TEAM SNOW WHITE LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM SNOW WHITE

READY: START Team Snow White roster: Davey Jacobs, Eleanor Lamb, Fang, Kasen Kanesada, Malik Ishtar, Mari Ohara, Riku, Ritsu Kageyama, Ryoji Mochizuki, Toushiro Hitsugaya, Yuri Plisetsky. The city's been under siege for what feels like hours. It's only on August 3rd that you learn it's been a matter of days. Monsters begin pulling Retrospec users through portals left and right, large gaping holes in reality that spit you out in any given location around the city. However, just as you think you're finally getting away, a large blue portal opens and you're snatched up. No amount of fighting and struggling will free you and soon the pressure is too great to ignore. Darkness fills your vision and the last thing you may remember is the sound of many bat wings... This is the Team Snow White Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Snow White is as follows: 3RD: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 1 Part Two 10TH: Objective 1 closes (8PM EST), Objective 2 posted (9PM EST) 17TH: Objective 2 closes (8PM EST), Objective 3 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 3 Part Two 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work.

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WEEK 3 OBJECTIVE

[recollecters]

From somewhere inside a clock chimes, and the doors in front of the party slowly open to reveal the depths of the Spinnato Mansion. The foyer is wide and it takes some time to travel through the halls to the main part of the house. Be careful; unlike before there are no candles to guide you and unless you've a way to light your path you will find yourself completely in the dark.

The house creaks and moans with each step they take and thick dust covers every surface in layers. Spiderwebs are woven through chandeliers and stairwells and though there's an unsettling feeling about the house itself it appears as though it's a moment of life interrupted. Dishes are set out for a dinner that has yet to be served. Children's toys line the playroom. A watering can sits on a table for a plant long since dead and books remain half unread.

When they first enter, however, they will find themselves at the base of the stairs in the center of the house and a loud thunderous crack sounds from above. A smooth jazz voice begins to speak from overhead, surrounding them with no escape of ignoring it.

"Welcome, welcome! You've arrived right on time. The deathday party's just begun..."

A gush of air swings through the house and all of the doors fly open as dim lights flicker on in ornate candle fixtures on the wall. The front door slams and a clanking mechanical rattle alerts the party that they've been locked inside.

"There's no place like home, is there?"

And then...silence. Good luck, adventurers.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Explore the mansion and discover the secret to getting out alive.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: "A Deathday Party": Explore the rooms and partake in the activities within.

The primary objective is required to "win" the week objective! Completing the secondary objective is optional and may allow team members to net bonus rewards! Threads which progress toward either objective should be reported to this toplevel. Your primary objective cannot be completed solo, and will require you to work as a team!

For this week's secondary objective, please comment here with directions you'd like to go (pick a number, please!) and what precautions (if any) your characters will be taking.

At least 8 of 11 team members must participate to pass. You must also solve the objective; be sure to communicate with your teammates and please let the moderators know of any drastic player action; for the primary objective, you will all need to communicate as a group to figure out what pieces go where to ensure your escape.

OBJECTIVE REPORTING

[recollecters]

Any objective progress/solutions should go here! You do need to thread out the completion of the objective in full.

Room 6

[catsudon]

As this is a "things happen we're not finding anything" room, we are in and exploring and being unwise in what we drink: http://recolle.dreamwidth.org/86900.html?thread=21203316#cmt21203316

Room 5

[appraiser]

Kasen and Ryoji have retrieved the whistle from Room 5!

Room 4

[catsudon]

We've officially hit the shivering shoe box gift!

http://recolle.dreamwidth.org/86900.html?thread=21324404#cmt21324404

Room 9

[appraiser]

Toushiro and Ryoji; party favor from Room 9!

room 11

[darkinferno]

A pair of matched spoons, discovered!

Room 1

[esperimental]

Glowing rat get?

ROOM EXPLORATION

[recollecters]

Please comment here with what number room you'd like to explore! PLEASE NOTE: Room 14 will not be available until all other rooms are explored, and some rooms are shorter to go through than others!

MINGLE / feel free to threadjack

[esperimental]

[ Technically speaking, Ritsu hasn't yet regained the ability to detect the auras of ghosts that he couldn't see. But it doen't take a rocket scientist to figure out there was something wrong with this mansion. ]

So this is where all the spirits went.

12/13

[belligerentwarrior]

[Yeah, sorry house, she's passing on the dated fancy clothes. Water and a protein bar downed, the rest stuffed in her backpack, and Freya's starting up the stairs after a brief look around.]

Deathday, huh? Something that over the top supposed to be scary? [She's got the improvised spear with her, though it isn't heated up. Starting a fire locked in here would be the death of them all.]

room 9

[appraiser]

[ The courtyard isn't as well kept as Ryoji was hoping for. He'd been to the graveyard outside of the mansion, but here? Grass growing in clumps, a dead tree in the middle of the courtyard that Ryoji gravitates towards, eyes up at the pinata that hangs above his head... ]

Hey, Toushiro. Do you still have that knife with you?

