Characters: everyone
Location: mysterious, white hallways
Date: Day 193-194
Summary: Find friends. Get lost. Don't look.
Warnings: Potential for gore and psychological horror. Please note any specific warnings in your subject lines!

While confusingly similar, the area is split into a few different sections:

The Core
The hallways here are narrow and twist at a rapid rate. With how dazzlingly white everything is, it's easy to not realize you're coming on a turn and slam right into the walls. There are no rooms here--no one starts here, though they may find it while they wander. At the center is a large, round area, like the center of a spiral. There's a lot of air pressure here.

The Inner Hallways
The largest area, filled with dead ends, gentle slopes and twists, and, occasionally, difficult-to-see drops where a higher hallway intersects with a lower one without a wall to separate them. The whole place tastes vaguely like blood. Most rooms are here--most people start here.

The Outer Hallways
The outer ring of the ball of yarn. It's not as thick with halls and twists as the other two areas, leading to a lot more boring walking in one direction. It's totally possible to circle around the same path multiple times without realizing it, as everything is so similar here. Occasionally, footsteps can be heard just outside the farthest walls. Sometimes, something breathes. There are a few rooms here--some people will start here.


Remember to note what kind of eyes your character has in their top level!

[It's almost midnight when House's message goes out. He sounds honestly terrified. His hands are shaking too much to type, and he's too frantic to think of voice-to-text. There's also the music. He can hear it. He can't tell where it's coming from, but it's there and it's fading in and out with the static and a whisper that he can just make out.

It would probably be better to see to his wounds first, but that's secondary at the moment.]

The music. Who's hearing the music and the static? Have anyone's eyes changed? Who can hear it?

[He sings the first few lines.]

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green...

It's Andromeda's song for Winter. It's the song in the apartment with the knives. The Jedi heard it, too. His eyes or his hand set it off.

Who can hear it?

[No text today! Instead, the viewers of Norfinbury get a video showing a weird orange bird guy filmed from inside a house. In addition to the shades, behind which a faint orange glow is visible, he's got on the standard peacoat people receive here. It's the same violent shade of orange as the rest of him.]

Hey. A bunch of you already know by now, but the name's Davesprite, and I'm this thing called a sprite and I'm part crow.

[He caws demonstratively.]

But I'm posting this because House and I just did some experiments about the whole nonhuman thing yesterday. See, some people were positing that maybe I only look weird because of distorted perceptions and junk, so we wanted to test basically if I'm the way I should be or not.

Thing one, I've got a hole through the middle of my chest where my sword used to go, because sprites are weird. Don't worry about it. Watson told me how normal objects found here go right through anomalies, but stuff coated in rubble dust hits them. So he and Sherlock wanted me to try to stick some rubble in my sword hole. Spoilers, it worked.

Thing two, my blood's bright yellow like somebody cracked a glowstick open, and it doesn't look like a human's under a microscope. Since the admin said my bloodtype's been "adjusted", House wanted to inject some of it into himself to see if he could. And that worked too.

If you want to go and lecture us about how that was dangerous and stupid and we could have gotten ourselves killed: Yeah, I know, but too late. Sometimes you gotta be stupid to get science done. And now we've confirmed that looking nonhuman is still real and not just some illusion cast on our senses via the nanomachines, and that regular humans can accept "adjusted" blood with the right type.

Thing three's got nothing to do with the experiments, but House wanted me to share that he found an SD card back on day 183 with Andromeda and Winter talking some more. If you saw the post I made about the card I found a while back, the one where they were talking about the cult? It sounds like this one relates to that.

[Here at the end Davesprite links a few files. First are video recordings of him and House performing the experiments described above. His blood in the relevant experiment is indeed a yellow as he said and slightly luminescent. Along with this he includes a couple photos of his blood taken under a microscope. The blood cells aren't human or avian, but a shape that looks somewhere between both.]

[Next, he includes the audio file of Winter and Andromeda talking.]

(OOC: Replies may come from either Davesprite or House!)

[ Audio/Video ]

[ First comes a video of darkness. There's the sound of metal clicking against metal multiplied by a hundred, and the slightest red glow. Then dozens of red lights turn to look at the camera - robot eyes. They swarm, and the video ends.

The broadcast turns to audio. ]

The ventilation system in the school is quite deep. I did not see what was at the bottom, but there was a great deal of moving metal.

Characters: anyone and everyone
Location all around town
Date: Night 180
Summary: Kill the sinners or run for your lives.
Warnings: Horror, potential gore and death. Please note more specific warnings in subject lines!

close we will live, dilly dilly
and when we die
both in one grave, dilly dilly
close we will lie

Good morning Norfinbury!

[The video opens, as always, with an uncomfortable closeup of Hange's face. Looking even dirtier and more scuffed up than last time they made a network post, Hange nevertheless seems to be in good spirits. As they back up a bit, the camera refocuses to reveal a purple room. Levi is, as usual, looking dour in the background.]

Good news! We've reached the end of the tunnels, or, at least, we think we did. We've at least reached as far as we can go in a roughly straight Easterly direction. [Insert wiggly hand motions to indicate the exact nature of the direction.]

