Sabra La Tau

Who: You. Yes, you.
Where: In your dreams :)
When: Who even knows anymore? Sometime while you're sleeping
What: So remember how you guys offed the god of dreams and left the one who likes nightmares? Remember how she feeds on fear and there's end-of-the-world panic going on? About that.

[My goodness. There sure are some awful dreams floating around.]

((OOC- Nightmare mingle post! Haunted is messing with everyone's dreams, twisting them into nightmares. Anyone affected will be unable to wake, and teammates watching them sleep will note that they take physical damage during the dream- until, at the very end, the nightmare breaks and you wake up, completely healed and with your beds mysteriously covered in blood. Go crazy, guys. Troll your teammates. Shared dreaming is enabled if you want it, with as many people as you want it with. :|b))

((ETA- to clarify, we are not running nightmares, this is all mingle. Share your private terrors with your teammates and friends, GO GO. /o/))

Who:Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 295, bright and early
What: It's time for games

[The game call is an echo of laughter, joyous yet unnerving. It fills your ears as you make your way to the Arena, drowning out nearly every other sound. Upon arrival, you discover that this time, the arena lacks the mist that so often clings to the ground during Haunted’s games, lacks the symbol scratched into stone and the bodies sleeping above it. Instead all there is to see is Haunted on her throne, a little Judge who is beyond pleased with herself.]

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Who: Anyone
Where: Arena
When: Day 288, evening
What: Game time~

[Today the call takes the form of a song. It's hard to make out the words but the tune resembles a child's nursery rhyme. The sound of that soft voice is almost familiar, one the very edge of your memory....

As the arena fills with blanks, the song gives way to Haunted's delighted laughter.]

Are you afraid, blanks?

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Who: Everyone
Where: Arena
When: Day 268, early morning
What: Haunted Game

[Childish giggling--is it male? Female? It’s impossible to tell--surrounds every blank as they heed today’s call. It’s barely audible, able to easily be ignored. But it is ever present. In the arena on the throne sits Haunted’s statue, headless as ever. Even without facial features she gives off the sense of being very pleased with herself.

Heavy mist covers the floor, giving off a strong sickly sweet scent. The smaller among the blanks may already feel themselves starting to grow woozy from its influences.]

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Who: Everyone!
Where: The Arena
When: Day 258, bright and early
What: A game

[The arena is quiet and a chill is in the air. There are cribs--splintered and dingy and decaying with a faded coat of paint which might be your team’s color. At the moment they stand empty, though occasionally they rock from side to side, as though swayed by wind which cannot be felt. Despite the early hour, the light is dim here. Haunted’s voice drifts down from the headless statue, quieter than during her early games, raspier, more serious.]

The time grows late, but there's always time to play a little game, isn't there? It won't take very long. Unless you make it so...

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Who: Blanks
Where: The Arena
When: Day 246, evening
What: A game has beckoned

[Today’s call is like a light touch on the back of your neck, leaving behind goose bumps. Though Haunted sits in the throne, the tacky and overly dramatic decorations are missing. Instead there is simply an unsettling stillness, and near the throne a low mist clings to the ground and the statue. The only sounds are the approaching blanks whose footsteps and voices echo eerily the closer they come to the throne.

She remains silent.]

Who: Anyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 209, Evening
What: End of Game 127

Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is?

[The time has come to finally put an end to this, a final call goes out through the arena signalling that the end is about to come. The light from the torches seems to start looking a bit healthier too and the sound is now like when normal. Over the Arena various Ophi seems to be about to set something up.]

The answer is "fear".

((Quick link to all hauntings that have been going on: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Mits made all the really pretty notes.))

Who: Anyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 208, Evening
What: :)

Hello? Hello? Blanks? I am bored, I can't see you...

[There is a whisper coming from the Arena, and if you start walking towards it, you will find that the time it takes to walk there is sped up as when there is a game. The sickly green light is still illuminating the Arena, but the dampened sound is gone for now at least. The Mirror from the beginning of the play is still there too, and in the back there is Haunteds mansion with it's (not so) invitingly door open.]

