[shadedk9]

Username & ID: shadedk9 652370
Chicoon participating (link): Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4696423 Honeydew

Prompt:

Honeydew stared into the maze. Their back ached at the thought of all the walking they'd be doing. "Oh lord" they thought as they stepped towards the entrance. The ground was cool and chilling and the walls echoed. Everything looked so sleek and... calculated. They continued to walk and took their first few steps into the maze. Honeydew sighed loudly. "I wish I didn't have to walk this alone... I should have brought someone with me". Honeydew loved everything about autumn and halloween... Everything EXCEPT mazes. Mazes made them anxious and worried. What if they couldn't get out. What if they couldn't find the exit. What if they got lost. Or what if they were stuck wandering the maze for ages... How would they ever do this. "Oh well" they whispered to themselves before finally beginning to enter the maze. "Here we go". Honeydew continued and began to mindlessly wander. "This isn't too bad. It's actually quite peaceful" they thought to themselves. "Left. Right. Left. Right. Left. Left. Right. mmm.. maybe right again". Honeydew continued on until they were brought to a halt. What on earth? Honeydew stepped back a few times and took a look under their feet. "is this... grass? in the middle of the maze?". There, in a random section of the maze, was a patch of grass. Green and lush as ever. (226 words)






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[Dartist]

Username & ID: Dartist 1020250
Chicoon participating (link): Miles

Prompt:

Miles fidgets under the pressure of the air around. The place didn’t seem all that right… maybe he was here by mistake! Probably; miles swallows, his padded paws fidgeting nervously. Maybe- maybe if he ran through really really fast he can just, leave. Yeah that sounded like a good idea! Miles goes into a dash, trying to just speed through this.
That plan promptly fails as the Chicoons paw gets caught in what appears to be a missing patch of tile, making him face plant to the ground. Ow, owowow- he shakes his wobble neck. Bad idea. Running with eyes closed is a very bad idea, in a broken down maze… he stands, staring nervously down the next pathway. Could he turn around? The cracks and crevices of the halls, didn’t look so friendly to his way of walking..




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[bakuraas.]

Username & ID: bakuraas. + 876991
Chicoon participating:Sylvestris

Prompt: (139 words)

Sylvestris thought about how he should go about this, especially since mazes weren't exactly his forte- but he could follow something surely, it wouldn't be impossible to do, right? He could try to follow the holes that he had seen before, but then he thought again, it's not like they would become larger the deeper the maze went, but maybe if he found one that was a bit too large he could peek through them an get some insight into the maze... but that's more of a thought for later in all honesty. Maybe the cracks? Following any cracks of the maze might help, there had to be something. He decided to start off going right, following the walls. He thought he heard something about hugging the right wall in mazes...or maybe it was the left wall. Oh no.



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[.henloimmabirb.]

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Chicoon participating: Gizmo

Prompt:

Unable to trace his steps back out of the maze, Gizmo took a moment to sit and gather his thoughts. Maybe if he continues further into the maze, there is another way out? He is also very intrigued to find out more about those mysterious blue lights, and the only way he can attempt that is to stay in the maze. He decides to push on and continues to wander through the maze, chasing after every blue light that appears before him though never catching up to it. A new found determination fills Gizmo with every blue light he sees, though the fact he can't ever catch up to them before they disappear is disappointing. Maybe perseverance will get him closer to what he is trying to figure out!




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[redtruck]

Username & ID: redtruck 701230
Chicoon participating: Ted (#7)

Prompt:

Running along the halls with no worry, Ted traces the strange runes on the walls, ceiling, and floor as he moves along, trying to decipher them even though they have no basis for what they could possibly be saying. The symbols have the faintest blue glow, dim in comparison to the other lights he has spotted as he wanders the maze. They run all along the walls, stopping in some spots, either never written or worn away by time, which makes trying to make sense of them all the more confusing. After a while, they start to peter out, until Ted is back to barren walls and the occasional blue wisp. [111 words]




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[woofer-moosh]

