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Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:02 pm**

Darren tears off after Charlie, following the brief flashes of movement he glimpses through the mist. Slipping on wet grass, tramping across gravel paths, and eventually sliding down an earth bank. Through the fog the shimmering surface of a body of inky black water appears. In front of it stands Charlie, he turns and looks at Darren.

Charlie doesn't know where he's run to, too distracted by trying to get away from the creature, but Darren is pretty certain they came north-west from the Merry-Go-Round, up to where he remembers there being a boating lake marked on the map.

But while Darren catches his breath, waving to Charlie down by the water. Charlie can see something in the mist beyond Darren. Something moving. Hard to fully resolve, its ill-defined bulky grey shape jerking and twisting in the fog. Loping towards them.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:19 pm**

Darren looks up, momentarily distracted by what he assumes are voices. He reaches down to grab Charlie, "This way! Come on! and pulls him I the direction of the sound. " There's someone else here, maybe they can help!! HELP! HELP! OVER HERE! He shouts urgently.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:37 pm**

”Behind you!” Charlie hissed, grabbing ahold of Darren. ”There’s something coming through the fog!”

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:18 pm**

Darren feels something barge past him, pushing against him, exerting an odd force that is disconcertingly yielding, yet firm enough to push him out of the way in a trail of choking smoke. Rushing past him a blurred, grey mass.

Charlie watches it sprint past Darren and charge directly at him. Misshapen hands extend towards him, grasping with distorted fingers at his neck.

OOC: Charlie needs to roll to Fight Back or Dodge. Darren can act but the creature will get to attack Charlie first.

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:22 am**

It occurred to Charlie that if he dodged out of the way at the last minute, whatever the hell that thing was, it was going to find itself in the lake! He readied himself to jump…

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2024 2:05 am**

Darren looks on in horror as the grey figure reaches for Charlie he charges forward, swinging his baseball bat at the form crying out, "NOOOO!! IAN!!"

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:41 pm**

Timing his jump just a second too late, the creature slams into Charlie and grabs him around the neck with cold, stubby hands. He lets out a scream as it presses its featureless face up against his, blocking most of his vision with a wall of grey. A damp, wet smell suffuses his mouth and nose, choking him. Releasing the firm but also oddly soft grip around his neck with one hand it brushes his face and he feels clammy fingers probing inside his mouth, pressing against his palate and sliding to the top of his throat. The taste is wet and bitter but there's more than just the physical sensation - he feels a sort of pressure in his face, like something hard is pushing against...his brain...

Out of the corner of his vision he sees the shape of Darren making a wild swing for the creature that barely seems to connect.

OOC: That'd be a Fighting (40%) roll for Darren, so a fail.

Charlie needs to roll an opposed POW roll - he has surprisingly high POW but he's going to need to make it a damn good one!

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:09 am**

Charlie squirmed against the creature’s grasp but he couldn’t break free and panic welled up inside him as he felt his brain start to go numb…

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:03 am**

Seeing Charlie struggling in the clutches of the thing, Darren desperately swings his bat again.

OOC: can you spend luck on an attack roll? Would a regular success help?

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:08 am**

The pressure at the front of Charlie's face - in his sinuses, his teeth, his jaw - it builds and builds, becoming more like a pain. It reaches a crescendo - an exquisite agony that Charlie's doesn't think he can stand any longer...then it's gone. A release.

-----

Pulling back his bat to take another swing, Darren watches Charlie struggling with the creature, its hands are clawing at Charlie's face and neck, he's frozen in a silent scream. Suddenly the creature seems to dive into Charlie's mouth, like smoke being sucked into a
ventilation system. The great bulky form squeezing into the restricted space of his mouth, slipping inside him and disappearing.

-----

In his mouth and throat, Charlie feels a rush of air, or smoke. Cool and wet, buffeting inside him. A cold that burns deeper into a sharp icy throbbing then seems to suffuse out through his body. For a second his head is throbbing again but then he feels confused and disorientated.

-----

Before Darren's blow can even strike the creature, it's gone. There's just Charlie standing there with a look of shock on his face - hands outstretched, grasping in the air for something that's not there. Little whisps of mist or smoke curling from the corners of his mouth.

He blinks a few times, his expression changes. It's weird, it doesn't even look like him. There's a hardness to it. His eyes are unfocused. His posture slumped. There's briefly a look of concern, of distress and he whispers in a strange, high-pitched voice like that of a woman, 'Barry, stop! Leave the kid alone...' Then he goes silent and his expression changes to one of dopey contentment.

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Charlie shakes his head. His awareness of the mist around him, of Darren looking at him incredulously, it's starting to come back. He doesn't know what that was but the memories are still with him. They can't be mine. But he can't really distinguish them from any of his other memories. They seem so real!

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OOC: You can spend Luck on attacks - but not this time - there's nothing to hit

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:28 pm**

"What the....?" Darren mutters under his breath at what he's just seen. He runs up to Charlie and grabs him looking I to his eyes "Are you ok Charlie? whose Barry?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:33 am**

”Barry was… was… …” Charlie started to say before the memories overwhelmed him and he leant forward and vomited, an acrid, liquid stream that spattered his sneakers. He stood there for a moment or two, bent over with his hands on his knees, twin strings of saliva and snot reaching for the ground…

He hawked and spat, staggering back from mess and grabbing ahold of Darren so he didn’t fall. ”I was there! I remember being there! There was a kid - a girl - and Barry was hitting her with his bell and really screaming at her!”

”I don’t know who he is, or even who I was! I was… I was… …” Charlie had never even seen drugs before so just didn’t have the words to properly describe it. He took a deep breath and tried again, ”I was in someone else’s body - a woman - and I’d taken drugs. I’d got a syringe and a needle in my arm. I think the girl was mine, my daughter, I mean. I don’t know who Barry is or why he was hitting her… …”

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:56 am**

Trying to steady Charlie, Darren listens to what the boy says, shaking his head when finishes. " Christ Charlie thats effed up!
Where did that thing go? One minute it was there grabbing you then....?:

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:32 pm**

Charlie opened his mouth to speak but found that he couldn’t bring himself to.

