Re: Doctor Who Mafia 2: Of Voodoo and Vampires [NIGHT 2]
Sorry I've been uber busy and upset about Lis Sladen so yeah let's get on with this.
All night actions are in.
The Doctor woke up before the sun was up. Not that he'd really slept after seeing that poor man made an example of in front of the entire city. They didn't even offer him a fair trial. With a sigh he lifted himself from the armchair and made himself proper before going to get Amy and Rory. He banged on their door as he passed and headed downstairs.
That second murder was still lingering in his mind. All the flesh was removed, but why?? Think Doctor! What did Herric say when they arrived? Bad voodoo? Maybe this was bad voodoo. He had noticed a voodoo shop down the block, maybe they could figure out some answers there.
Am yawbed as she walked down the stairs, Roroy followed, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, "Oy Doctor, why do we have to get up so early?" Amy said, holding back another yawn.
"Perk up, Ponds!" The Doctor said with a half smile, "We're going shopping!"
Even in the early morning it was humid and sticky. As they walked down the block the early risers were preparing for the day. When they arrived at the shop the Doctor stopped. The shop door was open, and hanging off its hinges. Rory looked at the Doctor, "That's probably not good."
The Doctor pulled out his sonic, "Probably not," he said as he stepped over the broken door, using his sonic as a makeshift torch the Doctor searched the store. It was full of different odds and ends, protection talismans, medicinal herbs, roots, berries, everything you'd find in a voodoo healer's shop.
The Doctor continued to the counter. He rang the service bell, "Hello?" He said gazing into the back room, "Hello? Anyone home?" Nothing.
The Doctor hopped over the counter and waltzed into the back area. There were spare kars along the walls in the hallway. There was bathroom, nothing unordinary there, the main bedroom, the door to the basement, and a guest room. The door to the bedroom was unlocked. The Doctor checked it, nothing there.
"Oh, look, the wine cellar," the Doctor heard Amy say down the hall, and then the click of a latch.
"Be careful down there," he called after her. As he shut the door behind him he saw Rory try the guestroom.
"Locked," he grumbled and steped aside to let the Doctor open it. With a buzz and a soft click it was unlocked.
Stepping inside they both felt a chill... the chill of a room after a death. There on the bed there was a body. On the bedside there was numerous elixers and tonics. The Doctor examined a rather nasty looking brown mixture, "Whoever this was, they weren't murdered, they were sick, " he scanned the liquid, "this should be fine, if used correctly."
"So what killed them?"
The Doctor didn't answer instead he removed the cloth from the face. They looked human, but the Doctor knew better than that, he scanned, non-human, but with human traits, a disguise. That confirmed it. This was a plasmavore, he must have visited the voodoo healer, not wanting to go to a real Doctor. And voodoo isn't an exact art, the cure must have killed the plasmavore.
With a sigh he covered the body again... well that's one down. How many to go? Then he heard a scream coming from the basement. Both Rory and the Doctor raced to the cellar. It was dark, but light spilled in from a small window.
Amy was huddled in a corner in shock. Rory went to her as the Doctor approached the gruesome scene. A body was chained to the wall. A huge pentagram in blood was writted on the wall behind it. The corpes was ripped of all skin, and only muscle, dripping with blood, remained. THe innards were slowly falling from lack of support. And a large dead snake was resting on the victims neck. The Doctor put away his sonic and clenched his fists at his sides, holding his breath.
"Let's get out of here, " the Doctor mumbled as he guided his companions up the stairs. They would tell the police.
When they arrived at the police station they found it in a commotion. There had been yet another, "vampire" murder. The Doctor was too frustrated to dally there. There were killers on the loose.
Squirrel is dead. She was mafia.
ole_schooler is dead. They were innocent.
Wargle is dead. She was innocent.
48 hours for discussion or majority vote.