Oh yea, you nod as you stow the lollipop stick under your hat, you’re doin’ dis!
https://youtu.be/_wiwdlu-Zg0Placing Lil’ Stanley on your shoulder (the non-wounded one, of course), you get up from your ad-hoc seat and make your way toward the double doors at the end of the hall! As if sensing your approach, they both swing open in tandem as if inviting you in.
“Welp,” Ly sighs as you linger outside for a moment, “It’d be rude not ta’ go up now…”
Steeling yourself and clenching your grime-covered fists at your side, you stroll in like you own the place and are immediately bowled over by an icy gale! Tumbling head over heels, you and Lil’ Stanley grab onto the doorframe and stare at the vast abyss between you and TIM’S INNER SANCTUM floating in the center of the fortress! Who BUILT this shithole anyways!?
As if the fort’s owner heard you, a step materializes out of thin air made of solid bones… then another… and ANOTHER!
Rising one by one like stepping stones in a creek, the floating platforms drift in the roaring winds, but hold firm… firm enough to give you a solid path to TIM’S TOWER!
Taking a cautious step onto the first bone stair, you take a steadying breath as it holds firm beneath you. Great, you mutter as you hop to the next one, all TIM has to do is let you drop!
“I’m thinkin’ he’s long past killin’ us outright by now.” Ly guesses as you slowly but surely make your way across, “Kickin’ us outta’ his house wouldn’t do him any good.”
You hope he’s right! As Lil’ Stanley’s claws dig into your shoulder, you do your best not to look down as you scuttle across the dizzying expanse below. Despite the winds pushing you around like moshers at a Metal concert, you manage to make it across, and your feet only touch the tower’s stone for a second before its front doors open inwards into a inky void!
Striding in like you own the place, you lose a little bravado when the doors slam shut behind you leaving you in complete and utter darkness!
Standing there for a solid minute, your path is illuminated when a pair of eerie blue torches flicker to life ahead!
>CONTD. 