Highly Alienated

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Previously On ETN 2...
It's now the 11th Hour....
"Oh my god!" says Alex.
"Once you fix my son. I'll give the stone to ya," says Atakis.
And the guests are being hunted by werewolves. They are double crossed by a gunsman.
"The last one out will be devoured," says Atakis.
And Enida sacrifices her life to save them.
"That was insane," says Matt.
"What is that!" says Alex.

"We have a stone at least," says Alex.
The monster walks out of the elevator.
"Ahh," says everyone.
"What is that!" says Alex.
"Run!" says Victor.
"Go!" says Alex.
The monster starts to run after the group.
"I have never seen anything like that before," says Laura.
"I don't think we're being followed," says Victor.
"What do we do?" says Alex.
"I don't know, we don't have access to Enida anymore," says Matt.
"Enida was just killed by werewolves. Who going to help guide us," says Matt.
"What is this," says Victor pointing at a statue.
"Oh no," says Alex.
The group walks up to the small statue against the wall.
"Speak to us, forgotten one, and steal the light from our eyes that we might see," says Laura.
Then they hear a bang from the window and it is the monster from the elevator and it is now outside.
"Oh my gosh," says Alex
"Okay he's outside maybe we should just stay in here," says Alex.
"What if we have to speak to that thing," says Matt.
"Us means more than one which really freaks me out," says Laura.
"It's past the 11th hour and very clearly all hell is breaking loose. Literally. I'm thinking this is a lieutenant who is looking for us," says Laura.
"What's this?" says Matt.
"When we look closer at it there is a drawing of like four figures and we realize maybe what we have to do is replicate the drawing on the idol," says Matt.
"I think this is it," says Laura.
Everyone is raising their hands up like in the drawing.
"Maybe we do this and we say the note all together," says Matt.
"Speak to us, forgotten ones, and steal the light from our eyes that we might see," says everyone.
The idol starts glowing light blue.
"What's going on," says Alex.
Then a thing drops from the idol.
"It's a book," says Victor.
"It says. Bai Fan has used the final stone to summon a devourer to aid his endgame. To retrieve the stone you must venture into the Dark Dimension where it is being kept. Only the twin idols of the cursed God allow passage. To recover the first one you must make a phone call to hell and share secret words to it's gatekeeper," reads Matt.
"That's the devourer and we need to go to the dark dimension," says Alex.
"And call hell," says Matt.
"There's gonna be no lights," says Laura.
"Can't say I've ever talked to the devil myself but, I feel like sometimes he's in my mind," says Alex.
"We have to go that way," says Matt.
"Okay let's go," says Victor.
"Come you guys," says Matt.
"We need three more stones than we can get the crown to stop Bai Fan," says Victor.
The the creature follows the group from the outside and bangs on the walls and windows.
"He's following us," says Alex.
Then the group sees a telephone booth.
"This must be where we call hell," says Matt.
"This is where you call," says Alex.
"Should I do it," says Laura.
"Yes call!" says Victor.
Matt goes in the booth and sees a note.
"What does it say?" says Laura.
"Please have your telephone billet number ready to operate the telephone," says Matt.
"Is it in the book," says Laura.
"There's a chest over here too," says Victor.
Then Matt picks up the phone and hears a woman's voice.
"Telephone billet number please," says the woman.
"We don't have it yet," says Alex.
"Wait you guys," says Matt.
Matt finds a box inside the booth.
"The gatekeeper of hell hides his secret words among the living. The ritual to reveal their location must be performed in the lounge by three participants who must first drink the blood of a demon," says Matt.
"What is the sulfur for?" says Victor.
"A drop of sulfur in the correct liquor bottle will reveal the one containing the demon's blood," says Matt.
"So we have to put those in liquor bottles to see which ones are the ones with demon blood," says Matt.
"Oh okay," says Alex.
"Wait you guys," says Laura.
"Hold up. Oh!" says Alex.
"Yep, we're dealing with something," says Alex.
"What does it say on it," says Matt.
"Place a copper basin at the center and six candles around forming a triangle," reads Alex.
"Okay, so guys, we need to go in the lounge and we need to find the basin. We need to find candles. We need to find glasses," says Alex.
"Okay, well, somebody needs to distract him so we can do all that," says Victor.
"Okay I want to go in and find the stuff," says Alex.
Laura and Matt repeat Alex's exact words.
