I know, I fought you in the dark
Wessex returns to the Barracks and opts for another large beam, more or less covered from head-to-toe in soot. Every place she touches, if not blackened already, bears the mark of the LongNight. She grasps this one by the end, ready to shift it to one side and drag it out of the skeletal building, but as she does, something shiny catches her eye. Pausing, the Wraith puts the wood down and squats down to inspect it, gently brushing away the fine film of dark gray that covers it, revealing thin spikes. Her brow furrows, unsure what they could be - or have been - until she looks at where she is, and then looks at the door, and a wave of fury and grief washes over her. She should have known to get out, she should have - shaking her head to herself, Wessex gingerly and respectfully picks up all that’s left of Mara, placing the upgrades in her pocket for burial at some other time.
With any luck, this will be last LongNight she has to deal with this sort of thing.
The sound of a rock on a nail gets her attention and unfortunately for both Henry and Aamu, their luck wasn’t a good as their first round. Aamu’s slow, meticulous work is smart, but there’s no accounting for structural instability and he’s unable to see that he’s removing a piece that is actually keeping the back half of the roof elevated. It comes down with a resounding crash. Considering that he doesn’t need to breathe, Aamu should be fine even though the air around him is filled with a fine soot, but the weapons he’s looking to salvage are still buried.
Wessex looks back at him, then at Henry and yells towards the Ascended, “You okay? Need a hand?”
In the meantime, Henry will find that he’s stabilized that portion of the wall for now, but it likely isn’t a permanent fixture. There are however, portions that aren’t nearly as badly damaged as the rest of the building. Whether or not they can be salvaged still needs to be determined
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No post order. Sorry Aamu - another not great roll. Keep at it?
Henry, take a look at the rest of the building and identify what needs to come down and what might be able to be salvaged.
Wessex will either help Aamu or keep removing the big stuff.
the wraith
WESSEX
