You look over. The Hallow family convertible blazes straight toward the demon, Cassandra behind the wheel wearing a soldier’s helmet and Harvey propped up in the passenger side seat with a foot on the dashboard and a glowing golden M-16 in hand. He sends bursts of automatic gunfire into the demon as Cassandra floors it.

At the last moment. He jumps down into his seat and throws both hands onto the dash. A corona of glorious white energy sheathes the entire car in its holy envelope, turning the blue corvette a miraculously bright shade of the purest gold.

The demon lets out a bellow of rage, and dives out of the way. Cassandra hits the e-brake, puts the car into a slide, and smashes the demon with the side of the angel-powered car like a baseball bat.

Dogwalker goes flying, and sprawls out into the road in a smoking, seething heap. Harvey reloads, stands up in his seat, and opens up a continuous spray of gunfire into the demon while Cassandra steps out, picks a shotgun up out of the back, and pumps shell after shell into the hellish being. The chorus of gunfire is incessant.

They both keep shooting until they run out of bullets, but you can tell they don’t need any more. Dogwalker is done for the day. (Dogwalker: 0/45 HP)

Harvey jumps out of the car in your direction, and begins jamming another magazine into the rifle.

>>32294064

“Sierra? Get away from the hellhound,” Cassandra says in a calm tone, rapidly thumbing more shells into her own weapon.

Reeber gets on his paws and goes into a low stance, growling angrily at the demonbane.

>Stand between them and the dog.
>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?
>Back off, he saved my life before you did.
>Other (?)

>>32294082
>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?

>>32294082
>Stand between them and the dog.
He's actually the only reason I'm alive, ironically. He seemed to... remember me?

>>32294082
>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?
Probably a good idea to tell them we're starting to remember things, and we aren't quite sure whats going on anymore.

>>32294082
>Other (?)
"Yo hold up! Reeber's cool! Little dude saved me a minute ago."

>>32294082
>>Stand between them and the dog.
They ain't killing our pup.

>>32294082
>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?

>>32294082
>Stand between them and the dog.
Also say "REEBER, SIT!"

>>32294082
>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?
He killed these other two before they could finish me off!

>>32294082
>>Stand between them and the dog.
>>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?
Mention how he saved us too.

>>32294082
>>Stand between them and the dog.
>>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?

>>32294082
>Stand between them and the dog.
>Other (?)
Put a hand on Reeber and shhh him to make him calm down.
"He killed one of the other hounds for me. He's a good boy."

>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?
Reeber sit! lay down rollover!
Well out of of the 4 hell hounds i seen he is the only one who did not try to rip my face off

>>32294082
Latch onto Reeber, hug his ass and explain to both him and the Hallows that they're both "Good peoples who din do nuthin."

>>32294082
>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?
>Reeber, sit!

Then thank them for saving your ass and tell them Rowan is safe in the building behind you. And that you have some things you probably need to talk about with them all.

>>32294082
>>Stand between them and the dog.
>>Don’t shoot him! He’s my dog! I think?

>>32294082
Get in between them and our dog, and start petting Reeber, try to calm him down a bit, and show that he's not dangerous to us.

"Don't, Reeber's a good boy. He saved my life."

If they ask why we've already named him then explain that we feel like we know him from somewhere.

Rolled 50

>>32294191
This. Good dog, sit.

>>32294082
i wonder how much angels really know about deamons it seems like we are breaking a lot of preconceptions that they have

>>32294290
Let's be honest, Reeber saved more than just our life. Without him, not only would we have been kibble, but they would have moved on along with dogwalker and shredded Rowan by the time the cavalry arrived.

>>32294360
Maybe we should get to know some demons.

>>32294447
Maybe not. So far all the demons have been concerningly murderous.

>>32294562
Tweed wasn't so bad. Sure he was willing and able to throw down with us, but he really just wanted to go home.

You scramble to your feet and put yourself between them and the dog. “Stop shooting everything!” you say. “He’s my dog! You know, probably?”

The Hallows hesitate, but they don’t lower their weapons

“Seriously?” you ask. You look back at the hellhound. “Reeber, sit.”

The dog looks stupidly up at you.

“Ugh. Dogwalker trained you in the wrong language,” you say. You place a hand on his rear and force it down. Though he could have easily resisted the force, Reeber follows your lead into sitting. You hold a hand out. “Stay,” you tell him. You go to move away, and he begins getting up, so you stop again, make eye contact with the animal, and hold your hand out again. “I said fucking stay!”

Reeber seems to get the message, and remains stationary while his tail wags as you look over to Harvey and Cassandra, who both wear perplexed looks on their faces.

>>32294632

“Seriously I don’t even know,” you say. You look at your savagely dripping claws, then back up at the Hallows’ weapons. You notice specks of blood in your vision. You panic for a second, but then realize it’s just on your glasses. “Just FYI,” you say, daintily taking your glasses off with your claws so you don’t break them, “you guys have it easy with magicking up guns and crap, I’m like, a guaranteed mess in a fight.”