Which brings us to the bad news: there's a door there, and it's locked. It won't budge, even when we kick it. [Which of course they both tried. Maybe a lot.]

So it looks like we'll need to find a key. Anyone who happens to have a key, you should head this way. Otherwise, keep an eye out. [And that's all they have to say on that matter. But that's not the only matter they're here to talk about.]

Something else I feel the need to mention. [Hange picks up the tablet and turns the camera to face some shelves on the wall. On them are ten objects that look like doll stands.] I've been told that there have been several dolls found around the town that might have something to do with the Prophet. I think it's possible that these stands, which look like they may be for dolls, could have something to do with that. I doubt it's a coincidence that they're so close to the locked door. So in addition to keys, look out for dolls with eye symbols on them.

And speaking of dolls. [There's some shuffling as Hange rearranges to pull two small figures out of their bag, holding them up for the camera to see. One figure is clearly a doctor holding a cane, while the other is a red-haired man. The latter is missing part of an arm and looks like it's been partially melted.] We found these in another apartment. There were others, too. I don't know that they have any connection to the other dolls, but it seemed like pertinent information.

[The video abruptly cuts off, but files are attached: a copy of House's map with building 219 circled and labelled "figures", building 222 circled with "doll stands?", and the area just beyond 222 circled with "door". There is also a picture of the locked door, and a picture of the other "figures" which resemble Emily, Royce, and Ginger.]

[[OOC: Responses may come from either Hange or Levi, as usual.]]

[ Video ]

Guy- uh, Guy-brush threep-wood? Wow, that's a mouthful.

[ Zach slides in behind her- ] That's what she said! Eh, ehhhh? [ He grins. Steph turns around to make finger-guns at him, then turns back to the camera as though nothing happened. ]

Anyway, Guy found an SD card yesterday morning. Since the video didn't get posted until today, I'm guessing that wasn't the only one out there. The one he found was orange, hot to the touch. Hot enough that I thought it was going to burn our fingers. I'm pretty sure he was running a fever after we uploaded the card, but no other symptoms.

So how many cards were there? Were they all orange? And did anyone else have any weird side effects after using them?

And everyone else - thoughts?

[ Text - Added ICly as the information becomes available ]

Red - Hospital morgue, blood spattered, taste of blood
Orange - House 100, hot to touch, fever
Yellow - Church graveyard, cold to touch, hypothermia
Green - Museum, grass smell, seeing Spring
Blue - Hotel lobby, made of glass?, intensely pale skin
Violet - Police station, made of metal?, tin foil mouth
White - School, eye symbol, no symptoms

I can't sleep.

[The tablet is on the floor, lighting its own patch of paleness on the ceiling above. Beckett is lying next to it, prone on his back - that's what the angle of his arm, raised half-heartedly into the frame, suggests. He pulls more clearly into view for a moment, rising to a sitting position, to squint at the camera. His glasses are off, and his eyes glow a faint red in an ashen face.]

For all I know, I imagined it - the girl, the eyes. I'm certain the red pen was real, though, and the choice that came with it.

[He falls back again. Too tired to sit up. The tablet records to show nothing but light and shadow as he speaks.]

It may have been just me. Doubtful, but possible... but it was not just me who saw things. Perhaps we all did. I'd like to know what. Piece of some whole, or just another attack on what's left of our collective sanity... either way. For the sake of the record, if not any kind of answer.

[His relationship with answers isn't getting any less complicated. His voice drops low, dreamlike as he speaks on.] I saw a girl wearing a cloak. She was drawing the eyes, all around me... around me... until I was surrounded. She climbed on my back and drew her eyes on mine, and I knew there was no leaving. There has never been, not for me. Perhaps we are all...

[Too much. He stops abruptly, and rises again, grabbing for the tablet.]

It's all in my notes.

[The recording ends. In its place he sends his notes file out again.]

[The audio post begins abruptly. No introduction. No period of adjusting or testing the mic. Enoch just starts talking, sounding extremely disquieted.]

I-I'm hearing something else, under the screams. I know it sounds insane, and it may only be a hallucination or a trick, but-...

[He stops, trying to push down that uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach. He's asking no one, it tells him. There's no one there to help. But there is, there has to be, all the events that happened because of Clayton's presence, because of Frisk's and Quark's and Toriel's, they had to be real.]

...but if it's not, I'll never be able to forgive myself for ignoring it. Anyone along the eastern edge of the snow wall or in the eastern tunnels, please watch out for a young girl...or her spirit, more likely. I can hear her, she's terrified, she's calling for help, for her parents... All that I know is she is farther east than we are.

Please try to help her if you see her. Wherever she is, if she is, I cannot reach her.

[ Cue a video of your resident Hawkeye coming on and wincing as he rubs at his bright purple hearing aids. His hair is a mess, he's got a hobo beard starting, and he looks tired as hell, but it's a video nonetheless. Or an approximation of a video, anyway. There's tearing and glitches and static, and Clint's voice skritches in and out as he asks his question, but it should mostly be easy to figure out: ]

Okay, I'm [static] only one who [static] all that screaming, right? Where is [static] from?

