Event || A History of Light and Darkness

[eternitymods]

Who: Brave Explorers and/or Those Poor Souls Being Dragged Along by Friends
When: Oct 15-30th
Where: Thilmit Border Post, inside the Old Heranean Doll Museum
What: The Heroes of Light received a strange letter, and are now being asked to investigate the strange occurrences at the old doll museum.
Warnings/Notes: OOC Post Warnings for Spookiness, Creepy Dolls. Post toplevels for each group. Please post warnings as needed for memory fragments and exploration. For random numbers, use the dice functions on Plurk or Discord.



The Old Heranean Doll Museum is a small building, but somehow the dark, dusty windows and poorly maintained roof give it a menacing feel as you approach. The sign says, "OPEN"...although, as you approached, you think it might have been turned to "CLOSED".

The door creaks as it swings open, though there is no one from the museum to greet you as you enter. A cold breeze blows in behind you, sapping any lingering warmth in the room. The building is dark, and cobwebs are starting to form in the corners of the lobby and on the velvet rope stanchions that guide the flow of traffic in and out. Out of a shadowy corner, a large centipede skitters across the floor and into a crack low on the wall.

At the reception desk, one of the antique dolls sits, unmoving, unblinking. That goes without saying. Its eyes do not follow you as you enter.... The hairs prickling up on the back of your neck are just coincidence, that's all.

There is another doll perched on the wooden brochure display stand near the door. It's strange that the curator leaves the display pieces out where visitors can touch them....

As you enter, you hear something whistling through the air toward you a moment before it makes a impact. A tiny pebble, too small to do any damage other than a brief stinging. During this moment of distraction, the door slams and locks.

When you look at the spots where the dolls were perched a moment ago, there is now just empty space. There is movement in the shadows, and the nearly imperceptible sound of tiny shapes creeping around.

As you move past the lobby into the exhibits, a sign above the entryway declares:

Welcome to the Old Heranean Doll Museum. We hope you enjoy our historic Heroes of Light displays.

Comments

[thegoofball]

Will we? [He perks up at the thought of that. He's not sure why, but it's exciting.]

Seems like you're getting a lot of practice now, too.

[He grimaces as Pidge gets handed the slingshot. He knows that they'll regret that - either soon, or when Pidge makes some sort of super slingshot.]

Do we have to? This Mog doll is clearly some sort of demon! Or something! Case closed.

[pidgeypidge]

[Was she expecting them to just let her take the slingshot? Not really. So she just grins at Keith when he casually hands it over. It's doubtful they'll regret it any time soon, but she might already be wondering how to make it better.

Since there are no protests, the slingshot goes into her pocket.]

Thanks.

[Don't worry Lance, it'll be fine. There isn't much time to poke around the cabinet before Keith locks it again, but everything else was just doll repair stuff and there'll probably be more in other rooms.]

Maybe the Mog doll is the final boss. It's our responsibility to go all the way to the end now.

[spaceforged]

[Shiro tosses Keith a small smirk that lights up his eyes. It could be for anything he'd said but he doesn't enlighten them on what.]

Or, it's the key to the final boss. Bosses aren't straightforward all of the time. [He points out as he scans around them just in case something decides to launch at them. Nothing. They've been lucky so far.

He doubts that will last considering their track record in life...and death.]

I'll swap to Paladin and we can keep moving. [He takes out his slate and swaps his job, feeling the familiar Paladin armor and broadsword take place of his all black gear he'd come in with.]

aaand onto the employees only section top level!

[balancingedge]

Yes, we will. [He may be a lot of things, but liar is something he definitely tries not to be. Omission, yes. Outright? No. He sees that sparkle in Pidge's eyes and replies with a,] You're welcome.

[What she plans to do with it, he doesn't know. He also doesn't care. There's a prank war ongoing so he has a feeling it involves that and maybe a small robot. Just- knowing her. It doesn't take much for him to figure out exactly what that smirk is. He shrugs back at him, and why does he get the slight feeling he's being called out on that video footage Futaba sent at least two of them?]

One way to find out. [He switches to Ninja before he opens the door...