Campus Gardens; Hedge Maze and Legend...

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September 24th, 1998...

8:05 PM...

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Jessie gasped, waking up as the sky was already dark. Her head throbbed, her body felt wet and cold. She was also hurting all over. "What.. fuck... happen...?" She breathed out, feeling her helmet, the huge crack which could have been her skull if she didn't have it on. Her face was cut up and her clothes had some small nicks and tears. She was in a bush. "How the hell did I get here? Ouch!" She hissed, removing the helmet, tossing it aside as she felt blood run down her exposed thigh. She groaned, pulling herself from the shrubbery when she turned around, facing Good Street...

It was all coming back to her now. The car came out of nowhere rammed into the back end of her Vespa, and launched her into the campus gardens, she didn't even have a chance to scream as she was launched into the bushes, head smacking the stone wall... She was lucky she didn't die or suffer anything beyond a migraine right now!

The car in question was no where in sight, her vespa was on its side in the steet... beyond repair. What startled her more... was the lack of any emergency response, concerned citizen, or a rubber necker. The street was eerily empty...

"What the hell?" She winced as her head began to throb, her arms folding, her hands rubbing her elbows close to her tits as she shivered. "Jesus how long have I been out?!" She shivered, checking her wrist watch with a horrified expression. She had her sweater shirt wrapped around her waist yet, but it felt wet to her when she attempted to slip it on, and simply returned it around her waist, covering the fanny pack. She hobbled into the street to inspect the vehicle, shaking her head. "Fucking sick... hit and run me? Leave me for dead? Sonvabitch..." She groaned, trying to lift her dead end bike, the pizza splayed all over the street. That coulda been me... She thought wearily, before realizing it was a futile attempt to bring her bike back to life. "Fuck." she kicked the thing over and winced from her injury. She looked over to the Campus, the closest building there was relative to her other than the condemned building... She wasn't gonna walk back to the shop, she was gonna hobble her way inside and use a phone to call herself an ambulance, the police...

She winced, holding her side as she felt CAUTIOUS all of a sudden... She needed to check her injuries when she got inside. She made her way through the side gate of the gardens and began to cross through.

It was eerie, the lamp lights made to look Victorian like Victory Park were barely on, some flickering... barely giving her enough illumination to see. She didn't have a flashlight so she'd have to make do. She went to the university here... and remembers now, that the damn garden had that lovely 'fuck you' of a maze. "Dammit... well, not much choice, I can't scale the wall like this..." She coughed. She hated how the hedge maze was 'chicken wired' to keep people from cheating their way through it. Some of the Phi Delta whoever the fuck cares frat assholes once used this place as an initiation ritual and would have the poor sods brought into the center blind folded, stripped down to their underwear and given a part of a map which only lead to other parts of a map. Once the map was complete, you could find your way out. Trouble was... they did this in groups of three impressionable boys. They all had pieces of the map required, and if you left without using the map they'd tell you to fuck off. Sometimes it got bad... the desperation of the lost, half naked frat boys to be would be enough to cause a fight... no one died, supposedly. Not since... what was his name? Marcus? Ferral? One of those names. There was a legend one of these guys in the 50s or 60s was initiated and two of the other boys were... never found.

"Great... fucking terrifying myself in a maze I can't cheat my way out of... fuck me." She grumbled, shivering as she took out her lighter and a cigarette smoking one to calm her nerves and for the warmth of the lighter.

She held out the lighter suddenly, and realized with it on she could see a little better! With renewed hope, she continued to delve deeper into the maze...

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(OOC: Begins playing)


At the center of the hedge maze gardens on the University Grounds, was a large, ornate fountain that had replaced the aging one that's been here for ages. Its surface was very still, and made to reflect any who peer into its surface. A copper plate is set onto a part of the ring. The copper plate reads:

"None are truly lost, should they abandon doubt. No one can hide their true selves, for our reflection gives ourselves away. Seek you soul, harvest knowledge, slay your doubts and never hide for Death finds all, eventually."

Underneath, is also inscribed:

"Donated by Professor James Issac Ferral. June 6th, 1986"

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Suddenly the ground shook violently as something large under the ground shifted. The water in the calm, placid pool drained as hidden gears shifted the wheel, revealing deep channels that mostly spilled into the underground waterway below, and gave Ferral's Hunter's another path to exit to the surface world above! However, that was NOT the main point of this mechanism's function.

