{ ORP } THE BLACK DOOR (p. 19 END!)

[Zoobey]

OOC

Please select a door HERE first! Anyone can enter! If you have not posted you still can post in the topic above and then come here to post here!

When you open your eyes the first thing you see is that you are in a prison. It is dark, it is cold. Both your arms have been sealed with strange runes, etched right into your arms in glowing angry round. You locked inside cold stone walls. There is no light that reaches your cell, though between thick black bars you can see bare silhouettes of the others and you can hear your voice echo from inside your cell.

"Eat. Consume."

You're not too sure how much time has passed, but you become hungry, almost insatiably hungry. It is a strange feeling, an emptiness that gnaws inside your chest and you realize you are dying. You realize what you crave is Fear, because without it you will die, you will dissipate and never reform again. The runes have been draining your Fear and now your core is barely above an empty shell. The hunger nearly blinds your vision, it makes you sick, dizzy and weak, and you struggle to remain coherent as a buzzing noise rings around you -

CLANG.

The gates open. Your gates. Instinctively you reach outwards and in your daze see others.

The outcome is slow, but potentially inevitable. Consume the others around you, or starve and die - that choice is yours alone.

OOC

- At this point I will be updating every day or so with more prompts, and smaller prompts/reactions to things, so feel free to answer as you wish.
- You can also explore the jail cell. There are infinite cell doors, but at the very end is a locked door. There is a trap door on the other side. Next to the trap door are two different keys hanging. Torches line all the walls. On the ceiling of the hallway there are strange rooms that require a close examination. The only way to escape is to explore this hallway. Post explorations in BOLD RED and I will reply to them and give you potentially more options.
- Y1 students have 5 stamina, Y2 have 10, Y3+ have 15. Every action you take (ie: a post in BOLD RED FOR EXPLORING) consumes 1 stamina. When you reach 0 you dissipate. You are OUT of stamina. Another player may offer to give you stamina. When they do, they are literally giving a portion of their Fear to give to you. Touching their severed Fear will automatically let you absorb it. Has this always been possible? It is here, at least .
- You can also FORCEFULLY take someone's Fear. Roll 1d4 and select a target. That is the amount of Fear you take from someone.
- The goal of this event is to escape this ???. A couple of lucky escapees will be picked for a sacrificial role in the future

 

[Blade Kuroda]

How long had he been here? Shun had gone through the door and he soon realized that he was now in a prison of sorts. Stone walls were all around. Reaching up, he went to rub his head, and soon took note of the runes etched into his arms.

"Kuso..." he hissed under his breath, then looked around.

It seemed like he had just walked in moments ago but something wasn't right. He felt hungry. It wasn't the same sort of mild hunger he felt because he habitually ate. This was something else. Starvation. It was eating away at him, sapping his strength. These things on his arms... they must be the ones drawing his energy. The door to his particular cell soon opened up, but it was clear he was still in a prison.

He knew this was going to be bad, but he hadn't quite expected this. Gritting his teeth, he slunk back. One thing was for certain. He needed to get out.

HP: 15  

[Lilwolfpard]

His eyes opened, staring around at the total blackness of the room he was in. When would he learn not to walk through strange doors?

Raising his arms, something glowing caught his attention. "Aw man thats just weird." He stared at the runes, etched right in to the flesh of his exposed arms crudely. Taking a finger he ran it over the runes, tracing them. Though oddly, these were not was bothered him as much as something else.

He was SO hungry.

This sensation was familiar yet not? Normally when he was hungry he just went and found something to eat. Waking up with this much pain, from lack of sustenance, was an unusual feeling for him. Remi did like to eat food, probably a little too much. It was a surprise he hadn't started to pack on some weight. This hunger felt more like starvation, like his body was lacking something vital to his survival. While he craved something to fill the hole in his being, he was starting to wonder if it was food or not.

The doors opened with a clang. Slowly he pushed himself to his feet, and found himself slinking outside. He was not the only person here. Where exactly was here? What scared him even more, why were some people giving him hungry looks. Was he giving them the same look back?

