13-Accidental voice (In which Karma comes a knocking)

[jimfromit]

[About late morning residents will hear Moriarty's voice over the journals

Only there's something different. The confidence and smugness is gone. It's been replaced with terror and confusion.]

What?, oh my god this...this isn't Kitty's flat?

[ There’s a lot of crashing and banging going on...like somebody's getting off a bed in a blind panic and knocking over  ornaments and books on shelves in the process.]

Oh no no no, somebody help me please! I've been kidnapped.

Please whoever you are don't hurt me. I'm just a simple kid's storyteller, I...I can't be of any use or value to you.

Just let me go.


[ OOC: Loss start]

Dictated;

[hullo_sweetie]

[River had been feeling a bit off all day, but she hadn't been able to figure out why up until just this moment. She'd had this unbearable thirst all day that couldn't be slaked no matter how many glasses of water or lemonade she drank. Not to mention she seemed to be having a bit of a problem visiting other people's rooms. She'd wanted to see how Helen was doing, but instead of knocking and entering, all she could do was stare at the door. For some reason she couldn't enter.

That was odd.

She'd been hearing drums all day. Fearing she'd gone off her rocker like the Master, she hadn't realized what it was until recently.

Heartbeat.

She was hearing the beating hearts of anyone who passed by her.

And they were starting to smell pretty tasty.

Then all the pieces of the puzzle finally clicked together]

It seems the castle has decided to mess around with my physiology. I'd recommend that everyone avoid me for the time being. No one is in immediate danger, but it's best to be on the safe side.

( Locked to the Sanctuary cast )

( Anyone who has experience dealing with vampires and/or is already a vampire )

three.

[selfdom]

( Tim Drake )

1st Summon - Accidental voice

[celestial_wizard]

[ The journal is picking up the sound of a new arrival. Yay, don't you just love new people? New people who sound confused, as expected. Though maybe not as confused as they should be. This isn't the first time Lucy's been swept away to another world alone. ]

Nnh... what... [ A pause. ] E-Eh!? Where...

What is this? This isn't my room... this isn't Magnolia. ... no way, are we still... in Edolas? ... ... no, that's not possible. I remember going back through the Anima with everyone.

But then... [ How did she end up here? Was it another Anima, that triggered somehow? Hadn't Mystogan closed them all? ]

Hello? [ Her voice is fainter now, accompanied by footsteps as she tries to poke around, testing the door and finding it open, then peering outside. ]

Is anyone there? ... Natsu? Gray? Erza? I'll even settle for Happy! [ The brat cat. She returns to her room after a few seconds silence, and there is a jingle of keys, and the sound of her settling on the bed. ]

At least I still have these... but the others, are they really not here? [ A pause, and the journal is spied - her voice is closer as she collects it. ]

Who left this book here?

051 ♕ [dictated]

[loisfuckinglane]

[ annnd down to business.  lois has a lot of people to contact today... ]

( Raine Sage )

( Annabeth Chase )

( Chris Kent )

 

[ Anti-first gen / evil people filter ]

Turn my head and fifty new things are happening around here.  Did somebody end up putting an expedition plan?  I've heard buzz floating around.  You'd better not leaving me hanging, because if I miss a scoop, so help me...

[ and after a moment, she adds one more. ]

( Clark )

twelfth ;

[queensconsort]

( [Galadriel] )

[Krasus is in the garden despite the sunlight. It's California-hot and he didn't even take off his cloak. Good luck trying to get him to dress down for /anything/.

Someone trampled the snapdragons recently and they need some love. Krasus is happy enough to oblige. He conjures a miniature cloud, complete with tiny misty rain, and waves it across the flowerbed.]

[ooc: durp durp open post.]

─ one hundred & forty-four

[amiable]

( backdated to yesterday )

( city filter )

55

[cheerupemoborg]

[Anyone near the library today may find that, well, it's kind of smoking at the moment.]

For God's sake...!

[Well, part of it is. A good few rows of bookshelves have all been blasted to ash, and some are still burning. Hank stomps out of there and doesn't look back, pausing only to flip open his journal.]

Unless you don't care one bit about your mental stability or are some kind of perverted deviant, I highly suggest you avoid the library.


ooc: Hank's been here over two years now! To celebrate, ITP all the library's books have been converted to doujinshi, starring both residents and their friends from home.

040 red letters - Broadcast

[eat_me_beat_me]

[It's Monday night boys and girls. But instead of the usual dose of Leonard Cohen a slightly different version of Everybody Knows comes flowing over the radio waves. The entire song plays through followed by a moment of silence broken only by the flick of a cigarette lighter. Unexpectedly, it's followed not by Mark's voice - but Nora's]

Don't bother trying to adjust your dials. This is Nora. I'm giving Mark a break this week. Come on, with how hard he works keeping everyone in this ridiculous castle informed I think he deserves one, don't you?

So let's see. Let's start this off easy with a welcome to all the new people here at Castle Wonderfuck: Helen, Sam, Guilmon, Takato, Howl, Tyrion, Lucy and Charming. Wait... there's really a dude here named Charming? That's... okay yeah that's a new one on me and I know a guy named Maz. Makes you wonder if he really lives up to his name. [Ahem] Anyway, I hope you're all ready for one hell of a ride. This place gets to everyone after a while. One day you're a perfectly abby-normal human being wondering how many kids are in the castle and the next day you're naming the clinic its own sovereign state. But don't worry, it happens to the best of us.

[There's a pause as she takes another drag on her cigarette]

Seriously, though. This place makes me wonder... It throws everyone off by bringing people back with all their memories of when they used to live here but it's been, like, less than a year and a whole bunch of them have gone home already. What's the point of bringing them back at all? Is it just trying to confuse us? Because last time I looked that wasn't hard to do. Just stick a whole bunch of people in the kitchen and chances are one of them will blow up the microwave because they don't know what the hell it is. Hey, there's a good idea for an experiment - throw groups in the kitchen and find out how many people end up destroying household appliances. That way when people come here we can pull something like what my homeroom teacher did. You know - "look to your left. Look to your right. One of you will not make it to graduation." Except it'll be, "Of the seven of you who just got here - one will do something stupid in the kitchen."

[She sighs, pausing for another moment as she thinks]

That's what really pisses me off about this place. Not the blowing shit up in the kitchen part. The fact that no one seems to give a rat's ass about any of it. I feel like the proverbial broken record beating a dead horse but people don't seem to react to anything. Sure there are a few people who have legitimate, honest reactions. But most people out there... it's like nothing phases them. Shit blowing up, being transported to another world... [she pauses] everything else... It's like people have got blinders on. They only see what they want to so they can keep going with their lives. I know they say that ignorance is bliss but where’s the line when it just becomes conveniently selective blindness?

You know what that makes me want to do even more? Shake people out of it- try to get people to react. See how long it takes people to finally snap and say “What the fuck is wrong with you?!” And you know what I’m gonna do when that happens? Smile and say “Nothing. Why? What’s wrong with you?”

((OOC: Also - Expedition Planning Post! And for those of you tracking Zelman's shenanigans, some links: Adachi's murder | Sherlock's announcement | Reno's post identifying Adachi | Faye being attacked | Spike discovers Faye))