Ars Goetia ([personal profile] arsgoetia) wrote2016-12-03 12:55 pm
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Game 19 - Group B

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.

Re: EXPLORE

[personal profile] wrongstory 2016-12-03 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know if this will help at all, but— the books seem to read like riddles, or at least this silver one. It could be nothing, still...

[offering the text of the silver book]

If we placed the books above the fireplace...?
innerdemon: Elli (From his lips not words alone please her)

Re: EXPLORE

[personal profile] innerdemon 2016-12-03 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That looks like a poem but, er...

[I... I didn't go to high school]

Re: EXPLORE

[personal profile] wrongstory 2016-12-03 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[nods uncomfortably]

I could be entirely wrong, in which case it would be wasting valuable time to go over it... still, there's a— progression to it?

[just gonna listen to other more concrete suggestions for a moment]
hardatwork: (as you wish)

Re: EXPLORE

[personal profile] hardatwork 2016-12-03 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[reads it]

I'm not much good with riddles, but it sounds like it's talking about the ghosts our observer mentioned.

But let's try the books!
Edited 2016-12-03 22:24 (UTC)

Re: EXPLORE

[personal profile] wrongstory 2016-12-03 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[handing over the silver one in service of that goal]
conatus: (one sweet day his heart ceased to beat)

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[personal profile] conatus 2016-12-03 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, Eliot. This is only part of the poem, though.
innerdemon: Elli (Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious.)

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[personal profile] innerdemon 2016-12-03 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[startles a little at the name]

Uh, so maybe we should try to find the other parts? Maybe those are the books we need?