I find it disturbing that we have guests wandering through the Necropolis who just don’t care about following the guidelines. The guidelines are there for your safety, people! OMFG I sound like a broken record. I’m not done talking about it though, as I already wrote about it under Newsworthy Necropolis!
I also tell you about my second trip down into the Labyrinth. If you haven’t read about my first trip, it happens during my first night on the job, which you can read about here:
Anyway, only way to know what’s really going on is to just read about it. Let’s do it →
What’s newsworthy in Necropolis that isn’t bad news this week? Some of you need to be walked on leashes because … you know what? Nevermind. You are all grown ass adults and should be able to comprehend and follow guidelines without your hands being held.
That being said, there are now 12 adults missing, having been taken by the green mist when they decided to stay long after closing. I won’t admonish you to read the guidelines, I’ve done that every last issue since the first. At this point, if you get eaten, it’s your own damn fault.
The Event Coordinator has passed on a note asking me to ask you to stop calling after your event is scheduled. Then there’s a lot of random scratches that appear to be writing, but if so it’s in some arcane language, and I think they think I should be able to read it, but I can’t. And then at the bottom it says “Soup Dragon.” So I’m not really sure what the entire gist is, but I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that you maybe get all of your questions answered and concerns addressed before you make your deposit.
The story so far: I was given a ring of ancient keys and thought they might work in the doors in the Labyrinth, so I tried to head there but was stopped by a Sphinx and her riddles. Last week, I managed to get past the Sphinx, make it down to the Labyrinth, and picked up Shotgun on my way in. I think we’re all caught up now!
So it's been a week, and what a week it's been! You wanna know something really dumb? Like really stupid, actually? About a month ago, I shared with you all about how I came into the possession of a key ring filled with antique keys. Since the Labyrinth is the only place I know of with all kinds of locked doors, I figured the keys were to the rooms in there. So I planned a little venture down there, was waylaid by the Sphinx, and when I finally made it into and out of the Elevator, picked up the Shotgun, and waltzed down the hall to find the first locked door, you know what I what I also found there?
I fucking left the key ring in the Employee Hall.
I mean, I must have, because it wasn't on me when I went to grab it to see if I could open the door. I'll be honest, I did beat myself up about it. I was frustrated by my complete lack of oversight. I knew I couldn't just stand there and simmer in it, though. If I was going to make any progress, I was going to have to go back and get the keys. Before I left, I stopped and really considered the locked door in front of me.
It looked like a basic metal door in any American high school. This one's painted a dark blue, to match the lush carpet and blue-tinted lights spread throughout the hallways. There's a metal handle with the lock installed on it where it turns. There's a narrow window running vertical set into the door just above the handle. I stepped up to peer inside but it's too dark inside to see anything clearly. It looked like a classroom though.
I stepped back and looked at the lock. Actually paying attention to what's down here makes a difference, as I came to realize there's no way any of the keys on that key ring would fit that lock. The lock was too, well, modern. Gah! What a fuckin' waste of time! I turned around and stamped back the way I came.
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Except I wasn't going in the direction I came from. I may not have even be in the same part of the Labyrinth. When I was wandering toward the locked door, everything was blue. Turning around made everything red. Red carpet, red lighting. This happened the first time I came down here when I hit the dead end and had to turn around. Testing this, I turned around and everything was blue. Not turned, just was. There was no shift, no gradual change, nothing like that. I turned back around and everything was red. I walked all the way to the end of the hallway where another hall crossed, and I turned around again. Everything was blue.
Last time, everything was red when I got to the storage room. I decided to attempt to get there again, so I turned around again--everything was red again--and then turned down the hallway I think I came from, making only left turns as I continued, in the same way I did the first time I was down here. In a few more turns, I arrived at the storage room.
There are two entrances to the storage room. Last time, I came into the storage room through one entrance and left through the other, and everything was red, but I it also bounced between red and blue a lot as I made my way back to the elevator. This time, I stepped out of the storage room through the same entrance I came in through, and everything was blue. I was determined to figure out how this whole thing worked, so I went back the way I came, making only right turns, and found myself back in front of the locked door I was looking at before.
I couldn't do this all night. There were too many other things to take care of. I dropped my determination, turned around, made all left turns in the red hallways, passed right through the storage room and went out the other entrance, and alternated my turns in the same way I did when I first came down here and soon found myself back at the elevator.
Okay, Labyrinth. You won again that night. That victory won't last forever, though! I will uncover the secrets there. I will master my way around the Labyrinth, or get lost a billion times trying!
That’s it for now! Thanks for reading. I’ll see you next week!
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