It would be exhausting to give a detailed report of our wanderings in that ancient cavernous maze - it seemed like days as we explored that forbidding place. There have been many corridors, some certainly not created by purely natural processes, and on many of the walls there were ancient figures and paintings of obscure origin, faded with aeons of time, yet preserved in the prison of ice, untouched by human hands for ages. They were hard to decipher, but repeatedly we have been encountering what seemed like a collection of fifteen dots forming the shape of a triangle with one of its vertices aiming upwards. Sometimes instead of the topmost dot an intricate figure resembling a cogged ring or a deformed crown could be found. This particular symbol seemed important as it reappeared also separately on many of the portals and archways in this strange labyrinth.
But there have not been just geometrical symbols and glyphs - how we pitied the loss of our mathematician! - but also depictions of various animals and creatures unknown to us, as much as we could decipher from the graffiti. That intrigued particularly our biologists, as some of the lifeforms seemed completely alien to us, yet their depictions, despite the test of time, were remarkably life-like. Some resembled certain mythological creatures, the appearance of others was beyond our wildest imaginations. Despite our protests, our biologists have convinced us to stop to examine some of them more closely. In the end we had to move on, but it was our polar bear expert who remained behind - and when we found out that she was missing, it was already too late.
There was no way to tell which one - or more - of us had slipped away to take her life. We have found her body leaning against the wall, her blood glistening inside the notches of the ancient carvings in the light of our electric torches. Her death was our collective fault - despite the overwhelming danger, we have let ourselves become distracted by the curious carvings in the next room, hexagonal in shape again, but with its walls covered in cryptical diagrams and writings and with something that seemed like a stone altar in its midst. After lying our polar bear expert's body in the corridor and covering it with one of our blankets - we could not offer a more proper funeral - we have returned to the room with the altar. It was a curious stonework, yet not made of one piece and there were very strange holes in it, sinking somewhere deep under the altar itself. I think it was our mechanic who first came with the idea that they might have been used for pouring in liquid, and it was our buttoned-up lawyer who jested that this room might have been used as a sacrificial chamber. However, the jest turned out to be the horrible truth.
Even our mechanic could not explain what caused the large stone blocks to suddenly slide from the ceiling and bar all the exits from the room. We have repeatedly tried to move them, yet it has proved impossible. Somebody has brought up the idea that maybe if we pour something into the holes in the altar, the door might open. We have tried the water from one of our flasks, and indeed - some curious sounds came from below, but the doors remained shut. It was just after that when we discovered one of the carvings above the altar portrayed what was unmistakeably a scene of human sacrifice - and then what obviously must have been depiction of blood trailing into a machinery below.
LIVING MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION:
Boromir88 - senior assistant to a professor of glaciology
Morsul - federal grants lawyer
Nogrod - old palaeoecologist with is own theory of climate change
sally - the original initiator of the expedition
Thinlómien - whale expert
Nerwen - mechanic
Bes - room/store manager
Shasta - sled-dog handler
GONE:
Roa - survival guide - died on blood loss from Werewolf attack on Day 2 (left game, innocent)
Mnemosyne - field medic - shot by the survival guide on Day 2 (Werewolf)
Inziladun - meteorologist - killed by Werewolves on Night 3 (innocent)
tromkehra - cook/bartender - left aboard the ship on Day 3 (left game, innocent)
Nienna - navigator - shot on her way back to the ship on Day 3 (innocent)
Greenie - senior assitant to important scientists in the company, killed by Werewolf on Night 4 (innocent)
Pitchwife - marine biologist - unambiguously executed by the expedition on Day 4 (Werewolf)
Eomer of the Rohirrim - sea pilot - murdered in the icy darkness on Night 5 (innocent)
wilwa - crewmember - executed in the underground cavern on Day 5 (innocent)
Macalaure - palaeomathematician - killed while performing his palaeomathematic operations on Night 6 (innocent)
Loslote - rich funder's spoiled daughter - died with visionary words on her lips on Day 6 (Birthday Dreamer - innocent)
Brinn - polar bear biologist - stained the walls with her blood on Night 7 (innocent)
Day 7 has started.
You have been locked in the sacrificial chamber and need to sacrifice one person to get out. (IMPORTANT!!!) See the admin thread here for more detailed rules for toDay.
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