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Perhaps the opposite of Bacchus' night, Addy's had been fabulous. The bars had been kind to her tonight and she had been purchased multiple shots by one particular hopeful suitor that swore he could keep up. The lie detector test determined that was a lie as his friends carried his limp body out of the bar while he tried, with little success, to pass on his number.

That number was never going in her phone, but she had patted him on the head like a good little puppy and thanked him for the drinks.

The world had an absurdly low frame rate tonight. Probably unrelated.

What mattered most, certainly more than the fact that the world was lagging, was the purpose of her quest. The object of her desire. The craving that had lead her from the relative safety of the bar into the dark, unknowable night.

Tacos.

The best place in town for a late night taco binge was just a block or so down. Neon lights shown like a guiding star and her mouth watered as she caught the scent of the restaurant. Soon.

Addy almost didn't even notice the Slenderman sized menace scowling at the object in his hand.

"OH! Bacchus! Just in time! Want to get some tac-OH ******** startled shriek escaped from her lips as something caught under the flat heel of her Demonia, sending her tumbling onto the pavement. The offending object skittered a few feet away, each bounce making her stomach drop. Something felt wrong. Did the street look different?

"Bacchus?"

The world continued to spin around her as she took his hand and scrambled to her feet with a drunken stumble. Addy caught herself and brushed off her skirt as she looked around, taking in the scene. Squares and dice and according to Bacchus, they had to roll to escape...But escape was possible. He had done it already, right? So there was a way out of...whatever this was.

"Did I REALLY just get ******** JUMANJIED?" She hissed, glaring at the glowing cube in her hand. His description certainly called the old movie to mind what with the flying assholes and strange illusions. While still angry, she filed it away to pop some gummies and throw the movie on some time soon. It was a classic.

Pulling out her phone, she took a few pictures of the squares and attempted to get the platform, but when she reviewed them there was nothing. Just photos of an empty void. Before she could turn to Bacchus and comment she felt a chill run down her spine.

Hands. Dozens of hands...But when she looked back nothing was there. The force of them pushed her forward and even though she dug in her heels and tried to fight them, it did no good.

"Something is shoving me. What...Do you see anything?" Her hand reached out for Bacchus but before she could make any contact, she was gone. Through the first space and into the second before the force simply vanished.

"What in the hell was that?" She screamed as she looked around and back at Bacchus. "I couldn't fight it, it was so strong, it-oof!" Addy exclaimed again as a force, more solid this time, shoved her back toward the first space. She slammed face first into the invisible wall in front of her and whipped around, but once again, she was alone. Reaching out a hand, she placed it on the invisible wall in front of her and ran her fingers along it. This was beyond annoying but...also kind of cool. She would definitely feel that nose pain once the reality of sobriety kicked in.

"Okay, okay, ********. I'll play the stupid game!" She called out to open air before rolling her di again.

For a brief moment, Addy stared at him incredulously. Was he...Was he still in character? Now that she thought of it, she never got around to asking what he was cosplaying. She decided that for now, escaping whatever the ******** this was would be the best use of her time and she would question him on his dedication to method acting after.

"It shoved my face into this stupid invisible barrier," she grumbled, rubbing her nose. "Don't think it broke anything though." At least she didn't have to reset a nose tonight. Yet. "So I guess it's just WEAK and INCOMPENTENT," she yelled out at their invisible tormentor.

The world still spun around her and she steadied herself against the invisible wall before looking down. Three. Okay.

Stepping forward, she moved through the square Bacchus was in and she held her nose, watching with dismay as a pasty white hand crawled in and out of the darkness beside her.

"Is that...Smell you?" she asked, her voice attempting to hide her disgust as she moved into the final square. "You should see a doctor."

The dog barking was instantaneous and overwhelming. Suddenly she was five again being chased through the park by an off-leash dog. Hot, moist breath played at the back of her neck and the sound was so loud her ears were ringing. Was that it just beyond the shadows that surrounded them? Was it poised to pounce? It sounded ********," she whispered as she looked around for the offending animal. It sounded like it was right behind her, but the only thing there was Bacchus in his stink chamber.