He just tapped on his breastbone, looking glum, indicating that whatever it was, it was inside him… …

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:48 pm**

" What are you saying? Its inside you? How? How do you feel? Can you feel it?" Darren asks as he cautiously takes a step back.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:54 pm**

OOC: Charlie, you don't feel any different - just...those memories are there. Like they've always been there. Just like all your other memories, even the bad ones...But these memories don't make any sense. You're pretty sure you're not a woman and you haven't got any kids, you're a 12yr old boy! These memories don't fit in with everything else in your life you remember. It's like they're someone else's memories, someone else's horrible, traumatic memories...and now they're stuck in your head.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:25 pm**

”I felt it go in, but I can’t feel it now. I… I don’t really know how to explain it,” said Charlie. ”And that memory in there,” - he tapped the side of his head - ”I can remember it like I remember the first day I moved here, except it happened to some woman, not me. Somehow, I’ve got her memory!”

He shuddered and looked around. ”Let’s get out of here.”

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:41 pm**

"Thats weird, sure your ok?" Darren says, concern in his voice. " I thought I heard voices coming from over there, just before smoggy grabbed you."

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:26 am**

Charlie looked down, running his hands over his chest. ”Yeah, I think so. Look, let’s get out of here - this is just too creepy for words!”

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:39 am**

Shining his torch in the direction he thought he heard the voices, Darren cautiously lead the way.

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:18 pm**

Walking slowly towards where you heard the voices, you can't make anything out through the fog, but there's an odd smell in the air. The further you walk the stronger it gets. It's an acrid burning smell that starts to sear your throat and make your eyes water. You stop and look around, but you can't tell where it's coming from.

Eventually starting onward again, the shadows in the mist seem to become more defined. Like another ride. And there's something else, a sort of flickering glow in the distance.

Approaching a little more slowly you can finally make out that this is some kind of bumper-car ride, rusted carts litter the floor, and the roof has mostly collapsed in, leaving only the metal frame, covered in a red-brown rust. A sign reads Dodgems. Towards the far side there's a good going fire inside one of the cars, smoke billowing up and out the open roof.

A bit closer and in addition to the ride, and the fire, you can see movement on the grass just outside the ride. A figure stands there, a man, a big man. He's got some kind of broken and twisted metal pole. And he swinging it against the ground. Shouting 'Fuck you!' with each blow. And now you're watching him you can see that he's not just hitting the ground. There's something on the ground, a lump. No, a body. Huddled, small, like a child. And he's smashing it - it looks to be into the head or face - he's hitting it over and over again. There's blood on the end of the pole, there's splashes of blood as he strikes the body.

Then he looks up.

Stares at you. His expression is contorted in a crazed grimace, a mixture of emotions, anger, maybe fear as well. There's tattoos across his arms, up his neck. He's dressed in a bomber jacket, filthy white T-shirt, jeans and work boots. Muscular but turned to fat. And he smiles, smiles at you both.

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:38 pm**

You stare back at the man in trepidation, and he smiles even wider.

Then there's a movement. From the ground. The body on the ground moves. A hand flies up, there's something in the hand, flashing like a knife. And it's buried in the back of the man's leg.

He gives a shout and staggers back in confusion. Lifting the twisted pole up, looking around him in anger and pain.

Posted: **Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:10 am**

Raising his bat Darren whispers to Charlie," What the Fuck!, back away slowly.
..."

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:39 pm**

”Barry!” hissed Charlie. ”It’s Barry from that dream! Let’s get out of here!”

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:00 pm**

Darren's head snapped round at Charlie.."What the?...How?..." He started to say but caught the look in his eyes and quickly tailed off. Simply nodding he followed after him.

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:22 pm**

Blood spurts from the wound in the back of the man's leg. He grabs at the injury and it oozes between his fingers. He looks angry and confused at the same time. Looking between you and the body in front of him. Paralysed in inaction.

From the figure on the ground you hear something, a weak voice, only just audible. Help me!

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:49 pm**

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:45 pm**

OOC: Hard Notice Stuff to recognise the voice

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2024 12:54 am**

Try as he might, Charlie couldn’t work out if he’d heard the voice before… …

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:41 pm**

"Oh shit! We gotta do something!Barry, was he the bad man In your 'memory'?" Darren asked Charlie.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:06 pm**

The voice Charlie hears, it sounds like maybe a child. There's something in the tone that might be familiar but it's so weak be can't really say for certain.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:47 am**

Something in the voice was familiar to Charlie. He tried to remember but the thoughts twisted and dissipated like trying to take ahold of fog!

No matter who it was though, they were in danger. ”Let’s get them outa there,” said Charlie firmly.

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:48 pm**

"Okay, I'll distract him and you can go round and help whoever." Darren nods toCharlie
"OI!! BARRY!!! YA BIG PALOOKA!!!! He shouts.

Posted: **Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:10 pm**

The man staggers back and forth, one hand on his bleeding leg, the other swinging the bloody pole in front of him. At the shout he turns sharply back towards Darren and Charlie, his expression spasming between an angry snarl and a look of confusion and hurt.

While the man seems distracted there's a flurry of movement from the small figure on the ground. They roll to the side and slowly climb to their feet with great difficulty. You definitely think there's something familiar about that figure, the way they move. They're the size of a child, maybe a pre-teen of ten or eleven. But even from here...the face! You can't even fully understand it, the child doesn't have a face, or at least, not anymore. Just a ragged, bloody concavity, maybe you can just about make out, is that an eye? And a dark opening gapes, revealing a few bloody stumps of teeth - maybe what's left of the mouth - but the lips are curled outwards and half the remaining teeth seem to point the wrong way. You've seen horror films before - but this, this isn't anything like that. This is what reality looks like and it is too much for your mind to fully comprehend. Nothing should look like this - someone should put this out of its misery.

OOC: Okay - that's a SAN roll 0/1d3 to see the kid's smashed up face.

Darren - to get that guy to come after you that'd be a Taunt roll - you can have a bonus die for being so annoying and another bonus die for using the name Barry - but you only have 5% whereas Charlie has 60% - so you're welcome to switch roles if you'd like.

Posted: **Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:02 pm**

OOC: pass...seen worse....alot...worse

OOC: I'm up for the swap, slight change in plan if Charlie distracts him, Darren could move round and blindside him?

