aka the twst girlies surviving an escape room
in honour of me being the most unhelpful person in escape rooms
warnings: swearing and book 6 spoilers in regards to ortho
first years
has the highest possibility of succeeding
it sure wouldn't look like it though
in the middle of their allotted hour, they suggested to sacrifice grim
which yuu stopped by distracting them with a loooooong story of how they are a long lost octuplet
legit no one knows if yuu is being FR or not bc it sounds so unbelievable but their facial expressions suggest they're being so deadass abt it
unanimous decision to push ace into the coffin and started holding hands and chanting
low and behold, the weight in the coffin triggered a mechanism and they accidentally solved the puzzle into the next room
here's another example, where there was a bunch of clocks on the wall w/ different times and epel joked that it looks like the heartslabyul dorm (bc of the million staircases)
and while deuce and ace were telling stories about the amount of freshmen that fell off those staircases (rip), jack stared a lil harder and figured out a password for a lock that way
the first thought that occurs is to pick the locks
they got the shit scared out of them from the game master's voice in the walkie talkie telling them to solve it properly bc dude... don't do that??/
ortho detects hidden walls and rooms before the game even starts but he doesnt speak of them
he'll always be hovering around them though and stares directly into the security cameras
sebek is so stressed bc this space is so small and so hot. AND HES GONNA BE STUCK HERE FOR AN HOUR
jack is infected by the stress radiating off sebek for the same reasons but also bc he can hear jamil and riddle going awfff on their group in the other room and it is really freaking distracting
ortho picks up the most useless, disconnected keyboard and started carrying it around for funsies (its like so outdated and he wants to show it to idia to laugh at it) before the walkie-talkie kindly asked them to put it back because it's not a clue
epels mind is in the right place, trying to find patterns in the titles of the bookshelf, but they're really just there for decoration
grim's floor sniffing habit comes in so handy rn bc he's finding things under beds and in drawers
there is a piano in their room and aside from grim stomping on the keys, epel played hot cross buns, thinking he was the only one who knew how to play, then yuu, our champion, comes in playing some classical backing music
it shocked sebek so much that yuu was practically a music god, then asked them to play some mozart, and again, got the piss scared out of them
a loud thunk and bam, accidentally unlocked another hidden room
ace and deuce were in a competition of who could find the hints the fastest and tragically they were the two that didn't find any hints at all
in short, it was sheer dumb luck that got them out
8/10, if only it wasn't for sebek breaking down near the end of the hour because he got his hand stuck in a box and started panicking
because they were the first to finish, they were allowed to look at how the second and third years were doing and damn, they had such a big laugh about it
aka it turned into a dorm thing
second years
there are many brilliant minds in this group which would make them a very good contender for getting out
unfortunately they are smart individually but extremely dumb when together
they started handcuffed to each other and surprisingly no one really minds it
like, it's not maaaajorly distracting like they can get things done without too much struggle
and silver insists that its good to have a buddy system in case they get lost, you know, inside a very unspacious room
only downside is that sometime there will be some squabbles about someone yanking too hard but overall they're very peaceful
ruggie will be carrying all the random objects they manage to uncover in case they're needed (aka azul keeps passing over random objects for ruggie to hold— he thinks that they are clues)
mostly because kalim was supposed to, but he left them all over the place and forgot about them while trying to solve puzzles
jade, his handcuff buddy, is seeing all this happen but does he grab the misplaced items? no lmao
instead kalim's the button pusher bc he wants to be useful but sometimes he presses the wrong buttons because its so dARK, WHY IS IT SO DARK???
jamil gets so pissy that u practically couldn't see shit, so he climbed on floyd's shoulders to go fix the fucking lights
floyd complained a lot because jamil's constant reaching felt like he was personally trying to tear his arm off by the socket
silver gets so into the scenario that the escape room assigned so he's on Full Survival Mode
constantly gets on the floor to look for clues underneath things too
everyone should pray that there aren't live actors jumping out or anything because he hears Person In Distress and it's actually on sight because he has a duty to protecc
riddle is hella mad about being constantly dragged onto the floor because OW???
