Barracks of Blood
 

Somewhere between the Secret Rebel Base and the Royal Refuge lie the Barracks of Blood. The Barracks is neutral ground, a place to rest during the fight for freedom. The building is grand and can accommodate many offering fresh water, food, blankets and medical treatment; however, the smell of blood is strong, and the owner is nowhere to be found. Who does this building belong to? Why is it here? And who are the invisible staff helping the occupants?


This is a role play thread. Please enjoy your time here and play fair!

The smell of blood brought Axel to the building late one night. It lingered high in the air and was so strong he could not resist. No mortal would have picked up the smell from the distance he had.

His bats swarmed the gate and flew into the dimly lit hall. There seemed to be no one here, but it was not quiet by any means. The sounds of activity in the kitchen filled his ears, and he could smell a meal being prepared, but when he went to the room, there was no one in sight, however, there were hot pots over the stoves.

The smell of blood was everywhere, or she had become so accustomed to it that she hardly noticed it's presence or not. The inside of the building was no different, excpet that it lacked a lot of the other smells that followed battle; the dust, the sweat, the metal, and it was a cleaner smell than the gangrene and human waste that permeated areas of the medical tent at times.

She didn't care. It wasn't loyalist, it wasn't rebel, and someone willing she wouldn't find anyone who still insisted on talking about the war and the overthrow of the Queen. She was here for her reasons and to help free the arco. She wasn't interested in the politics behind it all.

Inside the building she noticed one other figure, the man she recognized from the training grounds within the rebel camp: another person not from this planet. At the moment she just wanted to be in a place where she didn't have to think about the war for a moment, to work out some of the frustrations that have built up over the days of fighting, even if the place she found did still smell like blood.

Axel didn't stop to look at the newcomer, still observing the kitchen from his place in the hall.

"We aren't alone," he started slowly, before finally turning his head to look at the newcomer, "Someone... or quite a few someone's are here, however, I can not see them."

Quiet saw the steaming pots on the stove along with the freshly washed cutlery. There were definately the sounds of kitchens and food preperation though there was no one to be seen.

"It seems that way, yes."

She waited, focusing on the sounds and trying to imagine the hidden movments of whatever invisible someones were present. "They do not appear to be hostile, at this point, do you think?"

Axel shook his head, "No, they don't. I wonder... why they are here?"

Funkduder wondered into the Barrack. Upon seeing the blood he immediately became interested. "Who, what, when , why, and how? The questions can compare with the amount of blood one can smell." He began exploring. Looking from room to room without noticing the floating rags and buckets.

"There's no need to be alarmed. I don't think they are hostile," Axel said to the new guest, still looking over the kitchen.

*it apeared as it often did, quietly and without warning*

Funkduder abruptly turned his gaze to Axel, expecting the owner to be standing there. "Oh, it's you," he said lowering his guard. "I don't suppose you know where the smell of blood is coming from, do you?"

*it hovered over to the hatted one*

"The smell of blood is weakening now really. Whatever that is... They're probably cleaning up after some sort of battle. Cooking too. Do you smell the roasting meat? I wonder what invisible thing could eat that?"

Suddenly, Funkduder felt a presence above him. He swung the but of the gun-blade, attempting to hit the invisible figure. Pointing the barrel at it he yelled, "Explain yourself!"

*it stared blankly at the hatted one as it held up an iron stick thing, it touched the hatman to hear it*

"Explain yourself!"


it thought about it for a moment

....blood, no death

Axel barely glanced up for a minute, "Whatever that is, it just arrived here too."

Funkduder look at the ceiling, seeing no one there. "How weird...I could have sworn someone was behind me." He looked for a moment before turning back to Axel. "Anyhow, where were we?"

Axel shook his head, "So many times I've travelled here and never noticed this place. Something happened here, but what? Maybe we should look around a bit more."

*hearing the hat's words it let go, this one was deaf, it floated closer to the dead thing, surely it could hear having been so close to what is*

((Am I a dead thing?))

((you are not anything it can register as far as living things go moving and heartbeat aside, you are like it in that regard, you don't have a bit of the planet's soul in you, you damn dirty alien hahahaha))

((Because... I'm not from this planet? xD I have a working heart and blood. I suppose in most definitions of 'living', I'd certainly fit xD))

Funkduder felt that presence again, but ignored it, not wanting to seem anymore crazy than he already seemed. It went through him, making him incredibly tired and as his vision blurred, he leaned on his gun while seeing white outlines of the previously invisible figure. "Wha-..." He sank to the floor, watching the thing wander towards Axel.

((pretty much, it is a very old thing, things like interplanetary travel are beyond it))

*it touched the dead one cautiosly*

Axel actually chuckled a bit.

"You seem pretty tense," he said to the other man as the creature reached out to him.

((I'm much older than you think))

"Axel do you see that? It's so white, and it glows..." Funkduder watched it as it touched Axel, and were he to describe it later, her would say it was an angel, a cherubim. He fainted at the sight of it.

((I got to go, guys. I'm working out with my bro...))

*it felt joy, it was noticed*

blood no death?

"Death... yes. I died well over a millennium ago. But dead I am not," he said to the apparition as his companion passed out. He shook his head. Pity.

*it was confused, this was not the answer it needed, it tried again*

blood here location now, no death here location, location?!

*it flickered, time had eaten so much and so few could hear it anymore*

"Hm..." He looked around and could see no signs of any sort of struggle or anything.

"Probably. I think whatever happened here was not recent."

*it calmed down a little*

pulls hard, feel/think/sense much

*it had traved from the other plane when it felt the shift, worse than the gathering, worse than the monster girl this felt to it, more urgent but less imenent, something old*

"Maybe we should have a look around." he finally said, making his way down the hall and looking for the stairs. He was hoping there would be some sort of record, lodger... diary of some sort in the master bedroom or study. Maybe that would tell him what happened here and when.

*it followed behind, trying to mimic the other's movements but careful not to touch anything*

"Help me find the largest room upstairs. Okay? Books are good." He hoped the thing would understand what he wanted.

* the other spoke again, it could almost grasp sound again but it could understand nothing, it reached out imploringly but did not this time touch hoping the other would understand*

Axel shook his head, "What are you trying to tell me?"

*it began to flicker, there was so much wrong with this creature, it seemed so special but in the end was not much better than master, it reached out*

hear nothing say nothing, is something, touch

Axel tilted his head to the side, "Empathy?"

*it knew it should not, the self aware could eject it but it had no choice. it possesed the other and stole the words it needed and the mouth it did not have*

hear no mouths, too long asleep, hear words felt in mind, use touch, telaphone together with it, need touch to speak

*it let go exhastedly, it had been in the other plane too long*

((Sorry, she can't posses Axel. I won't go into detail about his powers, but it's simply not possible.))

((then it can't talk to you, it is sadly lacking in pretty much everything haha, besides you can here it, what is telpathy other than log-distance possesion, it's the involuntary control of synapsis))