LURID - Asylum Decadence

[serpington]

matt completely froze up and ricca ran over and hit an alarm on her way over to the body. she emediatly used her tail to wake up max who ran over to help. the two started using max's shirt to try and stop the bleeding, hoping more help would get there quickly.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid jumped at the sound of the alarm going off. He looked at the doctor with a panicked, quizzical look. "What's going on? Why is the alarm going off? Do you have to go? Macid never liked being alone as it made Dicam all the more powerful. When he was talking with other people, he seemed to gain some control over his personality again. He didn't want Scott to leave.

[x]

Scott leaped at the opportunity, a young, starving hyena on a carcass. "Yes, Macid, I'm sorry but I have to go." He fished in the pocket of his lab coat for something...a pure silver, double-banded ring with a white diamond centered. The diamond glittered strangely, unnaturally, as though caught in artificial light. "But I can give you this while I am gone. This ring is very special, and will protect you from all the things you don't want in your life." Without asking if he wanted it, the ring was shoved into Macid's hand. Scott hated this. He really did. The others could pull it off so well, yet he...always came off as cheesy and unbelievable. Without another word he left, locking Macid's room behind him. A cold metallic sound.

****

The accident in the community room was cleaned up post-haste. The loose patients were escorted back to their rooms and the injured lad wheeled away to the medical triage within a matter of twenty minutes. Dinner was served in-room (poor Katie excluded), Nero was called to the third floor for a private discussion later that night, and Katie finally released from her punishment and sent back to her room around midnight.....all was quiet for the rest of the night.

About seven am, it started up again. This time the nurses were nervous as they went to wake up their patients. 

[Goblin Cat 😸]

The alarms had caused Rigor to jump, not really knowing what was going on. It seemed like this particular day was filled with a lot of chaos. Unlike most of the patients, though, she stayed settled on her bed, not attempting to get up and rush to the slot on her door to see what was going on. After the alarms were cut off, she closed her eyes, going into a dreamlike state. She didn't sleep, but she came back to this world when her dinner arrived. She had no appetite, however, so she left the tray where it was. "Another day.." She muttered to herself by the time it was protocol for lights out.

[Ares the Ram]

As his door shut with that familiar sound, Macid looked at the ring Scott had given him. "What a piece of junk! To think he gave something to you is laughable!" Macid continued to look at the ring. He felt around the bands and diamond. It was too small to fit on his finger, so he just moved it around in his hand. He slowly smiled as he got up and went over to his bed. "There's probably a microphone in it. They want to spy on us!" Dicam was trying to freeze the ring so he could shatter it, but found that he could not move. Macid lay down in the bed and closed his eyes, slowly drifting off to sleep. With Scott's ring, Dicam was just a voice in his head now.





When morning came, Macid awoke feeling better than he had ever been. The ring was still in his hand as he rubbed his eyes. It had been the best sleep he had gotten in years.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Akrill hung off of three ceiling bars while he was asleep. Each one was placed to provide the maximum support needed, and the minimum contact required for him to stay on during his sleep. These bars were basically put there to make sure he didn't have any nasty nightmares, as he would instantly fall out and wake up if he made any sudden movements. Today he was able to sleep without nightmares, letting him awake to sight the rather bland layer of paint and granite that was his room. He slowly pushed off of the bar across his legs, and grabbed onto the bar by his head as he spun around the bar and dismounted rather gracefully for someone who had only woke up just ten seconds ago. Once again, I awake to find myself alone and not alone. I  wonder if I could get an appointment with Katie... I can at least defend myself from whatever is scaring everyone else from her.

[serpington]

max sat on his bed, he haddn't been able to get to sleep due to the constant noise in his head. <he's going to die i know it! i can still see the images burning out my eyes!> "matt, calm down. you've been at it for hours." <i should have done more! i just froze up and...> there was a loud thump on the door as ricca walked past, she hadn't gotten any sleep either, <he's dead!!! he'sdeadhe'sdeadishouldhave done morevzkbvbhbzlzvnvnfvkjbvv> <oh dear god! can i please knock us out? he's not even speaking words any more!>

[Goblin Cat 😸]

She didn't sleep, but she managed to stay in the dreamlike state between being awake and total unconsciousness. She had perfected the art of allowing her mind to go and her to stay alert, not really fully asleep. She breathed deeply, resting in what seemed to almost be a meditative state as she laced her fingers together on top of her chest. It wasn't until she heard one of the nurses come in that she opened her eyes. "I don't see why we even have to come and wake you Rigor... You wake up as soon as I touch the door every morning." the nurse commented, eyeing Rigor. Although she had done this several times, she was still not used to the dragon chameleon sitting up before she even touched her.

[Entaru]

Nero sat in his office, rubbing his temples.  Yesterday had been a disaster...a fight, 2 escape attempts, and a full on mutilation.  One attempt had been Katie...which was to be expected of her.  She was a special case which required his attention at all times.  This new upstart however....this Crocodile...was becoming a problem.  3 out of 4 of yesterday's events had him at the center.   Isolation wouldn't be enough.

It was time he paid this delinquent a personal visit.

