The Gamers Gambit Pt 06

NIGHT CONTINUE

Date: March 21st, 21XX

Location: Haunted Mansion

High Score: 102,452

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The crystal chandelier gave the mansion foyer a brilliant illumination. A runner carpet extended from the front doors to a central staircase. This grand set of stairs led to the second floor. Dark wood, polished floors and gaudy, floral wallpaper dated the mansion as old. The wallpaper, end tables, and stair railing all had a veneer of dust on them. Cobwebs tarnished the chandelier, windows, banisters, and corners. There were plenty of doors on both levels, all closed.

"Dreary, dusty, and lifeless -- reminds me of home," Gamer felt melancholic. He and Minnie scoped the foyer out, and were surprised nobody received them. Gamer pondered, "Granted, I feel like Persica mentioned a mansion before..."

"Do you think anybody lives here? Hellooo!" Minnie called. No response.

"Well, if it's empty, we can always claim it. Needs a bit of a house flip here, some cleaning mama there," Gamer envisioned a sparkling abode to call his own. Depending on how long he'd be in the virtual world, it could come in handy.

"I wonder where Persica and Asterion are..." Minnie peered out the window. Gamer's hypothesis proved true; the undead that pursued them lumbered away from the mansion. They were safe inside.

"If they're smart, they'll come running in here any second now. Let's find the kitchen," Gamer started eeny-meeny-ing the doors at random.

A strange laugh alerted the two towards the coffered ceiling. The laugh sounded like sped up dog barks. They didn't see anything initially, until a white sphere emerged from the ceiling. It only came out halfway, and glided along the grid design.

"Is that a boob?" Gamer inquired.

Another orb appeared next to it, and they both traveled in a line together.

"A butt?" Minnie guessed.

Gamer narrowed his eyes, "Maybe balls?"

A third orb appeared near the corner, and a grinning mouth with sharp teeth and a long tongue appeared on it.

Gamer and Minnie tilted their heads, "A mouth?"

More of the cackling reverberated through the foyer. A bunch of orbs started to fully emerge from every surface. They were volleyball sized white wisps, with toothy maws and small eyes. The cackling came from them and droned like a beehive. Gamer's skin crawled and face turned blue. Minnie gawked at the large number of ghostly apparitions. They screamed and hugged one another.

"I remember what Persica told me!" Gamer's whole body shook. He quickly checked the tags of the story. He ignored big cock, lesbian, and futanari, and gasped at ghost, "We gotta get the FUCK out of here!"

"Aaah!" Minnie cried.

"Bro, calm your tits! They aren't real!" Samira tried to ease her brother.

"Easy for you to say! You're not the one with a fear of ghosts and face-to-face with them right now!"

"૮( •̀ Ⱉ •́ )ა Swiggity swooty!" Samira popped up her text right in front of Gamer's face. He squealed and she ( ≧ᗜ≦)

Gamer and Minnie retreated to the front doors and started yanking on them, but try as they might, the doors wouldn't budge. They were sealed in.

"No! Please, I beg of you! I'm too young to be ghosted!" Gamer panicked, wiggling his thong strapped butt back and forth.

A girlier giggle, but still similar to the babas, came from above, "Silly, nobody escapes from Ouija's Mansion. You're family now...and forever."

Gamer and Minnie imprinted their bodies into the doors and cast their bugged eyes up at the one who spoke. A young woman with pale skin, long-lavender hair, and big eyes floated near the chandelier. She posed like a superstar and her red eyes struck Gamer's nerves. Her tongue hung out of her mouth, and her razor sharp teeth were on full display. An adorable little crown topped her head. She wore a white fit-to-form dress reminiscent of a wedding gown. It draped from her hips and revealed her legs, with stockings and cute heel shoes. Her dress's squeeze on her bosom would make a tailor sweat. They were less blam and more blaow! Her whole form was slightly translucent.

The ghost queen leered, "Mistakes were made."

Babas nosedived at Gamer and Minnie. They zipped by and insistently cackled. A dozen of them circled their queen and bobbed to an eerie jaunt she sang. Her voice echoed like the screams of the damned. Gamer and Minnie dashed around like headless chickens. They ducked their heads and yelped for help. The closest door was to the left. They bolted through it.

They entered the dining hall. A long table topped with rotten food and drink ruined the elegance of the room. The plates hanging on the walls and the silverware on the table danced on their own. Babas faded in and out of visibility, and timed their laughs alongside their queen's song. More babas bursted through the dining hall door thanks to their incorporeal forms. It spooked Gamer and Minnie. They ran past the dark supper and through the door on the opposite side of the room.

