The Nonary Game

Game Master Alex I.

Welcome to The Nonary Game, a game of conspiracy, trust, secrets, and the number nine.


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Maya shows her the curtain.

"What do you think it's for, Star?


Star, in an almost bored voice, says "You think maybe we need to hang it on the empty shower rod. Interesting thought, but I have no idea how it will change anything."

June: "We won't know until we try though, right?"

Santa: "I agree. We don't have any other leads to go on. I say we do it."


Maya hangs it on the shower rod.

P.S. Alex, my phone is stuck in a reboot loop and is therefore rendered completely useless. Send messages to me over facebook when you have posted until further notice. Thanks.


Santa: "I don't get it... Nothing happened!" He goes to stand on the footprints. That also does nothing.

Star: "We must have missed something somewhere..."


are there any missing tiles in the shower? I am trying to see if there is a place to insert the tiles that i found laying around. The one that looks like a cow and stuff.

Maya looks around, examining the shower area.


All of the tiles are present. The color pattern of the tiles is constant, and you see no odd tiles.


Maya tries to turn the water on.


It works.


Maya takes a drink since she has become very thirsty without considering what might be in the water. She then turns to leave the room. Looking in both of the rooms that they have been in seeing if there is anything that standout that she may have missed before.

"Damn water is good." Maya thinks to herself


The others follow you in silence, obviously deep in thought.

Star: "I'm going back to the bathroom. Those footprints have to mean something, and I'm going to find out what it is." He leaves. June follows.

Santa: "I just had an idea. What if there's a clue written on the wall in the dark room or something? We wouldn't have been able to see it."


"Ya, Santa, I've thought of that too but can't think of anyway to light the room up. Sounds like we need a bright idea. Maya winks at Santa (not seductively).

MAya then proceeds to flush all of the toilets they've found so far. and she also takes a look inside the water resovoir (where the water is stored before it is flushed) to see if there is anything hidden within.


The toilets flush. Nothing is hidden.

Santa: "It's too bad Zero didn't let us keep our phones. We could have used the light from the screens."


Remembering the matches form the first room, Maya goes to retrieve them.

"There's only 5 matches so we should try and find something that will light easily so that we don't use up all the matches. Do you think that gold cloth is of any other value?" Maya inquires of the others.


Star: "Wait, why don't we use this candle?" He pulls a thick candle from his pocket

Santa: "... You've had that the whole time? What the hell!!"

Star (nonchalantly): "Why does it matter so much? It's not like we could have lit it anyway."

Santa: "If we want to survive this, we need to share f#&!ing information!!! Where did you get it anyway?!"

Star: "I found it behind the toilet of the room with the footprints. Calm down, Santa. I'm not hiding anything else."

Santa still looks furious, but doesn't say anything else. Star hands you the candle.


"Alright, I'm not going to lie, I'm a little nervous to find out what might be lurking in the shadowing of this room. Who knows what horrific thing Zero has waiting in here.

Maya lights the candle and then proceeds into the dark room, hopefully with the others.


The room has the same features as the other bedroom. The drawer where you found the key is still open. The others follow you in.

June: "It's exactly the same!"

Santa: "I don't believe it. There has to be something!"


I look under and in everything.

"Look around. Maybe we'll find something."


You find that the blanket upon the bed is actually identical to the shower curtain with the red and gold checkers. You can see that one of the squares has been cut out. The candle is half melted.


I'll take the blanket into the shower room and see what the other think.

sorry i'm not being very creative I've got a few larger assignments due that I've been working on.


Which shower room?


the one that he hung up the other one in. The one closest to this room with the red foot prints.


Santa: "Makes sense I suppose. But what's with the hole?"


wait what do you mean by "one of the squares"? like one checker is missing or like 1/4 of it is missing"


The whole square has been cut out.


A square what?


The curtain is checkered red and gold. One of the checkers has been cut out.


Maya looks to see if there is anything inside the blanket that she has. Perhaps it was double knitted and filled with stuffing at one point to keep it warmer. She then lays the blanket out and places the other square on it. Flipping them over after examining one side in order to view the other as well.


