[H2K14 - ORP] Haunted Mansion! (OPEN!)

[EvilSilverDragon]

Crawlspace

Having not seen the shadow before it appeared, the sudden forced movement caught her very much off guard. The space was too tight and too dark to fight properly. Not that it stopped her. For the approximately two or three seconds between her relaxing what was happening and the moment she slammed into the wall, it was on! Flailing her arms as best she could, she sent her wings furiously flapping to stop the velocity.

It didn't work, naturally, and into the wall she slammed. "oof!" Dazed didn't last long as she lashed out on the ceiling of the now pitched dark crawlspace. "You had better run!" What ever pushed her didn't seem to be around, so clearly it figured it messed with the wrong pae! Sweep her off her feet, that was an admirable ambition. However, like this was just unacceptable.

Some pae could see just fine in the dark, a Fae wasn't one of them. As she reached around ,she discovered she dropped the candle that she had been working during the rude relocation. She could try and aparate, but in her anger, the idea just didn't occur to her. "I am a Queen, not to be tossed around like a ragdoll!" With a snarl she slammed her staff into the wall again. All thoughts of scaring the other pae away put on the back burner.

Thats when the light caught her attention. What in the world was that? Not a candle unless it was being held. Narrowing her eyes to try and focus the image, she got no where in identifying the light.

Shifting in her spot, she tried to crawl towards it but managed to only fall on her face. Crawling in a gown did not work, at all. In her grasping to get forward, then to right herself again, she gathered items in the slime around her. Dirt didn't bother her, being on her knees and trying to crawl was just undignified!

In her hands was the hair not that she could tell what it was, Felt like a web of some kind and certainly wasn't of interest once she was righted. Something was going to get it. Who ever built this crawl space was also going to get it. Fired, didn't matter if it was dead, it was fired!

Stuck for the moment, she just sat there and watched the light waiting for it to get within reach.

FA Mysteries

 

[Daisicle]

Dining Hall

"We need to get out of here!" Natalia screamed to her temporary companion, her hand gripping around her wrist to try and pull her forward. She wasn't entirely free from the fairies' aggression as she struggled to move the demon out; they took to slapping her limbs closer to Louhi's as well.

Her instinct said to just get out of there and abandon the demon.

Actually, it said to fight, to intimidate the ones who'd appeared and were an immediate threat to her health.

But she'd told herself long ago that she would resist these urges, that they didn't define her and that she was better than that. It wasn't that she couldn't leave alone, but that she simply wouldn't. Whether she wanted to or not.

Pulling hard enough to forcefully pull Louhi with her, the harpy made a relatively-quick pacing to the door. She only brushed away the ones that were immediately in their way as she went, not feeling the need to potentially upset them further.

Amasis

FA Mysteries

 

[Menelie]

MAIN HALL

Selah's heart did a little flip. She'd been a teensy bit worried that he hadn't been understanding her advances, her hints and clues, but there was no way that little singsong quip could mean anything different than him flirting back with her.

"Oh good," she purred, smiling broadly at Vangelis, gazing into his eyes. "I do like...exploring." She broke eye contact for a moment, flicking her eyes over the rest of him. Oh yes. She liked what she saw. A small, approving nod, and then she took Vangelis' hand and began to direct them toward the staircase. Hopefully they could find an empty room upstairs somewhere where they could do some exploring of their own. Of each other.

Seiana_ZI

Vangelis

 

[Seiana_ZI]

Vangelis: MAIN HALL -> LOUNGE, THIRD FLOOR

... Okay, there was no way to misinterpret the way she was practically peeling his costume off with her eyes --

Vangelis dipped his glass right in the rum-spiked punch, took another gulp, and nearly slammed it down. Mikasi was nearby, he couldn't just spurn her advances now. That'd ruin the ... point he was trying to make? He didn't even know anymore. He wasn't sure if all the humour in the world was worth continuing this, even if her voice did sound a little bit like music to his ears--

That had to be the alcohol talking.