They were in a hallway that stretched to the right and left. The portraits of people on the wall were malformed to look like babas. Evil curled their grins and warped their frames. Gamer and Minnie ragdolled themselves through the next nearest door and collapsed into the kitchen. Dirty and clean dishes lined the counters, a huge refrigerator and freezer were found next to an industrial, human-sized oven, and there was no paranormal activity. Even the ghost queen's singing faded away.

Gamer flailed like he was covered in roaches, "Gah! I hate it! I hate ghosts!"

Minnie petted her hands to soothe herself, "I'm actually surprised you're afraid of something. You always seem so brave."

Gamer aggressively rubbed his face, "I have had a fear of ghosts ever since I was a kid. If the Game Masters knew me well enough, they would have stuck me in a survival horror game. I'd just roll over and die."

"Excuse me, can you hold this for me?" the ghost queen, slightly behind Gamer, handed her head over.

"Oh, sure," Gamer took the head. His rant then continued, "Jump scares are the worst, too. Especially when you know they're coming, and the atmosphere and music just build it up."

"I understand. The stories of undead shellies have always frightened me. To see them was the worst thing. Ever. Of all time," Minnie wished she could wipe her memory.

"I freak out when something disappears after you glance at it," the ghost queen's head said. "I hate when you do a double take, and it's gone! Oooh!"

"Ominous things standing still in the dark are my turn off. Facing away, and twitching (•᷄- •᷅ ;) gives me the heebie jeebies!" Samira added.

"I can't stand any of it," Gamer concurred.

The ghost queen tapped Gamer on the shoulder and gestured for him to give her head back, "Okay, I'll take that back. Thanks!"

"Yeah, no problem," Gamer handed it back. He faced Minnie and said, "Anyhow, we..."

It dawned on Gamer and Minnie. They looked over at the ghost queen, who fastened her head back on. She stuck her tongue out and smiled, "Alright! Ready for the encore!"

Gamer and Minnie became heated tea kettles. The chaos amplified around them when babas sprang from the cabinets and cupboards. The flames of the stove roared to life and its door unhinged like a hungry hippopotamus. The refrigerator and freezer gasped open and filled the room with a chilly fog. Cooking utensils flung around the room, the ghosts trying to play darts with Gamer and Minnie's eyes.

Gamer and Minnie bailed and ran for the door. They phased through the ghost queen and caused her to blush. She covered her eyes and squealed, "Not inside me!"

Gamer and Minnie clambered into the babas' hectic hallway. They rocketed towards one end door. They burst through to a stairwell that led up and to a second floor hallway. The windows in this hallway were being picked at by the trees outside. Their branches scratched like gnarly nails. After rounding a corner, they found another door. They entered, and it was the library. Bookcases lined the walls, a couple tables divided the room, and a piano accented the old architecture. Dust covered everything.

Gamer immediately ran over to the piano, "I swear to Gahd, if you stah-rt playing on your own, I will kick your ah-ss!"

The piano didn't make a peep.

"Sheesh, we need a plan. Give me the deets, bro; we can't just keep running from these things," Samira sent.

A glitchy, violet-colored text box appeared with ༼ つ ╹ ╹ ༽つ Samira reacted with (˚ ☐˚ ")/ as it started moving across the screen. The first one wasn't hers. The last thing Gamer received was ༼ つ ╹ ╹ ༽つ 三三ᕕ( ･o･)ᕗ

"They're in the UI now? Great, talk about a system shock..." Gamer grumbled. Minnie walked over, uncertain about what he meant. Gamer opened his inventory and took out her shell. He passed it over, "I don't know how, or if, these bastards can hurt us, but let's play it safe for now."

"You got it!" Minnie saluted. She went to fit it over her head, but stopped. She held the opening towards Gamer and pointed, and he peeked in. Inside was a baba with a trollish expression, "There's a ghost in the shell."

The baba sprang out like a jack-in-the-box and Gamer reverse lived. He crumbled to the ground in a pale heap, and Minnie spun in circles while holding the shell out. The baba in the shell flew out thanks to the cylindrical force and disappeared into a wall. Gamer's heart beat in his throat, "If this place isn't burnt to the ground by the end of all this, I'mma up their toilets will blow!"

Minnie wiggled into her shell. It fit snugly on her, "Won't you need more protection?"

The mollie outfit did stick out like a sore thumb in a horror themed location. He went into customization and sought something a little more appropriate. Something with pocket space. He found a dull blue police uniform with a large star motif on the front. The star had eyes, and the word STARS was stitched in on the chest of the shirt. It came with elbow and knee pads, which Gamer appreciated.

