WEEK THREE - MINGLE

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WEEK THREE - MINGLE

SURVIVORS: 12

Last week might've been the worst week some of you have ever had. From the hallucinations to losing five of your number yet again, things are looking rather bleak -- and yet, perhaps optimistic, given that you're so close to ending the game. Is it worth sacrificing one more person to end it, though? ... Only one way to find out.

You have time until then, though, to regroup and recollect yourself if you choose to. From Monday morning, after the rain that fell on Sunday, the weather, continues to be more overcast and stormy throughout the week - gray clouds swirl around the sky ominously, and the pleasantly balmy weather that you've come to expect gives way to passing showers with ominous thunder. Perhaps it's not a good time to go for a swim in the pool, but no one's stopping you if that's what you decide on doing. Your locations, likewise, have changed.

The end is almost here. There are only slightly over half your number still remaining. Do your best to survive.

PHOTOGRAPHS | THE MANAGER | BULLETIN BOARD
SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY
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OOC: Welcome to your Week 3 log! There are a couple of new locations you should check out, and any other changes or small events will be marked out in the top-levels below. Murder proposals for this week are due by 12PM EST Monday, don't forget that this is the last week you have to do a murder! We will also be running a mini-exploration event this week - please see the link for more details!

Don't forget that Activity Check is due by Tuesday at 6PM EST!

Any questions, please contact your mods here or on Discord!

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[reshape_destiny]

[... oh he hates this. At least if there's one thing his experiences back in Bright Falls have taught him, it's that the mind is easily manipulated... but that knowledge still isn't enough to keep an angry scowl off his face as he thrusts the photo in Lady D's direction without so much as a word, in part just because he wants to get it out of his hands before his emotions end up getting the better of him.]

[egeiro]

[ as alan hands over the photo to lady d, the flash of blonde hair - that beautiful, familiar mess - is all he needs to glimpse at to know who it is. her again.

any thought of antagonizing lady d further vanishes, replaced by a cold fury that stills his expression and makes his eyes burn red. even though he knows - he knows with everything he has that athanasia cannot possibly be here. she has so many layers of protection on her, etched into her very soul that there's no way this place could have caught her. still, that they would dare entertain the very thought - tch.

he mutters something about how this place would have had better luck imitating his idiotic old master and turns his eyes to the elevator panel again. where the fuck to next? ]

cw alluding to the hallucinations

[vinsangeros]

[The look on Alan's face isn't a good sign, but she handled seeing a member of their dead in a photograph well enough. she can handle whatever this...is...

Well, Alan can at least say his reaction was more subdued than Alcina's. She lets out a horrified gasp and drops the photo for someone below her to catch. That horror quickly turns into rage.]

That- That bitch told me they were--!

[But before she can punch a hole into the elevator, she forces herself to stop and breathe.]

This is another nasty trick, isn't it. As if we haven't seen enough at this point.

[Is the presence still there after its photo was taken? And has the elevator changed at all?]

[mayoiga]

[ If it helps, they look relatively fine in the photograph. Other than some weird glitchy, staticky edges which tends to be the de-facto sign that something is not quite right here.

And to answer the question-- Yup. The presence is still there.

And it's about to make its presence known, because suddenly, in the almost deathly quiet of the elevator after Alcina's outburst, there's a high pitched, layered female voice that asks:

"Where are you going?"

And immediately after that - without waiting for an answer...

The lights fizz out.

Plunged into sudden darkness other than the light of the suddenly ominous "B" button that's on the panel, the elevator drops. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Once again, Alan came (unintentionally) prepared: when the lights go out, he's reaching into his pocket for his ever-present flashlight, both to give them something to see with and also just in case he needs to use it to bludgeon something, such as their unexpected new companion.]

Show yourself!

[A futile gesture if this happens to be another ghost, most likely, but one never knows. Supernatural presences can be quite bold sometimes...

... but that's all he gets out before the floor suddenly drops beneath him and his shocked mind registers the sensation of falling...]

[egeiro]

[ he stumbles back at the sudden drop, blindly reaching out for the elevator handrails, still blinking away the flash of alan's flashlight. his other hand reaches out to brace one of the others - probably alan - to stop them from slamming into the wall.

ugh, this is why he wanted seats in these elevators. ]

What the heck? She didn't mean to show us the other stuff or what? Why's she so angry now?

[vinsangeros]

[Oh, lovely.

Though Alcina is able to avoid being blinded by the sudden flash of light in the darkness, her height makes grabbing something for stability difficult. After the initial cry of shock, she backs herself into a corner and presses her hands hard against the walls.]

As if we chose to traipse through this nonsense!

[As she searches through the chaos, her eyes land on the "B" button.]

The basement- brace yourselves!

[mayoiga]

[ Surprisingly, for how fast the drop is, the landing is... much more subdued.

The lights flicker back on, but instead of its former bright light, the lights of the elevator are now a muted red glow, and even if any other kind of magical sensing has been nerfed, it's hard not to notice the almost oppressive feel that pervades the space that they find themselves in.

The door slides open - beyond, a corridor awaits, bathed in the same red glow.

There's only one way out, after all - by the time they head to the end of it, ominously, there is only one door. The DISPOSAL ROOM.

