Simple jobs going awry is something of a constant; both for people on the 'right' side of the law and for those who thrive on the 'wrong' side. Competing teams, last-minute readjustments, sudden complications; the list goes on.
This time, stealing information for a client has into something supernaturally worse. It feels like a tear in the world, a rift to a place where mortals shouldn't go. Shadows are creeping up the walls.
This was, possibly, what that client was attempting to prevent, but it seems that as darkness seizes the building, working its way up from the lower floors, they've left it a little too late.
Hidden mechanisms dump flammable material and flames right after; some failsafe meant to contain whatever they were doing here. The darkness battles with the flickering firelight, shadows pooling like oil as they're hemmed in by flames.
The building is definitely going to burn down. Magical senses can feel that deadened rift still spreading down below, like numbing cold.
Talon
Simple jobs going awry is something of a constant; both for people on the 'right' side of the law and for those who thrive on the 'wrong' side. Competing teams, last-minute readjustments, sudden complications; the list goes on.
This time, stealing information for a client has into something supernaturally worse. It feels like a tear in the world, a rift to a place where mortals shouldn't go. Shadows are creeping up the walls.
This was, possibly, what that client was attempting to prevent, but it seems that as darkness seizes the building, working its way up from the lower floors, they've left it a little too late.
Hidden mechanisms dump flammable material and flames right after; some failsafe meant to contain whatever they were doing here. The darkness battles with the flickering firelight, shadows pooling like oil as they're hemmed in by flames.
The building is definitely going to burn down. Magical senses can feel that deadened rift still spreading down below, like numbing cold.
This definitely could have gone better. ]