ORIGIN EXPLORADORA: SESSION 2

[hot_mess_express]

[About an hour after City Hall was consumed by thorns, a new light appears, and a new summons to find it.

Second Chance. Don't lose your escort.

Exploring heroes and the deertaur they found earlier are called, this time, to a low-lying part of the town. There was a lake here, and the ground around it has sunk in a bit, flooding nearby buildings. The water is dark and muddy with tiny plants floating around the top, cold and hard to see into.

The building you're drawn to has a big sign over the front entrance.

Origin Church Community Center

But the front of it is pretty heavily flooded, and the doors are choked with water weeds.]

Comments

OUTSIDE

[fairwind]

[You begin outside. The front of the building is flooded waist-high, but the water fades away to ankle-deep towards the back.

There are several windows, but most are covered in moss. One in the back, however, is only a little grimy... and near it is an emergency exit.]

Re: OUTSIDE

[desirestruth]

...'Community center'?

[The mind takes refuge in the strangest things because great googly moogly this looks gross.]

Re: OUTSIDE

[rottedwood]

[this deertaur is pulling a face

don't lose your escort indeed. fucker.]

Re: OUTSIDE

[wontforbidtherain]

I could wade to clear away the weeds from the windows.

[but is standing at the water's edge, trying to part weeds enough to see through the water first.]

Re: OUTSIDE

[newmodelblade]

A church center... Though one without a congregation, in this severe of disrepair.

[He does seem intrigued by that emergency exit though, or maybe just the promise of drier land.]

Re: OUTSIDE

[bad_crowmance]

Hmmm.

[ Crow is considering those windows. ]

Re: OUTSIDE

[bowtiedbones]

Oh, I should have gotten my rainboots...

ADMIN OFFICE

[fairwind]

[You enter into what used to be an office. There are two desks here, each with personal items. Oddly, there are no chairs or cabinets... this room itself is rather dry, but water begins to pour in when you open the door.

You can go back outside, or go into the hall.]

Re: ADMIN OFFICE

[bad_crowmance]

[ He's going to look in both desks to see if there's anything interesting. ]

[desirestruth]

[Well, she carried a deer here and possibly some other people, but you know, let's have a look in these desks! She's also sniffing at them to see if she smells...anything but mold.]

Re: ADMIN OFFICE

[rottedwood]

[hhhgh. he'll politely wait by the hall door for people to investigate.]

Re: ADMIN OFFICE

[newmodelblade]

[Since everyone else has flocked to the desks, then, he'll be looking for anything that may have been pinned to the walls; most offices typically have something posted up in them.]

Re: ADMIN OFFICE

[bowtiedbones]

Looks like they cleared out...

[looking under the desks]

HALLWAY

[fairwind]

[You enter the main hallway. Once a cheerful place, the walls are covered in all sorts of posters advertising events and promoting various social messages. The flooding gets steeply worse further to the south.

You can return to the office, or head into one of the doors:

- The northwest door has a huge dent in it, and seems to be jammed.
- The southwest door is open, and from it comes a sloshing noise.
- The southeast door is a broad double door with stained glass windows, closed but not blocked.
- The south door is also a double door -- the water is getting deeper there, and the weeds have climbed up all around the entrance.]

Re: HALLWAY

[desirestruth]

[Jammed door seems like a job for Super Yipper.

>YANK IT FREE.]

Re: HALLWAY

[wontforbidtherain]

[taking a close look at the stained glass in the southeast door, to identify patterns.]

Should we stay together or spit up to cover these all?

Re: HALLWAY

[newmodelblade]

[He's enough of a fool to go at least stand in the door making a sloshing noise, to see what it is. He might just be curious to see if it's life, or simply something like plants caught in the wind.]

Re: HALLWAY

[bowtiedbones]

[creeps south, poking through the water with a stick. not daring to wade in deep yet.]

COUNSELING

[fairwind]

[You found... another office! This one has one big desk, and a pile of books on the floor. The shelves and chairs are nowhere to be seen.

You can go to the hall, or south through a crumbled wall into the next room.]

Re: COUNSELING

[desirestruth]

...Hmm.

[Let's pick up those books first, before they get too wet to be useful.]

Re: COUNSELING

[bowtiedbones]

[scrambles into the room

grabs the tidied stack of papers in her teeth

SCRAMBLES OUT BACK TO THE GROUP]

COMMUNITY HALL

[fairwind]

[Through the final, southern door is a huge open space -- a town hall, big enough for parties or concerts or anything else people might need.

The water rapidly increases in depth, starting about knee-high and going up to waist-high where the front doors are. But even with all the water, you can see that this is where all the missing chairs and cabinets from elsewhere have gone. Any easily movable furniture in the building has been piled up against the front door, as if to barricade it against a threat.

But there are no bodies. Not of people, or of monsters. Whatever they were hiding from is gone without a trace, and so are they, unless they're all deep below the plant-covered surface...

...everyone who enters, please roll 1d10.]

Re: COMMUNITY HALL

[bad_crowmance]

[ WELL, THIS IS MORE THAN HE EXPECTED!!

He rolled an eight! ]

Re: COMMUNITY HALL

[bowtiedbones]

[how well does just loitering around the doorway work out with a FOUR]

SESSION END

[fairwind]

[As you deal with the murderplant, your phones suddenly go off with another message.

That's enough. If you stay you'll just die. Go home.

At that point, the water level suddenly begins to rise...

You have time to get out, if you move quickly. But Crow is going nowhere. The plants are pulling him under, and you have no time to stop them.

Best leave with what you can, before you all drown.

Your intermission is here.]