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AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

NOTHING!!! ABSOLUTELY NOTHIIIIIING!

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The Bold Kobold
Aug 11, 2014

Bold to the point of certain death.

Leraika posted:

You get nothing!!!!

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



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

quote:

“I choose NOTHING!” you exclaim.

The horned beast on Dare’s chest roars. It reaches for you with a clawed hand.

“Stop!” Stinko shouts. He runs to your side.

“Get back!” Dare bellows. “This game is just between us!”

Stinko clutches your leg. “I won’t leave you,” he cries.

The beast on Dare’s chest reaches for Stinko!

You try to hang on to him, but the beast is too strong. It drags your little brother into its arms. Then the killer beast tattoo slams Stinko against Dare’s shoulder.

A new tattoo instantly appears. And a whole new arm.

“No!” you shriek. You shut your eyes. You can’t look at the horrible sight.

Stinko is the tattoo creating this new arm!

Dare’s laughter sounds like a cry of victory. “You chose NOTHING,” he shouts. “And NOTHING is what you will get! No points, no brother, no home, no life, no NOTHING!”

You can’t believe your choice is turning out so badly. Stinko is a tattoo! You know you’ll be next.

You can’t let the game end this way.

Can you?

quote:

“No!” you scream. “No! No! No!” You step out off the “X” and lunge forward.

Dare yanks back his Stinko arm and slams you on the side of the head.

The hit sends you reeling backwards. To stop yourself from falling, you grab the beast tattoo’s horn.

To your shock, the horn pulls off in your hand. And with the horn comes the whole tattoo!

Once the beast has been torn from Dare’s chest, the rest of the tattoos crumble.

Shrivel.

Dissolve.

“Aaaahhhhhhh!” Dare shrieks in agony. “You’ve destroyed me! I’m NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!”

Yes! You did it! You beat Dare at his own game!

quote:

All that’s left of Dare is air. The tattoos are all gone. The beastly baby-sitter is a horrible thing of the past.

And Stinko is the only tattoo that survived.

It’s all over.

Finally!

“Ready to go home now, Stinko?” You ask, ruffling your brothers hair.

“I’m not a Stinko!” your brother argues.

“Are too.”

“Am not!”

“Are too.”

“Am not!”

“Are too!”

Oh, well.

Some things never

END.

And with that, Dare is defeated! But we can't move on to the next book quite yet. As good as this book is about continuity, it just wouldn't be Give Yourself Goosebumps without some Schroedinger's quantum bullshit. There's still one more way to escape KidScare, one that's a lot more beneficial to everyone involved...

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

:siren:Goal Endings: 2/3:siren:

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.

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.
  • Choose ALL.

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Let's pretend to be employees

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmub7rBoq7w

Choose All?

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
we're still not cool enough to stay frosty

MelvinBison
Nov 17, 2012

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

Pillbug
We unfreeze first.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Unfreeze!

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

YOU is MELT

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

AweStriker posted:

YOU is MELT

WATER is HOT and not DARE
ICE is YOU and MELT
STINKO is LAME

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

Octatonic posted:

WATER is HOT and not DARE
ICE is YOU and MELT
STINKO is LAME

STINKO is GOOD and YOU are LAME

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

Your ice melted first. You’re free!

You stare at the Dare ice statue. His mouth is frozen open in a snarl. His tattooed arms are raised. His hands are balled into tattooed fists. Even frozen in ice, Dare looks scary.

“Boy, oh boy,” you mutter. “We are going to be in big trouble when Dare thaws.” You have to get Stinko and escape before Dare’s ice coat melts.

Stinko is still a frozen kidsicle. You take off one of your ice skates. Using the blade of the skate, you chip away at the ice on Stinko’s face.

“Get me out of this icebox!” Stinko shouts as soon as his mouth is free.

For a second you wish you’d left his mouth frozen shut. “All right, all right,” you snap. “I’m going as fast as I can. Just a few more chips and you’ll be free.”

“No!” Stinko gasps.

“Yes!” you argue. “Quit moving, or the blade will –“

You can’t finish your sentence. An icy tattooed hand reaches around and clamps over your mouth.

“That’s what I was trying to tell you,” Stinko cries. “Dare broke out of the ice!”

quote:

You wrestle free of Dare’s hand and turn to face him. You gape at the hideous sight.

One by one the tattoos on his body are thawing out. The cyclone spins again. The shrunken Cyclops head swings back and forth. Poisonous spiders, vampire bats, venomous snakes, and rabid rats come to life.

“My tattooed friends don’t enjoy the cold,” Dare declares.

From the way the tattoos are staring at you, you believe him.

“And I don’t like the way you played that last game,” Dare snarls. “We’ll have to do something about that!”

quote:

Dare steps toward you. All the tattoos seem to be spinning in your direction.

