Madness spreads quickly within mankind, especially when it is under stress. There was war across the nations, and resources were running low. Those with power were plagued by paranoia that they might lose it, and destroyed those who they believed to be a threat. Order was lost, and institutions were made to deal with unwanted persons of all kinds so that less energy and time was wasted dealing with those who didn't deserve or couldn't afford it. These institutes are called Asylum. They all connect underground, despite having great distances between them, as they needed to be very large to hold the number of people left inside. Things outside got worse, and strange creatures were found attacking various places worldwide. Some claimed to have been human or more, but none could clearly explain where they had come from. The dangerous monsters were hidden away, out of sight, as well. At some point, nobody quite knows when, the Asylum was abandoned. Those inside were forgotten. What happened on the outside to make this happen? Only one way to find out. Make your way through the massive, labyrinthine prison and try to arrive at the surface alive, but beware! You are down here for a reason, and so is everyone else in these cells. There are crazy, violent, and even unnatural people and creatures in here. Don't get caught by the wrong one!
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Asylum Underground
- Thread starter Nyakuni
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A girl about 20 or so, long legs, nice rack, wearing a tight tank that stopped above her navel and a short skirt with no shoes walked down the hall, looking around, swinging her hips a bit as she walked on her toes. She had woken up and had no idea where she was, but Logic dictated that she find out about her surroundings, and so as Logic said, she was doing... She checked out signs and such, trying to find food. Food and someone to talk to, see if they knew anything she didnt. Logical, for the most part, when one was in strange situations, she thought. A counter voice in her head said that she was being crazy, that she shouldnt leave the place she was, what if there were monsters and people out to steal the spoon! Yet another gave a shudder and muttered something about cows and intestines... She sighed, logically the fact that she could hear these voices would mean that she was Insane, but Insanity wasnt Logical, so it didnt exist at the moment... Logic was everything. At least for right now.
Gied tilted his head slightly. He stared, quite eerily, at the wall. This wasn't a very nice hotel; no, not at all, not as they had tried to convince him when they ushered him through its doors. This was an asylum, deep underground, with lots of people who were getting in the way. Gied's nose wrinkled up and his large ears bent over at the middle, leaving the tasselled bits of fur on the ends to dangle over his nose and make it twitch uncontrollably. He couldn't scratch, couldn't scratch, mustn't - oh, forget it! Sitting down, Gied clamped his hands over his face and reached up with his clawed toes to scratch his nose, and shook the tassells away from his face. Now they bent back the other way, but that was okay. Guide couldn't use his hands to scratch, he might accidentally cut or prick himself with his pointer fingers or thumbs. That could only end badly. He'd seen what they did to others. All kinds of things. Odd, bad things. They were abnormally long and sharp like blades the nearer you got to the tips. Gied gnawed at one of his normal fingernails, cleaning out the grime with his teeth. It was so dirty down here. He should leave. But he couldn't leave. He was in charge. He knew everything. He had to stay for everybody else. After all, what was a world without its God?
She came around a corner to find the creature staring at the wall, and when he began to scratch his face with his feet, she raised an eyebrow. "...excuse me, but you must be a native here, right? Where is here, and how do we get back to there?" she asked, her voice flat of emotion. The clawed fingers on the creatures hands made her cringe instinctively, but Logic said show no fear, so she did just that. However fear was all she was feeling at the moment, which was Illogical, and so she blocked it all.
Gied looked up at her, his head tilting further to the side, looking as if it might snap at any moment were it forced to move any more. It's a woman. A cute woman. She's young, younger than me, not any younger than this place, though. He blinked back at her, his mouth widening until it appeared to be going around his entire face. When he opened his mouth to speak, he revealed long, thin teeth rather like a piranha's. It was amazing how quickly he could speak when he had to manoeuvrer such a large mouth, really. "It wants to go back, to the top, and out? If it is here, then here should it stay. This is Asylum, sanctuary, for them from us, or to us from them, but whichever, it is unsuccessful. We crawl the halls like insects, free of our entrapments, one by one, two by two. You still wish to go? All right. I am Gied, and I rule this place; allow me to give you my assistance."
