It's almost midnight. The players discuss important issues:
gorckat
: I'm so looking forward to watching this new Iron Man movie. I'm a Marvel fan.
GhostWriter
: I like the comics too, but I usually hate movies based on super heroes...
Suddenly an eerie music beat can be heard through the cold night. It starts low, almost inaudible, and slowly grows to dominate the environment.
springlullaby
: What is it? Is it......music?
armlx
: What is going on? I can't control my body!
Against their will, the players start to walk around and move spasmodically like zombies.
A voice can now be heard:
???
: It's Close To Midnight And Something Evil's Lurking In The Dark
Under The Moonlight You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart
You Try To Scream But Terror Takes The Sound Before You Make It
You Start To Freeze As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes,
You're Paralyzed!
Xtoxm
: What's going on?
Alabaska J
: Look! There is someone over there!
The voice's owner can now be seen.
It's a young man who would easily pass like a regular human were not by his demonic yellow eyes.
He starts walking in circles and the players, like puppets, follow him in line.
???
: You Hear The Door Slam And Realize There's Nowhere Left To Run
You Feel The Cold Hand And Wonder If You'll Ever See The Sun
You Close Your Eyes And Hope That This Is Just
Imagination
But All The While You Hear The Creature Creepin' Up
Behind
You're Out Of Time!
OpposedForce
: Are we......dancing?
Claus
: Yes, we are like rats following his magic flute!
The steps and moves are now a real dance.
The synchrony is so perfect that anyone would say it's a perfectly choreographed and masterfully performed musical number.
And it goes on:
???
: They're Out To Get You, There's Demons Closing In On Every Side
They Will Possess You Unless You Change The Number On Your Dial
Now Is The Time For You And I To Cuddle Close Together
All Thru The Night I'll Save You From The Terror On The Screen,
I'll Make You See!
Drunken Piper seems to be possessed, for the verses he now chants are not of his own composition :
Drunken Piper
: Darkness Falls Across The Land
The Midnite Hour Is Close At Hand
Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood
To Terrorize Y'awl's Neighbourhood
And Whosoever Shall Be Found
Without The Soul For Getting Down
Must Stand And Face The Hounds Of Hell
And Rot Inside A Corpse's Shell
The Foulest Stench Is In The Air
The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years
And Grizzy Ghouls From Every Tomb
Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom
And Though You Fight To Stay Alive
Your Body Starts To Shiver
For No Mere Mortal Can Resist
The Evil Of The Thriller
???
: 'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
And No One's Gonna Save You From The Beast About
Strike
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
You're Fighting For Your Life Inside A Killer, Thriller
Tonight
The music now slowly starts to fade.
The players are still dancing like puppets, but now are side by side and facing the strange visitor that seems to be dragged away by the vanishing music.
Or is it the man who is taking the music away with him?
It stopped.
The players now feel strange after recovering control over their limbs:
Flameaxe
: Wow, that's the strangest thing I ever felt.
ooba
: Who the hell was that guy?
ooba's attention is distracted by a tic-tac sound. He started hearing it a while before, but he could not control his arms so he ignored it until now. He notices a strange volume on his side pocket, so he puts his hand in there and finds a red apple.
ooba
: What is it now, a bom...
ooba
was exploded on Night 1
He was
Hsien-Ko
, B-Class Darkstalker and JoAT
[i]"Dead Rikimaru is... well, dead. When the lights came back on, he was found turned inside-out, somehow. Disgusting, really. Anyway, he was "Dead Dead Rikimaru" (Self-fulfilling Prophecy)".
-The Scummies 2006 - Red Carpet and Ceremony![/i]