The Midnight Game

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As the chosen residents approach the elevator, two retrieval units will be waiting to hand out a sheet of paper to each person. These sheets of paper contain the instructions for their game, as well as a number placing them in one of four groups. The groups will be called one by one into the elevator and, after a long ride down, will be released into an empty version of the Tower identical to the one they just left, with two differences: in place of the countless dormitory rooms are just enough rooms for each group member to occupy one, and each door is made of wood. Inside each room is a candle, a knife that will cut the skin of the person wielding it and nothing else, a blank piece of paper, a book of matches, and a container of salt. Once in their rooms, they are to begin The Midnight Game.

Midnight Game Instruction Sheet
1. Write your complete name on the piece of paper.
2. Use the knife to cut your skin and place at least one drop of blood on the paper, allowing it to soak in.
3. Turn off the lights in your room. This will turn off all the lights in the Tower.
4. Place the piece of paper on the floor in front of the door. Light your candle and plce it on top of the piece of paper.
5. Knock on the dor 22 times. Upon the twenty-second knock, it will be midnight.
6. Open the door, blow out the candle, and close the door.
7. Relight your candle.

You must now move around the Tower, keeping your candle with you at all times. Keep moving to avoid the Midnight Man. If your candle goes out, relight it immediately. If you cannot relight your candle, surround yourself with a circle of salt. If you are unsuccessful you will



Keep moving until 3:33AM. If you are not captured by the Midnight Man, you win the game. If your entire group fails, you will be punished.

Groups
Group One
Sora
Ienzo
Shion
Signless
Vriska
Minato
Mimio

Group Two
John
Suzaku
Russia
Terezi
Disciple
Link
Marceline
America

Group Three
Taiki
France (au2)
Willow Rosenberg
Handmaid
Aqua
Deneb
Echidna
Psiioniic

Group Four
Romeo
Nina Fortner
Sollux (au)
Namine
Riku
Vriska (au)
Erik
OoT!Zelda

Comments

[thegirltwin]

[Is he really that new? Oh, no. What a terrible way to be introduced to this place.]

It's the Tower. Just the Tower. That's all we know to call it. They do things like this from time to time. It's frightening, but things always seem to work out in the end.

[idkmybffsakuraiyuuto]

The Tower...

[His head tilts down a bit as he mumbles to himself, going over recent events in his head, and trying to piece it to what information he got from the note.]

[After about a minute, Deneb makes a noise like choking back a noise of anguish, then falls down on his knees - either the Oni attack on time itself shunted him out like it'd done to Yuuto, or the Oni succeeded before he and the others could get started on fixing things.]

[thegirltwin]

[Nina stares, alarmed, and immediately rushing to try to help him, kneeling down beside the man on his knees. She doesn't try to touch him but there's an expression of concern on her face.]

What's going on? What's wrong?

[idkmybffsakuraiyuuto]

Those letters they left us - those are true, then?

[The voice is a shaky one - one of someone who just had the horrible realization of what everything about this place means hit him all at once.]

[thegirltwin]

... We don't know.

[Nina looks distraught. More than distraught, really. The possibility of her entire world being destroyed seems to haunt her.]

The people here play a lot of mind games. It's best not to take everything they say at face value. Not until we can find proof of it for ourselves.

[She hesitates. Then she says what she really, really doesn't want to.]

But we can't dismiss it out of hand, either.

[Should she tell him what happened to her? That she was sent to her own world, and that it was an abandoned wasteland?]

[idkmybffsakuraiyuuto]

I see...

[Deneb takes a deep breath, then sighs it out roughly.]

Thank you for your information, miss. [He bows his head toward her.] I apologize for my...outburst.

[thegirltwin]

You don't need to apologize. It's hard on all of us, to hear things like that. Believe me. You're not the first one to react that way.

[Her smile is tiny.]

I think I should introduce myself to you. My name is Nina Fortner. What's yours?

[idkmybffsakuraiyuuto]

It makes sense that I was not, but still. [Another sigh, this one more smooth.]

[He bows again once she introduces herself.] I am Deneb. It is nice to meet you, Miss Fortner, despite the circumstances.