BETRAYAL SESSION 1

[idolpro]

Who: You lot
When: To be inserted into the timeline after completion
What: Betrayal at the House on the Game Tower

[ The game starts with you in elevators, the doors jammed shut. You can keep an eye on the city further and further below you, but there's no introduction to today's game.

It's just as well. Those of you who recognize it need no introduction to it. Those of you who don't couldn't be prepared by any host's opening spiel, anyway.

The elevator stops atop the central tower of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building and then lurches unpleasantly, wrenching itself out of where elevators ought to go. The sudden movement jolts you, and when the doors open you spill out into a room.

Hopefully, with not too much time missing. ]

Comments

RULES

[idolpro]

IC INSTRUCTIONS:

Still have your minds? Try to hold onto those, as long as you can! As long as you're safe and sane, the goal is to explore as many rooms of the house as you can-- first come, first serve! Only the first person to explore a room gets the points for it.

If you lose your mind, you'll turn traitor to those around you, and you won't be able to help but try to do what the house wants you to do. With the house pushing upon you, both physical and mental distress are a danger to your sanity. Take care.

And take heart, too, even if you do turn traitor! It's another goal, and if you're doing badly at the other, this is a way to win! You haven't lost it all yet! Especially since the traitor goals are worth more points with the audience.

OOC INSTRUCTIONS:

Each team will have their traitor goal provided in a locked post of their starting room. Do not share your goal OOC, though do pay attention to other players' Do Not Wants when violence does occur.

Each room will be described with one paragraph of flavor text, which you can use to interact with each other but does not mechanically do anything or have dice rolls. Following the flavor text, the exits/entrances to the room will be listed, with one additional paragraph listing any other effects the room may have attached. Interacting with specific aspects listed after the entrances may give you stat bonuses, or stat detriments. Be aware of that! Flavor text from the first paragraph has no stat stuff attached.

Ping the runner the first time you enter a room, so we can get the description up for you.

The first time a room is entered, the first post will be descriptive. The second comment beneath that will be an event/item, unless the room does not have one attached, which would be noted in the first comment. Please wait for the second comment before responding to top-levels if you are the first person in a room.

If you are not the first person to go through a room, you can just comment beneath the top-level, there will not be another event/item for it.

Make rolls in the Discord roll channel as necessary. Rolls are made with 3 sided dice, minus the number of dice you're rolling, so zero is possible. Use the command .roll Xd3-X in the #dicebot channel on Discord, with X being the number of dice you're rolling.

If your character loses all of one stat, they lose their battle of wills against the House. All their personal morals and concerns are overridden. If it helps, think of it as similar to being possessed by a vengeful spirit. Those who have turned traitor do not get points for exploring rooms and do not trigger events or items. The possessed do not need to reveal their status OOC to other players, as many Traitor goals need to be performed in certain areas-- it is up to player preference if you are going to overpower another PC and drag them there, or trick them to going somewhere with you. All traitor characters know the whole map. The insanity effect is temporary, and lasts only as long as the game does. Characters turn traitor on an individual basis; if a character hits a sanity break, it will not also impact their unitmates.

Stat sheet changes and traitor status both carry over into a new session. If your character ended a session with +2 might and -1 speed from their starting positions, they will start their next session with +2 might and -1 speed from their starting positions. If they turn traitor, they will remain a traitor until endgame.

Any team that completes a traitor goal is automatically a winner. If less than half the units complete their traitor goals, then the remaining winning units will be those who explored the most rooms.

SESSION 1 LINKS

[idolpro]

How to play: Betrayal at the House on the Game Tower
Stat cards reference sheet
This session's stat card page - PLEASE DO THIS FIRST BEFORE YOU START PLAYING.
This session's map - to be updated as rooms are unlocked.

UNIT ROOMS

[idolpro]

LiliS
sensitIV
pep!pep!
Taisho Roman Revolution
BAD END=DEAD END
future is now
WILD CITY
☆ZRAEL
Heart Soldier Senshi
AlcheME!
avante en garde
BARiTONES

LAUNDRY ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the laundry room. The slightly warm, fresh smell of clean laundry covers an undertone of mildew from somewhere. Though it's clean, the lighting is low, and flickers from time to time overhead, abruptly throwing the room into darkness for moments at a time.

