primrosella: (Big Pretty Eyes)
Princess Rosella of Daventry ([personal profile] primrosella) wrote2011-10-21 04:02 pm

Quest 287

[Accidental Voice Post]

[The audio opens, as most posts of the accidental nature do, with some shuffling, some rustling, some gentle flurry of movement--the swishing of skirts, the whisper of wind, the soft thud of footsteps against a well-worn path. Branches snap, leaves crackle; the footsteps abruptly go silent as a voice, startled, cuts through the background noise.]

Is that--

[A few rapid steps swish through the grass; the suspense hangs in the air another moment before the voice speaks again, this time heavy with uncertainty and disbelief.]

But it can't be--!

[Another pause, wavering amidst the wind and the rustling of nature. And then at last, quietly this time, as if the speaker were remarking to herself under her breath--]

I'd know that old house with the ghosts anywhere. The graveyard, the crypt...no, that's it, there's no doubt of it, but why is it--

[She trails off, hesitant, before something occurs to her--and the words take on a new, eerily emphatic tone.]

I wonder if that box is still there...

[The footsteps begin to rustle again, a little quicker this time, and shortly thereafter the audio switches off.]


[OOC: So there actually is a haunted manor in Rosella's canon, in which she meets some ghosts and robs some graves and dodges zombies like a boss. Oh, and it's also where she hid Pandora's Box all those years ago, locked up tight in the crypt. (Good old Whateley Manor, withdrawn from the charming little town of Innsmouth to the world of Daventry.) Obviously, the one she's seeing isn't the exact same one that she visited in Tamir...but of course, Rosella's cursed out of her mind and doesn't know that. :D]
wandbreaker: (Edmund - uhhhhh)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-21 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you going in there?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...Well, if it is that old manor house...
wandbreaker: (Edmund - explanations)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-21 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...you're already inside, aren't you?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Just in the front hall!

...Or, well, I was just in the front hall, before I came into the parlor.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Be careful coming through the graveyard! It's hard to tell in all this fog, but when night falls the zombies will come out.
wandbreaker: (Edmund - focus on my smirk)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-21 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, fantastic.

One day you will learn to wait before you just venture out.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not like that at all! I was only visiting Ellington, and then I was on my way home, but the path didn't lead where I thought it would, and I got turned around in the fog...
wandbreaker: (Default)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
And then you entered the house.
wandbreaker: (Edmund - Eustace)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-21 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, a situation in which I might potentially die, of course I should just go in!

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Well, that proved to be the kick in the head she needed to shake the draw of the curse--at least for the moment.]

It seemed like...like...oh, drat it all!

[And she is beating feet back for the front door now.]
wandbreaker: (Edmund - Caspian said whut?)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-21 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope I'm hearing your running for the door, and not you running from something that wants to grind your bones for dinner.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
No, the ogre wasn't in the manor, he was in his house at the edge of the forest. He wouldn't be in here, not if it's the same one.
wandbreaker: (Edmund - derp derp derp for once)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-22 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
I can't believe that they have those in Daventry.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Ogres? Well, of course we do, why wouldn't we?
wandbreaker: (Edmund - browneyed)

[personal profile] wandbreaker 2011-10-22 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Haunted houses, Rosella.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, those are much rarer than ogres. In all my life I only ever really saw the one, and that was all the way in Tamir. We don't have old manor houses and graveyards just sitting around like that in our kingdom.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Are you going in there?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'm--I'm coming back out. I was only going to look.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say coming back out was the wiser of your two decisions.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
It was just a look. And it's not as though I've never been in this house before.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
And are you quite content now that you've had a look?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
...Yes, of course.

[AKA: No.]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose you'll have to empty your pockets and find some way in there again, won't you?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
It's just--there was something I was going to check, but I can't do it without going in the house, because I think that's where the key is.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
The crypt at the edge of the graveyard.

[A pause.]

...No, that's not it, I put that under the door, didn't I?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I just wanted a peek but I'm not sure why I thought...it couldn't be there if I've already gotten rid of it, could it?

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-10-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
If you've already gotten rid of something, no, I don't think it would be there again.