Jack winced with every footfall, eyes trained ahead on the tiger carrying See, and the monster after her. He had been right, it wanted the kids. Damn it! The Guardian was surprised to see that the tiger wasn't moving very fast, at least not as fast he had expected, and any hope of them outrunning the doppelganger was extinguished. Possibly seeing the same thing, Hobbes changed direction and ducked into a nearby building.
A public bathroom, with one entrance.
Jack would have groaned at the cat's stupidity, if he hadn't been so terrified. The doppelganger quickly followed, and the former spirit braced himself for screams. Still, he kept running as fast as he could. Coming to the entrance, he slowed down. Keeping low, and with the sharp parts of the sign pointed ahead of him, the Guardian began to slowly inch through the entrance of the bathroom. Keeping his eyes moving constantly, he made sure to check everywhere; Even the roof. If this thing could fit into vents, who knew where it could be.
edited 7th Jan '17 7:19:22 PM by Alleydodger
feeling blue
Sans only watched as pretty much everybody proceeded to ditch him to go after the tiger and get themselves killed. He couldn't help but bring a hand up to his forehead and shake his head.
"unbelievable..." he muttered to himself before then looking at the remaining little kid, he might as well try to keep that one out of trouble "hey kiddo, the others are gonna take care of your friend, stick with me, ok? i'll keep you safe," he said reaching out to Tommy so he could grab his hand and hopefully not go after everyone else.
edited 7th Jan '17 7:42:33 PM by FullMoon
As the fell, Curly tried to adjust to make sure what she landed on her feet, despite it looking like there wasn't going to be a landing. But before she knew it they had already landed in a pile in some building, surprisingly softly given where they'd jumped from.
She pushed herself up and started to take a look around the room, and was promptly treated to Lewis losing his previous meal. At least he had the decency to do it in the corner between the radio equipment and the wall. "You gonna be okay?" she said, not realizing the effects Slenderman had on him, and tried to give him a supportive shoulder pat as it looked like he was finished and Rick began doing something with the equipment and directed Morty to stand guard in light of the blood coated wall he'd found At least now she had an explanation for why her antenna wasn't doing anything earlier, nothing to listen to in the first place.
"Come on Morty, if we can see whatever monster did that before it see us, we should be alright" she said before opening the door to cautiously look outside.
I just want to help!
The man carrying him stopped moving, at the sound of a girl nearby yelling. Was she...was she trying to help him? She was just a little girl...why would she...
As the monster turned towards her, he tried to get the monster's attention again, moving in an attempt to kick out at its torso. However, on trying to fold himself enough to reach, there was a sharp jolt of pain from his wounded ribs, and he let out a weak, strangled scream at it, just going limp, trying to get more air. "No...no...please d-don't...don't...hurt her..."
someone
Eve|Near Bumper ride
What did she need to do? She needed to get machete guy to drop Cole, and manage to escape. She couldn't afford to have to block anything, since her weapon would shatter. She'd have to dodge.
Stab the arm holding Cole, then run.
She continued to walk towards Jason, calculating the reach of his machete, before running. When she was just outside it, she stopped, and fell into a stance, ready to strike, or move back. If he wished to hit her easily, he'd have to use the arm he was holding Cole with. If he did, she was ready to dodge then stab with the glass.
[TOP SECRET]
THE SLORG!
Outside there proved to be nothing out of the ordinary, albeit the day's 'ordinary' was still 'dark, ominous, and run-down'. The electronics Rick was messing with seemed to be barely in functional condition; while that was certainly good enough for some things, anything high stress would probably short them out or break them in some fashion.
Meanwhile, Lewis' condition of being nearly blind and deaf was starting to clear up after his vomiting; not entirely, but a bit. He was however feeling a bit light headed and his stomach was in pain. It probably had something to do with all the blood that was mixed in with the vomit.
Seirwuosuhr followed Hobbes, still sniffling and whining in fear.
"Are you trying to hide? That won't help" Hobbes' voice said from the Skin-walker quietly. Hobbes could hear it drop back down to the floor somewhere near the entrance behind him...
Outside, Silanea was surprised as Forrest suddenly ran past her, having apparently not expected him to be such a fast runner. Such as it was, with Jack in the lead but with Forrest's speed, it was the two of them who reached the bathroom first.
When they entered, the first thing they saw was Hobbes, leaning against the sink counter; his breathing was a bit strained, and he was clutching at his chest where some of the fur was red. "I-it, grabbed her, and took her under there!" Hobbes told them, pointing over to the stalls where Hobbes and Seirwuosuhr were hiding.
