PUT SOME SHARP THING IN OUR HIDDEN PERSON OR SOMETHING
Welp. I think you might be a mite bit confused on that point. The power might be called “the hidden knife” but it doesn't mean you can conjure knives, it means you can hide them on your person if they already exist. And there aren't any loose knives in the trunk.
While putting the sharp things on our person. Sing "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor" over and over at the top of our lungs. People seen as cray are unnerving to normies.
Hide the car in our pocket. Run away with the car.
You don't really feel like singing, and, uh, a car is way too big to hide on your person. So mayb-
The car pulls to a halt and you hear Sunglasses and his goons kill the engine and pile out of the car. Since the engine and background noises have died away, you can hear Marv and Eddie waiting by the trunk while Sunglasses walks away.
An unknown voice speaks, male, ragged, like an old man. “Jack. You collected Sophie's child without trouble?”
Jack (Sunglasses): “Uh, pretty much. There were a couple cops with him.”
Old man: “What did you do?”
Jack: “One of em' broke my majesty, so I had to break his skull open.”
Old man: “That'll create complications.”
Jack: “Bishop, relax, DuSang will have it covered up. It'll be-”
Bishop (Old man): “DuSang is dead.”
Jack: “What? Really? Shit.”
Bishop: “Gerard and Phillip are trying to salvage his network of contacts, but it's a mess. And now the local law will be in a frenzy trying to find you.”
Jack: “Damn it. So now what?”
Bishop: “They'll try and clean up your mess, I expect. But you and I have different work to do. Get in the car. I'll explain on the way.”
Jack: “All right. One second.” Then, louder, as he shouts to Marvin and Eddie. “All right, you know what to do, right? Don't screw up.”
Bishop: “Your men know what they're doing?”
Jack: “They're a bunch of idiots, but, yeah. He's not one of the awake kinda types anyways, so it won't be a problem. One of those broken types, I reckon.”
It sounds like they get into another car. You hear an engine turning over, and another car driving off. Then Marvin speaks.
Marvin: “You ready to do this?”
Eddie: “Yeah, guess so.”
A key gets inserted in the trunk lock, turns. The trunk pops open, and you leap out clutching the jumper cables. Marvin and Eddie try and grab hold of you, but you manage to connect the clips on the end of the cable to Eddie.
“Ow! Fuck!” he yells. He drops the shovel into the snow and retaliates by indignantly punching you in the face. Then Marvin tries to hold you down while Eddie grabs the duct tape out of the trunk, but you struggle out of Marvin's grip. There's a moment of awkward fumbling where you try and inexpertly garrotte Marvin with a bungee cord but that works about as well as you'd expect it to. The two of you collapse into the snow and roll around.
“Shit, Marv, hold him still!” Eddie yells, grabbing the shovel. He swings it down and hits Marvin by accident, which lets you loose. You leap to your feet and run as hard as you can right through the snowy field, with the two stooges right behind you. The snow is about a foot and a half deep and hard going for everyone, but you have the advantage of not needing to breathe and gain distance on them pretty rapidly. A minute later, you hit the treeline and disappear into the darkness and the snow.
- - -
Moonlight is good enough to get by on, but the cold drains your energy. You don't really feel the cold so much as your energy slowly draining away. All the same, your survival instincts keep you stumbling through the woods for another three hours looking for some sort of shelter.
Until, eventually, you find an old and slightly run down farmhouse with a large oddly shaped garage adjoining it. There's just a hint of daylight on the horizon, and you can barely stay awake. The garage is a converted coach house from the looks of things, and is unlocked. It looks sun-proof. There's an elderly tractor growing rust, workbenches with unused tools, a gasoline lantern sitting on the bench. Fatigue and overwhelming sleepiness overcome you, and you curl up into a ball on the floor and fall asleep.
- - -
You wake up in a bed, under a comforter. It's much warmer. You're in someone's bedroom, long unused. There's dust sheeting on most of the furniture. A mantlepiece with a couple of antique toy cars, a dresser, and a few other solid wooden articles of furniture. The window is covered with a thick curtain. You can hear people talking downstairs.
What now? >_
Clothes: Dress shirt, t-shirt beneath that, briefs, pants.
Blood: 5/10
Heightened Senses (Passive) – Sharper hearing, sense of smell, kinesthetic awareness.
Hidden Knife – Conceal up to three small items on your person. 1 Blood to activate, no maintenance cost.
Nudge Will – Make someone cooperative or uncooperative. Subtle. 1 Blood to use.
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