70. [DREAM/DREAM/DREAM/DREAM]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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:]</sub>

Fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.

<sub>[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.]</sub>

[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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[foolishwren]

<sub>[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...]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[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!

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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?]</sub>

Oh god why ;_;

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

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?]

:D

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Only silence answered him.]



















[... oh and also a tiny rustle of cloth approximately 23 seconds later. That too.]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[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!

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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.]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[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.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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.]</sub>

Maybe he should have stayed in there

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[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!

QUITE POSSIBLY

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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!]</sub>

asdgghjklwidnwon oh god the puppet nurse

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[Oh wow, that's um...

...

...

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

GET AWAY FROM ME!

SHE LOVES YOU~

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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.]</sub>

Cobra Commander doesn't want her love :(

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[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!

8'(

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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.]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

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.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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.]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[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?]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[... Well... PROBABLY not!]

[Hopefully the... uh... 'humps' will make it hard for them to get into such a small space. And it IS small... and sticky. Smells like rotten meat. But hey, anything to get away from those nurses, right?]

[Still, the only option is to go on into darkness...]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

Does everything in this building smell rotten?

[He didn’t want to think about what was causing that smell, but ugh, it was everywhere. And the tunnel was sticky and gross.

He crawled further in. Cobra Commander had to get as far away as possible from those things.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Yes, Cobra. Yes it did.]

[In any case, soon the sounds of shuffling nurses and rustling cloth fade-- the hole just... goes on.]

[But there IS a pinprick of light ahead...]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

[Light? How far was this tunnel anyway?


Still, light might mean a way out, so he continued to crawl further in.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[PRETTY FAR... and a hell of a lot further than morgue drawers are supposed to go... hey, you don't suppose any of those corpses escaped the room through here, do you...?]

[In any case, it might take awhile... but eventually the light grows larger and larger and the Commander will find himself finally emerging from the tunnel into the blessed outside. ... And by blessed, I mean everything is covered in shit-tons of fog and most of the plants look dead. He's in a forest, quite literally popping up out of a hole in the ground.]</sub>

[serpensrex.livejournal.com]

What?

[The Commander looks back at the hole and then at his surroundings.]

This doesn't make any ssssense! Where did that building go? And where am I now? How is any of this even possible?

[He glances at the hole one last time, before deciding to walk away from it. He was away from that building, but he didn't want to hang around here if anything else chose to take that tunnel.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[It's gone, bro. Or maybe it was simply underground? Either way... yeah, it's probably not a good idea to stick around the hole too long. You never know what else might come out of that thing.]

[The woods are hard to see in, but at least there don't appear to be any dead bodies lying around. There's even a small path that becomes visible if he pays attention to where he's going, although it doesn't look like it's been walked in quite awhile.]

[Where does it go? Well, eventually, he'll get to a paved road with some parked cars on it... but where are all the people?]</sub>