Area 7 || House of Mirrors

In the house of mirrors, there is only one way in. The door looks like an ordinary mirror, but if you put your hand to it, your hand will go through the glass as if made of nothing but water or air. Walk through, come in, come in, come in...
As you enter, you'll find yourself in a dark hallway. As you walk, the walls close in, the hallway getting even more narrow as you go. It's so dark you can't see anything and you wonder if you have gone blind. You wonder if you should just turn back. But you don't. You keep walking as the walls close in on your, pushing at your shoulders until you think you might get stuck. Then, at the end, the walls are so close together you'll only be able to squeeze your way out. But outside of that dreadful dark hallway, is a room with many sides and all the walls are mirrors. You walk in, there's mirrors all around you. If you look close enough, you'll see that there are halls leading away from the room. But the halls are all covered in mirrors also. Halls leading to more mirrored rooms and mirrored rooms leading to more halls. You look back behind you towards the long dark hall you had just come from, but it's gone. It's just a mirror. If you reach out and touch it, your hand will go through it like water or air, just like the door you used to enter into this place.

Will you remain in the first room of mirrors? Or will you try to explore? Perhaps hide? The rooms. The halls. The mirrors. They never end.


Once you step into the halls of the mirror house and put up your direction, there is no turning back. The only exception is if you put down "breadcrumbs" such as using a rope or items to retrace your steps. If you do this, anyone and everyone who goes into the first room can follow you.


If you choose to continue beyond the first room:
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5 Wrong Turns in A ROW: Mutt is released
5 Correct Turns in A ROW: You find 1 random treasure

7 Wrong Turns in A ROW: Charlie Chaplin Mutt is released (when hits, he deals 3-6 damage)
7 Right Turns in A ROW: You find 2 random treasures

Kailani kept running. She didn't care about what was behind them now. She noticed Sean pick up Sahalie and she took the weapons she had on her. She took up Ambrosia's weapons as they ran past and kept running. She took a second to get her barrings. Rain was pouring down on them again and she was happy for it in a sense. She could think straight were water was involved. She looked around her from time to time to just keep the others in her sites. They needed to be indoors or they would end up catching something from this dreaded arena. Perhaps inside they would also be able to find their way away from the clown. She could hear the squeaking behind them. The clown had missing arms but still it came. They needed to be rid of it. Still they would likely have to deal with it one way or another. If they went inside and tried to hide from it something worse might come of it. She was alright with this prospect. She and Sean could keep the girl's protected if need be. She was no longer things about just her survival. She was thinking about all of them.

These three people were her ship mates and she was not going to go down without them. She just hoped that perhaps they would all be standing when the final four came. If that was true then it would mean that Jack, Jade, and all the others had died. She wasn't sure how many were left now. At the moment she wasn't sure she rightly cared who was still alive. She knew that one of the boys from the previous fight had run away and she didn't see the girl that had joined them for a split second before the rats. There were still others out there. She took a deep breath and turned again and came face to face with the house of mirrors. This was going to be an interesting trip into the unknown. She was sure there were traps and all the likes in the area but that didn't mean anything much really. It meant that they would just have to fight. She certainly did hope that the capital was getting what they wanted.

She had always thought the games were pointless. She had never wanted to go into them but then again nothing would have stopped her from saving one of her siblings. It was just her luck to be sent into the games and them to be watching her. She'd always been the one protecting them. She just prayed that Kona would forgive her if she died. She prayed that Mara wouldn't hate her for the rest of her life. Her family meant the world to her and that's why she had wanted to win. However, now that it was going on survival was what was most important. If you survived you won right? She couldn't be sure but she could remember hearing Annie. She could remember what Annie had told her but trying to treat the three with her like meat bags was hard. She wanted to protect them all but she wanted to survive and so she was stuck in a way.

She shook off though as she made sure the others were close by before they headed in. She and Sean should go first and if Sahalie was alright to walk by herself she and kitty would go next. Or perhaps Sean would go first and the two girls would be in the middle and Kai would take up the rear. "Who wants to go in first. We need to get away from the squeaking." It was as she said this that she heard the littlest pipe up. She seemed excited in a way. It took Kai a moment to remember the younger girl talking about machines before. She had said something in her interview. "Sahalie calm your mind we'll watch you back. Try to figure it out okay?" She called to the youngest. Then the anthem started and she looked up at the night sky. The two from district nine had made it past day two, that was odd. Then there was a face up there that almost made her stop. Jack, Jack was dead. She would now be the only one that could win this for four.