The faun glanced over his shoulder to look at the dance floor ... just in time to see the dance floor had been overtaken with actual shadows. That was... new...

Maybe leaving with her wasn't such a bad idea.

Vangelis easily let her guide him, taking them right out of the room in the direct view of Mikasi. The nymph paused for a moment, looking at his drink, before deciding he clearly hadn't had enough and moving back towards the bar.

The big blue ocean followed after Selah, offering a, "It sounds quieter up here," once they got to the third floor. Well, mostly quieter; did he hear screaming in that direction over there in the direction of the bedrooms? Why would pae be screaming in this -- maybe it was better not to ask. He had just seen shadows dance, after all. Besides, he had downed a lot of alcohol. Maybe he was just hallucinating... Did that happen when someone was drunk? He really didn't know exactly, Mikasi was the one who drank a lot --

"That room," offered Vangelis, suddenly, pointing to a lounge that looked rather empty. And quiet. And not full of possessed dancing shadows.

Menelie

Selah

 

[Menelie]

LOUNGE, THIRD FLOOR
"Ooh!" squealed Selah delightedly. She zipped into the room, Vangelis in tow. The screams from nearby rooms hadn't escaped her, either, but she just assumed that other partygoers were having an exceptionally good time elsewhere in the mansion. ...Selah wasn't terribly well-versed in social cues...

This room would do just fine, Selah decided. No other partygoers in sight! Just her and her Faun. "Good choice," she said approvingly to Vangelis. There were even a few pieces of furniture, should they decide to get comfortable. Much better than awkwardly standing up, or leaning against the wall.

Suddenly she had a mental image of that very thing, and a little color rose to her cheeks. Leaning against the wall could be okay too.

Selah remembered that they were "exploring" the mansion, and began to poke around. "What d'you s'pose this room's for?" she asked, "accidentally" brushing against Vangelis a few times as she moved around. Maybe it'd get him used to touching.

Seiana_ZI

Vangelis

 

[Wolfs Heart]

Eleora: Children's Bedroom 1

Eleora frowned, though water was still coming down her cheeks. "It's not nice to be scary..." she mumbled into her arm. "Or mean." The flutter looked down at the teddy bear that had been tossed in her direction before burying her face back in her arm to cry some more.

Because of this, at first, she hadn't noticed the additional movement in the room. She did however notice when the teddy bear moved. Eleora looked up, briefly seeing the room come to life before the teddy bear was clawing at her face. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The fairy screamed again. This was certainly not her night. "Get it off, get it off." She wanted to hide under the covers and make it all go away, or better yet get out of the room and house. Eleora would have even settled to clinging to the leg of the mean pae, but she couldn't do any of that with this bear clawing at her face. "Help!!!!" She cried out, pulling at the bear, trying to fling it away from herself.

Shicala

 

[Amasis]

Second Floor - Hallway

FA Mysteries

Daisicle

Natalia

Louhi didn't really know what to do when they started swatting her back, or when one of them started crying. What did she do about that? What could she do about that? Was there anything she could even do? She started to apologize, making plaintive gestures with her hands as she tried to reason with the little fairies, not a small bit upset herself. She hadn't hurt them, right? Right? They were okay, right? Why were they crying? And all the while, she continued to be spattered with the tiny slaps from the others.

When Natalia grabbed her wrist and pulled her out, Louhi wasn't complaining, glancing back over her shoulder as she followed the harpy. Yes, they did indeed need to get out of there. "Maybe we shouldn't've wandered in there?" Louhi posited as they moved, ducking her head to avoid getting smacked in the face by the little fairies. "Did we break a rule of cordiality, or... something?" Where could they go, anyway?

The kitchen! ...Wait no, that would have knives. Louhi did not want to give upset little fairies sharp things. "Where are we going?" she asked Natalia, trying to be heard over the wailing.  

