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 Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 6:40 pm
Heavy drops of water crash against the monochrome landscape of the city. vehicles of different shapes and sizes press though the curtain of rain as they go about their average lives, unknowing the mysterious world these alleys hold.
muddy tires splash filth towards a man walking down the street trying to light a cigarette in the downpour. He seems to phase out looking almost like static on a broken tv but then goes back to normal with a lit cigarette and a dry jacket. He pulls a pocket watch out and checks the time
"...Still 11:33, that doesn't get old" he grunts as he steps into the east 53 street ally checking the tattered slip of paper in his pocket. That grave he checked out a few hours ago was odd, who would dig up some unmarked grave from the fifties?
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:22 pm
...Elsewhere in the City
The Ghoul storms out of the Vampires apartment* trying to wrap his mind around his current situation.
last he Remembered it was 1954... and now its 60 years later...he's physically Dead..
how could this have happened?
If he were to dig up any answers,
It would be where it started,
His Grave.
* to catch up on how Johnny and the vampire meet and their argument, catch up on the Side RP "Johnny and Alice: Beginnings"
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:43 pm
turning the corner into the ally Steven feels radiating metaphysical energy. The pull of the beyond always leads him to his target but this time he couldn't pinpoint it, almost like there was something disrupting the fabric of the ambient magical energies. Suddenly Steven stops in his tracks. coming out of an old apartment was something shocking, some kind of creature.
[() - those marks indicate thinking to oneself and "" indicate talking out loud]
(This has got to be the disturbance, but I can still feel something else, what could this thing be.)
"Ok Steve you can figure this out, he has fresh mud on his shoes yet there is only asphalt and concrete for miles, this means this thing has to be responsible for the grave robbery..." Steven steps out into plain view and cracks his knuckles and spits the bud of his recently finished cigarette into a murky puddle.
"Hey ugly! I'd have a word with you" he challenged.
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:07 pm
Walking down the street, he hears the man calling for him. Johnny Brushed it not believing it was for him. "hey!" kept keep calling the man behind him. (this man is persistent) thought Johnny Not wanting to be involved with this time just yet, he quickly turned the corner into a Darkened alley. as soon as The Ghoul broke the mans line of sight, Johnny climbed up onto the Fire escape, then jumped to the building across's Fire escape, making his way up to the Roof, where he crouched and waited to get a better look at the man following him  he watched as the man in a coat turn into the alley, Johnny now knew without a doubt that the man was looking for him the ghoul watched as the man realized he had given him the slip then run to the other end of the Alley and then down the parallel street (looks like I'm taking the roofs) Johnny then began jumping from roof to roof till he finally came upon the last building facing the Cemetery
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:24 pm
Diana exited the grocery store where she worked, the hood of her jacket pulled up.
(Why does this city always seem to be raining?) She thought to herself as she walked down the street, her headphones drowning out the sounds of the city around her. She reached the mostly deserted cross walk and looked up at the sign, when she saw what she thought was someone jumping across the roof tops.
(What the...?) She looked around to the other people near her to see if anyone else saw it as well.
No one else seemed to have seen it.
(The lightning must be playing tricks-There it is again!) Her mouth went slack as she knew this time she saw someone jumping from roof to roof. The sign finally switched to cross and she hurriedly walked in the direction the person was jumping, attempting to follow this strange free runner.
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:43 pm
A black lamp rested upon a high pillar, surrounded by traps of blades and poisons. It was nestled in a soft and ancient blue pillow, cobwebs hanging off it.
Inside the lamp rested Sora, a strange and powerful being from the long distant past. His eyes were shut below his mask and blindfold, cobwebs were even inside the lamp. Pillows filled the room, or what it could; a huge abyss was below him and the pillows he was floating on. Sections of reality drifted by, ruined cities and expansive wastelands. Voices echoed, cries and moans of thousands of battles all in the distant like a far off memory.
His eyes opened, his voice echoed inside the massive abyss. "They are here, the three who hold infinite time, infinite chances, infinite possibilities..." The voice echoed far, out of the lamp and through the tomb like a whisper, when his voice reached the three, it brushed upon their ears like a soft wind.
"Ye who can see my words, drop all and come hither...Heed my whisper, you are capable, but are you able...? Prove your worth...or die..."
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Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:30 pm
Looking down at cemetery from the building adjacent
He spots his grave.
But he also notices a few people in other parts of the cemetery paying their respects to loved ones.
"I better wait til later" he thought to himself.