Once the water drained away down the 8 exposed shafts, the portion of wall where the copper plate was embeded into slid into the ground, rock sliding against rock before clicking into place.



The water drained, that which didn't empty into the waterway had instead filled massive buckets, acting as weights which pulled down chains, which lifted something incredibly large and heavy! There was suddenly a loud, mechanical sound as the chains clanked and lifted a large, cylindrical container up through the center of the drained fountain, its lid camouflaged with a sigil of a Medieval Farmer with a Sickle, Reaping the Harvest...



The large, 13 or 14' tall container now stood at the center of the fountain, locks sliding into place, keeping the frosted capsule above ground. "Abandon all HOPE! None can hide from Death, its time for Him to Harvest Souls!" was spray painted in red... or was it dry blood? It was in a crude font across the glass... but it didn't matter, as something inside was beginning to stir...

September 24th, 1998
Around 9:00 PM...


The container de-ices.... and the glass shifts and slides open as the massive creature within breathes raggedly for the first time in nearly 20 years. It takes one, massive, clawed hand, and pushes the glass to the side, letting more mist escape from within, obscuring the hideous creature but not long enough..

It's hulking, massive form shambles out, getting used to its 'new legs' it slowly appears from the nightly mist and chemical fog:



"RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

The monster shrieks at the glowing moon above, rearing its head back as it screamed with many voices, many lost souls fused into one, forced to endure this cursed existence on this mortal coil. Its shriek carries throughout the entire campus, its breath which reeked of decay rolled out in plumes in the cooler night air. Its taut, gaunt, flesh gave it a slender and frail figure.. but it had massive claws and thrashing tendrils! It began to 'sniff' the air with its noseless, eyeless face... clacking its odd mouth appendages as it seemingly tasted the air... it began to move on its long, swift legs, tearing through the hedge maze without resistance as it sought after the genetic code uploaded into its brain by the 'Good Doctor' Ferral...

Jessie had been wandering the grounds for nearly an hour, lost in the misty twists and turns of the topiary maze. "Shit... its not even Halloween and this place is already fucking scary..." She mumbled as she wandered about, still bleeding from her injuries. She remembered there was a trick to mazes... but couldn't exactly recall WHAT that trick WAS. "Shiiit..." she whined, as she tried the corner-

The Harvester wrote:
"RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

The blood chilling cry made every hair on her body stand on end as she looked up to the moon lit sky above and felt her heart sinking into her gut! What the fuck was that?! She mentally shrieked, feeling too scared to actually voice said opinion since she was afraid what ever it was was close by..!



She saw it... a blur in the darkness... tall, lanky, gaunt...! It had pulsating reddish bulbs on its back with spinning tendrils flowing behind it! Jessie's big brown eyes went wide and white at the sight as she decided not to move till it past her. It seemed blind to her presence... which was good. Once the freakishly tall, gangly creature ventured forth into the topiary Jessie shuttered and took a step back, holding her chest! Sweat rolled down the sides of her neck and face, her brown eyes wavering with fear! What... the living FUCK WAS THAT?!! she cried mentally, shivering with fear! She had just been in an accident... clearly she had some sort of... head trauma? Accident induced delusions? The pain and the rumors of this hedge maze just convalescing into a manifestation of her fear of her own safety since she was a hit and run survivor...? Maybe... hopefully. Even so... she was too scared to move now...!

Jessie Xiao wrote:

Jessie had been wandering the grounds for nearly an hour, lost in the misty twists and turns of the topiary maze. "Shit... its not even Halloween and this place is already fucking scary..." She mumbled as she wandered about, still bleeding from her injuries. She remembered there was a trick to mazes... but couldn't exactly recall WHAT that trick WAS. "Shiiit..." she whined, as she tried the corner-

The Harvester wrote:
"RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

The blood chilling cry made every hair on her body stand on end as she looked up to the moon lit sky above and felt her heart sinking into her gut! What the fuck was that?! She mentally shrieked, feeling too scared to actually voice said opinion since she was afraid what ever it was was close by..!



