Game RP Haunted by You (FaeWhisperer)

[Kastellanos]

The flashing of the police lights reflected off the door as Kassidy approached the hospital, her steps slow and deliberate. Her bright blue eyes locked on the building, its silhouette etched with painful familiarity. The newly promoted detective hesitated at the entrance, the weight of the gun in her hand grounding her even as the acrid stench of blood assaulted her senses, creating worry in the pit of her stomach. Something in the back of her mind screamed that this didn’t seem right.

Memories surged like a tidal wave, unbidden and unrelenting. Her scars tingled a phantom itch that pulled her back to the nightmares she’d tried so hard to forget. Stay focused. Find Kidman, Oda, and Castellanos. Kassidy repeated within her mind, clinging to the task at hand. Her knuckles whitened as she tightened her grip on the weapon, taking one last breath to steel herself before stepping into the building.

Kassidy curled into a ball, clutching her burnt arms as panicked whimpers escaped her lips. She had been crying on and off for two days, only stopping when exhaustion pulled her into nightmare-filled sleep. The explosion had come out of nowhere, a violent, senseless act that no one could explain. It was not how, why, or anything that could be found or explained to it. It left Kassidy feeling like a monster.

The burns and scars on her skin were grotesque reminders, and no one had the heart to tell her if anyone from her training squad had survived. Not that she had asked. Words felt trivial, meaningless. Her tears returned, spilling down her cheeks as her small frame trembled like a leaf caught in a storm. The thoughts churned in her mind relentlessly, dragging her deeper into despair.

She barely noticed the doctor approaching her, his questions cutting through the haze like distant noise. Her red, swollen eyes met his blankly, uncomprehending as he tried to pry an answer from her. Looking away, her eyes settled on someone else, someone that seemed to stare back...

“Hello? Please make yourself known!” Detective Kontarini’s voice echoed through the empty hospital corridors as she stepped inside. The eerie silence was broken only by the steady tap of her boots on the blood-smeared tiles. Her gaze darted to the floor, her stomach twisting at the sight. She bit her tongue, forcing herself to look away and stay composed. None of this had been mentioned in the call, but she could still hear the terror in Oda’s voice as he reported something big, something bad, almost like a monster was charging him? Kassidy’s chest tightened, the fear clawing at her as she forced herself to keep moving deeper into the hospital. She needed to find them, she had to.

“Joseph? Seb? Juli?” Her voice wavered, trembling with the panic bubbling inside her since she arrived. The fear that her colleagues were gone clawed at her throat, but she pushed forward, desperate to find any sign of life. “Anyone?” Kassidy used one hand to reach for her radio, turning on the button and jumping at the sharp sound of static that shouldn't be there before turning it off quickly. Instincts told her to run and leave this place, her mind was starting to panic as she looked around, eyes scanning the bodies as more flashbacks seemed to try their luck at escaping into the front of her mind.

"What the hell happened here? Who could have done this?" Kassidy muttered to herself out loud, trying to fill the quiet with her own voice as she needed to think, need a plan of action before stepping blindly even more into the hospital than she already had.

 

[FaeWhisperer]

For our readers: If you want to understand this rp, you must read these two links provided: (I basically sum it up in my first post but a deeper dive is here)

Ruvik (important background link)

Ruvik

"I know what you crave, what you fear..." ―Ruvik to Sebastian. Ruben Victoriano, better known as Ruvik, is the main antagonist of The Evil Within, the secondary antagonist of The Assignment and The Consequence, and a minor character in The Evil Within 2. He is a thin, sharp-featured man who is...

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What STEM is (link)

STEM

The STEM system is a machine capable of linking together the brains of human beings, completely immersing them in a shared mental world. Connected subjects' brains are also used as additional memory and processing power, with each connected person making STEM more powerful. The simulated...

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Optional read:

The Evil Within

The Evil Within

The Evil Within, also known as Psychobreak (サイコブレイク, Saikobureiku?) in Japan, is a survival-horror video game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game was directed by Shinji Mikami, the creator of Resident Evil & a former Resident Evil 4 director. The game...

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This is an overview into the actual gameplay itself - what’s going on in the story alongside our characters we are rping, not a required read but a recommended one

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Ruvik, had not calculated having his own consciousness assimilated into the very thing he was working on- STEM- a system where he could create an imaginary world where he could live with his deceased sister Laura. After losing her to a fire- and him, having burns all across his body in the result of his sister saving him—he couldn’t bear it any longer. The pain of not having her there with him was driving him to take unprecedented measures. And the physical pain of his injuries, he wanted those to be gone as well. His body never could regulate his temperature when he was a physical being after being so terribly injured— so he had further thought that if his consciousness was in STEM, his brainwaves directly controlling it, he could be free of this pain that tortured him night and day.

Yet the organization he worked with became greedy. The doctor he had worked with became greedy. Both betrayed him and tried to force him to hand over his own work, the very project he had spent years of his life on making and perfecting! The Doctor had even worked on helping him acquire human subjects to experiment on and stabilize STEM, and these test subjects are what interested the organization MOBIUS to intervene and want what he had made.

But when Ruvik refused, that didn’t stop MOBIUS from doing what they wanted. MOBIUS had tried acquiring other patients to see if they would be compatible with STEM, and even when they found one- a patient named Leslie- they still demanded Ruvik reverse the process of him being the only one able to control STEM with his brainwaves. Ruvik refused again, and this time, it cost him his life. The organization he had worked closely with had subdued him and ultimately killed him- taking his brain, hoping that it would act as a core for STEM while they continued their research.

