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Post by Kerion on Oct 21, 2008 12:39:36 GMT -5
"All right then. Well, if things become out of hand, we will be here and around; we shall also make sure if nothing happens within and outside the hospital." He refers 'we' as Kerion, Kenny, and him.
*Kerion nods at Dante's statement* "I'll be waiting outside."
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Post by Lillith on Oct 22, 2008 1:03:19 GMT -5
::Nurse Takano leads the group through the depressing corridors of the madhouse. As they pass each cell, the derangement of the victims becomes very real to them. Some cry hysterically as though they're being attacked by something that isn't there. Some of them rail against the walls and windows of their cell in fury. Others simply sit on their bed with blank stares. One particular victim startles them::
Madwoman: Let me out! PLEASE! I'm not crazy! I'M NOT!!! ::Takano glances at her and she screams before backing into the furthest corner of her room::
Takano: Yet another sorceress driven mad by her powers. She believes they're a demon that's possessed her. Suffers from religiously themed hallucinations. Her fear of needles has made her believe I'm the devil incarnate. We need to give her shots of suppressants regularly to prevent any violent use of her powers. Rena receives them as well, though she's been much quieter about it lately.
::Later on in the observation chamber, Lillith and Iole seem to be making little headway. Oliver has remained by Lillith, simply observing for the moment. Echidna sits at the other end of a metal table with her hands in her lap and her eyes downcast. The hair in her face prevents them from reading her expression. Still in her grip is the morbid little notebook, far more worn than it was when Lillith saw her last. Just outside the room Kerion, Dante, and Kenny can see what's going on through the two way mirror, although the reflective surface on the other side prevents Echidna from seeing that she has an audience. Lillith slides the small note of paper with the odd sign sketched onto it::
Alright Rena, for the last time where did you see this? Who showed it to you?
Echidna: ::Places her notebook on the table and points to one of the many drawing on its pages. The sketch is that of a strange creature shrouded in black with a fanged maw and burning topaz eyes:: He showed me. It is the sign of my power. The caged bird will sing, and this sign will herald its freedom. Then I won't just sing. I'll dance too. The things I've heard from Lindblum, those morbid little stories, are only the prologue for greater glories.
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Post by Oliver on Oct 22, 2008 1:35:33 GMT -5
Oliver, timid about this situation, can't help but gaze upon the drawings in the notebook. He stares at them with some otherworldly fascination, something so strange, so morbid, yet in a way beautiful.
Oliver finds his attention divided, between Lillith, the book, and Echidna herself and as she speaks he can't but feel pity for the woman, so driven mad by something. Yet, she strikes a cord with him, her claims of a 'prologue for greater glories.', what does that mean he ponders.
"Lillith, wha'she saying? 'prologue'? Whas that, was gonna happen?"
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Post by Iole on Oct 22, 2008 1:47:58 GMT -5
::Iole scoots her chair closer to Oliver::
I wouldn't read too deep into what she's saying. She's crazy.
::Echidna's eyes grow wide at the sound of Iole's voice. In fact it's possible that she hasn't noticed her until now with her eyes on the ground::
Echidna: SILENCE! How dare you come here to see me in my misery! You took EVERYTHING from me! See for yourself!
::She tosses the notebook across the table, letting it slide in front of them::
Echidna: Look well, formless. That is your fate. That is my master's plan for you. That is your end when the King in Yellow has no further use for you.
::Iole glances at the drawings to find that they're not just of the cloaked figure, but of her being brutally killed by him. She seems sad, but not surprised::
How long has she been drawing these?
Lillith: Immediately after she started claiming to see this thing. So Rena, The King in Yellow? Who is that?
Echidna: Haven't you been listening? He is my lord. My master. My salvation... My revenge. The King will plot and the King will plan, like a perfect machine he plans, barbing the hook, baiting the trap, setting it out for the fools to snap.
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Post by Oliver on Oct 22, 2008 1:54:13 GMT -5
Oliver looks over to Iole after Rena slides the book with its macabre depiction of Iole's death. "She don't like ya much, do she?" He says, curiously sounding then pauses as he looks at the drawing. "Hey!" He exclaims. "Look!" He holds up the drawing for Lillith to see. "She loks like tha girl in the alley I saw, I did. See." Points to a spot over the chest of the girl in the picture. "See, stabs rights ther."
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Post by Iole on Oct 22, 2008 2:05:20 GMT -5
::Iole shakes her head::
Nope. She's still mad that I broke some toy of hers a few years back. Some monster she used to attack Esthar. I thought it was all water under the bridge. I guess I was wrong.
::Echidna smiles at Oliver's reaction to the picture. Her voice sounds like she's recalling a beautiful dream she had the other night::
Echidna: Beautiful isn't it. Truly a testament to his might. But all I can do is sing and wait for when I can bring my song into the light. ::Looks directly at Oliver:: You... you've seen it haven't you? The work of my lord. What was it like? Was it beautiful? Tell me everything!
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Post by Oliver on Oct 22, 2008 2:26:15 GMT -5
"Uh..." Oliver sounds as if he's not sure how to react to the question. "I... wuldunt say tha..."
