"Rauhnacht" Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Black Dahlia

Constance's group gathers in Mr. Nas' sitting room, and she finds herself joined by Kai and Winter Anderson, her children Tate and Adelaide, and a woman who arrived wearing a thick mask depicting a woman's face. Constance insists that Winter's special guest reveal herself, and when Winter removes her facial piece, it turns out to be someone Constance knows well enough, as she was also one of the ghosts from the Murder House in Los Angeles-- Elizabeth Short, better known as the Black Dahlia.

Very soon, Constance says, Elizabeth will be in the company of a number of leading ladies (totalling thirteen), all as legendary as she is.

Answer: Pagans

Elizabeth notes that the black Christmas tree in the corner of the room is quite macabre but she's quickly corrected. Constance informs her, and the room, that it's a symbol that's meant to memorialize the Rauhnacht, the darkest time of the year when the veil between light and shadow is at its thinnest. The German Pagans hailed this season, and they plan to do the same. It's a time when the dead quit their graves and the demons wander freely between the gates of Hell.

It's the thirteenth night after the birth of Christ, and they gather in the home of Mr. Nas. He's a mastermind, and he's going to eat her up, Constance says.

Elizabeth is confused about how she's ended up with them, but it's because she's travelled such a long, long way. The night has only just begun.

Answer: A vacant lot in Hollywood

There's a massive spread of food available to the guests at Mr. Nas', but the food looks quite unappetizing as most of it is from dubious sources, some of which look a bit... human. Most of those seated at the dining room table pass on the meal, but Tate serves a slice of meat to Elizabeth and she voluntarily takes a bite. To everyone's surprise, she enjoys it.

Constance takes the opportunity to spark Elizabeth's memory, looking back at a time she rented a room in a house in Hollywood back in 1947. She was found, chopped into pieces, in a vacant lot only a couple weeks later, on the thirteenth of January.

Answer: Graveyard

Elizabeth remembers distinctly arriving at that home in Hollywood following the dream of stardom, but what she stumbled upon was the doorstep of a stranger who took her in and brought her to his basement. She remembers the smell of ether and the sound of saws, clamps and instruments of torture. She felt the cuts on her face; she could feel every slice but she couldn't scream or run.

Suddenly, Elizabeth was alive again. She found herself in a graveyard surrounded by mist, and shortly after, she found her way to a women's shelter, but the women there screamed at the sight of her.

Kai and Winter recall the same thing, awakening in the mist of a graveyard, drawn up in an act of rebirth.

Answer: A bus

Elizabeth went one more place-- her old P.O. box-- and to her surprise she found a mysterious package waiting for her. The box contained the mask she wore to the party and a bus ticket. She asks if Constance sent it, but she neither confirms nor denies. Constance does note that she will be a star, for certain, on this night.

Ben arrives at the Apollyon in the evening, while Constance's party takes place upstairs, to find that the doorman, Joe, has two large, angry dogs in his care. Evidently, he's responsible for doggy daycare, even if it's an unnerving situation. It doesn't stop him from getting in the elevator and heading up to the thirteenth floor. It's a big mistake.

Answer: Smoking indoors

Ben's arrival is unexpected, and Constance reams him out for showing up on a night she explicitly told him to take off (though he doesn't remember that request). He chastises her in turn because she's not only smoking in the home of an elderly patient, but because she's hosting a party.

She rationalizes that it's friends and family passing through before she calms down. Pouring him a drink, and spiking it while his back is turned, she hands over a cup and asks him to join the soiree, claiming it was wrong of her not to invite him in the first place.

Answer: Puts him to sleep

As Constance hands Ben a glass (and he initially refuses the drink), she lights up another cigarette, almost by reflex. He insists that he needs to know more about their patient, he says as he sits down and, finally, takes a sip of the eggnog. Constance says that she's already been writing notes for him, keeping observations close and recording them so that he can use their shared learnings to better understand how to treat him.

Of course, all of this talk gives her time to watch her drugs take effect. Ben finishes the cup and Constance invites him to stay the night in the apartment as his eyes begin to shut. As she urges him to take charge and push forward-- not be a passenger in life-- she lets him fall asleep. Maybe he can start that when he awakens.

Answer: False

Constance has Tate carry Ben to one of the spare bedrooms and toss him onto the bed where he can wait out the night, and while Tate considers just disposing of him, Constance refuses the suggestion-- this one'll just sleep it off and won't remember a thing. Tate has to do something else though, and Constance makes him promise to be careful.

While Addy brings the punch bowl into the sitting room, Elizabeth asks Constance if she will have a chaperone in New York City. Constance wouldn't dream of sending a young lady out into a new city alone though; she reassures her there's nothing to worry about. In the meantime, Addy tells Constance that the eggnog needs more booze, so she dumps in a whole flask.

Answer: Club Hell

Elizabeth is hesitant to have a drink of any of the eggnog, especially when she sees it being topped up with more liquor; a lady never drinks, she says. Constance jokes that it'll be good for her and loosen her up a bit for her first night in the big city, and besides, she'll want to be in a better headspace for the speakeasy.

When Elizabeth asks about this speakeasy, Winter brings her brand of sarcasm to the conversation, referring to it as Club Hell. Addy will take Miss Short, Constance notes, but she will stay back. Parties, she says, are for the young.

Before this, Constance asks her children for a kiss goodbye. To Tate, she says that down there, if he does his part, there will be a special place for them in the future. He reminds her that she can count on him. He was always her favourite, but sacrifices must be made.

Answer: Stairs

When the partygoers get into the elevator, Addy hits the button for the basement and the five of them-- Tate, Addy, Elizabeth, Kai, and Winter-- take the descent. It's a tense ride as they theorize what could be waiting for them next, and it escalates to threats of violence, but before long, the elevator doors open to a lengthy stairwell leading down through a stone tunnel.

They arrive to a waiting procession in a torch-lit chamber, and as someone places a red cloak around Elizabeth's shoulders and draws a hood over her head, Wilhemina Venable emerges from the dark, welcoming them to the portal to Hell, sitting directly beneath the Apollyon.