Little Finger

[animusmods]

Characters: characters participating in the Little Finger game
Setting: a riverbank at night in a dream
Format: any
Summary: It's time to search
Warnings: general creepiness and horror warnings

ROUND ONE (complete): mingle | search
ROUND TWO: mingle | search


Round One [COMPLETE]
NO SUPERHUMAN POWERS; SEARCH THE GRASS, BUSHES, TREES, OR THE RIVER ITSELF
This appears much like the story you may remember reading--an old woman crouches next to a gate, searching through thick, wet riverbank grass. Thick fog coats the area behind the gate, across the river, and perhaps twenty feet in either direction from where you stand. Going into this fog, you feel, would be extremely dangerous--possibly suicidal. Eventually the woman stands up. She is missing all the fingers on her left hand and the little finger on her right hand.

"Please, could you help me find my fingers? I'm missing six of them."

It doesn't look like you have a choice.

Round Two [FOUR FINGERS REMAIN]
SUPERHUMAN POWERS ACTIVE; SEARCH ALL PREVIOUS AREAS, BRIDGE, LAWN
This appears much like the story you may remember reading--an old woman crouches next to a gate, searching through thick, wet riverbank grass. Wait, this has happened before--welcome to round two. You didn't find anything last time, and that's why you're here now. The fog remains, but it's drawn back a bit--travelling to the bridge, a simple wooden structure, is now possible without entering the fog, and the gate opens into the lawn of a house. The house itself is yet covered in fog, but there's a doghouse and the lawn itself to search through. Going into the fog still feels impossibly dangerous.

Eventually, the woman stands up. She is missing all the fingers on her left hand.

"Please, could you help me find my fingers? I'm missing five of them."

It doesn't look like you have a choice. All wounds remain from the previous round. Anyone killed last round returns, but they have a scar that reflects their manner of death.

Round Three
has not yet started

Round Four
has not yet started

Round Five
has not yet started

Round Six
has not yet started

Comments

[lighthousediving]

[Fingers weren't supposed to move, right?

Well, if they could somehow shake in this place, maybe they could move, too. He didn't want to ignore it and find out the hard way that he had been wrong.

He glances at the first shrub a second longer before making his way to the second, going noticeably more quickly this time. He fully stays on his feet, trying to get a look from the top down to see if anything runs in any direction from it.]

[animusnpcs]

[It doesn't look like anything is there, and nothing appears to be moving.

From across the row, a bush shakes again. This one is closer to Felix than the last time, though.]

[lighthousediving]

[Whatever it was, it was definitely on the move. His curiosity has gotten the better of him now, and any possibility this has of being a lead has fully taken his attention.

Hand still on his sword, Felix briskly walks toward this bush.]

Who's there?

[Y'know, just in case it talks.]

[animusnpcs]

[Nothing replies, but another bush shakes. This one is one closer to him than before, just on the opposite side. It's two bushes away from Felix.]

[lighthousediving]

[Felix jumps in front of the bush, quickly bending over to try to get a look inside. Seriously, what was doing this? It was reminding him of a Djinni.]

[animusnpcs]

[There's something deep within the bush, but it's hard to tell what it is from here.

The bush next to Felix shakes.]

[lighthousediving]

[Okay, that's it.

Felix shoves his arm into the bush next to him, hoping he can feel anything. And if it's painful, it's his own fault. He's going to find a finger as much as he can help it.]

[animusnpcs]

[Something yanks him inside. He'll never see what it was, though--it doesn't belong in this reality.

Felix is out for the remainder of this round. He will return for round two.]