Roleplay Part 3

Could there be an anomaly here, in this tunnel, like there is in the book?

 

After what I've understood, the howling we heard was the guy being eaten by the mutants that Rodion left behind. Which means that we're just around the corner to meet Rodion. Having an anomaly at this point wouldn't fit, seeing that a new character is about to be introduced. But we can have an anomaly later after that, yeah? :3

 

My head shook, and i felt like i was about to puke. and to make matters worse i did not know where i was. i opened my eyes but did not remember anything. i knew the basic stuff. my name. my age. where i was from. but i had no clue where i was, why i was here, and how i got here. i was in a tent. a dark and cold feeling gloomed over me. i stood up and notice a mirror where i looked. i had a huge scar like feature on my lower sholder/ neck. i looked around and tried to come to my senses. i opened the tent flap and what i saw horrified me. i saw many dead people. flesh everywhere and the whole station was covered by smoke and ravaged by fire. i had to kneel down so not to suffocate. i tried to get around and find some loot. but did not see anything of use. i stumbled across a rusty bastard machine gun and picked it up. everybody was gone. dead perhaps. where was i? what happened? all of these questions battered my head as i moved. i looked around and saw a tunnel. scared. not knowing what to expect i hurredly rushed toward it. it was so dark i couldnt see my hands infront of me. where was i?

 

I looked over Steven and Vlad's shoulders. I couldn't make out anything perticular from the dark, and I didn't have any Nitghtvision goggles. Shame. I used to have a pair some time ago, but I lost them druing my travels around the Metro. Some bastard must've stolen them when I wasn't looking.
I took my gun, loaded and unsecured it.
I had a fear of the tunnels. Or maybe not fear, but a great deal of respect. As long as whatever was in the tunnel, I wouldn't care about it. And I don't want to disturb any of the current mutants either.
I saw something move in the corner of my eye, just hastily, but didn't say anything about it, not to worry the group more than necessary.
The Darkness was closing in on me, and I got more tense, yet I kept following Steven and Vlad.

 

i continued walking through the tunnel for an hour. maybe even two since i did not have my watch. in complete darkness i lost all sense of location and stumbled across the cross ties a couple of times. i ran into an old train wagon and went around it so not to get more lost or hurt. i kept on walking until i started hearing noises. i was only wearing some pants with boots. a whitish long sleeve shirt with rolled up sleeves. and the bastard with 40 rounds on it. Nothing else. and so i was frightened what i would find before me. I continued for another 15 or so minutes until i saw a sign saying "kitayskiy garod" or kitai gorod. I knew of this station. And so lowered my gun and entered. suprisingly the guards let me in even though i did not have a cartridge with me. And so i continued on. i stole some food from a table while no one was watching and got a drink from a water fountain that barely had any water in it. I sat down and thought what i should do. i asked around but nobody knew who i was. i took out a tag i had on my necklace which said "University SFR". and so i decided to go to university since i had nowhere else to go. i decided to go west down the line until i hit hansa. then i would somehow travel south to university. But how could i even enter hansa since i didnt have my SFR pass? i had no idea but i decided to continue on down the line. i wasnt so tired and according to the station clock it was about 6 am. i was sorta full and i stole a old bottle of water with me. i had my gun. and so i decided to head on. The tunnel wasnt as dark. and once in a while some men passed me with tattoos all over there heads. i too had tatoos on my left arm, as a sleeve, and around my neck. but these guys had tats all over there faces. Militia? Bandits perhaps. i had no idea but i continued. a little frightened. . .

 

(Von, you just made me come up with a pretty good idea to this roleplay! )

The darkness was still closing in on me, and it felt as thought it tried to cut me off from the rest of the group. I tried to stick closer but then they disappeared into the darkness around me.
"Hey! Wait!", I screamed at them trying walking alightly faster towards where they had gone. Nothing. They weren't there anymore. Gone. Vaporised into thin air. I began to get scared, and ran further forward, yet only darkness welcomed me. Now I panicked, and began sat myself down, hugging my knees. I had been scared of the tunnels and the darkness before, but this was nothing like that. It felt as though it was trying to get into me through my ears, nostrils and eyes. It was frightening. And most of all; I didn't know what to do.

 

I had been troubled lately. Memories of the past had come back in my mind over and over after the encounter with the nazi officer. I thought the story, the happening, was nowhere to be found in the world except inside my mind. I guess I started to believe that the story was just a part of my imagination, that it never really happened. That thought had sorrowed for me more than anything. But the thought was crushed and removed when encountering the nazi again. The only place in the world beside of me, where that story lived on, and after twenty years, it just had to coincidencely strike me, of all.

Thinking about all of this while looking at the ground as I wasn't walking straight forward since I covered our rear, made me unfocused, and it didn't go far before I bumped into a wall. The encounter with the wall brought me back to the reality, to the now. I shook my head, making my dreadlocks fly around my head before I brushed them aside, only to reveal nothing. Well, of course there was a tunnel, but no one were there. The group was just gone, and that was when I heard the echoing howling coming from everywhere. It felt like all the veins in my body were overflooded and twisted in electricity. The feel of fear struck me and I wasn't sure what to do.

 

I had lost track of the others. They could be behind me, ahead of me, or, for all i knew, above me. I kept on walking, for some reason forgetting about the others. Then i felt something cracking under my feet. I feel down, bracing my head. I had fallen on to something softer than the ties. I opened my eyes to see what it was. It was a nazi guard, rotting up with maggots crawling out of it's eye-holes, and it had something written it it's face - with blood. I tried to make out what it was. R-E-V-E-N-G-E. I remembered the guard I had killed to avenge my mother. But why was he here? Suddenly, it grabbed my throat, and pulled my head down to it's mouth, then whispered something in latin. Then, it ripped off my head.
Someone stepped on me, and I looked up. I was back in the tunnel.As I looked around, I could not find the person who had stepped on me. I was scared, and I ran desperately towards an emergency door. I kicked in the door with extreme aggresion and looked around, the adrenaline rushing through my veins. The person, who had stepped on me, was in there. A pale kid, obviously born after the disaster, sat there in the corner. I suddenly felt almost calm again, and I sat down next to him. "Who are you?" I asked, still hyperventilating from the nightmare.
That one's for you, Rodion!

