"Be Kind, Rewind" (3 of 3)

Session 1: Present day, everyone wound up in a twisted, strange version of Monroe Valley Plaza

(“Escape the Mall” by DNGN Club)

Dinosaur toy store

Promenade shops

Arcane Arcade

Played DNGN Club in Arcane Arcade to get away from combative mannequins of mall consumers

Comedy Club

Fought more mannequins in comedy club including comedian

Food Court

Brought a paper bag from the comedy club with a smiley face drawn on it to King of Burgers Court, then “woke up”.

Session 2: Flashback to senior year of HS field trip to Metropolitan Museum of Art.

(“The Third Library” by ehronlime)

Chaperone is Mr. Lascaux, “Mr. L”, shop teacher

6 party members are all in the same group, each one responsible for a buddy-system check-in with underclassmen

See a “exhibit closed” sign in front of a corridor in the Etruscan collection that leads to remains of a temple. Engraving in the lintel of entrance in a language everyone is able to read. “Agrippa, Temple of Knowledge”

Those who stepped into the entrance wound up in a scriptorium, shelves of scrolls with people dressed archaically, speaking language no one understood

Entrance closed off to be able to return to the museum

Found a journal on a bench in front of the temple exterior, had a booklet tucked into it scrawled in handwriting “The Third Library”.

Followed instructions in booklet, traversed from ToK to Third Library

While in Third Library, followed further instructions to leave, returned to exterior of temple in the museum

Lillian transcribed booklet into Met souvenir notebook (will still remember unerringly even 15 years later because photographic memory)

Mr. L was waiting, asked what the kids had found, seemingly unaware that they’d been gone at all.

Session 3: Present, Plaza redux, One Night in Shelterwood Pt. 1

(“One Night at the Shelterwood Inn”, Vaulted Pyramid [Domanski, Goblin Archives, Ireland, Huett])

Chaz, Lillian, Selma staying in Priory Resort Hotel thanks to reunion discount

Run into each other next day after checking in

Selma finds Lewis in phone book, calls garage, asks to meet

Lewis grabs Jay Bones but Jay Bones peels off in Lewis’ work truck while he’s talking to Selma on the phone, Jay Bones thought he was talking to Lewis in the car the whole time with him driving

Lewis gets taxi to Priory

Keelan staying in Shelterwood Motor Lodge (by choice?)

Gets call to his room from “Lewis”, says he’s locked in his room and needs help getting out, doesn’t know which room number, says to call him back but doesn’t give phone #

Jimmy, front desk attendant, has no record of a “Lewis” staying at Shelterwood

Keelan goes to Priory

All 6 party members meet at Priory, discuss “dream”

Jay Bones knows it wasn’t a dream

Party agrees to go to Plaza and check it out, see if they can figure out what was going on

Party heads to Plaza

All retail spaces closed except for anchor Bullseye big box department store

Arcane Arcade still intact, no electricity

Wizard automatons “tired”, Selma can feel their emotions

Power forked from main trunk coming into physical plant, Bullseye store fully powered, rest of mall no power

Chaz and Lewis find main power station for physical plant, Lewis reroutes power to Arcane Arcade

Mr. L is there with his dog Faolan (fay-lawn), caretaker of physical plant owned by HexaCo, might decide to reopen/revitalize so everything is on hold

Keelan tells party about strange call from “Lewis” at the Shelterwood, decide to go there and investigate

Time passes by uncannily quickly, met in Bear Mountain Kitchen at Priory in the AM, by the time they arrive at Shelterwood it’s after 10 pm

Keelan goes to his room, Room 3, to see if “Lewis” will call back

Mr. L accompanies, ultimately stays in Room 3 so the rest of the group can stay together

Everyone starts in Lobby

Lillian does object read on jukebox

Lillian and Jay Bones check out Owner’s Residence

Lillian does object read on candlesticks

Chaz checks out maintenance shed

No-clips to basement, entrance to cistern

Selma does walkaround of whole building trying to sense for other people

Lewis and Selma ultimately go room by room

TV turns on all on its own in Honeymoon Suite, blaring loudly an episode of Julia Child cooking show

Shower starts all on its own in bathroom of Captain’s Quarters

Head across Median to convenience store