CAR WASH

[fillerups]

CAR WASH

AT THE CAR WASH, WOAH

The door leading into the car wash is locked. You all know that, of course. You've likely tried it yourself, or watched someone make a fool out of themselves trying to break in. (Man, this is going to age poorly if you've all decided to surprise us and just leave the locked door alone.)

But today... well, call it a feeling. A gut instinct, maybe, that leads you to the doorway. This time, you put your hand on the doorknob - and it turns fully, the door swinging open so that you can enter. As you draw your hand back, you'll spot a bloody handprint on the knob - but then you blink, and it's gone.

The inside of the car wash is rather industrial looking, albeit mostly powered down. The lights are dim to begin with, and flicker ominously from time to time; occasionally, they even go out entirely, and it may be several minutes or several hours before they come back on. None of the machinery seems to be working, though there's a faint electronic hum coming from a shelf built into the wall, upon which a radio sits. Strangely, no matter how tall you are or how you conspire to stack things up and climb up to get it, it always seems to be just out of reach - there won't be any changing the channel for you.

It's hard to tell what you're meant to do here, now that you've gotten in. But since you couldn't get in until now, there must be some reason... right?

...only time will tell.

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Comments

[hira]

[ artemy is poking his bear head in here and looking around??? what the fuck is a car wash? everything here is way beyond him, unfortunately. hello?????? ]

[saclayfice]

We should stop meeting at the same places, Artemy.

[We just got done finding two charred bodies, didn't we]

[hira]

Nuwa...

[ he relaxes just a touch. ]

This place hasn't really opened up until recent... but not sure what to really make of it.

[saclayfice]

Indeed. I'd be more concerned about that instinctual feeling, though. That sensation of knowing coming in here is possible now.

[hira]

Could have sworn I saw a bloody handprint on the knob, too.

Maybe a trick of the light. [ maybe he's just tired maybe it's maybelline. ]

[saclayfice]

Ahahaha...given everything that has happened in this truck stop, I would take what you saw as the absolute truth.

[Maybe once they figure out this is the Murderer Cave they'll understand what that bloody handprint maybe means]

[hira]

What a headache.

[ this just adds a whole new piece to this damnable puzzle and it still doesn't make any sense. the rats. the car wash. the murders. people's obsessions with pyromania.

he's gonna just. give the place a walk around? study the walls? idk!!! ]

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

[Waving at Artemy and Nuwa.]

You can get in here if you've killed somebody or if you've died and come back. And I think we want everybody to get in here.

[saclayfice]

[Oh hi Nott!

Hearing that killing someone is what got her in here doesn't seem to surprise Nuwa at all. She looks around, a little unimpressed]

I suppose that feeling did bring me here, but why would something want all of us to take lives and come here? Doesn't that seem strange to you?

[She goes to a wall, lying a hand on it. Nothing happens, of course, but Nuwa wouldn't be surprised if this car wash place is some sort of ethereal supernatural contraption fueled by their sinful and bloody souls, or something like that.

Apparently the part where dying and coming back also works is one she doesn't give much thought to]

[catcallings]

Burakh-san? [ YOU DIED AND NOW YOU'RE BACK AND ALSO HERE?? and nuwa is here now too? ]

[hira]

Oh.

[ yeahhhhh, it's kind of a long story. or i guess more of a confusing one. he barely remembers any of it except showing up at the diner okay. ]

Ann... you're here too.