Realistic or Modern The Game of Life and Death - Settings/Locations

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The Mansion is an ancient, seemingly abandoned decrepit building in the middle of nowhere, nestled deep within a dark forest. Only those that have business with the Devil may find the path to it during October, and, once 13 gather, the prior to this dark structure brightens as it lights up like a lantern. This signals the beginning of the game and the players enter.


Once they step over the threshold, they shall realize that the mansion is much larger on the inside than the interior supposed. Finding themselves in the entry hall, they shall be met with a booming voice, yet no figure, that explains the rules, grants them a special item and then navigates them around the place as a form of a tour.


The manor possesses two floors. On the first one there are located 5 rooms - the entry hall; the dinning room (to the hall's right), which connects to the kitchen; the lounge (to the hall's left), which connects to the library. The stairs to the second floor are positioned directly in front of the entrance and are a very large, looming structure. Once a person ascend them, they come to realize that they have wound up in the residence area - on the second floor there are 13 identical rooms, each equipped with its own bathroom together with a small balcony that connects it to its neighboring space.


In each room there are located requisite and costumes that change every day (though they may be stored away by the participants in their living quarters and thus prevented from being taken away), and can be used to frighten someone to death. The sole exception are the 13 living spaces for the contestants. Additionally, the aforementioned objects don't start appearing before 2nd October.

• Entry Hall
• Dinning Room
• Kitchen
• Lounge
• Library
• Rooms

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  The most lit up corner of the mansion is it's entry, which is also the most gorgeous part of it. Being lined with artwork of all sorts and wonderfully illuminated, this is a seemingly safe place. However, truth is that nothing about it is special, except for the perceived atmosphere. It's just yet another room where items appear. Some people may choose it as a location of relaxation and reflection, though this is solely up to them.
  
  
  
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  This is where the participants gather to dine, being served meals prepared by an unknown cook. The place has a very solemn setting to it, that might suppress most people alongside their appetite. Staying true to its general feeling, this is a space where many and often terrifying items appear.
  
  
  
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  Being the most unsettling location in the mansion, the kitchen is somewhere most refrain from going. It is seemingly always enshrouded in a mysterious mist and some claim that this is a preferred gathering point for ghost, despite the fact that there are no such entities in the mansion. However, when freaky costumes get combined with hindered vision, even the biggest skeptic may spot a monster emerging to grab them. Yes, this is the treasury of disgusting attire for those that seek to get rid of another participant.
  
  
  
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  This is the cozy living room in which people may gather to converse and unwind in front of the beautiful warm fireplace. In a likewise manner to the entry hall, it is decorated by wondrous pieces of artwork, though, again like it, it is not necessarily safe.
  
  
  
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  The Library is without a doubt the largest location in the mansion, filled with tons of books of various types - modern or ancient tomes line the dusty shelves of this space, containing all the genres that your being can fathom, written by known or unknown authors in languages that you may or may not speak. Some of these tongues seem so bizarre that you doubt their very existence. The atmosphere of this room is simply mysterious, yet charming in a sense. To carry through with the enigma, this is the place where people come to clear their minds and stumble upon clues - occasionally some forgotten diary of a previous participant might pop up among the other books, or a work that might enlighten you.
  
  
  
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  The rooms are all of an identical nature, equipped with a bathroom and connected small balconies. These are the only spaces where items do not appear (yet may be stored) and where the participants are completely safe. However, they may be entered only during the night. When it comes down to the rest of the day (from 8am to 8pm) the humans are forced to be in other parts of the mansion, exposed to potential dangers.
  
  
  Fortunately, each is granted a key that mysteriously works during nighttime, so that the door to every living space may be locked to outsiders with ill-intend while you sleep. On the other hand, a player may invite a person or even a couple of people to join them in their residence as there is no rule against that.
  
  
  These rooms are numbered from 1 to 13 and each person is granted their own. The ones from 1 to 6 stay to the left of the staircase that leads to the upper floor, the ones from 7 to 12 are to the right, while the unlucky number 13 remains directly in front of the stairs, being the most exposed of them all.
  
  
  

However, this house hides many secrets... like ancient passageways behind bookshelves or a trapdoor in the fireplace. It is up to the players to discover these crawlspaces and find their way to the basement floor.


The secret doors and stairs are located as follow - downwards spiral stairs behind the most massive bookshelves in the library, a trapdoor in the base of the fireplace, a slide inside the oven in the kitchen, stairs activated by pulling on the horn of a statue depicting a goat in the entry hall, a door reached through breaking a mirror in the entry hall. And all these pathways lead to various parts of the underground construction, which possesses 5 rooms.

• The Altar
• The Catacombs
• The Torture Chamber
• The Study
• The Dancing Hall

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  What appears to be a place of gathering for a religious cult, with pagan and satanic symbols plastering the wall, this is somewhere where people come to pray. It's never sure whether their pleas will reach the Devil's ear and most often than not they will actually go unnoticed or even purposefully overlooked, though a person may additionally come to the alter with another if they wish to end them through violence. This is the room that the host left unguarded. The place can be reached through shattering the mirror in the entry hall.
  
  
  
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  One of the perfect rooms to carry out frightening someone. These are the ancient catacombs, layered with tombs filled with human remains, though some skeletons have managed to escape their stone prisons and can be seen lying around in parts. This room certainly makes one wonder who these people were. Previous unfortunate participants? Nevertheless, it can be reached through the trapdoor in the fireplace of the lounge.
  
  
  
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  Seeing as physical violence is (mostly) forbidden, this space cannot be utilized to its full potential. As a matter of fact, the Devil keeps and extra eye on it just in case someone decides to play dirty with the equipment. Then what is the purpose of it? The shock factor can be utilized to scare a victim. This chamber alongside the catacombs are the two perfect rooms for carrying out an act of horror. The dungeon can be reached through the slide of the oven in the kitchen.
  
  
  
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  This is a rather simple room, filled with a desk and some shelves, though the important aspect is what said shelves contain - the rarest of rare books alongside tips on how to survive and all the diaries/notes of previous visitors of the mansion. Naturally, this is the hardest place to discover as the two entrances - the goat statue in the entry hall and the massive bookcase in the library - become available only on the third week of October, while the end of the game is already closing in.
  
  
  
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  The room where it shall all come to an end. This is the only space that cannot be reached through any means until the evening of Halloween, when the staircase in the entry hall will move away to reveal another one underneath and at the end of it - the soothing and wonderful lights of this enormous cavern.