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[NRDL]

Hide.  Anywhere.  Under the bed if he has to, just hide. 

Also, nice writing.  Very comprehensive. 

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Alex froze. "Did I lock all of the doors? Yes. Windows locked? Yes." He thought, trying not to breathe. "I need to hide. Oh my god there is someone else in my house."

Alex's bed was low to the ground and hiding under the covers would do nothing to conceal his frame. Alex then remembered the closet in his room. It was big, and he didn't really use it but it would work.

Quietly Alex slunk out of his bed and across the floor to his closet where the oiled door slid open.

*Cracacacaaaack* The noise repeated.

Alex got into the closet without hesitation and closet the door.

Alex couldn't see the outside, save for through the crack between the doors. There was no movement.

Alex stayed in his closet, sometimes hearing the noise other times there was a long silence. Alex noted that he could hear no boots or footsteps on the wood, just the creak of movement.

Alex sat in this closet waiting for something to happen. He noticed something different about the light filtering through his little peekhole. It had change from pale blue to a yellow. The sun was up. The noises had been silent for the last few minutes.

Alex leaned back in relief. As he did so he felt something cold and smooth against his bare skin.

[Dragor23]

Gasp and try to see, what you just touched.

[mcclay]

Get the fuck out of the closet while leaving the doors open holy fuck.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

With a loud gasp Alex turns toward whatever he touched and loses his balance, trying to back away. Alex falls out of his closet forcing the doors open. Sunlight hits the inside of the closet. The cold smooth object is revealed to be a dry cleaning bag hung up in the closet with a dress inside. Alex las on the floor with a scrape along his arm from bursting through the closed doors.

The house is lit up enough to be able to see without any light source at this point. Alex figures since he made such a ruckus there is no point in hiding any longer. He stands up and walks around the house. Checking everything.

Nothing out of the ordinary is yeilded. Alex feels like an idiot. The noise must have been the large house settling and his closet monster was just a dress in a bag (must have been from the old owner of the house). He had been so jumpy since last night, it felt like every shadow was something to try and get him.

Alex was lucky he thought, that he didn't have school today, staying up half the night in his closet. Alex had planned to use his day off doing yard work. His house sat smack dab in the middle of a sandy dirt lot with little vegetation in it save for a few trees and massive clumps of weeds. Alex had hoped to dig up the weeds before planting anything.

Alex didn't exactly relish yardwork and was looking for any reason to get out of it.

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I think I will draw up a layout of the house for you guys.

Alex doesn't know much about his house or Harmony Grove beyond what the real estate agent told him which wasn't much.

You can suggest that Alex do something other than yardwork.

[mcclay]

Leave all the lights on, just in case... Also grab a flashlight, a kinfe and go into the basement. You never know what cool shit you'll find down there. Also, does he have any guns or other weaponary?

[NRDL]

I don't think he'd actually get a weapon.

Have Alex do yardwork, but since he's paranoid, be vigilant to ANYTHING. 

Is it alright if we have an inventory check every turn or so? 

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Alex considered grabbing a knife from the kitchen and heading to look into the crawl space. He hadn't checked that yet but preffered digging all day to fumbling around in the dark (atleast right now). He set the knife down after finishing breakfast (a toasted bagel with sliced tomatoes, cream cheese, red onion, and black pepper).

"This is silly." Alex said to himself, thinking back to last night. he sighed as he went into the storeroom/shop and grabbed a shovel.

He headed out to his yard. In the time he had been snacking, the sun had wasted little time climbing in the sky and beating down on Alex and the mud he was scraping in like a drum, despite being hampered by a grey cloud here or there.

Even though alex had left the knife in the house he was glad to have the shovel.

Picking weeds was monotany that allowed Alex's mind to wander.

I should calm down. This house was a blessing. It is beautiful, may need a little work, but beautiful all the same.

It is a little odd the circumstances I got it under I'll admit. It was cheap! When I asked the real estate agent why that was she said that the original owner was an old woman who rarely left. When her post had piled so high that it was difficult to manage the post office visited her home and found her long dead. Natural causes she said. Since she had not progeny the house went to Harmony Grove or the community. The "mayor" decided to sell it after a number of years. She couldn't say who he was or why he sold it. She did mention he was a nice old man though.

And this community. Alex hadn't seen a single person here except a single car leave out of the mainroad. All Alex saw around here was a post office, a couple few houses, railroad tracks and a building near them, and the skeletons of some fallen down buildings. Hell there may be more to this little community and I wouldn't know. The whole place was flanked by thick forest and I hadn't followed it to it's end.

That was weird yesterday. Must've been some kids. I should really look into getting a security system. Or a dog. Or a girlfr- what's this?

Alex picked up a small weirdly shaped pebble, it was caked with dust. A little spit and some rubbing in his shirt and... Is that a...?

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[NRDL]

Ignore this post.  I just kept whining how the picture was REALLY SCARY.  In a horror forum game.  Yeah.  Just keep walking, nothing to see here. 

[mcclay]

What? dig some more, prolly just an old animal or something that the previous owner used to have and the buried it after it died. Or maybeit's and Indian burial ground and you can find artifacts and become a world famous archologist or something.

[NRDL]

Okay, got over initial panic attack ( jk ) and reviewed the picture with less fear.  Alex is wearing a ring?

Anyway, just keep the damn shovel close at hand.  Forgive me for my cowardliness and whining.  I'll go edit my post now. 

[The Fool]

What? dig some more, prolly just an old animal or something that the previous owner used to have and the buried it after it died. Or maybeit's and Indian burial ground and you can find artifacts and become a world famous archologist or something.

Just play off the tooth like it's nothing. Something that small is not worth freaking out over.

[Azthor]

Go to the Post Office and take the tooth with you.

[NRDL]

Go to the Post Office and take the tooth with you.

The post office? 

[Azthor]

Go to the Post Office and take the tooth with you.

The post office?

Yes, the post office; there are things we ought to learn about.