Out and About: Pippi's Boat: 3/15 (Ides of March, HPL Memorial Day) After Rehersal.

[strongestgirl]

Pippi sauntered down to where she had her boat, dubbed The Bag of Gold, moored.

With her she had a spyglass, sextant, battery powered floodlight, and her picnic rig. ((Including a nifty old statue she'd found that would make a nice centerpiece!))

She loaded it all up onto the boat and waited for Walter and any other sacraficial victems friends

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[nadiathesaint]

BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

The force of the blast slammed Nadia off her feet even as she was diving to the ground. She covered her head as . . . something, probably a mix of fish monster guts and water, splashed down over her.

[walter_n_wires]

Walter hit the dirt, well, sand, next to the boat and was up and on his feet as soon as the last fishy splatter hit.

He went to help Nadia up and farther away from the water.

[strongestgirl]

The boat rocked as the explosion caused waves in the water as well as a wave of fish person flesh.

There's a moment as a dozen or so voices screeched angrily into the night.

[cyclopeanmerc]

Pip shot up, both his guns out in front of him, scanning the water for monsters.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia stayed down, waiting both to catch her breath and for the ringing in her ears to die down a touch. She sensed someone (or thing) approaching and rolled over, raising her gun . . . .

And saw it was Walter and relaxed. She sat up and looked out over the fish gutted water.

"That was so cool!"

[walter_n_wires]

Walter tensed when the gun came up, ready to break to the side. Few things could have sucked more than the fish monsters, but getting shot by a friend would definitely have ranked up there.

"Very cool. Good thinking, now let's get away from the water, there are still more of them out there!"

[nadiathesaint]

"Good idea." And since she could tell without standing that she was just a touch shaky still, Nadia crab walked backwards away from the water.

[strongestgirl]

Pippi grabbed her bag from inside the boat. The statue fell over and clattered to the floor of the boat.

"Up the rocks." She shouted over the gurgling cries of the remaining creatures.

[cyclopeanmerc]

Pip glanced back behind him briefly and started to walk backwards, emptying his clips into the monsters before ejecting them, turning around, reloading, and running up behind to the rocks.

[strongestgirl]

The creatures advanced on the boat despite Pip's bullets.

[walter_n_wires]

Walter stayed out of Pip's field of fire and backed away from the boat, staying with Nadia along the way.

[strongestgirl]

The, significantly smaller now, crowd of creatures (a few also now missing limbs) swarmed over the boat as Nadia, Walter, Pip, and Pippi backed away from it.

A particularly large one let out a great howling noise and held something up.

The statue.

All of the creatures stopped and all but the ones nearest the kids turned back and kneeled.

[cyclopeanmerc]

Pip had learned a lesson from his encounter with the monsters at Jack's party. He kept his guns trained on the monsters, but didn't fire. "What's going on?"

[strongestgirl]

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Pippi grunted as she scrambled up the rocks and held her hands out for her friends.

"Why didn't he tell me the story was true."

[walter_n_wires]

Walter watched the scene on the beach, taking in every detail for future reference, and because no doubt, Alfred would want to know what he had observed.

"What story?" he asked as he made it into the shelter of the rocks after the rest. He didn't have to worry about running out of ammunition, after all.

[strongestgirl]

"Get up here" Pippi said stretching her arms down to the others emphatically.

"Get up here now and let's get behind these boulders and I'll tell you all about it."

A good chunk of the remaining creatures start to leave with the large one and the statue, who seems to be barking orders to the ones farthest from the water before he turns to go.