Doctor Llamabean
*winks at Markus*
The Towers
SCENE:
Outbreak
LOCATION:
Lower Central District
PARTICIPANTS:
Areith, Deirest
OUTBREAK
When someone loses all capacity for restraint, they become truly terrifying.
A sudden, high-pitched ringing descended on them from all sides and sent the forest of metal clothing racks, fallen and standing all the same, into a harsh symphony of jangling and rattling. Some of them vibrated to the point of skittering across the floor before toppling over.
The beast could sense them. Three warm bodies.
Bolts that were relied on by the building’s structural skeleton to hold them together quivered in their sockets. Pipes that ribbed the inner hollows of the walls hummed and shivered, shaking loose debris out of cracks carved by the earthquake not so long ago.
Change clattered within the stomach of a cash register. It made its way across the counter and dropped off the edge, drawer snapping open. Pennies, quarters, and dimes were propelled across the floor by a vibration of their own. Anything metal, ferrous or non-ferrous, was affected by the phenomenon.
It was unlike the raw intensity of an earthquake that stole one’s balance and threw spires of earth to the sky. Rather, a numbing frequency. Sickening.
All at once, after many seconds, not quite a minute, the ringing ceased and everything stilled.
The atmosphere had changed.
A sudden, high-pitched ringing descended on them from all sides and sent the forest of metal clothing racks, fallen and standing all the same, into a harsh symphony of jangling and rattling. Some of them vibrated to the point of skittering across the floor before toppling over.
The beast could sense them. Three warm bodies.
Bolts that were relied on by the building’s structural skeleton to hold them together quivered in their sockets. Pipes that ribbed the inner hollows of the walls hummed and shivered, shaking loose debris out of cracks carved by the earthquake not so long ago.
Change clattered within the stomach of a cash register. It made its way across the counter and dropped off the edge, drawer snapping open. Pennies, quarters, and dimes were propelled across the floor by a vibration of their own. Anything metal, ferrous or non-ferrous, was affected by the phenomenon.
It was unlike the raw intensity of an earthquake that stole one’s balance and threw spires of earth to the sky. Rather, a numbing frequency. Sickening.
All at once, after many seconds, not quite a minute, the ringing ceased and everything stilled.
The atmosphere had changed.