HP: 15  

[Enoh Love]

Amrita felt...strange. She was heavy, and she ached more than she should have. All she remembered was a group, a promise to protect the younger ones, and then...then what? She went through a door, didn't she? That didn't make sense. Something must have happened since then. But what?

Finally, she opened her eyes, and what she saw made her sit up quickly, trying to peer through the darkness for someone, anyone, she recognized. There was nothing but shapes...but as she went to call out, but the words she heard were different from the words she had wanted to utter. Then, immediately, she felt it; a hunger she had never felt before. It was a feeling that was alien to her, and yet she knew exactly what it was; the need to consume fear to survive, the ache of her entire being as it cried out for the only thing that could sustain it.

She was starving.

The doors shrieked and opened, leaving the startled Patchwork the option of leaving her cage; the only reason she did, was because she sensed the very thing she craved just beyond the doors. She held herself, her fingers trailing up her arms, and that was when she noticed the etchings engraved in her skin.

"...Wh...at?" She breathed, tracing the markings with her fingers. Her gaze went back to the open jail door, wanting so badly to get out and feast on the creatures outside, but she held back. "s**t." She cursed, flinching as a hunger pang tore through her body.

For now, she would explore her jail cell, in the off chance she missed something within.


Stamina: 14  

[kuropeco]

Llyr had happily trailed along with everyone through the black door, expecting to see something amazing on the other side of it. It was with wide, expectant eyes that he stepped out into -

- something very much not amazing. It wasn't the temperature - he didn't mind the cold (water was usually cold), but the darkness was unpleasant and unhappy, and there were things glowing on his arms, things that hadn't been there before. Llyr looked down at them with a startled expression on his pale face, and he shook one arm experimentally as though this might help to get whatever it was off. When it didn't work, he stood there, looking confused and angry all at once.

"I don't like this anymore," he said decisively to no one, because there was no one here for him, no one but himself. Where had all of his new friends gone? Llyr felt his voice trembling slightly as he said quietly, flatly, "I want to go back to my room now, please."

That didn't happen, and the room grew colder, and Llyr himself grew hungrier and hungrier. He swayed where he stood, dizzy and anxious, and with each passing second, the hunger grew, gnawing at the inside of his stomach. He wanted to lay down and go to sleep, but he couldn't - the anxious feeling in his stomach was too much to even bear.

A loud clanking sound drew him out of his misery as the door swung open in front of him, and Llyr stumbled out with a gasp, his shaking hands sliding along the wall in an effort to keep vertical.

"I don't like this," he said again, in a voice that was decidedly hoarser than his normal smooth tones, and decidedly less vacant than normal. His eyes, which were normally spacey and vague, were surprisingly alert in spite of his hunched over figure.

"I don't like this, I want to leave, please."


[ HP: 5 ]  

[phantompanther13]

Jack Damn curiosity. This was a door of lies. He glanced around. This was not power, it was some sort of prison. Something was on his arms. He looked down and frowned at the runes, touching them. This was bad. Very bad. And he was starving. No he realized, it was real, it felt like he needed Fear right now. He was so hungry. His core felt weak, barely there. He was in trouble he realized.

The gates opened. He saw others… and realized that he had to do something to survive this.

And he realized they had Fear. They had what he needed… but that wouldn’t get him out. His mind corrected him. He wanted out. His fire burnt low as he walked down the hall and checked out one of the strange rooms.

hp: 9  

[medigel]

Piper, still something a green horn in her early second year, still didn't seem to understand the consequences of going through very obviously evil doors. The darkness caught her off guard, but it was the runes that really made her balk. She was defaced without her permission! Her beautiful, painful tattoos, overlooked in favor of these ugly . . . and apparently energy draining . . . things . . .

She looked around, wide-eyed at the cell block and immediately getting a vague claustraphobic feeling. There were others there of course, but that didn't seem to matter. The darkness was very isolating, and her stomach was starting to feel like it was eating itself.

Someone wasn't taking it well, and hse couldn't help but try to take some pity on the boil. "Hey, hey, s'cool," Piper tried to soothe him with affected confidence. "It's creepy in here, but you're good, bro. Just take a deep breath. You feel okay?"

