The Gigyas Tapes (Invite Only)

[gantzgun74]

Unlike Ed... OBVIOUSLY... Wally could smell something rotten going on. Looking up at the projection booth, he rubbed his chin a second...

What was going on up there?

The time for guessing was officially over, Wally got up from his seat. "Guys, I gotta go..." He considered Ed a second. "To... The bathroom, Yeah! That's it!" He quickly squeezed himself out, and walked up the aisle to the door in the back... And one could tell he was powerwalking.

'If this thing starts talking to me... I swear I'm gonna have nightmares for weeks...' With this happy thought in mind Wally quickly reached for the door...

[If you want some kind of dirt to use against Wally, the best of this is the factor that he left the monks many years previously. It turned out to be a smart choice of course, given what the monks were going to do, but he would still feel regret since he thinks the choices he made wouldn't be the ones his parents would make. If you want more info, just check out Otto's bio on the Dimensional Clash Wikia. I'll have Wally's up soon.]

[mugenginga]

Lucca jumped up as Nefarious went into his "villian" speech. She pulled out her Wondershot and pointed it at the professor. Being a "mad scientist" as he was, he might recognize it as an actual lasergun like weapon than the red, orange, and yellow toy it resembled.

"I won't let you use robots for evil without a fight!" she shouted. She looked rather determined. Rather than calming her down as the threat might have been intended, she seemed to be rather pumped up.

She heard someone get up behind her, and hoped it was one of the people from before as opposed to someone sneaking up on her. Just in case, she loosened the loop around the hammer that went with her Wondershot. She could clock someone if they tried to attack her from behind. Her gaze remained fixed on Nefarious the whole time.

(OOC: See her application for full details on her weapons. Also, for dirt... hmm... well, maybe reading her backstory would help? She has an unfulfilled crush on Crono and there's a bit of baggage involving Robo that could be used. She also went back in time to save her mother's legs, and has a bit of a conflict in memories because of it. She kinda regrets she and her friends couldn't help Magus with Schala, as well.)

[Firebreath Fishslap]

A third person got up, this time Gogo, who was pointing her robotic hand at Nefarious. There was an orb of orange energy forming in her hand. In actuality, it was a laser being charged up. "Turn the damn projector off. Now." She'd dealt with ghosts before, and it looked like this projector, or possibly the film itself, was possessed. And she didn't need it digging up any dirt of hers.

(OOC: For dirt on Gogo, check the Invasion of the Ridiculously Human Aliens thread.)

[nintendonut1]

(XDDDD I LOVE how you're all handing 42 dirt. That's AWESOME.)

"Awww, waaaait!" Ed whined. "Don't stop the movie NOW. It's getting good!"

[42zombies]

Nefarious stood firm; he'd stared down heroes and demons and monsters who ate stars for breakfast. Well, at least they're not panicking... Nefarious thought, biting his lip not with worry, but with genuine fear. Damn it, what am I going to do?!

Nefarious tried to contact Jorge again; no response. Whatever was going on, it was screwing with his equipment. All Nefarious could hear was radio static. No, not just that-- something more, like a distorted lullaby sung by the madmen in bedlam. And when the lullaby ended, there was nothing but screeching noise in Nefarious' ear.

And his head still hurt.

"As John, Bill, and I made our journey into the Ghost Town, we realized we may never make it back."

"Shit." Nefarious muttered under his breath, turning to the screen. It was him, providing the narration as the team stepped out of a cab. Before he could contact Jorge again, however, a steel blade was against his neck.

"You think this is fucking funny?" 4 whispered. Nefarious realized with a start that the assassin's voice wasn't raged. He was shaking with rage, his brow furrowed, and yet his voice seemed calm and indifferent. "Turn the movie off. Now."

"I-- I can't." Nefarious confessed. "I can't call my projectionist. Something's gone wrong." "Then set it right." 4 hissed, pressing the blade closer.

The answer didn't come, though-- the film kept rolling.

"So, I left my home and said good-bye to my neighbors." Bill Murray said calmly into the camera. "I mean, at least I'm not some jerk who only leaves [glow=red,2,300]a note[/glow]. What if nobody knew I left and something happened? Or, what if something happened to them?

"Yeah, I'll bet something happened to them, Wally." Bill said in the distorted lullaby-voice. "I'll bet someone came and burned the temple to the ground. And nobody ever saw mommy or daddy or dear old Rachel ever again. And you, Mr. 'Kitakazi', could have saved them if you'd stayed at home."

Time to change reels-- and the change came with a disturbing image. In-between shots, the vision of a burning temple could be seen against a night sky. The image grew longer in duration until it seemed it would last an eternity. And then, with no warning, the film cut to black.

[gantzgun74]

[The only factor you got wrong in that assessment 42, was that Rachel survived the Temple of Balance's ransack. But don't worry, I have the perfect way to fix this, without you having to alter anything. And to NN1, well of course we would! Considering where this is going, and since 42 doesn't know our character's backstories, it only makes sense that we should give him a hand.]

