Name: Herman deMark Faction: Halloween Suspecies/Division: Non-Sparkly Vampire General appearance: Herman is about 6' 6" tall and about 160 lbs... He always wears bone-white shirts and dark blue pants. He also always wears a red sash across his left shoulder that is tied to his belt. He has very faded blonde hair as if he had been in the sun too long, and his eyes are the same color... only changing to a dull red when he gets angry. HP: 30 / 30
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Character's name: Charlotte Dee Williams Character's faction: Mall Character's journal link:Shard's Journal Character's survival stats: Charlotte Dee WilliamsViewHERE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER "Shard" is a very physically fit 5' 10" woman who is only three months out of the Army due to a medical discharge. She has blue eyes and dark-ish blonde hair that seems messy and matted no matter how she tries to style it. She tends to dress in baggy pants (with lots of pockets) and light jackets over plain shirts... and this was *before* joining the military! She was given a medical discharge when an accident dealing with a live grenade cost her her left pinkie finger and most of the feeling in that hand.
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:13 pm
Remembering the pamphlet, Herman lifted WHOOF the human (she needs to lose some weight) up to a handy bench. Something was very wonky here as Herman realized that he should have had the strength to easily toss this human over his shoulders and carry her away. Now, he was wondering how he would ever get her back to the Town Hall portal.
“Well...” Herman thought... “First things first. I've found my human, now...” He gave her a quick, reassuring hug. “Whew! She also needs a shower...” he thought, “Now, on to Page 3.” Herman realized that 'Carry the human in your embrace towards the exit.' Was not actually feasible with his reduced strength, so he began looking for something to help him... like a hand-truck.
At this point, Herman looked back towards the highway and had a moment of confusion. He knew he had been in the human world for hours, but he could swear he heard the hubbub from the Town Hall through the portal not twenty or thirty steps away.
“Maybe the fog and the disaster are playing wonky with distances.” Herman surmised and, with a grunt, managed to get the human slung over his shoulder and set off, very slowly towards the noise.
As soon as Herman had stepped out of the hospital garden, he expected to be back in the parking lot, but a shudder and shimmer of reality before him deposited him (and his human) back near the portal he had come through from Halloween Town Hall.
Herman would have shrugged, but the human's weight was preventing it and he stepped through the portal...
… and (after after a pretty light show) and a loud POP Herman and his human were deposited … somewhere that was not the Town Hall.
Herman looked around, he was standing on a bleak, empty human highway with the portal nowhere in sight. Beside them was a huge skyscraper and, as Herman looked up, he had the same eyestrain pain as he got from looking at the beings earlier in the human city.
He looked at the lower floors of the huge building and it seemed to be covered in vines... twitching vines... disturbing twitching vines...
All of a sudden, Herman got the disturbing impression that the portal had dropped him off at the wrong place or perhaps the wrong time. The thought hit him like...
RUMBLE
...a tremor? Herman stepped further away from the building expecting debris from the damaged structure to fall and...
… he felt something grab his left leg...
One habit Herman had noticed among humans was their ability to show superhuman strength while under stress or panic. He had never even believed it possible for him to duplicate this until now. He yanked himself free and began running down the highway twenty or thirty steps before even slowing down to look behind him... That's when he saw the … well... horse-like thing with not much in the way of skin... it seemed to be woven out of dark vines and thorns with red flowers adorning it and glowing green moss in patches on it.
“Oh, yeah...” Herman noted: “It's also about fifty feet tall!”
… the horse-beast unraveled more tendrils from its body and stretched them towards Herman who immediately winced under an unexpected mental attack...
“We will consume you and your Fear will be ours.”
Herman shook and almost dropped his human. Having been the subject of mental attacks before, it shook him most at the completely dispassionate tone of the beast... “It thinks the battle is already won.” Herman thought. “But I'm not in the fog anymore.” He flexed his re-energized muscles and began racing down the highway at full speed... the human he carried now as light as a bag of air.
He could feel it following, of course, and he was nauseated at the thought of what the beast must be made of... all of those from Halloween that the beast had consumed. “Let's see if it can catch me!” Herman thought as he broke into a sprint...
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Name: Herman deMark Faction: Halloween Suspecies/Division: Non-Sparkly Vampire General appearance: Herman is about 6' 6" tall and about 160 lbs... He always wears bone-white shirts and dark blue pants. He also always wears a red sash across his left shoulder that is tied to his belt. He has very faded blonde hair as if he had been in the sun too long, and his eyes are the same color... only changing to a dull red when he gets angry. HP: 30 / 30
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Character's name: Charlotte Dee Williams Character's faction: Mall Character's journal link:Shard's Journal Character's survival stats: Charlotte Dee WilliamsViewHERE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER "Shard" is a very physically fit 5' 10" woman who is only three months out of the Army due to a medical discharge. She has blue eyes and dark-ish blonde hair that seems messy and matted no matter how she tries to style it. She tends to dress in baggy pants (with lots of pockets) and light jackets over plain shirts... and this was *before* joining the military! She was given a medical discharge when an accident dealing with a live grenade cost her her left pinkie finger and most of the feeling in that hand.
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:31 pm
Herman flew down the highway as fast as his legs would carry him... and the beast followed. While he focused on running he couldn't help but notice that everything that wasn't moving (buildings, cars, telephone poles, etc...) were breaking out in vines just like the ones that were covering the skyscraper that he had just left.
