Hello everyone, and welcome to Spooky Scary Skeletons: A Halloween-themed Adventure! I wanted to give a shot at the text-based adventure format, and I’ve kinda had this idea for some time. For those of you who aren’t familiar, you input actions and the game progresses based on what people type in. I’ll try to pump out a post as often as I can, though considering I’m also running the RTD thread and other stuff, I don’t know how often this will be. For those of you who are familiar with my other stuff, you can expect a similar level of swag and lulz in this game.

Anyway, let’s get started with the main game!

Your name is SAMUEL STANTON, though you often prefer to be called Sam. You are eleven years old and a member of the fifth grade of Pinewood Elementary School.

You enjoy going on imaginary Space Voyage Adventures with your friends on the playground at school. You are considered the Captain of your group of friends, which include JEREMY DUSTIN, OWEN MARKS, and TIMMY LANE. You also enjoy playing games such tag and hide and seek. You enjoy playing mature video games such as Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and Conker’s Bad Fur Day. You’re also fond of playing flash games online, and you like swearing at people on the internet. You have a fondness for comic book heroes, action movies, and Pokemon.

You are now standing in your bedroom, on top of your bed. Your bed is very bouncy. Standing next to your bed in the back corner of the room are two large dressers. A number of sliding shelves and plastic bins stand to the left side of the room, containing most of your action figures and collectible plushies. There is also a desk and a chair, where you often make botched attempts to draw your own comic books. In the back left corner, you see a series of shelves containing your DVD collection. Your own personal TV screen sits in front of you, along with your gaming console, which is contained in its own shelving unit. There is a personal closet to the left side of your room. Past that lies the door out to the rest of the house. The floor is littered with figurines of army men, superheroes, and military jets. You also see a Nerf gun lying on the ground, though you don't see any bullets.

Today is October 27th. It is now five-o-clock in the afternoon. You have already finished your homework for the weekend, and Halloween is only a few days away. You currently lack a costume to participate in the grand ritual of Trick-or-Treating.

What will you do?

Status

Inventory:

• None

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 100
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

> Play with Nerf Gun.

> Play With Nerf Gun

You pick up the Nerf gun. It is a blue-coated N-Strike Maverick. You frequently use this as your personal arms whenever you have your friends over or whenever your parents take you to your friends’ houses. Honestly, it’s kinda lame compared to the stuff your friends have, but your parents don’t feel like spending that much money on toys like this. You got this as a gift during Christmas two years ago.

You push a button on the side of the gun, causing the chamber to pop out. Luckily there already seems to be one projectile already loaded in, so you aren’t completely screwed should you find yourself in a Nerf fire fight.

After spinning the barrel for a bit, you lodge it back in, and press the trigger a few times to get it back into place. You cock the device, and then shoot at the door, mostly so you don’t accidentally lose your bullet. The bullet doesn’t go exactly where you aimed, but you quickly pick it back up, stepping over your toys lying all over the floor.

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 1 Nerf Bullet

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 100
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

>Play with the game console

>Play with the Game Console

You walk over to your XCube 64 gaming system and attempt to turn it on. You turn on the television screen as well. The TV proceeds to display the loading animation for the XCube 64 gaming system. However, instead of loading to the main menu features of the system, the screen freezes in place, resulting in a still image. Every few seconds or so, the image distorts and jitters a bit, creating a loud static noise.

You turn off the television and inspect the gaming system. You attempt to eject whatever disk is in there, but nothing comes out. You aren’t sure whether this is because the system is malfunctioning or whether there isn’t any disk actually present.

You open one of the cabinets beside the gaming system and try to see if you can put one of your games in. You don’t really want to waste one of your better games in case this thing crashes, so you obtain your copy of Pokemon Channel. When you open up the case-holder you find that your disk seems to be missing. You begin inspecting your other case holders, but you find that almost all of them are missing their respective game disks. You aren’t sure why this is, and you start to feel a sense of helplessness and urgency.

However, you do find a copy of a game labeled Sanic Dreams Collection in an unmarked case. The disk looks like one of those stock CD/DVD disks, and the name is written on a white label in red markers. You don’t recognize the handwriting. You keep it for now, but something about it gives you bad vibes.

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 1 Nerf Bullet
• Sanic Dreams Collection Game disk

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 100
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

edited 30th Sep '15 8:52:06 PM by CathariSarad

>Inspect DVD collection

> Inspect DVD Collection

You walk over to the left corner of the room, where your DVDs are stored on white metal shelving. The bottom shelf contains a number of simplistic picture books that you occasionally glance through whenever you have nothing better to do. You don’t particularly like reading through advanced chapter books, since they’re a bit of a pain to read through. The second shelf contains most of your DVDs, along with a few video cassette tapes. For the most part, you haven’t been able to use these, since they don’t really make many VCR compatible players nowadays. You don’t really know why your parents bothered to put them there.

