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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[facultwist]

[ Absolutely. With your path to the bottom left room clear, you can easily find some paper to write on (since Vanity has so graciously offered one of her pens). ]

[banishedfromparadise]

[Okay then, grabbing those, with some flourish to get the kids' attention on her, and...

She's going to try to write three words, carefully and clearly.

FOLLOW
POOL
MOM]

[facultwist]

[ A floating pen and paper definitely gets their attention. They gather around. For a moment, they appear unsure, but... ]

Pool?
Remember when Mom showed us around?
The athletics center—
Oh, right, yeah! Right near the horses! I know where that is! Okay! We'll follow you!

[banishedfromparadise]

[Oh gosh, she's so pleased that it worked, and they understood.

The kids know the plan, guys! Time to get moving.]

[facultwist]

[ Unlike getting in, getting out is fairly straightforward. Even maneuvering around is. The kids don't need the cameras pointed out to them, they spy them themselves and have pretty good spatial awareness. It helps that it seems like they've walked through these halls before. There was no bathroom in the Scantron room, after all, so someone had to have escorted them.

You may worry about getting to the top of the basement door—it's locked, after all!—but when they reach it, the kids have a small discussion (I wanna! No way, you got to kick the stupid bear. I'll do it, you two, come on.) and Norman withdraws a bobby pin from the things he'd gathered to prep. He gets to work on picking the lock.

If you'd like to prepare any sort of distraction to set off, now's the time. ]

[bellpepperexercise]

Hm. How flammable are those bear things?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Well... They're teddy bears, Kana-chan. I would say pretty flammable.

[bellpepperexercise]

Well, yeah, but will it be enough to keep them occupied long enough for the kids to make a break for it?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Oh...! ...Yes. Yes, I think so. They're full of electronics, so it would be quite a fire hazard.

[bellpepperexercise]

Alright. God, I’m turning into a delinquent.

[Kana sighs nervously, then goes to the nearest active Boo Buddy…and sets her torch under it. Fire in the hole, everybody.]

[sweetsynergy]

I'm sure it'll be all over the ghost tabloids. Scandalous.

[facultwist]

[ As Kana gets close, the somewhat janky Boo Buddy that Emma kicked sounds off: ]

Brrr! It's cold in h-

[ But then, it's not cold anymore. Because it's on fire! Convenient!

Timing-wise, this works out well, because the door to the basement clicks open just as smoke starts to fill the room, to billow into the hallway. A smoke alarm sounds, as the kids burst outside for the first time in seven long weeks.

Since you've given them a direction, they're off running, like a shot. Even though it's cold outside, though they have no coats, they seem invigorated just to breathe the fresh air.

But the Interim Headmistress and the Witch will be aware very shortly. Though they have to deal with the fire you just set, you naughty kids, they'll be here. Soon.

Let's get out of here, and return to the pool. ]

[sweetsynergy]

[Vanity is on pen trail duty, as long as she has ghost juice remaining.]

[plonk]

[plonk]

[A couple feet at a time. This is weirdly zen.]

[facultwist]

[ That's a smart idea! Because while the kids know about the general pool and the athletic center, they certainly don't know about your underground pool.

Vanity has enough energy to get them to the door, but they can take it from there. ]

Whoooa. Mom never showed us this place!
She probably didn't know about it.
But Mom knows everything.
She didn't know about the evil ghost witch, duh.
Come on, you two...

[ They continue on like this. Typical sibling bickering. ]

[al_fresco]

[ Pokes her head over the side of the pool. ]

So the kidnapping went well, I take it?

[bellpepperexercise]

Kidnapping makes us sound like criminals! We’re un-kidnapping them!

[al_fresco]

Hey, even Robin Hood stole! It's okay. It's a righteous kidnapping.

[sweetsynergy]

Their mom asked us and everything.

[al_fresco]

That's true. Wow, she must have her work cut out for her taking care of three kids all by herself... like Reba. Wow.

[ shes from 2004 and can make this reference ]

Probably need to find them somewhere else to hole up until this whole thing blows over, though.

[sweetsynergy]

Isabella sounded like she had something in mind.

[Also someone should probably go get Isabella.]

...is Reba a friend or some kind of reference.

[al_fresco]

No, Chandler's from Friends. Reba's a singer.

[ She hums. ]

You know, not to try to one-up her, but I do have an idea about where to put the kids that I think only we could do.

[bellpepperexercise]

Ok? What’s the plan?

[Kana is taking a breather on the floor, but she sits up a little taller at this news.]

[sweetsynergy]

[sweetsynergy]

[Yeah... Yeah.]

[Vanity is not getting wistful watching these kids Be Siblings at each other, it's your imagination.]

[But also she's almost definitely dropping whatever's left of the pens as they get to the pool. Competitive Pen Toss really takes it out of you.]

Whoof- okay, if we're all about to double die someone scream, I'm just gonna. Sit for a minute.

[She slides to the ground, back against a wall, with as much dignity as she can muster.]

[It isn't much.]

[bellpepperexercise]

[Ok, yep, once the door’s open and the fire is going, Kana makes a break for it.]