Goo-O-Ween 2023 / 🪦Cathedral of the Cursed🪦

[lupiine]

Prompt Day: 1
Goobie(s) Involved: fenwick, solars wolf
If art or writing, Partner? solos
If Art, NPC? n
Entry:

Fenwick looks around cautiously, nervous, but excited. C'mon Fen, you've got this. You just need to make at least one friend. Fenwick's mind goes blank as they stand around and greet each other. They don't hear anyone else's introduction other than a goobie by the name of Wolf and they're next. "Fenwick...." They say as they look at everyone with no expression on her face. Goobies mumble wondering what "Fenwick" is, was it this goobies name..? Was it where they lived..?

[Griff]

Day One is CLOSED!

AliMonHun ; 4 candies
FadeV ; 6 candies
Polluux. ; 7 candies
Nio ; 3 candies
Eevee55 ; 2 candies
-icarus- ; 4 candies
Annaebell ; 4 candies
Imabanditø ; 9 candies
Bakuraas. ; 7 candies
Dragoness129 ; 4 candies
lucas tazmily ; 2 candies
Mirinae535 ; 4 candies
Saeli ; 5 candies
EatingTuna ; 6 candies
Strawberrymwilk ; 4 candies
Riley ♥ ; 6 candies
Solos ; 4 candies
Sadcat ; 3 candies
Keeshond ; 3 candies

Huge thanks to Keeshond for assisting with totals!

Due to IRL Day Two had to be skipped so next post will start Day Three!

[Griff]

Grim looked to all of the goobies, smiling lightly. He looked relieved that they were here, and found himself smiling so widely that his glasses slipped in place again. "Ah- oh worry lost myself a moment there. Thank you so much for being here, all of you. I... look forward to solving this mystery with you. And, well, maybe making a few friends. I don't talk to others much, usually have my head in a book so... this is really nice." A faint blush enters his cheeks, before he pushes his glasses up and straightens a moment.

"Right then," he adds, a bit more confident. "Come everyone, let's go inside!" And so with a slightly steadier hand, he goes to pull open the massive cathedral doors. They open with a resounding thud, as though waiting to be opened. A plume of dust spreads out, and its clear the doors have not been opened in some time. Since their beloved Gob was lost, perhaps? The inside revealed a massive interior, with pews in varying states of decay lied out. Some were uneven, pushed away. A few looked clawed upon, as though by an angry creature. Did... that one have teeth marks? Some cushions were torn or missing, and in a few places what looked like dried up goo was crusted upon the floor.

"Wh- what happened here..?" Grim asked, exhaling out. At the very front, where the sermons might normally have been delivered, the pulpit had been pushed over and lied broken in half upon the ground. Scattered around it was broken stained glass from the nearby window. Grim had started to take careful pictures. "Please, watch your step," he tells everyone. "We should stay in this room but if you find something you wish to investigate let me know and we can look at it together..."

* * * * *

You're in the cathedral and it's certainly taken a beating! Does your goobie investigate the traces of goo scattered about? The broken benches? The stained glass? The pulpit? Or do they look elsewhere, perhaps up?

DAY THREE IS OPEN!

[-icarus-]

Prompt Day: 3
Goobie(s) Involved: Mayhem
If Art, NPC? n/a
Entry:

Fuelled by the recent developments at the honk board, Mayhem began xes search of the cathedral grounds. Xes immediate first action was to take samples of the goo on the floor. Hopefully, these samples will somewhat match xes goo at home, and help the search for Jystyr's missing pieces.

As xe was collecting the last sample, a small voice hissed in Mayhem's ear. "Look, I know you're doing your science thing, but I need your attention like, now." Mayhem stood up and looked around for the source of the voice, but it hissed again, "Look behind you, idiot."

Now annoyed, Mayhem looked back, only to be met with... xes tail? Yes, that was indeed xes tail staring back at xem, just as annoyed. My tail can speak??

"Yes, I can speak! I just haven't had the power to, since you're siphoning a ton of it to conduct your experiments! You're lucky this cathedral is so important."

Oh... well, that clears the importance of this place up.

"Mmm, now listen to me. The little I know of this place tells me that a great secret has been hidden here, one that may unravel space and time as we know it if it is to fall into the wrong hands. Jystyr locked it away millenia ago, but now that Jystyr is gone, it may be looking for a new host." The tail glanced around, making sure no one was around to hear. "Your job," the tail whispered, "is to find it and make sure it is still in its slumber."

It took a minute for Mayhem to process the whole event going on in front of xem, but xe was quickly on board. Following the tail's commands, xe was led to the base of the pulpit, which had been knocked over and destroyed. As xe approached, the tail instructed xem to search for hinges in the floor.

"If what I've heard is true, there should be a trapdoor somewhere around here. Let me know if you find it, I'll be silently standing guard."

Mayhem sighed and set to work, hoping this wouldn't take too long.

