The Dice Room

[Sunday, November 2nd 3:33 a.m.
Wildomar, Home]

[4:39:41 PM | Edited 4:42:02 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He's turns around, the Binding

of Isaac-like dungeon room is empty with nothing to stop him from entering

the next room. He keeps walking and enters the next room, and the next.

Nothing stops his progress until he finally reaches a dimly lit red room

with a massive flat square in the middle.
[4:40:05 PM] Arbi: The other side of the room has another door and from it

Lucas enters the red room.
[4:42:27 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He's smoking a cigarette, looking around

carelessly. Everything seems out of place, but it's like he knows it's a

dream, so he doesn't seem to care too much, even though it feels a bit

different than a normal dream. More real. He looks across the room to his

brother.\* Yuri?
[4:47:12 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He stops walking a few feet away from the flat

square. This isn't the first time he's had a dream with his twin brother in

it but he's had many Binding of Isaac dreams before, You don't look like an

evil twin...or a dople... He still isn't sure and he moves to the left to

see if he mimics his movements, Lucas?
[4:49:15 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He just takes a drag from his cigarette.\*

Yeah? \*Plumes of smoke pour from his mouth as he speaks.\* Weird dream. \*He

looks away from Yuri around the red room.\*
[4:50:14 PM] Arbi: Yuri: It looks like the dice room from Binding of

Isaac...
[4:52:10 PM] Omniance: Lucas: I hate these rooms. With everything that's

happened I'm surprised I'm having a dream this tame though. \*He looks

around the room, then back to his brother.\* So why are you in my dream? Or

am I dreaming of myself? Sometimes I can't even tell. \*He shakes his head.\*

I'd never have hair that screwed up, so you can't be me.
[4:55:07 PM] Arbi: Yuri: I'm the one having the dream...but this one's not

the same. Where are all the treasures and monsters? It's all empty except

you but you're not a monster. What's going on?
[4:57:13 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He takes a long drag, burning half the

cigarette in one breath.\* Dreams can't have dreams Yuri. \*He looks around

the room.\*
[4:58:53 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He looks down at the blank die on the floor, This

usually has a side from a die but it's blank. What happens if I step on it?

He takes a few steps forward until he's in the middle.
[4:59:27 PM] Arbi: The room becomes dark except around the twins. The blank

die starts to change, randomly going through sides until it stops.
[5:00:12 PM] Omniance: (Roll - 5)
[5:02:33 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He looks down and the bright blue fire is coming

out from his hand again, except this time it's not going away, Fuck! He

feels his hand get colder and he shakes his hand, trying to put it out. The

room darkens so Lucas is no longer in sight and it's just Yuri.
[5:04:36 PM] Omniance: (Roll - 76)
[5:04:38 PM] Arbi: From Lucas' perspective the room went dark around around

Yuri, with the light only around him. The darkness fades away and Yuri is

gone, leaving just Lucas in the room with the empty die.
[5:06:54 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He looks to where Yuri was and then walks

towards the center of the room to see what's happened to him.\* Hey, Yuri...

* As he reaches the center of the room the dice on the floor begins to roll,

he stops and looks down at it, curious at what's happening.\*
[5:07:18 PM] Arbi: (Roll -6)
[5:09:09 PM] Arbi: (Roll -11)
[5:28:30 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He looks around him as strange disembodied

hands seem to appear in wisps of glowing smoke. They melt away, down into

the floor as mist. He almost seems to recognize the hands as they melt

away, as if he'd seen them before.\*
[5:36:30 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He opens his eyes, feeling extremely well-

rested. He grabs his watch from the desk at the side fo his bed and looks

at the time. It's about 6:50 a.m. It's still much earlier than he'd

normally wake up, but he's too rested to go back to sleep and they slept

all day yesterday anyway. After a moment he sits up and stretches, feeling

much better than he did yesterday, both physicall and emotionally.\*
[5:38:28 PM] Arbi: There's something under Yuri's sheets but no one's under

it.
[5:40:08 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He looks over at his brother. Noticing that

the sheets appear to be laid over someone, but his brother doesn't seem to

be there. After a moment he figures that his brother just piled clothes up

on his bed this morning.\* Hey, Yuri? \*He looks around the room.\* You in the

bathroom?
[5:40:53 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He mumbles something in his sleep, causing Lucas

to look back towards the bed.
[5:41:45 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*he tilts his head slightly and gets out of

bed.\* Yuri? \*He walks over to his brother's bed.\*
[5:42:14 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He turns over to get more comfortable, becoming

fully visible again, though still mostly asleep.
[5:42:57 PM | Edited 5:44:19 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He blinks several times,

