John, technically, should be a level up but Prior is about as far off script as you can get. John is just taking a shortcut to the same result. Prior has turned up in the wrong film studio and sticks out as far as you can get in this horror film. Still, if he's here then John has to take him into account. He steps through into the room slowly, wary of this change to things, both hands on the semi-automatic gun he's carrying as he recalculates. ]
Get back.
[ An instruction, pitched soft but with the knowledge that everyone in this room can hear him anyway. This adds... complication that John doesn't want. It's bad enough having to relive this without having to do so under scrutiny. Additional scrutiny, he supposes. The most important thing, though, is to put himself in front of Prior -- between him and the Wraith Keeper still holding Sumner down on his knees. ]
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John, technically, should be a level up but Prior is about as far off script as you can get. John is just taking a shortcut to the same result. Prior has turned up in the wrong film studio and sticks out as far as you can get in this horror film. Still, if he's here then John has to take him into account. He steps through into the room slowly, wary of this change to things, both hands on the semi-automatic gun he's carrying as he recalculates. ]
Get back.
[ An instruction, pitched soft but with the knowledge that everyone in this room can hear him anyway. This adds... complication that John doesn't want. It's bad enough having to relive this without having to do so under scrutiny. Additional scrutiny, he supposes. The most important thing, though, is to put himself in front of Prior -- between him and the Wraith Keeper still holding Sumner down on his knees. ]