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☆TRACK II: DISCORD AND RHYME

Who: Kidnapped Pride Members
What: Corporate hazing, in the style of themepark murder clowns.
When: October 18th-19th.
Where: A large, empty carnival, apparently.
Warnings: This is basically Saw games for babies.

“Burning the ground, I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you.
I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found
And I'm hungry like the wolf.”

☆DISCORD AND RHYME

It’s your first free night after a particularly feverish series of performances. It’s a comparatively lazy Sunday evening - one that all of you are obligated to spent in the HQ. Things are normal, at least as normal as they ever are, are you’re free to go to bed early and for once have the luxury in sleeping in tomorrow. At least theoretically.

Whether you go to bed or not, you’ll find yourself drifting off - and then the sound eerie, peculiar music...like the sound of an old music box, with a soft feminine voice singing wordlessly along. You’ll fall asleep, hard, and when you wake up you are somewhere else.

"【Sad and Scary Song】"Come Out And Play"Creepy Music Box】[HD]" (Watch on YouTube)

☆THE SACRIFICES

At first, you wake up in what seems like some kind of boiler room. Some parts of the floor are slick with moisture, and your hands and feet are bound, with your wrists locked to the industrial piping behind you. Regaining consciousness is slow and difficult, as if it wasn't meant to come to you quite yet.

You can hear water and steam flowing through some of the pipes, and the complex is obviously still active with...whatever it's supposed to be doing. But maybe you're just too busy freaking out at your evident kidnapping to think too hard about circumstantial evidence.

You aren't the only one in here. Whether they are awake or unconscious, four other Pride members are bound nearby. Around the side of some of the machinery, you can see the glow of computers, though you can't quite see the screens - there are chairs, though, and a cup of Starbucks that is still steaming. Whoever brought you here is probably still around, and there's no telling how long you have before they return.

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☆THE CHALLENGERS

You wake up sitting in what appears to be a bumper car of all things - you know, one of those little vehicles you drive around at carnivals to crash into each other? You're sitting in one, and your hand are handcuffed around the bar behind you. Your neck is definitely sore, like you've been sitting like this for a while.

It only takes a moment to realize two things: 1) you actually are in a theme park of some sort, and it's still night time, and 2) you're not alone. At least a dozen other Pride members are handcuffed to the bumper cars around you, all pointed in the direction of an empty stretch of wheel worn floor - like an audience, intended to view a speaker. Whoever brought you here doesn't give you much time to be confused.

They stride into the center of the "stage" like they own the place. They are wearing a hooded coat of a decidedly gothic style, with a hood that shadows their face. When they speak, they sound feminine - almost like the voice you remember putting you to sleep earlier.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen," they say, "to your trial by fire."

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“Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you.
Mouth is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf.”

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Bait: Trucy Wright
Challengers: 1) Terrance Ward 2) Yosuke 3) Pinkie

What the challengers find is an extremely extensive house of mirrors, left under a blanket of darkness. Whatever lights are supposed to be on won’t activate with the switches, and what little light there is becomes a confusing nightmare when it’s reflected off the fake walls and mirror. It’s extremely difficult to move in here without accidentally smashing into glass. You do find a note, though, written on one of the first walls you encounter in glow in the dark ink:

“Find her before I find you. :)”

You can hear mechanical sounds in the darkness, and it won’t take long for you to discover one of the maze’s quirks...the walls of glass actually mechanically shift from time to time so they end up in totally different places than where you encountered them the first time, by spinning on an axis located on one edge.

You can hear someone in the darkness that isn’t you - and a short while into the maze you can hear the faint crackling of the speaker system, and then, eventually, a voice.

Trucy will wake up enclosed in a completely dark area, bound to a chair. It is completely dark besides the soft sounds of mechanical movements in the distance, and the faint crackling of a speaker - and the louder scurrying of the many creepy crawlies littering the floor, and crawling part way up her legs.

As soon as either the challengers or Trucy start making noises, their realize that the speaker system is connecting Trucy’s room to the rest of the maze, so that she can communicate back and forth with her would be rescuers. But can they make it to her in time?