Tommy looked over at Sans, the skeleton finally getting his undivided attention for the first time. As such, the boy's eyes widened a little and he let out a quiet, "woah" as he took a half step back. Other than the initial surprise though, he didn't look too scared of Sans. "Did the day change you too? Like it changed See?" Tommy asked him.
Jason just stood there, staring at Eve and making no immediate move to attack her just yet; with the machete or Cole. Instead, he turned the machete over, slipping the tip under the bottom of Cole's shirt and raising it up so that Eve could see him starting to press the edge against Cole's stomach. Holding it there, Jason continued staring at Eve, tilting his head just a little as she could vaguely hear him breathing inside his mask.
edited 8th Jan '17 1:46:43 AM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.
Tired of givin' up the ghost
I retched and retched, and when I was done my stomach hurt like no other. My head wasn't feeling much better; I pinned it on the fatigue starting to get to me.
What I could not pin to the same was the mess of redness directly in front of my face, deep enough that I could easily identify it despite the static.note That could not have been just from the memories our fall had conjured, could it? Not...that it had a shortage of things to conjure, but...
Unconsciously bringing one hand to my head and the other to the locket, I sifted through what I'd picked up about the Slender Man from Vivi's eager delving into the lore back when the stories were new. It liked to stalk its victims, who would usually...fall ill? God be damned if I could remember the exact symptoms, but this wasn't reassuring in the slightest.
Really, why would it be? We might have been some ways out of its reach, but I still had the page and it was going to want that back, city shifting or not.
I felt a hand on my shoulder, the surprise of which sent me flinching away from the direction it'd come from, pressing against the counter shouting "WHO WAS THAT!?"
It felt like it might have been Curly, but I didn't see any indistinct little girl-shaped figures in that direction so for all I knew it could've been anything. I happened as well to realize at this time that crying out had probably been pointless, since I doubt I was going to get an answer loud enough to hear over the white noise. In fact, I might had just drawn unwanted attention instead. I hoped not, though I wasn't optimistic about the possibility, and muttered what was intended to come out as the word shit.
moved to Oceanstuck because this handle was starting to bother me my tumblr
Spotting the injured tiger, Jack pulled up short; Glancing to the side briefly at the man who had followed him in. Its words nearly prompted the Guardian to move forward right then, but he forced himself to stop for a moment. He knew what the monster could apparently do, and this could very well be a trap. But the more time he wasted, the greater chance of See being hurt, or worse. The indecision tore at him, and his instincts screamed at him to MOVE.
He gritted his teeth, and glared at the injured tiger; The cause of all this. He was extremely tempted to just-
His eyes shot wide as an idea hit him, and he quickly turned to Forrest and handed him his sharp sign on a post. He let a tiny smirk grace his face, but the fear still burned beneath the surface. "Here. If he even twitches, hit him with it until he stays still."
Then he turned back, pulling a decent chunk of rock out of his pocket and gripping it tightly as a weapon. He pointed at Hobbes, expression serious. "Don't move, ok."
Then he moved towards where he'd been directed. Moving to the first one, he ignored his injured feet and kicked the door open.
Bathroom
"Look - I heard that thing talk. If I was a monster, why would I be hiding from you? And I've kept the child safe!" Hobbes protested, feeling it would be quite unfair if he were to be killed by his own teammates over a case of mistaken identity.
feeling blue
The kid hadn't even realized he was a skeleton until now, amazing. Either way, he didn't seem too scared but he still hesitated a little, hopefully it wouldn't take much convicing to make the kid come along. He mentioned something about his friend changing, which made Sans a little curious as to what he could possibly mean with it, was the girl not like that normally? Still, he had more important things to worry about.
"nah, i've always been like this. some things changed, but not my appearance," he said, giving a slight shrug, still offering his hand to the boy, "we really need to get outta here though, we can talk more on the way."
I just want to help!
The little girl was trying to attack. He thrashed for a moment, trying to shake his head. "N-n-no...no!"
She stopped just shy, and his apparent captor didn't seem terribly concerned about her, just looking at her...before raising the blade and making a very clear threat.
"S-stop..." He looked to the girl, eyes wide, trying to shake his head without moving anything else, feeling the cold point of the blade against his flesh. "G-go away, please...please j-just go...just go...d-don't do this..."
Happiness is a cup of tea
Shrimp Place
Idiots. Those mortals were idiots for pursuing the shapeshifter. There was no doubt in Specter Knight's mind that as soon as the monstrosity killed those fools, it would come back for the rest of the group.
