Dinner Party To Die For

Chapter 6: Escape Is Of The Essence

 As the groups made it to their doors.They had two different codes, one unlocked the door to the room, and one unlocked the box with the person. For the group in the Kitchen, they had the codes, "4981. And, 17--". The group for the Basement had, "1435. And 7405". They had to guess which code went where. Kevin put in the wrong code first, so that left Jack to put it into the door. The other group got it correct the first time. And when they walked into the room, they saw stuff that couldn't be unseen. In the Kitchen, there were dead bodies all over the tables with intestines coming out of them and a giant box with a code lock in it. In the Basement, there were dead bodies put on meat hooks, in the corner, there were two boxes. One much larger than the other,and one of them, with a code lock. They put in the other set of numbers, and they find a crowbar. So they take the crowbar, and start to break open the other box. In the kitchen, there was a body open with a note next to it.

The note said, "You have half of the code to save a friend, sadly the other half was told to be taken in by this man. Reach in and find it to save your friend."

And without hesitation, Alex shoves her arm in and finds the paper, she quickly pulls it out and they have the full code.

"1781" Kevin says.

They run over to the box and put in the code. The lock opens and they open the box, to find Zeke sitting in the corner. He looks up petrified. In his hand, he has a note. In the Basement, the group takes the top off, to reveal Alice, unlike her normal self, she looks pale. She looks up, and starts to cry, they pull her out and see a note on the bottom of the box.

"Where's Zeke?" Alice says trying to choke back her tears.

"He's in the Kitchen, he was taken just like you. We'll explain everything once we meet in the Family Room." Lily says.

Alice nods, turns, and runs up the stairs. She follows the sound of other people while the group sent to get her follows. They step out, and the door slams shut. They then hear rushing water. It's coming from behind the door. They run to the top of the stairs, and close the door. They catch up with Alice, and take her to the Kitchen.

When they enter, she looks at the cabinet, her eyes light up, and she starts to cry even more. Zeke hears this and looks at it's origin, he gets up, runs to her, and hugs her.

Once they finished hugging it out, Alice finally notices somethings wrong.

"Where's Carl?" She asks

"We'll explain everything once we get back to the Family Room. Well, everything we know."

And they start walking out. Once they arrive, they all sit on the couches and chairs facing each other. And one by one, they all explain everything that happened.

"So, you guys were taken by someone or something. But we don't know what. We found out where you guys were through a note, and we knew what we had to do." Cassandra said.

"The note said where you were, and what we had to do. But what we had to do would scar us for life." Jack says.

"It said that in order for us to get you back. We had to vote in 3 people, and two would come back with pieces of the code, while the other one dies. We had to trade 2 lives to get 2 lives." James adds.

"But. If it was a life for a life, then why is only 1 person gone?" Zeke asks the others

"In the second challenge, we had to help the ghosts that were killed by a man that would inject them with alcohol. So we did that to a fake dead body that resembled their killer, and once we did that, they let us all go because we put them to peace." Sarah says.

"And we got this." Joseph says as he holds up the paper. "We got two pieces of paper from our challenge, one piece had the code fragment on it. This was inside of one, a bonus piece, probably a clue."

"Then read it!" Everyone shouts

Joseph unrolls it. It says, "You have found your friends with what they have. A clue each one carried, but they are not correct. One person will have a piece of something that will help you. Find the decoder and read the clues. But remember to look at accessories. Not just the twins are important."

"Wait, each of us have something we need to get out? But how?" Sally asks

"We didn't buy our own costumes. We got them sent to us by Kevin when we got invited." Lily points out

"Yeah. Kevin did send us these. And he invited us to a dinner party. But we are gonna all die here! We don't know what we have to do to leave!" Sarah says as she starts to break down.

"Hey, I wouldn't start to point fingers right now. We also got something else. It says something very unnerving that I didn't want you guys to hear." Joseph says

"Well what is it?" Alex asks

" Another note. We got it from our challenge. It says, 'Someone has come with much different ideas for the night. Someone set this game up. Survive to win and take down the Game Master!' So, basically, someone here is making this all happen. Someone here, wants to kill us all." Joseph says.