entrancelogs | [OPEN] forgot what i was losing my mind about

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[OPEN] forgot what i was losing my mind about

Who: Mae and YOU
Where: Around the Mansion and grounds
When: 2/9-2/11
Rating: PG-13 for potential violence and mental health issues
Summary: Mae is about fifteen, fresh off The Incident, where she attacked and almost killed a fellow student. Now she's stuck in a world with strange looking people and dinosaurs. She's pretty sure she's gone insane.
The Story:

A: (kitchen) woke up on the wrong side of reality

It's official, then. Everyone was right. Mae Borowski is insane.

She's in an enormous house she's never been to before, and everyone around her doesn't look--normal. The people she's seen are all tall, hairless creatures. She's pretty sure they're still people, since they're wearing clothes and talking, but they're not normal. Maybe aliens. They're not actual aliens, she's sure. It's just her mind making them look that way. So she tries not to look at them too much, because if she stares then people will start asking what's wrong.

There's also dinosaurs outside. She knows plenty about dinosaurs. She had like a thousand plastic dinosaurs as a kid.

So this is what insanity is like. It's weird. She doesn't really feel crazy. She just kind of feels lost and numb, and like she's about three inches to the left of her own body. Everything's just...sort of floaty.

She hides out in her room for most of the first day, but eventually she gets up the courage to go exploring. Might as well explore this insane asylum or whatever it is. Where are all the doctors?

She ends up in the kitchen, where she finds a box of off-brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Then she tucks herself into a corner of the kitchen and just starts eating out of the box, staring into space and trying not to think too hard about what's happening. She's got a journal and pen with her and occasionally jots something down.

B: (roof) there's a madness that's just coursing right through me

Later on, she starts getting the hang for how this crazy fever dream of hers is going to work. It's all magic-based or whatever, and the closets have infinite resources. Junk food, blankets, baseball bats, you name it. She started to get a bat out of the closet, then thought against it. No weapons. Bad idea. She might hurt someone again.

Instead, she starts gathering a whole bunch of small drinking glasses and carries them up to the roof. The roof is a bit dangerous, considering there's like...pteradactyls and shit. They leave her alone once they realize what she's doing, though. Mae just sort of starts tossing the glasses and letting them smash onto the roof. Once she's done with one batch, she sweeps up the broken glass--she doesn't want to be that guy who leaves broken glass everywhere--and then starts it all over again.

It's cathartic. It's helping.

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David doesn't remember how he got at the top of these stairs. The stairwell reaches up into a very final-looking door, and David vaguely remembers running into this door once, checking it to see that it was just the roof, and wisely walked away from it. People like him don't have any business being on roofs.

But here he is again, without any recollection as to actually walking up here, and he decides, fuck it. He's sure had some days for these past few. Maybe he can catch a break up where fewer people might be around.

He opens the door, peering through, catching sight of a cat person. It... She looks like she's another one of the kids running around, actually.

That's normal. That's fine. She's not the first strange person he's seen, but so far, he's just assumed these people were part of his illness again. Just more hallucinations. Like jungles in the hospital, or dead friends in his sister's basement. More stuff that can't exactly be explained by "superpowers", no matter what Melanie Bird says.

So he just figures she's another hallucination. David glances at her as she tosses a glass onto the ground, and he just walks onto the roof, leaning against the wall of the bulkhead and watching her break things and start to sweep it all up. He doesn't say anything, because talking to your hallucinations is never a good thing to start doing.

Not that he doesn't do it all the time, but that's mostly because his hallucinations talk first.

Sunburst is absolutely drawn to a species he at least recognises. The first one since he got here, in all honesty. She doesn't look so hot, though, so he walks over slowly, offering a small, reassuring smile. He really hopes she's not a flight risk- or worse, likely to attack him. He doesn't think so. She's considerably less freaky than the human-things, anyway. He'll take his potential allies where he can find them.

"Um...Hi? Are you okay down there?"

Mikan is in the kitchen, getting her usual supplies when she spots Mae. Oblivious to the fact that this is a younger Mae, she casually waves as she walks on by.

"Hello, Mae."

Since the beginning of the event, Naoki has been wandering around basically collecting friends--seeing who's normal and who isn't, seeing if and where he can help out. He's checked all over for people he knows, except the roof. So he might as well head up there. If nothing else, he'll get a good view of the dinosaurs.

He finds Mae doing...well, exactly what he might have expected Mae to be doing, honestly.

"Everything okay, Mae?"

She looks a bit different, so he's going to assume that, like so many others, she's younger than normal.

[ Ellie knows by now that people... aren't themselves, and that's been more than a little weird. Sad, in some cases, what with her friends losing their memories of who she is and where they are.

Like Mae, Ellie thought to go to the kitchen to try and feel better, and she's there with a stack of chocolate-chip cookies when she other appears. ]

... Hey. [ She ventures, even though Mae has retreated into a corner and probably wants to be left alone. ] Um... you alright?

[ Probably not, but. Might as well ask. ]

At some point or another, he ends up back here. Where it's...safe, they say. Safe, but not really. Safe, in the way that the hospital is safe, even if he doesn't really feel very safe. It's kind of stupid for people to say that he's safe, when he doesn't much feel it, but they seem happier saying it.

There's no one really watching out for him. He ends up on the roof, because the night air is reassuringly cool.

Until he hears the tinkle of breaking glass, and flinches.

Flinches. Steps back.

...steps forward again. He can be brave. He can be brave enough to face the things that aren't there. That might not be real. That might not be, or might be, but either way, they can't hurt him, if he doesn't let them.

"...hello?"

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