The floor smashed, the cracked and damaged pipe across the room ripping downstairs into the kitchen below. The air was filled with cracked wood, and already dusty grey kitchen paneling was covered.

The group went down. I went first, trusting in my powerful stats, Xavier swung down easily, and we helped Jonas and Daniel hop down, then Addison.

We didn't have long. Whenever you enter a house, you should analyse it. Where are the windows, doors? Note where they are, and work out your lines of retreat and advancement, work out what cover you have, work out what weapons you have. In a dangerous situation you don't have time to think, which is why I had done my thinking back at the computer and on our route.

This wasn't a defensible position. There were three routes to us- from the side stairs, up from above, and from the main stair route. That meant three routes for them to blast us from, leaving us a bit insecure. We needed more time here.

I looked up. My survivor sense gave me some degree of insight into the building. We had smashed a lot of shit, including cracking some load bearing pillars. This place wasn't doing well. And in particular, the floor above was doing terribly. The big t trap had been bolted into the ceilings and walls, and it was really bad for the structural stability of the place to suddenly rip through the floor out of it's bolts downwards.

But, it was just bolted into cheap wood.

Laura's trap room. The place intended to kill you and make you confront your greed and hunger for money. 38/100 durability.

"Wiggle it! Grab the pipe and shake it. Carefully." I ordered Xavier.

I gestured at the others. "Grab the washing machine. Grab anything sharp. Put it in the corridor. Make a makeshift barrier, facing the left. The room next to us- it's an office room, it has some file cabinets. Use those." I gestured, and they went off to do it. I tossed Addison and Daniel the packrat perks, so they could better lug the thing.

Xavier started moving and shaking the pipe, the t shaped plastic and cracked steel pistons not enjoying their treatment, and more cracks appeared above us as more of the trap ripped out. He seemed to enjoy his new strength a lot. He was grinning, glowing with glee at his supernatural might. That's what you get Jigsaw. A real trap master uses a house they made built with steel or bricks or concrete, not some cheap old wooden house. Or an abandoned factory.

I glanced at the helmet.

Radio capable helmet. Allows you to communicate with others on the same frequency.

Inside was a bit scratched up. I pressed play.

I started to fiddle with the fridge, ripping out plastic panels, and getting into the guts. At the back there was a very useful piece of equipment.

"What the fuck is that shaking!" Came Amanda's voice.

"It's them. Flush them out." Said Obi.

"I'm moving into the upstairs. Damn what are they doing?!" She said, frustrated, as the house shook and rippled with the massive sound of being torn apart.

Have you ever wondered why we don't fix global warming by putting fridges all around and opening them up?

It's because they have pumps in them. These pumps make some air hotter, and your fridge cooler. This pump was part one in my plan, to escape.

Daniel came up to me. "Why aren't you barricading things?" I asked, my hand deep inside the fridge's guts. This thing was delicate, couldn't just rip it out. "They're using radio! I managed to get it on my pad." I patted the helmet. "Already got it kid."

"There's a backup channel!" He said. He played.

Gus's voice spoke. "They'll want to trap you in that room. Don't go. Go to the bottom. Flush them out towards Tate."

"Shit. Doing it." Said Amanda.

That was contradictory. What was going on.

Xavier reached 8 durability on the first floor. Stop I sent.

I had been blind sighted a lot of times by this place. Maybe with insane wisdom I could figure out all the context clues and work out the best option, but I was suffering because I didn't have enough good options. If wisdom was knowing what was best, and intelligence was knowing new ways to be the best, I needed intelligence.I needed to remember more about this film.

I ripped out the fridge pump, leaned on the fridge, and put both points in int.

It was intense. Two points was a major upgrade to my fleshy brain. I could feel my brain pulsating, new connections forming, new knowledge rushing in. And, most importantly, old poorly remembered knowledge becoming clearer. I almost collapsed, but my preparation and upgraded gamer's minds held me strong.

Gus was a scam artist. He was a master social manipulator. I remembered clearly the tape and I remembered… that mother fucker. He had seen me about to blow Amanda's cover. He knew people, he had scammed enough. He knew that it was about to blow up. Gus had stabbed me with the poison needle because he was a good planner. I wasn't just facing a crazy apprentice and a crazy killer. I was facing a social wizard who had predicted my plan several times. I had been leaning to rushing the stairs, but with Obi waiting…

We'd be dead. And back towards the barricade lurked Amanda. We went that way, she'd blast us. She was probably waiting for us to be flushed back by Obi. Wounded, scared, right into her firing range.

