teamposts | COPPER ROSE

[When the shadows clear, your team stands unharmed in a fancy bedroom. There are sharp knives, similar to the ones in the ghost you just saw, scattered throughout the room. They are stuck fast in the walls, the ground, the bedposts, no amount of force can pull them free. The sheets of the bed are soaked in blood.

Over on the dressing table sits a jack-o-lantern that lights itself once you look at it, smoke rising from the flame into the shapes of people, acting out the scene of a memory in the room.

A young woman is getting ready for the ball, dressed in her very finest silks with her hair being styled neatly in place. The little girl doing her hair, perhaps ten years old, fumbles her fingers. She tugs on the hair slightly, dislodging some clips, and the woman starts screaming at her. ‘Clumsy little oaf!’. The girl is kicked out of the room, the young woman insisting on doing it herself and muttering about useless staff. After a moment of this there’s a flash of light that streaks toward the bed. The woman jumps up, startled, and investigates what happened. There is a knife stuck in the bedpost. Several more flashes of light appear behind her and she turns, horrified, to see them all aimed at her. She tries to scream, and the smoke disappears abruptly as all the knives come hurtling towards her.]

Light the lanterns.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

WE'RE NOT PLAYING WHACK-A-MOLE JUST RUN!

[shoving him forward, ignoring the ones crawling up his calves]

[Okay we are going to just slam into or out of the door we came in then, hopefully it's open]

[ TTYL HERE ]

WHAT IS WHACK A MOLE WHY IS THIS HAPPENING

[You should probably have kept smashing them. The ones that get high enough scratch and try to burrow into his skin]

[oh my god yeah that's what I was afraid of just shoving Roz and Kengo and screaming in pained curses]

Whoah.

[ shoved along tho ]

Oh my god oh my god [AS SOON AS WE'RE THROUGH THE DOOR I'M KNOCKING DAVE OVER TO TRY TO PULL THOSE OFF BECAUSE EW NO STOP hold the pumpkin roz]

Did I get all of them are you okay?!

[ h- holding pumpkin and watching . . . ]

{STILL JUST SCREAMING OBSCENITIES AS LOUDLY AS HIS LUNGS WILL LET HIM, slamming his fists against the floor and probably kicking Kengo in the chest with his flailing.

Can you actually just pull them out though...]

[You can just pull them out, luckily. They squirm and scream in Kengo's hold.]

[Probably won't even notice if he's kicked in the face at this point--OMG WHY ARE THEY SCREAMING just crushing them as he pulls them off and then shoving Dave's pants-legs up to double check that he got them all--I GUESS YOU'RE PROBABLY BLEEDING?]

Edited 2013-10-20 01:02 (UTC)

[no kicking him again, this time on purpose, and rolling over on his hands and knees to push himself up]

Forget it, let's bounce. You got the pumpin, newbie?