#pi:dollhouse

[thepelagoislands]

???: Dollhouse

@treasuresunknown | @obsidiansashimi | @planetaryxgirl | @bathlovingwitch

You first notice the fog on the horizon.

You may not notice it at first, on a cloudy day as this. Maybe you see it in passing and turn the boat in the other direction hoping to avoid rough waters. Maybe you look for a while and see how it rides the waves, thin tendrils of it reaching further and further down the waters, towards the boat. 

When the fog hits you, it’s sudden. One minute you can see your fellow shipmates talking and laughing, and the next you can’t see anything beyond the tips of your fingers. It only grows thicker, swallowing the world around you. And you can feel it crawling all around, examining they prey it had swallowed up. You take in a breath and you can feel it slither down your throat, choking you. Choking you until spots clutter your eyes and you can feel nothing but the numb. Nothing until you become nothing.

And when you wake, you feel safe.

You’re safely tucked away in bed. But it’s not your bed. No, your bed is hard and rough compared to where you rest in now. You wish it was your bed, for a moment. 

When you open your eyes, you see an elegant bedroom laid out before you. You’re alone. Absolutely alone. Out the window you can see perpetual twilight flood the sky.

On your index finger is a slender, gold ring you can’t take off. And in you mind, you can feel that someone is watching your every move.

> Welcome to the Dollhouse.

You look around the room (your room?) and take in how regal everything looks. In the closet, there is a collection of clothes just your size, and in the style you typically wear. There are even formal clothes for any occasion in the book. A lavish bathroom is connected to your room, filled with whatever you could possibly need to get bathed and ready. Ready for what, you have no idea.

Out the window, you can see a garden. It’s an enclosed space, with only a garden leading to a gate to the rest of the island. In the distance, far from the garden, you can see a pier with a boat. It’s not your boat. You can’t remember if anything happened to your boat. 

Upon exiting your room, you can easily find the others in the voyage. They each have their own rooms, with similar setups as the one you woke up in. Nobody recollects what resulted in your arrival to this manor. You can only remember the fog...then nothing. 

When you explore the manor, you’ll discover various rooms. A study with plenty of bookcases and desks. A music room with plenty of instruments to play. A large ballroom with a stereo system in the corner, loaded with any song that you can think of. A kitchen that never appears to run out of stock, even if you remove countless items from it. Other rooms pop up as well, based on the desires of you and your fellow voyagers. 

However, there is not a soul aside from you and your fellow voyagers. You are entirely alone in this manor, yet you can’t shake the feeling of being watched. When you exit the front door and head to the front gate of the garden, you feel the presence of another linger stronger. The gate opens easily. There is no lock on it. However, when you attempt to step outside the manor grounds, a barrier appears. Your ring glows when you make contact. It is preventing you from leaving. 

Then, you suggest finding a way to remove them and escape.

In an instant, you can feel the presence of the one watching you crush down on you, overwhelming. You can feel your throat dry up, and you quiet down. The feeling doesn’t go away. You feel as though you broke an unspoken rule. The others don’t feel the same presence. In fact, they’re confused. Why are you so pale? Why are you shaking? Maybe one of them also speaks up about escaping, only to shut up with the same intense presence you are feeling.

The feeling does not go away.

You’re afraid, and you don’t know why. You resolve yourself to remaining in the manor a little longer, trying to ignore the presence that makes you sweat and shake. 

Eventually, you must retire for the night again. You fall asleep afraid.

You wake up blindfolded, wrists bound above you to keep you on your knees. And immediately, you feel pain. Someone breaking your bones, only to heal them afterwards. The feeling of a knife dragging across your skin, slowly and deliberately. The screams in your ear from any other that dared to suggest escaping. It’s agonizing, lasting an eternity.

In your head, you hear a voice screaming. “NEVER LEAVE. THIS IS YOUR HOME NOW.”

Eventually you pass out from the sheer pain. When you wake up, you’re back in bed at dawn, all injuries healed but the memories fresh in your mind.

When you see the others, they don’t appear to have the same experience. Anyone else who suggested leaving appear to have had the same experience as you, looking shaken and afraid. Afraid to dare leave the manor.

As time goes on in the manor, strange things begin to happen. Occasionally, a monster is found inside, and you must kill it. Other times, the drinking water in inexplicably replaced with love potion, truth potion, personality potion, whatever potion that would cause entertainment to whoever is watching you. Once, someone woke up with no recollection of who they are and where they are, as if their memories had been sealed away. 

And if anyone dares speak of leaving, they feel that presence and live that same tortuous night.

It’s chance when you find the door to the basement.

It’s hidden behind a bookcase, the wood barely peeking out from behind. When you open the door and step down, the fog thickens with each step. When you reach the bottom, you see a large creature enveloped in fog. In the corner are bloody spots with chains dangling from the ceiling, the same spot from your nightmarish memories. 

Then the creature turns, looking at you with countless eyes, wide.

Kill it to escape.

Good luck.

In the room where the creature lurks, 100,000G and a set of scales that can ward off monsters (remove 3 ‘Monster’ results in the voyage minigame for a voyage that has the full set) can be found.

[thepelagoislands]

Hey, Pam and Danny finished their voyage!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vSr6wDQAOtwZ0uHUcOe6YasdSmAz2yy3NcwOYFARhmk/edit?usp=sharing 

Excellently done! In addition to the rewards earned from the voyage itself, you guys have earned 300 EXP each!

Also, your RP will count for 2 Activity Points towards the next Activity Check!