Betrayal - BAD END=DEAD END

[idolpro]

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

It is, predictably, spooky as fuck: cobwebs culminate to huge masses of spindly white on the iron bars that line the plot of land, as well as on the various headstones. They're unreadable by this point, text worn away by time and wind, but while many of these graves have only been exposed to forces of nature, some of them have been tampered by what could only be human hands. Several grave plots have been completely upturned, caskets open and skeletons exposed, bodies completely broken and arranged messily as if someone had manhandled them in order to look for something. The caskets give a clear idea of what that might be: there are parts missing to them, the lining and the decorative emblems and even the hinges, on some caskets. Grave robbing seems to be popular, here.

There are also just a few graves with an open coffin and no body. How . . . mysterious. . .

Not everyone who died here was given a coffin, or a grave. The sight of an empty coffin's decadent lining fills you with a sense of revulsion; you get the feeling that some people's finery came at other people's expense. Someone amidst the less fortunate once tried to bring justice - only to fail, and die a nameless, unknown death, while these people went on to one day even rot in more silk and gold. But it's just a hunch - the knowledge sits uncertainly in your head, faint and far-off. You could bring it into focus, maybe, but the vague impression of loathing and despair - well, it's probably better off left a vague impression. If you lose your sanity, or are damaged too far, though, it will overwhelm you.

A medallion sits on an intact monument and Exael's hologram balances on the edge of it, rocking back and forth and watching you. If you have questions and she's not busy with hosting or another unit, she'll appear here to answer them.

A readout on your phone tells you the rules and displays the sanity goal (explore rooms) and your traitor goal (kill someone and steal an item from them) as well as the item that you've been given (medallion). 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. ]

Comments

Item

[idolpro]

[ A medallion inscribed with a pentagram sits on an intact monument.

Your cellphone tells you its effect: it will render you immune to negative effects of the Pentagram Chamber, Crypt, and Graveyard and you may take these negative effects as positive ones if you wish to. ]

[ Use the discussion headers to speak to unitmates in the same session as you. Otherwise, note that you are ready to start exploring the mansion under the header and the next room will be made available to you. ]

Session 1 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 1 Discussion

[awakenerd]

Uh.... This isn't... Good, right?

[Reading both goals like what the actual fuck.]

Session 2 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 2 Discussion

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Does a Hamlet impression with the skills before exiting stage .... something.]

Re: Session 2 Discussion

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[NOTES: Inventory includes raw meat, tin can of food, an apple, and a steak knife.
--- No actual Betrayal items just looting.]

Session 3 Discussion

[idolpro]

Session 4 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 4 Discussion

[grandschemed]

-- Wait, now we're all the way back here?

Re: Session 4 Discussion

[motorcycle_noises]

—This.... Isn't good....

Session 5 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 5 Discussion

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Alright. Here we go again.

Session 6 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 6 Discussion

[awakenerd]

Back here again?

Session 7 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 7 Discussion

[awakenerd]

[Someone is... Sitting up from respawn. He's got tear-tracks through the soot and flour on his face but they seem old. As does the blood from his torn nails.

He has... A really blank expression.]

Session 8 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 8 Discussion

[motorcycle_noises]

[ Sanguine sits up, his eyes wide and dull. Blank. His face completely expressionless. He's just... sitting there. ]

Session 9 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 9 Discussion

[criminaljustice]

[... um.

sup, fam?

someone's late to the party.]

Session 10 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 10 Discussion

[motorcycle_noises]

[ Sanguine's eyes start darting around immediately upon waking up again. WHERE'S PHOENIX?! WHERE'S— ]

Session 11 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 11 Discussion

[awakenerd]

[It's hard to be more bloody than "just covered all over in fucking blood" so Phoenix isn't, really, more bloody. But he does have a lot of bruises and cuts he didn't used to(on his arms and torso and face a little that are visible, but really, everywhere), the remnants of being beaten aggressively with a shovel where all the major breakage is healed.

Anyway where my people at.]

Session 12 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Session 12 Discussion

[grandschemed]

-- back here again?

[ hello guess who is a traitor and does look like he got stabbed in terms of ripped clothing but still way more okay than most of you. ]

EXAEL

[opening_act]

[ If Tristan is running the session, she's available. If not, you might need to wait for a backthread. So you don't have to pause threads and wait for her, assume she's only visible sometimes, so no timelocking happens-- if he's not available to respond, neither is she. ]

TRAITOR GOAL

[idolpro]

[ You need to find someone from another unit who is carrying their unit's starter item (omen) and murder them for the sake of stealing it. How you do this is up to you. If you do not successfully steal the starter item, it does not count. If you steal the item and do not kill them, it also does not count. ]

Oni's Sanity Break

[idolpro]

[ 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:

You (they) - and everyone around you (them) - grew up in a place mired with debt and fear. Not two neighborhoods away, they sat in the lap of luxury, counting other people's money like it belonged to them all along. As long as they kept greasing the palms of the police and the government, no one with any real power cared to stop them while they robbed and exploited the already-downtrodden with "loans" and "deals" and false chances. Every time they came around to do business the sight of them alone could make you nauseous.

Someone had to do something about it. It wasn't just you who thought so.

All of you worked together - you took back from the people who stole from you. Everyone should have believed that what they were doing was right, that it was fair. You thought all of you understood one another. It's not like any of you were in it for the riches yourselves - you just wanted to be able to eat. To take care of your families. To have enough money to patch the roof when it rained.

The lot of you carried out organized raids on their manors. Sometimes some of you were caught and executed, and you all grieved those times. It brought you all even closer together. They died for your sakes, for their families' sakes, for a just future.

Until one day that person brought information that led you all to conduct a raid at a specific place, a specific time - a person who was like family to you, who had been through thick and thin with you. When the police came and chained you all up to be executed, you watched with a sense of sick betrayal as he took coin for it and walked away free with his back to you all.