[ A killjoy. Let's slit the pinata's belly and see if there's anything inside. ]

room 5

[appraiser]

[ The kitchen isn't supposed to be like this. It's supposed to be homey, warmth and spices filling the air, patterened aprons and a certain someone Ryoji dearly misses as he takes a tentative step inside the room, nearly jumping out of his skin as several rats dart past his feet, equally startled by their departure as they are by his and Kasen's arrival.

Ryoji wrinkles his nose, a frown pulling at his lips as he glances around the island counter. ]

Spoiled food... it's such a waste.

room 3b -> 8

[seizedtheday]

[ The upstairs hallway looks quiet enough. Davey’s not discounting anything but it all seems well when he peeks down the hall. The plant vases gets a long hard look but nothing looks like it’s moving at the moment and hopefully, they’ll stay that way. ]

It looks clear. I guess we’ll just have to chance it.

[ Davey’s got a tight grip on his ever trusty ax, and steps forward. Nothing happens?? Great. Another few steps and the moment he passes by one of the plants, it reaches out to welcome him fully by picking him up and flinging him straight into a giant cobweb. ]

- Whoa?!

[ Ah, it looks like something is here to greet them after all ]

Room 2 | Like it or Bust | Yuri & Eleanor

[catsudon]

( Yuri had eaten the protein bars they'd been given, but as the mansion opened up in all its creepy, pitch black glory, he used the equipment they'd been hauling around since the caverns to light up the way as they split into smaller groups and explored the rooms. he hadn't dressed in the suit, not inclined toward such unless there was a tangible benefit. he still had the suit tucked in his sack, carried with him like the rest of his random spoils in his spartan version of hoarding over the last two weeks.

he's not even sure it's been two weeks. maybe it's been longer; who says his phone was accurate as the last of its battery drained and died? he grimaces, trying to forget the portraits in the entry hall, glancing back to Eleanor as they come to a door past where the last set of people had gone exploring. )

Once we get out of the Haunted Mansion, I want a hot shower. No, a bath. Ten baths. Also lots of good food I didn't have to make that's extra greasy and fresh.

( all counterpoints to the last two weeks. he pushes the door in carefully, keeping to one side in case anything decided to rocket out at them and attack. that's been one of the recurring themes. one never knows.

which is why one (read: Yuri) has his purloined knife and out at the ready. the oar simply doesn't work well in confined spaces like the halls. )

Room 6 | Liquor Liquor Everywhere, And Not A Drop To... Wait | Dante & Yuri

[catsudon]

( does he want to be here right now? no. no he does not. the why has more to do with finding himself standing next to Dante and holding a headlamp of a kind, turning on heel and not stomping off because he doesn't trust a damn thing in this mansion. everything could be rotted through and he'd find it and fall and break both legs and while of course Dante does not and then where would he be?

... somewhere with broken legs, but the flight of pessimistic fancy is short lived in the face of impending practicality. )

There's the door.

( he says, speaking low and closer to Dante than he honestly wants to be. it doesn't help that he still has to look up at him. Yuri's been growing, but he's not six feet (yet). but his point is fairly simple: Dante's one of the team fighters.

Yuri, on the other hand, fights when backed into a corner, runs when not, and is more of a survivor than anything else, and he's well aware of this.

so Dante is welcome to take point! )

Room 7 - Death Waltz | Ryoji and Ritsu

[esperimental]

[ After dethroning King Malik from his reign over the working bathroom, Ritsu and Ryoji have managed to make themselves look presentable enough to join in the ghosts' dance after being turned away dismissively last time. --Presentable enough without like shampoo or combs but, they're doing the best they can here okay. (Maybe there was no real rule they couldn't join in the festivities while looking like crap, but Ritsu hadn't wanted to wear the neat clothes while being a mess himself anyway.) Ritsu had ended up with something similar to this brown look here.

Ritsu carefully opens the door, where a lady cheerfully welcomes them in in contrast, surprising him a fair amount. Ryoji can practically see his hair stand up after a slight jump. The piano's keys play on without a musician, and couples dance along-- as does... the chandelier?

Ritsu didn't like the look of that. Well, they can stay aside (for now) and see what information they can gather... Ritsu starts translating to Ryoji beside him, just in case he's not hearing the same things he is. ]

"9th Birthday party... Wells and Cynthia Spinnato?" Maybe they're among the kids here... are you seeing everyone too Ryoji-san?

