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One Night at Tricky's (MPC 88X)
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 1, 2021 18:19:30 GMT
MPC Name: MPC 87A (No Escape) MPC Number: 88X/ 87AReward Requested: Posts
GAIA had recently been hired to investigate a rumor about an abandoned restaurant being haunted, with the supposedly supernatural activity only occurring between midnight and dawn. The details of the case had peaked Hana's interest, which was why she and LJ, accompanied by Data and Rush, would come to meet up outside the abandoned restaurant at 11:30 at night. "Alright, the location we're going to investigate, Tricky's Wonderland, used to be a relatively successful children's restaurant until it was shut down and abandoned approximately seven yeas ago after a former employee attempted to go on a shooting spree before being apprehended by police. Most of the animatronics in the restaurant were cleared out when the restaurant was shut down, but a few were left behind for unknown reasons, and there's been claims that these abandoned animatronics have been seen wandering the abandoned restaurant at night." Data explained as he read his notes out loud. "Oof, no wonder people think this place is haunted. This sounds like the setup to a horror game.""Actually, I think there was a horror game that was loosely based on this urban legend. I don't remember the name, though." Hana chimed in, before heading over to the door of the abandoned building and unlocking it with a key that the client, a former manager of the abandoned restaurant, had given them to get in. "Shall we get to work, then?"
WC: 236/1000
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jul 1, 2021 21:26:45 GMT
MPC Name: MPC 87A (No Escape) MPC Number: 88X/87A Reward Requested: Bits
LJ had arrived in his holosuit disguise and listened to the mission description at hand. A former store owner mysteriously going on a shooting spree and now wandering animatronics. Sure in the Digital World such circumstances were far from odd but this was the Human World and in the Human World animatronics didn't just wander an abandoned building on their own like bored Bakemon. "Yeah it does sound like a horror movie or game setup. Maybe folks at night are merely seeing things because the dangers that lurk at night are making them nervous." LJ said as Hana unlocked the building.
Stepping in ahead of Hana and her partners he looked cautiously around before waving them in as he said "It seems to be all clear so far but perhaps we should keep our guards up just in case the humans aren't seeing things." The thoughts of a SkullSatamon from when he was a baby once again came to his mind and the very image of that digimon made him briefly shudder but made it look as if a stray cold breeze blew in the door. Curse his pride sometimes.
Word Count: 190/1000
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 1, 2021 22:45:48 GMT
"Agreed. For all we know, this supposed 'haunting' could also potentially be a Digimon taking residence in the place and trying to keep intruders out. All the more reason to get to the bottom of this mystery." Data said as he adjusted his holosuit's glasses and followed LJ and Hana inside, while Rush was currently in Hana's Digivice due to lacking a holosuit of his own.
The place definitely looked abandoned, as signs of dust and decay were clearly visible along the walls and floor of the restaurant. Hana whistled at the sight after pulling out her flashlight to look around. "Man, this place is creepy."
At the stroke of midnight, the darkness-filled building would suddenly spring to life. The lights in all of the rooms turned on at once and several arcade machines could be heard making noise in a distant room.
"Well, I guess that 's one point leaning towards either the haunted theory, or the squatter one." Data said. "Either way, we're clearly not alone in here, so keep your eyes out." WC:411/1000
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jul 1, 2021 23:06:39 GMT
"At least if it is a digimon concealing itself it's would be something we have a chance of dealing with." LJ said as he began moving away from the door his nose crinkling from the dust and possibly other smells. Meawhile Hana had brought out a flashlight and mentioned how creepy the place was. "The dust and other smells that come from the place being abandoned aren't that enjoyable either."
Just then the it hit the stroke of midnight and the whole building sprung to life with the lights and sounds of the place sounding throughout the place causing LJ to spring into a defensive fighting stance. Seeing nothing coming at them he was glad he didn't do something embarrassing like shrieking and stumbling over chairs or tables. Seeing nothing so far he calmed his hammering heart and dropped his stance. Yes it was clearly unlikely they were alone and LJ was now more on alert than he was when they walked in the place. Just what did they sign up for? Though it was unsettling they were here to find out the truth of what was going on. He just hoped it wasn't worse than a mischievous homeless human or there would be a problem. "Don't worry, Data, I fully plan on keeping an eye out."