Minnie liked it, "That's less distracting. What's our first move?"

"If my gaming logic isn't wrong, then we need to look for secrets. In these kinds of games, they always have the items needed to beat the enemies stashed away somewhere. We gotta loot that shit!" Gamer advised.

"Got it!"

The piano suddenly animated, opened its lid like a gaping maw, and closed around on Gamer. Its chords thrummed as it continuously bit down like a wind-up toy.

"I...fucking...knew...it!" Gamer angrily cried between chomps. Minnie mini-panicked and looked for a way to intervene. Gamer was but a screaming dog toy in the mouth of a ravenous musical mutt. Minnie spotted empty spaces in a nearby bookcase. She scaled up to the top, and then cannonballed towards the monster instrument.

On the first floor there was an extravagant studio with plenty of space to enjoy paintings of blocky landscapes, portraits of funky individuals, and concept art. A six-foot statue of a star stood in the center. The masonry's refined craft exemplified a passionate hand and galactic vision. The ceiling cracked above the statue, followed by a whole piano falling through. The piano destroyed the statue and vice versa. Gamer and Minnie rolled sideways out of the debris.

"Thanks, Minnie..." Gamer cracked his Bach as he stood up.

"No problem!" Minnie gave a thumbs up. They recovered and checked around themselves. The animated piano lay in pieces, and a strange, flat-looking wisp flew out of its lid. It disappeared into the wall. Minnie cocked her head, "What was that?"

The remnants of the statue carpeted the gallery floor. Gamer's eyes fell on what remained of the star on its perch. Set in the center of the statue, amongst all the grey stone, was a tiny, yellow item. Shaped like a star and the size of a kiwi, it also had a bit of a sparkle to it. Gamer stumbled over the piano's corpse and reached out for the star, "Now what's this easter egg?"

A baba emerged from below the statue and picked up the star. Gamer freaked out, and the baba giggled evilly, "This ain't yours! This belongs to Queen Yaga!"

"Yaga's that dead bride? Well tell her it's finders keepers. Give me that item!" Gamer demanded. His thirst for more power ups overrode his fear of ghosts.

"Nah!" the baba zipped past Gamer. This caused him to stumble backwards in fright and trip over the piano. He accidentally ran into a portrait, but instead of hitting something solid, he fell into the painting. It rippled like water. Minnie and the baba moved over, curious what actually happened.

"Is that normal?" Minnie asked the spectre.

"I only know one person who could do that..." the baba was baffled.

Gamer fell out of another portrait on the opposite wall, along with a deluge of seawater. He splat against the floor, and a gulp gulp flopped out of his police uniform. He coughed up a bunch of water, "That...was the largest eel...I've ever seen!"

"You're like Marco!" the baba gasped. "You can use the portraits here to teleport to different locations."

"Teleportation?" Gamer eyeballed all the frames in the gallery. He denoted two that had a snowy mountain in them. He dashed into the nearby one. It took a moment, but he popped out of the second picture, along with a snow flurry. He did in close proximity to the baba. He snatched the star item. It even scared the little guy.

"Ah! Thief!" the baba turned nearly invisible as it covered its eyes.

"Haha! Redemption, bitch!" Gamer held the star up in victory.

The baba dove into the piano. The instrument animated again, its noise grungy and warped. Gamer's bravado immediately dropped, but Minnie leapt in front of him. The piano rammed into her, she rammed into Gamer, and he grabbed onto her. They flew backwards through one of the paintings and disappeared into it. They tumbled through a farmer's field. The farmer did not care, as he chased after a goose trying to steal his rake. Gamer and Minnie fell into a pond. When they hit the water, they popped out of a painting in the foyer of Ouija's Mansion. The babas and ghost queen were absent now. The uneasy quietness hung like a haze.

What broke that silence was the front doors abruptly opening. Persica, with Asterion leaning over her shoulder, hobbled in. The minotaur was nearly unconscious and barely helped support his weight.

"Bobs, why am I doing this?" Persica cursed after they entered. When she saw Gamer and Minnie, she dropped Asterion like a bag of potatoes, "Gamer? Minnie? Why are you two in this tainted place?"

Gamer dashed forward, concern in his eyes. Persica stepped aside for him to check on the minotaur. Instead, he shoved Persica aside and dove for the front doors. They had been slowly closing since their arrival. He critically failed, as it shut right when he reached the handles. It locked once again.

"NOOO!" Gamer tugged on the handles like a rabid animal.

