idolpro | Betrayal - future is now

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

You enter the Kitchen. It gleams, modern, chrome, and threatening. A kitchen needs no haunted house to twist to be threatening— a rack of knives tall as a child is set into a long countertop, pots and pans hang from above. There's stoves with gas and flame, a wood-fired oven and a modern one, a walk in freezer with a very prominent pad-locked— currently left open, but that could change. Inside the freezer, there is nothing but meat. Inside the refrigerator, cake. On the counter, a meat slicer guillotine and jars and jars of pickled ingredients-- hopefully ingredients.

Looking long enough at the fridge or the cupboards gives the shadow impression of a memory of someone rooting through them, looking for a few specific things. A person who hit the point of desperation right at the finish line, just a few details away, who couldn't let go just because they didn't have one or two materials and tore through hunting for makeshift replacements - things to use in place of eyes, fingers, and a heart - until they found the resolution to even use their own, all to no avail. You know this only vaguely, in some distant and uncertain corner of your mind - but you probably don't want to linger too long on the thought that you have more materials around than they did. If you lose your sanity, or are damaged too far, though, it will overwhelm you.

A book sits open on the counter, and Exael's hologram is sprawled on the edge nearby, one arm dangling off the edge of the counter and her head pillowed on her other as she looks over in your direction. 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 (complete a partially assembled human body) as well as the item that you've been given (book). 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: West. ]

Threaded | Flat

[ A book sits open on the counter-- the writing a mad mishmash of diary and labnotes, ancient script and modern ravings on different pages.

Your cellphone tells you that carrying it will increase your knowledge. Gain 2 knowledge now, and lose 2 knowledge if you lose the book. ]

[ 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. ]

[ 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. ]

[ You need to gather the materials to complete a mostly assembled patchwork human body. The materials you are missing are: two eyes, five fingers, and a human heart. They may be gathered from the same or separate sources (people). There is a body somewhere in the house, but getting the body parts is enough to complete the goal, points-wise; you do not have to put them on the body. ]

Edited 2018-08-03 00:48 (UTC)

[ 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've (They've) been searching for years for this person - this wretch who took everything from you (them), your (their) purpose, your (their) loved one, your life's work, and left you there, a shell of your former self - only to find them dead, dead of natural causes, the end of their normal lifespan they had glorified so much while looking down on you. They've left your reach with everything they've ever wanted - celebrated and at peace, propped up on a pedestal and praised to high heavens while you're still drowning in the muck they threw you down in. You can't stand it. All you had left in life was to find them and make them pay. All you had was them, and they even took that from you. You can't stand it. You absolutely can't stand it.

But you don't have to let it end this way. You can bring them back.

Compared to your real talents, graverobbing was arduous but simple. Their death was recent enough to leave their body still mostly intact, so there's only a few things you'll have to replace to revive them. It's perfect: you'll make them into one of your own creations, the things they scorned so much, and you'll force them to know the real value of your work firsthand. Fingers, eyes so they'll finally have to look at you, and then when you place a heart in their chest and start their life again, they'll become a mockery of their own legacy. And then finally, after so long, so long dreaming about it, finally, finally, with you're own hands, you'll kill them. Over, and over, and over.

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 wish to play a possessed version of your character, you may play their sanity break as if they are obsessed with the object of their hatred (the frankenstein). The traitor may genuinely realize the frankenstein is a stranger to them, or they may be convinced they know them and become fixated on an idea of them they make up in their head, or they may even delusionally project the identity of another character onto it. They may also be afflicted with a heightened inferiority/superiority complex and/or a bad case of tunnel vision. Traitors with this sanity break may also be generally disinterested by and unsympathetic towards the other player characters, except as sources for body parts with which to complete the project. 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. ]

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