fh_adventures | Silent Hill - Day 1

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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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.

"We aren't anyplace in any of my universes," Didi said, sounding pretty damned certain (and totally skipping the greeting), Death to Death God. "It's disorienting. I don't like it."

She eyed the man, wondering what he was looking for.

"Find anything useful?"

"Not a single drop," muttered Shunsui miserably as he shook his head. He reached, hopefully, for a promising looking bottle, but, in upending it, he found it as dusty and dry as everything else. He gave a small cough, as well as a sigh. "I have a jug with me; everyone should have at least a little, to calm our nerves. No used being uptight and worried, but we'll have to ration it...."

He shook his head, out of his reverie, and turned to look at Didi-chan over his shoulder with a faint, distant smile. "Hopefully, this adventure decides not to last too long, neh ♥?"

"That's what I'm counting on," Didi said. She hoisted herself up to take a seat on a nearby counter, watching him search.

"People need something to keep them calm until we get home, anyhow. Maybe we should adopt some of the dogs all over the place."

Shunsui glanced at Didi-chan with a quirked brow, then grunted slightly. "Somehow I don't think they'll be keen on playing fetch ♥," he said. He pulled out his jug of sake with one hand while his other produced his cup, and he started to pour just a little bit into it. A mere sip, if that. "And I have a feeling my usual methods aren't exactly going to work on them, either."

He offered the cup out to Didi-chan.

"Ma'am ♥?"

Didi shook her head. She understood the impulse, but she wasn't a drinker. "Thanks, but no. Do you see any soda?"

"And it seems like none of our usual methods will work," she added, scrunching her face slightly. "It's ... weird. Most of the time things are nice if you're nice, but this just feels like something totally different."

Shunsui shrugged at the dismissal of the offer, glancing around for someone else to offer it to. In this case, her not drinking simply meant more for those who would benefit from it more. He did slide his eyes toward her again, though, with that same arch of his brow.

"Here I'd think you of anyone would understand that just being nice to things doesn't always make them...nice," he said, then sighed. "They remind me of Hollows, but they're...not. Even if I wanted to fight them, I don't think I can do any good..."

Which was...a little depressing. Sure, he hated fighting, but he loved the fact that he was so damn good at it.

"I think the only way to fight these is to go in wanting to destroy them," Didi answered. "I don't fight that way unless I have to, but ..."

She bit her lip. "There might not be another way."

Shunsui was thinking the exact same thing. He nodded gravely, but he followed it with a small, hopeful smile. "But there might be ♥," he said. "It may just be too early to tell ♥."

"Maybe," Didi said, trying to smile. "We'll find out, right?"

She glanced around the store. "Think there's anything worth taking from here?"

"I suppose," Shunsui reasoned, "any non perishables for those that need that sort of things. I, myself, turned up unlucky in what I was searching for."

Didi nodded and found an ancient roll of gauze bandages, which she tucked into her bag. "There's this," she said. "But it seems pretty picked clean."

She eyed the store unsteadily. "If we don't get out of here, we can come back."

Shunsui lifted his eyes thoughtfully to their current surroundings for a long moment and simply said, "I'll be sure to say good-bye to it when I leave, then ♥."

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