[ And there's something else malicious in here as well? But why? Was it his own being on-guard making him imagine things? No... Not everyone was having fun. Ritsu scans the room, but he can't figure out its source. ]

Room 1 - Back to the Past | Mari and Ritsu

[esperimental]

[ There wasn't much to say about the place where they first entered, or so Ritsu would've thought. Exploring with Mari and their two companions, the curtains around them cheekily decide to show them a display they hadn't to the others-- not that they could see them very well, in the dark.

Ritsu turns the oil lamp brighter, and the portraits would be lovely if not for the lighting making it look like they were looking down on them. And dominant genes are a thing, but don't they look a bit too alike? Hmm... ]

Oh, they have some scenic landscape portraits too.

room 10 - family feud (dante and toushiro)

[toushiro]

[ toushiro is far from enthusiastic about the exploring the haunted mansion. it might possibly be the most unnerving part about this entire experience. had he not almost been clawed to death by a monster prior to arriving in this weird version of reality, he may not be so on-edge and jumpy right now but the ghosts are more than enough to startle him. he hasn't let go of the handle of the kitchen knife freya gave him since they arrived.

but he's left with dante, it seems, to explore room #10. at least dante seems to have combat experience and can. well. summon a weapon out of nowhere, and that counts for a lot. toushiro hates to rely on others, but...having dante around at least makes him feel better about whom he's paired up with.

he approaches the room warily, then turns back to look at dante. ]

Any preparations needed before we go in?

Room 4 | The Gift Table | Freya & Yuri

[catsudon]

( he let Freya take point on this door, too, his headlamp useful for keeping the way ahead lit as long as he didn't dart his head around to look at every sound that caught his attention. it was a near thing, for better and worse.

with the door open, though, the most he could see was a hint of shadow'd table and... chairs? a bulk of unidentified something on top. the pass of his light showed bright coloured paper under layers of dust; he frowned. )

Just what the hell even happened here?

room 11 | dante & toushiro

[darkinferno]

[After the past couple weeks, it seems like all of them have had to be constantly on guard, and the inside of this mansion has proven to be no exception so far. Dante had been hoping privately that once they got inside things would settle down a bit, but no, instead it seems like it's the most dangerous place so far. Every room seems to have its own danger, and if the aftermath of whatever had happened in the hallway is any indication, the halls are just has bad.

But if the past couple weeks again are any indication, they've got to scour this place from top to bottom to find whatever it is they need in order to get out.

Which brings him to now, swinging open a door with Toushiro alongside him, the both of them ready to face whatever's inside. As has become his custom, he sends Brob in first (the better to make sure there's no traps awaiting them!), but once the lightbulb has made it inside, he gives Toushiro a shrug.]

Looks like it's safe. Let's see what there is to find in here.

Room 8 - Davey and Eleanor

[notyourutopian]

So I think it's down this way...

[Eleanor gestured down the hall towards the room she and Davey were heading to investigate without stopping, finally coming to a halt in front of the door itself. After the spider hallway she was a bit...well, apprehensive about everything here, really. But that wasn't enough to stop her from wanting to explore, on the off chance there'd be something worth finding. Or a way home.]

[She glanced at him, then puffed out a breath and pushed the door open. Inside was...it almost looked like a playroom, really? Was that a good thign, or a bad?]

Maybe we can just grab ever-[She took one step inside as she spoke, which cut off with a yelp as she felt herself suddenly scooped up and dragged across the room as a bunch of strings wrapped around her arms and legs and deposited her on a makeshift little stage at the far side.]

3A - Ritsu and Freya

[belligerentwarrior]

[They were missing something. They had to be. Freya grumbles under her breath as she circles around the stairs, her hand trailing along the filthy wall and pressing in places. Mansions like these always had secret passages, right? Wasn't that how it went?]

[Well, it was no secret passage, but it'll have to do.] Oi, Ritsu. Over here. There's a space behind the stairs.

Closed to Ryoji

[belligerentwarrior]

Got a favor to ask you.

[Freya looks like hell; she'll be the first to admit it. She comes down the stairs to the main room carrying one of the med kits, looking like a drowned rat that picked a fight a poltergeist-powered lawnmower. Or a swarm of opossums. Either or.]

[Her hair and clothes are damp, and her arms absolutely covered in bite marks, with a few others scattered over the rest of her body. Most of them are shallow or partial, and it looks like Freya's already stitched up the worst ones.]

[She fixes Ryoji with a level, tired stare.] Can you use a needle?

♚ KING OF THE BATHROOM ♚

[godcards]

[ No matter how the information spread - that there's a clean, functional bathroom - and no matter why you are here. Malik got here first, and he wants to make sure everybody knows it.

The end table he and Freya had used to prop up the door initially is... well, back in the doorway, and Malik is sitting on it, practically radiating smugness. After all, he's already taken a bath. ]

If you want to use the bathroom, it'll cost you. The question is, what is it worth? How badly do you want it? Do you think you can keep going the way you are, wallowing in your own filth?

Pay up, and I'll let you in.