“Where’s Ro?” Harvey asks.

“Present,” comes Ro’s voice. She pushes through the apartment complex door and comes limping out. She looks like she’s in pain – probably too much running on that foot brace. She freezes up at the sight of you. You see a trace of fear, but it’s replaced with one of concern. “Goodness, Sierra – you look awful.” You think maybe she’s not going to blab about the whole Verwelken thing just yet.

You see Cassandra toss her shotgun in the driver’s side chair and throwing towels down in the back of the convertible. “We can worry about how we look later girls, let’s get home first.”

>Yeah, let’s do that.
>Where’s Reeber sitting?
>Where’s Isaac?
>Was that one of Meckor’s guys?
>That was kick ass. How’d you get here so quick?
>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
>Don’t mind me, I’m just going to finish off the leftovers. (Eugh that’s in bad taste don’t do that in front of everybody.)
>Other (?)

>>32294562
speaking of that HOW do we even take care of a hell hound do we feed them entire lambs? take them for a 5 hour walks? give them a bone that screams like the abyess?

>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
Yea the police should be here any min now we need to leave now!
>Where’s Reeber sitting?
>Where’s Isaac?
and pls DON'T do that last one we only do it in desperation not becuse we want too

>>32294658
>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
>Where’s Reeber sitting?

>>32294658
>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
>Where’s Reeber sitting?

We can wait for answers on the rest of the stuff until we have a chance to catch our breath. Also, we really need to find out how to disguise Reeber as a normal dog.

>>32294658
>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
Plus all that gun fire? That seems like something the police would be interested in.

>>32294658
"Reeber, can you like get smaller or something?"

Make hand motions if we must.

>>32294658
First things first, let's try to get reefer to change into a normal dog.

>>32294658
>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
"And if not, i would prefer riding Reeber home."

Yes guys, we will ride the dog back home.

>>32294761
its a big dog but not THAT big

>>32294658
>Yeah, let’s do that.
>Where’s Reeber sitting?

>>32294658
>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
>Yeah, let’s do that.
>Where’s Reeber sitting?
And before you say he can't come with us, not only did he save both our asses, if he knows me for whatever reason, that means I might have known him once. And that means I've got something that might be locked in my head, memory wise.

>>32294658
>That was kick ass. How’d you get here so quick?
Say thanks for saving you, Ro and apparently your dog from that demon
then:
>Where’s Reeber sitting?
He saved yours and probably Rowans lives back there, so you can't kill him, but you also can't exactly leave a hellhound just overing about the place in the streets. Maybe we should try to get him into doberman mode again somehow.

>>32294658
>Isn’t somebody going to freak out if they find like, three dead hellhounds and a demon corpse on their front doorstep?
>Yeah, let’s do that.
>Wait a second...
>Where’s Reeber sitting?
On the ride back maybe we should try to broach the Verwelken thing? "Sorry... I tried to say something before, but I got really psyched out and clammed up and I couldn't figure out how to say 'oh hey btw I'm part one of those things that killed your awesome grandpa' without it being really fucked up.."


>(Eugh that’s in bad taste don’t do that in front of everybody.)
But it's delicious.

>>32294790
Really? You are doubting the strength of a hellhound?

>>32294815
If we're going to grab another snack, we should at least explain that the infernis thing seems to let us heal with blood and it's not just us being psychotic. We should probably be suitably sheepish/awkward cause we know it's incredibly gross to the point that we find it slightly stressful to do despite the healing effect.

Is anyone else reminded of Good Omens regarding this hellhound?

>>32294658
>>Other (Refuge in Audacity)
"Just so you guys know, if I eat that guy I'm gonna heal up a LOT faster. I understand if you wanna turn around though. Just think of it as recycling! You seem like the kinda family that recycles, right? Reeber! Dinner!"

Later, in the van to Rowan.

"Hey, about what I did back there in the alley... I wanted to tell you earlier. I tried to tell you back in your room, but I didn't know how. It's cool if you want to take some time to handle it, Ii'm pretty hard to offend. Hell, by the time I'm offended by something everyone else is calling the police.

>>32294658
>That was kick ass. How’d you get here so quick?
>Was that one of Meckor’s guys?
>Other (?)
After we get in the car maybe say to Rowan "sorry about the gross blood thing. Apparently it make me regen or something so I had to do it to not be dead."

>>32294909
yes, in the best way

We also need to directly thank Ro for saving our lives at the start of this mess

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>>32294761
>>32294790
But we used to ride him all the time when we were little!

>>32294985
uh we are a teenager not a kid would work if we were smaller but i don't think it will work that and he has spines remember? also ridding around town on a HELL HOUND is not exacty trying to be stealthy

>>32294978
inb4 Sierra is the antichrist

>>32295181
We don't want to end the world. It's where we keep all of our stuff!

