Obscura Hospital Oneshot

10:30 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: @Kai @Nick Would you please meet me here?

[10:31 PM] Nick: ((Yarp.))

[10:31 PM] Kai: ((Ok.))

[10:31 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Ok, so...

[10:33 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: We open on Saint Tristan's Hospital.  It is a rather large complex attached to and funded by the neighboring college, Magnus University, founded in 1732 here in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  Saint Tristan's is, among other things, a training and research hospital, with a number of residents roaming the halls and a section towards the back where tenured professors teach and maintain their own research projects.

[10:34 PM] Nick: ((Ewww, it's set in NEW JERSEY??? I'm out.  ))

[10:35 PM] Nick: ((Kidding, obviously, I mean it IS a horror setting.))

[10:35 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: ((I may be basing things, slightly, off of Rutgers University as I like...know things about there.  ))

[10:37 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick Would you be ok being on call in the ER there tonight, or would you rather have other motivation to be in?

[10:38 PM] Nick: ((Nope, that'd be a thing he does. He's a surgeon.))

[10:38 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai Unless you'd rather have another motivation, I'd say you came here looking for records on William, the woman who transformed you

[10:40 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, you are on call tonight, and it is a most unfortunate night for it.  It seems that a frat party had gotten out of hand and a number of students have been brought in with fractures, cuts and more than zero percent of whom require implements exorcised from their posterior.  And all of them have a heightened blood alcohol level.

[10:40 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: As you enjoy one brief moment between calls, would you describe what you're doing and who you are?

[10:42 PM] Nick: is probably holing up in a lounge somewhere in the hospital and catching a break to eat. Probably something from the hospital's cafeteria--a peanutbutter brownie, maybe.

[10:42 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: You can definitely find one of those.  They are from a vending machine though, so not that great.

[10:43 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, would you please describe how you enter and what people see seeing you?

[10:45 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: (( @Kai You there?))

[10:48 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, would you roll a d20 for me, please?

[10:49 PM] Nick: ((16.))

[10:49 PM] Kai: will have wandered in during a rather busy moment then split off.  They appear to be a young woman late teens/early twenties incredibly pale skin and intense red hair.  Very bright clothes reds, and yellows,and oranges.

[10:50 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, as you're sitting there enjoying you brownie...you hear a noise from outside.  A sort of clattering.

[10:50 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, as you step in a receptionist notices you.  "Can I help you, ma'am?"

[10:51 PM] Nick: looks out the window, still eating the brownie.

[10:52 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: You see what appears to be a nurse, wearing a face mask and cap, cleaning up some implements off a floor.

[10:52 PM] Kai: One of my friends was rushed here earlier, is there anywhere I can wait?

[10:53 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Receptionist: "Of course, may I have your friend's name?"

[10:53 PM] Nick: goes out there. "Should I call a janitor?"

[10:53 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, as you're talking to the receptionist, two people are hurriedly rushed in on stretchers.

[10:54 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, as you head out the nurse turns to see you and you notice something.  Her eyes are pitch black.  Like, almost impossibly black.

[10:54 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nurse: "No, I think I have this, doctor.  I'll just bring them to sanitation."

[10:56 PM] Kai: Keith.

[10:56 PM] Nick: crams the whole rest of the brownie in his mouth, and then says around it, "... are you feeling all right, nurse...?"

[10:56 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nurse: "Just fine, doctor."

[10:56 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, can you also roll me a d20?

[10:57 PM] Kai: ((15))

[10:57 PM] Nick: Mmf. Maybe I better call anyway. Just in case.

[10:58 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nurse: "Call?"

[10:58 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, it's at this point you yourself notice the eyes of the receptionist starting to darken.

[10:58 PM] Nick: Janitorial.

[10:59 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nurse: "If you in...sis...t....do...."

[10:59 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: The nurse's eyes now go fully black and she begins to walk away, leaving the implements behind.

[10:59 PM] Nick: Hey!

[10:59 PM] Nick: follows her, stepping around the stuff on the ground, and grabs her shoulder.

[11:00 PM] Kai: You seem busy, I will let you deal with that.

[11:00 PM] Kai: heads into the hospital.

[11:00 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: As you head in, you see the receptionist standing straight up.

[11:01 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, you grab the nurse's shoulder, but she keeps walking.  Roll me another d20.

[11:01 PM] Nick: ((20, shockingly!))

[11:01 PM] Kai: will watch what the receptionist does.