I remembered a game I played last time I was on a sleepover, so I modified it to fit my tastes a bit more. Won't you come in to my house and play a round of Truth or Dare?

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 208, mid-Morning
What:

[Like every time the headless statue of Haunted shows up in the Arena the torches around her are dimmed, but this time there also seems to be an eerie sickly glow to them. The little fire they contain is tainted with something green at its centre and it looks like they could fade into oblivion at any moment. The Arena is also strangely devoid of sound. There is no crackling from the flames and the footsteps of entering blanks are completely silent. The only thing you can hear is the voices of each other, even if those too are muted. When enough blanks have gathered and the statue finally speaks up, it's with great contrast to everything else, as if that voice is the only sound that still retains it's former clarity in this place today.]

Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is...?

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((You can sign up at any time during the game, but if you want to be able to get infected with the sickness you have to sign up in this post and reply to this. During the game the arena won't let you leave unless you talk to the mirror. Also note that just because you sign up you are not guaranteed to get infected, but everyone who does will be able to catch the disease.))

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophiuchus
When: Day 206, Night
What: Request for help and a warning

[When the torches finally starts to dim and not long before curfew kicks in, any Ophi in the common room of the dorm might hear the sound of wings flapping as a faceless bat flies into the romm and comfortably settles itself, hanging upside down from the ceiling. Where it's face and head should have been there is in it's place a nondescript clump of uneven fur, and yet you still feel watched.]

Ophiuchus, I have work for you. Even if you do not choose to accept, there is something you should know.

[Any observant person would also have noticed that on the table there is now an open box containing little vials of a suspicious looking black liquid.]

((Info about the long term Haunted game happening the 24th to 29th. Also IC recruiting Ophi to do minigames on the 29th, mingle start at 7 PM EST. More info here.))

Who: Anyone
Where: In vicinity to Monoceros and Lyvus
When: Day 196, after the game (and 193 backdated)
What: Dehiatus

[By a cave wall close to the Monoceros dorms a ghost suddenly stumbles out of it. Her clothes are covered in dust and have been slightly tattered and her hair is a complete mess, hardly being recognizable as curls any more. Aside from that she doesn't really look like she's been faring ill though, in all honesty she looks more annoyed than anything else as she's giving the wall she just came out for the finger.]

What the bloody hell do you mean I get an F in scariness? And fix my hair before you leave!

[At the same time there is a boy appearing from another wall between Corvus and Lynx dorms. He doesn't really look any different from when he left, but he does look like he's about to fall down at any second.]

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 179, late night
What: Game 114

[Wherever you are, there is suddenly an insistent pull towards the arena, nudging you on and summoning you to it. As you arrive, the lights are dimly lit and Haunted’s statue looms on the throne. To the side is the mansion; this time the front adorned with seven wooden doors, each with a square indention where something could be put in. Directly below the statue stands a round table covered in a heavy layer of dust, and on top of it lays seven books.]

It’s time for it to start. What will the result of your previous endeavours be? Will the nightmare have a happy ending, or a sad ending? Will you escape the words your fellow blanks have told, or will you be consumed by the horrors they created?

The stories have been told, the plays have been written. This time, you will take the stage.

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Who: Lacerta, Cygnus, Monoceros, Pyxis
Where: The Arena
When: Day 165, Evening
What: Game for losers

[The call goes out once again, this time only to a few of the blanks and when they step into the arena the torches have been muted. In the edges of the shadow stands a potentially familiar mansion, and if you look closely a side-door has been opened, do you dare to take a peek inside?]

[When the headless statue speaks, the voice is cracked and uneven.]

You poor Blanks, put on a show for me, won't you?

[Anyone sick from the current epidemic will find the symptoms muted to the early part of stage 1 with just a cough and a headache.]

((Mingle
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Play
Endgame
Memories))

Who: Pavo, Hydra, Monoceros, Lepus, Canis, Corvus, Lynx
Where: The Arena
When: Day 146, Noon
What: Loser Game

[When the call goes out and you arrive in the arena you will find that the lights in it are muted again, and a headless statue sits on the throne. The mansion that usually accompanies here is shrouded in shadow behind her on the other hand, only visible if you really look for it. Instead, there are three camp fires burning in the middle of the Arena, complete with a bowl of marshmallows beside each.]

