Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-31749612-20170719015843/@comment-28718853-20170720202826

I didn't know how to comprehend the situation before me. One second I was ready to sleep away a horrible day, the next second I was thrown into some kind of twisted game in nothing but my undergarments.

With a frustrated sigh, I smack the wall. This better be an easy maze, but I doubt that was going to be the case. The stone floor was cool to the touch of my bare feet. Man, what I wouldn't give to be back in that cozy bed.

I started to walk down the path and took the first left. There was a bend to the right and I found myself at a wall. Great, the first path and already a dead end. I turn back around and head out, taking a path to the right just further up. The straightaway went deeper than the first path until I came across a fork that made two alternate straight paths. Which way was the question.

I hear panting and see a thin man with messy orange hair, a shaved beard, and wearing only a pair of white underwear running up to me from the right path. He reaches me and nearly topples over, empty of breath. Once he regains some of his spent energy, he looks up at me with a panicked expression and says, "We need to get out of here!"

"No kidding," I mutter as I stare down the path where the other participant just came from. The man looks down the same path and says, "It's just two dead ends down there!"

So left it is. I start for it and the man asks, "Can I stick with you please?  I really don't want to be wandering this place alone!"

I turn back to him. He was definitely right. Safety in numbers would increase our chances of escape. I wave along and say, "Come on then."

A relieved smile forms on the man's face and he says, "Thank you!"

The both of us head down the left pathway. The man asks me, "What's your name?"

"Jax," I reply and ask him in return, "Yours?"

"Cody, just an unemployed slob," he replies. We come up to a left and take it, finding ourselves at a t-section. Cody and I look down each path, trying to weigh our options. Cody turns to me and asks, "Which way?"

I didn't have a way of knowing which path would be the better choice, so I took a shot in the dark. "Right," I answer simply, pointing down the path leading right. "Ok," says Cody. We proceed down the chosen path and make it a ways when Cody stops me. "Check that out," he says, pointing to some metal flooring in the path and a medium-sized hole in the right side of the wall.

"A trap," I say with full certainty. Cody observes the structure for a moment before saying, "Sure looks like it."

"Don't step on the metal, hop over," I say as I take a few steps back and charge forward, leaping over the metallic floor with ease. I motion for Cody to follow and he backs up a bit. He runs and jumps, managing to clear the trap. "Well, that was easy," Cody says as he places his hands on his hips, seemingly happy that he avoided an easy-to-spot trap. "Don't jinx it like an idiot," I warn as I smack him on the shoulder.

We proceed onwards and make a left turn. Up ahead is a dead end, but we also see a man with short black hair and a pot belly sitting on the floor, rocking back and forth. Cody and I jog up to the man, and he hides his face when he spots us.

"No, I don't wanna get raped man, I don't wanna get raped!" the man whimpers. "Hey, we're friendly," Cody says, trying to reassure the man that we meant him no harm. One of his eyes peek out at us and he asks, "How did we get here man?  Did we do anything wrong?"

I shrug and say, "I have no idea how any of us got here, but I'm definitely going to try to get out of here."

The man on the floor reveals more of his face and asks, "Why are we here?"

"Looks like we were picked to participate in some kind of game," I reply as I kneel down and tug on the man's arm, trying to get him to stand. He pulls his arm away from me and barks, "I'm not going anywhere man, they'll get me!"

"Come on man, we have to go!" Cody says as he grabs a hold of the man's other arm and tries to pull him to his feet, only to be met with the same response. "Leave me be please!" he snaps. I sigh and say, "Sir, the more time you spend here crying, the more time the mamono have to find you and rape you."

"Leave me alone man!" the man shouts at me. "Hey, you need to come with us if you want to get out of here," says Cody. "Why, why should I leave this spot when I know that they'll be waiting for me!?" the man cries. "Because, like my buddy said, if they don't ambush you, then they'll come looking for you," says Cody. "Then what's the point of moving anywhere at all!?" the man shouts. "So that you can at least have a chance to escape," I say.

The man gives me a long look, as if he's reconsidering his plan of staying in one spot for the entire game. Then, he groans and says, "Fine, I'll come with you, but if anything happens to me, I'll kill you!"

