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Jessica huffs. "Normally she's not that bad but-" she shook her head. "This is a survival situation and I honestly don't know if she's cut out for this sort of thing. For... Reasons." She shrugged. "Besides, why did I get here with her anyways? She lives so far away there's just no way this happened on accident." She muttered to herself. She glanced at the fire. "Should it be... Doing that?" She asked, gesturing as it grew dimmer. "Like... It's a magical campfire, right? Is that why you guys who've been here longer aren't feeding it wood? Or is it because you don't have any way to go out into the darkness."

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Claudette and Dwight flinched... The trial is starting...

J.J stood there... Fighting his uncomfortability... until he was finally steady... and ready for any maniac.

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She glanced at Ms. Flynn's still sleeping form. She debated walking her up, but the two older ones - Claudette and Dwigth - acted as if something bad was going to happen. Better to wake her up.
"Ms Flynn, wake up." Jessica grumbled, shaking her teacher. Clarion was, thankfully, a light sleeper.
"Mgh? What the-" She glared at the teenager that had woken her up. So rude.
"Oh great. What's my name?" She demanded.
"How would I know?" Clarion grumbled. The teenager rolled her eyes. "Great. So now you need to wake up because a bunch of killers are after us. Capiche?"
"This is a funny prank and all..."
The teenager groaned.

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Claudette and Dwight looked at the barely awake woman... "Nope... not a prank... And you guys are gonna see soon... the fire is dimming... the trial is starting..."

J.J got goose bumps...

(Making a new killer form for trapper...!)

Trapper saw Max in the distance... He didn't care... He wanted those survivors... The excitement as he heads toward a helpless, trapped survivor makes his blood boil...

He could hear the whispers of the Entity whenever he passed the doors... They must be on the other side... but they always start somewhere in my estate somehow.... what's going on? He thought.

(As we're not doing generators, the gates will be OPENABLE after some time. They WILL need to be opened, a time consuming task. Until then, it's just a cat-and-mouse scenario.)

Suddenly, the fire died right down. "Well, then." Bill said. For a few seconds, there was absolute darkness. Then he standing near a wrecked wall. A large, ruined mansion loomed out of the fog ahead of him. There were several other, smaller building around. He'd been here several times before. There was a hook right behind him, covered in blood and rust.
Bill looked around. He could see no one. People never appeared in this place in a group They'd have to seek each other out... or not. Sometimes, it was better to focus on saving yourself. However, that was not Bill's nature. There were several new people here. They'd require help. Moving quickly as he could without making too much noise, he started searching for them.

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(@Kuruma: if you'd like to hook Clarion, go ahead. I need l her to get hooked on one of the first few trials - it's for their own good.)

Jessica appeard, standing in front of a large mansion. She blinked. Then, her mind kicked into overdrive as she remembered the least few minutes.
This was a trial. She was being hunted. Hunted by something she did not understand, something that cod not be killed, something that for all intents and purposes had no weaknesses.
And she was standing out in the open.
With the thought in mind, Jessica looked around. No sign of the others, but there were several buildings scattered around. The biggest was probably the mansion, and the mall. She quickly moved somewhere she felt less exposed. She would have to find the others. She had no idea what she was even doing.

Lion grunted as he spotted his newest prey - an old man he could sense he had seen before. He seemed familiar, but Lion couldn't really tell. It didn't matter either way. The man as far away - Lion was nearly on top of the mall. He'd have to work for this catch. Too bad.

(bump?)

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Bill ran through the undergrowth, keeping an eye on the ground. Some of the Killers set traps. He didn't want to get caught right away. He didn't often rely on others to get him down. He preferred that the run instead of risk themselves for him. It felt... wrong, seeing someone caught because of him. He assumed he'd only been running for little over a minute, but in this world, time didn't matter. The gate would open when it wanted to. They had to survive until then.

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Adrenaline kicked Clarion's ststems into overdrive as she was suddenly standing inside what appeared to be a ruined mall. It looked creepy, and she recalled what the teenager from before had told her - she was being hunted.

