[Final Day] Breaking & Entering

[arsgoetia]

After being hit by the door on the way . . . in, you force yourself into the sealed area and find yourself in a perfectly ordinary sitting room. There are portraits on the walls, and overstuffed chairs, and a big-ass rug, and a cold fireplace.

It's all very suspicious.

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[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

[iiiiiignoring all the injuries to walk inside]

[looking at the portraits]

[arsgoetia]

"Okay," Kincade says. "Why would there be a totally normal sitting room behind a demonically-sealed door? Oh god, this had better not be like one of those horror stories like YES WE HAVE KEPT MOTHER IN THE ATTIC!!1 or something."

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

Unless this is where the demons' mothers have tea or something.

[arsgoetia]

"Oh god I hope not," she says, and then says, "I haven't brushed up on my Devil's Grandmother folklore forever, it never seemed relevant."

The pictures seem to be circa the early 1900s and are obviously all of the same family, pale and kind of annoyed with having their photos taken.

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

And now would be a bad time for it to pop up.

[any plaques telling who the people in the individual portraits are?]

[arsgoetia]

No plaques.

"Yeah, seriously. Anyway I don't see how theologically that is possible," she adds, and prods a chair cushion with her polearm. It pops, oozing stuffing.

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

Hm, that's true.

You think there's anything hiding behind these portraits?

[arsgoetia]

"We could take them off the wall," Cady suggests.

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

That works!

[arsgoetia]

"All right," Cady says. "You take the other side, let's not drop it."

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

On it.

[using good arm to lift]

[arsgoetia]

Cady helps lift! The wall behind the first portrait is blank.

"Ugh," she says, and lets go.

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

Next one?

[arsgoetia]

"Yep," she says. "Don't want to miss anything." She moves over to it.

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

[moves and lifts]

[arsgoetia]

"Heave, ho..."

Nothing behind this one either. "Damn!"

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

Let's move on.

[to the next portrait!]

[arsgoetia]

"Guess we'd better be methodical about this..."

[Behind this portrait are SOME SCRATCHES though they look less arcane and more like they scratched the wall when hanging the portrait.]

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

[nods]

[fingers the scratches for a second before moving on to the next portrait]

[arsgoetia]

"Hang on..."

she digs through her hoodie, huffs, and says, "Do you have paper and pencil?"

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

[PRESENTS: notebook with pencil]

[arsgoetia]

"Oh yeah, of course you do." She borrows your notebook and pencil and combines them with a wall to get ONE WALL RUBBING OF SCRATCHES.

Just in case.

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, that's smart.

[arsgoetia]

She gives a thumb's up and hands the book back. "Hold onto this, I don't have a lot of pockets right now even if I tore it out."

[haspinkglasses.livejournal.com]

No problem.

[sticks book back into its proper place]