A very merry Halloween! [Mingle]

[ourearth]

Date: 31st of October
Characters: Open!
Warning: Non-sexual desecration of formerly buried corpses

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On the morning of Halloween, when people first step out of their houses, they will almost step into something.

A bucket of water. Every flat and every house in the Mossgate Boundary has a bucket placed in front of its entrance door (and sometimes, especially in Folkton and Moss Manor, the back door too), in which scary apples are floating. A little sign taped to the bucket reads: Have fun bobbing!.

But that's not the only thing that happened. The second thing that people will notice is that there are billions of spiders of all sizes crawling all over the town and villages, the military base, the Manor House... everywhere. And they certainly did their job - trees, lanterns, the higher attractions on the pier, and everything else that is high all over Mossgate Council is covered in thick layers of cobweb.

And lastly... those who pass by a church will notice something about the graveyards around them. Namely, that someone placed skeletons on top of most of the graves... Awfully real looking ones. Really, really awfully real looking ones. To some of them, the soil of the graveyard still clings, and the graves underneath them are in a state that betrays that they were dug up during the night. DNA tests would show that, indeed, the skeletons belong to the individuals buried in the graves.

Comments

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie let's Ben take over with Mary, he is more familiar to the slightly dazed-looking woman after all. Instead Sadie grabs a clean glass from next to the sink and fills it up from the tap before placing it on the table.

"There's some water there if you need it Dr Tilly."

[catted]

"...Not right now. She'll probably be down in a moment, anyway." She sighs and gently picks up the cat to place it on her shoulder instead. This one seems to like that.

It lets her lean forward and take the glass of water more easily, though.

"Thank you, Sadie. ...Some first impression that I'm making," she huffs in a mix of amusement and annoyance.

[warped_replica]

He casts a worried glance to Sadie as the doctor puts something unseen to her shoulder, but that she attends the glass of water without any sign of poor coordination is something. Maybe the Echo left an impression of something being present.

“You came across well on the Network, but depending on the Echo, it can really knock you for a loop,” he tries to assure her. “I have a number myself, and I’ve had a couple that were rather intense.”

[dragoonrouge]

"Ben's right." She gently reassures the doctor, "Some Echoes are worse than others and we can hardly judge."

Sadie shrugs a little helplessly, "There doesn't seem to be any way to avoid them completely from what we've been able to work out I'm afraid."

[catted]

"Of what kind, if you don't mind me asking?" she follows up on Ben's word, both curious and worried about the neighbour's kid.

But then she turns to Sadie, because that made her wonder: "You say not completely. Is there a way to avoid at least some of them?"

[warped_replica]

No doubt his neighbor had heard the rampant gossip about him last month, his mask often used to identify him by those that did not know his name. Rather than touch on the worst of his Echoes to date, he selects a slightly more tame one as he rubs the back of his neck, "N-no, I don't mind. I've had quite a few, and my last one was a few weeks ago. I grew rapidly. About 5 cm in height within a matter of seconds."

He leaves it to Sadie to address the matter of avoidance.

[dragoonrouge]

"Um, I think it was mentioned on the Network but...they seem linked to new experiences within the Mossgate area. But everyone seems to be coming from different places so it's hard to nail down the triggers."

Sadie glances at Ben, his avoidance of the teeth Echo clear as day. "Some physical Echoes can hurt when your body changes." The woman would probably be grateful for the heads up on that, being a doctor and having a daughter involved too.

[catted]

"I can imagine, with a growth spurt like that..." There's something not being said there, she can feel it, but figures that whatever it is, it isn't her right to pry.

She opens her mouth to ask more, but at that point there are footfalls on the stairs, and another family member is coming downstairs.

"...Thank you for helping me." They should wrap this up very quickly now. "I should be fine now, I think it's just a shock from falling so suddenly." She carefully shakes her head. "Whoever that was, I hope nobody broke anything because of them."

[warped_replica]

Under other circumstances, Benjiro would be more forward about his Echoes, and in due time he will be able to discuss them with her more frankly.

The sound of the footsteps following the explanation from Sadie prompts a hurried conclusion to their talk, and Benjiro bows his head to her, “I’m glad we could. Just take things slow this morning, okay? See you later, Mrs. Tilly.” Reaching for his girlfriend’s hand, he turns to head back out the front door and off towards the train station once more.

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie glances at the stairs at the sound of footsteps as she takes Ben's hand. "Hope you feel better Mrs. Tilly. If you need any help you can grab a hold of me on the Network." With those parting words she follows Ben out of the house.