"So I'm the decoy," says Victor.
"You're so fast," says Matt.
"You guys, did you see him?" says Victor.
"Your the quickest," says Matt.
"You're the fastest," says Laura.
"Oh my gosh, I-I-I. Okay," says Victor.
"I pulled my weight this entire time, and the one time I say I don't want to do this-," says Victor.
"You go on one side of the school. We sneak into the lounge," says Alex.
"How will I let you know if he's coming back?" says Victor.
"You yell!" says Alex in a high pitched voice.
"Yeah the highest pitch you got," says Matt.
"Go over there and test it. See if he'll follow you," says Alex.
Victor walks over to the window were the monster is standing.
"Oh he's following me," says Victor.
"He is," says Alex.
"Yup. Hey come on let's go!" yells Victor at the monster.
The monster breaks the doors down and get back into the school. Victor runs in the opposite direction of the group. Alex, Matt and Laura run in the opposite direction as well and the monster follows Victor.
"I'm right here!" says Victor.
The monster tries to go back outside but is blocked by a barrier.
"You guys, he's stuck! He can't come out!" says Victor.
"There must be some type of forcefield around the school. When I figured that out, I felt completely safe when I went outside," says Victor.
Matt, Alex and Laura run into the lounge.
"Grab candles," says Laura.
"Here's candles. There's two here," says Alex.
"You get this basin. Get this basin," says Matt.
"Candle in here," says Alex.
"Okay. Go, go, go!" says Laura.
"Okay, we have to place them in the center." says Alex.
"Follow the lines on the floor. That'll make it easy," says Laura.
"This will be the bottom of the triangle," says Alex.
The monster then goes in the lounge and the group runs out to the courtyard.
"Hey! Right here," says Alex.
"Victor," says Alex faintly.
"Let's do this," says Matt coming back inside.
"Guys, thank god for Victor," says Alex.
Victor runs up stairs to draw the monster farther away from the group.
"We only need six candles. Place a group of glasses as shown," says Alex.
"Help me get the glasses," says Laura.
"What glasses," says Alex.
"Here," says Laura going under a table find a tub of glasses.
"There needs to be three at the bottom here," says Alex.
"Here he comes downstairs," says Victor.
The monster runs down the steps and Victor runs and the monster catches him. Victor is captured.
"I got taken!" screams Victor.
"Getting overconfident. I'm pretty sure that is my downfall," says Victor.
"Guys, he was taken," says Alex.
The monster comes into the lounge and the group is hiding as best they can. Laura and Alex run off in fear. Laura and Alex quickly they get outside.
"We are freaking out. Victor has been taken. We don't know if he's dead, if he's alive. What do we do next," says Alex.
"Oh, my gosh. Matt he's coming!" screams Alex.
"What do we do," says Laura.
"I have an idea for right now," says Alex.
"We decide that Laura will be the next to distract, and me and Matt just know that we need to finish the seance," says Alex.
"Keep him distracted at the window of the LMC," says Alex.
The monster goes near Matt's hiding spot and puts his hand on Matt's shoulder.
"You guys!" screams Matt.
Matt runs as fast as he can. Alex comes back inside to distract the monster from getting Matt.
"Hey look at me!" says Alex.
Matt get's outside with Alex.
"What are you doing?" says Matt.
"She's distracting him and bringing him to the library," says Alex.
"It's my job to distract the devour, while these guys set up the seance," says Laura.
Matt and Alex head back inside.
"We need to use the sulfur. We'll be able to tell which is the demon's blood by putting into this liquid, I think," says Matt.
"No," says Alex.
"Maybe this one," says Matt.
"What's going to happen?" says Alex.
"I don't know if we'll be able to tell," says Matt.
"That's not it," says Alex.
"I'm trying everything to get him to follow me through the upstairs. I'm mimicking him. I'm taunting him," says Laura.
"Do you have a stone? Do you know what I'm talking about" says Laura.
"I'm doing everything I can," says Laura.
"Try this one," says Alex.
Alex puts the sulfur in the bottle and it starts to blow out of the bottle.
"This is it," says Matt.
"How much do we need to drink," says Alex.
"I don't know," says Matt.
"And for the most part it's working," says Laura.
"It says drink the blood of a demon. Here let's just split it," says Alex.
Alex and Matt take a gulp of the blood and their faces turn sour.
"But, he got bored," says Laura.
