Eight: [Video/Action] Well now it feels like home

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[Ruby wasn't happy when she woke up to find that the mansion had basically turned itself into home. The upside of this is that she knows exactly what to do. She's currently prowling the halls, as alive as she's ever been, knife in hand. She feels a bit bad that there's yet another event where she'll be harming the other residents here but this is

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[chess_wizard]

Ruuubbyyyyy....

Why are there Inferi everywhere, and why do they look like people I know?!

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Where are you, Kiddo? I'm coming to you and I'll get you some place safe.

My best guess? This is Hell and that's part of what Hell is. Close your eyes and cover your ears.

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[chess_wizard]

Hell?

Right. I'll be in my room, then. If you come in and I accidentally hex you, don't take it personally.

Re: [Voice] Hex her please :D She needs to teach Ron new swear words

[saved_ur_ass]

Pretty accurate replica anyway.

Kiddo, hex anything that comes through that door. I'll deal with it. Probably pretty badly but I'll deal.

Re: [Voice] Ha, because Ron could always use some more in his arsenal. XD

[chess_wizard]

I'm still sort of rubbish at the whole cursing thing, so I won't do any real damage, I don't think. Not unless you catch me off-guard... which you might.

Re: [Action] My thoughts exactly

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{Ruby makes her way around to the second flood, room 25. She's faring alright. She's seen Alastair in the hallways and she knows it's just a trick of the mansion but she's a little creeped out and on edge because of it. Not to mention the other things she's been fighting. There's a scratch across her forearm and some blood that's not hers smudged across her cheek. She knocks on the door and pushes it in, bracing herself.}

You doing alright in here, Kiddo?

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[chess_wizard]

[Ron's mind had been racing with the few hexes he had overheard his older brothers using at one point or the other, though he now regrets that he had always listened to his mother and never bothered to practice them properly. He could manage the occasional charm that might startle an opponent, but that wouldn't work very-

At the sound of the knock, Ron jumps from the floor behind his bed, holding his wand out in front of him with a startled cry and half of a Slug Vomiting Curse before he sees that it's Ruby. Gasping for breath, he collapses on the bed.]

Yeah. Don't do that! But yeah, I'm... are you?

[He eyes the various bloodstains on her rather worriedly.]

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[Well half a curse is enough to make her nauseous and she's about to answer him when the puking starts. She leans out in the hallway and pukes up slugs. It's only lack of food in this curse that keeps it from being anything. She's grateful the curse wasn't finished. She's got a feeling it'd be much worse otherwise.]

Fucking fuckety fucker. Holy Jesus' dick.

[Well obviously she's up to blasphemous curses. She wipes her mouth with the back of her hand and steps back into the room. She can't really get angry. She did tell him to hex anything that stepped in that door.]

Just peachy. Nice job there, Kiddo.

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[chess_wizard]

[Ron is less than excited that his curse actually managed to work when he had tried to cancel it, and panics for a moment. Jumping over the bed, he bolts for her and stops a few paces away from the door, peering out at the slugs she managed to bring up as they wriggled on the floor.]

Egh, no matter how many times I see that, it's still gross.

[He gingerly puts his wand in his back pocket as he looks up at her apologetically.]

Er, sorry. At least it didn't hit you full-on. The last time Fred used it on Percy, we ran out of buckets as fast as Mum could conjure them. A right mess, that was.

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Gotta say I'm with you on that...it could have been mixed with French fries and ketchup

[She shakes her head at his apology]

Don't worry about it and yeah...I'm really glad of that. I don't need to be puking my brains out when all this shit is going on.

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[chess_wizard]

[He grimaces at the thought of the slugs slithering through the remnants of Ruby's last meal, but her words make his grimace turn into a concerned frown.]

What is going on here? People are walking around like they're half-dead... or full dead, depending.

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[Ruby sits down on the bed next to Ron and flops back. It seems relatively safe in here, she's still got her knife in one hand]

This is the Netherworld of Erion apparently.

[She rolls her eyes a little at the whole idea of it]

Basically, it's Hell. Since there are people here that were dead in their worlds...I'm guessing we're seeing them as one or the other. I think we're also seeing people we know or care about because...well...it's Hell.

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[chess_wizard]

[Closing the door and making sure that it was latched, Ron listens to what Ruby has to say. He doesn't know what this whole Netherworld of Erion business is, and he's only known Hell as a figure of speech.]

Oh... okay.... So a lot of the people I've been talking to the past few months may have technically been dead, and now a good number of them have gone crazy. Is that all?

[Approaching the bed, he asks:]

So, we basically just have to wait it out? That's what happens with most of these events, right?

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[Ruby pushes herself up on her elbows so she's half reclining while she listens to him.]

Pretty much. At least that's my best guess.

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[chess_wizard]

[Throwing himself on the bed, Ron covers his face with his hands as he moans.]

Great. Bloody great! Yet another crazy event where I'm locked in my room so no one tries to eat me or something.

[Realizing that - older though she might be - he was laying in a bed with a girl, he quickly sits up and moves to the side of the bed furthest from Ruby.]

So, er... uhm... eh... wicked knife! Is that how you, er... the Grim? That wasn't really a Grim?

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[Ruby can't help but snicker at Ron's grumbling. She's a bit confused at his quick moving so she sits up, scooting so her back is against the wall. She gives her knife a look over and nods.]

Yup. It's a sweet knife.