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Chapter 8 by Shibbar Shibbar

Do you wander through the arcade?

Yes

You wander down the arcade. Only empty game booths and a carboard cutout of a clown greet you. There's not much point playing them, you could just reach over the counter and take the prizes if you really wanted to. Besides they're rigged. You believe a boy took you here as a date once, and tried to win you one of those big blue stuffed elephants, but all his shots missed. You had fun overall however. Ended up eating cotton candy of each others hands.

This place never really changes (or well, changed), with the same games and attractions year after year. There's the Haunted Mansion attraction, where you go down a "spooky" set of corridors (They actually used animatronics for the scares rather than minimum wage teenagers, which really added to the effect!). Granted, it wasn't really that scary to begin with, but with what's going on nowerdays, you're sure it's not the greatest idea to go in there.

At the end of the arcade is the entrance to the giant tent, a long maze of metal bannisters sitting forlornly winding from the opening; some of them knocked over, some of them stacked crudely on each other. Even from a distance the tent looks forbidding, but taking one last look inside for childhood nostalgia can't hurt.

There's some other attractions too, but you don't feel perticularly interested in any of them right now.

What do you do now?

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