Home Invasion!

[Sam]

Boring... Ridley had left him with Frankie who was just moping in a corner. He had nothing to do, sure this boat house was pretty nice looking with sweet scented flowers. But there was nothing to do! Blair was sprawled out on the floor staring at the ceiling. At least when Ridley was around he could learn. Play around with flash cards and learn to speak like everyone else seemed to do.

"Bored..."

He exhaled, maybe what he needed to do was eat. Yes he could feel himself craving sweets once more, his head lifted up as he sniffed the air. His darkened eyes sniffing at the ground and air like a puppy in search of something. Maybe a candy had fallen to the ground and he could find one. Or even better, he could locate the drawer where Ridley kept the jar of orange flavored candy he loved so much.

Blair slid around the kitchen floor to no avail. There was nothing on the floor... so he looked up and from his vantage point he spotted something. It was a cream-colored jar... now Ridley was perhaps banking on his lack of ability to read. Or at least on the assumption of! But truth be told, Blair had already learned the alphabet and a good chunk of words and among those was the word 'cookie' so he could clearly read it on the jar. Oh... cookies! Chocolate chip hopefully... so tasty and sweet. With a snickering laugh, Blair made his attempt! He would climb up to grab that jar!

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Blair | Chartreuse | #7FFF00 (Postcount: 1)

[Bobbie]

Nina had also been left on the boat with the others – strangers that she’d never met before, but they were friends of Ridley’s, and if they were his friends, then they were her friends too! If he trusted them, she had nothing to be afraid of.

Unlike Blair, however, she did not have the problem of having nothing to do. Nina’s childish imagination and her overall approach to the world gave her mind plenty of stimulation in the dullest of corners. All she needed was one little thing to grab her attention and offer a chase and she was off! She was a little upset to be without Ridley, though. She had grown quite attached to the man and would stick to him like glue if she could…

A bee was all it took to end her gloomy mood as it buzzed from one flower to another in the vegetable patch, doing its job and pollinating. Then a butterfly fluttered out of the plants and Nina just had to run after it, a big silly grin on her face as she ran to the edge of the deck to hit the wooden banisters that caged the girl in while the winged creature flew away to freedom. It was a good thing that Nina was not very tall, or she may have tumbled over them and gone overboard.

In a huff, she pouted and turned around as her entertainment was gone. No matter, she’d have to find some other interesting thing on this boat that Ridley stranded her on.

Marching through the yard, she entered the main house on Sweet Home and began to wonder about, peeking in through every open door to explore, but respected the ones that were closed… for now. Those would be a last resort, an exciting out-of-bounds area to visit on her adventure if all else fails. She decided to go all the way up to the top and start from the uppermost floor – the second floor. There were supposed to be two other people here who Ridley promised were just like them, so where were they?

As she made her way through room after room, she paused as she reached one of the bedrooms. She had no idea whom it belonged to, but it had bunk beds! Wasting no time, she ran to the ladder and climbed up it to the top bunk, which didn’t seem like it belonged to anyone, but then again, she didn’t put much effort into figuring that out. Once on the mattress, she leaned over with a giggle to peek out onto the lower bunk. This could be so much fun! She could just imagine somebody sleeping there in the bed below hers to keep her company at night and play all sorts of games with. The girl stuck her tongue out at the empty mattress. “Blaaaah” she sang before giggling again, envisioning all the sleepovers that could happen in this very room. She then sighed and her smile faded. Why wasn’t anybody around?

Climbing over the safety rail, she slid down and landed on her feet before she left the room to explore somewhere else.

Then she finally heard it – signs of other living beings! She heard movement! The silly grin was back on her face in an instant as she snuck through the corridor and followed the sound of someone sniffing and scuffling about before kitchen drawers could be heard opening. As she peered into the kitchen from the doorway, she was quite shocked to see a man with such a sickly skin tone … and reaching for a cookie jar, no less!

Finally! Someone to play with!

Walking on her tippy-toes, she approached Blair from behind, her naive mind unable to realise the dangers of what she was about to do. She took a deep, silent breath and then let out as loud a bark as her lungs could manage –

“BOO!”

