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[lazlo falconi]

As the taxis, buses, and planes left the northern hemisphere, everyone was feeling good about this adventure. It had been some time since everyone had gotten together in Louisiana and totally not killed or even zombified, and the ties that held this community together were strongly pulling toward Antarctica. The reunion in the Rio Grande, Argentina airport was a happy affair, though short lived. Soon, everyone was in a plane on the final leg of the journey. Pamphlets stuffed into the seats extolled the wonderful getaway known as Snowside, Antarctica. A strange combination of research station and vacation destination, the Resort had been a popular place for school trips. State of the art equipment, and luxurious rooms were promised for all who could afford to pay the rather hefty bill.
 
During the flight, the pilot started talking with the group, eventually mentioning how courageous they were. "You mean you haven't heard? Well, the legend goes that about six years ago, a group of university students had come down on some kind of research trip, and all but a few were horrendously slaughtered. Ever since, everyone who enters feels as though they're being watched. Some say it's the ghosts of the kids who were killed watching over the guests, keeping the safe. Others say... Well, there are a lot of different ideas. Anyway, can't say as I would want to stay there." The pilot shuddered. "I don't even like landing there. Seems like the weather is never nice."
 
Everyone glared at Monkeydog, and Lazlo said, "You know, you always pick the worst locations for these things." Monkeydog just shrugged and smiled nervously. 
 
The plane fell silent for the rest of the trip, everyone thinking about the events the pilot had explained. Soon, the weather started getting rough, and the tiny plane was tossed. "Looks like a storm up ahead, as usual. Hang on tight, everyone." The landing was bumpy, and a freezing wind cut through everything as snow blasted any exposed flesh. The pilot pointed to the large, foreboding structure in the distance, yelling, "That's it up there. I'll be back at 10 AM in seven days, so make sure you here. I don't like staying longer than I have to." And with a curt nod, he jumped back in his small plane, and began fading into the distance.
 
As the group made its way toward the resort, the storm gave way, but did nothing for the cold. In front of the large stoop, a windblown sign was posted, "Attention guests: This state of the art research station and resort hotel is completely automated. Inside you will find no staff, however, know that you will not need to fend for yourselves! During the day, sensors will detect when nobody is around, and clean the rooms without bothering you. In the kitchen, simply say what you wish to eat, and it will be delivered to you hastily! Enjoy the solitude and work in peace! - Snowside Resort and Super Science Research Station Management"
 
The waning storm and the prospect of a completely automated hotel and lifted the spirits of the group, however, as the ascended the stairs leading up to the large door, things quickly changed. Everyone looked around, suddenly nervous. Somehow they knew that something had changed. When they entered the building, things went on as normal. Everyone sat in the large dining hall, each reading a menu, and stating what they wished to eat. Quickly, it was lowered from a trap door in the ceiling, and all very delicious, though not many had the appetite to eat.
 
When dinner was done, nervous chatter filled the room, when someone suddenly screamed. Everyone looked around, and saw, scrawled on the wall in what looked like blood, "FOOLISH MORTALS. YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE COME HERE. WE ARE DONE WITH YOU." The discussion happened quickly, and nobody know who suggested it, but the idea that some in the party had been possessed was agreed on. The villainous spirits inside them must be exorcised, but being inexperienced, the exorcism would be deadly. Looking from eye to eye, everyone agreed it was the best option.
 
Good luck.
 
 
 

EVENING OF THE FIRST DAY
- seven days remain -

 
 
(( Players, you will have 48 hours to perform day actions. Explore the building around you, and decide if you wish to kill anyone today. ))
(( Choose where you wish to sleep, there are ten rooms, each with two beds. Five are on the first floor, and five are on the second floor, directly above. ))
 
 

[ Silver_Vixen_Kiki------101------------------EMPTY ]
[ EMPTY------------------102------------------EMPTY ]
[ Hyperlisk--------------103------------------EMPTY ]
[ Puffin-----------------104------------------EMPTY ]
[ EMPTY------------------105------------------EMPTY ]
 
[ EMPTY------------------201------------------EMPTY ]
[ kspr-------------------202------------------EMPTY ]
[ EMPTY------------------203------------------EMPTY ]
[ Tyrian-----------------204------------------EMPTY ]
[ EMPTY------------------205------------------EMPTY ]

[Kamau]

Kamau shivered, looking again to the could-be-bloody message on the wall. Why did he keep attending these things, again? Somehow, he always seemed to wake up after them with a huge sense of regret. For attending? For it being over? The actual events of these conventions always seemed so hazy once he was back in his own bed....

