Dawn Unravels

Up until recently maintained as a museum, the childhood home of the Braddock family has been pressed into service as classroom space for the University. Additionally, the increased demands have led to the main ballroom being converted into a cafeteria for University students on a meal plan. The old library has been bolstered with college textbooks.

Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:23 pm

The sun's peaking over the horizon as the woman stumbles up the road towards the university's gates. Her normally tightly braided grey hair is askew and first glance might dismiss her as a drunk who has wandered too far in the wrong direction. A closer look past her disheveled appearance would see the blood on her torn shirt front, the blood on her hands, and the metallic glinting shears clutched in her right hand. The shears are also stained with blood, but the blood looks different. She drops to one knee with a grunt of pain and long moment of quiet. Then she struggles to her feet, staggering on towards the gates with determination.

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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Fri Sep 29, 2017 7:21 pm

Diego had been taking a brisk jog when he saw the bloodstained woman approach the gate and drop.

"Oh crap... hold on!"

He hurried to open the gate and run out to help. Noticing the bloody shears, he slowed for a more cautious approach.

"You... okay miss? Are you hurt?"
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Fri Sep 29, 2017 8:03 pm

"Hurt, yes," she rasps, "Dying actually." She coughs and some blood trickles from the corner of her mouth. She drops to one knee again, coughing again which elicits more sounds of pain. "I am here... to meet..." More coughing cuts off whatever she was about to say.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Fri Sep 29, 2017 8:12 pm

Mindless of the shears, he rushed to support the woman.

"Shh! Don't talk. We have doctors. We can help. Just hold on," he insisted, fumbling for his cellphone with one hand.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Fri Sep 29, 2017 10:07 pm

"This thread is done," she says, leaning on him. "There is no stopping its breaking."
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:00 am

"Your... thread? I don't understand," he replied, starting a call to the infirmary.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:05 am

"Dying a warrior's death in a foreign land, not my preferred way to go, but... it's still a good one," she says before coughing takes her again.

Someone in the infirmary answers, "Medical Center."
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:09 am

"There's an injured woman at the gate. She's... she's hurt pretty bad... please hurry," he said urgently into the phone.

"Don't talk like that... you're not dying if I can help it," he told the woman.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:21 am

"We'll send someone right away," she responds, "just stay where you are."

The woman smiles at Diego,the shears falling from fingers gone numb, burying themselves into the ground. "Now is not the time for false hope. The Morrigan must know that the dead are moving."
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:15 am

"The... dead?" he asked, deciding at this moment to keep her talking.

Poor lady's delirious...
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:18 am

"The dead... the... draugr... the vampyr..."
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:52 am

"Don't worry. I'll give her the message." At least, he thought he knew who she was looking for.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:04 am

She sags against Diego. He can see the people coming from the medical center, but he can also see a glow flare around the old woman and then begin to fade rapidly.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:08 pm

"Miss?" he asked, gently shaking her. "No, no, no... Miss! Wake up!" he implored desperately. He checked for a pulse but on some level he already knew... no, felt what the fading glow meant.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:25 pm

As if to confirm his fears, he couldn't seem to find a pulse. The people from the medical center arrived, taking over rapidly, checking the woman's non-existent vitals before starting CPR as they took her towards the medical center.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sun Oct 01, 2017 1:12 am

Diego had never seen someone die before and watched in a daze as the whisked the woman away in a hopeless attempt to resuscitate her. She had been talking one moment and then was gone in a flash. That he actually saw that flash was the last thing on his mind as he began to trudge toward the dorms.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Sun Oct 01, 2017 3:10 am

As he walked away, he was suddenly brought up short as if someone had tied a string around his tail. There was no string on his tail though. If he looked back, there was just the woman's blood on the snow and the shears still buried point-first in the ground. Still, for a moment he thought he could see a faint line tangled around his tail, connecting him to that spot and more importantly tied to the shears.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sun Oct 01, 2017 7:12 pm

Diego let out a startled yowl as something yanked at his tail. He whirled around and grabbed at the barely visible string, looking quite confused when his hand passed through it.

"The heck?" he said, squinting to follow the line. He had to concentrate to see it, unaware of his eyes softly glowing as he did so.

"The... scissors?" he asked with a blink that made him lose the glow and sight of the string. He walked back to examine them.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:13 pm

They were where she dropped them, sticking out of the snow, but it was easy to see that the points were actually stuck into the ground. They were steaming slightly and the blood on them was beginning to disappear.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:56 pm

Normally he wouldn't even think of touching evidence, but this was just too weird. He crouched and tentatively reached out to touch the shears as if testing a hot stove.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:10 am

The shears weren't hot, but as his fingers moved closer to them, his fingertips started to tingle like the shears held some sort of electrical charge.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:34 am

He pulled his hand back. But as curiosity is a leading cause of death in felines, he went right back and picked them up.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:52 am

The energy jolted up his arm, through his body, and then down his tail. It then reversed the path, running back into the shears. He got a distinctly negative vibe from the shears. Not a doomed vibe, just negative.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:14 pm

A second shocked yowl was cut short by an intense shiver. It felt as if someone had walked over his grave. He let go and stared at them as if they might attack. He pulled his jacket sleeve down over his hand and tried again.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:24 pm

That didn't seem to help matters either. In fact, this time a voice reverberated inside his head and he could feel something picking through his brain. It was a thoroughly unpleasant feeling. WHERE IS THE WEAVER?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY CHILD?
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:09 pm

He jumped back and dropped the shears like a... well, like a pair of angry, talking scissors with mind powers.

"Nope! I'm out!" he said before taking out his phone to contact... was it McMahon? McManus!
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:32 pm

There certainly is a 'McManus' in the student directory.

She doesn't look like much, but her codename certainly is listed as 'Morrigan.'
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:04 am

And so the jaguar called the raven to talk about the old woman and her magic scissors. Another day at XU.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Oct 03, 2017 1:07 am

"...hello?" Sam asks at the unfamiliar number.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Tue Oct 03, 2017 4:23 pm

"Hey... umm... I don't know how to put this but... there was this old lady at the gate and she... God she was hurt bad... she..." he began, growing more distraught by the word before taking a moment to collect himself.

"She wasn't making sense but she begged me to tell the Morrigan that... I swear this isn't a prank... that the vampires are coming. Then she... died..."
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Oct 03, 2017 8:14 pm

"Wait, what?"

"I... where are you?"
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Tue Oct 03, 2017 8:35 pm

"By the gate. Her... yeah her scissors are tied to me or something and when I pick them up they... yell at me?"

He tried to see the string again, fully expecting to be tangled in it.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Oct 03, 2017 8:42 pm

"Look, just... just stay right there. I'm on my way."
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:02 pm

The string was loosely looped around his tail. Less tied than tangled in his fur.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:03 am

"Will do," he answered before hanging up. He tried shaking off the phantom string.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:12 am

The string seems to resist being shaken off, actually tangling more into his fur the more he tries to remove it.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:18 am

Not one to quit so easily, he shook harder, flicking his tail like a whip.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Narrator » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:21 am

The string yanked his tail, jerking on it hard in response to the whip, pulling him closer to the shears.
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Diego Zapata » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:51 am

"Ow! C'mon! Whaddya want from me!" he yelled at his inanimate tormentor. "To pick you up again?"
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Re: Dawn Unravels

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:50 am

"...okay, I was ready to take the scissors thing in stride, but I didn't expect you to be yelling at them," she says as she approaches.
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