Session Start: Sat Jun 08 00:09:44 2002 *** GMAmy changes topic to 'Grandia: New Horizons | Chapter 32.0: Megalude | Location: Cereshanti, July 14, night | Lude Start' ==Lude Start== Rooms having finally been procured, the party is clustered in their beds. The night is peaceful and pleasant, until it is broken by sudden, agonizing screaming from down the hall... ..! * Nathan bolts out of bed and heads in the direction of the scream! * Erellisae blinks, looking out into the hallway. "F--... Feray?!" The screaming is followed by loud crashing and slamming, as if a fight is going on. O_o * Erellisae blinks, rushing out into the hallway and towards Feray's room, her hands reaching to the sheaths at her side as her tattoos ignite! o_O * Nathan charges down the hallway! *muffled* GET AWAY! GET AWAY! AAAAAHHH!!!! Feray!! Sleepy patrons peer out their doors, trying to figure out what the commotion is. Feray's door is closed...it shakes with blows. * Erellisae moves alongside Nathan. "Feray...! FERAY!" Erellisae tries to open the door with the handle before resorting to blowing it open. * Nathan shifts to his warform immediately and slams into the door! * Erellisae ducks to the side as Nathan charges, reckoning it's probably for the best. ^^; The inn's other guests wide-eye and slam their doors as Nathan transforms. He crashes into the door a couple times, finally managing to move the barricade of broken furniture enough to get into the room... * Feray stands amidst the cluttered, wrecked remains of her room. Big clumps of her formerly beautiful azure hair lay at her feet, obscuring the floor from view. There is silence save for her ragged breathing and the gentle sound of blood falling to darken the shorn azure tresses into a matted, tangled mess. It falls from several large knife wounds around her shoulders and arms. * Feray looks up at the intruding group members and her eyes hold no trace of Feray Lupris, only fevered madness. She raises the knife, the blade sticky with blood and with tufts of hair stuck to it. Her remaining hair is chopped very unevenly and harshly to shoulder length. Her voice is a harsh, panting whisper as she speaks. ..spiders...everywhere...their webs...all around...can't...can't....breathe..... * Feray trails off and gasps a final time for air before slumping forward onto the bed of bloodied azure locks, the knife clattering away uselessly. * Nathan rushes to Feray, changing back as he moves forward! * Erellisae rushes in shortly after Nathan before slamming to a stop as she views the devastation of the room. "F--f--f..." Feray! * Jalanda opens her eyes, sitting up in bed and looking out the door as it flaps in the breeze after Erel barrels into the hall beyond. Quickly, she gathers herself and follows towards the scene. "....not yet, Feray, not yet..." * Feray doesn't respond, doesn't move. There is an odd stillness to her. * Nathan cradles her in his arms, "Come on Feray, don't give up like this...!" * Erellisae /screams/, dashing forward to take her hand and give nathan any aid she can. "FERAY..!" * Feray is no longer breathing, limping hanging in Nate's hold. * Jalanda appears in the doorway amidst the shattered remains of the door to Feray's room, staring at the carnage beyond it, and more so the woman at it's center... * Nathan shakes Feray, "Snap out of it Feray! Come on!" * Erellisae grabs Feray's hand, slumping to the floor and watching Feray, and her stillness. "... n-no... c-c'mon... sis..." * Feray 's head rolls uselessly, a trickle of blood running from the corner of her mouth... Healer...somebody... Get a healer in here NOW!! * Erellisae brings to bear every ounce of her shouting skill, her voice wavering and cracking as she does. "s-SOMEONE! WE n-NEED A HEALER...!" * Jalanda takes a raspy breath. "...Feray..." She picks her way through the broken furniture despondently. After a moment, a trembling face looks in. The guest wideeyes at the room, and turns pale at the look on Nathan's face, then scurries to find a healer. Don't you die on me Feray, not like this! * Erellisae grasps Feray's hand tightly, sobbing tears. "C--... c'mon! Y-you /promised me/! You /promised/! Y-you said you'd adventure with me, you s-said we'd k-kick ass together... don't you DARE die!" * Nathan runs a hand along Feray's bloodied face and ruined locks * Jalanda makes