Zenith : In Character → Threads, Logs, Events

Who: Jerome & Pam
When: Mid-Afternoon
Where: Pam's Room

( This place was missing the chirping of birds )

Who: Edwin, Bunny!Vanessa, and OPEN!
When: Morning
Where: Billiard Room

( There will be no dancing on the ceiling, thank you very much. )

Who: Felix and and IDKMYBFFTHEPLAGUEDOCTOR
Where: Felix's room, Levi's room, Vanessa's room
When: Shortly before this

( Well, this got weirder that intended... )

Day 33.

Weather: It's about the same temperature as yesterday. It's like spring wants to happen but it's not quite here yet.

Events:At some point last night, everyone falls asleep. They wake up as early or late as they normally would, as long as it's some time after 6 AM, in the same place that they fell asleep.

Anyone who put in a request to claim their vouchers will find that their requests have been granted. Whatever they had requested will be in their or their housemate's room, unless otherwise discussed. This is more specifically in the case of Felix, who requested a large, door-sized sticker of Zippy be affixed to Vanessa's bathroom door. She'll see that when she gets back to her room, because that's not where she wakes up.

Per Felix & TPTB's agreement, Both Edwin and Vanessa wake up on the ceiling of the billiard room. They are both wrapped from shoulder to ankle in the same rope that was used on the ropes course, almost giving them the look of someone who has been kidnapped by an old mustachioed villain and was about to be laid out on some railroad tracks. It's tight, and covers too much of their body for them to be able to escape from, and even if they did, they would fall face first onto the floor. They're fastened to the ceiling by a series of hooks that the rope has been looped over along their back. They both, as requested, have also been muted. Both wake up with a really bad case of laryngitis, which is going to make getting someone's attention complicated. They can't make a peep. They can't even squeak. There will be no calling for help for these two. Their forced silence will go on for the rest of the day, and leave them hoarse for days to follow.

Now, on to the main event.

There are still a few eggs hanging around, but the prize machine to receive rewards for tickets is gone. You could maybe try them in the ticket machine in the basement, but with how the power's behaving, maybe you should wait before you try the elevator.

The power isn't out in the house, but it's for sure acting up. The lights might flicker before going off, or the heat might go off in a room for a few minutes It's a little bit like in the plantation home, whenever those walking haystacks, the Zangbeto, showed up. And that's because the Zangbeto are here.

Just like at the plantation, the Zangbeto are going to appear randomly throughout the day, standing menacingly in a corner before they rush at you, vanishing when the lights flicker back on. With them, they brought along the strange, disembodied voice that could be heard chanting from under the floorboards and from other rooms.

They also brought some Plague Doctors. These guys are going to be seen more in bedrooms than they will out in the halls, but just like their haystack friends, they'll appear as the lights are flashing or out. Unlike the Zangbeto, the plague doctors aren't afraid to get too close. In fact, if you see one, you might want to head in the other direction before they start trying to give you a check-up. These guys will grab at you and try to hold you in place long enough for them to open your mouth and check your teeth, or snip off a sample of your hair, or pinch at your neck to check on that implant. They're not lethal, but they're creepy. Once they're done, they'll turn and head around a corner, only to promptly disappear.

But wait, there's more! While a good number of them have been hanging out on Edwin's bookshelves, today all of the creepy toys from the first Day 25 have relocated, and will keep relocating. You might find one in your closet, or sitting right outside your bedroom door, or in bed once you walk back into your room. Even if a doll gets thrown out, it will show up again somewhere else in the house. No one will ever see these dolls move, but they sure do get around, anyway.

Oh, and then there's that statue upstairs that nobody likes. It's active, too. First of all, the door to that room will not stay shut. It will keep opening of its own accord. If someone shuts it, it will gently pop back open, and they will hear a muffled sort of rustling sound coming from inside the statue. At random points through-out the day a male voice muttering unhappily can also be heard from that room. It's saying, "I can feel them crawling under my skin," with occasional additions of, "Can't eat, can't sleep," or "make it stop."

Finally, there's a new addition to the "Who's Who" of Mount Zenith, and that's three of these unsettling Easter bunnies. These don't seem to appear and disappear like the other Zenith cryptids. They just walk through the halls, most likely begging for help. There's a reason for that.

Chase, Kiley, and Vanessa had received surprise punishments yesterday. Today, the three of them wake up sewn into these bunny costumes. That's right, they're sewn in. The head is sewn to the bodysuit, the mittens are sewn to the sleeves, and the zipper is gone, leaving the fabric stitched shut in the back. Everything is hot and kind of itchy, and it's going to be a pain to get out of, and impossible for them to do on their own. Those fluffy bunny mitts are basically just socks on their hands, but are just too thick to make it possible to hold anything. Like scissors. Even the doorknob is going to take some effort to maneuver.

The fact that the weird looking head is going to muffle sound both coming in and going out is going to make it really tricky to get help. Especially when there are so many other creatures wandering around trying to scare people.

Oh, and yes, Vanessa is going to be trapped in this costume while being strapped to the ceiling. Getting help is going to be especially hard for her when she has no voice to tell them who she is, isn't it?

If you think you're going to escape all our creepy friends by leaving the house and heading into town? Sorry. That's not how this works. All these guys are lurking down there as well. Even before anyone gets to town, they're going to feel eyes on them from the trees surrounding the path, and even hear hushed voices. Is it more of these guys? Or maybe the trees are just talking on their own now. Or maybe you're just hearing things.

It's going to be a long day. Good luck, guys.