Stamina: 10

kuroopu

 

[iloveyouDIE]

Aisha's awakening was slow and she was slightly frightened. She didn't want to be, she wanted to feel like she could take on anything, that whatever had been behind the door was just a new adventure, but she felt unexpectedly empty. The runes over her skin bothered her. It wasn't that she was vain but to find her appearance forcibly violated struck her deep to the core.

How did this happen?

And then the hunger started. The zombie at first thought it was her loa, one of it's usual undeniable urges, but no. It persisted and instead of feeling the loa's will in every fiber of her being, she felt a hollowness. It was as if her loa weren't even there. She breathed out, confirming that it was still with her by the flickering orange between her lips, but still the emptiness persisted.

She needed to fill it.

The door swung open and she heard the sounds of other moving. Aisha didn't want to stay here like this. There had to be an out.

"Hello?"

Stamina: 5  

[Carhop Cavalier]

Gene hadn't expected it to come to this. What this was, however, she was pretty unsure of. She knew her arms had ruins etched into them, she knew the place she was in was a sort of prison, and she knew that her core was crying out in pain, begging to be fed.

The gates screeched and ground, boring a droning wave of sound into her ears. Clutching at her stomach, Gene slowly walked out of her cell, seeing silhouettes around the hall.

"H-hello? Sound off if you're, er, alive." She coughed, another craving sending spiders down her spine. FEAR... so... hungry.

STAMINA: 15  

[Lilwolfpard]

Noticing others were waking up, Remi decided it was best to try and stay away from the others. He didn't trust himself right now.

Instead he occup[ied his time exploring the walls that held torches.

Stamina: 14  

[Smerdle]

When he found himself neck-deep in Important Research, Bren often went without food for longer than was probably healthy. He'd work on some little enchantment or another until his vision swam and he had trouble keeping his balance, and then when he realized what he had done, he'd eat something. Simple. For all his experience with unintentional starvation, he had never felt a hunger like this in his life. It woke him from a relatively sound slumber, consuming his thoughts absolutely and completely until he heard a nearby voice.

"Who's there?" he whispered, scrambling to his feet and peeking out of the door to his cell. The ghoul outside had runes carved into her arms, and when Brenley looked down, he saw the same on his own. He ever so vaguely recognized her, but only because he had seen her enter the black door just before he had. "What's going on?"

[ 10 ]

Ol-j-man

just saying hi for now HAI

Carhop Cavalier

wassap goast lady

 

[Zoobey]

The rooms are all locked, there is nothing inside except for chains tied to the wall. There are no other openings inside any rooms.

Enoh Love

Phantompanther13

 

[Enoh Love]

Finding nothing of interest in the cell, Amrita left it, still holding herself tightly.

"I'm here too." She muttered to the group, the hunger getting more intense the closer she got to anyone in specific. It felt safer for now to just keep a distance from them, and thus she kept her back to a wall, peeking in any open cell doors she came across in her trek down one length of hallway.

"We're not sure what's going on...but it's not good." The patchwork lamented to the boil she didn't recognize as she passed him, peeking through the darkness at their surroundings.

"First, though, don't panic. We'll figure something out together." That was her hope anyway, and she did a fairly good job of keeping her tone level and calm, despite the gnawing hunger and the rising panic that the cages instilled. She had been in cages before, had her FEAR drained and sapped before...and it almost always ended terribly.

"We need to find a way out. I...I think I can see a door? Maybe? But..." How to open them - and if they were worth opening - was the question. In the darkness though, she thought she saw something, and followed it to see a pair of keys on the wall. Well...this was both promising, and way too obvious. Warning bells went off in her head, and so she settled for simply inspected the two keys on the wall.

HP: 13

Smerdle

WHOLE GROUP

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Shun could hear voices of the others. He wasn't alone, then. While he heard Gene asking if anyone was alive, he hesitated to answer. This was a very tricky situation they were in right now, and he needed a few moments to think. If they didn't find a way out, they'd starve out, more likely than not. And if their fear was too weak to reform then...

His good eye narrowed at the thought. He had no plans on dying in this wretched place if he could help it.

He closed his eye, trying to focus. It was difficult to think right now.