[Week 14, Day 1] The nightmare begins again

[kannagara_gods]

Who: EVERYONE
Status: OPEN, VERY VERY OPEN
Style: Anything; Action - Comment spamming okay; Multiple threads okay
Where: All villages. Sub-threads. FEEL FREE TO ADD SUB-THREADS/LOCATIONS WITH CHARACTER THREADS.
When: Weel 14, Day 1 -- all times of day.
Rating: Possible R, just in case. Violence

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YOMISATO

[kannagara_gods]

YOMISATO

[in_starvation]

[Jessica only has to look out of the house and can see a definite party going around. Every one is cheering, toasting to each other and she's pretty sure she just saw a couple making out pretty heavily that might come to a romp in the bushes. Or whatever will count as bushes in Yomisato anyway.

Jessica comes back in to the house.]

huzzah, roommate /o/

[fakeorgans]

[ The sounds were what alerted Chrome first.

The Hitomi, and now the ruckus of the townspeople outside. Combined with that broadcast from before (although she had been a child at the time, and thus her memory of it continues to be fogged) -- that other goddess -- Chrome is feeling somewhat uncertain.

Party. The word had been used. Although this is not a party so far as she understands the term. ]

-- Loud, today.

[ Meaning she will investigate, if necessary. But she would rather it blow over shortly before it comes to that. ]

\<3333

[fakehumanity]

[Mukuro, meanwhile, is positively chipper, sipping tea and tapping his fingers against the table, playing a manic little beat.] I must say, I was a little skeptical before, but this party is looking to be rather exciting, isn't it?

:/

[in_starvation]

[Yeah, Jessica is ignoring you, Mukuro. Mostly because she figures you would like this kind of thing.]

I wonder what that lady actually means by getting the food I like. I really hope she doesn't mean people are going to chop up other people just to drink their blood. Blood-sucking ain't for everyone.

[Just ask her maker.]

[fakeorgans]

[ Loud crashing sounds can be heard outside, as of windows being smashed. Chrome glances in that direction. Takes a slow drag of breath.

More than anything, she's wondering what's causing all this. The people in this place could be holding some festivities, for all she knows. Another matsuri? But it sounds remarkably like a riot, and that's what concerns her. ]

[kannagara_npc]

[Among the ruckus outside that is quickly giving birth to a riot, there is a lumbering man walking stiffly, occasionally moaning but hardly gaining the attention of the soon-to-be-rioters. The man notices a girl with red hair taking a peek outside the safety of her home and starts to walk slowly in go in that direction.

When he approaches the door, he slams his hands against the wood and starts scratching at it. He doesn't notice how his cold dead hands are gathering splinters.

He really likes to have a bite out of that girl.]

[fakehumanity]

[Normally Mukuro would just have Chikusa answer the door and deal with the beggar/travelling salesman/wandering street crazy, but he does not appear to be present at the moment, and Chrome is abosolutely terrible at rudely dismissing street crazies. It therefore falls to Mukuro to be the man of the house and answer the door.

Which he jumps up and does, swinging the door open and preparing to cheerfully insult whoever is bothering them when he sees -

Someone in... rather worse shape than he was expecting.]

... Oya?

[kannagara_npc]

[Not the same person but has the same thing: meat.

The zombie gives out a guttural moan that could pass as a growl before grabbing the man by the shoulders and opens it's mouth, baring it's poor dental care.

And reaches over to bite its prey's throat out.]

[fakehumanity]

[That --

That's a zombie.

Mukuro has seen the movies. That is a zombie.

Fast reflexes and the flicker of his eye as he switches to Asura Realm are what saves him in the end - in the space of seconds, one hard shove to the thing's chest, pushing it up against the front door's threshold, followed by a recently manifested trident, which drives through the thing's chest and pins it with an awful squelch. Mukuro has stepped back out of the thing's reach before he has entirely finished processing that it's a zombie.]

... Huh.

[mightstealyrcar]

[Matt stumbles out of Jessica's room, bleary, boxer-clad, and with his hair on end.

And wakes up in a fucking hurry when he sees what's at the door.

Mukuro handles it before Matt can so much as yell advice, and it's almost enough to make him like the guy. Doesn't matter what kind of zombie, anyway, crazy-fast 28 Days Later or shambling World War Z, a fork to the chest is gonna stop either.]

Uh. You might wanna smash its head. Just to be sure.

[fakeorgans]

[ Chrome hears some disturbance in the other room.

Knowing she will have to investigate, she begins to pad in that direction. ]

Who was it, Mukuro-sama?

[fakehumanity]

A zombie.

[Mukuro is suddenly feeling quite giddy, now that the thing is pinned firmly. The fact that it is still twitching and reaching for him does nothing to dampen his sudden good mood.]

Go get a pistol, won't you, Chrome?

[fakeorgans]

[ A -- did she mishear? But then Chrome has taken a step into the living room, and there it is. She watches for a few mute seconds, her thoughts a languid current, dreamy and stilted. This entire day has the feel of surreality. Like a dragging nightmare. Chrome has been through such days before, and were she at home, she would think that this was Mukuro-sama's doing; that he had summoned this creature for her to test herself against.

It would not be the first time. From out of the darkness, there had been others. Other trials. But she is not a girl, and she does not suppose, from his own handling of the situation, that it is necessarily him who is behind this.

Therefore: ]

All right.

Of course, Mukuro-sama.

[ She clasps her hands for a moment. Releases them. Swallows and nods.

With a backwards suspicious look, she briskly walks to the back room -- to the closet where their vast supplies of firearms are stored away. ]

[in_starvation]

[Jessica followed Chrome into the room where she sees Mukuro and a - what?]

Zombie?

[She approached the thing. For some reason, it seemed to be more focused on Mukuro and Matt than she, even though she is getting closer to it. Jessica gives the zombie a hard poke on the shoulder. It doesn't seem to notice.]

Wait, what does a pistol help anything? Isn't zombies suppose to be dead like me? Wouldn't that be a waste of a bullet?

[kakipiii]

[Chikusa misses all of the fun. Or rather, he misses the fun being let into the house, because it seems things are starting to get exciting just now, anyway. Good thing he is far removed from being the sort of man who would feel it necessary to chime in with a hilarious, well-placed one-liner at this sort of moment.

Really.

He is the kind of man who takes a lot of showers, though, which is why, when he wanders into the room to see where it is everyone seems to have gone, he is in the middle of toweling his hair.

There is a zombie in the doorway.

Hm.]

Hm.