COPPER ROSE

[teamposts]

[When the shadows clear, your team stands unharmed in a fancy bedroom. There are sharp knives, similar to the ones in the ghost you just saw, scattered throughout the room. They are stuck fast in the walls, the ground, the bedposts, no amount of force can pull them free. The sheets of the bed are soaked in blood.

Over on the dressing table sits a jack-o-lantern that lights itself once you look at it, smoke rising from the flame into the shapes of people, acting out the scene of a memory in the room.

A young woman is getting ready for the ball, dressed in her very finest silks with her hair being styled neatly in place. The little girl doing her hair, perhaps ten years old, fumbles her fingers. She tugs on the hair slightly, dislodging some clips, and the woman starts screaming at her. ‘Clumsy little oaf!’. The girl is kicked out of the room, the young woman insisting on doing it herself and muttering about useless staff. After a moment of this there’s a flash of light that streaks toward the bed. The woman jumps up, startled, and investigates what happened. There is a knife stuck in the bedpost. Several more flashes of light appear behind her and she turns, horrified, to see them all aimed at her. She tries to scream, and the smoke disappears abruptly as all the knives come hurtling towards her.]

Light the lanterns.

Comments

RULES

[teamposts]

[A murder has occurred, and it’s up to you to solve the mystery of who the murderer is. The victim has sent you to recover her lost memories so that she may exact revenge upon her killer. However, the killer is not going to make it that easy. The rules are simple! Travel through the castle, get past the killer’s obstacles, and discover the memory to unravel whodunit. There will be roughly 3-4 rooms depending on timing.

It’s possible for your character to skip a room without facing the monster out the door they came, but that means you won’t get the memory and the victim will be mad at you. You only get ONE SKIP, if you try a second time she will attack.]

START

[teamposts]

[Opening the door does not take you to a hallway, as you would expect upon leaving a bedroom. Everything is pitch black beyond the bedroom, dozens of voices speaking in inaudibly hushed whispers fall silent. Four doors appear floating in the shadows to choose from, with insignia’s upon them. From left to right is a door with a rusted crown, a battered door with a torn book, a glass door with several flowers behind it, and the final door is a large metal structure with nothing painted on it, instead it’s covered with chains and shut tight. It does not seem you can go through the fourth door yet.]

Re: START

[growsintheshade]

[Feeling way more dizzy than a scene change really ought to warrant. Hesitating in the doorway of the bedroom I'M NOT SURE I WANT TO STEP INTO THE DARK]

Re: START

[clocked_out]

Come on.

Re: START

[growsintheshade]

--uh, right.. I guess it's easiest just to go left to right? [wobbles into the dark space but trying to straighten up, trying the doorknob of the rusted crown door]

ROOM ONE

[teamposts]

[You have chosen the throne room. The pumpkin you’re searching for lies up ahead, perched on the middle of one of three thrones. The throne to the right is much smaller, but shines brighter. The throne to the left is covered with a black veil. It’s still dark in here, the curtains are drawn closed leaving little visibility to the room around you, it’s a long walk towards the thrones.]

Re: ROOM ONE

[clocked_out]

[tersely going for the veiled throne, to tug the veil off]

Re: ROOM ONE

[teamposts]

[The veil resists, and if you pull hard enough it's going to rip. If you do tear off the veil, well, one you gain a snazzy shadow veil that turns your hands black, and two you'll reveal a throne that is just as ornate and shiny as the one it's next to. Patches of darkness linger on it still.]

Re: ROOM ONE

[growsintheshade]

[Ugh that.. that gives me a bad feeling too. Taking the pumpkin and retreating to the shiniest throne because SHINY IS GOOD....]

How do we turn this thing on?

Re: ROOM ONE

[clocked_out]

I dunno. Shake it?

ROOM TWO

[teamposts]

[For a change, everything is very well lit in the library. Books lay scattered throughout the room, torn and ruined, wind and rain beating down on them through smashed windows. The pumpkin is not in sight, you’ll have to search for it.]

Re: ROOM TWO

[growsintheshade]

[Shaking out his hands when it seems like noting is gonna immediately jump out at them--the numbness must be from adrenaline]

Maybe it's hidden behind books on the shelves?

Re: ROOM TWO

[clocked_out]

Sure.

[shrugs and starts pulling some down, anxious to just keep moving]

Re: ROOM TWO

[growsintheshade]

[wandering from shelf to shelf looking for a likely place to start]

Re: ROOM TWO

[oshioki_yo]

[ hmmm, yeah poking through piles ]


Uhm. Is your leg bleeding or . . . ?

Re: ROOM TWO

[teamposts]

[The books are mostly wrecked by the rain and wind, but there are some over by the wall that are mostly legible.]

Re: ROOM TWO

[clocked_out]

Yes, it's fucking bleeding.

[flings one of the books with a lot more force than necessary]

That's what happens when glass snakes try to burrow into your skin; something about trying to drill through your flesh just makes blood start coming up, don't ask me I never did that AP Anatomy shit.

Re: ROOM TWO

[oshioki_yo]

[ hum going to check out the legible ones then ]

TURN-IN

[teamposts]

[Wherever you are, and whatever you're in the middle of, shadows wind around you and drag you back to the bedroom you started in. The Queen's ghost is waiting, staring hard]

Who killed me?

Re: TURN-IN

[clocked_out]

It'd probably be a shorter list of what couldn't have killed you. Your spontaneously flooding library? YOUR WORMS MADE OF GLASS? Fuck you, fuck everyone in this house, good fucking riddance.

Re: TURN-IN

[2_spooky]

[Proceed to endgame]

Re: TURN-IN

[growsintheshade]

--ugh

[SORRY, DISTRACTED FROM ANSWERING--seems to be reacting badly to all this shadow touching and shadow portaling]

Re: TURN-IN

[2_spooky]

[...Something bonks Kengo on the back of the head before he gets poofed to endgame]

Re: TURN-IN

[growsintheshade]

[idk if he felt that, but he did flop over]

Re: TURN-IN

[2_spooky]

[You're going to wake up in the dungeon with so many flashlights in your face]