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A -- Do just that; run.

Clearly some higher power was punishing her. For leaving Destiny City for a while, for being bad at school, for worrying her parents... who could tell? At that moment, Tara felt that she had done quite a bit to be punished for. What other explanation could there be?

She had her pen in her pocket. She hadn't used it since her return, but she couldn't not bring it. "Aquarius Zodiac Power," she murmured, "Make-Up!"

Nothing happened.

"Or not." Something was coming, that much was clear. If it had enough power to keep her from soldiering up, it wasn't just a dork in a costume. If she stayed, she would be meat. She hated to run, but it was better than becoming a youma's midnight snack.

CONGRATULATIONS, Eve has seen enough Jurassic Park to realize when to stand still and win second prize! We're almost to the finish though, keep going for third!

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Amazingly enough, while you were frozen in horror before fleeing, the thing didn't make a single move towards you! Could it be that if you don't move, it can't see you? You stop running to test this theory and wiggle your foot, earning a wet snarl from the figure and it menaces forward. Every muscle in your body freezes, and it stares at the place where your foot was; frustration is clear in its body language.

Giving up and assuming that you are gone, it slumps down the path, and you can now move away.

There is no question in your mind now - this place is totally messed up. If you are the sort of person to write strongly-worded letters to the City Council, that is absolutely the first thing on your to-do list as soon as you get out of this place! Of course, if you're the sort of person to punch them all in the face, it's advised you don't do that. Assault is never pretty! Maybe if you'd never hit that poor scarecrow dude in the face, you wouldn't even be in this mess?

It's something to consider!

Feet slap against the ground as you try to jog away from where you met that thing as fast as you can without drawing too much attention. Remember, it couldn't see you when you didn't move! Or so you thought. The monster was smarter than you gave it credit for, and as you stand considering going down Scarecrow Street or Pumpkin Path to get towards the exit (which has to be close, my GOD the GIMMICKS), it appears again behind you.

There are now only two options. This is ending.

A -- Grab the scarecrow stick and try to stab the thing.
B -- Throw the pumpkin at its head.

((A-STAB THAT ******** liked to think he wouldn't stab just anything. But this thing stopped him from powering up. A pumpkin just bruised. A stick could ******** up your s**t if stabbed.
He might have had an experience from both cases. Picking up the stick, Elzo was going to stab the this ********> HARD CORE.

It worked! It actually worked! Eve let out a sigh of relief as the strange monster thing slumped away. She ran, wanting to get out of the place as soon as possible.

While running, she also realized that her attempt to henshin up wasn't working.

What the hell?! It didn't help that the monster was back and Eve stared at it, eyes wide, before deciding it was time to defend herself.

B-- PUMPKIN THROW

Congrats to DivineSaturn and Tara for third place! This is the last question and anyone who has played can answer because it doesn't involve having been in the previous steps. After this, I will raffle out from those of you who did not place for a few items rewards!

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You told everyone, when you were a kid, that there was no way that goo inside of a pumpkin wasn't totally deadly. Apparently, if you are clownwolfbeastmonsters it is somewhat akin to acid on your...skin? All you know is that as soon as that pumpkin burst all over the menacing thing, it let out a shriek that a banshee might have been proud of, or a class full of kindergarteners.

It bubbled.

It festered.

It exploded into inky blackness that splattered the corn and your shoes.

Everyone who you'd seen go into the maze was close. You could hear the childish voice of Istas, was that Simon's head peeking up over the corn? Sounded also like Sorrin had finally been dropped by the scarecrow as well! The only way to go now was forward. The center was close. One choice remained:

A -- Go down Pumpkin Path.
B -- Go down Scarecrow Street.

A -- Go down Pumpkin Path.

There were monsters in here, Simon had noted with no shortage of terror, and pumpkin goop was their silver bullet. With that in mind, it seemed like a sensible idea to go down the path DECORATED with the lifesaving gourds.

A -- Go down Pumpking Path

You know, after seeing what a pumpkin had done to that hyrbid monster... thing, Delphine felt a whole lot safer walking down the Pumpkin Path. If there were more of those ********, they wouldn't want to follow her down here. At this point in the game, Delphine would much enjoy having some god-be-damned peace and quiet.