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MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-12-17 00:48:00

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250 - Fear Itself Mingle
[ Today is a day where most would be at risk of oversleeping.The dome lies dark like in the dead of night. The sun hasn’t risen today, streetlights casting a dull yellow glow and occasionally flickering out into nothing, only to spark back to life a moment later. There is no electric flicker from the kiosk. The Wardens are still. The wardens are silent.

The dome isn’t silent. There is a rustling of leaves, a snapping of twigs. Claws, scraping against concrete. The inhuman screech of an animal in peril, an animal hunting, an animal hunted. A screech that promises sharp claws and sharper teeth and blood.

The dome isn’t still either. There is something moving, thick as a shadow, tangible as a chill down your spine. Something that doesn’t belong here, something that snuck in when no one was looking. A boogeyman under the bed. A ghost in the closet. A will o’ the wisp, blinking in and out of existence under the flickering streetlights. Whatever it is it’s moving, leaving a trail of cold, dead fear wherever it passes. Something dark. A shadow so pitch black that it blots out the very lights in your heart, dragging your fears out screaming and kicking, reducing even the strongest, toughest man to a blubbering baby.

Perhaps best to stay in bed today, Marina. ]

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	hastohappen 2013-12-29 01:06 am UTC (link)
	[ It certainly does sound like Deb - convincingly so. But the doubt, of course, remains. ] Deb isn't here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marinanova_npc 2013-12-29 01:07 am UTC (link)
	Is something wrong with your eyes? Deb is right here. Where the fuck is here? Dex, come on talk to me here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hastohappen
2013-12-30 04:11 am UTC (link)

[ Deb is right here, it seems, but that can't be Deb. Or can it? He's starting to lean back towards his first instinct - that none of this is real at all. ]

Here is a blood-spattered, closed-off alleyway in an underwater prison city that's overrun with something out of Jurassic Park.

[ If his tone sounds on edge, that's because he's rapidly approaching that state. The blood is getting to him - is there more of it or is that his imagination? Somewhere, outside his thoughts, is that little boy. He just wants that to go away. ]

And you're not Deb.

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	marinanova_npc 2013-12-30 04:17 am UTC (link)
	[Vapor could argue. They could pull more bits and pieces out of his jagged little mind and perform a more convincing sister. They could, but instead they chuckle. It's a low, strangely malicious sound for a laugh, but there it is. They don't change forms. This one will serve them.] That's too bad since she likes you. At least the "you" she knows. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hastohappen 2013-12-30 04:34 am UTC (link)
	[ He tenses there, though he shouldn't be taken by surprise - suspicions are one thing, malevolent confirmation is another entirely. Struggling to keep control within his own mind, he tries to retain his calm in the face of... ] What are you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marinanova_npc 2013-12-30 04:37 am UTC (link)
	We are anything we want to be. Maybe today we're your dark passenger. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hastohappen
2013-12-30 05:03 am UTC (link)

[ And there, he freezes. Completely. His stance, tension, expression - it all freezes. He's rooted in place. Nobody else uses those words. He knew it was inside his head, Deb was more than enough to show him that, but having the contents of the darkest corners of his psyche wrenched out and displayed before him, his secrets paraded around...

It seems a long time before he does speak. ]

What do you want?

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	marinanova_npc 2013-12-30 05:48 am UTC (link)
	I want to feed. [Simple enough, right?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hastohappen 2013-12-31 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	"Feed." [ His eyes narrow - on the defensive, which he's far from fond of. ] And what do you feed on? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marinanova_npc 2014-01-01 07:49 am UTC (link)
	You of course. That's not a problem, is it? Sometimes others have to suffer for our benefit. We thought you could relate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hastohappen
2014-01-06 04:18 am UTC (link)

[ Scowl. ]

Few are ever happy to see that situation reversed.

[ He glances around - at all that blood - and gives a small shudder as he does. ]

Why all of this? The hallucinations, the psychological attack. Ritual?

[ It's not unlike my own in a way. Make it personal, let them know what they've done, exactly why they've wound up where they are. I liked it better when I was doing it. ]

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	marinanova_npc 2014-01-07 05:26 am UTC (link)
	It's how we extract what we need from you. It's the hunt and the feast. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hastohappen 2014-01-10 03:31 am UTC (link)
	What you need? [ Those inexplicable feelings, randomly seizing patches of the facility, this focused attack - there is a pattern to it. ] Fear. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marinanova_npc 2014-01-10 06:49 am UTC (link)
	[A smile curls on "Deb's" lips.] You know that hunger too, don't you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hastohappen
2014-01-13 12:36 am UTC (link)

[ There's something about having this conversation with Deb that is immensely unsettling, even to him. The state he's in doesn't help, that irrational fear building. The blood. The boy. ]

Fear doesn't sate mine.

[ His voice is somewhat hollow - that's an acknowledgement. More of one than he'd like to give, certainly to something that looks like Deb. Though it's a release, too, in a way. Like telling Doctor Meridian. ]

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	marinanova_npc 2014-01-16 12:30 am UTC (link)
	Appetizer. More for us then. ["Deb" walks, making a little path around him. Blood deep around her ankles.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hastohappen
2014-01-24 03:28 am UTC (link)

[ The movement draws his attention to the blood, and he shudders - violently. He wants to crouch down, instinctively, into a defensive stance, but the blood is there. Everywhere. There isn't anywhere to go. He breathes in a careful, long breath, trying to focus on it.

This doesn't make sense. Why blood?

And there's that image, jutting between his thoughts - the boy, screaming. ]

What is this? Why blood?

[ His voice sounds distant, detached. ]

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	marinanova_npc 2014-01-26 05:50 am UTC (link)
	Why ask us? We pulled it out of you of course. [But then Dexter not understanding just makes the taste sweeter.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hastohappen
2014-01-26 10:45 pm UTC (link)

[ Fear. It's unfamiliar, and that makes it all the worse. And it makes him angry that it does, at the same time. ]

It doesn't make sense.

[ His eyes are darting again, looking for a way out.

Close your eyes, Dexter.

Not his voice, not the entity parading around in his sister's form... he doesn't understand where the words came from, but they unnerve him all the more. ]

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	marinanova_npc 2014-01-30 03:19 am UTC (link)
	Maybe you're afraid it does make sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hastohappen 2014-01-31 02:09 am UTC (link)
	No. Blood doesn't... it doesn't do this to me. [ There's a growing edge of aggression t his tone, his control unravelling. But this blood does. Why? Because I'm not controlling it? And who is she, that voice? Maybe I was premature in killing the quack. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marinanova_npc 2014-02-01 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	And yet it is. Maybe you don't know your own mind. I don't have that problem. [Murmuring laughter.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hastohappen
2014-02-02 05:13 am UTC (link)

[ Trapped between seething rage and mounting anxiety - both so potent that it's entirely foreign to him, which only compounds the fear. But he can't entertain the possibility that this is originating from within]

No.

[ It's the same thing that's happening in the patches - fear, for no reason, no source or cause. It's all part of the tactic. ]

This is what you do. What's been happening today, it's you.

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	marinanova_npc 2014-02-03 05:00 am UTC (link)
	Perhaps. But then I went to an awful lot of trouble to make something special for you if it isn't helping me then I wonder why. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hastohappen 2014-02-04 12:28 am UTC (link)
	I don't know. [ He growls the words through a snarl, snapping, losing his grasp, his stance defensive but shake as he moves away as much as the space allows him without touching the walls. He's looking over them, looking for a way to slip away, clutching at his knife - for all the good he doubts it will do him. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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