Black Rain

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Reminder that you can ask Sarah questions about herself, not just her environment.
Adhoc vote count started by MariBari on May 19, 2018 at 3:31 AM, finished with 10 posts and 8 votes.
  • [X] Take a moment to collect your thoughts. Breathe.
    [X] What is the last date and place you remember?
    [X] How long would it be until someone looked for you?
    [X] You are going to make whoever did this pay right?
    [X] catch your breath, clean mouth with sink water
    [x] Examine the fridge and the gas stovetop.
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[X] Take a moment to collect your thoughts. Breathe.
 
Well, this pretty fucked up. Did we get kidnapped by a cannibal or a human organs stealer?

[X] Take a moment to collect your thoughts. Breathe.
 
[X] catch your breath, clean mouth with sink water
 
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    • You're trying. The bed is helping somewhat.

    You breathe in the scent of the rain. Rain has always calmed you down a bit. You think that if the rain hadn't been there this whole time you would have had an actual panic attack by now.



    The sink is full of vomit, making it a bit of a lost cause in terms of washing your face off. You'd need to wash the vomit out first, and you're not exactly in the right state of mind for that right now.

    There is, however, a perfectly acceptable source of water within reach.

    Checking for any visible threats with the lantern, you reach your hand out over the grass and scoop up a bit of rainwater. You hesitate to bring it up to your face. There is something wrong with the rainwater. You can't put your finger on it.

    You shake your hand off and head back to the kitchen, snagging a coffee mug from the cabinets. In hindsight, you probably could have just gathered the rainwater using this method in the first place, but oh well.

    Ignoring the vomit, you pour a second mug of water from the sink.

    Sure enough, something is wrong with the rainwater. You thought it was just the lighting at first.

    The liquid is pure black. Midnight black.

    You make sure to wash your right hand thoroughly. Something is very, very wrong. You can't quite tell if you're dreaming or not, but just to be safe you're going to assume that you're not.

    Rainwater acquired.



    The fridge and stove are, as far as you can tell, perfectly normal. Electricity is powering the refrigerator through a normal wall outlet, and there's even a gas pipe for the stove. Nothing funky going on.

    Surprisingly, there's quite a bit of food inside the fridge. Wrapped sandwiches and tupperware leftovers. Bottles of water. It's also another helpful source of light, since your lantern doesn't always cover the entire room at once.

    There's something about looking at a stocked fridge in a well-lit room that puts you slightly at ease.



    No? You're a college student with a part-time job as an assistant detective, not an action hero. You've never even touched a gun. Besides, you're pretty sure that the police can do more sleuthing than you can. At least in terms of sheer manpower.

    If you had your phone, maybe that would be a comfort.



    You're not planning on waiting that long. If your kidnapper has any kind of forward thinking skills, which they clearly do because they left you a box filled with your own body parts, they would have planned well in advance to either cut you off from your support or make things quick.

    Considering your missing cell phone, you're going to guess it's the former option.

    Most likely, you're in a remote location that wouldn't have much cell service to begin with. Somewhere out in the middle of the country, probably an abandoned farm of some kind. There are locks on the doors and windows, so clearly they cared about you escaping. With luck, that means that something outside the house you're in right now can help you get out of this situation for good.

    So no, you're not going to think about how long it would take for the police to track you down. Because you're going to bust out of this place.

    You just... need to figure out how.

    Shouldn't take too long.


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    Adhoc vote count started by MariBari on May 20, 2018 at 5:57 PM, finished with 11 posts and 8 votes.
    • [X] Check the boxes labeled "safety" and "emergency"
      [X] Examine your surrounding more closely, you might missed a thing.
      [x] Search the workbench for anything useful, preferrably tape.
      [X] Eat and or drink something from the fridge.
      [x] Check if you can escape the room through the window.
      [X] try and jimmy open the door using your kitchen knife
      [X] inspect the workbench, particularly tools and knicknacks
      [x] Examine the lantern.
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    • [x] Remember if you have any lockpicking skills

    I don't know if we currently would have the strenght to break it open, so. Depending on how thin the rod implanted on our left arm is, we can just insert it directly in the opening, so hopefully there is still something like a paper clipper around.
     
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    Also, before I forget

    [x] Search the workbench for anything useful, preferrably tape.
     
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    [X] Eat and or drink something from the fridge.
     
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    [X] inspect the workbench, particularly tools and knicknacks
     
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    Don't quite know why I'm feel like reading this in the middle of the night...eh

    [x] Examine the lantern.

    Would be nice to know how good it is like if it has a battery indicator, different or adjustable light settings, how to replace batteries, anything strange written on it. Better to know now than later when if horror stuff happens.
     
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    • You are a detective. You are confident that you haven't missed anything important while inspecting the room from a distance.



    The knife has far too wide a blade to fit comfortably into the keyhole. Even if it did, you have no lock-picking knowledge to speak of. You're a detective, not a thief.



    Unfortunately, the window is too small. You wouldn't be able to get your torso through.




    The workbench, and its many drawers, contains a variety of tools.

    In the order you found them; a small precision hammer, some nails, a screwdriver, a handsaw, a roll of duct tape, and a pair of scissors are the tools that stand out to you. Many of the other tools in the drawers are unfamiliar, broken, or just otherwise don't seem that useful for the current situation.

    You decide to avoid ramming the various tools into your pockets, leaving them in the workbench for the time being. You also place the X-Acto Knife with the rest of the tools, as to not lose track of it.

    Tools acquired.



    You're not particularly hungry nor thirsty, though you do shove a sandwich and a bottle of water into your trench coat in case you need something to munch on later.

    Snacks acquired.



    The lantern is a fairly standard camping model that runs on D Batteries. According to the label on the bottom of the lantern, it's certified waterproof.

    Honestly, you want to stop looking at the lantern. The neon fluorescent light is going to give you a headache.



    Working up a bit of courage, you open the box labeled "safety."

    Inside, there's a two-pack of D batteries and a spare lantern of the same make and model as your current one, as well as what appears to be a bottle of medicine and a note:



    Sure enough, the bottle appears to contain pills. If the label can be trusted, you have fifty of them in this bottle.

    The "emergency" box, interestingly, contains a slightly smaller wooden box. It has a small padlock on the front, and the label "Emergencies Only" on the top. You place the pills and batteries in your pockets, and place the lockbox on the workbench.

    Pills (x50) acquired.
    Emergency Lockbox acquired.
    You now have 3 D Batteries.


    Adhoc vote count started by MariBari on May 21, 2018 at 10:52 PM, finished with 4 posts and 3 votes.
    • [X] See if there is any hidden text on the note.
      [X] try to unscrew the hinges on the door
      [X] try to recognize the handwriting on the note?
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    • [X] See if there is any hidden text on the note.
     
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