Jack Baker

@driz Raze took out his gun and checked the clip. Seven bullets left, along with the extra rounds he had with him. "And it's just like I said before... hate me later when we're out of this alive. Besides, I don't think that's true. I'm 'your man' after all right?" He smirked and opened the door, turning to see Nick Goldhoof standing outside of the dining room doors. "There's my little boy!" he said with an evil grin, walking towards him. Raze carefully aimed the gun at his head and fired three shots, all hitting their mark and causing Nick to stagger backwards. "Now, Lory!" he said, firing two more shots. He had two left.

@driz Raze began to think, think of a way they could easily get past all of this. First, he began to formulate a plan to get around Nick Goldhoof. Sneaking around him would take forever, and although the house was pretty big, there were many places that were locked, meaning there were only so many places to hide and he'd probably find them eventually. It was also too energy consuming, and it also would probably waste a lot of time. A distraction probably wasn't the best idea either, since it seemed he could overpower one of them pretty easily, and who knew where the other two family members were lurking. That would mean their only choice left was to fight him head on... but even that was impossible. Raze saw that he could regenerate his injuries quite easily, which would make him nigh unkillable. Then how would they be able to stop him?! Just then, Raze remembered something. His mind raced back from Nick crashing the car to him blowing his own brains out. He didn't get up right away when that happened, and it took him some time to find them in the bathroom. Although it seemed the old man was incapable of dying, it also seemed that if he suffered enough damage, something seriously fatal, he could be knocked out for quite a while. He looked down at the gun he was holding, and took a deep breath. "Alright, hear me out..." he said quietly to Lory. "We're gonna fight this guy, and I know we probably won't be able to kill him; that's not what I'm going for here. I have a theory: if he suffers enough damage, I think his body shuts down for a while, possibly because his healing can't keep up with what's being thrown at him. So if I shoot him and you cut him enough times, he'll go down and we can use that time to find what we need, alright?"

@driz "Yeah, it did," Raze said. "One should be in the living room, in a grandfather clock. The other's in a 'processing' area... I don't know where that it, probably deeper in the house maybe..." He could hear the old man kick open the metal door. "This is all too fun!" he shouted. "Quick, the laundry room!" he said to Lory, opening the door and shutting it quietly. From behind the door he could hear him cackle outside, searching for them.

@driz Raze quickly ran out of the bathroom after Lory without hesitating, with Nick walking towards them quickly. "As you can see, the family is only part of her gift," he said, about to catch up. Raze turned back and fired a few shots at his head to keep him away, which staggered him just enough for both of them to head out back to the main hall. "Which, in a word, means... heh-heh... you're fucked!" Raze could hear him say before closing the door. He made his way down the stairs and through the metal door leading back to the kitchen hall. "We just gonna keep hiding, or what?" he said to Lory while running.

@driz "No, no I do not," Raze said with a slight smile, then put it in the backpack. "Come on, let's get moving." He made his way out of the rec room from where he came in, heading toward the first door he saw and opening it. They were in a bathroom of some sort. Raze checked the sink drawer to see if he could find even more of that first aid med. Instead, he found a handgun clip. "Wow... handgun rounds in the bathroom," he said while taking them. "I'd make a joke, but... I'm feeling more thankful than I am joking." He put the clip in his pocket with the rest he found, then turned to look at the tub. It was filled halfway with some mysterious black liquid, with the edges of the tub lined with another mysterious black material. However, he could see something wooden poking out of the liquid. He carefully grabbed the part sticking out of the liquid then pulled it out, revealing a weird wooden statuette of some kind. He didn't know what to make of it, yet... it felt important to him. Somehow. He put it in his backpack. "Alright, then," he said to Lory, heading towards the door. "Let's get out of here--" As he was reaching for the doorknob, the door already began to open, and Nick Goldhoof quickly walked in, the top right half of his face missing, exposing his brain. He was holding some sort of weird weapon, it looked like a large paint roller with nails sticking out of it. He grabbed Raze by the neck, choking him. As he looked at him in terror, he saw Nick's missing part of his face slowly begin to regenerate. He didn't know what he was seeing. "Heck of a thang, ain't it?" he asked him, grinning. "Sure as shit beats the hell outta dyin'." As he said this, he threw Raze across the tub and back to the sink. He managed to land just before he crashed into it. Still shocked from him entering the room, Raze struggled to unholster his gun and aimed it at him, firing off two shots at his chest. They didn't even faze him, and he began to walk up towards both him and Lory. "My little girl has given us a gift, and this gift is with me always," he said, grinning.

