Ducky Park
Go where the people expect you, right? You head off for the stage area, figuring that if the day gets too boring walking around in a fish suit and posing for pictures, at least you'll have shows to watch.
The walk isn't terribly long and you reach the expansive lot of pavement surrounded by stages in mere moments. People mill about almost aimlessly, looking at schedules and arriving to or leaving from various stage shows.
Kids and women hug you while adults take your picture hugging the various fish huggers. You feel like a great success.
When your feet start to hurt you sit down on a bench and watch the show on stage where Dastardly Dog kidnaps Haley Duck (Happy Duck's girlfriend). Happy Duck comes out rescues his girlfriend and the crowd applauds enthusiastically.
I don't know what they're clapping for, you think. That was one of the worst stage shows you've ever seen.
You stand up and stretch your legs as the audience stands and leaves the benches empty. An older man claps a hand on your scaled back and you turn around to see him grinning stupidly with his wife and grandkids behind him.
"Why didn't you get up there and help Happy Duck out?" He asks you.
"Because I wasn't supposed to be in the show," You tell him. "I can't just jump on stage in the middle of the show, I'd mess everything up. Geez, what a stupid question."
The old man's smile disappears, as does his family's. They walk off without another word to you, showering you with dirty looks that make you feel guilty as though you said or did something wrong. You try telling yourself that it wasn't your fault that they asked you such a stupid question, but eventually you realize that you overreacted, no matter how stupid the question was.
You look around to see the older couple walking away with their grandkids and you hurry to catch up so that you can apologize when you reach them.
You catch up to them at the Ferris Wheel. "Hey," You say to the old man, trying to get his attention.
"Why don't you just leave us alone?" He says.
"I came over here to apologize. I was out of line back there, and I'm sorry." You say.
The old man seems to consider your apology briefly before nodding and accepting it. "OK," He says. "Apology accepted."
You take a step back prepared to say something clever when you feel something tug at the back of your costume. A moment later you are lifted up into the air and see the distance between you and the ground growing ever farther.
Suddenly you hear the costume begin to rip, a tear goes down the fish outfit and your weight breaks you free from whatever was holding you. As you fall you twist through the air and notice a torn bit of your costume hanging from one of the buckets carrying some Ferris Wheel passengers.
You hit the ground in a symphony of shattering bones. You are alive and in excruciating pain for a while before the pain suddenly ends.
The curse of Frank the Fish claims another victim.
The walk isn't terribly long and you reach the expansive lot of pavement surrounded by stages in mere moments. People mill about almost aimlessly, looking at schedules and arriving to or leaving from various stage shows.
Kids and women hug you while adults take your picture hugging the various fish huggers. You feel like a great success.
When your feet start to hurt you sit down on a bench and watch the show on stage where Dastardly Dog kidnaps Haley Duck (Happy Duck's girlfriend). Happy Duck comes out rescues his girlfriend and the crowd applauds enthusiastically.
I don't know what they're clapping for, you think. That was one of the worst stage shows you've ever seen.
You stand up and stretch your legs as the audience stands and leaves the benches empty. An older man claps a hand on your scaled back and you turn around to see him grinning stupidly with his wife and grandkids behind him.
"Why didn't you get up there and help Happy Duck out?" He asks you.
"Because I wasn't supposed to be in the show," You tell him. "I can't just jump on stage in the middle of the show, I'd mess everything up. Geez, what a stupid question."
The old man's smile disappears, as does his family's. They walk off without another word to you, showering you with dirty looks that make you feel guilty as though you said or did something wrong. You try telling yourself that it wasn't your fault that they asked you such a stupid question, but eventually you realize that you overreacted, no matter how stupid the question was.
You look around to see the older couple walking away with their grandkids and you hurry to catch up so that you can apologize when you reach them.
You catch up to them at the Ferris Wheel. "Hey," You say to the old man, trying to get his attention.
"Why don't you just leave us alone?" He says.
"I came over here to apologize. I was out of line back there, and I'm sorry." You say.
The old man seems to consider your apology briefly before nodding and accepting it. "OK," He says. "Apology accepted."
You take a step back prepared to say something clever when you feel something tug at the back of your costume. A moment later you are lifted up into the air and see the distance between you and the ground growing ever farther.
Suddenly you hear the costume begin to rip, a tear goes down the fish outfit and your weight breaks you free from whatever was holding you. As you fall you twist through the air and notice a torn bit of your costume hanging from one of the buckets carrying some Ferris Wheel passengers.
You hit the ground in a symphony of shattering bones. You are alive and in excruciating pain for a while before the pain suddenly ends.
The curse of Frank the Fish claims another victim.
