Henheart's Universe
Main Discussion => The Pub => Topic started by: gm2 on June 01, 2007, 04:11:17 AM
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Don't let this forum die. I don't even have 100 posts -- I won't stand for it!
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Oh, I'll always be back to give it life support ... FREE BEER!!
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I wonder where everyone has gone...
(Aside from me, of course)
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On to other people and other places. We had a good group here for a while, but I guess that I'm not very good at coming up with expansion packs to keep everyone interested. ^_^;;
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This makes me sad...
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Aww ... *huggles*
We could all site around and tell ghost stories. All old empty mansions and castles are haunted, right?
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Hell yeah, let's do it! *brings keg*
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Free beer as in.... like it doesn't cost anything? I'm so there.
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i have come to say hey! im still around...i will still come touch base here on occation...i miss the old times... im all nastalgic now...
anyway i hope all hope isnt lost for this place...
Henhearts should live on!
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*MJDonna takes flashlight first*
Follow me ...
The street is dimly lit and quiet with evening dampness as MJDonna leads a group of Henhearts denizens through the aged Victorian neighborhood known locally as the Old North End. Summer evenings here are normally humid and stifling even if there hasn't been any storms during the day and the moisture laden air absorbs all sounds except the footsteps of MJDonna and those that follow her towards an encounter with ...
A few minutes later, all arrive at the base of a monolith of quarried red stone - a 19th century church with high, sheer walls rising up into the dark mist of the night. Its windows dark and silent and parking lot empty, there is no sign of life anywhere around the old structure ... however a pervasive feeling is present that they are not alone. Instead of marching up the steps to the church's main entrance, MJDonna leads everyone around the side of the building to a door at ground level, apparently leading to the basement. MJDonna fumbles in her purse for a moment and produces a brass key shining in the beam of the flashlight.
"I used to be on the Parish Council here some time ago, but I neglected to give them my key back after my time was done." she explained dryly and inserted the key into the lock. Without any resistance the door opened and all entered into the basement level of the church. Far from being a dusty storage area, this place was actually finished off nicely and used as a chapel. Except for MJDonna's flashlight, the only other light in the room was a single candle that burned in a red lamp up in the front of the chapel next to the tabernacle - the Sanctuary Candle. It was this that she led everyone toward and when all were present, MJDonna knelt before the tabernacle, signed herself, and then stood back up again. "You would think that with our Lord's constant vigilance in this place that no evil would dare enter here, but ..."
Instead of finishing her sentence with words, MJDonna shone the beam of the flashlight at the base of the wall just to the left of the tabernacle. And there could be seen a gray, flecked, granite plaque and inscribed on it in black lettering was the name and dates of a person's life, a priest - "Msgr. Jerome Cloarec 1842-1933" - his headstone. "This church was built by Monsignor Cloarec in 1883, so the parishoners saw fit to bury him here after he died in 1933. However, his spirit does not rest easy." MJDonna explained. "Often when you are here in this church, but not in prayer or worship service, a dull moaning like the wind through a door cracked open can be heard and it is said that the ghost of Msgr. Cloarec is up and wandering about, looking for ... enemies." MJDonna continued. "Maybe because I have spent much time here in this parish that Msgr Cloarec no longer sees me as an enemy, but no doubt all of you are suspect ..." she finished as MJDonna turned to face the other denizens of Henhearts.
However, MJDonna was not finished with her tale. "This church wasn't the only one built by Msgr. Cloarec. There was another, larger one once used as a cathedral, but it no longer exists. About 35 years ago it was burned to the ground by an arsonist who was later caught and because of his madness was committed to an asylum where he remains today." With that, MJDonna began to walk toward the back of the chapel again, however she did not exit, but turned to face everyone again. "What will never be known is how the arsonist went mad. Did his madness cause him to set the fire? Or was he made insane afterwards by the ghost of Msgr Cloarec, enraged by the arsonist's destruction of one of his great works?" but then MJDonna offered another suggestion "... or possibly, was the arsonist driven mad by the ghost of Msgr Cloarec and made to destroy the church by the ghost ... for some unknown dark purpose?" she finished morbidly and then addressed the group: "Who wishes to discover the real truth?"
MJDonna did not wait for an answer but instead knelt down on the floor and grabbed a metal ring with two of her fingers. As she stood up, MJDonna lifted the ring opening a hatchway in the chapel floor. Shining a light down the hatchway revealed a flight of rough cut wooden stairs that disappeared into the inky blackness. The bottom could not be seen. "Down there, in the lowest level is where the corpse of Msgr Cloarec lies buried ... and it is where we must go to awaken his ghost."
