sensitIV

[idolpro]

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. ]

STARTING EVENT

[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 Lucifel 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: STARTING EVENT

[sancrimony]

—

[ immediately reaches up to his neck, pulling the blowdart out and rubbing the wound ]

Ah. . .

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[bondsofsuffering]

[Uhhhhhhhhhh. Looking around the room and then taking stock of their current members.]

Great.

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[sancrimony]

Are you injured?

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[outofoffice]

[ UUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHH ]

Right back into it with this kind of thing, huh . . .

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[outofoffice]

[ Heading north to check out the map!! ]

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[idolpro]

[ 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. ]

!!!

[idolpro]

Along with the water, some sort of white cloudy gas begins to seep into the room. It comes quickly enough that it's hard to avoid it, breathing it in once caught is almost unavoidable. The gas burns your lungs and clouds your vision, and surely it would kill anyone caught in the cloud for too long, but it quickly dissolves into the water pooling around you and no more is released:

Venti and anyone who does not get out of the way of the gas cloud suffers the following:

- Coughing fits
- Burning in lungs/chest
- Dizziness
- Exposed skin becomes irritated

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[bondsofsuffering]

[LET'S COMPARE NOTES. Izanagi will call everyone over to him, by the table.]

So. We have a book here that seems to be the writings of an obsessed fan who I'm guessing summoned us judging by the notes and the circle here. Also the human sacrifices???

We have an oil lamp, some rags, and a crowbar. Lucifel and Janus, you guys mind carrying the lamp? It could come in handy.

What else did people find? There's water noises over by the pool, so that might be worth checking out to figure out what the source is.

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[sancrimony]

Mm, I'll carry it.

[ taking the oil lamp ]

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[outofoffice]

I memorized the map, which is only marginally helpful, but does suggest doom in both directions if not prepared for properly!

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[jackrabbits]

I can do that.

[nods]

[jackrabbits]

[bondsofsuffering]

Looks like it's a bad game this time. I'm going to start looking around - try to be careful, though. It just seems like the kind of place with a bunch of traps all over.

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

[bondsofsuffering]

[Time to look at the paintings!]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[sancrimony]

[ examining the north without sticking his head through, is there anything he can see from here ]

3 - ELEVATOR ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the room at the end of the hallway, and you see in front of you a very long corridor.

There are four torches in this room, surrounding an ornate covered wooden platform on the ground that has pulleys attached to it which run all the way up to an open skylight far above you - it must be an elevator, and the way out of here! None of the torches are lit - the only light comes from above. As soon as you enter the room, you see four somethings scatter and disappear into various objects in the room, and you can hear mischievous giggling as you explore.

In the center of the room is the elevator, and the four torches that surround it in a diamond shape.
To the north is a large painting.
To the east is a set of cabinets and bookshelves.
To the west is the entrance you came from.
To the south is a bed. For sleeping on. ]

Re: 3 - ELEVATOR ROOM

[bondsofsuffering]

[Great, there's Creatures in here probably.

Going to check out the torches. Can they be lit with the oil lamp?]

Re: 3 - ELEVATOR ROOM

[sancrimony]

[ checking out the painting ]

THE END

[idolpro]

[ It's a long way, but you make it in the end. The moon is out, shining a gentle light on you as you stand on the rooftop of the mansion. You've escaped successfully—now it's time to go home and nurse your wounds.

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

Re: THE END

[bondsofsuffering]

[Laying on the roof and feeling like death,]

Re: THE END

[sancrimony]

[ also laying on the roof feeling like death

submitting: pendant ]

Re: THE END

[jackrabbits]

[He was here and partially crushed, that's probably also feeling like death.]