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.

Comments

[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."