She glared up at the sky and looked in a direction she hoped would be a camera. Plans changed and this was an upset in the plans. She squared herself up and she pushed on keeping an eye out for the source of the squeaking and waiting for someone to say something about who was heading in first. She needed to get her barrings again. She was feeling Jack's loss. He was a part of her even if they hadn't exactly gone with what was originally planned. She looked over to Sean and then back towards the squeaking that was coming closer.

Kitty looked exhausted as she ran her eyes ahead on the two others, she was glad when she saw them slow and stop. Her eyes went to Sahalie who was alive and smiled weakly as Sean sat her down and sat by her friend and hugged her before she let her go back to the machines and drew her knife and held it close as she shook slightly. That was when she heard the music and looked up three others, her district partner was alive and well he thought and gave a small smile as she leaned back and sighed quietly and that was when she saw the last person.

Jack was dead, Kais partner gone along with so many others. She was going to say something when Sean hugged kai and she just looked away and watched Sahalie as she did what she did and drew her knees to her chest. Eight were left, she had survived and made it to the eight without any help from Johanna she was alive and well, that was what mattered she shuddered and looked up and waited for a decision to be made.

Kailani shuddered for a moment as she heard the squeaking getting closer. There was really no time to debate as she held the sword to her. She turned and watched Sean place Sahalie down. She moved over to the younger girl and handed her the knife that she had gathered from Ambrosia's stuff. "Here this should help." She turned right into Sean's hug. She let herself shudder in his arms. She wasn't weak and she wasn't completely shattered by Jack's death. "We promised. We promised we'd fight each other at the end. That we would be one of the last ones standing. we promised." She whispered softly to him showing only slightly her vulnerability at the moment. She took a deep breath of Sean. He smelled of blood most strongly but that didn't matter to her. She could still smell the soft scent or what had attracted her to him in the first place. She looked up at him. "Let's find Jade. If on the way we have to fight more of these danged clowns we'll fight these clowns. And we'll win." She pulled away from him after planting a kiss on him. She was ready to go again.

She looked around her at the two others with them. Sean was still in one piece and strong. She was in one piece and thanking the sea gods for her ability to endure. Jack was gone but four could still win. Four could still win if they could kill everyone else. If they found Jade it would be a help or at least she hoped it would be a help. If the five of them could make it to the top five then all would be well. She looked around them. "I'm sorry little ones but we need to keep running. Going inside might not be the best idea anyone since these things follow." She gave a nod to the younger two and then Sahalie said something that made her tilt her head. "Keep them in?" She thought for a moment about what those words might meant. She said nothing to what she thought through before she took off once again heading for the rollercoasters. It would be better to find the last remaining member of the careers even if it was just to end up fighting her. One way or another someone was going to win these games.

Kailani prayed Sahalie would be alright. She would do everything in her power to help the little girl but at some point the little girl was on her own. Kai had people to return to as well and she would do that at all costs even if they didn't want her when she got back. She kept a pace that the others could follow her by and ran.
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Exit to the rollercoaster

Kitty knew she would lose her friend soon she paused and hugged her close and cried quietly. She had promised she would not cry in these games, yet she had become close to the young one. The careers were focused on the games and yet she knew just from Sean’s words that he cared about her friend as she stood she gave a nod exhaustion in her eyes but she stood slowly. She wanted to take Sahalie away from them and this place but could not. As she looked away she rested her hands in her pockets and walked with the others and then ran behind Sean as she thought of her friend’s words and swallowed.

She had not said the words she should have when she heard the worlds, Sahalaie had given up and she could see it. She had one chance with the games and she had to make things right she thought and swallowed the lump in her throat and ran by Sean’s side “I promise” she whispered as she cried quietly for her friend in the games.

When Lucas had begin to back out of the Ferris Wheel, he took one last look at Sahalie. He didn't smile. He knew that there was no way to make up for his lack of being there for her. And he also knew that her best chance of surviving was with the Careers. But there were only a few of them left and he hoped that she would survive through it all. He wondered what would happen when everyone else was dead except for them. There was only one winner and careers aimed to win. It's what they had always done.