A corner of the room has been used for storage—cardboard boxes full of out-of-season decorations, knick-knacks, costumes gone out of fashion and all manner of disused theater props.

There is an exit to the north, and to the west.

If you end your turn here, you may discard your item to draw an item from the discard pile. There is a dumbwaiter here. ]

ITEM: ARMOR

[idolpro]

It's just prop armor from a Renaissance fair, but it's still metal.

Any time you take physical damage, take 1 less point of physical damage.

BALLROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Ballroom. In the center lies a marble slab dance floor meant for many bodies -- perhaps literally. Crime-scene outlines are traced in tape across the dance floor. Above, the avante garde scrap metal chandelier glimmers like knives, and the ballroom speakers pump a low thrum of bass into the room like a heartbeat you can feel in your ears, throat, and all through you.

There are entrances to the West, North, and East. ]

EVENT: REVOLVING WALL

[idolpro]

The wall spins to another place.

On a wall lacking an exit, the wall switch connects this room to another room it was not previously visibly connected to. A character in either room can attempt a knowledge roll to use the Wall Switch.
3+: The character finds the hidden switch and goes through.
0-2: That explorer can't find the hidden switch and can't go through.

CREAKY HALLWAY

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Creaky Hallway. The door behind you squeaks so loud when you close it, and the floorboards protest beneath your weight. You would surely hear if someone were to approach you here.

The room is a cross-shaped intersection, doors in each of the cardinal directions.

The room itself offers no particular dangers or advantages. ]

Re: CREAKY HALLWAY

[avestan]

[well okay let's keep going west]

STATUARY CORRIDOR

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Statuary Corridor. Marble statues of human, though all warped, figures form two lines down the hallway, unlabeled and unpainted. Compared to the rest of the house, this area is surprisingly clean and orderly; it might even be a nice space if the statues weren't all a little unsettling. This figure is so emaciated that she looks like barely more than a skeleton with skin stretched over it; that one has a second face on the back of his head; yet another has smooth, featureless eyes, and seems to be sprouting arrow shafts from various parts of her body. The line of them continues on in much the same vein, but one in particular might stick out as familiar: shorter-haired, rounder-cheeked, and given an uncharacteristically grim expression, while it may take a second look to place him, Mukuro's narrow eyes, immortalized in stone, stare unmistakably at the opposite wall.. The tension conveyed in the line of his mouth seems inappropriately solemn for the mess below his neck; what would otherwise be a very plain bust is made distinct by the gaping cavity carved out of his chest. The shape of his heart rests cradled in the pit; it's all functionally connected to the appropriate veins and arteries, but also messily and discernibly split into two separate halves.

There are three entrances, one to the East, one to the South, and one to the West. ]

EVENT: CLOSET DOOR

[idolpro]

That closet door is open . . . just a crack. There must be something inside.

The Closet is now established to be in this room for the rest of this session unless removed.
Once during a character's turn, that character can roll 2 dice to open the Closet:
4: Draw an item card
2-3: Draw an event card.
0-1: Draw an event card and remove the Closet token.

GALLERY

[idolpro]

[ You enter the gallery. A wide brassy-railed mezzanine, it encircles the ballroom below like the spectator seats of some grand coliseum. Statues engaged in obscene and immoral acts are ensconced in recessed archways behind pulled back sequin curtains, all of them seeming like they could be party-goers caught at their absolute worst, and petrified— literally— by discovery.

There is an entrance to the north, east, and the south.

You may also choose to jump to the ballroom below . . . It'll hurt if you do. Take 1 die of physical damage if you choose to do this. ]

EVENT: MYSTIC SLIDE

[idolpro]

The floor falls from under you.

The slide is established to be in this room now.
Attempt a Might roll to use the slide:
5+: You control the Slide. Put yourself in any known room in the floor below the slide.
0-4: You are put in an undiscovered (or if all are discovered, random) basement room. You fall to that room and take 1 die of physical damage.
On later turns, anyone has the option to use the Slide.

CONSERVATORY

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Conservatory. It's been designed like a birdcage with art nouveau bars sleek and too thin to pass through even if you were to break the glass. The plants here are gorgeous, boughs of potted trees and vines weighted down fruit-- recognizable pomegranates, others more strange and unfamiliar. The flowers are all in full bloom despite the dead of night, perfuming the air thickly.

