Week 4

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Two more people died this week. Two children. And they died because of a freak accident. Despite all your protests, Randall refused to let Jane get away despite being innocent.

But there is a tiny ray of hope now, which comes in the form of the mirror. Now that the mirror is public information, you can see people you care about, even if they are dead and trapped in hell. Not only that, but you now now that someone is trying to save you all from the predicament that you're in. And this time there's a good chance that he won't turn out to be a heartless mass murderer!

Still, the ideas for the plan are vague and you have no idea when you will actually get out. It's hard to keep up hope when your only chance of living might still end with you horribly killed, isn't it?

At least you have a new floor and the ability to wash your clothes now.

26 guests remain.]

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Comments

[pinkflip]

"EPCOT," huh? [ She doesn't want to take these things. She'll just remember them, write them down once she goes back to her room. She'll try and make it look like things have been disturbed as little as possible.

If that's all for the photos, she'll move on to the stacks of VHS tapes. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There are five in total. Each are labeled with sharpie.

* Disney Classic Cartoon Collection

* Fantasia

* Best of The Twilight Zone

* Tower of Terror: The Movie

* CREATION]

[pinkflip]

[ ...Hm. Well there's a VHS, so. How about we start in order? Disney Classic Cartoon Collection. ]

What is on you...?

[grimgrinningghosts]

[This seems pretty innocuous. It’s a series of five very old cartoons, in black and white. There are awkward jumpcuts between them, as though somebody recorded this themselves.

More details on each of them/their contents? Or did you want to move on to the next VHS?]

[pinkflip]

[ More details. She's watching this thing twice. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[* * Something about skeletons dancing.

* * Of rabbits and trolleys.

* * This weird short about devils.

* * This one has some live action.

* * Another one with the rabbit.]

[pinkflip]

[ Hoo boy, maybe she won't watch them twice, never mind. Thank you for the shorts. ]

That's...weird, okay.

[ Why would their death-hungry overlord have these innocent cartoons?

Next one. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[The next one is Fantasia. The film. It's the full, unaltered film. There doesn't appear to have been any changes made to it.]

[pinkflip]

[ ...After about five minutes of this- ]

O...kay, this is all nice, but. Maybe...we should move on?

[ Yeah, after a few more minutes - anxiety about Randall showing back up - she pops it out and puts in the next one. ]

[stanbyme]

Yeah, that's the kind of thing I woulda fallen asleep if I'd tried to watch it as a kid.

[Bad Grandpa is here, Kim. Let's see what we've got.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Best of the Twilight Zone. It's a grainy old VHS tape and it's...pretty self-explanatory.]

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.

[Does this guy go on forever?]

[pinkflip]

[ ...Hm. Well, Kim wasn't around for time with Rod last night, she probably arrived just after it, so. ]

What the heck is this guy yammering about?

[stanbyme]

I dunno, but this looks like the kind of nerd show my brother would like.

[Neither was he]

How many left?

[pinkflip]

Reminds me of some dark dimensions I've been to... Uh, two. Let me just...

[ She'll give it another minute or so and then eject it. Next one. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It's acclaimed 1997 film, Tower of Terror. Rod's favorite!]

[pinkflip]

[ Waits another...few minutes... ]

Why's Randall just got a lot of cartoons and shows and movies in here?

[ Like, this is weird, right? ]

[stanbyme]

Maybe even he gets bored watching us all the time.

[pinkflip]

Wow. Our suffering isn't enough for him.

[ :| ]

Hmm... Let's try... [ She's going to fast-forward the tape, see if anything notable comes up. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[the tape starts playing backwards and rod serling comes up with blood red eyes and he opens his mouth and there's more blood and then he looks at walt disney and then rod serling and walt disney were in the closet making babies and i saw one of the babies and the baby looked at m-

No, it's just the full movie. Randall must really enjoy this.]

[pinkflip]

...Yeah, okay. Next!

[ Last tape! ]

[rech]

[...The video is professionally shot. It's a video camera, set on a desk. Randall comes into view, and he speaks, and it's...fairly obvious he's some degree of "not-in-the-right-state-of-mind".]

So.

Our story starts in 1919 in Kansas City, USA. Walt Disney was a draftsman. Ub Iwerks was an animator. Ub goes, hey Walt, what if we were to put a live action person - into an animated frame? - Yes, that's it. They create something called the Alice Comedies, but there's no money in it. And Walt, though, is ambitious. He goes off to California and he goes to the head of Universal Animation, Charles Mintz. And he was like, this is amazing, I can use this, but the quality has to be as good.

Walt's like, Ub, get out here, ASAP. Yo, this is better than being in Kansas City, 'cause Kansas City is like you could like give me the deed to the city and I still wouldn't even stay there. And he drives the seven days to California. He takes these oh no, let me back up. At this point, Ub came up with Oswald, the lucky rabbit. So, Oswald - that miserable little piece of... he is great for Universal.

And Walt goes to Charles Mintz and he says... "Listen, we are fucking killing it, time for you to pay us some more money." And Mintz, Mintz looks at him and he laughs. "I'm gonna give you less money." And Mintz goes, "I have signed all of your animators, and I own Oswald, he's mine."

Walt Disney vowed from that day..."Not only will I ever not own any character I create, I will never not own them...." They-the I think. He said to Ub - "Ub, you with me?" And Ub, yet again, left with Walt Disney, and Ub said to him..."What are we doing, Walt? "

And Walt's like: "We need a character. Ub, what do you got?"

What about a horse? Nope.

What about a dog? Nope.

What about a cat? No, man, we got enough cats. We got Felix The Cat, there's a lot of cats out there. What else you got?

What about a devil?

...That could be interesting.

[The tape abruptly cuts.]

[stanbyme]

...So that was messed up.

[pinkflip]

Uh-huh. Majorly.

[ It's- there's a lot there, so- ]

Could you- could you run and get something to write on? I...I have a feeling this one might be important.

[stanbyme]

[Hey mods, this is a desk. Is there any pens or stationery?]

[rech]

[There are pens, but no stationery unless you count some old newspapers about EPCOT and a weird paper with text about some guy named "Frollo".]