She saw it... a blur in the darkness... tall, lanky, gaunt...! It had pulsating reddish bulbs on its back with spinning tendrils flowing behind it! Jessie's big brown eyes went wide and white at the sight as she decided not to move till it past her. It seemed blind to her presence... which was good. Once the freakishly tall, gangly creature ventured forth into the topiary Jessie shuttered and took a step back, holding her chest! Sweat rolled down the sides of her neck and face, her brown eyes wavering with fear! What... the living FUCK WAS THAT?!! she cried mentally, shivering with fear! She had just been in an accident... clearly she had some sort of... head trauma? Accident induced delusions? The pain and the rumors of this hedge maze just convalescing into a manifestation of her fear of her own safety since she was a hit and run survivor...? Maybe... hopefully. Even so... she was too scared to move now...!

SNAP!

Jessie, stepping back, stepped on a twig that created a loud snapping sound!

The creature paused... and sniffed the air. A familiar scent flowed through the tiny slits, hints of a nose on the creature as it shifted backwards in a weird, reverse walk to around where the sound was made! It sniffed the air, hot air rolling off its naked, grotesque form as it turned towards Jessie Xiao. Saliva, black as ink dripped from its mouth, its odd 'elongated teeth' pulling back the flesh of its stretchy mouth as it let a slithering, long, spear shaped tongue wiggle in the air like a snake. The scent of food... it hadn't eaten for a little over 12 years... and the scent that mixed and mingled with this attractive woman's bodily scent was so... nostalgic. Familiar... It vaguely recalled the triangular, wedge shape dripping with greasy melted cheese, pepperoni, sausage, green peppers, olives... crushed garlic. Garlic... Garlic....

It could hear the 'creator' in its mind, its ear ringing with His voice asking it to complete its mission. Surely, the Creator wouldn't mind it imbibing in a quick snack before hand... right?

The Harvester wrote:

Jessie Xiao wrote:

Jessie had been wandering the grounds for nearly an hour, lost in the misty twists and turns of the topiary maze. "Shit... its not even Halloween and this place is already fucking scary..." She mumbled as she wandered about, still bleeding from her injuries. She remembered there was a trick to mazes... but couldn't exactly recall WHAT that trick WAS. "Shiiit..." she whined, as she tried the corner-

The Harvester wrote:
"RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

The blood chilling cry made every hair on her body stand on end as she looked up to the moon lit sky above and felt her heart sinking into her gut! What the fuck was that?! She mentally shrieked, feeling too scared to actually voice said opinion since she was afraid what ever it was was close by..!



She saw it... a blur in the darkness... tall, lanky, gaunt...! It had pulsating reddish bulbs on its back with spinning tendrils flowing behind it! Jessie's big brown eyes went wide and white at the sight as she decided not to move till it past her. It seemed blind to her presence... which was good. Once the freakishly tall, gangly creature ventured forth into the topiary Jessie shuttered and took a step back, holding her chest! Sweat rolled down the sides of her neck and face, her brown eyes wavering with fear! What... the living FUCK WAS THAT?!! she cried mentally, shivering with fear! She had just been in an accident... clearly she had some sort of... head trauma? Accident induced delusions? The pain and the rumors of this hedge maze just convalescing into a manifestation of her fear of her own safety since she was a hit and run survivor...? Maybe... hopefully. Even so... she was too scared to move now...!

SNAP!

Jessie, stepping back, stepped on a twig that created a loud snapping sound!

The creature paused... and sniffed the air. A familiar scent flowed through the tiny slits, hints of a nose on the creature as it shifted backwards in a weird, reverse walk to around where the sound was made! It sniffed the air, hot air rolling off its naked, grotesque form as it turned towards Jessie Xiao. Saliva, black as ink dripped from its mouth, its odd 'elongated teeth' pulling back the flesh of its stretchy mouth as it let a slithering, long, spear shaped tongue wiggle in the air like a snake. The scent of food... it hadn't eaten for a little over 12 years... and the scent that mixed and mingled with this attractive woman's bodily scent was so... nostalgic. Familiar... It vaguely recalled the triangular, wedge shape dripping with greasy melted cheese, pepperoni, sausage, green peppers, olives... crushed garlic. Garlic... Garlic....

It could hear the 'creator' in its mind, its ear ringing with His voice asking it to complete its mission. Surely, the Creator wouldn't mind it imbibing in a quick snack before hand... right?

