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.

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[therewaslife]

With his eyes still watering, it was difficult to see if he was alone. The spike of relief he felt when he realized he wasn't didn't comfort him much. He thought he recognized the other person but it was hard to see with the air the way it was.

"Um. Hullo?" he called, still on the ground and raising his voice so it'd carry closer to Leia.

[And now that I'm not REPLYING TO MYSELF, this is in the right place!]

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[likes_scoundrels]

Wearing lots of white really sucked when you were pulled through a rift in space and sent to a place covered in black soot. But Leia didn't dwell on her future laundry issues, feeling a sense of relief at the sound of another voice. She spotted Bod and crawled over to him. "Are you all right?" she said. He didn't seem to be injured, at least.

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[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.

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[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.

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[intraspective]

//...Jono?// That was lost-confused-hopeful? From a blonde he knew, at least.

Actually speaking was going to take a backburner to breathing at the moment, because Ino suspected that she was going to hate this place a lot, just for the air.

And he... what was he doing here?

What was she doing here?

Re: Wake Up!

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

There were other people beside her self, which counted for something. There was such a thing as strength in numbers.

She put a hand over her nose, while Azula could tolerate ash fall there was a reason why Fire Nation soldiers were issued face masks. The boy not far from her seemed fortunate he already had something to cover his face.

"Do you know where we are?"

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[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.

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[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 @#%$??"

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[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.

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[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.

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[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

Azula coughed at the noxious fumes, this wasn't normal ash. She took stock of the people around her and her eyes landed on Ino.

She remembered Ino seemed very annoyed with her and Azula had been very amused by it but everything had a time and a place. She approached Ino and nodded. "Ino."

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[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Hey Ino?" Leda said, looking around, trying to take everything in at once. The fact that she did not use her nickname for her spoke to the Elf girl's consternation. "Any idea what happened?"

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[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.

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[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?"

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[thatsamilkshake]

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.

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[intraspective]

//Hello...?//

Ino was getting a workout today with her telepathy. It was, by far, safer than speaking out loud and way less inclined to induce coughing.

Even if she was doing an awful lot of that as well.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[intraspective]

//...Hello?//

Ino had thought she'd heard something and there were enough of Fandom's people around that she judged it a good chance of being another displaced person.

Her greeting, however, was silent. Telepathy was, so far, proving less awful than speaking even with a length of Jono's bandages to help filter the air.

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[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."

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[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.

Re: Wake Up!

[intraspective]

//Anyone from Fandom here...?//

The voice was silent, as telepathy tended to be, as Ino looked to see if she could find anyone else. It was important to keep track of who was around after all.