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WILD CITY

[ 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. ]

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[ 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. ]

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 Hardtack 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

[pulling the dart from his neck, still trying to figure out what just happened]

What the fuck!?

E-Eh? Wh … [ she laughs nervously, her wings pulling in close around her ]

What's that smell?

[ Because it can't be the — those aren't actually bodies, right, haha, this obviously can't be real ]

It's blood. Sorry Korone it looks like we've got a bad one on our hands.

[still rubbing his neck from the surprise dart]

Blood?! What do you mean, blood, it can't be —

[ she finally notices him touching his neck, oh no oh no oh but okay maybe if she just focuses on that instead of letting it's blood sink in, ]

Are, are you okay?

It's blood, they're bodies, I'm sorry there's no getting around it.

Yeah, something stuck me when we got here, must've been a trap...

[he shakes his head to clear out the cobwebs already setting in]

I'm fine. We've gotta focus, get this over with.

[trying to give a small smile of reassurance]

[ it's blood, they're bodies ]

[ it's blood, they're bodies ]

[ nope. nope n-nope no. she takes a deep breath — which, oops, that's a mistake, she promptly almost gags from the cloying scent ]

I, h-haha, okay … [ nothing about this is okay, she's white as a sheet and looks like she's about to faint ]

[putting an arm around her shoulders in case she passes out]

I got you. It's fine if this bothers you, it's messed up. But listen: we're gonna try to solve what happened here, then we're gonna go home and do something nice to help put this behind us. This isn't gonna last.

[ aaaaaaaaaaa ]

[ d. deep breath! … no, shallow breaths, shallow breaths ]

R, Right … right, let's … let's do this so we can go home.

We can move as a group, rather than split up. Let's... check out that wall. There's some kind of signage on it.

[steering them North]

[ The map seems to be a map of...not the entire building, but at least this room, the hallway past the wooden door, and the room the hallway connects to? It shows the rooms in profile, from the side, so it's not actually particularly helpful.

Notably, though, the hallway seems to connect to the next room in such a way that there's a very significant drop - in other words, the room after the hallway seems inaccessible without falling to one's death.

Also, this room seems a lot bigger on the map than it actually looks. To the east is a ledge that you don't actually see when looking in that direction. Above the ledge is what seems to be some kind of cistern. ]

[scrutinizes the map intensely which is already getting harder to do (thanks tranquilizer dart!)]

Right, so... I know we want to get out of here, but there's too much information to turn away from. We have to investigate.

[looking around]

Maybe we go to the other end of the room, it's hard to see but it looks like equipment of some kind, maybe some of it's helpful.

[ what the fuck kind of map is this!! ]

... Okay.

[ she wants to get out of this room as quickly as possible, just flee like the wind, but she's still not great with these wings and even if she was, there's no way she'd be able to lift Hardy ]

I'll follow your lead.

Thanks, I appreciate the trust. I'll try not to let you down. Then... this way.

[and they're going to go to the South]

[ On the table is an oil lamp. There is also a book, some rags, and a crowbar. ]

[he's going to pick up the book and start looking through it

over his shoulder to Korone:]

I'll see what this has to tell us. Think any of this other stuff could come in handy?

[ hesitantly picks up the crowbar ]

Maybe this? Ah, the oil lamp, maybe, if we can get it to work ... just in case it's dark somewhere.

OK, that all makes sense to me. The crowbar has multiple uses and the lamp could be helpful for exploring. Now let's see...

[trying to focus on the book again, brain so full of fog]

[ It seems to be some kind of dairy? The handwriting is...frantic. It's mostly a bunch of character essays about people you've never heard of, but some of whom seem to be described as if they were on WILD CITY? Later pages include various occult diagrams, apparently sourced from the internet, including a summoning ritual for precious things. The last few pages just repeat the words "I LOVE THEM" over and over again until the writer runs out of room. ]

[ peers around Hardy at the book ]

Is there anything useful in there?

[taking a shaky breath in and out as he reads]

They're trying to freak us out... This thing is straight out of a horror movie. I think the implication is the bodies are... people we've known. And if I'm reading these weird diagrams right, we might have been "summoned" by whatever happened in here. I think one of the circles in the book matches what's on the floor.

[ clutches!! the crowbar!! ]

... O-Oh.

[ Okay. Cool. Cool. ]

But, it's — aren't these all just … [ Stops herself. Shakes her head. ] … I don't really understand, but … there'll be time for that later. We need to focus. So ...

Maybe we should check out that way? [ Points East. ]

I think they're trying to confuse us, mess with our heads. Focus is the right move.

[he shakes his head and winces again, feeling less great every minute]

Agreed. It looked like there was space on the map that way that wasn't obvious.

[to the East]

[ You are staring at a wall. Water and blood seems to be pooling here, flowing from...somewhere? The sound of rushing water is even louder in this part of the room than anywhere else. ]

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