As for the contents of the DVDs themselves, you mostly see a bunch of movies you convinced your parents to buy of various cartoon shows, including ones you’ve never really watched. You also see a variety of Disney titles in your collection, both Kung Fu Panda movies, and the Star Wars movies. For some reason, you also have the boxes to the first four Pokemon movies.

You begin inspecting each of the cases. However, none of the DVDs seem to be present. The boxes for the cassette tapes, on the other hand, have video tapes, but they seem to have been placed with standard blank tapes, each one labeled with a number from one to eight. Furthermore, the tapes your parents made when you were a baby seem to be missing, as you usually remember seeing it in a generic video cassette sleeve.

These missing games and DVDs sound like a job for your alter ego, Stupendous Sam, but there’s no way you’d be able to transform into him right now. As much as you’d like to dress up as a superhero, you don’t really have the outfit for it, as all your parents ever do is buy you generic clothes. Other kids tend to laugh at you when you dress up anyway. Either way, you’ll probably want to look around the house or try asking your parents where everything went. Plus, you might need them to help get you a costume for Trick-or-Treating.

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 1 Nerf Bullet

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 100
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

edited 1st Oct '15 1:51:20 AM by CathariSarad

>Ask your parents

> Equip: arms.

> Search ELDER SIBLINGsroom for game discs; this has ELDER SIBLING PRANK all over it.

edited 5th Oct '15 9:30:40 AM by dvorak

> Throw out Numbered Tapes.

(Also, I didn't realize we were Pajama Sam here. I really should have, though)

edited 1st Oct '15 9:24:06 AM by DingoWalley1

I just want to mention one thing, if the situation comes where people give conflicting orders to the character, the action with the most votes will go through. If there is a tie, the most sensible action will likely be chosen.

What? What kind of silly request is this? This isn’t Homestuck! You’ve already got your bloody arms! And if you’re talking about some sort of weapon, you’ve already got your trusty Nerf gun, even if it’s inaccurate as hell.

> Throw out Numbered Tapes.

Regardless of your opinions of mysterious ghost arms, you figure it would be best if you get rid of these numbered tapes. Nothing good can ever come of them. Luckily, there’s a white trash bin to the left of your desk. You think you’ve might have had this since you were a baby, but you aren’t really sure. After gathering up the tapes, you press your foot on the footpad, causing the rectangular lid to lift up. You begin dumping them into the white trash bag inside. Usually, your parents prepare the garbage bag for you, since you can never be bothered to prepare it yourself.

Well, that’s one problem taken care of.

> Search ELDER SIBLINGS room for game discs; this has ELDER SIBLING PRANK all over it.

You’re pretty sure that this isn’t the work of one of your so-called ELDER SIBLINGS. That’s because you’re an only child. You’ve always wanted to have a younger brother and/or sister, but that wish never seemed to come true. Either way, you decide to step on out of your room to see if you can find your game disks elsewhere.

> Ask Your Parents

You figure that your parents might know something about where your game disks might have gone.

You are now standing in the upstairs hall. To the left of your room lies the main bathroom. It seems like one of your parents didn’t turn the water off all the way, as you can hear dripping coming from within. Down the hall, you can see the stairs to the living room, along with the door to the main office. The living room is where your family watches TV for the most part, and it contains a mostly unused fireplace on one end. This is where your family hosts most Christmas parties. The office, on the other hand, is where you play your PC games. You know that much of the room is piled with paperwork and boring adult stuff which has never really interested you. Sometimes, your parents might use this room for their own purposes, during which you usually confine yourself to your own room and use your XCube 64. At the far end of the hall lies your parents’ room.

You walk into your parents’ room. It is mostly filled with clothes, which has never really interested you. Most of it is obviously too big for you to suit the purposes of your costume anyway. A long dresser lies on the right side of the room, and a closet lies immediately to your left. The dresser contains a variety of clothes and jewelry, and a mirror stands on top. The bed lies in the middle of the room, and it is currently neatly made. You don’t see any sign of your parents here, but then again, you wouldn’t expect your parents to be in here at this hour anyway.

