What a Strange Mask

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   It was nearly impossible to walk through Monty Golf without crouching under broken pieces of the set. There was no straight path out either. I ducked under a fallen gator cardboard cutout and was surprised by a map bot handing me some sort of mask. How are you still functioning?

"Thank you. Please enjoy." It's robotic voice sounded.

"Weird

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"Weird. It's not a Bonnie mask, who's this supposed to be? It looks complicated."

   I put the mask to my face. A little purple bear appeared, how strange.

   "Welcome to V.A.N.N.I. the Virtual Augmented Neural Network unit. Pairing to new user."

   "OW that hurt!" The mask shocked itself on my face, then immediately starting telling me something about repairing security nodes? No idea what that means. I screamed again as I took of the mask and the little bear was still there.

   "Hello real world."

   Shut up.

   So I guess it can communicate with me wirelessly even when I don't even have the mask on, what's the point of that?

   This mask was unlike anything I had ever seen. Where there was an object in my way, I could put on the mask and walk straight through it. I didn't understand it at all. This Pizzaplex has all kinds of new surprises I guess. I kept going through the old Monty Golf restrooms, and utilizing the weird bunny mask to get through blocked doors. Something was going on here, every time I put the mask on I could hear faint whispers of either Gregory crying out for help, or some of the animatronics looking for me. If not then there's always a distant crying I can make out. I decided to keep it off for now, it just felt..off.

   Honestly I was horrified and scared for my life. I hate being alone, I've always felt safe with Gregory and now he's gone too. "Im coming Gregory I promise, just give me some time."

   The rest of the walk through Monty Golf was slow as I swear I kept hearing noises and didn't want to run into Monty again. The entire place was completely powered down except for the Monty Golf arcade game I found. It took a lot out of me to keep myself from playing it, I was insane at mini golf.

   "If you can hear me, turn off all security! Turn it all off!"

   "Gregory?! None of this makes any sense!"

   He mentioned something about security nodes? What the heck are those? I ran upstairs using the mask to walk through the fallen splash bucket sign that you used to be able to fill up with the Monty squirt guns. The mask revealed a huge Monty hologram where his stage is located. Without it it's empty. But with it on I can see it all filled with colors and sounds of kids cheering. It didn't feel right though, every time I put the mask on everything sounded trapped. The mask was a useful yet dangerous tool. With it I was able to shut down the first security node that Gregory had told me about. It was simple enough I guess, for now.

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