Minnie jogged over to check in on Asterion. She wiped some cum from his cheek and asked if he was okay. Persica shrugged while biting a nail, "I'm not sure. He's been unresponsive for the most part. I had to drag him inside to escape the creeps. I'd rather deal with the babas."

Gamer moped on over and examined the beaten up minotaur. A curiosity rose, "Hold up...afro bull, you can't be seriously hurt. This is just an avatar."

Asterion poked one eye open, "Yeah, but it's giving me an excuse to eat dinner. The synaptic feedback did sting a lot, though."

Gamer rolled his eyes and approached Persica, "Are you familiar with this place? We need to escape this hellhole. These babas suck! We even saw their queen, too -- white dress, purple hair, big bazongas..."

"Queen? Big bazongas?" Persica raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, they were like kablam!" Gamer emphasized the ghost queen's bust.

"I'd say they were more like bazinga!" Minnie argued.

"Are they more boing or goddaym?" Persica dropped the princess persona for a moment to get to the bottom of this bosom. Gamer and Minnie both accepted 'goddaym' as the scientific etymology for Yaga's big babas.

In front of the stairs, a hidden manhole opened up. A person raised up out of the hole on an elevator platform. Based on the labcoat, overalls, and green undershirt, Gamer identified him as some scientist. What immediately flashed Marco in everybody's minds was the scientist's bushy moustache, big nose, and green baseball cap. He was lankier than Marco, nearly Gamer's height. His back lurched out due to an exaggerated hunch, as if he wore a backpack under the lab coat. Sleep deprivation was evident by the bags under his eyes and his unkempt moustache. He held a coffee mug in one hand, devoid of substance. He appeared slightly alarmed by the group's presence.

"Who's this long-nose Igor-looking motherfucker?" Gamer raised an eyebrow.

The Marco lookalike barely reacted. He reached into his lab coat and pulled out a small, violet bell. He dinged it. Queen Yaga and a few of her babas appeared forcibly out of thin air, and obviously disgruntled.

"Oooh, what is it now, Ouija? You're ruining my grand entrance for a show that these people will never forget!" Yaga pouted. Her babas berated the scientist. Ouija appeared annoyed and reached under his coat. He pulled out the rod of a vacuum, the hose disappearing behind him under the lab coat. He turned a switch on and instantly sucked up two of the babas. Their shrieks of terror were silenced once sucked in. Yaga and the other babas gasped and covered their eyes. They went slightly invisible, "Please, not the bag!"

Gamer's eyes honed in on that magnificent piece of ghost killing equipment. It was the golden ticket to beating the ghosts. Ouija pointed the vacuum at the group, and it seemed to inform Queen Yaga to deal with them. His elevator lowered back into the ground, and the hatch closed.

"A ghost who is afraid of something. Whatever that contraption is, it must..." Persica was interrupted.

"It must mean ghosts hate cleaning!" Gamer figured it out. "That's why haunted places are always so dusty and randown."

"He knows about how lazy ghosts are?" Yaga gasped, staying 'hidden' with her hands over her eyes.

"I needa that vacuum," Gamer set Ouija as the number one target. This reminded him, and he took out the small star item he collected and showed it to Persica, "Speaking of items, I found this in the house. What's it do?"

Persica's eyes lit up. The princess reached for it, "That's a star mint! It's super rare. It makes you invincible to everything. Nothing can affect you while you're under its effects!"

A baba zipped by and stole the mint from Gamer's palm. More babas appeared around the foyer and danced near Yaga. The ghost queen floated nearer and reclaimed the star mint, "This is not yours! I need these for my shows, so that me and mine shine like the stars above!"

"You use them for theater? That's such a waste of drugs! Can't you be like normal people and do opium?" the news upset Persica. She put a hand on her bag, filled with her own collection. She locked in on Yaga, but spoke to Gamer, "Is this what you've been struggling with since you've arrived?"

He did not respond, and so she looked at him. The moment the babas showed up, Gamer had thrown himself through the nearest wall. He left behind only a perfect outline. Persica sighed, "I'll take that as a yes."

Minnie hoisted Asterion up, since he still couldn't move from the creep gangbang. Persica instructed her, "Minnie, keep Asterion safe. I'll handle the ghosts."

"Got it," Minnie knew the bottom floors were unsafe. She lugged the minotaur up the stairs, regardless of size differences. Yaga and the babas left her alone, as they all focused on Persica. Once Minnie and Asterion stepped through a random second floor door, all that was left in the entrance were the two royal women.

Queen Yaga stuffed the star mint between her honkadahlonkaloos and smirked, "Quite pompous of you to think you can handle all of us. Well, lemme tell you something! Nobody upstages the queen!"