Alva Towne Unamusement Park
Chapter 1: The Slaughter Begins
Date: September 2nd, 2024
*Alva Towne Unamusement Park promotional ad* "Hi there! I hope you're doing well. Today, I want to introduce you to a park you may or may not have heard of! It's called Alva Towne Unamusement Park! Don't be fooled by the name! It's just a joke to cause some people to laugh! As you can see behind me, we have a lot of things to do here! Take a ride on one of our classic famous water slides such as The Plummet or our exciting high speed space themed roller coaster that may or may not have some aliens scattered throughout it! We have just about everything you can think of! Gift shops, merchandising, great food, classic flat rides, attractions for the little ones in your lives, record breaking roller coasters, exciting carnival style games, and awesome seasonal events! Come on down to Alva Towne Unamusement Park for a visit you'll never forget!" We watched this during the meeting on dealing with this theme park as the first order of business. I speak up: "So that's their ad. But we won't fall for it. Many of us have seen just how diabolical that place really is. Gives me the chills just thinking about it." My name is Dark Knight Swiftdrawer and I was isekaied into Animal Crossing New Leaf from Earth on December 27th, 2017. Since then, it's been over 6.5 years of all kinds of adventures and so forth. I am almost always wearing my armor which consists of black metal gloves, a black helmet with a infinity symbol on it(the symbol's new), silver knight visor, red cape, green knightly loincloth, black leather belt with a scabbard attached, white boots with red and yellow swiggly lines, and red as the color for the rest of the full plate armor. I also wear chainmail underneath and under that, some knightly robes.
I still live my original life in my original body but in this body and life, I'm currently stuck as a zombie thanks to events at the end of a conflict with a truly evil person named Pmurt Nedib in August 2023. I've been through a lot along with my comrades in the rulerless decentralized secret BRAINS Collective. It's a massive entity with countless members of many fictional universes. And because of that, we have vast resources and access to advanced magic and sci fi technology. It's been one thing after another for us whether it be a chaotic hangout or a battle against the enemy. We haven't had much peacetime in a very long time. With that out of the way, let's skip through the rest of the meeting and prepare to enter one of the most dangerous theme parks in the known multiverse. You ever hear of the game Death Park or the infamous Action Park aka Disaster Park in New Jersey or all of the horrific theme park accidents or the abandoned parks or even the hauntings at many parks? Compared to Alva Towne Unamusement Park, it's all virtually nothing. That's right. Nothing. We have learned much about it from observing it and so forth. There's a parade there at night that starts innocent but quickly gets dark and once the park closes for the night, bodies are dragged away among other things. More unsettling details will be revealed later. Just know that it is like the manifestation of people's nightmares and the twisted desires of truly despicable dirtbags.
In the past, I wrote openings and ending songs for my stories a few times but at this point, I have largely lost interest in continuing that. Let's just get into it. It didn't take long for us to get to the park. Thanks to teleportation devices that make use of miniature wormholes to reduce energy usage immensely known as Quantum Leap bands that go around the wrists like pocket watches do, it is easy to travel to most locations in the multiverse that we can think about. The process is practically instantaneous. They have been around for over 3 years and are several months older than the BRAINS Collective. The collective was founded in September 2021, not long after we helped save all of time in the multiverse itself from being destroyed through a timenado. Once we got to the parking lot of the theme park, I spoke to the rest of the group I'm a part of: "Someone needs to say it already so I will. The goal here is to explore the entire park from top to bottom to find whoever is responsible for what's happening inside of it and to shut it along with them down. We know that the materials the park is made of are extraordinarily strong. Not even my best was able to break a small fragment of one of those materials. It would take someone on Goku's level to deal any significant damage to anything in the park which is bad for us. Our plan is to get inside the park without even once being recognized as the heroes we are. We want to be lowkey and discreet. If we can for once slip in without the enemy waiting for us, we get an advantage we've never truly had up to now in other conflicts.
But we still have to be very careful no matter how well done our disguises are with multiple techniques used to layer the same disguise on top of itself several times. Through this layered approach, if the enemy can see through one disguise, there's no way they can see through all of them. Or at least, it's almost impossible that they can. I have chosen to go for the artist/nerd/roller coaster enthusiast look again just as I did before the meeting that we just left a little while ago. But this time, I get to keep my helmet on by disguising it as a baseball style cap of all things. Nothing metal we have on hand will trigger the metal detectors. Some of our scientist comrades made sure of that. But we have to always be cautious. Even the drinking fountain water in there can be secretly dangerous to drink without anyone the wiser until they make the mistake of drinking it. And the trash cans might actually be trash can versions of the chest trap monsters called mimics. For all we know, the tall trees in there might be alive and willing to impale random park guests without warning. The darkness in that park is incredibly unsettling. I know we can all sense it. Even my shadows recoil in fear of it. We made sure to bring enough actual money to blend in and actually pay for things without having someone steal them. We have to look as inconspicuous as we possibly can to increase our chances of success. We have all kinds of items to use should we need them. Invisibility, night vision, strength, sleep replacement, leaping, and speed potions among others. Hp bananas. Senzu beans. You name it, we all have it in our inventories."
Pitohui replies: "Even I find this theme park disturbing." LLENN nods: "Yeah. It isn't even officially open for the day yet. I'm so glad we'll get away with wearing our gear. Otherwise, we'd all die very quickly.." Beerus groans: "This is such a waste of time. I will simply erase this theme park from existence and that will be it. Haikai." Nothing happens. Argo sighs: "It's just as we feared based on the intel we've gathered." We start walking towards the park's ticket booths to buy entry tickets into the park. It looks normal so far. All colorful with a great design. The entrance even has a front gate coaster which reminds me of Fury 325 and Gatekeeper. It itself is very cartoony, reminding me of the entrances for Disney and Universal parks. There's unicorns, smiling faces, and you name it painted all over it. And the park logo is in a cursive font with flowers surrounding it. We don't really know what's inside of this park but there's only one way to find out. We buy our tickets without much issue, go through security and the metal detectors, show our tickets to some of the employees at the turnstiles, and are admitted into the park where we first come across a small plaza of buildings with a fountain in the center and a train station above the restaurant behind the fountain. The pathways leading out of the plaza are roped off for the time being. And there's a big park map display. Seeing that, I grab several maps for myself and the others and hand them out. "We should take this area by area. Going from one to the next. It's how one of my siblings and I generally explored Holiday World when we went there for the first time just about a year ago. How has it been a year since then already? How? Oh well."
