The remaining nine guests walked down their respective spiraling stairways. Each group was now separated from one another. Vernon and Kiwi counted up their candies as Bryce, KC, and Shadow shook their heads at the whole ordeal. Natalie, Zersch, and Korr descended their stairwell quietly and cautiously. No one knew where these passages would take them, but they were hoping one would lead to a way out.

They reached the bottom after several minutes. When they did, they were quite disappointed. All three passages had led to the same spot, and the trios were reunited.

"No." said KC.

"Well what was the point of that..." Bryce added.

They were too busy discussing this let down to take in their new surrounds. Zersch stepped forth and smelled the air. "blud" he said. Everyone turned to face him.

The basement was dimly lit with candles. The only sound was a constant dripping through the cracks in the high ceiling. The floor and walls were all made of stone. It was uncomfortably cold down there.

The group stepped forth to a section of the cellar that was particularly lit up. A raised podium stood at the end of the room and faced the center. At either side of the podium was a messy desk. Natalie approached and inspected the objects scattered around. Jars of strange liquids, odd shaped skulls, dust filled books, parchments, feathers, and viles of herbs covered the wooden table tops.

In front of the podium, on the stone floor, was a circular row of dripping wax candles. Illuminated by the candles surrounding it was a faded white chalk symbol. The symbol was of a five pointed star with two serpents crossing each other in the center.

The strangest part was what sat in the center of the symbol. Korr bent down to take a closer look.

Nine small voodoo dolls laid face up in the star. Five laid face down.

"It's us..." Bryce quickly deduced.

Each of the fourteen dolls were dressed in small, handmade clothing. Each one resembled the characters that everyone was dressed up in. Frakenvern picked up the fifth one that was faced downwards. It was dressed as a zombie. He smirked and discarded the doll.

"Over here guys." Natalie called out.

She stood at the podium and everyone joined her. On the podium was a large, heavy book. Natalie blew the dust off and flipped through the pages. The book was filled with hand drawn, disturbing imagery. Notes were scribbled around the sides of the drawings.

Natalie flipped to one certain page and stopped. It was a drawing of the very room they stood in. In the center of the drawing were the same fourteen voodoo dolls that laid in the room in front of them.

"y is that possible ?" Shadow asked, puzzled.

On the page next to the drawing was a list. It wasn't quite English, but the words were readable.

"Dare we?"

Leaderboard	+
Alive Vernon: 61 candies Kiwi: 41 candies KC: 32 candies Matt: 22 candies Korr: 21 candies Zersch: 21 candies Shadow: 21 candies Bryce: 21 candies Natalie: 17 candies Deceased Boc: 0 candies Vic: 11 candies Lamps: 13 candies Panda: 6 candy Rob: 13 candies Item Bank

Main Quest

1. Choose any fellow player. You may choose yourself.
2. Choose one of the following spells to read to that player.

A. ZoKathRa
B. Quas Xen
C. Wyrn Saccra
D. In Sanct
E. In Nox Grav

Side Quest #1

A bonus will be awarded to the group that has the highest amount of posts at the top of the hour. That means x:00. It must be the exact minute. You may post whatever you want. At the end of 24 hours, the trio with the highest total will receive a bonus.

Side Quest #2

For a bonus, draw a voodoo doll of yourself dressed as your character. You will use the following template:

Spoiler	+
Look familiar? (: