Return of the Hall of Horrors

[cardio_swindle]

[From the outside, when you open the door, the room looks like a warm, inviting tavern, smelling possibly of mulled cider, mom's apple pie, hearty stew... A cozy seat by a roaring fire with spirits just behind the counter for the taking, and that fresh pie cooling on a table.]

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[innocent_voodoo]

[She steps in with a smile that quickly slides away when her true surroundings are revealed. She clutches her voodoo doll tightly.] What the...? [She gasps when she recognises the remains of one of those faces.] P-Papa? NO! [She runs up to him with a sob and hits him to try and wake him up.] Wake up, wake up, damn you! You can't leave me...

[And then she hears the crunch and the scream. She spins around to face it, almost slipping in the liquid.] H-Hello? What just happened?

[[This's thornsbindroses' Road, an Exorcist.]]

[cardio_swindle]

[The corpse tears beneath her fists, the flesh caving in and maggots spilling into the liquid beneath like a white waterfall of filth.]

[As she turns another ear-shattering wail echoes down the corridor It sounds closer, and a heavy, dragging, splashing step can be heard from the left hall.]

[For the moment, she is still alone with the corpses.]

[innocent_voodoo]

[She lets out a choked sort of scream when the corpse breaks, tears pouring down her face.

When she hears the second wail she starts moving down the corridor towards it, still clutching her doll tightly.]

[cardio_swindle]

[As she starts down the corridor the liquid seems to get deeper. Doors dot the sides of the hall at uneven intervals, though most are shut and barred. Many are damaged or in terrible shape, and behind a few there are the ominous echoes of living creatures, growls and crunches.]

[When the liquid is to her knees she passes a charred door, and rather suddenly it opens, an arm reaching out and grabbing, trying to snatch her out of the water.]

[innocent_voodoo]

[She shrieks and jumps back, and then rips off her doll's arm. Will her anti-akuma weapon have an affect on the thing behind the door?]

[[Is it just my email alerts that are majorly lagging? I only just got the one from over an hour ago...]]

[cardio_swindle]

[It works, perhaps too well. Thankfully for Tyki not well enough to actually rip his own arm off, but he won't be able to use that arm for a while. A good long while. The thing behind the door is Tyki, after all. He hisses in pain, and leans on the doorframe. But more important things to do than figure out why Road has Innocence.]

Get in here. [His voice is rough and low with pain.] Hurry.

((ooc; nope, all notifs are slow since about yesterday. Sigh, LJ.))

[innocent_voodoo]

Tyki?! [She freezes in shock, and then darts in through the door.] I'm sorry, I thought... [And then she notices the stigmata.] Wait, you're a Noah?

[cardio_swindle]

[Tyki slams the door shut one-armed and bolts it, bracing against it with his body as something on the other side, it sounds like a tidal wave, slams into it.]

...You're not?

[innocent_voodoo]

I'm not. Why does everyone think I am? [She probably sounds a little sulky and put-out.]

[cardio_swindle]

You're an Exorcist? [This is perhaps more boggling to him than that Exorcist Cyril he met. Sorry Road, it's really... Hard for him to process this, much as he's come to expect everything here.]

[...But now may not be the best time to dwell on it, in retrospect.]

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[innocent_voodoo]

You should be too, you know!

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[innocent_voodoo]

[She looks around uneasily, and shivers.] Where is this?

[cardio_swindle]

No, I really shouldn't. [No matter how many Exorcist versions of himself he meets, he'll never want to be one.]

... This is a pain in the ass. [He runs his working hand through his hair and looks around the room. There's a door for each wall, and he came from the facing door. So right and left are the options as he sees it.]

We really should get moving. Staying in one spot is dangerous here.

[innocent_voodoo]

[She isn't moving just yet, her eyes wide and upset.] Was that... Was that really Papa back there?

[cardio_swindle]

[Even and Exorcist it's still Road. He stares at her and frowns.] I wouldn't believe anything this hall shows you.

[When he moves from the door his arm twinges and he swallows back the pain, curling his working fingers.]

...What did you do?

[innocent_voodoo]

[She gives a small, relieved smile when he says it was fake, but it fades away at his next words.] It's my Innocence; it works like voodoo. [She gives his arm a worried look and bites her lip.] I'm sorry...