arsgoetia | Game 19

You are in a small, square room—no more than five or six paces across in either direction. The décor is cramped, black, and gothic a darkened library jammed so full of books and antiquated furniture that you have to be careful moving around to avoid everything.

There is a single window on one wall—covered with heavy red curtains for ambiance, but you can see that it's boarded over on the other side.

The second wall has two large bookcases full of nicely bound books. Between them is an unlit fireplace with a lintel that has several figurines and candlesticks on it, and above that, an absurdly large portrait of a very unfamiliar and gothic-looking noblewoman. Displayed prominently on the fireplace is also an antique gun. For some reason, the painting and the gun have garishly orange pieces of tape stuck to them.

The third wall has a lamp, a liquor cabinet, and a music box on a stand. There is a small stairwell here that goes straight up to the ceiling and then abruptly stops. The outlet for the lamp also has tape on it.

The final wall has a door, which is heavily padlocked, a grandfather clock.

The center of the room has a squat, round coffee table with a ouija board on it. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling, some sort of twisted monstrosity made from animal skulls.

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Oh.

Uh.

Guys? There's a. Thing.

What thing?

[looking up to where he's looking]

...Is that a camera?

I... guess? It's got a lens.

[he's good at this]

Someone is watching us.

[gives a small wave at the camera]

coulda told you that without seeing the camera

[tiny tsungrumps]

[peering up at the chandelier]

Maybe they hid something else up there.

Oh, huh.

We're on Candid Camera?

[squints at remus

squints at the camera]

Ah. Yeah, maybe?

There's probably one in that painting, too.

Why the fuck would the painting need a camera?

"Y'all seem a little lost," says a voice suddenly, with a little fuzz of static, unfamiliar and a bit lazily drawled.

Oh good you're talking.

[gestures to the room at large]

The fuck?

The voice clears his throat, then narrates without any enthusiasm whatsoever—

"While visiting the Remington Museum—a mysterious old home once owned by a rich family rumored to be involved in some dark and arcane arts—you and a group of others find yourselves slipping behind a trap door to a corridor that simply shouldn't exist. Trapped in a hidden library that doesn't seem to have been opened in years, will you find your way out of the labyrinthine, nonsensical room before the ghosts rumored to haunt the Museum decide to make you a new permanent guest?"

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The same reason a tacky chandelier needs one?

But portraits are--

Nnnnnot always magical and out to get you, right, okay.

This part seems more technological and less magical, at least.

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...Oh.

[calls up] Hello?

"Hey there, kid," a voice calls back, low and unconcerned. "Y'all need help already? You just got started!"

[JUMPS, was not expecting an answer]

...Don't laugh, Luka

Uh, no, I think we're... fine? Maybe?

"Alright, well, you wanna hear the backstory? Put a little spring in your step?"

Sure. Go for it.

The voice is narrating unenthusiastically.

What does the gun have to do with that??

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[does not understand cameras, but other people are talking to it, so]

Hello?