[11:01 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, you hold her in place, but her feet are continuing to move.  As though you're not there.

[11:02 PM] Nick: Hey, stop! What are you doing!? You're not well, nurse. I NEED ASSISTANCE HERE!

[11:02 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai you watch for a few minutes as the receptionist stands there...before she leaves...and not just her.  You watch as almost anyone who is capable begins to walk out the door.

[11:03 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: You see a doctor coming by Nick.  You reach out to him to help, but he instead walks right into you, as though he couldn't see you.

[11:03 PM] Kai: heads further in "Makes thing easier."

[11:03 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, as you move in, you come across this scene of Nick gripping the nurse by the arm as he's  shoulder checked by another doctor.

[11:04 PM] Nick: Hey! Get back here, you son of a bitch!

[11:05 PM] Kai: I don't think they can hear you.

[11:05 PM] Nick: is a tallish man in his mid or late 30s, with dark hair already sprinkled liberally with white. He's cleanshaven with a deep tan, and is wearing clean surgical scrubs.

[11:05 PM] Nick: Oh thank God, someone can. What the hell is going on?

[11:06 PM] Kai: No clue, people seem to be eager to leave the hospital tonight.

[11:07 PM] Nick: Nothing new there.

[11:07 PM] Nick: hasn't let the nurse go, but apparently doesn't want to manhandle her too much either.

[11:07 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: The nurse, at this point goes rigid and still.

[11:07 PM] Nick: Hey! Hey!

[11:07 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: She stops moving entirely.

[11:07 PM] Nick: tries to touch her neck to get a pulse and make sure she's still alive.

[11:08 PM] Kai: will look at her eyes.

[11:08 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: She has a pulse.

[11:09 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, you see nothing but pitch black darkness.

[11:09 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: And both of you are now seeing it start to spread out of the eye, like cracks.

[11:10 PM] Kai: backs off a bit.

[11:11 PM] Kai: So you seem unaffected by whatever this is.

[11:11 PM] Nick: grabs a pen and tries to put it next to the blackness to see if it will spread onto that.

[11:12 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: The blackness does indeed seem to climb up the pen.  Slowly, but it is working its way out.

[11:12 PM] Nick: drops it and steps back from the nurse, checking the other doctor to see if he's infected too.

[11:13 PM] Nick: What the hell is happening?

[11:13 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: The Doctor is frozen stiff and as you ask that question, Nick, he speaks.  "The divine night has begun."

[11:14 PM] Nick: What does that mean?

[11:15 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Doctor: "The Divine Host is in the iris.  All shall be blind.  Then all shall see."

[11:15 PM] Kai: Well that sounds bad, good luck dealing with that.

[11:16 PM] Nick: lets him go and hits the fire alarm.

[11:17 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: The alarm sounds, but nobody moves.

[11:17 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, you see a light wink out ahead of you.

[11:17 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: It doesn't flicker or burn out...it's just suddenly out.

[11:17 PM] Kai: will start heading further into the hospital.

[11:17 PM] Nick: Hey, where are you going?

[11:17 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, roll me a d20.

[11:18 PM] Nick: We have to get these people out of here!

[11:18 PM] Kai: ((14))

[11:18 PM] Kai: They seemed perfectly capable of removing themselves.(edited)

[11:19 PM] Nick: They're definitely NOT themselves.

[11:19 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, as you walk forward you find the darkness from the missing lightbulb expand around you.  And suddenly...you can't move.  You feel a...tugging.

[11:19 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Like something's trying to pull you apart at the seams.

[11:20 PM] Nick: gives the other doctor a shake.

[11:20 PM] Kai: tries to move back from the darkness.

[11:21 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, make a strength roll.  Roll a d20 and mark two points off your physical pool.

[11:22 PM] Kai: ((Can I use my boon, even though it is not an attack))

[11:22 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: ((What is your boon?))

[11:23 PM] Kai: ((15))

[11:23 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: You may.

[11:24 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, you see Kai's skin start to glow and burn as she wrenches herself free of, what you can now see, are hands made entirely of shadow.

[11:25 PM] Kai: Well that was unpleasant, some advice stay out of the dark.

[11:25 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: A beam of high-powered light then comes shooting down the hall and the shadowy mass is dissipated...for now.

[11:26 PM] Nick: How do we get these people to safety?

[11:27 PM] Kai: looks at where the light came from.