>>32295197
Also, ending the world would get in the way of Harvey cooking spaghetti. Comics would probably catch fire in a hellscape as well, all in all it's not something you could put up with.

>>32295246

“Where’s Reeber sitting?” you ask without really thinking about it.

“I don’t think my car can seat a hellhound,” says Cassandra.

You turn back to Reeber. “Hey boy. Can you like, look like a German Shepard again?” The dog does not understand. You grab his head and shake it. It seems like the thing to do. You’re reminided that you’re out of mortal peril for the time being. It’s a good thought. (-15 Stress: 51/100)

Reeber, however, is just doing nothing. You look him in the eye, and try to communicate everything with a hard glare. Surprisingly, the hellhound barks once, and then that weird holographic kind of thing comes back and suddenly you’re looking at a blood-stained German Shepard. “Nice,” you say, tousling the hell dog’s fake fur coat. Reeber barks in reply.

You hear sirens in the distance.

“We need to go,” says Harvey, perhaps hearing what you do.

Cassandra doesn’t seem keen on you taking the dog with you as you bring it up to the side of the car.

“The dog saved my life. It comes or I go,” you say flatly.

“I saw what happened,” Rowan says from where she’s take up seat.. “That hellhound saved both of us.”

“Okay okay,” Cass relents. “The dog comes with us.”

You don’t have anything to say to that, so you join with everybody else in piling into the convertible and driving off. You sit with a dog over your lap.

>>32295282

You don’t really get it – you know Reeber is a huge hellhound, but right now he feels like a regular dog, and has the weight of a regular dog. If it wasn’t for the blood, he’d be indistinguishable from a regular dog.

“So like, aren’t a bunch of dead hell things going to freak people out?” you ask, idly scratching Reeber's ears. “I mean, that’s got to make it onto tonight’s news, right?”

“Probably not,” says Cassandra.

“What, is there some huge kind of conspiracy or something?” you ask, smirking.

“There doesn’t have to be,” says Harvey.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” you ask.

“Well,” says Cassandra.

Rowan groans. “Shut up mom, no one wants to hear a history lesson right now!” So you don’t.

Later, you’re finishing up in the shower. Luckily blood isn’t hard to get out of your hair. It’s times like this you’re glad you don’t have long hair. You can hear some stuff going on in the rest of the house, but you’re pretty content where you are. (-15 Stress: 36/100)

>Meh. You should probably finish up and go see if Isaac is home yet.
>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.
>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.
>Other (?)

>>32295314
>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.

>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.
>Other Go talk to rowan about that shadow thing before we go to issac

>>32295314
>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.

>>32295314
>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.

>>32295314
>>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.

>>32295314
>>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.

>>32295314
>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.
Hot shower = Time to decompress

>>32295314
>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.
We need to get rid of that stress. As best and often as we can.

>>32295314
>>Other (?)
Talk to Rowan about shadow crap. Ask her to help you tell everyone else.
Also, wash the dog.

>>32295314
>Rowan groans. “Shut up mom, no one wants to hear a history lesson right now!” So you don’t.
Fucking Rowan

>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.

>>32295282
Okay, so now we need to thank Rowan for saving us at the start, keeping quiet about the Verwelken thing during the drama just now, and defending our dog.

She's a pretty awesome friend, it seems.

>>32295314
>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.

>>32295314
>>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.

Keep Stress low.

>>32295314
>>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.

>>32295405
Yea she's definite bro material. I think it's time to come out about our powers now though.

>>32295314
>Meh. You should probably finish up and go see if Isaac is home yet.
>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.

>>32295496
Yeah, we should discuss how to come clean with her when we thank her for covering for us

>>32295314
>Ten more minutes under hot water is okay with you.
>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.
>Meh. You should probably finish up and go see if Isaac is home yet.
>Get ready to tell him about the powers we've developed now, especially the shadow wall.

>>32295401
Wash the dog, definitely.

>>32295314
>Be careful to make sure you’re normal-ish looking in the mirror before you head out.
If Rowan haven't talked about the extent of our powers yet we should probably come clean with her and then with Isaac

You’re in no hurry. You lean against the wall and stand there under a torrent of hot water and kind of zone out for a while in the steam. Bleh. You’re tired. You want to have a boring day for once. (-5 Stress: 31/100)

Your thoughts drift to Reeber. Did your family have a dog? You don’t remember a German Shepard in the house when you were in Kindergarten. But you did remember seeing hellhounds before. Where the hell could you have possibly seen a hellhound before? Maybe your demon mom took you to hell one time? You can’t remember anything – you think you were too little.

Eventually, you feel that you’re ready to emerge as a new human being. You step out, dry off, and wipe off the mirror. You examine your face, and see you’ve got shark teeth and the black veins. Huh. You didn’t even realize it. You work your jaw around and rub your face until it goes away. You notice your nails are getting a little long as you do so, and having vowed to break your nail-biting habit one too many times, you start rifling through drawers for a pair of nail clippers.