He looks to Lillith for an answer, his eyes confused and frustrated.
"Wha she sayin, I don think I wan to be here anymor... can we go?"
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Post by Iole on Oct 22, 2008 2:48:02 GMT -5
::When Oliver looks up, he's alone in the room with Echidna who is standing over him with a carnal smile that is made eerie and unnatural from the greenish phosphorescent light of the clinic:: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkcJrW65xjIEchidna: What did you see? Was it beautiful? ::Suddenly Oliver isn't in the clinic anymore, but in the dark streets of Lindblum. Just feet in front of him like something out of a dream is the smiling warm face of his mother. Then the dream becomes a nightmare. She's pulled back suddenly by her collar and thrown against the wall. Her screams are muffled by the killer's hand who raises a gleaming dagger with his other. He plunges it into her chest three times with precision so quick, Oliver almost doesn't catch it. Then he drags her down and proceeds to cut her open while she's still breathing. Oliver's mother is walking down the street again, on her way home from her job, only to be snatched, stabbed, and sliced open again. The killer's face is shadowed, but his eyes gleam with a burning topaz light. Oliver's mother is walking home again through the cold night air. She's dragged down again dropping the basket of meager food she had been bringing home for her son. It falls to the ground with a clatter, its contents scattering across the road. She's stabbed again, she's torn apart again. She's walking, she's grabbed, she's screaming, she's stabbed. Over and over and over. Oliver's feet are rooted to the ground, unable to do anything but watch:: ::Suddenly, sparks dance across his vision. The clinic and Echidna are visible again, but there's something in between him and her. Lillith is holding up her palm, conjuring bright sparks of electricity that seems to have broken the connection between the two:: Lillith: That's enough Rena. Echidna: ::just falls back into her chair and cackles madly:: So beautiful, so beautiful. Set a sort of a scene he did, setting the trap, leaving the traces, letting it lead to higher places. ::Oliver feels arms around him and looks up to find that he's fallen back into Iole who's holding him up:: Oliver, are you okay? You're shaking. Say something.
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Post by Oliver on Oct 22, 2008 3:02:30 GMT -5
Oliver's shaking grows steadily, his eyes fuming with anger and hate, he looks down to his hands which are slowly forming into tight fists. Then, without warning, Oliver lungs from Iole's grasp and pounces upon Enchidna, throwing her and himself back, the chair tipping over. He lets our a horrible, high pitch shriek as he strikes Enchidna.
"You wich! I kill you for hurtin me mum!" He screams as he furiously assaults the woman, then drawing a blade from his shirt, a make-shift shank, he raises it high to strike her down.
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Post by Lillith on Oct 22, 2008 3:10:54 GMT -5
::Oliver's hand is stopped short by Lillith who grabs him by the wrist. But a look into her eyes says that she's also having a tough time controlling her anger::
That... that's what you showed him?! What the hell is wrong with you?!
Echidna: :laughs all the while, not even registering the blows to her face:: Sweet Lilly, you've been so kind to me, but my patience for you is wearing thin.
Iole, get Oliver out of here.
::Iole drags Oliver kicking and screaming out of the room. He finds that she's stronger than she looks. Once they're out in the hall, she tries to comfort him::
Iole: Oliver, calm down. Whatever she showed you, it wasn't real. It's just her power. She can put thoughts in people's heads and make them see things. It's alright now. You're with friends. It wasn't real. That reminds me... Takano, what the hell is going on?! How can she still use her powers? What's in those syringes? Honey and vinegar?
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Post by Oliver on Oct 22, 2008 3:25:48 GMT -5
Oliver is hunched over, hyperventilating, the adrenalin still pumping through his veins. He keeps muttering to himself, his broken words mashing together forming what sound like incomprehensible sentences to Iole. He takes a deep breath, calming himself outwardly.
When Iole is distracted with Tankano, "I'll be righ bac-" Oliver runs off, down the hall and takes a sharp turn down another hallway
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Post by Iole on Oct 22, 2008 4:14:11 GMT -5
::Takano's eyes are glued to the conversation still going on between Lillith and Echidna::
Takano: I... don't know. The drugs should be working. I'll get my staff on it right away to see if her doses have been tampered with.
::Iole gets closer to Dante::
Do you think he'll be okay? What did she show him?
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Post by Dante Shadesang on Oct 22, 2008 4:38:00 GMT -5
(OOC - I hate my slow posting now)
Dante observes the event unfolds before him as Rena starts to do something... as if she was putting Oliver into a out-of-body experience.... Almost unexpectedly, it angers Oliver into attacking her.
Just when it seems as though Oliver may do something he may regret, Lilith comes in, overhears everything between Lilith, Rena, and Oliver, and later got him out with the help of Iole. Dante see them enter the two-way mirror room and meets up with Iole and Oliver. Takano appears and Iole asks about the drugs. However, Oliver runs off somewhere down the turn of the wall.
"Oliver!"