Lucas looked up at the entryway to the House of Mirrors. It seemed all together evil, like something inside was waiting for him. Perhaps it was death. He took one last look at the world around him, it was desolate and empty. He knew that if he went in now, he'd most likely die. But if he didn't he was still dead anyways. "I'm sorry Johanna," he said out loud, knowing that there must be a camera nearby watching him. He hoped that she was watching, but then at the same time he hoped she weren't. If she was, she was probably yelling at the screen about how stupid he was and not to do it. As he walked inside, he thought about all the people he would be leaving behind if he died, which was most likely the case. His father. His twin brothers. His little sister Alana. And Johanna Mason. There weren't a lot. But they meant the whole world to him. But he couldn't back out now.

It was now or never, and Lucas would find out if he had the strength to fight and kill in order to survive.

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8:22 AM

Kai was making sure the others were still close. She was running so that they could get to the stupid feast that the gamemakers had announced. She was thinking about Annie's letter and suddenly pain shot through her body taking her to her knees. She had no clue what it was. She screamed out a second later at the shock and then hit the ground. She was out cold and her body lay still where it was. It didn't move with she was placed into the house of mirrors either. She had no clue what was going on at all. Her brain was hazy and she felt sick and dizzy. When she opened her eyes in her mind Jade and Jack and Sean where there. It was far before this whole nightmare of the arena has started. They were discussing something but she was only half there. Suddenly the picture shifted to her and Sean up on the roof. She had been resolved to win the games for her family. She felt the phantom touch of his hand in her dream and instantly melted into that phantom touch. Her mind was in a rather good dream right about now.

She shifted in the place she had been put by the game makers. Soon enough the picture changed to her and Annie on the couch. It was the night she had told Annie about everything. It was the night she let someone other than Sean in. It was the night she and Annie had bonded. Then the games. The fire was the first thing she saw. She was standing next to Sean who was defending her as they went running. They survived the fire but without Jade and Jack. Now she just wanted all of this to end. She stopped it right there. She couldn't relieve anymore of this she had to make it stop. She let out a small squeak and moved around a little bit before her eyes slowly opened.

She couldn't take thinking about Jade and Jack. They were one now. The tears were starting to threaten her. She needed to become the monster that could handle all of this. She looked around her for a second before she sat up. She was inside somewhere and there was a screen there. She looked up to see that the screen was trained on an area in the arena. Her eyes went wide and she wildly looked around her now. She kept her eyes at the screen every few seconds as she kept looking around the room. There was no way out or rather the only way out was locked. She looked up and scowled "I hate you all." She murmured out under her breath and sat down to calm herself.

She was used to being locked inside of places. She took a deep breath and growled though. She hated being locked away so she couldn't do anything to help. They were reminding her of her step mother. She wanted out of this room but she wasn't about to mess up the weapons that she had. She watched the screen and soon enough saw Sean on the ground out like a light. What were the gamemakers playing at. Her whole body tensed and she nearly screamed at the screen. "Sean get up get up before someone comes after you. Please love?" Her voice was almost frantic why were they doing this to her. Why were they not allowing her to fight. Where were the girl's where they okay. The screen flashed for an instant away from Sean to the rollercoasters and then back again. She would hear the canons from in here wouldn't she.

She looked around knowing there was a camera in here. "WHY ARE you doing this...WHY can't I fight please please let me out." This room would cause her to think of all the things she had tried to keep her mind off of. There was no Kona to get her out of give her things. She was being forced to watch something she wanted to be there to witness. Why were they being so cruel to her. Didn't they want fights, didn't they want to see their top people fighting each other to the death. Why had they trapped one? She started to breath heavily and shook a little bit curling into a ball. This was not going to end well. She pulled out Annie's letter and held it tightly. Annie wouldn't do this to her. She wouldn't do this to her baby sister either. This would never happen to her after this. Either she would be dead and free from everything or she'd be alive and well in hell but she wouldn't be locked away.

She had the strength to do this. If only they would let her out if only they would let her fight. She wouldn't win the games like this. No she'd be so shattered if they kept her here for much longer.

Seneca had kept a close watch on the girl from district four. He had allowed in the message just to taunt the young woman and taunt her it did. She was screaming at them he could tell that. A message came to him from Snow. A little reminder to let the caged bird out. Seneca smirked, he was doing good. Snow liked it and now he wanted to see what would happen. Seneca knew how Snow liked to test people and he was sure that was why he'd give Seneca the info.

He put in code and pushed a button. A small ding was heard within the room and then the sound of air. He couldn't wait to see how the fight with the two boys would end and what the female would run into. After all he knew where she would go. He loved how he could at times manipulate the tributes into doing exactly what they wanted them to do. Only because they would know their weakness. They would exploit it because that was how they played the game.