THIS TRIAL WILL FAIL

[Ugh. This waking up tied to chairs thing is starting to get annoying. Don't these people know any other tricks? The irritation actually helps dampen the fear slightly.

Until some gross bug crawls up her leg. Then she shrieks.]

EEEEK!!

[And she can hear more of them. She starts struggling in earnest.]

Ew ew ew ew ew!

[If Trucy had known that people could hear her, she miight have tried to handle this with more decorum.

Maybe.]

[His heart drops when he reads the writing on the wall.]

"Find her before I find you." That totally isn't ominous or anything!

[He's cut short, however, by a shriek. Youske's head jerks suddenly in no direction in particular- since the speaker system echos all about.]

Hey! If you can hear me, where are you?!

[Pinkie regrets walking into the funhouse very shortly after doing so - this is in no way fun. Finding the note means she can't just leave though.

Especially not after hearing that scream.]

TRUCY!!!!! [Sorry Yosuke, ignoring you right now]

Huh? P-pinkie? Is that you?

[And someone else too. One of the boys from Flashstep? She stops struggling and starts looking around wildly until she realizes the voices are coming from an intercom.]

I can hear you! I'm tied up. I can hear weird machines and there's-

[She squirms a little more as another creepy crawly starts climbing up her ankle.]

There's gross bugs or something everywhere!

Sick! For real?

[That is so gross. Bugs? What kind of crap was this...]

We're coming, okay? Just sit tight and try to keep that crap off you! [He's not sure how else to give comfort. He's just glad he's not her. He turns to Pinkie and Terrance.]

You think we should split up or stay as a group? We might be able to fight off whoever's in here if we stick together.

Stick together. It's safer.

[Unlike his outbursts earlier, Terry's wearing a veneer of calm to keep his anger in check. His tone is even and clipped, reflecting how tightly wound he is right now.]

[Having said that though, he pretty much immediately starts to walk off. Putting a hand out to feel for what's a wall and what's a confusing mirror situation are as he goes.]

Uh...yeah, yeah! Okay! WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU, TRUCY! DON'T WORRY, THEY'RE WAAAAAAAAY MORE SCARED OF YOU THAN YOU ARE OF THEM!

[Pinkie turns and promptly runs headlong into a mirror.]

Owwwww...where are you guys? It's dark in here - here, take my hand and we'll all hold on!

Don't yell so loud! [He hisses to Pinkie.] There's still some freakshow in here looking for us!

[He too, starts after Terry.] This place seriously gives me the chills...! [He will grab Pinkie before he takes off though. She ran into a mirror. Good god what has he gotten himself into.]

[As they speak, one of the pivot mirrors behind them quietly starts rotating closed - attempting to lock into a position that will keep them from getting back out of the maze. One or two of them could probably dash through if they wanted, but not all three.

Think fast: in or out?]

[Trucy shudders as more creepy crawlies swarm around her feet. More afraid of her? Yeah right. Her response comes out a little more whiny than she would've liked.]

Pinkie I don't think they're afraid of me at all!!

[And then she hears another voice join them. Well, more people certainly gets her hopes up.]

Wh-who's there with you? Can you guys hear the machines?

[Information. Something tells her that sharing as much information between the two groups as possible is vital.]

[His ears perk up- there is, indeed, the sounds of shifting going on. Some closer than others. He curses to himself under his breath that he can't see hardly anything in here, and he hears something shift.]

[His head turns, and he sees an opening, an opening to get out of this freaky place. But his conscious knowing Trucy was in here makes him hesitate, and he misses his chance to be a chicken and bail.]

Oh man-! That was our ticket out of here-!

Guess we're going all the way with this.

[He sighs and takes a cautious step forward, he wishes he could rush through this but after Pinkie ran straight into that mirror... They have to be careful, right?]

Trucy? [That's her name right?] Trucy, we're coming to find you, okay? Can you tell us anything about where you are?

Okay...

[She does her best to keep the quaver out of her voice. What else can she tell them? Think, Trucy, think!]

