Coming too, Jack awoke in a slight daze remembering he had been in a living room bout a moment before though now as he glanced around, he noticed he was in a well finished bedroom. Still in a mid 50’s décor with a sizeable room to boot! This place must have been massive was he in some kind of mansion or villa of some kind? Also why was he laying down in the bed! All he remembered was everything going black when he opened the first door, considering this jack wished that for once something made sense in this place.

Though he got up and looked around noticing that in this room there looked like to be a walk-in closet of some kind and a man-sized dresser. Walking over to the closet he looked inside it was empty and only a small walk-in closet it had shutters on it that allowed someone to peer outside, but no one could look in without opening it up.

Still noticing a theme this whole room was both white and blue almost frilly. Truly of the age Jack guessed as he was not one truly for decoration. But to him it looked nice, though he couldn’t let his guard down this place was going to be tricky that’s for sure.

Carefully Jack walked back to the only true door in the room hopefully this one didn’t nock him out as well or else this will be a weird experience traveling between rooms. Crouching up by the door jack pressed his ear to it hearing nothing at all, seeing as there was no noise jack slowly turned the nob on the door hearing a slight click as the mechanism slid into place allowing for a nearly silent opening. Though as jack pulled on the door there was a slight creek as any old house with old wooden doors would have, stopping jack repositioned himself like how he would be he snuck out for a mid night snack at his grandparents place he slightly lifted the door up allowing it to swing properly open with no noise.

Once the door was open Jack looked around, he was in a corridor about mid way through, Across from him was another doorway as well as off to his left and across the hallway he could see what looked like a stair well that led towards the downstairs, Jack kicked himself mentally not checking to see what floor he was on. Creeping back into the room while shutting the door behind him jack made his way for the window, sporting very similar curtains to that living room that he had been in. Pushing them aside jack noticed that he could see outside this time it was dark like a night sky but no moon or stars to be seen. Looking towards the ground level he could see vast amounts of land though it was filled with gardens and sculptures, Shivering slightly at how many stupid sculptures he saw out there luckily, he couldn’t see much movement only shadows that were cast from the lights off the building.

Shutting the curtains before anything might see him from out their Jack opened the door the same way he had previously. There was mainly choices to make though this time he would clear room by room and floor by floor before finding his way out of here. Scurrying across the hallway quickly Jack opened the door across from him and into what was a bathroom. Shutting the door behind him jack started to look around searching all the cupboards for anything a hint or a clue of any kind that he might find. Just before jack opened what looked like a huge medicine locker jack heard footsteps but less of steps and more of shuffling. And it was getting closer, looking around Jack tried to lock the bathroom door though it had no lock, so he searched around frantically for a place to hide, casting his glance at the medicine cabinet Jack opened it to find it suspiciously empty. Having no time, he squeezed himself in there and shut the door.

His heart was pounding has he heard the door creak as it would for someone just opening the door, but any sound froze in his throat as he looked at this creature. It was human shaped with human hands and legs as well as a head but that’s where everything about being human stopped. For one its jaw was far lower than he had seen any humans jaw opened almost looking like how a boa constrictors jaw could unhinge and swallow its prey. To make matters worse this creature had flesh falling off its rotting body and the smell of the green puss that oozed off its skin was horribly disgusting. It shifted and moaned as it looked about the room before seeing nothing of interest before shuffling its way out of the room and shutting the door behind itself. Hearing it shuffling down the hallway Jack let out a breath, realizing in the other room the hiding spots he had found. Damnit not only will I have to make my way around this damn house, but a creature is actively wandering around hunting me? Can I even kill it all the other creatures never offered me a place to hide, damn it Jack you had to push yourself deeper into this place didn’t you.

This was going to be one long night and I need a plan.

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Captain reach made his way home it was a short drive to his high-end complex that was purchased by the company if you could call it that. Parking his truck, he got out and locked it before walking inside his place, The company always splurged on its employees especially those at his rank of advancement.

