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[condorone]

I'm sure a few of you have heard about our friend in the pool by now.

Someone told me about an incident with the mannequins at the mall too.

Has anything else like that happened here? Any encounters with monsters, spirits, or whatever else you want to call them?

I'm going to do some investigating around different places if anyone has any suggestions. I'm going to start with the mall.

( ooc: feel free to bother him in person at the mall! )

Comments

un: DStorm

[bardstorming]

um
"friend in the pool"?

[Did he dodge a bullet by going to the sauna instead? He got weirdly terrified there but it seems it beats whatever was wrong with the pool.]

[condorone]

Yeah. I'm not sure what it is, but it was grabbing people and pulling them under the water.

It was too dark to get a good look at it.

[bardstorming]

Well, I think I've gotten very lucky then.

I was at the sauna and something odd was there as well. I don't get scared easily, I have some experience in fighting as well, but something in there had me running for my life from fright.

[condorone]

It might still be there if you want to get acquaintaned.

Something? You mean something physical or something else?
It's not easy to send someone running for their life.

[bardstorming]

No, thank you. I came to realize that aside from some fighting capabilities, all my magic is mostly gone.

There wasn't anything physical I could see.
After some time of sitting there, this odd fear started building up until it felt as if I'd die if I remained seated there.

[condorone]

That doesn't surprise me. If this place takes weapons, might as well take someone's powers too.

I'm noticing this place likes to be more felt than seen.

text; un: archon

[onlythans]

keep a close eye on your exit strategy

one of this place's favorite tricks is the lobster trap
easy in, impossible out

[condorone]

Let me guess, they like to dangle you over the boiling pot while they're at it.

[onlythans]

what do you think the sauna at the pool is for? :)

[god help us all who taught this man about smiley faces]

i'd be curious to know if the way to the security room is still accessible, myself. and if the threatening graffiti is still there.

[condorone]

There's one way to find out.

Threatening graffiti?

text, un: displayname

[strongroots]

any time some place opens there's bullshit involved. guess the same is for the school too?

bank locked people in, gave you items and you had to talk about them.

then there was the mall

heard stuff about an ice cream parlor too

[condorone]

Talk about them? Was this a share your feelings kind of thing?

( That sounds awful. )

School, bank, ice cream parlor. What's next, a hospital?

[strongroots]

literally forced to talk about what the item meant. you got a photo from home? you started talking about the people and what happened that day and how it was the worst day of your life

[ Awful!! ]

but sure, hospital sounds great for a horror movie scenario. i'll skip visiting for the first month. or ever

[condorone]

I think monsters sound more bearable.

That's probably a good idea. Do you know if there are any actual doctors here?

[strongroots]

there's un: shoko. don't know any others

was there actually a monster in the pool?

[condorone]

I'll reach out to them, thanks.

Whatever it was, it's been grabbing people and dragging them under.

[strongroots]

what? did you see it?

[condorone]

Just the part that grabbed Scott.

The water was too dark to get a clear look at it.

[strongroots]

place is fucking with us

bet it's not even a monster in it. if you can make mannequins look like living people, who needs a kraken?

everything just fucks with your head

[condorone]

Nothing would surprise me at this point.

I hope it's this place itself messing with us, not some drug or virus.

( He's had enough of that to last him a while, thanks. )

[strongroots]

there's no way. i was in the mall and i saw the same person another did that turned into a mannequin. i've never seen them in my life

drugs or a virus couldn't do that. it was too real. no one was acting weird

[ Right? ]

text — un: munson

[thefreak]

You're talking about Smoky?

( Yes, he named the creepy shadow monster thing. What? It got up close and personal with him; it seemed only right. )

eddie no

[condorone]

Smoky? We're naming the monsters already?

eddie yes

[thefreak]

Well, I just figured, you know. It's way less scary if it has a stupid name like Smoky. ( That's totally how it works, right? )

[condorone]

I guess that's one way to deal with fears.

Do you have any idea what it is?

[thefreak]

No clue. But it definitely seemed keen on dragging me down to the cold, dark depths of that damn pool. I'm thinking I might stick to the shallow end for now.

text; un: gebura

[bemist]

no monsters
not yet
with how this place works
probably is only gonna be a matter of time tho
they sure know how to get into your head

[condorone]

Yet.
If I'm being honest, I'm half expecting the boogey man to come out of the closet at this rate.

Yeah, so I'm hearing. I think I'd prefer monsters.

[bemist]

same here
at least they're something you can fight

[condorone]

Yeah.

I'm sure I don't need to say it, but it's the things you don't see coming that get you.

[bemist]

you're not going to have a very pleasant time here then
welcome

text; un: dynamight

[apshot]

There's been some creepy shit happening, but nothing serious until the mall. Prior to that, it was just easily dismissed as your eyes playing tricks on you and then potentially being locked in the bank vault until you spilled your guts.

So things are only starting to really escalate.

[condorone]

Spilled your guts, huh? I don't know about you, but that sounds worse than an actual monster.

Do you know if anyone was hurt? With this place taking weapons and I guess their powers too, I'm not sure the odds were in many people's favor.

[apshot]

Honestly? I would have wanted a monster to take out over that shit.

But no, I don't know. I don't think any of the people I'm here with were physically hurt or anything like that.

[condorone]

If I've learned anything, monsters are easier to deal with.

That's something, I guess. Let's hope it stays that way.

[apshot]

You can hope for that all you want. But if this happened once?

Probably gonna happen again.

text; un: yesod

[wordchain]

What do you hope to discover at the mall?

[condorone]

Mostly to see if anything in the mall is like the sauna and the pool with weird energy or something hanging out in a dark spot.

[wordchain]

Then you're able to detect such things? I would be interested in your findings.

un: TeslaCoils

[codenametesla]

Looks like other people have already talked about the bank, but yeah, things are only now getting physically dangerous it seems? Before it was only people who were the danger, and they came back.

Now I'm worried that'll suddenly change, especially with all the fliers I'm seeing of a fair opening up.

[condorone]

They came back? Did they disappear or something?

Given some of the stuff I've heard so far, I'm not sure anything new will go well.