Week 5

[grimgrinningghosts]

[...So that was a mess. All of it was a mess, and things don't look to be improving any time soon. With tensions at an all-time high and conditions worsened, it seems pretty safe to say that this whole week promises a great deal of foreboding atmosphere.

But, hey, things aren't entirely bad. Just as Randall promised, you're now able to leave the Manor! 

Just don't stay out there for too long. There's still a lot of you, and you just can't afford to lose numbers.

24 guests remain]

[SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY]

[OOC: and don't forget to fill out this week's activity check!]

Comments

outside

[pinkflip]

[ Kim's dreamed of being out in the sun and smelling the fresh air again. This is...very much not that. The snap of cold shocks her, but she tries to keep walking, at least a little, ending up staying within sight of the mansion.

It's so dark. Too dark to see far, but...she can kind of hear something, wings flapping above her... ]

Hello? Who's up there?

[angelgoatdemon]

!!!

[In a minute or two, the goat slowly descends and lands in front of Kim.

Hey! It's your pal Lekmet!]

[pinkflip]

[ Phew, nothing creepy she needs to like. Morph to fight. ]

Lekmet...! Oh, thank goodness. How long have you been out here?

[angelgoatdemon]

Hmm.

[He shrugs a bit and does an uncertain gesture- it's been awhile maybe five minutes tops, and it's too dark to go any further.

Too dark to write and read notes, but at least his glow-y eyes make up some light source.]

[pinkflip]

[ If only you could teach someone with hooves sign language, that would make communicating so much easier. ]

Have you seen anything? I can barely...barely even see a foot in front of my face.

[angelgoatdemon]

[He had been about to say no, but something surely stops him in his tracks.

'Did you see that?' he points at nothing. Seems like the hallucinations are slowly setting in.]

[pinkflip]

[ She looks in the direction he points in, but... ]

I... I'm sorry, it's too dark, I can't make anything out.

[ Well she sure just thinks it's because his eyesight is better than hers. ]

1/2

[angelgoatdemon]

[Lekmet's quiet for a little while, focused on that spot of nothingness. It's like it's talking to him, and then--]

2/2

[angelgoatdemon]

AAAAAAAA

[NOPE!!!!! NOPE!!!!!!!!!!! HE'S SEEN AND HEARD SOMETHING

HE'S JUST GONNA GRAB KIM'S HAND AND FLY BACK INSIDE THE MANOR.]

[pinkflip]

[ The suddenness of it all just leaves Kimberly to shriek and be dragged about. ]

L- Lekmet--?! What's- Lekmet, what is it, st-stop...!

[angelgoatdemon]

[Once they're relatively safe inside in the foyer, he pushes a table to barricade the front door.

He looks too strung up to articulate anything, and once he's regained his breath he shakes his head wildly.]

[pinkflip]

[ Breathing heavily, if only from the shock, and half-stumbling as Lekmet lets go of her hand, Kim looks completely bewildered. ]

Lekmet. Lekmet, what's out there...?!

[angelgoatdemon]

[In between huffs, he begins to explain in bleats, forgetting for a moment not everyone can translate it. He does gesture as he explains- something about the faces, the distorted forms, It's out there]

AAAA-AAAA-aaaa-AAA!!!

['We can't stay out there,' he wildly tries to mime. 'Dangerous.']

[pinkflip]

I... I can't...

[ Kim tries to understand, shaking her head helplessly, and eventually settling on: ]

Did you see something that could hurt us?

[angelgoatdemon]

[He nods. For once he doesn't have his notepad on him, so there's no need to draw out and share the horror.

He does, however, inch away from the main door.]

Baa-d.

[pinkflip]

[ Her frown deepens. It's dark out there, but...is it actively dangerous? She thought, for a moment, she might've heard something, but-- ]

He...just gave us something else to worry about, didn't he?

[angelgoatdemon]

[He nods again, helplessly. Strange to think that it was a lot safer here inside the manor at the moment.

It's cold out there too, he mimes by shuddering and frowns. Of course when it came to Randy there has to have a catch with going outside.]

[pinkflip]

[ Kim bites down hard on her lower lip. It's my fault. She swallows down any frustrated tears that start to build and tries to focus solely on Lekmet. The poor guy's still really freaked...

She gently places a hand on his arm. ]

Hey. How about you sit down, and I'll get you some water?

[angelgoatdemon]

[There's not much he could do but nod for the third time at the offer, though while his mind's running fast and wild, he makes it a mental note to reassure her later it's not her fault.

If anything, he needs to apologize for spooking them both like that.
For the time being, he's going to sit down and wait til the hallucinations subside for some time.]

[pinkflip]

[ Don't worry, Lekmet, you just stay there. Kim hurries to the kitchen and returns in record time, with a glass of water and a no-less-concerned look on her face. ]

Just take your time.

[angelgoatdemon]

Thank y-you.

[He's slowly calming down now, downing the glass pretty shakily. It's fine, they're going to be fine.]

[pinkflip]

Whatever it is you saw out there...we're going to need to warn people.

[ And she's definitely going out to try and see what it is later, which will be a Mistake, but Kim makes those a lot. ]