malmshodes

Why so serious?

Jynmi nodded. He shook his head, and shrugged and tried to go through ever expressive movement he could come up with just to make sure he touched on the bases. "Maybe. There's definitely something about this place that screams "remember me"." He looked around the massive trees. "Hey, before we got sucked into this place, I mean if it really happened and wasn't a dream, did you hear a man's voice? I could've sworn I did." He looked at his hands. "It, he, mentioned knocking the right way." He blinked because not doing so would cause his eyes to dry out. He shrugged and spotted a small clearing in the huge trees. "Hey, this might sound crazy but do you get the feeling we should go in there? I mean, its like hands are pulling me into it." He motioned with his hand for her to follow him. "Come on. I'm pretty sure this is the way to go." But he stopped and looked around. "Besides, I"m not sure if there's any other way to go. It's one of those process of elimination things. "

Why so serious?

Jynmi flew vertically quiet a ways, and kept on flying long after he ran out of air to scream with. In fact he didn't stop until land, a lot of it, came out of nowhere like a giant catcher's glove and plucked him out of wherever it was he was flying through. It hurt, and that was a good sign because pain was something that you tended to look over when you were dead. "So I'm not dead." Jynmi muttered, rubbing his head, his back, and that was about it. There were more places that were sore and badly in need of a rub but a lady was present.

Oh yeah! "Uhm." Jynmi moving closer to get a better view of the young woman to make sure she was alright. "Are you alright?" He put a hand on her shoulder. "Uhm." Something dawned on him and he looked around. There was still light but it was starting to bow out and exit the stage so the rest of the defined world could have it chance in the spotlight. "Well, if you are there's good news and bad news." He uhmed again and scratched under his chin. "We're not in that house anymore and whatever it was that smashed along in the basement doesn't seem to be around." He nodded, happy that it sounded as good coming out as it did in his head.

"Unless of course we always lived in a world with forest that went high up to where the mountains could only grasp and glittered with lights of diamonds and I just didn't know about it. We didn't did we?"

Why so serious?

The girl gave Jynmi a look, or more of a glance which somehow managed to ask a question that you had no idea was a question even with the lack of the right punctuation at the end. He nodded, and shrugged at her, which translated to "this is all new to me too." He watched her open up something. Light came rushing in like customers after the stores had been open for a black friday. It wasn't a very strong light, but what it lacked in the ability to bring color into the world, it more than made up for by showing you just where to put your feet so you wouldn't trip.

"I don't know if its safe to go in there." He said. The pounding footsteps stopped just on the other side of the door and then there wasn't a door, but some smashed remains that went flying to the side of the room opposite of where they were. "But its not safe in here either. So let's go and do some sight seeing, eh?" He took her hand and pulled her into the light. It went bump, or it could have been his head. It was hard to tell. He shook it off certain there was really just some kind of misunderstanding like the little frame the light was spilling from was lower than it looked. So he tried again, but there was still a bump. "Hmm." He tapped on what could only be described as a screen that was the kind of clean one just couldn't believe. Jynmi couldn't believe it, and his head had gotten a few bruises from it.

"Here, you've got to knock on it like this." A voice said before there was a series of oddly timed knocks. "There you go."
"Thanks" Jynmi said looking around. Glass smashed somewhere and then the door of light became the epicenter of a tornado, but one that happened underground within a small doorway. It pulled them towards it and then into it.

Why so serious?

"PSSSS." Jynmi whispered as loud as he could just in case the girl in the closest with him couldn't hear very well. YOu never wanted to take any needless risks in a situation like this. "What's going on?" This was a little bit lower. Not low enough to be considered low per se, but low enough to warrant some restraint in not smacking him in the back of the head because he should've known better. "Also, you owe me for the pizza. I mean, its not mine personally but if the pay for it is going to have to come from somewhere and my wallet is on life support, thanks to lack of nutrition, as it is so the money isn't coming from there."