The ghoul begins to pace on top of the building retracing his steps, trying to get a clue on why this is happening
Then suddenly a murderous pain forces its way inside johnnys head without warning
"AAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGG"
he screams in agony.
Then infront of him, words bleed into thin air as they are read by an unknown entity
"Ye who can see my words,
Drop all and come hither...
Heed my whisper....
You are capable...
But are you able?...
Prove your worth,
....or die... "
The riddle then faded but the word "Die" lingered as if calling out for him.
Once the word finally faded the pain in his head began to increase
And before long johnny had lost conciousness...
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Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:13 pm
Diana stopped to catch her breath, (I can't believe I lost him.) She thought to herself, her hands on her knees (I need to get back in shape or something.)
She was considering just dropping the matter. After all, what is it to her if someone parkours in the rain? She just wanted to go home, watch some TV under a blanket and maybe have some cocoa.
Deciding on that course of action, she was surprised when her music turned up to full volume. She ripped her ear buds out of her head and rubbed her ears, when she heard a scream from one of the rooftops closer to the cemetery than she was. About to begin jogging over there, she felt her eyes drawn to a nearby billboard. Suddenly the letters began to twist and rearrange themselves. She looked on in abject horror as they spelled out:
"Ye who can see my words, drop all and come hither...Heed my whisper, you are capable, but are you able...? Prove your worth...or die..."
"Ah," Diana said to herself with a grin "So this is how I go insane."
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Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:42 pm
Several moments had passed since Steven lost his necrotic culprit and he was now setting on a stoop halfway through a cig. (Rookie mistake Steven, get it together) he thought to himself. If only he had walked escape wouldn't have been an option. Steven stuck his hand into his pocket and sluggishly pulled out an old tape recorder.
"Detective Steven Grey, I was about to apprehend..." He was cut off by a loud static from his recorder, but soon the static became comprehensible words. They began...
""Ye who can see my words, drop all and come hither...Heed my whisper, you are capable, but are you able...? Prove your worth...or die..."
Flicking his bud onto the street and standing up with a huff, Steven left for the graveyard, something was drawing him there...he could feel it in his bones.
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Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:22 pm
Floating through the abyss in his lamp, Sora waiting impatiently for the three to find him. He decided he would travel to the inner sanctum and wait, should they pass the trials ahead and release him from his lamp, he would be able to exit far quicker here. A city floating in the void, 
Silently he waited at the platform of the damned, the highest flat point in the city where countless arena fights once took place. Bones and still rotting bodies littered the ground.
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Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:10 pm
Night falls around the city when The ghoul awakens holding his head he rises up. "...ugh....what... happened?.. he thinks to himself. he remembers the words that etched themselves into thin air "prove my worth? or Die?" he said to himself. he rises to his feet and see that the Graveyard is finally empty. he shakes his head and heads down the fire escape and into the Graveyard. winding from plot to plot he walks up on his own,  fresh earth still exposed from when he crawled out not too long ago. he stares down on it looking for clues
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Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:32 pm
suddenly as if out of nowhere the Ghoul hears the rumbling of an engine, dingy high beams glare on the polished stones and cause shadows to dance around. When the ghoul turns around he sees Steven Step out of his car...
"You gave me quite the slip there, but there's no point in running. I have a few questions for you and you're gonna answer, got it?" demanded Steven pulling on his brown leather gloves.
"You got a name?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:45 pm
The lights blind him... he raises his arm in front of his face to block the light.
"will you turn the lights off that piss yellow junk?
the Ghoul said loudly.
Steven getting slightly offended, reaches in and shuts off his lights
'Your name!"
Steven said sternly.
"Johnny..."
The Ghoul uttered out.
while looking around him
"Graves.... Johnny Graves.."
Johnny says while Glaring
Who are you, and what do you want from me?
Why are you following me?"
asks Johnny, angrily
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 1:45 pm
All thoughts of cocoa flew out the window. There's no way Diana could go back to her house while she was crazy. She could potentially ruin all her stuff.
(At least I'm sane enough to know I'm crazy) she thought to herself. Surprisingly, that thought did little to comfort her. She wished she was sane enough to go home, but that wasn't the case. She just saw a billboard shift and move for pete's sake! She had never heard of any magic that could physically change things for only one person.
She sighed and caught a glimpse of a yellow car from the 60's. The driver stepped out of the car and spoke to someone who was being blinded by his headlights.
(The parkour guy!) She shouted to herself. (Everything was fine till I saw him. Maybe he caused me to go crazy.)
As they spoke, she stayed in the shadows and hid behind trees, hoping to figure out how to not be crazy anymore so she could go home.
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