The Exam: IC Community

So, if anyone heard that, that's what a hoarder avalanche sounds like. Nothing damaged except our only means of escape.

If I shimmy under the tunnel created by this fallen shelf, I can still get to the bathroom for water, but right now, it looks like our food options are limited to this box of hardtack biscuits from the Revolutionary War.

All these anagrams and word problems -- I think we should keep track of them. Has anyone else found something strange written anywhere? Maybe they aren't supposed to be puzzles. Maybe something gets lost in communication between whatever is in this house and us. Like how that damn seance needed a conduit.

Maybe the house needs something to communicate more clearly.

I don't know. Right now I feel like I'm being pointed in every direction but the right one.

Edit: LIST

A I D M T N E I M O I V L A M - MILITIA MAN MOVED - ADMIT NO EVIL, MAIM - I AM MAD I'M VIOLENT - I'M MAD I'M NOT ALIVE / I'M NOT MAD I'M ALIVE -

Encyclopedia Letter D

Jane Eyre = "What is Dead May Never Die"

Handwritten Note: I will prevail

From The Rat King: "I am cursed as long as he is"

d fsi brubk mi xi byiwu boyftf xt uq tdyuk. - ???

There's a small lab in a room off the dining room - go through where the mirror used to be. Been a long while since I was in chemistry class so someone else might have better luck with what's in there than me. I cleaned up the broken mirror as best I could but still watch yourself if you head in, don't want anyone getting cut.

FILTERED TO IVY:

How's Harley II?

I know everyone's busy with mysteries and shit, but who needs extra layers? Room 15 has blankets. I have some stuff stored in Room 10. And tell me where you are if you need your shoes repurposed, too. Like we need broken bones on top of mass-contamination in the funhouse petri dish. I'm already sneezing.

[ ooc content warning: discussions of death in the comments. ]

UPDATE:

We've got all the letters now.

A I D M T N E I M O I V L A M and the white ball is blank.

Gladio and I have had a go at putting them together in various combinations. We've been able to make lots of individual words - VOID, DIVE, LOVE, ATONE, etc. - but, when we try to use all the letters, each combination seems to have at least one letter left over and none of them make any sense:

MAIN MOTIVE DIAL M
MAD MOVE INITIAL M
MOVE MADAM LINT II

Can anyone see anything in them that we can't?

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I need help, please. In the Billiards Room.

The balls - they've got letters on them now, instead of numbers, and they're floating.

I've managed to catch three - L, A and M - but I can't reach the rest alone.

I want to know what they spell.

Seeing as we have two problems that require solving, each with a clock on them, here’s a Brainstorming post. It isn't my intention to tell anyone what to do, just create a space to coordinate our ideas. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in this together.

To summarize for those who don’t know:
1. The furnace is no longer operating, and the temperature is beginning to drop.

2. The food stores have vanished overnight.

Ideas?

Right, so we can officially add talking plant to the list of fucking bat shit crazy things in this house. I'd suggest avoiding the conservatory if you can since it's looking to eat and I somehow imagine it won't be picky on what it eats, including us - or at the very least watch yourself if you head in.

ETA: Ivy will take any rats that are still posing a problem if you want to leave them with her.

I am relieved to announce that the rats in this building appear to be disease free, though I would not recommend interacting with them more than necessary just in case.

I'm really overdressed, feeding crumbs to rats. I mean, I guess I could have woken up and done something weirder than what I'm doing right now but, yeah.

Hello?

I realize this is probably small shit compared to seances and a rat king in the basement but I'm curious - anyone happen to take the D book of the encyclopedias in the study? Or seen it somewhere else in their explorations?

Day 3, Morning Leia Organa + Carol Danvers + Gladiolus Amicita The Study | Low Investigating Incomplete

( Investigations )

To whoever left the drawing in the study:

Thanks for capturing my good side. I'd be flattered if I didn't think you wanted to kill me.

If nobody is particularly attached to the body parts they're finding, I'll take them off your hands.

And thread and a needle, if anyone's come across any.

So people are coming up with body parts randomly showing up now. Wonderful. I don't believe in ghosts, but whatever is behind this is really, really sick.

Anyway, I don't like sitting still. Does anyone need any help exploring? Or maybe just drinking?

Annnnnd for the record just in case anybody's keeping score or whatever, but house 1 Arthur Curry 0

Literally no way to break any of these windows and I tried, on numerous occasions, with several different things. One of which was myself.

I maybe also broke a couple things in my attempts.

So, yeah, fun times.

WHO: Gladiolus Amicitia + Ignis Scientia
WHAT: Running into each other
WHEN: Day One!
WHERE: Near the staircase
WARNINGS: Will add as/if needed

( All things considered, Gladio was pretty sure he was not as pissed off by this whole sudden relocation thing that most people were and that he probably should have been himself. )

Hello? Is this thing on? Is it just me or does anyone else feel like they've been dropped into the middle of a horror movie? Just me? Okay. Also, has anyone noticed that the windows don't open? I wasn't thinking about climbing out of one... And! Do we really have to wear these old clothes?

Okay, what the hell is happening? If this is the Kree, we're going to have a very serious talk about messing with my head again. And by talk, I mean my foot in your ass.