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Last call had come and gone, but Addy sat hunched over the bar, her drink dripping with cool condensation as it sat next to her untouched. She rolled the little di, so unassuming now, between her fingers, feeling the indents in the wood before she let it bounce and roll along the bar. It came to skittering halt on one, but nothing happened. It seemed it only had enough juice to teleport her to that hellscape once, but she hadn't been able to put it down since. The damn thing sat on her night stand and lived in her pocket all day before she found herself contemplating it at Cedar and Smoke.

Had Destiny City always been this ******** up? Is this what her aunt was always going on about? Why didn't she just pack Addy up and leave years ago?

Dragging her eyes away from the bar top, she scanned the rest of the establishment. It looked like it was just her and the barkeep now. Best not keep him from his closing duties. One hand idly rolled the di on the bar over and over again while the other picked up the Adios ******** next to her. The ratios would be off now that all the ice had melted, but she wasn't about to let it go to waste, so down the hatch it went with a few expert gulps.

Addy fished around in the pocket of her jacket for a few bills to leave on the bar as a tip and she scooped up the dice for one last roll.

Wait.

Dice?

Her eyes locked on the two little pieces of opalized wood now bouncing across the bar and she looked up at the bar tender, realizing, with a drop in her stomach, that he would likely be drawn in with her.

"SON OF A ********!" she screamed as the world around her began to shift in a blur of shadow, her voice ringing in her ears.

Addy sighed deeply as she glared down at the glowing di. The two shown bright and she picked them up again with a grumble. How had she wound up back here so quickly? Who, exactly, did she upset to drag her in twice? The di just appearing felt targeted, like some sort of trickster spirit had followed her to the bar and she had been too distracted to notice.

"FINE!" Addy yelled up into the air, looking around as if expecting to see a large figure looming over them, watching them suffer and cackling maniacally. She, of course, saw nothing but darkness and her voice was muffled by its oppressive presence.

Pale pink eyes drifted over to the barkeep and she sighed once more before addressing him, "Hey. So um. I'm Addy. I don't have a lot of time before it gets mad at me. Have you ever seen Jumanji? Cause uh. We just got Jumanjied. I got stuck here the other day, but if you roll the dice, you can get out," she held out her hand, showing both of her dice as proof.

"I'm not sure if this is my fault or if it followed me to the bar or...what...but I know others that have been stuck here too, so I know it isn't just me...Or I guess us, this time. Either way I'm sorry."

Addy felt that familiar pushing along her back likes hands forcing her forward and she fought against them for his benefit so he could see as she was clearly shoved forward by an invisible force.

"The game doesn't like it if you take too long. As far as I can tell each square has some awful surprise. I got this one last time so you're going to see me get - ********!"

The unseen force successfully shoved her into the second square and the invisible a*****e wasted little time in shoving her forward. Addy was thrown to the ground and the dice slipped out of her hand, skittering across the square as they did.

"....Shoved," she finished through a mop of hair that had fallen into her face with an indignant huff.

Scooping up her dice, she tucked the inert one away into her pocket and climbed to her feet. She offered Wesley a hand up before looking back down the pathway.

"Last time I was shoved, nearly attacked by a dog, sliced by thin, razor sharp wires...And then there were the bats...Yeah. Not friendly," she replied as she stepped forward, thankful she had rolled a six. She could be out sooner...Not that she would leave without Wesley...But the sooner this was all over, the better. "But nothing followed me home except the damn di."

Coming to a stop in her new square, she looked back at her fellow cellmate and offered him what she hoped to be a comforting smile. The more she encountered these things, the less it rattled her, but this might be the first time he had ever been through something like this. Hopefully a confident smile would help him make it through.

"This city is full of weird s**t, but this is survivable. I promise. I was drunk last time I was here and even I made it. Just keep focused and keep rolling, no matter what you see or hear, okay Wesley?"

When something darted over her foot, she jumped a little and glanced down, only to see nothing. Her eyes flicked back to the man and she opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by the sensation on her boot again and again. Was that...hissing?

Slowly looking down, her breath caught in her throat as she realized the entire floor was covered in snakes. Some she recognized, some looked like something out of a fantasy movie, but once thing was for sure. The more she moved, the more they noticed her.

Oddly enough, the snakes filled her with a sense of calm. What had scared her was their sudden appearance. She'd always been fond of the things. They were just animals, after all. Deciding to stay still until she had to move squares, she rolled the di on her palm, careful not to let it fall into the writing pit below.