Posted: **Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:20 pm**

OOC: If Charlie is going to Taunt - can he roll Taunt plus also a POW check.

Posted: **Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:54 am**

For some reason, the kid’s face didn’t bother Charlie. Perhaps because the whole thing seemed so unreal? Nevertheless, they were going to try to distract Barry so the kid could get away.

Charlie wanted to say something cutting, something that really would get under Barry’s skin so he could help but be distracted. Unfortunately, his voice reverted to pre-teen mode and he squeaked, ”Hey, mister! You smell!”

Posted: **Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:38 pm**

Trying not to look too closely at the kid's battered face, Charlie goes to shout an insult that he hopes will grab the attention of the hulking man, but as the words come to his lips his heart sinks, his voice comes out high-pitched, feminine even. The words he intends sound lame even before he's spoken them. Then...

'Barry, what are you doing? Leave the kid alone...'

Charlie hears the voice. Darren hears the voice. But it isn't Charlie speaking, it's a woman, it's that woman's voice again. And it's coming from Charlie. Quiet to start but getting louder, ending in a shriek.

Barry freezes. Looks even more perplexed. He turns his head at different angles, scrutinising Charlie. 'What'd you say?' Then he stumbles a few steps towards him. 'Karen, Karen, is that you?' He looks more frantic now and shuffles forward a few more feet. The pole hanging loose by his side now.

OOC: Barry looks pretty distracted. Darren will be able to act...

Posted: **Mon Feb 05, 2024 6:44 pm**

Darren momentarily distracted himself at what he's just seen/ heard, sees the opportunity to.act. "Keep talking and backing away Charlie I'm gonna get to the kid then try and hit that
prick from.behind. 3 on 1 are better odds" He then makes his way around to he kid.

Posted: **Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:26 pm**

Charlie nodded, and continued to back away. He didn’t want to speak - he didn’t want to hear the woman’s voice again - but needed to keep Barry distracted and on edge.

”Why did you do it, Barry?! Why?!” he said in as firm a voice as he could manage.

Posted: **Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:44 pm**

"Daz? Is that...? I... can't see..."
The boy, who is quite chubby under his camouflage-style clothing puts his hands out towards the boys and then falls to his knees.
"Why can't I see you?"

Posted: **Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:59 pm**

" Lou....Louis....? Darren gasps and rushes forward.

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:02 pm**

Still looking confused, Barry tips his head from side to side, looking at Charlie, scrutinising him. 'Were're you gone Karen?' he hisses. 'Why'd you bring me here?' he asks in a plaintive voice.

-----

Running around Barry, Darren rushes up to the injured child. It could be Louis. He's the right shape, and through all the blood the clothes look right. Up close his injuries don't look quite so bad. Still pretty awful though, one eye socket is a gaping bloody mess, the nose is flattened against his face, mouth a raw gash of broken teeth. But from here, he does look an awful lot like Louis. Oh Louis, what has he done to you?

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:50 pm**

Charlie looked around. ”Here? Where’s here, Barry? Where the hell are we?!”

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:13 pm**

Holding onto the fact that this could be Louis, Darren bends down to help him get this feet. "Louis what the fuck have you got us into now?! Can you stand? I've gotta help Charlie." He says as he looks over to them.

Posted: **Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:14 pm**

'Where are we?' Barry starts giggling hysterically, 'We're in Funland of course.' He spins around holding out his arms, and throws his head back to stare up into the darkness. 'Funland, where you can never leave.' Then he looks back at Charlie and his face darkens. 'Never leave.' His body tenses up, lip curls into a snarl. 'And you brought me here Karen.' He emphasis the name Karen and hefts up the metal pole as he says it, holding it between his hands. Fixating Charlie with an intense stare.

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:24 am**

Propping Louis against one of the cars, Darren starts to sneak up behind Barry, but raised. Thinking of hitting his legs to slow him down.

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:44 pm**

Louis lies still, trying to calm himself and recover. He can vaguely make out the fuzzy shapes of the others, their voices seem one minute far away, the next too loud. He can feel loose teeth with his tongue.

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:08 pm**

Charlie was getting angry. Barry was behaving like a real dick! ”I’m not Karen and I didn’t bring you here, Barry,” he snapped.

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:37 pm**

Shaking his head and blinking his eyes, Barry's glazed expression seems to clear. He snarls at Charlie, 'No. You're right. You're not Karen. You're just some little punk!' And he advances towards Charlie menacingly, hefting the jagged pole between his bulging arms.

Behind Barry, Darren stands out of his view, seemingly out of his awareness. The man's back exposed to him...

OOC: Darren can take a hit at Barry. Since he's unawares you're rolling to see if you fumble/crit. I'd suggest we're then going into initiative order - Darren will get a second action, then Charlie, then Barry, then Louis.

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:44 pm**

not a fumble at least....

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:07 pm**

OOC: That's still a hit because he's completely unawares. I think you roll 1d8 damage with your bat.

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:01 am**

Well that fits....

Darren creeping up behind Barry swings his bat at his knees, seeking to at least hinder his movement.

Posted: **Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:35 pm**

Posted: **Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:39 pm**

Darren swings his bat at the back of Barry's legs, but he barely connects and the end of it just clips his knee. Barry swings around and gives Darren a sinister grin. 'You're gonna pay for that you little shit,' and he hefts the metal pole above his head with both hands.

OOC: Louis can act but he can't engage in any fighting. But he can roll CON and if he passes he can engage in combat as well...if he wants.

Posted: **Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:28 am**

Posted: **Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:20 am**

OOC: Roll Luck if you're after a weapon

Posted: **Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:22 am**

Posted: **Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:53 pm**

Louis sits peering ahead of him. He sees the weird skinny boy looking around frantically and his fingers curl possessively around the hilt of his precious hunting knife.
Go on, fella. He whispers and then throws it towards Charlie. “Hey!”” He whispers fiercely.

Posted: **Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:24 am**

Charlie started as he heard the knife skittering across the floor towards him but, recognising what the weapon was, he scooped it up and held it ready, in case Barry decided to get any closer.

Posted: **Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:59 pm**

Bellowing, Barry charges forward, hefting the pole and swinging it like an oversized baseball bat - with Darren's head as the ball.

