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// You Have Nothing to Fear... 
// Story: Rainbow Dash's Awesome Nightmare Night Haunted House Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Adventure 
// by TheDriderPony 
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Whoever said 'look before you leap' obviously never tried it. That's the best way to encounter new surprises!

You take a running leap into the room, finally glad to have somewhere wide and tall enough to stretch your wings. Walking everywhere was getting boring. You make a circuit of the room's interior and confirm that all six surfaces are pretty much identical. There's also many more small components worked into the walls than you could see at first. Nozzles and wires, pinprick holes and geared armatures, even bits of chain and hooks.

What it's all for, you can't possibly imagine.

Just then, the door you came in from slams shut above you. You hurry back up only to find that there's no handle to open it with on this side. You're trapped. Like a rat in a cage.

You fly to the center of the room to maximize your view. There has to be something. Some trick, some gimmick. A puzzle to be solved or a monster to be defeated. A room like this wouldn't exist merely for the point of existing; it has to have a purpose.

A noise like a spool of chain unrolling catches your attention, but it's hard to pinpoint the source. Out of the corner of your eye you see it. A long length of metal spooling out from the corner of the room. All eight corners, actually.

Just as you start to move to investigate, the lights go out, leaving you in utter darkness.

A thunderous crack like from a giant whip fills the air, accompanied by a terrible buzzing noise and a brief flash of pain before you suddenly know no more.

[Sometimes not knowing what happens in the dark is even worse. Add +1 to your Fear Meter].





You blink a few times as light returns, finding yourself standing in the foyer of the mansion as if nothing had happened. But what did happen? It all went by so quickly you don't even know what the scare was supposed to be. Claustrophobia? Things in the dark? Fear of mechanical maintenance? 

"I'm sure you must be absolutely terrified right now." You look upwards to where Trixie gloats from her balcony. She's wearing that looks like a cross between a noir detective's raincoat and something from the private backroom of Rarity's shop. Her face is also an advertisement for freestyle acupuncture. That or she just finished a losing encounter with a porcupine wielding a nail gun. "I think that may have been my best piece of work on this project. No room is scarier nor in so many ways."

"Ugh, sure." You're not sure how to tell her you can't figure out what it was supposed to be. It feels like it'd be mean to knock her down when she looks so pleased with herself. Even if it is Trixie.

Safest bet is probably to ignore the issue entirely and hope she doesn't come asking for details afterward. With that in mind, you turn your attention to picking a new direction to explore.





There doesn't seem to be anything to interact with in this room, but there are three hallways that branch off that head LEFT, FORWARD, and RIGHT.

If your Fear Meter is full, you must select the fourth option.