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Nina: #ffa516

[Kami-Gaz]

This house boat, sweet home, it was truly amazing! A moving house that could go anywhere they wanted it to! It had a room for each of the victims of the HG project and plenty of space for them to get together and bond in! Well, that was the plan… the only issue was out of the known eight of the victims only four had come together and one of those, Ridley, had gone away on a trip. This left Frankie with Blair and the new arrival she hadn’t met yet… Nina.

Technically Lee was left in charge, the alternate ego that dwelled within Frankie. She was headstrong and confident, every thing that the timid cry baby of a girl wanted to be. The problem was, Lee liked to make Frankie do things as payment for taking control and saving the day, well when Frankie couldn’t do anything herself at least. There were times where Lee requested control to take care of certain actions, usually Frankie and her weak will would relent and let the woman with a hero complex do what ever she wanted for a time.

Today Frankie was in the corner, in a nest she had made in the back of the room right at the ceiling. An array of slime strings were being used as a makeshift hammock, the area being populated by comic books, a soft blanket to burrito in and a few snacks she had managed to sneak away before Blair noticed. This was quite an achievement… it was no Escape pod in the forest canopy surrounded by friendly monkeys but it was a small paradise.

Then the sounds of it all could be heard, the rooting around for snacks, the tippy taps of tippy toes. The curiosity got the young woman to peer out from her comic book and watch the scene from above. The volume of “The Great Carbonated Pipsi-Man” was left on the blanket as she shifted to get a better viewing point. ‘That’s Nina! We should go and say hi!’ Lee spoke to the curious Frankie, who was gingerly peering down.

“I-I can’t… She looks busy! I don’t want to get in her way…” Frankie replied in a soft murmur to her alter that was nudging her forth. Then the loud jump scare came and like a cat Frankie jumped, her hands coated themselves in slime as she stuck to the roof, pressing her body to it in a way to get as far away from it as possible. “AHH!”

‘Scaredy cat.’

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Post 1
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Lee: 14ca04

[Sam]

Right as his fingers touched the edge of the jar something, no someone, approached from behind. The hairs on the back of Blair's neck stood on end. He opened his eyes wide and heard it. The loud boo! Coming from behind. In an instant he lost balance, grasping at the air he lost balance and crashed down on the ground letting out a groan of pain.

"Hnnggg..."

His eyes fluttered open to see the young girl who had been the culprit of it all. Under normal circumstances... or rather the old more feral Blair would have had a rather aggressive reaction to the ordeal. But he had civilized himself just enough under Ridley's tutelage where he could recognize things like pranks. Even if he wasn't fond of them and they didn't exactly make him any happier.

"You..."

Blair mumbled, he couldn't remember her name. But she was the newcomer that Ridley had brought along. Interesting, she seemed a lot braver than Frankie that was for certain. Also a lot younger... Blair wondered if this would be the case with others who were like him. More strangers with unique personalities. What they would get next really... was all Blair wondered. Or perhaps this was it? No. If it was then Ridley wouldn't have gone away again. There was a pattern to all this. Blair just hadn't fully figured it out yet, it was still beyond his comprehension.

But judging by Ridley's actions and words... the so few ones he understood. It seemed like the pattern had something to do with the glyphs tattooed on them. Blair himself had a glyph, his had two bumps. Ridley's glyph looked like a snake.

Frankie's glyph looked like a lamp post and finally... the newcomer's glyph looked like two eggs oddly stacked on each other. Clearly, these had to do something with the pattern. Otherwise, Ridley wouldn't be showing them off every time he met a new member. Or showing it off to strangers. His number two. That is. It was one of the features they all shared. That tattoo. But what order... how did the pattern function? Blair had yet to find out.

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Blair | Chartreuse | #7FFF00 (Post count: 2)

[Bobbie]

Nina burst into a fit of giggles as Blair crashed to the ground. “I got you~!” she sang, before looking up at Frankie and pointing up at her with a large grin on her face to reveal rows of razor sharp teeth. “I got you as well! I’m the best at this game!” she exclaimed, quite proud of herself and happy to have people to play with.

