Autumnal The Haunted House Escape - OPEN - Anyone can join in at any time!

[Jumbled]

Me just waiting like SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!!!

 

[Sonder_]

[[ @Jumbled Action: I carefully navigate to the closet to grab the card and envelope from the jacket pocket, then examined it carefully under the glow of the umbrella.]]

 

[Jumbled]

Sonder stands bravely under the spiraling object floating in the air, showing no signs of fear even as some vengeful spirit threw a tantrum with several shoes and the very umbrella that was ripped away so suddenly and pulled up toward the high ceiling!

The card under the glow reads:

If I had a dollar for every time I planned to buy you an expensive gift...
I'd actually be able to buy you an expensive gift.
Happy Birthday!

A dollar for each year I missed!
All jokes aside, I hope to get back home to you next month.
I miss you! -L

Before there is a real chance to flip it over, or to look at the envelope closely, the umbrella, as if it was outraged at the lack of fear in the room, falls straight down and closes over Sonder. The sight is so unreal, it looks like it belongs in a cartoon!

The glow around the umbrella stops and the force that keeps Sonder trapped ceases.

The room is dark once more.

 

[Rei.]

Wait ... It mentioned dollars. and four dollars fell out earlier. 4 might be important. And a new character - L? So this L person presumably missed four birthdays. And rip our lighting, we didn't even get to look at the envelope in detail. Or try and take the photos out of their frames to examine the back.

 

[Rimechapel]

Ummm I think it has been at least four minutes since I posted.


[[ @Jumbled I listen to all the exposition about numbers and birthdays and such and I decide that - since I routinely walk around my own house at night with all the lights off - I am uniquely qualified to try the keypad in these circumstances. And just in case I'm not, I turn around and ask firefly to walk up and light up the room.

The code I attempt to input is: 2-3-2-8-1-8 ]]

(sorry-ish for not debating this more but it's been a minute and I really think Rei got the combination right!)

 

[sassafras]

Why did I come in here?! I hate ghosts!!

(oops, edited to just the text because everything updated when I hit send lol)

 

[Jumbled]

(( Lol, Sass the card is up above! Post 63! ))

 

[Torack]

Ok, so we have a sassy ghost! Maybe if we acknowledge that it's trying to frighten us, the umbrella might come back? That light seemed kinda important

 

[JamesMartin]

Let's try it.

[[I loudly proclaim "Dammit, that umbrella is as frightening as a 4AM ping from Jum"]]

 

[Jumbled]

The keypad lights up in yellow after the first touch. With every push there is a gentle beep.
After the fifth number is entered, the keypad flashes red, and it angrily beeps in error.

It lights up once again as the last digit it pressed, as if Rime started over a five digit code.

 

[Jumbled]

A random shoe is thrown at James. It was definitely the ghost and not the GM.

 

[sassafras]

[[ @Jumbled Action: I ask the ghost nicely even though I'm scared of it "Can we please have some light in here?" ]]

 

[Jumbled]

The room remained colder than one might expect. The umbrella drops to the floor lifelessly, as if it would rather do anything than help any of you.

The ghost never seems to sense Rime, though, because he is secretly a demon and can walk though any haunted house with 0% sanity and nothing happens.

 

[JamesMartin]

3+2 is 5. It's a single number

 

[LarkAngel]

Let's not be too hasty you guys. Maybe we need more evidence-- PSYCH haha let's send it.

[[@Jumbled , I nudge my way to the front and type in the numbers: 2-5-8-1-8 ]]

 

[Rimechapel]

omjamesbled. Try it. The keypad is angry at me and is no longer my friend.
Edit - I'm late. Thanks Lark.

 

[Baffled]

Four dollars for four years. Can we consider that's the new number for the pin? The birthday cake was the ambiguous picture, right?

 

[Jumbled]

Unfortunately in the haste of punching in a new 5 digit code, with the number 8 still active, the keypad once again flashes red in error and a new guess has begun again. It, too, it now starting with "8"

 

[Baffled]

[[ @Jumbled Action: I go to the keypad, take it away (rudely) from whoever is holding it, punch in 1 - 1 - 1 -1 to clear it, and hand it back.]]

 

[LarkAngel]

Darn it, hahah. I don't want this dang thing. Maybe it's broken. Somebody else take it.