 

He shook his head, steering away from what could only be uncomfortable thoughts. There were more important things to worry about now, like with whom and where he would be rooming. Quickly, his head swiveled away from the message to scout out...There we go! "Puffin!" he said, walking over to his best friend (who he'd convinced to come along, somehow. They'd seemed oddly reluctant this time around). When he was close enough, he smiled nervously. "Room buddy?" he asked, sounding hopeful. 

[Weiss]

Tyri shrugged after looking at the message on the wall, Whoever wrote it was clearly done with us, so Tyri deduced they are going to stop pestering us... or they don't understand English very well. Tyri distracted by the thought of annoying people who smell like garlic and have a silly accent, then moved on to see what other "delights" this boring school trip/Holiday/Refrigerator had to offer.

"As long as the food is decent, I doubt it will be hard to survive this pretty crappy trip" thought Tyri

As for picking a room, Tyri really couldn't be bothered with the annoyance that was deciding who slept where so they picked up a key at random and headed off

"Now where the hell is 204??" Tyri said out loud

[kspr]

Alright gang, it looks like we should.... split... up... damnit. 

 

Alone again, but that was nothing new. I came into this world alone... Come to think of it, I was also naked, and uncircumcised... Times can sure change a man. I take a single cigarette out of my fedora and light it. Then, realizing I don't smoke, put it out in a potted plant.

 

"Boy it's hot in here." I pause to wipe the sweat from my brow, when I smell the familiar crisp burning of a turkish blend. "Hey pal, that's bad for ya." With no response, I turn around, and see the plant begin to burn. Now in my panic, I remember just how long I had been holding it in on the flight. With no fire extinguisher in sight, and no other option, I relieve myself on the plant to extinguish the flame. Relieved, but covered in the same burning menthol pee smell now permeating the room, I make for a hallway to find somewhere to hide this plant. 

 

I finally find one door with a little more wiggle than jiggle, and gently turn the knob.

[Hyperlisk]

"Just when I thought this was going to be amazing! Of course there has to be a demon possessing somebody. Jeez, can't we ever have a normal get together?"

"Pepperoni pizza!" Hyperlisk shouts to the hotel.

Hyperlisk waits a little while until he sees his pizza descend from the ceiling.

"Well, I guess we'll just have to try and make the best of it. Hopefully this demon is just playing a joke on us. Anyone who wants pizza, and a roommate, can join me in room 103"

Hyperlisk snatches the key and heads off with his tasty pizza.

[Stars]

"There's something very familiar about this place. I almost feel like I've been here before...but of course that's silly."

 

All during dinner, Stars found it very difficult not to say "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot," but he managed to hold it in somehow. Smelling that pizza, though, that was too much to much to resist. "Mind if I join you?" he asks Hyperlisk as he follows him to 103.

[Puffin]

"Yeah, of course," Puffin answered Kamau. He looked at the wall and shook her head. Of course they were stranded in the middle of Antarctica with a bunch of ghosts. He hoped that maybe the next seven days would pass without incident, but something told her that wasn't likely. "How about room 104?" Puffin asked, seeing that everyone was beginning to pick out their rooms. He picked up the key for the room and headed off.

[Xteven Xavier]

 'I can't believe all of this is happening' thought Xteven, 'I mean I know I was destined for greatness but this is unbelievable.'

 

"One Tic tac," he shouted at the house with a grin from ear to ear. As soon as it descended he popped it into his mouth and again said, "One Tic Tac." as the plate began lowering again he schemed a more brilliant plan. he just kept shouting a chorus of one tic tac just to see how many trays would lower from the ceiling before they ran out. Of trays or tic tacs it didn't matter which and durring the shouts for tic tacs he thought again the line 'destined for greatness' with a smile on his face.

[Kamau]

Another shiver ran down his spine as Puffin suggested room 104. He just couldn't shake the feeling that something terrible had happened there at one point..but for the life of him, he couldn't recall what. Inspection proved quickly that the room was as ordinary as could be. But still...

 

Man, he hoped whatever this feeling was didn't stop him from sleeping at night. 

 

"So, our stuff's in here now..." he began, kind of still wanting to be in the room as little as possible for now. "Wanna go explore the rest of the place? Maybe we'll find the ghooooost." He wiggled his eyebrows, trying to sound spooky and failing. 