"We need to leave this building while the shapeshifter is distracted. If we linger, it will simply return for us, after killing the others.", he said to those remaining inside.
edited 8th Jan '17 11:27:53 AM by astrokitty
Somebody once told me the world was macaroni, I took a bite out of a tree
If she ever went into art instead of poetry, she'd do a lot better than these...
Yoshika looked down at the paper like she had remembered something, her mouth slowly moving like she was repeating something under her breath, before shaking her head.
"I'll go where you go. If we find a certain someone, I need to talk to her privately...but until then, you've got my hand, Calvin. Let's go!"
Web Spidus
I entered a bathroom, and spotted the tiger man. I think he said the spook was hidin' in a stall. Now that's plain ridiculous. Why would a spook need to use the bathroom? All they do just run and scare people out of their wits, I think?
And then the teenager gave me his weapon and asked me to hit the tiger man with it. The teenager kicked open the door, and another tiger man showed up. He said that the spook wouldn't need to hide and said that he kept the boy safe.
Boy, it was going to be hard tellin' who is who here. Maybe a simple question will help out, right? So I asked the two tiger men, “Why would the spook need to use the restroom? All they do is scare people, right?” ... Come to think about it, those questions was purdy silly, Jenny.
Plague Knight suddenly found himself hoisted up and moved away from the string haired girl. "Oh, alright then," he said in confused resignation. As the two of them walked away, the stringy haired girl turned her head to look at them. For such a simple physical gesture, it was unusually unsettling. The jerky, uneven movements, the strange popping noises it made with every centimeter she turned her head, and the reveal of a single, blood red eye was further evidence the knight needed to know.
"I believe we should all move away from here both quickly and calmly," he said to the others.
edited 9th Jan '17 6:39:33 AM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
Once Arcade reached the bathroom he groaned in annoyance. "Wonderful, I suppose this was the obvious outcome," he griped. He moved into the bathroom and held his frying pan up, ready to strike the tiger who was hiding with See.
He shot a look at Forrest and shook his head slightly. "We should just ask See which one is legitimate," he pointed out. He quickly added "once she's safely sheltered, of course." He glanced over at Jack, who seemed to be a better choice than Arcade when it came to speaking with children.
edited 8th Jan '17 5:01:13 PM by Skooter910
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
Noodle shop
Garrett decided there was no point to mess with the chair legs, and strode toward the back of the shop. "Let's get moving. There's a back door, right?" If it turned out there indeed was, he'd go through it first, trying to hide in the shadows as soon as he was outside.
Happy Box Hater
Public Bathroom
Lucas ran up to the building and waited outside. The ones in there would succeed or fail, but he knew he wouldn't be able to help them. He was here as a sacrificial lure. He had died once today, he could afford to die again. If that monster ran out of here and started being aggressive to him, then he'd run as fast as he could around a corner. But until then, he waited.
Why is a yam attacking me?
Stop Killing My Titles
Lobros, Let's Scram
"Then let us leave at once." Lothric nodded in agreement with Sans and Specter Knight's assessments. It seemed Lorian's armor was also not up to snuff, as if the day wasn't insulting enough. Thankfully his brother didn't get any shard etched in his legs. The sudden strike from the lamia as she left did dent his helmet in however. Nothing life-threatening, but it would definitely be a bother if not removed.
So that was what Lothric did. Lorian's face uncovered was about similar to his younger brother's, if more rugged and square-jawed. "Let the fools distract the wicked beast, if they so choose. We can save one of the children, at least."
grah
"Okay yeah, that sounds good." Morty edged around Lewis and the pile of vomit and poked his head out the door with the air of a frightened meerkat trying to ascertain where the hyenas were. It was, Morty reflected, due to the given value of "good" under the circumstances anyway.
Certain that nothing would immediately try to decapitate him the moment he set foot outside, Morty hesitantly the robot girl just outside the tumbledown shack and took a good look around at the dilapidated landscape. Roller coaster tracks crested juust over the horizon like some macabre mountain, a "shoot-the-duck" game that had long ago rotted away into a pile of rotten planks and a few sad moss-covered remains of plastic waterfowl, and then the radio tower itself, its rust-eaten antennae rising stark against the red moon.
"So.. uh... w-what was with the, the, throwin' up and stuff back there?" he asked, trying awkwardly to break the silence while shooting a sidelong look at Curly. "Like, uh, Lewis was kinda freaking out? You know? Oh wait. You, uh, you're a robot. I guess you don't eat or throw up or... things."