'Batter, batter, swing...'

OOC: Darren and Charlie get to act before Barry can connect with Darren.

Posted: **Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:08 pm**

OOC: I take it that it would be Gym Class to dodge?

Oh....dear....

Posted: **Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:13 am**

With Barry distracted, Charlie hoped he wouldn’t notice as he slipped in on his flank and tried to stab him in the thigh with his newly-acquired knife…

Posted: **Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:35 pm**

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:45 pm**

Barry charges past Charlie, his knife thrust left hanging in the air. Before he gets to Darren he slows down slightly and pulls back the pole, clearly taking aim at Darren's head which wears a look of shock and surprise.

Letting out a guttural roar he swings the pole hard at Darren, and it impacts him with an audible crunch, throwing him backwards in an explosion of pain.

Turning away, back towards Charlie, Barry has a broad grin across his face - he lifts his arms up in triumph and shouts, 'And the crowd goes wild!'

Staggering back, Darren is able to start to collect his thoughts. The impact was not quite as bad as he'd though. The pole didn't hit his head, the end caught against the side of his chest. It hurts really bad and every breath brings a sharp, stabbing pain in the side. But he's still up and moving.

OOC: That's 3HP damage to Darren - could have been a lot worse!
Now back to you to act - Darren, Charlie, Barry, then Louis.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:34 am**

Staggering back, gasping for breath Darren looks back towards Louis, then to Charlie as Barry lurches towards them. All that's going through his head is that he can't let anything happen to his friends. He has flashbacks to the Barnaker house, to Kyle, to Ian, his hand instinctively going to his jacket pocket. He raises his bat and charges again at Barry

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:43 am**

This was serious! Barry didn’t care that they were just kids!

With the knife held ready, Charlie approached Barry, trying to see an opening, to try to stop him before he killed them all!

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:41 pm**

OOC: Need a Fighting roll for Darren

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:50 pm**

Well....better than last time.......

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:35 pm**

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:10 am**

if i survive this round.......

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:41 pm**

Charlie and Darren both close on Barry from opposite sides. He glances back and forth between them, the smile on lips turns into a sneer. He starts hefting the pole from hand to hand, swinging it dangerously first towards Darren and then towards Charlie. Darren raises his baseball bat and launches himself at Barry but the big man easily moves to the side and, as the boy's momentum carries him past, he brings the jagged pole crashing down onto the back of Darren's neck.

Darren feels the sharp pain before he even sees the pole swinging in the periphery of his vision. There's a crunch, he both feels it and hears it, then an agonising shooting pain like fire that spreads up into the back of his skull and down through his spine and into his arms and legs. His legs crumple beneath him like they're made of jelly and he can only watch as his face thuds into the dirt, unable to lift his arms to protect himself. All Darren can see is a throbbing red glow that seems to melt into the excruciating pain that suffuses his skull. Curiously he can't seem to feel anything in his legs or anywhere below his chest - like it's gone numb or isn't there at all. He tries to move his head, to look up, to see if Barry's going to finish the job. But it seems impossible, any movement completely beyond him, all his strength drained. He very slightly begins to turn his neck and then...black.

After his perfect swing connects with the back of Darren's neck, Darren crumples to the ground like a ragdoll. Barry leers at Charlie, 'Huh, I guess that's a home run!' he laughs.

Outraged by what he's seen, Charlie takes his chance to hurl himself towards Barry, to try and jab at him with the knife. But Barry just laughs some more and pushes him away easily with the end of the pole, swinging it half heartedly at him as he staggers away, failing to make contact with the reverse end.

OOC: Darren takes 10HP more - that's a Major Wound - he's currently unconscious and is 'dying' and needs First Aid. Roll CON to see whether he has any chance of regaining consciousness again.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:00 am**

Made it by Snarfs ball hair.....

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:22 am**

Charlie knew he couldn’t run and leave Darren behind. Barry would beat him to death!

He tried to remember how the woman sounded, how she’d spoken. He tried to channel her in the faint hope of gaining an advantage. ”What are doing, Barry? Look at the mess you’ve made of that poor boy.” He kept the knife down by his side and out of sight, and he tried to speak as calmly as possible, although his heart was racing.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:59 pm**

OOC: Charlie roll Be a Pal, Be Bossy, or Taunt

Posted: **Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:56 am**

Charlie wasn’t convinced he’d got the voice right…

Posted: **Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:11 pm**

Louis rubs his eyes gingerly, his vision clears a bit, just in time to see the club connect with Darren's head and Darren crumple to the ground. When Darren doesn't get up, Louis crawls towards him and turns him over. Hoping, he'll be hidden in the shadows.
"It's just a flesh wound, Daz." Louis attempts to put him in the recovery position (as they'd been shown in class last summer) and pulls out a handkerchief to mop Darren's head.

Spoiler:

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:05 pm**

Glancing at Charlie, Barry just spits 'Fuck off Karen, you're not real...' He flings his metal pole at Charlie but it clatters to the dirt in front of him. Barry sinks down to the ground and hugs his knees. 'Nothing here's real...' He starts rocking. 'Can't do nothing...can't change nothing...can't get out...'

Louis scrabbles over to Darren's immobile form. Blood streaming from the wound in the back of his head. Pooling under his chin and mixing with the dirt to form a sticky, muddy puddle. He looks over his friend, feeling helpless about what to do. Until eventually he sees the slight rise of his chest and realises Darren is still breathing. With what is left his his strength he rolls Darren onto his side, there's an excruciating moment where his head lags behind the rolling body and Louis hears an audible clicking or grinding sound. Taking out a grubby old handkerchief from his pocket he applies pressure to the back of Darren's head, trying to staunch the flow of blood.

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:56 pm**

Charlie edged forward and carefully picked up the pipe before backing away again and circling around to Darren and the boy he had called Louis.

”Shit! He looks in a bad way!” he said, looking down at Darren in despair.

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:18 pm**

Panic building, all Darren can think of is...

Wiggle my toes.....got to wiggle my toes......why....can't.....i?....must wiggle....."

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:54 am**

"Darren!" cries Harry, running up to him to try to help him. "What happened?!"

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:18 am**

”He did it!” said Charlie, pointing at Barry with the metal pipe.