[Arkveld]

Prompt Day: 3
Goobie(s) Involved: Alistaire
If Art, NPC? n/a
Entry:

The dilapidated exterior of the cathedral mirrors the inside ; crumbling pillars, pews knocked askew and shredded by some raging beast... the teeth marks along some of the age-worn cushions make Alistaire's fur bristle with alarm; he's certain that whatever or whoever did this is no longer present, but the thought of the Gob's cathedral being torn to shreds and left to crumble away into nothingness makes his chest tighten. Doing his best to force his anxiety down, before turning his attention to the dried goo on the dusty, debris-strewn floor. Without hesitation, he collects a sample of it with a careful claw, tucking it away into his satchel before continuing his investigation.

This place had clearly been forgotten for some time... as though time itself had turned its back on the Gob. The shattered stained glass window, the torn up pews, the destroyed pulpit in two pieces across the raised altar platform... where does this all connect? What happened here? Alistaire finds his mind racing as he tries to piece the puzzle together, silvery gaze shifting skyward.

The vaulted ceiling of the cathedral is shrouded in a veil of darkness, the only source of light being a dim grey peeking through the cracked and broken windows, the figure depicted on their fragments long since lost to time. Thoroughly unsettled by the wrecked interior but far too invested in the mystery to depart, Alistaire does his best to see through the shadows to the ceiling above...

[lucas tazmily]

Prompt Day: 3
Goobie(s) Involved: amaryllis
If Art, NPC? n/a
Entry:

amaryllis was shocked at the sight that was displayed in front of her. inside the cathedral, it seemed like some sort of monster had decided to go through and try to destroy everything that they possibly could. the pews, once a place where a goobie could go sit to listen to a sermon, were all covered in dust and shoved about. whoever had been here last may have also been a bit hungry, for some of the pews seemed to even have bite marks engraved into the wood. speckles of dried goo could be found on the floor, and the once beautiful stained glass windows had been shattered.

the pink goobie carefully walked around. she didn't want to disturb anything, and she also didn't want to step on anything that could possibly hurt herself. it almost seemed like a crime had happened here. amaryllis then decided to scrap up some sample of the goo on the floor; maybe it would become useful later on.

[nio]

Prompt Day: 3
Goobie(s) Involved: capra
If art or writing, Partner? (Yes/No? If so who?)
If Art, NPC? (Yes/no? If so, who?)
Entry:

Capra was immediately intrigued by the state of the cathedral. It looked as if i cyclone had blown right through it. Was there a fight here, or did some teenagers muck up the place after noticing it was abandoned?

He immediately stepped towards the crusted goo. What colour was it? Did it have any patterned or any other identifying features? The cryptid goo put his glasses on (with some hesitation, he didn’t like wearing them in public) to have a better look.

[Eevee55]

Prompt Day: 3
Goobie(s) Involved: Lily Hope and Shell
If Art, NPC? N/A
Entry: Lily, Hope, and Shell follow Grim into the cathedral, their expressions curious and excited at first, though when they see the state the cathedral is in now, their expressions fall slightly. It looks... decayed. While they all understand that it has probably been some time since anyone has been in here, it is still rather shocking to see it like this. Especially with the claw marks, torn cushions, and shards of stained glass. But most of all, the dried up goo. Grim's question sounds like an echo of their own thoughts, the trio unable to do anything but look around in confusion and worry at first. Grim's next statement shakes them out of their thoughts, and the trio exchange a glance before splitting up slightly to investigate different things. Lily approaches some nearby goo and examines it carefully. Shell decides to look at the shards of stained glass on the floor, being very careful not to step on any. And Hope looks around at the building itself; the walls, windows, and even the ceiling.

[imabanditø]

Prompt Day: 3
Goobie(s) Involved: neptune
If Art, NPC? (Yes/no? If so, who?): n/a
Entry:

neptune froze in the doorway. ‘how did it get this way..?’ he asked himself, fully aware that he didn’t know the answer. fear and uncertainty started taking over, and thoughts of leaving started forming. but, neptune took a step further inside the cathedral. and another. and anoth— “what is that?!” he shouted, unknowingly stepping right into a puddle of goo. trying to shake it off in disgust, he bolted towards a corner. it was filled with cobwebs and dust, but at least it didn’t seem to be in as much disarray than the rest of the cathedral.

the diab frantically rubbed his goo-filled paw on the wall, trying to clean it off as quickly as possible. he heard other goobies calmly having conversation, and wondered how they weren’t at all nervous. though, perhaps getting to know his surroundings would help ease his mind; neptune started looking around and observed the broken windows, the debris, and - of course - the ceiling. what if something was up there?

[annaebell]

Prompt Day: 3
Goobie(s) Involved: https://toyhou.se/19147735.bubble-gum
If Art, NPC? nop
Entry:

Bubs follows the crowd of goobies into the scary looking castle building, none the wiser to anything spooky inside. He lacks the braincells to be afraid.

Once inside, he goes to the wooden seat thingies he doesn't know the names for and sits besides one.

With a curious tilt of his head he look at the bite marks on one of them.

"Big teeth," He says even if there isn't anyone to hear him, "Much hungry. Eated yummy wood seat."

He then grins at the pew with his own shark like teeth before attempting to take his own bite out of it. If whatever left the bite marks thought it was good enough to try eating then why couldn't he also try?