Limbo, There's a Way Home Options

[Sparrowsmith]

Graym hopped onto the boat, it was larger than the last time he'd been here, as he expected. While walking he'd steadily been holding his wound less, and now seemed almost ignorant of it, though the occasional drop of blood would still find its way down his side from time to time.
"I meant what I said before," he spoke after an entirely silent journey, "There are nightmares here, mostly in the water, probably like none you've encountered before. They shouldn't be able to harm you if you keep away from them, and definitely don't look at them."
"You said that last time." Laet chuckled, easing herself out of Nikko's arms, bowing in gratitude, "Didn't help much." she addressed the group, "To me, these things were pretty standard last time we came through, went down with barely a tap. They had a way of getting in the other guy's heads, though. We won't know until we get out there who they'll affect, or why, but it's pretty weird the things you'll see."
she hopped into the boat as well, only to fall over with a short yelp. Elders rushed to her, but she just laughed and stood back up.
"Gotcha!"

[Thubanus]

The priest walked in silence, following the group. When they reached the boat, he followed them on board, then found a corner to sit. He took out a book from his satchel, as well as an ink bottle and a feather quill, then began to write, occasionally glancing up with concern as he looked out at the passing horizon.

[Nicsp]

Addo followed after the group with a hearty yawn, all this walking around...Seriously...

And then they got to a boat, marvellous, really. "...Greaaaat...This is going to be horrible, just so y'know. Drunk people can't swim very well...Well, sometimes they can. But I can't...Doesn't even matter if i'm drunk or not, now that I think about it." He shrugged and took out his drink flask, taking a sip to build up courage as he then walked into the boat. Immediately feeling a shiver up his spine as he felt the boat's swinging, coupled with that feeling of all the drinks inside of him swirling around with the boat's rhythm. "...I'm going to...Sit down for a while..." He commented before he crawled himself over to a seat and took a deep breath, trying to get over that nausea.

[BulletVixen]

Nikko carefully let Laet crawl out of her arms and as soon as she was safely feet down on the boat, Nikko ran over and pressed against the middle of the boat as far away from the water as she could get. Her eyes widening at the sway of the water she closed them tightly and curled herself into as tiny a ball as she could. Shivering slightly she kept one ear perked up in case Nina or the others might need her help. "This is going to be a long ride" she thought to herself, "whether it's long in distance or not, please just let us get there without having to touch it." She looked over as the man in the strange outfit with no name began to write something. Nikko crawled slowly over to him and sat just out of reach watching his movements. She curled back into a ball and blinked slowly waiting for the time to pass as the man wrote.

[Bill Nye]

Keon followed the group onto the boat, noting where everyone was. He walked over and sat next to Addo, "You're not gonna puke on me, are you?" Keon joked as he opened his Locket and looked at the picture of his sister inside, trying to get his mind off the water.

[Ryuga]

OOC: Keon can't swim, Nikko dislikes water, Addo gets seasick, and Graym is wounded and has some reason to not like the journey. Looks like Nina and Priest are in for a long one.

IC:
Nina was the last to climb on board the boat. As soon as she was on deck, the horn whistled, and smoke erupted from the smoke-stack as the vessel began the journey.
Nina walked over to where Nikko was curled up into a ball.
"Are you okay?" she asked. kneeling down so she could be as close to eye level as she could get. "Is the water a problem?"
When it was apparent she wasn't going to get an answer of some kind, she walked over to the railing, leaning over to watch the waves.
The dark navy colour of the water slowly turned into a more violet colour as she watched giving it a more menacing appearance. Her heart nerely stopped as a disembodied arm surfaced from the water. Gasping, Nina backed away, but peered overboard once the initial shock was over. The arm was still there making motions as if to grab hold of something to drag with it into the water, though it didn't have the reach to do so.
Nina could not relax, however, as an eerie sound filled the air. The voices of people moaning as if in agony. She looked ahead to see more arms emerge from the waves on mass, until there was little to distinguish between the river and these disembodied limbs.
Nina could feel the fear take hold at the sight. "Oh my god..." She covered her mouth with her hands, almost as if she was getting sick. "What is this place?"

[Sparrowsmith]

"I like to think of this entire place as God's blind spot." Graym said, "All of Limbo, I mean. It's not quite hell, but it comes close. Stay away from the water though, last time I looked in there..." he hesitated, flinching as a voice whispered into the wind, "I saw someone. Someone I was better off not seeing."
"To be honest," Laet started, "I don't remember much of when we passed through here. I know I didn't see or hear anything, but it still creeped me out. You might wanna step away from the edge, plenty of room over here, we can get properly acquainted." Laet smiled, trying not to let circumstance interfere with pleasantries.