You open one drawer. Shaving crap. Nope. Another. First aid stuff. Okay, good to know. You open another. There’s the nail cli - “Aagh!”

>>32295808

You scream, shoving the drawer shut again and staggering backward. You hit the wall before you can stop yourself. It takes a moment to corral your racing heartbeat. (+3 Stress: 34/10))

“Sierra?” you hear from outside. “Are you okay in there?”

“Yeah,” you yell back. “Just… got surprised.” Which isn’t totally untrue.

You scowl, open the drawer, and pull out the nail clippers. You give the scissors that were resting beside them the evil eye. Who puts fucking scissors in same drawer as the nail clippers, where they can sneak up on you like that? Hell, who keeps scissors anywhere but the rummage drawer in the kitchen? When you have a house, everything’s going to be where it fucking belongs.

A couple minutes later, you come out of the bathroom wearing your PJ’s and a scowl. You notice Rowan’s door is slightly ajar – she was probably the one that asked if you were okay.

You can hear a conversation going on downstairs, and you’re certain you hear Isaac’s voice playing a part in it. Part of you just wants to lie down in the guest bedroom and not move for the next twelve hours. Reeber’s stuck in the backyard. It’s small, but he should be okay without you for a while.

>Pop into Rowan’s room.
>Go downstairs.
>Go lie down.
>Other (?)

>>32295828
>Go lie down.

>>32295828
>Pop into Rowan’s room.
>Talk to Rowan
>Go downstairs.
Hiding from our problems makes them worse.

>>32295828
>Go downstairs.
We've put off talking about our shadow powers this long, we can wait a little longer.

>>32295828
>Pop into Rowan’s room.
Lets get this stuff sorted out

>>32295828
>Go downstairs.

>>32295828
>Pop into Rowan’s room.

>>32295828
>>Pop into Rowan’s room.

Also uh, what's the big deal about scissors?

>>32295828
>Pop into Rowan’s room.

>>32295828
Calling it, Sierra knows Reeber because it's actually her twin sisters dog, who is currently lording it up in hell.

Y'know, because twins bullshit.

>>32295828
>Pop into Rowan’s room.
She deserves to hear how we have shadow powers. She's been the bro-est BFF muscle angel today, she deserves to know.

>>32295913
Reeber is Meckor

>Pop into Rowan’s room
so what surprised us when we were going though the drawer?

>>32295828
>Pop into Rowan’s room.

Let's sort this out first, tell her about our shadow powers, and thank her for standing up for us about Reeber.

>>32295899
The dream, I think. Snip snip.

>>32295950
Ah that makes sense.

>>32295828
>>Go downstairs.
go to to batgirls' room after we got chewed by batpop&batmom

>>32295938
Sierra's ridiculous fear of scissors.

I'll be back in about two hours.

This absence is non-lawn-related.

>>32295938
Sierra has a scissors phobia.

Languid's subtle anti-/u/ jabs make me giggle.

>>32295986
got chewed?
I don't think they're cannibals

>>32295828
>Pop into Rowan’s room.
"I'm sorry if I freaked you out back there. I know I should have told you about the full extent of my powers, but this is really fuckin scary, you know? I was told the more of a mix-bag you are the more unstable you are, and then I find out I'm probably part of the same kind of demon that killed your grandfather... how can I come foreward with something like that? Especially when I consider the fact that if this 'foster family' rejects me like the others I'm as good as dead."

>>32296032
thats JUST what you want us to think

>>32296032
All absences are Lawn related. The Lawn knows all, sees all, and JUDGES all.

>>32296095
God Sierra sounds like a bitch in that.

"Sorry I didn't tell you earlier, at first it just seemed like something to hide, like it was more natural that way. And then when I asked about it, I found out how much you guys hated that type of demon, and I got kinda scared."

"I should have told you earlier, I tried but I couldn't get it out."

>>32296200
Yeah, this is better. Acurate and concise.

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>>32296200
Something like this would do.

>>32296200
Something like this would be good. The writing is flat, but the message it carries is what we want.

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>>32296250
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have fertilizer. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for lawns like you. If you let my QM go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will mow you.

>>32296583
...Good luck.

>>32296562
I just thought the other one was a little "~Oh, woe is me, I shoot fire outta my cock and that's bad!~ You don't know what it's like to be me/sadface."

Not trying to be a dick but doing so anyways.

>>32296664
This one still seems a bit...I dunno. Kinda out of my mind with Finals and stress right now, so I can't write well.

>>32296250
>>32296583
>>32296632
HAHAHAHA, someone need to screencap this for the next time Languid goes for a mowing.

>>32296200
While I agree with the general gist of this, I don't feel like we need to apologize. It's not like Rowan told us what specific types of angel she is.

