foolishwren | 70. [DREAM/DREAM/DREAM/DREAM]

_{[So while the rest of Johto alternately panics, cries, or rushes around trying to capture as many of the soulstealing insects as possible, there are dozens of souls floating around in that dream limbo, drifting in and out of each other's slumbering thoughts and visions. Whether it's nightmarish flashbacks or just those dreams where you're at school taking a really hard test, and then Dracula shows up, and then everybody's naked ... anything is possible when it comes to what people see in their sleep.]

[But what appears in the darkness in this particular spot in the spaceless, shifting mass of dreaming souls... is a door.]

[It's old, and covered with boards and bolts, rusted near-through in some places. The lock is broken-- mangled and half-melted and wrenched out of the keyhole. The only thing on it that doesn't look ancient is a scrap of torn notebook-paper that's taped up on it at roughly eye-level. It reads only a single phrase:]}

Fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.

_{[More importantly, though... the door is ajar. Through the gap come the scents of rust and metal-- and something organic, fleshy-- and a low, deep hum of industrial machinery. It's not a door that anyone in their right mind would want to go through. ... But for anyone who may have stumbled this far into the dreams of their fellow lost souls, either in flight from some other nightmare or just pure, wandering curiosity... there's just no other place to go but through the door.]}

_{[Go on. Open it. After all.... it's only a dream.]}

[ooc: SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG, GUYS. Thanks for being patient! If you commented on that planning post, there's something spooky planned for your character to do here so please feel free to tag or not tag as it pleases you!]

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[ooc: This is the IC post for what was announced over here! Even if you didn't comment there, feel free to participate! I'm still happy to whip up Silent Hill scenarios for folks!]

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[Fuck.

No, not really. It's not something he wants a closer look at, lest those start moving too. But then, where to go? This room has an entrance but no exit, and neither did the last one. Neither of the rooms are places he wants to be in longer than absolutely necessary.

...he wonders if this nightmare will let him go now, but in the end, he's got no other choice than checking the door again. Maybe he missed something in the last room.

He doesn't want to go back out there any more than he wants to stay in here.

His hands just might be trembling.]

_{[Nope. Nothing. Nothing at all. These rooms are empty.]

[Except for that thing.]

[That thing that you probably can't help, even though it's obviously in anguish.]

[How does that make you feel, hmmmm Shinji?]}

[He doesn't even want to be anywhere near that poor thing. But hell. If that's all there is, it's apparently what this dream is about.

...if he can set that thing free, or do something about it, maybe it'll change something?
He'll try that, despite the nausea, despite the despair knotting in his guts. Maybe we can break the cage down. Find some way to open it.]

_{[But IS it?]

[There doesn't seem to BE much of a point, even if it's the only thing there... the bars of the cage are rusty and gnarled, probably cutting into his hands uncomfortably if he tries to rattle thing... as old as they are, they're solid...]

[And still, the thing trapped inside twitches...]}

[His hands pry at the bars until he thinks they're probably bleeding before he finally gives up. There's no point. He can't do it. He doesn't even really want to, what with that non-human creature thrashing about, but wasn't it worth a try?

Shinji looks around, remembering a juncture he passed earlier. Another door before he came in here. Maybe it's still there. But he'll need a moment to catch his breath, it's not like anything in here is actually threatening him. ...even if he doesn't like turning his back on that pained thing.]

_{[Regardless of his presence of non-presence, the pathetic creature struggles on...]

[But fortunately for him, there IS another door! It even opens when he tries it! Gee whiz.]

[... Unfortunately, it's another empty room. Bummer.]

[... Although there is something on the floor...]}

[Shinji stays cautious when he enters. Hell only knows what might be lurking here.

But what manner of something could that be?]

_{[... It would seem to be a gun.]

[A little handgun, to be specific.]}

[He knows he's well-conditioned when he sees a gun and thinks 'evoker' first off. But he'll gingerly lift the thing off the floor, to see which of the two it is. The weight should give it away.]

_{[This is no evoker-- it's the real deal. Loaded, too. Like something wants him to use it...]}

[His first instinct is to drop the damn thing again, but he resists it, even if he's not sure what he's supposed to be doing with it - yet. Is there nothing else in this room? The notion of putting someone or something out of their misery with this isn't one that sits well with him.]

_{[Well now, there's nothing ELSE to shoot... except yourself, but you can be sure THIS gun won't be summoning a Persona, Shinji.]

[It's obviously here for SOME kind of reason...]}

[He doesn't even really know how the damn thing works. Safety and all. On the other hand, just standing there isn't exactly appealing either. Still, actually carrying a weapon now, it makes him uneasy as he backtracks, yet again, to that near-empty room with the pained, caged creature (and the others inside the wall he tries his best to ignore.]

_{[Sup Shinji. Yeah, I'm still torturously hanging inside this cage. Suffering.]

[Not, you know, that there's anything you can do about it.]

[Right?]}

70. [DREAM/DREAM/DREAM/DREAM]

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I-I kind of forget what I had planned for him, SORRY! /IMPROVISING

LOL IT'S COOL. Can't expect you to remember after what, two months? XD

XD YEAH IT'S BEEN AWHILE

I REALLY AM SORRY

IT'S OKAY BRO

A-ALRIGHT THEN ;;7

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