"No. Look over here. Over here!" screams Laura.
The monster starts to walks back to the lounge.
"Let's put these shot glasses around. Three back here," says Alex.
The monster walks in.
"Matt, hide!" says Alex.
The monster chases Alex and Matt around the lounge and they go out into the courtyard.
"You guys, I had him for so long. He just gets bored," says Laura running in through the other door.
"We found the demon's blood. You need to take a sip," says Alex.
"One of you guys need to take over the distracting and I'll go take a sip," says Laura.
As the monster starts to walks away from the busted door way.
"Alex?" says Matt.
Alex goes in and runs up the stairs.
"I kind of regret that decision," says Alex.
"Come this way! Oh my gosh! The demon's following me," says Alex.
Alex goes into a classroom and puts everything he can find in front of the door.
Laura and Matt ran into the lounge.
"Have a drink of this bottle. This is demon's blood," says Matt.
Laura takes a sip of the demon blood.
"Ew," says Laura.
Alex then checks to see if the demon is gone and he walks out of the classroom quietly and heads towards the bridge that leads into the library.
"What's next,' says Laura.
Matt takes off his jacket and throws it.
"We must stand inside the triangle and recite these words. That means we need all three of us to do that," says Laura.
"We make the decision that we're gonna lock the devourer in the library," says Alex.
Alex then runs into the library with the monster behind him.
"The devourer chases me, and I'm just freaking out. He's a lot faster than I thought," says Alex.
Alex then opens the side door to the library and closes it and runs back to the lounge.
"Okay ready. Hold hands," says Alex trying to catch his breath.
"From the mouth of the abyss, we summon the crystal of the forsaken and the lost. The stone of the damned release the secret into the world of the living," chants everyone.
A chest on the table opens. It's a clear cube with the words Sanctum Regnum.
"Is it the phone number to hell," says Laura.
"That might be the phone number we need to call," says Matt.
"The crystal said something in Latin. I think it was like sanctum rectum," says Matt.
Victor then comes out of the walls and rejoins the group.
"Maybe this is were we tell the guy on the other side in hell," says Matt.
"Just call them and read it," says Alex.
The woman's voice from before comes through the phone again.
"Telephone billet number, please. Telephone billet number, please," says the woman.
Matt says the phrase twice.
"That's not it. It has to be something else," says Alex.
"Is there something else in the telephone booth," says Matt.
"There's a little latch," says Victor.
Laura opens the latch and a little piece of paper falls out.
"Out of all the rooms we had to lock him in the library the one room we needed. So it came down to me to get him in another room. Me again. He already captured me once and I have to face him again," says Victor.
Victor distracts the monster to other side of the hallway and everyone gets into the library. Victor then goes around and goes through the other door to meet the group.
"Look at the desk and look for a file," says Laura.
Victor finds a key with a red ribbon on it.
"A key," says Victor.
"What if the key opens these," says Laura.
"Do this side," says Alex.
"Wait. I found something!" says Victor.
The group heads out through the front door and down the steps and heads to the telephone booth in the hallway.
"As soon as we found the number. I know that is what I need to tell the other guy in hell," says Matt.
"Telephone billet number--," says the woman.
"835219," says Matt.
"Connecting you now," says the woman.
Another voice comes on the line.
"What do you seek," says the dark and mysterious voice.
"We need the idol," says Alex.
"The idol," says Matt.
"We need the idol of the cursed god," says Alex.
"That's the twin idols of the cursed god, please," says Matt.
"Such a prize can not be given freely," says the mysterious voice.
"Yes," says Matt.
"What are the words you will give in exchange?" says the voice.
Laura holds up the clear cube up to Matt.
"I'll give you. Sanctum Regnum," says Matt.
"Mortal which you have spoken will haunt you forever. The Dark Dimension drives all who enter mad," says the voice.
Then a chest opens. Victor picks up the first twin idol and then there is a note with it.
"My twin lies in watery darkness," says Alex.
The group automatically think of the poll next to the carnival and they go look.
"I see rope," says Laura.
Alex pulls the rope that leads into the water.
"Gosh this is heavy," says Alex lifting up the box tied with rope.
"It's filled with water," says Laura.
"There's a note on it," says Alex.
"To uncage the second twin one must reach into the mouth of a demon and tear out his tongue," reads Alex.
"Is that the demon," says Laura pointing to the gargoyle statue.