As he spoke the thing coming down the stairs finished coming down so you could say he was in came territory. The footsteps could be heard all the way to the last step, but there wasn't any legs to accompany them, or a shadow to go along with the space on the ground that suddenly sunk in as if something way too heavy to have been able to climb the stairs without going through them on its first step, was standing there. There was a moment when nothing happened but then the foot steps started again, and they made their way towards the table. A pause, and then the table was smashed in half like a piece of wood suddenly between an anvil and a sledge hammer that was just fired out of a cannon. Another pause went by without anything of interest happening before the foot steps started again, and this time they appeared in the direction of the closet

Comedy

Sure, that sounds great! Was there anything particular you'd like to do? I kind of like the idea of doing it in an adventure time like setting or maybe the actual setting of adventure time?

Why so serious?

The steps got closer, completely, utterly, and even contemptuously ignoring the psychic pleas Jynmi hoped to be sending out that asked, quiet nicely, to please go away or if not for that, at the very least, stay where you were so he could go somewhere else. There was a second of vertigo as he got lost in the lack of the directions he had to flee. The old self defense mechanism was starting to kick in slowly but surely splintering the door to the control room of his nervous system. He put a chair under the knob just in case. For all his shortcomings and lack of better ideas of what to do, he was smart enough to have little doubt that this wasn't the time or place to play dead because doing so would lead to him becoming so good at the act he wouldn't have to play any more.

That's when the voice came, the one that told him what to do. He hadn't heard it in awhile, probably because of his medication. With a nod, he hurried to blow out the candles, which ended out pretty well. The problems didn't start till he became disoriented in the dark and knocked everything over with the kind of crash you could hear in a vacuum. "Flaming Crap in front of a door." He snapped before shrugging back to his feet as a tell tale glint of some light that shouldn't be there told him alerted him to the door knob's location. He ran, not worrying about sound any more grabbed the knob and stepped.

Jeez That was a close one. "Thanks." The foot steps kept coming till they appeared to stop at the base..

Comedy

Think I could handle one or two more. So, bump!

Why so serious?

Jynmi made his way over to the table without anything else happening. He stopped before he reached his hand over to the doll, because that's what you did in these circumstances, but stopped to make sure there really wasn't anything happening. There didn't seem to be, this moment right here, in particular. "Okay." He touched the top of the doll ever so gently, to make sure it wasn't warn or breathing, and moved his hands over to the pizza so he could start closing the box, and he did manage to close it before he heard the sound in the stairs. They went, eeek, eek, eek like someone was coming down.

"Back dooR?" His eyes drifted around but aside from what was obviously a closet he couldn't see any. "Back door?" The noise coming down from the stairs got closer and he took a step towards the closet. He didn't want to trap himself in there, but he would, if only for a few seconds more of life.

Why so serious?

Getting through the window was pretty easy. Jynmi had been coming in through windows all his life. What gave him trouble was the other side. It was like landing a plan, but without all that runway to gently come to a stop on. So instead he fell, and landed hard with the kind of thump you knew came with stars at the end. "Oh damn it. That hurt." He mumbled and stayed on the ground for a moment, wondering if the twenty bucks were with it until he came to the conclusion said twenty dollars was in fact worth it on account of his not owning any twenties, or anything really. He was lucky to still have a car with a third a tank of gas. "Still hurts." He said getting to his feet and checking his chin to make sure it was still facing forwards. "But I'll survive." Which was a shame when you thought about the alternative. "Now, for that pizza."

He looked around the room and came to the conclusion it was either a kitchen or a bathroom somebody had gotten entirely wrong. There was a hole in the floor, at the corner, underneath the strange clock that looked like a cat with single yellow eye that happened to tick. On the other side of the room there was a cabinet and a refrigerator that hummed so loud it wouldn't have come as any surprise what so ever if it burst into flames. Another wall was occupied by a stove which was still hot. He didn't have to touch it to tell. The glowing red grills was enough of tell tale sign. The last three walls were occupied with two doors and a dimly lit hallway that went into a much larger area. Jynmi looked at this, the hallway the longest. "He shook his head because it had the phrase written you'll die going down this hallways all over it in the colors you'd get in any random handful of party confetti. After some time" he remembered about the narrating thing and did a game of eni-meani-minie-moe to choose where'd he'd go next and it was the first door on the left.

