The Vampire's Manor

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<img src="Images/bedroom.png"> ‘Why is it so cold?’... A shiver runs down your body. ‘What is that smell?’ There’s a stench in the air…stale…putrid. You start to rouse. ‘I’m so thirsty.’ Your eyes sliver open… there’s a slight sting. ‘Where am I?’ You open your eyes and take in the room you’re in. It’s a bedroom. You’re on an immense, elaborate bed. ‘When did I get here?..’ The last I remember, I had been walking through an alley outside of a bar I frequent… I remember footsteps behind me… ‘How did I get here?’ My head is splitting… My eyes are stinging. ‘A hangover?... It doesn’t feel like it…’ This is something different. You get up. ‘I need to find water.’ [[Investigate room]] [[Go to find water]]

<img src="Images/bedroom.png"> You investigate the room. There’s a grand desk with papers strewn across it. A word catches your eye, ‘Vampire’... Vampire?...You read through them, they look to be research of sorts... ‘For proper transformation’...subjects body may reject transformation... Photos of different faces and names on each page with ‘subject 1 transformation= failure...subject 2 transformation= failure, subjects 3, 4 and 5...all failures... ‘What is this?...’ You continue leafing through the pages and find some written notes... romantic notes?... You [[continue reading|Read bedroom]] put the papers down, continue to [[Go to find water]] <<set $readBedroom = true>>

You walk out [[Find Grand Foyer]] [[Find Bathroom]] [[Go toward the East Wing]] <<audio "footsteps1" play>>

<img src="Images/bedroom.png"> ‘Only in my deepest yearning Do I hold my beloved. I intake their smell, It clouds my mind. Where are you? Who are you?’... What is this? Your remember your thirst, put the papers down and [[Go to find water]]

<img src="Images/foyer.png"> You wrench open the door and hear a low growl. Your eyes focus. A human?! “Sir, where are we?” He turns... His eyes...Gaunt, slightly vacant and red. He lunges towards me. I slam the door.<<if $readBedroom == true>> He looked familiar?... I recall his face from one of the photos. Is he one of the subjects from the failed transformations?...<</if>> [[Go toward the East Wing]] <<audio "doorOpen" play>> <<audio "doorClose" play>> <<audio "Monster" play>>

You reach the top floor. To your left you see paintings, statues, an assortment of things. To your right, darkness... [[Go Left]] [[Go Right]] [[Back downstairs|Go toward the East Wing]] <<audio "footsteps2" play>>

You walk into the Bathroom. You’re so thirsty you’ll just drink water from the faucet. You turn the knob and nothing. Damnit... You catch your reflection in the mirror in front of you. Your eyes are sunken, gaunt, and your canines look sharper almost?... Your gaze lowers to your neck... A BITE MARK you've been bitten. A sharp pain erupts in your head as a sweet smell catches your attention. Your mouth begins to salivate. Where is it coming from? <<if $hasBathroom isnot true>> A bar of soap catches your eye, the first human item I have seen. You grab it and jam it into your pocket, holding onto some semblance of normalcy in this place before tearing out the door. Obtained: Soap (made with Lye) <<set $inv.push("Lye Soap")>> <</if>> [[Go toward the East Wing]] <<set $hasBathroom = true>> <<audio "doorOpen" play>>

You’re in the hallway walking towards the East Wing. [[Find a staircase leading upstairs]] [[Find Bathroom]] [[Spot the Kitchen]] [[Spot the Dining Room]] [[Spot the Library]] [[Spot the Parlor Room]] <<audio "footsteps1" play>>

You walk into the Kitchen. The sweet smell is stronger. Is it coming from the pantry? <<if $hasKitchen isnot true>> You look around for garlic. Vampires are weak to garlic, right?...You don’t find any, I suppose a vampire wouldn’t keep that in stock if they were... You do find, peppermint?...You pocket it Obtained: Peppermint leaf <<set $inv.push("Peppermint Leaf")>> <</if>> [[Search Pantry]] [[See an Office]] [[Go toward the East Wing]] <<if $inv.includes("Peppermint Leaf") and $inv.includes("Lye Soap") and $inv.includes("Holy Water") and hasVisited("Investigate Desk")>> Once the last ingredient is collected, you combine them to make the antidote. You find a dusty glass, and pour the holy water in. You drop the soap in, and it begins to slowly dissolve. Finally, the pepper leaf sits in the mixture, creating a toxic tea. You wonder if you’re crazy for even considering drinking it. [[Drink Mixture]] <</if>> <<set $hasKitchen = true>> <<audio "footsteps2" play>>

