... no, that was ridiculous. It couldn't possibly smell like baking. Madison squinted as the fog released her, taking a deep breath. It smelled wonderful, warm and sweet and-
The fog parted to reveal another jet-black figure, except this one was familiar. The few details left to it - to her - were enough to make recognition hit Madison like a truck, and she stumbled back, eyes widening as her hands clapped over her mouth. No. No. It couldn't be.
It couldn't be Julie, a white smile all that was visible of its face, like the ******** Cheshire Cat or something. "Oh, here again? Oh, well, I would love the help," the shadow-Julie said with a laugh, putting down what appeared to be a cookie sheet - and a counter, or at least the silhouette of one, appeared for it to be placed on. "I prepared some fresh ingredients already, so feel free to pick out a few. I'm not picky, really! I'll take anything you want to use."
Madison's breath hissed through her fingers; slowly, she lowered her hands. "I-I..."
The shadow laughed, pulling something literally out of the counter, something that moved and looked back at Madison. "Well if you insist. Leftovers work as well, let's make something that will surprise everyone!"
She was quite certain that the tiny shadows hadn't been there before, but now they were everywhere, staring at her with the white eyes that maybe-Julie lacked. They almost looked like the freak minipets, except she'd never seen one that was so unrelentingly black, devouring any sense of highlight or dimension, like tiny voids punched into the air. Taking a deep breath, Madison turned to maybe-Julie.
"Are you... you're not... does the name Julie ring any bells?" she blurted out.
But the figure just flapped a hand at her. "That's very nice, Mary," it said dismissively, tugging up the not-minipets and throwing them into a dish before plunging what looked like a knife down after them. Something went squish, and something went splat. "Help me with the pan will you? I want to make these cookies before everyone else comes in, you know how it gets."
"Um..." Madison swallowed as not-Julie gestured at the creatures. It was clearly waiting for her to make a selection. But... god, she couldn't go after one of them. She couldn't think about eating something that had looked at her. Desperately, she searched around, spotting a small bottle of liquid. She seized it eagerly, and held it out. "Here, would this work?"
"Oh! I think that was the last of the -. Well, at least we'll be putting it to good use. I hope you like it too! Here, try some now." The figure poured a bit out into a shadow-cup and held it out. As it reached for Madison, she felt an oddly warm sensation... something strange, something almost bright, in stark contrast to the monotone blacks and greys that surrounded her.
Maybe-Julie laughed, and Madison couldn't help but giggle back. So warm, so nice... everything was going to be okay, she was sure of it. Absolutely certain.
Stats:
Name: Madison McKenzie HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 15% Items: [x] Runic Bandages x 2 (one is personal Runic Weapon loadout) [x] Strange (Horseman) Vial x 1 RP Blurb: 19 year old white girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a hunter-coat kimono, with four katana!
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:05 pm
Leon was not ready for this, every fiber of his being shook in fear at the sight in front of him. even if it was just a silhouette, he knew what it was for. what was in its hands. WHAT IT WAS DOING.
Cold beads of sweat poured down his face as he back away. "NO, NO. YOU ARE THE DEVIL!"
"I prepared some fresh ingredients already, so feel free to pick out a few. I'm not picky, really! I'll take anything you want to use." it cooed out. devil. she devil horrible.
With a roar of fury the boxer/stripper flung a vial at the shadow figure and turned heel. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
and he ran.
he ran so far away. and all the running helped him feel so much better.
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Name: Leon Stone HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 110% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: 1 Medkit from the medic tent, 2 corrupted pumpkin pills, 1 pumpkin pill RP Blurb: Leon stands at 6' 2", dark brown hair and beard stubble and if a very fit and buff gentleman that likes to charge at things with a very loud, noisy and dangerous chainsaw etched with green runes.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:12 pm
Madison giggled again, and opened her mouth to speak - and suddenly maybe-Julie was gone, leaving behind the rapidly fading scent of baked goods and that faint sense of euphoria. "... Oh," Madison sighed as the fog rolled back in, washing over her like waves-
-waves that crashed against the sudden solidity of a door, rising like a cliff out of the grey. Madison blinked. The hell? Well, at least it was something house-like, something to vaguely confirm their surroundings. She took a step towards the door.
"-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
And then she yelped as Leon seemed to careen out of nowhere.
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Name: Madison McKenzie HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 15% Items: [x] Runic Bandages x 2 (one is personal Runic Weapon loadout) [x] Strange (Horseman) Vial x 1 RP Blurb: 19 year old white girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a hunter-coat kimono, with four katana!
they say to never run with scissors in your hands, Leon felt they also should have told him about running while screaming your disapproval into the fog.
the flash of color and the telltale glance of a rosy colored scarf made the life hunter snap his head around as he ran past. "Madison?" he managed to get out.
