ITP: Totally-not-Slender

[no_longer_a_king]

Characters: [AU5] Saber and Nealfire
Setting: Media Room, before the explosions
Summary: Because the players thought it was funny. Neal does his damnedest to beat the Slender clone on the terminals while Arturia keeps guard over him while the paranoia mounts. Will they unleash something on the Tower? Nope!
Warnings: Possibly cursing and a big buildup with nothing happening.

Arturia stood on the media floor, a sword in hand as she waited for Neal to arrive. Hopefully, this game wouldn't end in something horrible being unleashed, but there was no telling how it would go. True, if that thing was unleashed they could get all kinds of help in subduing it. If not, then at least it was one less thing to be afraid of in this tower, the paranoia likely lessening now that they would know it's safe.

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[wegotlucky]

Neal nodded in agreement, sitting down on the chair after a moment. "Guess I've had a little too much time on my hands," he admitted. Not that it mattered at this point, did it? They needed to know what would happen. He hesitated for a moment before booting up the game.

"You ever wonder where this came from? You think the children who were here before us played it too?"

[no_longer_a_king]

"Many of us do, to be honest. There isn't much to keep us occupied here." Aside from fighting against the Administrators, but there was only so much that could be done in that regard.

"Remember: Don't turn away unless I tell you something is here. If you need me to check, tell me. I will be right here to protect you the whole time."

[wegotlucky]

He nodded. "Seems a strange thing to put in this place, a game." He booted it up, starting to play, not glancing back at her. "But I guess it's fitting, huh? It sets the mood nicely for this place."

Maybe the monster was actually based off of something in the tower, something that had so far remained just out of sight. This time around, he was having some trouble finding the first note, but at least the monster was staying out of the way, too.

[no_longer_a_king]

She was busy looking around the media room while he played, in case a threat showed up, be it a normal monster or whatever was in the computer.

"A bit, but you cannot underestimate one's desire for something to do while bored."

[wegotlucky]

"No, I guess not," Neal agreed, still not looking away from the computer. He'd gotten the first note, now, and he was starting to get anxious. "After all, I'm playing this game too. Guess I can't stop myself."

[no_longer_a_king]

"Not until you look away from the screen," she said, glancing at it in time to see he'd gotten the first not. From her own experiences with the game, this was when a niggling feeling like something may or may not be lurking about would start.

"Nothing is here yet."

[wegotlucky]

The paranoia is there, but he's played the game long enough for him to pretend it's nothing. Especially since Arturia is there, watching him carefully. This game is frustratingly strange.

It would probably still be frustrating without the paranoia itching at the back of his mind. "Guess it might be creeping about still. Maybe you have to beat it and it comes out of the screen. I saw a movie like that, once."

[no_longer_a_king]

"Really? What was it about?"

Arturia had never taken the time to watch movies until she came here. They didn't exist yet in her original time and both times she'd been in the twentieth century, she had been too busy with other things to bother watching a film.

[wegotlucky]

"Some cursed video tape. Haunted by an evil spirit," Neal said, almost cheerfully. It was strange talking about a horror movie while playing a creepy game given what kind of place he had called home for the last year. "This woman watches it and gets a phone call telling her she's going to die for a week."

The second and third note were relatively close to each other, and he grabbed them both before continuing his story.

"Anyway there's this big thing where the woman is trying to figure out what's going on. But I guess that's not the relevant part. At the end of the film, the girl who promised to kill her comes crawling out of the TV towards the person she'd shown the video to, killing him."

And at that, the creature in the game makes an appearance, causing Neal to yelp loudly before he quickly bolts into a different direction.

[no_longer_a_king]

The almost-cheerfulness was odd, but Arturia took it to mean he simply enjoyed the film. She didn't see the appeal in horror films, but then she supposed the appeal was in the fact those films were fiction. No one was really in danger in them.

Unlike in this place.

"Why did the girl show hi--" And then Neal yelped, Arturia's hand went to the hilt of her blade and she looked around the media room to be sure they were still alone.

[wegotlucky]

Neal was now a faint shade of red. "Sorry," he said. "Anyway, uh, she was the main character in a horror film. They're never very bright. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think she thought he could help. Or he was a skeptic, something like that."

He was quiet as he continued to search for the next note for a while, still embarrassed. "I guess it might be strange to be nostalgic for horror films after a year of this place."