows Jorgi.

Drakilian · « **Reply #59 on:** May 16, 2015, 02:18:20 pm »

Taking off after the ghoul both Kiril and Anton are led through a series of winding twists and alleyways until they arrive at a dark, unassuming corner. The two vampires have difficulty keeping up with the ghoul - and both are surprised, they both were moving inhumanly fast; the ghoul must have been spending his blood to move preternaturally fast.

Jorgi jumps into the air and hits an indistinguishable spot on the wall that is pushed inwards with an hardly perceptible grating sound. Under the hidden button a door behind to slide open soundlessly.

Jorgi dashes through the door.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #60 on:** May 16, 2015, 04:01:23 pm »

Kiril follows.

Not Aman · « **Reply #61 on:** May 16, 2015, 05:17:51 pm »

Anton follows, summoning dark steel tentacles around him, as well as a batch of nightshades.

Drakilian · « **Reply #62 on:** May 20, 2015, 08:58:00 pm »

Passing through the door Kiril immediately notes that Jorgi is no longer anywhere to be seen, nor are his footsteps to be heard.

The room feels cold - far colder than it should be. While neither of the two vampires are affected by it Anton recognizes the feel of the Abyss; his haven in Krondstadt's church felt much the same.

Looking about with dark sight (and Kiril with his enhanced senses), the vampires note that the room they've just entered into is entirely bare and seemingly empty. Nor is it particularly large, being square shaped and only perhaps seven feet long and wide.

They might have both assumed a trap - but the door did not close behind them.

Not Aman · « **Reply #63 on:** May 21, 2015, 03:53:53 am »

"Lord Basillio?" Anton asks, looking for any patches of oozing shadows. Hopefully him and his brother did not arrive too late.

He then closes the door. If the assasin hasn't arrived yet, they should be able to notice him through the door opening.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #64 on:** May 21, 2015, 08:08:48 am »

Kiril likewise attempts to,discern where Jorgi went.

Drakilian · « **Reply #65 on:** May 21, 2015, 06:27:05 pm »

Anton finds that the darkness here is not alive, simply present.

Kiril's careful gaze picks out the slightest contours of a pressure panel on the ceiling, right at the center of the room. Perhaps another secret switch?

Going outside to close the door Anton finds that he is unable to do so - there is no discernible way to shut the thing.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #66 on:** May 21, 2015, 06:48:27 pm »

Kiril pushes the secret switch.

Not Aman · « **Reply #67 on:** May 22, 2015, 04:50:34 am »

Anton returns into the dark room.

"You found something, Kiril?" He asks.

Drakilian · « **Reply #68 on:** May 22, 2015, 04:32:25 pm »

Kiril reaches up to the low ceiling and pushes up.

The door rushes shut rather smoothly, not a sound is made.

Kiril hears a faint click and the almost non-present sound of a door sliding open. Activating his darksight, Anton sees that another secret door had opened, this one leading down a (to him) very brightly lit stairway into the earth.

It immediately occurs to them both that it would be impossible for Jorgi to have opened this stairway before Anton and Kiril got into the room - as the panel Kiril pressed also closed the outside door. If Jorgi had gone down this stairwell, both of them would have been sealed outside.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #69 on:** May 22, 2015, 05:38:39 pm »

"All right, where else could he have gone?"

Not Aman · « **Reply #70 on:** May 22, 2015, 05:42:52 pm »

"Nowhere to hide. This room has nothing in it, as far as I can tell. Would it be possible Jorgi wasn't himself? Obfuscate could have masked him."

Sethaniel · « **Reply #71 on:** May 22, 2015, 07:13:07 pm »

"I suppose we go,down, then." Kiril,will,head down the stairs unless Anton has a better idea.

Drakilian · « **Reply #72 on:** May 23, 2015, 09:39:31 pm »

Kiril gets to the edge of the stairs - and soon realizes that they are very, very wet. In the total darkness, Kiril is unsure as to how steady he can keep himself. Feeling around he finds no handrail. He has no idea just how far down these stairs go, a bad enough fall could prove to be rather debilitating.

Anton might be able to go it better, being able to see so clearly - or Kiril could use his dark tendrils to steady himself.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #73 on:** May 24, 2015, 10:53:25 am »

Kirin stands back to let Anton go first. He tries to sense whether the liquid on the stairs is just water, or something else- and if it's water, where it could have come from.

Not Aman · « **Reply #74 on:** May 26, 2015, 10:34:58 am »

Anton nods, and heads down, carefully, watching the walls for brightness.

