Horror Story

TO: Marcus
FROM: Bryant
TIME SENT: 1 January, midnight

( text message to Marcus )

Who: Marcus
When: Christmas Day, December 25th, about 11 AM
Where: The Funeral Home
What: Marcus plays the role of Santa, because he looks good in red.
Warnings: Just don't sit in his lap. (None.)

( Nothing else would say 'fuck you, I mean this' as eloquently as a human skull under glass. )

To: Bryant
From: Marcus
Time Sent: December 23rd, 1:43 AM
( Text message sent from Marcus's phone. )

To: Jon
From: Marcus
Time Sent: December 23rd 4:03 PM
( Text message sent from Marcus's phone. )

To: Sully
From: Marcus
Time Sent: December 23rd, 8:30 PM
( Text message sent from Marcus's phone. )

WHO: Bryant, with mention of the entire company
WHEN: AU Christmas Eve
WHERE: Crows Landing
WHAT: holiday crack!poetry
WARNING: I don’t... I don’t even...

( Welcome to Crows Landing: a nice place to live. )

WHO: Marcus, Charlie, and Bryant
WHEN: 12/13/2012, 6:22 PM
WHERE: The Funeral Home
WHAT: Marcus goes over to the funeral home to make dinner. Charlie doesn't approve.
WARNING: None! Just a brief scene.

( Already, the night wasn’t going as planned. )

TO: Jon Bennett
FROM: Marcus Caravahlo
TIME SENT: 12/12/2012, at 7:45 PM
( Text message sent from Caravahlo's phone. )


TO: Bryant O'Neill
FROM: Marcus Caravahlo
TIME SENT: 12/13/2012, at 1:20 AM
( Text message sent from Caravahlo's phone. )

WHO: Everyone.
WHEN: Starts at Dawn.
WHERE: The Eclipse Hotel, in Cantonville, Indiana
WHAT: The end of the line for Cycle 1! We kept this one short. Feel free to play out the last moments of your character's stay in the comments below, at any point from dawn until rescue. If they survive until rescue. NPCs can be approached or intercepted, but a mod will then come in with the NPC journal. And the crisis, as it were, cannot be entirely averted, I'm afraid. Scenes started in this specific thread will not count against you as incompletes, however any final on-screen deaths will earn points towards the score tally. Post as little or as much as you like!
WARNING: This is the last thread of the cycle, so just about anything goes in here (within reason; keep it IC and feasible within this setting). That means anything that you want to do that hasn't yet been done should be summed up or played out here. We're tidying up to get ready for cycle 2!



( After the storm... )

Who: Marcus and Bryant
When: Thanksgiving Evening
Where: Marcus’s Apartment
What: An AU dinner scene, because I overshot drabble length by a lot on this one.
Warning: Language, childishness, unsafe knife-wielding, wtf!Marcus...

( For what it’s worth, Marcus is wearing an apron in this scene. )

Who: Marcus, Ian, Nona and Bryant
When: 10:25 PM (Almost 3 and a half hours since lights out, 20 minutes after the elevator scene)
Where: Third floor, the stairwell.
What: Marcus tries (and fails) to find his room. Ian enlists his help locating a tiny blonde... who Bryant already found! It's a madhouse!
Warning: Language.


( Marcus had never reacted well to pranks. )

WHO: Bryant (mentions of Charlie, O'Brien and dead!CJ, slightly more concrete appearance of Archer)
WHEN: afternoon
WHERE: the pool room of the Eclipse
WHAT: autopsy
WARNING: graphic...ish? It references an autopsy, so, there's that. It's not too bad. Considering.

( The lungs were the skeleton key to this puzzle box of meat and bone. )

WHO: Archer, Bryant, Charlie, O’Brien
WHEN: before 2PM
WHERE: begins in lobby, moves to pool room (anything Bryant says in the lobby, particularly things said loudly, can be overheard and feed into the rumor mill)
WHAT: If you give a mouse a cookie coroner a living patient that’s seen a dead body, he’s going to want to see it. If you let the coroner see the dead body, he’s going to do a post-mortem examination. If you agree to let him do a post-mortem, you’re going to have a headache. If you’re a police captain.
WARNING: scene in progress, but Archer’s here and even when he’s being professional the occasional curse slips out

( This is what he got for sending a coroner to tend to someone who’d seen a dead body. )

WHO: Bryant and Charlie
WHEN: before 1PM
WHERE: Charlie's room, 209
WHAT: In the midst of dealing with all of the insanity of the day, Archer followed through on something he promised Charlie: a doctor to look at the bump on his head. Bryant's an eager to please sort of guy so he's glad to lend a hand.
WARNING: thread in progress

( If someone was hurt, he would help. )

WHO: Marcus and Bryant
WHEN: Early AM, after 7.
WHERE: Begins in hallway, third floor
WHAT: In which Bryant would have brought Marcus up to speed on things like screams in the night and a police presence but, well. There’re some distractions in play. Because it’s Marcus.
WARNING: Language. Posturing. Cringing.

( Everything thus far led to a question mark, still, although the thesis admittedly had some backing. )

WHO: Archer, O’Brien, Bryant, NPC desk clerk
WHEN: 6AM
WHERE: starting in the hotel lobby, moving to room 315
WHAT: Archer and O’Brien arrive to investigate the phone calls to 911
WARNING: bad language

( Even before they pull out the badges, Archer and O’Brien look like cops. Archer does, at least. )

WHO: Bryant +NPCs (hotel desk clerk, 911 dispatcher)
WHEN: first around 1AM, then just before 4AM
WHERE: The Eclipse Hotel, room 315
WHAT: Bryant’s stay at the hotel is taking several very wrong turns. And it had all been going so well... relatively, at least... not counting the storm.
WARNING: indecision and fear, so trademark Bryant behavior

( For the first time since his plane touched down in Indiana, the thunderstorm wasn’t even remotely on his mind. )

WHO: Hotel Manager, Tour Tag-Alongs
WHEN: 11:00 PM - midnight.
WHERE: We start in the lobby! We end... in the lobby!
WHAT: A haunted tour of The Eclipse.
WARNING: Spooktacular! Not all information provided is accurate. Feel free to chat among yourselves as the tour guide is speaking! If anyone has any questions they will be answered, but maybe not truthfully.

( This all seemed very well-rehearsed... )

WHO: Marcus, Bryant, and Sue
WHEN: Shortly after 5pm
WHERE: The Eclipse Bar.
WHAT: Done! Some posturing... not between the two guys, though.
WARNING: Drinking, language, probably come-ons... basically "M" for Marcus.


( This is a very brief starter. )

WHO: Everyone.
WHEN: Anytime before 11pm. Saturday, 9/8/2012
WHERE: The Eclipse Hotel, in Cantonville, Indiana
WHAT: To avoid a slew of very similar arrival posts, characters should arrive at the hotel here - however and whenever they like (please, to avoid confusion, put what time you're getting in somewhere in your comment... preferably the subject line XD). Weirdness Magnet and Honeymooning Couple are already present on the grounds, but they can interact with or comment on the new arrivals as they see fit.
WARNING: As a group introductory post, anything too mature should be taken to its own thread. This is all public, so don't make me call the police out here in the middle of the storm to make arrests for indecency. They've better things to do.



( Tonight's Forecast: Dark, and did I already mention stormy? )