Word Count: 407/1000
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 4, 2021 18:03:09 GMT
"That's good." Data said to LJ, as he headed towards one of the hallways leading out of the entrance room of the restaurant. "I'll go look for the security room, while you guys look around for any clues. Let's be careful and call each other on the comms if we find anything."
"I think that sounds like a plan." Hana agreed as Data went down the hall and vanished from sight. Hana would then take the opportunity to release Rush from her digivice so that the Keramon could provide some extra security. "Well, if Data's gonna look around the left side of the building, then that leaves the right side and the basement to be explored. How do you want to do this, LJ? Should one of us go check the basement while the other checks the right wing?"
Hana would then catch a quick glimpse of movement coming from a doorway, causing her to spin around and aim her flashlight at the door. However, whatever it was that had moved was already out of sight. "I take it back. Let's NOT split up further, shall we?" WC: 598/1000
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jul 4, 2021 22:09:04 GMT
Data volunteered to head for the security room while everyone else looked for clues. Something about this place was making LJ begin to think splitting up in any form was a horrible idea but there was no stopping Data now as the disguised Hagurumon had disappeared around the corner so all LJ could do was hope Data didn't need to digivolve to defend himself.
Then Hana suggested they should split up further and LJ didn't like that idea at all. That and unless he had to fight he was hesitant to deactivate his holosuit or he could end up floating due to his misbehaving magic or even worse being stuck to the ceiling. One thing that made him feel better was he hadn't so much as smelt or heard anything amiss but this felt like things were only going to get worse from here and he didn't know why yet. Maybe it was instinct just screaming in his face but he wasn't going to totally ignore it.
He was cut from his musings by the faintest hint of movement before Hana pointed her flashlight at the movement and it seemed to make the teen girl change her mind about further splitting up which relieved him at some level but he saw the movement too so he stuck near Hana even with Rush out. "Maybe we should start with the basement and then look around the upper floors."
Word Count: 644/1000
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 4, 2021 23:12:31 GMT
It didn't take Data very long to find the security room, since it was the only room in the building equipped with monitors for viewing the building's security cameras. "Bingo. Now, let's see what we can find on these things." The disguised Hagurumon said to himself as he used the monitor's controls to scroll through the various cameras. "Huh, looks like there are cameras for just about every room except the bathrooms and the basement."A flicker of movement caught his eye, and Data looked over to see a pair of doll-like figures with white masks on their heads peeking at him from the doorway, that definitely weren't there before. "Oh boy." "Yeah, the basement's fine." Hana agreed, and Rush nodded vigorously to show his agreement as well. The duo would start to follow LJ towards the basement stairs, but stopped after a few minutes when they heard the distant sound of a music box playing, along with a scraping sound. "The heck is that?"A question that would soon be answered by the sight of a tall, black and white figure walking down a hallways while scraping it's clawed fingers along the wall hard enough to leave scratches in the drywall. The animatronic clearly showed some signs of disrepair, as most of the plastic covering on his torso had been removed to reveal the spine of its endoskeleton. The animatronic's red eye gave off an eerie glow as it looked at the trio in front of it. "Well, hel-l-lo there b-boys and girls, and welc-come to Tricky's Wonderland! Where the food-d-d is hot, and ẗ̶̺̼́̈́h̸̭́͆ḙ̴̑͠r̷̰͒ĕ̴̪̺̉ ̸̯͠͝i̸͈̅̐s̸͈̪̒͠ ̷̗̰̈̏ń̷ͅo̷̮͊ ̴̫͍̊è̸̳s̸̙̼͋č̵̗̗ǎ̷̟̈p̸̠̟̽e̸̕͜ the party nev-v-ver ends!"
