010 - Where are monsters in dreams

[dwn_infinite]

Everything's run-down and broken out here. I still haven't seen another living thing since I've arrived... this town feels like it's been abandoned long ago. The mist is so thick I can barely see ten meters in front of me, but I swear there are people watching me from behind it.

Locket... I can't find him anywhere.

[After some time, the writing

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[esoteric_rose]

Why not?

[dwn_infinite]

It's even more dangerous and confusing than usual.

[iattractmushi]

[He stares at that rust creeping across the page for a long time. For some reason, it seems so very familiar...]

Are you going to be able to get out of there?

[dwn_infinite]

I'm on a rescue mission. I'll worry about myself after I'm finished.

[iattractmushi]

[More pause.]

...good luck.

[dwn_infinite]

Thanks. This time I might need it. This is the only place I've seen where I can walk into a bathroom, walk back out the same way, and be someplace I've never seen before.

[spandexisyouth]

What is wrong with it now?

[dwn_infinite]

It's foggy, abandoned, and lifeless, yet I can't shake the feeling I'm being watched. And that's on a good day.

Then the sirens start up again.

[spandexisyouth]

So it is lifeless or it seems lifeless?

Tornado sirens? Or are they different? Be careful too.

[dwn_infinite]

It's lifeless. Whatever I've been seeing here [Pause] can't be alive.

I don't know what the siren does. But whenever it starts, the fog clears, the walls rust over, and horrible things start happening. And appearing. It's not much of a warning.

[moe_rapier]

Let's not lose hope yet... I'm keeping my sensors peeled for anything close to his signal.

[Ohh boy. That creeping.. color.. wasn't making her feel any better.]

You mentioned something about sirens... you think someone might be sounding it? Someone that needs help?

[dwn_infinite]

No... when the sirens go off, it's a warning. Something terrible is about to happen.

It always does.

[moe_rapier]

I know you probably don't want to hear this, but if it comes down to it, you've got to come back.

...I've been unable to find his journal.

[dwn_infinite]

[long pause. His handwriting loosens up uncomfortably.]

Maybe he's still got it.

[gene_driver]

The environment is extremely dangerous despite being abandoned?

[dwn_infinite]

I don't know. Everywhere I look in the fog I see shadows, as though people were watching, but they vanish into mist once I get close. But I'm not alone... what I do see isn't human, and it doesn't like me being here.