"Why so vicious?" Cody asks the man. The man gets to his feet and I can see his checkered boxers. He shoots Cody an outraged look and replies, "Because I just met you two!"

"Let's just go, the faster we get out of here, the faster we can get back to what we were doing," I say, thinking about my bed once more.

We all come back to the trap and jump over it, though the heel of the big man's foot steps on the metal, releasing a thick cold mist from the hole in the wall. Thankfully, our new friend was able to clear the trap before the mist got him. "Damn," he mutters, watching the active trap. He turns to us and asks, "Who are you guys?  I want to know your names."

"Cody," Cody replies. "Jax," I respond. "I'm Tun," says the man. "Tun?" asks Cody. Tun rubs his cheek and says to Cody, "It's that simple."

We come back to the t-section and take the alternate route, coming onto three right turns.

"Which one is the right one?" mutters Tun. "If none of them are correct, then we keep straight," I say, motioning to the path ahead. We head down the first right, and come to a quick dead end as well as a large blue goo. We watch the goo for a moment, before it's form shifts into that of a young woman.

"It's a slime, run!" Cody shouts. We leave the path and head down the next right. We come to another t-section, but both paths lead to short dead ends. "Maybe the third time's the charm," says Cody.

We leave and go down the third right. It has a left turn, but we ran into another dead end. With disappointment in our hearts, we continue down the straight route, coming to a forth right turn later on. "This one better lead somewhere good," Tun grumbles, I nod in agreement. We make our way down and turn left onto a winding path.

Eventually, we come across a left turn, and another t-section further up ahead. We're about to decide what to do when a Grizzly steps out from the left of the t-section and spots us. "Not a bear!" Cody screams as he dives into the left opening. The Grizzly laughs and rushes after Tun and myself, completely skipping the path that Cody had gone down.

Tun and I turn tail and run, going through the winding path with the Grizzly hot on our trail. I feel my feet step on a pressure plate and hear something shoot out. Turning, I see that the Grizzly had been caught by a net trap and was on the floor, and was now struggling to break out. "Tun, she's been caught!" I call out.

Tun stops and sees the incident. He laughs as he and I race past the captured Grizzly and back up the way we were going. I expected to see Cody, but he wasn't there. "Cody?" I call out. There wasn't a response. "Cody?" I call out a little louder. Still no response, and I was beginning to grow a bit worried. "Man may have ducked into the side," Tun suggests, pointing to the left opening.

We go down it, take a few linear turns, and come to a horrifying sight. Cody was being dragged into a treasure chest. "Cody!" Tun and I shout as we run to try to help him. "Guys, get me out of here!" Cody pleads.

Tun and I each grab a leg and pull with all of our might. However, despite our best efforts, whoever was pulling Cody inside of the chest proved stronger, and it soon pulled Cody all the way in, it's lid shutting Tun and me out.

I try to pry open the chest, but it wasn't budging. Tun wraps an arm around my chest and says, "Leave him man, leave him, he's gone!"

I wanted to try to see if I could spend more time freeing Cody, but Tun was right, it was pointless. We retraced our steps and took the route where the Grizzly came from. There were several more turns until we come to what looks like a bridge encased in a cage that crossed a river of lava. On our side of the bridge was a slender man in a t-shirt and a pair of boxers with wavy brown hair.

Tun and I approach him and we can hear with mumble, "Damn Imps trying to milk me dry."

As he rambles on, I mutter, "Uhhh...hi."

He twists in our direction with a shocked expression on his face. "More of you!?" he asks. "Yeah," I reply as I point to the bridge and asks, "Were you about to cross that?"

The man looks at the bridge and says, "Yeah, I would have had a buddy with me too, but his dumbass got caught by a zombie."

He holds his hand out to us and says, "Oh, I should introduce myself.  Mavis Harper."

I shake Mavis's hand and say, "Jax."

Tun also shakes Mavis's hand and says, "Name's Tun."

"Was there anyone else with you two?" asks Mavis. "We had a man named Cody with us, but he got swallowed up by a chest," I say, my voice trailing off near the end. Mavis shakes his head and says, "Damn, I'm sorry to hear that."

