Whipping around to answer Solia, Lex suddenly found himself kneeling, hands pressed to a warm body, hot, red liquid flowing out from a gash to the side. He looked around for help, but found none.
Crap.
He'd not been trained medically yet. Sure, he'd read a few books on basic first aid and anatomy, but what if this wasn't a human? What if this was a Halloween creature, or a Horseman? How could he heal them then?
Why would he heal them? The injury was fatal, and he had nothing on him. No bandages, no stitches, not even pain killers. All he had was his weapon, and his mind.
<< Kill it. >>
< Gladly. >
He let go of the wound, resulting in choking and sputtering. The figure was going to die no matter what Lex did; so why not end it's life? Better a half second of pain than what could take up to hours. He muttered an apology as he stuck the tip of Regal's barrel against the temple of the figure, and looked away as he squeezed the trigger.
His first kill. A cut to his soul, a scar on the heart. He'd heard from war veterans that it would pain him, much like a solid punch to the jaw.
All Lex felt was a numbness, and the hot breath of a whispering voice in his ear.
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Name: Alexei Jamil HP: 25/40 FEAR Strength: 90% Insanity Strength: 25% Items: None RP Blurb: Lex stands at 6'4", has chestnut brown hair, grey eyes, 5 o' clock shadow, is well built but not overly buff, and wields a flintlock pistol with golden runes.
((OOC: Choices made: Search in a random direction -> Insist you didn't steal anything -> Finish the job, someone was sloppy... -> xxx))
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:16 pm
As she ran, things faded. Whites, blacks, nothing but misty covering her vision. She shouted for Lex, for Kat, even once for Solia. A bright light streamed across her sight, and things went dark.
Only for a moment though. The darkness faded into red, wet. Texture. She knew this. Knew it from the life labs, knew it from her own skin. Knew it from the scars that ran along her arms and back. Blood.
Her first instinct was to use her FEAR. Ami may have been a terrible moon, but she knew that a person was dying, needed healing, and she could have provided that with Junpei's FEAR. "Julie?" she sputtered out. "You're supposed to be-" Dead.
Here again? Needed help. Ami looked at her fellow hunters, and then scowled. They wouldn't know. They wouldn't know anything. Just annoying stupidity filling her space to think. "What are you doing here?" she asked the figure. It merely babbled something about being friends and that they really needed to finish the work. This wasn't Julie so ... who was it?
Try to heal the figure
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HP: 25/40 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 35% Items: Name: Ami Raine RP Blurb: Looks like this, currently wearing this skirt. It's very important for rp guys. Has 2 runic guns holstered around her waist, but hidden under her coat. She's 5'2, tiny tiny tiny.
Who ever it was- there was no hunter coat, no weapon, scales and horns and- it wasn't human. A shudder ran through her as Israfel tried to calm her nerves, tried to remind her that it was likely an illusion, that is was a land of lies and grey. The figure was gone, and she just sat on her knees, feeling a twinge of pity, a pang of guilt. Brown eyes found Kat and she got up sad, silent. "I- I think it wasn't real. I- I- I'm sorry." A shake of her head, the tiny death trainee wasn't sure what else to say. This place is really... confusing. I'm not sure what is going on any.... more?" A inky black figure. Ami got a look. This was-
"Who?" The figure was demanding help, and gingerly, Solia flung a fishy thing at it. Sorry Merope. "Amanda, Lex, Katie, uh- what. I'm really confused. Are we headed the right way? Like... nothing is making sense anymore."
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Name: Solia Delacroix HP: 25 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 35% Items: None RP Blurb: she's 5 foot brown hair/eyes, ruffled blouse, skinny jeans+heels. Her weapon is a silver/blue long bow with a familiar blue rose at one end. (Israfel) Kind of smells like rotting fish/low tide atm
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:02 pm
The next moment, Kat found herself kneeling like the rest of the group, with her hands pressed down on something--someone. "What the hell...!?" When did--how did--what the hell was going on here? How did she not notice this 'person' here before? Was this what the others had been freaking out over? Maybe..
Looking over the figure, she couldn't make out if they were human or not, but their injury was definitely grave. Tch.. What was she supposed to do? Should she put them out of their misery? To let them continue to suffer like this.. it was inhumane, their injury was to great. No, she had to end it. With little hesitation, she broke their neck with a quick jerk before rising to her feet. That would likely haunt her in days to come.