“Yikes!” you exclaim. You skate away from Dare and his evil army of living tattoos.

But you forgot you’re only wearing one skate now. Instead of gliding, you trip over your blade.

The skate in your hand goes flying. The blade hits a hissing snake on Dare’s ankle and sinks into the skin.

You watch in horror as the snake throws its slithering body forward. The skate blade digs in deeper.

Hissing and writhing, the snake tattoo falls from Dare’s left ankle to the icy ground.

Right before your eyes, it disappears!

quote:

Dare swings his cape over his ankle, on the spot where the snake tattoo had been. But before he does, you see something amazing.

Nothing.

There is absolutely nothing of Dare under the tattoo. No skin! No bones! No Dare!

Just empty space.

You’re too stunned to speak.

“You may have won the game,” Dare admits. “But not the match. I’ll see you in your nightmares!”

With one swirl of his cape, Dare vanishes.

The ice disappears. So do the skates.

And your energy.

You and Stinko fall fast asleep.

quote:

As soon as you fall asleep, you dream.

In your dream, you and Stinko are neck deep in swirling water. On one side of the water, the dragon tattoo from Dare’s cape stands ready to blast you with its flaming breath.

On the other side of the water, a stone castle casts a shadow over you.

You’re in a moat encircling the castle. You look up and see Dare gazing down from a turret. The dragon’s breath sends you and Stinko swimming as fast and hard as you can.

Dare laughs.

Guess what?

This isn’t a dream.

This is the nightmare Dare said he would see you in!

This drops us off at the same place as if Dare melts first: the choice between climbing onto the drawbridge or dropping into the water.

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 2/3

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.

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.
  • Let go and drop into the moat.
  • Choose ALL.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

EMPLOYEES ONLY

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


employees only

PumpkinBat
Oct 22, 2012
We choose ALL

rudecyrus
Nov 6, 2009

fuck you trolls
ALL

Dybael
Jul 11, 2017
I want it ALL

serefin99
Apr 15, 2016

Mikoooon~
Your lovely shrine maiden fox wife, Tamamo no Mae, is here to help!

All

The Bold Kobold
Aug 11, 2014

Bold to the point of certain death.
We're employees. We definitely have access to the Employees Only room.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

“I choose ALL!” you declare. “I want ALL.”

You keep your eyes on Dare’s shriveling, tattooed face. You wait to see his reaction.

You don’t have to wait long. A smile spreads across his hideous, crumbling mouth.

“Did you say ALL?” he asks.

You nod fearfully.

“Then ALL it is!”

With the wink of his green eye and a blink of his blue eye, ALL Dare’s tattoos are back on his body.

ALL your winning games are lost.

ALL your memories of the last hours are gone.

You lose the most dangerous game.

But ALL is not lost! Turn to Page 100 and start the games

ALL

OVER

AGAIN!


Even though this isn't strictly an ending so much as a reset, I'm still counting it as one.

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 2/3

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.
:siren:Failed the most dangerous game and had to restart the games from the beginning.: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.
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.

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.
  • Let go and drop into the moat.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!

chitoryu12 posted:

EMPLOYEES ONLY

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Omnicrom posted:

employees only

The Bold Kobold
Aug 11, 2014

Bold to the point of certain death.
We're definitely employees.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

You yank open the EMPLOYEES ONLY door. A dim yellow light casts an eerie glow in the empty hallway. What’s back here? you wonder. You step inside.

Better keep moving, you warn yourself. Zoe probably saw you duck in here.

You hurry along the dark corridor. No doors, no other halls to turn down, nothing. But the walls curve gently to the left. And the floor seems to slope downward.

You have the feeling you are going underground.

You come to an area with small windows along the floor. That’s weird, you think. You kneel and peer down.

Your mouth drops open at the strange room below you. It looks like a scientific lab. Steel tables with sinks, Bunsen burners, test tubes – the works. And the room is full of pointy-nosed hippie girls and guys wearing white lab coats.

They all look like Zoe!

This is bizarre. How could there be so many people who look so much alike?

And just what are they studying down there underneath the Fun Zone?

quote:

You sit back on your heels and wonder what to do next.

What’s that? Your head whips around at a sound behind you.

Footsteps!

You scramble to your feet and rush down the hall. You come to a landing with several doors and a stairway. You dash down the steps two at a time.

They lead down to a storage basement. Piles of old rags, coiled ropes, and ragged nets clutter the floor. Good! Plenty of places to hide.

You hear footsteps on the floor above you. You burrow into a pile of rags. You lie very still.

Yuck! You can still feel worms wriggling around in your clothes! Eeew! They’re in your hair too! You shake your head hard.

Then you freeze. From your hiding place you can hear the footsteps moving back and forth at the top of the stairs.

Will you be discovered?

quote:

You force yourself to stay still. You wait.

And wait.

And wait.

