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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Okay let’s go through the door now.

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Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
Expected/10.

chitoryu12 posted:

Okay let’s go through the door now.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

“Now’s our chance, Stinko!” You grab Stinko and dash through the door in the castle wall. You glance back to see if Dare is following you.

WHAM! You smash right into a marble column. Your head spins from the impact.

A door in the long, narrow column opens up. You and Stinko tumble into a Plexiglas tube.

The tube snaps shut. The column door slides closed. You and Stinko are sealed in the tube!

“It’s like the money tube at the drive-in bank!” Stinko exclaims.

Exactly.

WHOOSH!

The tube – with you and Stinko in it – is swiftly sucked up by a strong force. A whirring sound surrounds you. You’re speeding through a dark tunnel.

All this has happened so fast, you haven’t had time to think about what’s waiting at the end of this tube trip.

If there is an end...

quote:

THUD! The speeding tube stops. Your stomach got lost somewhere back in the tunnel, but now it catches up to you again.

The door on the tube flies open.

Stinko rushes out first. “Wow!” he exclaims. He points to a neon sign hanging over an entrance gate to an indoor playground. The sign says KIDSCARE FUN ZONE.

“There’s Zoe! Our real baby-sitter!” Stinko yells, pointing at a thin girl in a droopy tank top. “Hey, Zoe! We’re over here!”

Zoe turns to see who’s calling her name.

But when she turns around, your eyes widen at the horrifying sight.

From the back, she looks like Zoe.

From the front, she looks like a giant rat!

“Come on, Stinko,” you gasp, grabbing your brother by the neck of his shirt. “She’s not a real baby-sitter. And something tells me the Fun Zone isn’t really fun!”

quote:

For once Stinko listens. He follows you willingly.

You have no idea where you’re going. You just run as fast as you can, gripping Stinko’s wrist tightly. Your eyes dart all around, desperately searching for a way out.

Zoe the rat-girl chases you. “What are you doing here?” she screams. “This is Fun! You’re supposed to be in Games!”

You glance back at her. Yikes! An army of giant rats surrounds Zoe.

“After them!” Zoe cries. “Don’t let them get away!”

You and Stinko run as fast as you can. You can tell he’s getting tired. He’s panting hard.

But you have to keep going. Zoe and the rat pack are gaining on you.

“Run!” you beg Stinko. “Run for your life!”

With the rats close behind, you come to a wall. Two elevator doors open at the same time. One is going up. One is going down.

“Which one should we get on?” Stinko cries.

You have no idea. But your life depends on it. Hurry!

Flip a coin. If the coin lands heads up, go up to PAGE 118.

If the coin lands heads down, go down to PAGE 43.


Suddenly, continuity!

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 1/3

Bad Endings
Forcibly turned into a rat-person and enlisted into their army.
Dodged off a rope bridge and into a bottomless pit.
Eaten by a Beast after failing a quiz question.
Coated in plastic and turned into a ball pit ball.
Shredded to death by the Kid Grater.
Left dangling from a parachute in an empty, bottomless void.
Fell off the Edge of Nowhere into a bottomless pit.
Drowned in quicksand after rolling an odd number.
Left as an ice statue by our fed-up younger brother.
Buried alive in a flood of angry rats.
Picked the green ball and got turned into a frog.
Picked the red ball and got turned into a vampire.
Reduced to a disembodied head by a poorly-worded agreement.

Achievements
Calling a Mulligan: Failed one of Dare's games so badly he decided to reset time and let us try again.
Best Two Out of Three: Lost one of Dare's games, but got to keep playing anyway for unclear reasons.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
Oh no, we found the alternate plot.

Up!

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Tails!

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Heads!

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

Heads.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

“Up!” you shout. You pull your brother inside and pound the DOOR CLOSE button. “Close! Close! Close!” you mutter.

Zoe reaches the elevator just at the doors slide shut. You shiver at the sight of the rat-faced baby-sitter. It’s twisted into an expression of fury.

“No!” you hear Zoe snarl. “They can’t get away!”

The elevator motor starts. You and Stinko slide to the floor, huffing and puffing. You lean back against the wall. “We made it,” you breathe.

