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TAKSHAKA

[You exit the parlor through a doorway in your team's color and find yourself in some kind of entry hall. Aside from the one behind you, there are four doors - one on each of the side walls, and two opposite the entrance - each with an image carved into it. They're a bit hard to make out, however, since only one torch on the far wall is lit, lending the place a gloomy atmosphere. What you can see is that the room, once richly decorated, is now a mess; the walls are covered in peeling, royal purple wallpaper, and great swaths of the ceiling are coated with sticky cobwebs. The floor is covered with large marble tiles, inlaid with some kind of swirling design in glittering gold - but sadly, it too is out of shape. The tiles seem to shift a bit under your weight, and some of them are even missing altogether.

If you try the doors you'll find that all of them are locked, and no amount of manhandling can get them to budge.]

[OOC: This game is a treasure hunt/dungeon crawl! Your characters will be exploring the rooms they pass through and facing different challenges in each one. Some rooms will be exploratory, others will have specific rules! The goal is just to reach the end. Teams will be scored on things like teamwork, cleverness, creativity, etc.

Skills are ON, but there will be penalties if you mess up Knut's castle. He lives here, you know!]

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[Brr! Good thing your little rat costume is so cozy.

The fridge has all the essentials, including a cheese drawer. And through the fogged glass you can see a block of tasty cheddar!]

[Pushing with all his strength on the cheese drawer to open it!]

[You're able to get it open about an inch (in human measurements, something like a foot in rat ones).]

[Grabs a still-wrapped stick of butter and, huffing and puffing with the effort, attempts to use it to push the drawer further open.]

[The butter is stiff with cold and your plan works! The drawer is now open enough to get in and out of easily.]

[In that case, he's going to get in there, grab the block of cheddar, and--

Huh. How does he get down now? It's not like he can go to spirit form now that he's carrying something...

Oh well. Time to try jumping down to the floor with the cheese in his hands! If he gets hurt, this game isn't safety-proofed enough and he can yell at Knut for it.]

[Let's be honest, you'll find something to yell at Knut about anyway.

With an epic leap, you dive to the floor! The block of cheese unbalances you slightly but you end up hitting the ground and rolling into a perfect crouch. Success!

You feel like you got cheated out of some dramatic background music there.]

[This haunted house is so cheap. No background music, really?

Anyway, he's gonna lug the block of cheese back out of the kitchen only to see--

--tiny Sparrow in a tiny rat costume playing with a giant fuzzy kitten.

The cheese falls from his limp hands as he faints from the cuteness.]

[ Sparrow is probably scritching Angel's chin, right up until he... ]

...Swan?

[ did you really just ]

Uuugh...too cute...dangerously cute...can't take it.

[Slowly staggering back to his feet.]

Why did you pass out?

... That's a good question.

I got tired from carrying that cheese.

I don't think I believe you.

Let's just try to finish this game! We need to get back up to the table with the cheese. Wren, do you think you could convince the kitten to help us?

You're changing the subject.

But, yeah, I could do that.

All right. See what you can do.

Alright.

[AND THUS: Tavros goes to talk to Angel because he can talk to animals.]

Hey, Angel? Could you help us?

[Angel perks right up in surprise, rolling back to her feet and sniffing him curiously.]

Hello? I'm Angel! Help what? Hello.

Could you help us get out of the room?

Get out? There's a door? I'm Angel. Go through the door!

Could we ride you to the door?

Also, could we ask something else? That is mostly along the lines of, could you please be nice to the rat, too? So that you and the rat can be friends, because, then you'll have someone that wants to support you, instead of disliking you, and it will make you happier, and probably the rat, too, and the only thing that can happen with friendship is good things.

If you like! You are so small and I am such a very big Angel!

[She flicks her tail thoughtfully at the second part.]

I do not like the rat! He will not let me in his box. I want to get in his box with the bars and play with the small rat but the big one will not let me up and the rat will scratch me! I want to play with the rat he is so small like you. But I do not like him he will scratch me.

... Swan...?

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