Um, it's too dark to see anything. But I can hear the machines and... and the bugs. There's a lot of bugs.

[So many gross bugs.]

The room I'm in must be pretty small, or I th-think they'd spread out more.

[She tries to shift the chair, just to see whether it's bolted down or something.]

Well duh, we're not LEAVING! [She didn't even turn to pay attention to the mirror tbh] You should keep talking as loud as you can! Maybe we'll hear you when we get closer - like, through the walls and not just this!

Yosuke's here! And so's this guy! What's your name?

[The chair isn't bolted down, it seems. It shifts when Trucy does, and sort of smushes against a bug or two. Nice. Or maybe not nice, depending on how you feel about smushed bugs.

There's the soft whir of more panels moving nearby, to anybody listening. Too far away for Trucy to hear them through anything but the speakers.]

[Is that a good sound? Well, it's a better indicator than anything ELSE. Pinkie reaches out for the hand of whoever's nearest her.]

C'mon, this way!

[This is screwed up. So screwed up. Yosuke listens intently for other footsteps that aren't their own, still wary of the writing on the wall from earlier. There's someone else in here. He just hopes it's a prank. He follows Pinkie, keeping an eye out to no avail-]

Let's just find her and get the hell out of here.

[The whirring noises make sense now, seeing the panel open up previously.]

I wonder if everything in here moves. You guys saw that door move, right?

[He presses a hand up against a mirror to check to see if it would move...maybe they'd get lucky?]

[There are few things in life Terry wants less right now than to be holding hands with anyone, but Pinkie has him and he's too focused on this to fight her about it.]

[Yosuke's idea isn't bad, and he follows to one of the mirrors. He's not careful about it at all, roughly shoving at one of the edges to see if it feels at all like something they can budge.]

Guys! Guys, my chair isn't bolted down or anything! I can move it!

[Excited, she slides it over a little more, heedless of the bugs for now. At least she can feel like she's doing something productive.]

I'm gonna slide over till I find the wall.

Oh yeah! Do that and then bang on it some!

[The guys seem to have the shoving the mirror thing covered, so Pinkie turns to keep an eye out. Or, well, an ear at least.]

[That actually works! As it turns out, the wall is really close by - if Trucy rocks around a little bit, she'll find that the room is very enclosed and shaped like a triangle. With this information, the guys on the outside could probably figure out that it's very likely a section of the maze, but with the mirror shifted to cover all three sides.

The only way to really bang into it is to just sort of throw her body and the chair against it or to knock on it with her head - depending on how loud she manages to make it, the others will get a sense of direction, though the microphones and speaker business sort of confuses things.]

This isn't gonna work.

[He's still pushing at the mirror, but if it's even possible to move it he doubts he and Yosuke are strong enough. Terry sighs and brushes a hand through his hair, trying to keep his head on right.]

["We're wasting time," he hears his own voice, and for a moment he has a memory of sitting at a table with a bunch of people in costumes? They're talking about a plan of attack- a rescue? And he couldn't want to be there any less. Not unlike the current situation, but it's not a useful thought right now so he shakes his head and pushes it aside; whatever the hell that was it can wait. For now he pushes off the mirror and starts walking again, hopefully they'll be able to hear Trucy and figure out which way to go from here.]

We don't have time to waste trying every mirror in this place, we need to get moving.

[He slams his own fist against a mirror, not too hard but hard enough to know his frustration with this entire situation.]

This is stupid, I don't even understand why this is happening anyway... [He complains, trying to squint through the dark. There's a scuffle of footsteps, a little distant. Like someone was running and took a sharp turn.]

What was that?! [He cries out, head jerking back and forth.]

[She's a little surprised that she finds the wall so easily. Her instinct about the size of the room had been right.]

I found the wall! This room is weird, you guys. It's really small. And like, a triangle?

[She braces herself and pushes with her feet to smack the chair into the wall.]

► FUN HOUSE AFTER DARK

Re: ► FUN HOUSE AFTER DARK

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are we worrying about tag order or just tagging as we're here to tag?

i think just go as and when we're here?

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figure now would be a good time for THE MURDERER to show up

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