RECORDING 2: THE FIRST MURDER

[foundationmods]

An entire week has passed, and nothing has happened. For a brief glimmer of time, it seemed like they wouldn't succumb. That they would be able to face down the Vessel, the Curse, and come out stronger on the other side.

....But when they wake up today, it's easy to feel the wrongness in the air. The sense of satisfaction from something lurking deep inside, pleased that it was fed...and pleased that finally, the killing had started.

As you all rise and look towards a new day, the faint traces of Miasma lap at your heels...

...And around whatever corpse now lingers in the hallways...

((OOC: 2 people max under a heading, please! Just to keep things easy on the mods.))

Comments

[noneforall]

[He's not dead so he's chillin'. That's what you do on murderdays when the resident cosplayer ghost tells you to stay, I guess. Even the police is being policed.]

Can you blame it? It's a mass of distortions and warped SCPs all wrapped up in an immature cocky teenager.

[You're a cocky teenager too, Subete??]

It's barely sentient at this point. I wouldn't expect much more creativity.

[eyeforai]

[He tried!!! But also robots aren't his area of expertise so ymmv if he would've been helpful even if investigating was allowed.]

...Well, I'll take it over the alternative. But couldn't it at least mind its own business when it comes to how we investigate?

[He's just grumpy he was being policed.]

[noneforall]

[But how will we go for maximum AIrony now???]

Taking house rules to the extreme, I’d imagine. After all, it really has nothing better to do, unlike us.

[Technically they don’t have much better to do here and now either but it’s the principle of the whole picture, obviously.

He looks kind of amused at Date grumping.]

[eyeforai]

[Bring Wheatley here so we can stab him too?? idk man

He sighs.]

I knew I should've brought a magazine...

[bribe your mm with porno mags, the real galaxy brain strategy]

[noneforall]

[We do still need a scapegoat—

There’s a bit of a laugh at the magazines because yeah the implications are pretty clear after Monday.]

Careful. You might break him again and he’ll start spouting whole different sets of rules.

[inb4 we break the MM and have a repeat of lightning round]

[eyeforai]

Or he'll just start ominously reciting poetry again.

[Poetry jam session feat. just Todd]

[noneforall]

I've never figured out just what it is about poems that make them so much more supposedly menacing than other forms of horror.

[Maybe if he kept it to a poetry jam he'd be more tolerable, honestly.]

[eyeforai]

Maybe he just isn't well-versed in any other scare tactics.

[The real tragedy that they have to live with, clearly!!]

[noneforall]

[There's a brief snort because they sure are still doing this in the middle of a murder investigation but sometimes you gotta just vibe.]

Hmm. Maybe it would be more unsettling if there actually were a rhyme or reason to it. You know? As far as I can tell, our host just enjoys throwing tantrums until he runs out of marbles.

[eyeforai]

[This sure isn't the time for pun, but sometimes inspiration strikes and it's not like they have anything else better to do as they're waiting for everyone to finish up, so this is just the life they're living now apparently.]

I bet he just doesn't know how to refrain. Kids these days, I swear...