She tilted her head slightly, a long pointed ear twitching slightly "Ruler, you say... So you are Native. Sanctuary, as well.... hm... that seems illogical, sanctuaries are safe, and this place is not. But i will accept your help, Geid, if it is help you offer. First off, we are hungry, and we cannot find the food, so could you guide us there? Then we shall begin our plot, since its only logical to be prepared for a good thinking session with a balanced diet..." she said mumbling a bit towards the end about the plotting and foods, a small frown on her face. This place, a Sanctuary? And what exactly did Geid mean by "For them from us, or us from them"..? And what was with the fact there were no windows? There were always windows, werent there? Unless... He did say up, which implies we are down, which means... maybe the crazy one was right about protecting the spoon... but thats beyond us now, the spoon is no more. We must make due without it, unless we find a suitable replacement, but no replacement will be suitable, logically... because a spoon would take forever to get up from our place that is down... So we will eat and think on it later...
"Safety is comparative. If this place is not, then that place may not be, or maybe worse." Gied argued, then continued to turn it around and argue himself back into a circle. "But then, worse can be better, for us if not you, and you if not them, as worse leads to better perhaps, if your plan is to go." The humanoid creature wrapped its tail around itself, leaving the tuft at the end in its hands, kneading the heavy clump of fur as if to groom it after having been clotted with dirt and such from being dragged on the floor. His bony limbs looked weak, perhaps, but with how often he twitched, he appeared to have a bit of pent up energy about him, and that might add to his speed. "That direction." Only Gied's eyes travelled to one side as he said the words; the rest of him was preoccupied with something or other. "That is where we go."
She gave a nod, thinking over what the creature had said about safety... it was indeed a question to think about now, but with no food comes no thought and so therefore food must come first. She started off in the direction he said, looking around... Yup, definately underground, not a single window... windows were pretty, they reflected her onto them so she could see herself, and herself was pretty, we all knew that much... She swished her tail a bit as she moved her hips, walking on her tip toes as if she were wearing high heels... She looked to see if Geid was following, or still playing with his tail...
Gied stood at a distance from the girl in the halls. This floor was pretty much crawling with others, and all of their cells were unlocked. He had done this himself, and was not so much regretting it as wondering if he should have done it without checking to make sure that they were all more or less safe first. He was still combing his fingers through his tail fur, but watching the girl only. She was interesting; what would she do with her freedom? Would she make it out? What would she find out there? No, that didn't matter, it didn't matter. This place mattered. Only to him, always to him, it was his. He was its god. Knowing everything, and having control over it. Except for the people. The people and things that lived inside were not his; he did not know them. But they could not do him any harm in his own domain.
Their cell was unlocked. Gabriel had known this for a while. He thought it was best if they stayed inside but after a while he realize that they no longer were being given food. He knew that Sebastian was getting hungry. They had been both without food for a very long time before but Gabriel wanted to try it's best and take care of the both of them. Gabriel was a small child. Pale as paper and skinny as a pole. He was dressed in a tight dress and looked very much like a girl. Even his voice could fool you. He would swear on his life that he was female but that wasn't the case. Sebastian was also pale with hair the same color as snow. His blank eyes stared out at the wall. They had a odd star symbol as pupils. He had pointed ears and one horn on the right side of his head. He was missing his shirt and odd writing was over his whole body. "Come on Sebastian." Gabriel said quickly as he pulled on the man's arms. Sebastian was much bigger then the boy. He was seven feet and had trouble getting out of the small door he was being dragged out of. All the while., the small boy in the dress talked on and on to the man who wasn't even looking at him.