@driz "Nothing, really..." Raze said, looking behind him. Just a bunch of empty liquor bottles on a shelf. However, looking closely, he found a large bottle that was untouched and grabbed it. "Holy crap... this is premium stuff!" he said, looking at the label. "Sweet Apple Acres limited edition Sweet Apple Whiskey, made with fresh apples picked right off the tree... this shit sells for like 300 bucks on the market!" He carefully put the bottle on the counter. "Just gonna... set that right there." He then found a letter he overlooked while setting it down. "Huh... looks like I missed something..." He picked it up and read aloud from it. "Mary, I'm sick and tired of chasing these shitheads around the yard when they escape. We need to hide the three dog head relief keys so they can't open the door to outside. Let's hide them like this: one in the grandfather clock in the living room. One in the rec room, in a large book with a cross on the cover. One on a shelf in the processing area..." He looked around. To the right of the minibar was a book that fit the letter's description. He picked it up and opened it, and saw a blue colored metal dog's head inside a cut out section of the book. He took it out. "So these are for a door..." he said. "Well, that's one of them." He put it in the backpack.

@driz Raze looked at the tape. "Might be." He read the label out loud. "Honey Glow... the girl?" He looked to his right. Next to the tape was a TV showing static and a VHS player. He eyed it suspiciously. "Looks like whoever put this here really wants us to watch it..." He put the tape away. "Let's just watch it later. Right now, we need to find something to escape. He turned around, and saw another weird looking door behind the pool table. It reminded him of the snake door, but instead of a snake, there were scorpions attached to it instead. He walked over to it and turned the handle. Locked. "Just like that other door..." he said under his breath. There were small windows next to the sides of the door and in one of them, another shotgun could be seen leaning on it. "Aha! Looks like another shotgun I could use. All I need is a key..." He looked around for anything else. He walked over to where the board games were. "There's a lot of these here," he said, something catching his eye. "Wait... don't tell me..." He reached down into one of the stacks and grabbed a large box. It was a somewhat dusty box of Light Souls: The Board Game. He looked inside. All the game pieces were intact. Making sure Lory wasn't looking, he quietly slipped it into the backpack. It took up quite a bit of space, so he transferred the first aid bottles to the front compartment of the pack. Now everything was able to fit. "Yes, yes...!" he whispered in glee. He then walked over to the minibar and started looking for other supplies, finding one bottle of first aid med, which he stuck with the others.

@driz Raze nodded and followed her, opening the door. It led to a hall that split into two paths, the left one leading further into the house, and the right one leading to a veranda overlooking the backyard. He decided he'd go left. He passed a weird looking door and tried to open it. Locked. Upon further inspection, a white statue of a snake was attached to it. He raised a brow. "Hmm... interesting," he said. He kept walking forward and found another room to his right. It looked like a recreation room. There was a large pool table in the center, along with a minibar on the left side. In the corner, stacks of board games could be seen in small baskets or sitting on drawers. "Huh... how lavish," he said, taking a look around. "Let's search the room, see if we can find anything," he said to Lory.

