Boseman High School Shenanigans: Episode 1

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KCC

Jul 10, 2023 12:32 pm
Lily turns her face away, as soon as the scene is lit up.

"Jesus…" she gasps, horrified at the violence of it. "Who the hell would do this?" she asks the room, looking at each of her friends in turn.

She sees Emily looking off to the side, seemingly focusing on something.

"Emily… what is it?"
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Jul 10, 2023 2:13 pm
Goosebumps rise on Emily's arms as her entire body is gripped in a fist of fear. Her head snaps in the direction of the noise and then her mouth goes dry. She can't swallow, can barely force out a "Guys! Come out here, quick! There's ...there's something out here!"

KCC

Jul 10, 2023 2:17 pm
Lily reached a hand back, and grabs Fred by the shoulder without looking. Something in Emily’s voice.

"What? What…" she says, reaching for her bat "Shit. Who is it?"
Jul 10, 2023 2:25 pm
"I'd tell you if I knew," Emily hisses. "A moving glow of red light. Hear that thumping sound? What the fuck can it be? It's creeping me the hell out."
Jul 10, 2023 3:15 pm
OOC:
Added check to last post. Freddie isn't playing with a full deck. He has a three. I'll leave it at here for arbitration of the effect.

Fear check result: Vulnerable: The target is Vulnerable until the end of his next turn.
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Rolls

Fear check - (1d20, RA)

(9) = 9

Jul 10, 2023 3:37 pm
OOC:
Roll a d20 and check the Fear Table on p124 of SWADE, Freddie.
Jul 10, 2023 4:44 pm
Freddie freezes, the obvious signs of head trauma on the vice principal taking him back into that fateful rain storm, that moment of nightmare he can't get past because he can never, ever, tell anyone what really happened. His limbs go limp, his jaw slack as his vision for a moment fades, taking him somewhere haunted inside, until he snaps himself out of it.
Jul 10, 2023 5:31 pm
Zach feels a rush of panic at Emily's shout but Lily is already right there and Zach notices Fred slump by the body for a moment. He can imagine how Fred must feel. There's a reason Zach chose not to look too closely at the body. He puts a gentle hand on Fred's shoulder, deciding to ignore the potential threat in the hallway and just focus on this. This is less terrifying. It's grounding.

"Freddy?" he asks in a soft tone that irks Zach for how girlish it sounds to his ears. "You okay?"
Jul 10, 2023 7:42 pm
"Yeah," he says raspily, then clears his throat, "I just knew him, yano?"

His mind piecing together the last few seconds, he starts and turns, "Emily?" he rushes past, or with Zach, to Emily's side. "Some -- thing?"
Jul 10, 2023 7:58 pm
"Yeah it's like ...." Emily is so wide-eyed that even in the semi-dark by the light of their phones, anyone can see the whites of her eyes.

"Like a moving red blob. I don't know what it is Freddie, hence the something. Jesus."
Jul 10, 2023 8:05 pm
"Let's leave," Zach suggests. After Fred gets up and pushes past him, it takes him a moment to follow. He tries to meet Lily's eyes, see what she's feeling. "We found a fucking dead body. Let's go back the way we came, as fast as we can. We'll call the police, have them search the asylum." His voice trembles on those last words. "I don't want to die," he admits weakly. "Not now that... Now that I finally found someone I like. And who likes me."

KCC

Jul 11, 2023 1:18 am
Lily peeks around the corner, curiosity getting the better of her. "It’s probably an animal… right? Probably smelled the body."

Seeing that Zach is helping Fred, Lily rounds the corner with her baseball held up. She noticed Emily’s fear, and so tries to calm her with action.

She stamps her foot towards the thing, as if she was scaring away a big dog.

"Hey! Hey! Go on! Get!" she says, making herself look big. She rattles the bat against the wall a couple of times to make it run off, taking a few steps towards the thing to really startle it!
Jul 11, 2023 3:00 am
"Yeah! Good idea Lilly." Emily starts rapping her bat against the wall too. "That will wake the dead!" She then realizes how very inappropriate that comment is and hopes it's not some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Jul 11, 2023 6:37 am
It takes Fred a moment to shake off the feeling that had come over him, the memory of what he had done -- but the trio in the room re-gathers in the hallway with Emily quickly, leaving Kilvert's body behind.