>>32296583
careful the hedges are also conspiring with the lawn you should enlist the mole men for help

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>>32296632
I wonder who's behind this post...

>>32296679
And I'm severely intoxicated, so I have no idea.

>>32296699
Better to err on the side of caution.

>>32296699
She did.

>>32296766
When?

>>32296699
Uh, yeah, she did. She said that Grandpa Batman was a Seraph, thus making her quarter seraph.

>>32296728
WHERE IS SHE

>>32296850
Hellborn part 8

We got glasses, and practiced shadow puppets before bugging her.

>>32296766
Yesterday's thread. Grandpappy was a Seraph.

>>32296942
Well isn't Cass demonbane too? It could be she's from another angel class. Ro's blood might be almost as mixed up as ours.

>>32296918
For some reason I thought she was more than one type of angel.

>>32297034
I thought she was a regular human

>>32297034
Think she's just a human. She didn't do anything supernatural when she came to the rescue.

How long before we call the Lawn Police?

>>32297494
Roughly one more hour, if you believe >>32296032

>>32297034
It sure feels like dad and daughter are the fighter type of angel but mother and son are the peaceful type

>>32297534
The son who displayed the same powers as his sister?

So, for Halloween, are we just going to let our traits out?

>>32296032
That is a load of bollocks and you know it.

>>32297569
well, dad didn't bring him to fight demons, did he?

>>32297590
>"What's your costume supposed to be?"
>"Costume? I'm not wearing a- OSHIT!!!"

>>32297590
>You, madame, should unmask
>I wear no mask
>No mask? No mask?! NO MASK!

Welp, imma watch that new xmen movie, don't fuck up.

>>32297805
We are /tg/. Of course we shall fuck it up!

>>32298279

Oh anon. But you already have.

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>>32298330
Oh god

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>>32298330
HE LIVES

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>>32298330
so how hard did you kick the lawn's ass? was there a shovel involved?

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>>32298330
TELL ME ABOUT THE DOG WALKER, WHY DOES HE WALK THE DOGS?

>>32298279
>>32298330
Then we shall do it harder! And differently then you expect us to!

>>32298483
WAS GETTING HIT BY A CAR PART OF YOUR PLAN?

>>32298540
That's what she said to Rowan.

>>32298483
>>32298577
They're big dogs

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>>32298616
For you

>>32298616
Meckor: For you

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>>32298641

First thing’s first, you think. Rowan deserves to hear from you about this Verwelken crap. She’s been more than patient with you. You pad over to her door, knock, and push it open.

Rowan lies on her bed, staring at the ceiling. She rolls over onto her side and look at you as you open the door.

“Um. Is it okay if I come in?” you ask tentatively.

“Yep. Shut the door behind you though.”

You do as you are bidden, and find Rowan’s room very dark when it’s illuminated only by a novelty bat signal lamp. You meander over to the beanbag chair, maybe stepping on and breaking something in the process, but Rowan doesn’t say anything until you flop down.

“So yeah,” you say, continuing a conversation you and Rowan haven’t had yet, “I guess I’m part Verwelken too.”

Rowan gives you a hard, almost accusing look.

You knead your forehead. “Don’t give me that. I didn’t know if I could trust you people. And then you’re being all nice and crap, and I find out somebody like me killed your batman grampa – what am I supposed to do?” you say.

The two of you sit in silence for a moment.

Rowan speaks up. “That night at the hospital,” she says, “I thought I figured it out. That you were afraid of what you were. I mean, you are, kind of. But the thing you were really afraid of the whole time was us, wasn’t it.”

>>32299054


You don’t deign that with a response. Of course the Hallows are scary. Besides being badasses, they act like it’s all normal. You’ve never seen ‘normal’ before. And seriously, demon hunting isn’t normal at all to begin with.

She speaks again. “Sierra, are you scared of me?”

You consider the question carefully. “Well. Not anymore,” you say. “I mean. You saved my life, right? That’s got to count for something. I don’t know. Aren’t you afraid of me?”

Rowan thinks it over for a second. “I think you pigging out on hellhound blood was disgusting as all get out,” she says, “but I wouldn’t say I’m afraid of you, even when you… you know, show your claws and teeth and whatever. You don’t even look that scary with your glasses on.”

“Hey,” you say. You take exception to that.

“Okay, maybe somebody who didn’t know you would think you looked freaky,” Rowan amends. “That’s not a problem for me. I think I’m worried about what can happen to you, though. I could see you struggling when I came out of the house – that fight put you pretty close to going over, didn’t it?”

You don’t like to remember how close you came to losing your cool. If it weren’t for Cassandra’s timely arrival, dogwalker might have triggered another episode. “Close,” you decide to answer, “but maybe I was closer to getting killed first. I can’t say, really.”

“You sound better now.”

“Yeah, I guess,” you say. “So are we cool?”

>>32299071

“We’re cool,” says Rowan. “But you need to tell dad about the Verwelken thing. You saved me like, three times more than I saved you today, so he’ll take that into consideration before making any snap judgments.”

