Yuletide 2 - Battle 1

[cascadingfailure]

[ Once you enter the Escape Room, a series of messages pops up on your phones: ]

TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wellll it looks like Naffy's out of commission? It'll take her awhile to reboot with how hard she just got hit by the autocensor!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Whatever you did, it really made her mad! Haha!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway since I know what's going on now, I'm happy to help! It looks like the nature of the threat is a gang war between an evil thought sealed and another that you all and your fans helped to return to the world of the not-so-living? Wild!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: In case you didn't get the memo, this means you're going to explore the combination WcDonald's and Damned Queen's Cookies!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There you'll find something you're looking for, probably…? But mostly you're looking for a way to contain the outbreaks!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: And fortunately, we've received a message from a friendly entity known only as "The Borger King", who apparently has a stake in the downfall of Lonard's lost empire…
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: It says:
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There is a war going on for your mind. Steal their secrets. Create the Ultimate Prankburger. The king awaits. Salvation will come.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wow! It looks like it's time for corporate espionage, or something?
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway, you get to keep everything you find, unless it's a dolphin! That's mine.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Better get going! Charge!!!!!

[ And then everything goes white... ]

Comments

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

The what queen?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

Wait, that wasn't with you, was it... ahhh, never mind.

Anyway point is there's a whole field of Santas we're going to have to stealth past to get to the boss fight on this end. What's it like over there?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

We're in WcDonalds. It's kinda like the one in that one game, but there's more parts to it.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

I've only ever been to the Tokyo-F version. Nemesis said something about looking for a computer?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Oh - yeah.

There's an email attachment we wanna see, if someone can find it.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

I'm not sure if there's anything like that here, but I'll keep an eye out.

[A beat.]

Have you guys incurred any... damage?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Nem got pretty messed up.

She stabbed herself back to working order, but she could use a hand, if we can find you guys.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

What happened?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

She attacked a statue of that creepy clown dude.

...you guys been okay?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

...A giftbox blew up in our faces, but we've been managing.

Though now that you mention it - if you're in WcDonald's, I wonder if the freezer here connects with it somehow?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

You're in a freezer?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

Not right now. We're in a lobby where a guy is selling some cookies and other weapons, and there's a freezer we can go into, or the Damned Queen's manor.

The freezer has an... idol emanating dark magic or something, so we'd need to take it out before we can see what else is in there. That's also where the giftboxes are, for some reason.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Sounds creepy.

...how much are the cookies? And the weapons?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

No idea, just that we don't have enough money for them.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Well... I got money from the cash register here. If we meet up, hopefully I can get us some stuff.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

Look around if you can. Maybe there's some connected freezer spaces or something - that's the only common space I can think of, since that's where she stores the cookie ingredients and I'm assuming Wcdonald's has food stuff too.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... yeah, good call.

Nem's gonna look for a tiger poster, and I'm trying to get burger components, while we're in here, cause the King wants em.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

The King?

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

You know, the Borger King.

You checked your phone yet?

There were a bunch of messages.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

Ah- so he's on that side? I guess that makes sense...

[HMMMMM.]

It kind of sounds like we're stuck right before the final boss and you guys are running the fetch quests to get here.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Ah - yeah, you might be right.

Sorry, dude, we'll try and pick up the pace.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

Sorry for what, landing in a different area?

Take your time. We'll keep exploring on this side, too - there's got to be something useful we can do in the meantime. Besides, didn't the messages say something about an Ultimate Prankburger?

That sounds like your guys' job.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... there's like some kinda burger construction line, and I got the secret sauce already.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[bondsofsuffering]

Good luck. Maybe that'll turn out to be the solution to everything.

Re: COMMUNICATIONS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Fingers crossed.

Though...

[Hesitates]

[Turns off the comms]

[Switches to his phone,]

hurricane: whose side should we be on here?