Next to an unusually occupied house...Mark, eager to see the occupants of the basement, takes a look inside, opening the trap door leading down there!
[Mark stealth roll: 3]
[People perception roll: 5]
As he opens the door, it emits a slight creak! The voices immediately stop!
"We have been discovered.""Aw, crap! What do we do?""Wait, maybe it's that chair-thing!""Doubtful. This one is attempting to sneak in."There is a pause, then one of the voices - a cold, female one - speaks in Mark's general direction!
"Whoever you are, know that you cannot come inside and live. State your identity and intentions."Inside a love-tomb...Tom tries to overcome the horrible, soul-quenching agony he is experiencing and escape before Josh does anything worse to him!
[Will roll: 3]
However, just when he thinks the pain is subsiding, it comes back with new force, twisting and contorting his very being in ways one was probably not meant to experience in a single life. He starts to crawl back toward the loose piece of wood he found, and he pulls on it!
[Strength roll: 6+
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He manages to tug on it, summoning superhuman strength in a second, pulling the bit of debris out of the wall with amazing, pain-fueled force!
The love-tomb, sturdy though it may have been, begins to collapse!
[Bernie debris avoidance roll: 4]
[Tom debris avoidance roll: 1]
Josh seems to understand what is going on immediately, gasping and going for one of the crumbling walls, smashing through and landing safely outside, though he loses his painful hold on Tom's soul in the process! Tom, however, is not quite as quick, what with the whole horrible agony bit, and is buried in what seems like a veritable ton of charred garbage! It seems to be slowly crushing him under its weight!