Search Requests

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Search Requests

While traveling through Norfinbury, you and your characters may want to search for more plot-relevant items. There are also squares on the map that no one has traveled to, and remain a mystery until explicitly uncovered. Thus, the search page has been created for this use. This page is not for reporting standard movements; if you need to do that, follow the directions on the character movements page. You can also find the square allowances on that page: remember, a quick search takes one square of movement, while a thorough search takes two! In order to have your character search an area, first find the comment of the location your character will be searching. There are general area comments at the beginning for uncovering new squares, searching outside of buildings, and talking to @ADMIN or other things not tied to a specific building. If your character is trying to speak to @ADMIN, simply use the header for the area your character is currently in. After those are building comments for searching inside of buildings. We will reply back within two days informing you what your characters found. Search requests will always receive some sort of reply, even if it's just "there isn't anything interesting here". We will also do our best to hint if there's something more your character can do, if this place has already been thoroughly searched, or if there's just nothing there at all. In order to submit a search request, please put the IC day you're doing your search in the subject line and fill out the following form: <b><u>Search Request</u></b> <b>Area Searched:</b> SQUARE - BUILDING - QUICKLY/THOROUGHLY <b>Anything Else?</b> This is where you describe how your character is searching, as well as if they're specifically looking for something/specifically doing something unusual. The more detailed this is, the easier it is for us to give you accurate results. MAKE SURE TO NOTE ANYONE TRAVELING WITH YOU.

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[The video that plays is silent, black and white, and so grainy it's hard to make out what's going on. It's a blur of movement focused around a corner. Watching closely, it eventually becomes evident that a group of cultists are whipping themselves and tearing at their faces while Samantha, trapped by all of the people, cries and screams.]

Do they want to add this to the public record?

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They can come back, but is there anyone in their group left who hasn't gone into a room?

[swatsflies]

Yes they would like to add it to public record.

Zell hasn't, but while taking a break, he'll leave the key in a cupboard in the Church from one of the previous rooms for House's group coming in the next day.

[rubikscomplex]

House, Will, Ecks, Hannibal, and Wilson will be picking up from Zell's group. They'll be taking the key and testing the doors for the right one. When they get it, House will unlock the door and head in.

[snowblindmods]

They open the last door on the left. It smells like lavender.

Going inside, House is choked by the scent, which thickens like fog as soon as he steps through the door. Even in pitch blackness it's like he can see it--a purple-tinted mist that blocks out everything else. It makes him dizzy and nauseous and elated and devastated, mind and body thrown from one extreme to the next. His heart is pounding, his breathing is rapid, he's not getting enough oxygen, but he doesn't want to leave. It's addicting, and maybe that feeling is familiar, but this is more, this is so much more, this is too much, it's good and it hurts and it's great and it's awful and

House is in a large room. Judging by the very small furniture, it was probably a daycare, Sunday school, or both. Now it's covered in the black and red tapestries of the prophet, though there are children's drawings on the walls depicting the symbols, people in cloaks, and a girl in a cloak with a prophet symbol for a face.

There is an SD card and a key made of bone on one of the little tables.

House will not be mentally able to enter another room in the chapel until it has been entered by someone else and made normal. Even aside from that, he will need some time to recover before he goes anywhere.

[rubikscomplex]

They'll pop the SD card in their tablets and Ecks will take the next key, find the door it fits, and enter.

Also, that's awful and House is never going to want anything to do with lavender again. Thanks for ruining bubble baths, evil entity thing.

cw vomiting, maggot-like things

[snowblindmods]

[Ostensibly, this is video, but it's too grainy and distorted to make out anything. The audio works, however. Very young children are changing "long live the prophet" at a rapid pace. In the background, screaming and wailing and painful sounds. Over top of all that, someone is screaming.]

Would they like to add this to the public record?

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The final room (aside from the main chapel area itself) is the last room on the right. It smells of blood. Going inside, Ecks immediately begins to cough up the substance, unable to stand under the force of her body trying to expel the red fluid that's somehow gotten into her stomach. She can crawl, and if she does, she'll feel something like maggots squirming around. Were they inside her, or were they already on the ground? There's so many. They're crawling up her arms and up her legs and they want to get back in, but that's awful, that's awful, she vomits again, and something is telling her it can stop this, it can stop this if she listens, and

Ecks is in a sacristy. There are black and red prophet robes hanging up, more elaborately decorated than the ones they usually see, along with an assortment of ornamental weapons that their bodies refuse to take out of this room. Among the weapons is a black and red key and a black SD card.

They need to leave. They need to leave. They need to leave. They need to leave. THEY NEED TO LEAVE.
T H E Y N E E D T O L E A V E

[rubikscomplex]

They'll add it to the public record. They'll also take the SD card to pop in and watch as they can.

