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Post by Vyn on Jan 27, 2011 12:11:30 GMT -5
The card seemed terribly confused. Nadja's long ears perked forward and she strained to listen. Was it talking to them? The strange noises scraped and shuffled around running icy anxiety up her spine and then the clunking started again. An involuntary shiver had taken control of her body but she was silent as a mouse (19), it was the only thing she could do properly.
When Heike grabbed her, she jolted and all her fur momentarily stood on end, but she calmed quickly and pressed herself into his protective grasp. When he whimpered, she pressed herself more firmly against him and gave him a little kiss in hopes of soothing his fear.
She nodded gently when Heike spoke, she didn't trust herself to speak for fear of something too loud escaping the moment she opened her mouth but the motion was close enough that he would be able to feel it. When he moved, she'd keep herself as firmly pressed against him as was physically possible without tripping either of them up.
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Post by Nathalia on Jan 28, 2011 19:49:58 GMT -5
(Greenie? Where are you, girl?)
((A dry snapping sound was all Horatio received in response as something scuttled down the stairs past him, brushing his side with something crackly and rough-bristled, before flashing to the other side of the room. Clicking, weaving footsteps came closer to the Rabbits, not close enough to touch, but close enough to hear... "Can you verify....?" Scraping, unnatural sounds, with no hint of breath, clicked along the cold basement floor. Bumping into a box and scrabbling lightly before going entirely still and nearly un-locatable.))
~Nathalia
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jan 28, 2011 20:43:36 GMT -5
His eyes grew wide in terror at the snapping sound. Not like it did him any good in the dark. He opened his beak half way to say something to fill the void of silence, and then he promptly snapped it shut. Something had brushed up against him. Horatio made a strangled sound as he tried to find the wall or railing to cling to. M-maybe it was just a pet or something? A talking, clicking, monster pet. He sobbed slightly as he bumped into the wall, miserably fumbling in the dark.
The Jack felt reassured by his sister's touch. A bit of the terror melting away as he tried to think straight. Door. They just needed to get to the door. It was dark though, which made things far more complicated. He reached out to carefully run his fingers along the box that he was leaning against.
He stopped when he heard the strange clicking sound. Words? What was it saying? Verify? That wasn't the same voice as before, was it? What the hell was going on in this cursed Card place?
Scraping. The horrible unnatural sounds followed, making Heike bristle as his heart skipped a beat. Maybe... Maybe they could make it past whatever this Card-Monster was? He slowly let go of his sister, making to stand. Apparently he wasn't as careful as he had anticipated, knocking the box he was hiding behind over completely. The clatter was unmistakable.
Shit. He swallowed, making sure to keep Nadja behind him.
(Heike rolled a 3 for keeping quiet.)
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Post by Greenie on Jan 28, 2011 21:09:51 GMT -5
((Right here!! XD I'm keeping up, I just didn't see any directive for Zulimar - so she's hanging out? /not sure what to post DX))
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Post by Nathalia on Jan 28, 2011 21:12:23 GMT -5
(Just jump on in, hon. Run down that hall she's standing in front of and by Fleur's body into the dark basement abyss!)
~Nathalia
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Post by Greenie on Jan 28, 2011 21:21:07 GMT -5
((Running! Running!))
Zulimar was getting creeped out, hanging out in the dismal dark hallway like she was. She couldn't see anyone anymore, but the footsteps and vague hinting of voices she didn't recognize were giving her the heebie-jeebies like no other. Staying outside had clearly been the superior decision, but returning to the outdoors didn't give her any feelings of moral superiority, so she fidgeted where she was for a moment before finally shoving her momentum towards the hallway and scooted along it in little hips and hops.
She nearly bumped into the nasty gore that was someone's body - Fleur? Isn't that who they were looking for? Oh, lovely, dead, precisely how she enjoyed finding lost members of the group - but scooted around it just in time. The leveret stared at the corpse for a while before shakily continuing on slowly, wishing to separate herself from obvious gory death as much as possible. She stopped when she realized she really couldn't see jack shit anymore, and hedged herself against the wall to listen.
