[CoC] Nocturnum -- Part I - Chapter 2 The Madness of the Twilight Queen

[Jemal]

OOC: Yes, I'm still around, just couldn't really think of anything to post.

IC: Jason sees James suddenly run in to the house and turns to Doc "What's up with that? Hang on a sec, man."
Jason opens his door and steps out, shouting towards the house. "HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON I THERE!?"

 

[The Forsaken One]

The three of you carefully step inside the room. Below your feet you feel alot of things snap and crack but no sound of that reaches your ears while the music goes on. Slowly you three make your way into the room, each your own way with your individual purposes.

A yell from outside never reached your ears. Jason finds his call unanswered.

And the beat goes on... and on... and on...

While you make your way through the garbage littered room and are just comming to grips with being surrounded by corpses, one of the frat boys right next to Ross--emaciated, wearing only a pair of loose-fitting sweat pants--begins to twitch and moan. He blinks rapidly, moistening his dry and scratchy eyeballs.

Ross suddenly gets it. Like the rest of the brothers in the room, he is not dead, but merely in a deep catatonic state, tripping on pixie dust.

The concious frat boy ignores Ross and starts reaching around him blindly, pathetically searching for another tab of pixie dust.

Meanwhile James and Ray make their way to the back of the room where they spot a broad hallway, at the end of which they can make out a staircase, lit only by a dim, bare bulb at the foot of the stairs. James can't make out any stereo in the room as he walks slowly through it right next to Ray to avoid stepping onto any of the bodies.

When the two of you reach the end of the hallway you see that the rest of the house is almost as disgusting as the front room; no one has tried to maintain the place for at least two weeks. As you make your way to Jason's room, you walk by other members of the fraternity, all lying motionless on the side of the corridor and with the same glazed look as the ones in the front living room. They all have the eerie look of corpses.

Halfway up narrow staircase, one of these pixies lurches out of the shadows, blocking the two investigators. He slurs something unintelligible, then his eyes suddenly snap into focus. He cocks his head strangely, like a curious animal. Studying the two of you, he spreaks clearly.

What is it you seek?


[OOC: NOTE: Ray and James don't know yet that everyone lying about aren't dead. At least not until Ross tells them or they draw their own conclusions when the guy suddenly lurches in front of them. Should scare the hell out of them And it makes me feel good I had you guys there heh heh heh.... /OOC]

 

[Shapermc]

Why the hell isent this music off yet?!?! Ross shouts, but he can barley hear his own voice. So he knows that he must go find out for himself, and see where everyone went. First he looks down and kicks the nearest viles from the junkie reaching for them (even if they are empty).

He then heads to the front door to see if any one headed back outside. If jason is still there he asks him to come with as he figures that the music must be comming from upstairs somewhere...

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Frack! Ray yells and swings at the undead horror.

 

[Festy_Dog]

"S!" he yells at the sight, also highly suspicious about the rapid change in coherency of the junkie's voice, "We're looking for the stereo to turn it off, let us through!"

James' revolver resides in his right hand by his hip, ready to flick in an upward direction at a moments notice.

 

[Jemal]

Jason heads in with Ross, first telling Doc "I'm gonna go see what's up in here, won't take too long."
As he approaches Ross, he shouts to be heard over the music "WHERE'RE THE OTHER GUYS? WHAT'S GOING ON IN HERE?"

 

[The Forsaken One]

Wildly swinging Ray stikes in surprise at the Omega Pi brother but his swing misses terribly. Unbalanced by his critical miss Ray slips on some of the crap on one of the stairsteps and falls back bumping down the stair to the bottom where he plummets into the litter across the floor. The wooden steps buising his back badly but otherwise he's ok.

[2 dmg, Ray]

James oblivious to the fact that Ray fell down the stairs due to the deafening music looks at the tripping frat boy who nods intelligently once, then zones out again and staggers past him down the stairs.

Still suspecting that Ray is behind him James continues up the stairs and heads up to the rooms at the side of the corridor on the first floor. From one of the rooms seeps a flickering light from under the door which is closed and locked.

Turning around to confront Ray with this and that they might need Jason to open this he found out to his fright that Ray isn't there anymore. A quick glance at the rooms number before he heads back to look for Ray confirms this is Ray's nephew's room.

Down in the front room of the house Ross and Jason enter the building and take a peek around. Ross sees the concious pixie-head find a tab of cardboard, which he slips into his mouth. Satisfied, he returns to his stupor. But before Ross can react to this or shake his head about it when he sees someone go down the path he's been he sees Ray plumment down the stairs at the end of the hallway.


[OOC: Sorry for the slow updating but my health has been tough on me lately. But I'm trying to get back and put as much as I can into this game, I just know it's way to good to even slow down! There's jsut too much fun and adventure to be had for you guys and you can take my word on that! /OOC]

 

[Argent Silvermage]

AH! That hurt. OMG! James look out. Zombies. Ray picks himself up and runs up the stairs.

 

[The Forsaken One]

Ray attempts to run up the stairs but the second he steps on the first step an aching pain shoots through his back. While he bends over to take a deep breath because the pain surprised him the frat boy walks past Ray while totally ignoring him and grabs a tab of pixie dust and falls back against a table on its side with his eyes staring wide into some place far away where the normal eyes don't seem to see.

 

[Festy_Dog]

"Don't worry, he's just a junkie, probably the last one alive but who cares, I found Jas' room," James says as helps Ray up the stairs, "I'll be right back."

James heads back downstairs to collect the others, informing them of his discovery.