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 effect, your character may adopt an extreme sense of self-righteousness, or a stark black-and-white mode of thinking. They will come to think that everyone, rich, poor, young, old, is equally untrustworthy with material possessions: all of them would do horrible things just for selfish gain. They could very well believe that the only person who can be trusted with the items in this house is themself - which is why they should relieve everyone else of theirs. They may also delusionally believe that any items someone else is in possession of were stolen by that person and should be taken from them to even the scales, and/or that they don't deserve to have them in the first place. 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. ]

Ogre's Sanity Break

[idolpro]

[ 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:

You (they) - and everyone around you (them) - grew up in a place mired with debt and fear. Not two neighborhoods away, they sat in the lap of luxury, counting other people's money like it belonged to them all along. As long as they kept greasing the palms of the police and the government, no one with any real power cared to stop them while they robbed and exploited the already-downtrodden with "loans" and "deals" and false chances. Every time they came around to do business the sight of them alone could make you nauseous.

Someone had to do something about it. It wasn't just you who thought so.

All of you worked together - you took back from the people who stole from you. Everyone should have believed that what they were doing was right, that it was fair. You thought all of you understood one another. It's not like any of you were in it for the riches yourselves - you just wanted to be able to eat. To take care of your families. To have enough money to patch the roof when it rained.

The lot of you carried out organized raids on their manors. Sometimes some of you were caught and executed, and you all grieved those times. It brought you all even closer together. They died for your sakes, for their families' sakes, for a just future.

Until one day that person brought information that led you all to conduct a raid at a specific place, a specific time - a person who was like family to you, who had been through thick and thin with you. When the police came and chained you all up to be executed, you watched with a sense of sick betrayal as he took coin for it and walked away free with his back to you all.

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 effect, your character may adopt an extreme sense of self-righteousness, or a stark black-and-white mode of thinking. They will come to think that everyone, rich, poor, young, old, is equally untrustworthy with material possessions: all of them would do horrible things just for selfish gain. They could very well believe that the only person who can be trusted with the items in this house is themself - which is why they should relieve everyone else of theirs. They may also delusionally believe that any items someone else is in possession of were stolen by that person and should be taken from them to even the scales, and/or that they don't deserve to have them in the first place. 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. ]

The Thief's Sanity Break

[idolpro]

[ 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:

You (they) - and everyone around you (them) - grew up in a place mired with debt and fear. Not two neighborhoods away, they sat in the lap of luxury, counting other people's money like it belonged to them all along. As long as they kept greasing the palms of the police and the government, no one with any real power cared to stop them while they robbed and exploited the already-downtrodden with "loans" and "deals" and false chances. Every time they came around to do business the sight of them alone could make you nauseous.

Someone had to do something about it. It wasn't just you who thought so.

All of you worked together - you took back from the people who stole from you. Everyone should have believed that what they were doing was right, that it was fair. You thought all of you understood one another. It's not like any of you were in it for the riches yourselves - you just wanted to be able to eat. To take care of your families. To have enough money to patch the roof when it rained.

The lot of you carried out organized raids on their manors. Sometimes some of you were caught and executed, and you all grieved those times. It brought you all even closer together. They died for your sakes, for their families' sakes, for a just future.

Until one day that person brought information that led you all to conduct a raid at a specific place, a specific time - a person who was like family to you, who had been through thick and thin with you. When the police came and chained you all up to be executed, you watched with a sense of sick betrayal as he took coin for it and walked away free with his back to you all.

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 effect, your character may adopt an extreme sense of self-righteousness, or a stark black-and-white mode of thinking. They will come to think that everyone, rich, poor, young, old, is equally untrustworthy with material possessions: all of them would do horrible things just for selfish gain. They could very well believe that the only person who can be trusted with the items in this house is themself - which is why they should relieve everyone else of theirs. They may also delusionally believe that any items someone else is in possession of were stolen by that person and should be taken from them to even the scales, and/or that they don't deserve to have them in the first place. 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. ]

Boss's Sanity Break

[idolpro]

[ 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:

You (they) - and everyone around you (them) - grew up in a place mired with debt and fear. Not two neighborhoods away, they sat in the lap of luxury, counting other people's money like it belonged to them all along. As long as they kept greasing the palms of the police and the government, no one with any real power cared to stop them while they robbed and exploited the already-downtrodden with "loans" and "deals" and false chances. Every time they came around to do business the sight of them alone could make you nauseous.

Someone had to do something about it. It wasn't just you who thought so.

All of you worked together - you took back from the people who stole from you. Everyone should have believed that what they were doing was right, that it was fair. You thought all of you understood one another. It's not like any of you were in it for the riches yourselves - you just wanted to be able to eat. To take care of your families. To have enough money to patch the roof when it rained.

The lot of you carried out organized raids on their manors. Sometimes some of you were caught and executed, and you all grieved those times. It brought you all even closer together. They died for your sakes, for their families' sakes, for a just future.

Until one day that person brought information that led you all to conduct a raid at a specific place, a specific time - a person who was like family to you, who had been through thick and thin with you. When the police came and chained you all up to be executed, you watched with a sense of sick betrayal as he took coin for it and walked away free with his back to you all.

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 effect, your character may adopt an extreme sense of self-righteousness, or a stark black-and-white mode of thinking. They will come to think that everyone, rich, poor, young, old, is equally untrustworthy with material possessions: all of them would do horrible things just for selfish gain. They could very well believe that the only person who can be trusted with the items in this house is themself - which is why they should relieve everyone else of theirs. They may also delusionally believe that any items someone else is in possession of were stolen by that person and should be taken from them to even the scales, and/or that they don't deserve to have them in the first place. 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. ]