Then she noticed the slime and she tilted her head in confusion. “What’s that?” much like a child, she had many questions, and they just kept coming. “It looks sticky… can I have some?” she asked, hopping on the spot in excitement. Her attention span rather short, Blair mumbling to her was enough to draw her interest away from Frankie once more and back onto Blair. “Hmm… Me!” she replied, before sitting down on the floor next to him. “I’m Nina!” she blurted out. “You are Mister Ridley’s friends, so now you are my friends and I am yours!” the girl was over the moon – not one, but TWO new friends! On top of Mister Ridley, of course, whom she still wished was there with them right now.

“Where you trying to reach something up there?” she looked up toward the top of the cupboard. “I can get it for you if you give me a boost.” She shrugged lightly as she made her peace offering for the scare he had just given the poor man. She didn't seem to realise that Frankie sticking to the ceiling was actually in response to her.

“Oh! Also! Can I share a room with one of you? If Mister Ridley is going to be away all the time, that would be too lonely, so can I?” She looked up at Frankie once more, then at Blair, then back at Frankie again before she stood up, a bundle of energy that simply didn’t know what to do with herself. “Do you two want to play hide and seek?” the devious grin on her face was enough to indicate what didn’t need to be stating – it was a game she considered herself very good at. Whether that were the truth or not would be another matter.

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Nina: #ffa516

[Kami-Gaz]

Stuck to the roof Frankie panted as she managed to catch her breath and cool off. She only did a small jump scare on Blair AND she saw it coming so why did she jump in fright? It doesn’t matter it happened and now the girl was happy that it was, it seemed to put such a genuine smile on her face… a scary razor-sharp smile but a genuine one. ‘She is cute in a weird way Frankie, go say hi properly.’ The confident internal voice of Lee spoke, something she tended to do to encourage Frankie to be more than the scared cry baby she was.

She secreted more slime around her hands and feet that had an enzyme in it to make it less sticky and fell into her hammock as Nina started to ask about her smile and if she could have some. It’ll keep her quiet but her slime could be some seriously messy stuff. “I-if y-y-you don’t m-make a mess…” Frankie spoke quietly before shooting a slime rope to the ceiling and descending down to gently place her feet on the floor as the childish one introduced herself.

“I-I’m Fr-Frankie.” The timid ashen haired girl said, slowly shuffling forward. That was interrupted by her entire body effectively shuddering and all of her facial expressions brightening into a picture of confidence and a great big smile. “And I‘m Lee! Good to meet you Nina, I am sure we will all be good friends!” She stated almost bounding over to the other pair in a single leap.

“You can share with me and Frankie!” Lee said, a great big grin appearing on her scarred face. ‘Lee! No! What if she bites me in my sleep?’  Frankie protested internally, but the confident alter of the pair shrugged it off as she patted Nina on the head, ruffling her hair slightly. “I don’t mind playing but Blair might need to be taught how to. Do you think you can do that Nina? The bad doctor made Blair took all of Blair’s memories so we have to help him remember, ok?” Lee explained, wanting to make sure there was no confusions and using terms someone of a younger mindset might find easier to understand.

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Post 2
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Lee: 14ca04

[Sam]

To say the girl was talkative and overly energetic was an understatement. Blair raised a brow, his cranky side taking over as he wasn't all too sure if enjoyed her energy all too much. He was grimacing until Nina offered to help with the food. That changed everything.

"Yes, cookies. Help."

He replied in a fragmented sentence as he got up and pointed at the jar up high. Cookies... so sweet and delicious he could use some. His focus was such that he didn't even notice the entire conversation about the game happening. Games, Blair even when he wasn't mentally impaired didn't enjoy games. Even as a kid he always saw them as a waste of time. A distraction from the more important things like reading or learning or studying or literally anything else. It didn't help he lacked many friends as a kid and didn't make any until his time as an adult. Friend... he still wondered who that ginger girl from his flashback was.

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Blair | Chartreuse | #7FFF00 (Post count: 3)

[Bobbie]

Nina gasped in excitement as Frankie said that she can have some of the slime as long as she didn’t make a mess, and she watched her slide down on her rope, impatiently. “I won’t make a mess, I promise!” she giggled. It looked like the most thrilling toy to play with, it was so gooey and stretchy and sticky! She wanted to show it to Mr Ridley too!

