Lights Out in the Boiler Room
You're poking around in the Haunted Boiler Room, looking for something to do, when suddenly all the lights in the house go out. This makes it much more difficult.
From somewhere upstairs, you hear a grandfather clock gonging out the time. It is apparently thirteen o'clock.
The glow of firelight behind the grate of the massive iron furnace has, it seems to you, a somewhat more sinister cast than before.
| Look for a light |
Fortunately, the scary furnace produces just enough light to see by, if not see well. There's a shelf filled with various objects in the corner of the room, next to a large steel drum.
By which I mean like a metal barrel, not the "plonkety plonketa bonggg" sort of steel drum.
| Search the shelves |
It's a fairly mundane basement shelf, although you do find a pair of thumbscrews in the rusty toolbox, and there's a jar of mouse skulls next to the jar of assorted screws.
There's also a can of bloodstain remover, a bottle labelled "banshee oil", and a box of spare light bulbs. Blacklight bulbs.
So, useful stuff, but not for a value of 'useful' that really pertains to you.
With a shrug, you head back upstairs. The lights in the house flicker back to life as you do so.
| Search the barrel |
You pop the lid off the barrel, and discover that it's full of ashes. They must use it as a disposal bin for cleaning out the furnace.
Man. There's probably something valuable in there. Or else something horrible. Would you like to stick your hand in there and find out?
| No thank you |
It pains you to leave behind potential treasure, but knowing the sort of place you're in, the treasure involved was probably going to be a blackened human skeleton that grabs your arm and drags you down to Ashes Hell or something like that. So no big loss.
As you climb the steps back out of the basement, the lights in the house flicker back on, so at least there's that.
| No, but I will anyway |
You roll up your sleeve and plunge your hand into the barrel.
You spend nearly a full minute scrabbling around in there, trying to sift through the ashes, but not finding anything.
Then oh my god something grabs you and
No, just kidding. Nothing happens. I just wanted to make things a little more exciting for you.
Eventually, the lights come back on, and you wander back upstairs to wash your hands.
Only appears if you examine the Pinot Noir rack in Lights Out in the Wine Cellar:
You roll up your sleeve and plunge your hand into the barrel.
You spend nearly a full minute scrabbling around in there, trying to sift through the ashes, but not finding anything.
Then, just as you're about to give up, you catch hold of something.
It turns out to be a blackened and slightly melted chain dog-collar. Or, judging from the size and the metal nametag engraved "CRUMBLES II", wolf-collar.
The back of the tag reads: "23-47-99". Doesn't ring any bells, but you make a note of it anyway, and drop the collar back into the barrel.
The lights flicker back on, and you head back upstairs to wash your hands.
Unlocks additional option in Lights Out in the Laboratory.
| Blow this poop stand |
The creepy basement of the creepiest house is not the place to be hanging around when all the lights go out. Your momma didn't raise no dummies.
As you leave Spookyraven Manor, you notice the lights coming back on inside the house. Like it was waiting for you to leave.
Man, what a jerk house.
| Get the heck out |
The creepy basement of the creepiest house is not the place to be hanging around when all the lights go out. Your momma didn't raise no dummies.
As you leave Spookyraven Manor, you notice the lights coming back on inside the house. Like it was waiting for you to leave.
Man, what a jerk house.
Occurs at The Haunted Boiler Room.