suddenly looking worried as his brother clearly wasn't there a moment ago.\*

Hey Yuri, wake up!
[5:44:35 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He moves around a little, Just five more

minutes...I almost beat Satan...
[5:44:58 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Seriously, get up. Something weird just

happened.
[5:46:06 PM | Edited 5:48:23 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He sits up and rubs his eyes,

he almost sounds angry for a second like when the High Priestess won't stop

banging on the door, Whaat?
[5:46:31 PM] Omniance: Lucas: You... Alright this will sound weird, but you

were gone, and now you're here.
[5:47:00 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He lowers his hand from rubbing his eye and looks

at Lucas, ...What?
[5:48:01 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Your bed was... Kind of empty... It's like

you were invisible or something. Then you rolled over and there you were.

You weren't in there one second, then you were the next, seriously, I'm not

making this up it's... I know what I saw.
[5:48:59 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He blinks a couple of times, Am I still

dreaming?...
[5:49:36 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He sighs,\* I'm serious, you weren't in bed.

Or I couldn't see you or something. Then you moved and it was like you were

there all along.
[5:50:42 PM] Arbi: Yuri: Yeah, I know. I just had a dream where I became

invisible...and I was going through the levels of Binding of Isaac and the

monsters couldn't see me. You were in it too, smoking...a lot.
[5:51:13 PM] Omniance: Lucas: ...Wait what?
[5:52:40 PM] Arbi: Yuri: In one of those dice rooms...except it was

different. He moves so he's sitting on the edge of his bed and he notices

Lucas' expression, You okay?...
[5:53:16 PM] Omniance: Lucas: You're telling me, that you had a dream about

me, in one of those dice rooms from Binding of Isaac, smoking?
[5:53:44 PM] Arbi: Yuri: That was it though. Don't know where you went

after I got my new power.
[5:56:44 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Yuri, I had that dream. You were in my dream,

I was smoking, and I was in a red dice room. Then you dissapeared... Or

something... And there were... All these hands... \*He rubs the side of his

forehead, pulling back his still-messy hair.\* We had the same dream?
[5:57:45 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He stares at him for what seems like a long

moment, You're fucking with me, aren't you?
[5:58:53 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He seems to be thinking of the dream,\*

...You said it was your dream in the dream... Then I think I said like...

"Dreams can't have dreams Yuri"... Or something...
[5:59:25 PM] Arbi: Yuri: How did you...
[6:00:32 PM] Arbi: Yuri: This doesn't make any sense. Is this some sort

of...twin thing? Do twins have the same dreams?
[6:02:27 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He rolls his eyes and looks at Yuri.\* That

sounds like something Grandma would say.
[6:03:25 PM] Omniance: Lucas: What's important is that you were clearly...

Invisible one moment and then not the next.
[6:04:17 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He looks down at himself, When?
[6:04:58 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Just before you woke up! I'm telling you, you

weren't there one moment, and then you were the next!
[6:05:26 PM] Arbi: Yuri: If this is still a dream...then...
[6:06:26 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He stops moving and after a moment his body blurs,

within a second and he's gone.
[6:07:15 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He just stares at the spot his brother was

in.\* ...Maybe this is a dream. I'm still dreaming.
[6:07:46 PM] Arbi: Yuri: It worked?! He stands up and walks to the mirror

to check but becomes visible again.
[6:07:51 PM] Arbi: Yuri: ...
[6:08:40 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He just closes his eyes.\* It worked because

this isn't real. I'm dreaming.
[6:09:13 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He walks up to Lucas and pinches his side hard.
[6:10:41 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Aghh! \*He winces and moves away, rubbing the

spot.\* So you're just going to tell me that we had the same dream, and now

you can turn invisible?
[6:11:02 PM] Arbi: Yuri: In a really really fucked up way this kind of

makes sense...
[6:11:34 PM] Omniance: Lucas: How? How does this make any sense? At all?

People can't turn invisible Yuri.
[6:12:35 PM] Arbi: Yuri: Ever since we came back from...that nightmare with

Odie, weird things have been happening...I was touching things and they

were turning really cold. I didn't want to say anything because I thought I

was going crazy but...
[6:13:12 PM] Omniance: Lucas: ...So you're saying that the ritual, or

whatever it was that those cultists did... Is causing everything?
[6:16:14 PM] Arbi: Yuri: And if we had the same dream, it must've not been

a real dream. People can't have the same dreams...it must've been something

else. Lucas, I feel different after walking over that big dice in the red

room. I'm not scared I'm gonna freeze something or someone on accident.
[6:17:26 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He just sighs.\* Well what about me. I

wasn't... Freezing things. Nothing strange happened to me, but we were both

in that dream? Maybe this is only affecting you.
[6:18:18 PM] Arbi: Yuri: Did you step on the dice like me?
[6:18:42 PM] Omniance: Lucas: I... I guess? I mean the floor looked like

dice... And it was changing.
[6:18:58 PM] Arbi: Yuri: You didn't have another dream after?
[6:19:29 PM] Omniance: Lucas: I don't remember if I did... I don't think

so... Maybe?
[6:20:23 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He sits back down on the edge of his bed, If this

is all real this is the craziest shit ever. I...I want to test this

out...but...
[6:21:18 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Am I invisible? Can you see me, right now?

