Escapey McRoomface, Baltimore, Sunday

[wrongkindofsith]

In addition to the...teaching materials they'd been...assigned for the next semester, Cara and Magnus had been given a voucher for this...business. To 'help them get into the spirit'.

Cara looked at the blindfold she'd just been handed. It was not helping her general air of dubiousness. "Why?"

[For the teaching bro.]

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[magnusrushesin]

"Maybe it's to prove we trust each other?" Magnus asked, eyeing the waiver that they'd been asked to sign. It sure was a lot of legalese.

[wrongkindofsith]

"It's a lot more elaborate than the thing with the falling."

Not that she liked the trustfalls either.

[magnusrushesin]

"Those would be way more fun from a decent height." Also dangerous.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Yes, but we're not allowed to make the students do that."

She'd asked.

The smile on the face of the attendant was growing steadily more fixed.

[magnusrushesin]

That attendant had been hoping they were just super dedicated LARPers, but now had some terrified doubts.

"I've got this. I once solved a murder mystery on a train." Swing and a miss.

[wrongkindofsith]

The poor attendant was right to be terrified.

"I used to have to stop people escaping, so how hard can the opposite be?"

Cara, you do remember that time you got trapped in a tomb and Kahlan had to beat you up to stop you killing yourself so she'd have more air?

[magnusrushesin]

"We've got this," he said, holding up a hand to high-five over the attendant's head.

[wrongkindofsith]

If you'd ever told Cara she would be the kind of person who high-fived people before she met Magnus, she probably would've punched you. "We do."

They so didn't have this.

[magnusrushesin]

That right there? That was the rustic hospitality at play.

Magnus beamed at the fact that she high-fived him as the poor, poor attendant gave up and led them to the ~mystery room~. "We'll get this ten minutes."

Ahahahahaha. Nope.

[wrongkindofsith]

Ten hours, maybe.

Cara looked around the room. "Well, this is...a room."

[magnusrushesin]

"Spooky," he said, wiggling his fingers to emphasize it as the door was shut and locked behind them.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Should be fairly easy to break these locks."

No, Cara, you were supposed to solve puzzles.

[magnusrushesin]

"Oo! Oo! I can use my thieves tools!"

The owners of this place were crying.

[wrongkindofsith]

"You could," Cara agreed. "Though they're not even very sturdy looking doors."

Maybe they would make it out in ten minutes...just not the way they were supposed to.

[magnusrushesin]

A very nervous voice came over the intercom in the room to say, "Please just look for the clues? Please?"

Magnus paused, midway through searching his inventory to squint up at it.

[wrongkindofsith]

"But the door's right there."

Cara, be nice to the poor employee.

[magnusrushesin]

"Please?" came that voice again. "You just have to look for clues."

"But we could just bust it down." Yeah, Magnus was team Cara here.

[wrongkindofsith]

"But that's not how it works," the voice tried arguing.

Too bad Cara already had her shoulder to the door.

[magnusrushesin]

"Hell yeah, strength roll!" Magnus cheered over the 'mystery' voice's objections.

[wrongkindofsith]

Since the door wasn't actually intended to securely keep them in, it didn't stand a chance against her.

The voice was so getting fired.

[magnusrushesin]

And Magnus sang the victory music from Final Fantasy. Because that's just how you celebrated these things.

"I think we demonstrated excellent teamwork."