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s**t, now she had a light too! The little cardboard beastie had tapped her sword down so that it clattered down on the ground (well, it more like bounced with its rubber coating). Blushing a bit, she picked up the sword again and got a firm grip on it.

From here, Calintha didn't know which way to go. The room ahead looked interesting, but she was very intrigued as to where the cardboard monster headed off to. The girl stood there with her sword as the people around her made decisions. Ladon and Lily both headed off into the next room, while Peyton went after the monster. "Wait, you shouldn't go off alone!" She hurried after the other girl who had a head start at this point, in order to investigate where the cardboard monster went.

It would be better for them to not go off alone- even if they got into trouble it was more reassuring to go with others. As she turned the corner she called out to the others moving ahead to the room. "Be right back guys, where gonna see where this thing went."

Rolling for freeedom!

Calintha hadn't been far behind Peyton when she discovered the optical illusion pathway. It was hidden behind a cleverly painted wall where the cardboard monster had disappeared to. She followed the other girl into the space behind the illusion, only to have it get uncomfortably tight.

It wasn't long before she had wedged herself fairly snug in the two walls. Somehow in her struggling, Calintha's left foot got stuck in an exposed wall beam. And with the passage only being about as wide as herself, it was very difficult to get out of it without breaking her leg in the process, or for that matter breaking the wall. There was no telling what breaking a beam would do even if she could; there was always the possibility that it was a support beam or load bearing. And the thought of being stuck with the walls collapsing in was not comforting in the slightest. The blonde sucked in her breath and tried again to wiggle herself free, only to fail miserably.

"Oh! Ow!" The painful remarks slipped through her heavy breathing. Despite this, the blonde girl twisted every which way she could trying to pry her leg out, and had no luck at all. She couldn't go any farther forward, that was for sure. She hadn't really tried moving backwards, since that seemed detrimental to the progression of the game. "I'm stuck, I can't go any further in. I don't even know if I can get out!" Maybe Peyton would be able to help her sticky predicament. Calintha had gotten in though, and even if she couldn't move forward in this hall, she could still (hopefully) turn around and catch up with Ladon and Liliana. Perhaps they had found better things in their room. She was certainly wishing she had followed them now, though leaving the other girl to her own devices would have probably made her feel much worse than this.

Finally after struggling extra hard one last time, Calintha managed to free herself from the wall with a sickening crack. Thankfully, it was the wall that had cracked and not her ankle; the board her food had been stuck in lay broken at her feet. It looked in not so good shape, partially rotted through to begin with. She felt fine, ankle included, though she was a little shaky from struggling and there were some abrasions on her skin from struggling.

The girl leaned against the wall and just breathed for a little while, calming her body back down. She bent down and picked up her foam sword that had been dropped, and looked around for Peyton. It was difficult for her to see in the dark hallway, and Calintha wasnt sure if the other girl had continued on without her.

Peyton noticed one of the girls had followed her - Calintha, right? She then took the lead, leading the way to...a secret passageway! Oh, this was so exciting! So exciting that Peyton gave a yelp and jumped back when Calintha got stuck, stumbling backwards and...into a slight predicament of her own, her leg wedged between two of the floorboards, in a space where one had either broken or been removed.

"...Ow, this kinda hurts," Peyton whined, pulling as hard as she could to try and free herself. She gave one hard tug, before gasping to herself, deciding that no, that wasn't going to work. Next she tried whacking at the wood with the baseball bat. Despite it being made of foam, luckily it loosened up the adjacent floorboards enough for Peyton to wiggle her leg free, hands quickly rubbing at the sore patches, the teen relieved to find that she'd been left with only bruises. Looking back up, she was glad to see that Calintha had also freed herself, and continued down the dark, secret passageway. Turning herself sideways to slip though the walls the blonde had gotten stuck between, she placed a hand carefully on Calintha's shoulder, not wanting to spook the girl, but at the same time wanting to make sure she realized that Peyton was there.

"C'mon, lets investigate," Peyton grinned, eyes sparkling as she nudged Calintha forwards, indicating that she wanted to continue down the hallway they were in.

As the group split up, he followed after Liliana, walking into the room was at least a bit more cheerful than the other rooms, though still keeping with the low-budget effect. Looking up at the painted clouds, he guessed this place was suppose to be outside, and then spotted a paper river and a cheap bridge. Someone had to have fun making all these props and monsters, and just at Liliana went on ahead, a new monster appeared.

Standing before the bridge, he looked at the fake river and the monster on the bridge, and then looked at his axe with the one, glowing light. On a normal day, he would follow the rules, but he remembered how he got hit in the face without any warning until afterwards. The same thing happened with the monster. While he was told that hitting these monsters would be fun, there wasn’t anything saying he could pretended to ‘swim’ over the river. It just made sense, and it technically wasn’t cheating when you were just being smart.

Turning around, he hoped over the river to get around the bridge. There wasn’t anything saying ‘go on bridge much fun’ yet, which meant it was perfectly fine to do so.

Seeing another little light on her sword blink into existence, Calintha sighed. She only had one left now, and if the first stanza had been right, that meant she was only one step away from being ejected from the game. As weird as the game was, it was rather interesting in the fact that it wasn't Calintha sitting at home doing nothing. She wanted to continue doing whatever it was because it was with people, and it was fun! For the most part anyways. Her ankle and her pride hurt a little.

At the intercom clicking on, she jumped a little. It was two men talking, seemingly unaware of the fact that they were doing so. Apparently, even though she hadn't seen any cameras they were being watched. It made it even creepier, and a chill ran up her spine. As soon as it clicked off she looked about a little nervously. "Well... that was weird."

The passage wound all the way through the attraction it seemed, like some kind of service tunnel for cardboard monsters. She could see Liliana in the distance, from what looked to the the backside of another cardboard monster. She debated a ways back from everything, having stopped behind Peyton to figure things out. One of the monsters had said to make sure you attack them, but did that count if they were backwards? Calintha was pretty sure she could sneak by to avoid being hit again and receive her last light.

But, what the hell, it was just a game right? Even if there were weird men watching. Calintha looked around again. She stood to the side, pressed up against the wall and away from the tracks, making sure that if the monster backed up like all the others had, it wouldn't hit her when leaving. She took a stab at it with the sword. "Hey Liliana! Hows it-" She paused when she saw something drop on top of Liliana, giving a little yell of surprise. Figuring she would at least try to help out, Calintha reached around to the front of the monster, giving it a little smack, trying to help Liliana to defeat the monster. And hopefully, her good deed would be rewarded, and she could join the group again instead of being stuck in the nasty tunnel.

...Ohwhoops. Was that light on Calintha's sword from her? Feeling her cheeks flush red, several hurried "Sorry!"'s rushed out of the teen's mouth as she stumbled forwards down the passageway after...was Calintha a friend? More an acquaintance, really. The familiar crackling of an intercom sounded throughout the room, and the amber-eyed girl paused with a frown as two voices came on. ...Were they laughing at them? What the hell, was this some practical joke?! Pouting a little, not too pleased, Peyton continued around the bend and was soon faced with a door. Going through said door she was faced with the backside of the monster, with Liliana on the other side of it.

Alessa and Ladon were nowhere to be seen. Maybe they'd found a way out? Suddenly aware that Calintha was leaping forwards and attacking the monster, Peyton blinked, spying a small path to the side where she could sneak around. But...they needed her help. She didn't want to do anything on her own, what if she was wrong? And so Peyton leapt forwards, armed with her baseball bat, helping Liliana defeat the monster.