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Who: Sonia Nevermind & others
When: All of Chrysanth! (November)
Where: Caissa, Capablanca, Petrosian, Fort Graupera
What: Using this log for jobs and such for this month
Rating: None?? I'll change it if anything gets too spooky/violent etc

I'll post planned prompts below, if you'd like to do something let me know via PM or at plurk at serves and I'll write something up :)

Comments

[slotted]

[ sonia may have opened the door further but it's leo who steps in first. the room has blood all over. there's even hand prints of blood on the walls. it's messy and it reeks. and there's a piece of paper on top of one of the puddles of blood in the room. it's clean, as if it was just put there before they entered.

leo doesn't let go of sonia and instead tugs her hand gently to lead her to where the piece of paper is. it's the only thing noteworthy in the mess of a room, after all. he picks it up, but it's... ]

Haunted paper. Good to know.

[assent]

[ She sighs softly as she looks at the state of the room. It's horrid how familiar this all feels. She follows him along as he pulls her, glancing back at the door worriedly. One of them has to keep watch at least, just to be sure nothing follows them in. ]

Haunted paper?

[slotted]

I was about to grab it.

[ he points at the spot where the paper once was. ]

It disappeared.

[assent]

I was watching the door, I apologise. [ She looks nervous. ] Do you think it was important?

[ Well if it disappeared, probably. ]

[slotted]

It seemed new. And it didn't look like a hospital document.

[ he looks at the door now, too. thankfully there's nothing there. but the woman who has been crying this whole time has stopped and is now just staring at them. ]

[assent]

What did it look like? [ Sonia asks it quietly, glancing at the woman who was crying before, giving her a gentle smile. ]

Please do not worry, we are not here to harm you.

[ gj Sonia ]

[slotted]

Like a diary.

[ even leo sounds confused. ]

Maybe from another patient.

[ he'll let her deal with the ghost. he's not interested... and also he's kind of scared, thanks. ]

[assent]

[ Sonia doesn't look back or let go of him, tightening her grip just in case. ]

A page from a diary?

[ Her head tilts as she looks at the ghost, giving her a tiny smile. ]

Please, we want to help you. Was this your room here?

[slotted]

Something like that, I couldn't make what was on it.

[ BECAUSE IT DISAPPEARED!!! the lady just nods because screaming again though, then goes back to crying in fetal position. ]

Is there anything we can do?

[ to help her. he doesn't like what he's seeing. ]

[assent]

[ Sonia slowly shakes her head. ]

I do not believe so. We should... try another room. I do feel uneasy staying in this room.

[ She tugs lightly on Leo's hand then, gripping it tighter, because it's like being displaced in time, seeing flashes of what has happened to this poor woman. ]

[slotted]

[ yeah, that stuff is going to play in leo's head every day now. what a great job this is!!! ]

Come on, then.

[ to another room! where there seems to be a middle aged man screaming and trying to get out of the room via the closed window.]

[assent]

[ Good luck, Leo. You didn't want to believe they existed. Sonia has to shove her weapon under her arm to press her hand against her mouth though when she sees the man. The feeling of wanting to escape is incredible, but also... suicide. Death. Wanting it all to end. Maybe that is how it really happened, she doesn't know. ]

Leo, is that another?

[ She does see a paper on the bed though, reaching for it--but yet again the papers disappear. ]

[slotted]

[ leo's actually trying to look for other kinds of clues now when sonia calls his name. he turns to her, a bit worried. ]

Did you see something?

[assent]

Another paper. It disappeared again, I'm afraid to say.

[ This seems useless, especially when they can't freely survey the room with having to keep up the mana exchange at the same time. ]

[slotted]

[ he pauses for a bit, even going so far as to let go by accident to scratch his chin. ]

Maybe we were being too slow. The moment we see it, we gotta dive for it.

[assent]

[ She frowns as well, kneeling to where the paper was before.

Why did he let go though, because that's when things start getting freakier. The man starts yelling louder, the lights start flickering more--

Something seems to be coming now... ]

I am not certain.

[ Yet she's still chill af ]

[slotted]

[ he's too focused on the papers now to notice that things are starting to get freakier. oops. ]

We can try later, in another room. We've found one in each room so far, right?

[assent]

[ Good job guys... Though she also is rather focused on looking around. ]

That is true, shall we try the next one then?

[ She's already heading for the door, but the man's screaming and sobbing is getting louder and it's getting harder to ignore the kind of memories that are making themselves known. The torture, the pain and all that... it's quite vivid. ]

[slotted]

[ leo likes to help people but as far as he's concerned, those in this hospital are beyond help. their screams will forever play in his head and he'll never be able to get rid of it, but he continues on and goes towards the door to open it again. time to head to the next room!

once he opens the door, though, he spots some elf-like creature running past the room and then enters another room. ]

Hey!

[ sorry, sonia, he's leaving you behind for now to chase after it... weeps gently. ]

[assent]

[ She's still standing there, blinking in a haze from the images that flash through her mind, the man's memories are something akin to what she's already read about, but the feeling alongside that information is intense. It means that Leo is gone before she can look back up. ]

Hey?

[ She steps out into the hall, holding her weapon to herself as she tries to work out which direction he went in. Before she had been calm, but now the place seems out of sorts. The lights are flickering more often, and there's an odd moaning sound joining in too. ]

Leo...?

[slotted]

[ despite the unwanted noises, he hears sonia's voice and peeks out from the mess of a room he's gotten in. ]

Over here!

[ but the lights continue to flicker and eventually switch off (for about ten seconds or so). leo now wants to get the hell out of dodge. ]

Can you hear me?

[assent]

[ She's actually not doing as well as before as the lights go out completely. Simply because she can feel something, something darker than anything else approaching under the cover of darkless. ]

Leo... Something is not right. [ She can't move her feet -- or at least she can't bring herself to. She's probably only a few meters away, but her eyes are locked on the end of the corridor. ]

[slotted]

I know that, [ because that much is obvious. it's unfortunate leo's biology doesn't include night vision because other synths can probably see in the dark. ] just--

[ he tries to follow sonia's voice, grabbing whatever he can just to touch her (hopefully not anywhere... unwanted) and be in contact again. she's probably scared.

eventually, the lights flicker back on, and sonia is probably right that there may be something there at the end of the corridor behind leo. ]

Are you alright?

[assent]

[ She's still stuck staring into the darkness though, hand held out as she tries to find the wall. She had been fine earlier, but in the dark it's harder to put on that sort of brave mask. Her face is mostly blank when the lights come back on, and she immediately looks towards him--



--only to double back when she sees a shadow of a mishapen figure at the end of the corridor. It starts moving, slowly creeping and dragging itself closer. ]

L-Leo... That.