Wrinkling her nose, the smell of something sweet caught her attention. Turning to see what now was to come, the hunter paused. Was that..Julie? No way! She was dead! "Oh gawd, I'm so confused now."
Finish the job. You were the one who put them in that condition, after all.
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Name: Katherine Taylor HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 10% Items: None RP Blurb: 5'6" and looks like this but has a small scar on the side of her face that goes all the way up the side of her cheek to her hairline
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:48 pm
Unlike two of the girls in his group, Lex had no clue why there was a baking smell in the air, or who was even responsible for it. All he knew was that the Insanity had formed itself into a vaguely female body that looked to be a friendly, and she was making...something. Cookies?
As long as they weren't chocolate chip.
She was asking for help. Another Insanity ploy, one which Lex had to comply with, like the rest. He was impulsive, and took action always. Giving the counter a look, the life trainee picked up a beaker full of grey liquid; the only thing that didn't stare at him. He handed it to her, and she smiled, giving him a spoonful of the stuff.
Suddenly, everything was better. Ami wasn't spiteful, Solia wasn't annoying, and Kat...well, there wasn't much wrong with Kat in the first place. There were flecks of colors and Lex felt like he was on top of everything.
"Guys! Guys drink the liquid! Oh my word this is amazing! You're all so pretty and this is just fantastic! I LOVE LIFE!" He shot into the sky, cooing at his impromptu fireworks. Pretty lights!
And then it stopped, back slamming into a door. The hell...?
Stats:
Name: Alexei Jamil HP: 25/40 FEAR Strength: 90% Insanity Strength: 25% Items: None RP Blurb: Lex stands at 6'4", has chestnut brown hair, grey eyes, 5 o' clock shadow, is well built but not overly buff, and wields a flintlock pistol with golden runes.
((OOC: Choices made: Search in a random direction -> Insist you didn't steal anything -> Finish the job, someone was sloppy... -> Pick up the beaker of odd grey liquid, the least of all three evils. -> xxx))
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:59 am
Ami stared at the table of ingredients, and pointed to a tentacle creature. It actually almost made her laugh if it wasn't staring at her with those STUPID beady eyes. Junpei hated octopuses- always talked about them like they were some big rival. He'd be proud of her choice. "That one Julie."
Though it sickened her to look at Julie that way, Ami thought it was much easier to deal with a ... former superior than her cohorts. They were all annoying the s**t out of her anyways. She had the right mind to shoot Solia here and now for calling her AMANDA. Especially Lex though. He was screaming at the sky and shooting like he was Buffalo Bill himself. She had a growing headache and he was pounding on her head with a gun-shaped hammer.
"Lex," she hissed, pulling the arm that was shooting down. "Lex shut the ******** up, you don't know what's out there and what can hear you." A hand went to her temple, clearly annoyed. "And you-" she turned to Solia, "It's insanity, its messing with you. Things aren't supposed to make sense dumbass." A frustrated groan. "God you're all so careless! I could just-"
Julie interrupted her tirade, announcing that the tentacle creature had "worked." Ami shot Julie a glare that said, "not now, I'm busy." The look softened when she realized the figure was still smiling, completely unaware of the surroundings. It broke her heart really, to realize this wasn't actually Julie. She grimaced and took a regretful piece of the tentacle. Most days she would have refused it, but this time ... well it was for Julie.
Somehow or another, it made her feel better. Maybe she'd just been so hungry that she'd grown angry and impatient- people did that when they were hungry after all. It didn't mean she felt any more comfortable around the group, but she was at least less agitated.
Tentacle gelatinous monster with white eyes.
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HP: 25/40 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 25% Items: Name: Ami Raine RP Blurb: Looks like this, currently wearing this skirt. It's very important for rp guys. Has 2 runic guns holstered around her waist, but hidden under her coat. She's 5'2, tiny tiny tiny.
