Camerch

A Steampunk Mystery

Kip watched the man with the knight mask try to open the door. He found it locked. Then a lady tried to tinker with the doorknob, to no avail.

Kip had had enough. "Right, that's it! I'm not going to let some bastard executioner toy with me! Move over!"

He stood up, strode towards the door with determination and gave a great shout as he slammed his foot against the door. It didn't move. Kip kicked again, feeling the door hold like a castle wall.

"FUCK!" Fear and paranoia had gripped him, and he threw himself against the door again and again, but the door didn't budge. Finally he stopped. He was panting heavily, his hair was a mess, under his mask he was sweating and he stood still in front of the door, knowing the door will not open for them.

Turn-based Escape the Lab

@KahleenCuthald@greywolf375

Turn 2 is up

A Steampunk Mystery

Kip's face turned white under his mask. His hand twitched slightly. In almost silent words he said,

"What the hell was that?"

His eyes darted across the room, trying to understand what was happening. Eventually they ended on his glass and he threw another drink into his mouth. When he was finished, he was horrified to see the mark was still there on the wall, and a little louder, he said

"What. The fuck. Is that!?"

A Steampunk Mystery

Kip found his way to the alcohol table, poured himself a glass of cognac and threw it back in one gulp. His nerves were burning and he needed to relax if he was to look somewhat respectable in front of everyone else. He poured himself another glass and turned back to the room. There were 6 people here now. They probably got the same letter as Kip did. Maybe the Rabbit was a collector of sorts. The thought that someone who watched men suffocate for a living could even have such an innocent a hobby like token collecting disturbed Kip.

The Rabbit had suggested that all the guests should get to know each other. Hey, might find something out about the others. Kip found a cushioned chair and took a seat with his drink and watched the others chat.

Turn-based Escape the Lab

Turn 2

KahleenCuthald

You don't have anything on your person. All you are wearing is a light hospital gown.

The papers look like reports for something called "AHZ-20". It appears in the header of all of the reports, alongside subject number and body part. You do your best to decipher the reports, but the main body of text looks far too technical for you to understand. Occasionally, phrases such as "matter transfer" and "protected" crop up.

In one of the papers, someone has written something at the bottom of the report.

[+]

Significant improvement over AHZ 19, but still needs work. Next: Need to make sure DNA is minimum 80% protected.

One of the papers is only half filled. Maybe it being finished when everyone left?

You try the door on the right. It is unlocked.

greywolf375

The cattle prod comes off the stand easily. It has a dial on the top which can change the power setting. It is currently at 70% power.

You pick up the chrome block. On further inspection there's something odd about it. Its metallic surface seems to be moving around, yet it stays where it is in your hand. It feels like it is made of white noise, like there's a cube shaped hole in the world. It is oddly mesmerizing.

You push open the door and enter the next room. There's nobody in sight and the room is dimly lit. You can see in the middle of the room is a 2mx2mx2m glass cube with desks in a square around it. Inside the cube are lots of metal objects, similar to the chrome block, but in a variety of different shapes. The desks all have devices sitting on top. 3-D printers, cattle prods, a laptop. Papers litter the desktops. It's clear that everybody here had left in a hurry.

There is a door up, but it is locked. There must be some way to break out.

Turn-based Escape the Lab

@KahleenCuthald@greywolf375

Cruud!! I forgot to tell you guys that IC you're in hospital scrubs! Just so you know.

You do have an inventory though, so don't worry about carrying junk around.

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@KahleenCuthald Depends on what you want to make, I suppose. Flash allows you to make a library of images, so I saved images of walls and icons and snapped them together easy. It helps that you can edit the master image and it changes all the individual instances together.

BUT

If you want to design a map, get some Lego or playing cards and draft out a map with those. Being able to manipulate a physical "map" with two hands is a lot easier and lets you be more creative than manipulating a digital map with one cursor. I actually made the lab map with playing cards and bits of paper with room names written on them.

Once you do have a plan though, yeah, Flash is a good tool.

Turn-based Escape the Lab

@KahleenCuthald Yeah, you're not allowed to look at each other's hiders. Course I can't really stop you from doing so, so we're working on an honor system here.

Oh, and the maps are made in Flash by yours truly. I made a full map and I just exported whatever parts you guys can see.

A Steampunk Mystery

Kip had heard of the White Rabbit. Many of his patrons were the victims of his cruel executions. Regulars who had been coming to the bar for years would suddenly disappear without a word and within the week they would appear in a small corner of the papers, listing out their name, crime and sentence. The White Rabbit was not a liked man where Kip was from, but the promise of coin made the Rabbit's offer too great for Kip to resist. When Kip left, he had taken a long route through countless alleyways and back doors to make sure he wouldn't be tailed. If anyone knew where he was, well, it's best not to think about it.

Kip looked down on the box and read the note. Empty your pockets and put all objects inside the box. The only things you may bring inside is your key. Damn. Reluctantly, Kip took off the pouch on his belt and placed it at the bottom of the box, underneath some of the masks and belongings already inside. Then he took a mask out. A hooded face. He didn't care much for the name, but he preferred not to be known.

As Kip opened the door, he looked over his shoulder one last time. Nervous, he stepped into the mansion and closed the door behind him. In his waistcoat pocket was the ten dollar coin. He was risking a lot coming here. This had better be worth it.

Turn-based Escape the Lab

Turn 1

KahleenCuthald

As you try to get up, you realize you are in a hole. You climb out of it and find out you were lying in some sort of medical scanner. In the darkness it looks foreboding, like a white otherworldly being several times larger than you.

You search the rest of the room. The scanning room is sparsely decorated: there's only one or two papers stuck to the walls with safety instructions written on them such as "No metallic objects".

You notice that one of the walls has a long glass window and a door both going into the next room which seems to be an observation room. You can see black monitors and papers on the other side. You see nobody on the other side of the glass. In fact, as you examine the room, you notice the state of it shows that whoever was here was in a hurry to leave. The papers are left laying around messily, chairs are pushed away from the desks. In fact, the door on the other side of the room is even left open.

You try pushing open the scanning room door. It is unlocked. You could go up and right from here.

greywolf375

You get up. The thing on your chest falls to the side like paper, yet it makes a tiny clinking sound as it hits the floor. You bend down and pick it up. It looks like a fist-sized chrome block, but unlike metal it feels incredibly lightweight. It's almost like you're holding air. Next to you is a cattle prod attacked to a stand, pointed right where you were lying moments before. It has a trigger on the handle that fires sparks of electricity out of the pronged end.

As you look around, you see a metal door that leads out of the room you are in. You could go right from here.