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I'll just hang out back here. You go wake him up.
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MJDonna stares at the group of Henheart's denizens for a looong time (more than 2 weeks) before asking "What's the matter, is everyone chicken? It's just a ghost." Very quickly everyone else begins to sprout feathers and simultaneously starts making clucking noises. "Hmm, I see." MJDonna replies discouraged and remembering the good old days of cabbits, dragons and mad scientists ...
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"Erm, well someone has to discover the real truth ... and the ignorant shall stay ignorant." MJDonna remarked scornfully as she turned away from the flock of chickens ... erm Henheart's Denizens and looked down the stairway into the inky blackness. Flashlight shining ahead of her, MJDonna began to slowly descend. The level below the chapel floor was empty and its ceiling festooned with a great complex of spider webs. The dirt floor muffled all sound leaving no echoes of the sound MJDonna's shoes on the stairs. The steps didn't end there however. As MJDonna stepped on the dirt floor, a second stairway appeared in the beam of the flashlight just to her right.
This stairway was different form the first one, it descended straight down into a stairwell lined with red stone walls on either side. The stair treads themselves were of a gray stone and quite numerous as they disappeared down into the darkness. In contrast to the first stairway MJDonna's shoes made sharp loud taps on the stone steps as she descended the second stairway. Soon the opening of the stairwell closed in over her head and MJDonna began to trek downward through a tunnel lined with the same read stone. Any pause left complete silence and truly no signs of life only to be shattered as MJDonna began to step down again. After about a hundred steps, MJDonna finally reached a level floor at the bottom and like the stair treads it was also made of gray stone. Shining the light around MJDonna saw that she had arrived in a small hall room. Several lamps were mounted in the walls and each had a very melted used candle in it. "This room has definitely been used before, but not in a long. Hmm, I wonder what they did here?" MJDonna mused to herself and began to fumble in her purse with the flashlight.
A moment later she produced a cigarette lighter and went over to one of the lamps in the wall. She struck the lighter and went to light the candle, but as she did so, "Eeeyaaahh!" she yelled as a great burst of flame erupted from the candle. Reflexes caused her to yank her hand back and MJDonna hurredly backed up a few steps. However, it was quickly apparent that she had merely ignited an abundance of cobwebs covering the lamp. "Crap! That could've caught my hair on fire!" she swore and put the lighter back in her purse. MJDonna was determined to stick with her trusty flashlight from that point onward.
"More ... than just your hair will burn ... where you are going ... " an ethereal voice spoke with quiet malice from the darkness.
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As a shiver of chill ran up MJDonna's back, she slowly veered the flashlight beam in the direction of the ethereal voice. No one was seen of course, but an arched doorway previously hidden in the darkness came into view. On tiptoe, MJDonna cautiously crept toward the doorway and went inside. The next room was much smaller than the previous one, but was very cold and damp, almost as if MJDonna had just walked into a refrigerator. In the center of the room was a large stone sarcophagus and upon its heavy stone lid was mounted a huge bronze plaque which had been made into a life size image of a man. The image was of a clergyman which left no doubt in her mind that MJDonna was standing at the tomb of Monsignor Cloarec. "Well ... so was it you after all?" she spoke quietly to the plaque.
Immediately the eyes of the plaque began to glow bright orange, but no words were spoken as MJDonna swallowed hard and stepped back. Now shivering, MJDonna watched in fright as the whole plaque began to glow orange and then all of the sudden the image of Monsignor Cloarec was standing in ghost form, face to face only inches way from the petrified MJDonna. His powerful orange aura glowed about MJDonna, but she was unable to move or speak. "So finally you have come to repent for your evil deeds ... and repent you shall!" he hissed at her with a voice of pure hate. At that moment, a muffled sound of great confusion arose from the direction of the stairways. Quickly it grew louder until a great crowd of rabid fanboys began to fill the outer hall chamber, looking for MJDonna. They found her quickly and one declared "Have no fear, I shall rescue you Madonna!!" The ghost of Monsignor Cloarec turned and glared at him and the others, but they hesitated only for an instant. Seeing that they were determined, Monsignor Cloarec dealt with them. "How dare you interfere with God's will of divine punishment for this wicked woman!!" he roared violently and with a single flick of his outstretched hand, the entire mob of fanboys stopped moving, went limp and crumpled to the floor in one mass heap. Whether they were unconscious or dead, MJDonna could not tell.