[11:27 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: At the other end of the hall you see a young man, maybe twenty years old.  His hair is died inky black, he's wearing thick pale make-up with dark eyeliner and lipstick and he has his nose and lip pierced.  He's also got his left arm in a sling, and his right arm holds a powerful flashlight.

[11:27 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Goth: "Most already out.  You wanna help them, leave them.  Come with me."

[11:27 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: He speaks in a thick London accent.

[11:28 PM] Nick: Who are you?

[11:28 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: ((...Nick can you roll me a d20 please?))(edited)

[11:29 PM] Nick: ((1!))

[11:32 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, you feel yourself, subconsciously, reach out and into this stranger.  He twists under your demand and seems to fight before saying.  "Gerard Keay.  Apprentice.  Student of the strange and supernatural."

[11:32 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "...and don't you ever do that again!"

[11:33 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "I know this shit.  Just...trust me."

[11:33 PM] Nick: Do what?

[11:33 PM] Nick: Fine, then, let's go.

[11:34 PM] Kai: You know what is happening?

[11:34 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "Yeah, the Divine Night.  Dark ritual.  Tried to stop it before it reached here...didn't work."

[11:35 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: He holds up his arm.  But he tries to guide you around back to the front.

[11:35 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "You, nosy doc.  Where'd they keep the patient's stuff?"

[11:36 PM] Nick: Which patient?

[11:36 PM] Nick: follows him.

[11:36 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "He'd be a young boy.  Probably around eight.  Caucasian, dark hair.  Be in for multiple burn wounds."

[11:37 PM] Kai: will follow as well.

[11:37 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "Would've gone in for surgery."

[11:37 PM] Nick: The clothes get cut off and put in a bin. The rest goes in a basket and gets put aside for later unless it's contaminated with fluids, which it probably was for a burn victim.

[11:38 PM] Kai: burn wounds? doesnt seem to connect to darkness.

[11:38 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "They had to get him here, somehow."

[11:39 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "What are the odds the bin's still in the operating theater?"

[11:39 PM] Nick: High, the shift hasn't changed yet.

[11:40 PM] Nick: grabs a first aid kit off the wall nad pockets it.

[11:40 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "Fuck!  ...candlestick girl, you'll likely be fine.  Nosy doc, you take this."

[11:40 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: He hands you a gun, Nick.

[11:41 PM] Kai: Call me Kai, It is better than candlestick.

[11:42 PM] Nick: takes the gun, and looks at it suspiciously.

[11:42 PM] Nick: Ammo?

[11:43 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "Whatever you want, Kai.  And here, have a couple cartridges.  If you need more than that, we're fucked regardless."

[11:44 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "Ok, explanations, basically, that kid...they wanted him cut.  Didn't need to be cut much, but had to be here.  He's likely pouring out all the shadow monsters.  We're gonna need to go in there and find a paper that would've been in his pocket."

[11:44 PM] Nick: pockets the extras and loads the gun.

[11:44 PM] Nick: Can't we stitch him back up?

[11:45 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard chuckles.  "If you wanna try it, be my guest.  But you'll have to get to him, and that'll be worse."

[11:45 PM] Kai: What do we do with the paper?(edited)

[11:46 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard pulls out a lighter with a symbol of an open eye on it.

[11:46 PM] Nick: We burn it. Will that help the kid?

[11:47 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "...depends how you define 'help'."

[11:48 PM] Kai: pulls out a lighter as well.  "Well I approve of that as a solution"

[11:48 PM] Nick: I'm a fucking doctor, I can't just leave someone to die.

[11:49 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "If the kid lives, darkness consumes the Earth.  Most of the people on it will likely die, those who don't will be damned to a sunless world ruled by creatures you'll never be able to imagine."

[11:50 PM] Nick: I have a pretty good imagination.

[11:50 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: At this point, another light winks out.

[11:51 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "I ain't asking for your permission, doc."

[11:51 PM] Nick: You better. This is my hospital.

[11:51 PM] Nick: Let's get on with it.

[11:52 PM] Kai: Lets at least get to the operating theatre before there is too much dark whatever.

[11:52 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard grumbles but nods.

[11:54 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: With the aid of his flashlight, you're able to make your way through the darkness to the theater.  Inside, it is pitch black except for the beam from the flashlight...and the eyes.  So many dull dead gleaming eyes staring at you from the shadows.

[11:54 PM] Nick: does try to turn the light on.

[11:54 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: In the center is the child.  To the far right is the bin.  Standing over the child is a dark, shadowy figure forming only the vague semblance of a human shape.

