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2Total: 2 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:21 pm
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[ INSIDE - Broken down hospital wing, third floor. ] (EMOTION: PARANOIA) All the furniture is broken, the tables upturned. Some of the walls are missing. The only light source, other than any you have potentially carried with you, is the eerie moonlight peering through the fog. There is broken glass everywhere and you swear you can hear voices calling out to you
Harvard had broken away from the little group for the time being. He liked to think he'd slipped off unnoticed - Liam being who everyone needed to focus on. But Harvard had a promise that he'd keep as many times as he could and he would search and search. He wound his way upwards, shoes crunching on broken glass and kicking against shredded furniture. Harvard wondered what this place would have looked like new.
He hummed a little as he walked, low enough that he could hear sobbing if it came, loud enough that it drowned out the voices that whispered in the dark corner where the moonlight didn't reach. He hoped. ********, he hoped.
And when I hurt, hurting runs off my shoulders. How can I hurt when holding you?
Infection: 15/100 HP: 21/50
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Character's name: Dr. Harvard Falls Character's faction: University Character's journal link:Here Character's survival stats: #80 Jersey Number: 15 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER 35 year old linguistic anthropology professor. Dark hair and beard. Smokes. [x]
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:40 pm
It was faint at first, slowly growing more and more encouraged: the sound of someone counting, voice shaking. The anxious sound of nothing but counting and counting, over and over, skipping all the nines.
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:49 pm
He paused his humming, ears straining. Harvard knew, knew somewhere in his bones who it was. Or he hoped - he was doing a lot of that today. He moved towards the voice, slowly, trying to make no noise with his body other than his voice.
He spoke over her every time, inserting her nines where they should be. She had told him to find the nines, find the pattern, and if she'd discarded it, Harvard would be the nines for her.
When she appeared it was all at once and right in front of him, peering down with one numeric eye.
"Stop it--stop it--stop it!" Her tail coiled around him again, still loose, just a threat. "You won--you won--I was right and you still won--why are you hurting me? Why? Why? The child is alive--alive and I'm not--isn't that enough? It hurts--its hurts and now you take the nines away!"
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HP: 41/50 AUTO DAMAGE: 5 auto damage each time you attack Special Effect: Looks like she has been brutally mutilated with purpose: her heart has been removed, leaving a hole through her chest, and a variety of monstrous additions and alterations have been made to her stitched-together form. To Escape: Escape by fleeing or do an oddly specific 9 total damage to cause the Infected to flee!
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:23 pm
The suddenness of it took his breath away. Her tail was almost an embrace - it held a threat, of course, but Harvard ran one of his hands down it almost gently.
"Caroline, you left the nines out, you dropped them and I picked them up and put them back in." His knife was held at the ready in his other hand. He knew what he had to do, but he wanted a moment. It was funny, how easy it was now to see Caroline in the creature, even though her skin was blackened, even though her heart was missing, her mouth too wide and full of too many teeth.
"Why do you think you're dead?" He moved his hand up, stretching, and pressed it against her face.
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:44 pm
All appeared to be going fairly well in the sense that she wasn't actively trying to kill him. Touching both the tail and her face earned no reaction, and though the glow of her eye flickered when he spoke of nines, there was no retaliation until he asked the question. The tail tightened its hold, and the edge of something sharp - presumably her weapon - was pressing between two of his ribs.
"I'm not stupid--I'm not--I'm not and you know that." Her skin seemed to crawl in an uncomfortably literal way. "You can pretend--but I can see. I can see. I can tell--I know. I see it--I see I'm not safe--I wasn't safe--even if you won't. It's your fault--yours--you know it. Even if you lie."
WORLD BOSS ENCOUNTER
HP: 41/50 AUTO DAMAGE: 5 auto damage each time you attack Special Effect: Looks like she has been brutally mutilated with purpose: her heart has been removed, leaving a hole through her chest, and a variety of monstrous additions and alterations have been made to her stitched-together form. To Escape: Escape by fleeing or do an oddly specific 9 total damage to cause the Infected to flee!
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2, 2Total: 4 (2-8)
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:48 pm
"You're smart, Caroline. You know it's not my fault." His eyes flickered to her collar again, and he tried to shift away from her weapon.