@driz "Right," Raze responsed. He was about to head up the stairs, when he heard a phone ring throughout the hall. He quickly ran towards it, and picked it up. "Did my daddy give you a hard time?" It was Dawn. Raze was confused. "Wait... is that... actually your father? So you're--" "Yes, that is my father. Well... he used to be..." Her voice had a hint of sadness to it. "Anyway, what happened to him?" "Well, I'm sorry, but... I think he's... dead." She began to chuckle. "You just might be able to pull this off," she said. "What? What do you mean?" "Alright, there's something I need you to do, but you won't be able to do so in there. You may need some sort of keys to do it, but find a way out of the main house. I'll be in touch." She hung up. Raze set the phone down, and sighed. "Well... better start looking," he said, climbing up the stairs to meet Lory. "It's Dawn... Dawn Goldhoof, apparently," he said to her. "She said she needs us to do something, but we need to find some sort of way to get out of the house."

@driz "Alright," Raze said slowly walking around himself. He began to take a look around for more supplies, opening another drawer and taking out a first aid med bottle, storing it in his pack. He could feel it getting full. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing... he thought. He turned around and made his way to the opposite end of the hall, near the stairs. "Oh shit!" he exclaimed at what he saw. It was a small room, with a metal door that was wide open revealing a statue of an Equestrian soldier holding a real pump action shotgun in its hands. "So that's where they keep the shotgun..." he said, walking into the room. He took the shotgun off the statue and picked it up but as he did, he could hear the statue being lifted up slightly, and behind him the metal door quickly shut behind him. He banged on the door. "Crap!" he said, quickly putting the shotgun back, which opened the door. "So it's a trap... looks like I'll have to replace the shotgun with something of equal weight." He walked out the door. "Hey, ya find anything?" he called out quietly to Lory.

@driz "No, it ends when we get the hell out of here, and we go the police and tell 'em all about this messed up freakshow of a family!" Raze said, making his way to the top of the ladder. He saw it led to a little platform just above the entire garage. There was a metal table in front of him with a small box labeled "Steel Boy Shot Shells". He looked inside and found two shotgun shells. He took it and put them in his backpack. "If there's shotgun ammo here, then there's a shotgun around here somewhere," he said to himself. He looked to his right, noticing a small metal shelf with more handgun clips. Inspecting them, he saw there were about 8 bullets in them, and pocketed those. He then noticed a weird picture frame next to the ammo, holding a statuette of some kind. It looked like the bottom half of an ox. Raze remembered that the weird metal door had an indentation shaped like an ox; perhaps this must be the thing to open it. He tried taking it out but it was stuck in place. Turning the picture frame around, he saw that it was screwed in from the back, so he took the screw out, causing the statuette to fall out. He picked it up, and put it in the backpack. He saw that the shelf was in front of a large empty space that looked like it led right back to the small metal door used to enter the garage. He moved the shelf, and hopped down. "Over here, Lory!" he called out to her, then made his way back up the stairs and back to the kitchen hall. He then walked all the way over to the metal door, taking out the ox statuette. "Alright, let's see what this does," he said, sticking it inside the indentation. It fit perfectly, and suddenly the lock holding it down began to move, and the door opened slightly. He pushed it open, and saw they were now in a huge room. "This might be the main hall," Raze said.

@driz "Now? We look for a way out of here..." Raze said to her, then spotted a ladder behind her. "That could be it. Come on." He began to make his way up, but was soon grabbed by his right shoulder. He quickly turned to see Nick, charred to a crisp, staring down on him. He grabbed Raze's right arm, which he held the gun in. "Do I have your attention, boy? You're about to see somethin' wonderful." He then put the gun in his mouth and his finger on the trigger. He glared daggers at Raze and growled, then pulled the trigger. A huge chunk of the right side of his head had splattered everywhere, and he was knocked back by the shot, falling to the ground. "FUCK!!!" Raze shouted as he stepped back in surprise. "Holy shit..." He took deep breaths to calm himself down. "Fuck this, come on!" He quickly began to climb up the ladder.

@driz Raze shook his head. "No... no I don't," he said. "Although there might be stuff here we can use..." He saw a metal locker behind him in the far left corner. He walked over to it an opened it. To his surprise, there were two bottles of the first aid liquid. "Speak of the devil," he said, taking one and pouring it over the burns. He could feel the pain going away quickly, and sighed in relief. "Alright then," he said. Walking over to the other far left corner, he found a medium sized cardboard box and opened it, finding two 10 bullet clips, which he picked up. "These people really love scattering shit all over the place, huh..." he said. "That seems to be everything... well, let's find a--" He looked down and saw he was standing over the cop's body. He sighed. "Poor deputy..." he said, carefully stepping over the corpse. "He didn't know what he was getting himself into... just like us." He walked over to Lory. "Before I forget..." he showed her the gun and the knife. "Take your pick. If we run into the other two... you're gonna need something to defend yourself."

@driz Raze was about to help her, but suddenly, the car caught on fire. That only meant one thing. "Shit!" he said, it's gonna blow!" He grabbed Lory and led her as far away from the vehicle as possible. What shocked him even more than the car fire, however, was what happened a few seconds later. Nick Goldhoof came out of the wreckage, bloody and on fire, though neither of those things seemed to bother him. He was grinning at them devilishly. "Oh, BOY!" he shouted, slowly walking towards them. "You look what you done now, mothafuckah!" He then ran up to Raze before he had time to react, picking him up with both hands by the neck. The fire sizzled him, and he was struggling to break free. "This isn't the end, you know!" he said to him, looking at him like a maniac, laughing evilly. Before he could do anything else, the car finally blew up behind him, forcing him to let go of Raze. Another explosion followed knocking all three of them down, but only leaving Nick unconscious. Raze stared at his body for a few seconds, before wincing at the pain in his neck from being slightly burned in Nick's grab. He gently put a hand on his injuries. "Persistent motherfucker, ain't he?" he said, gritting his teeth in pain. "If he gets up again..."

@driz Raze closed his eyes and felt the car crash into the wall, the engine giving out when it did. He opened one eye to see what had happened. Miraculously, he was unhurt, and it seemed like Lory was the same way. He looked to the right. Nick had taken the full impact of the crash, the girder seemingly crushing him. Blood was everywhere. He slowly crawled out of the car, and helped Lory out of it as well. "Ok... alright... he's gotta be dead now right?" he asked. "No one could survive that, it's impossible!"

@driz Nick directed the car over to a pair of steel girders that had fallen over while the car thrashed around. He forced Lory to break, one of the girders an inch away from her face. "Let's finish this, you and I," he said to her, then immediately backed the car up as far as it could go. "Oh boy, I'ma take you for a ride!" he said to Lory grinning evilly, then made Lory slam her leg into the accelerator. The car sped towards the girders. "Fuck, fuck, FUCK!!" Raze shouted, ducking as low as he could.

@driz The car hit the old man and he was knocked onto the floor. Disappearing from sight. Raze couldn't see where he was. "Is he dead...?" he asked, unsure. Suddenly, he heard footsteps on the roof of the car, and said roof had been torn from the car completely. He was standing on the passenger's seat next to Lory, and he had a strong superhuman grip on the steering wheel and her leg pumping the accelerator. "Nice car ya got here!" He said, pushing on her leg to make the car go while turning the wheel right. He was directing the car where he wanted to, and he crashed it into a wall. "Where'd you learn to drive?" he sarcastically asked Lory, while grabbing the gear shift and reversing it, crashing the back against another wall.

@driz The car came sped toward Nick, running him over and into a wall, almost hitting Raze. He glared at her. "What the HELL?!?! Whose side are you on?!" he shouted at her angrily, then shook his head. He ran over to her and went into the back seat of the sedan. "Ok, NOW drive!!" All the while, the old man came back up, and grinned at them. "Heh, heh heh... mothaFUCK!!" He didn't do anything, but motioned for them to do it again. "Come on, COME ON!!" He beckoned for them to run him over.

@driz The cop stepped in front of her, blocking her way. "Hold on a minute, y'all know who you're talkin' to? I am a cop, and I demand you treat me with some respect! I didn't say y'all could go anywhere either. Now, I'm just doing my job, now won't you do your job, and answer my questions!" "What more do you need to know?!" Raze asked him, slightly angry. "What do you know about these missing person reports?!" "I'm not sure! I don't even know if you'd believe me if I told you!" "Try me," the cop said with a serious look. Suddenly, both the garage door leading outside and the one behind Raze and Lory began to close. Surprised, he pulled out his gun and held it to his side. "Hey, put that door back up!" he shouted at Raze. "I'm not doing that I-- oh shit. Behind you!" he said, spotting a familiar figure sneaking up behind the cop. "Put the door back up!" "Wait!" "PUT THAT DOOR BACK UP!!" "WAIT!" Just then, a shovel went through the cop's head, then pulled back, taking the top of his head with him. As his corpse fell down, Raze could see Nick Goldhoof standing behind him. Ignoring the two of them, he stood over the corpse of the cop, and started beating it with his shovel, screaming like a madman. He kept doing this until it broke, at which point he threw it to the side. "Fuck it! I'ma kill every one of you," he said, walking over to a metal shelf. He picked up a large fire axe, and swung it at the shelf. Raze took Lory'a hand and led her away from him, backed into a car. He turned around, and his eyes lit up. "Wait a minute... this is our car!" he said. He looked around, and spotted the keys on a workbench to his left. However, Nick was fast approaching him. "Lory, grab the keys!" he said, pointing to the workbench. "I'll distract him!" Nick swung at him, which he stepped back from, then came back in and stabbed him in the gut, quickly taking it out and retreating. The old man grinned and laughed. "You? You think you can hurt me?!" he said as he begun walking towards him again. Raze ran back. This knife wasn't gonna do him any good! Suddenly, he spotted the officer's gun lying on the ground and raced to pick it up. He cocked it, and aimed it at Nick's head as he got close, firing three shots. As with Honey Glow, they didn't kill him, but they staggered him, giving Raze enough time to reposition himself.

@driz Raze shook his head and made his way to the entrance to the garage. It turned left down some stairs, and soon he was met with a closed metal door. He looked to his left; there was a button that looked like it opened it, but it was taped up inside a metal box with a glass door. He looked at the knife. "Well... I guess it IS good for something. How lucky," he said, using the knife to cut the tape holding the door down. He opened it up, and pushed the button, causing the metal door leading to the garage to open. He walked inside and saw the cop inspecting something on the ground. Outside, his patrol car was parked near the garage door, sirens flashing brightly. "Hey, we need to get out of here!" Raze called up to the cop, who approached him quickly with a stern looking face. "Now first you need to tell what y'all are doing out here alone in the middle of the night!" he shouted to him.

@driz The cop was surprised at the sudden statement. "Hold on you two, back up," he said in a slightly thick Appleloosan accent. "Now, sir, ma'am, do you live here, I mean is this, your property?" He took out a pocket flashlight to see better inside. Raze raised an eyebrow. "What, us? N-no, no!" "Alright. Now, we've got several missing calls about some missing persons lately, would you happen to know anything about that?" Raze grabbed the window. "You don't understand. We need to get out of here right now!" The cop looked at him, confused. "Now calm down." "You're not listening to me. There are crazy people in this house trying to fucking KILL us!" The cop scoffed. "Well, alright, let me tell you this; you don't exactly seem like you're playing with a full desk yourself, alright?" Raze banged the window lightly. "Are you kidding? What the hell does that even mean?!" "Look, like I said, we've had several missing persons calls... and I can't rule out that outsiders like yourselves may not be involved." Raze sighed. "Fine, we'll tell whatever it is you need." "Alright, now that's more like it, meet me outside by the garage, we'll talk there." He began to leave. "Hey, wait! We need a weapon to defend ourselves, a gun or something!" The cop scoffed once more. "You must be outta your mind." Raze shook his head. "Look... officer." "Deputy," the cop corrected him. "Alright then... deputy. Now, do wanna see our names in the obituaries? Or do you wanna be a hero and save both our lives?" The cop looked at him suspiciously for a sec, then reached into his back pocket, handing him a small knife. "A fucking pocket knife?!" "Here. Take it. That's all you're gonna get. Now GO. Garage. Now." He left to head over to the garage. Raze sighed. "Celestia damn it all..." He unfolded the knife, inspecting. "The fuck are we gonna do with a single knife? Ugh... nevermind, it's better than nothing I suppose."