Emily is right -- there is something coming, and it is... weird. A slowly pulsating red light, growing brighter as it approaches up the hallway... suddenly surrounded by what look like little pinpricks of blue light. Almost like fireflies, though they are the wrong color.

Lily stamps her foot and tries to shoo the entity away as Zach pleas for the group to get the hell out of there, and that's when the thing makes a bizarre, warbling, trumpeting noise that fills the corridor. The red light is vibrating then, coming at them fast as they all try to make sense of what they are seeing.
[ +- ] WTF They Are Seeing
The floating mass looks like a tangle of veins and arteries, a circulatory system pulled violently from its host. The ends of all the waving, cilia-tipped fronds glow a frosty blue, dramatic against the red nimbus of light that the mass of twitching nerves seems to project.

And at that same time, as panic was truly taking hold, there came the noise Emily had heard a moment before. A pounding, desperate, on one of the cell doors from further down the hall -- towards the floating cluster of alien-looking synapses and waving fibers. And then a voice as well, indistinct. A shout?

KCC

Jul 11, 2023 8:07 am
Lily holds her bat like she’s stepping up to the plate. Her heart was jumping in her chest. She could hear it, mirroring the thumping from the cell down the way.

"Someone’s down there." she says, chancing to turn her head to the others.

"Someone’s down there!" she says a little louder, distracting herself from the fear. She doesn’t want to be the first one to lose their shit down here in the dark tunnels, as much as she might feel like it.
Jul 11, 2023 2:07 pm
"Cover me!" Freddie says, and doesn't know why he does, or how they might. He's disassociated maybe, or it's the guilt, he can't stand more guilt, no more, so he runs and doesn't think about anything else.

Full sprint to the pounding door.

Because, chances are, it's someone he knows, and his sisters have already lost one parental type figure. They can't lose the better one.
Jul 11, 2023 2:13 pm
Zach is shocked by how brave his friends can be in a situation like this, confronting a... monster head-on to save whoever is trapped in there. He wishes he could be as brave as that, but instead, he just stays where he is, watching for now. But he keeps his tight grip on the bat, hoping that when he needs to, he'll have the guts to do something.

He definitely can't run, like every instinct in his body screams at him to do. Not now that Fred is charging straight ahead.

KCC

Jul 11, 2023 2:17 pm
"Jesus, Fred! Stay together!" Lily says, rushing forward too, ready to whack the… thing if it comes within swinging distance.

"Who is it?!" she shouts to the person on the other side, as Fred gets ready to open it!
Jul 11, 2023 2:27 pm
"I heard it too. Oh my God. What should we do? What is that ... that thing? It's not going to where that cry for help is coming from, is it?"

Emily keeps pounding the wall with her bat, hoping to scare the horrible apparition or at least distract it long enough to .... long enough to do what exactly?
Jul 12, 2023 6:19 am
Accompanied by the sound of aluminum bats on walls resounding sharply, Fred rushes forward to the door he believes the sounds are coming from -- and Lily goes with him, preparing to defend him if the weird thing keeps coming. She gets a good, long look at whatever it is as it does just that, moving towards them steadily, at the pace of someone jogging. Forty feet, thirty feet, twenty feet -- piping and bleeping and warbling as its luminescent body shifts, shivers, and undulates. Near the bottom of the red tangle of its body, some kind of organ or mass glows bluely.

Fred slams the viewing door open after another panicked call sounds from inside the room, and he suddenly finds himself face to face with--

Priya Sunder!

"Freddie!" she cries, looking desperate and desperately hot. "Help! Get me out of here!"
OOC:
Fred, it's touch and go with getting her out before the thing arrives. Make an Athletics test at -1 for how close it is, and if you fail -- we'll start initiative and I'll draw some cards.
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