Event: Quarantine

[animusmods]

Characters: any characters trapped in rooms during the event
Setting: dormitory level rooms
Format: any
Summary: An unexpected series of explosions has trapped residents in the dorm rooms with no power and no way to get out. Try to communicate with the outside, deal with being stuck in a small room with other people... Deal with the really strange things that seem to be happening, too.
Warnings: typical Animus horror event warnings

[There are several more explosions, and the sound of things falling and crumbling outside. The dorm rooms themselves don't collapse or cave in, but the furniture and trunks and nightstands may be rattled and knocked about. Eventually, the lights flicker and go out entirely, leaving everyone in the dark. There are small red emergency lights lining the floors, but they don't seem to have come on all the way, and flicker on and off eerily.

After maybe twenty minutes everything falls silent. However, if you try the door, you'll find you can't get out...]

Comments

[evokingfool]

Yeah, I do.

[He remembers one. Based on an urban legend, if he recalls correctly.]

[chainsawn]

Okay. So you thought it was going to get you sooner or later, since that's what horror monsters do. And you were watching it at your friend's place, so you had to go home by yourself through the dark. And every single time you took a step, it was like there was the sound of an extra footstep echoing behind you, and in every shadow you could see its shape..

[evokingfool]

And if you turn around...?

[chainsawn]

...

[ Dramatic pause.. or maybe she's just daydreaming off again already. ]

There's nothing. You see a few bushes rustle, but you think "oh, maybe it's just the wind, no way it can really be that thing, right..?"

[evokingfool]

[He's patient, he can wait.

Until they die or something.]

I guess. You would either go and check, or continue walking.

[chainsawn]

Hmm. But even if you check, you won't find anything there. It really was just the wind. "What a relief", you think, and then you just keep walking on until you're at your house. But when you go inside it's so dark in there, and none of the lamps and on, and it's like the thing is in every single little shadow you see.. but that's just paranoia, right?

[evokingfool]

When you go home at night, you would turn on the lights.

What happens when you do...?

[chainsawn]

Nothing.

It's just your house. There's nothing special about it. [ She shrugs a little. ] So since it's already late, you'd go straight to bed instead, right?

[evokingfool]

If I'm very tired. I'd normally wash up before sleeping, but yes, I'd go to bed.

[Because sleep. Sleep is good.]

[chainsawn]

Hmm. So you'd lie in bed. But then even when you're in bed, you get all paranoid about the shadows, so you figure "I'll just sleep with the lights on tonight". So you go to turn on the lights and then..

[ .. then what, Urotsuki.. ]

[evokingfool]

And then...?

[chainsawn]

Then suddenly you feel something on your shoulder.

[ And Minato might actually feel that now. Even though it doesn't feel like a hand, let alone Urotsuki's. She actually equipped her twintails effect and is making one of the twintails pat his shoulder, but it's not visible in the dark.. and then she tries to put up a voice that doesn't sound like her own. ]

"Thanks for turning on the light, I had trouble finding you in the dark.."