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Chapter Sixty Six | EscapeXRoom

I was visibly excited as Chlodwig, a name I struggled not to laugh at, lead us down the hall towards the end through a thick wooden door made to look like it was from olden times.

The room floor was carpeted with fake overgrown grass, there was a slight fog on the ceiling and the room was dark like the night, the walls painted to look like it.

Chlodwig stepped on the 'castle' steps and gave us his speech.

"Today I vill be your game master, jou may call me Reißzähne. I am here to provide jou vith as many clues as jou need, I vill be able to see and hear vhat you do vhile you are in the room, jou may leave the room if needed, the doors are unlocked for safety reasons, I just cannot pause your time. Jou vill have one hour to go through riddles, puzzles, and clues to find the exit. Jou vill not need to crawl under the grass or into the ceiling tiles, some vhings are magnetic so as hard as it is for jou to not accidentally force things open, jou vill not need to do such. Are vhere any questions before we begin?"

Michelle raised her hand, "So what will we be doing in 'ere?"

"I vill play you a short vittle video before the timer begins to explain vhy jou are here."

She nodded and no one else had questions, I'd played plenty of escape rooms.

He smiled and added, "lastly ve ask vhat jou do not use your phones because ve don't vant our secrets getting out, now vonce this video I play for jou ends and the timer begins jou can get started," he pressed play on the remote and swiftly left the room adding, "good vuck," before shutting the door behind him.

We gathered together to watch the video. It was completely in German of course but what it said was basically "on a tour through an ancient castle once belonging to a bloodthirsty king you are lost from your group and awaken in the dark. Hunted by the ghosts of the graveyard you must escape the castle grounds to the safety of your group before it's too late."

The video made a static noise as it ended and then the timer appeared on the screen.

As soon as it began Antonio declared, "everyone fucking hurry!"
"Oh good lord, " I panicked.

Antonio searched the headstones and the others the grass, Francis felt along the wall and I ran to the castle steps.

I pressed down on and felt along the stones to see if any would move or come out if place.

"Aha," I muttered as a stone cane lose, they stopped what they were doing to peer over my shoulder. I flipped the stone over and it read 57, 64, 91.

"We probably have to put that somewhere," I deduced.

Lucille nodded and pointed to a lock on a tree.

"It's too many numbers," she announced sadly and Antonio's face lit up as he turned back around to the gravestones.

"Those are the numbers of these people's birth years!" He exclaimed and hunched over the gravestones.

"How many years apart did zhey die, maybe we need to add zhat up," Francis suggested.

"But who would we subtract from who, I zhink we need to find who died first, second and last and it might 'ave something to do with zhere names," Philip input.

"Why their names?" I asked.

He pointed to the side of the stone staircase to a number lock.

Francis patted him on the back like a proud father and Antonio scrambled to find out who died when.

"Okay, first Margaret, then Wolfheim, then Vladimir," Antonio shouted to Phillip.

"This has six letters, what are their first and last initials," I asked.