Betrayal at House on the Hill

[angelcage]

[ You sleep, the ground cold beneath your cheek. The ground is hard as stone, cold marble beneath a fine layer of dust that doesn't come anywhere near acting as a cushion. The dust stirs with your breathing.


>> Wake up ]

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STOREROOM - BASEMENT LEVEL

[angelcage]

[ The door opens to a store room-- one forgotten sometime in the 1930s. It's all neat, organized. Waiting. Crates. A grandfather clock, perfectly still, no passage of time marked in this room. Rolls of rugs. Two tufted couches. Candelabras, matte but unrusted. Empty cabinets. Empty trunks. Empty portrait frames.

A wardrobe, doors thrown open— this one thing, different than all the rest. There's claw marks on the door, like someone had tried in vain to get out, trying to catch any attention they could manage, force it open. Some of the scratch marks are rusty with the remnants of old blood. ]

Re: STOREROOM - BASEMENT LEVEL

[withintreason]

[ creepy

taking . . . a step in . . . btw did the madman fall in with us or like, ]

BELL

[angelcage]

[ Yeah he's still following you. Like you'd be so lucky.

Also, within the wardrobe: there's a resonant clang. Something tumbles from it onto the floor, coming to lie at your feet. A brass bell. ]

Re: BELL

[withintreason]

[ hm. a little startled by the bell, looking down at it ]

What -- ?

[ tilting . . . head . . . and taking a step back, looking around to try to find. something that! might have! moved that thing!! ]

[angelcage]

[ The wardrobe remains still.

As does the rest of the room.

The bell rolls at Mordred's feet, still resonating. ]

[withintreason]

[ uhmmmm

stabbing it probably won't help

idk if i want to pick this up though

nnnnudges it with her foot. ]

[angelcage]

[ The low hum of vibration through the brass dies. ]

[withintreason]

........ How creepy.

[ kicks it away, and just turns around to leave ]

[angelcage]

[ The Bell is silent as Mordred returns to the Basement Landing ]