mother_of_god | Midwich Elementary School (Nightmare World)

[Monsters: Faceless children, ghost babies, a few roaches]

[Tasks: Wander around inside. The walls and floors are now made of chain link and grating, and covered with blood and similar organic goo. Chains hang from the ceilings, and in several places, strange cloaked statues are displayed in inaccessible rectangular gibbets. The exit doors in the lobby are replaced by a giant set of sharp-bladed fans- trying to get out would result in slicing and dicing.
-There's a pair of the cloaked statues inside the school office, flanking a strange door with no handle. It does, however, have a slot in the center, and a conveniently slot-sized card on the ground in front of it. This door leads to the rest of the school; all the others are jammed or blocked.
-In the first floor girls' bathroom, the sound of a child sobbing breaks out. There are no children to be found inside.
-Upon exiting that bathroom, the characters find themselves on another floor. Reentering will put them in a different bathroom. This time, the stall door opens to reveal a decayed corpse, strung up with medical equipment. "Leonard Rhine- the Monster Lurks" is written on the wall behind it in blood.
-There's a classroom with only a table full of telephones and scattered cards. One telephone may ring and lead to an NPC conversation.
-The library has shelves stocked with religious-looking books. One shelf has a book of fairy tales, open to a relevant page [which I'll put in when the time comes]. Another, more out of the way, has less-relevant but vaguely interesting info [which I'll also put in].
-Depending on how things go and player preference, there may be an NPC encounter and boss fight.]

It's the courtyard again. The snow has turned to a steady, warm rain, and there's something "off" about the whole place- the building looks more distressed, the hedges thornier. The sharp smell of burning bites the nose.

In the concrete in the center, a mysterious occult symbol has been burned.

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That's. Weird. Again.

And while it looks alike, it doesn't all smell the same. Or look exactly the same. It's looks like a holocaust version of itself. Jo's careful not to touch any of it, and to walk very quietly.

There's movement on the other side of the symbol- a man holding a shotgun stands.

"Hey!"

The revolvers up straight and direct on his face.

Jo's walking forward slowly.

"Yeah?"

"Whoa, hold on! Don't shoot!" His hands are up already.

"Are you from here? Can you tell me what just happened?"

Gun goes down. About two inches.

"I'm not. I got here a while ago. Long enough to meet a lot of your fuckin' monsters. Who are you?"

"My name's Harry Mason. I'm just a tourist. I'm looking for my daughter Cheryl. Have you seen a little girl around?"

Jo shook her head.

"Only seen two residents, none of them young."

Unless she turned into a faceless thing?

"Guess I'll have to keep looking. I wonder what happened with this school. Is it even the same place?"

He heads for the front doors, then pauses as a radio in his pocket crackles with static, glancing around.

In the darkness in the corner, something moves. The shotgun's up and aiming.

Jo's revolver points in the same direction after the noise.

Fingers ready already, even as she asks.

"Normal radio or EMF meter?"

A couple of the faceless monsters sidle forward. Harry pulls the trigger, and one jerks back, winged.

"What? I don't know. I found it in the cafe. It looks like a radio, but I don't know what's going on with it. It only picks up when these things are around."

"Fuck. They're here too."

Jo lets out multiple shots.

Thinking about demonic and ghostly disturbances to electronics.

And how she needs a radio stat.

"Keep it on. Always. It'll keep you safe." Beat. "Relatively. And don't let those things near you."

Living Nightmares

Midwich Elementary School (Nightmare World)