There are exits to the north, west, and to the east. ]

EVENT: SHRIEKING WIND

[idolpro]

The wind picks up, a slow crescendo to a screeching howl.

Each character in the Gardens, Graveyard, Patio, Tower, and on the Balcony [or in a room with an outside facing window] must attempt a Might roll:
5+: You keep your footing
3-4: The wind knocks you down. Take 1 die of physical damage.
1-2: The wind chills your soul. Take 1 die of mental damage.
0: The wind knocks you down hard. Take 1 die of physical damage. Put one of your items (if you have any) in the Entrance Hall.

DRAWING ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the drawing room. Withdrawn far into the house, it doesn't seem like many guests could have ever been entertained here. Nonetheless, it's ready for the occasion. Most any occasion, actually. A large dining table, with a black mirrored surface stands at the center of the room, surrounded by tufted couches in black fabric with an oil-slick sheen. A roll-top desk stands by a bookshelf stands by a display case stands by an easel stands by a coat-rack. But that said, the room is occupied by strange silhouettes-- not the shadows of the damned, animate and three-dimensional. These have been painted onto various pieces of furniture, people that aren't reclining atop couches, sitting for their supper, as if to keep company someone locked away deprived of it.

There is an exit to the north, and to the east.

There is also, upon searching, a dumb-waiter in this room. ]

ITEM: SMELLING SALTS

[idolpro]

Whew, that's a lungful.

If you or another character's Knowledge is below its starting value, and you're in the same room, you can raise that trait to its starting value by using the Smelling Salts. Discard this after you use it.

BASEMENT LANDING

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Basement Landing. Aside from piles and piles of coal here in this room, there's not really much else . . . It's really just coal, soot and dust coating everything. Your footprints leave dark tracks as you walk through it, on ground in ashes. What on earth are they burning down here, to need this much coal? How large must the furnace be?

You may go North, East, South, or West. ]

Re: BASEMENT LANDING

[sancrimony]

[ mmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

LET'S GO WEST AGAIN ]

BATHROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the bathroom. All the mirrors and windows are fogged up, a bath full of warm water and bubbles already drawn. The room smells heady, like warm wine that's been spiced— and, if the bubbles clear, it seems that… might be what's in the tub. It's dark red, sloshing lightly like something's moving beneath the surface, before more foam wells up to cover what's been cleared away.

There are exits to the north, west, and to the east. ]

EVENT: HIDEOUS SHRIEK

[idolpro]

It starts like a whisper, but ends in a soul-rending shriek.

Each player must attempt a Sanity roll:
4+: You resist the sound.
1-3: Take 1 die of mental damage.
0: Take 2 dice of mental damage.

SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Servant's Quarters. Beds are crammed in close together, stacked in two-tall bunks set into cabinets-- capsule hotel-like. The spaces between rows are narrow and hard to navigate, labyrinthine with corners that are designed so you can't see who's coming around the next hall. It affords privacy, at those cost of peace of mind-- you can hear footsteps but now know how close they are, you know surely there must be an exit close but be unable to find it easily through the maze.

You may go North, East, South, or West. ]

EVENT: DEBRIS

[idolpro]

Plaster falls from the walls and ceiling.

You must attempt a Speed roll:
3+: You dodge the plaster. Gain 1 Speed
1-2: You're buried in debris. Take 1 die of physical damage.
0: You're buried in debris. Take 2 die of physical damage
Buried characters can either get someone else to try and free them (4+ for a success) or free themselves, at the cost of 2 might.

BEDROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Bedroom. The decor reeks of sleaze— black floors polished to a mirror shine reflect you from below, the walls leather panelled, set with studs and mounted with sturdy rings. Leather straps and braided cord hangs from the coat hanger, and the bed is rumpled, unmade. An ornate side-table is topped off with expensive bottles of booze, more half-emptied than full. A dresser drawer is open, everything inside looking to be made entirely of black lace.

There are exits to the north, east, and south. ]

EVENT: SECRET STAIRS

[idolpro]

A horrible creaking sound echoes around you. You've discovered a secret stairwell.

The Secret Stairs connect the room discovered to the nearest room on the map on another floor. If the character decides to follow the stairs, they recieve another event card in the new connecting room.

