October 27, 2021

Lucille and her cultists, Toshiba, Maryanne, David, and Sylvia are hanging out at some beach in Mississippi by a hotel they're staying in. Maryanne wades in the water, as Toshiba watches her closely, sitting on the sand. Lucille's bathing in the sun and texting her group chat, David and Sylvia staying closeby to her. And then it begins to rain.

Lucille looks up from her phone, up at the sky. "Didn't expect it to rain today, huh."

"Hm, yeah that's... strange." Sylvia looks up at the sky. Something begins to happen to a certain area of the air over the ocean.. it starts to become empty. A hole in the sky. A tear in reality, gaping open.

Lucille gets up from her chair, shoving her phone down in her pocket. She yells out to her cultists, "VAN, NOW." The fuckers get off the beach and pile into the van like it's a fucking clown car and they book it back to the Church that Lucille took over. Once they arrive, they see more holes in the sky, continuing to open. "Get inside," Lucille says to the others as they do as she says. She climbs on top of the van and stares at one of the holes. Deep within her mind, she feels like she remembers something. Something... involving demons... or whatever. God, she doesn't have time for the silly edgy demon bullshit right now. She needs to focus.

Lucille stares at the holes, lifting herself up more with tentacles that protrude from her back. They're black, inky, and have bones sticking out from them. Like an edgy tumblr slendersona. Her skin crackles with blue distortion as she stares up at one of the holes, and, like an idiot, focuses on trying to close it with her mind. Oh my fucking god, Lucille. She begins to bleed from most of her facial orifices as the hole, one of maybe like twenty in the visible sky, slowly closes. Lucille finally manages to close it, as she falls to the ground weakly before passing out.

Toshiba runs out the door, "OH MY FUCKING. JHVJBEKDVCJBH!!?!?!?" Toshiba runs up to Lucille, trying to pick up her slightly heavy body. Toshiba's like, 5'1, a twig, and wearing a box television on her head. Trying to carry a 5'6 chubby lady. I mean, sure, go ahead. She does actually manage to her her inside but soon falls down the stairs, cracking pieces of her TV.

Toshiba, sobbing, takes out her phone and begins texting the group chat. A 5'10 man with ginger hair, glasses, and a Three Days Grace t-shirt appears before Toshiba.

"Hello there," Photo says to Toshiba, "I'm here to fuck up Lucille's good time."

"She's not having a good time she's probably dead," Toshiba sobs.

"Someone did my job for me, damn. That's not good." Photo frowns, "What the hell is happening?"

"Sky opened up, Lucille closed the hole, something happened, I don't know!!"

"What a hero."

"It's all so confusing and everythings happening so fast," Toshiba sobs.

"Sounds like an apocalypse I'd want front row seats to," Photo smiles.

Toshiba gets a message on her phone, and she removes her TV. The message is followed by a knock on the door of the church. Toshiba heads up to the door, and looks through the small window. There's something outside. A tall, dark, goat-like figure with a human girl's face. Toshiba walks back down the stares with a D: face, and looks to Photo.

"You've never been scared until you've seen a 6ft tall black goat on its hind legs staring at you with its slightly human face," she says.

"Oh that's awesome I gotta see that," Photo responds, looking in the direction of the door. "Need me to talk to it?"

"If you want.??"

Photo teleports outside, connecting to a call with Toshiba.

"Oh wow everything here's all fucked up," Photo says, looking around. The sky's become a sanguine red, and it's pouring rain. "Like a sunset, but everywhere." Photo looks up to the sky, "There's no hole."

"Yeah, Lucille closed it before passing out,,"

"Sounds like she pulled an iron man."

"I've only been alive for 2 years half of which I spent in hell," Toshiba sighs, "What does it mean to 'pull an iron man'?"

"She closed a hole in the sky and then became unconscious"

"Oh ok"

"I'm stopping the rain around me this is annoying"

"Ok so, what do we do about Ava?" Toshiba asks.

"Is her name Ava?"

"That's what the name on the Instagram message said, yeah."

The Photographer approaches Ava, flaring tentacles from his back and making his eyes shine a bright white. Ava becomes sightly frightened and flees into the woods, followed by a crackle of black distortion. Photo chuckles to himself and walks inside the church. There's a trail of Lucille's blood on the stairs.

"Where are you now?" Photo asks Toshiba.

"Basement, with the statue of Lucille," she replies, seeming out of breath.

"Oh I've been there, bet she'd love to see me there again."

"Oh?"

The Photographer appears next to Toshiba in the Worship Room of the basement. "Yeah I fought her here. Kicked her ass."

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[CHURCH OF THE RAINDROPS DISCORD SERVER - #general]

TOSHIBA: ow FUCK

SPIDER: Tosh?

TOSHIBA: tthere's a voice i c ant understand it but i can itr' s not speaking english or any language i know

SPIDER: ....

TOSHIBA: it wa nts me to go outside and look at the sky

DREW: I reccomend you do literally anything else

AESOP: yeah, stay inside

SPIDER: I second that

AESOP: going outside could be literally the worst thing you ever do

TOSHIBA: ii need to do something i can tlet it

AESOP: look. the best option for you right now is to stay where you are.

TOSHIBA: ii i have to

LUNA: Okay Toshi, just be careful ok?

