Nate smiled and nodded. "Yeah. Awesome isn't it? Most of the other games are so lame. You go in all together, then someone wearing a bloody lab coat reads something and then you start. This way was way more cooler. I got the e-mail mail right here." He pulled out a folded up printed copy of the e-mail invitation to the game.

"Do you think this is it? Should we look for the next lock and clues?"

Maya gave Lucy a smile. “Of course she’s friendly. You’re welcome to pet her if you want. I think we were drugged too.” She turned to Nate. “It is pretty cool that we started in different rooms, but I get the feeling that this is a lot bigger than any of us is expecting, and I think you are right. We should probably start looking for more clues.” She said glancing up and down the hall wondering how many were unused patient rooms, and how many rooms the would have to open before getting out of this hall.

@Kelewen

Simon cocked an eyebrow. He pinched the stem of his nose and sighed. "Are you serious? So being kidnapped and stuffed in secluded rooms is better? Are you mentally insane or just an imbecile?" Simon did not like any of this. He would have preferred a Game Master or something. This entire situation remained unsafe. @EricWald

Maya started looking for clues, checking the walls around her. After a couple of minutes she closed the door to her room and saw some pictures on it. They were a pumpkin, spider, yo-yo, crown, heart, and owl. “Here’s a clue, guys.” She said pointing it out to the others.

"It's a game. Didn't you read the fine print? Besides nobody got hurt. From here on out it's an escape room. er..rooms. I like too. More fun than just one room."

Nate walked over and looked at the clues. "hmm... P, S, Y, C, H, oh oh... O." He laughed nervously.

Lucy gave the huge dog a small pat at first, then a scratch on the neck once the dog decided they were friends. "She's nice. Sit down, beautiful, lemme take your picture."

*Snap*

She then snapped another quick photo of the pictures that Maya had pointed out, puzzling them over at the same time Nate was. She was still trying to figure out how the images were related to each other when Nate seemed to figure out the pattern. "Ah! You must be right!" she said excitedly, now looking around for what they were supposed to do with the word. Her nervousness was gone now, no reason to suspect this wasn't exactly what it seemed to be: a harmless escape room.

Directly across the hall from the pictures was an old scratched table with an odd object upon it. "I bet it goes here!"



And sure enough, the cryptex opened when she put in the word "psycho". And out floated a slip of paper:

"Oh, my apologies. Since it says in the fine print, it must be true." Simon shook his head and rolled his eyes. He approached the girl with the slip of paper.

He tried thinking back to her name. In the instance, he forgot. Snapping his fingers, he remembered Lucy. "That is a basic math puzzle. The watches keep jumping 42 minutes in advance. Basing off that logic, I think the answer is 5:19 pm.

Maya looked at the piece of paper as well. When Black said that the watches jumped ahead 42 minutes Maya saw it to. “Now we just need to find a lock that takes 3 digits.” She said starting to look around again. She found a 3 digit padlock hanging from a small cabinet on the wall.



When put in the numbers 5,1,9 the padlock opened, and Maya looked in the cabinet. She pulled out a ring so full of keys that they barely moved, a piece of paper showing the outline of a key, and a set of 5 weights.

"An outline of a key and five weights?" Nate took the five weights and tried to line up the weights, heaviest to lightest. He also looked for any markings on the weights that might be a clue. He really had no idea what he was doing, he was just trying to gather more information at this point.

"What do you think we've gotta do with these?" Lucy added. "Maybe we have to find the one that matches the outline?" she suggested hopefully, but without much confidence in the idea. "But then what would we do with the weights?"

A bit stumped, she took a step back and snapped a photo of the group and the puzzle. "For Facebook..." she said with a grin. Then added "don't worry! I won't tag anyone unless they want me to."

Maya wondered if the wights were to the same lock as the key. She started looking around at the different locks, and found one that took a key. In the wall next to the door was a built in shelf containing 5 sensor plates. At least, that’s what she assumed they were. “I think I found the lock that these go to.” She said as she started searching for the key that matched the outline. “I agree with you, Lucy. The picture must match one of these keys.” She said as she continued looking. After a couple of minutes she held up the matching key. “Found it.” She tried the key in the lock, it fit, but it wouldn’t turn. She turned to Nate. “Maybe we are supposed to put those weights on the sensor plates before we can turn the key.” She moved so that he could get to the shelf and door.

Nate looked at the senors. Each on had a small shape drawn on it. One had a square, one a circle. Each of the five had a different shape. If Nate looked at the weights carefully, he could see they had the same shapes drawn on them. After that, it was an easy matter for him to match up the weights with the correct senors. "Try it now. Let's see if this will open the lock."