{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . . } • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : CAUTIOUS // SURPRISED } ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW?▶ BOY IS AWAKE. SPEAK TO HIM. Suddenly, the boy's eyes opened and Kallisti pulled back. She looked at Temperance with surprise, and then back at the boy with a gentler look. He definitely - she was sure of it - resembled Cheshire, except he didn't have a tortured, crazed look on his face, and he was actually quite . . . ahem. Well. "Good afternoon," she said to him with a soft tone and a hint of a smile, "it is nice to see you have finally woken up." She looked at Temperance with a hint of caution, but then returned her attention to the boy, "I am Quintus, and this is Temperance. We found you here, sleeping . . . What is your name?" Hopefully, the boy was as calm as he looked. Spoiler: S T A T S L O C A T I O N :: ABANDONED HOSPITAL // PATIENT'S ROOMS T A T U S :: PHYSICAL: 99% :: MENTAL: 93% I N V E N T O R Y ::▶ GAUZE x1▶ SMALL { HALF EMPTY } BOTTLE OF PAINKILLERS▶ .44 COLT MAGNUM x8▶ BOX OF BANDAIDS x1▶ BED SHEETS x1▶ CREEPY UTENSILS (SCISSORS & TONGS)▶ RED RIBBON ( WRIST ) ▶ ____▶ CIGARETTES▶ BLOODIED NOTE ( POCKET ) ▶ ____▶ SHOVEL▶ GASOLINE▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . .} • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : CAUTIOUS} ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW?▶ MULL NOTE. WAKE BOY. Kallisti patted the boy a few times on his face, "Hello," she murmured gently, "Is anyone in there . . . ?" After patting his face a few more time, she resolved to shaking him on the shoulder, a little less gentle, but nothing to shock him so much if he woke up, "I would like to talk to you," she said again.
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . .} • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : !! // CAUTIOUS } ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW?▶ MULL NOTE. WAKE BOY. Kallisti took a breath after reading the note. That was . . . interesting - had this boy written it? "Temperance," she said with sudden realization, "the boy, and Cheshire . . . They look similar, don't you think? That is where I have seen him before. What if they are the same person?" She hit the note with the back of her hand, "And this, this seems to be some sort of . . . scorned-person note, and it seems to be his. The question present is, who is the 'she' he keeps mentioning?" She mulled over everything for a moment, and then bounced her finger as she began to talk, "What if he is somehow related to Crestatia - not in the same way the players are, but something more . . . Do demons have families, lovers?" There was no sure way they could get final answers without waking the boy. He groaned, and that was sign of him not being in a coma, "We must wake him." she said, "There is not much he can do to us, especially since we have weapons and he will be weak from his rest." She slipped the note into her pocket, and looked down at the other items. The ribbon was tied securely around her wrist, for now. The only question was, how were they going to wake him? Spoiler: S T A T S L O C A T I O N :: ABANDONED HOSPITAL // PATIENT'S ROOMS T A T U S :: PHYSICAL: 100% :: MENTAL: 89% I N V E N T O R Y ::▶ GAUZE x1▶ SMALL { HALF EMPTY } BOTTLE OF PAINKILLERS▶ .44 COLT MAGNUM x8▶ BOX OF BANDAIDS x1▶ BED SHEETS x1▶ CREEPY UTENSILS (SCISSORS & TONGS)▶ RED RIBBON ( WRIST ) ▶ _____▶ CIGARETTES▶ BLOODIED NOTE ( POCKET ) ▶ _____▶ SHOVEL▶ GASOLINE▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . .} • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : CAUTIOUS } ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW?▶ OBSERVE ITEMS. READ NOTE. Kallisti looked around, and laying on the ground were two hospital gowns, both bloodied up. She bent down to get a better look and found that the blood was fresh, and wondered why. Cloaks . . . Cheshire; he spoke of killing people in cloaks, was this what he meant? Why was he in the hospital to begin with . . . His hair was rather white too, wasn't it? . . . Just like that boy's. Kallisti collected the box of cigarettes and scrunched her face at them; she never liked smoking. A shovel . . . Someone had been buried ( alive? ) perhaps? She took the red ribbon and frowned at it. All of these items were rather odd, being together, weren't they? She returned to the room with the shovel, gasoline, and bloodied gowns in tow, along with the bloodied note, and then sat the larger items by the bed. "This was all on the balcony," she mentioned, and then began to read the note aloud. Spoiler: S T A T S L O C A T I O N :: ABANDONED HOSPITAL // PATIENT'S ROOMS T A T U S :: PHYSICAL: 100% :: MENTAL: 87% I N V E N T O R Y ::▶ GAUZE x1▶ SMALL { HALF EMPTY } BOTTLE OF PAINKILLERS▶ .44 COLT MAGNUM x8▶ BOX OF BANDAIDS x1▶ BED SHEETS x1▶ CREEPY UTENSILS (SCISSORS & TONGS)▶ RED RIBBON▶ CIGARETTES▶ BLOODIED NOTE▶ SHOVEL▶ GASOLINE▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . .} • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : CAUTIOUS } ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW?▶ WAKE UP PATIENT. SEARCH BALCONY. Kallisti listened to Temperance speak to the unconscious boy gently. She briefly wondered if Temperance had a soft spot for children. While the gentle coaxing went on, Kallisti turned away from the television and thought more on where she might have seen that boy's face. It couldn't have been before this game, no . . . Some time after it all started? But when? In her thoughts, she found herself sliding open the door to the balcony and searching around for anything that might stand out. Spoiler: S T A T S L O C A T I O N :: ABANDONED HOSPITAL // PATIENT'S ROOMS T A T U S :: PHYSICAL: 100% :: MENTAL: 88% I N V E N T O R Y ::▶ GAUZE x1▶ SMALL { HALF EMPTY } BOTTLE OF PAINKILLERS▶ .44 COLT MAGNUM x8▶ BOX OF BANDAIDS x1▶ BED SHEETS x1▶ CREEPY UTENSILS (SCISSORS & TONGS)▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . . } • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : CAUTIOUS } [/url] xxxx❝I feel as if I have stepped into a video game. xxxxxxxxx That the design is horror, and this must be . . . xxxxxx Perhaps a game like Silent Hill or Amnesia. Hmhmhm.❞ ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW?▶ SEARCH ROOM. BE CAUTIOUS. After a long moment of contemplation, Kallisti and Temperance advanced to the hospital room with the live heart monitor. She hugged the wall next to the door way for a moment, took a breath, and then spun around, pointing her gun every which way in the room, prepping to shoot if needed. To her surprise, there was only one occupant of the room. An unconscious boy was in the somewhat-pristine hospital bed, the one hooked up to the heart monitor. His hair was silver and he looked vaguely familiar, but for the moment, Kallisti couldn't place a name with a face. The two girls crept father into the room, and Kallisti went to the restroom, searched around, and then came back to Temperance, still ready to shoot her gun whenever she needed. "Doesn't he look slightly familiar, to you?" she asked her, "I feel that we or I may have met him before . . ." She looked over the boy, and then to the balcony. In the corner, there was a television, "Do you think that works?" she asked, moving closer to it and inspecting. Spoiler: S T A T S L O C A T I O N :: ABANDONED HOSPITAL // PATIENT'S ROOMS T A T U S :: PHYSICAL: 100% :: MENTAL: 88% I N V E N T O R Y ::▶ GAUZE x1▶ SMALL { HALF EMPTY } BOTTLE OF PAINKILLERS▶ .44 COLT MAGNUM x8▶ BOX OF BANDAIDS x1▶ BED SHEETS x1▶ CREEPY UTENSILS (SCISSORS & TONGS)▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . . } • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : NERVOUS } [/url] xxxx❝I feel as if I have stepped into a video game. xxxxxxxxx That the design is horror, and this must be . . . xxxxxx Perhaps a game like Silent Hill or Amnesia. Hmhmhm.❞ ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW?▶ KEEP LOOKING. SEARCH. Kallisti hadn't exactly been planning for Temperance to come along, but she had been glad to not be alone. Hopefully, Madeline and the others were still safe. "Does this place give you the creeps as bad as it does me?" Temperance asked her, and Kallisti nodded quietly. The two girls found a staircase and went up to the second floor of the hospital, towards the ICU wing. There had been a map on one of the walls that Kallisti took down to check, and the pediatric wing was on the third floor. "A chapel." she said, motioning to the door they were standing next to. She cautiously stepped inside the large room and looked around. There were a few pews on each side, a large piano in the corner, and an alter with a cross up front. Behind the alter was a stained glass mosaic of Christ, seemingly blessing three small cherubs. A few minutes of searching passed and it seemed that Kallisti found nothing, and looked back at Temperance, "Should we continue to ICU, or search around here a little more?" Before Temperance could reply, all of the lights flickered on, and then a distance beeping began. At first, Kallisti thought it was a bomb, but it sounded . . . familiar. A heart monitor? She gave the other a grave look, but they had just gotten in here. Maybe they should leave. Maybe not. There were other things to be found. "Come, we go up." They ascended another set of stairs to the third floor and cautiously walked towards the beeping sound until they were about twenty feet from it. Kallisti cocked the magnum and then began to creep closer until she was just under ten feet away from the beeping. Her heart thumped in her chest, and then she waited for something to happen. Spoiler: S T A T S L O C A T I O N :: ABANDONED HOSPITAL // THIRD FLOORS T A T U S :: PHYSICAL: 100% :: MENTAL: 91% I N V E N T O R Y ::▶ GAUZE x1▶ SMALL { HALF EMPTY } BOTTLE OF PAINKILLERS▶ .44 COLT MAGNUM x8▶ BOX OF BANDAIDS x1▶ BED SHEETS x1▶ CREEPY UTENSILS (SCISSORS & TONGS)▶ MACHETE▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____▶ ____ ▶ WHAT HAPPENS NOW? