Final Trial

[bringmecontracts]

[After everyone is done investigating the rooms, they will hear a faint creeek from the mansion’s entrance. Once they heads towards the noise they will discover a set of stairs leading to the basement that definitely weren’t there earlier.

Once they head downstairs, they will find themselves in a long hallway that seems to stretch out forever. It doesn’t, luckily, but eventually the hallway ends at a large empty room, with just a throne in the center.

The living guests will immediately realize they're not alone because King Dice is here already laying across the throne and smoking a cigar. He grins at the survivors and stand up.]

Well congrats, kids! I must say I’m impressed that that you managed to get down here alive, considering who was leading ya.

Now, I’m sure y’all have a lot of questions about what’s going on but I gotta settle something first:

[He looks directly at Michael.]

Mikey, I believe we have to finish our arrangement now.

Comments

[standsforrevenge]

[Looks at King Dice

Looks at Michael]

Really, dude?

[justsaysure]

What? Like you ever trusted me.

[He seems completely un-guilty about what's going on here, instead just approaching King Dice.]

Yeah yeah just gimme what you got already.

[bringmecontracts]

Here ya go, always happy to help!

[He throws a bag of weed at Michael.]

[in4apounding]

I did!

[She's carrying what looks like a very large, very solid sheet of wood under one arm, Mikey, might want to stay out of swinging range of that, even if it is wrapped in fabric of some kind.]

You- lying little weed-wad!

[candymancan]

What a shock, the stoner child betrayed us.

[He's still holding the cloak of Rasputin like a rucksack, the head wriggling inside.]

[udderly]

Okay, forget his sudden but inevitable betrayal - what the cluck do you have there?

[It's moving? That seems way more important than something they all sort of knew was probably going to happen.]

[bringmecontracts]

...

Ya didn't bring in any wild animals, did ya?

[candymancan]

Anyway, now that we're finished feigning surprise at the fact that we were betrayed-

I explored an occultist room worshipping the Greek god Hades. The place was covered in dust, had a bat skeleton and various bones. There was a summoning circle that looked like a basketball. The summoning circle had 20 smaller circles within, which were smoking and glowing.

The basketball circle was surrounded by a larger circle, which had 3 smaller circles immediately outside that appeared to be the places for people to stand.

I also found a joint, a pair of dice, several voodoo masks on the walls, this cloak inside the basketball circle, and a severed head with an attitude.

[in4apounding]

[Are they doing this now? Okay. Presumably Penny gets over her righteous indignation enough to go over what she found.]

I found- I think it was actually King Dice's room.

[She shoots an angry look in his direction.]

There were a bunch of pamphlets about some kind of amusement park? And an old old film reel, but I'm not exactly sure what was on it. And a bunch of those creepy shape-changing voodoo pendant things, but I don't think any of them were active. And a bunch of pictures of him and his ex-boyfriend, I think. And this desk with some creepy stuff carved into the top-

[She pulls the bed curtains from around that big piece of wood she's been hauling and sets it upright for everyone to see with a solid 'thunk'.]

A-a-and a poster of a cute monkey. But that's probably not relevant.

[She unfurls the 'Hang In There' poster anyway, displaying it against the desktop's un-vandalized side.]

[studentbody]

I found this, like, super creepy room full of video monitors? There was a bunch of different places on them...a skeleton guy land that looked like everyone there was tripping on raisins or something, and then this really spooky door just floating in the middle of nowhere...and then there were a bunch of monitors that had, like, some really depressed animals on them. Just, like, super down. Oh! And the skeleton of whoever 'Michael' was. Chained up.

[oh_worm]

Oh hey, cube-dink, still gonna kick your ass at some point here, don't worry.

[ anyway, she just turns the fuck away from him to present evidence ]

I went through the second floor office? There was a bunch of sports junk on the walls, an empty pedestal that used to hold a Superstar Talent Basketball, which I'm guessing is exactly what it says it is, a list of everyone here and how someone thought we'd react to space weed,, and uh.

[ unrolls her jacket on the ground to reveal five small shriveled alien corpses? ]

These guys just shoved into one of the drawers.

[udderly]

Uh. Are - those are just dolls, right?

[please tell him they're not small corpses]

[codeofhero]

There was an exhibit on "space weed" in the museum.

Apparently, it is being used to create a mindless army.

The Deal

[bringmecontracts]

Ok ok I think that's enough talkin' for now. We will get nowhere if we keep bickerin' like this.

As I told some of y'all, I have a deal to make with everyone. It ain't a bad one if I do say so myself.

I will let everyone go home with no questions asked. Everyone will return to their borin' lives like it nevah happened. Ya just gotta take some of my space weed with ya as a gift. No catch, just accept my gift.

Whaddya say?

[candymancan]

Unfortunately, you have done absolutely nothing to inspire confidence in us that you will keep your word, or that there will not be a catch somewhere.

[Honestly he would consider taking the offer but Wonka doesn't want to accept shit from King Dice. King Dice Must Die.]

[udderly]

[On the one hand: go home. On the other hand: mindless weed zombies.]

. . . What about Michael? Does he get to leave too?

[studentbody]

[...That sure sounds like a catch. Cleo frowns.]

So we just take your dumb weed with us? What happens if we just toss it in the trash as soon as we get there?

[codeofhero]

What is so special about this space weed?

[standsforrevenge]

I ain't touching that unicorn killing crap!

[oh_worm]

Yeah, I'm personally going to say no to making any deal that involves taking unknown plants between dimensions. Sorry not sorry, dude, that's literally what made my dad try to marry me off to a giant worm.

[in4apounding]

I still don't believe you're not going to just do this again to more people. Even if none of them actually take the bait on your stupid- murder-inducing drug weed, I can't let this kind of thing happen again. I've- I haven't been able to. Protect. Anyone, really, here. But if I can do anything to stop it happening to anyone else, I have to take it.

[candymancan]

[So far, King Dice has been barely better than useless, and the Smoke Man is only slightly better. So it's time to add another useless fucker to the mix. Wonka pulls the severed head out of the bag.]

Do you have anything useful to contribute to this? I'm sure you were able to hear through the bag, you could before.

[darkof]

No I wasn’t - I was being suffocated in there!

[bringmecontracts]

Well that's that then! Save your praises, just knowin' I did a good job is good enough for me.

[Well this is... better?]

[codeofhero]

I will endeavor to say nothing then.

[Mildly.]

But now that we seem to be on our own once more, it seems we need to decide our next course of action.