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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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[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

Phoenix glances around nervously. Something doesn't feel quite right.



He squints. Are his eyes playing tricks on him?

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Unfortunately, they certainly are not as the Shadow in the distance slowly moves closer to him.

As it does, he will likely be hit by an overwhelming sense that things are simply wrong. Whatever this creature is, it is something that simply should not exist.

And yet it does, and it's getting ever closer.]

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

Phoenix is, thankfully, possessed of a fairly good sense of self-preservation, even if it's not obvious at times. He steps back a bit, tentatively, and then without hesitating turns tail and runs.

[yokaiofnaps.livejournal.com]

[Meiling's internal clock basically doesn't exist anyways, so she happens to be going for a midnight... er... early breakfast?

She's not really sure what you call noodles at 3 a.m., but she's getting those until she feels something... strange. Something definitely not good. Her head whips around, and she spots something dark. Dark and not really anything else.

Definitely, very not good.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Not very good at all.

As she catches the Shadow's attention, it seems to slowly be getting closer to her. How exactly it is moving is unclear... but its presence just seems to be getting stronger and stronger as it nears.]

[chivalroushare.livejournal.com]

[Albeit late at night, Cecile was making her usual roundabouts with her patrol. Granted, she was never assigned for patrol to begin with. No, she just appointed herself to the task.

Something seemed... strange. She was more on-guard right now.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[And on-guard she should be, as something strange looms in the distance.

The air itself seems heavier as discomfort settles in, along with a strange feeling of... sickness. Just unpleasant vibes all around, enough to make one's stomach turn.]

[keybearer-derp.livejournal.com]

[Yawns, man, its pretty late at night and that job was exhausting.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Have a wake up call then, in the form of a cold chill running down your spine.

As everything around you grows darker and... just feels disgusting in general.]

[gorgeous-gorgon.livejournal.com]

[Well, Rider happens to be walking around at night, returning from the library with a new book in hand. But then...she stops as the sensation touches her. This feeling...it's familiar. Rider turns and looks down the hall...and sees it. No mistake.

Oh.

SHIT.

She knows EXACTLY what this means.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[It notices Rider as well.

But to it, a Servant is nothing more than a good meal... and it rapidly approaches in search of satisfying its overwhelming hunger.]

[in-laquetti.livejournal.com]

[Something filled with malevolence lurked in these halls... The Crawling Chaos could sense it. Fake Kashihara pretended to walk down the halls as if finished from working late in his office. This presence was growing stronger... No doubt he would meet with whatever was causing this soon enough.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[And so he would, as he soon found it looming in the distance.

Gauging him. He would feel like eyes were peering, staring, measuring him... even though there were no eyes to be seen.

But whatever this creature was... it made no moves. Yet.]

[devilsphyscian.livejournal.com]

[Mephistopheles is traveling without Georik - intangible and invisible to normal senses, searching for something to give him a leverage when he notices the Shadow and presses against the walls]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Unfortunately, the Shadow is quite attuned to spiritual beings... in fact, nothing is more alluring to it.

So as it senses something particularly... delicious... Mephistopheles will likely feel a sense that he is being watched. Stared at. Examined. Hungered for.]

[redroosterinn.livejournal.com]

[When Fallos comes across that thing, there's no hesitation. He knows what he's dealing with by look, feel, and aura.

Chaos.

He instantly throws one hand out, mumbling arcane formulae, and a stream of white-hot flames leaps towards the shadow.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[The flames hit their mark... ravaging at the creature, clearly stopping it in its tracks.

But unfortunately for Fallos... the effect is probably less than what was desired, as the flames eventually begin to die down.

And whatever damage was done is quickly undone as the wounds regenerate... and black shadowy tendrils come firing straight back at him, trying to grab him and pull him in.]

[slapwithpanache.livejournal.com]

[The shadow isn't the only thing stalking Confuto at night. Bow isn't especially terrified by the sudden feeling of malevolency, but it is rather uncomfortable, anyway.]

Now has another ghoul joined our ranks?

[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.]

[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?

[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.]

[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.]

[bloody-hime.livejournal.com]

*Flandre was out carrying some of Hime's Paperwork when she spots the odd mass.*

Fuga?

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[Fortunately for Flandre, it neither seems to notice or care about her.

It has no interest in a mechanical creature.]