Soon, your eyes close.

“Ouch!” Your own cry wakes you from a deep sleep. Something is pinching you all over. No. Something is biting you!

The dim light reveals a horrifying sight. You’re covered in a living blanket of...

Rats!

Hundreds of huge, scaly-tailed, sharp-toothed, pointy-nosed rats!

quote:

“No!” you shriek. You’re too terrified to move.

The rats crawl all over you. Their claws scrape your skin. Their teeth graze your flesh.

You shut your eyes tightly. Your heart pounds with revulsion and fear. Are the rats going to eat you alive?

Then you realize:

The rats aren’t eating you.

They’re eating the worms that still cling to your clothes.

But when they finish off the worms, will you be next?

Your science teacher told you that rats are smart and don’t deserve the bad rap they get. But you don’t care. They are too gross!

You’ve got to get out of here! But how? Even if you get out from under the rats, you’ll still have to escape them.

Jump up, shake them off, and run away on PAGE 127.

Remove them slowly and gently on PAGE 6.


Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 2/3

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.
Failed the most dangerous game and had to restart the games from the beginning.

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.

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

Careful now.

Junpei
Oct 4, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!
Shake it off, shake it off!

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Be gentle with the poor rats

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

It's hard to dance with a devil a bunch of rats on your back so shake them off.

Marluxia
May 8, 2008


Rats are cool and good and my friends. Be gentle.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
get it off get it off get it off

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Rats have never been nice to us in this book, no reason to be nice to them. Shake them off

clockwork chaos
Sep 15, 2009




Be gentle with the rats

rudecyrus
Nov 6, 2009

fuck you trolls

clockwork chaos posted:

Be gentle with the rats

Good av/post combo

Be gentle

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



Narrow victory for gentle rat removal!

quote:

Carefully, slowly, you ease your body out from under the rats. If they’re as intelligent as your science teacher said, you figure they should be treated with respect. As you sit up, you gently remove the rats clinging to your clothing.

You shudder. You can’t help it – they’re creepy! But at least they’re acting friendly.

You think.

A large brown rat rubs his furry head against your leg. He seems to be asking you to pet him.

“Okay, little rodent,” you croon. You scratch his neck. “What do you say? Can you help me find Stinko?”

The brown rat lets out a loud squeak. The other rats swarm around you. “Hey!” you cry. “What are you rats doing?”

A few rats nudge and push you. Others pull you by your socks. They obviously want you to go forward. But why?

The rats gently herd you toward a dark hole behind the boiler in the shadows of the basement. You peek into the hole. You can’t see a thing.

Should you trust these rats?

Or should you make a run for it?

If you trust the rats, turn to PAGE 39.

Make a run for it on PAGE 127.


For reference, choosing to make a run for it has the exact same result as if we shook off the rats and ran to begin with.

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 2/3

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.
Failed the most dangerous game and had to restart the games from the beginning.

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.

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Let's foolishly Trust the Rats

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

Trust

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Trust the rats that definitely won't eat us.

Rebonack7
Aug 27, 2015



quote:

You decide to trust the rats. They’re not hurting you. In fact, they’re very friendly. Maybe they’re going to show you the way out.

Squeaking softly, the rats head into the dark hole. You follow them down a chilly, spooky tunnel. A strong, bad odor fills your nostrils. The smell of something rotting hangs thick in the air.

As your eyes adjust to the darkness, you get a better look at your surroundings. You realize this isn’t just an empty tunnel. Narrow shafts of light shine in through cracks in the walls. But the walls aren’t ordinary walls.

They’re walls of mummified rats!

A dim light shines on an engraved plaque. You kneel down beside it. Your heart pounds as you read the words out loud.

“’TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN RATS – here lie the innocent Rats of Lab. Their deaths shall be remembered...’”

The next words catch in your throat. “’And revenged!’” you gasp.

quote:

You stare around in horror. Dead rats’ eyes stare back at you.

“Get me out of here!” you shriek. You leap to your feet.

The moment you stand up, lights start flashing. Alarm bells ring. The rats who lead you here scatter and vanish.

“Come back!” you call after the rats. Then you realize your rat pals have betrayed you.

They led you into a trap!

The sirens blare. The lights blind you. And the awful stench is getting more intense.

You’ll never be able to get out of this place before someone comes to check on the alarm. So it comes down to two choices.

Should you stand your ground in this Rat Tomb and face what is coming next?

Or should you find a place to hide?

If you stand your ground, turn to PAGE 23.

If you hide, turn to PAGE 77.


Those dirty rats!

Character Sheet posted:

Inventory
Empty

Goal Endings: 2/3

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.
Failed the most dangerous game and had to restart the games from the beginning.

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.

PlasticAutomaton
Nov 12, 2016

Artoria Pendonut


Stand your ground! :black101:

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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

FIGHT THE RATS

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