She had no idea what was happening, or if the girl was one of those hunters herself, but Clarion knew one thing - there was a somebody noisy getting down, she couldn't trust anyone, and she didn't want to be spotted. She did the only logical thing - she looked around for an exit, and boldted straight towards it. Thankfully it wasn't very far away.

Soon she had left the mall and was standing in a clearing-like place. Forest was everywhere around her. She gulped. Why did she feel like going into the forest was a bad idea?

[He]

Jessica stood frozen, staring at the thing in front of her. She had been seconds away from stepping into it, and only sheer luck had kept her from getting her leg chopped off by the wicked-looking metal teeth.

A rustling in the undergrowrh told her someone was nearby. She quickly moved away from the trapped and behind a large tree, trying to hide. Jessica had never been particularly fast and she didn't think she stood a chance against these hunters the others had told her about.

To her relief, the figure was a familiar one - "Bill!" Jessica hissed softly, so as not to draw unwanted attention.

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Lion grunted as he heard a slight scuffing sound. He decided it was nothing important - probably something overturned by his jumping around, and proceeded to leave through the front entrance. He sniffed the air - his prey, even if he was running, could not have gotten that far.

Bill's head snapped towards the sound. "Great, you're here." he muttered, moving over to the tree. "Have you seen any of those things yet?" he asked Jessica. He looked around. Things were quite. They always were at the start of a trial. "We should move soon."

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Jessica shook her hand. She was about to reply in sign language for the sake of silence, before she remembered the manight not even speak it, especially since she was using the British Sign Language. Oh well. "Okay." She whispered, glad that she now had company with her.

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Dwight and Claudette had found their way to each other.... They began hiding in the growth of grasses and bushes...

"We should just hide...." Claudette whispered.

Dwight nodded.

J.J was confused by where he was... he could see ears in the grasses so he hid behind a nearby tree....


Max hid in the grasses, waiting for any survivors.

Trapper placed many traps.... waiting for anyone to scream out, trapped in his metal teeth hiding in the many grasses....

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(sorry - earthquake hit us. Nothing happened except for the Wi-Fi refusing to wrok for a while.)

Clarion stumbled blindly through the heads, making a lot of noise. She didn't care. She had seen it, only barely - the silhouette of a tall, hilling beast of a man. From far away she couldn't tell, but he seemed to be unaware of her. At the very least, she was the only one making such a racket.
Suddenly, something clamped on her leg. Something sharp, that bit into her skin. Claion shrieked. She had stepped into one of the metal traps. She glanced down at her foot. It was a mistake - her leg was a sight to see. She felt light-headed and woozy. Unstable. She hadn't lost a lot of blood though, since the teeth were still firmly clamped on her.

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"We're going to get her out of trouble, right?" Jessica asked as she heard a high-pitched, feminine scream pierce the woods' silence.

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Liom had paused when he heard the scream, but soon realized that the woman that had screamed was somebody else's quarry. Disappeared, but spurred on by the thought of hooking that seemingly familiaran, he pursued them into the woods.

Trapper heard his catch... "Yes.... another helpless catch... couldn't even escape and give me a good catch!" He began shifting over there. From a 50ft distance he could see her...


Max had heard the screams... He rushed through the grasses until he saw her... he found a spot of ambush, and watched her struggle through the grasses.


Dwight and Claudette knew they had to save her... Dwight picked up a thick tree branch on the ground and claudette picked up a metal pipe... They slowly moved over there... Once there, they could see a glint off trappers's and could hear shallow breathing....Max and Trapper... this is bad... They bought thought simultaneously.

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Lionade it into where Clarion was trapped. Just like he suspected, his catch was also there. There were two of them. A young girl, small and fragile, and that old man he had seen many, many times before. He was sure he had hooked the man before. But he could be wrong, and this would be their first time both. He found a good spot to ambush them from above. From within the trees he watched, silent and unmoving, as his prey warily approached the trapped woman. The small one had managed to grab a tree branch. How cute.



(Hook her of you wanna)

Claudette ran to Jessica and opened the trap, little did she know the killers were watching...

Dwight watched Claudette's back to make sure she wasn't attacked.... He saw Trapper approaching... "Run! Trapper's coming, Claudette!"

Trapper lunged at Jessica and slashed her across the back... He did his sinister laugh...

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