[Seiana_ZI]

Vangelis: LOUNGE, THIRD FLOOR

This was better. Much calmer in here. And no dancing shadows. He was okay with this room. There were even places to sit! And Vangelis certainly enjoyed sitting.

He wondered how the acoustics were in this room. Too bad he didn't have any of his instruments with him, though most were too hard to carry this far, at least in a way that would be convenient and not too much of a burden when he would probably have to drag Mikasi home. Perhaps he could test it with some kind of humming -- why was Selah blushing?

Had he done something? Vangelis looked down at himself for a moment, making sure no part of his costume was out of place, or something -- oh. That was what she was doing now. Right.

Vangelis cleared his throat.

"Uh," good answer. Try that again. "Relaxing room I think. Chairs and cushions, few books." Vangelis gestured to the objects in the lounge as he pointed them out, moving towards an end table and picking up a piece of paper on it.

What did this even say? It was nothing he recognized...

"Think someone probably read here."

Menelie

Selah

 

[FA Mysteries]

Kitchen Dumbwaiter

Granny Smith had the right idea in the fact that the strange cloaked man disappeared down the dumbwaiter. Though Nightwing held her back from utterly launching herself, she would still see something further down, a glowing light that seemed to get brighter and brighter and brighter...

Before it suddenly stopped, disappearing entirely.

Eyes blinked, a small distance away, before they seemed to disappear, too.

Seruta

Granny Smith

Teigra

Nightwing

Seiana_ZI

Alister

 

[Dragon Berri]

Ruaidhri: Following Prisma wherever she goes Pantry
Haukea: Library
Ophelia: Attic Storage Room

Ruaidhri gave Lisandru a weird face when he used Prisma's name for the shadowy pae. "Really?" he murmured. He still didn't know why he was still going along with this. The pantry was of course, destroyed. So much for a snack. "Maybe we should actually find the kitchen now?" he suggested.

Fea Line

Prisma x3

Seiana_ZI

Lisandru~

Haukea blinked a little in surprise. "O-oh? Well, that's not too bad. Th-there's scripts I d-don't know e-either," he stammered, trying to make better conversation. He glanced around the room, smiling a bit as the other two sort of acknowledged him. Just then, Sparrow touched his shoulder, causing the skittish angel to jump. "Oh! S-sorry, I..." he said and took a deep breath to calm his racing heart. Seriously, Haukea, all she did was touch your shoulder. Man up. "S-sorry, I'm not used to b-being around s-so many p-pae..." he explained with a small smile, which turned to a look of surprise when she asked if he'd like to go somewhere else. "S-sure, w-we can do that," he murmured and smiled again. Maybe coming to the party wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe he wasn't such a lost cause... "Wh-where would you like to go?"

Daisicle

Sparrow

Ophelia almost missed diona's words because she was admiring her perfect rear end. "Hm? Oh, that sounds quite smart, actually," she grinned. "Then we could work our way down." As she spoke, her eyes traveled down the fae's body until she brought her eyes back up. Oops. She really thought she had more self-control than this... In any case, the dark demoness grinned at her red companion and grabbed her hand, running with her up the steps. Up at the top of the steps was an attic that seemed mostly empty. "Shall we start in here?" she asked diona, pushing open the door to the storage room.

Wolfs Heart

 

[FA Mysteries]

EVERYONE IN THE MAIN HALL

The dance floor had been totally overtaken by the dancing shadows, enjoying what seemed to be their own ball or masquerade despite what the not-shadowed may have been doing. Their movements were unnatural, the shadows slipping right by and through Pae'il as if they were not even there.

The shadows themselves eventually began to lift, dancing in the air above them as if they were dancing atop an invisible floor the Pae'il could see from below.

Near the entrance, there was an increasing noise that sounded like many feet, moving towards the ballroom in a loud unison. The main hall's doors burst open, revealing more shadows, some with what looked to be the shape of swords and shields, aimed in the direction of the Pae'il on the main hall's floor.

There were a few gasps that could not be pinpointed to anyone, echoing off the walls.  