Gied watched with eyes wide and curiosity abound. There were two more. He remembered these two. They had been awake when he had opened the door. That had been long ago. Were they really just coming out now? Why was everyone coming out now? Was there something special about now? Maybe these two were a hungry two, too. Unlike the girl he was with who he had begun to notice stopped whenever others were around, Gied was a very active perso-errrr, thing. When she paused this time, Gied hopped up onto her back and scurried around to settle across her shoulders like some huge, feather-light cat. It was amazing to think that he could be so large and yet weigh so little, but then many things down here, he thought, were amazing. "Hello, child, is this your parent? Is it a good one? If he is bad, we can be bad right back. Are you hungry? I can find you some candy. Candy with sugar, lots of sugar, sugary bits of food." His tail was now twined around the girl he was with, and he looked quite odd indeed.
Gabriel stopped tugging Sebastian along when he saw the others. He tugged on the man's arms." Look, they're are two people here. Do you like sweet things? I have never tried something sweet. And they treated you better before we got here so many you have sweet things.' the child was having a one way conversation with his friend before he turned to Gied. " This is Sebastian. ' he told him as he pointed at the man. " And I'm Gabriel. Do you like the names? I picked them myself. He is not my parent and we take turns taking care of each other. Normally I would not even give out our names but since we're here and not up there it's safe. Up there is the ones who raised us. They are not nice to Sebastian. " Gabriel felt a bit off talking to Gied. He was hit or worst for being friendly to people before they were forced in the underground. After not being punished for a while, he felt safer down where they were, but he also wanted to go back to the surface for reasons. He was the only one speaking. Sebastian stared forward without emotion. His eyes may of been in the same direction of the two, but he was not looking at them. They just seemed to stare on beyond the two. Anyone who spent too much time being looked at with those eyes would most likely develop some unstableness.
She stared at them , slowly moving to a more defensive postion, not really sure why Geid was on her, but that wasnt really her concern. Sabatien was bigger then her, and bigger ment trouble... too many bigger then hers up top that got her in trouble... shed show him before he showed her she would! She narrowed her eyes and tried to look frightening in her belly top and skirt, pointy ears and tail with a Geid on her shoulders. it would have been hysterical if it wasnt life or death to poor her, but who knew, maybe it would be only death and not to her, them always them first... no more her first, no Ladys First for her, because ladys first meant bad things....
"See?" Gied trilled, twisting his neck again, this time to face the girl he was with. "Not safe, safe down here. Stay down here. Stay safe. Simple. Pretty names, very pretty, pretty little girl. Little girl will stay down here? Not enough food, need more, must go up. Must go up and come back down, bringing food for Gied's Asylum. Pretty little girl will come for food? Going, going, up. Food first, then up, more food." Was the creature's not-so-elegant way of inviting Gabriel to come along with them up to the surface, or at least join them to the area where the food was kept. He flipped feet first from the girl's shoulders, landing on the ground in a kneeling position in front of her. He grinned that crazy wide grin of his and held out a bony hand, careful to keep the thumb and pointer finger extended at a distance from the rest of his fingers, as if to shake hands. "Careful now; peaceful but prickly, don't get pricked!"
Gied wasn't the oddest looking thing Gabriel had ever seem, but how he spoke and how friendly he acted was rather new to him. He reached out and was careful not to touch the sharp claws. "Take us with you." he told Gied. He had never held anyone's hand but Sebastians'. It was rather odd to him but he quickly got over it. " Come on. Geid is nice, see? He's going to give us food. I'm sure that there will be something tasty and we'll be able to eat sweet things too. Oh, do you like this girl? She's pretty...oh, I'm sorry I forgot about that. " Gabriel was on and rambling about things again. While he did, Sebastian started to walk forward. He stopped infornt of the girl who still seemed rather afraid of him. His eyes were looking at her but he was not seeing her. He reached out and after grasping the air, he touched her face. He started to feel it so he knew what her face looked like. He then started to feel the air for Gied's face. " He's blind." Gabriel explained to them and he guided Sebastians' hands towards Geid's face but stoppped before touching it. " What do we say? Hmmm? Feeling people is rude! You gotta ask first." Gabriel said but Sebastian did not ask any premission to go ahead and touch Gieds face.
