#rivervale_lodge

The Dogs bark furiously as something scratches and thumps against windows and doors of the lodge

Frank looks up with a frown from his desk where he is catching up on paperwork.

"What in the..." Kerri looks to the sound, then to the Chieftain. Brekke rises from her chair with a frown, brings Speaker to her hand, and looks to the others before she goes out the front door to meet the scratching thing without letting it too close to the balefire.

Blood red vultures, CHimerical in nature, fly in- and begin to speak. In voices, one of them familiar....

Seeing her take up Speaker, Frank stands and motions Kerri to the kitchen (where, it should be pointed out, there are weapon-type things) and backs Brekke up bare-handed.

Kerri follows the direction, and quickly arms herself with a meat cleaver before looking back out to discover that the things have flown in as soon as Brekke opened the door.

"Silver.. such an ugly color... " And the words are repeated, as are Olgar's... and everything he heard. Kerri can feel the glamour of her husband. He wove these into being.

(See Dreaming and assume all Audio are yours ICly)

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Brekke listens, and her eyes darken as the events replay, and her hand clenches on the handle of her axe....

then one of the vultures looks at Kerri "He loves you"

Obeying the last command.

...but it's Kerri's voice that breaks the trolls' silence at the last words. "NO! OLGAR!" She's already heading for the door of the Lodge, meat cleaver in hand.

Frank is already moving to get his blade, and follow.

And Brekke doesn't stop her, but she does tell Frank, "I am calling Vali, Lut, and Tig to guard here. I will follow. Go." Her voice is grim.

Frank nods to show he heard and keeps up with Kerri.

All of them know Olgar's typical routes. the man likes to vary them, but well, with age they've learned even those patterns. this trod starts as a crack in the sidewalk. Step on it, say "my mother's back' and it opens.

Kerri all but screams the key words, frustrated that she has to slow at all.

Frank reaches to put one firm hand on her shoulder and repeats the words, to take them both together into the Dreaming.

Brekke makes the necessary calls, pacing with the urgency to follow, to fight, to rescue.

It bursts open, a trueheart's rage and concern much like a battering ram when the words are released. And they are in.

As soon as she sees a hint of the Silver, Kerri is off at a dead run.

Frank keeps up with her; the advantage of slightly longer legs.

The trod is supposed to be Silver, and it still is, but stains of blood adorn it , and what looks to be tiny trickles or drops grow larger, patches of blood, and then gore!

Corpses , Thallian and dark kin...

"No no no no no NO NO NO!!!!" Kerri's breathless with denial and exertion. "OLGAR! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Olgar did not go down quietly.

But he's not in view, just the trail of carnage...

and his axe!

Back at Rivervale, Brekke turns to the Balefire. "Creature of the Dreaming, help him if you can until any of us can get to him. Please."

The fire flares

On the trod, Kerri drops next to the axe, breathing hard, and bends to kiss the bloody blade, her tears falling on it. "Tell me...tell me...tell me, please." She can think of no better bunk than that.

the cantrip makes the notched axe shine, and it will answer

Frank, breathing hard, blue eyes ice-cold, stands guard over her, watching the horizons.

"Where is he? Is he alive? Is...." her breath catches as she can't find the words for a third question.

"Upon the barbed rack on black road, green skins ply their tongue loosening trade. Alive he is, in snarls of defiance, but not for long."

Frank notices a thin black road up above the silver. Of course! the creatures could not stay on the silver forever.

"Black road?" Frantic, she looks around until she sees what Frank spotted. "How..." And there she has the third question. "How do I get to him?"

"Baaaa " It makes a sheep sound "Boing"

"Hold onto the axe." Frank commands, and then swings his own blade around his head, once, twice, three times... he points it in the right direction and stomps once. "BOING!"

OOC Bunk for hopscotch to send Kerri where she needs to go.

It's hard to say who gets into the lodge first, Lut and Tig almost break doors down out back, Vali comes in from the front.

And in the Dreaming, BOING! up they go...Frank, Kerri, and the Axe!

Landing on the black trod that feels of death

No silver here, rather paths where souls are lost

Brekke only says, "Defend the Lodge and those who depend on it." Simple, grim...and she's gone.

Brekke hears her daughter ask what's going on, but she has no time to respond. Siv can be outraged and being left out later. If outraged she is.

Kerri holds the axe...and hefts it as she stands on the Black Path. Weapons aren't her thing...but she's inspired.

A scream of pain, followed by "I'm going to shove those tools so far up your ass..ARRRRGH!" Someone is hurting her husband, and she kows the way. Frank recognizes the way too.

And below, he sees his wife entering the silver.. perhaps she'll need help up too