Christmas Story Games / Follow Xina upstairs
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Christmas Story Games
Mom's Game: Part 2/5
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The Story:
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You stand up quickly and try to make it to the stairs after Xina. To your surprise time seems to slow down once more and Xina seems to fade away into nothing just like the spirit you saw earlier. Something different happens this time as the faded Xina seems to get absorbed back towards you and the two of you seem to become one. You feel a warm shock travel from your fingers to your toes then find yourself gaining the attributes of Xina, your pet, and feel an immediate change in yourself. You are agile and perceptive now, but you don't have much time to reflect on your changes as everything starts to speed back up again.
The entire house lurches forward, the balcony and the entire side of the house facing it shifts and tilts down sending the couch and debris from cracked floorboards right into you. Fortunately with the aspect of Xina you are quick and manage to leap over the couch just in the nick of time. Pictures and kitchen-ware fly past you and a large beam from overhead breaks through the roof slamming down with a resounding crack embedding itself right into the middle of the living room. You are already on the move and as the house tilts more you run forward and grab the wall next to the stairs.
In moments you jump again as the wall starts to break, a cold gust of wind from the snowy outside washing over you as you make it to the stairs and start running up them. If the house is sinking surely you need to try and get as high as possible! With only several leaps you keep your balance making your way up the stairs as Xina's essence helps you just to find a ruined hallway once you make it to the top. The hallway before you is filled with holes as beams from above keep crashing through with the howling wind screaming through the floor.
Before you can choose a direction to go the floor suddenly gives out below you and you fall through slamming against the living-room floor as the house tilts violently once more. The door to the elevator shaft is open and flapping violently from the wind right next to you. In desperation you reach out and manage to hold onto it for dear life. You gasp in pain from your fall and look backwards and down the tilted floor to see the crashing waves right out the window as the house tilts towards them. In a panicked last ditch effort you pull yourself up and into the elevator shaft. You climb the old holiday boxes that haven't fallen out of the room yet and climb up to knock a hole through the already damaged bottom to the next floor as Xina's aspect helps you squeeze through the tight space.
After pulling yourself up you have to shield yourself as snow and debris falls all around you and a violently cold gust of wind overtakes you as the roof forms another hole. You look left and right frantically, weighing your next move. To the right you can see all the way to Konner's bathroom where you spot your youngest son trying to climb the sloped wall up through a hole to try and get onto the roof. His shirt is all torn up and you can see a massive bruise on his side, likely from his massive bed lurching forward once the house tilted. He seems to be moving with a limp.
To your left you hear Dad shouting, the office tilting more violently than the rest of the house and coming close to breaking off and falling into the water. You hear dad cursing from around the corner and get the impression that he is trapped beneath the rubble and is calling for help.
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What do you do?
- Christmas Story Games / Slide down to the Office after Dad
- Christmas Story Games / Follow Konner up onto the Roof
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