* He looks around the room.\*

[6:21:51 PM | Edited 6:25:03 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He waits to see if anything

happens I can still see you. He falls back so he's laying his tophalf on

his bed, And...I really... He yawns a bit need to go back to sleep.
[6:23:19 PM] Omniance: Lucas: You went to bed before I did, how are you so

tired? I'm... Full of energy. I don't think I've ever had such a great

night's sleep. Even with the weird dreams and... Everything that's

happened. I don't even feel slightly achy like I did yesterday. \*He holds

up his hand. After a moment he tilts his head.\* Let me see your hands.
[6:23:55 PM] Arbi: Yuri: His eyes are closed and his mouth is open while he

breathes.
[6:27:01 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He grabs Yuri's hand and looks at it. He

holds his right hand next to Yuri's right hand. Lucas' looks like nothing

every happened to it, but Yuri's is still still has obvious cuts and small

scabs across it from the splinters.\*
[6:27:46 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*A long minute passes.\* I have super healing.
[6:28:21 PM] Omniance: \*Two hours later...\*
[6:29:53 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He's sitting down stairs at the kitchen

table, waiting for Yuri to wake up. He seems to be in an incredibly good

mood despite the circumstances of the last two days/nights, and he's still

full of energy. He's eating a bowl of Fruit Loops, having rode his bike to

the store to buy more, since he had nothing else to do.\*
[6:32:26 PM | Edited 6:32:50 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He walks downstairs, fully

dressed except his shoes. He stops near the dining table and stretches his

arms out, Hey.
[6:34:07 PM] Omniance: Lucas: It's about time you woke up. \*He looks over

at him.\* I've been trying to figure out exactly how... Whatever this is,

works. \*He holds up his hand, it's wrapped in white gauze.\*
[6:34:38 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He freeze mid-stretch when he notices his hand,

What happened to your hand?
[6:35:17 PM] Omniance: Lucas: I cut it, to see if it would heal... \*He

shakes his head.\* But it didn't...
[6:38:21 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He walks past Lucas into the kitchen and comes

back with a poptart, passing him again and hitting him over the head

suddenly.
[6:39:32 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Hey! \*He looks back at him and then just

shakes his head.\* Look. \*He holds up his right hand.\* Perfectly healed

after all that shit I had to pull out of it yesterday. Now look at yours.
[6:40:41 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He looks at his hand and then looks at his, How

did your hand...
[6:42:05 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Super healing. Somehow. \*He looks back at his

bowl of cereal.\* I woke up this morning feeling like a million bucks too.

I've never slept so well...
[6:42:56 PM] Arbi: Yuri: So all that wasn't a dream... He sits down beside

his brother, I...can turn invisible?
[6:43:43 PM] Omniance: Lucas: And I have accelerated healing. Somehow... I

just can't control it yet... \*He looks at his bandaged hand.\*
[6:44:17 PM] Arbi: Yuri: This is all because of that ritual?
[6:44:52 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Occam's Razor.
[6:45:28 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He looks at Lucas, confused.
[6:46:15 PM | Edited 6:47:06 PM] Omniance: Lucas: All other explainations

excluded, the simplest one is the most accurate. What else could've cause

any of this, aside from that ritual?
[6:48:22 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He takes a bite from his poptart, thinking, We

should go back there, Lucas.
[6:49:44 PM] Omniance: Lucas: Let's go! \*He immediately stands up,

obviously having wanted to go back. His entire behavior is completely

different than his normal, more subtle and quite nature, simply because

he's not used to having slept so well.\*
[6:52:14 PM | Edited 6:53:20 PM] Arbi: Yuri: What, now? He puts down the

bitten into poptart on a plate and quickly grabs his shoes, trying to put

them on fast, bouncing on one foot towards the door, Wait! He gets them on

and chases after him.
[6:56:23 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*He's already on his bike outside. The air is

cold and wet, and it's darker than normal despite being early in the day,

with the sky being a mass of dark clouds. A slight drizzle comes down

around them.\* Get your bike, I'm not walking all the way back up there.

