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Spring Break - Original Writing

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For spring break this year I wanted to something different. So far during my college tenure, I have not done anything that has been adventurous or fun. I have usually used that time to catch up on sleep and homework. But this year I wanted to do something, anything to get out of the house. During last year’s spring break I forgone the chance to go home to only be stuck in my house because it decided to rain all week. But this was a new year and at first a group of us were going to the beach! That was until someone decided to back out last minute. So even though I was back to square one, I still was desperate to do something. I was talking to a friend the Friday before break trying to come up with a plan, when the Idea of doing an Escape …show more content…

The room at this location is small and it got very hot and crowded quickly, which added to the stress. Before we started we were given an introduction story to read aloud in order to set the scene. The Cthulhu room is set in the 1940’s in a library/study with a second floor that has a nasty surprise for players (sorry won’t take the whine on this one). The owners of the establishment took a lot of time to put this together and they actually make you feel like you’re in the specific time period setting. The employee that played the daughter also did a good job staying in character and helping us escape. Overall there was about twenty to thirty clues and riddles to break. The riddles and clues were easy for some and harder for others, and at the start it seemed like everyman for themselves. All of the statues are locked in boxes, and the clues and riddles led us to keys to unlock the statues. Each time we found a statue the daughter would come and open the top half of the door and remind us of how many we had left to find. The trick is to work as a team. Unfortunately it took nearly half the time allotted for us to figure that out. If we did get stuck, we could ring a bell for the daughter to again come and give us a hint in where to go. As we got closer and closer to escaping, I could sense and see the energy rise. One of my friends and his brother came with us, and it became like a competition with them jumping around

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