****
Entaru woke up with a start, his nails broken from clawing at his casts all night.  All he could remember from his dream was being covered in a flowing cascade of insects and spiders.   Not biting, just crawling around him....running in and out of his hair and clambering down his throat, suffocating him.  He looked at his bed around him and noticed one of his blankets had wrapped around his neck in the middle of the night.  With a light but shaky laugh, he threw off his blanket into the corner of the room.  But the weight of the blanket on him was still there.  He froze as he felt the weight shift as he heard something spill onto itself as he sat up.  He looked down slowly at the rest of his body....and screamed.

Thousands of beetles, ants, and spiders were holding him down with their weight.  They all were asleep but Entaru didn't notice or care.   He just screamed.

[x]

Katie did not wake for she had never actually been asleep....she didn't dare sleep. Too dangerous. Naturally, no sleep left her more tired than before, a sort of haze that clouded her vision and made it difficult to force herself into moving more than she had to. But she would be fine. So long as she kept up the act, as long as she got where she needed to be and did what she needed to do it would be alright.

She climbed out of bed at the first sound of nurses approaching. ... "Katie, why, you're up early..." it was one of the elderly nurses, a plump, gentle looking squirrel, who came and opened the door with a smile. "It's like you were waiting for me." she was one of the rare nurses who somehow did not seem to fear Katie, instead treating her like a child. "Come now, let's go get you a shower and a fresh set of scrubs..."

"Yes, let's go," Katie replied very quietly.

****

Sasha dreamt of home, soft visions of her family dancing in her head...but they were gone when she awoke, a nurse shaking her at the shoulder. The dreams were replaced by a horrifying sound...Screaming, from the room next door. Like a cat in fighting mode, the lemur's fur went on end. "What is..."

"That's just Entaru," the male nurse said.

"Just Entaru?" Sasha shoved the nurse's arms away from her and sat up. "What do you mean? He could need help!"

[Goblin Cat 😸]

A scream echoed through the hallways, causing Rigor to direct her vision to the door, as the nurse exited. She wasn't entirely sure what was going on. She attempted to get the nurse's attention but failed to because the nurse seemed to be scurrying in the direction of the scream. "I was just wanting to know what I was going to do today.." She muttered under her breath. She seemed irritated that the nurse had just taken off on her, but she kept her composure... At least on the outside because she couldn't afford to be ill behaved. On the inside, she was insulting the nurse with words that would have made any sailor blush.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid heard a scream echoing from the hallways. "Who was that, do you think?"  "Some poor soul getting tortured. Just like you will be soon." Macid frowned as he stretched out of his bed. Suddenly he realized that the ring was no longer in his hand. Frantically, he started searching the bed for it. "Whats the matter? Lose something? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" His breath began to shorten as he tore off the sheets to find it. When the sheets flew threw the air, he caught a glimpse of it flying with them. As it landed in the pile, he quickly snatched it and held it close.

[serpington]

max heard the scream across the hall and looked up, not really wanting to find out what happened. matt on the other hand had just calmed down when the scream set him off again. <oh god, noy another one. we're all gonna die. it's the nurses. their doing this. or it's one of the other patients. slowly trying to kill us off.> <another one bittes the dust, oh another one down, oh another one down, another one bittes the dust!> "quiet bizneg. look matt i'm sure it's nothing, and besides. the closest nurse to that room was our sister, so unles your acusing her of hurting someone i don't think it could be the nurses" "but it's posible! it's all posible! their hiding somethink but i can't find out what, listen to me. they're not like normal doctors or nurses, they know things.....> "matt you sound like a conspericy therist." <can hit him now?...> max sighed lightly. "sure..." with that he rose from his bed, hearing a loud thump in his head, and walked over to the small hole in the wall, and watched the scene unfold.

ricca was walking past her brothers room still unable to sleep after the ordeal, she banged on his door knowing he would be awake and went to continue her rounds when she heard a loud scream from the door to her left. she quickly opened the door and saw the mass of insects, not really thinking she rushed in and grabbed entaru and pulled him out of his room, slamming the door shut behind them, more nurses were running up the hall, noe of which knew what had happened.

[Entaru]

Entaru, now in a full panic, clawed at the nurse who yanked him out of his room.  Fortunately for her, his nails were all but gone thanks to the night before.  At best all he did was flutter his hands across her face like a scared bird would flutter its feathers if it smacked into someone it had not expected.  There were still large quantities of bugs crawling all over him, and they were very clearly agitated.  A small swarm of flies and wasps leapt off of him in a cloud and began biting and stinging the nurses.  Insects of varying size and color quickly began to cross from Entaru and onto Ricca.  Various spiders began biting at her hands while a large centipede unraveled itself from Entaru's leg and made its way to Ricca's.

Entaru didn't know it, but the bugs were defending him from what he was perceiving as a threat.  Ricca had torn him out of his room, scaring him even more...and now his feeble mind was in defense mode.

[serpington]

ricca felt the bugs crawling on her, she didn't mind them much, most of them not getting past her scales. she tried to calm entaru and quickly ended up letting him go after another nurse got him with a neddle while he was distracted. once he was down the neurse from eirlier cheaked him over then helped up ricca. "are you ok? a lot of those could be venomous." "i'll be fine, i just need some re....res....t..." her vision blured as she spoke, the posibly leathle cocktail of venoms mixing in her blood fron all the bites and stings as ricca passed out next to entaru.