[EVENT] Quiet Gentle Incline pt.2

[h8personman.livejournal.com]

[The monster has finished his initial inspections; now the true hunt begins.]

[Floors 1-4 are now immersed in the otherworld; monsters abound in a hunt for human flesh. Two options. Escape to other floors, or stand and fight.

Of course, the otherworld may change floors, from time to time.]

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[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[in ur otherworld, lurkin ur corridorz]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

...

[She's... beautiful.]

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[senses...something.]

...

[CAN'T SEE SHIT]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[Sneaks around in a box, not yet sure how to approach her.]

[There's something special about this woman. I can't screw this up... Think...]

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[well you can tell by the way she use her walk...~]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[After a few minutes he tosses the box aside and approaches her, mostly ignoring the darkness and bloody walls.]

Uh, hi. Are you new here?

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[lurch lurch lurch]

[staaaaaaaares. kinda.]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[Smiles slightly. That lurch is sort of cute.]

Do you need help finding your way around?

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[twitch]
[kindasorta stares]

...

[She slowly raises her arm, revealing the scalpel of unusual size she's holding.]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[Watches her raise the scalpel.]

Hm? What's that?

[Makes a grab for it.]

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[Upon feeling the grab, she swings her arm down.]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[Quickly jumps out of the way.]

Woah, what's that all about?

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[lurches forward again]

[cause this is thrillerrrr, thriler night~]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

Why don't you say something?

[Lights up a cigarette, trying to hide his nervousness.]

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[swings arm around again, convulsing in a strangely...attractive way with her walking]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[Is torn between watching her sexy walk, and getting the hell out of there.]

Ah... I think I'll just...

[He opts for option two, turning around and swiftly walking away.]

[boobleheaded.livejournal.com]

[slows down and watches (kinda)]

...

[eh, plenty more where he came from.]

[deaddeadrabbit.livejournal.com]

[points menacingly invitingly at the innocent and the wise]

[a-sinister-man.livejournal.com]

[Everywhere he goes seems to have acquired a uniform theme of rusty, dark, and possibly alive. Liquid wishes he'd taken one of the guns from the firing range when he'd had the chance.]

Is there anyone else in here?

[thruurwindowz.livejournal.com]

[A hideous looking pterodactyl-like creature is perched on something jutting out of the wall.]

Caw...

[a-sinister-man.livejournal.com]

...What. The hell. Is that.

[He picks up the closest thing to hand- a plank of wood, but it's better than nothing- and starts edging his way past the... Thing, in the hopes that it won't see him.]

1/2

[thruurwindowz.livejournal.com]

[The Air Screamer flies off down the hall and is gone for the moment.]

2/2

[thruurwindowz.livejournal.com]

[Suddenly it flies back down the hallway and straight towards Liquid.]

SCREEEEEEEEEEECH!

[He digs his claws into the plank of wood and flaps violently, trying to take it away.]

[a-sinister-man.livejournal.com]

[ASDFSDG! He wrenches the plank from side to side in an effort to knock it off.]

Let go, you ugly- thing-

[But one hand loses to two claws. The thing steals his plank.]

Bloody hell.

His name is Polly

[thruurwindowz.livejournal.com]

[Air Screamer Returns to it's perch, clinging to it with one claw and using the other to hold the plank while it tears it apart with it's beak.]

[The breaking of wood and soft muffled caws can be heard, along with the taps of the pieces of plank being dropped on the floor.]

Polly wanna cracke- oh god, it's eating me!

[a-sinister-man.livejournal.com]

[Since there's nowhere to go behind him (and he checked- what started out as a hallway is now blocked off), Liquid decides there's nothing for it but to make a break for it while the monster's distracted and hope for a weapon along the way.]

[One, two, three... GO GO RUNRUNRUN]

Re: Polly wanna cracke- oh god, it's eating me!

[thruurwindowz.livejournal.com]

[POLLY SEES YOU!]

SCREEEEE!

