Part 2: The Hole World
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Originally Posted by Monsieur Hatter
Eying the tent, Hatter felt a smile tug at his lips. Maybe the circus was in? Always one for cotton candy and clowns, the hatted male made his way to the tent. Humming an off tune as he did so. |
"TRA-LA-LA-LA-LA!" you screech off-tune as you skip towards the foreboding tent. "Knockity-knock!" you yell, as fabric tents don't have many places you can actually knock on.
...
No answer! How rude. That must mean you can go in, right?
You lift the flap and step inside the dark tent. Unsurprisingly, you can't see a thing. Luckily for you, you happen to have brought a flashlight with you! It's one of those silly Halloween-themed ones, but desperate tents call for tacky flashlights, or something like that.
The inside of the tent is dimly illuminated in orange light by your pumpkin flashlight. You squint, trying to make sense of the shapes in the uneven bits of light, and soon realize the inside of the tent is empty, save for an ugly old rug spread out on the ground. How anti-climactic!
You take a step forward and spin around, making sure you haven't missed anything. Finding the tent to be no less empty than it was a second ago, you get frustrated and stomp your foot. That seemed like a good thing to do when mad, you saw it on an episode of
Full House once. Unfortunately for you, the ground underneath your feet isn't quite as... existent as you thought it was. Apparently that rug was covering a great big hole in the ground! You might have used this time to wonder if this was Wiley Coyote's tent, but you're a bit busy falling into a giant hole in the earth. Weee...
You land on a pile mattresses. Okay, first you fell into a hole in the ground covered by a rug, now you land on mattresses? Are you sure you're not a cartoon character? Thankfully, your flashlight was not damaged in the fall, so you can use it to survey the hole. You find yourself in some sort of... well, hole. A really, really big hole. There appears to be two doors in your hole, one to your right and one to your left. In front of you there's a rope that seems to lead back up to the surface. You give it a few tugs and it seems secure.
You could take the door on the right... It seems like the
right choice, eh? Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
You could take the door on the left... It's the only door
left! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
You could climb up the rope and get the heck outta here... it's not too late to go see that haunted house. (if you choose this option, please specify where you'd like to go! Consult part 1 for a list of interesting things you could do.)
Or you could... I guess you could try to do something else. All you've got is a pile of mattresses and a flashlight, but maybe you could make some kind of mattress fort... or you could try to dig to the other side of the world? Hey, don't look at me, it was your idea. I'm just a little voice inside your head that narrates everything you do.
What will you do?