[11:54 PM] Nick: What the hell happened to all of these people?

[11:55 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: The light, predictably, doesn't work.

[11:55 PM] Nick: tries to shoot it.

[11:55 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Figure: "They are being taught the truth.  They are being opened to--"

[11:55 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Roll a d20.

[11:55 PM] Nick: ((4. Oh dear.))

[11:56 PM] Kai: will head in the direction of the bin.

[11:56 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: I am afraid this is not a situation you're really used to and the shot goes wide off target.

[11:56 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, roll me a d20 yourself.

[11:56 PM] Kai: ((19))

[11:57 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: You manage to nimbly evade the shadowy hands that reach for you.  But the figure now turns his attention to you, Kai.

[11:57 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Figure: "NO!"

[11:57 PM] Nick: will try again when he gets a chance.

[11:57 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: He zooms over to face you.  Leaving the child unguarded.  Nick, you see the cut on the burned boy's arm where the first incision was made to remove the dead skin.

[11:59 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Figure: "Wax Soldier.  Reborn in fire.  Do not do this."

[11:59 PM] Kai: Oh you want to talk to me now?

[11:59 PM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, you shoot again?

[11:59 PM] Nick: hesitates, but then doesn't. He'll try darting over to the kid and stitching up the wound.

April 21, 2021

[12:00 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "Doc?  Doc!"

[12:00 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: The figure turns.  "Stop him!  We shall make a place for you in the new world, Fire Spirit."

[12:00 AM] Kai: An age of darkness sounds pretty awful to me.

[12:00 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, roll me a medicine check.  A d20.

[12:00 AM] Nick: ((20!))

[12:01 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: It's a simple matter, and you're able to stitch him up.  As you do, the lights come back on and the shadows are banished.

[12:01 AM] Kai: pulls put a cigar and goes to light it.

[12:01 AM] Kai: searches the bin for the paper.

[12:01 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "Good, now we gotta find that paper and burn it."

[12:01 AM] Nick: Hey, be careful, there are sharps in there.

[12:02 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Kai, roll a d20.

[12:02 AM] Kai: shoves a whole arm in.

[12:02 AM] Kai: ((11))

[12:03 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: You dig through and you find several needles and scalpels that cut into your body, but you can't find the burned clothes.  Or, at least, you can't tell what they might be.  Take 2 points of physical damage reduced to 1.

[12:04 AM] Kai: sighs and dumps the bin out on the ground.

[12:04 AM] Nick: checks to see if there are other people who need first aid in the room.

[12:05 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: You do see the attending doctor's lying on the floor.

[12:05 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "...you really need to save them, doc?"

[12:05 AM] Nick: I'm a fucking doctor.

[12:05 AM] Nick: administers first aid as best he can.

[12:05 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: ".....I'll take the kid."

[12:05 AM] Kai: is trying very hard to ignore the bodies in the room especailly the burned kid.

[12:06 AM] Nick: Take him where?

[12:07 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "They've only got so long a window to complete the ritual.  Then, it'll be at least a few decades before they can try again.  I...know places where he might be safe...until then."

[12:08 AM] Kai: You switched your tune very quickly about keeping the kid safe.

[12:08 AM] Nick: All right. Find that paper yet?

[12:09 AM] Kai: will look through the stuff from the bin on the floor, looking for the clothes.

[12:09 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Nick, you notice Kai's arm is all cut up..but there's no blood.  No sinew.  Nothing underneath the skin that should be in a human.  It's like her arm is just a big solid chunk of pale.

[12:10 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "...this plan ain't ideal.  Could be years until the kid's too old for it to work.  And if they find him...I may need to put him down anyway."

[12:10 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "...but...my mother had plans like this for me and...I'm only here cause someone else gave me a chance."

[12:11 AM] Nick: Your mother was an asshole.

[12:11 AM] Nick: Nice arm, weird girl.

[12:12 AM] Kai: So many 'people' want the end of the world.

[12:12 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: Gerard: "My mom really was."

[12:13 AM] Kai: You like it ? It is not worth the price.

[12:13 AM] Nick: No. It's creepy.

[12:16 AM] Kai: Not as creepy as shadow monsters though.

[12:17 AM] Saint Tristan Hospital: ((So yeah...this is about where the plot ends.  I hope that was fun.))

[12:17 AM] Nick: No.

[12:18 AM] Nick: ((Yeah!))

[12:18 AM] Kai: ((Thanks for running it was fun.))