There’s that putrid smell again...and also of something sweet...’What is that?’ A pile of remains are centered on the table. <<if $hasDiningRoom isnot true>> A chalice sits next to it filled with a deep red substance. I take another step closer and that sweet smell fills your nostrils, your senses... it’s blood. The remains on the table are bones and limbs...human. You feel an innate pull towards the chalice. To drink it?! [[Knock the chalice over]] [[Drink]] <<else>> [[Go toward the East Wing]] <</if>> <<set $hasDiningRoom = true>> <<audio "footsteps2" play>>

<img src="Images/library.png"> The walls filled,end to end, floor to ceiling with books of various topics. Vampire Lore, Vampire Mythology, Encyclopedia’s; including one of the Undead. Languages, Philosophy, Religions, Poetry, Medical Research, even a full library of the literary works of Anne Rice. [[You look through the books]] [[Go toward the East Wing]] <<audio "footsteps2" play>>

<img src="Images/gargoyle.png"> You find yourself in the Parlour room... It’s bare besides a fireplace.<<if $hasParlorRoom isnot true>> You notice a fire-starter kit and flammable material stowed beside it. You pocket it just in case. Obtained: Highly Flammable Material & Fire-starter <<set $inv.push("Fire Starter")>> A gargoyle statue sits in the center of the room. You inspect the statue. You walk closer to inspect it and lose your footing, pushing into the statue. It turns... You push into it again, this time with intent, and the gargoyle continues to move. An elevator suddenly appears out of thin air on the wall in front of you. <</if>> Go down the [[Elevator]] [[Go toward the East Wing]] <<set $hasParlorRoom =true>> <<audio "footsteps2" play>>

You go left into what looks like a museum of sorts. You get lost in the items of the room. Paintings, tapestries, mediums of all kinds, from different periods. How old is he? This Vampire...<<if $hasGoLeft isnot true>> You look around, he seems to collect quite a bit of religious paraphernalia. You turn and catch a glint of a glass vile. It’s marked as Holy Water. Is he possibly a sadist? That or he believes himself untouchable. Obtained: Holy Water <<set $inv.push("Holy Water")>> <</if>> [[Head back to the staircase|Find a staircase leading upstairs]] <<set $hasGoLeft = true>> <<audio "footsteps1" play>>

<img src="Images/dwelling.png"> There is an ornate coffin in the corner of the room. It is another bedroom, beautiful...decadent... <<if $inv.includes("Fire Starter")>>[[Light it on fire with the fire-starter]]<</if>> <<if $inv.includes("Wooden Stake")>> You Pull out the wooden stake and slowly crack the coffin open. Lift the case open exposing him slumbering in a deep state of meditation. [[Go to swiftly strike his chest with the wooden stake, piercing his heart.]]<</if>> [[Head back|Find a staircase leading upstairs]] <<audio "footsteps1" play>>

<img src="Images/vampire_casket.png"> You look down at his uncovered face, he is beautiful... In this final moment you remember his words, his writings that you found throughout the manor. [[He must die]] [[Suddenly, you find yourself lowering the stake]]

<img src="Images/become_vampire.png"> You stand back and watch for a moment. You can hear his demonic screeching, wailing in pain as he claws around desperately, bursting out of the coffin in a wild flail of chaos until he falls to his knees and cries out as he crumbles into ash and a wave of dark energy blasts out of him. His presence and grip on this manor feels as if it had vanished. A smirk of satisfaction flashes across your lips. You walk over to his ashes and inhale the faint dark smoke. Your body pulses. Your curse fills with dark energy. The curse is evolving. Your gums swell as fangs erupt, your heart stops, a wave of cold fills you. Yet, you feel more alive than ever before as you feel your domain grown and aura shroud the mansion. You seize control over all of the thralls, becoming the new Vampire Lord of the Manor. <<audio "Fire" play>>

<img src="Images/vampire_casket.png"> You lunge the stake into his heart. You stand back and watch for a moment. You can hear his demonic screeching, wailing in pain as he claws around desperately, bursting out of the coffin in a wild flail of chaos until he falls to his knees and cries out as he crumbles into ash and a wave of dark energy blasts out of him. His presence and grip on this manor feels as if it had vanished. You exhale in relief. The evil is defeated. You feel yourself cured of his curse as well as the thralls that were enslaved to him. In the pile of his ashes you find the key to the front door, granting you the ability to now leave. You walk out the door. Inhaling the evening cool air as you feel you never had before, and leave this wretched Manor. <<audio "VampScream" play>>

<img src="Images/vampire_hot.png"> Your eyes take him in. A longing that had sewed itself in you long ago feels tied to this being. Your eyes trace his lips, his nose, his eyes... You find yourself crawling into the coffin. His eyes open, piercing into yours. You succumb to him. As he does to you. Your bodies entwine as you kiss hungrily, passionately. Satiating you’re very being. This is where I belong. With him is where I belong.

