Amanda had heard about the escape room hype a while ago but never took the time to go to one herself. Did would change today as she went to the new escape room that had been build at the edge of town, the new attraction had a huge advertise board installed next to the main road with which it tried to lure in costumers. The sign proudly presented that the building offered multiple rooms with each their own theme going from a nuclear power plant to a zoo and everything in between. Amanda did not need to be convinced that the escape room would offer a welcome new experience but the price was something that took Amanda by surprise. The sign had said that the first escape room people tried was free. Either the company trusted that they were able to hook people enough with their rooms in order to lure them in a second time or they would make their money in another way, it mattered little for Amanda this was a change she could slide by.
Amanda walked up to the large decorated house it had bars in front of the windows and had some fake graffiti on it in order to give it the look of an abandoned prison. Amanda walked up towards the entrance of the building where an old timey camera smiled at her, an anxious feeling came over Amanda as if something was wrong with the place but she waved it aside thinking she was just nervous.
Amanda entered the building and was nearly blinded by the light in the room. Amanda rubbed her eyes as they adjusted to the room and she saw that it was a sterile white circular room with many doors on the edge each with a unique name and theme. In the middle of the room was the reception who a young smiling women operating it who welcomed Amanda.
“Hello and welcome in Escapemania have you reserved with us?”
“Yes the name is Amanda Keller”
“Ah yes I see you are the last of your group to arrive the others are already in the waiting area in the room. Have you ever done an escape room before?”
“No I haven’t this is my first time”
“Ok well the game is fairly simple you will be put into a themed room which will be locked with a coded lock. There are clues inside the room which will help you figure out what de code numbers are. You and your team have 1 hour in order to open the lock and escape the room for every wrong code input you will lose some time.”
“Sounds easy enough, let’s give it a try.”
“I assure you that you will find it a live changing experience. This way please”
Amanda and the operator walk past a few doors until they stop.
“This will be your room. Seeing that you are the last to enter the time will start running as soon as this door closes behind you. See you on the other side and have fun.”
Amanda was confident that she could solve the escape room in an hour but unbeknownst to her these rooms were special. The magic in the building would indeed make sure that participating would change the participant’s life forever as the rooms would slowly through the hour change the people in it to fit the theme.
With that Amanda walked through her door and found herself in....