Before he ran right into a door. SUDDENLY BLOCKADE. the wind was rushed out of his lungs and his head was ringing. the slide to the floor was just as graceful as he sprawled out and tried to get his bearings.
The little screams for him to wait and turn back, the cries to stop did nothing to help, much less made even less sense of where they were coming from. Why Cass was there, holding him back he didn't have the foggiest idea.
That settled it. He had a concussion on top of everything else. "Did you get the license plate of whatever hit me?" he asked aloud to the two girls present.
Madison and Cass and her coat that begged not to continue.
cass and her coat. cass wasn't allowed to wear her coat anymore.
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Name: Leon Stone HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 110% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: 1 Medkit from the medic tent, 2 corrupted pumpkin pills, 1 pumpkin pill RP Blurb: Leon stands at 6' 2", dark brown hair and beard stubble and if a very fit and buff gentleman that likes to charge at things with a very loud, noisy and dangerous chainsaw etched with green runes.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:29 pm
"s**t-" Madison crouched next to Leon, leaning gingerly over him. "Dude, are you okay?! You kinda did all the hitting on that one. Right smack into that." She pointed at the door. Trust Leon to find the only solid thing in the entire fog-ridden world... with his face. "But hey, it looks like we found the way out!"
Kouki rustled in her mind. Or is it just a threshold to more? he asked, uneasily. Madison elected to ignore that comment.
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Name: Madison McKenzie HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 15% Items: [x] Runic Bandages x 2 (one is personal Runic Weapon loadout) [x] Strange (Horseman) Vial x 1 RP Blurb: 19 year old white girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a hunter-coat kimono, with four katana!
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:51 pm
"Am I bleeding?" Leon asked quickly, lolling his head back to check for any swelling. "If I'm not bleeding, them I'm fine." he said with a snap before cracking his jaw with an audible pop. Madison had a look on her face, but Cass seemed so expressionless, so aloof. if it wasn't for her constant pleas to drag him and beg him not to go to the door again, he thought she'd be a great actress.
"Thats not the piny sized snack meat head." Nid grumbled from his slumber, the deep sleep that he decided to get during all the fog madness. not words of attitude, but genuine words of concern. It was a change that had the hunter's eyebrows up and staring at the sword hunter, practically through Cass. "You're right, ia door." he said in a dowsy state and tried to pick himself up off the floor.
Only to get pushed down by the gunblade wielder. "Don't do this. dont go." she pleaded. "Let go of me, its the way out for heaven's sake." he argued back and pulled his arm away with force.
He expect her to be a rebellious brute and move along with him. not the sudden evaporation of the mist hunter removed from the field. He lost her once again. "Where did Cass go?"
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Name: Leon Stone HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 110% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: 1 Medkit from the medic tent, 2 corrupted pumpkin pills, 1 pumpkin pill RP Blurb: Leon stands at 6' 2", dark brown hair and beard stubble and if a very fit and buff gentleman that likes to charge at things with a very loud, noisy and dangerous chainsaw etched with green runes.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:59 pm
"Um... no, I don't think so..." Madison bit her lip and sat back on her heels when he mentioned Cass, though. "She's not here? It's just you and me-"
And then someone stepped out of the fog, someone familiar and impossible, robes puddling on the ground as he walked, ebony scaled skin stark against the pale grey mist. Kouki's eyes were wide, pleading - he looked as he had in his golem, as he had in life. "Don't go. Please. There's still another way. You don't have to do this!"
Madison flinched, looking down at the swords around her waist - no, it was impossible, there was hissing in her mind, wasn't there? Kouki was still as he was, wasn't he? But he was also standing before her, tears threatening to spill over, his hands folded into the long sleeves of his oversized robes, the fabric trembling and betraying the shaking of his limbs. Her mind fuzzed with static.
"I don't... have to..." she said, slowly.
"Please," Kouki said, wrapping his arms around her and burying his face against her shoulders. "I'm frightened..."
She took a deep, shaking breath. "Leon. Can you... can you see anyone other than me? And, uh, Cass?"
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Name: Madison McKenzie HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 15% Items: [x] Runic Bandages x 2 (one is personal Runic Weapon loadout) [x] Strange (Horseman) Vial x 1 RP Blurb: 19 year old white girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a hunter-coat kimono, with four katana!
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:13 pm
"Oh would you look at that, i am bleeding." Leon said with a dry chuckle as he wiped away a streak of blood from his forehead. just a scratch, he told himself. "Just you me and the door Babe." he replied back in his daze.
He missed cass already.
