[9] Quest In The Realms – an interactive Bananafish production!
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Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because you’re trying to solve the mystery, don’t hesitate and keep delving in the story. If you came here through random loitering, what are you waiting for!?
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Vickie smiles.
“That’s awfully nice of you, Mendo.”
You grimace as she leans in closer. You squirm away, uselessly reaching for its handle.
The corpse of Vickie straddles your lap. Your hand touches the door handle. Just open the door, open the door, open the door.
Escape is impossible.
“You know. We never did it. The others? They were okay. Tio was a bore. But you and me? We never had any fun.”
The stench of rot attacks your senses. You fight the urge to vomit. She leans close, takes your hand off the door handle and places it on her head.
“Party time,” she whispers in your ear. Her breath smells like rotten meat.
Terrified, you obey and rub her hair. You pull off a tuft of rotten flesh making you heave. Vickie leans in close, kissing you with putrefied lips. You pass out.
When you wake up, you’re alone in the guitar shop. You glance down and see red hair attached to a square of rotten flesh in your hand.
“Eweweweweweweew!”
You jump with disgust, smacking the rotten flesh from your hands and launching it down the haunted aisles. You race out of the guitar shop, back to the city alleys. When you reach a main street you take a moment to catch your breath and smoke a cigarette.
The whole thing was a bad dream, you think as you take a drag. A bad dream.
Yeah, Vickie’s voice replies. A bad dream. That’s all.
“Jesus-fucking-christ,” you scream out loud. Two people walk by, staring at you like you’re a crazed homeless person.
Let’s go back to the band. I’ve got some ideas for new songs, Vickie says in your mind.
You grasp your skull, screaming into the night.
In time, the band notices that you are changed a bit, but they believe it’s the consequence of a badly cured sexually transmitted disease. They struggle to fit your new tunes and song ideas to the repertoire. After constant trial and error and the near-exodus of Tres, you all end up writing a hit single when, in anger, you bellow a blood-curdling scream into the microphone at practice. It’s feminine, full of pain and darkness.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly kind of ending.
Standing ovation for Dirge! This could be a prequel for that story I wrote about Mendo and the Yellow King.
...or it could be the starting of a spinoff!
An "it could be worse (kinda)" finale!
This is probably one of my favorite episodes in this adventure. The ending is so creepy!
Makes me think of parasites that could be in our bodies controlling our thoughts and actions.
Nice and creepy, Dirge! I suppose, "Hey, are you possessed", wouldn't be a natural conclusion. Then again, this is the Tortillas....
Duuhhhhhh I sort of knew that was the wrong way to go for the story to continue but I guess I'm a sucker for a 'slight decomposed' pretty face lol
That was a good ending, writing wise though. It actually made my stomch turn a little and I'm not easily put off. Chuck Palahniuk is one of my fav authors.
This was an awesome collaborative effort @bananafish and everyone involved. Massive kudos!