[IC] Find the blender, damn it! {Always Open}

[DriveEMOut]

Jesper caught on. "If I do the Macarena, I'll have protection. Hey Eddie! Do you know how to do the Macarena?" Without waiting for a response, he ditched the unicycle, carried Eddie, and walked into the nation. As soon as he got in, he started to do the Macarena, just relieved about having protection.

[SpookySquid]

The figure seemed to frown. "Why are you really here?" it asked. Suddenly, Jeffery appeared behind them and sighed. He walked towards the door as if the hooded figure wasn't there. Enraged, the hooded figure swung its flail at Jeffery. It passed straight through him, and Jeffery was unaffected. Jeffery opened the door to the exit, revealing a massive red wall. "Let's go," he said, impatiently, "it can't hurt you as long as you don't stay in here too long." Emily walked towards Jeffery. The figure swung at her over and over, stubbornly. Emily flinched, but was unharmed. She reached the doorway and motioned for William to follow her.

Jeffery looked down the hallway and squinted. "What the hell? Macarena? What are they doing here?" Emily seemed confused.

"Macarena? Like the da-"

"Yes, it's named after the dance. It's a small country of about one hundred and eighty people. They're a... traveling country. They move around the dungeon."

"So, are we going to have to attack him in Macarena?" asked Emily.

Jeffery shook his head. "They're a neutral country. I wouldn't dare kill the boy there... too many factions would frown upon it, not to mention the four armed guards ensuring his protection- as long as he's doing the Macarena, he's a citizen."

"So... what do we do?" asked Emily.

Jeffery frowned and thought for a moment. "They'll recognize me and the guards will be on alert. You and William need to lure him out of the country. It's roughly the size of a soccer field, so it shouldn't be too hard. You can keep the boy in there or lure him out as well, I don't care how you go about that. I'll stay back and get him as soon as he exits."

He hands Emily his side arm and produces a red blanket from his bag. He quickly lies under the blanket with his sniper rifle. "I'll be essentially invisible from here. You two good with the plan?"

[xChrome]

William was speechless when he saw the flail coming towards Jeffery, anticipating his head to fly off, but instead the flail just passed right through him. "You could've mentioned this before pushing us through the door ya know?" he said to Jeffery. William followed Emily through the doorway to the sight of hundreds of people doing the Macarena.

William listened intently as Jeffery gave his orders while muttering under his breath as if repeating what Jeffery just said, but he was actually casting a spell to summon a centipede. He pondered for a moment after Jeffery gave his orders, which gave the centipede enough time to crawl up behind his suit, just enough that he wouldn't feel it. "Alright, fine by me. Let's go Emily." said William, he was eager to get there quick before the spell wears off.

William noticed the small sign right outside of Macarena, "Huh, I suppose we have to do the Macarena then." and proceeded to do the Macarena as he entered Macarena. The country was small but still crowded, he couldn't spot Jesper nor Eddie among the crowd. "Oye Jesper! Eddie! We're here to get you out!" shouted William, hoping that they could hear him through the music.

[SpookySquid]

Emily suddenly nudged William. "William," she said, "listen closely."

Emily leaned over and whispered into William's ear very quickly, "you don't honestly think Jeffery and Jared are actually going to let you live after this, right? They said they didn't want anyone morally corrupt in the area. Ever wonder what happened to the Bosnians? Jared and Jeffery killed them all because they didn't believe in handing things over to those who were part of the Living Roots. Kreator Lažne Nade doesn't mean 'Creator of Dreams.' It means 'Creator of False Hope.' As soon as you kill Jesper, Jeffery is authorized to kill you and don't expect him to hesitate."

Then, she continued doing the Macarena.

EEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY Macarena!

[xChrome]

Emily's words stopped William right in his tracks. "Wait, you've gotta be kidding me right!? If what you said is true, why are you telling me all this?" William was too surprised at this sudden reveal and couldn't dance properly anymore, he just wiggled around while looking out for Jesper and Eddie. Eerrrr... Macarena?

