THE FRIDGELIGHT CHEWS'S ENTRY

though it's really just Spades, now

CROWD
You watch the crowd of figureheads begin to take turns with the small diary, drawing whatever it is they think will get them into the game.

SPADES
It's vaguely pathetic.

SPADES
Regardless, you keep an eye trained on GENESIS and take your time walking over, since the diary is currently busy.

GENESIS
It's kind of just, standing there. You think it wants to get a look at the drawings other people are making, but everyone's in the way, so it can't actually see anything being drawn right now.

SPADES
You guess that's kind of half your fault, with all of the Golf Balls. Oh well.

GENESIS
"um. hi?" It seems slightly hesistant to speak to you.

SPADES
"Yes, hello." Your stance is rather neutral, you think. You could understand if it was intimidated by your history though, so-

GENESIS
"im sorry um- but who are you?"

SPADES
"..."

GENESIS
"hello?"

SPADES
"...My name is Spades."

GENESIS
"hi. are you lost?"

SPADES
"What."

GENESIS
"no, i understand, the mansion is pretty big so..."

SPADES
"No- I'm- ugh." You lift your hand to your face and rub the bridge of your nose. Okay. Right. Of course GENESIS wouldn't know who you are.

SPADES
"I was eliminated before you were made, I believe."

GENESIS
"ah... sorry"

SPADES
"I've gotten over it, it's fine. Anyway." You move to have GENESIS in your sight and also be able to look at the crowd. "Seems your diary is still encircled by the rest of the crows."

GENESIS
It looks confused... "what?"

SPADES
"Your diary is still surrounded, I mean."

GENESIS
"oh. yeah. i kinda wanted to see those drawings but i guess i have to wait for everyone to be done. that kinda sucks"

SPADES
"How about we take a walk?" You already have your boots and gloves on, in case of any greenery, though you haven't exactly seen much grass for a while, there's not much of it outside of the land around the manor.

GENESIS
"hmm... yeah okay i havent played outside in a while. i can lead the way too!"

SPADES
"Go ahead." You don't mind it taking the lead. You're kind of just killing time for the diary, and it helps to go outside since you have a checklist to follow.

THOUGHTSPACE
See, you have a few restrictions you have to follow, due to your use of a ticken.

You have found these limitations, for the most part, to be simple to complete. Most of them you just. Do not do. And it works out.

The real issue is the fire.

Oh well.
This whole thing is mostly a gamble anyway, you're not much of an artist to begin with.

  1. Do not touch green.
  2. Do not talk to more than one person.
  3. Do not pair with someone that has paired with someone else.
  4. Do not break anything.
  5. Do not match costumes with your challenge three bunkmate.
  6. Do not have your fire be the biggest or smallest.
  7. Do not let Genesis out of your eyesight.
  8. Do not be a dick to anyone.

SPADES
It leads you outside. You remember an agenda getting passed for landscapers to start making the area look nicer. It seems like they encased the border of the property in trees, which helps with not being able to see the barren wasteland outside.

SPADES
Honestly, it's pretty nice outside. Almost gives a sense of normalcy.

GENESIS
The both of you walk around for a while. Genesis is sort of playing around as you walk around the outside of the manor, chasing small bugs and... crushing them? Kind of violent, but it doesn't bother you aside from it being surprising.

GENESIS
You both walk further, and it spots a plushie left outside. It doesn't speak to the plushie or anything, but just walks up and holds it up. The plushie is a yellow looking dog. Then GENESIS looks at you, and back at the dog.

SPADES
"What?."

GENESIS
"just thinking. maybe i should ask lungy to bring one of my siblings to life."

SPADES
You shrug. "I doubt 'born will, unless they hire a babysitter."

GENESIS
Its eyes widen. "WHAT! thats lame. i dont want to be watched all the time!"

SPADES
"What, because you're doing things you shouldn't?"

GENESIS
"yes."

SPADES
This gets a chuckle out of you."Hah- fair enough. You've got a good head."

GENESIS
It grins at your approval of its behavior. You'd be a bad parent, but you never planned on having kids anyway.

SPADES
The two of you walk for a little longer, you trailing behind GENESIS, before you spot a tree that seems to be standing away from the rest. Looks like a good canidate for burning.

SPADES
You stop in place, though GENESIS keeps skipping along, so you speak. "Hey, you want to destroy something?"

GENESIS
Your proposal captures its attention immediately "like what?"

SPADES
"It's just a bit of casual arson, really." You point to the tree that is alone, taller than the both of you, it seems to be a bit above the average height for the trees around here, actually. "Shouldn't spread really, I doubt your uh... parents, will care."

