in the woods dark and deep I offer you eternal sleep

[aarnethompson]

Who: Alba, Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna, Bruce Wayne, Cliona Donovan, Data, Don Draper, Ilde Decima, Irene Adler, Jae-hyun Kim, Jaime Lannister, Kalinda Sharma, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent, Martel, Nuray Amedi, Penelope Lane, Odessa Wander, Pepper Potts, Rex Lewis, Seoraj, Shrieky, Sunny, Wolfgang Einhorn, Xas
What: Something bad is afoot, and you must help.
Where: Abrogate Green, Badside, Barrackham, Chnum, Echomire, Flag Hill, Gallmarch, Ketch Heath, Pelorus Fields, Raven's Gate, Sangwine, Serpolet, Sobek Croix, Stoneshell, and the northern woods
When: July 22nd to the 30th
Notes: People are slow right now and a few are on hiatus, so slow-tagging and back-tagging are totally fine. Please check the accompanying OOC post for info and to coordinate.
Warnings: Disturbing content, will include violence, choking, drowning, body horror, and animal death.

Strange events tend to go unnoticed in Baedal, compared to the much stranger things happening around them. People don't tend to be noticed when they go missing, either. The city takes these things in stride. After all, people get called back to their homeworld all the time, or they die. Everyone knows this.

Still, rumors start cropping up around the city about the sudden appearance of twelve identical towers positioned around the city like the face of a clock...

ALBA ♞ Cliona Donovan
DON DRAPER ♞ Pepper Potts, Kalinda Sharma
ILDE DECIMA ♞ Irene Adler, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent
JAE-HYUN KIM ♞ Sunny
MARTEL ♞ Data, Jaime Lannister
NURAY AMEDI ♞ Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna
ODESSA WANDER ♞ Rex Lewis
SEORAJ ♞ Bruce Wayne
SHRIEKY ♞ Xas
WOLFGANG EINHORN ♞ Penelope Lane

Comments

[boomvox]

What a reward for being a sucker.

When Jae wakes up, he doesn't end up running or hiding as much as what was surely expected of him. He stares up at the ornate ceiling for a while - from his back on the floor, how dignified - and rational thought is slow and disjointed; he feels fear, yes, and the whirlpool of panic beginning to pick up speed inside of him, but there's an empty weight, too. Like a black hole of emotion.

He's just so tired of this shit.

He tries to use his CiD. He tries to find a front door. He tries windows - prying them, punching them, convincing them with magic, throwing a chair. He keeps missing something moving in his peripheral vision and it makes him cagey and tense and then, finally, he's sure he saw something this time, something horrible--

It hits him with the force of a train that he's been kidnapped, again, held somewhere, again, and now there's something dark and evil chasing him and he can't get out and so instead of running away he walks right towards it.

Or so he begins to, but three steps into it he lashes out against his will; it probably won't help the reputations of Earthlings in Chnum that he sends everyone within a five mile radius of the tower screaming, but at present, it'd be a difficult call to label Jae human.

After that, he doesn't remember what he does.