"While It's great that the pony encyclopedia is safe and well, shouldn't you tell us who made off with our resident drunkard? He's not exactly easy to kidnap..." Tyro insists. "We could be in serious trouble."
"I think..." Haze thought back to the female pony who'd caught Dave. Haze hadn't see much of what had happened, but she saw they whilst they were conversing... "... Violet."
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OOC: ((To recap, Tyro, Dark, and Haze are just outside the mansion, and they exited by a different means than they first entered. Basically, a back door. There is a path leading to the Asylum, and a path leading out into what looks like the middle of nowhere. Dave and Zephyr never existed, unless they pop back in at some point in the future wanting to. Just pretend that they're along for the ride, and maybe I'll make some mentions of them occasionally in my posts just for realism's sake, but otherwise you can just ignore them. As for Dave and Violet, well, Violet will be out for blood if she finds you out of bed, much less out of the mansion. I won't bother to mention whether it'll be literally or not. >))
((YAAAAAY!!!)) Haze looked up the hill, towards the concrete monstrosity. Each passing second the realisation that she'd have to go in there embedded itself into her mind more, and the Asylum looked more and more threatening. "So... We... We going in?"
Dark Shine nodded. "I dont see why not. We heard the noises. We cant just let it be. What if this place holds a dangerous secret?! We have to!" He chuckled, something about going into potential danger made him giggle.
Meanwhile, something about going into potential danger made Haze whimper. "O-okay... Let's go" Haze said. She waited, however, for one of the others to start moving before she followed.
"Sure. Kinda pointless getting this far and not going forwards." Tyro replies. "Still think we ought to look into that Nurse thing..."
The group began to travel along the path. No horrifying monsters attacked them, nopony's sharp scream suddenly split the night, and after having been on the path for about 5 minutes, there was no sign of the mysterious and fearsome Violet anywhere (to everypony's relief). As they grew nearer to the asylum, they could hear the shouting more clearly. It now sounded like about three ponies yelling (you could tell their voices apart if you listened very closely), but they were still too far away from the building to hear any distinct words. They had to be loud, though. If there were only three ponies, they must have been shouting at the tops of their lungs, for the three travelers to hear them through the walls of the looming concrete monstrosity before them. Strange...it had seemed louder when they'd heard it from the mansion. In fact, it would have had to have been, for them to hear it through a window, across the considerable distance between the buildings, and through the wall of the asylum... Perhaps there were fewer ponies shouting now than there had been earlier?
They carried on towards the Asylum. Haze had, it would seem, half zoned out- She'd been lost in her own thoughts whilst they travelled. They were getting close to the Asylum now. The others'd probably noticed already, but Haze felt she should try and break the eerie silence which had fallen upon them. "The volume of the screaming has changed- it's impossible we'd have heard that from all the way down there..." Haze felt inclined to get closer- Just a little closer, and maybe they could make it out... But then, she thought, what if this was a plan to get them to the Asylum? Down there, it'd been just too distant to make out, as they walked up it'd been to distant, and even now, as they were yards away from the Asylum, it was still just too distant to make out... What if, with every step they took, the volume was adjusted just to make the words out of reach, to keep them wanting to go further and further in, to lure them further in until... That's where Haze's ideas stopped. What would anyone want to do that for? What'd be their plan from there? Whilst this might be an effect which was acting towards pulling them further towards the Asylum, it's unlikely it was purposefully done. Haze realised she had been over-thinking, and tried to push it out of her mind, but somewhere, the thought still lingered- even though Haze new it was probably rather dumb.
"All right..." Tyro said, looking up at the huge structure, feeling a slight sweat and a slight waver in his voice. "I'll be willing to be that this place isn't quite right. I mean, I could just be that people have fallen asleep in there but I'm not ruling out something using this place as a packed lunch. Just sayin'..." The ramble sort of died away along with Tyro checking behind himself for anyone following him.
Dark Shine followed behind, quietly. Now it was sort of getting a bit nerve wracking. Surely, if anything tried hiding in the dark, he could see it though, so he reassured himself with that.
As Tyro, Dark Shine, Dave, Zephyr and Haze approached the entrance to the asylum, they spotted the silhouette of a guard standing at the entrance to the Asylum. Either the guard did not see them yet, or he didn't care. The first was more likely, of course, as any guard worth their salt would have at least a little problem with three shady figures approaching out of the darkness. Or, perhaps it was just that these guards were meant to keep ponies IN and not OUT. What will our brave heroes do next?!
The brave heroes stood, staring at the guard for a little while. After a few minutes, Haze whispered to the others "Maybe we should get out of view?" As they hid behind a tree, Haze started thinking- What could they do? "Perhaps... We could just fly over? It'd be risky, as they'd have other defences, it's likely... I could attract their attention towards another direction, allowing you guys to sneak past?"
"Um, not to be a mood killer, but the whole asylum is kinda lit up," said Zephyr (who totally followed along with them but I forgot to mention him in previous posts).
"We could try and remove the guards, one by one?" Tyro tries to add to the brainstorming. He didn't feel all that constructive though. Apparently his plan centred around them being able to just steal fully grown stallions away without anypony noticing. "What about a disguise? Like, as a patient or a guard? Maybe a doctor!" That last one clicked nicely.
"We should avoid violence... It's completely unneccessary, and for all we know nothing sinister's even happening here. Going in disguise'd be a good idea- All we need now is a disguise."
Dark Shine looked around again. "Maybe... Maybe we could try and get on the roof? I mean, most of us are Pegasi, we could just lift Tyro? Or would that leave us too open to see..." He continued looking. "Maybe a tree?"