Dominic looks at the map I gave him and replies: "I agree. This park is massive. Just look at all of these themed areas. Right now, we're inside of what's called Thrill Plaza and directly behind that train station up there is a long street with shops and more on both sides divided by a row of fountains above a rectangular pool of water. It says that it's called Pleasure Street. It leads to the center of the park where the park's hotel can be found. It's called the Hotel Of Happy Dreams. It appears to have a pool outdoors with 2 water slides and a restaurant. As for the other areas, there's the zoo Safari World, water park Atlantis, kids area Candy Town, and the others: Techtopia, Winterville, Dynamite Town, ScreamZone, Not So Scary Land, Toon Mountain, Forgotten Castle, Alva Towne Boardwalk, Lakeside Beach, Mysterious Jungle, The Studio, and Riverbank Settlement." "Damn! That's a lot more than even Twisted Land has at a total of 9! Combined with its water park's areas, that number is 13 but still doesn't match up. 'Not So Scary Land'. Watch it be the least creepy area in truth but still be incredibly creepy and lethal. Just you wait. I know it's going to happen." Carlos yells: "Why aren't they opening the rest of the park up?! I wanna ride stuff!" That's when an announcement plays over the park's many loudspeakers: "Attention all guests, the opening ceremony for today's day of fun in Alva Towne Unamusement Park will start in just 5 minutes. That's right. In just 5 minutes, the festivities to open the park will begin. Dance and sing along as we welcome you into the park."
I sigh: "So far, this park has elements that remind me of Disney World, Universal Studios, my own Twisted Land theme park, and Kings Island. The person or people behind this park are truly deceptive. Creating a visually stunning world class theme park that kills its guests with no one the wiser." Barla sudden speaks: "Hey, I hate to interrupt this one hell of an analysis but.. I just looked back at the gates we got in here through. And isn't there supposed to be a designated park exit? I don't see one anywhere." I look for myself: "You're right. It doesn't even have a completely separate exit area like some parks have but not many. There's only turnstiles to enter the park, not exit it. You can enter but you can't leave. That's the real slogan of this twisted theme park. I feel like I'm going to be relied upon a lot as one of the top individuals in BRAINS when it comes to roller coasters, theme parks, and so on. It'll take some time to learn the layout and it's a good thing we're taking it area by area. We can't focus much on what the others decide to do. We'll bump into them throughout the park eventually." We then wait in silence for the opening ceremony to begin. When it starts, cheerful music begins to play as a train filled with park employees appears at the train station at the same time as a bunch of performers show up in matching dancing and singing outfits between the fountain and restaurant below the train station. And at once, they all start singing cheerfully in unison.
I mutter to myself: "I want to believe this park is mostly wholesome and innocent but I just can't. I can't. Doing so may spell death for my friends." And here's what they sang: "Good morning to all of you. Welcome to Alva Towne Unamusement Park, the most thrilling theme park on Earth. It's time to celebrate and have a good time right before the park opens completely for you all. If you're new to this park, welcome. If you're returning, welcome back! We're so excited to have you here today. It's going to be a truly amazing day with all of you here to enjoy what we have to offer here." It goes on for a couple more minutes before a man who has a very familiar aura around him steps out of the train parked at the train station and walks to a platform hovering in front of the big train station sign on the opposite side of the train tracks from how passengers probably enter it normally. He puts a big smile on his face as he says once the singing ceases but not the music: "Okay, who's ready for another great day here at Alva Towne Unamusement Park?! *most of the crowd cheers* Excellent! I'm so glad to hear it! Like always, we have a day full of excitement planned for all of you as I'm sure some of you know from visiting us in the past! I couldn't be more excited to have you here! My name is Matt and I'm both the founder and general manager of this park! Is there anything else I need to say? I don't think so, our mascots are still asleep so they weren't able to participate in this with us but that's okay! *confetti cannons cause confetti to be launched into Thrill Plaza* Come on, get more excited!
Before we finish this celebration, I want to hear you scream! That's right! I want to hear you scream! As loudly as you possibly can! On the count of 3! 1! 2! 3! *crowd cheers* Oh, we can do so much better than that! 3! 2! 1! *the crowd is much louder with several people being especially loud and high pitched* That's much better! Okay, that's it from me! You may see me wandering the park later so feel free to stop me to say hi and get an autograph! Now back to singing for a couple minutes, everyone! Hit it!" I ignore the rest of it. "Friends, did you hear those especially loud screams and feel the presence of a fragment of The Shadow within Matt? I did." The others indicate that they did as well. Looking around, we see several freshly killed bodies scattered through the plaza with no one else paying any mind. Barla exclaims: "This is so messed up! How in the hell are all of these people ignoring the fact that several individuals were just killed?!" I reply: "This feels like a metaphor for the fact that people are so distracted by entertainment in my world that they cannot see all the people that are being killed or tortured by Israel, capitalism, Russia, the US, and so on. But seriously, it's like some kind of spell literal or figuratively was placed on everyone except the likes of us." Bray speaks: "There is indeed a magical spell in play but our experiences have made our minds capable of unconsciously resisting it ever since it was activated with a range covering this entire park and some area surrounding it such as the lake next to the Lakeside Beach area that lies just outside of the park itself.
