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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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]

[ GLUB GLUB UNLOCKING. ]

[You are all free! The water level evens out as well, you're no longer in danger of drowning.]

Oh fuck you!!

[to the water, after he's done hacking up what got into his lungs]]

[floating on his back]

I still don't understand...

--ok, how about a safe! Or a secret compartment of some kind...?

[MAYBE ONE OF THE BOOKS IS ACTUALLY A LEVER!!!]

[squawking]

No more books!!

[Okay but one of the books is actually a lever. A bookcase against the wall opens up.]

Ahah!

But why. Why any of this.

I don't really understand how portraits work.

[SWIM OVER TO THE SECRET HIDDEN WALL I hope there is a pumpkin in there]

[There's not a pumpkin. You found a secret chocolate stash. It's really soggy.]

Somehow it feels like we're being pitied...

[I... I GUESS I DON'T MIND EATING SOGGY CHOCOLATE, WHATEVER]

We're not gonna find the pumpkin. Let's just move on to the next death trap.

[Dave stop being so cynical! The pumpkin is probably floating around in the water somewhere]

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