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[forestcrap]

After the hole is sealed and Ninurta's done away with, your entire party is bippity bopped to the other side of the forest. If there were stragglers that got separated, you're all in one place again. If you lost gear, weapons, phones, whatever, it's back on your person, functional again. If you lost any organs you're on your own though. No but basically you've been bewitched to safety out of the forest and the evil noises have stopped, you're homefree, homies. There's a crow perched on a rundown fence post along the road watching you with beady little eyes before it takes off back into the forest.

The map takes you to a rundown little bed and breakfast not but a fifteen minute walk out that looks like it was abandoned a while ago. No foul play, just closed for business, the economy is rough when you're located next to a haunted forest. Feel free to avail yourself of its beds, there's no room service but least you don't have to pay.

[Mission: get your bearings, make sure all your shits there, do a headcount, follow the road. call dibs on a room. rest up]

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[rhymeswithdesign]

[found a room. it's a shitty room, in the middle of the inn, with no windows and no ensuite, but it serves his purpose in that it has a door with a lock. locks it and pushes the bed back against one of the walls.

considers the chalk in his pocket. looks at the layer of dust on the floor instead and just crouches and starts dragging his fingertip through it in a room-filling circle.]

[rhymeswithdesign]

[done with one circle. starts making a second one about six inches inside the other one.

done with that circle, starts filling in the intervening space with runes and symbols, muttering under his breath.]

[rhymeswithdesign]

[done with the circle. straightens, steps carefully inside, speaks the final word. there's brief blue light that follows the path his finger traced, and then nothing.

which is what he'd expected. like sparking a lighter that's out of gas, there's nothing to fuel it.

smiles at it for a moment, then starts wiping it away with his foot.]

[rhymeswithdesign]

[unlocks the door and heads downstairs to have an unusually vintage beer and relax for 20 seconds.]