Dusk 4
Middlenow Town Square Shopping Center
First Floor
The sun slowly set on the fourth day, and everyone awaited Lardo's imminent death. The doomed man in question was currently lounging in his room, stuffing himself with syrupy pancakes while watching an old episode of Invader Zim.
"Hee," he giggled to himself. "It's funny cuz he's an alien."
BAM! Lardo whirled in his armchair to see Pasonia standing in the doorway, a board game tucked under his arm and a turtle on his head.
"Why--" He stopped, not sure what to ask first.
Pasonia set the turtle down gently, patting its head. "Let's play a game, Larto buddy." He raised the board game and Lardo frowned.
"Eels and Escalators?" He glanced at Pasonia, who was grinning.
"I'll make a deal with you. If you win, you can leave....alive. If you lose...you die." Lardo opened his mouth and Pasonia cut him off. "No, you don't have a choice."
Lardo sighed resignedly and reached for the game.
--
"Better watch out, Lardo," Pasonia taunted. "You're getting awfully close to that hungry eel." He moved his own piece up another escalator.
Lardo swallowed, picking up the dice. "Come onnnn, escalator!" With a silent prayer, he threw the dice.
"Eels." Pasonia smirked at him as Lardo was forced to move his piece down another eel. His smirk widened when he himself went up yet another escalator.
"Come onnnn escalator escalator escalator!" Lardo practically flung the dice onto the board, rejoicing when they came up escalator. "Yes! Escalators!"
Pasonia scowled and surrepitiously pointed at the dice. As if nudged by an unseen force, the dice flipped over to eels. "Sh--"
The host hummed as he watched a despondent Lardo move closer to the Eel of Death and he moved his own piece up the next-to-last escalator. "Better watch out, Larto. If you get eels again, you lose."
With a fervent gleam in his eye, Lardo held the dice up as he shook the furiously. "ESCALATOR ESCALATOR ESCALATOR ESCALATOR--" He launched the dice onto the board. They flipped once, twice...and landed on eels.
There was a frozen moment in which Lardo could only see the damning dice in front of him. Then Pasonia chuckled.
In a flash, Lardo was up and running. The turtle snapped at him in the doorway as he ran past but Lardo ignored it in his panic. Pasonia's cackling laughter followed him down the hallway.
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Various players let out exclamations of surprise as Lardo sprinted down the darkening street, bemused at both his panic and that he was still alive.
I just have to get out of the city, maybe get to the military, and I'll be safe, I'll be alive--
He skidded to a stop, staring. Standing in front of him in a line, blocking his path, were several angry-looking gorillas wearing rainbow-colored military uniforms and overall looking quite silly. Less silly were the bazookas pointed at him with unicorns painted on them.
(O___O)U
"Oh sh--"
FUCKBLAMO!
--
Pasonia and the others converged on the scene as the gorillas marched off. Pasonia poked the steaming pile of what had formerly been Lardo, then grinned in satisfaction.
"Nighty night, Larto! That reminds me..."
Night 4 is now.
This means you shut your trappers and talk elsewhere. Oorah?"
Pasonia looked at the remains of the carbon-based that was formerly Larto, then snickered his way back to the Resident's Area.
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Meanwhile...
SFG emerged from the turtle---
SFG: o.o? (stares at the hole in her chest)
---spooking the just-happened-to-be-nearby Olinad to bits and pieces.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
