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[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[If you're wandering around at night for whatever reason, you might feel a chill run down your spine as everything suddenly feels darker than usual around you.

Down the corridor in the distance is a strange... Shadow. No other word can really describe it. Is this just some sort of Halloween prank? Or is it something more sinister?]

((OOC: A few people have already plotted ahead how this will go, but feel free to have any of your wayward characters spot this thing. But keep in mind, directly confronting it will go very badly at this stage. Flight is recommended.))

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[redroosterinn.livejournal.com]

[Shit, this isn't working. He doesn't like the situation anymore - doesn't know what it's capable of or how to counter it.

So instead of attacking further, Fallos lets go of his teleport control, vanishing off in a random direction.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Given its affinity for spiritual beings, the creature's attention is suddenly raptly focused on Bow.

Of course, by affinity, it means hunger.

And Bow may feel that sense of urgent, desperate, desire to feed creeping towards her... or perhaps simply filling the entire corridor.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[It's prey gone, the Shadow simply... sinks into the darkness, its presence vanishing as quickly as it had appeared.

Off to find a different meal.]

[slapwithpanache.livejournal.com]

Ergh. One of those. . . . I need to remember to give Enforcer Morrison a proper thank you someday.

[There was something very wrong when a ghost defends herself against a shadow with a magical orb of everlasting light. Still, there it is. The hallway is illuminated as bright as day suddenly as the orb revolves around Bow.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Faced with the figure before it... the Shadow seems to pause.

Recoil.

Blanch.

But it cannot answer, and instead remains transfixed on the girl before it. A foreign of sense of both dread and familiarity fills it. The creature emanates nothing but a feeling of hatred and revulsion... but also obedience.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[The creature cannot answer... not with words.

But the aura around it seems to answer well enough. Is it a feeling of lust that fills the air? Or is that merely gluttony? Nonetheless, it should be entirely clear that this creature is hostile... especially as a shadowy tendril shoots out to grab the feast before it.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Strangely, the light seems to simply be... consumed as it reaches a certain point of proximity to the creature.

But at the same time, it shies away... not from terror or fear of the light, but simply of revulsion. It does not wish to be exposed. It's true form must not be seen.

And so it merely sinks away into the ground, vanishing.]

[devilsphyscian.livejournal.com]

Get Thee back what dark bastion that thou crawled from!

[The demon flies back as he sprayed hellfire towards the shadow. He realized that he cannot fight it, especially not without completely exposing his position - this burst of brimstone was already too much. Mephistopheles fled as the flames flickered in the hall, setting off the fire alarm]

[slapwithpanache.livejournal.com]

Pah.

[The light vanishes as Bow angrily fades into the closest wall.]

I believe this is my cue to go home for a few days.

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[While the damage of the flames quickly healed... the loud sound filling the hallway was enough to cause the Shadow to vanish into the darkness.

It had no desire to be discovered.]

[in-laquetti.livejournal.com]

"But so what if this happens? What does it matter if everybody dies?"

[The girl started walking closer to the shadow. Beneath her, the same void that summoned the black tentacle followed. Two creatures that emanated such ominous feelings were meeting in this place... Whatever the outcome, it couldn't have been pleasant.]

"Don't you think so? Because... It's everybody's fault that this is happening. Right?"

[uberlikehermama.livejournal.com]

[And there Vivio was, laying asleep on her bed... until she heard the door slam and groggily started to wake up.]

... What time is it?

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[The Shadow seems hesitant for a moment... as if the last vestiges of something remaining within are struggling.

But whatever rhyme or reason may have been holding it back seems to be slipping away, as the figure within the Shadow nods in agreement.

It is everyone's fault.

So it is only fitting that they must pay.]

[in-laquetti.livejournal.com]

[There was barely any distance between the girl and the shadow. It seemed as though there was little animosity in the area... Odd, given the nature of their beings. Maybe it was because of who they were that they could get along like this.

The girl giggled a little bit... As she saw that the shadow had accepted her words.]

"When I kill them... They will know exactly why they should be sorry.
Everybody... Let's make everybody realize this... Together,"

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

Phoenix is in a bit of a flustered state of mind.

There! In the hallway! Was a thing! Dark thingy! It came toward me! Thingy! All wrong and black and stuff!

This articulate manner of speech is how he wins his cases in court, folks.

[uberlikehermama.livejournal.com]

[Vivio blinked, looking over at Phoenix and shook her head.]

Maybe it was just a bad dream? Try to get some sleep...

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

How could it be a bad dream? I was just out there!

[redcaphero.livejournal.com]

[Well, he couldn't really sleep. Then again, with his new abilities, he can't seem to sleep nowadays.

At first he doesn't take notice of the shadow. After all, it is Halloween, and in Onett, stuff like this around Halloween isn't unusual.

And then he realizes that this is not a Halloween prank.]

Who's there?

[ghostly-general.livejournal.com]

What are you? Stop at once.

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[The Shadow just stops, gauging its newest prey.

Interesting.

While it isn't the same as what she's used to dining on... she certainly seems delectable.

And so now it's slowly drifting towards Cenia... picking up speed as its gets ever closer.]

[ghostly-general.livejournal.com]

[Cenia draws her sword.]

I do not know what you are, but if you do not cease to do what you are doing, I will have to use force.

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[It does not seem at all inclined to agree... instead, tendrils dripping with shadowy energy just shoot at Cenia.

Even for a ghost, the air probably feels thick with a sense of... evil.]

[ghostly-general.livejournal.com]

[Of course, Cenia has felt evil before - lived in it, even - and is thus less concerned than she should be. Thus she engages, trying to cut the tendrils that approach her while moving closer to the main thing to stab it. Unfortunately, it is stronger than she thought...]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[There is no reply... but whatever it is in the distant seems hesitant for a moment.

But only a moment.

Soon enough, it's getting closer and closer, the sense of unease in the air getting stronger and stronger.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[The damage done to the creature doesn't seem at all permanent... for every tendril cut away, another simply grows out to replace it. The monster's regeneration is nearly instantaneous.

But more pressingly, its shadow seems to be expanding along the ground...]