"Can we get moving please?" asks Tun.

Mavis nods and replies, "Yes, yes of course.  Let's get going before some mamono find us."

We got halfway across the bridge when we heard a small feminine voice shout, "There they are!"

"Get them!" shouts another voice.

We turn and see three Imps flying toward us at a high rate of speed. "Run!" Tun screams. We take off to the other side of the bridge with the small demons behind us. We try our hardest to navigate the maze and avoid the traps, thankfully not bumping into any dead ends. Unfortunately, Tun's size proved to be more of a hindrance to his ability to flee, and all three Imps grab onto three separate limbs of his.

"THEY GOT ME!!! Tun cries as he tumbles onto the floor with the horny Imps crawling all over him.  "Hold on Tun!" I shout as I run to try to help Tun, but stop short when a Ren Xiongmao hops over the pile armed with a bamboo stick and races in my direction, her face one of eager lust.

"Come on you idiot!" Mavis shouts as he runs off. "Help me man!" Tun shouts above the giggles of the Imps. Between helping Tun, the Ren Xiongmao, and escaping with Mavis, my choice was clear.

"Sorry man!" I yell as I run away after Mavis. "SCREW YOU MAN!!!" I hear Tun cry out as I disappear around a corner with the panda girl hot on my heels.

"You won't escape me baby!" she calls after me. "Keep at it Jax!" Mavis shouts as encouragement. The chase leads to an intersection. Mavis keeps straight and another man runs across, chased by a Yeti. Fortunately, the other chase passed by enough for me to keep pace with Mavis.

Mavis takes a right and I hear him announce something that turns my determination up to overdrive,  "Exit ahead, full speed ahead!"

I cut right and I can see it ahead. A bright light, with the large red neon word, "EXIT!" above it. "Push forward, push forward!" Mavis shouts. "Here I cooooome!" the Ren Xiongmao behind me sings.

I am running at full speed. The exit to this accursed labyrinth was in sight. Mavis and I were going to make it out. I didn't care about what reward I was going to get, I just wanted to fall back into my bed and sleep.

Mavis is the first to disappear beyond the light, and some kind of purple field begins to close around the exit. I didn't care, I kept running with my pursuer right on my tail. "You're too laaaate!" she sings.

The purple field closes around the exit and I run into it, fully expecting to go through. My heart sank when the field would stretch, but I wouldn't tear through. The field snapped back to its original position and I was catapulted right into the paws of the Ren Xiongmao. "I've got you now husband!" she exclaims cheerfully as she pulls me into a tight hug.

As I think over my defeat, the same voice from when I first arrived echoes across the maze, "And that concludes our game ladies and gentlemen, hope you all found a good mate, because I will now be sending you back home.  Thanks for playing!"

My captor and myself are wrapped in a blinding white light. I shut my eyes from the intensity, and within seconds it stops, and I feel myself on something soft. I open my eyes, and to my amazement I was back in my room.

I tried to move, but there was something furry holding me down. I look over and see the Ren Xiongmao lying inches from my face and smiling at me. It startles me, but her strong grip prevents me from going through the motions. "Hi husband!" she giggles. "Were...were you teleported here too?" I ask, still in disbelief that the panda girl was in the same bed as me. She explodes into laughter and replies, "Didn't you hear the host?  She said that she was sending us back home when we found our mates, so you and I came home together!"

At this revelation, I let out a heavy sigh. The Ren Xiongmao giggles and pats me on my head. "Don't worry husband, I'll rape you first thing tomorrow morning!  What's your name?"

"Jax," I mutter. "Cool, I'm Yuki!" says the panda girl. "It's nice to meet you Yuki, now may I go to sleep please?" I moan. "Sure thing Jax, night!" Yuki replies.

I slide under the covers and drift off into sleep. As I do, I wonder what Mavis was rewarded for having been the first person to beat the maze. Did he get sent back home wife-free? Did he become husband to a Lilim? Did he get thrown into a pit full of Hellhounds?

Wait, why am I thinking of this crap. I should be more concerned about the morning romp with my new wife and what would possibly be another crappy day at work.

Oh well, if anything positive came out of this experience, it's that I have someone supporting me now.