"So who's fault is it? Who told you that you were allowed to run away? Who said you were allowed to become like this?" His hand slid down briefly across her neck, fingers squeezing for just a moment. "You're mine, Caroline, and I do not allow this." Harvard slashed at her collar bone, right above where her heart should have been.
HP: 16/50 DMG: 2
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:12 pm
The shriek that poured from her mouth was ear-piercing, just the right frequency to be felt in one's bones.
"No--no, no--no! You can't--you can't--it wasn't supposed to be like this!" She was no longer poised to attack, and seemed to be thoughtlessly clawing at him in an effort to get away again. "--no--no! I was free--I was--no, no--escaped from one cage into another--stop it, stop it--"
Her voice shifted in sound and tone, as if she were darting back and forth rather than standing in one place right in front of him, a sound bouncing off of invisible walls.
WORLD BOSS ENCOUNTER
HP: 39/50 AUTO DAMAGE: 5 auto damage each time you attack Special Effect: Looks like she has been brutally mutilated with purpose: her heart has been removed, leaving a hole through her chest, and a variety of monstrous additions and alterations have been made to her stitched-together form. To Escape: Escape by fleeing or do an oddly specific 9 total damage to cause the Infected to flee!
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:14 pm
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The Semblance of Unity rolled 2 4-sided dice:
1, 4Total: 5 (2-8)
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:15 pm
He winced, but his right hand clamped around her tail. It hurt, the claws, and he grunted in pain at a particularly nasty swipe. "You wanted it. Everything about you begged for it. And isn't it better?" Everyone lives their lives within cages, but it was up to each person to pick the best one. Freedom was a silly illusion, unneeded, unwanted. Harvard wanted to control, to own and be owned in return.
His knife flickered forward again. He would not let go of her. Harvard could see the card that rested in her heart and it was just another mark he'd left on her. "Didn't I promise you, Caroline, that I'd always find you?" He smiled faintly.
DMG: 3 HP: 11/50
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:36 pm
"No--noNO no--no, no--no--no!"
She writhed and squirmed but all of the sharp ends and pointy edges of her were not enough. No part of her was equipped to escape this reality, and it was clear in her twisted, panicked expression that she knew it.
"--it's not fair--it's not fair--you can't have it all--it's not fair--equal parts, half and half--I gave you more--I wanted to and gave you more--but not all of it." Her teeth were bared as she tried to seem more frightening. "--it's not a game if--not if you aren't fair--I gave you her life and let you keep me and--you're supposed to let me run."
WORLD BOSS ENCOUNTER
HP: 36/50 AUTO DAMAGE: 5 auto damage each time you attack Special Effect: Looks like she has been brutally mutilated with purpose: her heart has been removed, leaving a hole through her chest, and a variety of monstrous additions and alterations have been made to her stitched-together form. To Escape: Escape by fleeing or do an oddly specific 9 total damage to cause the Infected to flee!
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2, 4Total: 6 (2-8)
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:39 pm
This caused him to smile wider, but if it was more of an animalistic baring of his teeth, well, only Caroline was there to see. "I can have it all, if you give it." And if she gave it, he would take it. Later, when this nightmare was over, he'd be gentle and smooth down her hair as she chattered to him about nines and cages. Later, he'd have soft words and softer bindings and let her run without chase for a time. But now was a time for fierceness, an assertiveness that would tell Caroline he'd never give up on her.
This time, his knife plunged into her belly, an awkward angle but effective. "Okay," he said, his voice little more than a hiss. "I'll let you run. But I'll chase, Caroline. I'll dog each step and on the ninth steps, each one of them, think of me."
HP: 6/50 DMG: 4
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:07 am
For a supposed monster, a terrible creature made of shadows and Infection, her actions were somewhat unbecoming: she stumbled backwards, graceless and fearful, and scarcely kept herself from falling down. The end of her tail coiled and uncoiled as she gave a very pointed frown.
"This isn't yours to tell."
In the sudden absence of the sight of her the counting returned, the wavering voice now leaving lengthy, tentative pauses in the space between eight and ten.
WORLD BOSS ENCOUNTER
HP: 32/50 AUTO DAMAGE: 5 auto damage each time you attack Special Effect: Looks like she has been brutally mutilated with purpose: her heart has been removed, leaving a hole through her chest, and a variety of monstrous additions and alterations have been made to her stitched-together form. To Escape: Escape by fleeing or do an oddly specific 9 total damage to cause the Infected to flee!