... Well, this is troubling. Just HOW compelling is that leave compulsion? Because they were doing their search overnight given movement limitations. They can't physically reach another building. Would holing themselves up in one of the 'normal' rooms be an option at all? Even if it's psychologically traumatizing?

They'll leave immediately after lockdown in the morning, just overnight. They maybe didn't plan this so well.

[snowblindmods]

They're blasted by the awful sensation for the duration they're in the building, but staying in one of the normal rooms is an option. They'll definitely want to leave as soon as possible.

[rubikscomplex]

OKAY! They stay the night so they don't die horribly in the snow. They'll leave the red key in a cupboard for Zell and co to find and book it out of the church in the morning.

EDIT: And they'll play the new SD card once they're away from the church.

[snowblindmods]

[This video is crystal clear, but silent. It displays in perfect color how Samantha smashes the head of a cultist guarding her with a heavy candelabra (it can be found in the sacristy if they look, but it's been cleaned) and makes a run for the door. It displays in perfect, crystal clear color as Samantha slips out the door and into the darkness of a blizzard.

We all know what happens to people who spend the night outside in Norfinbury.]

Somewhere, a house goes empty and abandoned.

Would they like to add this to the public record?

[rubikscomplex]

/raises a candle for Sam

They'll add it to the public record.

They cats came back the very next day

[swatsflies]

So on Day 351 they are back again.

They are going to try the key that House's group left for them in the door back in the main room. Is it a success?

[snowblindmods]

The church remembers you.

LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE L E A V E

[swatsflies]

WOW CHURCH. Rude. Would it let Zell go in alone?

[snowblindmods]

No. It would impact anyone who was in a group with people who opened the doors.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Hey guys! I'm sorry I'm late to all of this, work is running me ragged today. I know House and co ran out of time, but would Will's stalker have had any reactions in all of this? Drawn Will towards anything or pushed him away from anything?

[snowblindmods]

Will's stalker refuses to enter the church. It will be waiting for him when he leaves.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Oooo, curious!!

Will he receive any sense from it in terms of the refusal to entry and also upon his return back out of the church? is his stalker judging his life choices?

[snowblindmods]

It's afraid of the church.

[lacecase]

Coming back to this on Day 357, Ginger, England, and America will come into the church! While they're all looking around, Ginger being Ginger, she won't really be thinking about the consequences when she finds the key that's been left behind...she'll just go try it on the locked door! What's the worst that could happen?

cw crucifixion, blasphemy I think

[snowblindmods]

When Ginger opens the door to the chapel, all the lights come on at once. As she was in pitch darkness before, the sudden burst of light is blinding, but as her vision comes back, the chapel is revealed.

It was probably beautiful once, and maybe it's beautiful now, if you like deep, dark wood and blood red accents. Tapestries of the prophet decorate the walls in between each stained glass window, and the center aisle is lined with a black carpet with intricate red patterning.

Andromeda's corpse is attached to the wall, hands and feet nailed in to hold her up in an obvious imitation of Christ. Her stomach has been cut open, metal and wires and cords and fluids left dangling and dripping like entrails.

Somewhere, a house grows empty and lonely.

[lacecase]

Ginger, too, feels as if suddenly she has grown very cold. She blinks into the newfound light, staring ahead of her as if she's not sure what she's seeing is real. But she moves forward, and by the time she's close enough to reach Andromeda, she can't deny it anymore.

"Oh, sweetie, what did they do to you?"

She isn't sure, right away, what she should do--but she knows she can't leave Andromeda up there. Robot or not, she didn't deserve this. She still doesn't deserve this.

"Don't worry, I'll get you down."

But she isn't really sure how to get her down, and her hands are shaking so badly, so she calls back for help from one of her companions.

[keepscalm]

England approaches when Ginger calls for help, nursing a similarly cold feeling in his gut. It was so long ago now that he first encountered Andromeda; he would have never imagined then that something like this had happened to her.

He speaks to Andromeda's corpse as he looks it over, wondering how best to approach taking it down. "I'm sorry we've met again under such circumstances. I was hoping to say that it was good to see you."

But it's not--not like this.

He still hasn't healed enough to do the heavy lifting, but he'll help America and Ginger with direction as they start to take her down.

[snowblindmods]

Unfortunately, even the strength of all three of them together isn't enough to pull out the knife blades that hold her there. They've been driven in so deeply they've buried themselves in the metal of the wall.

[lacecase]

Noooo. Well, they'll have to come back to that, because leaving her seems miserable. For now, though, after a discussion, England and Ginger decide to search the body. Ginger isn't expected to, of course, because she's Ginger, but she steels herself! She's gonna help, darn it!

They're gonna root inside her body cavity, but like, respectfully, to see if they can find anything that could be used even if it isn't some kind of clue.