[SpookySquid]

"I'm telling you this because I'm planning on getting away. I've seen what they do. I pretend to be too happy to realize all of the wretched acts Jared and Jeffery have gotten away with. The Ancient Roots believe that they are the only ones fit for the dungeon, however Jared and Jeffery really take this to the extreme, and those who disagree with them or break even the smallest rules are thrown out into the dungeons on their own or... executed."

The song stopped and everyone paused for about a second. Then the Macarena began again. This time, William spotted Jesper and Eddie on the other side of the green area. Eddie was catching onto the Macarena- they had already danced the Macarena about six times. However, they were clearly starting to tire slightly.

[xChrome]

William took a moment to think over Emily's words, "Can she really be trusted? Is it her plan to lure me into doing something wrong so Jeffery would have a reason take both me and Jesper out? Then again if she's telling the truth, having someone on our side from these parts would prove useful." he thought to himself. "Alright Emily, say you're telling the truth, we might be able to help each other out. I've sum-", William's words were cut short when he spotted Jesper and Eddie in the corner of his eye. "Hey it's them! We'll talk about it when we group up." said William as he danced the Macarena while moving towards Jesper and Eddie. As they got closer, William shouted out to them, "Oye! Jesper, Eddie! We're over here!"

[DriveEMOut]

Jesper turned at the sound of William's voice. "William?" He quickly shuffled over while doing the Macarena. "How'd you get here? I thought the door closed!" He looked back to make sure Eddie was okay. "Where's Sandra? And who is that?" He said, pointing at Emily.

[xChrome]

"Yeah, long story. She's Emily from the beach. Right now we're tasked to kill you, or rather we were. There's a sniper waiting to blow our heads off once we leave this country. How's your day been?" William paused for a moment before realizing something, "Oh fuck! Sandra's in deep shit then!". William has completely forgotten that Sandra is still with Jared which complicates things a bit, actually many bits.

William tried his best to dance while he's struggling to keep himself together, "Alright, here's the thing. Sandra is with Jared, an oracle who tasked us, along with Jeffery, his brother, also known as the sniper to kill you and retrieve Eddie. But it turns out that I'm gonna be killed too, as just revealed by Emily. The sniper will be taken care of, no worries, but right now the problem is getting Sandra back."

[SpookySquid]

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Sandra, Jessica, and Jared

Sandra was pacing around the tent nervously. "When is my brother getting back?" she asked Jared.

"Soon," replied Jared, comfortingly. "What about William?" asked Sandra.

"William's a killer. He always has been. That's why he was summoned here, for execution, much like Jesper. But he interfered with that poor man's summoning ritual. Killed him as well. That's why I sent my brother. He'll take advantage of William's aid in killing Jesper, and then kill William himself."

"Oh," said Sandra, nodding. "I just have one question."

"What's that?" asked Jared.

Sandra shrugged, "I was just wondering why, I mean, considering the man preforming this weird 'summoning ritual' you were talking was bleeding... well, erm... I was wondering why William didn't have any blood on him... or gave the man time to write the message on the wall... or... well, you know... didn't have a weapon or any blood on him."

Jared smiled, "well, there's a very reasonable explanation-" Jared was cut off as a Yankee candle flew through the air and struck him on the nose.

He clutched his nose, which had broken, and stood up.

"It looks like the only killer in this room is you!" she shouted, brandishing a chair over her head. Jessica was standing in the corner, and tensed.

"Now, now, now. I'm not a killer. I'm an executioner. And I only kill those who deserve it. And you will soon. After all, you surprised me, took my gun, and shot Jessica."

"What! I-"

Jared quickly produced a pistol from his pocket, and shot Jessica in the heart. She cried out right before she was hit, and then slumped to the floor. Jared threw the gun to the side, and began to approach the horrified Sandra. "Now, why would you do something like that? I'm going to have to punish you."

Sandra tried to hit Jared with the chair, but some unknown force pulled it out of her hands and into his. "It's a good thing that I was able to stop you before you hurt me with that chair," he said simply.

"How could you! Rot in-" Jared slammed the chair against Sandra's body. She was flung like a rag doll to the ground. She had been hit so hard that some of her ribs cracked and the one of the chair's legs broke off.

"I'm going to kill you!" Sandra screamed.

"Interesting last words," said Jared, as he bashed the chair over her body until it became limp. Unfortunately, he was right... those would be Sandra's last words...

