Locked in a Room

[dishevelment]

Who: Everyone stuck in Pride HQ
What: This load of crap.
When: Nov. 1-5
Where Pride HQ
Warnings: Pg-13 minimum because Carnies. Tag if it gets over that.


Everyone got the same call-- and now we're all stuck in HQ with no hint of release in sight.

The reason? No one knows.

How are you coping?

Comments

[punchesyu]

...Yeah.

[He admits, quietly, rubbing a hand behind his head.]

It's like...freaky stuff that's never happened to me before. Like the kind of stuff straight out of a feverish nightmare or something.

[gunslingerqueen]

What, with monsters or something?

[She doesn't want to push him just for the sake of it, but the doors are open now and she's curious. At least this way she'd be far more likely to divulge if he lead the way in that respect.]

[punchesyu]

It's sorta fragmented, but I got the feeling that there might of been monsters.

[How else would someone die in there. He remembers feeling scared, like he'd almost died.]

Like they tried to kill me. Or something did, at least.

[gunslingerqueen]

[Okay, she hadn't thought that she would be right! Man, now she can't help feeling a little bad, especially since she had more than enough experience with that impending sense of death. That hers had been a setup from the beginning is moderately irrelevant.]

That's horrifying. [And she's the most eloquent girl in the world.]

It's not real, though. It can't be. When would you have ever been in that kind of danger?

[punchesyu]

That's what I thought too...but it keeps happening. Like a recurring nightmare or something, except it's furthering the story.

[He wants to believe so much that it isn't real. But it nags at him, eats away at his brain.]

Isn't it weird that it's not just one person though?

[gunslingerqueen]

That's probably the most discerning part. If it was just or two people, or even just one or two bands then there could be tons of explanations.

[Exhaustion, some weird food, a mostly benign illness that fucked with perception and memory, etc.] It just started out of nowhere and we have no way of stopping it.

[So were they just going to lose their minds here before they ever got out? ... Even thinking about it in passing makes her shiver.]

[punchesyu]

Yeah... I guess we should wait and see what else happens. Maybe that'll tell us more. Or maybe it'll stop.

[Maybe it's just a bad dream. He's still finding it hard to believe that it's real and that there might be something wrong.]

[gunslingerqueen]

[There's definitely something wrong, to say or insist otherwise is just an outright lie - whether it's a necessary one to retain ones sanity is still beside the point.] There's not much else we can do.

[But...] We could try and keep track of what everyone's symptoms are. That way we'll have an organized sense of what's occurring, and a better way to discern what 'worse' could even be. We have to approach this logically, otherwise we're just running around with our heads cut off.

[punchesyu]

Good idea. So far, I think all I've heard of is the weird-ass visions people are having. Aside from the creepy stuff that was happening on the tour. But that still might be coincidence.

[He'd kind of blown it off and made fun of anyone who really got scared by that stuff.]

Let's keep an eye out and compare lists every now and again.

[gunslingerqueen]

Wait, that happened to you guys, too?

[She'd ... Convinced herself it wasn't a big deal either, especially since it had only gotten worse in the last part of the tour.]

When did our lives become some weird merry go round. [Weird visions and shared ghost experiences. Joy.]

you wanna end this one here?

[punchesyu]

I don't know. But I know we'll figure this thing out.

[But he doesn't tell her how excited he is about it. Or how fun this actually is for him.]