BAD END=DEAD END

[idolpro]

[ There is one sentence in the rules when you wake up. ]

Escape the mansion and bring evidence of the one responsible for this incident, or die trying.

[ For as long as the game is running, idols will only be able to access the rules on their phones. They may not text/call, nor may they take pictures.

Unit abilities are off. Items are off. Each idol can hold up to 3 items at a time maximum. ]

Comments

1 - BASEMENT

[idolpro]

[ The room's stench is the first thing you notice upon waking up: it's an unpleasant mix of incense, smoke, and metal. Although the room is poorly lit, the light from the standing torches show that the room is quite big…and quite crowded.

Not with living people, of course. You find yourselves surrounded by corpses, mutilated beyond recognition. Vaguely humanoid shapes and limbs indicate these used to be humans, probably…?

The metal smell is more easily identifiable as blood, now—though even if you could not make the connection, the floor is sticky with pools and rivers of red, so it's quite easy to tell that these—people?—met their end right here. In the dim light, it seems like the blood flows more easily than blood rightfully ought to.

Yet, you won't find even a drop of blood on yourself, or even near your body. In fact, the carnage is absent on both your clothes as well as the ground immediately surrounding you, which is just as well because the blood would have otherwise obfuscated the white-chalked summoning circle that surrounds the idols.

You're situated in the center of the room. You can hear running and dripping water in the distance. A button sits on a pedestal nearby - it reads “RESET”.
Against the north is what looks like a map - of what, you can’t tell from where you are.
To the east you can see…water? Blood? pooling at the base of the wall.
Against the south is a table, with an oil lantern and various other objects sitting on it.
Against the west wall is a closed wooden door. ]

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[idolpro]

It seems your arrival was not entirely without injury, however: the second they stand up, there's a sudden PFT noise from one of the walls and Valor finds themself struck in the neck by a blowdart.

The dart doesn't go deep enough to cause any real harm, but the wound does feel sort of numbing...for now.

As time progresses, the idol will begin to exhibit the following symptoms:
Weakness/numbing of limbs
Fever/chills
Dizziness/mind fog
Difficulty moving or staying awake, sluggishness

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Fuck--

[Valor jerks a little with the force of the dart, groping at where it hit his neck, and reflexively throwing it back at where he guesses it came from. it sticks to the wall, quivering.]

Shit. Fuck. I bet that sucker was poisoned. Because why the fuck wouldn't it be, in this shit hole?

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[modeswings]

[ wait.


give her a second. this is horrifying actually. ]

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[Valor seems completely untroubled by the piles of corpses and pools of blood and so forth, rubbing at the little numb spot where the dart hit him. He seems mostly interested in the summoning circle.]

The fuck is this for. Sorcery?

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[modeswings]

—wait.

Senior—what's wrong with your neck?

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[carrionmywaywardsun]

If I tell you, will you never fucking call me senior ever again?

2 - HALLWAY

[idolpro]

[ Having escaped the basement, you move into the hallway.

It’s lined with torches and portraits, the eyes of which all seem to follow you as you walk through the hall. The torches tint the room with a sickly green light, punctuating the mossy brickwork and protruding roots. It seems you must still be underground…?

Oddly, the hall seems to creak and waver slightly as you walk through it, as if it is somehow unsteady.

Against the east wall are five paintings, hung strangely low to the ground.

Against the west wall is a plaque which reads "ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY".

To the north is an open doorway.

To the south is the door you came from, now locked, and a statuette sitting on a small stand. ]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[modeswings]

[ . . . inspecting the west hall's plaque, trying to pick it up ]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[idolpro]

[ The plaque is bolted to the wall. There does not seem to be anything to it other than what it says. ]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[modeswings]

[ hm. going north to examine the doorway and see if she can see through it without going through it ]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[collapsing down to sit and catch his breath. in the sickly green light he looks pretty ill, between the lighting and fever and his regular sickly complexion.]

Gods, more of this puzzle shit.

[conveniently he is by the east wall, so let's check out those paintings.

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[idolpro]

[ There are five paintings. Between each of them is a torch, illuminating the room.

A label above each one orders them from one to five.

The first painting features two figures, one sitting at a desk and pointing down a hallway to direct the other, who is staring forlornly.

The second painting features one figure standing above another who lies on a bed, body balled up and cringing in pain. They are both crying, and the standing figure dreams of two others that have been lost.

The third painting features a person standing in the middle of a doorway, an arm outstretched and face contorted in fear and panic as they rush into a room.

The fourth painting features an image made up of five glyphs which you cannot comprehend or even clearly see - but you know in your heart what they mean. When you stare for too long, you begin to feel a great sense of loss.

The fifth painting features two people, one slightly smaller than the other, conversing. They're discussing someone else, who is not depicted in the scene but is implied to be just offscreen. ]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[pulling out the book from where he'd tucked it away, comparing the glyphs in the fourth painting to the various diagrams]

GAME OVER

[idolpro]

The room begins to rapidly fill with water - it pours out of the east wall so quickly that the false part of the wall slides out and smashes against the opposite wall. At the same time, a hatch in the ceiling opens and more water pours out of that, as well as the suffocating, burning gas. The whole room shakes - it...seems that the building is collapsing inward?

A message flashes on your phones.

One one of you may live. Make your choice.

CHOICE

[idolpro]

Re: CHOICE

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[Valor. I GUESS.]

Re: CHOICE

[idolpro]

[ Valor disappears.

Mercy will die, buried alive in a watery (but disinfected!) tomb. ]

Re: CHOICE

[modeswings]

[ VALOR WILL BE THE ONE WHO IS SAVED SPECIFICALLY!!! ]

Re: CHOICE

[idolpro]

[ Valor disappears.

Mercy will die, buried alive in a watery (but disinfected!) tomb. ]

Re: GAME OVER

[modeswings]

. . . . Valor.

[ through her gritted teeth ]

Will you choose me?

Re: GAME OVER

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[he should...probably object, or offer an alternative to ridiculous self-sacrifice bullshit, but it's hard to think straight between the stacking dizziness and the brain fog and fever and chills.]

Would you accept flipping a coin? Wait, shit, you need two hands for that. Uh. Scissors paper stone.

Re: GAME OVER

[modeswings]

[ looking relieved ]

No—that isn't necessary.

I want you to be the one to survive this, Valor.

END

[idolpro]

[ Valor finds himself teleported out of the mansion. He's been saved...!

The moon is out, shining a gentle light on you as you stand on a wooden platform just outside of the now collapsed manor.

Your escape wasn't successful, but at great cost you're still alive. Time to go home and mourn.

But first, please submit the evidence that reveals the one responsible for this event. One item turn-in only. ]

Re: END

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[all he's got on him is the book, so. that's what he'll submit.

and then he's going to lie down on the wooden platform and wait for the game to end.]