FOYER

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Foyer. An extension of the entrance hall, the center of the hall is taken up by a fountain, water slopping over the sides through a grate in the floor as in waves as if displaced by some tumultuous battle. The statues in the fountain are engaged in a still-frame war, gladiatorial armies holding spears aloft with wounds that leak water to the fountain below. Watching over all this is a prominently placed painting of man. Beneath it is a plaque, no name or artist but instead are the words, "Do Unto Others."

The room itself offers no particular dangers or advantages.

There are exits in all four cardinal directions. ]

Re: FOYER

[avestan]

[deadeyes that fucking painting but moving on west]

JUNK ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Junk Room. It's difficult to wedge the door open to enter, so much are the multitudes of junk that have been heaped here. Among other things, suits ruined with cigarette burns, books with red wine staining and fusing the pages, half a motorcycle, and a pawn shop's worth of wrist-watches all in need of repair litter the floor. There's a stack of mirrors against the wall, so you can see how ridiculous you look as you pick your way through the mess, too. It's a trial and a half to wade through this room, and opening any of the doors promises to be equally arduous.

There are four entrances, one in each cardinal direction: to the north, east, south, and west.

To pull open a door you'll need to make a Might roll of 3+. If you fail, you'll lose one speed from tripping and hurting your ankle while yanking it open, but you'll still get out. ]

EVENT: FOOTSTEPS

[idolpro]

The floorboards slowly creak. Dust rises. Footprints appear on the dirty floor. And then, as they reach you, they are gone.

Roll 1 die. (A character in the Chapel rolls 1 additional die on this roll.)
4: You and the nearest character gain 1 Might.
3: You gain 1 might, and the nearest explorer loses 1 Sanity.
2: Lose 1 Sanity.
1: Lose 1 Speed.
0: Each character loses 1 point from a trait of his or her choice.

ROOF LANDING

[idolpro]

[ You arrive on the top floor landing. There are exits to the north, west, and south.

Some of the wallpaper on the wall to the east looks slightly loose, indicating a door hidden behind it. ]

Re: ROOF LANDING

[wonderlandgirl]

[Is that a door behind the wallpaper?

[If it is, can Wednesday open it? She doesn't have anything she could use to cut it...]

GYMNASIUM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Gymnasium. A portion of the room is consumed by a vast swimming pool. Of what isn't, a third of this equipment is recognizably exercise equipment, a third is recognizably torture devices, and the remaining third could go either way. Or possibly that last third is bondage equiptment?

There are two entrances, one to the West and one to the North.

One of the treadmills has been left running, set to a training course. It… seems safe enough. Do you want to train? (Once per round, if you train here, gain 1 speed.) ]

EVENT: IMAGE IN THE MIRROR

[idolpro]

There is an old mirror in this room. Your frightened reflection moves on its own. You realize it is you from another time. Your reflection writes on the mirror: THIS WILL HELP
Then it hands you an item through the mirror.

STAIRS FROM THE BASEMENT

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Stairs from the Basement. They are, fortunately, neither narrow or steep. They wind a spiral deeper into the earth— you know yourself to the be at the top of the game tower, but it's hard to keep that in mind, so oppressive is the air down here.

You can exit to the east on the ground floor, or continue down to the room directly below.

The room itself offers no particular dangers or advantages. ]

Re: STAIRS FROM THE BASEMENT

[avestan]

[wow this game is a lot less exciting than i was led to believe

going down!]

WINE CELLAR

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Wine Cellar. Barrels and barrels of alcohol fill the room - beyond what the eye can see, because it seems there's a sort of mortar setup going on to prevent you from going too far into the wine cellar. For the love of God, let us see the wine! Oh well - you probably shouldn't drink it, like, even if this is the one time you can get some without spending points, it's probably better to avoid the drink, right? Avoid spirits. . . .

You may go upstairs, or you may go East. ]

ITEM: TEAPOT

[idolpro]

A porcelain teapot with a motif of delicate pink flowers. It grants wishes, at a price.

Once in each room, when someone in the room you're in (including yourself) takes physical damage, you may draw an item card.

If you become a traitor, you cannot hold or use this item. Leave it where you found it, or drop it if you were already holding it.

GAME ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Game Room. Globules of lights string the ceiling, dripping pools of light to illuminate a billiards table, a roulette wheel, a craps table. Someone's game of 52 pick-up scatters the floor near an overturned table crouching in the corner, one of its legs yanked out from beneath it. Throwing darts pincushion the line of target on the back wall— and the nearby taxidermied game. An Elk's head stuck with five darts dead center between the eyes stares straight at you.