“Snap judgments?” you ask. You’re not sure you like the sound of that.

Rowan sighs. “If he does freak out, just come get me and I’ll yell at him or something.” She pauses. “Hey. Did you fall over or something in the bathroom?”

“What? Why?” you say, a little too suddenly.

“When you screamed, it took me a second to realize it was you. I’ve never heard you make such a high-pitched sound before.”

>I’m going to go talk to Isaac. (Leave)
>The hot water ran out.
>Nothing fucking happened.
>You just have a really weird drawer layout.
>Other (?)

>>32299088
>You just have a really weird drawer layout.

Completely terrifying.

>>32299088
>....
>.......
>fuck scissors...
>I’m going to go talk to Isaac. (Leave)

>>32299088
>Nothing fucking happened.

>>32299088
>>I’m going to go talk to Isaac. (Leave)

>>32299103
This. Let's not dress our phobia up.

>>32299088
>You just have a really weird drawer layout.

>The hot water ran out.
no we are not going to admit too having a Scissor phobia

>>32299132
We're not scared of scissors. Not at all. Scissors are just bad things.

>>32299088
>The hot water ran out.

>>32299103
this

>>32299139
It's just that nobody else realises how horrible scissors are.

I want to see a Lets Play of Clocktower done by Sierra.

>>32299155
So let's tell them. Perhaps if they realize the horror of those unholy devices, they will rightly shun them as well.

>>32299182
>Not Let's play Ao Oni.

>>32299088
>>I’m going to go talk to Isaac. (Leave)

>>32299088
>You just have a really weird drawer layout.

A variety of contradicting excuses and half-truthed answers swarm in your mind for a second. And then two seconds. Three. Four.

Rowan sits up slightly. “Sierra?”

“Fucking scissors,” you grumble to yourself. You stand and pick your way toward the door. “I’m going to talk to Isaac.”

“Oh. Okay,” says Rowan, taken off guard by your dodgy response. Thankfully she doesn’t push the issue.

You walk out and mostly close the door before heading downstairs.

“-already knew where Ro goes to school, probably for months. The Infernus wasn’t subtle about it when he went after her. Meckor knew she was injured – she’d be an easy target – he was trying to get me back for killing the Stygian.” Isaac is pacing back and forth in the kitchen, talking on the phone. Cassandra sits at the dinner table, carefully feeding bullets from a bulky ammo box into empty magazines. A clean Reeber the not-German-Shepard sits calmly by the side of her chair. He looks slightly damp, as if someone hosed him off and toweled him dry.

>>32299535
“Dammit, yes, this is a request for assistance,” says Isaac, leaning over the counter and leaning on one hand. As whoever on the other side replies, Isaac’s grip on the phone tightens, and his knuckles go white. “Yes, I understand just fine.” He suddenly hangs up. “Thanks for nothing,” he says to the phone, glowering at it.

“We’ll be fine,” Cassandra says, sounding oddly calm.

Isaac takes a slow breath. “That’s right,” he says.

Reeber catches sight of you, and begins wagging his tail.

Isaac takes note of the motion and looks over at the stairs. “Oh. Hey Sierra, how are you doing?”

>Better.
>This house has like, a demon zapper or something built in, right?
>Who were you talking to?
>There’s something I should probably tell you.
>Other (?)

>>32299558
>>There’s something I should probably tell you.

>>32299558
>Better.
>Who were you talking to?
>There’s something I should probably tell you.

>>32299570
This. Let's get this out of the way.

>>32299558
>>32299570

This. Maybe do it while petting Reeber for comfort.

>>32299558
>>This house has like, a demon zapper or something built in, right?
>Pet Reeber

>>32299558
>Better.
>There’s something I should probably tell you.

>>32299558
>There’s something I should probably tell you.
> Pet Reeber

>>32299558
>There’s something I should probably tell you.
>Other
Point to Reeber "Can I keep him? I'll feed him and take him for walks and everything."

>>32299614
Good idea, if he gets crazy we'll have Reeber to protect us.

>>32299558
>Who were you talking to?

>>32299558
>>Who were you talking to?
>>There’s something I should probably tell you.

>>32299558
What's the hurry with telling them? We can just wait until we need to use it in front of them in a combat situation, like with Rowan.

>>32299558
>>Who were you talking to?
>>There’s something I should probably tell you.

>>32299817
If we don't Rowan will probably tattle on us.

>>32299885
Ok. As long as it happens later and not now.

You finish walking down the stairs. “Better, thanks,” you say. You’re kind of distracted by something more pressing, however. “But there’s something I should probably tell you.” You’re not looking forward to this. (+3 Stress: 37/100)

Isaac waves you through to the dinner table, and takes a seat. You sit down in a chair near Cassandra. Immediately, Reeber trots over to your side and shoves his head across your lap. You ruffle his ears, impressed by his forward display of affection. (-2 Stress: 35/100)

“Do tell,” says Cassandra, smiling briefly up at you as she continues refilling magazines.

