this is where the escape room is a few hard knocks yield no response at first but then the door swings open seemingly by itself upon walking inside there's no sign of anyone around until a woman suddenly materializes behind karen's back and grabs her by the arms demanding to know how they got inside and what they're after michael rushes to intervene but the encounter is quickly revealed to be just part of the act the strange woman josie says that the others are waiting and then leads them down the hall deeper inside the home michael and karen meet up with the three other participants birthday girl melanie her phone addicted boyfriend tyler and fifth wheel chad i mean andrew melanie claims to be an avid escapist but it seems like her boyfriend only came along to get out of buying her a present andrew then dryly jokes about being a secret plant working for the owners likely to deflect from the fact that he's the kind of weirdo that goes to an escape room by himself josie walks in carrying a tray of bubbling teacups she explains that few visitors have dared to come since the disappearances before distributing the cups amongst her guests karen goes to take a sip of the concoction but michael stops her pointing out that she doesn't even know what it is melanie on the other hand eagerly slurps the stuff down loosely identifying it as chai tea josie then passes out a round of waivers for everyone to sign without actually reading and begins collecting their cell phones with all participants ready to play she closes the heavy metal storm shutters on all the windows and wheels out an antique film projector as the silver screen flickers with disturbing images of disfigured corpses and grotesque medical experiments josie lays out a backstory to the escape room scenario she explains that the local population was once plagued by bizarre and nightmarish visions of unknown origin doctors feared it to be an epidemic of mental illness while the church placed the blame on satanic intervention ultimately the source of this mysterious affliction was determined to be this very house according to josie's story the property belonged to a reclusive inventor who moved out into the country to conduct experiments society wouldn't approve of the town sent five people to investigate the inventor's home and put a stop to his activities but none of them were ever seen again now it's up to the five participants to find the missing townsfolk and help them escape each of the escape rooms will contain a key to let them progress through the house they have an hour to complete their task but can leave the game at any time by saying the word awake the film strip reaches its end leaving the room pitch black melanie turns on a nearby lamp to reveal that josie has disappeared there are red flags popping off everywhere that should make us reconsider getting locked up in this person's basement firstly the metal bars installed over the interior of the back windows in the main entryway this is at minimum a fire hazard and wholly unnecessary for an escape room designed to rely on their wits secondly the fact that karen was grabbed by the receptionist laws about touching somebody during an activity are pretty complicated however it's generally frowned upon especially before signing a
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