open Survival Horror RP

[Vulcan 3,254]

(OOC: https://mlpforums.com/topic/143680-survival-horror-rp/)

 

It was half an hour before midnight and a young colt sat listlessly on a stump surrounding the camp fire , a strange package wrapped in a small paper bag nestled on his lap. Chicken never wanted to come here but was forced into this whole trip only a few hours ago...

 

{5:00 pm}

"W-What??!!" Chicken scratch exclaimed nervously as he glared at the young mare's face. "You did WHAT?!"

 

"Calm down, yah dingus" Maple smiled as she shoved a large brown travelling bag into his saddle. "I just arranged for a nice camping experience with friends" Maple grinned, She had always been the kind of mare to push her friends out of their comfort zone and Chicken was no different. 

 

"Nice camping experience?!" Chicken yelled "You invited random ponies on the street to a "night of horror" at the everfree forest!" He continued with a hint of panic in his voice.   

 

"Relax, It's going to be fun! and as a bonus, I left a little "surprise" in there" She said gesturing towards the bag.

 

"Open it with your friends before midnight"

 

"You're going to love it!" She winked as she pushed her friend out her door. 

 

...

 

{Present}

 

"I really hate that girl -_-" Chicken thought as he threw a piece of firewood into the flames. a puff of embers blew with the wind as the wood hit the fire,

Edited December 12, 2015 by Vulcan

[Dapper Charmer 591]

Mist smiled happily as he walked through the forest towards the area the camp out was being held. Mist soon found Chicken sitting by himself in front of the fire. Mist took off his back pack and opened it. Inside were some basic camping supplies; sleeping bag, tent, marshmallows. But what he pulled out of his bag was a scary timberwolf mask he had bought. He slid on the mask and snuck up behind Chicken. "BOO!" Mist screamed loudly.

[Vulcan 3,254]

@@Dapper Charmer, 

"Yipes!" Chicken jumped, flinging the package into the air as it landed just beside the camp fire. He bolted on top of a nearby tree. and peeked his head through the branches."H-...Hey! ,You''re not a timbre wolf!" Chicken yelled as  he flew himself slowly back down. "Not cool" He rebuked brushing off some leaves from his wings.

Edited December 12, 2015 by Vulcan

[Dapper Charmer 591]

Mist burst into laughter as he pulled off the mask, "sorry man. I wasn't gonna put the mask on till everyone was here," he said while still laughing, "but then I saw you sitting by yourself and couldn't resist." Mist slowly stopped laughing as he dropped his pack in front of Chicken, "would it make you feel better if I told you I brought an extra jumbo large bag of choclate covered marshmallows?"

[Vulcan 3,254]

"A little  :okiedokielokie: " 

 

Chicken responded as he grabbed the strange package from beside the fire , it felt heavy on his teeth as he bit the edge. "So I take it you got my friend's street invitation?" He asked with a hint of sarcasm as  he sat back on one of the stumps.

 

 

Suddenly the cold night wind blew through the forest and shook the trees as it passed. The howls of a pack of timbre wolves could be heard from a distance.

Edited December 12, 2015 by Vulcan

[KlutsyDraconequus 120]

I finally made my way to site after getting lost at least twice. 

 

 

 

Suddenly the cold night wind blew through the forest and shook the trees as it passed. The howls of a pack of timbre wolves could be heard from a distance.

 

 

I shivered slightly at the sound of the howls of the pack and gave a quick look in the direction of my peripherals to detect any possible threat. After a moment I relaxed, albeit rather slightly. I noticed the dim light of the camp fire with a pony stuck in the tree and another on the ground conversing lightly within the distance. 

 

I smiled again genuinely as I wouldn't be alone again in this creepy forest. Anything done here would make even a tea party here a crazy thought. I wonder how the zebras manage to live here so calmly, I 'd miss the rest of the world way too quickly. I called up ahead to get their attention, "Hello! Please tell me we have warm beverages if we're to be here at night telling stories? I brought hot chocolate too!", I said finally entering the site itself.   

[Dapper Charmer 591]

Mist smiled as the newcomer mentioned hot chocolate. "Huzzar," Mist exclaimed happily, "your hot chocolate is the perfect thing to go with my chocolate covered marshmallows." He walked over to the newcomer and extended his hoof, "I'm Mist by the way. I don't know who the other guy is. But with the way he reacted to my scare its probably chicken," Mist said with a small chuckle.

[Vulcan 3,254]

"Correction, It's Chicken "Scratch"" He corrected before scratching his nape. "...Though now that I think about it , it doesn't really make much of a difference" He moped as he remembered how bad his was. 

 

"Boneless Chicken Scratch, I named you after my best friend" his father's friendly voice rung through the back of his mind.

 

"So I take it you're Mist" Chicken spoke as he walked towards the two , leaving the package on the stump.

 

@, 

 

"and you are?" Chicken asked as he turned towards the greenish mare.