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : TEEHEE. } • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : NERVOUS !! } [/url] xxxx❝Things are so unsure. We are no longer together. xxxxxxxxx By the minute, our minds slowly fade . . . xxxxxx There is no time to stay around, we must move.❞ The others were directed to stay in the car, and Kallisti told Harley to lock the doors and keep the keys with him, and to make sure that none of the others ran off. Hopefully, they would be safe in there. Before anything else, she checked the amount of bullets she had in the gun; seven, and one in the chamber. She had eight shots. Her aim would be only decent because of her archery skills, but she hoped that the kickback wouldn't hurt her too much. The two girls then stood at the door that had previously trapped them inside. "If we want supplies, we should look for a closet or something . . . but both of us shouldn't go in. We don't want to get stuck again." Kallisti looked at Temperance, then at the gun in her hand. It was obvious which one of them would go in - if Kallisti did, she would have a better chance at surviving. She took a deep, shaky breath, "Very well . . . I will go in," she began, "If I call for you, please hurry to come, and tell Harley to watch the door. Even in his worst state the boy is of some use." Her electric blue eyes trailed down the hall that slowly turned to darkness as it went on. ". . . Wish me luck?" she said with a weak smile, and then took a step in. Her first direction was to go to the room they had escaped from. All around her was quiet, and the room was lit by the three very dirty windows and the one broken one. She looked around for anything that might be of use to them; gauze, weapons, any other medical supplies. Once she had discovered only a small roll gauze, she moved on, going further down the hall. The decrepit smell of the building made her a little light headed, and she was sure that, at one point or another, chemicals had been spilled around. After traversing through three more rooms in the entrance hallway, she had come up with only a bottle of painkillers. L O C A T I O N :: ABANDONED HOSPITAL LOBBYI N V E N T O R Y :: > GAUZE x1> SMALL ( HALF EMPTY ) BOTTLE OF PAINKILLERS> .44 COLT MAGNUM [[ 8 BULLETS ]]> WHAT HAPPENS NOW? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : GOOD LORD } • { LOCATION : CAR // ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : NERVOUS } [/url] xxxx❝Things are so unsure. We are no longer together. xxxxxxxxx By the minute, our minds slowly fade . . . xxxxxx There is no time to stay around, we must move.❞ They hit the road, and then the car was coming to a stop, soon. Kallisti quickly opened the door and scooped up the lethal weapons that were just . . . lying there, and put them on the passenger floorboard. She looked back at Temperance with a nod, and they drove back to the abandoned hospital. "What are we doing here?" Harley asked, shivering a little. "Seeing what we are able to find," Kallisti replied, opening the door and stepping out. She looked around the day-lit forest. There seemed to be no sign of Cheshire . . . Whether that was good or bad, she didn't know. Before even thinking about going inside, she looked for the broken glass window they had originally escaped through; good, still broken and they could get through it if needed. Since she was taking point, and none of the others besides Temperance seemed extremely capable, Kallisti grabbed the gun and then handed the machete to Temperance. She looked at her co-captain, "Are you ready?" she asked, slightly shaky. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : TEMPY WANTS TO GO BACK TO PSYCHO'S HOSPITAL? AHAHA. } { LOCATION : CAR // UNKNOWN FOREST // RIVERBANK }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : UNSURE } [/url] xxxx❝Things are so unsure. We are no longer together. xxxxxxxxx By the minute, our minds slowly fade . . . xxxxxx There is no time to stay around, we must move.