[open] some dark web quests~

[sulit]

🧙 WHO: Klaudia and anyone!
⚔️️ WHAT: Some spooky apparition and ransom note quests
🕒 WHEN: Towards the end of the month, after the solstice
🗺️ WHERE: Network and around Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: implied animal harm, [explicit animal cracker harm], ghosts???


☠🛡️ Creepers [Around Camelot]

It's nighttime in Camelot. The moon is at least mostly full, so it's not as dark as it could be; but the streets are quiet and most everyone should be in bed.

Maybe you're walking alone through the town, when you catch a glimmer of... something(?) out of the corner of your eye. Seven feet tall and glowing faintly, it looks almost human, except the limbs are entirely too long and move with unnatural joints. The face remains indistinguishable, and when you snap your attention for a closer look--it's not there anymore.

Or maybe you're enjoying a quiet evening at home, minding your own business when a ghostly visage appears in the window. Doesn't matter if it's the first floor or the second floor. It's close enough to the window that you should see its breath--only there is no fog on the glass. Just a faintly human-shaped slightly-glowing face with no distinguishable features. It presses its white glowing hand up against the glass, and the mouth(?) slowly opens wide like a scream, before it sinks below the window frame and out of view. The glow fades shortly after.

Or maybe you're looking for whatever this thing is? It's appeared a few times now, and people are starting to Talk. Is there some new horror unleashed on the town, or is someone just pulling a prank?

☠🛡️ Ransom [Over the network]

[An anonymous video post appears on the network. As it starts, it's clearly the middle of the night, though there's very little to set the scene by. The camera is facing down at the ground, which is primarily a barren patch of reddish dirt with some shoots of grass. Some sort of artificial light hangs overhead, illuminating the ground where a bunch of animal crackers have been laid out on the dirt. All of the animal shapes are rabbits, and for every single one, the head has been meticulously snapped off of the body. The heads are scattered about carelessly, but the bodies have been arranged to form a message:]

999,999,999G FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF LORD AND LADY FUZZLERTON
FAILURE TO PAY WILL BE EXTREMELY UNPLEASANT

[Two rabbit crackers have been placed facing each other at the bottom of the message, wholly intact and awaiting their fate.]

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☠🛡️ Creepers [Around Camelot]

[loyalbreed]

[ Or maybe you're enjoying a quiet evening at home, minding your own business when a ghostly visage appears in the window. Doesn't matter if it's the first floor or the second floor. It's close enough to the window that you should see its breath--only there is no fog on the glass. Just a faintly human-shaped slightly-glowing face with no distinguishable features. It presses its white glowing hand up against the glass, and the mouth(?) slowly opens wide like a scream, before it sinks below the window frame and out of view. The glow fades shortly after.

The window opens, the Knight sticks his head out. ]

Hello would you care to join me for a drink?

[ He was asking the ghost thing, come back. ]

[sulit]

[...When she was preparing this practical joke, Klaudia had not considered that some people might have the same opinions of ghosts that she did. Or at least the resolve to not be afraid of them.]

[The illusion of the creepy apparition is gone, but she's down in the bushes with a dark cloak pulled up over her hair and horns, huddled against the wall of the building. Maybe if she's really quiet, they'll give up? She's kinda stuck here not making a sound until they do...]