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Entry tags:
- !event,
- aziraphale (xy),
- bruce wayne (marzi),
- bucky barnes (gail),
- crowley (mj),
- daylight vis lornlit (melly),
- elektra natchios (carlee),
- elena gilbert (amy),
- eliot waugh (pytho),
- elizabeth (li),
- ignis scientia (helena),
- jason grace (erica),
- javert (rachel),
- jo harvelle (dee),
- jon snow (rachel),
- kettara bloodthirst (fade),
- kol mikaelson (jade),
- m.k. (shira),
- masaomi kida (wind),
- noctis lucis caelum (anya),
- peter parker (laura),
- prompto argentum (daimon),
- quentin coldwater (ireth),
- riku (dubsey),
- rosinante donquixote (lauren),
- stone (gail),
- vanitas (king),
- xayah (helena)
EVENT LOG: BURY A FRIEND
EVENT LOG:
BURY A FRIEND
characters: everyone.
location: around town.
date/time: october 9-17.
content: the hallucinations begin...
warnings: psychological horror. please cw tags appropriately.
it's probably something that shouldn't be said out loud
October 9 feels like a normal day at first, save for the red lighthouse beam cutting through the darkness overhead. You know by now—or you've heard—that the lighthouse is only active during ferry arrivals and events... And there's definitely no ferry docked at the, er. Beach. The town is quiet, the forest spirits behave business-as-usual, Rastus doesn't know what's up. Whatever's going on, you'll have to figure it out for yourself.
And you will, though the hallucinations are subtle at first: objects moving when they shouldn't, people's proportions looking just a bit off, voices in an empty room, and so on. Is it just your mind playing tricks in the darkness? Might be! Will did warn you all about the effects of living without a sun and a proper day/night cycle.
As the days go on, the hallucinations are harder to ignore, no matter how much you may wish to wave them off as flukes. What's wrong with everyone's faces? When did all the howling start? Who do you hold onto when the world drops out from under you? And those hands...
While you might know it can't be real, it certainly feels real. But at least it can't last forever!
...Right?
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It was.
[ out of nowhere. if he really thinks about it… ] I think something touched me… but I just heard her screaming—
[ if he really thinks about it, he heard nothing to go along with the screaming. usually he can hear footsteps, but all he'd heard was her voice, cracking twigs, what was supposed to be her footsteps… and nothing else. deep down in his gut, he knows the spirits here would never do anything to hurt anyone unless provoked. he doubts they'd do anything to anger him after he's been so good to them.
rubbing his forehead a little roughly, ] You didn't hear it, did you?
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As always, he's going to be honest.]
No. Not a woman screaming. [There's a beat.] Other stuff though...seeing and hearing other stuff.
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What other stuff?
[ is it a man's voice? fire burning? someone yelling all high and mighty? to beacon's credit, kol hasn't hallucinated niklaus chasing him down to stick the neutralising dagger in his chest. now that would be a horrible nightmare to inflict.
it is far easier to focus on someone else rather than himself. if davina is safe, then clearly… there's no point in worrying, is there? it'll just make him feel worse.
feeling far more lucid than he has in hours, he frowns as he looks at jason with concern. ] What are you hearing and seeing?
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The ground keeps trying to pull me under...like quicksand. And sometimes I hear the voice of Gaea, she's an old enemy,a primordial goddess of the earth. We defeated her this past summer, scattered her, and so I know it can't be her...
[But the certainty isn't all there in his voice. Because this place brings others from the grave...though she was less dead and more just...scattered so she couldn't regain conscious. It wasn't like you could REALLY kill the spirit of the Earth, not just a handful of demigods or even the gods themselves. They could just spread her conscious so thin that she couldn't form thoughts, couldn't take action.]
That's the personal stuff anyway...like some of the others I've also been seeing these weird hands everywhere.
[It had started with the one in the tree that he'd seen while with Ignis and then it was like they had multiplied and were definitely increasing in activity.]
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unable to help himself, he peers down at the ground. it appears solid and feels lifeless, save for what he can hear as cracking of twigs and the natural slow movements of the trees. ]
I think if she happened to be here, you'd be experiencing a lot more than unwanted hands. [ he toes the ground hard for good measure, easily causing little hole. deeming that good enough proof gaea isn't here (for now), he looks up at jason. ]
How many times have you felt the ground try to pull you under?
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[Which he's taking as reassurance. That or she's just weak. She was weak the first time they'd started dealing with her -- only able to send visions and whispers. The ground working against them hadn't started until she was more in her full power.]
I'd say it's gotten up to a few times a day now. Usually it's just her voice...that's a little easier to ignore.
[Jason studies Kol for a moment and then asks.]
Anything for you besides the screaming? Have you seen the hands?
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I've felt them. [ he doesn't appear nor sound too happy about that. kol prefers to be the hands—it's no fun being the monster's prey.
crossing his arms against his chest in a bid not to react to the mere thought of those hands reaching out and touching him, he stays still. ] They disappear before I can grab them. But if it helps… It doesn't quite feel like someone's trying to reach me from the earth.
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[It's one thing to hallucinate and just have it be visual or even auditory by itself, but this seems to Jason like things are getting worse...or at least it's become harder to break reality from what's not there.]
That helps...I think it's better if we can call each other out on those things, keep the other one grounded.
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[ sorry to be negative nigel here. while kol's feeling relieved the people he considers friends seem to be able to tell what's real and what's not—or at least, what's happening—he knows that not everyone is as lucky. it's not necessarily a case of one being stronger than the other—some of those hallucinations are straight up fucked up.
scratching the back of his neck, he glances away before he looks at jason. ] Thanks for running out after me. I probably would've done something I would've regretted.
[ like run out into a lake… or piss off a spirit. the latter is a terrifying thought. ]
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[He'd dealt with hallucinations and possessions plenty in his life, separating reality from what was not there took experience or, at the very least, another set of eyes. He knows that not everyone here in Beacon is going to have that experience, but since he's "suffering" as well he's honestly not sure how to help everyone.
But he can start with Kol, he can check on his friends.]
Things have been getting worse for the past few days. I saw you tear off into the woods, so I had to check on you. You're my friend...plus you literally saved my neck that one time. I wanted to make sure you didn't need help out here.