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I don't think I have any of this straight, or that I've wrapped my mind around any of it. And this place is terrifying, but I've noticed there are 16-17 people, or about that anyway, including myself based on the posts...assuming none of them are fake or anything. And on top of that there's no real clue as to who is behind this, where they are, or what the whole purpose of this is even though we've got speculation.

Maybe we should do some sort of check in/make a list to keep track of who all is stuck here and try and come together to figure this out and, ultimately, see if we can get out of here or come up with some kind of plan? Because it seems to me like we're all in the same boat here.

- Betty Cooper

People:
Betty Cooper
Ben Hargreeves
Klaus Hargreeves (?)
Derek Hale [fighting, survival - not expert]
Rikki Chadwick
Sharra (?)
Sandor Clegane
Kaylee [mechanical knowledge]
Jared Jacobs [computers, IQ, etc]
Carol Danvers
Lydia Deetz
Malach MaHavet

Household BOLOs:
Broken Elevator (terrifying)
Padded room (literally)
Hallways losing doors & them winding up on the floor (difficult to open)
Hallways flooding and opening up into a pool
Greenhouse (semi-alive plants that grab on & sprinkler system)
Biting Doors

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Whoever they are, they're fucking scary advanced. Like just these things alone — how do they work? What powers them? Do we power them? How did they do the surgery without leaving any scar tissue or scabbing or stitches or anything behind? How did we survive it?

Then there's the house. I'm convinced this place is actually alive. I woke up with someone, but I've lost her. Walls crop up where they weren't before. Doors slam and lock on their own. Plants grab you. This place is so, so fucked. If I didn't know any better, I'd think that this place is supposed to be a distraction from us trying to figure out who put us here and how. It's hard to focus on that task when you're too busy trying not to die of starvation because you got lost for a day and a half looking for the kitchen. You know what I mean?

But that said, I would agree with you that we need a list so that if something happens to someone, other people will know to look for them. We should probably make these sorts of check ins periodic. We should discuss our skill sets and try to pool resources. I'm a genius, but just because I tested high on an IQ test or I can build a computer from scratch doesn't mean I can find my way out of a haunted house alone. But maybe my brain and someone else's brawn or idea or (insert skill here) put together, for example, could do the trick.

I've been thinking the same thing, but I genuinely have no idea how to actually even go about answering any of those questions - all I keep coming up with are even more questions to add on top.

I think the house is terrifying on purpose, but that doesn't make it any less so. I've lost the person that I woke up with too, but wait - a plant literally grabbed you? I have a feeling we're going to have a lot of things within the house that we're going to have to be on the lookout for and to be wary of if that's any indication. And, honestly, if the house being so terrifying isn't meant as a distraction, or to keep us complacent, what other options are there? Psychological study? Survival? I mean, every question you can ask there is both even more to worry about and worse than the last one. I know exactly what you mean, though.

Yeah, exactly, I saw that...Cleo, I think, was thinking ahead about food and that's smart, but other skills and things would be a good idea to hash out too so that's a good idea.

Yeah, no this place only manages to bring forth more questions while there are never any answers.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, so Sharra and I got trapped in the greenhouse with all the plants and the doors all locked so we couldn't get out. Then, the sprinkler system went off and drenched us and while we were trying to get back out again, the plants just started grabbing at us. When she was sitting on my shoulders to reach the control panel to shut off the damn sprinklers, those fucking things wrapped so tight around both my legs and all the way up to my waist that I couldn't move.

I mean, yeah, if you want to think logically, study seems possible, but we've all been kidnapped so...there's also the very scary possibility that this is just some sick fucking SAW bullshit waiting to happen.

Well, that's one room that I don't want to go in to like my life depends on it. So, the greenhouse is a big room to be on the lookout for everyone, considering what those plants gripping on and not letting go could do...

Also true, even if I'm really hoping that's not where this is going. We're all so different, from what I can gather too, so it's not like one sort of person has been chosen or anything either. And outside of the people that know one another we have no idea if there's a connection there even.

Are we all that different, though? I'm not being a prick, I'm genuinely curious because I haven't gotten to know anyone here well enough to know whether we have anything potentially in common that would make us be selected or whatever. Like, not to piss on your theory, but...there's got to be something. Nobody this advanced is likely to do something with zero plan in mind. We're not random, there's no way.

That's fair, I can't say for sure that we're all so different, but I can say that we aren't all one gender and we don't all seem to fall at the same age based off of who I have met so far. Also, if there is something that we have in common it seems like it's going to be something beyond just the surface considering everything seems to be a puzzle here.

I never caught your name, by the way?

Yeah stuff like that is different. Where and when we're from, genders, ages... But on the other hand, there's got to be something. It's definitely going to be deeper and it's definitely going to be a challenge to piece it together, but it's there. It's not random, nothing is.

Oh shit, sorry. Jared Jacobs.

That's true - It's probably going to take a process of elimination and some in-depth questions and conversations to get at anything beneath the surface, though.

It's all right - when you get sucked into a topic because your brain is working it happens. Or, at least, it happens with me sometimes. I've got you down now.

And that ain't gonna happen online, I'd be willing to bet. That's gonna take some actual bonding.

Yeah, something like that. Still, sorry.

And considering how hard it can be to even get back to a room that you've found...that's going to be a task. But we're going to have to try anyway.

It's all right - I've gotten everything updated and I'll keep note of it for future check ins too. Just be careful out about in this house.

Yeah. Exactly. I'm not wholly against it anymore but yeah you're looking at an uphill battle.

Yout too.

Good thing I'm used to fighting that good 'ol uphill battle. Hopefully others are too because it seems like the only choice here.

I'm not, but I guess you learn to adjust.

I think the only way we're finding out anything about these things is if we actually get a look at one - and I don't think anybody really should be volunteering. There's a lot of risks to cutting into that area of a person's body - even more so if it is being powered by us and somehow connected to us in some way. ~~The healing might have worked in their favor with transfusions from me, but I doubt it~~

And I'm going to throw it out there that brute force doesn't seem like it's going to get us any further. I've put some holes in walls and took down what I can only assume is one of the faux front doors to name a few things and it got me a big fat nowhere.

- Carol Danvers

I happen to agree with you. The only way to find out is to dig one out of somebody and it's not worth it.

What do you mean big fat nowhere? What happened when you took down the door? What was behind it?

So that question is, basically, tabled. We can tear this place apart for anything that's been left, but you'd have to be the galaxy's worst kidnapper to leave any vital information out and about like that unless there's a point behind it.

It was just another insanely long hallway and every damn door lead to another door in the hallway. And even the walls that I thought might be exterior - holes were pointless. Literally everything either leads to a hallway or a room that you're not even expecting.

Pretty much.

This place is physically impossible, what the fuck?

Yeah, exactly. I'm thinking that any expectations about what is and isn't possible are going to be thrown out the damn window in this place. There's something really off about this place to say the least.

As for brawn...not going to be helpful in getting us out of here from what I can tell.

Evidently so.

So what we're looking at here is a giant, fucked up escape room? Great.

That seems the way to put it, but I'm pretty determined to get out of here and I think that I'm not the only one.

So we keep trying until we figure the way out.

Yeah, you're definitely not the only one. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, so we can't just keep doing the same shit we've already been trying. We're going to need to do a group brainstorm and everyone share what they've tried and what the result was so that we're not all repeating each other's efforts and going nowhere fast.

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