Edited December 12, 2015 by Vulcan

[KlutsyDraconequus 120]

Laughing lightly to the comment I replied, "Nice to meet you as well! I am Rain." I gave a quick bow to e verypony. "I would have flown but I kept hitting the branches, you can't see anything here can you?" I said with some relief now. I began to set up a pot of boiling water for some drinks. "We will start soon and I hope your ready, because I certainly am.

 

I sat on the log now as the water bubbles developed. I imagined the sweet, warm taste that would soon envelope my taste buds. "Be ready in five minutes!" I exclaimed happily.

[Dapper Charmer 591]

"Can't wait, " said Mist happily as he opened the packet of chocolate covered marshmallows he had brought, "but you know if we had a time machine it'd be ready now. Just something to think about." he said as he put two of the marshmallows in his mouth. He held out the bag to Chicken and Rain, "either of you guys want one?"

[Vulcan 3,254]

Laughing lightly to the comment I replied, "Nice to meet you as well! I am Rain." I gave a quick bow to e verypony. "I would have flown but I kept hitting the branches, you can't see anything here can you?"

 

 

"Tell me about it! It's like the trees move on their own!" Chicken agreed as he sat on one of the stumps, For a moment he thought this wouldn't be so bad, the fillies seem friendly and the food's gonna be great. "Thanks Maple~" He thought with a smile.

 

 

 

 

I sat on the log now as the water bubbles developed. I imagined the sweet, warm taste that would soon envelope my taste buds. "Be ready in five minutes!" I exclaimed happily.

 

 

"Great!" He smiled as he reached into his bag and grabbed a black cotton blanket and wrapped it around himself.

 

 

 

"Can't wait, " said Mist happily as he opened the packet of chocolate covered marshmallows he had brought, "but you know if we had a time machine it'd be ready now. Just something to think about." he said as he put two of the marshmallows in his mouth. He held out the bag to Chicken and Rain, "either of you guys want one?"

 

 

"I'll take a few!" Chicken nodded as he grabbed a handful of marshmallows. 

"I hope the next guy brings pizza" He laughed as he ate the sugary snack.

Edited December 12, 2015 by Vulcan

[Drago Ryder 641]

Dawn sighed as she laid on the grass, stargazing. She honestly needed a change of scenery when it came to her life and a camping trip sounded like the perfect opportunity. The alicorn didn't really mind being outside and the fact that there were others there gave her some pony to talk to.

[Vulcan 3,254]

The clouds above the night sky began to clear as a full moon shown bright above the forest. The cold night winds grow unbearable as a sense of dread looms over the ever free.

 

 

"W-what was that??" Chicken's shoulders shook as he felt a chill down his spine. "Probably nothing" He thought trying to push down his fears as he checked his watch...."15 minutes to midnight, I guess it's time" He whispered to himself as he read the hour. 

 

"Guys!, I have a surprise" He smiled holding up the package , strangely enough, he wasn't as scared as he was used to , perhaps the accompaniment of his new friends helped to forget the fears however the feeling of bravery was short lived as he carefully tore through the brown paper covering.

 

the contents were a small note and an old book.

 

The note itself  was  rather new and written on in a cutesy hand writing with the words

 "Found in Secret pathway within Equestrian Archives, I borrowed it....without permission :3 - Maple"

 

"Of course -__- " Chicken thought as he read the message. "looks like we're criminals now" He implied as he passed the note to his friends and turned his attention to the book.It was a rather strange tome, the cover was leather bound with the pages seeming to have been at least around 100 years old. The cover read "Nights Of Horrors" in a strange and eerie writing.

 

His expression grew surprised as he glanced through the pages. "They're all blank!" He exclaimed confusingly as he showed his friends the blank sheets by flicking through the pages  accidentally skipping a strange page one near the end with olden writing written on the upper portion and the bottom page missing, appearing to have been  torn from long ago.

Edited December 12, 2015 by Vulcan

[Drago Ryder 641]

Dawn trotted over to where Chicken was and looked at the book. "Huh, that's strange." She muttered under her breath. To be honest, she wasn't really expecting a book like this to even exist and simply shrugged. "What exactly are you planning to do with that?"

[Vulcan 3,254]

"Aaaaagh!" Chicken jumped with fear as he felt a strange voice from behind him. Chicken shivered as he turned  behind him "What th-A unicorn?!" He exclaimed at the pink mare covered by a cloak. "I guess you're here for the camp out?" He assumed as he gestured towards an empty stump beside Rain. "Si' down, We're just about to have snacks" He smiled before turning his attention towards the book once more ,

 

"My friend gave me this book for this event but I can't seem to find anything on here" 

[Drago Ryder 641]

Dawn nodded slightly and took a seat. She then began to think of what could could be in that book if it had nothing in it. "Maybe we should just leave it. We don't really know what it could happen." She said, before shifting her coat around to make sure it wouldn't fall off.

[Dapper Charmer 591]

"we can't just not use this book. After all Chickens friend went to all the trouble of stealing it for us." Mist walked over to Chicken and tool the book off him, "let me have a look." Mist studied the book. He flipped through the pages and saw that they were indeed all blank. He closed the book and studied it from the side. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary except Mist noticed a tiny gap between the pages. He opened the book at the gap and saw that the bottom half of the page was missing. The top part of the however had sent weird old writing on it. "what do you know." he said passing the book, which was still open at the half page, back to Chicken, "not all the pages are blank after all."

[Vulcan 3,254]

Chicken nervously grabbed the book as he took another look into it's pages. sure enough , one sheet did in fact stick out from the rest.It was an old page much like the rest with the bottom half appearing to have been torn apart. Stranger still was the creepy  written text on the top.The writing looked eerie as if mnemonically begging the reader to recite it's text. The words looked barely legible looking as if it had been hastily scrawled and  written with blood. Chicken curiously read the words aloud as he rested the book on his hoof.

 

 

nothing happened...

 

"Talk about a rip off!" Chicken whined as he listlessly tossed the book behind him. "All that trouble for a half thought poem and an empty book" Chicken continued as he took another log and stoked the fire. 

 

Unknown to Chicken, the tome behind him began to squirm and shake , twist and turn , as if something dark and malicious  was forcing it's way out into the world. Suddenly the restless shaking stopped before the book finally snapped open ,slowly forming a small maelstrom of black smoke and burning ash just above it's pages.

 

"I guess we can still just enjoy a nice camp out" He ignorantly smiled,Though visible to his friends,  Chicken was blissfully unaware of the large vortex increasingly gaining in tremendous height behind him.

Edited December 13, 2015 by Vulcan

[Drago Ryder 641]

Dawn's eyes widened as she noticed the smoke rising from the book and was to much in fear to even move. Whatever that book was, it definitely wasn't of this world. "Umm, guys. We should probably get out of here." She said, slowly raising a hoof to point at what was forming behind Chicken.

[Vulcan 3,254]

"What? I'm not that ugly!" Chicken defended himself , thinking that the pink mare pointed towards him. 

 

 

The pages began to tear off the book as the ash and smoke surrounding the  fire began to warp into text as it melded onto the paper. Strange creatures , shadows at first but slowly gaining physical form, began to span out from the center as each was eerily followed by a page from the book.

 

The book fell hard to the ground, the pages scattered throughout the forest while only a single sheet landed with the breeze on to chicken lap. 

 

"Hm?" Chicken glanced curiously at the strange parchment it seemed to be a story of sort, "The muffin mare?" Chicken read the page's title confused.

 

 

"Do any of you guys know the muffin mare?" Chicken asked before being being interrupted by a slow eerie song of a young mare echoing through the trees around them.

 

Edited December 13, 2015 by Vulcan

[Drago Ryder 641]

Dawn's body shivered and she made sure to pull the coat around her. "Ok, whoever's doing this, it's not funny." She said, before standing up and looking around. Maybe all of this was just some prank. Yeah, that makes sense. Nothing bad was going to happen to them.

 

Not to far from the group, a creature formed from one of the pages of the torn book. It's body was yellow with white fur around it's neck. It carried a single pendulum and a dark smile formed on it's face. "Finally free. I'm finally free." It said.

[Dapper Charmer 591]

"I agree with her," Mist said pointing to Dawn, "i likeca good joke as much as anyone else. But the Muffin Mare is nothing to joke about." Mist gulped loudly as he looked at the others, " ponies say the Muffin Mare gouged her eye out and tried to replace it with the eyes of other ponies. she was locked up but she escaped." He turned to Chicken, "Please, for the love of Celestial, tell me this is all a joke and that the Muffin Mare is not really out there."

[Vulcan 3,254]

"W-...What's going on?!!" Chicken girlishly screamed as he heard the strange echo through woods..."Why do these things keep happening to me" He whined like an idiot before running behind mist and shivering like a coward. "Take the bat colt!, they taste much better!" He gibbered towards the trees.

 

 

"" The voice echoed, as pastries were thrown from the trees, they appeared to be made of white fleshy mush  and reeked of rotting meat. 

 

 

From the shadows of the trees a silhouette of a  horrific mare with one eye and a kitchen's knife began to psychotically fly towards the campers.

[Drago Ryder 641]

Dawn backed away and ran in the opposite direction of the psychotic mare. "Get to the tents." She said, hoping that somehow they would keep anything like their attacker away from them. The alicorn didn't even notice that her coat was beginning to fall off.

[KlutsyDraconequus 120]

(Slow down please?)

 

I reacted instantly after managing to escape from my mental shock of the recent events as the muffin mare made his attempt to charge us. I released my hot chocolate into his face which still held a scalding temperature before he could get to me as the others ran away. "Take that you creep!" I followed Chicken then as he ran away picking him up the process. While we were aloft in the air, I asked him, "What do we do now? Did she steal you a counter spell too? We`'ll be food before the Royal Guard even catch up to us!"

Edited December 13, 2015 by Sriracha