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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.
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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[turns it gently this way and that :q]
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[shakes it!]
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[reaching out to touch the box]
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[GLARING AT IT FOR A SECOND before he tries to see if he can turn the key, braced for another shock now]
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The key turns smoothly.
From the outside, it's not altogether much—a deep, soft blue velvet, with golden filigree twisted around in patterns like waves. Once it's open, though, it's another story entirely. The white satin inside is too white, almost blinding to look at. Set in the top of it is a whirling, spinning golden thing that resembles the oddest compass you could ever imagine, a barometer, something indescribable—a dizzying set of disks that seem to speak to measurements that don't rightly exist.
The base of the box has dozens of narrow numbered dials that spin and spin, too fast to catch.
All the while, it starts to play a halting, melodic song. The melody is jarring, like something isn't quite working right, like you're missing half the notes.
But the sound is still enough to bring the room to silence, draw your breath away, bring you to tears.
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i'm not crying you're crying]
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pretty song]
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[crying]
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[holds out the music box for someone else to try]
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[touches it.]
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[that's uh.
you know what gonna try and turn it.]
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