Tell me- [A burst of static] story.

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Endgame))

Who: Winners of Game 81 who went through the Doors
Where: ???
When: Day 121, Night
What: ???

[As you step through the doors, they shut behind you and the darkness grows thicker around you. It's almost as if it were a physical presence and it closes in on you till you can't even see your own teammates anymore.]

((Please make a thread with your characters name in the title, if you think you will be online at the same time as each other, you can do a thread together. But if you think there will be timezone issues I recommend doing it alone.))

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 121, Evening
What: Game!!1

[There is that vaguely familiar pull to come towards the arena today, a low barely audible melody that calls you to it, and when you arrive the lights are dimmed and there is a mansion that most of you probably have seen before. Today there are no doors at the front though, and instead there is just one small door, standing slightly ajar, on the side of the building. If you take a peek through it, all you can see are a pair of completely white stairs descending down into a seemingly empty room in the same colour. The headless statue is present as before.]

Today we will play a simple game…

((Mingle
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Basement Post
Endgame
Memories))

Who: Haunted, Mikaila, Bunnycorn?
Where: Lepus dorms
When: Day 115, Night
What: Judgenapping.

[There is a sound coming from outside the Lepus dorms, almost as if someone is slamming something against the door. It's sudden, and honestly quiet annoying.]

Who: Everyone
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 111, Late Morning
What: Game!!1

[The lights don’t seem quite as bright as they usually are in the arena today. The dimmed lights make it impossible to see far into the arena, but even so the grand Victorian mansion taking up the centre of it would be difficult to miss. It looks like it could have seen better days, the paint flaking off and a few of the glass panes of the windows broken. The curtains are all drawn on the first of the three floors, making it neigh impossible to take a peek inside. The front of the mansion is adorned with six doors in a row though, each door’s frame painted in two colours, one door for every pair of partner teams.]

[Behind the mansion, on top of the throne, sits a new statue in complete silence. And despite the lack of head, you might feel as if you’re being closely watched by it.]

[Of course, once you make your way into the arena you might care about neither of the things mentioned above, because sitting in a circle are eleven familiar shapes, the twelfth shape being a pair of Groucho Marx glasses. If you look closely enough you can see how they are still breathing, if very faintly. And floating above each and everyone of them, well out of reach from you, is a tiny rag doll replica of the unconscious blank (or little dollsized glasses in case of Dingbatticus).]

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((Despite what some IC rules might sound like, this is a no death game. Your characters will just not be privy to this information ICly))

Who: Everyone
Where: Everywhere
When:Day 111, Morning
What: Missing Blanks

[Whenever you wake up this morning you'll find out that someone in your team seems to be missing, if you try to look for them it seems like they have vanished without a trace... aside from the bloody handprint on the front door of your dorm that's a matching size to the hand of your missing teammate.]


((Mitsuru, Scowl, Rex, Jace, Zuko, Lady, Revan, Zero, Nibs, Van, Syaoran are the ones that are gone! Pavo is mysteriously untouched, instead a pair of Groucho Marx glasses (with opaque lenses) are missing from Dingbatticus. Volunteer IC post is over here.))

Who: Lacerta, Monoceros, Pavo, Canis, Pyxis, Cepheus, Lepus
Where: The Arena
When: Day 109, morning
What: Game 74

[Familiar butterflies lead the way to the arena, which is coated with a fresh, lush layer of grass, as it tends to be when Beauty is in the house.

Before the throne are several small marble tables, meant to be used by sitting on the ground. There is one for each team, and on each table is a small stack of cards laid face down. For now, they are all blank.]

Good morning, everyone. Please take a seat, we will be playing a variation of one of Messenger's favorite games today. Talk among yourselves, and we will begin shortly.

((NOTE: Game has changed due to mod request, so this is a 100% harmless game.

Mingle
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Memories))