Escape.

[trustmods]

All things considered, everything has gone very well for you all, hasn't it? Twenty-two people died, but thirty people will leave this building. Congratulations, you all deserve it. Though with that said, you still need to find the way out. For those of you who explored the floors in the closed wing of the building during the final investigation, you might have noticed that there were two floors you didn't explore, below the one Sol and Weiss investigated. That might be a good place to start. Once more, for old time's sake. >Explore?

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[withabigsmile]

[...You know what, at the risk of finding another dead body, she will gladly head down those stairs and check out the next floor.]

[trustmods]

[GOSH BLUE.

The fifth floor down looks the same as the previous four - two rooms to explore. So which will it be? A or B?]

[withabigsmile]

[B for Blue! What's in here?]

[nankurunaisa]

[Well, she'd love to take a good look around and help out. And look, she has Dorika with her!

...But she also doesn't have keys, so standing outside the doors is probably not very fruitful.]

[trustmods]

[Yep. Nothing to find out here. Sorry about that.]

[nankurunaisa]

[Dorika's doing great, though, right? Important question needs to be answered.]

[ninehundredlives]

[Susan would have helped with the chickens, but she elected not to leave her sword in the morgue.]

We had better not find God lurking around down here.

[nankurunaisa]

...I hadn't even thought of that.

[Great. She doesn't need to worry, does she? ...no, no, investigating needs to happen.]

It probably won't be somethin' that bad! I explored some of the weird rooms on the other side, y'know?

[midnightsea]

I note that in all this chaos, none of us thought what to do about that.

[openterrain]

[ You know, with the realization that those mysterious new doors are locked, Jean remembers something about secret passages being brought up. He'd also noticed weeks ago that there are parts of the building that seem like there should be more rooms than there are.

He's also, admittedly, been kind of wanting an excuse to bust a hole in these walls for weeks.

So let's say he starts feeling up the interior walls on the west half of the fifth floor. Looking for hidden switches, movable paintings, mysteriously colored patches of wall, and tapping at various points in search of something that sounds different.

Will he have any luck? ]

[trustmods]

[Your search will lead you to find... nothing. There is no secret passage entrance here!]

[forcegalactic]

[Mordecai is sticking with Jean for most of today, so he follows him to the fifth floor in case he found something important while Mordy was dead.]

What's over here?

[openterrain]

[ There's a brief moment of silence, and then: ]

... Nothing, it looks like.

[ He sounds pretty disappointed, but not surprised. ]

[midnightsea]

[Well, he got one thing out of this even if it doesn't work. Still not doing too bad so far.]

[Let's head for the next floor and hope to god Rick doesn't just take everyone and fuck off with the portal gun the second he turns around.]

[trustmods]

[This floor is laid out differently than the ones above. In fact, it's not really a floor at all. It's a long hallway with a steel bulkhead at the end. It looks exactly like the one from the main floor.]

[midnightsea]

[Oh for the love of-]

[He'll walk down the hallway to check the steel bulkhead in more detail; is it locked, does it look possible to open at all, are they just kind of boned?]

OUTDOORS.

[trustmods]

[It's dark when the door swings open.

It's not the heavy, oppressive blackness that indicates the presence of the shadows, nor is it the darkness that comes with opening a door into a room that doesn't have any windows or proper electricity. This is a natural sort of darkness, ambient and lessened a little by the occasional glimpse of moonlight through clouds, the soft beams reflected back off the snow coating the ground.

It's cold out. Brisk.

The snowfall is enough to be an even blanket of white over the ground, but not enough to make you sink too far into it; it's soft but only a couple of inches at the most, and the front of it is overlooking what looks to be a city of some sort.

It's quaint-looking, mostly, if largely in a state of disrepair; a bit strange to think that this was probably your captor's hometown, given how he tended to talk about it. However, his mark on the place is obvious - while it's still largely in one piece, it's entirely too quiet - the sort of unnatural silence that brings with it the knowledge that there hasn't been anyone living here for quite some time.

Welcome to the end of the world.]

2/2 - BODY...HORROR...IN THE LINK...

[trustmods]

[Of course, if you wait long enough on the lawn, you might see movement within a reasonable distance; it looks almost like humanoid movement, though said humans don't appear to be wearing anything despite the cold and - ...ohhhhhhhhhhh god, those aren't humans, never fucking mind.

Why did Kimblee not warn you about the fuckin' zombies that might be out here - probably because several fuckheads wanted to cut his hands off. That might have had something to do with it.

That said, they don't seem to be a full apocalypse or anything, there are only like five of them and they aren't seeming like too huge a threat with the whole group around, but they should. Probably be dealt with. Eventually. Um.]

[announcemyvictory]

[at least Elise has her underwear back on but she is backing away and cuddling her poor shivering chicken friend]

What are those!?

[ninehundredlives]

...........

Dio, would it make you feel better to go kill those?

[perpend]

What... what the hell are those?!

[He... he does have his gun on him, but]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[.................]

You know what. I'm not even surprised anymore. I'm not even- I'm just-

[Between Until Dawn and Murdergame she's lost all fucks congrats]

[midnightsea]

[Well first of all, thank christ it's nighttime. Dio had been a little concerned about that, but it looked like the sun wasn't going to be an issue. What was eventually going to be an issue were the shambling zombies.]

[Ironic, really. Usually those were on his side.]

[Dio stepped forward completely unaffected and untouched by the cold despite still not wearing a shirt, grinning like a goddamn serial killer.]

At least I get to hit something. If anyone else wants to join in, this is your only chance.

[istheindustry]

Well! I don't know what those things are, but I know I'm going to kill them.

[LIKE A FUCKING KID AT CHRISTMAS]

[withabigsmile]

[...Well the first thing she was going to do upon getting outside is toss all of her Pokémon out, but right now, she's focusing on letting out Blasty and Nido in particular.

Zombie things are a lot less terrifying when you have a Blastoise and Nidoqueen by your side.]

Long time no see, you guys! I'm gonna need your help, okay?

[We're gonna beat the shit out of some freaky zombie things today.]