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Melodies Of Eternity Moderators ([personal profile] eternitymods) wrote in [community profile] melodiesofeternity2018-10-18 09:07 pm

Event || A History of Light and Darkness

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.
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Team: Orcelito, Snow White, Naomi

[personal profile] princeandscholar 2018-10-18 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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Dollbusters: Azusa Miura, Dante, Red Savarin, Ena

[personal profile] mythmaker 2018-10-18 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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Team: Amanda, Okuyasu, Sasami, Uendo, Ursula

[personal profile] righthandstand 2018-10-19 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Okuyasu is fully prepared to fight off a monster or ghosts. After that weird encounter in the old house, he's knows he has to be prepared for more than a squatter. He arrives at the house with a duffle bag that he sets on the ground and opens for the rest of the group.]

I guess that we might be stuck in there waiting for something to happen, so I brought us some supplies. I got two flashlights from our house and wire cutters if anyone needs 'em. [He holds out said supplies for the others to take. He knows that old buildings can't take too much of a pounding, especially if they're going to be sneaky about this.]

And I got us snacks! I brought apples and these things wrapped up in leaves? Its made from corn but it's pretty sweet. And a couple water bottles if we're thirsty.

[and here's a small book.]

I found this at the farm office. It's a crossword puzzle book. Don't worry, I asked if anyone wanted to keep it first.

[This isn't a camping trip, Okuyasu.]
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Team: Radical Newbies!

[personal profile] timecrash 2018-10-19 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
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Edited 2018-10-19 05:10 (UTC)
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Kouhai Team: Kanji, Naoto

[personal profile] topgun_textiles 2018-10-19 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
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The Lady of Bliss Troupe: Madhuri, Yotsuyu, Papyrus, Kuja

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Mirror Team: Frisk, Frisk, Riku, Takeshi, Marinette

[personal profile] sassafrisk 2018-10-19 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
On getting the mysterious message, Frisk's first thought was, "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE." Their second was, "Wait, I smell adventure." Their third was, "I should get my friends all together and get all adventurin' up in this creepy doll museum!" Unfortunately for Frisk.bin, in their intense hours-long internal debate over whether the possibility of adventure was worth dealing with creepy dolls brief hesitation, everybody else had already joined up with different parties that didn't really have much room for them. Pretty much the only ones left were Frisk.exe and Marinette.

Thankfully, networking was one of Frisk's best skills, so they somehow managed to rope two new people into their adventuring schemes. They wait in the lobby for the others to arrive, nervously eyeing the lowkey-highkey terrifying dolls and nervously fiddling with one of their many, many bladed weapons.
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The Swordmasters: Adrien, Baiken, Sephiroth

[personal profile] modelcivilian 2018-10-19 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
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Team Cinnamon Rolls: Finn, Tidus, Sora, Nozomi

[personal profile] hatejakku 2018-10-19 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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Team: Ignis, Ravus, Gladio, Dylas

[personal profile] regalblaze 2018-10-19 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The Entrance

Ignis had encountered countless daemons before, terrifying monsters and savage animals. Mind lashers, flayers, exploding bombs filled with dark energies and black sludge and mucus- but nothing compares to this.

He's been standing in front of the reception desk in what appears to be a staredown. With a doll. With an extremely creepy doll that somehow feels alive despite the obvious fact that it is not. Slowly, Ignis' fingers wrap around the daggers sheathed at his belt, ready to pull it out and shove it into the doll if even hair moves on its head.

...he kind of forgot that the others are with him. Whoever was the last one to enter and closed the door, it made Ignis almost jump out of his skin. However, he didn't move an inch.
Godsdamn this place. He can feel it shaving years off of his lifespan.

"Careful," he says simply and narrows his eyes back at the doll.
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Team: Ashe, Castor, Cor, Noctis, Regis

[personal profile] regisrex 2018-10-20 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
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Big Team is Big: Reno, Bonnie, Johnny, Angeal, Olivier, Terra, Prompto, Kenichi

[personal profile] shinra_dog 2018-10-21 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Reno's eyebrows rose when the group had fully assembled. "Wow... Okay, more of us than I thought, but okay -- no, this is good. This is good." He nodded decisively. "Rather go in guns blazin' on this crazy shit."

He didn't recognize the two that had come with Angeal, but if the SOLDIER trusted them then he would too -- at least for this.

"Reno," he introduced himself to them.
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Team: Shiro, Keith, Lance, and Pidge

[personal profile] spaceforged 2018-10-21 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
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TEAM UNTOUCHA-DOLL: ren, ann, futaba and iwai

[personal profile] masqueraid 2018-10-24 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
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CONCLUSION

[personal profile] eternitynpc 2018-12-06 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks to the effort of all the brave heroes who investigated, the curator was able to piece together much of the story behind the doll museum's mysterious happening. Of course, there are some things that are still shrouded in mystery. In particular, the vile and dreaded King... Where did he come from...? The clues, legitimate as they are, do not make a shred of sense! More than that, they do not point to any place she knows of. Is this some place on another world? Or could it be somewhere on Vaikuntha, a place that isn't listed on any maps? Perhaps this is a mystery for the heroes to resolve on their own before the next Night of the Thirteen Moogles...

Regardless, it is clear beyond the shadow of a doubt he entered the museum through a rift when the Night of the Thirteen Moogles's celebrations started. Perhaps, she theorizes, his presence on the forefront of so many people's minds across Vaikuntha and the seething hatred for the Heroes of Light is what allowed his spirit to materialize. This energy from the rift allowed the dolls shaped after past Heroes of Light to move on their own. Haunted? Perhaps that is what some want to believe, but why go for a mystical explanation when a perfectly reasonable one is here, right?

With his powers, whatever their source is, he tricked the dolls into believing the current generation of Heroes of Light brought the Calamity with them. Since the new generation of Heroes of Light were draining the power he was harvesting from the Lost Souls of Moogles - And this through the Spirits High and Low quests undertaken by the heroes - He set the two sets of Heroes against one another in hopes of eliminating all threats to himself. What more beautiful and delicious of a revenge, after all, than to have his archnemesises kill each other? Truly, the King's evil knows no bounds. Thus, the Heroes of Light dolls lured the new Heroes of Light into the Museum. But of course, as you all well know, they were unable to defeat them.

Subsequently, the Heroes beat up the King's doll form, which was the only form he was able to maintain. It wouldn't have been possible, had the heroes not worked to drain his power source. Ultimately, Moggle Mog escaped, severely weakened and still in doll form, and the Hero of Light dolls are no longer a threat. Perhaps they have found some measure of peace. Of course, this is no true victory. Weakened or not, the King now has a physical form. Perhaps he is plotting right at this moment how to bring his enemies down.

But, she theorizes, he will always be too prideful and will always aim to kill them during the month of his own downfall.

[OOC: Characters can discuss the event underneath this header. Groups are free to continue their event threads if they have not reached the conclusion, and can thread out reactions or meetings after the conclusion if they wish.]
Edited 2018-12-06 02:22 (UTC)