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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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[The Commander glanced at the door again. He knew he wasn’t going to like this. Nothing about the way that door looked made him think this was going to be a good idea.

But he didn’t really have a choice now, did he? Besides, he thought, it couldn’t be as bad as some of the other places he’d been to recently, could it? Mustering up what little courage he had, the Commander made up his mind and stepped through the door.]

_{[Nope. The door's not good news, not at all. But there's just nowhere else to go.]

[When the Commander steps through the door, it's into an old, dark hallway. There's a stale smell about it, like it hasn't been inhabited in a long, long time. Peeling paint and abandoned gurneys litter its edges ... and there's a horrible stench in the air.]

[It's not blood... or even that ransacked-pharmacy smell one might expect from a place that so obviously was a hospital (... or was once a hospital...) ... it's rot.]}

[He sighed out of relief. This wasn’t as bad as he feared. Especially not compared to some of the other nightmarish places he’d been. No horrible looking islands, no floors littered with the dead, no giant robots about to end his life.

Not too bad. Aside from that horrible smell.]

Ugh, what died in here?

[He pushed forward, one hand clasped over his mouth, unsuccessfully trying to block out the smell. There had to be an exit around here somewhere.]

_{[A lot, Commander. A lot died in here. But you don't know that... yet.]

[Fortunately for him, the hallway is mostly unblocked, and there's door after door leading off of it.]

[The bad news? Most of them are locked.]

[The good news? The one at the very end of the hallway isn't.]

[... The badder news? ... It's the one the smell seems to be coming from. In fact, the closer he gets to where the hall ends, the more eye-wateringly foul the reek becomes. Not even his hand can fully block it out-- it's so strong he'll be able to taste it with every breath.]}

[Locked. Locked. Locked. Every door locked. And that smell, oh god, that horrible smell. The further he walked down the hallway, the worse it got. He had to get out of here fast. He was starting to feel trapped.

And of course, the only unlocked door was where the smell was strongest.]

Is this some sssort of sick joke? I’m not going in there!

[He backed away from the door. No way was he going through there. But, it was the only choice. Either that or stay trapped in this abandoned hallway forever. Yelling at no one in particular, he angrily stomped forward and shoved his way through the door.]

Someone is going to pay for this! Do you hear me? Someone is going to pay dearly!

_{[Guess whaaaaat?]

[~*~BODIES~*~]

[... Well, okay, not just.... lying everywhere randomly, no. But it looks like he's stepped into a morgue... a morgue that looks like it's been abandoned for a long, long time. Some of the drawers set in the walls have been pulled out and discarded haphazardly, and there's large, half-zipped bags lining the walls... he won't need to look in those. It's pretty obvious what's in them.]}

[Well, now he knew where the smell was coming from. Though he really wished he didn’t.]

You have got to be kidding me! This is disgusting! Disgusting! And what kind of idiots abandon a hospital but leave the morgue intact? Ugh, when I get out of here, I’m going to have the Crimson Guard find who owns this stupid building and sue them for every cent they have!

[Now where was the way out? Preferable without touching any of the…

He shuddered. He didn’t even want to think about what was lurking inside those bags.]

Ugh, where’s a cleaning crew when you need one?

_{[You tell 'em, Commander! This place is probably breaking like, fifty public health laws...]

[But unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be other doors in this room... in fact, the only feasible exits of any kind seem to be ... well, those drawers themselves... they look more like crude holes in the wall than they do drawers...]}

[Ugh, no exit in sight. Just the door going back to the hallway and those holes. If he hadn’t already tried the doors in the hall, he would’ve gone back and tried to force them open, but they had been incredibly solid.

Angrily and regretting entering this room even more than before, he moved over to examine one of the holes. Maybe it was some sort of tunnel to another room. There had to be some way out of this awful place. The smell and the bodies were beginning to make him feel boxed in.]

There has to be a way out of here! There just has to!

_{[The hole leads to darkness. ... But it does seem far deeper than what one would expect, and the particular one he's looking into doesn't have a body in it, blocking the way. Maybe it's some kind of tunnel?]

[... But either way... out of the corner of his eye, once his attention is on the hole-- ... holy shit, did one of those bodies in the corner just move?]}

I can’t see anything in there!