No sound was heard except a tiny "... eeeeeep ..." sound that MJDonna managed to get through her clenched teeth. The ghost turned back to her, his visage even more warped and sinister than before. "They blamed your older brother. They locked him up in the madhouse for it too, but we know who was really to blame. You were not alone, I saw what you did, I saw your evil deeds with the same eyes you see now you wicked fiend!" His voice seethed with malice so thick it could be spread on toast." Unable to answer him, MJDonna just looked back, wide eyed with terror, and waited for Msgr Cloarec to continue, which he did. "An just as you destroyed with fire ... now shall you be destroyed in the same flames!!" he pronounced his judgement. Immediately his orange aura enveloped MJDonna, and its intensity grew to blinding brightness. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" her tougue now freed, MJdonna shrieked in agony as the flames tore through her clothes and comsumed her flesh. The sheer violence and intensity of the pain caused MJDonna to black out and lose consciousness. After she had collapsed, Monsignor Cloarec continued to watch the funeral pyre of MJDonna's body with great satisfaction. Only after the flames had died out and only ashes and metal parts of MJDonna's attire were all that remained did the ghost of Monsignor Cloarec smile and vanish into the darkness.
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*White fuzzy haze*
Hmm ... what's going on? The last thing that I remember was pain ... lots of pain ... ahh! Now I remember what this is ... I'm dead!! Yaaaaaaaaayyy!! I'm not Madonna anymore!! I'm Freee!! Wheeeeeeeee!! Thank you Monsignor Cloarec!! ^__^
*Dances around in white mist*
Now let's see ... Sheepiess went to Japan and became Tadakichi-san, so I must become ... Chiyo-chan! Teeheehee!!
*Whisps away to Japan*
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Uuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!
*sssssshhhhhhllumppffffff! MJ-ghost is sucked into new body.*
Eeepers ... I didn't think that I was at Chiyo-chan's house already ... @_@
*Vision clears up a little and MJ-chan finds a mirror*
(http://www.henheart.com/images/mai1a.jpg)
Erm ... uhh ... well I'm an anime character ... and I'm still a girl ... okay got 2 things right, but ... I'm not Chiyo-chan ... Who am I? O.o;;
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I don't think anyone will ever know quite who you are, MJ... =/
At least you're not MJDonna anymore! 8)
>.> <.<
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Erm, yeah I'd have to agree with you on both counts Sheepie-chan. ^_^ I've been somebody else for so long that I don't think that I know who I am anymore either. @_@ But in any case, I need to find out who I am now ...
*There is a table in the room and there are two handbags to be seen on it. MJ-chan starts rummaging through the larger one first and soon finds an ID card/driver's license. The picture on it is of an older but rather pretty woman.*
Hmm, that one's not me, although I wouldn't complain if it was, teeheehee ... ^_^;;
*MJ-chan starts rummaging through the other purse and finds a student ID card.*
Ahh, there I am! Name is ... Taniyama ... Mai ... 16 years old ... umm well definitely not Chiyo-chan, but I should get out of here before anyone else comes back.
*Grabs purse and runs for it.*
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*lands just outside on Goliath and watches person run past him with a purse in thier hand*
"Goliath I think that person just snatched that purse, how about we get it back?"
GGGRRROOOOOWWWWLLLL!
"New you'd agree."
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*Stops and turns around to look at the source of a loud growling noise.*
Yikes! O.O;;
*Turns back and quickly dives down an entrance into the Tokyo subway system.*
*In thoughts* Erk! this is getting really weird really fast! There must be some reason why my spirit was drawn into this person's body but ... hopefully I live long enough to find out!
*Squishes between other commuters and tries to get on train.*
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*Subway entrance tunnel gets ripped apart as the huge dragon smashed its way down into the underground station.*
"Goliath stop messing around and just use your fire breath."
GGGGRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWLLLLL!!
*The huge black dragon spreys a huge flame into the station*
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*Takes seat on train as it pulls out of the station ... the orange firey glow fades as the train picks up speed down the tunnel*
Erm, I guess this will be on the TV news tonight ... umm if I have a TV ... and where do I live anyways ... ?
*Pulls ID card out of purse again*
Ahh, this isn't far away at all ... only two more stops. ^_^
*Puts ID card back but notices another, different card also in purse. Out of curiosity, Mai-chan pulls it out*
Hmm, I have a business card? I wonder what this means:
Shibuya Psychic Research
Mai Taniyama
Research Assistant
Well, having a job is a good thing I guess, tomorrow I will have to find out what this is about. It does sound a little strange though.
*Puts business card back in purse.*
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*the train grinds to a halt suddenly and the driver screams through the train yelling something about a dragon and a man wielding a sword*
"Run for your lives!!"