Nocturnum - Chapter I

[ae1vart0n]

"I'd rather take my wagon, but thanks," Roger said politely as he packed away his own camera, notes, and replaced the tape in the tape recorder. "My recording equipment will be safe here, right?" He nodded toward the tape recorder, which he intended to leave running.

After dealing with his equipment he took his bag and walked out toward the street with the others. The tape he had just removed remained in his hand. He would replay the strange part on the way to the hospital.

 

[Dhes]

”Steve, your with me right? If anyone ells want a ride I have room for three more.” Dunstand says directing a smirk at Roger, ”Just make sure you keep you door locked when we drive there, I don’t feel like getting my car jacked.”

 

[Velmont]

Steven nods at Dunstand and wait for everyone to be ready to follow the group.

 

[Majin]

After confirming that Roger's equipment would indeed be safe, everyone leaves for the hospital. The trip is uneventful but tense. Those driving follow the amulance as best they can and break off from it as they drive into the parking area. Eventually assembling in a waiting room near where Vincent will be placed after being checked by doctors, Sara looks to the group and says, "Mary is on this floor too. They won't let us in to see Vincent for a bit now. If you'd like to come with me to see Mary, feel free."

 

[Velmont]

"Mary... that's the girl who fall too?" asks Steven a bit confused. "I had the idea that accident happen long time ago. I must have misunderstood something here."

 

[Majin]

Sara looks at Steven a bit perplexed herself. "No..." she says slowly. "It happened only last week. It was in some of the local papers," she explains.

[sblock]Velmont - You probably misunderstood because of the info Gabriel found while doing research through the newspapers and such. Most were old, but there were still updated newspapers available for him to search through as well. [/sblock]

 

[Dhes]

”So did this Mary really fall from the scaffolding, or did she too; get sucked into the ceiling and then get spit out coved in mucus?” switching of his mobile phone, ”I’ll go, it will be interesting to hear her story.”

 

[Velmont]

[SBLOCK=OOC]

[sblock]Velmont - You probably misunderstood because of the info Gabriel found while doing research through the newspapers and such. Most were old, but there were still updated newspapers available for him to search through as well. [/sblock]

I have been confuse for a time until I understood, so when it came I decide to play Steven as he was still confused... hey, he is only intelligence 8. He is not dumb, just a bit slow [/SBLOCK]

 

[ae1vart0n]

get sucked into the ceiling and then get spit out covered in mucus?

So it wasn't just me, he thought, still not ruling out some sort of heavy gas from the attic causing vertigo. Next to Vincent and Roger, Dunstand probably got the best look, but he was also close enough that the fumes from the attic could have reached him.

His current hypothesis was that gas from the attic had made both Roger and Vincent lose their balance, and possibly hallucinate. Thus the pulling motion was really just Vincent trying to get his balance, and Roger thought it was upward because he too had lost his bearings. When Vincent passed by the door on his way to the ground the flow of gas had condensed on his skin into a mucus. Vincent had been exposed to much more of this gas than any of the others.

The door had then snapped shut on a spring hinge. Dunstand probably thought Vincent had fallen upward as part of the effect of the gas.

That being the case, Roger had brought a small test tube in which to collect some mucus. He hoped some of his friends at the nuthouses could get it identified for him.

"I'd like to hear her story too, if she doesn't mind talking about it."

[sblock]I take it that Roger didn't hear anything interesting on the tape on the way to the hospital then?[/sblock]

 

[hippocrachus]

Gabriel didn't really have anything to talk to Mary about; he didn't know her and, as far as he was concerned, her fall was due to the lack of safety procedures implemented by Metro and therefore nothing to interrogate the poor girl about.
"If it's all the same, I'll wait to hear from Vincent," Gabriel said, taking a seat in the waiting room. He began opening his briefcase and pulling out his laptop, hoping he might get some work on his book done in the mean time.