Lex. Why did you- Solia gave the life trainee the most confused look she could muster before looking at Kat. "Okay. Good. Glad to know I'm not the only one." Looking back to Lex, lord of shooting s**t into the air, Solia's head tilted. "Julie?" This to Ami. Was it... a former hunter then? "This is more twilight zone bull isn't it? And all things have a system and a logical, if slightly convoluted form of progression. Just the same Ami-" She huffed. "I may be rather forgetful with names and faces, and while I do ramble? I'm not a dumbass and I would appreciate you treating me and my intelligence with common decency and a modicum of respect. As far as I've found, the only careless ones have been our superiors for failing to equip us with both the knowledge and skills needed to combat this Insanity." Brown eyes narrowed as Israfel sighed in her head. Such frustrations didn't last long. Her glare softened as the aroma filled her senses, calming, Israfel, (was it Israfel?) singing bringing her a sense of peace."I apologize for getting defensive, but the strain and stress of this is no reason for us to be treating each other poorly. I'm also sorry if my actions have exacerbated this but.. Let's just take care to try and aid each other no?"
Turning to go grab Lex, (and stop the gun show), she saw a door. A door that was getting in her way. "Oh my god my life is like an anime now."
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Name: Solia Delacroix HP: 100 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 35% Items: None RP Blurb: she's 5 foot brown hair/eyes, ruffled blouse, skinny jeans+heels. Her weapon is a silver/blue long bow with a familiar blue rose at one end. (Israfel) Kind of smells like rotting fish/low tide atm
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:28 pm
Finally, Kat decided to ignore all the chatter among the group. It was the only way she could think straight. Julie was dead, she had died a long time ago, back when she was still a freshman trainee. This had to be a trick of the mind of some sort, right? Or maybe.. maybe the 'Julie' they saw dead wasn't really Julie after all? Oh gawd! I can't take much more of this place! I swear!
"Help me with the pan will you? I want to make these cookies before everyone else comes in, you know how it gets."
Looking at the counters, she eyed the food warily, she gazed down at the creepy eyes staring back up at her.
"Don't be shy! Or else how will you ever discover your talent?"
Her talent? By helping make these, she would discover her talent? Really? Wait.. seriously?
Aw, to hell with it! Grabbing randomly, she handed 'Julie' one of the fluffly looking creatures. "There! Happy? Are we done here?" The hunter asked, folding her arms as she watched the once dead 'hunter' set the food in the oven. The black smoke was no reassuring, in the least, but 'Julie' didn't appear fazed by it at all.
Before she could ask, everything went white.
Pick up the strange black fluffy creature that is staring at you with white eyes.
Stats:
Name: Katherine Taylor HP: 35/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: None RP Blurb: 5'6" and looks like this but has a small scar on the side of her face that goes all the way up the side of her cheek to her hairline
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:07 pm
Having two women grab him was nothing new to Lex. Not even if they were calling him stupid or that he needed to shut up. Girls just needed to calm their small, but still nice, tits - his buzz was harshed one the apparition of the girl was gone. "Girls, chill, the...stuff already worked it's way out of my system." He brushed off his coat, looking around . His girls were still there; good. "Sorry for that little outburst, however. If something's here, it knows where we are."
He looked behind himself for a second, scowling at the door. More tricks from this stupid fog. He went back to the door, giving it a few knocks. It was definitely solid; and he got no response. Solid was different - the illusions faded when someone touched them.
He would open the door - it seemed like the only logical thing to do. It was solid, real, and everything else was fake and transparent. It was an easy choice.
Until he heard a rough, love filled voice hollering out to him. Lex's eyes opened wide, and were seemingly glued like that. He turned around at the grasping of his middle, receiving a rib crushing bear hug from a man that looked much like him. The other man stood an inch shorter than the Life Trainee, with shorter salt and pepper hair. Other than that, the two men were exact.
"D-dad?" Lex sputtered, not able to hug the man back, even if his arms weren't pinned to his sides. His father had been gone for eleven years, gone the day he caught Lex's mother in an affair. Lex wanted to go with him, but his dad hold insisted he stay with the boy's mother.
"Don't go son, there's another way. You don't have to open that door, you don't have to do any of this."
Lex rested his head, trickles of tears running down his cheeks, in the crook of his father's shoulder, taking in the scent of leather and soap. He knew this was just a trick, another clever ruse by the Insanity. Knowing that just made him cry more; almost to the point of shaking.
He did nothing. He couldn't do anything but stay there and let himself be buried in the scent of his father. Slowly, the grip was gone, and the illusion of his father faded.
Only Lex and his tears were left on the floor.
Stats:
Name: Alexei Jamil HP: 25/40 FEAR Strength: 90% Insanity Strength: 25% Items: None RP Blurb: Lex stands at 6'4", has chestnut brown hair, grey eyes, 5 o' clock shadow, is well built but not overly buff, and wields a flintlock pistol with golden runes.
