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halp

this fanfic i am writing (which is a weird enough feeling in itself after not being able to write anything for more than 10 years) is turning into an escape room scenario and i really don't know if i am capable of that

i can't just handwave it because the fact that they got trapped in this room so the antagonist could do "horrible" things to them (not actually horrible in a real world sense, a thing that is played for laughs in the canon, and also the antagonist is canonically susceptible to picking up the Idiot Ball) and now they have to Somehow Work Together Despite Their Differences to escape kind of unexpectedly reared its head as being the major thrust of the plot (why. i just wanted to write situation comedy about a school reunion waaahh. although i know that locked room scenarios sometimes appear in sitcoms and can be funny.)

fortunately, the fandom is one that allows absurd video game logic and also has some amount of magic, so it's ok if X thing really would not work like that in the real world and Rube Goldberg can eat his heart out, but still

also, how to write that without it basically becoming a dry instruction sheet, even if i could map out the puzzles?

it are a problem