[Puffin]

"Uhh, hopefully not," Puffin said, finding very little humor in Kamau's joke, considering the circumstances. "But exploring sounds like a good idea- it's better than sitting around waiting for something to happen." As they set out from their room, he added, "This place is a research station in addition to being a hotel, isn't it? Maybe we'll find something sciencey that could be handy."

[Weiss]

"Well at this rate i'll have the whole floor to myself, Means i can build the best pillow fort ever" 

After a few hours of stealing and making the bestest pillow fort ever Tyri heads back downstairs...

"Nice amount of trays there Xteven, and your breath is amazing"

"I would like some chips please" 

As the tray lowers a bag of potato chips comes down. Tyri mumbles to themselves "Stupid Yank machinery"


edited because my grammar was atrocious.. i literally spelt ever as either >_> NO SLEEP IS FUN RIGHT!

[SpazCat]

The travel to this odd place went well enough. The feeling of soon-to-be comfort changed the moment the steps to the snowy fortress are traversed. The chilled feeling from that moment wasn't easy to shake. She stuck to that chilled feeling for the majority of dinner. Trying to identify it was becoming troublesome. After eating she decided that this feeling wasn't leaving her and she needed a distraction. As if the universe heard her thought a scream rang out. Everyone quickly turned to look to see the bloody words on the wall. A slightly drawn out discussion had everyone agreeing one of the group was possessed.

 

Spaz felt that chill again. This is no vacation anymore. This is survival. Spaz took care of her room first. Choosing 201, it was the first on the second floor (easy accessibility to all of the 2nd floor rooms) and close to the stairs (easy accessibility to the first floor rooms). Then began the dissection of the people around her.

 

Spaz looked about the table. Only noting things that could be useful to her.

• Kamau and Puffin seemed to be closer friends than the rest of the group, this notion was solidified when they decided to room together. Two in one room would be helpful.
• Tryi seemed harmless enough, but constantly hungry maybe?
• Kasper was special in his own right. His little incident with the plant did not go unnoticed, nor did his lack of presence.
• Star and Hyperlisk looked as though they would be rooming together as well. Two in one room would be helpful. Though they did not seem as close as Kamau and Puffin. Stars and Hyperlisk would be more prone to splitting up.
• Xteven was far from harmful. Enjoying his endless tic tacs.

She sighed. All of this was simple speculation at best. None of which she could easily decide who the possessed was.

 

Breathing deeply she moved to the second room and got settled into her room. Looking about nothing seemed odd or disturbing. She paused and quickly turned to the bed, "Where the hell are the pillows?!" This was no deed of evil, but of injustice! Spaz ran to the hallway and looked both ways, she could see no one. She went back to the main floor and stumbled upon the burnt plant Kasper had been messing with. She immediately dropped her pursuit of pillow finding to find Kasper. The plant was settled between two living plants and two doors. Spaz tried both doors and neither were locked. Both doors looked similar and neither seemed recently used.

 

"Maybe he didn't go into either door?" Milling it over she decided on taking the left door and shut it behind her, "Kasper? Are you killing more defenseless plants in here?"

[Xteven Xavier]

after a solid 16 hours of making trays lower being forced to reset each time someone else ordered something because it threw off his count Xteven decided he was tired so he went to the counter and grabbed a key. 'I can't believe it topped out at only 200 trays he thought groggilly as he walked up the stairs he started off down the Hallway. he slid the key into the door he had chosen just in time to see Tyrian pounding his pud.Tyrian screamed for him to get out but Xteven just marched forth and lied down on the other bed and closed his eyes. 

 

"goodnight crazy hallucination" he said dreamily.

[Weiss]

Do i even want to know what pounding my pud is.... >_>

Just stay out my pillow fort kk

[lazlo falconi]

Lazlo looked on in shocked disbelief as Xteven chose to stay with Tyrian. "Well, I guess I'll just grab 205 so I can listen through the door... Monkey, would you care to join me in what I'm now calling the Presidential Suite?"

[SpazCat]

She shut the door behind her and the small hallway before her was slowly lit by wall lanterns. Her question going unanswered she choose to press forward. Two doors were on the left side of the small hallway. The right side being adorned with crumbling maps. Looking over the maps she realized she recognized none of the depicted continents or bodies of water. 

 

"Odd..." Spaz mumbled to herself. 

