Week 1

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well that was a busy day, huh? But despite all that, a good majority of you are reasonable people, and are smart enough to find an escape without resorting to deadly violence. Maybe if you put your heads together, you'll find a way to get out of here! After all, the host is practically in shambles already, what can he do?

The whole first floor of the manor is open for your leasure now, with the only change being that there's now a set of rules in the foyer hanging on the wall.

Let the games begin.]

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[madeofpine]

Oh, alright. That's not too far from my room.

[Though it's still a bit of a trek, given that dragging the ax along makes for slow progress.]

I was gonna try destroying the moving picture machine a couple'a days ago because it's kinda creepy. But furniture nobody's using is a better idea.

[not_over_yet]

Just a bit. I believe a number of the others here find the thing enjoyable, and would miss it.

[ Slow progress, but progress all the same! ]

No reason to antagonize each other unnecessarily, given our situation here.

[madeofpine]

...Are you sure? It doesn't seem that enjoyable to me.

[The films are all boring and weird, he's seriously judging anyone who isn't slightly scared of them.]

But you're probably right. They might murder somebody if they were bored enough.

[not_over_yet]

Nor I, but there are a good number of odd types here.

And there is always the interest inherent in the tech..nology... [ You know what can happen when you know magic is real? Items you don't fully understand can stop being intriguing puzzles to work out. Sure, he's aware of perfectly mundane innovations that are somewhat similar to this device, but that's hardly a guarantee this one isn't actually powered by sinister magics. ]

...I am more than ready to be back in London. [ "It's magic!" should never be a genuinely plausible possibility. It's wrong and he hates it. ]

[madeofpine]

I guess maybe it's kinda interesting. I didn't think moving pictures even existed until I got here.

[He kind of just stops and glances at Basil with concern when he trails off. It's... weird to actually need to be helpful like this, but. He tries.]

Well... it's a good thing we're gonna find a way to escape real soon, right? I bet there's a window right past the door, and once we break it down we can all go home.

[not_over_yet]

[ Basil would rather not think about that particular device for just a bit. At least the other magic he's dealt with recently had the decency to be upfront about being supernatural. Speaking of which... ]

I rather doubt it's going to be that simple. But there is something we're being kept away from--getting to it is at least one step towards escape. ...Or perhaps there'll simply be the magical equivalent of a window after all, heh.

[madeofpine]

Right... I think Freddie said maybe there's a remote controlling the magic here. Maybe that's what they're hidin' up there.

[not_over_yet]

Precisely!

...And really, given this is her father, I should think she'd be the one most familiar with what sort of thing we're up against. I wish more people would listen to at least as much as "there's no physical exit". Somebody ought to check the accuracy of that, yes, but the current number of us focused on that alone is very frustrating.

[madeofpine]

That does make a lotta sense...

But what if there's nothing up there? What're we supposed to do then?

[not_over_yet]

Why block our access to the area if the area's simply empty? Of course there's something there.

[ He hadn't considered that getting past the doors might not even be helpful. ]

We need to see what is or isn't up there before we decide how to proceed--but there is also quite the library here, there's bound to be useful information somewhere. There's a loophole in the magic keeping us here, or a way to fend off this "Phantom". There is something to be found or realized, there always is.

[madeofpine]

Me an' Noby looked through a lot of the books, but I don't think there was anythin' that would help us. But I hope you're right.

[Really, he figures it won't be that hard to figure out the rules of the magic here and get out. It's just figuring it out before someone kills that's the hard part, given some of the people here.]

[not_over_yet]

Hm. Well, what were you looking for? Perhaps you were focused on the wrong subject.

[madeofpine]

Um... well, we weren't really looking for anything about magic or curses... but I'd think a book about that would be really easy to notice, anyways.

But I dunno. Maybe there's more books upstairs, too, and those might be different.