Alone [RPG] [PG-13+]

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

"Oh, really. Which is why you're standing over the unconscious body of my friend, as if you had just knocked him out."

[The Truth]

"I had to. The Hellgate radiation was driving him mad. I had to sedate him to stop him from hurling himself headlong into oblivion."

OOC: Couldn't resist the Kyouma quote.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

OOC: xD

-==IC: Ryan==-

"Hellgate radiation?" Ryan repeated with a frown.

[The Truth]

"Yes. Come with me to the bottom floor and I'll explain everything. I have to make it right...all the things I've done...it has to end."

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

Ryan narrowed his eyes, but slowly nodded.
"You go first." Ryan said, as he nodded to Misoru to take the back, and make sure no-one snuck up on them.

[The Truth]

Doctor Kavoro checked John's pulse, then led the way into the depth.

The final room was empty except for a single structure in the center: A large stone door, covered with symbols.
"This." Kavoro said. "This damned thing is to blame for it all."

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

"Is it to blame for you deciding to effectively kidnap us, and brainwash us too?" Ryan sarcastically asked, obviously still bitter about that.

[The Truth]

"In part." He sat down and sighed. "I'm not even a doctor. I'm a geologist. I came to this island hoping to set up a small laboratory, to study the rocks in the ocean around these parts."

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

"So, what, these rocks made you make an asylum and go crazy?" Ryan asked with a raised eyebrow.

[The Truth]

"Please, listen to me! After a week on the island, I noticed strange things in the island itself. The soil was bizarre, utterly devoid of any nutrients despite the waves constantly depositing new materials on the beach, and also demonstrated strange pH balances - far, far more Basic than anything in nature. And the further inland I got, the worse it became, until, at the center of the circle created by these oddities, I found this horrible Gate, half-buried under piles of rock. No plants would grow near it, and no animals, not even insects, would approach. Would that I had been half as wise! But in my hubris, I thought to study the Gate. No force on earth could open it, nor could anything close it that last half-inch. No tool could scratch it, and there was no way for me to study what it was made of. But what I did not realize at the time was that the radiation seeping from that crack was slowly altering my mind, planting the seeds of ideas that would lead to the Asylum."
He paused.
"I then met William Lane. A physicist from the Miskatonic University, he was eager to study the effects of Hellgate radiation ever since one of his professors encountered a Hellgate in the Amazon. With both our minds warped by the Hellgate, we decided to find people that seemed particularly susceptible to Hellgate radiation - that is to say, between the ages of 14 and 21, intelligent, and who had had a recent traumatic experience - and see how the Hellgates affected them. We would bring them here, keep them drugged, and study how prolonged exposure affected their minds. Then we would kill them, dissect and study the corpse, and bury their remains here in the basement. We...we must be standing above nearly a hundred of them. All innocent...all because of my madness. I came here now to atone. To try, with my last breaths if I have to, to destroy the Asylum and bury the Hellgate once more."


OOC: As a note, there's nothing on any side of the Hellgate. For all intents and purposed, it looks like a statue of the Gate of Truth. (http://ginnodangan.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/fma59-21.jpg)

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

Ryan stood there, shocked, as he nodded slowly.
"So that thing that I found, that got covered up..." Ryan said slowly, realizing again the implications.
"Also, Robyn's fate...?" Ryan asked, shocked at how that had happened, as he simply looked up at the hellgate in disgust, having a feeling that simply destroying the Asylum wouldn't fix this problem at all.

[The Truth]

"She got cold feet. Lane panicked and killed her. He was paranoid...when you escaped, he panicked and fled."

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

Ryan shook his head.
"I have a bad feeling about that, then..." Ryan said, not liking the idea of a murderous lunatic on the loose.
"Is there any way to get rid of this thing, though, other than simply hiding it and hoping no-one else finds it...? Because I have this feeling that it's not going to just sit here and stay dormant..." Ryan said, recalling his dreams, and what had happened during that 'treatment'.

[The Truth]

"I'm afraid not. Dr. Lane knew more about Hellgates...he explained them to me. They can't be destroyed, not by man or God. They're harmless when closed, and utterly obliterate all around them when fully open. But this one...it seems damaged somehow. Unable to close itself fully. So just enough radiation leaks out to ravage the minds and souls of those around it."

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

"Hmm..." Ryan frowned, as he looked at it.
"Is there a way to like, force it closed?"

[The Truth]

"I doubt any mortal is strong enough. That is why...I will bury it. I brought with me several tons of dynamite. If you will help me to take it from my boat to here..."

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

"What about two or three?" Ryan asked, looking at the doors with a frown, as he sighed.

[The Truth]

"These gates were not made by human hands. Nothing we can do will seal it again. All we can do..."

[Magical Girl Mimi]

-==IC: Ryan==-

Ryan sighed, as he slowly nodded.
"I just fear that this won't stop it..." Ryan said, but nodded in agreement.

[The Truth]

"We can't stop it. But we can bury it. Come with me to my boat. I parked it on the far side of the island, behind the Asylum."