So many things could be picked up in body language...words unsaid if one were looking...Beau however wasn't looking to pick up on them at this moment in time so if there was a brief non verbal exchange with Hyde and Grey..she apparantly missed it...

She watched as the winch was brought over in silence...except for that scratching sound...it seemed to be a regular occurance.  

2008-07-18 15:32:52 Radiation rolls 3 dice to Winch 10,6,2 (2 successes)
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The winch, though well rusted wil lstill manage to hold the cage. Grey will have to re-rig the explosive charge to drop it, but as long as its hanging he can do that whenever.

He keeps his eyes on the cable, as the Cage slowly raises back to its ready position.

'Any more of your Brood going to be coming this way Buggy?'

Beau stood straight, and stepped away from where the cage teetered overhead...for a variety of reasons at this point in time...she'd spent enough time caged in last months and this...well just brought that discomfort back...the words were almost lost in her thoughts as she continued to scratch...grunt.  Yes she kept some distance between herself and the two, not for lack of trust so much as for well yeah...it took a while for friendly faces to truely hold that status in her eyes...family or not...

She shrugged, "There was talk of it before I left...the creeps and theirs were rumored to be moving in...but I can't say whether they'll wait for them to get there...or they'll follow their own guidance.  There were only a couple of us left...one less after we went to look into the quiet...hope she comes back, finds her way...but they say if the Nic...they find you...you don't...broodmates said they knew she wasn't comming back...said she knew..."

Her thoughts started to wander more...back to places she didn't want to wander and she got quiet for a long time, she shook her head and pulled an abnormally large leech off her neck...throwing it to the ground before she cleared her throat..."They may...they may not make their way here..."  

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Hyde begins to eye her more suspiciously as her paranoia becomes more and more evident. He had momentarily forgotten about the beartrap that tried to take his leg off in the excitement of the cage being triggered and the embarrassment of his failed obfuscation. When she mentions the Grendel, his thoughts immediately drift to the monstrosity he encountered while tracking his traitorous broodmate, but he knows this is not the time to bring it up. He needs to talk to Beauty about it before panicking and of the others with information he cannot yet confirm.

He rattles his head slightly, shaking off his errant thought and comes back to the thought of this newcomer traipsing into his tunnels and laying traps without informing anyone, much less asking, and before he can check his temper, it bursts forth in the silence following her confusing tale.

"IT WAS YOU!" his deep voice suddenly booming through the tunnels, his accent thickening with his emotions "You're the one whot tried ta hobble me!" He yells, gesticulating wildly at his leg. "Ain't you housebroken? Yer Sire didn' teach you no manners?"

Beaumont had no idea what he was talking about of course...but her mind didn't have a chance to even offer much of an explanation before that bit of fear came welling up inside her at the sound of the booming voice reverberating it's angry chastisement towards her.  Everything she'd encountered of late told her to run away...survive...find another place to stay and dwell, somewhere where something went wrong and it wasn't somehow her fault.  In reality most of what had happened before comming here wasn't her fault, but it didn't stop her from being sorry about it...the cringing, pulling away was apparant as she took a step or two back, her voice stuttering, stammering..."I'm sorry...I didn't...I...what?  Why would I...what are you talking...how..."  it trailed off...she didn't flee for her life right then, but the body language said it all...the way she shrank away, the way she did what she could to put herself behind Mr. Grey...

2008-07-18 21:16:07 Buggy rolls 4 dice to Don't run away (courage) 6,1,5,6 (1 success)  

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2008-07-18 21:42:55 Hyde rolls 6 dice to Perc+Subt(Sense Motive) 3,2,4,8,9, 3 (2 successes)

For a moment, her fear almost translated as guilt, because of course, guilt is what Hyde wanted to find. But Hyde quickly sees that he is mistaken in his accusations. Apparently making an ass out of himself is his M.O, tonight.

"Aww crap." He says calming down. "It wasn't you." He looks briefly to an equally confused Mister Grey and decides he had better explain himself...

[Hyde relates the events of his post in 'Security, The Sewers']

... and finally apologizes to Buggy. "Terrible sorry miss, I just assumed... well, there are so few of us here, and I know it weren't any of us three, that just leave you an' ... Quinn.

"SONOVABITCH!" his voice is loud once more, his huge fangs bared. "It hadda be that damn Aussie! Just lolligaggin' 'round, makin' hisself at home! Leave a beartrap fer ME ta step in will he?!?" Hyde trails off, stalking in the direction of the Hovel...

Buggy remained rather motionless through the explanation of things...oddly the bear traps made her giggle...perhaps because she was sorry she hadn't though of it, or maybe because well...it wasn't her leg stuck in a trap and it was nice to know that crap things happened to other people every once in a while...even if they weren't more than a little inconvienient...she felt the tension leaving her body, and started to put things together as to why he was so terribly agitated at this point in time...

Just when she felt herself letting go of the tension,started to edge out from behind Mr. Grey.... just when her fingers had started to pull at a maggot out of the back of her hand he yelled again...and Buggy looked like she was ready to hit the ground at any second, fully ready at the vocal tremors invading her consciousness to get the fuck out of dodge...it took a second before she sucked in air and spat out at the top of her lungs..."STOP DOING THAT!"

Hyde pauses, cocks his head with a quizzical look at Buggy's outburst, not even sure of what she meant for a moment, "Uhhh... right. Sorry." he says and continues stalking down the tunnels.

As they near the Hovel, he pauses again, spinning around to face Buggy and Grey. "Just thought I should warn you... if Quin happens to be around, there is going to be more yelling momentarily." With that he takes the last few strides to enter the Hovel.

{Continued in 'Things That Go Bump' in 'The Hovel'}

Grey simply pats Buggy on the shoulder consolingly.

'Welcome to town lovey.'

He grins with filed teeth and will follow after Hyde. None too happy about someone modifying tunnels he has so meticulously bugged and mapped and helped maintain, but at least his anger comes out a littel differently than Hydes...