Wednesday, December 14th, The Midnight Channel
Who: The Port's Latest Shadow Televisions Stars! And Thousands of Home Viewers!
When: Midnight, Wednesday December 14th
Where: In front of your Television Sets or Streaming NV TV. (Digital Cable? You'll still get the analog effect.)
Summary: Full Plot Details Here
Warnings: Please Put 'em In the Subject Lines As Necessary, Kids?
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When: Midnight, Wednesday December 14th
Where: In front of your Television Sets or Streaming NV TV. (Digital Cable? You'll still get the analog effect.)
Summary: Full Plot Details Here
Warnings: Please Put 'em In the Subject Lines As Necessary, Kids?
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[Everything is hazy when the camera first turns on the set that is in place for this television show, but as the view pulls back to show off more of it, everything comes into focus. It’s a big stage, and scattered throughout it are props that are straight out of a Victorian house. It’s a cozy little place, with high backed arm chairs, and several beautiful vases on glass and wooden tables, to give off a sense of being a place of high class and beauty. The camera slowly turns until it’s focusing on someone sitting in an armchair, a small table next to it that is filled with various colorful chemicals in different sized tubes and glasses. The man who is sitting in the arm chair is wearing a white lab coat, and otherwise his clothes are very Victorian era, with a high collar and suspenders.
The man sitting in the chair smiles, and it’s obvious at this point that even with the hair slicked back, it’s Doctor Kenzo Tenma on the screen, if more dressed up then he usually is. He folds his hands on his knees, yellow eyes flashing in the light, and the camera focuses on his face as he opens his mouth to speak.]
Once upon a time, there lived a man. He was a nice man, who liked to help people every day. [He began, the same eerie smile still on his face.]
He was very busy helping everyone every day. One day, the man met a little boy. The little boy was dead. He asked the nice man to help him. The nice man said he would help the little boy.
[Tenma sits up.] The nice man brought the little boy back to life. He was very happy. The nice man brought a present to the little boy, but the little boy left before he could give him the present. Years past, and one day the little boy came back to see the good man. He was now a young man and the nice man was happy to see him. [He says this part softly, pushing up from his seat and standing up in front of the chair. Turning around, he picked up a beaker from the table, and it the bright purple liquid inside glowed brightly.]
The young man turned into an evil, evil monster. The nice man tried to stop him. The nice man wanted him to go back to being the young man. The monster bit the nice man and the nice man turned into a monster. [He says this in a loud, clear voice, and then he brought the beaker to his lips, drinking down the bright purple liquid. Once it was all gone, he tossed the beaker to the side, glass crashing off screen.]
The nice man was now a monster. The nice man killed good people. [Tenma started yelling.] A monster! A monster! The monster told the other monster, ‘You are me and I am you!’
[He screamed the last word as his entire body swiftly turned into a monster’s body, fur covering every inch of him. He had gained a few feet, and claws ripped through his shoes and where his hands once were. His clothes were ripped, and he snarled, saliva dripping from his mouth where the fangs overlapped. The Tenma monster roared out his final words as he turned around and ran away.]
HOW DOES THE STORY END!? FOLLOW ME AND WATCH THE WORLD BURN!
[The camera stays trained on the spot that he was at, before slowly blurring into static, and then shutting off.]
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That had caught Daedalus off guard mostly because their foreign film of the late evening had been interrupted. He didn't recognize Souji Seta from the newcomer network, turning groggily back into his pillow
But when he sees the face of a familiar colleague onscreen, he immediately blinks fully awake and sits up in bed.
Dr. Tenma, dressed in something he'd expect to see the likes of Dr. Seward wearing? And reciting another of his morbid children's stories again, the ones he was so seemingly fixated on?
...he hadn't heard anything about AGI filming any kind of mad scientist's midnight hour masterpiece theater. It was the sort of thing he'd expect Kenzo to at least mention in passing.
"What is this?"
Was it meant to be some kind of comedy? Was he at least paid well, for putting himself up to some silly sort of- (but why would an anesthesiologist due something like that?)
The noise it returns to is odd, distorted, gives him a headache- so he fumbles for the remote to mute volume, groaning.
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Hah.
Curiouser and curiouser. ]
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[She knows, deep in her gut, that that isn't him. She knows, because she believes in his goodness. He's not a monster. But she wants to go run the Darkness... just to be sure. On goes the uniform, and out she goes.]
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[Just what the heck was going on? Was this... some kind of new TV show or drama? (It sure looked like a drama) She debates calling him after the sound of static takes over, but....)]
[Where does he want them to go, anyway?]
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And he understands. He thinks he understands it better than most.
So it is not fear or sadness that moves him. As he finishes the the rest of the sad little picture shows, he concludes that it must be like the dreams. A distortion. A psychic transmission. Into TVs... well, that's interesting. But he's a perennial observer. And if Kenzo has turned into a werewolf-or-whatever, well, there's probably nothing he can do.
But he doesn't believe that is what is happening. He likes Kenzo. Kenzo is a nicer person than he's known in a long time.
He sends Kenzo a text message in the middle of the night, hoping it'll be there in the morning after Kenzo's done devouring virgins by moonlight or whatever.]
Two things:
1. The world probably will burn at some point, but it won't be because of you, and you probably won't be alive to see it. Just keep it in mind.
2. You're not a monster. Don't be stupid.
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[The first one is sent right after, a minute later. The second text is send much later in the morning.]
It was me. The entire time.
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