He shifted the human to his other shoulder, mid stride and wondered idly if the beast would stop if he dropped her. No, he determined, the beast wants fear. The unconscious don't fear... and if she hadn't woken after all this rough handling, she wasn't going to wake after being dropped.
And he sure wasn't going to stop to kiss her, either. Even though that was a tried-and-true method of waking a sleeping woman up, Herman figured she was thirty-something... it would be like kissing his mother... yuck!
Soon, though Herman realized he was going to have to make a decision: he had reached a long, empty stretch of road and the fog was beginning to close back in... he could already feel his natural strength draining away.
He began to think wildly about how to get away from the horse-beast following him...
Herman slowed just enough to start paying attention to the occasional human vehicle that he was passing. He was looking for one with car keys...
On the third one... success!
Herman paused just long enough to stuff his human into the back of the really, really square car that reminded him of some of the chunkier Halloween vehicles that the more militant adults drove. He was elated when the engine fired right up and he sped off down the highway. (SPEED VALUE +4)
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Name: Herman deMark Faction: Halloween Suspecies/Division: Non-Sparkly Vampire General appearance: Herman is about 6' 6" tall and about 160 lbs... He always wears bone-white shirts and dark blue pants. He also always wears a red sash across his left shoulder that is tied to his belt. He has very faded blonde hair as if he had been in the sun too long, and his eyes are the same color... only changing to a dull red when he gets angry. HP: 30 / 30
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Character's name: Charlotte Dee Williams Character's faction: Mall Character's journal link:Shard's Journal Character's survival stats: Charlotte Dee WilliamsViewHERE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER "Shard" is a very physically fit 5' 10" woman who is only three months out of the Army due to a medical discharge. She has blue eyes and dark-ish blonde hair that seems messy and matted no matter how she tries to style it. She tends to dress in baggy pants (with lots of pockets) and light jackets over plain shirts... and this was *before* joining the military! She was given a medical discharge when an accident dealing with a live grenade cost her her left pinkie finger and most of the feeling in that hand.
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:42 pm
Distance Traveled = 10 (6+4)
Herman floored it and zipped on down the highway with the beast in pursuit...
Almost as soon as he slid out into 'traffic', Herman could feel the magic of the 'correct' portal -- the one leading back to the Town Hall. He chanced a look into the rear-view mirror and was disturbed to see the beast alarmingly close... he began shaking back and forth and flooring it on straight stretches.
He continued this for at least eight or nine kilometers before the beast started to lose ground and Herman began to pull ahead.
While the beast came close in places, Herman managed to outpace it for the entire run.
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Name: Herman deMark Faction: Halloween Suspecies/Division: Non-Sparkly Vampire General appearance: Herman is about 6' 6" tall and about 160 lbs... He always wears bone-white shirts and dark blue pants. He also always wears a red sash across his left shoulder that is tied to his belt. He has very faded blonde hair as if he had been in the sun too long, and his eyes are the same color... only changing to a dull red when he gets angry. HP: 30 / 30
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Character's name: Charlotte Dee Williams Character's faction: Mall Character's journal link:Shard's Journal Character's survival stats: Charlotte Dee WilliamsViewHERE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER "Shard" is a very physically fit 5' 10" woman who is only three months out of the Army due to a medical discharge. She has blue eyes and dark-ish blonde hair that seems messy and matted no matter how she tries to style it. She tends to dress in baggy pants (with lots of pockets) and light jackets over plain shirts... and this was *before* joining the military! She was given a medical discharge when an accident dealing with a live grenade cost her her left pinkie finger and most of the feeling in that hand.
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:03 pm
Whirring up to the portal, Herman parked the vehicle and retrieved the human from the back. She was still out, but mumbling something. Still worried about the beast-thing coming up behind him, Herman scooped her up and began moving toward the portal...
“i Said LeT me GO!” the human suddenly, disjointedly yelled in his ear and then Herman felt her punch him in the nose hard enough to make him rock backward. The human shifted her weight and Herman fell backwards hard with her on top of him.
“What the!?!?!” he thought as she pinned him to the ground with a surprising amount of strength. “Wait! I'm trying to...” he tried to say and received an elbow in the back of the head for speaking.
Looking up through a haze of pain and confusion, he tried again: “We need to get to the portal!” There was no physical response to this, except as he looked, the portal slowly faded away...
Herman slowly lowered his head, momentarily defeated. “Now what do I do?” he thought blearily. “The human has seen me now...” he remembered the house gnome's suggestion: “Maybe I should pretend to be a rug... or maybe a doormat.”
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Name: Herman deMark Faction: Halloween Suspecies/Division: Non-Sparkly Vampire General appearance: Herman is about 6' 6" tall and about 160 lbs... He always wears bone-white shirts and dark blue pants. He also always wears a red sash across his left shoulder that is tied to his belt. He has very faded blonde hair as if he had been in the sun too long, and his eyes are the same color... only changing to a dull red when he gets angry. HP: 30 / 30
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Character's name: Charlotte Dee Williams Character's faction: Mall Character's journal link:Shard's Journal Character's survival stats: Charlotte Dee WilliamsViewHERE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER "Shard" is a very physically fit 5' 10" woman who is only three months out of the Army due to a medical discharge. She has blue eyes and dark-ish blonde hair that seems messy and matted no matter how she tries to style it. She tends to dress in baggy pants (with lots of pockets) and light jackets over plain shirts... and this was *before* joining the military! She was given a medical discharge when an accident dealing with a live grenade cost her her left pinkie finger and most of the feeling in that hand.
