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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Re: RATS

[runawaystory]

[UHHHHH...

edging around the room to check the closet, careful not to cross beneath the chandelier.]

CREEPY CRAWLIES

[angelcage]

[ It watches her— waiting for an opening, perhaps? She's not near enough as she edges towards the closet. ]

[ When she opens it, a thousand bugs spill out on your skin, under your clothes, and in your hair. ]

Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES

[runawaystory]

[WELP, TIME TO SCREAM AND BACKPEDAL AT TOP SPEED!!!

also, not being very careful about where she's backing up too. probably toward the center of the room, where the chandelier is...]

[angelcage]

[ Sure enough, the rat drops on her from above, clawing at her shoulders as it lands. ]

[runawaystory]

[reaching behind her with both hands to pull the rat off her shoulders]

[angelcage]

[ It flails, trying to scratch at her back with its hind legs as she lifts it up. ]

[runawaystory]

[throwing it at the ballroom floor as hard as she can]

[angelcage]

[ It hits the ballroom floor hard, and goes skidding across it before slamming into the wall. ]

[runawaystory]

[chasing after it to make sure it's down]

[angelcage]

[ She's broken some of its bones— the spine, probably. Only the front legs, the rats head is still animated, thrashing about. ]

[runawaystory]

[if she had a knife she'd finish it off but, as it stands, she doesn't feel up to beating it to death with an old chair, so.

heading back to the entrance hall, frantically shaking bugs out of her hair & clothes, since I assume those are still a thing]

[angelcage]

[ Mysteriously: they're gone. Was she hallucinating them? ]

[ Continue to the Entrance Hall: There are no rats. ]