GENESIS
"ew. dont call them my parents. but okay! how are we gonna start a fire though." It looks around for a moment. "We dont have a stove or microwave out here"

SPADES
"Let me show you something." You walk over to GENESIS.

SPADES
Getting on one knee, you take your hat off and reach a hand inside of it. You kept it in here for this occasion specifically- a freshly bought pack of matches.

GENESIS
"what is that?"

SPADES
"Matches." You open the pack, pulling out a singular match, and strike it against the side of the box. A small flame appears.

GENESIS
Its eyes sparkle at the flame. "woooaaaaah"

SPADES
You drop the match on the ground and smother it out with your boot."Alright. What I want you to do is grab as many matches as you can, hit them all against this red side of the box, and throw them and the box at the tree, alright?"

GENESIS
"okay!!" It takes the box of matches from your hands and skurries over to the tree.

SPADES
You'd have lit it yourself, but you're not sure if setting something on fire counts as breaking it or not, so you'll just let the runt do it.

GENESIS
It seems to be fiddling with the box for a moment, before you see it pick up a bunch of matches at once. The striking process seems to fail a few times though before a bunch of them are properly lit. It almost looks like GENESIS is holding a fireball.

GENESIS
It stares at the flame for almost a little too long before seeming to remember to throw them and the box at the tree. It takes a moment to catch, but there are leaves left on the ground from the fall season, so-

FIRE
THE TREE BURNS BRIGHTLY, IT BURNS, AND BURNS, AND BURNS!

GENESIS
It steps back, as to not be burned, and stares at the flames, silently enamored.

SPADES
"Pretty convenient, isn't it?"

GENESIS
"do you have more matches"

SPADES
"I can get you some, but first, just to be careful, would you say this is our fire? Like, that I partially own it, I mean."

GENESIS
"what yeah sure i dont care i just want more matches"

SPADES
"Hey now, calm down kid." You think for a moment how to distract from this. "Hey, you wanna go see if they're done with the drawings in your diary?"

GENESIS
"huh. oh right. i forgot about that" It begins walking back to the mansion, and so you follow.

SPADES
You're mostly hoping that the bonus from your altoken play is enough to get you in, but you've still kind of got a drawing to make. You're still thinking about what to draw.

GENESIS
"oh hey. everyone is gone!" You're both back in the room that it gave the challenge announcement in, so you walk over with it to the DIARY and you sit down.

GENESIS
"theres... woah thats a lot of drawings. hmm." They seem to look through the pages for a moment, before putting it out in front of you. "well um! you probably want to draw something too right? you said you were eliminated"

SPADES
You nod. "Yeah. Still thinking about what to draw."

GENESIS
"well. thanks for walking around with me i guess. it was fun going outside! i thought all the grass was gone"

SPADES
"I believe they got someone to work on it. Your welcome I guess, though. Hmm." You pull a pen out of your hat this time, tapping it against your chin. "You've been drawing your... siblings, correct?

GENESIS
It nods. "uhuh"

SPADES
You point the pen at it. "Have you drawn yourself, though?"

GENESIS
It nods. "uuhhmmm not really i guess"

SPADES
"I'll just draw you, then."

GENESIS
"oh! okay"

SPADES
You begin drawing a little shitty doodle of GENESIS. It's not really that great, but you're not much of an artist to begin with. You're careful to keep GENESIS in your sight as you draw.

GENESIS
It watches you draw, which surprises you, given it seemed like the type to just... always be doing something, but it stays with you there, which helps you draw it better at least.

SPADES
You finish the little doodle by adding a small version of yourself to the paper. You're anything but ego-less, afterall, and so you turn the paper and show it to GENESIS.

SPADES
"I'm not much of an artist, so I can't guarantee much kid."

GENESIS
It stares for a moment, before grinning a bit. "cool! you draw bigger than i do"

SPADES
"Well. That's just how I do it I guess." You've completed the challenge, so you suppose the restrictions are over. You think it's time to head out-

GENESIS
"hmm. youre my uncle now"

SPADES
"Wh- What?"

GENESIS
"well like. ive always wanted an uncle. theyre like. always the cool guy of the family on the tv i watch"

SPADES
An irritated look crosses your face. "I am not your uncle."

GENESIS
"well i think it is. i think youre my uncle now! ill go tell lungy"

SPADES
"And they'll tell you that I'm not your uncle, case shut."

GENESIS
"dont worry uncle cheese, i always get what i want! im very persistent and they dont like getting bothered"

SPADES
"What in the everloving hell did you just call me?"

GENESIS
It already started running for the door.

Fin.