escalation

[remem_b_er]

Now, don't look if you're squeamish, but

There's a body in the kitchen. It's skin is translucent, except the patches covered in the oozing, green rash. Pus has crusted on what remains of it's clothes. One half of the forehead and the jaw have caved in, green and oozing and unable to hold up to whatever pressure was put on them when the body fell.

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[lastrunnerup]

*All right. So. Maybe this mansion isn't so nice after all.*

What the fuck is this?

[coordinated_n]

M-mello? *Near clutches a hand in his hair, smearing it full of the goop, and presses himself further back against the oven. He's coated in the slime, especially his feet.*

[lastrunnerup]

Near, why the hell are you playing in it?

*Mello is undeniably disturbed, but not traumatized-- he's pulling a face, though, one of great disgust.*

Get your hand out of your hair, that's sick.

[coordinated_n]

I fell. I didn't know it was there, I fell. *Still tugging at his hair, knuckles white.*

[lastrunnerup]

Get your hand out of your hair, I said. You've got that shit all over you. Did you fall on the body, is that why he's all caved in?

[coordinated_n]

No- I didn't land on it. He's leaking.

*It's true. The ooze is slowly starting to spread. Near lowers his hand, willing it not to tremble.*

[lastrunnerup]

*Mello glances back over to the body, and then at Near again.*

Apparently he is. Are you fine?

[coordinated_n]

I don't know.

[lastrunnerup]

Well, you'd better be. Get someone to take you out of here if you aren't going to help examine it. Which, since you probably shouldn't be touching it, you can't. Save your clothes if you leave.

[coordinated_n]

Save them for what?

[lastrunnerup]

For me to examine later. We need to find out what this stuff is.

[coordinated_n]

Mello...

Is it green?

[lastrunnerup]

... Yeah. It is. Why?

[coordinated_n]

I'm already infected.

[lastrunnerup]

With this?

[coordinated_n]

I was crying green tears yesterday. I thought it must have been some kind of tissue breakdown. This can't be a coincidence.