<div align="center"><strong>Please keep all posts IC, use the OOC thread for questions or OOC discussion. </strong></div><div align="center">http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82877.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82877.0)</div><hr/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Ashcroft</span></strong></div><br/><div align="center">(http://i51.tinypic.com/14bt1sy.jpg)<br/></div><br/>Ashcroft was a small town and community on the coast a sleepy town where one could become lost and out of touch with the world. It thrived mainly on its fishing industry but was also home to a few  factories and warehouses, the most prominent thing about Ashcroft however was in where it was situated. The town lay upon the coast and followed its shape with houses and buildings doting the landscape, behind it was backed by forests and wilderness and the looming Victorian style asylum.  The asylum was of course not used any longer not like it once had been, mental patients and those who required care where now handled within the wards of Ashcroft general Hospital or in the few care homes that where situated in the town.  The city had its fair share of tourists who came to take in the sea air and views and enjoy the local history and coastal tunnels and caves, many people also choose Ashcroft as a place to retire. Urban legends and myths surrounded the town with the rumours of  haunted locals and the terrors of the asylum fuelling local gossip, most prominent of all where the tales of the sea devils the dangers of the reefs and cliffs and the rumours of strange goings on upon Devil's Rock. Of course none but the superstitious believed these tales for they where spread by none other than the sailors and fishermen that frequented and made the town there home.<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">The Lost Girl</span></strong></div><br/>How she came to be walking down the dark forgotten road to Ashcroft she could no remember, barefoot and clad in ragged clothing and a dirty worn and torn sheet she wandered on towards the distant town. Her head swam with dark images and dreamlike memories she knew not what was true or real any more, knew not where she had come from or where she was heading but the pull to the town was irresistible.<br/><br/>Her vision blurred and and light flooded her eyes as the distant rays of a lonesome car travelled the road the sound jarring mixed in with the crackly blaring tinny sound of an old radio.<br/><br/><div align="center">“Earth Angel...Will You Be Mine...My Darling Dear..Love You All The Time..I am Just A Fool..”</div><br/>The screech of brakes and sequel of tires broke the melody as the car swerved and spun out of control to avoid her,  blinded by the lights she only caught a glimpse of the driver and his strange fixed facade of terror.  Her mind swirled once more the car crashed to the side of the road careening  into a old telegraph pole the engine spluttering and radio crackling static voices deep within spoke to the girl.<br/><br/>She spun and shivered an intense feeling of dread and overwhelming chill spreading through her body stumbling towards the car her head filled with the strange alien voices once more. The door opened although she remembered not opening it, events seamed to progress as if watched through the blurred eyes of another as memory begun to fade once more. The man in the car shook and came to his senses turning to look around for the girl again the mans face was fixed with a look which scarred her mind. He struggled against the drivers side door before everything went black the last thing upon her mind the sound of a soul chilling scream, a deep guttural alien voice which spat forth unknown verse with spite, mingled in with it all was the blurred crackle of the radio as it sputtered back to life.<br/><div align="center"><br/>“Earth Angel..Earth Angel The One I Adore, Love You Forever And Ever More..I am Just A Fool A Fool In Love With You.”</div><br/>Light blinded her eyes once more as she awoke her form slumped in a ditch she sat up and found her feet glancing into the light.  The sound of another car drowning out the static from the crashed car's radio. She walked forward waving her hands running into the oncoming car the headlights highlighting her form, a feminine heavily pregnant figure draped in a sheet caked with dirt dried blood and all manner of other grime.  She cried out hysterically and continued on towards the car making out a siren now, help at last she stood in the centre of the road frantically waving her limbs light shedding across her skin revealing further dirt and grime marring her form.<br/><em><br/>“Wait..wait stop please stop, help !”   </em><br/><br/>