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ZZZZZZ-BASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone that heard that sound and quickly turned to see it would see the door, slowly swinging on it's hinges, dust, though no-one KNEW where it came from, kicked up to 8 feet into open air.

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Wally was in hysterics... No he wasn't in hysterics, he was BEYOND hysterics. To say he had never been more horrified in his LIFE would've been a freaking PROFOUND understatement. Heck screw what he thought about this movie giving him nightmares for weeks... That single scene alone would give him nightmares for YEARS.

Running on pure adrenaline, the boy was running at speeds equal to mach 4 his eyes quickly scanning the theater's lobby. There was the front door right in front of him... No, he couldn't leave, he wasn't about to leave his friends behind. His eyes was looking for something else... And he quickly found it too as he zoomed around.

Running up the stairs, never once losing speed, he found himself looking down a hallway, with one door in sight. And he didn't need to be a genius to know that the sign on it said, 'Projection room'.

"I've gotta stop this... And I've gotta stop it NOW!!!" He took off running...

But as soon as he did, an odd sound suddenly crossed his ears, it screeched into his ears...

A... A lulaby, of some kind... Wally didn't know if he should be soothed or be in pain. It felt like whatever it was was soothing him like some kind of anesthetic, while piercing through his head at the same time. It almost felt as if he could just drop to the floor and take a nap right there. Wally held his head, moaning in agony.

"Yin... HELP ME!!!!!"

He quickly looked up finishing that prayer...

"... No... No... NO... NO!!!!!"

The outside of the theater was clearly seen... ... ... ...

Before the silence of the outside was pierced by a scream, a scream of terror, pain, panic...

A scream of pure utter horror...

[It's in my assessment that, if the film is possessed it will do everything to protect itself, thus why Wally fell short of his goal. I'm not sure what you have in mind 42, but I'm REALLY looking forward to it now! XDDD]

[nintendonut1]

"Huh?!" Hearing cries outside the theatre, Raz darted for the exit. "Hey! Wally!! You okay??"

Ed just sat by, munching on some popcorn he found and watching the show. Man, this was going great! Worth every penny he didn't spend!

[mugenginga]

Lucca jerked her head to the side as she heard the noise. That sounded far too much like a short-circuit for the technogeek's comfort. She realized her hand was shaking. She wasn't used to fighting alone! She found herself wishing for Crono, for Marle... Robo, Ayla, Glenn... even Magus at this point would have been far preferable to fighting alone.

But she wasn't alone, she told herself. Would the woman with the robotic arm, which could obviously be used as a weapon, listen to her? She had to take the chance. Her weapon just wasn't reliable enough to take this gamble with it alone. And if she used her magic, the fire could potentially spread... this really was the only option.

"Miss, aim that thing at the picture! If we can stop the picture we might be able to stop this whole mess!"

Lucca didn't wait for a response as she turned back towards the screen and braced her feet. She pulled the trigger of the "toy" and it made a sizzling noise before shooting off a painfully thin bit of energy. All it accomplished was a small hole in the far upper left of the screen - it certainly wasn't enough to effect the movie much.

And that's why I asked her her help! Please, miss, back me up here!

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Gogo looked toward Lucca. Yes, that might stop it! If the ghost, or whatever it was was possessing the screen itself, they could stop it. But if it was the projector...

"Don't call me 'Miss'," Gogo said. She fired off the orb that had been forming in her hand, opting to go for the orb instead of the laser. It burned a hole in the screen. "It's Gogo Gadget."

Now that was bound to cause some snickers.

[42zombies]

Nefarious watched as the movie screen-- one he would probably have to pay for now that it was damaged-- was burned by Gogo's weapon. This only gave the film a macabre atmosphere-- the documentary scene upon the fractured screen continued, smoke billowing off as the image projected itself onto that ghostly vapor.

But the sound continued.

"We found ourselves first in an old, abandonned saloon. Ed? No. Too innocent. As we continued our descent, I decided to use some of my gadgets to get a better sense of Gigyas'-- Gigyas'--"

Dead. The sound had cut off all of a sudden. Nefarious and 4 both looked around nervously. It took 4 a while, but he eventually noticed that Wally was missing.

"Yo! Jacket Kid!" He yelled. "Where's the guy who's usually with the other guy?"

"-- as' bearings."

The sound came back, this time accompanied by the static lullaby. Nefarious calmly reached into his labcoat pocket and produced a small laser. Whatever was happening, it wouldn't get him.

"Gigyas is really just a big idiot. Gigyas is really just a big idiot. Mindless. All-powerful. Douglas Cohen is really just a big idiot. Lonely. Weak. Nobody loves him. And who would? He killed his first girlfriend, his dad disowned him, and now even his ex-wife sees him as what he is: an egotistical, narcicistic loser in a lab-coat."

[gantzgun74]

It was a horrid situation that Wally had found himself in.

Lying on the ground, covering his ears, obviously horrified, a barrier covering him like a sphere. He was crying too, which was saying a lot, given Wally acted like there wasn't a problem to be found anywhere in his character.

And the reason for it?

