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Ronan seemed quite happy that she accepted the muffins. "She threatened me a little. "He shook his head but looked a little worried. "Do you think she meant it?"
He kept half his attention on the screens, cringing at the action and glancing sidelong at Rory who was really getting into this. He didn't hear Vanisha over all the cheering.

"So how many liability forms do you think they had to fill out to get permission to play this?" he mused aloud. It seemed a frightfully good way to break several bones or worse. Oh dear, he was starting to think like Rory wasn't he? He shook his head.

Ronan stared at Rory for a moment, then nodded. Well he knew two of the ghouls in this heat at least, which thinking about it, probably would make the intense peril of the race all the more anxious. He stood to get a better view of the platform.
"You are far more excited than usual Rorrim." He remarked, the other boo seemed really into all this which he found odd given how scared of everything else the mirror witch always appeared to be.

Anne and her team mates were up next!
She stretched some more and cheered for Marceline. She heard a familiar voice cheering for her as well, somewhere in the crowd- Rory?!
It explained his attempts to get her attention at the die-ner. It was odd for Rory to be so excited at a game so...dangerous, but she was happy he was enjoying the sport! She also spotted Falconnie, and grinned at her, sending a wave her way but she did not notice. "Oh well," she thought to herself. "I'll see them after try- outs."

A horn blared and the teams sprang into action. Meme sped alongside the others into the maze when they were plunged into what seemed like an endless darkness. Flailing both arms out wide, her fingertips skimmed the cold smooth stone walls to the left before she became disorientated by the dark.

"Ghouls?" She cried as she spotted a light at the end up the tunnel, which abruptly opened up into a giant hall. The bubbling lava lake stretch from wall to wall and was only crossable by spindly wooden bridges that intertwined like spider legs, spanning to the safe, solid platform on the other side. Meme spotted a sturdier looking bridge and headed toward it, though it hovered only inches above the scorching surface, her nervousness escaping her as a loud screech and she crossed to the other side and into another channel.

Thankfully this shaft was lit with torches held aloft in the paws of carved stone grotesques that line the walls. Suddenly the stone monsters gawped, mouths wide open and Meme knew something was coming. She scrabbled open the small pouch around her waist and produced colourful umbrellas, throwing one to each of her team mates. She pushed hers open in time to cover herself from the oncoming column of flames.

They passed the fire walls and ahead another tunnel intersected theirs at an angle. Meme pushed herself faster when she heard huffs and puffs and the scraping of skates; their opponents arrived, skating adjacent to them out of the vast chasm. She threw the some-what charred umbrella at Manny, who seized it out of instinct. He clutched the handle with a look of horror on his face as the top caught the air and his arm was dragged behind him, umbrella puffed like an open parachute. The air resistance and massive drop in momentum made him topple over and skid across the floor.

Odds: 100 to 1

Woah! Maybe her team wasn't SUCH a complete drag. Atomica threw the umbrella thrown to her by Meme into the lava and skated ahead. She was neckbolt and neckbolt with Robecca - uhhh-nbelievable! Atomica was holding her own with a legend of the SKRM-

*BAM!* Atomica's software glitched as she slammed into a giant stone column that had just shot up out of the floor with no warning.

"Skzzzzt-sskgzzz-szzz-OW!" She shook her head and looked at Robecca, signalling to her teammates the safe path. Atomica's sensors zoomed in and realized what Robecca's had...there was a pattern to the stone columns.

"SkzzzzgtFollow sszzzzfftttme!" She called to her teammates, veering to the left as a large stone column shot up and narrowly missed Rochelle Goyle.

Even Glen cringes at the impact Atomica made with the stone column, wincing with just one eye open and on the monitors overhead. He then opens both eyes and sees the Automaton ghoul continue on with her team.

Glen pumps a fist.

"Yeah!"

He looks to Anne and Ryder.

"See? It was just a scratch."

Ronan watched the race, wincing with each impact. Honestly he was surprised nobody had yet been killed playing this game. The ghouls were doing well though, least, they were till the automaton smashed into a column. Ouch, he idly wondered if robots felt pain.

What was the little mohawk guy screaming about? He stared at the gremlin, baffled, shaking his head.

the robot was back in the race, obviously she was built to be resilient. As Marceline closed the gap he glanced to Rory, concerned the boo was getting a little too involved in all this. Still, it made a change from the constant worry over danger. Funny, apparently others in mortal peril was fine and exciting, yet sand was just too much to handle. He smiled softly to himself at that thought.

Meme wiped the sweat from her brow with the back of a padded glove and began to lag behind by a few yards, uncertain of how to avoid the towering obstacles. "Okay!" She shouted at Atomica's tinny command. She mimicked her team-mates swerving and dodging the rising columns.

They passed into another pitch black tunnel and a loose stone clipped her heal, knocking her off balance. She smashed her shoulder into a wall which sent her spinning in circles behind the monsters. "Woah!" She cried, wondering how this would affect their score, but recovered and sprinted closer to Atomica's glowing light in the darkness. "What's up ahead?!" She called out to them.