Nocturnum - Chapter I

[Majin]

Monday, May 15 2006 - 5:22 PM

~Vincent~~Roger~

Roger joins Vincent up on the scaffolding and tries to get a closer look at the ceiling with the teenager. After being directed to it by Vincent, he sees the hinged door in question and realizes that in order to reach it, someone will have to hold on to him as he leans out over the row of theater seats directly blow the trapdoor.

Both hear music, seemingly far off in the distance in another part of the theater...

 

[Insight]

Monday, May 15 2006 - 5:22 PM

~Vincent~~Roger~

Roger joins Vincent up on the scaffolding and tries to get a closer look at the ceiling with the teenager. After being directed to it by Vincent, he sees the hinged door in question and realizes that in order to reach it, someone will have to hold on to him as he leans out over the row of theater seats directly blow the trapdoor.

Both hear music, seemingly far off in the distance in another part of the theater...

Vincent looks at Roger, his elder by several years. "Maybe I should get it," he suggests. "No offense, but I think I might be better able to reach it."

 

[hippocrachus]

Gabriel spotted Roger and the teenager from earlier crouching atop the scaffolding through the projector room window. If he didn't know any better, they looked as if they were going to take turns jumping off from on high.
"I don't know much detail about the haunting," Gabriel replied absently to Steven's question.
"As to the piece of music: it's probably one of the most famous composed in Nazi Germany," Gabriel's matter-of-fact tone didn't leave much room for further conversation on the matter, probably because he didn't know enough about it to hold a conversation. He majored in architecture after all, not music.

 

[Velmont]

Steven exit the projection room and sees Dunstand. "So, you've taken some good picture. You should take some of the projection room... hey what are they doing?" he asks, seeing Rogers and Vincent climbing the scaffholding.

 

[ae1vart0n]

"Go for it." He steps back and grabs a piece of scaffolding to brace himself, and then offers his right hand to Vincent. "But I'm a little out of shape, so if I tell you to stop, please don't push it."

 

[Dhes]

Dunstand waits with interest and camera at the ready as the two try and open the concealed trap door. Looking at Steve, “I will hold on, I think we found a “Secret” door, probably just a maintenance door but who knows.”

 

[Insight]

"Go for it." He steps back and grabs a piece of scaffolding to brace himself, and then offers his right hand to Vincent. "But I'm a little out of shape, so if I tell you to stop, please don't push it."

Vincent smiles, taking Roger's hand. "Don't worry," he says. "I'm not a hero."

Vincent reaches out for the switch, stretching to his limits.

 

[Majin]

Monday, May 15 2006 - 5:25 PM

Vincent stretches the best that he can, getting a bit more reach from Roger's help. Eventually he manages to reach into the dead nymph's eye, in which the switch is contained and flicks it in one quick motion. The panel in the ceiling drops open.

Looking up into the panel, Vincent realizes to his surprise that he is somehow looking down at the theater below. It's as if the panel held a mirror, or there were a second Paradise built upside down on top of this one. But this is no reflection. The Paradise that Vincent sees through the doorway is full of people. The seats are covered with writhing bodies issuing a howling scream, illuminated by the flickering light of a film projector. Ghastly music plays, music that everyone can hear. Those that originally thought it was the "Carmina Burana" realize quite quickly that it is not. The music is strange and alien, deep and resonant, and only the barest melodies have any resemblance to what they thought they heard the first time they came across it.

The movie screen is a jumble of shadows and light, amorphous shapes that suggest tentacles, mouths, and eyes, but never resolving into anything definite. As the crowd screams, the floor begins to sink into a vortex and the entire theater collapses into an abyss. The shapes on screen emerge from the abyss, swallowing up the audience. Vincent cannot believe his eyes. [sblock]Vincent - Sanity check passed - Sanity lost = 5[/sblock]

It is then with abject terror that Vincent feels the forces within the door trying to pull him into the mass of chaos. Roger feels the tug as well but because he cannot see what Vincent does he has no explanation for the odd phenomana. He pulls with all his might but Vincent's now sweaty hand eventually escapes his and the teenager appears to fall up through the doorway and the panel slams shut behind him.

There's a distant scream, and then a slam a moment later as Vincent appears bent across the theater seats below. [sblock]Vincent - 1 damage[/sblock] The boy is covered in a viscous slime and despite a bump on the head, does not appear to be too badly damaged.

 

[Velmont]

"What was that. What happen?" asks Steven, hearing something strange up there.

 

[hippocrachus]

Gabriel looked through the projector window in abject horror as the boy seemed to actually jump up from the scaffolding and land in the seats below. He slammed his hand over his mouth and fought his first thoughts of panic.
Oh, this is bad... he thought, using his other hand to grab his cell-phone. He tried calling Emergency Dispatch.