Hands shaking, she quickly rolled her di so that she could scramble out of there before she had to find out if the dog was as real as whatever had shoved her.

The di skipped and bounced, bumping up against an invisible wall before coming to a halt on one. Addy scooped it up and looked down the long walkway ahead of her as she practically teleported into the sixth space. One single space with so many more ahead of her. Inside her new prison was Bacchus yelling about how this was old material and she felt some comfort in that. He had experienced this particular torture before and came out on the other side. It definitely helped that the barking had ceased almost immediately. Her chest rose and fell slowly with a deep, calming breath.

There were no dogs, even if she could still hear the vicious growls echoing in her mind. She would survive this just as she had every other strange thing she had encountered since returning to Destiny City. Best of all, she wasn’t alone. Perhaps she didn’t know Bacchus very well and he seemed to be perpetually in the same cosplay, but it looked like he washed it, at least. She’d been stuck with weirder in cramped places in San Fran.
“So do you have any idea what the ******** this place is? Some trickster god’s pocket dimension? Glitch in the matrix?”
The first string whizzed by her head faster than she could recognize and she jumped at the strange sound as it sang its shrill song right into her ear. It was quickly followed by another and another as they strung up all around her, slowly closing her into her corner of the square. No, thank you.
With a huff, she knelt down and dropped her die, letting it roll just at her feet.

Going back to San Francisco was more and more appealing the longer she was in Destiny City. At least if she encountered a strange board game there, it was performance art put on by some eccentric and not some inter-dimensional bullshit with ghost dogs and wires and whatever the ******** she'd smelled earlier. Maybe Bacchus' giardia.

"A glitch in the...Have you never seen The Matrix?" she asked, incredulous, "Nevermind, know what? Doesn't matter right now. Keep rolling. We just have to keep rolling."

Addy reached out for the di and winced as a razor sharp wire sliced into the tip of her finger. She hadn't seen it at first but now that a drop of her blood clung to the string, she hissed at it and pressed down on the wound with another finger to help stop the blood flow. That was a later problem.

More carefully this time, she reached for the di and moved forward.

Finally, a better roll! She moved ahead five spaces, but her happiness was short lived. The sound of leathery wings flapping through the air caught her off guard and she looked up, only to see a wriggling mass of black swooping down at her, screeching and clawing as it did before circling and preparing for round ********. BATS? REALLY?" She shrieked as she swatted them away from her face.

Was she going to need a magical rabies shot? She wanted out before she learned the hard way. Kneeling down and pulling her jacket up above her head as a shield, she rolled.

"What happens when we make it to the end?"

"Flap shits?" Addy questioned incredulously as she picked up her di and looked back at Bacchus.

"DUDE, WHAT THE ********?" she cried out, choking on her laughter as she scurried forward, not able to move away fast enough, "You're ENJOYING this?"

The laugh was desperately needed and it broke the tension and fear in her as she moved forward. "Keep this guy away from Monopoly, goddamn."

The flapping of wings echoed through her new square as more bats swooped and screeched. Small fangs sunk into her skin and Addy found herself feeling ice cold and utterly exhausted. A chill ran down her spine as her whole body began to shiver and her teeth chatter. It hurt more than she had imagined.

Unable to form words from how hard her teeth chattered together, she simply rolled her di once more.

Eager to flee the onslaught of bat after bat sinking their razor sharp fangs into every inch of exposed flesh they could find, Addy scooped up the die and ran out of the square, swatting her assailants away, teeth audibly slamming together. Five. Okay. Wait! Five was the end!

Eager to escape, she ran to the end, stumbling a little as she did. The chill slowly left her body as she was bathed in a beautiful opalescent light. Addy's eyes widened as she watched the bleeding bite marks slowly close and disappear as if they had never even been there.

"What the ********?" she whispered under her breath before looking up at Bacchus. No way was she leaving him here alone.

"I'm definitely blaming you," she called out from the victory square with a laugh.

"What do you MEAN what is Monopoly? Dude, break character. We are literally in a nightmare hell dimension. Stop acting!"