06 - Welcome Home, Honey

[spitefulvitae]

[919 Bilko, Morning - Limited to Housemates]

[Another beautiful Mayfield morning dawns, but all is not well in the Goodman household. That pleasant drone wife has been replaced with someone far stiffer, deader, and somewhat mildewed-smelling. That alone might be bad enough. But she had been quite silent while things were dark. Now that there's sun, there's screaming.

As soon as the first sufficiently brilliant rays of light come pouring into the room, Natalie bursts from her spot on the bed with an inhuman shriek. She tears the blankets off the bed and wraps them around herself, but it's not nearly enough protection against the light. She can't see, with all of the brightness and all of the fabric covering her... it's making her efforts to find some sort of cover far too slow. A hand has crept out from the covers, and it's fumbling at the doorknob for the closet... it's also sizzling.]

OhgodohgodthesunnotthesunohfatherpleasenonotthesunfatherhelpmenoNONONOnonono...

[Around Town, Evening]

[It's a warm late-summer evening. A perfect time for light blouses and short sleeves. To hell with that, tonight. Not after the kind of morning Natalie had been through. Every inch of her is covered by clothing. Long sleeves cover her arms. Gloves cover her fingers. Her usual scarf is wrapped very, very high along her face. And her hair is even pulled forward to obscure her face even further, with just a slit left to allow for vision.

Really, the malfunctioning drones are a mercy, tonight. She needs blood, and lots of it, if she's going to be presentable anytime soon. Were you being annoyed by a particularly persistent drone asking the time or wishing you a good evening?]

...oh. Here. Let me take care of that...

[And she'll just be grabbing them, exposing their neck, and sinking her fangs in. Masquerade, shmasquerade. What was there to cover up, here? She was doing everyone a favor, honestly.]

Comments

[keep_smiling]

[This is Mayfield, to hell with the Masquerade. Elmer will just blink at this for a moment before slapping on a smile.]

Yes, that sure did take care of that!

919 Bilko

[kingofhero]

[He didn't ever recall the drone upstairs screaming like that before. Luckily Keith is awake, and he's half-dressed in his police uniform when he hears Natalia, and he'll go upstairs quickly, curious. It wasn't as though it would do any good, but he'll knock on the door a few times.]

Hello? Is something wrong? Hello!

because let's make this awkward :D

[tsunkinesis]

[Screw the drones that try to scold her for being out at night. She need some personal time, especially with the weird stuff going on. Lili just happens to turn the corner when she sees her previous not!mom.]

Natalie...?

[ around town ]

[whowhatwhy]

[ ANDRASTE'S HOLY PYRE WHAT. WHAT WHAT WHAT.

Okay, that drone was annoying, but he didn't expect someone to just up and try to take a bite out of it. Nathaniel actually recoils a few steps, reaching for weapons that aren't there on instinct. ]

What are you doing?

Around Town

[shadow_possession]

[Dainn's not perticularly bothered when a drone was yanked away from him to become Natalie's meal. everyone's got to eat something, right? and it's not like he's out for the same reason.]

Getting a little hungry, are we?

Around Town

[chalicejoker]

[The sudden attack on the buggy drone he'd been about to punch because hitting them makes them work right again, doesn't it? takes Hajime by surprise...

...and oh, it's getting eaten. The covered figure's about the right size and shape for the only person he knows who might be going around doing that to drones.]

Natalie?

[ooeeooahah]

Natalie?

[ Ilsa gets a good look at her when Natalie finishes with the drone. ]

Oh, gods! What happened, hon?

[ She moves in closer to evaluate the burns. ]

evening

[1st_superhero]

[Gilgamesh looks at Natalia draining her latest prey.]

...That happens to be my wife.

[Objectively, he knows he shouldn't care about what happens to the malfunctioning drone. But he's gotten to know Oichi while here, enough to start considering her his property. Therefore, even if she's just a drone, he still feels a need to protect her.]

[littleredwolf]

[When Natalie chomps down on the drone's neck, Sansa lets out a shriek before immediately clapping her hands over her mouth. She looks at Natalie with huge, terrified eyes and whispers through her fingers:]

Seven hells.

around town

[kinship]

[Even knowing what she was, this was still the last thing he expected to happen out of nowhere.]

MISS WATERS!

[cutesy]

Whoa! [ The first thing she knew she was watching her drone husband give her the same flowers over and over and over again and now her husband is getting sucked dry by a stranger. Juliet defensively grabs a rake. ]

Are you a zombie?! From another world?! [ it's her job to hunt zombies, and you're totally biting into someone's flesh so that means you might be a zombie! ]