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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] longwinded 2012-03-28 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm fine. I have my windy powers if anything happens. I don't think you should be looking at this though.
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[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-28 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still staying if you're staying. And I've seen lots of worse things before. It's more...those words, written like that.

[She winces as she glances over at them again.]
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[personal profile] longwinded 2012-03-28 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The words are a little creepy. I mean, I don't want either of us to be next. But we don't know who he's after, really.
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[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-28 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not because of that, it's...

Did anyone tell you what happened back in the Veil?
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[personal profile] longwinded 2012-03-28 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[. . . .what?]

No, what happened?
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[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-28 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...oh.

No, no, then it doesn't matter! [Yeah not wanting to open that can of worms all over again.]
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[personal profile] longwinded 2012-03-28 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Nepeta. I promise I won't tell anyone or anything, I swear. You can trust me.

[I mean he guesses. He needs to know now!]
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[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-28 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not because I'm afraid you'll tell anyone! A lot of the others know already anyway. I do trust you...I just don't want you to get upset.

[She's rubbing at her face and looking away, thinking she shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.]
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[personal profile] longwinded 2012-03-28 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I won't get upset. I'm John Egbert, I don't get upset! Upset is one thing I do not do at all.
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[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-28 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sighs. Well then.]

You know we sleep in sopor slime to stop our nightmares getting too bad, right? Well, Gamzee used to eat the slime, he wasn't supposed to but his lusus wasn't around to tell him not to and that's why he used to be so calm all the time...anyway, when we were in the lab we didn't have any sopor! And going off of it and going sober meant his highblood tendency to go into a murderous rage didn't have anything stopping it any more...
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[personal profile] longwinded 2012-04-01 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think that is what is going on right now, Nepeta? [He reaches out to put a hand on top of her head, between her little horns. Nothing was going to happen while John was around, nope!]

This might be something worse...I think.
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[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-01 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Not purrcisely. I don't think it's Gamzee fur sure! But I'm afraid maybe it's the Grand Highblood, his ancestor... [She's relieved she didn't have to get to the point in the story where she'd have to admit to being killed. When he placed his hand on her head she sighed and relaxed a little, rubbing the top of her kitty hood against his palm.]

But you might be right, it still doesn't seem quite right even if it was him. What do you think is going on??
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[personal profile] longwinded 2012-04-06 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really know or can I really say what is going on Nepeta. [John might relax a little too and just pet her. She isn't a kitty, or an animal at that. But he can pet her and maybe that would make her feel better.]

Oh that big scary troll again huh. Maybe not. This doesn't look like he would do it. He doesn't look like the poetic type at all. It's such a mystery.]
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[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-06 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nope, she is definitely a kitty and please do pet her, John. She really needs it right about now.]

I wouldn't put anything past a subjuggulator, they're so weird. But I think you're right.