Today I went with the Japanese Student Association group, which I joined in uni, to Exitus (previous known as Escapism).
We were in a group of 7 and we went into the escape room called Butcher’s Burrow. For those who don’t know what the escape room are about, in a group you are given a set time to find clues to open the door to “escape”. We were given 50minutes. In our room, we started off in one room and had to try to get into a second room and escape from that.
When we started, the room was pitch black. Any sort of noise will scare people and the creepy background music they have doesn’t make it better. I started off by looking at the walls for any clues, using the light of the iPad they gave us so we know how long we have, and saw numbers written in “blood”. Those numbers weren’t any use in the first room. I got frustrated, for no reason, and went to open the cabinet they have hanging in the middle of a wall. Things fell out. Metal cups. In the dark. Very loud cups. Very scary. The people organising these rooms seem to enjoy making loud metal thing fall when you open a cabinet or cupboard.
The second, loud metal dropping horror experience, was in the second room. We opened a cupboard and found a safe. But there was a big metal chain that randomly dropped when the doors of the cupboard was unlocked and opened. We opened the safe in go (yay us!) and we found the mini version of the Oxford dictionary. There were words on the back of the cupboard with minus and plus signs. So we obviously looked up the words in the dictionary and put our maths skills to the test. I failed horribly at it since I get confused when people say three digit numbers out loud. I would need to write the numbers down or I wouldn’t even know what the number is. We wasted a lot of time trying to add big numbers together and failed. To buy us more time, we closed the door connecting the first and second room and tried to “lock” the door with a chair that was in the room. The person working at the place walked in and said: “You guys did well, you didn’t even ask for a hint. But you do realise there is a calculator”.
…
There was a calculator behind the safe…
We were so close…
*sigh*
But at least it was a good experience and I actually connected with people I don’t know. I was doing this with 1 friend I’ve known for nearly 8 years and a five other uni students who I have met in past events but never had a conversation with.
~Lila~
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