I grabbed salt and pepper shakers and spoke, as Addison came back. "We need to go back up the pipe."

Addison looked skeptical. "That place is about to collapse." The floor above did look dire. Much of the floor had fallen out, a massive steel t pipe had smashed to the kitchen floor, and the ceiling was cracked and flayed.

"It's the only way. Amanda to the left, Obi on the stairs. The door frame is still ok. Xavier, go up, and pull us all up."

"You better have a good plan" He said, as he used his super strength to reach the first floor again. He glanced around, looking for Amanda, and then lay flat and dropped his arms down. "Come." He said. All five of us grabbed him- and as easily as if we were a sack of potatoes, he pulled us up.

My superior int pointed out something else to me. The cameras! I bet they were tracking us through them. The camera here was wrecked, ripped out, but there was one in the hallway outside. My fuzzy computer knowledge gave me a plan.

I knelt down. Cure. It's time for you to cure the house of it's infection. I wrapped insulating tape around each of their feet. They looked at me, suspicious, but trusting me for now. Go sneakily to the room right right and rip out the thick black cable. Cure was a small stealthy master.

I looked out, just out of reach of the camera. A few seconds later, I got a message. Delicious black cable. Feed me more! Dogs.

I spoke quietly. "Follow me. I'm pretty sure Gus wouldn't have left the safety of the top right corner." I set off at a sprint- only Xavier kept up. He ripped aside the steel barrier in the computer room, and we set off towards the razor trap room, through the helpful holes.

And there, looking a little shocked, not well suited to combat, was Gus. He had a pistol in his hand. He pointed it at me.

"Don't-" I tossed the salt shaker at his eyes. It smashed, filling his face with sharp glass and stinging salt. I lunged forward as he pointed the gun and squeezed- and nothing happened. I rammed my fist right into his kidney, and he collapsed to the floor and vomited. "That was for poisoning me." Xavier kicked his leg. It cracked. Xavier looked a little surprised, but happy.

"Yeah motherfucker! Don't mess with team Macgyver!" I grabbed Gus, ripped his helmet off, took the gun, and carried him into the razor trap room. He screamed about his eyes hurting, and the pain, as I shoved him wrists first up into the razor trap.

"Socially manipulate your way out of this." I said, as he screamed, moving his wrists back and forth, ripping his way into them.

6 perk points awarded for an ironic non fatal trap!

I smelt something- chlorine. It was all around, but it was getting stronger.

Jonas walked in, looking smug, followed by Addison and Daniel. "Obi won't be getting to us from the stairs.

I grinned. "Well, that's a nice surprise." I liked having competent minions. I did some quick mental maths. This could work. We were above the safe room, I think. There would be no easy access from the stairs or the side-

"Xavier, secure the passage again with the steel barrier please." He grinned.

"Being super strong is great." He said, as he twisted steel into place again, blocking the stairway path.

They could only come at us one way. Up the stairs. We needed to get to the basement, ideally without them realizing we did it.

I sent several orders to Xavier, privately, and checked out the gun. I flicked out the circular ammo chamber thing. Guns. They were magic. But this one had no bullets in it. I glanced back at the screaming Gus.

"We need them distracted. If they come to get their team mate, that gives us time to flee." I said. Daniel didn't care much- like father like son. Jonas didn't care much. Addison didn't care much. Xavier looked happy.

"I thought- mercy. Goodness."

Jonas shook his head. "He sided with Jigsaw. No mercy."

Addison looked at him. "You got any more salt?" Gus let out a pained cry at this, his salted eyes burning.

Yay for merciless minions! Addison kicked his cracked leg. He fell, slicing himself more, and awkwardly pulled himself up.

He was doing surprisingly- oh yeah. He seemed to have some stab proof armour under his top. It mostly blocked the blades. Cheater.

I put the helmet on, and spoke into the radio channel. We needed time.

"Hello Amanda. I've missed you."

"You killed Gus? Good. He was just slowing us down." He was smarter than you idiots.

