It was a dark and stormy night ...

[arcanefog]

Characters: Fantina, Morty, and ~you~
Date/Time: October 30 - 31, 8pm - 12am
Location: Ecruteak City Gym
Warnings: depends on who shows up. And uh attempts at scaring the hell out of everyone 8)

!!!Welcome to The PokéHouse of Horror!!!This Halloween, Morty’s Gym has been transformed from its usual humble standing to and epic Haunted House.

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[ticket booth]

[arcanefog]

[first things first: stop by the ticket booth to give your donations and/or talk to the lovely masterminds behind this event ~]

[soaringcall]

[Falkner stops at the booth to deposit his donations from the Violet City gym in a very traditional red envelope. He looks up to see Morty and can't help but give a friendly yet nervous smile.]

A-ah, good evening. [a slight bow] I look forward to your, er, [he looks at the gym amidst the fog] ... extraordinary project, Morty and er, you must be Miss Fantina. I am Falkner, the Violet City gym leader. It is an honor to have you visit. Please accept the generosity of my staff and myself. [He hands the envelope over.]

[gymfantomatique]

[She smiles at you warmly and takes the envelope from you.]

Aha bonjour! I am tres glad you 'ave decided to come after all! Morty and I thank you for your kind donations!

[soaringcall]

[He smiles politely back, glad to be helpful.] You are very welcome. Er... [He glances between her and Morty.] May I proceed now? [He warily eyes the gym doors.]

[first room]

[arcanefog]

[Morty’s room is first. When you first walk into the gym, you along with a group of nameless NPCs will be squeezed into a rather tight room. The door closes behind you, and the lights are dim but the room is obviously decorated to be that of an elevator. The level numbers are all broken except for the ‘13’th floor which is flickering lightly. You may or may not smell an odd waft of old cinnamon in the air.

When everyone is in (albeit, not comfortably. They should all be packed in like sardines) and no one is caught in the door, there’s a flicker of sound and a voice over the intercom (it’s not Morty’s). The audio’s a bit distorted]

Welcome to the The PokéHouse of Horror, my friends. We do hope you will enjoy yourselves as much as we will enjoy ~watching you~ just a couple words of advice: watch your step, believe everything you see, and huuu hold onto your neighbor. You’re in for a bumpy ride.

[and then there’s what feels like the elevator taking a sudden drop]

[soaringcall]

[Falkner excused himself as he seemed to be crammed with the other visitors in the room. He felt it was rude to treat guests as such, but alas, it was not up to him. He thought he saw a familiar person just in front of him. He reached out to touch this person's shoulder.]

Oh! There you are, Ethan, I see you ma-YAAAAGH!!!! [He shouted in alarm, grabbing the boy's clothing as he felt the drop]

[soaringcall]

[Falkner let out an odd yelp as he felt Ethan turn and pull at his clothes. He has had some experience with controlled falls for his flight training, but inside a room, there was no way to tell of the 'outside' surroundings or how close the floor was. Nevertheless, he pulled Ethan close as he did with his students during flight mishaps and prepared for the worst.] Hold on!

[Second Room]

[gymfantomatique]

[After stepping out of the first room hopefully trembling in fear, you enter into the next. The first thing you notice is the cold, and the snow.

Yes. It's hailing in here (but not too heavily though, just that your vision will be slightly blurred). When you take a step into the room, the door behind you shuts on its own, and it disappears. Uh oh. It seems that you have no choice but to continue walking on further.

Besides experiencing the cold, you also seem to hear someone wailing. A sorrow pitiful cry. It seems to resonate from all over the place, and sometimes, it might get close to you........]

[soaringcall]

[Falkner pulled his uniform around him tighter. Unfortunately, even though he has trained in heavy rainstorms for flight, he was not used to snow. His vision was also obstructed heavily, so he could only whip his head around at the strange wail.]

ETHAN?! Is that you!? Are you hurt?!

[gymfantomatique]

[The wailing seems to get closer and closer, and then, the hail starts to dwindle down.

As the snow lessened, the two guys can make out an outline forming right in front of them. To their horror, the thing they have been grabbing on to is not each other, but rather....

A Froslass clearly appeared right in front of the boys. Instead of the serene expression that a Froslass normally displays, its face is contorted into an horrible sneer, and it lets out a frightful scream just into the boys' faces.]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[third room]

[arcanefog]

[You've survived the second room? Excellent. Morty’s second room is a little different from his first. First of all, his two Gengars are perched at the entrance and as soon as your character walks in, they will be put under a heavy hypnosis. How else is a room based off Lost Silver supposed to work

Re: [third room]

[monofamerica]

[Well, this room was just... odd. Surge actually never really visited the Sprout Tower before- kind of just seemed like a bit of a silly place. He didn't know anything about the place. Only that this looked like the strangest place right now. No doors, no exits, no nothing. It was just that central pole that really... called out to him.

Surge walked over to it and placed a hand on the central pole. He hadn't yet even seen his Pokemon, but he felt that something just wasn't right.

Just what would happen if he moved forward? HMM.]

Re: [third room]

[arcanefog]

[Walking forward just takes you into another room.

It's pitch black in this room, though, and ohgod what is that sound. It sounds like a pokemon? Or some distorted radio noise.

Better use Flash.]

Re: [third room]

[monofamerica]

[Well, that was a strange noise. Time to figure out what it is. Surely he had a Pokemon that could brighten the room. Maybe Electivire's Fire Punches could temporarily bring in some light.

Yet lo and behold, he didn't have his regular Pokemon except for one. It was Raichu, yet the name on the Pokeball was different. 'HURRY.' What was that about? Nonetheless, he was going to be the one to use. He sent him out.]

Raichu, light up the room!

[It then used an attack he was sure Raichu didn't have on him: Flash? That was definitely Flash. How did it know that?

Either way, the room lit right up. This room was nice and red- fitting creepy theme there. He began to walk. Walk, walk, walk... was the room getting darker as he walked, or was that just his imagination?

He finally reached the end. He saw a sign: apparently he had to answer to it.

"TURN BACK NOW

> YES
> NO"

He wasn't about to turn back.] No.

[Yet nothing happened. No switch to the next room. Nothing. He said no again. Again, nothing. Again, and nothing for the third time. Did

[Fourth Room]

[gymfantomatique]

[So, the end is nigh. This is the final room of your tour, so be prepared....

The room you just stepped into resembles a typical witches' den. It's musty, full of cobwebs and has a awful smell lingering around the air. Hanging along the walls, you can see some stuffed Pokemons, in various expressions of fear and horror. On the tables next to the entrance, you see some skulls and bottles of ingredients (what kind? Why don't you find out yourself?).

Around the room, a Mismagius and a Gengar fly around, crackling sinisterly. They may or may not come to you...

In the middle of the room, you see three witches huddling around a cauldron, continuously stirring the potion boiling inside. If you watch for a while, there's a pattern to their stirrings. Three stirs counter-clockwise, three stirs clockwise. And, if you can hear, the three witches seem to be chanting a verse repeatedly, "Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"

So, what will you do now?]