Haunted House GP

[londoncallingmods]

 The house doesn't exist, that's the first thing anyone who might find themselves inside it would want to know. Now, you might ask how one could find themselves inside something that doesn't exist, but you'd honestly be better off asking yourself how you could leave something that doesn't exist. After all, ideas and concepts can't be burnt or broken, and you can't breakdown a door that's not there- Or was there and then decided to be somewhere else for a while...

 

You wake in a house though, a house that doesn't exist. A house that defies the laws of reality. There are corridors that go on for days, rooms full of nightmares, and millions of doors that lead you anywhere but out. Trapped inside with you are dozens of other people, all searching for an exit, or an explanation.

 

Behind every door you'll find your darkest fears, maybe even memories you've tried to forget, or secrets you never wanted to share... 

 

(OTA! Here is your first of two Halloween gps! This one is, of course, set in the haunted house where your pup can run into anything you can dream up! Deadly traps! Spooky monsters! An existential crises! Top level your pups waking up or running into danger, and then go ahead and tag other players! Since this is all magic-y and spooky don't worry too much about time lines and who bumped into who first. Only rule is that your pup can't escape until November 1st! Have fun! Also, because there are two GPs going up this week, both are open to new top levels for two whole weeks! And, of course, you can keep tagging long after that if you want. :D I'll post reminders daily on slack.)

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[akatawitch]

Still looking for the exit, Sunny was trying every door in the place that she came across and only seemed to be opening onto more hallways and staircases and rooms than any building could logically hold. It was like being inside the heart of the Library, only the heaviness in the air was not the weight of millennia of knowledge being stored in one place.

The girl beyond the next door was nearly as ghost pale as she, but the bright red of her hair made her recognizable on sight. "Em?" she ventured. The other girl looked like she was about to be sick.

Of course, Sunny couldn't imagine she looked much better.

[offthebeatenpath]

Sometimes the tarot could be overly literal, the Sun falling from the deck just before Sunny came into the room. Em barely seemed to notice, though, focused on another card entirely. "Moon unbound and chaos rampant. Ariadne's thread is full of knots."

Shaking her head, Em looked up and seemed to realize she wasn't alone. "Sunny? What's going on?"

[akatawitch]

"I wish I knew," Sunny admitted. "I've been looking for too long not to've found a way out by now, but every door just leads to more doors."

[offthebeatenpath]

"They're coming. We can't stay here." Em's head felt like it was going to burst, acid and fire in her mind, stinging and lapping at the edges of her vision. "They don't want me to see."

[akatawitch]

Sunny went very still. In another time and place, words like this only sounded overly dramatic and even silly. But given what she'd been running from for the last... however long, she was of a mind to take it seriously. "What's coming? Who's they?"

[offthebeatenpath]

"Stryfe." It might have been only one syllable, but the fear behind it came through clearly. "And its lover. We're not safe if they find us."

[akatawitch]

"If that's the case," Sunny stepped further into the room to help Em to her feet, "then we should probably be on the move while you explain to me what the hell that means."

[offthebeatenpath]

Gathering up the cards as she stood was habit, and Em put them in her pocket just as easily, ready to follow Sunny, her head clearer now she wasn't entranced by the tarot. Besides, fear could be very centering. "Short version? A couple of sadistic telepaths," she explained, not considering how strange that might sound.