[This strange post is actually a video loop showing a piece of paper with a message written on it - the handwriting is actually Steph's, to those who know it. The continued glitching obscures different bits of the text, but by watching the video for a while, it's possible to make out the whole message.]

My name is Kesara Freamon. Some of you know me. I discovered the northeastern tunnel, Hsiaoke Pass. I need to tell you about the Prophet.

Quark and me saw the Phophet at the school and they pointed us east. Samantha Stevens also spoke to us there and told us to find the tunnel. Quark will tell you it's true. Samantha's ghost also gave me a card with an application that has an eye symbol. It does a few things. When it's on, the anomalies are scared of it. They cower when I hold up my tablet. It also makes the eye symbols on the walls glow. I found a house in the Pass with a doll it in, that turns into this floating eye symbol when I film it with the app on.

I have a plan. I want to try to activate all the eye symbols at once, the same way using all the keys at once opened the lake tunnel. Winter says she can make some copies of the app, but it might not be enough. I need another way to make copies and I need people to go to the houses with the symbols in them.

I know some folk won't agree to this. They'll say that they don't do as I say, or don't trust others to work with them. I am very tired of arguing and I am through with it. You all know time is running out. If you want to help then stop all that foolishness and work with me. If not then stay out of the way.


( Private to the other kids, Sad Losers, Alfie, Royce, Natasha )

( Private to the kids (Frisk, Emily, Quark); voice )

[Kunsel doesn't have his helmet on when he turns the video feed on, mostly because he feels like this is something important enough that people need to see his expression, to know how deadly serious he is. His eyes glow faintly in the darkness that comes after nightfall, though it's washed out slightly by the light being cast by the tablet.]

To anyone in the Entrance area, or anyone who might end up here, there's a situation in the fire station you need to be aware of.

[As though to punctuate his statement, something behind him rattles, like someone behind a door trying to get out. Kunsel takes this as his cue to turn the tablet's camera to focus on a door that's been blocked by a bed, with the door's handle handcuffed to the frame itself. It's hard to make out in the light, but on the door itself, written in thick black marker, are the words "OPEN WITH CAUTION. MONSTER INSIDE."]

Last night when we stopped here, an anomaly emerged from one of the mirrors in the bathroom. Half humanoid, half insect, and it looked like a mirror itself. We only barely managed to block it inside the bathroom. We left this morning, then came back tonight.

[The door rattles again.]

And it's still here.

[He turns the tablet back toward himself now, still grim and serious.]

If you can, I'd recommend avoiding the fire station entirely. We don't know how well this setup might hold. If you can't, then don't unblock the door, even if you think the anomaly is gone.

Characters: House, Wilson, Hange, Levi, Merylwyb, Haurchefant, Aymeric, Estinien, and Francel
Location Building 199 (the Museum) near the debris pile (200)
Date: Day 156 - Day 159
Summary: Working and a slumber party!
Warnings: House is his own warning. Potentially gross chemical burns from the spiders.

( Sleepover time... )

[The video opens with Hange's face: dirty (though that's not anything unusual) and a little scraped up from a few days ago. But all in all, they seem to be in good spirits. There's an almost feverish light in those eyes.]

Hello Norfinbury! I already agreed to share any findings with Natasha, but this seemed important enough to share with the whole town instead.

[The camera turns to face a wall- a wall covered in black paint eyes- but is then suddenly jerked back around.]

Oh, for those of you who I haven't met yet, I'm Squad Leader Hange Zoe, and this- [more motion-sickness-inducing camera movement-] is Captain Levi. [The man in question looks perhaps even a little more displeased than he usually does, but he's only on screen for a second before the feed goes back to Hange.] He's upset right now because he couldn't clean the bathtub.

[And with that cryptic statement, the camera finally settles onto the walls again. Hange slowly pans across, then shows off the ceiling, floor, and other surfaces of the room. They're all equally covered with those messily-painted eyes.]

I've heard that these have been seen in other parts of the town as well, but they seem to be fairly concentrated here in this tenement area. I'm sure they'll make it onto the guide soon, but I wanted to get some input from the general populace. Trying to re-create the eye symbol on an untouched wall produced no reaction, but I can't help but wonder if there isn't something we're meant to do with these.

[The video comes back around to Hange.] In slightly worse news, we've come to a dead end here. There's a southern branch to these tunnels, but it doesn't lead to anything but snow. Oh! But we did find a couple of undiscovered buildings- rooms, really, but nothing looks like it could be a way through. I've marked it on the map that everyone's using- the dead end branch, that is. Oh, and I've got videos of the things we found. If anyone has any input, that would be great!

[It sounds like they actually mean that. As the message ends, Hange sends along several files: an addendum to House's map showing the area with the dead end, and several videos of the various eyes they've encountered and new apartments they've entered, as well as one of the dead end itself.]

[OOC: Responses may come from Hange and/or Levi!]