Episode 1 - What hath night to do with sleep?

Halloween Night, 1987. A year since the events at the Old Barnaker House. Memories have faded. Things seem, fuzzier somehow. Did that, could that have even happened?

And here you are again, on Halloween Night. On the outskirts of an old amusement park. On Halloween Night. Didn't want to be called a chicken again...

And here you are. Something tugs at the back of your mind. A forgotten memory. This isn't right. You shouldn't be here. There's a metal arch over the front gate, topped by large, rusted metal letters. The remaining letters spell out 'UNLAND.'

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Walking slowly towards where you heard the voices, you can't make anything out through the fog, but there's an odd smell in the air. The further you walk the stronger it gets. It's an acrid burning smell that starts to sear your throat and make your eyes water. You stop and look around, but you can't tell where it's coming from.

Eventually starting onward again, the shadows in the mist seem to become more defined. Like another ride. And there's something else, a sort of flickering glow in the distance.

Approaching a little more slowly you can finally make out that this is some kind of bumper-car ride, rusted carts litter the floor, and the roof has mostly collapsed in, leaving only the metal frame, covered in a red-brown rust. A sign reads Dodgems. Towards the far side there's a good going fire inside one of the cars, smoke billowing up and out the open roof.

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A bit closer and in addition to the ride, and the fire, you can see movement on the grass just outside the ride. A figure stands there, a man, a big man. He's got some kind of broken and twisted metal pole. And he swinging it against the ground. Shouting 'Fuck you!' with each blow. And now you're watching him you can see that he's not just hitting the ground. There's something on the ground, a lump. No, a body. Huddled, small, like a child. And he's smashing it - it looks to be into the head or face - he's hitting it over and over again. There's blood on the end of the pole, there's splashes of blood as he strikes the body.

Then he looks up.

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Stares at you. His expression is contorted in a crazed grimace, a mixture of emotions, anger, maybe fear as well. There's tattoos across his arms, up his neck. He's dressed in a bomber jacket, filthy white T-shirt, jeans and work boots. Muscular but turned to fat. And he smiles, smiles at you both.


You know him. You remember him. It's Barry!
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You stare back at the man in trepidation, and he smiles even wider.

Then there's a movement. From the ground. The body on the ground moves. A hand flies up, there's something in the hand, flashing like a knife. And it's buried in the back of the man's leg.

He gives a shout and staggers back in confusion. Lifting the twisted pole up, looking around him in anger and pain.
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Raising his bat Darren whispers to Charlie," What the Fuck!, back away slowly.
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Barry!” hissed Charlie. ”It’s Barry from that dream! Let’s get out of here!”
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Darren's head snapped round at Charlie.."What the?...How?..." He started to say but caught the look in his eyes and quickly tailed off. Simply nodding he followed after him.
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Blood spurts from the wound in the back of the man's leg. He grabs at the injury and it oozes between his fingers. He looks angry and confused at the same time. Looking between you and the body in front of him. Paralysed in inaction.

From the figure on the ground you hear something, a weak voice, only just audible. Help me!
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Is it a voice Charlie recognises?
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OOC:   Hard Notice Stuff to recognise the voice  
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Try as he might, Charlie couldn’t work out if he’d heard the voice before… …
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"Oh shit! We gotta do something!Barry, was he the bad man In your 'memory'?" Darren asked Charlie.
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The voice Charlie hears, it sounds like maybe a child. There's something in the tone that might be familiar but it's so weak be can't really say for certain.
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Something in the voice was familiar to Charlie. He tried to remember but the thoughts twisted and dissipated like trying to take ahold of fog!

No matter who it was though, they were in danger. ”Let’s get them outa there,” said Charlie firmly.
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"Okay, I'll distract him and you can go round and help whoever." Darren nods toCharlie
"OI!! BARRY!!! YA BIG PALOOKA!!!! He shouts.
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The man staggers back and forth, one hand on his bleeding leg, the other swinging the bloody pole in front of him. At the shout he turns sharply back towards Darren and Charlie, his expression spasming between an angry snarl and a look of confusion and hurt.

While the man seems distracted there's a flurry of movement from the small figure on the ground. They roll to the side and slowly climb to their feet with great difficulty. You definitely think there's something familiar about that figure, the way they move. They're the size of a child, maybe a pre-teen of ten or eleven. But even from here...the face! You can't even fully understand it, the child doesn't have a face, or at least, not anymore. Just a ragged, bloody concavity, maybe you can just about make out, is that an eye? And a dark opening gapes, revealing a few bloody stumps of teeth - maybe what's left of the mouth - but the lips are curled outwards and half the remaining teeth seem to point the wrong way. You've seen horror films before - but this, this isn't anything like that. This is what reality looks like and it is too much for your mind to fully comprehend. Nothing should look like this - someone should put this out of its misery.

OOC:   Okay - that's a SAN roll 0/1d3 to see the kid's smashed up face.


Darren - to get that guy to come after you that'd be a Taunt roll - you can have a bonus die for being so annoying and another bonus die for using the name Barry - but you only have 5% whereas Charlie has 60% - so you're welcome to switch roles if you'd like.  
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OOC:   pass...seen worse....alot...worse  
OOC:   I'm up for the swap, slight change in plan if Charlie distracts him, Darren could move round and blindside him?  
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OOC:   If Charlie is going to Taunt - can he roll Taunt plus also a POW check.  
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For some reason, the kid’s face didn’t bother Charlie. Perhaps because the whole thing seemed so unreal? Nevertheless, they were going to try to distract Barry so the kid could get away.

Charlie wanted to say something cutting, something that really would get under Barry’s skin so he could help but be distracted. Unfortunately, his voice reverted to pre-teen mode and he squeaked, ”Hey, mister! You smell!”
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Trying not to look too closely at the kid's battered face, Charlie goes to shout an insult that he hopes will grab the attention of the hulking man, but as the words come to his lips his heart sinks, his voice comes out high-pitched, feminine even. The words he intends sound lame even before he's spoken them. Then...

'Barry, what are you doing? Leave the kid alone...'

Charlie hears the voice. Darren hears the voice. But it isn't Charlie speaking, it's a woman, it's that woman's voice again. And it's coming from Charlie. Quiet to start but getting louder, ending in a shriek.

Barry freezes. Looks even more perplexed. He turns his head at different angles, scrutinising Charlie. 'What'd you say?' Then he stumbles a few steps towards him. 'Karen, Karen, is that you?' He looks more frantic now and shuffles forward a few more feet. The pole hanging loose by his side now.

OOC:   Barry looks pretty distracted. Darren will be able to act...  
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Darren momentarily distracted himself at what he's just seen/ heard, sees the opportunity to.act. "Keep talking and backing away Charlie I'm gonna get to the kid then try and hit that
prick from.behind. 3 on 1 are better odds"
He then makes his way around to he kid.
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Charlie nodded, and continued to back away. He didn’t want to speak - he didn’t want to hear the woman’s voice again - but needed to keep Barry distracted and on edge.

”Why did you do it, Barry?! Why?!” he said in as firm a voice as he could manage.
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