azul and ruggie are constantly ransacking the room for items that may be useful
what was that? useful to the puzzle? absolutely not. they're looking for things that are useful to themselves; being useful to escaping is only a bonus
the severed prop arm ruggie found was probably of no use but he's carrying it anyway just because he can
riddle and azul are the (self-proclaimed) 'designated' logic problem solvers but they overthink it way too much
its actually jade and ruggie that do most of the problem solving bc they actually know how to work in group settings
but don't be fooled, jamil finds out first, but he never explicitly states it. he just nudges people in the right direction
being trapped in a room with the most insufferable people he's met? no thank you. he wants to gtfo as fast as he can w the least attention to himself
kalim and floyd just press and touch everything and somehow end up solving a puzzle together
silver ends up solving the puzzles pertaining to colour or order
riddle makes the most comments about how none of these things are historically accurate, but also ends up being the least helpful sjdhghjk
he keeps getting hooked on the wrong detail and that derails things
azul takes a dig at how riddle is focusing too much on a useless thing but ends up being equally derailed by the wrong detail
if given flashlights, kalim keeps fidgeting with it and is happy to be everyone's lamp
they could be in the middle of solving a puzzle and at the same time, someone will be revealing a childhood story and they all end up bonding
until someone decides its time for a Jokey-Joke and end up revealing some craaaazy trauma story and the whole group goes quiet for a little bit
(aka kalim did this unknowingly)
after getting out, the staff informed the group that they couldve freed themselves from the handcuffs by following the first clue
(they started from the second one because azul unknowingly swiped the first clue for ruggie go hoard ajdkkvkf)
also the staff thanked jamil for fixing the lights and a few mechanisms and gave the entire group a discount ojhfkkdlf
so sorry jamil, even more attention has been drawn to u
6/10 teamwork makes the dream work but they're only good at being friends not teams
third years
everyone and their mother knows this group does not make it out (alive)
when they're ushered into the room and told the premise, lilia, cater, and leona are already laughing and making fun of the scenario
as soon as the group is told to open their eyes, rook, malleus, and vil start commenting on the decor and atmosphere
idia just wants to win but he and trey both agree that their current group is doomed
(also no one knows what the scenario is bc they kept talking over it)
trying to get the keycard out of some locked box was their first puzzle
malleus is three seconds away to tearing the door off his hinges when rook gleefully proclaims he's found the key in one of the prop toilets
when everyone starts looking for clues, there's constant insults being flown around of how 'the drawer is out of bounds, stop trying to open it' or 'stop looking there, we're supposed to solve this puzzle first'
and yes they use their only clues on the first freaking puzzle bc no one knows what the hell is going on and then in later puzzles they keep blaming and arguing that SOMEONE used up all their clues on the first freaking puzzle
any sort of corpse or decaying statue will have at least two people pointing at it and claiming 'its you'
in fact, cater starts carrying the supposed possessed doll because it kinda looked like lilia
idia was laughing his ass off at this before mal got pissy at him & twisted off a mannequins hand and freaked out both idia and cater with a severed hand
rook ends up cuddling with the horror prop before lilia wanted a turn
at another point, he yanked off a bolted lock since it was getting in the way, and about half the group freaked out bc why??!? why did you do that?!?!
cater lap dances the statue, which then vil criticized by saying "put more back into it"
the weight shift caused the statue to light up
when finally being presented a clue that they had to crawl a tunnel to get to, everyone told lilia to get down, and ofc he just squatted and this LOUD crack came from his joints so trey felt bad enough to the point where he crawled in instead
then rook starting carrying the prop skeleton everywhere. it's his ventriloquist arc
the counter for the most 'IDIOT's being thrown around goes to this group
seven forbid there is an old computer that pertains to a puzzle because malleus would suggest to use magic to shock it into working every ten seconds
lilia and leona end up trying to guess the password while everyone else was looking for clues
idia would insult the computer like how is this fossil still up and running?
