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

The Rings

Richard: All of a sudden, I awake from the collar, and they're all grabbing me, so I think the collar needed them to touch me, or something like that

"How bad was what I did?" Richard asked as soon as he had his bearings. "Gross. You-" Ro began when Richard put a finger up, "Don't tell me, It'll make it worse." Joey stepped over, "Okay, we need to go to the church." Richard turned to him, "That's where part one of the cleansing is?" Everyone else nodded.

Out of nowhere, the Demon Dog burst out of the drugstore. "Okay, running, we're running, must go faster!" Richard ran as fast as his legs could take him to the church. He stood by the door as Ro ran up next, unlocking the door as everyone ran inside. The Demon Dog caught up and slammed into an invisible barrier. "Ha! Take that you demon fuck! You're stuck at the barrier, you idiot!" Richard pointed at the Demon Dog.

Richard: So we're looking at him from the threshold, and he can't get us. Unless we have to go outside, then we're f*cked.

Joey: I turn around and I realize we're not alone.

"That's him. That's The Carnival Master. He's encased in amber." Everyone turned to the amber prison in the corner. "Well, John Hammond better stay the hell away from him." Richard joked, getting a chuckle out of Ro. "I mean, here he is, but should we look around?" Mat asked, Richard nodded. "Oo, wait, we got handcuffs." Mat noted, looking at an altar in the church.

Ro grabbed the note and began to read, "To claim the first ring, two of you must make a sacrifice by placing one hand each inside the altar and closing the metal ring around it." Richard looked at Ro and pointed between them, "You and me?" she nodded her head.

They placed their hands into the holes and Mat and Joey helped lock them in. The altar opened revealing they were chained together. Mat and Joey went and looked to see, "Wait, it's the first ring." he said as Joey pulled out a note. "We got it, and there's flashlights.

Richard: The box pops open, like every damn box in this town, we find our first ring, but me and Ro are handcuffed to each other. Eeh, could be worse.

"It says, 'So many in this town took a dirty secret to their grave. The second ring can only be seen once you have reunited five of them with their secret fetish." Joey read the note.

Joey: So basically, we need to figure out where the fetishes go on each gravestone

A/N: Yeah, this whole episode was uncomfortable, but I'm way more comfortable writing my character doing this than what he would have done while wearing the collar.

The Demon Dog slammed on the barrier, reminding the group that he's still out there. "Oh, f*ck off already, you demon fuck! Don't make me dance on a bridge to disrespect you!" Richard yelled at the Demon Dog.

Joey: We realize one of us is going to have to distract the Demon Dog. I decided I'm going to be the distraction.

"If you get tired, I'll take over." Mat told Joey before turning to Ro and Richard. Joey ran out the main entrance of the church while Mat, Ro, and Richard ran out the side door. They turned on their blacklights to look around, "Okay, that's a ball gag." Richard grabbed what he found while Ro picked up a high heel.

Mat looked at one of the graves and read, "Sally Swanson: Loved to gossip. You had to force her to enjoy some peace and quiet." He finished as Richard ran over, "Here's the gag!" he exclaimed, dropping the gag in front of the headstone. "Oh, my gosh, he's coming! I'm going back in the church!" Joey yelled out.

Richard led the charge back into the church as Joey ran in. "Guys, did you get it?" Joey asked when Richard shook his head, "We need more time. We only got one placed." Everyone talked to each other, revealing binoculars were found, along with their grave in the middle.

Joey: So we switch roles, and now, I'm helping the group while Mat distracts the Demon Dog.

"Hey, Demon Dog! I'm more of a cat person! Cats are so much better than devil dogs!" Mat yelled to distract it as the group exited the church. They located the binoculars and were searching for the grave.

MatPat: At this point, we were all exhausted. The last thing I want to do is run even more. So what I tried to do is lure him into the front of the church, and then kinda keep him at that boundary.

Mat went inside the church and threw the piece of candy he lured the Demon Dog with right in front of the entrance. "Mat, which one was the peeping tom?" Joey asked looking through the graves, "It's the one with windows!" Mat yelled back. Joey threw the binoculars in front of the correct grave and the three kept looking.

Richard found and grabbed a whip and soon after Ro looked at a grave. "Donna Gunn was always a hit at parties. No one could whip it- Okay, the whip, the whip." She told Richard as he dropped the whip in front. They went in front of a grave and skimmed through seeing "wrong foot" on it and placed the heel in front. Meanwhile, Mat was unwrapping some candy for the Demon Dog before offering it. The Demon Dog grabbed his arm and tried to pull him out of the church, but failed.

MatPat: I get suckered in, I slowly start to bring it to his mouth, when he grabs me and tries to pull me out of the church. I am almost dog meat.

The group walked inside the church and Calliope picked up the dropped candy. "Hey, go catch this, bitch!" she yelled out at the Demon Dog while throwing the candy. It worked as the Demon Dog chased after the candy and the group ran in the opposite direction. "We just need to find the last one. I have the leather skirt." Joey yelled out to the group.

Joey walked up to a grave and read its epitaph, "Brilliant designer who always liked to keep things as short as possible." At the same time, Richard and Ro ran up to another grave, "Caroline Weathers: The woman who longed for children' I feel like that will be important later. Ro remember that." Richard read. Joey threw the leather skirt onto the last grave.

Richard: We figure out the last clue for these fetishes in the graveyard.

"Oh, something came off of this grave. Oh, it's the ring! it's the ring, it's the ring!" Mat exclaimed as he grabbed the ring with a note inside off the ground. The group ran off to the church to read the note. "The Demon Dog holds the third ring around its neck."

Joey: The Demon Dog has the third ring, of course. So we have to figure out how we're going to trap this guy, and how we're gonna kill him.

"You'll need to find the hunter's trap in the trees, lure it inside with a tasty human morsel, and then impale it with an iron rod. The iron rod from the gnarled tree. The trap is on the other side of the cemetery." Mat finished reading the note before the group ran out to find the rod. "Okay, I already see it. Here you go. Trap is on the other side, bring the candy." Mat grabbed the rod.

"No, don't!" Richard yelled out, everyone turned to him. "The note said 'tasty human morsel.' We need to lure him with one of us, spring the trap, then stab him." Everyone's eyes widened with realization before they ran off to the trap. The Demon Dog caught up with them to see Richard standing on the trap, "What's up demon! It's me, your BOY!" he yelled out as the Demon Dog ran to him.

Richard and Ro ran backward as Joey pulled the rope and sprung the trap. The Demon Dog got tangled in the trap's net when Mat ran in with the rod. He stabbed the Demon Dog before grabbing the ring, the group ran back to the church, and Mat yelled "I do not support animal cruelty!" Lucy ran to the trap screaming, "Humphrey!" over and over before crying at its corpse. "What have you done!" she yelled out to the group at the church's side door.

MatPat: Killing the dog, I wanted to be remorseful, but I had already shown this thing some mercy by trying to feed it candy earlier in the night, and it still tried to kill me, so turnabout was fair play.

Richard: Aww, it had a name. That... doesn't change my feelings about it, it actually makes me more happy it had a name. Cause we just dealt psychic damage to Lucy, that sick bitch!