Quest In The Realms – an interactive Bananafish production! - Episode 23
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23
The crypt walls open, revealing a hellish scene. Molten lava flows red hot. Flames burst through rocks.
Everywhere people are chained and whipped. Demons roam like prison guards.
“This is soooo bad,” Tres whines as he takes in the scene.
“Damn,” Tio says to himself.
“This way,” says the Yellow King, and steps from the crypt into hell as if stepping into a museum painting. The painting, a Picasso of orange suffering souls.
You and your band follow, descending into the madness of his majesty still in drag. All around are the moans of the tortured damned.
You feel uncomfortably warm, sweating as if in the morning heat of a hangover. Your stomach feels uneasy and you want to find a place to rest.
Only you cannot leave the single file line walking through this nightmare of an afterlife.
The Yellow King steps up onto a stage and leads each one of you to your place. You all follow as if in a trance. You are the last, finding your place at the mic stand overlooking the ghoulish scene of hell below.
King Smiley snaps her fingers. The snapping awakes you from your trance.
“Can you hear them?” says the King, referring to all the lost souls in the netherworld. “We’ve all grown accustomed to it. It’s so familiar it’s become soothing over the ages. So you’re going to help me fill this chamber of despair with the awful sound of your music.”
“OK, only can I go to the bathroom first? Get something to eat? Get some sleep? You know, freshen up a bit?” you say laughing.
“No,” says the Yellow King while walking away.
You then realize that you can’t leave your spot on the stage. You’re stuck.
“I get it, that’s my suffering on the cross,” you say, and your voice echoes into eternity with the tuneless accompaniment of the monotonous, jarring instruments of Tortillas de Pelo.
- Your adventure ends here.
Gotta love that your music is considered awful enough to be a form of eternal punishment. Also, stuck on stage without a bathroom break? Harsh. 😎
Hello cyemela!
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Perfect! This is an amazing project. The more people who enjoy this maze this week the better.
Wow!
So powerful! You made me think of Guernica.
Thanks @f3nix. Yes that was the intent to that effect like stepping over the frame into the scene.
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