Your life is a blank book

[worldkeys]

Who: The Alices
What: Time to explore C-ta's heart
Where: World number four, Blank Book
Warnings: None yet

When the Alices wake up this time, they're in a nice little house. Spread out over the couches, the chairs and the floor, so some are more comfortable than others. But when they awaken, they'll notice that there's this feeling of being watched. And with only some poking around, they'll find security cameras littered throughout the house so that there's absolutely no privacy save for the bathroom. The fridge is fully stocked, and upstairs there are three bedrooms and a single locked door. Upon that door is the sole puzzle they will find in this world, with a message.

To find the key to leave, you must find the key to this door. You have one week.

What the Alices do with their time, but something or someone is monitoring them more than usual. And now they're on a time limit, although they may notice that the night never comes or the day never changes. It'll be hard to tell how long they really have, or if time is even moving, which probably isn't helping whatever unease they're feeling. But hey. At least the house they're locked in is nice.

Comments

[worldkeys]

[ Various non-perishables, utensils and cookware. Otherwise, not much of note. ]

[notsogreedy]

[Boring. Well, it was worth a try. And boy that note sure is cryptic, isn't it? What is he supposed to get out of that?]

Open to everyone

[He's still not sure who this world belongs to, so he doesn't know exactly who to track down about whether that note is relevant to them. Instead, he'll stop whoever he runs across and shove it at them.]

Oi. Does this mean anything to you?

For mods

[Is there anywhere around the house that would be conspicuous as a place to look for things to someone familiar with escape the room games? Because that's probably where he'll look next, in between trying to find someone who can make sense of that note.]

[bakegarasu]

[Otoha stares at the note. ... Hm.]

Sounds familiar, but this isn't my world.

[He knows he's missing something. Something about someone important. But he doesn't know what.]

[notsogreedy]

"Familiar," huh?

[That's maybe worth noting. Then again, with the way this place messes with memories and how vague that note is, it could probably apply to most of them in some way or another.]

Any idea who this place belongs to?

[bakegarasu]

No. I've seen houses similar to this before, but... this one isn't familiar.

[He glances at the note again and shakes his head.]

And whoever this place belongs to... if they can't remember, I don't know if the note will help.

[notsogreedy]

Depends on what they can't remember, probably. If the note's true for them, then it might be useful to know what the thing they think they have to do is.

[He's not going to make any assumptions about whether anything someone thinks when their memories are missing is actually the right thing to do or not. He made his own very wrong assumptions before he got his memories back. Still, it would be information. He shrugs slightly.]

Or it might just be useless. There's no way to tell.

[bakegarasu]

Guess we won't know until we try. You can handle that, right?

[He's. Not a people person. He's guessing Ankh isn't either, but at least Ankh's been taking an active role...]

[notsogreedy]

[No, Ankh isn't a people person, but he at least interacts well enough to get things done. He nods.]

Yeah.

[And since it seems there's nothing else to really talk about here, he walks off to see who else is around.]

[frozentear]

Hmm... it probably has to do with whoever's heart this is. Someone else who forgot someone?

[His voice comes out a little slower and heavier than usual. But the note catches his interest.]

Where did you find this?

[notsogreedy]

[He already knows this isn't Sebastian's heart, so the answer is predictable. Still, worth asking--if nothing else, it was possible Sebastian would have found out who to direct him to. But it doesn't sound like he knows. As for where it came from-]

It was in the freezer.

[Of all places. Not that he's surprised, given his experience with games that work like this.]

[frozentear]

...The key might be someplace really strange, then.

[Why was there a note in the freezer?]

[notsogreedy]

[Have a face that says "yes, that's obvious, moron."]

Why would it be anywhere normal in a place like this?

[frozentear]

[Good question. He doesn't have an answer to that one.]

Maybe it's inside one of the cameras.

[notsogreedy]

[Inside a camera. It seems ridiculous at first glance, but there's really no reason why all of the cameras around here would need to be fully functional. It's not like there's any shortage of them.]

Heh. It's worth looking.

[He walks over to the nearest camera and peers up at it, trying to see if there's an easy way to get it down and open it up.]

I'm just as happy without all these things pointed at us, anyway.

[frozentear]

...Give me a moment.

[There should be knives in the kitchen. So he'll go grab one of those and come back.]

Think we can tear it down?

[dolosa]

There's only a few people left to deal with, you know -- myself and two others. The note does not mean much to me, of course. Although I enjoy escape games.

[worldkeys]

[ In checking C-ta's room, he won't find much of anything. Nothing seems out of place. It seems like a normal bedroom. Under or even in the bed are fine, beneath the wastebasket, under anything on the desk... There's nothing except dust bunnies. Not in this room, at least.

Will he check the other bedrooms? ]

[notsogreedy]

[Not like there's anything to do around here other than look, so sure, let's go for the other bedrooms next.]

[worldkeys]

[ The more generic of the bedrooms will turn up nothing, as well, no matter how hard he looks. However, in the mystery person's room, he'll find that he feels eyes on him more intensely than before. There are a few things of note: a computer, a beat-up stuffed rabbit, a messy bed like it wasn't made when the person got up, a few scattered clothes like someone was in a hurry... It looks, on the surface, to be a normal teenager's room. Except, of course, there's someone watching more intently than ever.

What does Ankh search first? ]

[notsogreedy]

[He's seen that rabbit before, so that's the first thing he'll check. Is there anything special about it, or is it just a stuffed rabbit?

After that, and especially if there's nothing of note about the rabbit, he'll go for the computer next. People leave all sorts of information about themselves on computers if you know where to look--and he does, considering the human whose memories he stole was a tech genius of a police officer.]

[worldkeys]

[ Upon inspection of the rabbit, it seems perfectly fine. ...Until it's turned around and the back is examined. There, it's quite obvious that someone was here before Ankh, as it's been cut open and something removed. ]

[notsogreedy]

[Any clues as to what might have been in there?]