"So we have to dig into the mouth of a demon and tear out its tongue. I'm not looking forward to this," says Laura.
"Nothings moving," says Laura.
"Do you think it's the demon we left in the school," says Matt.
"I don't think we can go close to him without him ripping our tongue out, okay?" says Alex.
"We have one idol we need one more to get to the dark dimension," says Victor.
"And we need to open this box," says Matt.
"Okay, but we need to find the demon's tongue, whatever," says Alex.
"Does the idol have a tongue," says Laura.
"There's symbols here," says Victor.
"Do you think it's the symbols that are on this," says Matt.
"Yes," says Alex.
"There's three symbols. So a star," says Alex.
"Then that one," says Victor.
"A squiggle," says Matt.
"And lines," says Victor.
Then a light covers the whole pool.
"Should we go towards it," says Laura.
The group goes pass the light and down steps and sees a demon face that is spread across the grass.
"Ew that is definitely a demon face and that looks real slimy and gross," says Alex.
"There is this huge head in the ground, bigger than my whole body and there's his mouth, waiting for one of us to dig in," says Laura.
"You want me to?" says Alex.
Then Laura sticks her hand in the mouth of the demon.
"Grab the tongue," says Alex.
"Ew, ew, ew. Whatever this is it's so gross," says Laura.
"I'm finding myself almost sticking my whole arm in there, and then Matt decides he'll give it a try It feels like he put half of his head in there. He finds nothing," says Laura.
"We might need someone with longer arms," says Matt.
"So then Alex steps up," says Laura.
"What do you think it feels like," says Alex.
"Big head, it's gotta be a big tongue," says Victor.
"Still nothing," says Laura.
"We're not gonna find this," says Matt.
"Try a different angle. We can't give up on this. If we want this idol we have to get this," says Matt.
"Finally, Victor goes in, starts feeling around in places maybe that we haven't," says Laura.
Victor finds keys.
"We find out it's not a tongue. It's a bag with keys for the chest," says Alex rolling his eyes.
"Be ready for whatever is about to happen," says Laura.
Victor opens the chest. The idol is revealed.
"Is there a clue inside there?" says Alex.
"There's a note," says Laura.
"It says, two must be selected by a vote of the group," says Matt.
"Ugh," says Victor.
"To enter the Dark Dimension. Those chosen must claim a partner to help them," says Matt.
Then Aayla from earlier comes to the pool.
"Hey," says Aayla.
"She's alive," says Alex.
"Follow me," says Aayla.
"Definitely feeling a lot of relief seeing Aayla especially because we don't have Enida to help us. And to see a friendly face is so amazing," says Alex.
The group heads inside with Aayla.
"You saw that devour thing right?" says Aayla.
"Yeah," says everyone.
"I'm pretty sure it's scared of those idol things," says Aayla.
"Good," says Alex.
Laura and Victor put the idols on the table.
"What's your note say?" says Aayla.
"It says, two must be--," says Matt as he is cut off by the growling of the monster.
Alex and Victor pick up the idols to protect the group. Alex walks towards the monster, this time the monster being afraid of the group.
"It's good to know that we have these to protect us," says Victor.
"It's time for y'all to conduct your vote," says Aayla.
"I can't believe that we have to vote again. I feel like we've spent so much time together and we got a shit ton of stuff done," says Alex.
"So how is this whole selection process gonna work," says Victor.
"We're voting for whose life should be on the line, and those two people called will have a partner to help them get out and escape," says Matt.
"I have an idea. How about we did what we did last time. We each put our own name, I think that's fair," says Alex.
"I agree. Leave it up to fate because it's not just us playing. It's all of us trying to save each other at this point," says Matt.
"Yeah, I'm in. Show your cards," says Laura.
"Yes, promise," says Matt.
"Promise," says Alex.
"Promise," says Victor along with Laura and Matt.
"Okay, let's do it," says Laura.
Victor goes up first and selects his card and shows it to the group along with Matt, Alex, and then Laura.
"Here we go," says Victor.
Aayala shuffles the cards and reveals the first one.
"Victor and Laura," says Aayla.
"I knew it," says Laura.
"Victor and I end up being voted in. It hits me that I could die. One of us is going to die," says Laura.
"I couldn't believe it," says Victor.
"Okay you have to choose a partner," says Alex.
"Well together we defeated the elementals, so I'm gonna go with Alex," says Victor.