[Thubanus]

The priest looked up from his writing when Graym spoke. "I don't know if I would call it a blind spot," he said. "I think of it more like that twilight time right before dawn, when it seems the darkest, but the light of day is just around the corner." He set his writing aside and stood. "Speaking of which, let's see if we could look at some of these wounds, now that we are in a somewhat stable situation." He walked over and kneeled beside Laet first. He began untying the bars that he was using for an emergency splint. He took a leather thong from one of his pockets and handed it to her. "You might want to bite on this while I work. I need to set the bone back in place, and it might hurt a bit." After she put the thong in her mouth and was biting it, he grabbed her leg on both sides of the wound and twisted it back into place. He winced as Laet cried out.

"I'm sorry, Laet. I don't mean to cause you any pain. I had to do this so that it would heal properly. You're doing well. The hard part is over for you... Now, we pray that the Impossibility Factor is high enough and that God is listening, and we'll have you completely healed in no time. Then, we can see to Graym's wounds." He brought his hands together over the wound and closed his eyes in prayer.

[BulletVixen]

Nikko shifted slightly as Nina seemed to become upset, slowly she started to crawl over to see what was in the water but stopped as Graym began to speak. Hearing the details she stopped in a out stretched position and quickly yanked her arm back against her chest. As the hooded man began to stand she crawled back to the middle of the boat and hid her head under her arms. Flinching as Laet seemed to be in pain, Nikko crawled over to her then and sniffed along her ankle. She smiled briefly seeming to think the treatment was helping and glanced back over to Nina to make sure she was still alright. The water was bad enough, but everything else that seemed to be going on around them made it seem much worse, she just hoped they could get to the town soon. She hoped that perhaps she would be more helpful on solid ground. Sliding over she sat next to Laet and held out her hand offering it for something to hold onto if the pain rose too high. Then realizing her metal limb would probably only make it worse she quickly pulled her arm away and glared at the ground, still pushing her side against Laet's for warm if nothing else. For some reason it did seem to be getting colder. Or was it just her, who knew.

[Nicsp]

Once everyone was inside and ready, the boat pretty much started moving on it's own, as announced by a loud racket coming from it's engines down below, after a bit of noise, the boat suddenly jolted forward a bit as it unanchored.

Addo was midway answering Keon. "No no...I think that...If we just don't move too much, i'll be fin-" Just as he was about to finish, the boat took off, and with it, pretty much all the alcohol that Addo had in his stomach was pushed by the movement as well, quickly covering his mouth with his hand, Addo ran over to the edge of the boat, pretty much disregarding the danger for the moment as he leaned over the bar to puke.

Just as the boat started to move, however, it also alerted several nightmares that resided in those waters, who would now promptly start trying to drag the boat's passengers into the depths. Arising in the most varied forms, these creatures would start crawling their way up the boat, or, since the current was still weak at the moment, simply stretch themselves over to the deck's height. One of them, however, was interrupted as his climbing was interrupted by having some sort of yellow-ish stinky liquid thrown on his face, he pretty much fell back into the river immediately.

As Addo leaned backwards and walked away from the edge of the boat, wiping his mouth with his sleeve and letting out a loud, pained sigh. He shivered and shook his head, noticing all of the nightmares crawling their way up the boat then. "All right...Company...!" He'd state, before retching a bit.

[Ryuga]

OOC: Retcon alert?

IC: Nina jumped back, not expecting any more nightmares. So much for a nice boat ride. She ran over to Addo who seemed to need the most help at the time. She kicked a few Nightmares in the face as it climbed up causing them to fall back into the water. She took hold of Addo moving him away from the side of the boat so that Nightmares didn't pull him into the water while he retched. She lay him next to the injured Graym before running back to the Nightmares. With most of the group not in their best shape she was going to have to do some work for a change. Drawing her cleaver, she charged, hacking at the first Nightmare to climb aboard. It wasn't a very strong foe, it seemed, for it immediately toppled over, blood splashing Nina as it died.
Nina's eyes widened as if shocked, as she felt the spot on her face where the Nightmare had the pleasure of bleeding on.

[Sparrowsmith]

Graym lightly pushed the Priest away, "Not that I don't appreciate the effort." Graym said coldly, "but if there is a god watching this wasteland, I don't think he and I are on good terms." he drew his gun and turned to the nightmares approaching the boat. It was a struggle, shooting the nightmares which did pose a threat, but avoiding looking at the others, and he doubted he would be able to for the entire journey. As another nightmare attempted to board, he shot it through what resembled a head. The mess slowly altered into a face, resembling that of a person; a woman. Graym seemed less than impressed by the gesture, and shot through it another three times until it fell back into the water. Laet looked on sympathetically.

[Ryuga]

A hand wrapped itself around Nina's ankle as she stood in her stupor, yanking her overboard into the river below. After recovering from the initial shock, Nina frantically glance around. She was dragged under the water, the disembodied hands dragging her body further and further into the depths. She struggled to break free, but with over a dozen hands holding her tight, she could not break free. Just as she was about to pass out from the lack of air, she caught sight of a figure. A man, in his late fourties, covered in deep cuts in his flesh as if someone had cut him up before throwing him into this river.
"You!" it growled as it faced Nina. "You sent me to hell! And now I'm dragging you down with me!"
If Nina would have screamed at the moment if it were physically possible.

