I've come to warn you he's coming for you

[animusnpcs]

Characters: anyone carried away by the retrieval units in the mob thread
Setting: ???
Format: any
Summary: Death is far too easy for a punishment, you know.
Warnings: psychological horror, things that go bump in the night and then bump you back

The retrieval unit dumps you, in whatever state you happen to be in, into a cell. To those familiar with Jason, this isn't the clean, polished hospital look of Jason's usual quarters. No, if anything this is an abandoned hospital. There's mold on the floor and the paint is peeling off the walls. It's certainly high tech--the door that blocks your cell is made of some sort of nearly invisible force field--but it looks like it hasn't been cleaned in a few decades.

Once you're secure in your cell, you will have the ability to move your body again. All supernatural skills have been disabled--no one is more powerful than an Olympic-level human inside these cells.

Interact with your fellow prisoners?

Comments

[facedthetruth]

*Margulis is about as unimpressed as Lancer and glaring across from his own cell.*

If you don't stop your pointless raving, he won't be the only one you'll have to contend with once we're out of here.

*Ugh, psychopaths.*

[doctor_dismemberment]

That's fine with me. [He shrugs, curling his lip and looking Margulis up and down. The look is one of half-scrutiny, half-disgust.] You will just be one more person whose organs I can use to fill up mein candy jar.

[Okay, so he doesn't actually have a candy jar, but he will damn well make one just for them.]

[animusnpcs]

[There's the faintest ghost of a voice--anyone in the room could hear it:]

That's not that good for candy. [It's a child's voice.]

[doctor_dismemberment]

[Richtofen perks up immediately and starts to look around, his eyes wide. The voices have sounded so angry all day, how peculiar..!

He puts a hand to his head, looking distressed.]

Who was that? [Was it the voices? Was it someone else? Damn it, don't confuse him!]

[animusnpcs]

[For now, there's no reply. Maybe you were imagining things?]

[facedthetruth]

Heh, I'd like to see you-

*And then comes the voice. He pauses and scowls.*

So, we aren't left purely to bicker amongst ourselves, are we? And who are you?

[animusnpcs]

[For now, there's no reply. Maybe you were imagining things?]

[doctor_dismemberment]

Did you hear it, too? [Richtofen cranes his neck to try to look at the others in their cells.] Any of you? Well?

[facedthetruth]

Yes, I heard it as well. I wonder if this is the first of the attempts to punish us or an oversight on their part slipping in through the cracks.

[doctor_dismemberment]

[At least that settled it: it wasn't the voices. The voices still weren't silent, of course, but their screams had quieted down into angry whispering. That made it even harder for Richtofen to distinguish the voices outside his head from the ones inside, so it was nice to have some confirmation.

He kind of had a hunch, though. The voices always told him organs made excellent candy.

He slumps back, resting on his hands.] What sort of a punishment is that? Whispering? I hear that every day.

[mustlovedogs]

Aa, heard it. Bastards messing with us again.

[facedthetruth]

Sowing confusion and paranoia, making us question our own sanity. Though I suppose that only applies to those of us who actually are sane.

[doctor_dismemberment]

[Richtofen lazily flips him the bird.]

Ja, fuck you, too.

[He actually has a sore throat from all of his screaming, so, unless something really winds him up again, he'll stick to being semi-calmly argumentative.]

[facedthetruth]

*He just rolls his eyes.*

Your eloquence is astounding.

[doctor_dismemberment]

Oh, yes. [He flashes Margulis a sickeningly sweet smile.] And you are as ugly as a sick dog.

These compliments are fun, I feel closer to you already.

[animusnpcs]

[More whispering: this time between two distinct voices.]

Is this how adults talk?

Guess so.

It's stupid.

[doctor_dismemberment]

[Richtofen looks around, this way and that. There are already two voices in his head, and the two extra ones are just confusing, to say the least.]

Eh-?! Who is there? Come out! It is rude to hide.

[animusnpcs]

[It's quiet again, for now.]

[facedthetruth]

*He glances around, trying to pinpoint a direction.*

No, this is how an adult puts up with a madman without losing his own sanity in the process.

[animusnpcs]

[It's quiet again, for now.]

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer has been sitting in the middle of his cell for a while now, listening to the child talk.]

Hey, kid. You don't even need to come out. Just talk a little more. I'm listening.

[facedthetruth]

*He just gives a scowl in return.*

How pathetic. I think I preferred Albedo to your worthless attempts at earning a reaction.