He looked at Harry, then pulled him in closer so he could whisper, ”I don’t know what to do for him! He could die!”

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:16 am**

"Oh good god! He needs first aid! Does anyone know any first aid stuff?"

"And who the hell is that maniac? Did he do this? Who is he? And ... What is that?" Max looked at Louis, his voice getting very high pitched.

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:59 pm**

”I think I heard Darren call him Louis,” said Charlie. He knelt down next to Darren, to see if there was anything he could do…

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:25 pm**

Darren lies floppily in Louis's lap. He's covered in blood but the bloodied rag that Louis has pressed against the back of his head seems to have staunched the bleeding.

Barry continues to sit in the dirt, rocking.

OOC: Darren - why don't you roll me a POW to see if you can move your toes

Posted: **Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:21 am**

Harry is too panicky to be of much help.

Posted: **Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:47 am**

Success. Just.

Max's knowledge of first aid was entirely book-based but he dived in and did his best with a handkerchief and bits of torn-off clothing. "We'll have you good as new in no time, don't you worry Darren."

"Is someone watching the crazy guy?"

Posted: **Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:04 am**

Here goes..................
Jaga be praised......

Posted: **Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:07 am**

Realising that others were better equipped to help Darren, Charlie stood and watched Barry warily. He really hoped that he didn’t try anything for although he had the metal pipe, Barry was an adult and still much bigger than him.

Posted: **Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:23 pm**

Louis helps where he can but he’s puzzled why Darren is in such a bad way.

Posted: **Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:28 am**

Posted: **Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:54 pm**

Barry is still sitting there, rocking, shouting to himself. 'It's the fucking clown...the fucking clown,' his crazed look is replaced by one of misery. He adopts a strangely familiar growling voice, 'Give up your lies if you wanna be free...Gotta give up your lies Barry.'

-----

Darren looks to be in a really bad way. He's just lying across Louis's knees. Floppy. Not moving. He's breathing but not showing any other signs of life. But then...slowly...there's movement. It's difficult to notice at first, but then you can see his feet wiggling, then his hands. Eventually he opens his eyes, and gives a weak smile.

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:55 am**

"Yeah, that clown said the same thing to Max," says Harry. "I wouldn't trust the clown. He did tell us where our friends were, but he doesn't have our best interests at heart."

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:13 am**

"I'm not going to trust any clown ever again!"

"What do we do with this crazy guy? Tie him up? Whatever we do, we need to get Darren to hospital or call an ambulance. Which means getting out of here, I guess."

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:54 am**

”I don’t know that I want to get near him again,” said Charlie. ”I don’t think he’s going to do any further damage now.”

He couldn’t be sure but he didn’t want to be anywhere within reach of Barry, even if he now held the pipe which had been used on Louis and Darren.

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:20 am**

Max looked at the crazy man again. "OK, I don't disagree with you," he said to Charlie.

He looked over at Louis, horrified. "Umm, I don't know your name but ... Do you want us to try to bandage you up as well ... ?" Max actually wasn't sure that anything could be done but politeness forced him to ask the question at least.

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:42 am**

Max studies Louis face. He's caked in dried on blood, it's smeared across his skin and encrusted in his hair. Livid welts and bruises are visible across his face and around his eyes in particular. It's superficially repellent, but the closer he looks the more he realises that the boy has no major injuries. His skin isn't broken despite the blood. There's no evidence of any fractures or significant contusions. If he was beaten about the head as it appears he was, he's been very, very lucky to escape serious injury.

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:51 am**

"This is my friend, Louis," says Harry, doing what he can to help him. "Darren and I came here to meet him. We survived the Barnaker House together last year, and we'll survive this."

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:25 am**

”What the hell’s the Barnaker House?” said Charlie. ”And you’ve been through this shit before?!”

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:26 am**

Still hazy, Darren looks at Louis. "Hey pal, long time no see.Harry and me have came to get ya.....Wheres Wendy?" Although he can see that Louis is looking better, Darren puts it down maybe he wasn't as bad as he thought he was, maybe in the dark he didn't see properly or maybe he's still groggy from the beating he just took from that kid beating asshole.

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:21 am**

"The Barnaker House burned down last year," says Harry. "Similar things happened, but not the same. We killed the witch that was behind it all, but she's back now and is responsible for all this." He turns to Louis. "I think he means Shirley. Yeah, where is she?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:47 am**

of course Shirley...that blow to the head must've really scrambled my noggin......

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:17 am**

"Whoa, Louis, you looked much worse just a minute ago."

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:10 pm**

“Daz….. you’re okay?” Louis sobs as he stares at his friend’s face. “I thought you were a gonner- when you didn’t move.”
After Max administers the first aid he looks up at the others as he touches his face gingerly.
“Yeah, you know, it doesn’t actually feel too bad. I think I lost a tooth but…. Hey, who are you guys? What are you doing with Daz and Harry? And where’s Shirley? My name’s Louis- I’m in Darren’s gang.”

Louis is a fat kid wearing Walmart camouflage clothing. His trainers are cheap and worn.

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:27 pm**

”I’m Charlie,” said Charlie.

”Do you think we can get out of here?!”

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:01 pm**

"We found a way out of the Barnaker House," says Harry. "We defeated the witch before, we can do it again. We know her weaknesses: fire and silver."

Posted: **Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:23 am**

"I'm Max, I moved here not that long ago."

Posted: **Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:08 am**

”So we’re fighting a witch?” asked Charlie. ”Have we got any fire or silver?”

He tried to think if he had anything silver on him but couldn’t be sure.

Posted: **Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:07 am**

So whats my physical condition now? Can i move a little? Talk?

Posted: **Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:34 pm**

Darren is able to move a little more now, enough to sit up. He still feels weak and he isn't quite sure he's up to standing yet. But he feels a whole lot better than he did a few minutes ago.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:22 am**

"I brought matches," says Harry, "and we can go through our pocket change. Any dimes, quarters, or half dollars from before 1965 are 90 percent silver. Of course, they're hard to find. People tend to hoard them when they find them."

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:37 am**

Charlie emptied his pockets and started going through his change.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:44 am**

Propping himself up on his elbows Darren looks up at Louis. "Good to see ya pal. What ya been upto? How long uave you been here? Have you seen Shirley?"