He then overhears Iole. "From what I am seeing, we feel should best check Oliver on how he is seeing what Rena done to him and that he does not plan something else that could get himself hurt. For what she shown to him... well, it is safe to say it was something Oliver wished he could have prevented... and something he was forced to witnessed it again.... and maybe again.... hence, maybe into much greater detail of what he is shown...."
... I hope he has not gone too far."
He starts to fast-pace a bit to catch up and find Oliver.
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Post by Iole on Oct 22, 2008 4:42:49 GMT -5
::Iole takes off down the corridor after Oliver with Dante::
Kenny, stay with Kerion! Make sure Lillith is still okay in there!
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Post by Kerion on Oct 22, 2008 13:09:00 GMT -5
*Kerion has his hand set of his Punisher, a wind round already loaded into the chamber as a precaution incase things got out of hand*
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Post by Kenny on Oct 22, 2008 14:03:03 GMT -5
:Kenny who was watching the whole thing but keeping quiet for now clenched his blade in his holder ready to take it out if anything bad happens to Lillith, he was focused and ready to attack at all costs should anyone harm his fiance.:
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Post by Oliver on Oct 22, 2008 21:22:44 GMT -5
Oliver ducks into a door, marked with the words 'restroom' and runs into a stall. He lifts the seat and proceeds to relinquish his stomach of his breakfast. It seems what like minutes before he can only dry heave, he collapses beside the toilet, wiping his mouth with his hand, breathing heavily.
"Was... hapened too me? Dunno anymore... nev'r felt so angry, I have... ugh my mouth tase bad. Jus need water."
He stands back up, slightly light headed from the dry heaving and walks to the sink. As the water pours from the facet, Oliver stares at it for a moment, focusing on its rhythmic cascade before disturbing it with his hands. He cups his hands under the tap brings it to his muzzle to drink, spitting the water back into the basin. Then... something catches his attention, a strange smell in the air that causes his nose to curl.
"Whas that?"
Then, without warning, the bathroom goes dark.
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Post by Situation on Oct 22, 2008 22:08:26 GMT -5
The entire facility suddenly goes dark, no lights, except for the little but the trickles in through the barred windows. There's commotion in the halls, staff stumbling over themselves and objects. Several screams and yells erupt from the patients. This is followed by a peculiar smell, something chemically perhaps, that peppers the noses of those inside, it grows steadily stronger.
Inside the tiny room where Lillith and Rena sit, its black as pitch, only sounds is Lillith's own breathing and the slow steady growing of laughter building from Enchida.
"He's here!" Enchida says in a bout of mad laughter. "Time to take wing and fly!"
The odd smell is now ripe throughout the building, and it begins to cause those inside to feel strange, almost as if drunk. The whole building feels as if its spinning, the floor underneath them like that of jello. Their head grows heavy, eyes like iron weights, their thoughts cloud and then their bodies giving way under their own weight. Within moments they are out cold, lost in a dreamless sleep.
-An unknown amount of time later-
They awake in a daze, their heads pounding like a jackhammer, eyes throbbing. As they float up from the sleep and reality sinks in, the presence of an unusual heat fills the air coupled with the distinct smell of fire.
A glow emits from under a door a few feet away from where the group is now placed, somewhere strange and foreign. Perhaps still in the clinic, perhaps not, unsure, but not where they were when it went dark. Everyone is there except Dante, Oliver, and Iole.
-Elsewhere, at the same time-
The lights flicker back on in the restroom and Oliver awakes, finding himself on the floor. Beside him are Dante and Iole. He nudges their bodies to awaken them. "Hey... wha happen? You two ok?" Here too, the heat and smell of fire is present, just beyond the door of the restroom.
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Post by Iole on Oct 23, 2008 1:14:50 GMT -5
::Iole staggers back to her feet::
Dammit. I haven't felt this sick all over since that time I snuck alcohol at that party while Auntie wasn't... ::sniff sniff:: You guys smell that?
::Against her better judgment, Iole opens the door, causing the flames on the other side to roar out of control and send her back a few feet. She smacks the part of her top that managed to catch fire::
I'm fine but... Rena!
::Without warning her form changes. It's too small a space for her to change into a complete dragon, but there is enough space for at least her wing. She stretches it out into the corridor and slams it downward, hissing through her teeth from the pain it causes her. But she manages to smother most of the flames in the doorway::
We've got to hurry. That doorway won't stay clear for long. We have to find the others.
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Post by Dante Shadesang on Oct 23, 2008 1:26:00 GMT -5
Dante groans and starts to get up... "Uh... what happened?"
He starts to smell the smoke and reacts quickly. "The bloody hell!"
Iole tries her to lessen the flames, causing some burns. He gets out of the restroom with Oliver tugging him along and later getting Iole and covering her wing a bit so it does not get burned any further. However, the hallway is in flames as well. His right arm starts to swirl the gusts of wind but not too strong... "Hold tight."
He performs Conflicted Zephyr, with a ball of compressed wind upon his hand, and thrusts forward to send forth a blast of wind to blow out the flames. "All right, let us go find them."
He heads down the hallway to head back to the room with Iole and Oliver beside him. He readies his Revolver if something expected were to happen...
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