playerkills ([personal profile] playerkills) wrote in [community profile] asgardeventide2012-09-02 02:24 pm

006 ☾ voice

[ Obon had already passed by the looks of the seasons, but that doesn't stop some people from celebrating it and doing something remotely related to the summer season. Normals always told their friends ghost stories around this time of the year, so some practice will do her good. It isn't often that this particular deep, spooky voice crops up on the network, but the time she chose was a particularly quiet one in the evening. Those who know her will be able to discern its owner - Yozora. This gloomy tone is the one she usually speaks with, but it sets the mood perfectly. ]

The end of summer, the start of fall. It is during these two seasons that the world pays its respects to the spirits of the afterlife. I wouldn't say that those of this ethereal plane are above us, figuratively speaking. Yet for many generations, haven't humans always been most afraid of what they don't know? Strange occurrences that cannot be explained, - it's almost laughable how these mysteries hold so much power over us.

[ She cackles, and she didn't even need to practice two hours to perfect it. There is nothing but silence that follows. ]

What if I told you they were true? Just because we cannot comprehend these happenings doesn't allow us to simply dismiss them. Although belief is waning, tradition remains strong. There must be a reason behind it all, don't you agree?

Well then, shall we revive that tradition tonight?

I heard this from a local in the Baldr district. It happened long before the disease spread, when the city still had its color...

The protagonist of this story is... let's call her K. She had a friend - we'll call her M. K and M were the best of friends ever since they met by the lake at Gefion Park. Since then, they would do everything together, and they easily got along because they liked the same things. However, there came a time when they also liked the same boy. Fron that point onward, it was clear that their friendship wasn't going to last forever. Now, K was an outgoing girl who had many friends. M, on the other hand, was very timid. K took advantage of this and bullied M without hesitation or remorse. Libel, slander, the looks of disgust on everyone's faces and jeering from the crowd as she walked by... it was enough to drive M to commit suicide. One summer night, she drowned herself in the lake. Her pallid, lifeless face on the surface of the lake would haunt the city for weeks.

K felt guilty for what she did, but as the seasons passed, she slowly forgot about M. But, ever since M's death, a string of unfortunate events began to occur. At first, they were nothing but lost items and gusts of wind, but soon, they progressed into looping labyrinths and cryptic messages that only K would understand.

Exactly a year had passed after M's death. It was a cold summer night just like that day she drowned. That day passed by with no strange occurrences, but when K got in bed just to find her own name on the ceiling written in blood, that did it for her. In the middle of the night, she ran to the lake to sob and beg for forgiveness. But the wind only grew stronger and stronger...

It forced the girl to get on her knees and break her fall with her hands. She happened to look at the lake, and there she saw the face of a friend she thought she'd never see again.

No one saw the girl after that, but they say that if you look into the lake at this hour, she might get you...

[ Another cackle and a strong gust of wind from the window closes Yozora's story. ]

Who wants to go next?

(ooc: People are welcome to post their own stories as well, be it in video, text or voice. Others are free to reply to the stories with their character's reactions and comments. In other words, treat this post like a mingle log!)
corona: (blondie approved )()

[personal profile] corona 2012-09-16 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I have a pretty decent long-term memory... My short-term could use work. I think it was all the repetition. But I hope Mammon shows up. Her name sounds familiar.
catorce: ((h) than here)

voice;

[personal profile] catorce 2012-09-16 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. Then... [She needed friends, betrayal and a monster for the scary parts? She could do that. Maybe. Sort of??? HERE GOES NOTHING...]

There once were two friends. X and... S. X was the serious kind and S was the loyal kind. They did everything X told them to. That was the way X and S's friendship worked. [...IS SHE RIPPING OFF SOMEONE SHE KNOWS??? Yes. Yes she is.]

One night, almost before midnight, X takes S to a... graveyard. They walk around for a while, and S asks X why they're here. Serious, X tells them, [and the most booming, deep and dramatic voice she can:] You're obsolete to us now. S doesn't understand why, when...

[DRAMATIC PAUSE, AND...]