Jess didn't know how she managed to suppress the scream as the monster returned! She stared at it as it stared at her... it had no 'eyes', at least... that she was aware of! Gulp... dear God...! She thought, as she tried to remain quiet, super still... it couldn't see her, right? Its how it was able to hear her so well in the dark! She felt sweat rolling down her smooth skin, the Chinese-American woman shuttering as it drooled inky black saliva from its putrid mouth and seemed to loom closer towards her! Oh God... this thing's real... I can SMELL IT! It smells like swamp, ick... death...! She thought, doing her best not to gag, holding her breath as she shivered before the tall, putrid beast...!

Jessie Xiao wrote:

The Harvester wrote:

Jessie Xiao wrote:

Jessie had been wandering the grounds for nearly an hour, lost in the misty twists and turns of the topiary maze. "Shit... its not even Halloween and this place is already fucking scary..." She mumbled as she wandered about, still bleeding from her injuries. She remembered there was a trick to mazes... but couldn't exactly recall WHAT that trick WAS. "Shiiit..." she whined, as she tried the corner-

The Harvester wrote:
"RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

The blood chilling cry made every hair on her body stand on end as she looked up to the moon lit sky above and felt her heart sinking into her gut! What the fuck was that?! She mentally shrieked, feeling too scared to actually voice said opinion since she was afraid what ever it was was close by..!



She saw it... a blur in the darkness... tall, lanky, gaunt...! It had pulsating reddish bulbs on its back with spinning tendrils flowing behind it! Jessie's big brown eyes went wide and white at the sight as she decided not to move till it past her. It seemed blind to her presence... which was good. Once the freakishly tall, gangly creature ventured forth into the topiary Jessie shuttered and took a step back, holding her chest! Sweat rolled down the sides of her neck and face, her brown eyes wavering with fear! What... the living FUCK WAS THAT?!! she cried mentally, shivering with fear! She had just been in an accident... clearly she had some sort of... head trauma? Accident induced delusions? The pain and the rumors of this hedge maze just convalescing into a manifestation of her fear of her own safety since she was a hit and run survivor...? Maybe... hopefully. Even so... she was too scared to move now...!

SNAP!

Jessie, stepping back, stepped on a twig that created a loud snapping sound!

The creature paused... and sniffed the air. A familiar scent flowed through the tiny slits, hints of a nose on the creature as it shifted backwards in a weird, reverse walk to around where the sound was made! It sniffed the air, hot air rolling off its naked, grotesque form as it turned towards Jessie Xiao. Saliva, black as ink dripped from its mouth, its odd 'elongated teeth' pulling back the flesh of its stretchy mouth as it let a slithering, long, spear shaped tongue wiggle in the air like a snake. The scent of food... it hadn't eaten for a little over 12 years... and the scent that mixed and mingled with this attractive woman's bodily scent was so... nostalgic. Familiar... It vaguely recalled the triangular, wedge shape dripping with greasy melted cheese, pepperoni, sausage, green peppers, olives... crushed garlic. Garlic... Garlic....

It could hear the 'creator' in its mind, its ear ringing with His voice asking it to complete its mission. Surely, the Creator wouldn't mind it imbibing in a quick snack before hand... right?

Jess didn't know how she managed to suppress the scream as the monster returned! She stared at it as it stared at her... it had no 'eyes', at least... that she was aware of! Gulp... dear God...! She thought, as she tried to remain quiet, super still... it couldn't see her, right? Its how it was able to hear her so well in the dark! She felt sweat rolling down her smooth skin, the Chinese-American woman shuttering as it drooled inky black saliva from its putrid mouth and seemed to loom closer towards her! Oh God... this thing's real... I can SMELL IT! It smells like swamp, ick... death...! She thought, doing her best not to gag, holding her breath as she shivered before the tall, putrid beast...!

Unbeknownst to her, it could see! Rather well in fact... it just had a hard time concentrating on one image unless its focus was fixed. And slowly, but surely, Jessie's form was visible to it. Buxom, lithe... deliciously ravishing! It snarled as it swiftly grabbed the woman by her shoulders with its long, gangly limbs, and lifted the now screaming girl off her feet! Saliva trickled down the corners of its rapidly widening maw, the 'teeth' for what she saw it, were actually HANDS- hands pulling the rolls of flesh back as a nest of arms erupted from the thing's throat!



Each, slimy, grasping hand gripped a part of the screaming girl in front of the Harvester, a pair molesting her chest for firm purchase, another her shoulders, her neck to make her shriek sharply dip into a croak as the hands pulled her inside the humid, slimy throat!