We have to pretend to be happy while we're here or calm at least. We shall do what we can to make it out of here alive and intact. It appears that all of our methods of traveling vast distances won't be able to help us here. I tried all the methods I could a few minutes ago but none would work." Senku grins: "We will soon see how this theme park holds up against the Kingdom Of Science!" I sigh: "We have to stay focused here. Never letting our guards down while also looking like we're actually enjoying ourselves here or at least being calm about it. Even the villain here knows it's normal for a lot of theme park guests to wear calm expressions on their faces a lot of the time. Anyway, we should split up into even smaller groups. Our group is too large for theme park exploration. I've been with large groups and small groups alike in theme parks. Even in such a dangerous place as this park, it's still better. Besides, I'm pretty sure communications haven't been disrupted. If any of us need help, we can get the word out to each other easily. That and all of us here are very capable of handling things ourselves one way or another." No one disagrees with my idea and so, we split up and I go along with the rest of the "lives in Miitopia posse" towards the restaurant below the train station once the music number is over and the park is officially opened for the day. The restaurant is called The Deco Palace. It reminds me of the Magic Kingdom's Crystal Palace but crossed with the adventurers tavern I built in Twisted Land with a deco art style and Harmony Hall at Carowinds.
There's friendly mascots greeting people as they eat and it looks like the place serves a breakfast buffet. Barla smirks: "You can really tell how inspired this place is. And heh. I'm sure the worst the food here will do is give us food poisoning." I sweat drop: "Food poisoning is still horrible. Say goodbye to whatever's in your esophagus and what not if you get food poisoning." As we walked towards this place, the dead bodies we saw were collected and hauled away by some of the janitors with the blood left behind cleaned up effortlessly. We soon pay for access to the breakfast buffet and get our hands on whatever we want. I look at what they have to offer and let myself get excited to not look suspicious as they are cameras all over the park. You just can't see them easily. I let myself look delighted by the following breakfast items: waffles, pancakes, hash browns, oranges, oatmeal, and muffins. The plates are only so big so I ended up eating several plates worth of food. It was actually delicious. I had a bowl of oatmeal, several chocolate muffins, several oranges, a whole tall stack of pancakes, 4 waffles, fruit punch, 4 waffles, and 10 hash browns. They had more than enough food there for all of us to go to town. But after I finish eating, I started feeling weird: "..Not again. Food poisoning. Luckily, we all brought along a liquid designed to act against food poisoning." I warn the others of the food poisoning before pulling out said liquid in a container that looks like one with medicine in it and take a few sips. It actually tastes good and settles my body down in a couple of minutes.
Now that I have time to chill, having beaten the others in finishing the food despite grabbing so much. But to my horror, the others dining around us start succumbing to food poisoning. It's of the most severe kind of food poisoning out there. I even start seeing guts come right out due to the food poisoning: "Everyone. Whatever you do, don't look around us. There's nothing we can do for them I don't think." Bray replies: "You are sadly correct but I cannot eat anymore knowing what's happening around us. Despite the medicine we have, it won't save them because it reacts badly inside an ordinary human." We abruptly leave the restaurant together, unwilling to stick around as other diners were killed by food poisoning around us. Dominic yawns while pulling out some packed breakfast items: "And this is why we packed actually safe food to eat." The others do the same and after we're all finished, we head to the left side of the plaza to check out the 4 buildings there. There turned out to be gift shops selling all kinds of things. I see a section of t-shirts and sift through them, curious if the shirts will try to bite my head off or something. But nothing happened. "I have little interest in these stores. I just want to know if they kill people or not. Seems normal here so far." But then, Carlos yells: "I'm buying a bunch of merchandise and you can't stop me!" Several minutes later, he shocks the cashier in one of the stores with the amount of stuff he has grabbed and intends to purchase. After he buys all of it, mayhem ensues and that's the moment when I realized that this adventure wasn't just going to be horror. It was going to be comedy too.
Everything he bought once handed to him in several plastic bags branded with Alva Towne Unamusement Park branding starts trying to kill him. The shirts grow teeth and burst out of the bags to try to tear his flesh to pieces. And the cashier laughs: "You fool! You have fallen for merchandising and now, you're going to die as your friends watch helplessly as your many trinkets you don't need murder you in cold blood!" Carlos just giggles as he pulls out one of his daggers and starts tearing into the attacking merchandise: "I'm getting a refund!" "There are NO REFUNDS in this store! MWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!' I create an invisible sword with my control over the wind and walk towards the small army of killer merchandise with it in hand but not actually in hand because it's just a bunch of air molecules. "Haaaaaa! You aren't dealing with these things alone, Carlos! We don't have to hold back in a theme park as sturdy as this one! Take this! Darkeye Slash!" I deal damage to several caps that have now have alien like tentacles with the ability to fly. And they hiss and screech like those damn xenomorphs. But that wasn't nearly enough to defeat them. Pirate Blaster jumps in next: "These things are so tough!" Dominic yawns: "I have already shut off the security cameras inside this store. No one must know that we can hold off the killer merchandise. What a nap causation, it's going to be nearly impossible to keep a low profile." I tone down my attacks by just doing them right as I reach a target and not saying anything. We fight off the killer merchandise before we finally kill them off after a few minutes. The scene is incredibly gruesome.
