As Jill disposed of the Zombie, I wondered if she noticed how I'd steered her away from all the locked doors back in the corridor. Keeping with the 'game', I tried the door beside the one we'd unlocked and turned to Jill.
"Locked, needs some sort of sword key. Back out onto the landing?" I asked. Jill pulled the map out from her back pocket and scanned it.
"There are two doors on the other side of the landing and one beside us."
"Hmm, we could split up, check the doors…" It was the quickest way I could think that we could hurry to the Crypt. I could see Jill wanted to suggest we stick together but she nodded.
"Ok. You check over the other side, I'll try the door next to this one." We left threw the double doors and I ran across the landing. Both doors were locked, a Sword key and an Armour key. Seems Jill had no luck either.
"Locked. And the lockpick was no good. Suggestions?"
We looked at the map again and I pointed to the door on the stairs.
"Let's try threw there." Before Jill could answer I ran down the stairs and pushed open the door.
I ran to the Picture of the angel, taking the steps two at a time and pulling the arrowhead out of my pocket.
"Hey Jill, check this out." Placing the emerald arrowhead into the indentation I watched the concrete door slide open and shivered.
"After you."
Jill eyed me suspiciously and placed her hand on her hip.
"I'm not going down there till you tell me how you knew about that?"
I panicked. I was trying so hard to get moving that I'd forgotten to keep a low profile.
"Lucky guess. I figured since it was the only place we hadn't been to that they had to be connected."
Buy it, buy it, buy it!
Raising her gun, she started down the stone steps. There was no way in hell I was going down there, I knew Jill would find the book, pick it up, examine it and bring it all back up here.
"Are you coming?" I heard her call. I shook my head, tapping my gun against my right leg.
"Only if you scream or I hear gunshots." I yelled back. I head Jill start to mutter and scanned the area. It looked so different. I hadn't really taken in the surroundings during game play, but actually being here was starting to have an affect on me.
"What do you make of this?" Jill asked. I jumped slightly and took the book off her.
"The Four Masks. A Mask that speaks no evil, a mask that smells no evil, a mask that sees no evil, a mask that cannot speak, smell or see evil…"
"When all four fall into place, evil will awaken… what do you think that means?"
I shrugged and closed the book.
"Anything else?"
Jill handed me a key and I scanned it.
"The book was below a giant metal coffin that had been chained to the ceiling, and there were some freaky faces on the wall as you went in."
"This key has a Sword on it. There were a few doors in the Mansion that had Swords carved on the handles. As for the coffin…"
I let a chill run down my spine.
"Let's hope we don't find out about that for a while."