TOSHIBA: i ca n tgo otutside i m no t letting it h he e wh is p e r s i n my ea r h e s i n g s th e d e a th of a s t a r

SPIDER: ??

TOSHIBA: I N HI S O T HE R H A ND T H E B L A D E TO SL A Y TH E J A B B ER WO C K Y

SPIDER: Tosh... You still with us?

TOSHIBA: i t 's h u r t s i c annt fe eel my ha n d s

MARYANNE: she s on the groundn, fucufk

LUNA: ...holy fuck.

MARYANNE: i nan t type good and ma panikcing le tm ehand the phone 2 yslbis

SPIDER: Is she bleeding?

MARYANNE: Hey, sylvia here ok so. What I saw was kind of confusing. But. The screen on her hollowed out tv that she wears on her head lit up

[MARYANNE has changed her nickname to SYLVIA]

SPIDER: That's not weird at all

PHOTO: Oh well I don't like this

SYLVIA: And it was flashing with like, static like when you'd switch the tv to an input that doesnt work. Except it was red. And she started yelling and stuff. And she grabbed the knife she was talking about earlier and carved Abaddon's sigil into her wrists

SPIDER: Fuck, is Sylvia stemming the bleeding? Cause that's what's important here

LUNA: Gods what

LUNA: Someone needs to, David, maryanne. Anyone.

SYLVIA: Yeah I'm wrapping bandages and cloths around the wounds

PHOTO: Yeah wrap it

SYLVIA: Trying to keep her stable

SPIDER: Make sure it's tight

SYLVIA: It is

SYLVIA: David taught me how to tie good knots

SPIDER: Good

SPIDER: Putting pressure on the wounds is key

SYLVIA: Yeah, there's definitely a lot of pressure

SYLVIA: Shit. that's both of our commanders gone.

SYLVIA Guess Writer's next in line, but... Then it'd be me. Thing is, I don't know what to do or how to do it.

LUNA: By commanders, you mean Lucille and Toshiba?

SYLVIA: Yeah

SYLVIA: Mostly Claire was a commander though, not so much Toshiba or the others

PHOTO: I have a Commander

SYLVIA: That's good Photo. We don't anymore. Unless they're alive. But for now, It's just me david and mary

LUNA: they're not dead yet. gotta keep some hope alive!

LUNA: For now, you'll have to hold down the fort

SYLVIA: Nothing can get down here unless they're familiar with the place

LUNA: Good. Let's stay there until someone says the coast is clear

PHOTO: Geist has some materials that would help here

SYLVIA: Can you get them over here?

PHOTO: I can go grab them

SYLVIA: I think about now is when we genuinely need to set our differences aside and fight against whatever this thing is. It's a bigger threat to this World than the Moon and Lucille could ever be.

PHOTO: Oh boy. I'm gonna go grab some stimulants and medicine from a Site

BOWIE: Knock knocK

SPIDER: Anything I can help with?

BOWIE: Ooooh this is getting fuN

SYLVIA: Bowie, hey, what're you gonna do when the World ends?

BOWIE: ME?

SYLVIA: Yes, you

BOWIE: I'm going to save peoplE. What's the matteR? ScareD?

VENTI: i hope it turns out alright Silvia,,,

PHOTO: Maybe it's just this world's time

BOWIE: Everything endS. And its always saD. But everything begins again toO. I would try to convince you to join me and my family back at the sanctuary, but alas I'm no manipulator and I don't want to force anyone to joiN. But the offer is always on the tablE. I'm sure everything will work out finE. Either way, I'm all for watching Lucilles empire crumblE. This is so much fuN! x)

DRAKE: [PANTS]

BOWIE: Yes DrakE! PantS

LUNA: heck yeah Drake!

HARMONIA: what the fuck is happening

SYLVIA: End of the world, wanna help prevent it?

HARMONIA: end of the world?!?! i mean yes but also what

BOWIE: We can only hopE. Or well I can atleasT x)

HARMONIA: work went batshit and i looked outside

LUNA: I'm down to help. Especially with all that Bowie did for us with Drake

HARMONIA: the fuckingsky opened up and now its red

SPIDER: Yep

HARMONIA: great! great

BOWIE: And here you all thought I was going to backstab yoU. Tsk tsK

DRAKE: [yay]

LUNA: I know better now.

BOWIE: 💚 Well I'm glad you all had a change of hearT

HARMONIA: while i try to calm down, how can i help?

SYLVIA: Not sure yet

SYLVIA: Y'know the Church of God of Prophecy in Meridian?

HARMONIA: yeah i pass by it on the way to work

SYLVIA: Go to it, go to the back and go down the stairs to the basement, walk around until you find a door with a few drops of blood on the handle. You'll find us there

SPIDER: If you need me to help with anything just ask

BOWIE: I can try to be of some use, what do you neeD?

HARMONIA: gotcha. need me to bring anything?

SYLVIA: You got any weapons?

BOWIE: Do you mind if I tag alonG?

SYLVIA: Yeah Bowie you can come too

HARMONIA: yeah i got a hatchet, pocket knife, pepper spray and a shotgun i have for emergencies

SYLVIA: Oh shit bring all of those

HARMONIA: gotcha

BOWIE: 👏 👏 👏 Let's fucking gooooO!