"I left him trapped. Just like I'm going to do to you. I'm going to shove Obi's hand so far up your rear, the other end will see daylight."

"I knew it was you! You did that to me! You forced me to..." I heard an angry gasp. "To hurt him. For nothing. Why?"

I did a slow, creepy laugh. "Because you're nothing. You don't deserve freedom. You deserved to die to drugs, and I have so many traps placed. I'm gonna get you, little failure."

Why wasn't Obi helping- oh.

Addison, watch the hole in the razor hand trap room. I sent, as the house rocked and shook again.

"I'll not fail Jigsaw. I'm coming for you. I'm his apprentice. I'm better than you. No matter what blessings you got from Summer." That name again- my mind slipped away from it. I heard a bang. I looked back. Some blood. "Obi tried to sneak up. His fat fingers didn't" I grabbed her, ramming her across the room. Several bullets thudded up through the floor, one ripping through Gus's side and his armor. He screamed.

Floors are thin. I sent. I pulled her away, to the needle trap room, to the sound of repetitive smashing. I tossed the pepper down the hole, hard and heard coughing as Obi took pepper to the nose.

"Didn't like that surprise, did you, Macgyver." Said Amanda's voice, through the radio. "We're coming to get you."

The needle trap was pretty deep. It had to dig into the room below, whatever it was. It was heavy. That was probably why that room was locked off- it was pretty messed up. The room in front of the safe room.

I intended to penetrate it. Then Amanda and Obi would have to worry about us escaping through the safe room, the ground floor needle room, or the basement. We'd have a bit of time to worry.

Xavier finished smashing the steel bar through the floor, and the needle pit dropped through.

It was solid steel. It smashed through two floors. With a massive crack, a hole through to the basement opened. I looked down. Looked like that had been a dining area before. Cabinets to the side, filled with plates. Now, it had a mess of broken pipes which had been used to hold up the needle trap.

We had supplies from Jigsaw's cache. That included a rope. We tied it to the steel door, and let ourselves down, Daniel and Addison holding onto me and Xavier thanks to our superior strength, Jonas climbing down himself. We tugged down the rope after, so it would be hard to follow us.

I walked to a pipe, and stroked it.

"What are we here for?" Asked Daniel.

"Yeah. Why have we been bouncing around the house back and forth?" Lets just go kill them, said Xavier, hefting his spiked club.

Addison sighed. "You know he always has a trap. He has a trap here. Stop being such a man."

I smiled at Addison. She knew me. I did like traps. "Plan a is an explosion. Plan B is a bigger explosion. I am going to rebuild this pressure pump, fill up some gas cylinders, and blow up our way out."

Time for the finale of Team Macgyer vs Team Amanda. The secret powers have been revealed, all secrets are out in the open. What will prevail, heavy firepower or raw ingenuity?

Also, you have now seen every room in the nerve gas house party, and the heroes have been inside every single one. 100% exploration. Except the sewer tunnels.

In roleplay games, my first impulse is also "Can I build a really big bomb." They solve so many problems. Pressurized gas, gas cylinders, all was visible on screen. How could you not want to build a bomb?

Frescko. Yep, they know a bit more about what's going on. They didn't know it was repeating till now, but now they can prep. If Amanda survives.

Arkyong. Thanks. The fast paced finale.

Watermelonninja. I'll look it up then. With coronavirus, I have much spare time to fill. And what better than horror games?

Toobad69. Doom would be fun, he would die many times. I have a leveling system for real life, where the max is like 1000 HP, enough to survive a few shots. Doom guy and demons would break that open and be absurdly tough.

Thorison1080. He can summon as many party members as he has space for, and you'll see soon what they're up to. They don't innately spawn into people- that's a protagonist power. Otherwise he could just mass spawn everyone and Saw 2 would be a lot easier as literally everyone was his bud. Which would be funny. Plus I am trying to keep as much of the flavour and characters of the original movie, generally, so force spawning into people is gonna be uncommon.

Soda-fiedpsycho. Sadly, Amanda is too scary in combat right now, since she could easily kill all of them. So for now, he's avoiding her. Next chapter, he can't any more. And yeah, her armour has flaws.

Mortal combat can be the next one. I'll get a poll up soon.

Tune in next time to see the final fight of Saw 2.