Bray speaks: "I shall clean this up. Let's avoid buying anything else from any of the gift shops." With magic, she makes the mess vanish before erasing the memory of the cashier and anyone else witness to the incident we just overcame. We all breathe a sigh of relief as we check out the rest of the stores in Thrill Plaza which were all just gift shops so nothing too noteworthy to write about besides the fact that we couldn't save others from being killed by their newly acquired merchandise. It wasn't because we have to keep a low profile. It was that the merchandise became too strong for even us. Madeline groans as we walk towards Pleasure Street: "How many creatures are going to try to kill us and how many of them will we have to run away from?!" I shrug: "Who knows? This adventure isn't your ordinary horror story. Part of the reason horror stories are usually so creepy and disturbing is that most of the main cast are ill equipped to face whatever's trying to kill them. We're well equipped. We've had a lot of experience with these kinds of things before. But still, the more time we spend here, the more unnerving it feels to be here." Herbsalvin nods: "You're right, my knight. This isn't your ordinary adventure of horror. We do not so easily tremble to the taunts of evildoers and creatures I once thought were only myth. Onwards, we go." We pass under a tunnel and into Pleasant Street which looks like a fusion of Main Street USA with Kings Island's International Street as well as elements of the just past the main entrance areas of Holiday World and several Six Flags parks. There's horse drawn carriages and streetcars and even British style double decker buses. Each building is themed to a different style. One looks German. Another looks Roman. Yet another looks Japanese.
According to the map, the fountains in the middle are called The World Fountains. As for everything else, there's the Oktoberfest Bierhaus, The Shrine(Japanese building), French style Candy Corner & Ice Cream Parlor, and more. Close to us specifically are some ancient Egyptian style bathrooms. There's even a sarcophagus at the front of it. And there's also a sign that reads: "Relieve yourselves in these chambers if you dare risk experiencing one of the curses found within this area." Carlos cheers: "Bathrooms! I really gotta piss again!" I speak: "I might as well go too. Starting to need to go." I focus on my business from then on until I'm done in there. We all end up using the bathroom. As I walk in, I see the heavy ancient tomb theming with hieroglyphics all over the walls. Dominic remarks: "I can read the hieroglyphics and.. I'll tell you all what they mean after we're all done in here." I go into one of the stalls, unequipped my tassets for now and took a leek. I flush the toilet and as soon as I do that, a demonic voice speaks to me: "You have invoked the ancient curse of this bathroom. Prepare to be sent to your doom!" And that's when the arm and hand of a mummy comes out of the toilet bowl and tries to pull me into the bowl. But I grab onto the hand and pull as hard as I can, causing the arm to come out of the toilet, spewing mummy gunk all over the place. But the hand and arm are still alive so I summon my shadows and have them consume them whole which they do with ease. I get out of the stall like nothing happened after putting my tassets back on. But then, I say: "I feel like Ash Williams right now. Facing weird dangers head on and killing them before they can end me."
Having removed my gloves before entering the restroom, I proceed to let an automated soap dispenser put soap on them only to hear a familiar voice scream in agony: "Arr! The soap! It works but it's also acid! AAAAAAAAAA!" The soap doesn't have the same effect on me. I'm a zombie with my body kept from rotting away by magic so of course it doesn't. It does damage but doesn't hurt. I secretly drink some poison to heal my hands and that was that even though the water was clearly designed to kill too by being way too hot. Most of the others looked awful by the time we all got through the spiky paper towels without collapsing into a puddle of our own blood. Once we've all gotten out of there, I speak: "I will heal you all! Bray, save your mana. I cast Heal!" I heal the others and now, they look like they didn't just almost die from one of 4 dangers inside those restrooms. After that, we decide not to try out the water fountains after seeing someone lose their head from trying to use one of them. The truth is that while people were constantly being killed here, there was still a huge flood of people coming in to keep the entire park crowded. It's somehow a very popular park worldwide in this alternate version of Earth. Mel speaks: "We must now look through the rest of this area, making note of any restricted and hidden areas to comb through later on." We all nod and decide to try out riding one of the streetcars first before anything else. After we go through this whole area, we're heading to Techtopia by train. That mirrors the emphasis my family and I had when I went to the Magic Kingdom with them until November 2017 on heading to Tomorrowland first because of Space Mountain.
One of the lines for the streetcars wasn't far from the killer restrooms so we headed straight for it and waited in line for a few minutes until a streetcar came to a stop right by the line. And when one did, we saw dead bodies get dragged right out of it as if every passenger on it was just killed on the way to this location. We reluctantly hop onboard the streetcar, partly to attempt to save the lives of the other passengers. The driver speaks as soon as all of the seats are filled: "Welcome, visitors of Pleasure Street to this streetcar experience. 100 years ago, this was a common form of transportation in many cities. Today, I will show you around Pleasure Street. There are no other stops even though it may seem like there are. There's the house drawn carriages for transportation to stops at other spots in this street so do keep that in mind." They go on by explaining what everything around us is and so on. But as time goes on, I start to feel sleepy. Barla whispers harshly: "Sleeping gas. This streetcar is filling up with sleeping gas." Dominic replies: "I'll take care of it by destroying the molecular bonds of the sleeping gas." He does so and the sleepiness starts to go away. As we start heading back towards where we entered the streetcar, the conductor finally reveals their true intentions: "Please wake up, sleepyheads! You missed out on a lot! Thanks for riding with us. It's time for all of you to die." Demonic swordsmen rise out of the floor of the streetcar and prepare to slaughter all of us. I pull out my beloved sword Graceful Protector and wage battle with one of them after casting an illusion spell to trick the conductor/driver.
"Take this! And this! And this!" It was an epic duel until I overcame them using the power of my mind. But still, it was hard to defeat them. I only won just as the streetcar came to a stop. The driver, thinking they have killed us all is laughing over and over again, even as we slip away with the passengers we saved. We warned them to stay away from as many things in this park as possible from now on as even the paper towels tried to kill us all earlier. And who knows what the hand dryers do to those who use them.. We agreed to not try the horse drawn carriages or anything else. After all, we did see from the streetcar that anyone who tried riding them was "accidentally" knocked off of them and trampled to death. As for the double decker buses? Well, they always experienced spontaneous combustion before reaching any stops, burning alive anyone inside before instantly repairing themselves to mint condition. After all of that, we headed to the candy store/ice cream shop. I look around: "Looks as normal as Sweet Spot at Kings Island does. Kind of reminds me of a Graeter's store in fact but bigger. We haven't seen any useful info about the real purposes of this park despite looking everywhere we go. Maybe we'll find something here." Dominic replies: "Possibly but more importantly, I forgot to share what I read in the bathroom with you all. What a nap causation. Here's what it basically said. It said how people die inside of the restrooms in painful detail and stated that one of the real reasons this park exists is to maximize suffering and that anyone who can read the hieroglyphics should be terrified learning this.
