The parlour is dry, dusty and cold.
In amongst the gloom you can see a [[staircase]] winding up towards the cobwebs. An [[old door]] stands ajar to your left but you cannot see where it leads. Behind you, the [[front door]] is boarded up.
As your feet shuffle along the bitten carpet, you can hear the wood groaning. The dust on the handrail has been distrubed recently.
Your bones aches as you [climb...]<Example|
(click: ?Example)[
<span class="fade">Each footfall taking longer than the last.
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(live: 3s)[
(replace: ?more)[<span class="fade">After an age, you reach the [[landing]].</span>]
(stop:)
]
</span>
]
Large and ornate, it has been scarred by the years. The tarnised handle creaks when you turn it but the [door]<1| does not budge. Through the grimy windows you can see that it has been boarded up from the outside.
(click: ?1)[
<span class="fade">You grimly realise that despite the years you spent in this place, this is the first time you have felt happy here.
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(live: 3s)[
(replace: ?more)[<span class="fade">The [[parlour]] awaits you.</span>]
(stop:)
]
</span>
]
Two ornate gas [[lamps]] frame the entrance to the landing. They are cold and dark. Before you stands a pair of [[tall, heavy doors]].
The [[parlour]] waits below.
Despite the darkness, you move swiftly through the room: you know its layout well.
As your eyes adjust you see a variety of objects hastily scattered across the kitchen [table]<1|:(click:?1)[<span class="fade">
* A pair of wirecutters
* A set of iron keys
* A tarnished silver lighter
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(live: 3s)[
(replace: ?more)[<span class="fade">(if:$oil is 'found')[[[You have everything you need.->setup]]](else:)[[[You are missing something...->parlour]]]</span>]
(stop:)
]]
You remember the times when they were thrown open, the light and music spilling into the house: a warm greeting to the guests that brushed through them.
Now they are closed.
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(live: 3s)[
(replace: ?more)[<span class="fade">[[You did not come here to remember.->landing]]</span>]
(stop:)
]
Blackened with smoke and age, the once beautiful lamps look dull in the dim light. A set of fingerprints smudge the dirty glass.
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(live: 3s)[
(replace: ?more)[<span class="fade">[[You found what you were looking for.->landing]]</span>]
(stop:)
]
(set:$oil to 'found')
The floorboards have already been prised up: the box removed and the lock cut. It belongs to you and now you have it back.
After all these years, [[you are ready]].
Thick oil covers the carpet of the parlour from where you smashed the lamp.
The [[lighter]] feels cool in your palm.
You flick it [open]<1|.
(click:?1)[<span class="fade">[[Hot, bright flames]] light up the dark room.</span>]
Around you, time and dust burns away.
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(live: 2s)[
(replace: ?1)[<span class="fade">You are free from this place, free from these memories.</span>]
(stop:)
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(live: 4s)[
(replace: ?2)[<span class="fade">And you [[walk away...]]</span>]
(stop:)
]
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(live: 2s)[
(replace: ?1)[<span class="fade">[[Start again->parlour]]</span>]
(stop:)
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