towerofanimus | The Midnight Game

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

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[Romeo shivered and followed Vriska, holding his candle tightly, the teddy bear in the other hand.]

Do you think the Midnight man is near? [His voice had dropped to a whisper, the cold was a little bit scary]

Well if he is, he's going to have to catch us before he can do anything.

[Her tone is curt, even more so than before, as she continues at her quickened pace. She's not sure who's behind this but there'll be a gut full of metal for them when she finds out]

He will never catch us! [Romeo nodded and punched the air once, keeping his spirits up before hurrying to keep up with Vriska's quickened pace.]

[Vriska's not even paying much attention to where she's going; all she knows is to keep moving. So that's what she'll do.]

[Romeo is following her looking around fearfully in the dark.] Do you think he is still close?

If you want to stop and find out, be my guest.

[As far as she's concerned, he may well never have been close in the first place. This was to mess with their heads after all, right?]

No because it says we have to keep moving! [He looks around again but keeps following her] How long have we been here? Do we have to be here a long time? [Guess who can't tell the time...]

[Oh my god is he serious did he seriously just take that as a serious suggestion and answer it as such? There's a little more...let's call it determination in her stride now]

How the fuck should I know? I know as much as you do, probably, and it's not like I've been taking notes on this shit.

[He is keeping up as best he can and he frowns and nods] Probably, the bad people like scaring us.

Yeah well, guess it sucks to be them then because I'm sure as hell not scared.

That's because you're really brave but I bet you still get scared sometimes.

And if you think I'm going to be answer that one you must be an even bigger idiot than I thought.

[The temperature rises and falls; it seems the Midnight Man has, for the moment, lost track of their location. He's searching.]

[Romeo shrugged, she wasn't being very nice but he didn't mind too much. As the temperature changed though he frowned.] We're not scared of you mister midnight man. Go bother someone else!

[As soon as Romeo speaks, the cold rushes in quickly. All candles go out.]

[Vriska curses as the cold rushes in and the candles go out, and she's forced to remove her hand from her cutlass' hilt in order to relight hers]

Nice job, nookstain. Any other brilliant ideas you'd like to try? Because I'm sure as hell not sticking around for them.

[As soon as her candle's re-lit, she moves to walk off. See, this is why she does most things by herself]

[Romeo was seconds behind her in relighting the candle. That was scary! Maybe defying the Midnight Man wasn't a smart idea.

Then again, Romeo wasn't a smart person. He hurries after Vriska] Sorry Vriska, I guess I made him mad!

[The cold retreats somewhat, but it's still close to freezing all around them. There's the vaguest hints of something moving around in the darkness if they look closely enough, but it's always just out of range of their candles.]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Vriska just keeps walking, unsheathing Mindfang because she can sense the something around them and even if she couldn't the cold is a pretty big clue that this Midnight Man is on their tails now]

[Romeo for his part followed looking round with a mixture of fear and anger. He had to keep his spirits up though. He shivered and stayed close to Vriska.]

[Eventually the temperature begins to rise, and the shadow vanishes. It seems to have wandered off, for now. Still, it's cold enough that it's probably nearby.]

[Vriska will take that victory, small and temporary as it may be, and use it to fuel her continued pace. Even though being constantly on the move for so long at such a pace isn't what she's used to, her survival instincts are such that she will keep going until she wins or she drops]

[The pace was hard for Romeo as well, he was practically jogging at her heals, but it was not too tiring, he was still at the age where he could run about all day and only feel tired when he fell into bed at the end of the day. It was late though, way later than he was usually awake.]

[At least being nocturnal meant that Vriska was at her peak; she wasn't sure she wanted to think about how this would have gone down had it not been early as she considered it.

Whatever the case, she's going to keep going until they're either allowed to leave or forced to stop. And she'll resist the latter at all costs]

[Romeo was trying his best to keep up] Have you been here a long time Vriska? In the tower I mean.

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