Vexen

🩸【 FIN 】 Tensions are tight as your party begins to interrogate Vanitas—far too distracted to notice that Skuld is closing the exit, plunging you into the darkness. You catch the brief glint of a knife, and after that, nothing. Better luck next time! 🎃

• Lining the walls are a collection of vintage newspaper clippings detailing the demise of not only the original owner of this very same manor, but afterward, gradually, every witness that attended the scene. The killer's calling card? A pack of Starlights candy cigarettes.

🧩【 CLUES {#8} 】 Xigbar correctly decodes: "RATATOUILLE!" There's only one room where a secret code could be useful. With a new lead, your party hastily returns to the library and skims the shelves. Which book do you remove?

(+) • Vexen supplies that there are *11* balls total, lined up to create a code: "3 12 5 12 5 26 6 20 23 23 16"

It appears I’ve been kidnapped by Ansem Seeker of Darkness for his sick glee. Myself, Kalux and Axel are held hostage in Hollow Bastian. Anyone willing to obtain me?