Death: By Video-Game Character
Chapter One: The First Post
The saga begins, like many often do, with a challenge: In this case, the challenge ran something along the lines of: "Kill yourself off, and have your assassin be a video-game character." It should mean something that the Author substituted, instead, a young NPC named Jace. Jace would hold that it makes the Author either Cruel or a Coward.
The Author says it means "not being dumb enough to get killed myself."
It begins with the fizzling-on of a video-camera, apparently mounted on a tripod in a reasinably-well-furnished office-room. Jace is in the center of the field, sitting easily in an office-chair set behind a typical-looking hardwood desk. Glancing up at the camera, he grins.
"Sorry to disappoint, but this whole 'Be Killed by a Video-Game Character" thing? It's just not gonna work out for me."
Leaning back, he hits a button on the small remote by his hand, and the camera zooms out a bit to take in the whole of the desk.
"I mean, I'm just… safe."
The camera zooms out further, revealing that a moat of what appears to be quicksand surrounds his desk-area; another zoom-out reveals the room to be criss-crossed with bright-red laser-beams. Another zoom-out, presumably switching to another camera, reveals the room to be part of an underground bunker, while the above-ground area over the complex is ringed by razor-wire, the blue sparks here-and-there seeming to hint at it being electrified. There's an extreme zoom on a small, white-paper sign stuck to the razor-wire; charred at the edges, it seems to read, "Beware the Leopard."
Abruptly, the camera returns to Apathetic, still seated in his chair; grinning, he folds his arms across he chest and leans back in the chair, smug-looking. "So," he begins, "as I was saying…"
As he begins to speak, unaware of the approaching danger, a vague white form appears behind, forming itself into a Mario-world Boo as it emerged from the wall.
"… there's absolutely NO WAY…"
The Boo's razor-sharp teeth come down over the unsuspecting Jace, the strange creature apparently swallowing him whole, and on broadcast TV. There's a silence in the room, a sudden stillness, and the Boo seems to suddenly notice that it's on TV. Smiling toothily at the camera, it waves a stubby appendage enthusiastically, then begins to juggle grapefruit.
TBC