When you say blanket, do you mean the one with the square cut out? I should mention that when I said it was identical to the curtain, I meant that it was actually a shower curtain laid on the bed to look like a blanket. Thus, it was not sewn together. And what square are you putting it?


ok that cleared a lot up.

I hang up the shower curtain with the other part of the curtain(the cut out part) so as to make a full complete shower curtain. If I am able to do this, the red foot prints would be hidden form the outside world.


You don't have the cut out part of the curtain. It is only a curtain with a square hole in it.


I know. I mean that i take BOTH parts that i have to make a full curtain and hang it up. :)


You don't have two parts. Unless you mean you're hanging the other curtain as well. You have the full curtain from the other room and the one from the bed with a square hole. You don't have the piece that was cut out.


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH SHEEEIIT!

I have up the FULL curtain.
"Anyone need to take a shower? Maya jokes.


Star: "How does this help us? Didn't we already try this?"


"Just trying to lighten the mood" If we haven't tried to turn on the water yet I try now. Otherwise Maya says


You have tried to turn it on. It works.

Santa: "What about the footprints? There's got to be a reason they're there."


Maya tries to clean the foot prints off of the floor.


You're not really able to get them out. The dye in the paint has stained the floor of the shower.


"hm... All the other doors are locked? There has to be something somewhere that we missed... but what?"


Santa: "What if..." He stands on the footprints. Nothing happens. He sighs, and closes the curtain. "HOLY SHIT!!!"

June: "Whats wrong?!?!" She tears open the curtain.

Santa: "No wait!!! The hole lines up exactly with one of the wall tiles!!! Like, when I stand on the prints, I can only see one tile!!! It has to mean something!!!" He opens and closes the curtain about four times. "It's the fifth one down, third to the right from the left corner." He comes out of the shower and points to it.


Maya run over to it and begin to try and pry it off the wall. If she cannot she pushes it in once before looking for a tool to use to pry it off the wall.


Nothing happens when you push it. The grout around the tile is slightly discolored, however.

Are you searching the bathroom for tools, or the items you've accumulated in the room?


I really don't remember what I have found so far, but I am trying to use anything that I have found plus anything that I may find in both of the rooms we've been in and in the bathrooms.


While searching through the items you've collected, you notice that the candle you used to light the dark room had half melted. Inside the wax, you notice a small shaft of metal poking out. From its shape, you deduce that it is a small key.

You are definitely able to find something to scrape of the grout and remove the tile. On the backside is another white and black pattern. Check your email.

Santa: "Nice!! Now we just need the one that's locked in the glass case!"


Maya produces the key form the wax, "Tada!" She exclaims. Hoping that the case opens and that she doesn't sound like an idiot Maya tries to open the case.

If she gets the tile, she then arranges them in the same shape as 'tile 5' Check YOUR email. MUAHAHAHHAHAHHAA. "What do you guys think? Have you guys seen anywhere that we might use these tiles? Perhaps to unlock something with?"

For finding these tiles and arranging them in such as awesome pattern Maya reminds herself to f*** herself later.

If the others don't have ideas...
"Maybe behind these tiles..." Maya gestures at the bathroom tiles, "Are more tiles like these ones. Perhaps there are 3 missing form the wall that these ones can be inserted into to complete it. Let's start removing tiles!"

Maya teases her body as a reward for being a f++%ing genius.

"Maybe I SHOULD have been a detective instead of a slut..., Maya thinks to herself. She then asks Santa for his opinion on whether or not she should have been a detective.


The key definitely unlocks the case. You're able to ask the group where they should go. Before your fingers even pass your waistband, however, Star speaks up.

Star: "Hold on, I've seen this picture before." He rotates the picture 180 degrees.

Santa: "Where?"

Star: "I went to University in England before I joined the military. While there, I read a book by a British biochemist named Rupert Sheldrake. He had a rather interesting theory. The picture was in that book."

June: "What was the theory?"

Star: "Morphogenetic field, which relies on morphic resonance."

Santa: "You're giving me a headache..." He massages his temples jokingly.

Star: "It's not a difficult concept to grasp. In essence, he states that the shapes of living organisms and their behavioral patterns are transmitted through a field not visible to the eye..."

Santa: "Uh, what part of that isn't difficult, exactly?"

Star: "All right, how about this... Theory of the Telepathic Mechanism."