But MOBIUS made a fatal mistake when they put his brain at the center of STEM. Instead of stabilizing, STEM initially let Ruvik’s full consciousness take over - and from there he was able to create hellish landscapes with various levels, and any test subject used was initially killed by Ruvik within STEM - since Ruvik had full control over his own influence within STEM unlike the alive subjects being sent in subconsciously.

Yet, when MOBIUS had realized this, they took his brain out of the core, and essentially thought they had gotten rid of him- which didn’t work. So they devised another plan and wanted to use more sane individuals on the project to get rid of Ruvik once and for all, and that’s where the detective police had come in- MOBIUS planned on using them inside of STEM to complete the eradication of Ruvik.

Yet Ruvik wasn’t expecting Dr Jimenez to defy his orders and try to use the wireless STEM system to somehow ‘prove’ himself to MOBIUS. Proving that he could stop Ruvik. But by using the wireless system, it had begun to bend the dreamscape within reality, and everyone within the area of Beacon Memorial Hospital got dragged into STEM unwillingly. Yet the process was slow in doing so- and with a small window of where reality and dreamscape blurred, Ruvik had seized that opportunity and went to kill the first squadrons of police force who had arrived to the hospital first, and wounding Jimenez in the process.

When the detectives arrived on the scene, STEM had finally completed taking over reality in its entirety without the detectives noticing and Ruvik began to hide in the shadows of the hospital to see what they would do. And once he realized they were trying to save Jimenez— it took Ruvik in a mere matter of seconds to send two of the detectives, the Doctor and the patient Leslie to a different ‘level’ of reality, and eventually capturing the third detective and sending him to a separate reality as well. From this, Ruvik began devising a plan, knowing if he wasn’t careful, that one detective known as Sebastian- would be a problem for him later. So, to avoid them being a problem, Ruvik would toy with their psyche to their bitter end.

But what he wasn’t expecting, was a fourth detective.

Upon inspecting further, it seemed as if he had seen a ghost at first, because..this woman looked eerily similar to his sister Laura, although that couldn’t be. Ruvik hadn’t made her to look like that within the dreamscape world. He was making sure the twisted form of his sister he had created would help him further antagonize the others who dare try and stop his plans on using STEM.

But the burns on her flesh- ones that looked they came from a fire— perhaps some part of his subconscious made her look like that? But he wouldn’t have made her into a detective, that’s for sure. Yet he..had to know more of who this woman was.

Stepping out of the shadows, his hooded figure began approaching the woman, seeing that she was armed. But he knew those bullets in her gun wouldn’t harm him. It was only physical fire that could harm his very being inside of this dreamscape world.

 

[Kastellanos]

"H-Hey! Stay back!" Kassidy yelled, her voice trembling slightly but sharp enough to cut through the silence. She saw the figure step out from the shadows, moving toward her, and her entire body tensed. Her smaller frame became rigid as she took a cautious step back, the rush of fear pounding in her veins. Despite the adrenaline, she forced herself to clamp her jaw tightly, determined not to let the panic overtake her. This was what she was trained for—to keep her head clear, her instincts sharp, and her fear in check. Running wasn’t an option. Raising the pistol in her hand, Kassidy aimed, adjusting her stance as she prepared for a warning shot if it came to it.

"I'm Detective Kontarini with KCDP!" she shouted, her tone blending fear and authority. Her words came out rough, teetering on the edge of terror, but her stance didn’t waver. The burn scars on her arms itched fiercely, a sharp and unwelcome reminder of her past. The pain was familiar, but its intensity tonight gnawed at her focus. Even so, she kept the pistol steady, her trembling arms betraying just a fraction of the effort it took to hold it. "Now stay back and raise your hands where I can see them! That’s an order!"

Kassidy’s eyes narrowed as she analyzed the figure moving toward her. She scanned for weapons, her gaze raking over his appearance for any clue of his intentions. Then she noticed his burn scars, like her own. Something in her chest stirred, a flicker of sympathy she quickly forced down, even if she tried to not feel it, her mind seemed to decide to trust the man before questioning him as she should have.

"I'm here investigating what happened," she told him, her voice firm but cautious. Despite his approach, the man didn’t seem threatening. Some reason, her mind found him familiar, but she couldn't remember why he would be. Slowly, Kassidy lowered her weapon, but her grip didn’t loosen, and her body remained tense. Even if he wasn’t a danger, that didn’t mean she could let her guard down. Not yet. "I can’t say whether this place is safe or not, but I need you to come with me. We need to get you somewhere secure."

Kassidy looked around quickly, questioning her own decision on what to do. This was far from anything she had trained for, but she knew what she had said made sense. Whatever the threat there was was unknown, and if there was civilians still in the area, it was part of her duty. AT this moment, the radio roared with static, a familiar male voice calling out on the other side and Kassidy answered immediately at the sound of a frantic Joseph Oda on the other line.

"A..one ..ere? ..ello? Cast...?" His voice broke through the static, sounding frantic and panicked, fueling the same feelings in Kassidy as she picked the radio up from the belt around her waist and held it close to her ear, taking her eyes off of the stranger and lowering her gun.