Escape the Night: Season 3 (My Way + Self-Insert OC)

The Voting: IV

The group sat around the table, when Manny spoke up to defend himself. "I feel like I am a player that does everything and I do them well." he said when Mat started defending him too. "And he does them so well that you won the strongman competition." Mat was about to continue when Manny interrupted him to defend himself again.

"And I'm the strongest, so if we ever need any kind of strength situation, that's me." Mat explained how they needed the strongest man, who was Manny, when Manny asked "So why would you want to go against me?" Mat responded with how he didn't before explaining how they should vote for Joey.

"He's been acting very strangely this entire time. He has some connection to this league that he's not telling us about." MatPat started while Joey tried to defend himself. Everyone looked in shock, Richard and Ro having the biggest faces of shock as both wanted to help Joey and came for that reason.

MatPat: Hey, my life is on the line here. I need Manny and either Joey or Roi to go in and Joey's been really sketchy.

"Joey, do you have anything to say?" Richard calmly asked the blond. "Well, first of all, I feel a connection to this town and I have a purpose here. There's something more that I have to do here, and if I'm killed before that time, you guys won't get out of here alive. You need me." Joey finished his little monologue.

Mat and Manny looked at him with a face saying clearly that they thought he was lying, Safiya's face spelled curiosity, one of "I'm not sure if I should trust you, but I'm curious so I guess I will," and the three R's faces each held a face of sympathy. Joey looked at the variety of faces of his friends and asked to speak with everyone individually, starting with Ro.

Rosanna: I trust Joey because I know Joey as a friend. He doesn't have an evil bone in his body.

Everyone began talking to each other, Manny, Safiya, and Mat all talked about whether Joey should go, Joey was now talking to Roi, and Richard and Ro hoped that Mat wouldn't go.

MatPat: So I know that if I get even one vote, then I have a chance of going in, so I need to make sure as few people vote for me as possible.

Safiya: I talk to Joey and I tell him, "If you're able to tell us something more to reassure our confidence in you, I think it would go a long way with the group."

Joey finished talking with Richard when he added one last thing. "Also, if you're hiding something, tell us. It's better to have all your cards shown than to hide one that could win the game." the younger man said before walking back. Joey got up and decided now that both Safiya and Richard had told him to tell the truth, then the truth would come.

Joey: I realize now is the best time that we're gonna get to just confess what's going on.

"I didn't want to tell you guys this from the beginning, because I was scared of, like, what you guys would think. Um, truth is, I died." Joey told the group, each having a face with varying degrees of shock. "I-I died and I woke up in this town. I was so scared. I didn't know what was going on. And I signed a contract that I would save this town and they would bring me back to life. And if I don't save this town, I die with it." he finished the truth.

"You should have told us from the beginning." Roi flatly stated to Joey who continued. "I know. I should've told you guys, but I didn't- I didn't know how you guys would take it." the man said, sniffling in between sentences. "Pretty poorly, actually." MatPat told the man straight in his face, "'Cause what you just said is that you're willing to trade nine lives for yours, Joey?"

Safiya: Obviously, everyone, especially Mat, is livid because we've been killing each other off the whole time.

"I have unfinished business that I need to do here, so that's why it's so important that I don't go out into that elimination." he finished with a tear rolling down his cheek.

Manny: Nice acting, Joey! I don't believe any of it. He even had a single tear. I swear to god, that was a spit tear. I feel like he was like, "Oh." (performs motion of a spit tear.)

"It is now time to vote." Calliope announced, Mat going up first casting his vote on Joey followed by Safiya, who voted for Manny.

Safiya: I don't know if I can vote for Joey in this instance because I think that he has more information that we might need.

Rosanna: I really hate challenges. I don't like to see anybody go.

Manny went and voted for Joey, like Mat, followed by Joey himself, who silently voted for Mat, and Richard and Roi, who both voted for themselves. "The first male going into the challenge is..." their lady helper began before flipping a card to the guests.

The Detective

MatPat: I'm going into the challenge. It sucks. I am devastated.

MatPat angrily sat up straight as Calliope began to call out the second name. "The second male going into the challenge is..." she pulled the card, ready to show it to the guests.

Manny: Please be Joey, please be Joey.

The Record Producer

"Here." MatPat took off his glasses and badge before slamming the badge on the table and putting the glasses down with controlled anger. "There's no justice here!" Richard stared at the man before looking down at the glasses. "All right, guys, we gotta get you changed for this." Mortimer announced with sports outfits in hand.

Manny: So we realize that we need to change outfits.

MatPat: So we go back into the arcade, I drop trou, put on trou.

"All right, guys, so these are your strongmen." Mortimer announced with Mat and Manny behind him, one more comfortable than the other.

Manny: And I'm like, okay, cool. This is cute. This is different. I'm wearing this cute, little white tee, red little booty shorts, a little bandana. Like, and I'm looking even more pretty, and I'm like, "Yes."

"The rest of you are gonna come and watch." Mortimer said. Everyone got off the couch, the three Rs looking shocked and sad that they have to watch one of them die.

MatPat: I don't like to be seen in shorts. I'm very sensitive about how my legs look.