But we predicted that as one of the main reasons this headache inducing theme park exists." Bray sighs: "We must keep ourselves composed. Giving into fear could ruin everything. I shall do what I can to stay calm and help all of you do so as well for as long as possible." Madeline speaks: "I sense the darkness. It's.. getting worse.." I add: "Can't forget. We have to keep our cover up by taking in as much of this park as we can. I mean, I gotta admit. The treats in here look REALLY good but I will resist the temptation to buy and eat any of them. And now that Carlos is obsessed with fruit instead of sugar, we don't have to worry about him getting all over these sweets unlike the foreboding growing darkness.." The names of the sweets are really strange. Some are straight out of the ice cream virus monster beast's ploy from Supernoobs. Mocha Fudge Destruction, Cookies Cream Annihilation, Brownie Slaughterdae, gummy slashers, chocolate murder frogs, massacre beans, you name it. And before our eyes, people who eat the sweets die in seconds and there's nothing we can do to stop it even if we attempt the technique to save someone from choking to death by dislodging whatever is causing the choking. Bray tries reviving people but it doesn't work. Instead, janitors just keep dragging dead bodies away to places unknown. Some people die from literal frozen brains. Others were killed by actual sugar overloads. Barla speaks: "Have we looked through this entire store yet? Even I can't bear to watch or hear any of this anymore.." None of us say no so the answer was yes and we move onto an Italian style bakery that also has flatbread pizza for sale and cookies and so on.
I'm in love: "It smells so good in here but still, we can't forget what's really going on here. What's the flatbread pizza going to do? Make us see things until the baker comes out wielding a burning frying pan and tries to kill all of us?" No, not at all. It's actually a place where no one dies. Or that's what we thought until someone bit into fresh bread and burned to a crisp too fast for any of us to intervene in time. It was so disheartening to watch more people die as we explored the rest of the stores and restaurants in Pleasure Street. Nothing I want to write about happened until we ventured into the more supposedly fun stores. The dress up boutique with Norwegian architecture was one of those stores. We walk inside and an employee dressed as a wintery elf speaks warmly to us: "Hello there! Welcome to our boutique! Here, we make the dreams of anyone who enters come true! Whether you want to be a fairy or a princess, elf, you name it, we can help you do just that! We even are able to help you be noble knights or dashing princes and just about anything else you can think of! Whenever you're ready should you wish to be transformed, please speak to me and I'll help you get started on your journey!" Carlos perks up: "I know what I wanna become! A prince, please!" "Alright then, follow me!" He goes with the employee to another room while we looked around the room we were in which was filled with all kinds of outfits. Vikings, shrine maidens, you name it. I speak: "Carlos is being incredibly ironic right now. He's a mischievous ninja who has assassinated some of our enemies in the past.
But nevermind that, he's getting intel on the rest of this building without looking suspicious. I'm curious to see what happens in the end. How will they try to kill him here?" Soon after that, we finish looking all over the place. I even complemented the knight outfits. Not bad for outfits that are probably mass produced far away from here. Austin exclaims: "Everyone! Look! There's a window into a room where they transform customers and Carlos is the only one being transformed in there right now!" We go see for ourselves what happens. Not long after that, just as Carlos is dressed into a prince, something bad happens. Bray casts a hear through the wall spell. Now, the person attending him is clearly saying: "Time for the final part of the process! Let's give your hair a makeover befitting a dashing prince!" We can sense the malevolence in that statement. We watch as the person pulls out a chainsaw: "And the only way to transform your hair is with this!" But Carlos uses his skills to slip away despite having the full attention of the employee. We quickly buy an outfit for him. Madison hands it to him as he runs out of the store: "Here! Go to the bathroom and change your look using this as an excuse! Dominic already hacked the security cameras." A few minutes later, Carlos comes back dressed as an explorer. And we look through the rest of the specialty shops from there. In the Swiss style bookstore, the books come alive and try to murder us all.
We had to flee to avoid drawing much attention by destroying the books. In the magic wand store, there were actual magic wands possessed by greedy spirits.. Bray captured the spirits after a brief but intense battle and sealed them away in paper seals and we left without drawing any attention to ourselves. We were all sick of stores for now after that and before heading to Techtopia, we decided to go the Hotel of Happy Dreams at the center of the park and end of Pleasure Street, ignoring the stage between the hotel and the fountain pool for the time being. We have to play the part of a party having a fun day at this park at all costs. We have to keep looking like whatever bad happens to us isn't enough to destroy our fun completely. And that wasn't too hard because Carlos, Barla, and Pirate Blaster are the way they each are. Barla grins as we reach the hotel: "Not bad for a hotel. Let's hope there's nothing in there that I need to shoot or blow up." I reply with a serious expression: "Or disintegrate. Or slash into tiny pieces. Or assassinate." We decide to book rooms for several nights in case we're in this park for several days. I mean, it's already 3 hours since the park opened at 8 am. Almost lunchtime. Yeah, this is going to take a lot more than a single day. They better have some kind of fast queue system that you can purchase a pass or wristband for. Something like Fast Lane, Universal Express, Flash Pass, Lightning Lane, etc. We go to the check in inside the hotel lobby which features a lounge, playground, TVs, and a steakhouse restaurant because why not.
