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THE 9:00 pm: ??? MESSAGE

BZZT.

All students with a skellyphone, anyone who had their Interwebs open to the squee-mail exchange would all receive an anonymous message. Most would already be retired back to their dorm rooms: it was late after all, the school grounds all but closed save a few side doors.

The message contained a single attachment in the form of an image, blurry at best:

An image of a large room, slightly dark. Lockers that decorated both sides of the room, looking extremely out of place. And something else in the center of the image, what seemed like a giant blot of red - a stain - it was hard to tell if this was actually in the image or edited onto it last minute, perhaps to censor something out or to reveal something within?

The text came with a single title: DON'T.

That was it, nothing more, nothing less.

Calder hasn't been sleeping. He had been up all night, having been upset and frustrated with himself, and was more restless than groggy. The message had his heart leaping, as it was late and not many people called him. There was a hope that it was Amrita, and he flicked it open to see a image of a locker room with the words 'DON'T". It could easily be a trap. In fact, saying don't guarenteed someone like him would go, and he sent a text to Barth.



Calder rose up and fixed his hair, before taking his phone and leaving. He arrived in the office being mindful of the teachers who always seemed to catch him, and looked around. It was the soft light of the rune that attracted his attention, and he moved over to look at the symbol. It looked just like the one in the locker rooms.

TG didn't like being woken up, but when Roch sent him a text, he thought there was going to be a party with lots of hot babes. Like a rave at a secret location.

The school office was a surprising location, but it had it's danger. However, there were no strobe lights, no line asking for a flyer or a password, and no flashy miniskirts.

TG was very disappointed, and stepped into the office. "What the Jack is going on?" He huffed.

Lamest Rave Ever.

Danny arrived in the office, where it remained dark as always. She lit a tiny flame, no bigger than the palm of her hand, and with the flame on her tail she provided a little ball of light for the area.

It was strange, the text had clearly been the locker room and said DON'T, yet here she was.

She shoved Roch's side and quietly murmured, "Look, it's like down in the locker room ..." She was going to stay well away from it. Something about it freaked her out. Horsemen were scary.

So instead she busied herself searching the cabinet in the corner.

She had gotten the message not long after returning from dealing with the hunters in the haunted house. When she arrived her arms where crossed and her eyes narrowed.

"That glyph... I've seen it, not just in the dream. It looks like something from the Islands. The horsemen. In those rooms where we found the hunters."

The dream had been strange enough, especially since he wasn't the only one to have had it apparently. Later that day, Jericho was forwarded a text from Roch, detailing a meeting point regarding an effort to do something about the missing students. It was all something rather troublesome to him. It also sounded something fairly dangerous.

He considered staying at home. There were no chances of him dissipating here. But... there were those right now who couldn't come home. And he felt obliged to do something about that. And so, he made his way to the office to meet up with the others.

It was still a mess, but there was something different there than the previous time he was here.

For one thing there was a big red spiral on the ground now.

"What the flying Jack is this?" he remarked to no one in particular.

Grumbling, the dragon just looked through some of the papers strewn about by the bottles idly.

Being around so many people made him uneasy.

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Sleep didn't come easy to Shun as of late. But he did manage to slip into enough of a sleep to have a rather peculiar dream. Normally he was relatively lucid, but this one was something he had no control over. It was rather strange. Aside from that, he was woken up to find his vial shimmering brightly. He could swear it sung to him.

And while he did get both texts, he didn't really read them. However, the first one he received with the image did grab his attention, and so he went to investigate what that was about. Aside from that, there was just... something in the air or something. He had a feeling he should go. The Reaper might have looked more worn or in a darker mood than what he normally was in.

His instinct didn't prove him wrong as he came into the room to see the spiral. It was something he saw in relation to the horsemen a number of times.

Was this Medea's calling? What she mentioned to him a few days prior?

Blood? Paint? Magic? He had no clue what was with the rune. He was going to touch it, but Roch had already done that. In case there was something wrong with it, he refrained from doing the same himself. Quietly, he just watched while keeping his hands in his pockets. He didn't particularly feel like talking at the moment.

"Well, Roch, I can't see why they'd care about missing students. Sorta the whole, our problem thing instead of theirs. I imagine, after their homeland and everything is lost, we're the least of their concerns."

Danny lifted an eyebrow at Jericho. Boil was a mess. "Err ... you okay, buddy?" Well that probably wasn't the best questions. With all the students missing, everyone Danny had talked to was a bit of a mess.

"How's the fish-cat?" she quickly asked afterwards. Minipets were a nice, safe subject, right?