“Well, you know how I’m part Belphegoran and part Infernus?” you say.

“Yes,” says Isaac. “And I know how you were drinking blood earlier, but that’s completely, well uh, normal. That is, for someone like you. A hellborn with that heritage, that is.” He seems nonplussed at the subject.

Cassandra continues loading bullets. “That’s not what you were talking about, was it.”

“Yeah no,” you say. “I think I’m uh. Part… Verwelken?”

Cass stops her task for a moment.

Isaac blinks. “Why do you say that?” he asks, doing a good job of keeping his expression and voice neutral.

“Because I do the stuff,” you say vaguely. “It’s why I was asking about it earlier.”

>>32299978

Isaac seems conflicted. “That’s… that can’t be right,” he says. “You’re Infernus. Maybe you’re misunderstanding one of your powers?”

You figure it’ll just be easier to show him and prove it than talk about it. “It’s actually kind of obvious,” you say. You lift a hand, which casts a faint shadow on the table under the ceiling light. You stare at it, and gently nudge the shadow with your will, budging it slightly to one side, and slightly to the other.

Isaac watches in disbelief. Something about his expression makes you nervous. (+3 Stress: 38/100) Cassandra puts down the half-loaded magazine. “Sierra, you should explain why you hid this from us.”

>I was waiting for a good time to tell you.
>I didn’t trust you guys until now.
>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.
>Honestly, I wouldn’t be telling you now if Rowan didn’t see me using these powers to save our lives.
>Other (?)

>>32300002
>>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.

>>32300002
>>Honestly, I wouldn’t be telling you now if Rowan didn’t see me using these powers to save our lives.
Might as well be truthful.

Rolled 4, 4, 8 = 16

>>32300002
>>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.

>>32300002
>>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.

>>32300002
>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.

>>32300002
>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something i mean a Verwelken killed your granddad so it seemed like a really bad idea to tell

>>32300002
>Honestly, I wouldn’t be telling you now if Rowan didn’t see me using these powers to save our lives.

>>32300002
>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.
>I was waiting for a good time to tell you.
"Everyone here's so nice, so understanding. It makes you look for a hidden angle to things...And I know you're not stupid, but...most people aren't this caring."

>>32300002
>Honestly, I wouldn’t be telling you now if Rowan didn’t see me using these powers to save our lives.

>>32300002
>Honestly, I wouldn’t be telling you now if Rowan didn’t see me using these powers to save our lives.
Don't lie to them

>>32300002
>Honestly, I wouldn’t be telling you now if Rowan didn’t see me using these powers to save our lives.

None of them really seemed to have a good reaction when Verwlken were brought up the first time and from what we know their job is basically hunting down demons and hellborn. If they were in our place, would they have brought it up?

>>32300080
and we are not we would tell them after this and besides it feels like more of a dodge then anything else it dose not tell them WHY we were hidding it just lets them know we WOULD keep hidding it

>>32300133
What? Please rephrase in multiple sentences.

>>32300002
"I tried to tell you guys a couple times, but I kept getting scared and clamming up. Probably never woulda said anything if I hadn't had to do shadow stuff to keep the hellhounds from killing me and Rowan earlier. I dunno. I guess I was just afraid of this turning into a repeat of every other time people decided to let me stay with them."

>>32300153
If we go with this option
>Honestly, I wouldn’t be telling you now if Rowan didn’t see me using these powers to save our lives.
we are not telling them why we keep the Verwelken side of us secret we are just saying that we would keep it secret

>>32300206
Sure.

>>32300197
Seconded

>>32300231
thats why i am suggesting agenst rolling for it!

>>32300197
This

>>32300272
What are you talking about? We're not rolling for anything. They don't need to know why we kept it secret. Especially since the reason some of us voted to keep it secret involved being able to beat Rowan in a fight if needed. They probably wouldn't like hearing that.

>>32300197
I'd rather not say this. Sounds too clichéd for me.

>>32300002
>>I was waiting for a good time to tell you.
>>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.

Can anyone tell me why some people are voting for telling Issac "I'd actually still be lying to you if Rowan didn't catch me in the act"?

>>32300359
Hell if I know. It makes less than no sense. Especially as we tried to tell Rowan once already, and couldn't muster the courage.

Hell, we should say that.

>>32300359
Because it's the truth?

>>32300002
>I was waiting for a good time to tell you.
>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.

>>32300359
It's not saying that we'd have never told him, it's that we wouldn't be doing it right now. I don't like the option, but it's not as bad as you're making it sound.

>>32300426
So is
>I was afraid you’d kick me out or something.
and that makes us look infinitely less suspicious.

>>32300426
no is not

pretty sure we wanted to tell it to Isaac

>>32300480
Some of us did. Some of us didn't.