--All of a sudden, a monster comes out from one of the graves and rips out S's heart! X watches while the monster kills S, and then leaves. To this day, people still say they can hear S howling at the same hour he was killed...
entreats: (so you should just accept fabrications)

[personal profile] entreats 2012-09-17 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Familiar? Don't tell me you've been dealing with demons back home or something like that. [ she doesn't seem the type, after all.. ]
entreats: (we're going for a drive)

[personal profile] entreats 2012-09-17 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
So this is the part where I start screaming, crying, holding my hands over my ears and shouting 'no more, no more, this is way too terrible!!', right?

[ that one is pretty horrifying though, okay. ]
corona: (snarky )()

[personal profile] corona 2012-09-18 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no. My life was nowhere near as exciting as yours, trust me.
deputychief: (aah i don't think-- *)

[personal profile] deputychief 2012-09-18 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
She dismissed me at the beginning of the conversation, but as the conversation went on, I explained myself more clearly and she accepted what I said. Ah, I wouldn't say that's contradiction. That's the point of conversation, after all - to clarify matters. If one's opinions can't change in the course of a conversation, what's the point of conversing?

[technically, he could / should just let yozora handle this... but he injects a bit of prolixity in anyway.]
corona: (lovely )( i'll just go get the cool aid)

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[personal profile] corona 2012-09-18 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
...[ loo...........king between......... them. ]
corona: (realization )()

[personal profile] corona 2012-09-18 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)



...But you're still wrong.


Being wrong has nothing to do with lying.


...


It's just being wrong.

[ and sometimes she really is too stupid (???) to fuck with ]
deputychief: (is that so? *)

[personal profile] deputychief 2012-09-18 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[they seem to have gotten away from the point anyway]

So, in conclusion, Rapunzel, you're claiming that, in all honesty, neither of our stories scared you in the least.
corona: (reluctant )()

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[personal profile] corona 2012-09-18 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Claiming" means you don't believe me. But what I'm saying, in all honesty, is that your stories were wonderfully told and - and crafted? And they were both were improvised so well if you did improvise them. Because I did.
corona: (taunting )()

[personal profile] corona 2012-09-18 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Buuuut... As your friend? I think it's a reasonable request for me to just - leave the fear part to discussion between you two! I mean, I already know a lot about what you two are afraid of... [ i lied again welcome to thinly veiled threat city. ] But I'm sure it would be very interesting to see a discussion anyway! And you know what's scary? Boring discussion. Trust me. Ferns are not very good at debate.
deputychief: (hmm! &)

[personal profile] deputychief 2012-09-18 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[The question is, is she referring to the actual time he mentioned the word "frightened", or does she still think her terrifying Theophilius-got-chicken-pox story is terrifying...

Whatever. Now Yozora's been thrown off by the f-word (predictable, tbh). Best to cut this all off. And keep agreeing.]


Hmm. Yes, in that case, Mikazuki-san's guidelines on attendance seem to be reasonable to me.
glistens: (awk... |)

[personal profile] glistens 2012-09-18 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Looking back and forth again and also trying to decide whether to yell at Yozora more, laugh at Yozora more, yell at Itsuki more, la-- no that's all. Maybe also having an epiphany about what sort of company she's been keeping all this time. ]

Are you... kicking me out?
deputychief: (i c wut u did *)

[personal profile] deputychief 2012-09-19 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... [Okay, he'll backpedal next to you, Yozora...]

Mikazuki-san is understandably nervous about these things, you know. These friend things. That's why we have to give her space to set up the rules she wants to. After all, not everyone is as advanced as you socially, Rapunzel.

[hey laughing at him should be an option...]
corona: (guarded )()

[personal profile] corona 2012-09-19 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ If anyone went too far it's because she deserves it. ]

Oh - I'm not very socially advanced at all. I can't - it's hard to really tell who's on whose side anymore right now for example...
acquamarina: (☀ hoheeee)

[personal profile] acquamarina 2012-09-19 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
That's incredible... Technology really is amazing sometimes! [Akari you're from the future why are you so surprised.]

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