Username & ID: woofer-moosh + 283946
Chicoon participating: GodFather

Prompt:

After the curious holes in the walls, and GodFather getting an eerie feeling from them, he decides to wander off. Deeming whatever made the holes unsafe for his frail body. He ventures forth, getting stuck at dead ends more than he’d like, and it’s only starting to set in that this maze is massive. Likely the biggest maze he’s ever been in. Why is he here? What is this all for? He doesn't know, but he wants to find out. He stops whenever he sees anything curious, his curiosity always getting the better of him, especially chasing after the beings speeding by as a dark shadow. What are these things?
Every time he sees one he tries to give chase, but whatever they are, are much faster than him. Always vanishing around every corner, why? What could these be? He wonders to himself. Whatever they are, he wishes he could see them, knowing, hoping, that he wasn’t just seeing things in his old age. That this maze isn’t making him go crazy. He’s still sound of mind… Right?




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[imabanditø]

Username & ID: imabanditø 908562
Chicoon participating (link): montgomery

Prompt:

after retreating from the dead end, montgomery felt as though he’d never escape the maze. he was getting used to its dark and eerie atmosphere, and of course he was becoming an expert at not tripping over the cracks in the tile. he already did that once - his paw got stuck in a crack when he wasn’t looking and he fell straight on his face. he was still recovering, so he was still a bit disoriented. as the blue light continued to flash, montgomery began speculating about its meaning. would following it bring him to the end? he didn’t know - all he knew was that it felt as though he was losing his mind in there. the sounds made it seem like he was hearing voices, and he began to regret ever stepping into the maze. ‘how much longer until i find my way out?’ he thought. [149 words]




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[cribunni]

Username & ID: cribunni + 630267
Chicoon participating (link): Jt!

Prompt:

Jt let out a startled gasp as another shadow darted across the wall, sending him tumbling backwards. Frantic whispering echoed in and out of his ears, the sound of cascading water drowning out the words. Jt's back foot slipped into the rough dirt of another missing tile; the patches of grass almost seemed to wrap round his paws. He pulled away from the grass and barreled forward blindly. Flashing symbols strobed in his peripheral vision as he skirted around a corner, skidding to a sudden halt. A towering wall blocked the path before him, splintering cracks stretching from the floor up until he couldn't make them out anymore. The noises behind him had caught up again, flooding his senses. JT began to turn back when a small hole in the wall caught his attention. It was cramped, but he was able to worm his way inside. As he crawled through the pitch black tunnel, the voices subsided. Finally.. it's quiet. A shiver ran down his spine as he began to hear the grinding sound of the walls move above his head. Maybe the voices were better..

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[Zigzagoon]

Username & ID: Zigzagoon 97981
Chicoon participating (link): Haunt

Prompt:

For a little while, Haunt proceeds through the maze without any issues. Honestly, they thought that maybe this maze was just a waste of time, but they had a strong feeling that they were definitely lost now. Even look behind them, they couldn't perfectly recall from which direction they'd come from. Maybe the maze was playing tricks on them! Haunt shook their head, no, that wasn't possible, it was just a normal run down maze, but... wait... were those symbols always there? They were written all along the walls, glowing a faint blue. Haunt stopped to examine them closer but couldn't make sense of them. They wondered what they said, whether they were directions, or warnings... [116]

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[case]

Username & ID: case // 108699
Chicoon participating: Everett

Prompt:

Everett awoke with a start — they could have sworn they heard a loud crashing noise. It just have been a nightmare. They started to weave their way around the maze, stopping every so often to look at the cracks in the tile. How could these cracks have gotten here? Examining the walls, Everett was also able to see some drawings or symbols. Everett was more interested in what, or who, created the symbols as opposed to what the symbols meant. Walking at a rather fast pace, Everett was stunned to see that some of the maze walls had fallen. Did these walls fall recently? Everett really did not want to find out what other creatures could be lurking around the maze corners. They closed their eyes and wished they would wake up back in their bed, nice and safe in their home.

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