[If only he had a flashlight, then maybe he could see how far this thing went. At this rate, he wasn’t climbing into the dark. No way. Absolutely not. Over his dead body.

Wait, was that a noise behind him?]

I didn’t hear anything! My mind must be playing tricks on me…yes that’s it. Of course. Get a hold of yourself! There’s no one moving around in here but me!

[Still, he wasn’t turning around to check because, what if he’s wrong?]

_{[Only silence answered him.]

[... oh and also a tiny rustle of cloth approximately 23 seconds later. That too.]}

[He heard that. For sure he heard that. Something in here was moving. And whatever made that noise was between him and the door to the hall. The only possible escape route was the hole, but for all he knew it was a dead end. Maybe he could bluff his way out of this, or distract it and make a run for it.]

Stay back! I’m armed!

[He wasn’t of course, but the thing making noise didn’t know that, did it?]

I’m warning you! Stay back!

_{[Dude, Cobra, it's an empty room. ... An empty room full of corpses, yeah, but still! Empty! You must be hearing things, man. The only living thing in here is you.]

[... oh but wait there's something moving in the very corner of his vision again. Huh.]}

[Calm down? How is he meant to calm down when oh god did he see that what just moved?

Being stuck in the hallway was definitely better than being in here. He finally turned around, hoping to make a clean break for the door before whatever was moving came at him.]

_{[BYE COBRA. WE'LL STILL BE HERE WHEN YOU GET BACK. Y'KNOW, BEING BODIES. AND DEAD. AND GROSS.]

[Fortunately, nothing impedes the Commander's flight to the doorway, although once he steps out the door, he... might be wishing pretty quickly that he hadn't.]

[There's something down the hallway... shuffling in his general direction. It's kind of hunched... but... it looks like an old nurse lady or something! Hey, maybe she has directions out of here! WHY DON'T YOU GO ASK HER.]}

[The Commander breathes a sigh of relief, glad to be out of that morgue, even if he stuck back in the hallway.

Wait, if there was no way out, how did that woman down there get here? Maybe she had the keys to get out of this place. And if she didn’t want to help, he could always force her to do it.]

You!

[He ran towards the hunched over nurse.]

Get me out of here! Now!

_{[She doesn't reply... maybe she's hard of hearing. But hey, at least she's doddering closer, and coming into better view as he comes towards her...]}

_{[HELLOOOOOOOO NURSE!]}

[Oh wow, that's um...

...

...

The Commander will just be turning around and running like hell back down the hallway.]

GET AWAY FROM ME!

_{[The nurse blinks blearily after him a couple of times. >8I YOUNG PEOPLE THESE DAYS.]

[Anyway, he won't be getting too far... because there's three or so more of them coming down the OTHER end of the hallway.]

[What do, Commander? WHAT DO.]}

[He stops dead in his tracks and screams.]

No! No! No! No! Get away from me! You won’t get me!

[He scrambled towards the left side of the hall. Oh god oh god oh god where was the open door? Why are these all locked?]

Sssstay back!

_{[It might take him awhile to find the door to the morgue, but he will eventually-- and a good thing, too, because some of those unopenable doors are opening... with more and more of those nurses shuffling out of them...]

[Might wanna try that hole in the wall there now, bro.]}

How many of those things are there? I have to hide!

[He stares at the hole for what seems like forever. He wouldn’t do this under any other circumstances, but…those things scare him. And if they managed to get him…

He shudders and climbs into the hole. Maybe they wouldn’t think to check there.]

_{[Tons of them, Commander. And all of them want to be your friend.]

[The hole is open, inviting, and most importantly, corpseless. It's a tight squeeze but he'll be able to fit in and start crawling, if he's careful.]}

[This wasn't so bad. Dark and creepy sure, but better than whatever was out there.

They certainly wouldn't climb this far in after him...right?]

That picture is so cool

Thanks, man!

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Oh god why ;_;

:D

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Maybe he should have stayed in there

QUITE POSSIBLY

asdgghjklwidnwon oh god the puppet nurse

SHE LOVES YOU~

Cobra Commander doesn't want her love :(

8'(

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