Taisho Roman Revolution

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[ You spill out of the elevator into a Pentagram Chamber— the elevator is gone when you look back.

It's a Pentagram Chamber. As in, it is a chamber with the markings of a pentagram - or several pentagrams, rather. One takes up the whole wall, unrecognizable runes drawn upon it in what looks like blood, with an accompanying circle. The second, matching circle sits on the ground, where a rock slab sits in the middle. Put two and two together: clearly, the ground's circle is where you put the sacrifice in, and the wall circle's where whatever you summoned comes. . . out. Probably.

There's a shovel in this room, sitting in the corner; dirt tracks from the chamber to the singular entrance and exit.

This room is hot. It’s disgustingly hot. The taste of iron lingers in your mouth even though it has become completely dry. You try to catch your breath in that thick, sticky air that permeates the room, but every gasp only brings a gurgling sensation in your throat. You desire to reach out, but you feel as if you cannot move. .

You feel lonely. As you look around, you swear you catch glimpses of others around you. If you lose your sanity, or are damaged too far, the sensation will overwhelm you.

A crystal ball sits on the rock slab.

A readout on your phone tells you the rules and displays the sanity goal (explore rooms) and your traitor goal (drink the blood of your victim, before or after killing them) as well as the item that you've been given (crystal ball). It looks like nothing is stopping you from committing the traitor goal even while you're sane, if you wish to.

There is one exit: East. ]

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Fox's Sanity Break

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[ With that last blow of damage, everything snaps sharply into focus.

That corner of your mind that you weren't touching before, because it wasn't yours, not something of you is no longer held back. You can't be you right now-- you're in too much pain, too much agony. And this thing is clear. Vengeance is sharp and sure, and it tells you the story and what you need to do next:

[ Iron overwhelms you. It dyes all your senses: filling your nostrils, the taste thick and tacky on your tongue. Iron bleeds from your veins, down your throat, drying and scabbed on your clothes. Iron sticks your hair together in stiff clumps. Iron dyes the room red, blood viscous across the floor, across the walls. This is so much more blood than you have, and that's the only sign you have that you are not alone in this fate as you hang by your wrists, dripping like meat on a hook.

This thought is not a comfort. If there were others before you, and no one stopped this before now, what chances do you have.

There's no question to it. You know what the result will be the moment the thought enters your head, and there's not even despair, just steel: life is beyond you now. But the things that are doing this to you, the things that are draining you aren't alive either. Your body grows colder, and so does your resolve. You'll take back the blood you lost from them, if only a swallow, only a mouthful of their dead iron blood. Your throat works weakly, mouth slick with saliva, as if already prepared for their return.

If they were so eager to take, and take, and take, then you'll show them you learned your lesson well. You, too, will take your fill, and be granted a life in return for the one they've ended. ]

Sanity break effects: you may continue to play your character as mostly their normal self, but in pursuit of this goal, through whatever justification you prefer.

You may also play it with the vengeful spirit's personality overlaid on your character to some degree: if you choose to play with this, your character may become dispassionate on the topic of death-- be it other's pleas for lives, the prospect of their own death when faced with threats, all of that will fail to move them. They have faced certain death before, afterall, it just so happens that they'll come back. They know what they need to do to ensure their survival, and if they fail, well, it's no surprise either. Characters may also become very self-reliant: doing whatever they feel needs to be done themselves, that anything worth doing right they need to make sure they do themselves. After all, no one else helped them, and they can't count on anyone. Aggressively independent, they'll do what they want or feel they must do regardless of what other people tell them or try to convince them of. They may also confuse want for need: whatever they want, they need to get. In the absence of fear of death, the most important thing is their selves, along with their vengeance. All of these aspects are optional, and may be individually played up or toned down to whatever degree would be fun for you, so long as they ultimately motivate your character to pursue the traitor goal.

Traitors are aware of the full layout of the house, which can be found here. ]