Smacking his hand against the wall he was pissed off how many people did he send to their deaths in that stupid dungeon, the company wants new blood, and it was easier to send people in who were desperate and had the drive to advance. But damn it he didn’t like it, but it was his job there were bigger things at play than just a few lives that died in that place. People always applied for the job, and it was their job to find the best candidates to see how they would work out, the first night was always a test all on its own would they make it though and what would they say. Most always called when they met a weeping angel for the first time, an easy monster by the systems measurements especially when it came to guns. From his knowledge since ancient times this dungeon has served its purpose for training the elite for purposes he wasn’t entirely informed on.

But here he was sitting in his den waiting for a call from Jack only to calm the man down and encourage him to keep going for the evening. To explain that it was why he had a gun and to use it. It had been nearly an hour before Reach got a phone call but not the one, he had expected, “Hello this is Reach who is this?”

“Reach this is Sgt Jeffery at the local police department I was just called to your building by one of your guy’s Jack Rickson, seems you guys had a break in down there at the ‘Building’ which your man dealt with finely. From what I could see the man wasn’t freaking out and from the story I got from the boys he seemed to have killed at least one weeping angel which means the guy is ranking up and knows about the system at least. As per the agreement with the ‘company’ I have confiscated the phones and had deleted all information pertaining to the incident.”

“Thank you, Sgt, I do and have always appreciated your departments assistance in these manners the last thing we need these days is a leak. Though I doubt the company would have a hard time suppressing the information if it was released” Breathing out a sigh of relief that one Jack wasn’t dead and was at least not having a mental break down on the situation.

“Alright Reach I am going to go give these kids parents a call, we know who they are, and it should be easy to spin it as kids getting up to stuff like they always do, want me to press charges or just give them a good scare and send them on there way?”

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“Just give them a scare and call their parents it should be easy enough to get the parents on outside.”

Hanging up the phone Reach truly hoped he wouldn’t be walking into an empty security desk in the morning it was the last thing he wanted to do.

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Sitting in the holding room both Ben and Matt looked sheepish, they had been informed that their parents had been informed of their actions today and were headed over this evening. Matt looked down at his watch as his phone as well as Ben’s had been confiscated while they had been arrested.

Looking at his watch he sighed as it had only been a few minutes since he last checked, “Shit Ben I honestly am not excited about this, are parents will kill us for this. I know when it was just a small break into that abandon complex, they new it was us but had no proof now they do. This is going to suck.” Letting his head smack into the desk with a groan not even close to happy about their situation.

“Matt what are you talking about man you saw what we saw in there and dude I would get in shit again from our parents if we could go in there again but this time, we have to be better prepared!” Ben said in a hushed excited tone towards his best friend.

Lifting his head Matt looked towards Ben as he smirked in his direction “I wouldn’t be saying that I bet your mom is coming to pick you up and honestly man I wish you a quick death hahahhh!”

Groaning himself Ben almost pushed himself back in his chair as a way of protest when voices could be heard from the other side of the door, Hushed in nature of the general sound proofing on these doors. But as soon as it opened Matt had indeed been right his mother was there in the doorway. This time though she looked distraught as she rushed over to him clasping her hands around his face and squeezing his face so that he looked into his mothers deeply blue eyes. “Mum…”

“Benjamin I will hear nothing from your mouth do you hear me Mr.!” Her voice was stern though concerned for from the worry in her voice he heard it no matter how much she had wanted to hide that emotion.

At the same time Matts dad came in as well looking at his son, Understanding eyes though the words were of a father who was vastly disappointed in his only son “Matt it’s time to go will talk about this on the way home, Sgt Gibson has informed us of how much danger you boys were in, and I am disappointed in you two for taking such a risk.”

Matts father turned towards the doorway and spoke “Sgt Gibson I appreciate you letting us know and please have the Sunny Corp know that I am grateful for no charges being pressed against these two, Are they free to go now then?”

Hearing the Officers voice on the other side of the doorway he heard the response “Yes they are free to go but have them stay out of trouble and they will be attending community services for the next couple of weeks.”

“Alright you heard the man lets go Matt your mother is at home, and she is not going to be happy, so you better think on what you are going to say when we get home.” They both strode out of the room with Ben and his mother closely behind only to shut a door with a click.