"Ready or not, here I come." He wasn't talking to the stranger with the pizza, because of the lack of concern regarding her readiness for him, but for himself because that's who he cared about most, almost unconditionally. It was a close almost. He loved himself, a lot, but it didn't take quiet that much effort to come up with a list of things he could do to make him wish himself ill. "One moment though." He said, swallowing the lump that was stuck in his throat and tried to hold on to the bell at the back of your mouth with a fierceness that would've made a berserk er blush in a rare moment of self-consciousness, but he managed to break its grip with a couple of wet coughs. "Alright here we go!" He grabbed the door knob and yanked open the door, revealing a dimly lit hallway. "Why," he asked nobody in particular "would anybody use red lightning like that. It literally looks like a stair way down to hell, or the maybe the kind of boiler room a serial killer would call home." He didn't want to go, but the Eenie-meanie had spoken, and would kick him in the nuts if he didn't listen.

The stares squeaked and squealed, louder with each step he took. "Come on now. The last set of stairs I went down didn't complain so much, and I'm only a couple of pounds heavier than I was then." This didn't stop the noises, but he didn't take it too hard as there wasn't a great deal of hope it would. "Hmmm." He said upon reaching the bottom. "Now, I could be wrong" and he wouldn't be surprised if he was because history lacked originality "but this looks like what you find in one of those movies were everything would've gone alright if the main character just left before touching anything." He turned to leave, but the door at the top slammed shut with the kind of finality that said, in no uncertain words, this was final and you weren't anywhere beyond this point. "Oh well, too little too late, but its nice to know.... Er I've got no way to finish that thought."

He frowned and turned his attention back to the doll and the candles, and the pizza which had already become a lost smaller since the last time he'd seen it. "Your not one of them killer dolls are you?" He licked his lips and very carefully like a man in a minefield, or a cat in a busy street, made his way over.

Why so serious?

"Come. Come on." Jynmi mumbled. He chewed on his cheek, and his lip. Then his tongue. He stopped at his tongue. He did it too hard and there was blood. Images of youthful days, sucking on pennies came back to him like a mule kick to the back of the head. Oh, those youthful days, how much simpler life was. Suddenly there was a jolt as someone came up from behind him. He didn't that though. All he got was the scare of a life. He went. "EEEEEEEPPPPP." It was a battle cry, nothing embarrassing about it. It was meant to dissociate to give him a chance at a counter attack. He just forgot to counter and instead dove in some nearby bushes.

There was a shuffling sound from outside the protective foliage and then the pitter-patter of feet running away. "Oh yeah. The pizza." He nodded to himself and then flung his body out of the bushes like jack in the box whose sound was broken. He would've yelled for the perp to come back but they'd already gotten to far for the sound of his voice to make any difference, and then went into the creepy house. "Oh. Of course he mumbled, shaking his head and then" slapping his hand over his mouth so he wouldn't narrate himself any more. Shame as he'd gone almost three days without doing it. With a shaking head he trotted over to the house and stood in front of the door, thinking about knocking, but deciding against as he wouldn't have answered if the roles were reversed.

Quietly, almost like a cat with socks on its feet, he made his way to around the back, and tried the knob. It didn't open, but the window next to it had been left wide enough for him to be able to crawl through with a couple of friends. Too bad he didn't have that many. So he took in a deep breath, congratulated himself on not drinking anything recently because it would suck to be in such a creepy space with a full bladder and slipped inside.

Somewhere at the bottom of the house, beneath the basement, under the floorboards, something shifted.