thalassino: (Default)
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. ]
bestestfurrend: (there there moirail)

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-31 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[She goes still at first and lets him hug her, then rubs her face against his shoulder, clinging a bit too tight. She kind of just wants to climb into his lap and not doing anything for a while.]

I want to make the biggest pile efur and hide inside it, yup yup.
420: Art by bbbrianne [at] tumblr.com (pic#1234466)

[personal profile] 420 2012-04-02 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[He would actually be totally down with friend-cuddles like that for a good while. They both need some good hugs after this.]

Yeah. Pillow and blankets and all the fuckin' softest motherfuckin' shit you can be finding.
bestestfurrend: (gamzee biffles)

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-02 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Uh huh.

[She makes a tiny noise of agreement but seems to be rather busy trying to fuse herself against his side.

She's not sure when the wariness she'd felt towards Gamzee had turned itself inside out into seeing him as a source of comfort and protection, but now that it had she clung to him like her life depended on it.]
420: (pic#1234447)

[personal profile] 420 2012-04-03 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He tightens his arm around her, stroking the top of her hood.]

Hey, it's all gonna be aight, ok? You'll see. Shit will work out. Always does.
bestestfurrend: (nooo my hood)

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-03 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Yes yes you're right.

[She's just going to reach up to chuu his cheek now as a thank you.]

Let's go make our pile?
420: (pic#2524464)

[personal profile] 420 2012-04-03 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[A pause as he thinks for a moment.]

Think Equius would all wanna chill with us?
bestestfurrend: (n33d you furever)

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-03 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[At hearing his name there is a gigantic look of DO WANT MOIRAIL written plainly all over Nepeta's face.]

I don't think he'd say no if we asked him...
420: (pic#1234522)

[personal profile] 420 2012-04-03 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's okay, Nepeta, he gets it. Moirails are magically comforting. And Equius is a comfort even without being his moirail.]

Aight. The more motherfuckers you all got, the better it is.
bestestfurrend: (PLAYTIME)

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-03 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh huh!

[Nepeta seems to have almost magically cheered up at the prospect of her moirail joining them, and now it's more like she's climbing all over Gamzee than clinging to him.]

And we'll both cuddle him so furry hard, oh yes yes!
420: Art by stervi [at] tumblr.com (pic#1234369)

[personal profile] 420 2012-04-03 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! All be laying our best motherfuckin' hugs on that motherfucker. Squeeze him like he is all bein' the best fuckin' clown horn that all be.
bestestfurrend: (@///@)

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-03 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...maybe this would be a good time for another of those potions Lily gave us. We could share one! That way we'd have at least half an hour, right? ...I really really need a hug from him right now.
420: Art by kingkaiser [at] tumblr.com (pic#1234376)

[personal profile] 420 2012-04-03 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[A good squeezey kind of hug sounds wonderful around now.]

Yeah, lets all be fuckin' doin' that. And if it ain't all bein' long enough, we can up and split usself another choice miracle drink and make it be lastin' longer.
bestestfurrend: (8>>!)

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-04-03 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! We really really need to ask Lily if she could please make us some more. Can you call Equius ofur??

[Doing it herself would involved breaking off her hug with Gamzee.]
420: (pic#1353645)

[personal profile] 420 2012-04-04 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Aight, sis. You got it.

[He single handedly fishes his sfc out of his pocket, one arm still slung around Nepeta's back as he types out a quick message to Equius.


continued here due to post hugeness.]