She flinched when he touched her, but let him, making biting motions as he got closer to her fingers... after he was done with her she backed up a couple of steps to watch them... no way she was gunna trust a blind guy,... who knew if he was just fakin it or maybe he was some kind of thing that ate peoles eyes and what about the girl? looked too cute to be dangerous, but what about the doll she had as a child.. thought that was cute and it bit her bad...
Gied watched the man's hand with something between consideration and confusion, and his ears folded straight back against his skull when it touched him, cringing away from it. His nose twitched again but this time out of discomfort, and he jumped backwards, staring at the blind man with wide eyes. He crept close again on all fours, tail snaking back and forth in the air, and drew himself up directly in front of Sebastian. He was close enough that their noses almost touched, and he was looking into the man's eyes as if they were the only thing in the world. Gied took a moment before he stopped staring, and proceeded to sniff the man; just twice, and very quickly, then he jerked away again. His tail was now curling between his legs, and Gied looked doubtfully up at him. "Look, smell, listen, but no touch!" He requested, finding himself beside the young girl for the second time. "Tell him bad, very bad, no bad touch. No food for bad men who touch."
Gabriel quickly pulled Sebastian away from the two of them. He didn't understand why Geid and the girl seemed upset over being touched. " He...he wasn't going to hurt you." Gabriel said quickly. " It's the only way he would know why you looked like. And he won't do it again either. Right? See, he won't touch you again. Besides, you held your hand out to me. Why did you do that and not like Sebastian touching you?" Gabriel hugged around Sebastians waist at the thought of Gied not letting Sebastian eat. He swore to himself that he would always take care of the man. " What if he was sorry? Would that make you feel better?" Gabriel asked. Sabastian looked over but did not say anything. He didn`t do anything other then put one hand on the small childs shoulder. "See? He`s sorry."
She started laughing, hysterically for no reason really... it was comical how this little girl was standing up for the mute blind man and yet even though that was mildly entertaining, the thouhgt that crossed her minds had been funnier; what if they ate them? she was hungry enough to, and the man smelled ok even if he was damaged meat... and he touched her. Nothing touches her without getting bitten. Well, all except Geid. He didnt look tasty. Her stomach growled loudly as she slowed her laughing to little chuckles, wiping tears
Gied pouted and glared back at Sebastian with his ears out to either side. It was similar to a cat who'd just had his fur rubbed backwards or been sprayed by water. "Sorry, sorry; sorry nothing! It says nothing. Is not sorry. Gied not sorry. No food!" Gied insisted, tail swishing now. He bared his teeth at the offending man, but the the girl he had been going to look for food with began laughing. Ears pricked, expression uncomprehending, Gied turned his attention to her. His body tensed. "No good, no good! Bad little things, bad." He looked up at the girl questioningly, as if starting to think that she, too, must have something wrong with her.
"Why are you laughing?"Gabriel asked the girl with a pout on his face. "Besides, Sabastian....Doesn`t talk. I`m not sure if he can`t but he has never said a word before. I`ve been with him for so long he doesn`t need to talk. If I say he`s sorry, then he`s sorry! " Gabriel said with the pout still on his face. Slowly Sebastian started to open his mouth. It almost looked like if he was about to say something but no sound came out. "See....`Gabriel said softly." He tried to say sorry....."Gabriel said as he looked down at the ground. "Um...can we still get something to eat? That girl seem hungry. And Sebastian hasn`t eaten in a while. I want to take care of him so......"
She laughed again, walking forwards to the two of them and stopping a couple of feet from them to bend down to her hieght, tail swishing. "You see little girl, im hungry. I eat just about anything and you..." she licked her cheek "look just delectable!" she said intentionally trying to freak her out... her stomach growled again as if to assert that she wasnt kidding... she started laughing again, putting her hands behind her head and walking past them towards foods... she needed to remind herself to get a spoon.