Drakilian · « **Reply #75 on:** June 04, 2015, 01:27:30 pm »

Making his way down the stairs, Anton has to catch himself several times - the steps are sloped slightly downwards, smooth and incredibly slick with what appears to be slight water - it's almost like it was meant for anyone travelling down them to fall.

Anton also notes plainly visible, tiny holes in the walls was he walks down. They are too high for him see into properly, however.

The stairway goes on for some time before reaching the bottom, leading to a hallway - which appears to be blocked by a thick wall with several infinitesimally small holes going through it. Putting his eye at one of the holes Anton cannot quite tell what is on the other side.

Not Aman · « **Reply #76 on:** June 04, 2015, 09:16:41 pm »

Anton looks to Kiril.

"There's a wall in the way now, with tiny holes like the rest of this floor. I suspect that it's use would be to spread some sort of gas throughout the room. Any thoughts aside from destroying the wall?"

Drakilian · « **Reply #77 on:** June 06, 2015, 01:42:29 pm »

Kiril follows Anton down the stairs, using the tendrils he'd summoned from his encounter with Husayn to steady himself by reaching into the holes Anton mentioned were in the walls and grabbing hold of the small metal bars within.

Having arrived at the bottom with his brother, he has his tendrils recede back into his clothing.

"I doubt the wall would be so easily destroyed - besides, it might take too much time. There has to be another way to find Lord Basilio, perhaps there is a way here for his most trusted ghouls - the mortals that would be unable to use his powers to bypass his traps."

Kiril begins feeling along the walls, searching for what he is sure has to be there - some sort of switch, another hidden panel, a ring to twist, something, but he finds nothing of any use whatsoever.

He moves on to the wall with the holes. At first he tries fitting his tendrils through them, which works rather remarkably - but there are no secret switches behind those either. Feeling along the face of the wall he does notice something though - the entire thing appears to be split right along the middle.

"Hmm, Anton, help me with this would you? The wall appears to be split, you take one side and i'll take the other. Perhaps we can force it open."

Not Aman · « **Reply #78 on:** June 06, 2015, 08:53:31 pm »

Anton nods, summoning tentacles to pull open the wall.

Drakilian · « **Reply #79 on:** June 07, 2015, 03:15:26 pm »

With both Lasombra exerting the full extent of their dark strength, the stone wall slowly grates open, just far enough to be large for a human being to squeeze their way through. The massive block/wall of stone appears to be a full 20 feet thick, Anton and Kiril might both wonder as to how it was brought down here.

Squeezing their way through the gap, Anton and Kiril emerge on the other side - only to be stopped dead in their tracks, Anton by the sight, Kiril by the smell and the feeling of the floor under his feet.

Right after passing through the wall the hall splits into two directions, to the left and to the right. The right continues off into the darkness as would be expected, and the left stops after only six meters at a dead end.

At that dead end, nailed to the wall in pieces, is Anton's mentor Desiderio.

The mystic's head lies at his own feet, his pure black eyes opened wide in shock and perhaps a slight fear. His legs have been separated from his torso and nailed to the stone wall with small metal bars, as have his arms. A wooden stake has been forced through his heart, and the mystic's viscous black blood almost completely engulfs the small left hall.

Not Aman · « **Reply #80 on:** June 07, 2015, 03:36:23 pm »

Anton looks on in shock.

"Looks like we were not the only ones who were defeated by Husayn. He also staked the mystic Desderio." Anton states.

"We shall have to help him later, he has lost far too much blood." Anton states, heading on to the left.

"Ill examine the left end then we shall head down the right." Anton adds, heading towards the left path and pushing against the wall, unstaking his mentor, and looking for a hidden button or something.

Drakilian · « **Reply #81 on:** June 08, 2015, 12:06:55 am »

Using his tendrils and his own strength, Anton manages to rip out the metal bars keeping Desiderio's various bodyparts nailed to the wall, as well as remove the stake in his mentor's heart.

Though he is unable to wake his mentor from his sleep, he puts the man as close to "back together" as possible.

Looking at the wall, he sees the holes left behind by the metal bars, each several inches long. For a moment, Anton might feel some doubt - Desiderio was a very powerful mystic, and a fearsome foe in his own right - to destroy him like this would have been no mean feat.

Pushing on the wall, Anton is unable to do anything to move it aside - and his dull eyes find nothing that would hint at a secret door.

Perhaps Kiril would be better suited for this?

Not Aman · « **Reply #82 on:** June 08, 2015, 02:12:46 pm »

"Kiril, brother, move to your left, following the scent of blood. There's a wall here, I need you to examine it."

