Silent Hill - Day 1 - Day Post

[fh_beasties]

Morning in Silent Hill, West Virginia, doesn't change from day to day. It's always gray, it's always dusty, it's always -- wait for it -- silent.

Time stands still in Silent Hill. It's the seventies forever, from the rusted cars abandoned along the Nathan Avenue main drag, to the Charleton Heston double feature on the billboard outside the Rialto, to the dust-obscured Gordon Lightfoot poster in the window of the record shop.

No one's lived here for the last thirty years, except those few abandoned pets and police dogs that were strong enough to survive on their own, to breed and run wild. No one even visits except for the occasional check-in by the county police, a couple of search and rescue missions over the decades, a photographer or two.

Nothing changes. Nothing ever will.

Except.

Except if nothing ever changes, then why, as the dim light spreads through town, are there sixteen strangers lying in the middle of the road?


[OOC: OPEN! Warning, many icons, links, and...pretty much the entire adventure will be understandably squicky. Welcome to horrorland! (Today, though, the place looks normal, just abandoned and fire-damaged. There's no ash falling yet.)]
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Wake Up!

[fh_beasties]

That cracked-up pavement probably isn't too comfortable a pillow, though on the plus side, the traffic's pretty slow, consisting as it does of... nothing. Abandoned vehicles line the street; abandoned buildings loom over them, windows dusty and broken, doors unlocked or kicked open. Some buildings are burnt out, some just externally charred, but everything is covered in a layer of soot, and and the air smells thickly of coal fumes, enough to cause coughing and watery eyes after even a few minutes of exposure.

To those with any hint of psychic ability at all, the place will feel... off; those with more power would pick up traces of anger, sadness, and fear. Your cell phones, however, won't pick up anything but static.

Do be careful if you go exploring - you may run into large, aggressive stray dogs slinking around outside - in the street or around some of the buildings, especially the police station.

Re: Wake Up!

[likes_scoundrels]

The last thing Leia remembered was having dinner with her father to celebrate her birthday. And a black crack in space opening up in front of her.

Now she pushed herself up, looking around and trying to figure out where the hell she was. She had a death grip on that pony, thank you very much.

Re: Wake Up!

[therewaslife]

Bod remembered going to sleep with Kate and, when he woke up, everything was different. Kate wasn't beside him, he wasn't in bed, and he was barefoot.

His surroundings weren't like anything he'd seen before. His eyes were already starting to hurt from whatever was in the air. He coughed a few times and looked around.

This...didn't look good.

Re: Wake Up!

[furnaceface]

It took Jono a few moments to get his bearings one he found consciousness again, somewhere on the street. The nagging wrongness that he'd felt in his cabin yesterday hadn't gone anywhere, but now it was more than just wrong, it was wrong and chilling.

He nearly lost his head in a panic when he realized that everything around him was charred and sooty.

//I didn't do this.//

Sooner or later, he'd have to pick himself up, he'd have to pick out the surroundings and tell himself that this wasn't Fandom, that the ash that was here had taken years to settle, and he was going to need to find a way home. But for now? Mostly just general freaking out.

Re: Wake Up!

[sake-shinigami.livejournal.com]

For Shunsui to wake up somewhere and not recognize where it was wasn't too terribly out of the ordinary. The decrepit little town, the heavy dust in the air, the sound of shuffling, snuffling canine creatures far off into the distance...now that was a little more strange.

He sighed, taking a moment to pull his hat a little further down his head. He planned on getting up, in a few moment, but only after he had time to come to grips with the fact that something was probably going on and he might have to do something soon. He wanted to make sure he could appreciate a few moment of peacefulness while they could still actually be had.

And then his next step was going to locate the booze, and then take that booze to, hopefully, a safe place for people like himself who would just Not Bother.

Re: Wake Up!

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine woke up with road rash on the side of her face and a smushed Nanaimo Bar in her hand.

...At least she'd brought breakfast?

"What the heck?" Which just didn't seem strong enough, so as she coughed and struggled to her feet, the instant replay was, "What the @#%$??"

Re: Wake Up!

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

Azula woke-up with a start, already on guard and angry. It smelled like home and war but mixed with something more noxious.

Where was she? This wasn't Fandom and this wasn't the Fire Nation. And then she remembered the darkness that swallowed her. She was somewhere else then. She looked around at the abandoned buildings, the metal vehicles on the street and the falling ash.

