Day 3: Gaming
"What's it called again?" Dick asked Mona as he sat next to her on the Wayne living room couch. On both their laps sat Dick's laptop, where Mona had just finished downloading a game.
She smirks a little, settling closer to him. "It's called Slender," she says as the title screen pops up saying the same thing. "Apparently it's pretty scary." The directions appeared, telling the two to collect 8 notes and they prepared themselves as Mona took the mouse while Dick was in charge of moving them around.
"Let's go this way!" Mona demands, facing a random direction as Dick begins to move the character around.
"How are we supposed to even find these notes?" Dick asks her, dutifully making the character walk forward.
"I guess they're like stuck up on trees or something," Mona guessed, shrugging as the two passed through a mass of trees. After a while they happened upon a note stuck to an oddly tall and twisted tree. "Don't look or it takes you," Mona read, picking up the note. Immediately drums started up in the background. It was only a minute or so before they found the second one stuck to a large red building.
"Always watches no eyes?" Dick reads as they collect it. "Is that supposed to creep us out or something?" Just as he asks a glimpse of white causes Mona to let out an uncharacteristic screech, flailing as she did so causing the character to spin around in all sorts of directions.
"HE WAS RIGHT THERE!" she yells, pointing vaguely somewhere in the darkness of the game after she'd stopped shaking the character around. "DID YOU NOT SEE THAT?"
"See what?" Dick asks, trying to hold down a nervous laugh. He didn't want to admit the game was starting to creep him out a little but Mona's reaction had unnerved him. "There wasn't even anything there."
"Are you kidding?!" Mona shrieks, gaining control of the character and moving in the direction she assumed was the opposite of the one she'd seen the figure in. "He was freaking tall, his arms all lanky and way too long, and he was in a freaking suit. AND HE HAD NO FACE."
"It was probably a tree," Dick says trying to reassure himself. "There's a car over there or something, there's probably a note on it," he says gesturing over to the left side of the screen. It took Mona some internal convincing to actually start to move the character again after they'd been stationary for a few minutes or so. Dick tries to make haste as they move towards the truck, making the character run before realizing that the stamina on the person they were playing as was next to zero.
"Jesus Christ, they need to hit the gym," Mona mutters as they arrive to the car. An eerie beating of a drum echoes in the background and it sets their nerves on edge, though neither of them would admit it. Mona circles around the truck, seeing nothing until she's all the way around. Before picking up the note she gets as close to it as possible to read the scribbled writing. "Don't turn around…" she read before doing just so, seeing the tall suited man standing directly behind them. Both of them scream out, Dick shoving the laptop away from them as static crackles across the screen. Mona hides her face in her hands while Dick nearly flips off the sofa. Alfred walks past the doorway just as they simultaneously freak out, shaking his head a little bit as he watches the frightened teens.
After that day Mona and Dick agreed they'd never play Slender together again.