[Menelie]

Selah: LOUNGE, THIRD FLOOR

"Reading room," echoed Selah, nodding a little. She eyed a wide chaise lounge. That would definitely accommodate two, if they were very...cozy. She definitely wasn't contemplating reading, or learning, or knowledge, except maybe the carnal sort.

"I'd rather spend time getting to know you," said Selah, drawing comfortably near to Vangelis. Okay, so that segue had sounded better in her head. She took both his hands and smiled meaningfully at him. She wondered what kissing was like. She bet it was delightful. Like sucking sugar lumps but without the toothache.

Seiana_ZI

Vangelis

 

[Fea Line]

Prisma: Going to Kitchen finally!

Prisma tilted her head as she stared at the mess of the pantry a few moments longer before letting her hands slap to her sides. "OH WELL! Maybe the kitchen has more foody food! And where there is a Pantry......" she mused, grabbing both of their hands and tugging them just one door down, entering into what was finally "....there is a kitchen extremely!" she laughed, giggling rapidly clapping her hands together. At least until she spotted the green faun about to slip into a dumbwaiter. "OH IS THAT A RIDE EXTREMELY?!" she squealed loudly, dragging her two companions as quickly as she could over towards where the two faun had gathered. She looked excited, her eyes wide and bunny ears bouncing atop her head as she herself bounced in place. "Oh oh oh oh oh lets all go on it together! I bet its like my rabbit holes extremely!" she laughed, reaching out to touch excitedly pat Nightwing on the shoulder. She then tried to peer past the green faun to see where this new 'ride' might lead, but seeing as the faun already had her self half in the thing, Prisma could only lean back and pester Lisandru. "Are you excitey citey cited?! ME TOO yes indeedy!"

Seiana_ZI

Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisandru!

Strawberri Stardust

Purply red spots kitteh kitteh

Seruta

Because I think Granny...

Teigra

and Nightwing are still in the kitchen?

 

[Fea Line]

Kratos: Attic












The demon snorted, eyes glancing back in the direction of the chimney room. Seemed someone, or several someones were...enjoying themselves inside.Not that he cared to investigate however. He continued to fiddle with the latches to the window before he was finally able to pry the window open. Kratos shut his eyes momentarily, allowing the cool night breeze to drift across his skin before he ran a hand through his hair and chuckled at Xenia's response. "So I wasn't the only one who received an invitation. Not surprised.... considering how the fairies like to....operate." he snorted, thinking back to their brilliant idea of summer tours or some bullhonkey like that. All that ever came from that event was himself being stuck on top of a snow covered mountain.... "Why am I here. Really, I don't know. I thought it would have been more interesting than that, but so far I've found nothing." he shrugged, unaware of just how much had actually been going on in this house. "Perhaps leaving the bar was a mistake. I could use another drink..." he said with a 'heh' before leaning his arms on the window sill and glancing out at the surrounding jungle.

Falcona

 

[Fea Line]

Dosvi: Playroom


The nymph had....well....

Spaced out.

Her eyes were half shut and her muttering had slowed to an almost non existent state save for the few movements of her lips and the occasional noise that sounded like it might have been a word once upon a time. Her eyes were half shut, lids fluttering every so often as she creaked forward and backwards, hands held firm to the handle. A few times her head bobbed, almost as if she had passed out on the child's rocking horse. Her mind was filled with dreams of her cottage, sifting through her stocks, bundling another rabbits foot to string and hanging it with the others.... at least until a rather loud creak from the faun's carriage interrupted her visions.

A large black crow darted for her face leaving Dosvi little to no time to react, yet before the bird made contact with her, she jolted 'awake' and clutched her horse as if her life depended on it. "WHO GOES?!?!?!!!" she shrieked, eyes landing on the faun. "....oh...tis only you Blue Mother." she said softly, staying quite a few moments as her heart calmed down. She reached up to run her fingers through her black curls to check if they were washing themselves again before asked, "What is ye doing?"

Irish Night Fox

Mama