[He drops the board and takes off. Flying after him fast he begins pecking at Liquid's back, trying to tear out a tiny sliver of flesh.]

[a-sinister-man.livejournal.com]

Aaagh!

[Polly's claws and beak are sharp. They leave deep scratches down his back. Liquid wheels around and tries to smash the thing against the wall with his arm- fighting flying opponents barehanded is not his forte!]

[thruurwindowz.livejournal.com]

[Polly catches the arm on his wing and it's forcefully pushed against his body. The arm throws him of and he slams into a wall but not before taking a tiny bit of flesh with it.]

Screeeawwww...

[a-sinister-man.livejournal.com]

[His arm's bleeding and raw, but Liquid, in the grand tradition of Silent Hill protagonists everywhere, takes the opportunity of a stunned enemy to go for a kick-stomp]

[thruurwindowz.livejournal.com]

[OH! Polly sees what he's doing and is quite used to it.]

Screee...

[He waits for the foot to get close.]

[ratpt01-meryl.livejournal.com]

[After escaping Pyramid Head Meryl has headed to the lower floors, hoping they'll be normal. They're not. She doesn't want to go back up the stairs out of fear of running into the creature again, and decides instead to search for an elevator.]

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[Spots Meryl and quickly walks up beside her.]

Meryl! Something strange is going on... no one should be walking around alone.

[ratpt01-meryl.livejournal.com]

[She looks around, appearing a bit paranoid.]

I noticed. There was some... thing upstairs that tried to kill me and one of the other Snakes.

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[He looks around also, finally fully noticing how horrifying everything looked.]

Yeah... this weird nurse tried to kill me, and all I was doing was trying to help her out. You don't think... the whole building is like this?

[ratpt01-meryl.livejournal.com]

Weird nurse...? [Shakes her head and runs a hand through her hair.]

I don't know. The past two floors I've been on are. I'm going to try and find an elevator and get to the floors higher up in the building. If the elevators even work....

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

All right, sounds like a solid plan.

[Pulls out his SOCOM.]

I'll cover your back. Let's go.

[ratpt01-meryl.livejournal.com]

[Nods and continues down the hall, trying to avoid looking at the disgusting walls surrounding them.]

Just so you know, if we run into that red pyramid thing with the huge knife, bullets won't work.

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[Follows her, keeping an eye out for anything that might move.]

Red pyramid thing?

...Bullets don't work? What about missiles?

[ratpt01-meryl.livejournal.com]

Yeah... monster with a big red pyramid on its head.

[Shrugs.] Maybe?

[notsostealthy.livejournal.com]

[She saw a monster with a big red pyramid on its head...]

...Are you kidding me?

[Still, he walks a little faster.]

[ratpt01-meryl.livejournal.com]

[Frowns.] No. I'm not. Unfortunately.

[They finally reach the elevator and she pushes the button. Seems to be working fine. She stands back waiting for the doors to open.]

[alittlebitofjoy.livejournal.com]

[the rot and peeling and darkness were getting to her, moving through the halls with her arms wrapped around her, she tries to shy away from everything. Sure, the nexus was weird sometimes, but this was scary...

Being scared wouldn't get her anywhere though. Determined, she unwraps her arms and sums up her courage, shoving the fear aside. It really couldn't be that bad. Nothings tried to hurt her yet.]

...Hello...?

[thatkindofguy]

[Even worse creepy and nauseating scents be damned, Raikov more or less flees to the fourth floor bathroom. Why? Why not hide out in an unaffected floor or even seek refuge in that sanctuary?

[Well, um. The fourth floor's restroom is his favorite one; it's always been kind to him and has taken care of him. A nexus-replacement for his favorite Groznyj Grad restroom, maybe. And fuck common sense, he's going to hide in there. He's got his gun, he's got his radio (which he's never used in the nexus before and isn't totally sure that it even works here), and...he's got the bathroom to hide out in. That's all he needs to feel safe, even with the...pulsating and rotting walls. And the inanimate things that really should not be bleeding.]

...

[He's totally safe here.]