Week 4

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Two more people died this week. Two children. And they died because of a freak accident. Despite all your protests, Randall refused to let Jane get away despite being innocent.

But there is a tiny ray of hope now, which comes in the form of the mirror. Now that the mirror is public information, you can see people you care about, even if they are dead and trapped in hell. Not only that, but you now now that someone is trying to save you all from the predicament that you're in. And this time there's a good chance that he won't turn out to be a heartless mass murderer!

Still, the ideas for the plan are vague and you have no idea when you will actually get out. It's hard to keep up hope when your only chance of living might still end with you horribly killed, isn't it?

At least you have a new floor and the ability to wash your clothes now.

26 guests remain.]

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[grimgrinningghosts]

[There’s only a single desk drawer, which appears to contain a number of photographs. The top of the desk largely has desk toys and a few VHS tapes.]

[pinkflip]

[ Let's check out the photographs first. What mysteries do these pictures hold? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[As you can see by this graph...

...Graph.

The visible left half has three men and a vaguely familiar cartoon rabbit. The first man is wearing a suit and tie with a pencil mustache, the second man has a similar mustache but a wilder haircut and is clad in a vest. They’re standing in front of a large castle.

The rest of the photo has been ripped apart.]

[pinkflip]

[ Okay, that's...strange. Is there any clue what might be on the left side? Anything half-ripped, something like that? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Whatever was there has been ripped off completely.]

[pinkflip]

Drat. [ What about other photographs? ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There’s a few more in here. At the top of the pile are picture of individuals who resemble figures from the wax museum in what appear to be candid shots, and a few newspaper clippings about something called EPCOT closing down.]

[pinkflip]

"EPCOT," huh? [ She doesn't want to take these things. She'll just remember them, write them down once she goes back to her room. She'll try and make it look like things have been disturbed as little as possible.

If that's all for the photos, she'll move on to the stacks of VHS tapes. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There are five in total. Each are labeled with sharpie.

* Disney Classic Cartoon Collection

* Fantasia

* Best of The Twilight Zone

* Tower of Terror: The Movie

* CREATION]

[pinkflip]

[ ...Hm. Well there's a VHS, so. How about we start in order? Disney Classic Cartoon Collection. ]

What is on you...?

[grimgrinningghosts]

[This seems pretty innocuous. It’s a series of five very old cartoons, in black and white. There are awkward jumpcuts between them, as though somebody recorded this themselves.

More details on each of them/their contents? Or did you want to move on to the next VHS?]

[pinkflip]

[ More details. She's watching this thing twice. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[* * Something about skeletons dancing.

* * Of rabbits and trolleys.

* * This weird short about devils.

* * This one has some live action.

* * Another one with the rabbit.]

[pinkflip]

[ Hoo boy, maybe she won't watch them twice, never mind. Thank you for the shorts. ]

That's...weird, okay.

[ Why would their death-hungry overlord have these innocent cartoons?

Next one. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[The next one is Fantasia. The film. It's the full, unaltered film. There doesn't appear to have been any changes made to it.]

[pinkflip]

[ ...After about five minutes of this- ]

O...kay, this is all nice, but. Maybe...we should move on?

[ Yeah, after a few more minutes - anxiety about Randall showing back up - she pops it out and puts in the next one. ]

[stanbyme]

Yeah, that's the kind of thing I woulda fallen asleep if I'd tried to watch it as a kid.

[Bad Grandpa is here, Kim. Let's see what we've got.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Best of the Twilight Zone. It's a grainy old VHS tape and it's...pretty self-explanatory.]

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.

[Does this guy go on forever?]

[pinkflip]

[ ...Hm. Well, Kim wasn't around for time with Rod last night, she probably arrived just after it, so. ]

What the heck is this guy yammering about?

[stanbyme]

I dunno, but this looks like the kind of nerd show my brother would like.

[Neither was he]

How many left?

[pinkflip]

Reminds me of some dark dimensions I've been to... Uh, two. Let me just...

[ She'll give it another minute or so and then eject it. Next one. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's acclaimed 1997 film, Tower of Terror. Rod's favorite!]

[pinkflip]

[ Waits another...few minutes... ]

Why's Randall just got a lot of cartoons and shows and movies in here?

[ Like, this is weird, right? ]

[stanbyme]

Maybe even he gets bored watching us all the time.

[pinkflip]

Wow. Our suffering isn't enough for him.

[ :| ]

Hmm... Let's try... [ She's going to fast-forward the tape, see if anything notable comes up. ]