teamposts | COPPER ROSE

[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.

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Suddenly in practice this becomes significantly less interesting.

[practically throwing himself over to where she is, checking the chains to see where they're coming from, looking for keyholes]

Why the FUCK were you reading anyway? Did that book look like a bright ass orange ROUND pumpkin??

[They do indeed have keyholes, and they are coming from straight out the ground.

Dave also gets chained here. CHAINS FOR EVERYONE.]

Books are meant to be read! We're in a. . . b-book room! Or whatever! Maybe it was gonna have clues.

[ WAIT NO YANKING ON DAVE'S NOW. ]

Edited 2013-10-20 02:22 (UTC)

Stop--fucking---doing that it's not doing anything! Keys! We need some fucking keys!

Keys!

[ LOOKS. BACK AT HER BOOK???? BOOK ARE YOU FULL OF KEYS? ]

Aah, we haven't even found the pumpkin yet--!

[IDK MAN STARTS SHAKING OUT THE BOOKS HE CAN REACH, MAYBE A KEY IS HIDDEN IN ONE??]

[The books are not full of keys. But they're surely somewhere around here!

That water level keeps on rising.]

we're gonna drownnn

[IS THERE A DESK IN HERE LIBRARIES HAVE DESKS RIGHT??]

The books are what fucking did this!!! Put them down and look somewhere else!!

[ LOOKS.

UNDER THE BOOKS??? ]

[There is nothing under these books. Or those. There's something shiny under that one! But it's far away.

And yes, there are indeed desks.]

[OK IDK ABOUT THE SHINY so if is enough give on these chains he's gonna try to get at a desk and start pulling out drawers and stuff.]

[The drawers are full of ashes. You pull them out easily.]

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS!!!

--Kengo, over there--

[pointing with his foot towards the shiny thing. at least being on the floor gives him a good vantage point]

Oh-- [OK dropping into the water to reach under the books Roz moved and try to grab whatever that is]

[It's just out of your reach.]

[reach reach makes a frustrated burble in the water and grabs the nearest book to use it to scrape it over with the edge]

REACH MORE!!

[With the book, you can scrape it closer]

[OK GRABBING IT AND COMING UP FOR AIR wiping water out of his eyes]

Is it a key??

[It's a key! And just in time, that water is up to your neck]

[OH GOOD I GUESS DAVE IS PROBABLY DROWNING, PASSING KEY TO HIM FIRST]

[well let's just say the chains have enough slack to let him do it; he immediately starts in on Roz's as soon as his own are undone]

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