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Bellum Anon (bellum_anon) wrote in bellumlogs,
@ 2010-05-18 10:00:00

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cheshire cat, dr. watson, frog prince, will moran

Group E: Dr. Watson, Cheshire Cat, Frog Prince, Jack of Tales

The plaque on the wall says:

the beast in the deep feeds on the dark
and in order to wake him, to give him that spark
The invisible cat must hold the book
and read his crimes in the chant
while the man who's a frog,
quite at home here, I feel
must follow him after, but rant

then comes the catalyst, brave, yet a fool
who will read to us all whom he left to die
and last but not least, the man jack will then school
us all the things that made beauty cry.

The participants will find themselves in a dark room lit only by the aquarium that makes up all four walls. It is filled with exotic fish and plant life, and the water seems to go on forever, like they've been dropped into a glass box at the bottom of the ocean, though the ceiling and floor are both plain, opaque plaster. The plaque is on the floor. If they look carefully, they might see a hint of a shark out there.

...Or something more sinister. On a stand in front of one of the walls, there is a heavy book bound in what is (hopefully) leather, emblazoned with runes. Underneath the runes there is an English translation: 'NECRONOMICON'

Each of the first four pages has information on it about the people in the room, and they have to read their information in the correct order. Rick has to open the book and read out a list of his crimes, written right there on the first page. Then Stefan has to read a list of his own (on the next page), but he has to shout them. Micah will then have to read an account of how, exactly, he left his parents to die, and Will has to follow with an account of what he did to make Ella cry.

Once this has been completed, the summoning will commence, and the great Cthulhu will come out of the murk. The ocean around them will get darker and darker, as if night is falling, and then the old god will swim around the room three times, glowing eyes peering at them as it does so, feasting on the darkness within their souls.

And then the door will appear in one of the glass walls, and they will be permitted to leave.

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acatalyst
2010-05-19 11:41 pm UTC (link)

The glass held, and the water didn't come flooding in and drown them.

Alright, so the thing on the other side was fucking horrendous, but Micah had been expecting fucking horrendous. And the kid had turned into a frog, which was unfortunate, but not something catastrophic. No one had guns or machetes, and no one was bleeding or dying. All in all, the green thing that looked like it'd come from some time before humans walked the Earth wasn't so bad. Hell, it was even interesting, the way the wings and the tentacles swayed in the water. He wondered if it was a mammal.

It stared at him, and Micah crossed his arms and stared back. It didn't matter how deep that thing looked into his soul, it couldn't make him feel any worse around the past than he already did.

"Bring it, ugly," he muttered, not looking away. The glass buckled under the pressure of the waves, but if this was a staring contest, Micah refused to lose.

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takingsides
2010-05-19 11:51 pm UTC (link)

Rick had a gun, and he was seriously considering using it on the big octopus outside the glass, but he changed his mind when its squelching disgusting horrifically watching self moved around the glass without breaking it in. He had it in his hands, however, as he confronted the thing, pointed at the floor, waiting.

For his part, Rick knew what kind of person he had become. He was a dark person, a ruthless person, the kind of guy that said one thing and meant another, and never did much of anything for himself. He was responsible for death and pain and the sort of bad things that happened to good people. He was responsible because he hadn't cared, hadn't thought to care. He understood that, and while he knew he could not compensate, in his way, he was trying to prevent anything worse from happening.

The monster didn't really care what Rick meant to do, just what he had done.

For the man, at least, there was The Cat, who had nothing to hide and only amusement at the thought of it. The green eyes glowed out at the monster, and after it passed, he chuckled a very soft, purring chuckle to himself. He holstered the weapon.

The old god went 'round again, and again, until finally the darkness dissipated, and a door opened in one of the glass walls. Water did not pour down into it, and light and warm wood waited beyond.

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unimpressive
2010-05-20 12:17 am UTC (link)

Stefan hadn’t tried to maneuver out from under the clothes particularly fast. The remnants of his own fear lingered but he as long as it was out there, he wanted to stay hidden. That was, afterall, what it had seen in him. Cowardice and a long pattern of pretending to be someone or something he wasn’t.

Light finally streamed through the open door and judging from the sounds, or lack thereof, he deemed it safe. It was a few moments before he managed to hop out from under his shirt, letting out a long sigh. “Godfuckingdammit.” They were finally free and he couldn’t just walk out of there. Not easily anyway. He hopped off his clothes and turned his head up to try to look at them. “Can someone get those?”

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jumpingpast
2010-05-20 01:25 am UTC (link)

The door opening was like a tiny breath of fresh air slapping him upside the head and telling him to get the fuck out. He was already making his way to the door for freedom when he heard Stefan (now a frog) and his pathetic little plea for help. Will did try to ignore it, really he did, but he would be ever so god damned if he could just leave the idiot by himself.

Fuck Cole. Fuck Ella. Fuck everyone for making him feel at all.

"Sonnofabitch," he sighed, stalking over and picking up the clothes on the floor before kneeling next to Stefan, hand raised out. "Cmon Frog Legs. Get the fuck on here before I change my mind," he grumbled, already trying to think of a reason why this was a stupid idea.

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acatalyst
2010-05-20 01:35 am UTC (link)

Micah let the Cheat handle the Frog, and he walked out into a lobby that was somehow eerie in its silence. It was unnatural, bothersome, and Micah got chills up his spine. "Something isn't right," he said, and he didn't mean Chthulu or the frog.

He turned toward the door, which was where the Catacombs door normally. "What if other people are stuck somewhere?" he asked, thinking Iris instantly, but not saying her name.

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takingsides
2010-05-20 02:48 am UTC (link)

Rick, his footsteps as professional as his suit, belying the madness within, walked into the lobby as if out of a dream. "It seems likely," he said, in a voice of distracted bemusement. "If it happened to us--bam, we're there--it probably happened to the rest." He sounded of New York, thoroughly. He too looked back the way they had come. "We ended up back here. When they do what they're told, maybe they will be too."

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	unimpressive 2010-05-20 04:07 am UTC (link)
	Stefan hopped onto Will's hand, not needing to be told twice. He wanted out of there as soon as possible too. He heard Micah's worry, but he and Will were already making their way out of the lobby. "Nothing's ever right around here," he reminded him and then Stefan wasn't around to hear the rest. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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