(As I've wrote before, it makes sense that the film would try to protect itself, so this next part should make sense.)

Standing over him was easily the most macabre figure anyone could ever see. It was the figure of a woman wearing the robes of a monk, light orange with dark brown rims, her face was pale as a sheet, eyes pupiless, blood stains on some parts of her robe, while other parts were blackened as if they had been through a fire, half of the woman's face looked charred too...

But easily the most macabre part on this entire figure was the fact that a chunk of her body was missing, or to be specific, the entire area around her right shoulder looked like it had been bitten clean off by a monster, leaving what was left of the arm floating beside the body, nothing but air keeping it connected.

Wally once knew this figure as his mother... Or at least, this specter looked just like her.

"No... I didn't... I didn't mean to..."

[glow=blue,2,300]"Such a disappointment..."[/glow] the ghost glowered, the words echoing in Wally's head, making covering his ears pretty much pointless. [glow=blue,2,300]"What a defective child... He lived to dishonor the monks... Before he finally left them... Left them to die."[/glow]

Wally was trembling, crying still. "It... It wasn't like that!" He didn't dare look up, he just couldn't bring himself to see it. "The monk life wasn't for me, it never was for me... You're supposed to understand that! Mother's are supposed to understand, their children's choices!" He trembled even more, but his voice grew bolder. "Besides... When the temple was ransacked, I saved Rachel, and Aryssa from that horrid monster!! DOESN'T THAT COUNT FOR ANYTHING?!?"

[glow=blue,2,300]"No... It does not. You should have stayed... You should have followed to the bitter end, that's what people with TRUE commitment does."[/glow]

The boy covered his ears harder. "You don't know what your talking about!!!!!"

[glow=blue,2,300]"Do I?"[/glow]

[nintendonut1]

(AWW YA SKIPPED ED XD But good point, he HAS no dirt XD)

"Wally! WALLY!!" Hands roughly grabbed at the kid's jacket, shaking him back and forth. "Snap out of it! It's just a movie!!"

Of course, Ed HAD to giggle at Gogo Gadget, beginning to hum the theme to the cartoon as he kept watching the obliterated screen.

[mugenginga]

"This isn't working!" Lucca shouted the obvious towards Gogo. She didn't understand what the snickering was about. She thought it was a cool name, herself, "Gogo, can you handle things here? I'm going to go check that room up there! I think the signal is coming from it!"

Lucca pointed towards the hole that the projector's light shined out of. She didn't understand how movie worked, no. But she was good at figuring things like this out. She didn't wait for Gogo to respond as she made her way towards the doors to the lobby. If nothing else, it was clear the teenager had battle experience.

(OOC: I'm not sure if you want others to see the bloody monk, Gantz. So I'll let you handle Lucca bursting out there unless someone/thing tries to stop her.)

[42zombies]

[glow=white,2,300]I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
[/glow]

Doors to the lobby swing shut, letting out a howl of cold wind as they latch closed. Something didn't want anybody leaving the theater.

Not yet, anyway.

"Who the fuck said that?!" 4 screamed, pointing his gun at what seemed to be the sourced of the noise. Alas, staring down the barrel revealed nothing but empty space. With an eager hand, the assassin unsheathed his katana, dual-wielding his two weapons.

Was someone else in the room?

"No..."

4 glanced over his shoulder. It was Nefarious; he was staring up at his big-screen self, eyes like a deer stuck in traffic, a look of utter despair on his face.

It was soon obvious why.

"Don't be so modest, Douglas Cohen. Or is it Douglas Asimov? Or Professor Nefarious? I know it isn't Asimov-- your father disowned you after you held the world in your hand. But Nefarious is a lie, too, isn't he-- beneath that boisterous bravado, you're just a bitter, timid little psychopath."

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"SHUT UP!" Douglas screamed with all of his might at the screen. "THAT'S A GOD-DAMNED LIE!! Douglas Asimov is DEAD! All that's left is PROF. NEFARIOUS!"

Then, something unexpected from the distorted voice-- a chuckle. It was as backwards and cracked as everything else about this place, but it was a chuckle nonetheless.

"Go ahead... say it once more, Douglas... or should I tell them what you did to your wife? What you did to your child, still in the womb...?"

[Firebreath Fishslap]

From who the movie had decided to target next, it was obvious who the most fucked up person in the room was. Gogo looked at the proffessor for a moment. "Jesus christ, dude, go see a psychiatrist or somethin'"

Gogo pointed her hand up at the room the movie was projecting from and formed three energy daggers, which she threw at the glass window. The window completely shattered, but the glass was staying in place.

"--ove of God, come in!"

The voice came very loud and staticy. Not caring that everyone in the room was probably watching her now, Gogo lifted her hand,

"What the hell's going on?!"

"--5 minutes-- -brrzt- --locked out-- -brrzt- -can't get clear signal--"

"Get the hell out of here; find someone; just leave me here!"

"--ma'am--"

"You're breaking up, just GO!" Gogo yelled. She shut off the communicator just as a horrible laugh began to come loud and clear from it.