❞ It was a bit of a shocker, Kallisti had to be honest, that Temperance had not lost it with her. Even she had to admit it was her own fault they were in this situation to begin with. "I feel bad for him." With a slightly confused and surprised expression, Kallisti looked at the girl; they both felt bad for that boy - but neither of them knew who or what he really was. If she had to pin it to a finality, she would say that he, 'Cheshire', was a work of Crestatia's own creation, just as they all supposedly were ( as she didn't completely accept that theory, yet ). ". . . Same." It was quiet, and then her co-captain went on, "I think we should go back to that abandoned hospital." For a moment, Kallisti thought she might laugh at the suggestion - but then she remembered the other boy that had been with them. Was he still there? "I have a feeling there is more there waiting for us and I didn't like Cheshire's departing words." Well, when it was put that way, it made a bit of sense. That building had been rather large. With a long sigh, she gently patted Temperance's shoulder and then nodded. At least they had something of a mutual understanding . . . For now. She glanced over he shoulder at the four freezing souls in the back and then returned her attention to Temperance. With each word, the return trip was making more sense. "I just . . ." She trailed off. Kallisti didn't do well with emotional people, but she patted the other girl's shoulder again and it seemed to help. "We could probably help Madeline there too. It was old and creepy, but there has to be supplies left over. She could get fixed up and we can check to see if anyone else is there. If he really did defeat bad guys in cloaks, we might not have been the only ones inside." Honestly, going back . . . seemed like a bad idea - what if they couldn't find any supplies that would help Madeline . . . and the others? If they got trapped again, and another psychotic boy showed up - or the same one showed up again - she didn't know what they would do. She stared at the road ahead. "What if . . . this road takes us to the others?" she asked, slightly doubtful, "I am not sure we would be able to handle more trouble if we ran into it." Still. She sighed with defeat, "Very well. Take us back, and we will see if this is worth it." Hopefully, they would live to tell whether it was or not. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . . } • { LOCATION : RIVERBANK // THE CAR }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : UNCOMFORTABLE } [/url] xxxxxxxxx❝Things are so unsure. We are no longer together. xxxxxxxxxxxx I cannot let this go. I must find you. xxxxxxxxxx There is no time to stay around, we must move.❞ Kallisti paled when the completely unstable boy declared that he definitely would have remembered the others. She glanced over at Temperance and knew she would be bitched at, but she didn't care. Before any of them knew it, the boy was gone, disappeared into the forest. "Wait!" she said, calling after him. If she were honest, she felt bad for the boy, but what worried her was who he was going to kill. Were there really other people in that abandoned hospital? After a long moment, Kallisti looked at the others. They were soaking wet . . . One of Madeline's eyes was covered with a cloth that appeared to come from her drenched clothing. Harley was covered in cuts. They all looked very worse for the wear, but she was thankful they were at least alive. "What . . . happened to you four?" she asked them tentatively, but Harley shook his head, motioning to the shaky girls. ". . . C-can we leave, with that? The car? I . . .We need help." Madeline motioned to the rest of the group. After everything they had all been through, she was happy that Madeline was still alive . . . Kallisti looked at Temperance, who had the keys. "Yes, the car is a working one. We do need help. Have you any news of the others?" She lead them all to the car, which seemed rather . . . small for them, but she remembered the seats in the back folded down individually to reveal the trunk. They could lay down, if they wanted. Harley got into the backseat and Kallisti took shotgun, then turned to Temperance, "I am sorry," she told her solemnly, trying to be as sincere as she could, "It would have been ideal to come to the car in the first place. But we are here now, and we need to get away."
Kallisti flinched at the sudden turn in the boy's demeanor, but quickly thought, "Shhh, no . . . It's okay. Shhh, they're not going to hurt you. Come now, darling, don't you remember that they used to play with you too? If you don't remember it was because they didn't play with you as often as Temperance and I did." she explained, remaining calm. She saw Madeline, alive, but not overly-well, Harley, and Bernadette. Thomas lay on the ground. Dead again? Useless. "They are not going to hurt you, I promise." And she gave Harley a very pointed look, "They wanted to see you again, didn't you?" Slowly catching on, Harley nodded, "Yeah." he said, slightly breathy. "See?" This boy was a dangerous ticking time bomb. One wrong move . . .