Using every ounce of your human will, you knock the chalice on to ground. Your head clears somehwhat. You notice one of the wooden chairs has a broken leg. A stake! You detach it and pocket it as you still contemplate what you will do in the end... Obtained: Wooden Stake <<set $inv.push("Wooden Stake")>> [[Go toward the East Wing]] <<audio "Chalice" play>>

As the blood rushes down your throat, you feel a quenching more powerful than anything you’ve ever felt in your mortal life. A satisfaction that strikes you to your core. In that moment, you know what you are. What you were always meant to be. A vampire. You sit in a satisfied stupor, feeling yourself transform. Hours pass...then, a loud [[gong]] wakes you from your daze. <<audio "Gong" play>>

A distant grandfather clock bellows throughout the house. Your heart drops as the realization dawns on you. Midnight, the total lunar eclipse has begun. You look out the window to see the darker cloak of night. The moon becomes a beautiful spectacle and a parting gift. Your body slowly starts to get heavier as you stare out the window. Your mind and your arteries feel as though they are being shredded from within. An infectious pain that soon spreads to the bones, muscles, and organs…perhaps all at once. Producing a shock so great you fall to the floor, writhing in pain, barely screaming. The excruciating pain goes on for what feels like hours until you hear distant footsteps. A remedy of some sorts, dampening the pain slightly, your brain scrambles to make sense of the footsteps. Each thump becomes a lullaby. The tidal wave of pain slowly recedes, but your body is no longer the same. The body that was once yours now feels like heavy, wet baggage. Mind feels a bit foggy, “I need to, I need to,,,” scrambling to stand up, urgency plagues the brain, but no matter how hard you tried, there was nothing. Instincts that once meant something now tugs at you meaninglessly. Grasping around, your brain feels so far…far away. Tears stream down your face, as you slam your hand down onto the wooden boards in frustration. thumping... almost as if you’re in a trance, you focus in on the sound of the footsteps as your eyes could only make out a blurry figure. A scent so sweet it drew you in, you crawled toward the source. Ignoring what little you had of your human instincts. There, a hand grabbed your chin, moving your head side to side. “Cognitive function is declining, movements…slowing” The figure draws a long sigh and continues “You showed promise, yet clung to mortality.” “how foolish to bet on something so…fleeting, so temporary” the disappointment in his voice seemed to be tinged with slight jealousy. The figure shakes his head and states “You are now neither human nor vampire, just something in between. A state of misery... but with the effects of the blood moon, the morning sun shall free you.” You’re eyes dim. Then...[[black]]. <<audio "Footsteps3" play>>

<img src="Images/experiments.png"> You wake up outside of the mansion, now among-st the very crowd you sought to avoid. Dawn was approaching, the thin veil of light sizzled your skin as well as those around you. Seeking shelter everyone scrambled, but was too late. Burning in your own body once again, a familiar pain washes away the thoughts. You fall and disintegrate into nothingness. One can only hope your soul does the same.

It’s cold, insulated, like a fridge. That sweet pungent smell fills your mind. Blood. Blood bags everywhere. [[Run!|Spot the Kitchen]] <<timed 4s>>You begin to feel a dark urge to feed<</timed>> <<timed 5.5s>>Soon... you will have no choice...<</timed>> <<timed 8s>><<goto "Drink">><</timed>> <<audio "doorClose" play>>

You find yourself in an office. [[Investigate Office]] [[Return to the Kitchen|Spot the Kitchen]] <<audio "doorOpen" play>>

You search around, hoping to find more research papers...there doesn’t seem to be any here. He must have another room where he keeps them. A book catches your eye on the desk. It looks to be a journal. You open it and read... Loneliness...Ache...Anger...Longing... ‘I walk this plain, An empty shell. A vessel, bringing only fear and death. No amount of knowledge nor blood can satiate this hunger. Is death the answer? Can it free me of this pain?...’ ‘This void… It engulfs me. Constantly feeling empty. Emptier… Lonelier… Constantly.’ ‘I sit in this pain. It is beautiful, And abhorrent. It is all I have. It is all I am.’ ‘VILE REPUGNANT WASTE OF SPACE YOU DESERVE THIS!’ ‘I’d hold you close to me. Breathing you in. Our bodies would contort, Coalescing into one’ Your chest tightens, the words echo and resonate with you in a way that you don’t understand. Who wrote this? The same handwriting as the note you found in the room you woke up in. Was it the very being that created those monsters? That is experimenting with...me? [[Return to the Kitchen|Spot the Kitchen]]