@driz ((OOC: Wow I wrote that? Dang... Well it WAS 1 A.M.)) Raze remained silent, listening to what Lory had to say. He turned right, back to where the old man had cornered them. Just then, he saw a gigantic metal door with some sort of ornate lock. "Woah!" Raze said, legitimately surprised. "How the heck did I miss this?" He tried to push it open, but it wouldn't budge. "Damn," he said. He looked closer at the door and, upon further inspection, saw there was a design on the lock that had a missing piece. "Hmmm," he said. "Wonder what that's all about..." He tried looking around. "There's gotta be a key around here somewhere..." Just as he said that, he hear a soft banging noise coming from the other side of the hall, then a faint voice. "Open up!" it said. It didn't sound like one of the Goldhooves. "Wait... an outsider?" he said. He ran back to the other side and saw someone knocking on the broken window outside. A man. "Hey you!" he said to Raze, who quickly ran up to him. A closer look revealed it was a cop. "Hey! You gotta get us out of here!" he said to the cop.

@driz "Yeah," Raze said while looking around. "Next to their names were one of two words: 'dead' or 'turned'. Not sure what the second one means. The only ones without those words were Honey Glow and her other friend Arctic Breeze, the cameraman for that videotape..." He turned to look at her. "I don't know if it's demons or whatever, but whatever it is, is fucking nuts." He resumed searching the room, and found a small metal container. He opened it and found a crude lock pick inside, taking it. "This might come in handy," he said. "Alright, looks like that's everything. Come on, we need to get moving. Quietly though... I don't know if he's gone..." He slowly opened the door, and saw it led back to the hall they were just in, right next to the corner. He peeked around, seeing if there was anyone there; fortunately, it seemed clear. "Alright, it looks clear," he said to Honey Glow. "Keep your guard up though." He began to walk to the other end of the hall. "What do you think about this Dawn chick? Think we can trust her?"

@driz As Lory said the word "family", something popped into Raze's head. "Family... wait" He began to think, and suddenly, his eyes lit up. "Yeah... now I remember. I knew they looked familiar. These aren't just a bunch of psychopaths with an obsession for family... they ARE a family. They're the Goldhooves! I saw pictures of them while researching the place. They're alive--" Suddenly, something rang loudly in the room, slightly startling Raze. He turned around and saw a phone on a table in the middle of the room. He picked it up. "You did good, Raze," a familiar voice said. It was the mystery woman, Dawn. "Dawn, right? How do you know my name? And what the fuck happened to--" "Just shut up and listen if you listen if you want to stay alive." Raze sighed, and stayed quiet. "You need to get out of that house. Try checking the main hall, they're might be a way out there." "Alright..." Raze responded. "Oh, and that thing on both of your wrists is a codex. Don't lose it, it's important." "Ok...?" "I'll be in touch." She hung up. Raze sighed, looking at Lory. "That Dawn person called us again. Said we might find a way out through the main hall. But before we do that, let's take a look around here." As he said that, something caught his attention: a big, dark green chest of some sort. He opened it up, and was surprised at what he found. "Hey, it's my backpack!" he said, taking it out. He opened it, checking to see if everything was inside. Sure enough, it was, including four bottles of water. He opened one and eagerly gulped half of it down. "Here," he said to Lory, tossing her a bottle.

@driz Raze leaned back, sighing. She was right; he should be more worried than he was, but he felt ...calm. Maybe that wasn't it, maybe what happened was so unbelievable that he didn't know how to react to it. He took another look at his hand, then shook his head. He stood up approaching Lory and gently putting a hand on her shoulder. "Look, I'm... sorry I made you worry like that. I know you're upset, and I know I barely made it out alive, but... I'll be more careful next time, I promise."