Harley looked up in alarm when he heard a car pull up. Instinctively, he put himself in front of the others, and then the door opened, and he saw Kallisti. With raised eyebrows, he watched as her face turned surprised ( and maybe relieved ) to see him too, but she quickly put a finger to her lips, made a cutting motion across her throat, and then turned to the car. "We're here." she said cheerfully, opening the passenger's door. "Do you remember all of the time we spent here? That was very nice." Harley raised an eyebrow and was a little shocked by the sudden appearance of a blood-stained boy. All of his senses were on high alert because of it, but Kallisti, standing behind him, motioned for him not to say anything. "Tell me," she began saying to the boy, "Do you remember what sort of things we used to do here? I'll be very upset if you do not remember. You have to guess."
Kallisti raised an eyebrow, trying to remain calm, "Is that so?" she asked curiously. This was insanely ridiculous, "Tell us, what kind of bad guys were they?" The river. Hmm.
Harley limped over to Madeline, trying to figure out where they were. Things felt bad. The sun on his back thought . . . It was nice. He had to admit. That water had been freezing cold, and he thought he was going to die in it. Thomas . . . Harley didn't think about it. He weakly bent down by M and ripped off some of the cloth on her clothing. "Your eye," he commented, though she probably knew since she was crying. "Sorry." There wasn't much else to say on the matter. He moved her hand and twitched uncomfortably at the site, but wrapped the extremely damp, but now-cool cloth so that it was covering her eye. "I can't do much to stop the blood." he told her, and then helped her stand. Off in the distance, he swore he heard a car somewhere. "Where do we go," he asked, more to himself than to the others.
When Kallisti got into the backseat, she immediately pulled the seats down to reveal the trunk, and thus the keys. She grabbed them, looking tentatively at the psycho who was now in the car. " Hello. " she said with a smile, clutching the keys. She gave Temperance a 'what now' look.
Kallisti glared at the psychopathic boy, but she couldn't help but feel strange about him. 'When we were kids'? She didn't know. Temperance was . . . Okay. She breathed out, and got into the backseat, trying to remain calm.
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . . } • { LOCATION : FOREST }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : HURRIED } The two of them got to the car, where they should have gone first, and now they were looking for keys while being pressed for time because the psychopath was after them. Kallisti searched high and low inside the car for where the keys might be, under the seats, in the glove box, everywhere.
{ TUMBLR • ACQUAINTANCES • MOST RECENT • WEARING }{ OOC : . . .} • { LOCATION : ABANDONED HOSPITAL }{ YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • DISDAIN } • { MOOD : . . .} Well, if she was going to meet her death . . . But that voice did not sound good at all. Kallisti was honestly, truly terrified at the thought of what might happen to her. Temperance had found an ax before they heard the voice. Patting around in the dark, she grabbed it and put it somewhere she could reach if she needed. And then, a window shattered. Kallisti spun around and looked at Temperance. That was wonderful too, she supposed. Kallisti hopped out the window and began to run away from the building. Nearby, she could have sworn she heard rushing water.
( TUMBLR • WEARING • MASK )( OOC :: OOCHERE ) • ( LOCATION :: TORTURE CHAMBER )( YOU • ME • NAMES • LINKS • HATE ) • ( MOOD :: HOT !! ) That's what it was. A torture chamber. Terrible. Others? Happening . . . Between the massive amount of pain and the terrible smell of burning flesh, there were few thoughts in Vanille's tortured mind that could be complete. Escape plan. How? People around. Start again. How? If she made it out of this situation alive . . . Well, she didn't know what she what she would do. But if she sat burning alive for much longer, she wasn't going to be able to be alive. Obviously. Crestatia? Out . . . Deal. Bargain. For what? Didn't care. Wiggle? Knock over. Door? Fall open. Closed again. Other people. Door - locked? Probably. ❝S - STOP.❞ She meant to try and say it calmly, but it only came out as a screaming sob. She tried to say something else, but only screamed out 'stop again' Then she heard him. Theodore. He screamed out for Crestatia. Was that really their only option. It was. ❝CRU - CRES - TAT . . . CRESTATIA!!❞ She didn't know what else to do.
