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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 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
People do not like to die.
hypervision: (just as I suspected it would)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-27 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, but why did they think that writing that would get them help? They ended up dying anyway... [It just seems like a waste to write for help when no one will be able to see it in time...]
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It will help catch the killer.
hypervision: (there's no interest in a broken future)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-27 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh...maybe they should've tried to write who the killer was then...
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
What if they did not know the killer's name?
hypervision: (there's no interest in a broken future)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-27 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's true! [Looking back at the messages again] Hmm...too bad she didn't write what the killer looked like, at least...
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
She probably did not have enough blood. Though I do wonder how she was able to write such a message in such a short amount of time.
hypervision: (but I'll be the only one left in the end)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-27 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... [Looking up towards the walls of the surrounding buildings where the string of "HAHAHAHA"s are seen.] The killer had a lot of time to write those on the walls without anyone seeing too...
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-27 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
There was too much time wasted at this murder. How unfortunate.
hypervision: (see look I just wanna have fun)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-27 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm... [He stares at the things around them for a few seconds more before suddenly his attention is turned towards you as he gestures at you with a handpuppet, pretending to speak with it.] "So who are you? What's your name?"
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-28 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ fdkjhfkjsdfkjdksjghkjdgh

just the most surprised expression ]


O-Oh!

I... I am Pharos!
hypervision: (see look I just wanna have fun)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-28 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hello Pharos, it's nice to meet you!" [He giggles a little as he lowers his puppet hand down a little as he gestures towards himself, though speaking a little more normally now.] I'm Reisuke Houjou!
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-28 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice to meet you, Reisuke Houjou! Are we friends now?
hypervision: (it's the start of a heart pounding game)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-28 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Friends? [He's never had nor needed friends before--real ones, anyway, but...he beams a little more.] Yeah, we can be friends now!
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[personal profile] macabre 2012-03-29 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have many friends!

[ SO EXCITED ]
hypervision: (see look I just wanna have fun)

[personal profile] hypervision 2012-03-29 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't either, so I'm happy that we at least can be friends!

[ALSO EXCITED!]