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[It is clear, as the video clicks into recording, that the person handling the device is either uneducated in it's use, or simply panicking. The video initially shows a few shots of the room, dark & murky, a momentary shot of a bed, and a television showing only static. Heavy breathing can be heard in the background, and the faint sound of the
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Language, sister, there's those here who don't need such words in their vocabulary. As for what's going on here, your guess is as good as anyone else's... FUCK!
[Hypocrisy, yes, but given the thrashing sounds , muffled howl of fury, and sounds of something going through the window the hard way, he got ambushed.]
...And now I've got glass all over my floor and in my arm... I HATE that stupid thing. [Spounds of him wrecking a cabniet to use as a block for the broken window.] Welcome to Jigoku Apartments, where the tenants before you are dead and want their place back. Keep a grip on your red tape, and use it on the doors and windows. And expect to be swamped, the frickin' pests are out in force...
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Listen, I don't know who you are, but language is the last of my concerns right now. I don't know what--
[She pauses.]
Something is outside my door, and I.. I don't know what you're talking about, but I just need to know how to use this thing so I can call 911, okay? My best friend's dad, he's the town sheriff, and he'll.. h-he'll come and get me.. I don't want to be in any apartments, and I don't want any tape. What am I going to do with tape if he-- no, he wouldn't..
Do you know who brought us here? And where are you? And furthermore, what in the fuck are pests? Is that what's outside my door? I need you to answer me. I don't know how long I have until he finds me. This is just the kind of thing he'd do to me.. take me here..
Just help me, okay?
[The irritated tone that has persisted throughout her dialogue is no longer ( ... )
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Listen, where you were before, your home, this place isn't it. Your friends father isn't here, no one's here but people who have been brought here and the dead. Take the tape and use it on your door and windows. If they aren't in there with you right now, it's only because they haven't noticed you yet.
[His tones are tired, and if her blackberry's volume is high enough, Laurie will here the soft plip of blood hitting the floors from Hayden's arm. He's binding it, but it's slow, sine he has to fish around in the wounds for any glass, and he's talking to her as well.The pests are the local inhabitants, or at least what I call them. Ghosts would probably be more accurate, though they can be quite physical. They don't like the red tape, it will keep the weaker ones out, and it takes the stronger ones time to penetrate it. It won't keep them all out, so stay away from any suspicious looking stains on your ( ... )
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I don't want them to notice me, trust me. I can hear something, I don't know.. exactly what it is, but it sounds like scratching. It's out in the hall. I didn't go out, but I looked out the window, and it looks like hell out there, doesn't it? I can barely see, it's like smoke.. no, not smoke, fog, definitely thick fog.
I've never seen fog like this in my life.
So, it's this tape, right here? [There is the sound of shuffling, and the familiar sound of thick tape being pulled.] Red stuff, right? I should put it on all of the doors, and the windows? How is anyone going to find me? Or.. how do I get out? Isn't there anywhere to go? I can't hide in this room forever. It ( ... )
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Most of us retape the door after we leave or come back. Most of the other apartments are like this, and the few other places I've been here aren't good to hole up in either. Normally, the place isn't as bad as this, and people can see and get to the grocery store and other places of interest to staying alive, but something's happening at the moment. I think I distantly heard one of the other's having a howling panic attack, which means whatever runs this place is toying with its captives again. Though the last time I was even here for such, during the whole darkened faerie tale thing, the pests went almost quiet. This time, they're agitated. They don't like what's going on.
[A soft huff, since he's finally finished binding up his arm. Hayden can be heard moving about, checking things.I can say the same right back at you, girl. Most of the last group before here that got too close to me are resting in their graves now. I can handle a few bad ( ... )
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So, what you're telling me, is that there isn't really a.. technically safe place anywhere here? But we can go to other places, people do come & go? Although, I'm going to keep this tape handy, if it's as useful as you're saying it is. I got my door, and I'm going to do up the windows next, I just hope I have time. [Sounds of walking again, and more tape pulling, ripping, and little grunts of effort as Laurie spends a few moments blocking up her first window in the apartment.What kind of grocery store are we talking? Just, walk in, take what we want? I don ( ... )
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The only place that I've been the ghosts won't go is the third floor of the hospital, but strange things can happen even up there. But normally we do come and go, either by ourselves or with others, but no one really wants to try the fog yet. Or if they have, something's led them off course and we won't see them until this whole mess is over. This place... I've seen the hospital, heard the ghosts there. Whatever happened here, in this place, has tainted it. Perhaps irrevocably. Too much death, too many angry souls and poisoned hearts still trying to live even a mockery of life. And they hate those who still live. This place, in a terrible way, is a kind of alive death.
[He stops at her scream, watching his own windows. Nothing seems to be out there, but that's never trustable in this place.One of them, then. They come to the windows as well. It maybe investigating, or they maybe testing to see if someone has explained the rules that are known in ( ... )
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If they know I'm here, then I guess I-- well, I have to go out then, they'll get me either way. Each wrist, you said? That's simple enough. What's going to happen if I run out of tape, though? Or if it comes off? They-- ... they will rush me then, won't they? [She pauses, teeth chattering for a moment.] Fuck it, I have no choice ( ... )
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Trying to lead people off into the fog, anyway. It seems to be using voices of those close to us, trying for a psychological damage most likely. I can think of several things I've done that merit such a place, but it's more likely that we simply provide this place something it needs. Maybe the ghosts find they function better with the living around.
[He switches to answering her questions. His tones are clinical, and she can here him moving things and tearing tape.] In general, they normally won't rush you, the white ones anyway. Even now, they're more likely to ignore you. This doesn't apply to all of the white ones, but they seem to have to most exist and let exist attitude of the lot. Stains are inactive as long as you're far enough away, then they try to grab you with a lot of arms. Trash and scream and someone should come and help you if you don't manage to wriggle free on your own. If you see a black shadow... if it hasn't seen you, retreat and go ( ... )
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That's logical, they must need us for something. I don't see any other reason to have people here, unless we.. well, we could be dead, but I'm really doubting it.. last I remember, I wasn't doing anything to end up dead. And if these.. things, are what dead looks like, I think we're alive and well. And I guess, if you're right, that's how they want us.
[Listening to each of his explanations, there are sounds from her end as well, similar to his; movement, tape, her breathing. She's trying to psyche herself ( ... )
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[He laughs a little, a short, bitter sound.]
We all wish it would fuck off, because then the little pests would be acting fairly normal for them and not swarming every apartment with living inhabitants they can find. They're wilder then usual, even the placid whites.
[If Laurie could see him, he's smiling a little at her backhanded compliment.] Hey, a friend once told me that most people don't like to look into the abyss because it eventually looks back, I go rooting around in it looking for something to beat up. I'm willing to listen.
[His tones go calm again.Right back at ya ( ... )
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I'm going to put the Blackberry in my pocket for now, so I can keep my hands free. Listen for the scream, 'kay? [She musters another little chuckle, as bitter as Hayden's own laugh.]
Here goes nothing.
[A click as she ends the recording, and presumably steps out into the corridor.]
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