logsinthenight | 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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[That's a swift climbing technique. It's been a while since Ignis himself had climbed up the tree. He did use that grappling hook in Altissia, but it's hardly the same. With hands on the hips, he steps closer to the tree and looks up.]

Hm? Is there a problem?

[Did he see something? It's too dark and high; from where Ignis is standing, he cannot see anything. But maybe the guy can?]

Do be careful, some of the branches look exceptionally dry, they might snap.

[And Jason might snap his neck as he falls down.]

[Jason doesn't want to lose sight of the thing...he thinks he saw a thing anyway. He doesn't look back at Ignis, though he does respond.]

I thought I saw something up here...maybe it's one of those hands or something that caused you to see hands.

[Jason was fine with heights, though he was very much aware that if he fell the wrong way he could hurt himself. There was no ambrosia here and it was likely it would cost him his life. At least he had left his lantern on the ground, the tree wasn't so tall that the distance made him uncomfortable or anything.]

I won't go higher...this is probably the most secure branch anyway.

[He does move a little closer to the trunk, reaching out to balance himself and try to find what he thought he'd seen. Without warning a large pale hand dropped from the branch above and seemed to hurl itself at Jason's shoulder. He yelped in surprise and, sure enough, started to fall back.

The hand overshot his shoulder and landed on the branch he was currently falling off of, though luckily Jason had been climbing trees and falling from heights for a long time. Instinct took over and he blasted the ground with a blast of air to cushion his fall, tucking and rolling, before popping back up. It wasn't as graceful as his name would imply it should be...but his neck and bones were all intact at least.

The lone hand scurried along the tree branch, though made no move to launch a second attack. Jason brushed off his pants, glancing over at Ignis.]

Guess you were right about the hands in the tree. At least one of them was still there.

[Ignis watches the guy with raising dread in his gut- if he knew he'd climb it that high, he wouldn't have let him. Who knows what were those hands in the trees, it is really unflattering place to fight too- dark and unsteady.

-And as suspected, the guy falls. Ignis didn't see if anything attacked him or no, he's rushing to his side with a worried look on his face.]

Are you alright? That looked like a really hard fall.

[He gives guy's legs a look, then takes his forearms to check the wrists- ankles and wrists tend to get damaged first during the fall.]

Anything sprained? [Ignis asks, eyes glancing at the tree to keep an eye out for those hands that Jason mentioned.]

[Jason takes a minute to take stock. Checking himself for injuries is more or less second nature. After a moment he nods, holding up a hand in the hopes of being reassuring.]

I'm fine, really. I know how to take a fall.

[Kind of the other side of learning to fly is learning to fall. Jason could have handled it better, because now that he's "checked" himself he definitely feels some soreness, but nothing that's worse than a bruise. His gaze drifts back up to the tree. Unlike before, his eyes clearly lock on something this time: watching the pale hand skitter along the branch, sometimes swinging under it. After a moment it starts to make its way back up the trunk and out of sight.]

Hm? No, no sprains. Probably have a few bruises.

I suppose there's a silver lining in everything.

[Ignis looks up to where the guy was staring, but again, he sees nothing. In any case, they ought to move from the tree before something worse happens.

He offers the guy a hand to help him up, with a short nod.]

Well, better bruises than broken bones.

We should move from here. Whatever is playing pranks on us won't hesitate to do it again. [And it might end up being worse.]

[Jason accepts the offered hand and pulls himself back to his feet.]

True. Bruises I can walk off.

[Technically he'd walked off a few broken bones as well in the past, but that was also with a nice heaping dose of ambrosia and in the middle of battle with adrenaline pumping.]

Yeah, good idea. Especially if they can appear and disappear like that...

[Jason wasn't planning on going back up into the tree, but Ignis had a point about maybe clearing the area and leaving well enough alone.]

We should find some of the others...see if they've seen anything similar.

[Back when he was alive, he had potions that could handle serious injuries like broken bones and concussions. Here, however, he doesn't have that luxury so he has to be extremely careful.]

Yes, [Ignis nods,] we should see if others at the Bonfire or Invincible encountered something.

[If it were any other situation, he'd suggest to look around and take down any other pranks set up by the spirits; to take them down before anyone else runs into them.]

We should keep eyes open for anything similar on our way.

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