This is the first chance you’ve had to rest for even a second. You shut your eyes. Stinko leans his head against your shoulder. You’re almost feeling relaxed, when you hear a tapping noise above you.

You glance up and see a giant rat’s claw.

Breaking through the ceiling!

quote:

You stare, horrified, at the claw in the ceiling. It scrapes at the hole. The claw is almost all the way through.

“Is this an emergency?” Stinko cries.

“Of course it is, dumbo!” you snap. Your mind races, trying to think of a way out of this mess.

Stinko jumps up and slaps his hand against the elevator’s control panel. The elevator comes to a screeching halt.

“Aaaaaaiiiieeee!” A bloodcurdling squeal rises and then falls away. Whatever was breaking through the ceiling is gone now. The sudden stop must have thrown it off the top of the elevator!

“What did you do?” you shout at Stinko.

“You said it was an emergency,” he replies, looking offended. “So I pushed the emergency button.”

Laughing, you give Stinko a grateful hug.

Whoa. Get a grip!

You let go immediately.

“Come on, Stinko,” you say, pushing another button. “We’ve got to get out of here!”

If you pushed the FUN AND GAMES KIDSCARE OFFICES button, go to PAGE 73.

If you pushed the LOBBY button, go to PAGE 43.


For the record, going to the lobby takes us to the same page as if we'd taken the elevator down on the previous choice.

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 1/3

Bad Endings
Forcibly turned into a rat-person and enlisted into their army.
Dodged off a rope bridge and into a bottomless pit.
Eaten by a Beast after failing a quiz question.
Coated in plastic and turned into a ball pit ball.
Shredded to death by the Kid Grater.
Left dangling from a parachute in an empty, bottomless void.
Fell off the Edge of Nowhere into a bottomless pit.
Drowned in quicksand after rolling an odd number.
Left as an ice statue by our fed-up younger brother.
Buried alive in a flood of angry rats.
Picked the green ball and got turned into a frog.
Picked the red ball and got turned into a vampire.
Reduced to a disembodied head by a poorly-worded agreement.

Achievements
Calling a Mulligan: Failed one of Dare's games so badly he decided to reset time and let us try again.
Best Two Out of Three: Lost one of Dare's games, but got to keep playing anyway for unclear reasons.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

I'm sure the Lobby will let us escape easily!

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
Which option lets us be nice to our younger brother? :(

To the office.

MelvinBison
Nov 17, 2012

"Is this the ideal world that you envisioned?"
"I guess you could say that."

Pillbug
Oh, let's all go to the lobby...

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

Office time.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

You pushed the Fun and Games KidScare Offices button. The elevator starts moving up again. Air whistles through the hole in the ceiling where the claw broke through.

In a few seconds the elevator stops. The door slides open. You poke out your head. “All clear,” you tell Stinko. You and Stinko step out into a large open area. The elevator door closes behind you and disappears.

“That’s weird,” you murmur, glancing around. There are no windows here. No doors.

No way out.

The only furniture is a desk sitting in the middle of the huge empty space. You step cautiously over to it.

On the desk is an answering machine. The red light on the machine is flashing. There’s a message.

You can’t help it. You push PLAY.

quote:

“Hello, this message is for Zoe,” the recording begins.

You gasp. You know that voice.

It’s your mom!

Your heart pounds hard as you listen to Mom’s message:

“We got your message letting us know everything is fine. Thanks for taking such good care of the kids! We’re so glad we left them with you. And we’re glad you can stay longer, because we’ve decided to extend our trip for another week!”

You and Stinko stare at each other in pure horror.

Another week? Another week of Dare’s horrible games?

“No! I can’t take it!” you wail, sinking to the floor.

Oh, well. What can you do? Guess you’ll have to grin and Dare it!

THE END

Not really sure how that's an automatic bad ending since there's nothing stopping us from just winning all of his games until he dies of tattoo loss. You know, like we were working on before this little detour.

