Rata Mall - Cafe

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The Curse of Rata Mall - Cafe

Present are:

Ariel

is Carla Temperton: Female, Late Teens Medium Height, Slight European accent

This room is a lot nicer to relax in than the eatery, that is for certain. Comfy chairs, albeit old. Tables. A clock ticking away on the wall. A stack of newspapers for the discerning guest. The room is split into two distinct sections - the customer area and the serving area for the staff, with a door leading off to the kitchen. There is a cola machine and a pepsi machine on the north and south walls respectively. A gas heater, sits on the western wall, turned off. There is a coffee maker on the counter top, just away from the cash register.

You can see the Pinball, Madame Seer Machine and Pacman machine from the window, back in the eatery.

Current layout of store

Room Deadline

(expired on 2020-09-07 08:00:00)

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Just outside the door of the freezer is an empty tube of superglue.

The walk in freezer has three hooks, Q, X, Z on the wall. They look like meathooks, disused, and singed. There is, or was, frozen food on the south wall. The packaging melted at some point, and its now a mix of defrosted vegetables and plastic. The freezer looks like it was cold until recently, but has defrosted leaving the floor both inside and outside the door saturated. The floor is singed black, apart from two footprint shaped marks where the concrete appears normal.

The power in the room fluctuates momentarily, and then everything looks brighter.

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The shelves dont move

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You hear something from behind the shelves. BUt then it stops

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It sounds like someone behind the walls of the shelves. But they are doing stuff, not talking.

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Shelves. There must be a way of getting them out of the way

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Actions in bold please, so I can tell easily whats an action, vs a suggestion.

Pooky crowbars open both drink machines and pockets any money he finds in them.

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It stays fixed to the wall, does not move

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Ariel pulls the middle cable and the shelves rise up to reveal a door with a pin number.


There are 4 skull icons on the right - Edit - now 1 is glowing.
The 1234 is for example only.

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Ariel checks under all the tables and chairs, but comes up with nothing.

For clarity, nobody is currently standing in the freezer.

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The code does not work, and a red skull lights up

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It stinks to high heaven in this fridge. The food in it is rotten, and unsalvageable. The fridge was probably without power for a long time.

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The Freezer doors slams shut

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The Freezer door opens again, Jia is nowhere to be seen.

The skull door has 2 skulls lit up.

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(It means she entered the wrong code first)

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You dont find any indented writing, but you do find words in the back cupboard written in pen "Remember her who created what you are trying to do". Though that seems pretty useless

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(Yeah, it probably doesnt relate to you. )

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Yes to the camera. No to the clocks - looks like someone raided those

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Ill catch up on the other actions in n about an hour

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I think im up to date with your actions. If I've missed any can you PM me.

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7282 - did not work. A skull lights up

The finger marks are on the 2,3,4,7,8


Edit: Rats, 7282 wasn't a command. Dammit

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AH, sorry. I'll take that on the chin, and drop back one.

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Who said anything about 3 skulls

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No, it shows 3 and 4 only

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Let me know if you time travel any further, so I can work out on what on earth that does to my spreadsheet

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You have 36 hours exactly. The clocks were interfered with and batteries removed, but they show 7:58

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Sadly, 3333 does not work, and a third skull lights up.

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The final skull appears.

The freezer door slams shut and locks magnetically.

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There is a woosh sound.

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The freezer door reopens. Everything looks more singed than before. Pooky is nowhere to be seen. The earlier set of footprints is more charcoalised now, with Pooky's footsteps being marginally visible.

The shelves have lowered back down.

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They have lowered back in place

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The door is exposed again, all 4 skulls are off

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A skull lights up

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Also, no, and a second skull

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No, and a third skull appears