Dinner Party To Die For

Chapter 5: Bawling At A Ball

           Everyone was happy to see them back, but were unhappy to have to vote again. They took time to talk about it with others.

          Kevin's group chose to vote for Sarah and Joseph. Sarah and Jack talked with Joseph, Lily and Alex. They all decided to vote for Sally. But then Alex and Sarah decided to switch and vote on Lily.

          Everyone votes. And Sal chooses three cards.

          "Joseph."

          He just puts his face in his hands and sighs.

          "Sarah."

          She just does what Joseph did.

          "And Sally"

          "You're gonna be fine." Kevin says to Sally

          "Quickly, we must go." Sal exclaims and guides them downstairs to the ballroom.

         They walk down there in complete silence. Once they get to the doors, Sal wishes them luck, and walks upstairs.

          They open the doors, to find a ballroom with 9 tables, 6 chairs, 3 boxes, 36 bottles with alcohol split between 3 tables, and 2 glass cases with scrolls. And a few feet in front of the door, is a pedestal with the directions on it.

          "Those are the clues we need." Sally says while pointing over to one case.

          "Yeah, but only two of us will get them." Joseph says somberly.

          "Let's try and get out together." Sarah says.

          "But will it work then? I mean it said we have to trade a life for a life. So if nobody dies here will it work?" Sally asks the others worriedly.

          "I don't know. But we can try. I mean, they don't have the technology to track the weight or amount of feet walking in and out of a door. Right?" Sarah adds.

          "Then let's do it. We help each other out and stay at the same pace, and walk out together."

          They all agree and walk into the ballroom. The doors slam shut behind them. They walk to the pedestal and read the clue.

          It reads, "Here were many wonderful balls full of joy and laughter. Everyone in town would show up. But one day, one guest lured someone away into a bedroom and tortured them while everyone was down here. One by one, everyone was getting tortured and killed in a room somewhere in my house. But when I checked, there was no trace of any deaths occurring. Soon everyone assumed the house was haunted and that the ghosts would come to the ballroom and finish their last ball. But it never finished. With one victim, they used four types of alcohol in a mixture to torture them. They took rum, whiskey, vodka, and gin, mixed it together and used a syringe to inject them with it. The only way to stop their ball is to inject the body of the killer. Find the correct bottles, mix, and get the man that ruined our lives."

          After they read the letter, they each split to their areas of the room, and start going into the bottles to find the right types of alcohol. Sarah starts to smell the bottles to see if she can find the rum and vodka. She knows she'll have to sip to find the gin and whiskey. Joseph and Sally start to sip the bottles. And Sally finds the rum and whiskey. But she can't find the gin and vodka. So she tells Sarah and Joseph which bottles and then waits for them to find the others. Sarah and Joseph find the two they need and they all grab the bottles, put them into an empty bottle, mix it and put it on one of the other tables they have. When that happens the 3 boxes open up to have a body in them.

          "Is this the killer? What do we do with him?" They all wondered.

          "Put him on the table, fill the syringe and inject him!" Sally shouts.

          So almost as if she was the boss, they all grabbed the body and syringe and put it on the empty table. They grabbed the bottle, filled the syringe, and stabbed him in different places, and injected him. All of a sudden, you could hear a loud clash, from under the table. They all look under to see that a box fell with the next clue.

          This one says, "This man never wanted to get caught, so instead of leaving them on the floor, he would put them in a chair and give them the mixture in the bottle. Then he would grab another chair and watch them from across the room, in that chair."

          With that clue, they know exactly what to do. They grab the body and put it in a chair, give them the mixture, and sit in the other chair and stare at them. In the middle of the room, 3 boxes are dropped. They each have a note, and 2 have keys.

          The note says, "Thank you brave souls. You have ended our weeping, and for that, we will takes your seat and let all 3 of you leave this room with your life. We are forever grateful. Now run, it is 5 to 9. Run! Save your friends from their doom! Escape! But be careful. Not everyone is as they seem. Someone has come with much different ideas for the night. Someone set this game up. Survive to win and take down the Game Master!"

          They all look at each other, go to the cases, unlock them, grab the scroll and run. They walk into the Family Room and see everyone's faces in shock.

          "Well, let's hurry. We only have 5 minutes. We need to get them back." Cassandra says

          Everyone agrees and the 4 people with the clues go to their respective room with half of the group.

          Sally, Joseph, Sarah, Alex, and Lily go to the Kitchen to get Zeke. And that leaves Kevin, Jack, Cassandra, and James go to the Basement to get Alice. Both the people in each group with the papers had the codes to unlock the door to that area.