((OOC: Choices made: Search in a random direction -> Insist you didn't steal anything -> Finish the job, someone was sloppy... -> Pick up the beaker of odd grey liquid, the least of all three evils. -> Do nothing. ->))
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:17 pm
The moment the food went down her throat, things began to blur, colors faded and twisted. She couldn't even hear Solia's rebuke, wherever she'd gone. Posion? Julie had poisoned her? This couldn't be how she went. Not like this. It was too pathetic, too short-sighted. Not like this.
A door. She could see a door. Ami stumbled to it, hands out-stretched, fully intending to walk through.
Her hand filled with warmth as a larger man's hand filled it. Ami responded as such, thinking there was only one man in the group with her. "What the hell do you think you're trying to pull-"
She turned, finding herself facing another man. The one who always haunted her. In retrospect, she could've laughed. She left New York so she'd never have to see him again, yet working as a hunter she only saw him and thought of him more. It festered within her, and she was beginning to wonder if it was ever going to leave. If she could ever move on.
"Hey, Ams," Adam said, grabbing her other hand as she turned and looking her dead in the eye. "You don't have to do this. C'mon, we can get out of here, there's another way."
Ami's face twisted in pain. Had Adam said these words less than a year ago she would've gladly followed him to the ends of the Earth. Something in the horsemen dungeons had changed her. Somewhere deep under the dirt of Halloween, Ami had left a piece of herself to die. "No." She let go of his hands and folded her own neatly. "Adam I ... I have to go. You won't stop me."
It might have looked like she was standing up to herself, an act of bravery and self-esteem, but it was a far cry from it. She was running from Adam, convincing herself to let that part die and be forgotten. It wasn't the cathartic process she solely needed, it was merely another loophole for her to jump through. She wasn't coming to terms with it, wasn't admitting she was wrong. All Ami was doing was the same thing she'd done to anything else that had ever hurt her. Lock it away and then put on a blank, stony face. The same expression she was wearing now for Adam.
It was pitiful really. This was a man she claimed to love most- the dearest person to her- and there she was giving him no emotion. No tenderness, no hatred, no emotion at all. Just the same stony, detached face everyone else got.
A heavy breath in, and she fumbled the door open. A step through, and everything went dark.
"I am going. You cannot change my mind."
Stats:
HP: 25/40 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 25% Items: Name: Ami Raine RP Blurb: Looks like this, currently wearing this skirt. It's very important for rp guys. Has 2 runic guns holstered around her waist, but hidden under her coat. She's 5'2, tiny tiny tiny.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:15 pm
With the whole cooking show done, Kat moved on to follow the group, only to have some door block her path. "Great. Now what?" Her temper was slowly beginning to rise, if not her insanity from this place. Kicking the door once, she only hurt herself. "OW! For the love of--" Okay, so that wasn't a smart plan..
Reaching for the knob, she felt someone grab at her from behind. "Whoa! Who the fu-" The figure was unfamiliar to her, yet she knew them all to well she thought. Whoever it was, their pleads for her to stay wasn't going to change anything. "I can leave if I bloody want to!"
Stats:
Name: Katherine Taylor HP: 33/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: None RP Blurb: 5'6" and looks like this but has a small scar on the side of her face that goes all the way up the side of her cheek to her hairline
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:39 pm
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With the whole cooking show done, Kat moved on to follow the group, only to have some door block her path. "Great. Now what?" Her temper was slowly beginning to rise, if not her insanity from this place. Kicking the door once, she only hurt herself. "OW! For the love of--" Okay, so that wasn't a smart plan..
Reaching for the knob, she felt someone grab at her from behind. "Whoa! Who the fu-" The figure was unfamiliar to her, yet she knew them all to well she thought. Whoever it was, their pleads for her to stay wasn't going to change anything. "I can leave if I bloody want to!"
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Name: Katherine Taylor HP: 33/50 FEAR Strength: 100% Insanity Strength: 20% Items: None RP Blurb: 5'6" and looks like this but has a small scar on the side of her face that goes all the way up the side of her cheek to her hairline
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"Then why don't you?" the voice challenged back, mocking. "I bet you can't! Go on then! See if I care!"
And indeed Kat was able to pass through the door. And slam it shut in that spirit's no longer smug face.
