[network/open] @lancer; (murder?)clown house; day 004, evening

[croi]

[It's video. Feed blinks open and he's looking down at it. Blinks once at the camera, is it on? And then yes, yes, it is on.

So then the video flicks over to where a life sized clown statue- yes, a fucking life sized clown statue is sitting in the corner of the living room.

Yes, guess what unlucky son of a bitch happens to be sleeping with Ronald as a roommate tonight?]

Think I'd be doing us all a favor if I tried to burn it?

[Just saying.]

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@winston; voice

[reimagines]

Does it move if you look away and then look back?

[ It's his idea of a joke. ]

[croi]

Hope not. I left one of the other clowns in some ruins yesterday. If it came back for vengeance I don't know what I'd do.

[Is also joking.

Fortunately the two of them are trapped in a perfectly sensible city which might have spooky elements but not animate clowns roaming about trying to shank people.]

[reimagines]

Unless you had any weapons, you'd probably be clown food. Assuming it would eat you. Who knows what clowns do?

Fascinating statue to have. What does the rest of the place look like, exactly?

@Nobody; video

[promises_to_keep]

[This face. This face forever.]

Absolutely. Bonus points because it'll help you stay warm if it actually catches.

[croi]

...but knowing how this place works it wouldn't even turn to ash if I tried. There's more, you know.

[The camera swings slightly left and...well, there's a shit ton of clown memorabilia contained in that slightly left swing, implying that there's more. (Because there is. Behold clownageddon.)] I found this place yesterday. I thought I was going to the other building for the night. I was wrong.

[promises_to_keep]

Wow, okay, I think you win for creepiest house yet. Whoever lived there had some issues to work out, I think. Eugh. [He gives a shudder and shakes his head.] Why would anyone...?

@TW; video

[maskintape]

Hey, looks like we're both sharing shelter with clowns tonight. Coincidence.

[ And he angles the tablet so that it shows Jay hanging out in the darkened room. Tim is a little shitbag. ]

video/action

[genreblindness]

Hey!

[Way to be rude as fuck, Tim. Wow.]

video on his end, action on yours, bam, done;

[croi]

How's he with a chair?

[#priorities]

@ishtar; video

[prochronistic]

What the heck?!

[God, this is like the network equivalent of a jumpscare. Yuuri was not expecting the sudden shot of the clown, so she actually jumps back a little bit. Luckily she had her tablet propped up against the wall, so she doesn't drop it.]

That thing's freaky! Where did it even come from?

[Suddenly she's glad the house she's in has no furniture at all.]

[croi]

I'll spare you the bedroom. [TAKE THAT AS YOU WILL.] It was here when I got here. Whoever lived here really liked clowns.

@rabbit; text

[ghouldere]

what the fuck is that even doing here?
slice it up and then burn it for good measure.

[croi]

[The rabbit doesn't get spared the sight of the bedroom, because it's as caked in clowns as the living room is. A picture's sent back in reply. Countless plushies. Plushies everywhere. A few figurines here and there. Everywhere the light touches is clown. (But what about that shadowy plac- against all odds it's actually more clown.)]

i'll ask whoever used to live here that question if we ever find any survivors. i haven't checked the bathroom yet. i'm almost afraid to.

[ghouldere]

[ Her conversation partner can't see her, but she's making a face. ]

holy crap. whatever asshole who lived there was on some other level.
at least the place i was in was filled with sports shit. boring, but less creepy.

[ A pause before she continues. ]

five bucks says the toilet is a clown's open mouth.

@LELRIC, voice

[armoured]

[Al hasn't had much exposure to clowns, and he doesn't really understand that it's a common fear. But even without that, this clown is still creepy as all hell.]

That was just sitting there?

[Yikes.]

[croi]

And it wasn't the only one. Look.

[A couple of clown figurines are idly dangled in front of the camera as he says 'look.'] Nothing as large as that guy. More behind me. Even more in the bedroom.

Should I check the closet? [Should he head into the bedroom, which is clownageddon, and pry open that closet? He will do it for the network, even if it means finding a dead clown inside.]

[armoured]

Yeah.

[He doesn't think Lancer is particularly in danger for checking these places, it's just unpleasant.]

Are there any clues as to why there are so many of them?

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@Spoiler; text

[spoileralert]

KILL IT WITH FIRE

[croi]

[The device gets flipped back ov- upside down by accident, fixing that (in the process giving her a view of the clown plushies behind him, a small stack of them, he is in the house of an once and/or future clown fan), and the text gets an amused snort. Amused-positive.]

I'll tell you a secret. [Not really much of one given that everyone can literally hear this if they wanted to, but he still took on the tones of a conspiratorial sort of just between you and me sort of secret. It's just between him, her, and the twenty or thirty other people listening to this.] There's actually two houses in the area. I got careless.

And he's flopping down into a chair and is that a display case behind him with clown figur- that is a display case with clown figurines.]

[spoileralert]

[ She would be more entertained by the faux secrecy if she wasn't so freaking disturbed by the clowns everywhere. ]

Oh god I've seen this movie I know how this ends and it ends VERY BADLY

text; ID: tiro

[fataliteas]

[BURN IT]

Is there anything inside it? Or is it completely solid?

[croi]

[...

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.........]

Haven't checked yet.

[He's going to be searching the clown in five minutes, isn't he? He's going to be groping the clown.]

You think it could be hiding something?

[It should be noted that at the moment he's staring at the clown, as if steeling himself for an unpleasant groping task.

Because he is.]

[fataliteas]

It's worth making sure, I'd think, since it's so. Conspicuous.

[She's sorry to ask that he fondle a clown statue. But not sorry enough to rescind the idea.]

Oh, and could you please take a picture of it?

( voice ) @bayonetta

[voluptuous]

It's not just us you're doing a favor, my dear. You're showing it mercy.

[croi]

Then the problem becomes the rest of the house. Look. [And a clown figma, basically, with 59 points of articulation and a removable head is pulled from a random shelf. Like a look, see? And it's tossed onto a couch which happens to have a clown plushie on top of it.

...the fact he was able to pull a clown from a random shelf in five seconds should say a lot about how clown encrusted the place is.]

I'm thinking about just burning the house and getting it over with, but if I did then I may release the clown curse upon the rest of the town.

[No, no he's not serious.]