Week 1

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Now that the Narrator is done explaining the situation, you all have time to assess the situation and maybe even work together to find a way out. After all, clearly the Narrator is being over dramatic and it can't be that hard to escape out of here without murdering everyone, right?

But, with the doors outside indeed locked and all the windows unbreakable, it might not be a bad idea to explore the hotel, either for alternative methods of escape or to relieve boredom. Your Narrator is also now available for private chat in case you want to interrogate him or throw more stuff at his face.

If the locked doors aren't bad enough, when everyone goes back to the lobby, they'll notice a plaque on the front desk. If you thought your Narrator wasn't serious before, this is damning evidence to the contrary.

Either way, we really do hope you enjoy your stay in this hotel.]

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{OOC And this'll be the last mod post for the week! Feel free to drop your coins into the penny press once you've earned them. And because this is a peace week, there will be no murder committed!  And if you plan on investigating, just let us know in your toplevel by putting in INVESTIGATION. Have fun while you still can!]

Comments

[tadaishi]

I guess it stays true to it's source.

[He picks up the blue piece, plunking it onto the starting position.]

I've been looking for someone else to play with. Wanna try?

[fairlypushy]

Sure. Maybe playing it will get us out, like some bizarre Jumanji-type deal.

[That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to her. Weirder things have definitely happened.]

[tadaishi]

Jumanji?

Maybe. It can't hurt; it's just a board game. Here, you're supposed to take some of these.

[Pushes over half of the 'blocking' cards to her.]

[fairlypushy]

You know, that movie where they play a board game and get sucked into it? [She takes the cards and rearranges them so they're neatly stacked.] Maybe that's only a thing where I'm from.

[tadaishi]

Haven't seen that one. It's called Jumanji?

[He gathers up his cards, setting them to the side, and then flicks the spinner. It lands on a 2, and he moves the two whole spaces along his blue path.]

Oh...that's one of the hand spaces. That means...I have to go in that direction next turn.

[He's already left Reality, apparently.]

[fairlypushy]

Yesh. It's a jungle-themed game, if I remember correctly. I think there's a space one too, though. It's called something else.

[The less said about Zathura the better, probably. Amanda spins and . . . also gets a 2.]

. . . We're off to a great start here.

[tadaishi]

A jungle-themed game sounds like it'd be fun.

[He spins again, landing on 5. Well, he's on a road to reality, even though it's someone else's reality. Yay.]

Yeah...I think I ended up in an alternate reality. Maybe it's this one.

[fairlypushy]

It'd probably be better than this. [She spins. It's a 1, because RNG apparently hates her.] Yay, I'm in the Twilight Zone twice over.

[tadaishi]

[Another 2! Low numbers for everyone. It's also an Eye, meaning he needs to go through the nearest wall and now he's in the Green reality.]

Or worse.

[Pause.]

...I'm gonna go with better.

[fairlypushy]

[A 4! Blessed day! She's even back on her own road to reality??? Wow.]

Hey, I managed to get back on the red line! [With her luck, this will immediately go wrong.] Now I get to follow it again, right? Or am I still going the direction of the hand?

[tadaishi]

If you land on a hand, you have to go in that direction. Uh...

[Brb consulting the rules.]

That's what I thought, but maybe you just have to go near the hand and change direction when you hit it. The rules say if you land directly on it, but it doesn't say whether you're supposed to move during that same turn or not.

[fairlypushy]

Well, if it's every time I pass it, I'm never going to get out of here. I'm just going to be stuck in that box forever, because you stop when you hit a wall, right?

[????? What are these instructions. How do you play this game???????]

[tadaishi]

Unless your spin lands on an eye.

[Sorry Amanda, you're trapped in the box forever.]

It's probably only if you land directly on the hand, otherwise everyone else would get stuck forever.

[fairlypushy]

I vote house rules say it's only if you land on a hand, because I don't want to be stuck in the same spot forever.

[There's a slight whine to her voice. She's having a great time.]

[tadaishi]

House rules works for me.

[He spins a 6 himself. Still on the green reality, oops.]

It'd end up like Monopoly and go on forever, until someone flipped the game board and stormed off.

[fairlypushy]

Jess never wants to play Monopoly with me because of that exact reason.

[It's possible Amanda is not the patient sister. When she spins, she finally lands on an eye spot. Hurrah.]

Aw, come on! I just got out of the hand box.

[She sure is on the yellow road to reality now.]

[tadaishi]

It's not that great, after everyone buys up all the properties. Then becomes a game of who can get everyone else's money first.

[Or when you accuse your brother of fraud and put him in permanent Jail, devolving the game to financial arguments.]

And now you're in...The Twilight Zone. Again.

[He's imitating the Narrator as best he can.]

[fairlypushy]

Oh god, don't ever do that again. It's creepy, I feel like he's going to come up behind me and start narrating what we're doing.

[It doesn't even matter if his impression isn't that good, she's just paranoid like that.]

And then there's this asshole

[keyofimagination]

[Suddenly, from behind Amanda...]

Picture of Amanda Lockheart...

[Hi he's here now.]

[fairlypushy]

[Amanda screams and the box for the Twilight Zone board games goes flying towards The Narrator. It's probably a good thing she didn't choose anything heavier.]

[keyofimagination]

[While the board game passes through The Narrator, it does shock him for a few short moments. Congrats, Amanda, you caught him off guard.]

... Fancy seeing you here too.

[fairlypushy]

Tadashi! You called him here, make him go away!

[She doesn't want to deal with him ok.]

[tadaishi]

[Tadashi knocked his chair backwards getting away from the table when the Narrator appears.]

I don't know how!

[keyofimagination]

You both are certainly afraid of someone who has done nothing to harm anyone here.

[Scare them? Yes, but he didn't hurt anyway.]

[tadaishi]

Not afraid, just startled. We weren't expecting you to suddenly appear!