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The Catacombs, Tartarus - Saturday

Each person brought to the catacombs found themselves trapped in a cavern with seemingly no exit. It was cold and lighting was limited and even their own breathing would echo off the walls. The Nightmares were lurking, waiting for fresh minds to taste, to inhale the scent of fear and panic.

Tonight they would feast and the catacombs would fill with screams.

[OOC: Once you've been kidnapped, ping in here. You're welcome to either play your thread out here or play it in your own journal and link to it here. For the sake of keeping things organized, please remember to link everything here. The Nightmares are just generic demons with no particular appearance. They'll look how you want them to look. Remember to check the email you received for any further details. If you need an NPC, head over to the NPC request post, but please remember that you're largely in charge of keeping yourself entertained. Have fun!]

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Sadly, Gwen's demon hadn't stuck around long enough after it cut her wrists and ankles free for her to kick it again, so instead she was rubbing her wrists as she looked around.

She had a very bad feeling about this.

After a while, Gwen sat down against the cavern wall, wanting to be anywhere else.

She got her wish. (http://ihaveniceteeth.livejournal.com/3104.html)

Harriet sank down once Hades left (http://ismyhairout.livejournal.com/14628.html), leaning against a nearby wall while she regrouped. It was cold down here, so very cold, and it seemed to sink into her bones.

She'd just sit for a bit, and try and remember everything she'd ever learned about Hades - both of them - and exactly how one escaped the Underworld.

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But there was no escape, not from the Underworld, not from the nightmares that smothered her (http://idontlooktired.livejournal.com/10893.html).

Deep in the depths of her own personal hell, one that dwarfed the cavernous underground surrounding her, Harriet whimpered.

Fraser was staring at the ceiling. It wasn't the sky of Fandom like he'd hoped. Instead, it was dark and cold.

That had not gone well.

He pushed himself into a sitting position, looking for any sign of the demon that had just been in front of him. All he saw were walls. Just walls.

Oh dear.

And it doesn't take long for the bad things to start. (http://just-add-starch.livejournal.com/31079.html)

Fraser's breathing quickened and he scrabbled at a nearby wall in an attempt to free himself. It didn't work and then he didn't see anything else save for his fears.

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Zuko scrambled to his feet as soon as the demon dumped him in the cave. He tried to go after it, but there were only walls surrounding him and how did that work?

He lit a flame on his palm, using it to light up the walls around him and look for cracks or oddities on their surface that might indicate a hidden door. He found none and for the first time he wished he had some of those explosives Aly used in her classes.

Annoyed, he hit a flame at the wall and he watched the fire move uselessly across the surface. With an angry growl, he sat down on the damp, cold ground and he scowled at the stone ahead of him.

They had to feed him, right?

No one did come to feed him, but any plans to escape had fled his mind. All that was left were images (http://thebluespirit.livejournal.com/15331.html) he couldn't fight off.

Andros was not very happy as he tried to find a way out of wherever it was that he had been taken to but despite how hard he tried he saw no escape route.

He sighed and leant back against one of the walls, trying to ignore the throbbing in his head from where the demon had struck it.

He had to find a way out.

It wasn't long before the nightmares (http://imcalledandros.livejournal.com/2007/06/12/) came. Andros sank to the floor, curling up into a fetal position as the nightmares started to get worse and worse.

Inara landed in a heap on the ground and squinted as she tried to figure out where she was. She didn't see anything remotely recognizable, and it was extremely quiet. Her breathing echoed off the cold walls, making her feel particularly isolated.

She closed her eyes and tried to regain her focus and her strength, since she had no idea what was coming.

After a while, Inara started to twitch and cry, and then to scream (http://ambassadorinara.livejournal.com/9116.html), finally tapering off to sobs as she curled into a ball.

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Amber had never been more terrified than she was right now; afraid to move after that thing had dumped her and left her.

She was cold and shivered as she tried to figure out where she was. A place she'd never been, that was for sure. Every imaginable horror movie began to take shape and form in her mind and she curled her legs in up against her chest, eyes wide as she peered out into the dank coldness, praying to be saved.

No. It couldn't be real... (http://minnesota-teen.livejournal.com/7902.html)

Amber screamed, fought to remain in control, but her fears were great and they overtook any sensibility as she laid there in the dark, desperately trying to get away from Gladys Leeman.

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When Gwynn woke up, she felt a massive headache and vowed she would get even with that ugly demon (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/2891049.html?thread=123973673#t123973673) who had hit her.

She blinked.

Well, after she found a way out of this place she seemed to now be in. It looked like a cave, but she wasn't familiar with this cave. She got to her feet and started slowly investigating where she had been dropped.

It wasn't long until Gwynn started screaming... (http://notafairmaiden.livejournal.com/17922.html)

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Head pounding, John didn't want to risk opening his eyes when he came to. He groaned, feeling cold, almost damp rock beneath his hands.

Pushing himself up onto his elbows, John winced at the residual pain in his stomach and his eyes opened to see nothing. Walls. Rock. More walls.

This wasn't at all what he'd planned for his day.

When the Nightmares came, only his screams were real (http://ltcolkirk.livejournal.com/33851.html). John slumped against the wall of the catacombs, eyes staring fixedly into the darkness, not seeing anything but the scenarios playing out in his mind.

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Lana woke up, lying on a cold stone floor. She pulled herself gingerly up to a sitting position, wincing in pain.