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Name: Leon Stone HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 110% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: 1 Medkit from the medic tent, 2 corrupted pumpkin pills, 1 pumpkin pill RP Blurb: Leon stands at 6' 2", dark brown hair and beard stubble and if a very fit and buff gentleman that likes to charge at things with a very loud, noisy and dangerous chainsaw etched with green runes.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:29 pm
"I was afraid you were gonna say that," Madison sighed, closing her eyes. She had no way of knowing if she were hallucinating, or if this was another fog-menace - but everything else had been in stark black, and Kouki was here in full color, living and shining as much as he'd ever been. Her brain was buzzing; she couldn't tell if he was still there in her head, too, even though the swords still hung at her sides...
"Leon. Leon, get up - we have to go. We have to..." She lowered her head and brushed a kiss over the top of Kouki's head as he clung to her. "I'm sorry, Kouki. We really do have to go. It's our duty - we can't stay here forever..."
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Name: Madison McKenzie HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 15% Items: [x] Runic Bandages x 2 (one is personal Runic Weapon loadout) [x] Strange (Horseman) Vial x 1 RP Blurb: 19 year old white girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a hunter-coat kimono, with four katana!
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:47 pm
"Kouki?" Leon asked, puzzled by Madison's sudden call out to... whatever she was talking to. Even if he knew they were both clearly losing their marbles, she still had a note of truth to her words. After hoisting himself to his feet, he gave the sword master a tug on the arm, lightly. "We have to move, that door isn't going to open itself." he coaxed her along and turned back to the solid obstruction.
that wasn't there anymore. 'Maybe it will move itself, actually."
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Name: Leon Stone HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 110% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: 1 Medkit from the medic tent, 2 corrupted pumpkin pills, 1 pumpkin pill RP Blurb: Leon stands at 6' 2", dark brown hair and beard stubble and if a very fit and buff gentleman that likes to charge at things with a very loud, noisy and dangerous chainsaw etched with green runes.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:37 pm
"Yeah..." Slowly, Madison stood up, her movements weirdly stilted, as if she were disentangling herself from something's invisible grip. Which she was, of course. "We have to go. Come on..."
She turned towards the door, only to blink as she realized the thing wasn't there anymore; the next breath, she realized Kouki was gone, no longer clinging, and her mind was full of what she could only describe as deep embarrassment and irritation. Kouki, she realized - the real Kouki.
Clearly she'd made the right choice.
The way down - perhaps also out - opened ahead of them. She turned to Leon. "Okay. I don't see anything other than a way down, right there," she said, pointing. "You?"
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Name: Madison McKenzie HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 15% Items: [x] Runic Bandages x 2 (one is personal Runic Weapon loadout) [x] Strange (Horseman) Vial x 1 RP Blurb: 19 year old white girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a hunter-coat kimono, with four katana!
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:49 pm
The little rectangle spot on the floor that Madison was pointing to. The lone little place on the floor where the fog swept away from like some kind of miracle draft came in to expose the loophole out of this mess. It even looked real, and less of a chance to vanish. "I see nothing but that as a way out." leon replied back, shaking his head and tapping a foot at the pit.
"Think we might as well give it a shot." he resigned with a shrug and pointed to the ladder. "After you, ladies first, unless you want me to look up under you."
This lack of getting laid was seriously turning him into a creep.
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Name: Leon Stone HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 110% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: 1 Medkit from the medic tent, 2 corrupted pumpkin pills, 1 pumpkin pill RP Blurb: Leon stands at 6' 2", dark brown hair and beard stubble and if a very fit and buff gentleman that likes to charge at things with a very loud, noisy and dangerous chainsaw etched with green runes.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:52 pm
"Right." Madison took a deep breath, only to get cut off with the comment about looking up. "Dude, this is so not the time... come on, let's get out of this ******** place."
And, with that, she hurried down the stairs...
((Exit!))
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Name: Madison McKenzie HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 15% Items: [x] Runic Bandages x 2 (one is personal Runic Weapon loadout) [x] Strange (Horseman) Vial x 1 RP Blurb: 19 year old white girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a hunter-coat kimono, with four katana!
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:00 pm
"Spoilsport" Len moaned bemusedly. If he had to down down into a pit after losing his mind, he was glad this was with madison.
And Leon cannonballed down the pit after madison. "Look out below!"
((Exit))
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Name: Leon Stone HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 110% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: 1 Medkit from the medic tent, 2 corrupted pumpkin pills, 1 pumpkin pill RP Blurb: Leon stands at 6' 2", dark brown hair and beard stubble and if a very fit and buff gentleman that likes to charge at things with a very loud, noisy and dangerous chainsaw etched with green runes.
