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The stars aren't right!(Helena/Courage Wolf)


Re: Are the stars right?(Helena/Courage Wolf)

The gate doesn't budge when Helena tries it, but Charlie, despite his relatively slender frame, grabs one of the rings, braces his foot against the other half of the gate, and heaves it open. Inside, there are no lights, and the air has migrainic feel to it, like a headache or worse waiting to happen. Charlie, of course, shows no reaction, simply stepping inside and looking around.

The entrance hall is made in a simple, timeless style, and paintings line the walls. There's a desk near the entrance, presumably for handling new arrivals. Strangely, there are no carpets on the floor, merely worn and sometimes chipped stone. There's a staircase leading upstairs and two doors, both heavily reinforced.
 
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Helena whistles as Charlie just yanks the door open like a fucking baws, the succubus patting his shoulder. Good job. she said simply, heading on inside. She ignored the headache feeling because it didn't actually give her a headache and took stock.

This was certainly interesting. Huh, this is cool. you do you I guess. I wanna explore. Helena said, looking at the doors, before looking around the desk for a set of keys. She wanted to go up first, and get maybe a good view of the surrounding area while she sated her curiosity.
 
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"I'll see if I can find something to eat, since it doesn't look like the storm will cease before morning." Charlie replies, heading back outside. As Helena starts going through the desk, she hears sounds of distant screaming. She soon finds a set of heavy keys and makes her way upstairs. The doors leading to the upper floors are not locked, and at the highest floor, Helena finds herself in a hallway that would not be out of place in a prison. Someone seems to be laughing behind the very first door.
 
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Helena wanders on up to the top floor, wondering what the hell she had found. Hearing laughing behind the first door, Helena looks for a window or something. Hello? she called, fiddling with the keys.
 
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The small, barred window in the door reveals only an empty cell as far as Helena can see. That door is not locked either, and the laughter stops as soon as Helena opens it, leaving her standing in a doorway to a cold, depressing cell. The only furniture in the room is a crudely made bed of iron with a thin mattress upon it, and a chamberpot underneath. The silence is broken by an eerie shriek from another cell, which is thankfully drowned out by thunder mere moments later.
 
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This place was... Cool. Cool in a haunted house kind of way. Helena left the door open, and proceeded to open all the doors on this level, looking inside. It was like she had found an old prison or something. She had no fucking idea but instead of trying to answer back to the shrieks and such, Helena started singing.

Her voice raised to drift through the floor calmly and with a sweetness like honey, relaxing, steadying, as she went from cell to cell curiously.
 
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The second cell has a restraint bar hanging from the ceiling, and it slides back and forth like some sort of twisted amusement park ride, accompanied by sickly laugher and screamed profanities in turn. In the third cell, she sees a happily gurgling man in a straitjacket who slowly bleeds from a stitched wound in his head.
 
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Helena predictably took interest in the restraint bar, inspecting it's design while she sang. So the place was actually haunted, go figure. Once she had a feel for the restraint bar, Helena running her hand along it to see how it worked, she'd move on and see the man in the jacket with the head wound.

tilting her head, her song would stop and she'd start chanting the words, reaching out to touch the headwound, a healing on her lips not because she felt any need to do so, but because it ruined the asthetics and she didn't want him to bleed on the jacket.
 
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The restraint bar is of a simple design, with merely a collar and two leather straps for attaching the patient's wrists.

In the next room, the apparition fades as Helena reaches out to touch it, only to be replaced by a vision of the same man begging and screaming for someone to make it stop. At first, he seems almost normal, with empty eyes belonging to someone already dead, but then he starts growing in size, his skin begins growing scales and his hands start turning into talons... then he's back in straitjacket, gurgling happily as the transformation reverses.
 
