The Octagonal Room Goes Berserk
[No matter where you were before, you've somehow found yourself in the Octagonal Room. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll meet a friend or two (or three or more) with you! However, all the exits to this room are sealed off, and it's stretching...stretching...still stretching...
Now, if one has been in here before, normally after all this stretching and the ghastly sounds and all that lightning, the wall will finally let you out. Not today!]
Today, let's play a game. Do you think you can work it out? I'll give you a hint, it's really within the walls.
[However, they're not going to give you all the time in the world to just work this out, are they? Of course not, what do you take them for, they're pranksters! Every ten minutes, the room makes a sudden drop, like an elevator going haywire, and gravity messes around with you. It'll feel like it's shaking and going all over the place! Then it'll stop, and you can try to find the way out again, and if you succeed, you'll just leave.
...of course, it doesn't mean it won't try to pull you back in again later.]
[[OOC: Time for another random ghostly occurrence! This time, it's the infamous Octagonal Room. If you haven't seen it in action before, this is how it usually works (just watch the beginning bit, to get a rough idea, this one is a lot darker, but I think it's zoomed out more?)
Now, how to solve the puzzle? Basically it's trial and error. It's all in the wallpaper. If you manage to press the correct pattern on the wallpaper, the wall moves aside, and you can leave! If not, then prepare for violent drops and swerves and turns (how does it do that without busting up the house?) that'll send you flying all over the room (maybe, but at least there's carpet). The trigger on the wallpaper to move the wall is randomised, so it's up to you, dear players, to judge where to put it (freedom, yeah!). As you can get sucked in multiple times, it gives you the option to just poke everyone for crazy room fun.
While this scenario is happening in game for only a day, you can jump in it anytime you like (because realistically, like this is gonna take a day when we thread with each other). Have fun, mortals! Remember to tag yourself in this post when you leave a comment!
NB: The room walls are indestructible. Shooting at it would also have it absorb the bullets :> (Unless you're lucky, and your bullet happened to hit the target pattern, in which welcome to your coincidental freedom!) Punching and kicking it just have you in pain (unless you're tough, then both you and the wall are fine).]]