AlcheME!

[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 R‽ 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

[labyrinthical]

[




At no point did any person ever tell this baby about trauma games, how death works in Hell, or other information that would be useful in this moment. Please hold while she processes everything.]

[featherbeaned]

[ SUDDENLY: TEA ]

Oh, well, this is cozy.

[doublefried]

-- Oh, you're back!

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

They really did go all out!

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[threatmewted]

Don't tell me. One of those games?

[Because this is all a pretty big yikes!!]

[featherbeaned]

[ does a DOUBLE-TAKE ]

Yeah, it's looking like one of those. Hi!

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[labyrinthical]

[Examining the OIL LANTERN and other objects. Is it lit?]

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

[doublefried]

[ welp immediately checking the paintings to the EAST let's go investigation mode ]

[featherbeaned]

[ Tea moves to examine the five paintings ]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[threatmewted]

[Let's check out that plaque!]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[labyrinthical]

[Goes to APPLY LIGHT from the entrance to the North and try and see what's in there.]

Re: 2 - HALLWAY

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

[Lifting up the statuette to see if it can be separated from the stand]

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. ]

[featherbeaned]

[ pauses to stare at the bed ]

I resent you so much right now.

Re: 3 - ELEVATOR ROOM

[doublefried]

Here we go again.

[ CHECKS THE PAINTING ]

Re: 3 - ELEVATOR ROOM

[labyrinthical]

[........picks up the torches they made a mess with to set them up properly. There, nobody will trip while dizzy.]

Re: 3 - ELEVATOR ROOM

[threatmewted]

[She just sits on the elevator because she's tired and everyone else is already looking at stuff.]

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

[threatmewted]

[FINALLY. She's just going to sit herself down on the rooftop.]

Did we find evidence somewhere?

[Cough cough.]

Re: THE END

[featherbeaned]

[ wheeze ]

[ holds up the book she brought all the way from the beginning, and the pendant she grabbed in the last room ]

Uhhhh. One of these? Maybe?

Re: THE END

[labyrinthical]

[Sizzles uselessly.]

TURN-IN

[featherbeaned]

[ Tea submits the pendant locket, which contains a picture of two girls taking a selfie ]