[d20 Cthulhu] What Rough Beast... (Part II)

[The Crimster]

Ray, through the peephole you can see a petite asian girl, perhaps around 19 or so, looking back through the other side. She looks rather wet, however - the rain has let up quite a bit, but it's still coming down. Her black hair is plastered to the side of her face. She is somewhat short, perhaps just over 5 feet tall, and looks like she weighs about 100 pounds (less, if she were to dry out).

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*Ray blinks and opens the door partway*

"May I help you?"

 

[Spoof]

Randy Morrison

Randy wakens in a cold sweat, startling upright in bed, a weak whimper in the back of his throat. He casts around wildly for a second not sure of his surroundings, before he realizes that he is safe, over at Julia’s house, she had asked him to stay the night. Randy quickly throws some clothes on and stumbles to the bathroom, splashing cold water n his face when he gets there. He notices with an odd detachment that most of the water seeps through his hands because they are shaking and he can not keep them together.

After Randy freshens up in the bathroom he returns to his room to compose himself before going downstairs. After a few minutes pass Randy is fully dressed and even finds a jacket that he can wear in the closet. After strapping on his sidearm and covering it with the suit jacket Randy feels better, but still he thinks something is missing. Randy heads downstairs as Julia is starting breakfast.

“Hello Julia. How are you doing this morning?” If Julia looks she can notice that Randy has deep circles under his eyes and his face is haggard, for a poor nights sleep. “I will be right back I have to grab something out of the car.”

With that Randy hurries out of the house and retrieves something from the trunk of his car, and quickly returns to the house. He is seated at the table engaged in small talk when Ray comes downstairs. When the doorbell rings Randy starts to answer it when Ray heads to the door, and Randy will sit back down to continue eating, the shaking in his hands it almost gone now.

 

[Black Omega]

The rather wet and bedraggled asian girl sighs, pulling her jacket in close around her "Will you just tell Prof. Pickman I'm here like he asked and the project is done..." her voice trails off as she peers more closely at Ray "And..who are you? I've not met you before..."

 

[The Crimster]

Julia comes up behind Ray and sticks her head to the side, looking out the door.

"Kelly? It is Kelly, right? Please, come in." Julia turns to Ray.

"She's a student of Alan's, Ray. She's been here a couple of times recently."

OOC: Assuming you let her in without incident...

Julia motions to Kelly to sit down on the couch, a slightly concerned look on her face. She sits down on a a chair next to the couch.

Kelly, you can smell the very distinct odor of cleaning solution, almost overpoweringly so.

"Kelly... shouldn't you be in class?"

Elsewhere...

Alex puts the finishing touches his piece. It is a mixture of browns, greens, and blacks - all bound by squares and rectangles. Each shape seems to have more than two dimensions, as if Alex was trying to make the image leap off of the canvas. It is perhaps influenced by yesterdays events - the geometric 'hallucination' and Randy's viewing of an other world through Alan's desk drawer. The squares look familiar - green with something that could be writing on its surface.

Alex, there is something here. You feel as if Alan is trying to reach out and send you some type of message. The green square... it could be... yes, you think it could be a book of some kind.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Alex stares at the painting for a long time, almost unbelieving. Can this... can this be real? To watch reality fall down around you, to watch all of your assumptions about the world crumble, THAT he can cope with. But to help them fall... He stares at the painting in shock.

He just did something strange and different and terribly unusual, perhaps even wrong somehow. He isn't even sure what it is. But there's nothing that he can do about it at this point. All he can do is grit his teeth and push in farther.

He goes in to the next room and watches one of his South Park tapes for a little while to take his mind off his troubles while he lets the paint dry, and unwinds nicely. After that, he wraps the painting gingerly in opaque plastic, loads it in to the backseat of his car, and starts driving towards Julia's house, hoping to beat Steven there.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Steven Higgens

Meanwhile, a couple of hours drive north, a young college student with bright white hair is skipping class up at CalTech to go fool around with something supernatural with his uncle down south. He's speeding, but only a little, maybe 5 MPH faster than the rest of the cars, but he wants to go faster. He wants to go get himself killed, as long as its something interesting!

His cell phone sits unused, hooked up to a headset strapped around his ears, ready to communicate at the drop of a hat, his eyes hidden behind opaque sunglasses that can't make up for his giddy grin. A loaded Model 17 Glock hangs in a holster hidden in his windbreaker, with a pair of clips on the other side. Still flush with idiotic enthusiasm, he shoots towards what will likely be his early demise...

 

[Black Omega]

Julia comes up behind Ray and sticks her head to the side, looking out the door.

"Kelly? It is Kelly, right? Please, come in." Julia turns to Ray.

"She's a student of Alan's, Ray. She's been here a couple of times recently."

OOC: Assuming you let her in without incident...

Julia motions to Kelly to sit down on the couch, a slightly concerned look on her face. She sits down on a a chair next to the couch.

Kelly, you can smell the very distinct odor of cleaning solution, almost overpoweringly so.

"Kelly... shouldn't you be in class?"

Kelly sits, sighing a little as she runs her fingers through her damp hair. "Figures it would be raining today." she grumbles quietly before smiling to Julia "Sorry, been a long few days. I..." she glances around after a moment, scrunching her nose before she glances back to Julia "What? Oh, should be." she gives a little impish grin "Not. I get that way when a project comes up and Prof. Pickman had a very involved one for me to work on. That's whyI'm here to see him. I've been running it for days now."

 

[The Crimster]

Julia grimaces. She reaches out her hand, placing it lightly on Kelly's.

"Kelly... dear... You haven't heard, have you?" Julia looks over at Ray and sighs, and then turns back to Kelly.

"My husband died on Tuesday. The funeral was yesterday. No one told you...?" Before Kelly can respond, a voice interrupts from the kitchen.

"What... numbers? What are the numbers, Kelly??" It's Kristof - but he looks horrible. His eyes are red and bloodshot, his hair is rumpled and in disarray. His tie and shirt are undone. He is staring at Kelly with an intense look on his face, his eyes wide and unfocused.

Kelly, you recognize assistant professor Faulken from the university. He graded a few of your history papers last term. A bit nerdy, he still seemed a bit too quiet and reserved. Now - you're not so sure..!

 

[Spoof]

Randy Morrison

Randy looks up from his food as Kristof gets excited about what the new girl Kelly said. Randy gives the professor an appraising glance and wonders why he is so interested in the numbers. “Well I would guess that she was working on a complex math formula. But why concern your self with the answer professor until you know what the question is?”

Randy gets up and introduces himself to the new girl. “Hello Kelly, my name is Randy. I am a friend of Julia and Professor Alan. What were you working on that was so important you would cut class to come tell him?”

As Randy reaches out to shake Kelly’s hand his hands are once again quite steady and thinks I think I better talk to Alex about that dream. He seems in tune to such things, even the professor thought so.