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 1/3

Bad Endings
Forcibly turned into a rat-person and enlisted into their army.
Dodged off a rope bridge and into a bottomless pit.
Eaten by a Beast after failing a quiz question.
Coated in plastic and turned into a ball pit ball.
Shredded to death by the Kid Grater.
Left dangling from a parachute in an empty, bottomless void.
Fell off the Edge of Nowhere into a bottomless pit.
Drowned in quicksand after rolling an odd number.
Left as an ice statue by our fed-up younger brother.
Buried alive in a flood of angry rats.
Picked the green ball and got turned into a frog.
Picked the red ball and got turned into a vampire.
Reduced to a disembodied head by a poorly-worded agreement.
:siren:Had a mental breakdown after learning we'd be stuck with Dare for another week.:siren:

Achievements
Calling a Mulligan: Failed one of Dare's games so badly he decided to reset time and let us try again.
Best Two Out of Three: Lost one of Dare's games, but got to keep playing anyway for unclear reasons.

Our options posted:

  • Go after Stinko yourself.
  • Go through the EMPLOYEES ONLY door.
  • Stick to the cave path.
  • Swing over the Bottmless Ball Pit.
  • Open the game box.
  • Your ice cube melts first.
  • Let go and drop into the moat.
  • Take the elevator to the lobby.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
Well okay then.

Lobby.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Huh. I guess it really was the lobby.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Man, we're so uncool I'd bet we'd melt first.

The Bold Kobold
Aug 11, 2014

Bold to the point of certain death.
We're hot enough to melt first.

The Bold Kobold fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Apr 12, 2019

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

Let's all go to the lobby and hope we don't become something's bite to eat (this time).

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

I've been saying we've got no chill so I'm glad someone is finally listening.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



Tied, next vote for lobby or melting first takes it.

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw91RJ_m_7g

(That's a vote for Lobby)

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
I feel like it's been a while since we had some solid nightmare fuel. :argh:

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

“Down!” you cry.

The LOBBY button lights up. The elevator motor whirs.

You hear rats scratching at the elevator door. Relief floods over you as the elevator starts moving down.

You watch the numbers above the door: 16. 15. 14.

“Phew! I didn’t think we’d make it,” you admit. “That was really close!”

“How close was it?”

Uh-oh. That wasn’t Stinko’s voice.

You feel hot breath on the back of your neck. The voice speaks again. “Was it this close?”

You whirl around and come face-to-face with Dare.

What’s left of Dare, that is.

quote:

You gasp in horror. Stinko cowers in the corner.

A grotesque figure stands inches from you in the elevator. It’s Dare.

But a very different Dare!

Whole pieces of his body are missing. A knee. An arm. One ear. Half his face. Part of a shoulder.

Where tattoos once were, there is nothing now.

Just air.

The tattoos hid the fact that Dare is nothing without them. Every time you won a game, Dare lost a tattoo. And he also used some up trying to defeat you.

The tattoos that are left are in trouble too. Tattered creatures gasp for breath. They struggle to hang on to each other. To keep a shape, a form. To stick together. To keep Dare alive.

“The game is almost over,” Dare growls. “I’m losing the games. I’m losing everything. I’m supposed to be the winner. These are my games. And I want to win my games!”

quote:

You face the hideous monster, Dare. Is there any way out?

The elevator is still moving. There are no escape hatches.

Stinko whimpers behind you. Dare links his only arm through Stinko’s arm and pulls your brother away from you.

“You can’t hide from me. You’ve already taken too much of my time – and too much of me. I will win the game. I always win in the end.”

“Let me go!” Stinko screams. He slaps at Dare’s tattooed shoulder.

A shrunken Cyclops head in a hangman’s noose comes off in Stinko’s hand. Stinko screams and throws the hideous head to the floor. The one-eyed head rolls to a corner of the elevator and stops. It stares up at Dare.

“There’s one last game to play,” Dare hisses. “The most dangerous game of all. I call it ‘All or Nothing.’ You’ll call it ‘All for Nothing.’ Are you ready to play?”

Well, are you?

If you're ready to play the most dangerous game, turn to PAGE 111.

If you stall and pick up the shrunken head, turn to PAGE 124.


Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 1/3

Bad Endings
Forcibly turned into a rat-person and enlisted into their army.
Dodged off a rope bridge and into a bottomless pit.
Eaten by a Beast after failing a quiz question.
Coated in plastic and turned into a ball pit ball.
Shredded to death by the Kid Grater.
Left dangling from a parachute in an empty, bottomless void.
Fell off the Edge of Nowhere into a bottomless pit.
Drowned in quicksand after rolling an odd number.
Left as an ice statue by our fed-up younger brother.
Buried alive in a flood of angry rats.
Picked the green ball and got turned into a frog.
Picked the red ball and got turned into a vampire.
Reduced to a disembodied head by a poorly-worded agreement.
Had a mental breakdown after learning we'd be stuck with Dare for another week.

Achievements
Calling a Mulligan: Failed one of Dare's games so badly he decided to reset time and let us try again.
Best Two Out of Three: Lost one of Dare's games, but got to keep playing anyway for unclear reasons.

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Let's Hunt the Most Dangerous Game of All.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

I want to pick up the human head.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
Who do we have to hunt?

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
we gotta get a head start to beat dare

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Get head

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

You grab the shrunken Cyclops head by its stringy black hair. You swing it around like a lasso. Dare ducks to avoid being hit.

Oops! The one-eyed monster clobbers you on its way around.

You drop the head and collapse. You’re knocked out cold.

You don’t know how much time has passed. You hear Stinko’s voice next to you. “Wake up!” he’s saying.

You open one eye. You’re back in your own room!

In your own house!

“Wake up!” Stinko yells, shaking your shoulder. “They’re back!”

You squint your eyes to see the couple standing in the doorway of your room. “Mom? Dad?” you ask groggily.

“Ready for some fun?” one of them asks.

“And some games?” demands the other.

Oh, no! It’s not your mom and dad.

It’s Zoe and Dare.

Zoe grins at you. A nasty, ratlike grin. “Your mom called. They’re staying an extra week. So – ready for fun and games?”

“This isn’t fun at all!” you wail.

“Then it must be games,” Dare declares.

This takes us all the way back to the start of Dare's path, without even the courtesy of a memory-wipe explanation for why we're starting over with no in-universe foreknowledge.

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 1/3

Bad Endings
Forcibly turned into a rat-person and enlisted into their army.
Dodged off a rope bridge and into a bottomless pit.
Eaten by a Beast after failing a quiz question.
Coated in plastic and turned into a ball pit ball.
Shredded to death by the Kid Grater.
Left dangling from a parachute in an empty, bottomless void.
Fell off the Edge of Nowhere into a bottomless pit.
Drowned in quicksand after rolling an odd number.
Left as an ice statue by our fed-up younger brother.
Buried alive in a flood of angry rats.
Picked the green ball and got turned into a frog.
Picked the red ball and got turned into a vampire.
Reduced to a disembodied head by a poorly-worded agreement.
Had a mental breakdown after learning we'd be stuck with Dare for another week.

Achievements
Calling a Mulligan: Failed one of Dare's games so badly he decided to reset time and let us try again.
Best Two Out of Three: Lost one of Dare's games, but got to keep playing anyway for unclear reasons.
:siren:Get Your Head in the Game: Clocked ourselves with a shrunken head right before Dare's last game and got booted back to the start.:siren:

Our options posted:

  • Go after Stinko yourself.
  • Go through the EMPLOYEES ONLY door.
  • Stick to the cave path.
  • Swing over the Bottmless Ball Pit.
  • Open the game box.
  • Your ice cube melts first.
  • Let go and drop into the moat.
  • Play the most dangerous game.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

Who do we have to hunt?

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

Play the final game.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

I've got even less chill than I had before at this point. What the heck, book!

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Melt first

MelvinBison
Nov 17, 2012

"Is this the ideal world that you envisioned?"
"I guess you could say that."

Pillbug
Most dangerous game.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



On guard, Rainsford!

quote:

You swallow hard. “All right,” you declare. “I’m ready. All or nothing!”

Dare is a sickening sight to see. His tattooed cape is gone. His tattooed form shrivels as each tattoo wears itself out trying to hold Dare together.

Many of Dare’s dangers are gone. The dragon, the snake, the rat, the cyclone, and now even the shrunken Cyclops head have all been peeled away.