it over to the pair, kneeling down to see Feray's condition. A minute later, they hear the hurried steps of a healer running up the stairs. The door bursts open and he goes down on his knees next to Feray, rummaging in a pouch at his side. He is all business as he asks urgently, "What happened?" She was hallucinating, and injured herself, badly * Erellisae looks up, wiping her tears a little. "S-she has... t-the Reaper's Scourge... h-had it a long while..." She's not breathing The healer nods, checking Feray and seeing she isn't breathing. He proceeds to push rythmically on her chest. "Someone, I need you to do mouth-to-mouth for me while I do this. Help her breathe. You know how?" * Jalanda seems to be having an internal struggle, her hands that reach out blurring and fading with the beginnings of a heal spell, then it dies just as quickly. She mumbles to herself, "Feray...I'm not the one who can save you..." I've done it before The healer shakes his head, sweat pouring down his face as he works. "I think she's past a healing spell, at least an ordinary one." He gestures to Nathan as he continues to jumpstart Feray's heart. Just give me a rhythm * Erellisae screws up her eyes a moment, wiping her tears to try to remove the salt-ache in her ears. "...I-is there a-anything I can do?" * Feray 's hand feels so very small in Erel's as the healer begins his work.. The healer starts to count off for Nathan. "1-2-3-Breathe..." * Nathan follows the count, trying to ignore all else as he works * Erellisae looks sternly down at Feray, letting her tears flow as she clasps Feray's hand. "D-don't... d-don't you die, Sis... y-you hear m-me...? Don't... die... please... I /need/ y-you..." * Jalanda nods to Nathan. She glares to Erellisae, answering. "Don't leave her side." After another minute, suddenly Feray shudders, taking in a halting breath of her own. She remains unconscious however, and her breathing is still uneven and faint. It's working! * Nathan backs off as Feray starts breathing for herself The healer wipes the sweat from his eyes, leans down to listen to her heart, then leans back on his heels. "She's all right for the moment..." [Healer] You said Reaper's Scourge? I'm sure I've heard of that somewhere. * Erellisae nods, not tearing her eyes from Feray's face even as she breathes slowly. Still clasping her hand, she takes out her medallion, clutching it tightly in her hand. "C-c'mon, Feray... C'mon..." * Erellisae blinks, then looks up. "D... do you know a cure...?" * Feray seems to be struggling from every breath, her breath rasping disturbingly...she doesn't respond any further and it's obvious it's still only a matter of time... If you know something, we need to know how to help her The healer thinks. "No, I...." O_o He blinks. "Wait, that's it. The foreign bard...there was a story about a warrior who fought one. Huge spider, wasn't it..?" Yes * Erellisae looks down with a heavy sigh, clutching Feray's hand tightly. "T-... that's her..." The healer nods. "The story told of something the warrior used to cure the poison from the spider's bite. If the story is true, the bard might know what that cure is and where to find it." ...lovely Where is he now? The healer sighs. "It's a long shot, but even without knowing anything about the poison, I can tell that she'll die in a day, maybe less, without treatment." * Nathan sets Feray down carefully Where is the bard? "He's staying at the inn, I think, but he tends to move around. You'll have to search for him. In the meantime, I wish to take her to the infirmary...this room is no place for patient." * Erellisae looks up, still clasping Feray's hand. "I'm going with her." * Nathan looks at Jalanda, "Get everyone out of bed. We have a Bard to find." The healer nods, then goes to get help to carry Feray on a stretcher to the infirmary. * Erellisae skitters alongside the stretcher, never letting go of Feray's hand for a second, biting her lip with worry and trying not to cry. * Jalanda narrows her eyes a bit, acknowledging this without words, only action. She is out the door in another moment, to rouse the others. * Nathan follows behind, intending the same ==Lude End== *** GMAmy changes topic to 'Grandia: New Horizons | Chapter 32.0: Megalude | Location: Cereshanti, July 14, night | Lude End' Session Close: Sat Jun 08 00:37:44 2002