fh_beasties ([personal profile] fh_beasties) wrote in [community profile] fh_adventures2010-08-06 07:12 am

Silent Hill - Day 1 - Day Post

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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thatsamilkshake: (confused)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2010-08-06 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a familiar voice. Any voice was good, but a familiar one was better.

"Ta--cough -- Tahiri?" Francine rubbed at her eyes, then reached up to pull off the kerchief she'd tied her hair back with, holding it in front of her mouth. It made the air a little less thick and smelly.
weetuskenraider: (Um - Rubbing Neck)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2010-08-06 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fr --" Tahiri was going to have to get into the habit of carrying a rebreather around all the time or something. Just because she didn't need it in Fandom 99 percent of the time . . . She coughed again. "Khapet. Francine?"

And now she was reaching out with her Force senses, looking for signs of life in general, and then when that made her queasier, just familiar ones. And one in particular was reassuring. "I think . . . we're not the only ones here."
thatsamilkshake: (dubious)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2010-08-06 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank goodness." Wait. "Or..." Sticking your foot in your mouth was so much easier when you had it open to cough anyway. "You know what I mean. Not good that this happened to other people but..." Shut up, Francine.
weetuskenraider: (Disbelieving)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2010-08-06 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It was even easier when you didn't have shoes on. Just saying. Ahem.

"But we're not alone, at least?" Tahiri suggested, and she even missed her old Tusken headgear right now -- in lieu of proper breathing gear, she pulled her multitool from her belt and cut a strip from the sleeve of her flight suit to wrap around her nose and mouth. "I can't tell who, exactly . . . Sithspit, what happened? The last thing I remember was being on the beach."
thatsamilkshake: (explaining)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2010-08-06 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I was in the diner." Francine shook her head, not that it did anything to clear away the cobwebs that lived there in place of any idea how they'd got here. "There was something like... a hole? I didn't really get a good look at it before everything went black."
weetuskenraider: (Well Um)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2010-08-06 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Me neither." Tahiri gave her a wry grin. "I was on the beach, and I just turned and . . . fell right into it."

Jedi reflexes at work, folks.
thatsamilkshake: (dubious)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2010-08-06 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Francine stretched, more than a little achy, and looked around. "This isn't Fandom."
weetuskenraider: (Suspicious)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2010-08-06 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not even remotely," Tahiri agreed. "And I have a really, really, really bad feeling about this place."
thatsamilkshake: (dubious)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2010-08-06 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a good thing Francine didn't know the Skywalkers well enough to be terrified by that as opposed to just really unsettled. "Me too. It feels freaky, and not just because of how we got here."
weetuskenraider: (Half-Face WTF Look)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2010-08-06 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." Tahiri shook her head emphatically. "It's definitely wrong. It feels wrong, but stang if I can place exactly why."

She wasn't about to freak Francine out by quantifying the 'really, really, really' in more relatable terms.
thatsamilkshake: (exploring)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2010-08-06 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Luckily for the both of them, Francine couldn't place why yet either. When she did figure it out, she'd be much less likely to have enough composure to say, "We should find people. People not us, I mean." Sigh. "People who live here, so we can figure out how to -- cough -- get home."

Good luck with that one, Peters.
weetuskenraider: (Meditating No Rly)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2010-08-07 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Tahiri frowned slightly, but nodded and closed her eyes to try reaching out in the Force again.

Her eyes flew open a second later, and her face went pale. "I can't . . . I don't know what I'm sensing out there, but it isn't terribly reassuring."
thatsamilkshake: (troubled)

Re: Wake Up!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2010-08-07 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
From the lack of traffic and the complete silence, Francine could take a wild guess. "No people?"