God, it was cold. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to figure out where she was and what had just happened.

She had a really bad feeling about this.

It wasn't long before the nightmares (http://lovelylana.livejournal.com/59440.html) started.

Isabel was grateful the demon had left her alone. Until she looked around the dank cavern.

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

Despite nothing happening, that bad feeling didn't go away. After spending what felt like hours pacing around the small chamber, Isabel finally sat down with her back to the wall, still keeping a wary eye out for any sort of threat.

But there was only so long she could stay awake and she eventually fell asleep.

Then the nightmares began… (http://izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com/150643.html)

Geoffrey opened his eyes and wondered why his head was pounding when he knew he hadn't been to a bar for a couple of--

"The 'fuck is this?"

In the middle of the room, Geoffrey stands (http://suit-of-sables.livejournal.com/2567.html).

He doesn't move.

He doesn't cry out.

He simply stares as his soul, and his sanity, begin to curl up to die.

Coming to, the first though Temari had was... They were dumb to have kept her alive. She woulda finished the job.

And then she opened her eyes to look around.

"...damn it." She had no idea where she was.

It wasn't long after that she started to hear noises. And then the nightmares started (http://not-fangirl.livejournal.com/2177.html).

She was not having a good day at all.

Really, as far as dark and foreboding Underworlds went, Adah was thinking that, for the most part, this wasn't so bad. Of course, she had only arrived and she was still feeling all too much of the pain from being harassed by two...things (she still refused to refer to them particularly as demons) and the resulting misfiring of synapses in her brain that kept the dull pain and annoying twitches going for a good, long time. They'd pass, though. They'd pass. They always did, and then she could think, she could focus, she could maybe figure something out.

It wouldn't be the first time she'd been brought back from the dark underbelly of death...

It wasn't so bad. At first. Unfortunately, the dreams that she didn't know where dreams started as soon as Adah's pain ceased. Repeating in perfect, continuous loop, the ants kept marching (http://ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com/17334.html), marching two by two.

Adah was a quiet girl, and she had been all her life. The screams that came out of her as she twitched and squirmed and wept in the suffering of her invisible menace, one would think she was making up for all that silence. She couldn't get them off, though, couldn't get them...and when she did, it was only to save one panic for another.

Dean had a hell of a headache when he came to and it took him a few minutes to get himself close to upright. When he did, he took stock; he was in a dark cave who knows where, and all of his weapons were gone. Worse, so was his brother.

But the lighting wasn't the best and he couldn't see all the edges of the place; maybe Sam was just not in view. Gathering his strength, he yelled out, "SAMMY!"

The only thing that answered him was his own voice echoing weirdly off the walls.

ME ME Me me...

When the nightmares (http://saltandammo.livejournal.com/87609.html) came, they left Dean screaming and curled up in a ball of misery.

Everything was a little blurry when Sam came to, and his first instinct was to rub at his sore neck. Freaking demons, always going for the throat.

"Dean?" he said, his voice sounding a little rough. When there was no answer, he slowly sat up and looked around, his heart starting to race as he took in his surroundings, and the fact that he was all alone.

"DEAN!" he yelled, but the echo off the walls was the only reply he got...

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It wasn't long before Sam started screaming, and curled in on himself.

Alice fell to her knees, struggling to recover her breath. Where was she?

A quick inspection showed that she was in a large, empty cavern.

There were worse places, even if it was damnably cold.

She shivered, looking around for her vorpal blade. Waiting for what came next.

Alice screamed (http://notyourpawn.livejournal.com/2505.html), wrapping her arms around her head, no, no, it couldn't be real, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop.

Blair was dropped off in God-knew-where and no, she was not happy about it. She set about trying to escape but had no luck. Of course she had no way of knowing that this was because she wasn't actually trying to escape but only thought she was.

The nightmare of this tied in nicely with the nagging voice in the back of her head that was doing its best to convince her that she'd never get out because nobody knew she was missing nor gave a damn that she was gone.

Then the nightmare changed (http://gameknowsgame.livejournal.com/3323.html).

Kidnapped again. Sometimes Z hated this place.

She sighed and slid down against the cavern wall to wait for...something. Rescue. A chance to escape.

Something.

Something came, all right. The nightmares.

As though Evey hadn't had enough of dank, dark places for the rest of her life.

She curled up on herself out of habit after getting kidnapped (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/2891049.html?thread=124084265#t124084265"), trying to devise ways to escape while her eyes adjusted to the dark.

Her eyes adjusted.

It didn't help (http://remember5th.livejournal.com/7128.html), though, as Evey screamed and sobbed, before almost seeming to fall asleep.

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Caves, it was always caves. Bridge frowns as he looks around. "No way out," he observes out loud. To no one, yes. "And yet I got in. So there must be a way out. Only there isn't, because there's no doors or windows, not that caves have doors, usually- or windows, for that matter. But there's no opening at all. And yet I got in..."

Eventually, Bridge's monologue tapers off and the nightmares (http://bridge-carson.livejournal.com/59846.html) start.

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"Oh you have to be kidding me!" Was Marco's brilliant observation when he got dropped off. "Seriously, ugly bird-dino-thing and then a cave?"

And then, he began to scream (http://morpherboy.livejournal.com/6167.html)

Giselle looked around in confusion. This wasn't a very nice place for a picnic.

"Panic? You can come visit me now," she said quietly, sitting in a huddle on the ground.

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