On the surface things were looking rather grim. The disembodied hands rattled the boat, as the humanoid nightmares continued to climb aboard. The current pattern was disrupted as the sound of a struggle could be heard below the surface. Countless disembodied arms sank below the surface and nightmares emerged belly up as the water changed from a dark violet to a deep crimson.

[Nicsp]

((OOC: Picture related. )

Addo, had, at this moment, just finished using his rifle to whack a nightmare in the face and sending him staggering backwards out of the ship, that's when he noticed Nina being pulled into the water. "Ma- Err...Woman overboard!" This was a problem, especially because the boat was moving, if they didn't do something quick, the boat would leave Nina behind, trying to act quick, Addo grabbed an old weathered rope and quickly tied it to the ship's bars, he then turned to the others. "Okay, we need someone to go down there and get the girl...! I'd do it but...You know, can't swim..."

[Sparrowsmith]

Elders rushed to the rope, hesitating. His head turned several times as he avoided the horrid gaze of the nightmares bearing itself against him, but tried to spot his drowning ally beneath the waves. His silence screamed the profanities he wanted to speak.
"Graym?" Laet inquired, but he barely noticed. He threw off his cloak and hat to keep them dry, revealing his forearms and whole face for the first time. He kept his head down, and his arms withdrawn from sight, before grabbing the rope and entering the mass of nightmares lurched over one another. He pushed against them, though they offered no resistance, and even aided him in his aim... He doubted they would be so kind on the ascent.
He found her face everywhere, the same eyes and lips that he knew long ago, but he ignored them. Then he came to Nina, or rather, the wake of whatever had happened. The water became blood, or some equivalent, and the nightmares seemed all but absent. There was fear in the air, but to who it belonged was a mystery. He looked around for Nina.

[Ryuga]

Nightmares parts floated past Graym as he dived deeper. Someone had gone "chop-chop" on these nightmares as they had been cleaved into two pieces or more.
Just as Graym would put the pieces together, a familiar girl shot up from underneath, which would have taken most people by suprise. Staring back at him was Nina with the same deranged look on her face as she did back at the village. The two simply stared for a brief moment, suspended in the water. Any sudden movements, and Nina would surely cut him up. To Graym's luck, it seemed like the necessity to breath overrode Nina's craze as she bolted for the surface.
Nina inhaled deeply as she broke the surface. She continued to hyperventilate, replenishing her air supply, as she awkwardly tried to stay afloat. Each breath calmed her repressing the primal instincts and putting her back into the normal state.

[Sparrowsmith]

Graym followed Nina up. He was quite visibly perplexed but continued on anyway. He untied the rope from himself and passed it to Nina, seeing as her murderous tendencies had come to another abrupt end.
"Grab this and climb back up. I'm sure the others will help you."
He turned back as nightmares began filling in the space previously occupied by the corpses Nina had left behind. For a moment, he regretted giving Nina the rope. This was a bad situation to be in.

[Ryuga]

Nina's hand shot out to grab hold of Graym's arm. While she was grateful for being handed the rope, and was almost tempted to climb to safety, she wasn't about to simply reverse the situation. Not to mention that without Graym, the crew would be lacking their leader. And though the nightmares grabbed a hold of them and attempted to yank them back down, Nina's hold on Graym and the rope would not slack. She could only hold on for so long however, and ashe desperately hoped the rest of the crew could hoist them up before then.

[Sparrowsmith]

Graym was almost stunned by Nina's determination to rescue them both. Almost, because the nightmares demanded he be prepared for anything, but he was impressed nonetheless. However, he found himself lamenting the lackadaisical manner of his crew. He could see over the side of the ship that Laet was the only one presently attempting to rescue them. He wondered how anyone could possibly have anything besides a sense of urgency at such a tense point in their journey.

[OoC "However, he found himself lamenting the lackadaisical manner of his crew. He could see over the side of the ship that Laet was the only one presently attempting to rescue them. He wondered how anyone could possibly have anything besides a sense of urgency at such a tense point in their journey." Yes... Graym is so disappointed by lack of activity that he is almost breaking the fourth wall]

[Nicsp]

(OOC: >_>;;)

Addo had been busy dealing with some of the other nightmares that were trying to get on board and, simultaneously, dealing with his constant and sudden retches and urges to vomit, what with all the shaking. The fact the boat seemed to be getting each time faster didn't help, the increasing impossibilty factor could've helped, except he needed to be drunk to use it and sadly, that was not possible at the moment. Seeing his two party members showing up far behind, still holding on to the rope, Addo rushed over to the rope and put one foot on the rail to give himself support, while he used both of his hands to try and pull Graym and Nina back onto the boat.