Santa: "Telepathy?"

Star: "Not exactly. But close enough for approximation."

Santa (laughing): "Are you serious!? Telepathy? Who do you think we are? Kids from the 70s? I can't believe someone would actually do serious research on something like that."

Star: "Yes, I agree. I read the book, but I can hardly say I understood it. I'm in no position to defend or condemn anything it said. It was probably just someone latching on to a statistical outlier from some study and turning it into a ridiculous theory. There's no scientific merit to any of it, I'm sure. But even so... Anyway, I saw a picture like that one in his book." He pauses a moment. "Hey, what do you think this picture looks like anyway?"

June: "It just looks like a bunch of abstract black and white scribbles to me."

Santa: "What about you Maya?"


"Makes me think of a cow." Maya jokes. "But look." Maya turns it back 180 degrees. "If you turn it this way the center white blob looks like a rams skull..." Maya feels uneasy. "Doesn't a ram's skull represent like death or something? The plague?"


Star: "Fortunately, it's much less morbid." He turns it back. "Its actually a picture of a dog." He outlines it for you (Check your e-mail).

Santa: "So? What difference does the picture make?"

Star: "A TV show from Great Britain did an experiment once. They took 2 similar pictures. Both of them were difficult to identify, initially... But once you'd figured out the answer, you couldn't see it as anything
else. The first picture was a woman wearing a hat. The other one... was this picture of a dog."
He pauses. "So. Their experiment...

First, they sent the pictures to other parts of the world where British radio and television didn't reach. To Ireland, the U.S., Africa, Europe, etc... Then, in each country, they gathered a number of test subjects. All in all, there were roughly 1,000 people. Those 1,000 people were shown the 2 pictures, and asked 'What does this picture look like to you?' The results, in and of themselves, were not terribly interesting... 9.2% of the people saw the lady in the lady picture. 3.9% saw the dog in the dog picture. Then, 2 days later... They broadcast a new show. During the 30 minute show, they broadcast the dog picture, and its solution. The audience was estimated to be 200,000 people. After the broadcast, it could be assumed that the number of people who knew the solution to the dog picture now totalled over 200,000 people. After another 2 days had passed, they gathered a number of research subjects from areas where British TV and radio did not exist. This time, they were only able to find a sample of roughly 850 people. Naturally, none of them were people who had participated in the 1st test. They were, however, given the same test, and the same 2 pictures. The results...were shocking. 10% of the people saw the lady in the lady picture. The previous test had yielded a 9.2% success rate--the change was not statistically significant. The dog picture, however, produced a very different result. The percentage of people able to successfully find the dog grew from 3.9% to 6.8%. A very significant increase.

So, do you understand? Do you realize the significance of this experiment? There was no way the second group could have seen the picture. They lived far away from Britain, and couldn't have seen the picture. But even so, it was only the success rate for the dog picture that went up. Why? How did that happen? What does it mean?"

Star looks back and forth, from you to Santa to June and back again.
Normally calm and collected, he looks now as though he is very nearly possessed, and there is something manic about his manner.


"Are you suggesting that we are part of an experiment..?"


Santa: "Yeah, is that what you're saying? Does it have something to do with that 'invisible field' you were talking about earlier? So if more people know the answer, the answer will pass through the field?"

Star: ".......................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................... PPPSSSSYYYYYCCCCHHHH!!!" His manner suddenly shifts, and he smiles broadly at the group. He waves his hand dismissively.

Star: "Oh, I was just kidding. You really shouldn't take me seriously. Well, I mean, the things I just told you about are true. They really did happen. But the results of that experiment really aren't anything to go by. They could have easily falsified them. In the end, I'm sure they were just in it for the ratings. They are a TV station, after all."

Santa: "R-Riiiight! Man, I gotta admit, you had me there for a minute! I, uh, really thought you were serious..."

Star: "*Chuckle* Of course not! Like I told you before, I'm sure it's all just pseudoscience."

Santa: "O-Oh, okay, right! Ha ha ha hahahaha!"

Santa and Star laugh, and give one another jovial claps on the shoulder.

June: "Hey, wasn't there a frame in one of the rooms? Let's see if the tiles fit in there. I have no idea where else they would go."

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