You walk over to the office, which is currently unlit. The light switch is just high enough for you to reach, and you turn it on. The main desk divides the room roughly in half, with the main seat facing towards the doorway. A closet lies on the left side of the room from where you walk in, though you haven’t really inspected what’s in here. A variety of memorabilia lies on the half of the room closest to you, but it mostly contains old family pictures and old work stuff. Piled on the desk is the family’s personal computer, along with a number of game boxes. You instinctively open these up, but once again, you find these cases empty. On the other hand, you do happen to find another one of your Nerf darts, which you immediately pocket.

You’re starting to get worried, now that you’ve lost much of your primary forms of entertainment.

You head downstairs, into the living room. The main TV sits right against the main window into the house. It currently seems to be displaying static The window is currently covered by curtains. A low lying table sits just a few feet away from the TV screen, holding the day’s mail,along with a flashlight. You can’t help but notice an advertisement to the local Suck-E-Cheese’s party place. You remember having gone there a couple of years back. and behind that sits a long leather couch. Usually your relatives sit here when they come here for various occasions, when they mostly watch football games.

Two additional leather chairs sit on each side of the low table. There is a large space between this and the main fireplace. The wall on which the fireplace resides is made out of an old, grayish stone brick as opposed to the beige drywall the rest of the house is comprised of. A tall lamp sits on the back left end of the room. The door to the basement sits in the back end of the living room, right next to the stairs, but you don’t really feel like going in there at the moment. It smells bad in there. To the right of the window rests the front door to the house, which is currently locked. It is starting to get late outside, judging by the light coming in through the windows. Your parents aren’t in here either.

On the right side of the room lies the entryway into the kitchen, where a small round table rests. The cabinets, and refrigerator lie on the right side of the room from where you enter, and you see a variety of cooking implements gathered on the counter. Ahead, you see a shoe rack resting on the back right end of this chamber, right next to a welcome mat. This leads to the entrance to the garage. You decide to briefly look into the garage. That’s strange, your parents’ cars seem to be here, though you can’t find any sign of your parents anywhere. You don’t remember hearing any of the doors to the house open while you were in your room, and aside from the strange things happening, you haven’t seen or heard any signs that your parents were leaving. In fact you remember seeing them just a couple hours ago. Even though it has been years since your parents last hired a babysitter, you don’t think they would choose to leave you on their own volition.

Something is wrong. Something is very, very wrong.

What do you do?

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 2 Nerf Bullets

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 96
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

edited 1st Oct '15 2:04:15 PM by CathariSarad

>Look for the cars' keys and grab a shoe from the shoe rack just in case.

> Breathe deeply and eat a snack.

> Breathe deeply and eat a snack.

You take a deep breath in and try to assess the situation as much as your 11-year-old mind can. Now that your parents are missing you’ll probably be able to eat junk food and candy as much as you want.

You walk over to the pantry cabinet, where most of the stuff you don’t need to refrigerate is stored. It’s mostly filled with pasta-based items and canned soup, which you don’t really know how to make. There’s a few bags of lays chips on the counter. You pull one of the chairs from the nearby table and use it to reach for the chips. You begin eating them. You start to feel a little better, but you don’t want to eat too much lest you start to feel sick. You obtain a bag clipper, also resting on the counter, and use it to seal up your bag of chips. You stow it away for now in your vaguely defined inventory. You also know there’s a bunch of vegetables, Lunchables, and other items stored in the refrigerator nearby, but you don’t think you’ll need them now.

> Look for the cars' keys and grab a shoe from the shoe rack just in case.

Even though you don’t really know how to drive, you think you’ll need the keys to either mom or dad’s car sometime in the near future. You acquire one of Dad’s fancy leather shoes and stow it away. Seeing as you’ll probably need to step into the garage, you put on your own gym shoes.

You flick on a switch right next to the garage entrance and step on in. The garage has a variety of gardening equipment on the opposite side, such as weed cutters, a watering pot, a hose, gloves, and a chainsaw. The chainsaw looks far too heavy for you to handle, and you’ll probably hurt yourself using it. You also see a shovel for digging, a bag of salt, a rake, a large snowblower, a pile of garbage bags, a ladder, a garbage bin, a recycling bin, and a plastic snow shovel. Near the entrance to the garage, you see a keypad for opening the main door. While you’ll need to stack some things to reach it, you can probably use the keypad to open the garage door, seeing as you’ve memorized the code.

You peek into the two cars from where you’re standing. Aside from mom and dad’s junk, there doesn’t seem to be anything particularly useful in them.

You close the door behind you and walk back into the house. After taking off your shoes, you check each of the rooms for any signs of the car keys, using the aid of chairs to help you reach the cabinets higher up. Although you could probably afford to be more thorough, you don’t really see anything other than your parents’ junk, which doesn’t seem particularly useful at the moment. You do happen to find a set of house keys lying on the kitchen counter, detached from their main key chain. You check the living room. Nothing. You check your parents’ room, the office, and your room. Nothing that would look like a set of car keys.

