Would you like to play a game together?
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Yes...
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Chapter One
You wake up. You have no memory of what has happened to you, but you have a gut feeling that something is wrong about where you are. Where are you?
Well, let's start there. You're strapped to a chair with a tight rope and are stuck inside of a dingy stone room. You cannot move your arms, but you can move your legs and head. You try to look back and catch a glimpse of an iron-barred window in your periphery. You see a large box on the ground in front of you. You see a metal door to your right with light shining from under it as well as through its keyhole.
What will you do?
First thing I try to do is lean in and bite away at the tight rope presumably tied around my arms since I can't move them. This is in an attempt to free myself from the chair to better explore the room.
Your neck cannot bend that far, but enough struggling makes you fall onto the ground. You manage to wiggle out of the rope by shimmying up through it on the floor, and are freed.
@superbb-the-blog
i shall inspect the large box for any potential tools or resources.
You open the large box. It contains a can of water-flavored soda, a key ring with four keys on it (each shaped like a card suit), and an odd stick.
@unagi-eel
Wait, you can do that? Hm, I suppose I'd never thought of that possibility.
Well, in any case, I take the items listed and try to open the door with each key.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Odd Stick
You try all four suited keys, but none seem to do the trick.
@murder-of-dipshits
Cobalt screeches at the wall.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Odd Stick
You decide to scream at full force into the wall behind you, the one with the window. A voice calls back, "HEY! KNOCK IT OFF IN THERE! I GAVE YOU ALL THE HELP I COULD, NOW SHUT UP!!"
You are deeply perplexed by this. Was this person the one that gave you the box? Or maybe they were the one that trapped you here in the first place?
Anyways, that didn't accomplish a lot.
@lila-rayne
I USE THE ODD STICK TO TRY AND PICK THE LOCK
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick
You stick the stick in the keyhole, turn it, and the door opens! Unfortunately, the stick got stuck, and you broke it in half.
You walk through the door to find a home-like area. It is home-like, but not homely!
There is a large floral-patterned rug on the floor, a sink, a fridge, and a bookshelf. There are glass windows on either side of the room, as well as a door with four locks.
@silviaflowers
omg wow... I marvel at the rug and thennn go over to the door with locks to see if the suitkeys match!! :3
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick
You admire the rug for an extended period of time. Man, that's a niiice rug… oh? There's a little lump under it. You try to straighten out the rug but the lump doesn't shift. Odd.
Anyways, you walk to the door and see the four locks do not match the shapes of the suited keys. They are simply four gray circle shapes, arranged vertically, with keyholes. Looking at the keys, the grooves on each are almost exactly alike. It seems you'll need to find the order that these keys go in!
@capt-marty
I head back over to the lumpy rug and try to lift it, to see what that lump is about... maybe theres a key there...
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card
You lift the rug up and find a rock where the lump was. Under the rock, you found a card! It's the 3 of Hearts. You can't think of any good use for the rock, so you just put it in a corner and take the card. Now the rug can be admired to its full extent. :)
@meowingswuid go my swuid
I go look in and around the fridge for a snack (or another card I guess...)
The inventory will now be placed at the bottom of the post.
Come to think of it, you ARE pretty darn hungry. You mosey over to the fridge and open the lower compartment. You find… naught but a pickle jar. There's only one pickle inside. Eh, you'll take what you can get!
You take a bite of the pickle and—OW! feel something hard inside of it. You eat around it to find a fifth key, in the shape of a star! You take it and the jar of brine.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key
@toastyyy33 you. game. :3
uhhh uh uhhh I go look at. the bookshelf.