What could be worse than all of those things you’ve already destroyed?

Don’t worry. Dare is about to show you.

quote:

The elevator stops on the thirteenth floor. “This is where we get off,” Dare announces harshly.

Using his only arm, he shoves you and Stinko out the door. A piece of a lizard tattoo falls off, leaving a new invisible spot on Dare’s elbow.

“We’re back in the tent where we started,” you murmur to Stinko.

“But the tattoos on the walls aren’t alive anymore,” Stinko whispers back. You can hear the relief in his voice. “They’re just pictures.”

Dare pushes Stinko to the side. Then he shoves you to the center of the tent. You stumble a few steps.

“On the ‘X’!” Dare orders you.

You notice two spotlights make a large ‘X’ on the floor.

You stand on it and wait.

quote:

Dare stands right in front of you. The spotlights shine right through his invisible spots. The hot lights make the remaining tattoo creatures squirm. The only sounds are the sounds of the creatures hissing, gasping, dying slowly.

Dare takes off his T-shirt. A hulking, horned beast tattoo rears its head on his chest.

The beast roars, baring a mouthful of flesh-ripping teeth!

Stinko screams in terror. You throw your arms up to protect your face.

When Dare laughs, you can see right through the back of his head!

“The last game is deadly simple,” he explains. “Only one of us can win. Only one of us can survive. It is the most dangerous game of all.”

Your throat is so dry with fear, you can’t speak. “But what do I do?” you whisper.

“You simply make a choice,” Dare tells you. “You look at me and make a choice. All or Nothing. It’s that simple.”

quote:

You try to look at Dare, but his body is too horrifying. Instead, you lock onto his eyes.

Weird, you think. His eyes don’t match. One is green, but the other is blue.

You feel dizzy. His eyes seem to spin. The word ALL appears in his green eye. In the blue eye you see the word NOTHING.

Now you know.

The choice is in his eyes!

Your mind spins too. Questions swirl around in your head. Is this a trap? Why does the choice seem so obvious?

If you take ALL, will you win all?

If you take NOTHING, will you win nothing?

What could this monster, Dare, have up his remaining sleeve?

Use the Spinner on Page 136 to help you make the ALL or NOTHING choice. Follow the directions at the top of the page.

If your finger lands on ALL, go to PAGE 54.

If your finger lands on NOTHING, go to PAGE 122.


quote:

FUN AND GAMES SPINNER

This is your Official Spinner. Guard it with your life! This Spinner will help you make important choices throughout the Attack of the Beastly Baby-sitter. Follow these simple finger-spinning instructions each time you use the spinner.

Finger-Spinning Instructions: There are four Choice Rings in this Spinner. Place your index finger on the correct Choice Ring. Close your eyes (no peeking!). Circle your finger around and around and around (keep circling!) until you feel like stopping. Open your eyes. Read the word under your finger. Your choice has been made for you!



Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 1/3

Bad Endings
Forcibly turned into a rat-person and enlisted into their army.
Dodged off a rope bridge and into a bottomless pit.
Eaten by a Beast after failing a quiz question.
Coated in plastic and turned into a ball pit ball.
Shredded to death by the Kid Grater.
Left dangling from a parachute in an empty, bottomless void.
Fell off the Edge of Nowhere into a bottomless pit.
Drowned in quicksand after rolling an odd number.
Left as an ice statue by our fed-up younger brother.
Buried alive in a flood of angry rats.
Picked the green ball and got turned into a frog.
Picked the red ball and got turned into a vampire.
Reduced to a disembodied head by a poorly-worded agreement.
Had a mental breakdown after learning we'd be stuck with Dare for another week.

Achievements
Calling a Mulligan: Failed one of Dare's games so badly he decided to reset time and let us try again.
Best Two Out of Three: Lost one of Dare's games, but got to keep playing anyway for unclear reasons.
Get Your Head in the Game: Clocked ourselves with a shrunken head right before Dare's last game and got booted back to the start.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
You get nothing!!!!

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!

Leraika posted:

You get nothing!!!!

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Leraika posted:

You get nothing!!!!

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Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Leraika posted:

You get nothing!!!!

Good Day Sir!

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