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vatheon2012-03-27 04:15 pm
thalassino) wrote in vatheon2012-03-27 04:15 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- akihiko sanada,
- akise aru,
- amane kuzuryu,
- anise tatlin,
- aradia megido,
- axel,
- bad girl,
- bianca,
- billy iketani,
- bugs bunny,
- chie satonaka,
- ciel phantomhive,
- cielo,
- conan edogawa (shinichi kudo),
- desu mc (katsu aoki),
- dizzy,
- duzell,
- expatriate darkleer,
- gamzee makara,
- gankyuu eguriko,
- grell sutcliff,
- guy cecil,
- heather mason,
- ion,
- italy (feliciano vargas),
- jacob,
- james sunderland,
- kanaya maryam,
- karkat vantas,
- ky kiske,
- minato arisato,
- mishina eikichi,
- mitsuhide akechi,
- morte asherah,
- muraki kazutaka,
- pharos,
- ran mouri,
- red heavy,
- red medic,
- reisuke houjou,
- riku,
- rinoa heartilly,
- ruca milda,
- sebastian michaelis,
- shelly greenhill,
- shizuo heiwajima,
- squall leonhart,
- tiir rumibul,
- tsuzuki asato,
- yosuke otoha,
- yukari takeba,
- yuno gasai,
- zelda (ocarina of time)
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
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.
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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It's true. There are enough of us here to find him, I think, but...
[It would be a lie to say that anything about this made him comfortable.]
It's most important that everyone is kept safe.
[Whether that means going all out to catch the guy first or hanging back and trying to protect everyone, he is not yet sure]
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Yeah. I dunno how much longer I can take this, though. S'completely different from the Dark Hour, isn't it?
[There's blood everywhere then, too, but...
There's something more ominous about this.]
Um...is someone going to come get the body?
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Akihiko steps forward, nodding to the other two.]
I can probably get the body down... We shouldn't leave her up like that.
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We should probably clean up the plaza.
I think Kazutaka-sensei was planning to do an autopsy of the body. We should...probably bring it to him.
[At least there's a doctor, right...? Even if he's kind of sketch.]
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She looks at all the bloodstains around the plaza, though, the Hahahas and the words--
He's probably right.]
She shouldn't be too heavy if it's the three of us...but I also don't wanna contaminate anything, if anyone's gonna need any of this stuff.
[Motioning to the aforementioned blood this time. So many people, there's gotta be at least a small group interested in investigating.
But you know what, she lives here and she passes through the plaza every day. Whatever the case, she just wants this stuff gone.]
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I don't know who this woman was but she deserves more respect than this. Let's get her in to that doctor to take a look as soon as we can. Once we have more information, we can start trying to catch this guy.
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Will you help me get her down, senpai? We can take her to the doctor.
[He'll certainly feel better once they're doing something, as opposed to just standing there doing nothing.]
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But fine. Acknowledging Akihiko's point, she nods, sighing as she folds her arms--shivering a bit, too, because it's kinda cold. And she watches the big strong men take care of the body.
She almost doesn't wanna look.]
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Should we both climb the coral and bring her down slowly?
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But he just nods quietly to Akihiko's question, not seeing much need to answer it verbally, before moving to climb onto the coral as best he can.
Thankfully, it being coral, there are plenty of hand and footholds, so it isn't too difficult a climb.]
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[h m p t h.
And that's all the warning they'll get. Her voice is pretty shaky though, as she watches; this atmosphere is really doing nothing for her.]
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[Once they have the body. Akihiko breathes and continues to climb, catching up on the other side of Minato. It's kind of morbid to think that here he is, helping remove a corpse from a pile of coral... But this was never something he thought he'd ever have to do in the peace of Vatheon.]
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While they had fought often...dead people were something else entirely.
It's sobering, in a way. This place is still dangerous.
But they manage to get back down without a misstep, and Minato quietly lays the body on the ground so they can plan their next move.]
I believe I saw the doctor here somewhere...
[Or they can take her to the clinic, though Minato would honestly like to avoid having to deal with the dead body as much as possible.]
1/2
[She can't help but stare, shuddering, putting a hand over her mouth as if she wouldn't be able to hold off on puking for much longer. She does indeed spot them, with confidence, as Akihiko instructed, but when they get her back down...
It kind of hits her.
The body doesn't even have a head...
...
No lasting expression to leave behind, no way to tell if she was scared or tired or happy or sad...
Just. Nothing.]
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L-Let's just get this over with.
[She hasn't met Muraki yet, but it seems she would soon.]