She was somewhere dangerous.

Re: Wake Up!

[intraspective]

The last thing Ino remembered was chasing after a Frisbee of all things and waking up like this...

Was not particularly reassuring. Not at all. Not to mention the air. This was way worse than Midgar had been and while Ino doubted this was an illusion, she tried a kai anyway.

Nothing changed.

Ino, breathing very very shallowly in an attempt to stave off coughing--not that it was working--slowly pushed herself to her feet, hands groping for her kunai. She had a few. She had her cards. Wherever she was, that would have to be good enough.

Re: Wake Up!

[living_endless]

Didi was more cheerful than most of her compatriots as she awoke; her assumption, such as it was, was that this was family business, and she'd been called into some corner of Despair's realm. Which was, in its way, faintly annoying, but she knew Despair would never do it if she wasn't needed.

Her first sign that she was mistaken came with the dogs. Despari's pets weren't always friendly, but she didn't think any of them would lunge at her like that.

It was a very confused Death who wandered the landscape in search of anyone else.

Re: Wake Up!

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri woke coughing; time spent on Coruscant and in Fandom had acclimated her somewhat to more polluted air, but to someone who'd grown up in rural areas the difference in smell was something you never really got used to. That wasn't what jolted her to full awareness, though -- that was the sudden queasy feeling of this place not being right, hitting her through the Force.

She sat up with a snarled string of Yuuzhan Vong curses and rubbed a hand over her face.

"Sithspit," she blurted out, reverting to Basic. "What the kriffing hells just happened?"

Re: Wake Up!

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

The last thing Jake remembered was chasing some of those bugs (they left an awful taste in his mouth, but nothing as bad as a leech did). He wasn't in the preserve anymore, he knew that even before he opened his eyes. The smell pricked his nose and he let out a low growl as he rose to his paws.

He had the feeling that he was going to be grateful for the jeans tied to his handleg as he rose on four paws. He could change back, but this place was making his fur stand up on the back of his neck and he decided against it. He'd first figure out what the hell this place was.

Re: Wake Up!

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

It took Helen a moment to wake herself up and look around. Her first thought was along the lines of 'oh no, not again', as she wondered if somehow she'd ended up Walking the Bounds again and had ended up in one of the war torn worlds.

It took her another moment or two to manage to sit up and see that she wasn't alone.

Re: Wake Up!

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

Katniss came to with the feeling of having the wind knocked out of her. Which -- considering that the last thing she remembered was falling out of the tree -- made sense. She sat up, tentatively looking around, and immediately started stringing a bow when she didn't recognize anything.

Her eyes began to burn from the smoke. It was like the poorest part of the Seam but somehow worse. It took her another few moments to realize she wasn't alone here, though she wasn't about to call out to anyone just yet.

Re: Wake Up!

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda awoke with a start to unfamiliar smells. She looked around at the ruined landscape with suspicion and dawning horror.

"Oh no." she groaned. "Not again."

Re: Wake Up!

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be the first time Effy'd woken up somewhere fucking weird. Probably not even the last. But it'd probably hit weirdest pretty squarely.

It made for a quick wake up, and immediate sitting up to get at least some idea of her completely alien surroundings. Last thing she remembered was popping out for a smoke at 3am.

"Shit."

So eloquent in the aftermath of void.

Nathan Avenue and the bridge out of town

[fh_beasties]

Nathan Avenue, also marked County Road 73, runs right through Silent Hill. Signs direct travelers to the nearest town, Brahams, 15 miles away, but that direction leads to a crumbled road and a broken and blocked-off bridge - there's no way out except further into town.

Re: Nathan Avenue and the bridge out of town

[therewaslife]

After getting his bearings somewhat, Bod found himself wandering along the street. His feet, bare as they were, had gotten fairly dirty in the short amount of time since he'd woken up.

His eyes were still watering and he was coughing every so often while he slowly made his way down the street. He tried not to jump at every small sound but it was proving difficult.

Nathan Drugs

[fh_beasties]

A pharmacy and general store in complete disarray, but still possessed of scattered non-perishable food items and other possibly useful stuff, behind a fallen shelf or tucked under a counter. Also, dust masks -- they'll shut down the coughing, though they won't do much about the smell.