When it's our turn after waiting in line for a short time, we walk up to one of the employees at one of the check in desks. They greet us with an unnaturally wide smile. It felt almost like a smile made out of plastic. Like the smiles of ponies in Our Town in Equestria when Starlight Glimmer was its supreme ruler before she was removed from power and later reformed by Twilight after causing Equestria to descend into worse and worse alternate timelines by messing with time to get her revenge on Twilight. The employee who is wearing a shirt covered in positive emojis speaks: "Hi there! Welcome to the Hotel of Happy Dreams! Are you checking in?" Bray replies: "Indeed. We are checking in. We'd like 3 regular rooms for 6 nights." "Alright. Your total for that comes to 1800. No tax. Cash or card." "Cash." "Alright then! Let me get the cash register open right away then." The Sage pays them in cash. The employee then hands them a bunch of keycards: "Here are your room keys. 5 for each room. Make sure not to lose them. Enjoy your stay." "We shall. Thank you." We then walk away towards the restaurant where things are quite loud, allowing us to converse amongst ourselves without anyone overhearing what we're actually trying to do by visiting this park. I speak first: "I would say we should wait till tonight to check out the rooms but the curiosity is nagging at me. We should eat lunch somewhere soon and visit the rooms before doing so." Pirate Blaster nods: "Arr. You're right. Best we get to know them before anyone gets inside and tries to kill us as soon as we enter them to sleep tonight if we survive the parade."
We go over how things have gone so far before finding our rooms on the 8th floor. They're all right by each other. That's nice. We figure out who will stay in which room and distribute room keys accordingly. Myself, Herbsalvin, Bray, and Dominic agree to share all of the rooms. I get us in with my room key and the door automatically unlocks. Dominic speaks: "Yes, you can sleep together, Swift, Herbsalvin. I don't care what bed I sleep on or whatever." Both of us give very rare blushes. Bray unleashes a rare light chuckle. We examine every inch of the room while actively making it seem like we're just really fascinated with its design. But we find nothing suspicious. Through our new telepathic link, Herbsalvin and I agree that we actually have to use what's inside this room for any of it to try to kill us. After all of that, we reunite with the others outside of our rooms and go to the outdoor restaurant by the pool for lunch. Luckily for me, it's a restaurant with many types of foods so I got myself some pizza, fries, and water and that was good enough. We may be giving money to the puddle of sewage behind this park but in the end, once our comrades as well as ourselves have our way with them, that will no longer matter. The founder of this park Matt is now next on my list of enemies to get rid of completely if needed.
We were once again saved from the food poisoning and discreetly tried to save the lives of other people from it as well. We were only partially successful but it was the most success we have had so far in this park so we were willing to take it for now. After lunch, we went back to the deadly cursed bathrooms to use em, survived, and walked to the train station above The Deco Palace. While in line for the train, I remark: "You know what would make this park a lot deadlier? Actions done based on generative 'AI'. I'd be surprised if it isn't used to make this park even more dangerous by now. But like it really needs it. We saw a lot of dead bodies by the pool hotel earlier on the way here after all.. And others were inside of the pool itself.." Bray puts a hand on my shoulder: "Swift, are you okay?" "Mostly. It's hard to keep it together even for me in the midst of so much death and malice. It looks like I have well retained my very humanity despite all of the enemies I have personally had to kill. We all have so much blood on our hands. The alternative to that was innocents as well as our comrades suffering and being killed even faster and more often than at any point up to now. No matter how much time passes, there's always some bad faction out there trying to make others suffer immensely. This theme park was built to kill people. We know that for certain now. And given the prices for stuff here, it's also clear that Matt wants to squeeze as much money as possible legally out of everyone before they all 'accidentally' perish in the park. If my foresights are right, the reason why this park hasn't been shut down is because every person who dies here is replaced by an exact clone of them who takes their place in their own lives from then on."
Bray replies: "Just let me or anyone know how you feel when it gets bad, okay?" I nod: "The same goes for you and everyone else. We build on each other, we help each other, we support each other." A few minutes later, the train comes with a recorded voice saying: "We have reached Thrill Plaza station, the gateway to all of Alva Towne Unamusement Park. Please gather your belongings and exit the train in a calm and careful fashion. Please enjoy the rest of your day here at Alva Towne Unamusement Park. For those of you about to board, welcome to the Alva Towne Unamusement Park & Harmony Lake Railroad. The next stop will be Techtopia. It will be followed by stations in every single area except for Pleasure Street starting from Winterville and to the station preceding this one: Riverbank Settlement Station." Once everyone to board in onboard, the voice speaks again. "Once again, welcome to the Alva Towne Unamusement Park & Harmony Lake Railroad. Our next stop is Techtopia, where the future of technology intermingles with space travel and a utopian society where harmony and kindness thrive. We will arrive in just a couple minutes. Please keep your hands, arms, feet, and legs inside the train at all times. Make sure you watch over any small children with you at all times." Blaster teases Carlos: "Like you, Carlos!" "Hey!" I laugh: "I'm sorry but that's hilarious because you're as chaotic as your average excited child, Carlos." We quickly calm down as we take in the sights around us.