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So they were ghosts then. Well, that was one quick way to tell. Whistling softly at seeing the transformation, Helena backed out of the cell and kept looking. The restraint bar had had a collar on a short chain, directly attached wrist cuffs, and shakles for the ankles. Simple and effective, and a design she would put to use later. Continuing to head along, she just tried to take it all in stride. It was like the place was trying to tell her a story.

Not a pleasant story, but a story nonetheless.

It was her first time seeing what amounted to an actual phantom or a ghost and she was now too interested in figuring this place out to turn and run. This could give her answers to the nature of the souls she now carried within herself too if what she knew about ghosts being deceased people was true.
 
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Helena hears the screaming before she even opens the fourth door. A woman is tied to a restraint bar similar to the one in the second cell. One moment she's begging for meat, saying she'll die if she doesn't get it, the next she starts screaming as maggots burst out from under her skin, quickly eating her stomach, leaving only her spine to keep her legs from falling off. Then she vanishes.

As Helena turns away, she realizes that the next room has light coming from underneath the door, and there's distinct lack of screaming.
 
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Rather then simply open that door, Helena peered through the window. THe maggots had been pretty fucking nasty. This place was definitely eeeevil. So was she. But the room wasn't screaming and there was light, so she took a peak. That said, she remembered another room where she'd taken obvious bait and wound up in the stables for a week.

Still, if she saw nothing overtly threatening, she'd do something she never did. Not open the door and decide to leave it for later, heading down a floor. She wanted the layout of this place before she wound up in trouble.
 
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Inside the room, there are several obviously dead men, each with leather armor and cudgel, playing cards around a crudely made wooden table. There's also quite a bit of... interesting gear laying around.
 
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Helena jangled the keys in her hand, and noted the scene, and the gear... And she was a fucking Sucker for gear. However, it wasn't like it was going anywhere immediately and there were three dead men just... you know, being dead and fresher then the others. Rather then take the kinky bait again, like she'd just promised herself, she made a mental note to come back and get that gear, After she had a better feel for this place, heading on downwards to the second floor. For now at least she shifted her demony bits away, just a nude pink haired woman. She enjoyed the color pink. Changing her eyes to match she counted this as a new good starting point for a baseline human shape, and headed on down.
 
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The rooms here are larger, and better furnished. The first room looks almost nice, with two bunks, several chests, a table, a pair of chairs, and a bleeding wall.
 
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Well apart from the bleeding wall, these cells were actually cozy looking. She checked off another room with possible profit in it and continued to look around this floor, checking the cells. At least nothing was screaming constantly on this floor as she wandered. Yet.
 
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From the next room, Helena can hear giggling before she even opens the door. Inside, there are five young women having a pillowfight in their underwear. From the sound of it, they're having a great time, though where would they have gotten a pile of pillows in a place like this is a mystery.
 
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Re: Are the stars right?(Helena/Courage Wolf)

So, it was unspeakable horrors and restraints on the third floor, and... pillowfights and bleeding walls on the second. This place was either a: completely batshit, or b: a surprisingly interesting place to set up some kind of temporary base of operations. Who the fuck would willingly chase her in here? She had no idea but they'd have to have balls the size of watermelons. Not even Charlie had wanted to come into this place passed the entryway.

She'd however keep checking the cells, curious now. This place obviously had things that appealed to her, and she would have to check everywhere like she'd stumbled into a videogame where sadistic designers had positioned loot.

Helena took a small moment to consider why she was thinking about videogames from her old world now, or even that it was the most advanced game available that had landed her here, but still she'd continue.
 
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"Hey! Why don't you join in?!" a voice calls from behind Helena as she moves to the next door.

The next room has a large hole in the ceiling, with chains hanging through it. Helena can see something shiny on the floor in the middle of the chains, but not enough to tell what it is.
 
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Later guys. Just curious. Helena says as she moves on, before she sees a bunch of chains, and something shiny in the middle.

Well.... Shit.

Taking a steadying breath, Helena opened the door and moved a bit closer, wondering what the fuck was on the ground. At least this one didn't have a bleeding wall...
 
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