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:07 pm**

Louis takes back his knife and checks it for blood. He cleans it competently. He checks the compass is still working.
“I was doing alright until I came here. I saw a kid with a balloon and thought it was you guys so I followed him into the fair.”
Louis stops for a moment, remembering.
“And then it got really spooky and there was this clown who gave me a balloon too. And there was this machine whirly gig thing that chased me and then I saw that guy with the iron bar.
I thought he might be a friend.”
“And no, I haven’t seen Shirley.”

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:32 pm**

The fire in the bumper car is starting to die down a little. Barry is still sitting there muttering to himself, largely incoherently but you pick up a few words here and there.

'No way out...no way out...not ending up like her, no...can't even die...can't even die...not going down there...I'm not going down there...got to give up your lies...give up your lies...'

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:17 am**

Charlie glanced at Barry, then the others. ”What’s he talking about? Do we question him?” he asked.

He hefted the iron bar, shifting his grip in case he was forced to use it.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:25 am**

"He is dangerous," says Harry, "but he may know something. The difficulty is making sense of what he says. This may have to do with what we found in the car in the parking lot. We saw the clown kid too, and the big clown. Neither one of them is to be trusted."

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:58 am**

Darren nodded, "Yeah, we saw the creepy kid too,thought it was you.....thats how we go in here. "Looking to Harry, "I don't think this is thw witch. That was all bugs and candles, those creepy lights outside, this place feels different. That grey thing caught Charlie and did something to him, not like Roger though. What happened with the big clown?".His hand reaching into his pocket.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:11 pm**

Max looked at Charlie in concern. "The mirror monster thing caught you? Are you OK? Did it hurt you? We were going to try to catch it with these mirrors we got, but then we couldn't find you guys."

Max also tried to recall everything he'd read in books and comics about how to defeat witches.

Fail.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:11 pm**

”I think so, yeah,” said Charlie. ”I have a woman’s memories. A woman called…” He paused, not wanting to mention the woman’s name, lest it set Barry off again.

”Anyway, she was jacking up while Barry was beating some kid with a belt. It was like I was there - not like I’d seen a picture or a movie, but like her actual memories of what happened…”

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:00 am**

Max mouthed the words "jacking up", looking puzzled, but said no more about that.

"There are legends about how a person's soul can become trapped in a mirror after they die. Maybe that smoke monster thing was her soul, and when it touched you, you saw her real memories?"

OOC: Do we still have the mirrors we collected?

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:00 am**

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:58 am**

"The big clown gave us balloons," says Harry. "Only I don't remember actually taking mine. I let it go. He also told us where to find you, but we didn't believe him at first. I saw the witch, in this mirror." He shows it to the others. "She's dead, but some part of her must live on in some other dimension."

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:28 am**

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:41 am**

Experimentally, Max held out the wing mirror he'd previously collected. He turned its reflective face towards Charlie. Cautiously, he moved the wing mirror closer until the reflective face touched Charlie.

"Worth a try."

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:42 am**

”Hey! What are you trying to do?!” yelped Charlie nervously, backing up and trying to get away from the mirror.

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:06 am**

“Wait!” Louis holds up his hand. “There were mirrors in the Barnaker house, remember. You could walk through them and come out in a different room.
“They were bigger than that wing mirror.” He says defensively, misreading the others’ expressions.

“And, the witch could talk in your head- as different people. It was my dead grandma at first but now…”
He looks at Charlie suspiciously.

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:31 am**

Yeah, it was always as people we trust and thst bitch kept trying to split us up...when she got Ian alone and got him through the mirror...and i couldn't each him......." Darren pauses...."This is different...no voices in our heads....something came out the mirror we broke and chased us plus Charlie didnt know the person or people in his...vision."

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:41 pm**

"Yeah, I remember that from the house," says Harry. "These mirrors are too small to enter, but she can still work through them."

Posted: **Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:05 am**

"Ummm... I was just thinking maybe this mirror could suck those weird memories back out of Charlie. No harm meant, Charlie. But this is all way more complicated. What do you all think, no experimenting with mirrors for now?"

Max cast another anxious glance at the madman. "Darren, can you walk?"

Posted: **Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:21 am**

”Yeah, no more mirrors!” snapped Charlie, who was distinctly unimpressed with Max’s little experiment.

Posted: **Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:38 am**

Looking up at Max, Darren stutters, I...I think so....Can someone give me a hand up? My bat!....Where's my bat?.....i can use it like a crutch for now."

Posted: **Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:17 pm**

Harry helps Darren to his feet and looks around for his bat.

Posted: **Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:13 am**

Max looked back at Charlie. "Hey, I'm just trying to fix the problem. No more mirrors? I wasn't the one who threw a rock at a mirror and broke it to set a monster free."

As he said this, Max was in fact stuffing the wing mirror into his backpack.

Posted: **Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:07 am**

”That wasn’t me! That was him!” snapped Charlie, pointing at Darren.

He watch suspiciously as Max put the mirror in his backpack. ”What you planning to do with that?” he asked.

Posted: **Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:14 pm**

“Ur, Guys…” Louis climbs to his feet. “Please don’t argue. We need to stick together if we want to get out of here.”
He uncaps the end of his knife and looks at the tiny button compass in the hilt.
“North is that way.”

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:17 am**

”As long as he doesn’t stick any more mirrors in my face then we’re good,” said Charlie evenly.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:35 am**

"Let's keep moving," says Harry.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:57 pm**

OOC: Where you going?

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:37 am**

"Maybe we should head northeast, to where the roller coaster starts," suggests Harry. "The controls will be there, and it's the coaster tracks that are blocking our exit. Maybe we'll be able to use them to make a way out of here."

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:04 am**

"Yeah Max!That was me! I broke the mirror because thats what we did at the Barnaker place, thays whst worked there! Thats what i mean about the rules changing Harry, why I'm not sure its that witch bitch!" Darren says as he leans on his bat.

Posted: **Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:41 am**

"I saw her in the mirror," says Harry.

Posted: **Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:24 am**

Max looked up at what Harry said. "Great Scott! I saw a woman's face in the mirror too. Older woman, salt and pepper hair. I didn't know who she was but there was something a little bit creepy about her."

