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theianmods ([personal profile] theianmods) wrote in [community profile] theianlogs2017-09-01 12:00 am

Welcome to Theia!

Who: Your mysterious caretakers and you
When: September 1st
Where: The Town Square
What: The welcome wagon has arrived!
Warnings: Minor gore, death




It's a white envelope that finds its way under every door, through every nook and cranny a day or two after your arrival. With the peculiar, bloodstained fingerprints lovingly applied as though they were a signature scrawled into its thin paper body, it doggedly persists--it will find you--until you open it and read the letter written ever so meticulously in fine script. It's a cordial invitation to a party hosted in your honor in the town square today. You should hurry, hurry, hurry! You wouldn't want to be late and keep your generous hosts waiting... or so says that oddly compelling feeling pressing into the back of your head. You make your way to the square, the urgent tugging feeling growing stronger the closer you get, and when you turn the corner to get a glimpse of the festivities, you find it's... not quite what you had been expecting.

The square is small, and looks rather out of general use. The fountain in the center is dusty and crumbling, and if there was ever any water in it it's long gone now. Most of the cobbled stones are broken and loose in the road. There are two long tables stocked with refreshments along either side of the walkway to the fountain, and what appears to be a small stage of some sort right in front of it, holding a large, ornate chair and a third table. The most unsettling thing, however, is the rest of the décor.

The theme is death, or so it would appear. Beside the food table to your left sits a bespectacled man wearing a scarf, but was the scarf always red, or is it only stained so because his head is hanging onto his neck by a thread? Against his lap rests a beautifully crafted cello, which appears to be missing its G-string... Oh. There it is--it's still stuck in the gashed man's neck. The poor bastard has been garrotted with the strings of his cello! Talk about hoisted by your own petard. Where his head lolls against the table, you may notice that behind those glasses, his eyes are missing.

Near the fountain is a large, wrought-iron statue of an archer, where... well, he's made his first kill, apparently. The body of a young girl with long dark hair is speared neatly through the chest by the archer's arrow, her little feet a good half a yard off the ground, now sticky with her blood. If you step closer to peer into the fountain, you'll find another body, this one a man with short dark hair, his face twisted into a mask of desperation and his gloved hands around his own throat as though he were gasping for air. Oddly, his lower jaw appears to be missing. Did he drown? There is no water in the fountain...

In the ornate chair on the platform is the body of another man, this one with his head completely removed from his shoulders. Oh... there it is, in his lap, his hands carefully arranged in his wild black hair. Wait, it seems there are too many hands, though! A second body dangles from a large tree that looms over the square, the rope frayed and dirty where it is wrapped around another man's neck, a strangely peaceful smile on his face, blue though it is. His hands rest atop the first man's, as though making certain the severed head remains still.

On the table in front of the chair rests a chest, its lid wide open and a glittering bounty inside.



If you peer inside, you will see a collection of eggs! Scaly, cool to the touch, and about the size of a football, they come in several colors. There is a note pinned to the inside of the trunk's lid--


Do you take an egg, as the note suggests? Dare you? (Dare you not?)

That pressing feeling in the back of your head has left you now, now that you are here to be welcomed to the city, now that you are here in the presence of your caretakers, but it is difficult to take comfort in the relief from the compulsion when surrounded by so much destruction. Who has done this to the faithful sentinels of the city? Who has killed the Watcher, the Interloper, the Guardian, the Nightingale, and the Keeper? Why have they been left here, at your welcoming home party?

Before you can turn to ask your neighbor, before you can wonder any further, a sound breaks the silence--a terrible, wet crunching noise like a sheet of ice breaking under your feet. You turn over your shoulder to see that it isn't anything so simple as ice. In the middle of the square is one final body, a body that wasn't there but a moment ago. She is small, thin, with dark hair and eerily pale eyes wide in terror. You know this girl, she met you on the elevator, expressed pleasure that you had been found (had you been lost?), and welcomed you home. Where did she come from? It's as though she simply... fell out of the sky! The Dreamer now dreams forever.

As you turn to survey the carnage all around you, a pleasant chiming sound seems to fill the air. It would seem that your mirror has a message for you! Upon inspection, you will find a new icon on the main viewscreen.


If you touch the icon, it will take you to a new application. Welcome to the Task Board! Here you will find a multitude of errands you can run for... whoever is running the city, now. Boy, what a way to announce things are under new management!

Welcome back to Theia, wayward children. Please enjoy the refreshments--watch out for the Nightingale's eyes, they may have fallen into the punch--get reacquainted with your friends and neighbors, and do take good care of those eggs. Or else...
unweaving: mooglepalooza@tumblr (an ounce of performance)

[personal profile] unweaving 2017-09-04 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...

Well, that was unexpected. Shows what she gets for judging someone by their outfit, and she gives a little huff that's as close to a laugh as the horrors around them will allow and shifts to lean against her spear, her stance still alert, but a little less anxious. ]


Last place I went to that had dinner theatre there was a pretty strong chance of getting poisoned, too. Show wasn't quite as likely to kill your appetite, though.

What's the point? Why kill all these people and then come have us gawp at it like it's an art show? If someone's trying to scare us, they're not leaving themselves much to work up to.
stormwinds: <user name="loyallion"> (06)

[personal profile] stormwinds 2017-09-10 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He'll take that laugh, and despite everything, there might be a hint of amusement in his eyes. He's no Lothar, using humour to gloss over the seriousness of the conversation, but he's not above the occasional jape. It helps that there's no consorts or advisors or the like huddling around.

Is it wrong to be dropped into this situation and suddenly feel young again? ]


Perhaps not. [ His lips pull into a thin line. ] A show of force, then?
unweaving: <user name=ponponpon> (I'm no model lady)

[personal profile] unweaving 2017-09-13 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. Guess we'll know if anyone takes credit for it.

[ It's just... off. Shitty thing to do, obviously, but to leave everyone so artfully posed and no trace of why? It sets her teeth on edge, makes her uneasy in a way that means someone coming out an claiming credit - a big "do what I say, or this happens to you next" - would almost be a relief. Her eyes flick over the bodies, a morbid curiosity that isn't quite string enough to let her linger, and... huh. ]

Just me, or do they all look like they might be related?

stormwinds: <user name="loyallion"> (07)

[personal profile] stormwinds 2017-09-19 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He'd never thought of that before, and his brows spike upwards for the briefest of moments. He's definitely going to ask to have her in his presence more often. She's smart.

Dresses a bit like an Elf, but who is he to judge? ]


Perhaps. Or of the same race. There are so many undecided factors, I can't say I'm wholly satisfied with one answer above all, but yours might be the simplest.

There was one welcoming me here. [ He nods over in her direction. ] That's her.
unweaving: <user name=ponponpon> (between two evils)

[personal profile] unweaving 2017-09-19 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. Gave a little welcome home speech, but I've never been here.

[ She's sure of that, having come from somewhere that not only told people they'd had a life there but implanted the memories of it, to boot. She'd had a month of being happier than she'd ever been - followed by a tremendous feeling of violation. And that makes her think - this place is weirder right off the bat, for sure, but all that "welcome back, we were so worried" business? Seems close enough for kissing. She fold her arms- something that requires resting the egg in the crook of them, but tucking the spike on her helmet under her arms keeps that nice and stable - and gives him a quick once-over. ]

You ever hear of a place called Wayward Pines?