Betrayal at House on the Hill

[angelcage]

[ You sleep, the ground cold beneath your cheek. The ground is hard as stone, cold marble beneath a fine layer of dust that doesn't come anywhere near acting as a cushion. The dust stirs with your breathing.


>> Wake up ]

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[angelcage]

[ Mordred and Simon knock a rat off themselves a piece. There are now three rats on the floor, two on Mordred's legs, one retreated into the pentagram chamber with Simon, the rest all dead. ]

[dendarii]

And hold still. I'm going to kill one of them.

[ He lunges at one of those rats on Mordred's legs. ]

[angelcage]

[ PROVIDED MORDRED HOLDS STILL

One down! Four to go in here, before the pentagram chamber opens! ]

[withintreason]

[ I AM COMPLETELY CAPABLE OF HOLDING STILL THANKS

kicks off the other one though ]

[angelcage]

[ MORDRED IS NOW RAT FREE.

The four rats regroup back in the soot, scampering about, away from Mordred and Miles. ]

[dendarii]

-- Shit! Catch them!

[ He hurls himself at the nearest one. ]

[withintreason]

[ DID YOU MEAN STAB THEM? ]

[dendarii]

[ YES STABBING stabbing is happening. ]

[angelcage]

[ The two of you stab one each— the last rat, looking desperate, leaps up— trying to catch the coal chute's sheer metal sides to scramble back up.

Spoilers: it doesn't work.]

[withintreason]

[ THAT'S RIGHT, YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD KID ]

[court_chesster]

[poor lil fella]

[Anyway, a voice is coming from the other side of the door:]

Hey! Let's talk this out, huh?

[dendarii]

What is there to talk about at this point?

[ But ... well, Miles is listening. ]

[court_chesster]

Your friend not murdering me, ideally...

[dendarii]

[ Miles just. Looks at Mordred. ]

Stand down for a moment. Please.

[court_chesster]

Yeah, "a moment" isn't gonna cut it. I'm not coming out of here anytime soon.

[dendarii]

The moment is for you to talk, Simon. And convince us that we want to let you out.

[withintreason]

What, you seriously plan on giving him a moment? He attacked us. That's enough to damn him for me.

[dendarii]

... You're more dangerous to me than he is.

[court_chesster]

A murderous psychopath is dangerous to everyone! Me, I haven't done anything!

[dendarii]

Then what are the rats for?

[court_chesster]

They're rats. They live here.

[withintreason]

You attacked me. Or did you forget?

[court_chesster]

I didn't try to kill you.

[withintreason]

Well, obviously, but I haven't cut you down yet.

[dendarii]

Yet. It's the yet that concerns me.