SO YOU WANT TO STEAL SOME CHILDREN (Endgame Catchall)

[facultwist]

Welcome to the container for your endgame! This will be the place where you can perform your polterheist (we really love that portmanteau), and where you'll be able to commentate on the final trial!

ICly, the whole heist will take place Monday, while the final trial watch will take place Thursday. For anything not related to endgame, please continue to use the main deadland post!

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HEISTING

[facultwist]

[ OOCly, this will take place Wednesday ]

[facultwist]

[ After the seance session with Isabella concludes, she walks to the administration center. She has no way of telling if you follow her or not, but she's said her piece and continues undaunted.

Without another word to you, she unlocks the administration center and strolls on in. Whether the door is open or not, you'll find you can walk right through it. She glances back to where she thinks you may be, and then her eyes flick towards a door on the far side of the room. With a small, almost imperceptible nod, she continues on, away from that door and further into the administration center itself.

The message should be clear: She's going to distract the Interim Headmistress and the Witch, while you get through that basement door.

It's locked, but that isn't really a problem for you, is it?

Here you'll find yourselves in the basement. You know your task. Now you just have to explore and accomplish it. ]

[ ooc: Welcome to the heist portion! The key to the map is as follows:
- The southernmost part of the map is where you enter.
- Rooms with openings mean they are unlocked. Rooms without openings are locked.
- Green spaces are ghost detecting equipment. Rinne will be your guide to this. On the way over, she's explained about various things, but the ones that will come up are REM Pods which detect your movement if you get close and Boo Buddies, little teddy bears that periodically speak to you. We're going full Buzzfeed Unsolved/Ghost Files here You want to stay out of these areas, and if you hear a Boo Buddy speak, you want to not respond.
- Blue spaces are thermal cameras. You will also want to stay out of these areas or find some way to disable them. Please note, you will have to conserve your ghostly abilities, so choose wisely if you would like to go this route!

[thatsplato]

You're telling me those things actually work? [the citizen detective is SCANDALIZED by the rem pods and boo buddies]

[sweetsynergy]

Welcome to my last two months.

1/2

[thatsplato]

Hauntings, fine. Ouija boards, okay.

This? This works? [gesturing like ---]

2/2

[thatsplato]

This opens so many routes of investigation.

[sweetsynergy]

...you just went full-on X-Files, didn't you.

[Actually seeing the moment of metamorphosis sure is something.]

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Unfortunately, Miss Misty, it appears like they do.

[ rinne hates the ghost hunting shows she isn't any more pleased about this than you are ]

[sweetsynergy]

[Hopefully that ghost-detecting stuff can't sense moods because Vanity is going into this looking like thunderclouds.]

[What've we got in this first open room on the right, gang?]

[facultwist]

[ You've found the landscaping supplies storage room, Vanity! There's all sorts of things in here to keep the campus foliage looking fresh, including shears, rakes, shovels, bags of mulch—that kind of thing. ]

[sweetsynergy]

[Anything seem out of place or recently used?]

[...she may be the wrong person for this.]

[facultwist]

[ Nope, it looks honestly pretty untouched. Not much need for landscaping when you're in the middle of a storm. ]

[trustheart]

[ Chris heads into the connecting room north of here, having followed Vanity, making sure to keep out of range of the ghost detecting equipment, which is...? ]

[facultwist]

[ The ghost hunting equipment in this room is a Boo Buddy! Cute little teddy bear. In fact, as you enter, it sounds off: ]

Hi, I'm Boo Buddy! What's your name?

[ ...That aside, you've found a room with boxes of various decorations, sorted by season. Plastic bats and cobwebs for Halloween, somewhat gaudy turkeys for Thanksgiving, etc. The spot for Christmas decorations, predictably, is empty. ]

[protomartyr]

[ Lottie chooses to get as far away from Vanity as possible and takes the first room on the left! What's up in here? ]

[facultwist]

[ While she will come in here when she gets tired of the right room, Lottie will have some mercifully Vanity-free time in the general supply storage. It's all things like papers and notebooks and binders in storage boxes. You can probably find some pens and staplers here as well. ]

[protomartyr]

[ Lottie does the quickest power meditation you've ever seen.

Is there a path between the first left-hand room and the middle left-hand room behind it? ]

[facultwist]

[ There is! You can follow Chris into the holiday decoration supply storage! ]

[banishedfromparadise]

[Solid Snake or Kim Possible, Dorothy is not.

She can only assume that trying to ghost-cheat her way through here won't work, but who will know unless she tests it? She can walk through walls and closed doors, but is there anything stopping her from just clipping through the floor plan?

She's testing it with her hand where there clearly isn't an immediately adjacent room. Is it solid? Does she feel herself go through but losing energy?

Look, she doesn't expect it to work, but she has to test it first.]

[facultwist]

[ Hey, it's a good thing to try!

As expected, Dorothy's hand does go through the wall...but she'll find herself losing energy. It seems like it's harder to manifest as a ghost if there's not a physical space to be in. ]

[banishedfromparadise]

[Okay, that's going to be an immediate withdrawal of her hand, there!

With that curiosity satisfied, she follows along the safe paths in the others' footsteps, through the rooms on the left.

School and general supplies storage seems like nothing, but there isn't anything of note or out of place among the holiday supplies in the middle-left room, is there? Hopefully not anywhere near the REM pod blocking the hallway?]

[facultwist]

[ Well, you won't be able to get too close to the spot reserved for the Christmas decorations, but it's empty, so that's fine, right?

However, as Dorothy examines around the boxes of Halloween decorations, something moves out of the corner of her eye. ]

[bellpepperexercise]

[Kana is going to scoot towards the northmost room with the rest of the party, a bit perturbed by being the subject of a ghost adventure, admittedly. As she goes, are there any big things somebody could use to say, bust the lock of a door later?]

[facultwist]

[ Well, it'd take a group effort, but in this graduation ceremony supplies room, those folded tables and the podium could be heavy enough, with the right amount of force. ]

[bellpepperexercise]

[Alrighty. Speaking of supplies, are there any small, flammable things to create a makeshift torch out of? Grad papers or something?]