Are you sure? I mean it must be one tough photo, after developing from a negative and such. Maybe you're facing the end boss in disguise right now.

It's the photo! I. JUST. KNOW. IT.

hmmm...i don't think the photo has anything to do with chaining up ari

Maybe the photo is a shapeshifter though. Trying to lead you astray by morphing into the least suspicious thing in the room.

Oh, wait.

The least suspicious thing would be the dish towel, right?

I love this team's ramblings xD

[Apologies for the late replies. I have been ill the past two days.]

The young man starts a bit as you approach him. He is in very simple, comfortable clothing, consisting of an oversize t-shirt, and very soft sweatpants - they just happen to be all black. Once he realizes that you're not a threat, he finishes cleaning up the knocked-over plant, and sets it right again before turning around to face you.

"I'm sorry I didn't see you there. Or hear you. I'm partially deaf and half-blind." He grins sheepishly, and scrubs his hand through a mop of dark hair. There appears to be a bandage - also black - wrapped around one of his wrists, and his throat.

"Can I help you with something?"

When you ask him if he's noticed anything interesting, he thinks for a moment, then shrugs. "K had some sort of gate or grate-thing set up near the gardens, and there was talk of some sort of shady business happening in the upstairs bathroom... but that's all I know about that. I'm here for the lux, and to be food. I'm not exactly allowed to know much about what goes on here."

[Meanwhile, the Photograph remains belligerently silent]

Illusion, I think the photo isn't speaking our language.

@Ari: No worries. Hope you're feeling better already ^^

Maybe we should threaten to burn it:p-grin:

Now, now. Who would be so cruel?

Try waterboarding first.

Pictures always talk with torture

Me too the weather swap yuck bug :/

Since the Belfry Bats have decided to enter the Ballroom, a smallish child leads them through a long and winding series of hallways, down a small flight of stairs, up another one, and finally into two large redwood doors flanked by gold decorations. As the doors swing open with a creak, the exquisite ballroom is open for perusal.

The child stands to the side - probably making sure they don't steal anything. This room is IMMENSE. There are two winding bannister staircases that go up either side of the room, and wind up somewhere on the second floor - and to a large locked room. The floor of the ballroom is done up with blood-red and ice-blue tile, both spun through with gold and silver so that the floor appears to sparkle when hit with light at the right angle. There is a gigantic grand piano set on a small 'stage' of dark wood off to the right, and on the left sits a long, empty banquet table, ready to be filled with delicious food. Various instruments are also strewn around on the stage, and a massive birdcage-like apparatus hangs from the ceiling in the center of that stage area.

Out on the dancefloor proper, there is not a SPECK of dust, and lovely red carpet blankets the back half of the room - which leads to a nice little cubby-hole bar where a young man in a fancy coat sits, nursing some sort of drink. He's the only one in this area. There is movement off to the left, toward another set of double-doors, and there almost appears to be a tail disappearing through the door... What would the Belfry Bats like to do?

- Talk to the sole person at the bar
- Mess with the instruments
- Mess with the piano
- Investigate the birdcage
- Try and catch that tail

*Puts photo in wallet then in pocket*
I wasted enough time, I'll threaten it later.
I say we go to the garden!