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HAPPY HALLOWEEN BITCHES 🎃
Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion...though you may have once known it as the Crimson Phoenix dorm. As you approach, you may find that the area is hardly recognizable. There are several tables set up outside hosting all sorts of activities, and at the front and center is a small, cheerfully crackling bonfire. Scattered around the outside are several fake tombstones with equally fake inscriptions painted on them and lit by soft glowing lights with various skeletons posed around the graveyard. In the front on the way to the main door is a twelve-foot skeleton dressed as a witch, and from here you can see three inflatable pumpkins on the roof. Approaching the dorm itself, you'll find that the outside has been decked out in lights and decor, and the inside is just as elaborate and extra. Terrible idea to give teenagers unlimited money and time on their hands, huh?
As you enter through the lobby, you'll find that you may be guided to enter a haunted maze. Adventurers beware...
...but for those of you who are more interested in the festivities upstairs, residents of Phoenix dorm will happily shuttle you up to the second floor in an elevator decked out with floating candles. Upon reaching this floor, you'll be greeted with the lounge. There are plenty of couches with red cushions and blankets for maximum comfort, and the entire floor is equally decorated. Various horror movies play on mute from the TV mounted against the wall, and music seems to reverberate throughout the dorm everywhere you go. Loud enough to enjoy, but not loud enough to disrupt conversation. Hanging from the ceiling there also appears to be a large pinata in the shape of the moon, a large wooden stick leaning against the wall with a bandana draped over the top...batter up!
The four bedrooms appear to be blocked off with caution tape, but the two bathrooms and the kitchen are open to everyone. And while there's a third floor...there's nothing of interest up there other than space and more decor to admire as you mingle.
The party's just getting started. Have fun and get spooky.
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Ah!
[ FRICK, holding onto jolyne now. ]
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What next what next what next...!?
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his tail wags behind him and the ears on his head flick forward. pleased. ]
Undeterred, we carried on. Another room in the house, at the far, far east end of the mansion was wide open - inside, lit candles surrounded a ladder, despite no humans, no monsters. That woman was our goal: we had to get to her. One by one, we went down the ladder to the first floor.
As we rushed towards where we saw the woman, now safely around the obstruction from before, another sound rang from the walls and echoed and bounced in the cavernous doorway: childish, delighted laughter.
[ a pause, for dramatic effect. ]
You could practically feel it spurring you on; the woman was gone, but we saw another door wide open and followed through it, and then found ourselves transported back to the front foyer, as if nothing had happened. And once again, in that foyer, there was a presence. Ominous. Haunting, but bittersweet - almost desperate, like the minor keys played on a piano. Forward, it urged us. Back up the stairs. Give it back.
[ softly, each word enunciated. ] Give. It. Back.