There are exits to the south and to the east. ]

EVENT: BURNING MAN

[idolpro]

A man on fire runs through the room. His skin bubbles and cracks, falling away from him and leaving a fiery skull that clatters to the ground, bounces, rolls, and disappears.

You must attempt a sanity Roll:
4+ You feel a little hot under the collar, but otherwise fine. Gain 1 Sanity.
2-3: Out, out, you must get out. You run straight back to your starting room, without pause.
0-1: You burst into flames! Take 1 die of physical damage. Then take 1 die of mental damage as you put out the flames.

PANIC ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the panic room after working to pop open the seam in the wallpaper in the stairway landing and pulling up the heavy metal shutter door. The door slams down behind you as you enter.

It's surprisingly richly-appointed, for a room that one would hope never to use, with a dark leather sofa and dark wood cabinets for provisions and basic essentials. It'd make a comfortable place to hide—if the walls weren't painted in a perfect, deep imitation of blood red.

There's a dumbwaiter here shut behind a heavy metal door that slams down when not held open—the only other entrance or exit, if only you could cram yourself in there.

Dumb-waiter aside, there is only one exit, to the west.

When you exit, you may attempt a speed roll of 3+. If you succeed, you may move to any room with a dumbwaiter. ]

EVENT: CREEPY CRAWLIES

[idolpro]

A thousand bugs spill out on your skin, under your clothes, and in your hair.

You must attempt a sanity roll:
5+: You blink and they're gone. Gain 1 sanity.
1-4: Lose 1 sanity
0: Lose 2 sanity."

LARDER

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Larder. A great plume of white bursts into your face as you open the door-- a sack of flour lands with a heavy thud. It's only that. It's landed heavy by the door, surrounded by many more sacks of flour, sugar. Crates of dried goods line shelves, alongside tins and spices. Something moves in the sack.

You may go West or East.

The tins don't look tampered with. You could risk eating something here to keep your strength up, you're probably not going to find much better in this mansion. (Oncer per round, if you eat the rations, gain 1 might.) ]

ITEM: BOOMSTICK

[idolpro]

WEAPON: Rusted and well-used, someone took a hacksaw to the barrel. At least they left two good shells.

When you acquire this item, it has two bullets. Each time you use it, make a speed 7 attack instead of a might attack. When there are no bullets left, discard this item.

You cannot use another weapon while you are using this one

STUDY

[idolpro]

[ You enter the study. To one side of the room sits a desk of dark wood, upon which rests a writing blotter, several sheets of blank paper, and a half-full inkwell with quill. The walls are lined with high bookshelves; the topics range from religion and philosophy to war and strategy. For some reason there's music theory and a big coffee table book on musical theater? There's a plush chair for reading in tucked into one corner, appointed in soft red velvet.

Near the desk there is a door set into the wall for a dumbwaiter.

There are exits to the south and to the west.

Once per game, you may gain one point in a mental trait here. ]

ITEM: AMULET OF THE AGES

[idolpro]

Ancient silver and inlaid gems, inscribed with blessings.

Gain 1 Might, 1 speed, 1 knowledge, and 1 Sanity now.
Lose 3 might, 3 Speed, 3 Knowledge, and 3 Sanity if you lose the Amulet.

ORGAN ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Organ Room. The eponymous pipe organ unfurls against two walls, a grand parabola of pipes and excess. It squats just short of scraping the ceiling, golden devils adorning the alcoves of the thing, standing proudly atop pipes with spears held aloft and scaling the sides with spears held in their teeth. A mural of defeated angels adorns the floor, with there being little choice but to trod on their defeated number to cross the room, so numerous are their painted numbers.

There is an entrance to the south, to the north, and to the west. ]

EVENT: GROUNDSKEEPER

[idolpro]

You turn to see a man in groundskeeper clothing. He raises his shovel and charges. Inches from your face, he disappears, leaving muddy footprints, and nothing more.

You must attempt a knowledge roll. (A character in the gardens rolls 2 fewer dice on this roll)
4+ You find something in the mud. Draw an item card.
0-3: The groundskeeper reappears and strikes you in the face with the shovel. GM rolls a Might 4 attack for the Groundskeeper. You defend against this attack by rolling dice equal to your might.