Eddie, Jesper, Emily, and William

"Hey! The uni-sci-kill," said Eddie, struggling to pronounce the word. He pointed at the motorized unicycle, which was smoking. A small flame had started on the engine.

"No doubt Jeffery trying to stop our escape...Wait... I have an idea..." said Emily. "Nobody stop doing the Macarena, no matter what. I'm going to try and run over and spread the flame to the green carpet."

Emily raced over to the unicycle and lifted it up. Suddenly, the sound of a gun firing overwhelmed the sound of the Macarena, but not the dance. Emily flung the motorized unicycle onto the green carpet. The music stopped suddenly and everyone dancing the Macarena stopped. A green bubble covered them.

"Threat to country detected. Flame. Will teleport to avoid flaming object. The Macarena will resume shortly," said a robotic voice.

Everything around the green bubble went black. Emily was on the ground, in the fetal position. Blood was pouring out of her stomach.

Felix

"Felix. Felix. Wake up. Wake up! You need to find the blender. Find the blender..." it was almost like someone was whispering it into his ear.

Then, an actual voice, that woke him up. "Up or down?"

Felix's hands were in his pockets. He felt a napkin in his pocket for some reason, he almost knew what was scratched onto the napkin. "Find the blender, Felix! Find the blender, damn it!"

The real voice came again. "Up or down, sir?" There was a man wearing an elegant red tuxedo. He had a small mustache and business-like appearance. A golden name tag on his chest identified him as Nick.

Felix was in an elevator.

That Boy

"Why are you here?"

"I need to make a phone call. Can I use your phone?"

That Boy was in Ghost Room 7B. "Yes... you're welcome! Alright. I will. What? What do you mean? Sandra!?! But... alright, I handled Felix but... yes, yes. Alright, I'll do my best. Oh my God..."

That Boy left Ghost Room 7B. He went to the beach.

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Jared smiled at Sandra. She had become a concern. Had known too much, questioned to much. Jessica was sure to understand that. She was just a sacrifice for the greater good. Jared needed to get that inconvenience out of the equation.

He loved the corpses. He liked to have them bleed. That's what he had done to the summoner. Bleed to death.

Sandra was unconscious, but still alive when he left her.

And that's when That Boy arrived. "Sandra... oh no..." he said quietly to himself. He then picked her up, and mounted his frog. He had a long ride ahead of him...

[Oliver]

Felix woke up uneasily, unsure what was going on. His blurred vision soon cleared, showing him that he was inside an elevator. Felix cringed; he hated elevators.
He felt a piece of paper in his pocket, a napkin or tissue perhaps, and for whatever reason he knew that there was writing jotted onto it.
"Find the blender, Felix! Find the blender, damn it!"
Felix's eyes widened, his head tilting to the side in confusion. ...The blender? He couldn't make any sense of it.
Just then, a well dressed gent with a mustache appeared in the elevator, asking him if he wanted to go up or down. Felix had always been terribly afraid of heights and was worried about what would happen if he went up, so he silently gestured downwards, indicating that he wanted to go down. He said nothing, however. Felix never spoke, though whether he couldn't or just didn't was a mystery.

[SpookySquid]

Jeffery cursed as he left the Grand Red Hallway. This wasn't the plan, obviously, and Emily, Jesper, Eddie, and William had made his life more difficult than he had hoped.

He was a stone's throw away from the entrance to Ghost Room 7B when he heard a whirring sound. He looked around, confused. Suddenly, an elevator carrying Felix dropped on top of him.

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*Ding*

The elevator door opened. It had been a surprisingly smooth descent. There was a hand stretched out under the elevator, and a sniper rifle (very big compared to Felix) and a red blanket that matched the floor nearby.

"I believe this is your floor," said Nick. He ushered Felix off of the elevator, and then the door closed and the elevator was gone. Jeffery the assassin was dead. Ghost Room 7B was nearby, and the door had an ominous theme. In addition, Felix saw some sort of glow at the end of the hallway.

[DriveEMOut]

Jesper frowned at the dying woman, then walked up to her. "Thank you for your sacrifice. It will be duly noted, and never forgotten." He then began rhythmically searching her for useful items, while doing the Macarena. "William, this may seem cruel to you, but we're being hunted down. Oh yeah, I got you something!" He pulled out a page of William's spellbook, awkwardly doing the Macarena at the same time. "You look like a magic type."