> Enter? ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Alan is fairly certain that his heart stopped beating for a few seconds there. Sure, Barry has always harped on him about how he's going to have a heart attack someday if he doesn't slow down and take a break; it would be a distinct irony if it actually happened in a resort hotel. A haunted hotel, yes, but.

He doesn't like the sign on that door one bit, but it's not as though they really have a choice right now. Unless they want to attempt to climb back up that elevator shaft, it looks like this is their only way out.

So he'll open that door very cautiously, sweeping the beam of the flashlight across the room to scan for any sort of potential threats.]

[egeiro]

[ lucas follows because alan is the only one with the flashlight right now. he's not bothered by all the red, but the oppressive feeling leaves him irritated. all this is just a show of power, he tells himself, and he's not going to be cowed by any of it.

there's a moment where he casts a glance behind them, to see - or rather, sense if the presence will follow them out. or perhaps it's gone ahead somehow. ]

[vinsangeros]

[Alcina and Lucas are of the same mind in this regard. She presses on, unafraid and spite-driven. Whatever the ominously-named disposal room has in store, she's prepared for it. Especially if the Manager potentially doesn't want them seeing whatever is inside.

In they go.]

[mayoiga]

[ Glancing back, it seems like the presence has disappeared, although Lucas will now feel like he is constantly being watched now. Ominous.

When the door to the disposal room is open, thankfully, there are no threats at all. Unfortunately. Fortunately?

There's something about the red glow that obscures the details of whatever is in the room, but Alan's flashlight manages to cut through the glow. It's not a huge beam, but whatever can be seen in the beam of the light re a couple of metallic surfaces that seem to reflect off the light, and venturing a little further and casting the beam a little wider makes it seem like the room is a medical room of some sort, akin to a morgue.

Venture forward? ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Does he want to? No. Is he going to? Yes, because this place could hold a great deal of answers and possibly equal dangers. There's a decent likelihood that there could be traps in this place - or other unwelcome visitors - and in a closed, dark environment like this, they'd be sitting ducks.

He'll pause for a moment to get a couple of pictures with his camera just to document all of this. If they make it out alive, it's evidence to show the others.]

[egeiro]

[ there's no point in keeping quiet since they're very clearly being watched. she? it? knows they're here. ]

Is this where the bodies are kept? Do you see them?

[ the bodies? her extra bodies? the deceased guests' bodies? same thing, probably. ]

[vinsangeros]

I should have figured. [Every good spooky building needs a room stuffed with corpses. Even she knows this!] At least her intention for the dead couldn't be any more clear.

[Disposal.

Alcina follows Alan's light to see if she can find lockers for bodies, or anything else of import.]

[mayoiga]

[ All Lucas will hear is just the sound of wind, ominously, in his ear. That's not really an answer, but he's free to read into it however he wants.

Certain points of interest will show up under the glare of Alan's flashlight - the large examination table in the middle of the room, similar to the gurneys they've seen at the trial weekly and probably the source of the biggest reflective surface so far; the line of surgical tools against the wall which are chained down (so no stealing!); and of course, what Alcina is looking for--

The far end of the wall has a number of square doors - 23 of them, arranged in a 6 rows by 4 columns grid, with 3 doors on the lowest row, if they deign to count it. There are a few makeshift labels on some of them, most pointing to those who have died. Not all are labeled, however.

Would they like to look at any particular row or column? They'll find something... interesting, regardless. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[... well. Alan is just going to be looking for any sign of Kaeya, Zena or Iria's names on any of the labels and heading straight in that direction.

He has... reasons for this.]

[mayoiga]

[ Kaeya and Zena's names happen to be on the same row. Interesting. There is one blank door, and the last door is filled with SWEETHEART's name.

He can look closer at any one of these doors. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Yeah, he'll be going for Kaeya's (sorry, Kaeya).

What will he find when he opens it...?]

[egeiro]

[ he wonders if there should actually be 24 doors here - but maybe the manager's body doesn't need one anymore or something. whatever rows the other two choose to look through, lucas will split from them and look at what's in the back: the lowest row with the three doors.

there are a couple of people... bodies... he wants to see, but. hm. ]

[mayoiga]

[ The lowest row belongs to Arthur, a blank, and strangely enough, there's a blurred out label on the very last door. ]

[egeiro]

[ ... he's tempted to check out the blurred label first, but he figures arthur's door is more important. if his spirit is still trapped here, he would want to know and maybe lucas would be able to communicate this to him somehow.

strange, though. isn't what's left of arthur's body in his pocket right now? if that's the case, what's behind this door...? he attempts to open it. ]

[vinsangeros]

[That's an oddly specific number of doors that Alcina isn't very fond of! They certainly planned for a trial failure, didn't they?

She'll poke around for any unique labels, or doors without labels. Do they have anything in them?]

[mayoiga]

[ Alcina can reasonably assume that the doors without labels belong to the people still on the living side, since the doors don't have hers, Alan's or Lucas's name.

However, that last row... ]

[vinsangeros]

[Assuming she can squeeze in by Lucas, she's giving that blurred label door a shot while he goes for Arthur's. It's easily the most conspicuous one!]