Herbsalvin lovingly hugs me out of nowhere. I return the gesture. Yeah. I'm in a relationship with a fellow non binary knight who is also a beautiful pegasus for those of you who are new to my stories. It didn't take very long for us to reach Techtopia which looked jaw droppingly amazing. It looked full of rides and like a massive futuristic utopia. I speak as it begins to come into view: "Okay, we absolutely have to put this park under the control of BRAINS once we defeat Matt and whoever else we need to and revive every single person who has and will be killed here. It's like a super rich billionaire funded this park. Look at this sci fi area. It has even more detail, rides, and so on than Magic Kingdom, Universal Studios Orlando, Kings Island, etc. It's no wonder the number of people being killed here isn't enough to stop this park from being crowded at all. Matt must have hired some of the most creative people of this alternate Earth to make this happen. There's nearly no way someone as clearly rich has he is has nearly enough imagination to come up with this even despite how dangerous and lethal it actually is." I stop talking as the voice speaks again: "We are now approaching Techtopia station. For those of you who will be exiting here, please gather all of your belongings and prepare to exit in a calm and organized fashion. For those of you staying onboard, our next stop is Winterville." We get off as soon as possible. Mel speaks: "Strange, no one involved with the train tried to kill anyone. Wait, hostiles on their way here. I'll take care of them." A small army of sci fi soldiers block the exit gate to Techtopia from the train station from the other side. One of them speaks: "Halt. We have reason to believe that some of you seek to poison this utopia. Please standby as we weed those of you who do out and dispose of you. Stay calm. This is routine and nothing to worry about."
Seconds later, they randomly fire into the crowd we're a part of only for Mel to turn invisible and dispatch all of them with her sword techniques after creating a shadow clone of herself to avoid suspicion. Once done, she replaces her shadow clone and sends it away. She then speaks: "The Invisible Warrior. That was my nickname many years ago before I became a knight. I gave up on using my invisibility techniques in order to focus on being a leader better until I turned on the system nearly 2 years ago. No longer using the technique meant the knights who were under me could learn to trust me much more easily. I have given up being anything resembling a ruler since." I reply: "In my future story Origins, I'm going to write about your origin story and I'm so including that if I remember to or reread my writing about this first day at Alva Towne Unamusement Park. This adventure isn't nearly as chaotic or action packed as most adventures are but that's only because this is much more of a tense situation. The villain this time doesn't know who we really are as far as we know. We're playing tip toe to avoid being noticed by him or any of his underlines. What's more is that lots of people have been running and screaming out of stores near us today so there's no way Carlos doing the same thing earlier would look or does look suspicious looking back. Stealth operations have less action but more tension. This is a stealth operation. The pacing I'm writing about this is essentially going to be much slower than I usually do so this will really be interesting. It'll be nice to do so for a change to be honest. Anyway, we should actually ride something now."
Yappa Yappa exclaims: "I know what we can ride! It sounds extremely deadly! It's inside that massive building that towers everything else in this area! What is it called again? ..Right! Something perfect for torturing.. Never mind! It's called Expedition Observable Universe!" I look at the building it's in: "Is it me or is that thing as tall as Top Thrill Dragster? Or rather, Top Thrill 2? It might secretly be a real euthanasia coaster given how deadly this park has been so far. You can't eat anything without burning or getting food poisoning here. Why don't we start with something a little less extreme because most of you aren't used to roller coasters that tall? I am but that's not the point." That's when we see a sign for something called Hyperdrive Rocket Racers. Barla looks at the attraction warily: "It's going to try to kill us within seconds of starting to ride it, isn't it?" Blaster replies: "After everything we've been through the past 3 years, I'm going to go with my gut and say that the answer is yes. The same gut that helped save me from being attacked by a hydra in the middle of a sea during a huge storm at night once." We decide to get in line for it. I speak: "This is astonishing. A park so lethally evil is so incredibly detailed that it might as well have been built inside of Planet Coaster but one of the legendary builders of the Planco community. The irony in this is so painful that it might as well be magnetic enough to shift the Earth's orbit. Look at this queue. It looks like as if the Kennedy Space Center was recycled into a spaceport hundreds of years into the future. This goes beyond even anything Disney has done in their parks.
And yes. The same goes for anything I've done in Twisted Land but Twisted Land has many charms this park or any other park has." We talk amongst ourselves to pass the time and use magic to secretly help anyone we see suffering as best as we can. The only reason we don't feel much more guilt for not stepping up to more actively help is that we are going to revive every individual this park has and will kill. That plan is very reassuring for us. Once it's our turn, all of us are able to fit inside what looks like a small rocket jet and is really a suited up evolution of your classic go karts ride/Autopia. Once inside, the doors are closed and a voice speaks. "Hello passengers. Welcome to Hyperdrive Rocket Racers! Please note all safety precautions that have been listed to you as the race begins. The goal is to beat the other rockets in the other lanes to the finish line. You will pass through much of Techtopia and what lies beyond it as you do so. Please hold on and note that you share responsibility over controlling how this rocket moves. It's all up to you. Please do not bump any rockets that are currently racing ahead of you. Is that all I have to say? Sadly, yes. Please enjoy the race. It will begin shortly. In 20 seconds. *the countdown is done* Ready, set, go!" Working today, we start racing and have to stop Carlos from insisting that we take this seriously as a race in order to focus more on safety instead. But what was obvious was that the rocket will soon try to kill us all anyway so it didn't really matter. Or at least, that's how it would be if we didn't refuse death at every turn. I mean, I'm already dead so if a ride kills my friends, I will be sad but my body will still be moving even if my head is rolling on the ground after all of that.
We soon enter the first turn and the heat inside the rocket intensifies beyond anything a person could possibly handle. Barla yells: "Damn it! They're not playing around! This thing is rigged to kill automatically!" I sigh: "Good thing we all currently have resistance to fire through various means such as armor upgrades and spell buffs. So this is bearable for us. Let's keep driving. Oh wait, if this is happening to us, the rocket ahead must be.. you know. I'm going to stop right there so I don't have to say 'I can't unhear what I just said' yet. We have more than enough dark things to dwell on from the past as it is. So.. what do we do about the rocket ahead which is clearly no longer moving?" Barla yells: "Bray, Dominic! We need this thing to be very slightly modified. I hate that I'm doing what I'm about to do given the fact that there's bodies inside the rocket ahead of us but we have no choice. We're about to crash right into it as this thing now refuses to stop! What the hell?!" They change the rocket just enough to allow Barla an opening to launch a RPG at the rocket ahead. It works as intended, clearing us a path ahead. But then the voice speaks again more ominously: "Somehow, you have managed to survive this far, let's try again. In this race, all racers must die! This is a death race!" I exclaim: "Damn it! That reminds me of the cruel 'dog race' in the anime Deadman Wonderland which this place is EVEN worse than!" As we drove through the rest of the course of the attraction, we were subjected to all kinds of painful things. Torture, creatures busting the rocket doors down to attack us, and so on. But we overcame it all but were still covered in our own blood by the end of it as well as some monster blood but quickly healed up through various means and got the blood off in just 3 seconds.