The creepy voice was louder, and she couldn't hear Heike or Nadja.
Great.
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Post by Vyn on Jan 29, 2011 18:18:55 GMT -5
Nadja's fur was practically standing on end. She could hear the Other Voice, it was making pitiful sounds as if it was afraid. Was it afraid? Perhaps it was as unwilling to be in here as they were? This wasn't really the time to get into a debate about the evilness of Cards, however, and Nadja pushed what little sympathy was beginning to build into the back of her mind.
They needed to escape.
Before they could really begin to edge out of their dark prison a voice rose up directly in front of them. It was thin, reedy, and strange in ways Nadja could not place. The little rabbit shook terribly, eyes wide in the utter darkness as the voice gave way to strange sounds and movements. Clicking, rattling boxes, scraping. It wasn't right.
A box crashing down nearby caused the little leveret to cry out in fear. She couldn't be sure who knocked it over, The Voice had been bumping into boxes before it fell silent. What if it was here now? Closing in on her? Recoiling from the object, Nadja huddled for a moment until the silence seemed to linger and then cautiously uncoiled. Nothing? She inched forward, suddenly unsure of where Heike was, and nervously reached out a paw. Hopefully she would catch his tail coat or maybe even brush his leg, anything to let her know he was there.
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Post by Nathalia on Jan 31, 2011 18:25:02 GMT -5
((The loud clatter of Heike's mis-movement and of the scrambling Leveret's arrival caused the whatever-it-was to scoot over to a corner and cease any movement or sound. Withing a few seconds, the lights overhead came on again, though extremely dimly, leaving dark patches all throughout the basement where shadows hold stronger than the light.
Still flickering, at least there is now light enough provided so that one can see a few feet in front of yourself. Something blurs right in front of Heike; large, hunched, wrong, and quick...))
~Nathalia
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jan 31, 2011 23:48:41 GMT -5
The lights finally flickered on. The penguin looked around the immediate area by the stairs. There were small parts of the basement illuminated, other parts in complete darkness and covered by shadows. He made a small worried sound as he glanced around for the source of whatever had touched him.
He turned around to push his ball up one of the stairs as quietly as he possibly could. He didn't want to draw attention to himself and most of the stairs were still in darkness. He could just take things slowly and everything would be fine.
Heike let out a strangled sound when his sibling suddenly touched him. The thing couldn't possibly move that fast?!
Light!
The rabbit could feel a small surge of joy at suddenly being able to see. He noted that the thing that touched him was, in fact, his sibling. A small sigh of relief escaped him as he turned to look towards the stairs.
Something moved at a frightening speed in front of him. His heart was back to pounding in his chest as he scrambled to grab the nearest thing that wasn't nailed down. A footstool. He didn't dwell about how awful of a weapon that would be against whatever unnatural monster was in the basement with them, he just needed something other than his hands.
"Nadja, stay back," he hissed out as he prepared himself for the worst.
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Post by Vyn on Feb 2, 2011 21:29:43 GMT -5
Light! Oh thank the White Rabbit for light! Nadja let out a desperate sigh of relief as she lunged forward and literally wrapped herself around the Jack's leg. She didn't want to let go. She didn't want to be here. Why couldn't they just go home!?
And then something moved. It didn't just move, it darted. But it was... all sorts of wrong. Hunched, hulking... Not something that should move so quickly.
The leveret whimpered. "K-Kay." She shivered, glancing around the basement nervously. What was going on??? Had poor Fleur endured this sort of madness near the end? Nadja hated to think of her lovely niece suffering this sort of terror only to explode. "Please be careful, Heike." If she lost him she didn't know what she'd do. Join him, most likely. There was never a day in her life that she had been without her brother and she didn't want to start now.
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