teamposts | LILAC

[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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Let's get 'em over with, then. I don't think I care about the ending of this mystery.

Mm.

The room with the book?

[LET'S GO]

[let's BOOK IT outta here

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH]

[ TO THE BOOK ROOM! ]

[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.]

[sighs!!

OKAY GOING THROUGH THE BOOKS]

[gonna check out the window. . . . . . :o]

[also looking at books, the other direction to diamond]

[ Suddenly, water begins filling the room -- and shackles attack to all of you, on your arms, maybe your legs. In your search, glittering keys seem to appear, but...are they in reach? Can you tell? Maybe you can grab them! ]

[are you serious!!!]

—Hey! Deuce, Clover!

[REACHINGGGG FOR THE GLITTERING KEY. TRYING HER HARDEST.]

- hey, it got to you too!?

[kind of. . . .relaxed tho. . . . . . . . .]

Yes! If there's a key by you, get it!

[why are you relaxed 8|]

[because i'm dumb]

[reaching out to grab it, okok] What happened, where'd these come from anyway?

I don't know, but try to unlock yourself!

[ You both may need to reach just a little bit farther...! It's just within your fingertips! ]

[GRABBING FOR IT WITH ALL OF HER MIGHTTTtt]

[ IT IS YOURS ]

[ quick, quick! there's still more room to search for the pumpkin! ]

[LOOKING EVERYWHERE SHE POSSIBLY CAN 8(

come out come out wherever you are sir pumpkin]

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[wigglesquirms for it 8U!!!!]

[ IT'S YOURS ]

[ Go, find matches! Maybe try that giant desk int he corner? ]

[yes that sounds legit, gonna check it out! pulling drawers and such, you know how it goes]

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[fffreezing why is there water what the hell--before getting enough piece of mind to grab for the nearest key]

H-hurry!

[ IT IS YOURS quick, quick!

...find a way out to the pumpkin! ]

[fumbling at the key but getting himself unlocked and pocketing it, then looking around for that pumpkin where is it oh god this is bad end isn't it]

[ there's a little bit of orange maybe, at the very top of a book tower...! ]

[mounting it!! pumpkin where are you]

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