Posted: **Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:07 pm**

OOC: I'm just letting you guys chat until you tell me you're going somewhere. Or Barry pulls himself together...

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:06 am**

”Come on, let’s get out of here,” said Charlie, keeping a watchful eye on Barry.

”Northeast, right?”

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:18 am**

"Right," says Harry.

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:02 am**

"Doesn't sound like our witch bitch" Darren says to Harry after Max's description, before nodding his head at the idea of going north east.

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:53 pm**

You leave Barry sitting on the ground, rocking and quietly sobbing. Northeast from the Dodgems brings you along the edge of the Boating Lake again. Your flashlight beams occasionally sweeping across the dark water, picking up the shapes of vegetation swaying softly, deep beneath the surface. Occasionally you can make out the unsettling shapes far below, pale and slender forms rising from darker bulks hidden in amongst the detritus - old swan-boats sunk to the bottom long ago. And every now and again there's the suggestion of movement, slow, writhing, squirming. The plants must be moving somehow, in an odd way. Perhaps there are unknowable currents at the bottom stirring them up.

-----

Eventually another shape materialises through the fog. Garish colours now faded with the ravages of time. Walking around to the front of the building you can see it is a funhouse, now derelict and dark. The facade is a giant clown face, his mouth the entrance. A sign announces Mr. Fun’s House of Hilarity. Somehow the gaping mouth seems to swallow up your flashlight beams and you can't make out what is inside the entrance. But from the outside you can see all the usual slides and cylinders you'd expect across multiple levels, although obviously nothing is moving anymore. There's even a few mirrors visible, reflecting back a gleam from your flashlights.

Turning to the others you count four of them. Where's Dirk?

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:58 pm**

Charlie looked around. ”Dirk?!” he called, but not too loudly so as not to attract the wrong sort of attention.

”Where the hell did he go?!”

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:11 am**

Harry shines his flashlight back the way they came, looking around for Dirk.

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:21 am**

"Dirk was with us when that horrible clown spoke to us.
Did he keep up when we headed back to the other guys?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:38 am**

”I don’t think he was with you when we met Barry,” said Charlie. ”Where were you before that?”

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:33 am**

" Oh shit! Its happening again!" Darren gasps, looking around. DIRK! DIRK!" He cries out, his hand reaching into his jacket pocket.

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:01 pm**

”What do you mean, ‘It’s happening again’?” asked Charlie.

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:27 am**

"We have to go back for Dirk. Back to the carousel, back to where the clown was, if necessary."

Max pulled out his orienteering compass. "We headed north-west then north-east to get here. So we need to go south to get back." He pointed south.

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:54 am**

"Agreed," says Harry. "We all have to stick together, no matter what. That's what the witch did before at the Barnaker House. She separated us. We have a better chance if we're all together."

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:32 am**

"We should hopefully be able to find the path heading south again, and that will take us back to the carousel."

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:01 am**

"Everyone keep eyes on each other! Stay close! At the Barnaker house even though we all stuck together, the witch took Kyle and........ withut anyone of us noticing!!!] Darren said, trying to control the panic and tear he could feel rising.

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:35 am**

”Ok, Ok, let’s just calm down a moment. Everyone take a deep breath,” said Charlie. ”We don’t want anyone rushing off and leaving anyone else behind.”

He waited until everyone was focused and said, ”Ok, let’s go find Dirk.”

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:54 am**

Harry nods, sticking close to the others and lighting the way with his flashlight.

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:51 am**

Louis nods and, looking at his compass, starts leading the way. “South east?”

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:28 pm**

”South,” said Charlie firmly. ”Look just follow the path and nobody wander off and we’ll be fine.”

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:14 am**

"Everyone should at least have eye contact with someone else, and if anyone sees, hears or even thinks of something odd, no matter how bat crap it may seem, you tell someone!! Do not leave the group!!" Darrensays sternly as he looks arujdat everyone.

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:57 pm**

With Louis's compass you're able to find the path south, back towards the entrance. Back towards the Merry-Go-Round. The fog is thick and you can make out little beyond the dim glow cast by your flashlights - it's like walking through a tunnel - whatever is beyond the light is nothing but muffled sounds and faint sense of dread. You don't see or hear any sign of Dirk, even repeating his name out loud - as loud as you dare. As annoying as he is you don't want to lose Dirk in the darkness of the park.

When you find the carousel you begin to make out shapes in amongst the broken poles and stacks of mirrors. There are figures standing on the carousel. One of them is a child and the other looks like Mr Fun, but he's gone before you can reach him. Getting closer to the ride, it's Dirk. He's standing directly in front of a large mirror. Looking into it. Inside there's one of those grey shapes, formless hands pressed up against the glass.

Dirk's just standing there. Staring. He looks...different somehow. Smaller? Paler? Drained?. That relentless cheekiness, cheeriness, the zest for life. It's gone. He's just staring into the mirror. And whatever that is in the mirror is looking back. Tipping its ill-defined head to one side, like it's trying to communicate in some way, clawing at the glass, trying to get out. A great gaping emptiness opening in the face, like a mouth...like a scream. And Dirk's just muttering. 'He said you gotta give up your lies. Give up your lies Dirk. I told him, I told him something about Richie. I told him something. What was it?'

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:05 pm**

Charlie paused. He wasn’t in a rush to get too close, given his previous experience with mirrors. ”What’s he doing?” he whispered.

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:44 pm**

"It's Mr. Fun!" cries Harry, alarmed. "There's something strange about him. There are machine parts sticking out of him, like he's a cyborg or something!"

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:13 am**

Fail.

"Great Scott!" Max looked in alarm from Dirk to Harry and back. He looked about wildly for the clown for a few seconds then focused back on the more immediate problem.

"Legends say mirrors can trap souls. Could Dirk's soul have been trapped?"

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:34 am**

”How do we break the spell?!” asked Charlie. ”I want to get outa here before that creepy clown come back!”

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:13 am**

"Maybe get between him and the mirror," says Harry, "without looking at it ourselves. If he can't see it, maybe that will snap him out of it."

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:35 am**

OOC: Are there any skill rolls the PCs could make that might assist? Spooky Stuff?
Science Class even?