[xChrome]

William realised what Emily had done, he wasn't sure if she knew what would result of her due to her actions but he was appreciative of it nonetheless. He ran up to her while doing a panicked version of the Macarena and noticed that she's bleeding really badly but still alive, "Someone get medical help! This lady has been shot!" he called out. "Jesper! Yes it's cruel! She sacrificed herself and now you're robbing her while she's barely alive! That ain't right!" William grabbed the piece of paper from Jesper's hand, he gave it a look and could tell from the notes that it was a page from his old notebook. "And how did you get this? It's from my old spellbook!"

Meanwhile, William felt the centipede he summoned vanish, not from the spell wearing off, but it was crushed, possibly by Jeffery but it felt like something large and heavy.

[Oliver]

Felix started to walk towards the glow at the end of the hall, hoping it was a way out. He was still very confused and disoriented. He felt tired and almost sick, but he kept going. He ignored the rifle, thinking it would be best not to appear armed and dangerous.He didn't know who or what would be out there, if this even was a way out.

[SpookySquid]

Emily coughed, and some blood escaped from her lips. "You... idiot," she said to Jesper, pulling herself up, "I'm not dead yet." She pulled herself up and continued doing the Macarena. Suddenly, one of the four guards came over and began preforming basic first aid on her. "I'm being protected by citizenship," she explained.

The country of Macarena finished teleporting and the green bubble disappeared. They were suddenly in a grassy field. There were seven houses nearby, and a large white building that stuck out. The air smelled wonderful due to an abundance of flowers.

The white building was labeled "Laboratory."

[SpookySquid]

Felix walked for about twenty minutes. Then he stumbled across the water buffalo. The glow was brighter, as if there was a lighthouse on the other end of the hallway. Then Felix heard a voice in his head- would you like to enter the time dome? Then the buffalo stomped one of its feet onto the ground. My apologies. I'm Six-O, one of the telepathic water buffalo's that manage the time dome. Well, this time dome. There are three in total. Would you like to enter this time dome?

[Oliver]

Felix blinked in surprise, tilting his head to the side.
What kind of medication was he on again?
This was definitely a drug trip. There was no way this was real. But as he knew, the only thing to do was to play along until he came to.
He nodded yes to the water buffalo. No point in not doing some exploring of these so-called "time domes".

[SpookySquid]

The water buffalo led Felix to the end of the hallway. There was a glass door and wall at the end, a a large light that was dimmed by the thick, dark glass. Another water buffalo was staring blankly at a computer monitor which was occupied by a game of solitaire.

"Jerry!" exclaimed the water buffalo that had led Felix to the end of the Grand Red Hallway. The water buffalo staring at the computer monitor looked around.

"Huh? Oh! Sorry Steve, I was just-"

"I know, I know, 'taking a break.' Can you fetch the glasses for this young man?" said Steve, telepathically.

Jerry nodded and retrieved an odd pair of sunglasses. They had a strange device that fastened them around your head and a key hole that prevented it from being removed without a special key.

"These are precautionary," said Steve, as the sunglasses floated through the air and then clasped over Felix's eyes. The room was significantly more dim.

A set of keys flew towards the door and unlocked, and then the door opened, letting some light in.

"In the time dome, each fifteen minutes is a different time period. Past, future, etc. If you ever need to get out, just clap your hands seventeen times. Not sixteen. Not eighteen. Seventeen times. Then wait for five seconds. You'll be released soon after. If you clap too many times, you will have to wait until the next time period shift to begin clapping again. Understand?"

[Oliver]

Felix wasn't really sure he understood, but nodded anyway. He supposed it didn't matter whether or not this made any sense, as it likely wasn't real. In the real world, he was probably comatose or something, waiting to find his way through this wonderland nightmare and wake up again. But then again, he wasn't sure he really wanted to go back. His regular life sucked, to say the very least.

He resisted the urge to fidget with the glasses; he hated having things on his face. But he wasn't about to break the rules set up for him. If he did, hell knows what would happen.