Ulp-ULP-ULP...!

Greedily, it devoured Jessie Xiao, its hands like tongues gripping onto her wide ass, her juicy thighs, her hips jutting out from the creature's distended jaws as it tried to swallow the Chinese gal whole!

Jessie let out a shriek as the monster grabbed her by her shoulders, lifting her off the ground with ease! "SHIT! SHIIIIT!!" she shrieked, cringing as rancid breath blew over her face. She had no idea what the thing was going to do to her as she was firmly held in its tight grip, her arms pinned to her sides, her long legs hanging below her, fluttering excitedly! "What the fuck do you want from me?!" She screamed, before its mouth... reaaaally opened! Her thoughts went to a python swallowing a rat, and that is what it did! "WHAAAAAAT THE FUCK?! AHHHHHHHH---*low groaning sharply cut off whine*" Her screams cut off to a low pitched moan as one of the multiple arms reached out, the inhuman hand gripping her throat and pulled her deep inside! She felt the pressure and saliva, smelled the foul scent of death rolling into her nose! Her wide ass wiggled as her thick thighs pumped and her long legs scythed the air! She felt the hands gripping her ass, her thighs, pulling her, tugging her deeper inside! Her screams going unheard as she was dipping down a foul scented, undulating throat! The humidity was intense as the smell! All she could do was struggle and scream as this thing proceeded to swallow her alive!!

Jessie Xiao wrote:Jessie let out a shriek as the monster grabbed her by her shoulders, lifting her off the ground with ease! "SHIT! SHIIIIT!!" she shrieked, cringing as rancid breath blew over her face. She had no idea what the thing was going to do to her as she was firmly held in its tight grip, her arms pinned to her sides, her long legs hanging below her, fluttering excitedly! "What the fuck do you want from me?!" She screamed, before its mouth... reaaaally opened! Her thoughts went to a python swallowing a rat, and that is what it did! "WHAAAAAAT THE FUCK?! AHHHHHHHH---*low groaning sharply cut off whine*" Her screams cut off to a low pitched moan as one of the multiple arms reached out, the inhuman hand gripping her throat and pulled her deep inside! She felt the pressure and saliva, smelled the foul scent of death rolling into her nose! Her wide ass wiggled as her thick thighs pumped and her long legs scythed the air! She felt the hands gripping her ass, her thighs, pulling her, tugging her deeper inside! Her screams going unheard as she was dipping down a foul scented, undulating throat! The humidity was intense as the smell! All she could do was struggle and scream as this thing proceeded to swallow her alive!!

The creature enjoyed the taste of its wriggling prey, its 'real tongue' sliding across her firm, taut belly, tasting the residual oils of garlic, butter, olive oil... the nostalgic taste of something almost forgotten combined with the meaty, raw flesh of something completely new and different... but technically she was not its first living human prey, but so far was pretty above average compared to them! While the arms gripped hand held the woman's thrashing limps, groped her ass and inner thighs, tugging the Pizza Delivery girl down its throat, its larger arms were now at its sides, fingers tightly clenched into tight fists! It jerked its neck back, as she was kicking, her wide hips and ass engulfed, now her thighs and knees fluttering amid the nest of arms and necrotic looking hands! Her sneakers pedalled as the hands wrapped around her ankles, the soles of her shoes, and then dragged her fully down its throat!

It jerked its head back arms pumping back as it swallowed the girl whole! An audibly dry 'gulp' echoed from the creature as its belly filled out with the struggling girls curled up form almost instantly as it swallowed her! The large, gurgling, bouncing paunch swayed and bounced between its legs- no longer gaunt, but now... questionably carrying what looked like a deformed ball sack from hell! Its other arms slipped back into its flesh, the pair of 'hands' making up its upper and lower teeth once more while stomach bulged and fluttered with movement...



The creature glanced down at its distended paunch, poking and prodding it before wiping its 'lip's with its forearm, eructing loudly soon after. For a quick snack, the Chinese girl was quite lovely and delicious.



Fed, and in the process of digestion, the Harvester returned to its mission of seeking out the 'Source' as told by the Creator. All the while, the trapped, doomed, Jessie Xiao was bouncing along inside the gurgling sack that swayed and shifted as it ran through the maze with ease!



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