Escape Rooms Halloween Special
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There was only one rule: don’t open the door… until the buzzer sounds.
This rule was printed in yellow on the door itself, along with the following:
Take a pamphlet.
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Welcome to the world’s most intense escape room experience!
Settle in. Introduce yourselves. Try to get comfy.
You’re welcome to try the door. This is after all an escape room! But you’ll find it quite impossible to open prematurely.
It is held shut with powerful maglocks, which will not disengage until the buzzer sounds, at midnight on October 31st.
That’s 13 days from now, about 312 hours.
There’s no time keeping devices in this room, and you left your electronics in the locker outside, so you’ll have to guess at the passage of time.
On that note it is believed that the average person can survive 14-21 days without food, so fatal starvation wont be an issue for you during your stay… but hunger will and it will be magnified by the paranoia of time crawling by without any measure. So try to keep your heads! Don’t eat each other, no matter how hungry you get or how forgotten you feel.
Ah, one other thing on the subject of time: we’re going to kill the lights two hours after your entry.
So take the grand tour now, before you’re plunged into the long darkness.
You’ll see our modest escape room is largely unfurnished. The walls and floor are mostly bare concrete. However aside from the door there are two items worth noting:
First, the sink. The water is safe to drink! The extra wide drain can accommodate some solids.
Second, the knife on the wall. It’s very real. We’ll leave it to you to decide whether someone should hold it… for safe keeping.
Good luck! Have fun :)
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Sam Spinelli
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Comments (23)
That's on scary escape room imagery
Being trapped in darkness with only a knife and no sense of time sounds terrifying.
cool, I'm interested!
love this, such a lovely piece
"For safe keeping" >>>> love that line
You win!
Oh man, I am so sad that I was busy at the time this was posted. This was a complete masterpiece, congratulations on TS 🎉🥳🎉🎊 the idea of weaving this piece into a pamphlet was genius. Having them stay inside until the 31st is both crazy and terrifying, especially since you’ve given them time to feel forgotten and ideas in their minds of eating in each other. The knife was the icing on the cake though 😈
Excellent writing. Congrats on the Top Story.
Help, I won't go in.. let me turn around NOW!! Terrific horror - congrats to TS
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
This is fantastic, and utterly terrifying. The best part being that we are left to imagine the horrors to come. As I was reading, I was imagining myself being there. Hell no! Congrats on the TS.
See, the best stories are the ones where you're left to imagine the consequences in some way. But with your suggestion, it feels like it can only end badly.
Sounds like fun, except for dealing with bodily functions. Congratulations!
Very scary, and well written. I just upgraded to vocal plus, and will be feeling my way around.
Well done!
Interesting read. Congrts.
So creepy and well written. What a great entry and congratulations on TS
And congrats on TS. This is the kind of submission one doesn’t mind losing to. Great work!
YOOOO! Sam, you nailed it man. Superb 🤌🏼, for real.
Very nice. I love the illusions to what might happen and then you brilliantly leave the reader to imagine how things would inevitably play out.
Oh thank God there's water to drink, lol. This was a nightmare!
I thought this was brill. It def works as a microfiction piece but I would love to see a longer version and see what happens when the light goes out!
Welcoming and all critical feedback! Eager to hear your thoughts. Hope this works as horror, though to me a lot of the really dark stuff is left unsaid. I might adapt this into a longer story, but it seems like it would be too depressing to enjoy writing, as it would have to do with anticipation of extreme and violent human behavior when the contestants are stressed in conditions of prolonged hunger, utter darkness, poor sleep, and paranoia towards each other.