<img src="Images/books.png"> There are a couple of spines that catch your eye [[Gargoyles]] - like the statue in the hallway Creatures of Evil - looks to cover Zombies, Thralls, and Vampires Powers of Intent - looks to have information on how to cast and wield power, how to cleanse, and sources of power and that encyclopedia of the undead keeps catching your eye... a quick flip through tells you it covers [[Weaknesses]], Strengths, Behaviors and Lairs... [[Go toward the East Wing]]

<img src="Images/books.png"> “It can be difficult to tell the difference between a real gargoyle and a stone imitation, especially since real gargoyles will often go into a hibernation-like state for decades at a time. One way to tell is by a unique feature of the true gargoyle’s vision. When a gargoyle gazes upon any type of illusory magic, it will dissolve away until the gargoyle is no longer looking. Many adventurers have kept small gargoyles in their possession to make use of this quirk, and many have died when the beasts suddenly awakened.” You flip through a couple of pages “Gargoyles have been used throughout history to ward off evil spirits and as a reminder of the consequences of sin. They were believed to protect sacred places. Gargoyles were seen as embodying evil or damned souls”... You remember there was a gargoyle statue in the hallway that looked interesting. You put the book back and [[You look through the books]] that had caught your eye <<audio "Page" play>>

<img src="Images/books.png"> You read, finding that there is lore to vampires being weakened by garlic. It also says that fire and a wooden stake through the heart would be essential tools when defeating a vampire... I’ll have to search throughout the house to find them. You put the book back and [[You look through the books]] that had caught your eye <<audio "Page" play>>

You ride the creaky, rattling elevator down for what feels like fifteen solid minutes. You can’t tell if you’re moving incredibly slowly or incredibly far down beneath the earth. Eventually, it comes to a stop. Ding! You slide the door open and see a room bathed in sickly fluorescent light. The floor and walls are white tile, surprisingly clean compared to the rest of the house. The room is quite bare, with a surgical table in the center and a desk nearby. Your nose stings with the smell of alcohol and other sanitizing agents. You start to get the feeling that you’ve been here before... You turn and see a desk [[Investigate Desk]] <<audio "Ding" play>>

<img src="Images/lab.png"> On the desk is a heap of surgical tools, chemicals, and a few papers. Subject 6, Post-op: “The infusion seems to be taking well so far, though I’m trying not to get too hopeful. I’ve only made minor tweaks to the serum, after all. Still, I can’t help but feel like they could be the one I’ve been waiting for. If they feed tomorrow morning as I’ve planned, there wil be no chance for reversal.” You tear through the notes, looking for anything related to reversal. Eventrually you find... "Reversal- A small percentage that the human can reverse the process before the blood moon comes. Subject would need to mix holy water, lye, and peppermint leaf. The chances are slim enough that I’m not worried about having the ingredients in the house... though with my luck recently, maybe I should be." Once you find these ingredients, maybe you can mix them in the kitchen... You see a surgical table, [[Investigate Table]]

<img src="Images/lab.png"> As you reach out and touch the leather straps, you’re suddenly jerked into a memory. You’re lying on the table, sedated. A shadowy figure hunches over the desk scribbling something down. It looks over at you, then walks over, injects you with something, and your consciousness fades. You snap back to the present, jerking your hand away from the table. [[Ride the elevator back up|Spot the Parlor Room]]

You force your mind to go blank, and shoot the foul concoction like it’s a shot of tequila. You feel immediate pain and regret as you collapse to the floor and begin to convulse. You’ve never been struck by lightning, but this is what you imagine it feels like. The sensation goes on for agonizing minutes, until you black out for a few seconds, and are left totally exhausted. When you come to, you see a single ray of sunlight, barely shining through a crack in the boarded up window. [[Try to escape]]

You stumble towards the entrance. Just as you put your hand on the door, you hear a voice behind you. “Another failure, I see.” You turn and see the vampire behind you, you <<if $inv.includes("Wooden Stake")>> [[attack with the stake]] <</if>> [[run]]

<img src="Images/escape.png"> You hear a piercing cry. You dont stop to look. You tear out of the manor and run out into the blood moon lit courtyard, body still aching. You take one last look behind you at the horrible manor. Will anybody believe you if you tell them what happened here? You decide that it doesn’t matter. You’re alive, mortal, and human. You make your way out into the night, laughing and crying with relief.

you’re too slow. Before you know it he has you in his embrace. “I had hoped you were the one”. He sinks his teeth into your neck. Agonizing pain Cold Euphoria All take over your body as you softly fade into nothingness... <<audio "footsteps1" play>>

Inventory: <<= $inv.join('\n ')>>

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<h1>The Vampire's Manor</h1> [[Begin|Bedroom]]