Sethaniel · « **Reply #83 on:** June 08, 2015, 03:56:39 pm »

Kiril moves as directed, using whatever mundane or supernatural senses he can think of to investigate his surroundings.

Drakilian · « **Reply #84 on:** June 14, 2015, 05:05:51 pm »

As Kiril approaches the wall he notes a distinct breeze - strange, they were very, very far underground and the air had been rather stagnant up until now, but he was sure of it - there was something disturbing the blood-filled smell of the corridor.

There is a squelch as he struggles somewhat to lift his foot out of the mystic's blood, doing so he feels against the bloody wall with his hands. He notes 6 distinct holes made by the metal bars that had been thrust through Desiderio's body. With some surprise he notes that the apparent breeze comes from these holes - air flows through them. The wall is not so much of a dead end as it seems, he thinks.

Noting the position of the gaps on the wall, Kiril realizes quickly that the holes appear to have been placed to weaken the structural integrity of the block to their progress. A strong enough blow would bring the whole thing down.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #85 on:** June 14, 2015, 06:22:34 pm »

Kiril turns to his brother. "It seems whomever placed the mystic here wishes us to demolish the wall."

Not Aman · « **Reply #86 on:** June 14, 2015, 08:31:53 pm »

Anton nods.
"Hopefully our trust in Husayn is not misplaced." Anton states, as he has his tentacles attack the wall.

Drakilian · « **Reply #87 on:** June 14, 2015, 10:34:26 pm »

Anton sends his tendrils through the holes made by the metal bars and then has them pull violently. A hole is ripped from the wall, the stone sending dust into the air as it breaks with a loud crack. A small opening, large enough for the two of them, is made in the wall.

Not Aman · « **Reply #88 on:** June 14, 2015, 10:42:23 pm »

"Let's go, brother. Be careful." Anton states, heading through, watching carefully for any traps. (though, being (almost) blind, he probably can't spot any, ha ha)

Sethaniel · « **Reply #89 on:** June 15, 2015, 07:04:54 am »

Kiril follows, also (probably ineffectively) alert for danger.

Drakilian · « **Reply #90 on:** June 16, 2015, 03:16:06 pm »

Making their way down the corridors, Anton notes that the area appears to be far more decorative than beforehand - various gargoyles fill the hallways, the walls are covered in ornamental designs and engravings.

As they pass into the decorated hallway, Kiril becomes conscious of a faint scent on the air - almost like that of oil.

Not Aman · « **Reply #91 on:** June 16, 2015, 06:07:03 pm »

"It seems Lord Bassilio expects anyone here to have sight. He has ornamental drawings on the wall and gargoyles in the hall ways." Anton states, deciding to inspect a random gargoyle, poking it with a tentacle.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #92 on:** June 16, 2015, 09:28:13 pm »

"It's his very private secret sanctum," Kiril replies. "He probably didn't expect much of anyone but himself to be here at all."

"Is that. . . oil?"

Drakilian · « **Reply #93 on:** June 16, 2015, 10:36:29 pm »

Anton's tendril harmlessly caresses a gargoyle's cheek.

Not Aman · « **Reply #94 on:** June 16, 2015, 10:56:30 pm »

"You smell oil, brother? From where?" Anton asks.

Drakilian · « **Reply #95 on:** June 16, 2015, 11:45:07 pm »

(Kiril is not quite sure of the origin, the smell permeates the corridor).

Sethaniel · « **Reply #96 on:** June 18, 2015, 08:19:08 am »

"Everywhere."

Drakilian · « **Reply #97 on:** June 23, 2015, 12:36:33 pm »

(OOC: Anton?)

Not Aman · « **Reply #98 on:** June 23, 2015, 12:55:31 pm »

"Hmph. I will surround us with shadows, hopefully it will suffocate any chance for fire." Anton states summoning NightShades to surround him and Kiril, as they walk forward. He also begins to investigate the ornaments and gargoyles, checking if they are the source of the oil.

Drakilian · « **Reply #99 on:** June 29, 2015, 01:01:47 pm »

"Anton, don't be foolish, our shadows are not powerful enough to suffocate the flames. Stay to the sides, when people normally walk down a hallway they walk through the middle, and Lord Basilio seems fond of pressure plates rather than tripwires. We'll likely be safe if we move that way.

From the way the air clings to me I believe the dampness of this hallway in particular to be caused by oil, not water. A very faint smelling oil, yes, but oil nonetheless. A trap here would need nothing more than a strong spark to ignite the entire area.

It is a good thing we did not bring a torch, we might be dead already."

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