Re: Nathan Drugs

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine pushed her way in at first (past a pile of Palmolive dishwashing liquid boxes that had toppled against the door) just to see if she could find something for the road-scrapes on her face. When she spotted the pay phone against the wall near the register, though, she hurried over to try it out; after all, whatever was messing with their cell reception wouldn't affect a landline, right? ...Dead air.

Too bad you couldn't say that for the air she was breathing. For some definition of that word that included one cough for every three normal exhales, even with Francine holding her kerchief over her mouth half the time.

Hunh. One aisle over: household cleaners and safety equipment... Francine forgot for a moment about the sting along her cheekbone as she headed over to see if there were any dust masks left on the dirty, half-toppled shelves.

Re: Nathan Drugs

[sake-shinigami.livejournal.com]

Old urges had started to surface in Shunsui as he carefully scouted the area in which he'd found himself, managing to be incredibly deft and imperceptable even despite his attention grabbing haori. He'd noticed all the kids who also appeared just as surprised as himself to see themselves there; he'd also noticed all the abominations lurking should they put a foot the wrong way. It made him also feel like he had hundreds of years ago, when being a Shinigami and protecting people from such things was new and he actually pursued it...

...but other urges had been more firmly in place for a longer period of time, so, after scoping out the area and reasoning that danger might be avoided if trouble was avoided, he found himself breezing into the general store. A flutter of a haori and a slight dip into a safe shadow, as he checked for any danger. Not finding any at the moment, he proceeded in to scan the shelves and search for something helpful.

Okay. He was searching for booze, and was finding, terribly, that, if there was any, it was long gone.

Silent Hill Gazette Office

[fh_beasties]

A small-press newspaper office, decorated, like everything else, circa the 1970's, except for the warped and rusted old-fashioned printing press that must have been purchased decades earlier.

Scattered across the floor are copies of one single page of the Silent Hill Gazette, many of them charred beyond readability. The one half-emerged from the press itself, though, is still - just - legible.

Re: Silent Hill Gazette Office

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda figured that one of the things they needed was information. And given her experiences last time something like this had happened to her, she went to try to find out where and when they were.

Hence the newspaper office. Rummaging around got her the where of course. Or at least an educated guess.

She found herself distracted by the article she'd found.

Police Station

[fh_beasties]

Which, ominously, has no doors remaining (all of the glass has been busted out) and no furniture left in it that hasn't been smashed up or removed except a locked (but breakable) weapons cabinet containing handguns, rifles, and ammunition.

On the wall is a bulletin board labeled Toluca County Search and Rescue; tacked to it are two pages of sooty but unburned newspaper articles from the Brahams Herald, dated 2004.

Re: Police Station

[likes_scoundrels]

After trying -- and failing -- to reach Anakin, Ben, or Tahiri on the island (she'd even tried to contact Luke, and that hadn't worked, either), Leia cautiously went out in search of (a) more information about where the hell they were, (b) some sort of way to communicate, and (c) a weapon because this place was creeping her out and she'd feel better with a blaster in her hand.

She found the police station and puzzled over the newspaper articles, but was pleased to find the weapon cabinet. Not blasters, but they'd do. She set about trying to break into the cabinet and retrieve weapons and ammo.

Cafe 5 to 2

[fh_beasties]

A mostly busted-out diner where you might find some non-perishable food. There's a transistor radio on the counter that might eventually be useful. Or not since your cell-phones will do the same thing when monsters are near.

Re: Cafe 5 to 2

[living_endless]

Didi sat down in a booth, trying to stay calm. It was a diner. People came into diners, sooner or later.

But there was no comforting scent of coffee and pie in the air, no chatter from the kitchen, nothing but static on the radio when she turned it on.

Eventually she wandered far enough into the kitchen to find a few rusted cans with faded labels. She filled her arms with them, realizing the supplies might be important.

OOC 1: Need an NPC? Have a Question?

[thatsamilkshake]

Ping in here if so, though today it's just the packs of stray dogs around.

(And they're real dogs, so the staticky phones trick won't work on them - but any animal-related powers you have will!)

OOC 2: OOC Boogaloo

[thatsamilkshake]

For all your shirtless and general screwing around needs. Night post will be going up later in the day, as it's mostly for camping-out today.