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thalassino ([personal profile] thalassino) wrote in [community profile] vatheon2012-03-27 04:15 pm

Life's no fun without a good scare


It starts some time around 3am, Tuesday morning. Thin whispers of fog start appearing all throughout Vatheon, creeping through the narrow, winding streets, up the steps, and over the park. It starts in the lower district, but as the night progresses and daylight approaches, it spreads to the other districts as well, growing thicker and thicker as it does. By the morning rolls around, the mist is thick enough that visibility has been compromised greatly, and the temperature seems to have dropped a few degrees, an odd chill filling the air.

And on the walls, there are stains.

They are infrequent at first, just a odd ruddy brown smear and a oddly bright red drop here and there, but the closer to the Plaza, the more numerous they become. There is a large smear across the steps leading up to the Plaza, as if something big was dragged up them. In one place the blood -- for it is blood, there is no deny it at this point -- pools thickly as if whoever was responsible took a casual break there, leaving the poor victim to bleed out on the steps.

On the plaza, the mist is thinner, but that is no relief. Rather, it just functions to make the gruesome scene all the more clearer.

A woman is draped upside down on the coral. Or, well, woman. It was once a woman, certainly, but now it is nothing more than something straight out of a nightmare. The flesh seems to have been torn carelessly from her limbs here and there, showing the white gleam of her bones, her nurse outfit torn as if raked apart by giant claws and her head...

well, it isn't there anymore.

The ground in front of her is smeared with blood as well. But where the previous smears had been accidental, these are deliberate, long lines curving and meeting to spell out



hel pm e



But no help had been forthcoming, clearly. No, it seems that this murder, this brutal murder, was nothing more than a game to whoever did it. The walls of the buildings surrounding the plaza are coated in bloody, spelling out a long string of mocking 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA's and directly in the center, behind the coral.


Who is next?



The notice board seems to have been hit too. The killer did not tear down any of the notices on the board already, but they did cover the entire board with blood-stained sheets of paper, each adorned with the same text over and over and over again.


Chop chop, sweet Charlotte
Chop chop till she's dead
Chop chop, sweet Charlotte
Chop off her hand and head.



For those brave enough to check, no, the poor girl still has both her hands. Was the killer just sloppy, or does this mean this is not Charlotte? So many unanswered questions, more born every passing moment.

Who had done this? Why? Where they going to strike again? And why had nobody heard anything?





[ooc note: Consider this your mingle log. Have fun, go forth, threadjack.

And as a further note, the fog does not seem to be clearing up as the week goes on. ]
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
The fear, of course.

[ Everyone is so frightened! He feels it as if he feels the wind against his skin. It's... exhilarating and curious all at the same time. ]
messianic: (Half bitterness we know)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-27 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[...a bit of a frown.]

...Yes, everyone is afraid, aren't they.

[...]

That's why we have to protect everyone. So they can live their lives without fear.
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course.

[ a pause as he glances back once more before beginning to follow Minato ]

Do you know why it happened?
messianic: (Illusion! Underneath there lies)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-27 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[...why it...]

No...I don't.

We have to find out, though. It can't stay like this.
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a pause and he looks saddened ]

... That is true. Who will clean this up?
messianic: (Ready and poised to wax or wane;)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-27 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He hadn't thought of that.

A slow breath, and--]


We will probably have to leave it until the people investigating are finished looking for clues. And then...I'll make sure it's cleaned up.

[Somehow.]
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
May I help?

[ he would like to. scrub away the blood and take the body to the morgue, ah how fascinating this is for him ]
messianic: (You efface the Sheen.)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-27 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[.....pharos why are you a creepy death child.]

You should probably not smile so much when offering something like that.

But I would appreciate your help.
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ !!! ]

Oh, is it wrong?

[ HE DID NOT KNOW ]

But I am glad to be of use.
messianic: (That is best which is not —)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-27 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
...It just might confuse people a little bit, Pharos.

[A slight nod, but--]

You're always helpful. Never doubt that.
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes me happy to hear that from you.

[ because Minato said it and Minato is his everything ]
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[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-27 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[...heh. A bit of a smile despite everything.]

Well then, I'm glad.

Come on. Let's go somewhere a little less bloody.

You remember this place, don't you?
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes!

[ falling into step beside Minato ]

I'm sorry for leaving those last two times.
messianic: (Our eyes to heaven; if we are blind;)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-27 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You have nothing to apologize for, I promise.

What matters is that you're back.

What do you last remember?
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-28 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
... The Kraken?
messianic: (in the face of darkness.)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[A slow nod.]

You haven't missed too much then. That's good.

[heh.]

Do you want to get a room at the dorm again?
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-29 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Right next to you!

[ BECAUSE MINATO ]
messianic: (That is best which is not —)

[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-29 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm...well, alright. I think there's a room open, then.