WC: 882/1000
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jul 4, 2021 23:33:55 GMT
As Hana and Rush followed him toward the basement the sound of a music box as well as a scraping sound caught his attention as well. Then Hana asked about it causing LJ to turn in the direction of the sound seeing what seemed to be some kind of animatronic in a state of disrepair leaving claws in the drywall. This caused LJ to quirk his brow in confusion before he said "I know that thing wasn't there a minute ago."
The animatronic's red eye glowed before it said "There is no escape."
This words from the animatronic caused LJ to cross his arms looking at it before he said "You do know that we can leave any time we want so why should we be scared of you?" Sure LJ had no idea where this thing came from or where the music box playing was coming from but the music would of been easy enough to pin down. "Hey Hana, was this restaurant also some kind of haunted house or something?"
Word Count: 816/1000
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 5, 2021 0:10:36 GMT
"Uh, no... no it was not. The animatronics weren't ever meant to leave their stages, so the fact that this one is actively walking around and talking like it's possessed? I'm preeetty sure that's why we were called in to investigate this place in the first place." Hana nervously said to the disguised Leomon X as she slowly backed away from the mechanical abomination in front of them. "How are you not even phased by this?"Rush charged at the animatronic, only for it to casually backhand the Keramon hard enough to send him flying back down the hall until he hit the far wall. "I think this is the part where we should run." Hana said, before grabbing the dazed Keramon and running in fear as the animatronic got on all fours and rapidly started crawling towards the trio while letting out a demonic screech. "Go, go, go!"
Meanwhile, Data was preoccupied as he examined the two animated dolls he'd come across. They seemed harmless enough, more interested in playing around with their surroundings than anything else. "Just what are you?"The distant sound of the animatronic's screech caused Data to snap to attention and charge out of the room, dropping his holosuit and digivolving to his Guardromon form as he ran towards the others. Meanwhile, one of the two dolls watched him run off, and stamped its feet in frustration for failing to distract the Guardromon long enough for two other dolls with black masks to drop down from the ceiling and attack Data with rusty kitchen knives. The other white-masked doll (with a chip on its mask) looked at the other three dolls in confusion before the other white-masked doll smacked it on the head.
WC: 1170/1000
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jul 5, 2021 1:57:06 GMT
So this thing was never meant to leave a stage area so what was causing it to creep towards them like this? Then Hana asked how LJ wasn't phased, he answered "I went through something scarier as a baby. Despite for some reason not remembering much of my early childhood, I do remember a SkullSatamon that was intending to consume my family and I for new moves or even to power inventions so a seemingly possessed animatronic isn't that bad by comparison. Don't get me wrong this is somewhat creepy to me."
After Rush charged the thing and was backhanded away hitting a far wall LJ winced then kept a wary gaze on the animatronic ready to deactivate his holosuit but only as a last resort. Hana scooped up Rush and said that they should run before running. At the animatronic's unpleasant screech LJ covered his ears hissing in pain before seeing the thing begin crawling on all fours towards them. "Yeah, for the time being running sounds like a good plan." LJ said following Hana as she ran. He hoped things were going better for Data in regards to information gathering.
Word Count: 1008/1000
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 5, 2021 2:28:06 GMT
LJ's explanation about his past definitely made sense to Hana as the trio continued running from the demonic animatronic. "Yeah, that'd probably do it. Even the mutated Cannonbeemon we fought once wasn't as terrifying as this thing!"
As if on cue with LJ thinking about him, Data would charge past the group and head straight towards Tricky to punch the spindly animatronic in the face. The force of the punch knocked the animatronic onto its back, but didn't seem to do any actual damage to the possessed machine.
After getting back to its feet, Tricky would then seemingly ignore the Guardromon in order to try and continue pursuing Hana and LJ, only for Data to grab Tricky's shin and hold him back. "Oh, no. you're not going anywhere punk!"
Tricky's only response would be to turn its head towards Data and glare at him while it detached the shin's plastic shell, revealing the endoskeleton beneath and allowing Tricky to escape from Data's grip and continue trying to follow the others. Data couldn't keep up with the animatronic, allowing it to climb into a large air vent and disappear.