Jack heard the clicking noise as he shut the door behind him, he was once again in a hallway heading towards the direction of the stairwell. Creeping slowly jack checked the room to the left and saw that it was just another bedroom and what looked like just one hiding spot this time around though. Feeling as though this was the whole point of this ‘level’ to play hide and seek with the monsters around this place.

Taking his time Jack crossed over to the staircase and it was a beautiful one at that the wood looked to be some kind of cedar it was well polished and held a nice gleam in the light also what looked like to be tapestries lined the side of this stairwell it wound around the walls leaving the center open all the way to the bottom.

Looking at the tapestries something caught his eye, the first one looked like a man who held a staff of some kind he was well dressed and almost looked like he was some lord the tapestry showed the man pointing his staff off in a direction towards the woods not seeing what he was pointing at though, something did click though Jack stuck his hand into his pouch and pulled out a silver coin looking down at it and back up he could see that it was a near or the same picture of the man. This place has some deep lore why would a dungeon give coins of that looked like to be the man in the picture?

This was getting interesting. Figuring it was best to explore the rest of the floor before heading downwards he made his way to the end of the hallway seeing as there was only two doors left one on the right a the other on the left. Figuring he opened the left door as he would loop around and back to the stairs. Jack grabbed the door and opened doing a quick perusal of the room and a quick flash of inspection he saw nothing that stood out to him. Moving towards the right door this one open soundlessly like all the rest but this room was different then the rest, it wasn’t just one room but many smaller rooms to begin with.

Seeing as he had a lot to search, he walked in and looked around the best he could describe the lay out was a short hallway with an open room off to is left and a smaller room in the back. Seeing the larger room to the left Jack walked in making sure to make as little noise as possible, pausing when he heard someone walking on the stairs though luckily it was descending at least.

Before Jack could start moving again a notification flashed into his vision,

Congratulations Play Jack Rickson you have gained a new skill Stealth, this skill will assist on helping you hide as well as lessen the affects you have on a room as you pass allowing you to both go unnoticed and have no one the wiser that you were even there.

Stealth Level 1 Achieved

Strange how some notifications were given a bit of a description when given vs others that just were given. Jack wondered if it was just due to him being already proficient in a skill or past level one in something that told the system that I new what I was doing and had no need for a tutorial of the said skill? Well, he wondered if this could also be pushed like his inspection skill could he actively use it instead of it being just a passive he would have to experiment with that later as he first had to clear the room.

Checking around the room Jack noticed that this room mainly had small lounge like benches around it with a small table in the middle with a small vase holding white and blue flowers. It matched with the whole blue and white motif that was this upstairs area at least, checking the one drawer Jack found three more copper coins which he pocketed with ease.

Finishing up with that room Jack headed over to the smaller room in the back, the walls were empty and there was nothing but a candlestick sitting on an ornate desk, it seemed rather odd as this room held no purpose as to its function that struck jack as being rather odd. Quickly he cast off his inspection skill receiving a ping from the candle stick listing it as a neutral object, Just before he went over to the object Jack received another notification.

Congratulations Player Jack Rickson you have found a hidden path in the search for treasures your inspection has leveled up to four this will assist you in finding new and interesting things if you put your mind to it.

Congratulations Player Jack Rickson you have leveled up to level 6.

Stat points available: 2

A little surprised at gaining a level, “You can gain levels from not killing anything but just finding rare and interesting things? Sure, it must be harder since he had been spotting several things like the bag with the coins and the food he found in the cooler. It must mean that this one was either a fair amount of experience to level up or that it was finally the last push of experience needed to push himself over to the next level.” Jack muttered to himself.

Looking back up it was probably best to find a safe place to spend his points and he wasn’t comfortable yet in finding a place in here that he trusted to be fully aware of things and hide from that monster. Figuring he would have to wait and find a better place Jack shrugged as it was now the time to figure out what was so important about this candle stick.

Walking over Jack looked the thing up and down it was just a silver candle stick but that was it, seemed too basic to be just lootable. Jack tried picking up the candlestick only for it to make a clicking noise that then caused the wall off to his right to shift open. Startling Jack he pulled his pistol out only to see something he had not expected to see in this place.