LILAC

[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

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[boyishname]

So, let's go together, alright?

[tugs on his hand, squeezing it again]

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[unexpectedboner]

...

Fine. For now.

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[boyishname]

[TO THE PUMPKIN to pick it up :C]

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[unexpectedboner]

[TOGETHER]

[NO BITING]

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[boyishname]

[YES WE ARE DOING THIS TOGETHER

please don't bite us pumpkin]

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[teamposts]

[ THE PUMPKIN -- ]

[ Does nothing. It's still as eerie as before, but there's no biting? ]

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[boyishname]

See, Deuce? The pumpkin is okay.

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[unexpectedboner]

It's not okay. Look at that smirk. Makes me wanna punch it in the face.

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[boyishname]

... Please don't punch the pumpkin.

When we don't need it anymore, then you can punch it!

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[unexpectedboner]

[i want to punch it right now though]

...Just keep it away from me. All we have to do is light it, right? Got any fire?

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[boyishname]

... I don't. We'll have to look around for it.

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[unexpectedboner]

[looking around, then... any fire in the fountains or anything?

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[boyishname]

[FOLLOWING, but why would there be fire in the fountains :|a]

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[unexpectedboner]

[maybe it is a fire fountain, did you ever think of that? this place is full of lies and you don't even know]

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[teamposts]

[ The water makes you immensely uncomfortable. You are suddenly aware of the fact that you can drown in water, that it might jump up and swallow you right now...! ]

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[unexpectedboner]

[bbbbacking up]

Don't--don't get too close. Maybe you should just--put the pumpkin in there and run.

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[boyishname]

W-We... we really need to check for something, though!

[BUT WATER ,_, BUT DROWNING ,_,]

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[unexpectedboner]

It's not that important! Not as important as drowning!

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[unpoplar]

[staring at the water though]

[looking down, further and further]

[what if i did fall though. . . . . . .]

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[unexpectedboner]

Clover--stop looking at that! You're going to fall in!

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[unpoplar]

- huh?

Oh. Right. [stepping. . . back] Sorry.

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[boyishname]

Should we... could we start a chain? Someone goes in to look, but we just hold onto each other so nothing happens?

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[boyishname]

[TUGS ON CLOVER'S ARM]

Clover, be careful!

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[unpoplar]

[oh. . . . steps back]

Okay.

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[teamposts]

[ 'w' ]

[ the water would smile at you spookily if it could ]