It wouldn't take long for Hana to reach the door they came in and try to escape the building, but the door simply wouldn't budge, no matter how much anyone tried to force it open. For now, the group was trapped in this derelict restaurant with a terrifying animatronic. WC: 1407/1000
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jul 5, 2021 2:51:59 GMT
The sight of Data charging by as Guardromon and striking the animatronic surprised LJ but he kept up with Hana just incase that thing got away from Data and continued after them. LJ heard a faint sound of something in the air vents and hoped that their pursuer didn't dive in their since the only way he'd easily fit was to dedigivolve and he wasn't eager to go after some possessed monster in an air vent even in the best of times.
Seeing Hana trying to pull the door open revealed they were locked in. After tugging on the door himself, he scrunched his brows in thought before he said "Perhaps we aren't trapped, Hana. Maybe if we use a digimon attack we can escape by blowing off the door but that still won't solve why that animatronic is on the move."
At this point LJ deactivated his holosuit and readied to make an attack on the door only for his body to glow with a light purple aura as his magic was deciding to conveniently act up. Next thing he knew he was floating towards the ceiling but didn't get more than a couple feet off the ground before drawing his sword and stabbing it into the floor holding on for dear life. "Of all times for my magic to do this to me."
Word Count: 1233/1000
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 5, 2021 3:30:51 GMT
It wouldn't take long for Data to catch back up with the others, only to try and pull the floating Leomon X back down towards the ground. "Okay, so we've got whatever the hell that thing was to deal with, along with a couple of tiny dolls I came across earlier. Luckily, the little ones didn't seem very antagonistic, unlike our black-and-white friend crawling through the ventilation system."
As if on cue, the one little doll with the chipped mask would waddle over to Hana and tap on her leg to get the girl's attention. When Hana looked down at the little doll, it merely waved happily at her, which startled her into jumping backwards and falling onto her backside as the doll crawled onto her lap and reached out to smush her cheeks with its tiny hands until Hana picked it up and held it away from her face. "Well, a least this one seems friendly."
The sound of scuttling in the ventilation system would likely draw everyone's attention, though. Data would point in the direction of the security room and said, "Alright, we need to move. The Security Room's our best bet for now, since that place has a metal door and no vents big enough for our animatronic enemy to fit through."
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jul 5, 2021 3:45:09 GMT
Data had caught up around the time LJ had started floating and when Data grabbed him the light purple aura surrounding his body ceased like last time as if something pulled the plug suddenly on him causing him to drop landing hard on his front. "Ow." LJ groaned before pushing himself to his feet, grabbing his sword and sheathing it.
Then a little doll had come into view and was climbing all over Hana. When Hana held it away from her face he snatched it from her, gently set it on the ground, and then removed his blue cape and looked as if he was trying to shoo the doll away as he said "Go on. Get. Shoo." Whether that would work or not would soon be known but LJ wasn't in the mood to take chances especially after every thing that had happened so far.
Scuttling was heard again causing LJ to look up before he said "Yeah this security room sounds like a good idea for the time being." He put his cape back on before holding his hand out to Hana and said "Come on, Hana. Unless we want a meeting with our friend from before we should get moving."
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 14, 2021 22:57:14 GMT
The little doll merely looked at LJ in confusion as the Leomon X tried to shoo the little wooden figure away, not understanding that LJ was trying to get it to leave. Not that the others noticed, since they had started heading towards the security room as quickly as possible in order to avoid another run-in with Tricky. The little doll with the chipped masked quickly hurried after them and managed to hitch a ride on Rush's back.
"F-F-FoUnD yOu!" After the group made it to the security room, a familiar glitchy voice could be heard coming down from the hall as Tricky made his presence known once more and began charging down the hallway. Data was barely able to slam the security room door shut in time for Tricky to be heard slamming headfirst into the door. "Ow!"
Meanwhile, the three antagonistic Tricky Dolls were secretly observing the quartet inside the office through a small opening in the ceiling. Not big enough for Tricky himself to crawl through, but perfectly-sized for the smaller animatronic dolls. The doll with a white mask gestured to the two dolls with black masks, and one of them jumped down the hole while carrying a rusty kitchen knife while aiming to land directly on LJ's head.
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