they were supposed to find the keyboard but idia Knows His Stuff and used the on-screen keyboard to push in the password
around half an hour in, malleus got bored and started speaking in his mother tongue
lilia started communicating in hisses and clicks, which the rest of them believed was a response to malleus (its not, but mal responded in the same fashion although no one, not even the speakers, knew what the other was saying)
in the other room, you will hear rook and cater singing a duet just to have something to do and every time a new song starts, a shoe will be thrown at the pair
i'd give them like a 2/10 because, honestly, they only solved like 2 puzzles, and that's only because of cater fooling around for one of them, and the other was because leona & idia were so freaking mad at being stuck in the first room that they solved it just to get a second room to themselves
HELP ITS BEEN LKKE 15 YEARS BUT OMG THE ACCOUNT REVAMP IS SO NICE????? i was wondering how epelys was doing and was like ???? when i couldn't find ur old user so i started going thru my entire following 🧍♀️ SO GLAD (and sorry) TO SEE U R STILL ALIVE ‼️‼️‼️‼️
AHHHHH HEYYYY i changed my user since i’ve gotten over epel for AWHILE now 😭😭 i’ve also done a revamp since i wasn’t so into project sekai HELPP,, THANKS FOR THINKING ABT ME LOVE YOU
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! it’s 1 am, april 22nd so it’s NOT my bday anymore but this was sent on my bday and i’m sorry for not responding because i was busy ALLL DAY!!!! anyways eli after being the best person ever
>> requested: no
>> a/n: yayyy happy birthday @epelys!!
>> masterlist: octavinelle
>> summary: youre goddamn smitten for jade
>> reader prns: they/them
>> warning(s): second person; yuu ≠ you; reader is depicted to be shorter than jade
As eccentric as you were, you didn't know if this was going to be the best idea. Staring at the field of flowers, you didn't know which ones to pick for your crush. You knew that if you didn't pick the right ones, there was a high chance he would hate you for all of eternity. Reaching down to pick a hydrangea, you paused.
It had finally hit you, that he didn't like flowers. For the seven's sake, he had a club that ventured into the mountains! On top of that, he's even offered you some mushroom soup! Standing back up, you made a bee-line for Ramshackle dorm.
Entering the building, you went up the stairs two at a time.
"Is everything alright?" Yuu hollered up from the bottom of the staircase.
"Yeah, don't worry about it!" you yelled back, rummaging through the things in your room. "Just looking for— Aha!"
You held up a small woven basket that was covered in dust, claiming to be victorious. You coughed as you brushed off the dust, and then walked down the stairs.
"What were ya lookin for?" Grim inquired, looking around Yuu's legs.
"Just an old basket," you smiled, heading towards the door. "I've got some foraging to do."
Now in the mountains, you searched everywhere for mushrooms, picking every other one you found. carefully, you arranged them inside your wooden basket using immense care so you didn't rip one in any way.
After a while, you stopped to stare at your haul. With over 20 different mushrooms in your basket, you figured that it was a good enough gift for Jade.
"Ah, Floyd!" you call out the next day.
The teal haired boy turned around to see you running up to him. "Shrimpy?"
"Floyd, could you tell me where your brother is?"
"Why d'ya wanna know that?" he bends to your height and ruffles your hair. "He's over at the garden, but why don't ya say heeeeeereee—"
"Thank you so much, Floyd!" you smile before dashing off.
"Jade?" you cautiously step into the botanical garden, wary of stray tails.
Getting no answer, you wander around the garden until you spot a head of teal hair. "Jade!"
"Ah, yes?" he smiles, lifting his goggles off of his eyes.
"I brought you something!" you lift up the basket filled with mushrooms. "I thought you would like to cook with them.
"Oh! What a lovely surprise!" he takes the basket from your hands. "Did you know, that this mushroom is used to poison people? And this one is..."
You stopped listening as he talked about the mushrooms, only dopily watching his face light up as he talked. God, were you so in love.
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