From what you remember, mom usually stores her keys in her purse, and dad usually keeps his keys near his wallet or with him. Now that you think of it, you haven’t seen any signs of your mom’s purse or your dad’s wallet.

You decide to check the upstairs bathroom. For the most part, the bathroom looks relatively clean, but the bathtub seems to be leaking. When you walk over to look at it, the water seems to have filled the bathtub completely, yet the drain seems to be open. Every few seconds, the shower head drips water. The light pinkish shower curtain seems to have been pulled back away from the door, currently outside of the bathtub. The hair dryer also seems to be missing, even when you look in the closet nearby.

You return to the upstairs hall. You don’t think you’re going to find any signs of the car keys to either of your parents’ cars at this rate. You could check the basement, but you aren’t sure if you’re ready to go down there at this time.

As you head back down, you see something flash on the television screen. You aren’t quite sure what you actually saw, or whether you actually saw anything at all. It was probably just your imagination.

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 2 Nerf Bullets
• 3/4 bag of Lays Chips
• Dad’s fancy leather shoe
• House Keys

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 98
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

>Call Owen, Jeremy, and Timmy

>Turn off TV

> Turn off TV

You immediately walk up to the TV and press on the power button. It turns off. You half expected that it would stay on regardless of what you did, but luckily it seems to be working as usual.

> Call Owen, Jeremy, and Timmy

You consider trying to call your friends to tell them what’s up. You don’t actually know the numbers to their houses, as usually your parents arrange that sort of thing, but go back into the kitchen so you can use the house phone, resting on the counter. The phone looks like it’s working alright, so you start going through the directory to see if you can find their numbers.

Jeremy Dustin comes first on the list, so you try calling him. You wait for the phone to dial through, but instead of hearing his home’s voice message, you hear nothing but static. You attempt to do the same thing for Timmy Lane’s number, but the same thing happens. You try searching through the directory for Owen’s number, but various pixels on the phone’s pixel display screen start fading out. Maybe you need to get a new phone, though your family has only had it for two years or so.

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 2 Nerf Bullets
• 3/4 bag of Lays Chips
• Dad’s fancy leather shoe
• House Keys

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 98
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

>Plan out potential courses of action

> Plan out potential courses of action

You take a moment to think to yourself. You get the feeling you shouldn’t be holding onto the Sanic Dreams Collection disk, which your inventory hasn’t registered for some reason. You put it down on the living room table. You could try to see if you could find any information online, but seeing how everything else is bugged, you get the feeling you won’t have much success there either. The filled bathtub is kinda strange, but you aren’t sure whether you should do something about that right now.

That leaves two main courses of action. Go down and explore the basement, or see if you can gather any more information outside. You haven’t really trekked out by yourself before, and frankly you’re kinda scared at the prospect.

Either way, you might want to prepare yourself by gathering anything you think you might need.

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 2 Nerf Bullets
• 3/4 bag of Lays Chips
• Dad’s fancy leather shoe
• House Keys

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 98
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

>Gather food, Band-Aids and other emergency supplies in preparation for venturing outside.

>Pick up flashlight, stored in the basement.

> Pick up flashlight.

You do not know if there are any flashlights in the basement, however, you do pick up the flashlight sitting on the table. You don’t know how much battery it has.

>Gather food, Band-Aids and other emergency supplies in preparation for venturing outside.

You head into the kitchen to retrieve some supplies. You don’t really know what sorts of things you will need for venturing outdoors, but you do obtain a bag of trail mix, soup cans, matches, hand sanitizer, Band-Aids, and assorted pills, even though your parents say you’re not supposed to take them on your own. You also acquire a bottle of water and duct tape. Is there anything else you might need before heading outside?

Status

Inventory:

• Nerf N-Strike Maverick
• 2 Nerf Bullets
• 3/4 bag of Lays Chips
• Dad’s fancy leather shoe
• House Keys
• Flashlight
• Bag of Trail Mix
• 3 Soup cans
• Box of 20 Matches
• Hand Sanitizer
• Box of 30 Band-Aids
• Pills
• Bottle of Water
• Duct Tape

Status Effects:

• None

Dead People:

• Unknown

Other:

• Sanity: 98
• Swag: 0
• Muniez: 0

>Look for any potential weapons.

>Get a Back Pack

>Turn on all house lights

>Attach the flashlight to the Nerf gun with the duct tape.

edited 2nd Oct '15 5:17:06 PM by DeisTheAlcano