Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-31073921-20170428124558

If you are reading this, its too late for me, I am undoubtedly dead. But, its not too late for you. You may be wondering what this is, but for your sake do not stop reading. You may think you just entered any other hotel and came to stay the night, but you're wrong. If you don’t believe me, try to exit the room. You can’t huh? Your key doesn’t work, or you swear that you left it open. But I’m not going to waste time making unnecessary conversation. I’ll explain what you have to do, and before I forget if you have someone with you, please have them read this too.

You are in grave danger. You have joined a sort of ‘Game’ to say. The rules of the game are as following, though you will see this carved on the door the next time you look at it.

RULE #1: Hide RULE #2: Find RULE #3: Think RULE #4: Dive RULE # 5: Survive

This may seem very mysterious, but I’ll try to analyze this for you. It should be around 12:00 right now, no matter what the time was when you entered. For 1 hour you have a chance to hide in this hotel room. I would suggest the bathroom, or the closet. At exactly 1:00 AM, something known as “Hide” will come and try to find you. If you hide well enough, by 1:01 you should be safe. If not, Hide will rip you to pieces in a matter of seconds.

The second ‘Rule’ is Find. You will have 4 minutes to cool down before this part starts at 1:05. You will have to find another creature known as ‘Find’. Find will imitate the person that was in the hotel before you - but they will be completely and purely black. Finding ‘Hide’ will result in the game being over, and Hide disappearing. You will have until 2:00 to relax. If you do not find Hide by the time it is 2:00, you will become the next hider - tormented until the next person finds you. I will note that if you are with multiple people, there will be multiple Hides (As many as the people that are there). Each person must find a hide, or they will dissolve in a similar way as the Hides. Also, check the bathroom.

The third rule is the safest, yet still very difficult. On the door, the instructions will be replaced by a question, something very philosophical. If there are more than one person, each person will see a different question. There will be a line under the question, where you will fill out (In any way, even just a representation with your finger) the answer. If you get the question correct, the question will seem to disappear and you will have until 4:00 to prepare yourself for what’s to come. If it doesn’t disappear, you have gotten the question wrong. If you get the question wrong 3 times or it becomes 4:00 before you can write an answer, an unknown force will drag you back to where you were original hiding, and you will never be seen or heard of again.

The fourth rule will take the most effort. It is unknown why it is called “Dive” but presumed it is because you will “Dive” into darkness. At exactly 4:00 every light will turn off. In your hand will appear a bag of salt, open and completely full. This will be essential to your survival. After the lights turn off, immediately start walking. After a second your eyes will adjust, and you will see that the room is just dimly lit. When walking around, you will see a figure, and if you have friends it will clearly not be them. The figure will have extended tendrils for arms, that go down to its waist. It will also have 4 spider like legs that are at least 5 feet long. This figure is known as “Dive”. You will want to immediately look at Dive, for it can not move when directly in your peripheral vision. When you blink, if no one else is looking at Dive, it will disappear. Immediately look around to see if you can see it. If you cannot, make a circle of salt around you. This circle will take up about ⅕ of the bag. You will hear a clicking sound when the circle is complete. If you do not, check to see if there are any punctures and fill them. The clicking will strike exactly 60 times, and each click will happen every second. Once the clicking stops, the salt will disappear and you are no longer safe from Dive. Continue the procedure until 4:55, when you will not be able to see anything. The last 5 minutes are in complete darkness. It is recommended to not use all of your salt so the you can be 100% safe for the last 5 minutes. Before I continue, I will note that if you get caught by Dive, everyone else in the room will not be able to see anything for exactly 1 minute, though they will be safe. Your screams will be heard through out the minute, and when they can see again they will somehow recognise your body, horribly mutilated and torn into multiple pieces.

And the final part is Rule #5. The second that 5:00 hits, the lights will turn on and you will see that you are in a secluded basement area. Run up the stairs of the basement, as it will go for 5 flights despite the length of the hotel. After the flights, you will get to the hotel from a door that was previously not there. Run to the door, exit, and sprint out of the hotel. The hotel will start filling up with a black substance, at an extremely alarming rate. If you touch the liquid, you will not be able to break free, and you will be doomed to drown in the tar like substance. If not, you will exit the hotel and finally be free.

When you exit the hotel the time will be exactly 6:00 AM, no matter what time it was before you entered or exited. So what do you get out of this escape? Your life, among other things, but something else. There will be a small tennis ball sized orb in your pocket, or if you do not have a pocket, in your hand. It is green on the outside like old paint, and with golden linings that look like rusted metal. There will be one for every surviving member of the group. This orb will help you survive one catastrophe. The next time you are about to die, you will miraculously be saved with at least one year of life left. The orb will disappear after that.

But before you go and hide, I just wanted to say one thing. Good Luck!  