


Elsewhere, Phineus decides to play alone, and despite quitting the game before his character can die, he is killed in real life when he is run over by a horse-drawn carriage. Her weakness was mirrors, because she could not stand to see herself growing old. Later, October researches Bathory and learns she would drain young women of blood, bathing in it to maintain her youth. Hutch realizes that Loomis and Miller played Stay Alive right before they died, and that they died the same way as their game characters did. Two detectives, Thibodeaux and King, question Hutch about the homicides. Minutes later, the Countess appears in Miller's office and kills him by stabbing him in the neck with conjoined scissor blades like the ones in the game. The group decides to stop playing for the night. Since he is now out of roses, a woman in a red dress, the Countess, stabs and kills Miller's unprotected character. Separated from the others, Miller throws the rose to dispel the spirits of undead girls.

October, a reader of occult literature, explains that undead spirits cannot move across wild roses. Miller is directed by the game to pick up a rose. The players then fight through a cemetery of evil ghost children, heading toward a mausoleum and tower. The game is set in a derelict mansion on Gerouge Plantation, but it only starts when the six players recite "The Prayer of Elizabeth," a request for "all who resist" to perish so that their blood can keep the Countess Elizabeth Bathory young. They are joined by Abigail and another friend, Swink, while Hutch's boss Miller plays online from his office. Hutch, his good friend October, and her brother Phineus decide to play the game as a group. After playing a video game titled Stay Alive, Loomis Crowley, his roommate Rex, and Rex's girlfriend Sarah are killed in the same way as their characters were killed in the game.Īt Loomis' funeral, his friend Hutch meets Abigail – a friend of Sarah – and receives some of Loomis' possessions, including Stay Alive.
