I walk into a large building that's supposed to be this world's version of Disney World. Bunch of rides, super famous, kids love it. There's some glass doors and a massive glass walls showing off some really small rides and entertainment near the front, then a hallway off to the side where the vast majority of stuff is. Going into the hallway with the crowd, I notice some weird folding thing that looks kinda like a cash register unfolding itself next to a man with a funny-fancy suit on, some sort of entertainer. Rather than going around the corner with the rest of the crowd, decide to stay back and see what it’s about.

He starts talking about a lot of stuff I don’t remember and going through the history of the thingy and how it’s supposed to work and stuff. Eventually comes to a part where he says something like, “If you’re vision impaired, raise your hand.” I look around and notice I’m the only one to have stayed back for this as I raise my hand.

He steps back into the little booth thing where he’s going his job and continues spouting nonsense as he starts lighting candles and stuff, and I only just now notice how dark it is inside his little booth-stage-thing. I can barely see the thing that caught my attention in the first place, with only really the counter and a foot or two of ground illuminated by the lights outside.

He continues spouting whatever he’s talking about as he lights two different candles before lighting one candle on each of the folding segments. I look around the building this place is in and see that the only lights on are around us and it’s dark outside. I came in around noon, there’s no way it’s this dark already. I get a creepy feeling down my spine.

So, while he’s distracted by his little candle routine, I exit the door. There’s some butler out there and he says he’s to escort my back inside, should I stray too far.

I see some houses like two blocks away, one with its lights on, so I start heading over there to perceived safety, and the butler immediately gives chase. Walking speed at first, then slowly accelerating as I get further away from the building this started in, he chases me down the sidewalk. I get nowhere near the house with a light on before he grabs me and carries me back to the building. He enters a little side flap at the bottom of the building, back where there’s a small slope down, and we enter what seems like a noclip version of the building.

He takes me through the area, where I can see through the walls to the outside like I’ve clipped into a building I shouldn’t have access to in a game, and to a little holding area, back in bounds. As we exited the wall, it kinda gave us a bit of momentum outward, like a wall pushing you away too hard because you’re further in it than expected. He said something about the entertainer I can’t remember now, before disappearing into the building proper.

I left the holding area and I was back where I first noticed the folding thing. The entertainer was back up at the counter, calling for anyone that wanted to watch his show. I just went back outside and got chased by the butler again, this time climbing some trees to try to escape, which the butler followed me up before capturing me. Back to the start.

I started the entertainer's routine before just barely getting out of vision of the entertainer, seeing if maybe this was some game and I could trick the AI into doing something weirs, and his dialogue changed. I stepped back into line of sight of him, and it was what I heard the first time. All excited, explaining the thing and its history and use like an entertainer would.

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But the secondary dialogue, when I was out of vision, was more flat toned. Kinda sad, even. I was able to get a small portion of him in vision as I listened to the other dialogue, and he was still going about the routine he did the first time, his mouth not matching the new dialogue I was hearing.

Then it came to the part where I was supposed to raise my hand if I had impaired vision and the sad dialogue said, “Raise your hand if you’re a threat.” I sat there for a while, trying to figure out if I should raise my hand or not, before I raised it partially without thinking and rapidly put it down and shook my head saying, “No, I’m not. I’m not.” Entertainer confirmed I wasn’t before smiling big and saying that that was good. Started some weird dance thing I didn’t pay enough attention to to describe, but one of his arms became massive for the entire duration of it.

He finished his dance and turned the lights in the booth on and came out of it. Started explaining a song of some sort that would involve audience participation. I just had to press four keys on this keyboard thingy in any sequence I wanted to the beat, right after he played a noticeably low note in the song. It only had four keys on it, and I was watching him for any weird actions more than paying attention to the keyboard, but I decided to only partially follow instructions and only hit three keys. Going by feel, I noticed one of the keys was significantly larger than the rest, so I left that one out.

He didn’t seem to mind as we went through the song. I don’t remember it at all, but near its end, I noticed the keys had some symbols on them. A roller coaster, a gravestone, a shovel, and the biggest one had the word “zombie” on it.

I’d been hitting them in roller coaster > grave > shovel order without knowing. When the song ended, I asked what the symbols were about and why the one key said “zombie” on it. This made the entertainer seemingly kill me because, “You said the word, so you must not be him.” Woke up in the starting spot, entertainer’s setup fully restarted.

I started the sequence again, just standing there without raising my hand, and noticed that there was a glowing red thing inside the booth, just out of sight unless I was right at the counter. I let him do his dance before going in to see what it was and whatever it was dispersed when I touched it.

I Went through the song, but apparently did something wrong because he killed me without warning as the song played by itself on the, apparently automatic, piano. Was quite surprising to look up from the keyboard to see a man in a weird entertainer suit lunge to kill me while the piano kept playing in his abscence.

Before I respawned, got a cutscene that showed that the red thing is some energy that’s related to the zombie key in some way, the folding cash register thing had some ghost in it, and there was some micro-gorilla-muscle-demon-thing involved with the dance.

I decided to try to join in the dance, see if that’s part of the intended sequence of events. His buff arm just knocked me out as he didn't notice me get into the booth with him, and he slowly, sadly, and confusedly walked to me as I fell unconscious and I respawned.

Since that was a bust, or at least not something I felt like brute forcing at that moment, I decided to head further into the building to see if there’s anything interesting to find.

I found something I can't remember, something interesting that I went to interact with. An alarm started, stating that I was out of vision too long. I could have gone around the front of the building and been in sight of the butler and gotten where I was, which would have given me more time in vision before reaching the thing I don't remember.

I ran around the corner to the front of the building, it was boarded up. The whole glass front was boarded up too thoroughly to escape, even though there was no way they could have had enough time to put all the boards up from the start of the alarm to now. I tried to get back to the show to see if I could reset the alarm. The entertainer, in his sad voice, said that it was a good try, but he already knows I’m not him and that going to the booth just put me on camera and let him know where I was, letting him get to me faster.

He noclipped through the wall and was flying at me as I ran away. I woke up as he managed to get me to tackle me to the ground and sit on top of me, but he seemed hesitant to kill me. Not that it stopped him.