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Rebirth Mods ([personal profile] rebirthorder) wrote in [community profile] fuckthistown2019-01-23 12:34 pm
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Test Drive Meme #1


TEST DRIVE MEME

In my restless dreams,
I see that town.

Silent Hill.

You promised me you'd take me
there again someday.


I. Public Records - Daytime

If you want to find out more about the strange town you’re in, why not check the Public Records building?

There’s no one at the guard post, and there’s no one at the desks, so you’re free to look through all the filing cabinets you can find. Some are full of petty complaints sent in about this person not cutting their grass short enough or that person letting their dog out without a leash, and there are meticulous records of replies. Others are full of blueprints of different buildings, buildings that exist and buildings that don’t. Others still have police reports, and there seems to be a suspicious number of reports about abused and disappeared children, and dealers selling hallucinogens to tourists. All those complaints are found unsubstantiated or tragic accidents. Nothing to be done about it.

Deeper in the filing rooms, so far deep that you can’t see the sun from the windows anymore, there’s one filing cabinet that smells like charred flesh and smoke with a tiny, childlike black handprint pressed to its surface. The filing cabinets around it are full of messages to you, messages from loved ones that may or may not be alive anymore. There’s no way to open the cabinet with a handprint on it. No way to look through it. If you fiddle with it too long, you’ll start getting a dreadful feeling of being watched by someone very, very unhappy.


II. Midwich Elementary School - Nightmare

Sirens cut through the night, and the fog lifts, only to be replaced by darkness. The floor glows like embers, linoleum peeling back to reveal rusted wires, like the floor is a catwalk instead of the bottom of a school. The walls are too hot to touch, and they glow with words scratched on their surface as if with a burning hot knife.

Witch

Go home

Drop dead


Terrible things spill from the classrooms. Tiny, childlike creatures, blackened entirely save for veins of red heat breaking the surface of their skin like lava. They turn their faceless heads towards the nearest living creature and shriek, sprinting towards them with arms outstretched, intending to tackle them in a blistering, suffocating bear hug.


III. Toluca Lake - Daytime

Starvation is looming. Anything perishable has rotted, and non-perishables have been devoured. What is there to do?

Well, there’s always the lake.

It stands to reason that there are fish in the lake. The tourist pamphlets in the hotels advertise fishing trips, after all. But on the docks, someone has drawn in chalk a terrible picture. It’s a childlike drawing of the bottom of the lake with hundreds of hands reaching up to the surface, hundreds of hands of the dead reaching to take the living down with them.

Maybe it’s a warning. Maybe it’s just a taunt to get people keyed up. Either way, there’s a fishing boat docked with a fishing pole ready to go. Good luck.


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[personal profile] donthithimintheballs 2019-02-04 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
It really was a terrible and old rope. "Great, right?" Sarcasm. All of the scarcasem. Dry and flat and yeah, he feels it, man.

He's not sure he wants to be where he last was? but even a battle in the middle of a tower with a large robotic Samurai was better than this place.

He pushed off, snorting. "I got a weird feeling it's all going to look radioactive." But he did push so he didn't go to fast, so not to snap the rope when he got out there.
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[personal profile] notyourbride 2019-02-04 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Waylon's still not sure if this is better or worse than Mount Massive. Everything being perpetually on fire seems to put it in the worse category. Along with whatever the hell those creatures were in the school.

"I've got a weird feeling you're probably right," he sighs. He moves a little away from the dock, just in order to grab a fallen branch he'd seen on the ground. It's a little unwieldy, so after a few tries he manages to snap it over his knee. Which makes it not just shorter, but pointier.

It's a start.