 

Hey guys can u please review the situation? U guys left me at cursed and are headed where? what is this tunnel u are in? i am currently heading from kitai gorod to the epidemic station.

 

Situation is we are still in the tunnel from Cursed to Kitaj-Gorod, but I personally must have passed out somewhere. The group is split due to a supernatural occurance, and are confused.

 

Okay then lets do this. im going to wait replying until u guys get to epidemic station. imagine that im still "dead" in cursed. then when u guys get to epidemic ill continue

 

WE headed down this tunel i havent walked in before since it was sealed off when i was still in Cursed, must have been caved in by an earthquake or an explosion or even mutants digging through but right now i was in "No man's land" since it was not known i had no ideea of what we could encounter so i said "I have no ideea what we will find here in this tunel so stay sharp!" then i realised that i was on point, but Steven said he will be to lead us so i looked back, to my horror nobody was there "Guys, are you there" i said but with no response, i kep my calm in this since panic is a killer in the metro and looked through my options, since i was close to my team and lead by steven i would not have gotton lost, there is no hole i fell through or anything to get me here since i am still concious and with no injury but something is amiss here, there is NOTHING here NOTHING, not even a rat or a mutan, it's just deserted.
After i that i felt something that was not supposed to be, this place is not real, something or someone made this, like a prison or a way to prevent us from acting so in order to test this, i took out my knife, briefly looked at my figers, they where dirty and had scars across them, after which i put a small cut on one of them, they where not bleeding, this was horryfying but also disturbing "What the?!...How?!...I'm dead?!...No this is not real!" and i have relised someone is messing with my mind, could be a mutant, or a dark one or even the tunel itself trying to take over my mind but i didnt give up i started to concentrate and meditate, this is either a hypnotic attempt or a physchic attack subsequantly it can be broken by seeing what the attacker wants and attemoting to force hm to let you go.
I'm not sure if this is a good ideea but i was thinking like all of us are in like a comma and we each have to fight this thing in our own mind to break free or is it better in another way?

 

Very good idea! Sadly I can't join in since I've already escaped the coma and met Rodion.

 

Rodion didn't know how long he had walked down the corridor. It could have been hours, or it could have been minutes. He had eventually walked out into a tunnel, and had continued walking He noticed two corpses, one obviously a Nazi, from what Rodion knew of them, and the other just a stalker. He felt so tired he stepped on the stalkers corpse, and heard a groan. Rodion jumped from this, and immediately ran down the corridor. Seeing a nearby emergency door, he opened it and ran into the room. He was so scared he ran into a wall. Dazed, he fell to his knees, and then sat against the wall. It felt like he had been in a dream, and running face first into a wall had woken him up. Maybe it was a hallucination, he thought. He had heard that people could suffer from these, though he had also heard only few survived them. Just then the door burst open, and a man walked in. Seeing Rodion, he sat down by him and said, "Who are you?"
Rodion turned his head to face him, and replied,"Rodion... I'm Rodion."
Rodion realised the man looked very similar to the corpse he had sat on.
"Were you the man I stepped on?", he asked.

 

All of a sudden, I was back at the train where I first introduced myself to the group. I didn't follow them, I was dragged along. They spoke, laughed, walked and a lot more, while I didn't do anything. It was all going in fast forward as they shot nazis, mutants and librarians while I was just watching. I wasn't shooting. No one seemed to take any notice of my presence, as if I was just spectating it all from the nothing. It was like a dream. Boris died, we kept walking in fast forward until we came to the last part that I remembered. ".... I and Vlad will take the point!" Steven said with a dark and slow voice, seeing that it was all now in slow motion.

Suddenly, my view jumped forward and turned around 180 degrees. I could now see myself walking down the tunnel with the group. My back was against the wall. I was looking at the other wall, so I could see anything in my side-view on both the front and the rear. I could see in my own eyes that I started to lose my focus. My body slowly but surely turned to the left, aiming forward in the direction we were walking, exposing my back to the dark tunnel behind us. My view moved to the front of my body, two or three meters ahead of it, still looking towards myself.

Two skinny grey/purple-ish arms appeared on both sides of me. This was when I understood what was going on. A Dark One appeared above and behind my body. Its arms rose up into the air before they fell downwards around my body. My body was paralyzed as I fell over, and so did my view that was watching this happen. I was suddenly now back in the completely dark tunnel. The first thing I saw was a mutant jumping towards me. I lifted the HK as fast as I could, firing several shots into the beast. It died in mid-air, but hit me on the way, making me fall over. I was now lying there with the dead mutant on top of me.

 

"Yep, that was me." I said, as a faint giggle escaped my lips. I started looking around the room. I found a switch next to the door, and tried flipping it. Of course nothing happened. Still considering my own idiocy of trying to flip a switch that hadn't worked for 20 yeas, I looked back at the guy who had introduced himself as Rodion. He was definately one of those. Those like Artyom, the young man who made it all the way from Exhibition to Polis. But perhapse that was just a myth? My thoughts wandered off for a while, but I was pulled back to reality by someone, or something, repeatedly bumping in to the door and screaming. I looked at Rodion, who had already taken aim with his Bastard. He nodded at me, and I opened the door.

 

Is this a mutant or an insane metro dweller?