"Okay," says Alex.
"It's me and you. We got it," says Laura.
"I'll protect you as much as I can," says Matt.
"Same," says Alex nodding at Victor.
"We have to venture into the Dark Dimension to get the stone. I'm pretty surprised to learn that there is a dimension possibly than the one we're already in," says Laura.
Laura finds a book on a stand.
"This is a one-way entrance to the Dark Dimension. The first team to recover the stone will be protected from its guardian. The losing guest but not their partner, will be sacrificed so the others might return. The stone of power is hidden in the most unlikely place. Leave no corpse unturned or pool of filth untouched. I have a secret on the last page to give you upon your return," reads Laura.
"All right, so we know what we're doing, right? We're just searching for the gem. First one to find it, comes out alive," says Alex.
Laura and Victor place the two idols in the columns of the entrance to the dark dimension. Then a man with a skull painted on his face appears through the entrance. Then all the guests enter.
"Countdown three two one," says Matt.
Everyone scatters in search for the stone.
"It's a competition right now. One of us is going to die. We all just kind of go a little crazy," says Alex.
Alex and Matt start to break things.
"Anything?" says Alex.
"Nothing," says Victor.
"Bunch of junk," says Alex.
Everyone throws things around and start knocking things over to find the stone.
"Check over there," says Laura.
"Nothing," replies Matt.
"I'm picking up everything I can, throwing it on the ground," says Victor.
"Breaking skulls," says Matt.
"Ripping out every drawer, digging through the dirt. I can't find this stone," says Laura.
"What is unsuspecting? The most unsuspecting place," says Alex.
"Matt, look in places you wouldn't think," says Laura.
"Nothing!" says Victor smashing a barrel.
"It might be like taped to the side of something," says Laura.
"Can't leave anything unturned," says Matt.
"I remember on the note it said, leave no body unturned. I run back over to the bodies, all the skeletons, the wrapped up corpses," says Laura.
"Oh, that's a hand," says Laura.
"Maybe it's inside a candle," says Alex.
"I feel like it's right in front of us. Like it's hidden in plain sight. It could be like taped up somewhere," says Victor.
Laura throws a body to the side.
"Have we checked everything," says Victor.
"I feel like we've literally like-," says Alex.
"I found it!" screams Laura.
"I finally find the gem, and I have never felt such a sigh of relief," says Laura.
"I can't believe it. That means that I'm...,' says Victor.
The man with the painted skull starts walking towards Victor.
"Oh god," says Laura.
"Victor," says Alex.
"No one else was able to escape their fate, so I did little to fight back," says Victor.
Then the man grabs Victor and turns him around and slams him on the ground and then impales him with a knife to the gut.
"Oh my god," says Alex.
"You guys, the portal," says Matt.
"Go, go, go, go, go!" says Laura.
The remaining guests exit the dimension. Laura grabs the book from before and head back to the lounge.
"Seeing Victor get murdered is so sad," says Alex.
"Nothing could have prepared me to watch this guardian of the Dark Dimension stab him," says Matt.
"Oh, all right, let's put em in," says Alex referring to the stone.
"This is the one from the werewolves," says Alex.
"We're still missing one," says Matt.
"How did that happen," says Alex.
"The was the Ice Queen. She never gave us a stone," says Laura.
"I don't understand. Wait it said something about a secret in the back of the book," says Alex.
"Yeah. Sometimes wizards lie to get what they want and they hide things in plain sight," reads Matt.
"Let me see. Think back to the Ice Witch. That's where we didn't get the stone. Wizard," says Alex.
"Was that the witch lady that let us in the forest remember," says Laura.
"She's a wizard. Maybe she hid it in plain sight," says Matt.
Laura goes up to the mantle and finds a little container.
"Wait hold on," says Alex.
"Can you tear it out," says Matt.
Alex untwist the knob under the container and the 12th and final stone is revealed.
"What the hell, we had it this whole time," says Alex.
"Put it in the thing," says Matt.
"Okay guys this is the last stone," says Alex.
"This is our ticket out," says Laura.
Alex places the stone in the holder and the holder glows white and a little door opens in front of it.
"Oh my god. It's the crown," says Matt.
Alex holds up the crown.
"You guys, we did it," says Laura.
"This is it," says Matt.
One more guest perishes but who will Escape The Night...
3 Guests Remain
Alex
Laura
Matt

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