She then paused and stared at Frankie and Lee, her face filled with confusion. She took a step away from them as the body before her convulsed in the most disturbing way she had ever seen a body twist. Two people? In one body?

Her frown soon turned into another grin. “Two people means two friends! I thought I’d only be making two friends here, but now I’ve made three!” she exclaimed, happily, as the more friends she made, the better the girl felt. “I can’t wait to share a room with you two!” much like a child, there was very little judgement coming from her, if any at all. Perhaps she didn’t understand the severity of a split personality, as her naïve regressed mind simply wouldn’t allow it. “It will be fun! We can invite Bear to join us for parties on some nights too!” she said, before frowning once more and letting out a huff. She knew she said it wrong. “Bear? Blear.” She got the letters right on her second attempt, but the pronunciation was still a bit off. Her mind processed things at a slow rate, but Lee had repeated the large man’s name three times now – “Blllair!” she giggled and spun on her heel to watch him.

“We can teach him how to play!” she rushed over to him, overly friendly by nature and leaned closer to whisper, “I’ll teach you all the tips and tricks so that you can win as often as I do! The bad doctor will wish he has the skills that you’ll have in hide and seek! Nobody will be able to find you.” she muttered in a not-so-hushed tone.

Then her attention went back to the cookies. There was no way that she could reach them on her own, so she naturally did what any young child would do when demanding something from a top shelf. A big grin on her face, her eyes narrowed to content slits, she stretched her arms out and upward in Blair’s direction.

“Up!” she didn’t think he’d have a problem lifting her little frame, and she certainly wouldn't. It would be like a fun ride - he could probably lift her so high! “I’ll get them for you, no problem! Oh…” she paused for a moment, opening her eyes as her brow furrowed and her arms floated back down. “But… I don’t think we can tell Mr Ridley, or we might be in trouble. I bet they’re up so high so that we can’t reach them.” she muttered, turning to look at Frankie and Lee too, failing to realise that some of them had their own ways of reaching the cookie jar very easily without the need for physical height. “It has to be a secret!” she repeated, before turning back to Blair once more and thrust her arms out and up again to prompt him for that lift. “You lift me – I get cookies!” she explained, proud of herself for being useful.

They were friends now. This is what friends do for each other, right?

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Nina: #ffa516

[Kami-Gaz]

Lee watched the regressed Nina with a happy smile on her face as she accepted both her and Frankie as easy as she would accept a new toy into her life. That was reassuring, to see someone so accepting of her entire being was genuinely helping Frankie on the inside. The smile on Lee’s face softened as she watched Nina babble on about hiding and messing up Blair’s name.

As she returned to trying to get the Cookies Lee fwipped her right hand forward and produced a short slime rope that shot at the cookie jar, stuck to it and in the same instance pulled back due to the elasticity in the taught rope. In both hands she caught the jar and spun around to ease the momentum and not make all the cookies rattle in said jar and break. That would just not be nice.

‘Lee! Ridley said not let Blaire eat too much, it would spoil dinner.’ Frankie urged from within, making the entire body stop as she produced an enzyme that broke the slime rope away and dissolved it. With a shrug she took the lid off and put her hand into the jar. “Cookies are on me!” Lee called out before realising there was nothing in there but a slip of paper. With a confused look she removed it and began to read.

"Hi everyone! Blair, don't eat this note please, it's not a cookie. I figured you'd all break into the cookie jar eventually, so I've hidden them all around the boat for you to find! They won't be anywhere too dangerous, so have fun with it!" After a moment the scarred girl flipped it around to show a crudely drawn map of the boat that had some X’s in different places.

“Oh! Mr Ripley made it a game! We need to track down the clues to find the cookies!” Lee spoke, before looking to the side. “That’ll be fun Frankie! Why don’t you help them? I will sit in the back.” Her head snapped around to the other side and her body shuddered again as control was pushed onto the more timid of the pair.

“L-lee… o-okay.” She stammered out softly before moving to place the empty jar on the side and lay out the map in a spot that they could all see. “I-it looks like t-there’s a clue i-in my r-room.” She softly spoke and timidly pointed to one of the few X’s that were marked on the map.