* There's a sound of thunder in the distance, and looks like it's going to

start raining more heavily.\*
[7:02:17 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He looks up at the dark clouds and feels the

sprinkles of water on his arms as he reaches for his bike, quickly getting

on and following after Lucas down the street.
[7:02:36 PM] Omniance: \*About an hour later...\*
[7:09:03 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*They've hidden their bikes lower at the base

of the hill behind some bushes and have treked the remainder of the way on

foot. It's started to rain, and mud has caked his shoes. As they reach the

summit of the hill, the place where they were the night before last, there

is a car parked along the road that leads to the top. The car is a black

Pontiac Firebird, and it doesn't look anything like the high class cars

that were around the last time they were here. He looks back at Yuri and

whispers.\* Someone is here. \*The rain and slight thunder in the distance

masks their voices.\*
[7:11:55 PM] Arbi: Yuri: It doesn't look like a cop's car... He looks up at

the darkening clouds overhead, and I don't know how useful invisibility is

gonna be in the rain either. Just be careful...
[7:13:30 PM] Omniance: Lucas: \*In a twisted way, the two of them sneak up

to the site for a second time, hiding in almost the exact same place as

they did, peaking out at the clearing once again.\*
[7:16:38 PM] Omniance: \*A man in a long brown coat and a wide-brimed hat is

standing, looking over the site. He has salt and pepper hair that's

partially brown, and looks like he's in his late 40's. Noticable stubble is

on his face. He looks exactly like one of those Private Investigators from

one of those old black and white films from the 50's. He kicks one of the

heads of the people and it rolls away in the mud. After a moment he speaks,

his voice gruff and a bit haggard.\* Certainly one of the more brutal things

I've seen in this line of work.
[7:18:26 PM] \*\*\* Call ended, duration 3:41:18 \*\*\*
[7:21:12 PM] Omniance: \*A younger voice rings out from somwhere unseen,

probably a guy their age.\* One of? \*There's a light sound of vomitting for

a moment before a sickly looking guy, probably around 18 walks into view,

up next to the man. The boy is tall and slim, wearing a simple t-shirt,

which is damp with rain. He's carrying a wooden bat for some reason. He

looks familiar to both of the twins, like someone they've seen from another

school during one of the football teams.\*
[7:25:57 PM] Omniance: Private Eye: Well, this would be in the top three.

* He hunches down, getting a closer look at it.\* The rain's made a mess of

the scene but... I'd wager there were thirty people here. \*He stands up

straight.\* Twenty-seven cultists... \*He looks over at Odie's remains.\*

...Whatever is left of that poor soul... And... \*He looks to the middle of

the circle of blood and guts.\* Two here. Women maybe. Oh boys your age.

Maybe 5'8"? Hard to tell cause the rain's mucked it up.
[7:26:29 PM] Omniance: Baseball Guy: You can tell all of that? \*His face is

green and pale, he looks like he's trying not to vomit again.\*
[7:28:03 PM | Edited 7:28:10 PM] Omniance: Private Eye: There's 27 pairs of

hands, two halves of one person on that stone there. Two imprints here.
[7:29:01 PM] Omniance: Baseball Guy: Alright, alright... \*He shakes his

head.\* So what the hell happened?
[7:32:22 PM] Omniance: Private Eye: Some kind of ritual. Maybe they tried

to sacrifice some virgins or something. Hard to tell with these loons...

* He puts his cigar in his mouth.\* There's definate demonic activity here...

Whatever they did, they succeeded in doing it. Perhaps not in the way that

they intended, since they're all dead... Buy something has definately

crossed over. \*The Baseball Guy gulps loudly and looks sickly-worried.\*
[7:33:29 PM] Arbi: Yuri: He looks at Lucas for a second before looking back

at the Private Eye.
[7:34:37 PM] Omniance: Private Eye: We'll have to talk to Margret. \*He

pulls out a large camera, which looks a bit old-fashioned, like it's from

the 50's, and takes a few pictures of the site.\*
[7:34:45 PM] Omniance: Baseball Guy: Do I really have to be here?
[7:35:16 PM] Omniance: Private Eye: You're my muscle. Any demons sneak up

on us you hit'em with that bewitched bat of yours.
[7:35:43 PM] Omniance: Baseball Guy: You have an enchanted shotgun, I don't

need to be here... I didn't need to seen any of this.
[7:36:48 PM] Omniance: Private Eye: It'll toughen you up, seein things like

this. It's your life now. Get used to it. \*He takes a few more pictures,

takes one last look around the site.\* Alright let's go. I don't want to be

here when whoever caused this shows back up...
[7:37:11 PM] Omniance: Baseball Guy: \*He looks around, feeling like he's

being watched.\* Y-yeah... Let's go.