Sorry this took a while, I finally found the chance to sit down and finished part 1 and 2 yesterday, so hopefully it won't be too long of a wait next time. The first few parts will be longer because I'm setting things up, but after that they'll be shorter. The formatting may also be a bit off, sorry about that.

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The Prologue (again)

"Remind me why we're doing this again?" Contentment rocks in her chair, not at all content.

"Because," Luxury says, "the Inn is growing lonely, and you know we all miss the chatter of voices in the hall. Besides, what's an Inn without its guests?"

"But..." Contentment pauses, "remember Last Time?" They both shudder. They remember. But they're trying to forget.

"Last Time was an anomaly. Last Time won't happen again. We'll make sure of it." Luxury doesn't sound so sure though. 

However, Contentment decides it'll be fine. It could be worse. And she's pretty sure they did fix the problem. Anyways, she does miss having CBers staying at the Inn. It's weird without them.

"Ok," she finally gives in. "Let's do it."

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Day 0, Part 1

The world spun around in a whirlwind of colors, blending into nothingness like water spilling onto a picture. When it stopped, Silver opened her eyes and surveyed the scene. She was in a vast… void. A blank of only empty space, and not even that. There must’ve been air, as she was breathing just fine, but she could find no sign of it. She moved through the dark - well, it wasn’t dark, exactly, just.. non-light - like a fairy, like there was no gravity and nothing at all to restrict movement and she wasn’t even there. Maybe she wasn’t. There was something decidedly evil and sinister about this expanse, she thought. And there didn’t seem to be anything to restrain it, at all. Suddenly, she felt a consuming urge to get out of there, wherever there was. She turned around, frantically, looking for the button on the teleporter she had been loaned, found a ruby red circle and pushed it. The whole thing fell away as quickly as it had come. 

She was spun around and around ‘till she felt nauseous, and dropped in a sunny clearing, very different from the place she had just been. Birds chirped melodiously in the trees by her, a silver creek ran at her feet. In front of her was a majestic building, the color of sunsets and sunrises, rising as high as the mountains and the eagles circling the property. The Sunbeam Inn, said the sign, in golden script. Silver gave a sigh of relief, she was here! She walked up to the door and rang the doorbell, a rather old-fashioned, tarnished, literal golden bell hanging by the entryway. The door opened grandly, as if welcoming her through. She stepped in… and gasped. The Inn itself obviously wasn’t very nice. Some of the woodwork was falling apart, several big stains covered the carpet and walls - Silver tried to convince herself it was just water, but the blotches seemed distinctly… red - , dust coated the floor and dominated the corners. But in the midst of all that, magic seemed to make itself known in this room, in this Inn. The space absolutely sparkled with it, not in the kind of fairy dust you see in movies, but in the kind of shimmer and glow that brightens the whole atmosphere though you can’t for the life of you understand how. A warm kind of music floated through the air and a fire was lit in the old fireplace, dancing merrily and enclosing everything in a dreamlike embrace. There was a circle of chairs by the hearth, and many of the other CBers were already there. A tall and skinny girl, with coco colored hair and freckles across her cheeks and the bridge of her nose stood up to greet her. “Hi, I’m Hawkstar,” she said. “And these are BookGirl, Reuby Moonnight, Moon Wolf, Pangolin, CelineBurning Bright, and Luna Silvermoon! Who are you?” 

“I’m Silver Crystal,” Silver said shyly, “But you can call me Silver.” 

“Hi, Silver!” everyone chorused, and Silver felt certain that she was among friends.

Just then, a figure draped in flowy silks and long, dark hair falling to the waist glided in, followed by a less graceful, red-haired girl in a sweatshirt and jeans. 

“Luxury, or Lux,” said the figure, who looked about 21 years old. “Pleased to meet you all. This is my sister, Contentment.” Luxury gestured to the redhead, a 17 year old, who bounced up and down and waved. “We will be running this Inn, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask us. We request that you all retire to your rooms by 9:00 PM unless otherwise specified, and get downstairs by 7:00 AM, when we start serving breakfast. What you do during the night is up to you. We will have various activities planned throughout the day, and participation is mandatory. However, you all will have lots of free time for yourself too, when everything we have on this property is available for your use, with permission, of course. We have 4 other guests arriving late for various reasons and we expect you all to explain the rules to them when they come. No one is allowed to leave the property without asking one of us first, this is very important, all right? Understand?” Everyone nodded, and Luxury continued. “Ok. My pronouns are they/them,” 

“And mine are she/her!” Contentment jumped in. “What are yours?”

The CBers quickly introduced themselves and their pronouns. When they were done, Luxury clapped their hands. “All right, everyone got that?” There were murmurings of agreement when Reuby Moonnight raised her hand. 

“Is your pool actually just a hole in the ground filled with dirty water and probably lots of germs too? Because if so, that’s really sad. In fact, the whole state of this place is miserable. I’d totally help you to clean up, but I’m afraid I’d faint from just scrubbing that wall over there.” The other CBers stared, shocked, at Reuby, but Reuby ignored them. It was true, what she had said! And what did it matter what other people thought?

“Reuby, it is Reuby, isn’t it?” Luxury said coldly. “That kind of behavior is not tolerated at this Inn, and if you speak like that again, you will immediately be thrown out and fed to the local wolf pack with no remorse.” The room itself seemed to shudder and scramble away from Luxury as they continued. “And, answering your question, no, our pool is not full of germs, and who knows where you heard that it’s just a “hole in the ground filled with dirty water” anyways?”

Contentment coughed. “Um, I think it was when we wrote that letter inviting people to the Inn. Remember we used that voice command thingy to type it out for the first time? And Riley was being sarcastic the whole recording? Didn’t xe say something like that then? And, anyways, the pool is kinda-”
“But that’s besides the point!” Luxury cut in cooly. “If you, if any of you, not just Reuby, show us, your hosts, any sort of disrespect again, be sure that you will not live to regret it.” The air became uncomfortably charged with electricity then, and as if their words were catching up to them, Luxury tensed, visibly scrambling for something else to say. “Of course, it won’t ever come to that!”

“Ever,” Contentment repeated under her breath, like a prayer. “Ever again.” The CBers agreed quickly, shaking off the strange feeling they had all gotten just a moment before, a foreboding sense that what Luxury had said had not been just a warning. Luxury tried to smile, a fake smile, but a smile nonetheless, and everyone chose then to forget anything had happened.

“Now, who wants a tour?” they asked.

Dead: 0

Alive: 12-15 

Uncertain: 0

The creatures: n/a 

please tell me if you want anything changed, especially Reuby!