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:09 am**

”How about we cover his eyes instead?” suggested Charlie. ”That seems safer than getting any closer to that mirror!”

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:55 am**

"That could work," says Harry.

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:46 am**

"Maybe put your mirror in between Dirk and the oher mirror?" Darren says to Max, "But be careful approaching him, sont wanna give him too big a shock! We need to keep Bozo the clown there distracted!"
Even as he was saying this, he couldn't take his eyes of Mr Fun, he looked odd, moving like a marionette he thought as he saw what he thought were mechanisms coming out of his back.

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:55 pm**

OOC:

Snapper wrote:Are there any skill rolls the PCs could make that might assist? Spooky Stuff?
Science Class even?

You suggest something and roll - I'll tell you what you think of.

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:24 pm**

Fail.

None of his horror comic collection had a good suggestion for this current situation. Max decided to go with the earlier idea. He pulled out the wing mirror and held it between Dirk and the big mirror, reflecting the spooky mirror monster thing back on itself.

Spoiler:

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:54 pm**

Darren walks slowly to Dirk, placing himself between him and Mr Fun.

Posted: **Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:58 am**

Reflection and refraction of light is simple physics, thinks Harry. I should know the best way to do this.

Posted: **Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:27 pm**

Louis sticks close to Darren. He nods to Dirk, “Who is he?”

Posted: **Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:45 pm**

"Dirk 'the dirt he's just a
lad from school, likes to think he's the class clown , about as funny as being kicked in the nards. He wasn't invited here, he just turned up trying to frighten us. Doesn't deserve this though. " Darren replies , not taking his eyes from the clown.

Posted: **Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:40 pm**

It stands to reason that if Dirk is entranced or distracted by whatever is in the mirror then putting something between him and the mirror should break that. When Max swings the wingmirror in front of Dirk he seems to stir, blinking, turning away.

As Darren tries to place himself between Dirk and Mr Fun, he looks around and finds the clown has disappeared again. There's no sign of him in amongst the mirrors and wooden horses of the carousel.

We gotta get outa here,' Dirk says, pointing back down the gravel path to the south. The mist has cleared slightly but all you can see is the latticework of the rollercoaster stretching in all directions. 'Look, that way,' he says and starts walking away, towards the rollercoaster struts.

Posted: **Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:57 pm**

”Why that way, Dirk?” asked Charlie. ”What have you seen?”

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:45 am**

"Hurry, we need to follow him before he disappears again!" says Harry, leading the way.

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:23 am**

"Harry's right, we can't let him out of our sight!" Says Darren as he frantically looks around for Mr Fun.

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:43 am**

Charlie swore. Everyone was running off again! He quickly glanced around to make sure no one was left behind, then followed the others.

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:11 am**

Stashing the wing mirror in his backpack again, Max trotted off with the others.

Posted: **Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:45 am**

Dirk walk walks, half runs down the gravel path in the direction the entrance should be. Or would be if it weren't blocked by the seemingly endless criss-crossing latticework of the rollercoaster. Stopping for a second he points at the struts, 'There, look, I can see the exit,' and he starts running again. Running right into the dense mesh of the rollercoaster support structure. And then...

He's gone.

Posted: **Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:39 am**

"Should we follow him?" asks Harry. "Maybe that mesh is just an illusion, and we can just walk right through it."

Posted: **Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:33 am**

"Wait! DIRK!" Darren cries out. Hearing Harry's suggestion that it may just be an illusion, holding his bat out infront of him he walks slowly towards the mesh.

Posted: **Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:08 am**

”What the hell?!” cried Charlie. ”Don’t tell me we coulda walked out of here at any time?!”

Like Darren he ran up to the girders to try them out, prodding at them with the metal pipe he’d taken from Barry.

Posted: **Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:42 pm**

Holding his bat out in front of him, Darren walks slowly forwards towards where Dirk disappeared. The broad end of the bat horizontal. He reaches the criss-crossing latticework and involuntarily winces slightly at the expectation he will make contact...

Crunch, he feels the bat strike the struts. That same odd sense of the material having more give than he'd expect. But solid enough all the same.

Jabbing with his pipe, Charlie gets a similar sensation - prodding the jagged end into what looks like wood or metal it feels spongy and bends a little with the pressure.

The support struts run right across the footpath, disappearing into the fog at either side. The rollercoaster tracks are not visible above - the struts rising into the darkness of the night. Peering into the mesh of material it seems just as dense as before. A bit too dense for holding up the rollercoaster but you can't see how Dirk could have got through.

Posted: **Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:49 pm**

Charlie pushed carefully at the girders a couple of times then stopped abruptly. ”There’s something there! It’s looking at me!” said Charlie quietly. He backed up, still looking at the girders. ”I don’t think this is the way out. C’mon, let’s try a different way.”

Posted: **Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:27 am**

"Right," says Harry. "Let's go back the way we were heading before he starting wandering away."

Posted: **Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:33 am**

Darren backs slowly away from the mesh. Shaking a little at what he thinks he just saw. "Yeah, lets go back, I think we're being watchd. Think we hould keep away from this meat mesh stuff."

Posted: **Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:05 pm**

"Poor Dirk. I wonder what happened there?"

"But absolutely, let's get away from here."

Posted: **Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:40 pm**

Louis follows the others.
“What if we tried burning the roller coaster down?” He says, half to himself.

Posted: **Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:11 am**

"Fire has proven effective in the past," says Harry as he walks with the others.

Posted: **Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:43 pm**

With no further sign of Dirk, you follow the path back to the north. Back to Mr. Fun’s House of Hilarity. A faded and derelict funhouse. Only this time, instead of your flashlight beams disappearing into the blackness within the open mouth, this time there's someone stood in the entrance. Mr Fun. He gives you a little wave and then turns and disappears into the darkness.

Posted: **Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:43 pm**

Charlie stared after the retreating clown, his hands clenched around the pipe. ”Are we going in there after him?” he asked.

Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:36 am**

"That sounds like a really bad idea," says Harry.

Posted: **Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:44 am**

"I think I prefer being outside, it feels less like we're trapped. Although we sort of still are. But at least we have more room to run out here. "

"Do you think Dirk was trying, I don't know, to make us walk into a trap? Was he being controlled? Like if he'd been hypnotised?"

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