Orlando, Florida
July 2nd, 2019
Roughly 10:00pm
Mitch Hults...killed by falling from the roller coaster.
Taylor Raddysh...beaten and strangled to death.
William Nylander and Kasperi Kapanen...crushed under a broken thrill ride.
Ben Thomas...beaten and tortured to death.
Brett Howden and Brayden Point...stabbed to death.
And now Otto Somppi...flung from the dangerous, broken carousel ride.
Who is next? Who is killing? Why and how? So many questions and the time is pushing part ten o'clock pm as the group leaves Otto's body, not wishing to view the grotesque scene anymore. They head back for the ramp. Hostility caving to fear. Bravery dwindling into horror. No one smiles, laughs or acts out. Just glares and inner thoughts racing through each player's stunned mind.
Brendan silently leads them back into the castle and into the center area, before heading down the last and final hallway. No speaks out or splits. It is clear that the killer is breaking them each as they wander through the last tunnel in silence and emerge upon a second bridgeway. The other end of the tunnel spits out more of the railway that races across the end of the bridge on the other side, before vanishing into brush that circles the back of the castle and the park's property.
In a half-hearted, broken voice, Brendan grumbles out, "Whoever can make it, there's gotta be an exit somewhere here in the back of the property. We just have to find it..."
"What's the point? Probably locked or thorn-sealed..." Ross growls out, sadly. "We were brought here to die! Might as well just...enjoy what little hours or minutes we have left with one another."
Boris and Alex come up to him and put a hand comfortingly on his shoulder.
"Rossy, it'll be okay," Alex coos out.
Ross sighs.
"I mean the killer can try to get butterflies," Yanni begins to remark, lifting his head up proudly.
Vladdy pats him on the head. "You're the best guard cat, Yanni."
"Shut up, Vladislav," Jo grumbles. "If we've given up hope, I just wanna be next! Fuck the group together thing! I can't be around here ANYMORE seeing and listening to Princess and Butterflies and really all of you!"
"I'm not stopping you," Brendan mutters.
"I'll just go sit at the entrance or whatever and wait to die," Jo adds on, clenching a fist to his side.
With that, the moody, hostile Montreal forward storms back across the bridge and into the tunnel and then heads down the wide, main central tunnel connected to the circular room. A flame from one of the torches hung on the wall near the entrance to the tunnel pulses as he passes it, before he quickly vanishes down the dimly lit pathway.
"Anyone else gonna just give off killer red flags and leave?" Brendan remarks.
"I'm close to leaving, but not there yet," Colby snarls. "I ain't no killer."
"Look, now that he's gone and can't bark at me, I think Jo's the actual killer. Someone should go with him," Timo remarks. "Dare I say I'm agreeing with Blondie over his pick. Not just because of his hostility, but let's look at some facts?"
Jonne folds his arms and smirks at the others. "Detective Hand Paws with some truth, hit 'em up, Timmy-o."
Timo rolls his eyes. "What did I just tell you about making fun of me...?"
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And Then There Was One (2019)
Mystery / Thriller21 ice hockey players for the NHL, AHL and ECHL are either kidnapped by force or tricked into coming to the mysteriously abandoned "Masquerade Island" theme park. When they arrive, they learn that the host is nonexistent and that they've been abando...