>>32300468
That may be truth for you, but not for me.

>>32300480
You're sure throwing that "we" word around easily.

>>32300480
We may have wanted to, but I read the confession as basically saying that while we wanted to, we figure we would never have managed to build up the courage to actually do it.

“It didn’t make sense to tell you anything,” you say. “I mean, I didn’t know anything and then you were saying being part of two demons was really rare and stuff, and you were acting like it was really dangerous when I was just a two-parter hellborn. I didn’t know how you’d take it if you found out I was like, even more than that,” you say, getting the feeling you still don’t know what will happen as you’re telling them.

“So I didn’t say anything. And then I asked about it, and Ro got all quiet and you said Verwelkens killed your dad, and I guess I was scared you’d kick me to the curb or something if you found out.”

Cassandra shakes her head. “We couldn’t do that to you,” she says.

You look down at the dog in your lap, and watch as you trace circles in his fur. “Well I didn’t know that. I’ve known a lot of people, and all of them have something they can’t stand. I didn’t want to risk you guys over something… so insignificant.”

>>32300523
Isaac seems to have regained enough composure to speak. “Honestly, I don’t know what to say right now,” he says. He takes a moment to rub the scruff on his jaw. “If you were anyone else, I won’t lie, I’d probably get a kick out of throwing you out. I wouldn’t be able to trust my family with you after keeping something like that back.” He waits a second to compose his thoughts. He brings his hands together up on the table. “But today, you risked your life to save my girl. You’ve done more for me than the people whose job it is to help me. That practically makes you family, as far as I’m concerned.”

Cassandra smiles and goes back to bullet loading.

You feel an uncomfortable pressure inside your chest at Isaac’s words, but you kind of like the feeling anyway. (-15 Stress: 23/100) “If that’s all conditioned on me saving Rowan, I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t tell you all this yesterday,” you say, laughing nervously to yourself.

“Yeah, maybe that,” Isaac replies, chuckling afterwards.

Heh. Good thing you’ll never have to find out what might have happened. You like how it turned out just fine.

--End Part 10--

I'm thinking next thread tomorrow at 9:00 AM MST. I am tired now, and my muscles ache.

>>32300538

I might cancel though. Check twitter.

>>32300561
pls no cancel

>>32300538
Thank you for running. That was a lot of fun. I hope the lawn doesn't beat you up so bad tomorrow.

>>32300538
Based Lan

>>32300561
pls no lawn

>>32300561
a good run

>>32300538
Aw yiss! Happy end to the whole verwelken secret!

Seassion 10 went for super long too. Neat stuff.

Continue your combat against lawns everywhere after a good rest. You've earned it, soldier!

>>32300561
tomorrow is the next one or Saturday?

So what's the deal with our new hell hound companion? How much customization will be coming his way, if he has any? Will Sierra be able to purchase new powers that affect her new pet?

>>32300695
It would be pretty cool if we could ride him into battle.

>>32300706
Or go all Norse mythology and basically turn him into Fenris

>>32300538
Shit I thought we fucked up

>>32300561
what's the twitter?

>>32300538
This went more or less how I expected the Verwelken reveal to go, and just about as well as it could have done. Hooray for peaceful resolutions!

>>32301152

QM Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellbornQuest
The Story So Far: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=hellborn
Character Sheet: http://pastebin.com/rNg3Yw8m (picture included)

>>32301276
Good thing we decided to wait I guess.

>>32301305
--Weaknesses--
Spaghetti, pancakes, distance reading, shopping, scissors

This fascinates me.

>>32301305
The character sheet needs updating, our HP/PP maxes are 13/13 now, barring any upgrades after this fight.

While we seem to have unusually fast development, I do hope Rowen gets some growth as well before we catch up to her.

This was interesting. I kinda assumed Meckor didn't have many actual demonic subordinates he could chuck at people, that his little 'fiefdom' was mostly humans and hellborn.

Won't lie, at first I thought the dogs/dogwalker were some kind of horrible astral gestalt creature that eats divine beings. Or something along those lines.

>>32302547
He is known to hate humans, and would refuse to deal with them or even hellborn unless absolutely necessary, so presumably he has a fair few actual demon underlings. I seem to remember it being said that he had seven (? may have been "several") demon lieutenants at the least, though there may be further pure demons in lesser positions. We slaughtered one of his LTs in the supermarket, but had to hulk out to survive; the dog walker may have been another one of the LTs, but could also have been a lesser underling since going out after two wounded opponents on a revenge mission feels like something that would have been delegated.

>>32302547
>This was interesting. I kinda assumed Meckor didn't have many actual demonic subordinates he could chuck at people, that his little 'fiefdom' was mostly humans and hellborn.
That's a bad assumption, since the Hallows already told us that Meckor refuses to deal directly with anyone other than his pure demon subordinates. He'd need to have a lot of those to manage an organization of his size that way.