 

She turned her attention to the doors, again choosing the left. Upon entering more lanterns lit, along the walls, as well as a large globe like chandelier in the center of the room. She surveyed her immediate area. The second door connected to this room too, "Why? Two doors for one room?" Spaz lightly strolled around the room. Taking her time tapping glass cups and smelling her surroundings. She made her way to the center of the room. Gazing at the soft orb above her. It lit the room quite well for it's size.

 

She saw what anyone would expect in a science lab, beakers, test tubes, microscopes, scattered papers, and... dust? Walking toward the last table she noticed the caked layer of dust that covered it. It wasn't so much that there was dust on this table that bothered her, it was the amount. It was as if it hadn't been used in years. Spaz inhaled deeply, "It doesn't smell dusty..." Taking another glance revealed that none of the other tables or counters had dust on them, just this one table.

 

She felt a chill once more and snapped her neck to look behind her.

[lazlo falconi]

The day had been long, and our conventioneers were tired. Xteven was burping up a minty storm, but that didn't seem to bother Tyrian and his pud-pounding.

The events of the day were creepy, but nobody wanted to admit they believed it. And why should they? That wall trick was something out of a bad movie, and everyone was tired. One by one, each member went to their rooms, hoping for a plush pillow, and an uninterrupted night full of dreams of the fun they would have. After all, tomorrow was another day, and the resort wasn't really haunted.


...Right?

 

First Night
- seven days remain -

(( Those of you with night actions, please send them in before Monday night ))

[ Silver_Vixen_Kiki------101------------------EMPTY ]
[ EMPTY------------------102-------------Monkey Dog ]
[ Hyperlisk--------------103------------------Stars ]
[ Puffin-----------------104------------------Kamau ]
[ EMPTY------------------105------------------EMPTY ]
 
[ Spaz-------------------201------------------EMPTY ]
[ kspr-------------------202------------------EMPTY ]
[ EMPTY------------------203------------------EMPTY ]
[ Tyrian-----------------204-----------------Xteven ]
[ Lazlo------------------205------------------EMPTY ]

[Silver_Vixen_Kiki]

Kiki did not have much time to gather her thoughts before she choose the room 101. She didn't know any of the face's here, unlike some who seemed to be pretty familiar with one another.The writing on the wall was scary yet exciting. Her normal life was boring and nothing like this. Perhaps someone was playing a joke on them, or perhaps the advance automated systems they had here were taking over. The thought of that made her laugh quietly as she made her way to her room.

Turning the door handle and walking in she dragged her suitcase into the room and placed it beside her bed. "Quite lonley in here.." She looked around slowly, inspecting the small but spacious quarters . normally she was always with someone but on this trip she decided to go somewhere alone, and honestly she didn't like it. Especially now that they decided that maybe some are possessed. With that crossing her mind she took that moment to lock the door. Suddenly, she felt tired, and cold. "Maybe this would be a good time to try out the bed.. Or maybe I should go look around. Hmm." The thought of wondering alone made her nervous so kiki decided it would be best to stay put just for the moment or until she got the courage to explore.

[lazlo falconi]

For many of the guests, it was the longest night they had ever known. Tired from the trip, yet scared for their lives, everyone spent the night tossing and turning, or skulking about the halls. As the sun rose, everyone slowly opened their door, somehow all waking up together. They glanced from eye to eye, then finally realized what was missing...


Nobody! Everyone had survived the first night. Phwew! Maybe this whole thing was a big hoax!
 

Dawn of the Second Day
- six days remain -

(( We will have until Friday Night to do anything you wish to do during the day. ))

[Kamau]

It felt great to wake up. Waking up meant some crazy ghost hadn't managed to kill him during the night - and the night had been long and restless for him. He'd barely been able to sleep (heck, he was still unsure of when he actually managed to drift off) and even in his dreams he was imagining the sound of creaking floorboards and someone hovering over him, deciding his fate. 

 

The memory - dream? - made his head turn to make sure that it had been just his imagination running wild. Immediately he felt better, because he could see Puffin sitting up in bed, still breathing. This place might be getting to him, but at least it hadn't become real overnight.

 

He got out of bed and headed to the door, wanting to make sure that it really hadn't become real. As the others all came out of their rooms (the ones he could see, at least, though he could hear the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs), he decided he'd never been happier to see all of them. 

 

"Good morning!" he said, and meant it.