Rick adjusted a wire here, a screw here, and fiddled with the transmitter before flicking a few switches and tapping the microphone. "Yo. TeeeURRGhsting, testing..." Rick trailed off, momentarily distracted by the radio, as he heard Lewis - whose mouth was already stained with something that looks suspiciously like flecks of blood- shouting and flinching against something unseen. "Lewis? Buddy? You okay..." Rick was already reaching across the counter for anything he could use as a weapon while keeping his eyes firmly trained on the pink-haired teenager.
THE SLORG!
"What the heck? Can't you see- it injured me and then took the girl!" the second Hobbes said, still clutching at his chest.
Jack's kick threw the door open to show Hobbes and Seirwuosuhr hiding on the floor; it also drove a piece of glass further up into Jack's foot.
Once Silanea entered, she glanced from the Hobbes at the sink to the Hobbes hiding at the stall and scowled. "Oh, just wonderful" Silanea commented sarcastically. "Considering I was there when this guy just showed up not long ago, I don't suppose any of you know him well enough to tell the faker by asking questions?" she asked, mostly rhetorically as she regarded both Hobbes with equal suspicion.
Tommy looked at Sans' hand, then looked out towards the bathroom building as he slowly held his hand up for Sans to take. "B-but, what about See?" Tommy muttered, sounding worried and sad.
Just then, there was a quick pop sound and a small spark from a radio that had been sitting otherwise inactive and seemingly dead on the cash register counter. After it had turned itself on, it let out mostly a quiet static- a voice could faintly be heard in the static, but it was difficult to make out what it had said.
"Cool, glad for the help" Calvin said, standing up straight and looking around. "Now let's see, if I were a betting man, I'd say that we'd certainly find more pages at significant locations. Of course, that's also where we'll find the monsters" he thought out loud as he surveyed the dark skyline.
"I think I see a ferris wheel over there... And a roller coaster over there" Calvin commented, pointing in two different directions. "I'd say we go to one of those next" he suggested.
"There isn't going to be any power, so we'd have to climb that wheel; that sounds like a pain. So I say the roller coaster" Melanie chipped in. Calvin looked to her and nodded, then looked to Yoshika, clearly waiting to hear what she thought.
There was indeed a rear emergency exit, the type which could only be opened from the inside. Going through it went to the closest the day had to back alleys, which was the narrow, currently overgrown grass paths just between various circus tents and such.
It was just as Rachel was about to follow Garrett out that a radio back on one of the tables in the front did the same as the one in the shrimp place, getting her to pause. "What the heck?" Rachel muttered, looking back.
You are reading this.
"That's a lie!" Hobbes stood upright and growled. As terrified as he was, he didn't much like being impersonated or called a liar.
"I was there with you in that shrimp shack. I died earlier today. Your name is Silanea and I asked you for a plan inside the shrimp shack! That's...uh...all I can think of that you might know about me." the real Hobbes offered up, trying to rack his stuffed brains for more info but he was coming up blank.
"At least take the kid out of here and then decide which of us is real!"
feeling blue
"she'll be fine, you saw how many people went after them. don't worry, you two will see each other again soon."
Sans then heard some noises coming from somewhere, plus some static. The noise turned out to be a radio, was somebody trying to talk to them? That was odd, considering how Silanea said her walkie-talkie wasn't working, but he figured it wouldn't hurt to check out.
He grabbed the radio, figuring he might as well carry it around with him if there's a chance of someone talking to him through it and helping. He wasn't able to make it out what was being said when he heard it go off, so he had to wait and see what happens.
"sounds like this radio is on, maybe somebody has managed to fix up a radio tower somewhere," said Sans, holding the radio in one hand and then looking back at the kid, offering his hand again. "c'mon kiddo, we gotta get moving."
Arcade kept looking at the possible fake in the stall as he answered Silanea, "I wouldn't even know he's a tiger if someone hadn't mentioned it earlier." He knew the word and that it was some kind of big cat, but other than that he had no way to know. He nodded as the tiger mentioned getting See out. "As I said, let's keep her safe above all else," he agreed.
edited 8th Jan '17 7:30:01 PM by Skooter910
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
Bathroom Stall Near Shrimp Place
Hobbes dashed into a bathrrom stall, panting with fear and exertion and dropped on his stomach. The floor of the place was disgusting and awful but so was getting dismembered. He gestured See to do the same and if she didn't, he'd pull her to the ground. As he crouched on the ground of the stall, he tried to smell and listen out for the monster, preparing to crawl into the next stall over on the floor if the Skin-Walker came at him.
Deep Fried Food Stand
"Nice knowing you buddy!" Calvin said without much ceremony and hopped into the wagon and began rolling on over towards the two people that Plague Knight told him to roll towards.