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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:18 pm
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Being partly a crepuscular animal by magic and a college student by matter of circumstance, Lily was a creature who took part in many naps, especially during her monthly jaunt with the full moon. It was muscle-aching work, to shift between two forms, and when she had any energy it was all being funneled into videos, routines, playlists, anything to keep a following entertained. The nice thing was that Lily was not a picky sleeper, and could take her multiple rests just about anywhere, from in a tree to on her keyboard, on couches or in this case the back seat of her car after work.
The downside, of course, was that if she wasn't careful she would find herself in the otherworld.
It didn't always rain anymore, which had in the past been the most reliable marker that something in the air had turned spooky. This time, it was a vague feeling of vertigo that dragged Lily to consciousness, of feeling dizzyingly tall. Her whole body grimaced as she turned away from the car's seat cushion, tail curling inwards, and while she began to groan, she cut herself short as it came out a low, hissing growl.
Lily blinked, looking down at her paws and her stretched out torso, covered in dark fur. She'd shifted in her sleep. Of course she had.
Becoming bipedal again was a matter of a few stretches, and with a yawn she nudged the door of her car open, greeted by a blanket of fog and vague storefronts lit in the distance. She licked her lips while she got her bearings, and then shuffled forward, pausing only to fumble for her keys. Out of habit, she tapped the clicker to lock her car, and for her efforts the horn bleated, like a sheep.
Lily stared in silence, vaguely wondering how to react, when exhaustion won out over whatever emotion she might have felt. The only way out was to find a door, and to that effect she started walking into the fog, vaguely towards the lights.
Ashdown Whaler a DM RP with the faceless in business suits in other ashdown.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:04 pm
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When Lily reached the theater, her eyes widened slowly. When she saw the open doors and the bellhop she stopped walking altogether, giving it a substantial berth.
"You're ******** kidding me," she sighed, her tail swishing behind her in agitation. It hadn't technically been the creepy mannequins' fault that she had been part of a group that had barged in and let out some ancient terror, but they were still part of the setting that had led them to said ancient terror, and one of the spookiest parts of spookville to boot. She looked to one direction and then the other, as if there might possibly be a mistake and she was meant to go to a fun, happy boutique, or perhaps that lava parkour pit she'd talked about with Shun. But the fog pressed in from both sides, the only lights visible coming from the theater.
Huddling her shoulders, she inched closer to the open door, her eyes never leaving the mannequin in case it decided it wanted to turn her into plastic. "...Howdy," she nodded darkly, clinging to the farthest threshold as she inched her way inside. "Nice fog and all. Um. I hope I'm not here to fight Angry Alvin again, because that's not gonna work."
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:24 pm
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Even when she'd been with a group of people, the theater had seemed eerily devoid of life. On her own, it was cavernous, gaping, and all the empty air nagged at her instincts, telling her to get small, to climb, to find a place warm and secure and safe--
But none of those things were to be found here. Only closed doors, and open ones.
Lily was proficient enough at following simple cues and instructions, more eager to follow the flow than to fight her own way through. When she saw an open door, she walked towards it, rapping gently at the threshold with one knuckle as she peered inside.
"Hello?" she called into the room, knowing damn well the things didn't speak back. "Somebody order the Noodle Special, extra Noodle?" It was humor that kept her from panic, she told herself, and if she told herself that enough times, the churning in her stomach might actually start to agree.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 7:42 pm
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Lily visibly tensed when the two turned their heads towards her, her tufted ears going as far back as their weird anatomy would allow. "Ah, s**t, I--I didn't mean to, uhhh, barge in or whatever," she stammered, trying to erase the fact that she'd seen features on them, that they'd been startlingly human for just a moment. She gulped in an attempt to settle her nerves, taking the time to remind herself that they hadn't ever been the first to act out, nor had they been aggressive in any way except as self defense. With one long exhale, she put the static in her chest at bay. In reality, they were probably just as spooked as she was.
"But uhh," she began, rubbing the back of her neck, "Your dude, he let me in, and I figured, you know, you guys might know a way...out?" It was a long shot, but it was the best shot she had. "Out of the otherworld, back home...you guys did that last time, right?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:49 pm
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It took Lily a moment to adjust to the voices--she crinkled her nose and shook her head, like she was trying to banish the start of a sneeze. "Thanks for the no harm thing, I appreciate it," she said, her free hand moving to her torso, where she still had the marks from Dee's teeth as pink scars on her skin.
"Ummmmm, I don't know, really," she shrugged in response to their question, her fingers slowly curling around theirs once her tension began to melt. "I was just...chillin', I guess."
Something the faceless said stuck with her, and she pursed her lips in consideration. "So you guys are protectors? Like the moonwalkers?" Her tail flickered behind her, apprehensive but hopeful. Maybe the faceless knew more about the legacy that she'd inherited.
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:30 pm
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"Oh." The idea of more was suddenly very daunting to Lily, though she wasn't sure what she'd been expecting when she'd asked them about the moonwalkers. There was still so much she didn't know, still so much the pack didn't know, even if Eve seemed like she always understood what was going on.
"But, like, we were supposed to do something similar, right? Keep things in order, be awesome spooky cops?" It was only after she'd asked that she began to feel too eager, reigning in her curiosity by averting her eyes. If she wasn't looking at them, it was almost like talking to a person, and she wasn't sure if that was more or less comforting.
"Sorry," she admitted with an awkward laugh, staring down at her shoes, "I just...I thought I was supposed to do something when Dee happened, because I'm a moonwalker and we're supposed to do that s**t, I guess, but being a big ferret thing didn't help, and people got hurt, just like they got hurt at Blackfriars, and I mean s**t, what am I supposed to do about it?" She glanced up, expecting a face to look into, and shivered when she saw only flat plastic.
"Um," she gulped, her ears pressing flat against her head. "That was oversharing. Sorry."
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