The people all around us ignore what's happening, too immersed in the park to pay attention. That's by design. Meanwhile, employees helping run the ride point laser blasters at us. I utter: "Crap. We're as good as found out now. There goes our entire operation." Dominic shouts: "Not yet! Power outage, begin!" The entire park experiences a park wide power outage. The scientist then knocks the employees unconscious and urges: "Let's break this ride further!" We attack some of the unoccupied rockets with enough force for even us to harm them while the whole place is shrouded in a huge shadow from the ceiling far above us, built to have that giant roller coaster go on top of it and save on construction costs. Previously, it was fully illuminated to not cast a shadow on the entire rocket go karts. We then make the mess we are making look like some kind of malfunction before running off. Dominic yells again: "Hurry! To the trees nearby! The power will be back on soon. We have to go to the park's security room and tamper with the footage that's there. Some of the others have located it already." There's about 100 of us scattered throughout the park right now, blending in and exploring the whole place. Once we're all finished exploring including of restricted areas, we'll confront the park manager and end this once and for all. We are directed to the room with ease thanks to the efforts of Senku and his friends. Once there, Dominic speaks: "I need help. I'll take care of the hacking and tampering part. And I think you know what you need to do. What a nap causation. The possibility of any of you being unsure what you must do based on what you can do." I guard the door into the room from the inside: "If anyone enters, I'll warn y'all and take care of them."
Several others join me in doing so as well while Bray closely watches Dominic work his tech mastery. And that's when I realized that this story is more so an action thriller comedy than anything else. But it doesn't matter what genres it mainly is. What matters is that it flows however it flows. Once Dominic has finished up, he asks Bray: "Done! Bray, can you teleport us back to Techtopia?" "Yes, I can still teleport anywhere within the park itself but not anywhere outside of it. I shall do just that. We must connect arms immediately. Are you certain you have finished your latest exploit?" "It'd be a nap causation if I were lying just now about it. But I'm not. It's done just as I said. I don't need to repeat saying that again. We can go now." And that's how we avoided getting the attention of Matt *whatever the rest of his name is* the park manager, founder, and certified villain. Bray soon teleports us to a large crowd within Techtopia just as the power comes back on. We hear Matt's voice speak: "Yes yes, everything's back up now. Sorry, park guests for that disruption in your visit. It appears that we had some kind of power surge that knocked out the power. Still looking into the cause but rest assured, I will not allow it to happen again. As an apology, each park guest is eligible to get one free meal coupon. Use it within the park whenever you desire, even 10 years from now. Thank you for your patience." And with that, he stops talking through the loudspeakers scattered all over the park. Pirate Blaster laughs: "That was too close, arr! Now we know that surviving the rides when we're not supposed to incurs serious wrath!" Carlos chuckles: "I have a great idea! Let's fake our deaths so we look dead every time we return to the stations of the rides!"
I reply: "It will be easy for me. I'm already dead. All I have to do is close my eyes, look slumped over, and appear like I was totally murdered by the rides. My heart doesn't beat anymore so.. Also, our foe may be killing all these guests not just for fun but to gain more power or activate some kind of evil ritual. Who knows. A villain with a portion of The Shadow has in the past usually aspired to do something really bad to the multiverse. Matt could take over this world with a clone army that replaced all of the people killed and to be killed here and I don't know. Open a portal to other worlds and bring death to them as well? That's basically how our conflict began with that damn Pmurt Nedib." We talk a bit more before heading to another attraction in Techtopia. A live show indoors called Fuzzy Aliens: The Musical. Oh and the massive roller coaster is described on the park map as having multiple inversions and LSM launches. Side note: we got the park's equivalent to a Fastpass so we can spend less time waiting in line than looking around and riding things. Barla jokes as we enter the line for the show: "This should be one hell of a hilarious show! What are they going to do? Make us laugh to death?! Just kidding. It's going to be brutal in there. It will be one hell of a challenge to get through with our body parts intact and attached properly." I nod: "If this is anything like Twisted Land's sci fi horror show, we're going to see some seriously intense stuff. It will be a battle to survive in there." To be continued..
Known park info so far: Pleasure Street: The World Fountains, magic wand store, Swiss bookstore, Norwegian style boutique, ancient Egypt restrooms, Oktoberfest Bierhaus, The Shrine(Japanese building), Italian style bakery with pizza, breads, and sweet treats, and French style Candy Corner & Ice Cream Parlor amongst other specialty stores, Thrill Plaza: The Deco Palace, center beautiful fountain, several shops, and Alva Towne Unamusement Park & Harmony Lake Railroad main station above TDP, Hotel Of Happy Dreams: indoor steakhouse, outdoor multi genre foods restaurant by pool and 2 slides, Safari World, water park Atlantis: The Plummet, kids area Candy Town, Techtopia: Expedition Observable Universe looping LSM launched roller coaster, Fuzzy Aliens: The Musical & Hyperdrive Rocket Racers, Winterville, Dynamite Town, ScreamZone, Not So Scary Land, Toon Mountain, Forgotten Castle, Alva Towne Boardwalk, Lakeside Beach, Mysterious Jungle, The Studio, and Riverbank Settlement.