You experience a sudden bout of choice paralysis and decide to inspect the bookshelf. All of the books are unsorted, so it may be hard to find one that you'd want. You take a look at one part of the shelf:
Iris Chronicles: Book 3, Iris Chronicles: Book 5, Colonel Kernel's Book of Terrible Riddles, The Floating House, The CLUB: Book 1, How To Make a Secret Bookshelf Entrance, Iris Chronicles: Book 8
You don't even remember what kind of books you liked. None of these really jump out at you…
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar of Brine
(forgot to add the brine in the last one)
@vicbyexe
💭 club = 1 i pick up "how to make a secret bookshelf entrance" and learn how to make a secret bookshelf entrance!!
You try to grab How To Make a Secret Bookshelf Entrance, but the book stays put. You pull and pull, then try to push it, and the bookshelf swings open! You assume that the book is showing you an example.
You walk through the shelfdoor to find a bathroom-ish area. There's a large lit-up mirror and sink with a jewelery box on its counter, a toilet with a plunger next to it, and an empty bathtub. You see no windows.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar of Brine, The CLUB: Book 1
@cpt-candles
GULP! Ok I'm going to admire my reflection a little and then check the jewelery box!
You look at your reflection in the mirror. …what ARE you? You examine what you believe to be your face, but it appears to be made of a dull metal. In fact, your whole face looks like a large square! Your circular eyes are glowing a deep navy blue, as with your rectangular mouth. No, there's no mistaking it. YOU ARE A ROBOT! …you suppose you never paid attention to your metal hands. But this explains why you didn't remember where you came from. You didn't come from anywhere!
Welp, after having a ten-minute identity crisis, you decide to doll up your apprently metal body with some jewelery.
You open the box and automatically put on the pearl necklace, the pair of ruby and sapphire rings, and the diamond earrings. They fit well hooked around your odd ear antennae.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Brine Jar, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
@camerlots
Thank you! I may look around the bathroom some more? Check if there's anything in the tank of the toilet (if it has one) or if something was left in the drains
You check around the rest of the facilities. First, the bathtub. Apparently, it wasn't actually empty, the curtain was obscuring the steel bucket inside of it! You take the bucket.
As for the terlet, you remove the tank lid and find… a plastic bottle floating inside, full of the tank's water. Gross. You're not taking this unless absolutely necessary. You open the main lid and find nothing clogging it, but decide to take the plunger anyway.
Aside from that, looks like there's nothing else in here. You take one last glance back at the mirror and see that your eyes and mouth are glowing a dark, minty green. Odd. You think further about this while pulling the secret entrance shut.
@liamastatine
@cornylove
i figure since i am a robot the glow must be natural, perhaps i have christmas lights inside or perhaps i am powered by fireflies... i find that i do not know what christmas or fireflies are! it must not matter, but my mind wanders, and so do i, with my newfound discovery of being an alleged robot i am perplexed and thrown off by the circumstances i find myself in, but oh one beautiful robot i am, the jingling of my accessories that probably do not belong to me brings me a certain comfort, in a seemingly metaphoric punishment of my vanity, kleptomania and obliviousness, i trip on the rug whose beauty i had admired earlier, and for a short lived moment i thought i had surpassed, the jewelry and inventory items scatter on the floor around me.
i am distraught. (😦)
You think about things and then trip on your face melodramatically. Ow! Wait, were you designed to feel PAIN?? What kind of jerk would program you to hurt?
Oh, and god damn it. The jar of brine shattered when you stumbled! Now the rug is soaked in a sickly, pickly odor. You instinctively pick up your dampened items, and notice your reflection in the glass shards of the jar. You see a deeper green this time.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar Lid, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
@purpleparasol bites your legs
Ill go back to the home room and inspect the door with the 4 locks since we still have the four card keys
You're already in the home room, and you decide to look closer at the quad-locked door. The door itself is a relatively plain metal door, but the frame is a work of art. It seems that someone carved the wood into many small figures in fighting poses, no two weapons are identical except for four at the top, all holding swords.
Each lock is identical to the eye, they're all gray and circular-shaped. They're arranged vertically on the door. Twisting the knob yields no result, and you doubt you could break the door down.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar Lid, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
