[Carnival Haunted House - Group One]

[dramatispersonae]

[At the carnival, there's a wooden facade of an old two-story school building. A bit like this, but made of wood and paint and pretty much two-dimensional save for the overhang jutting out over the door. There's a hand-painted sign in front of it:]

H A U N T E D S C H O O L
You must be this tall to enter.
WARNING: Children under the age of ❚❚, people who are pregnant, and those with heart conditions should not ❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚help❚❚.


[There's no indication of how tall "this tall" is. Oh well.]

((join #grimgrinningghosts))

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ENTRANCE

[dramatispersonae]

[The moment you step through the doorway, you're... not actually on the other side of the facade at all. You seem to be in the locker room at the entrance to a real school. It's dark, dusty, and smells like it's been abandoned for some time. The hallway ahead is bathed in darkness. Some of the lockers are closed, others are open. A few mismatched pairs of shoes have tumbled out of them.]

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[brotagonist]

...School...

[g-goes to glance into an open locker D8]

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[antreegonist]

What the...

*I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE SCHOOL MEMORIES. . . well, tries opening a locker at random*

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[ademoelord]

What is this place?

[wanders over to poke at the shoes :|a]

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[doubleminded]

Shoes.

[picks one up and turns it over.]

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[bondingspirits]

. . .

[ah, home sweet home????????????????]

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[blackjacked]

. . . [gosh when was the last time I as in a school. picks up a shoe and checks inside of it]

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[telepathetically]

...huh.

[peeks into an open locker]

[THE HALLWAY]

[dramatispersonae]

[It's a school hallway. Old-fashioned, made mostly of wood. There are little signs sticking out above the sliding doors on either side that might have had class names on them once, but it looks like someone attacked them with a black marker.]

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[ademoelord]

[someone was unnecessarily messy :|a... goes to the first door to see if he can open it]

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[bondingspirits]

Huh . . .

[opening first door on the left!!!]

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[blackjacked]

[peers at the scribbled out signs suspiciously, before moving to inspect the door on the right]

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[doubleminded]

[glances at Winter, then tries for the second door on the right (assuming there is one.]

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[antreegonist]

*. . . keeps going down the hallway :Ua*

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[brotagonist]

[trying the door on the right?]

THE FIRST CLASSROOM

[dramatispersonae]

[A sense of gloom hangs over this classroom. Desks for the students and the teacher still stand facing the blackboard, but they're all covered in a thick layer of dust. There are windows on the far side of the room, but they're so opaque that they barely provide illumination at all.

There is a vase of flowers on each desk, and papers scattered around the room.]

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[bondingspirits]

[these sort of doodles . . . '-']

[this sense of gloom . . . ]

[maybe I should try leaving back into the hallway]

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[ademoelord]

...

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[doubleminded]

[…casually knocks one of the vases onto the floor.]

THE SECOND CLASSROOM

[dramatispersonae]

[You enter the back of another classroom. There is a child-- no, a child-sized mannequin?-- in a school uniform sitting in each desk. Each of them, including the adult-sized mannequin at the front, is wearing a rabbit mask. The "teacher" is posed holding a pointer to the blackboard, where it's written:

You know how Miffy's mouth is shaped "x". But do you know why it's shaped like that??

It's because Miffy once tried to eat her friend and so her father sewed her mouth up in the shape of x!

A helpful illustration accompanies the text.

There's a door at the front of the classroom, on the right wall.]

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[bondingspirits]

[WOW THAT ISN'T UNNERVING . . . ]

[quiiiickly moving towards the door at the front]

THE HALLWAY, AGAIN

[dramatispersonae]

[You emerge into the hallway on the other side of the big, jagged gap in the floor. There's another door in front of you -- it seems like it must lead to another classroom. Opposite the gap, at the end of the hallway, is a barricade of chairs. They stretch from the floor to the ceiling.]

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[doubleminded]

[goes to inspect the chairs.]

THE THIRD CLASSROOM

[dramatispersonae]

[You open the door and immediately step into murky water up to your ankles. Lichen covers the walls of this classroom and creeps up the legs of the desks and chairs. Countless teruteru bouzu dolls hang from the ceiling down to about the height of your shoulders.

Oddly, the water doesn't flow past the door's threshhold.]

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[bondingspirits]

E-eh..?

[that is kinda gross, my poor feet :( but at least its not as creepy]

[Can I reach up and touch one of those dolls?]

THE STAIRWAY

[dramatispersonae]

[You emerge on the other side of the chair barricade! The stairs lead to a small landing, then turn and continue upwards. Your usual school flight of steps. They creak ominously when you step on them. Someone seems to have written on the walls of the landing in red crayon...]

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[brotagonist]

Where the hell are we supposed to hide in a school, anyway? Unless we wanted to hang out in the lockers.

[heading up the stairs! cccarefully.]

THE BATHROOM

[dramatispersonae]

[You head up the stairs... directly into a bathroom. There's a red crayon seam between the edge of the staircase and the bathroom, but otherwise it's a normal school bathroom. Ugly tile that's just that teensy bit too dirty for comfort, sinks with exposed copper piping against the right wall, stalls against the left.]

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[bondingspirits]

[ . . . ]

[ peeking into the first stall '-' ]

THE STAFF LOUNGE

[dramatispersonae]

[This looks like the staff lounge. Several long tables run horizontally across the room, with areas obviously marked off for each teacher.

Or they would, if everything wasn't in complete chaos in the center of the room. Sitting on top of the pile is an old-fashioned TV.]

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[bondingspirits]

. . .

[sigh, okay, fine haunted school, you win, I WILL TRY TO SEE IF I CAN MAKE MY WAY TO THE TV]