Vote Count 3: Day 2
Deadline: 08.17.12 11:59PM EST
Lynch: 4/7
Votee: Voters
Pluvia: J, The Paprika Killer, Red Ryu, JTB
J: Pluvia
Not Voting: Jim Morrison, Cherished Doll
Pluvia,
Barbie,
Vanilla Townie has been lynched.
"Barbie, I know you told Ann and me about your story earlier." Elena stated, "Why don't you go ahead and tell it now while Ann and I go and prepare the sleeping quarters. You're in the same tent as us two, so if you wouldn't mind telling it twice, we'd love to hear it later tonight!"
Barbie agreed to tell her story now while Ann and Elena got things ready, and in fact she seemed tickled by the thought of getting to tell it twice. Once Ann and Elena departed, she began her tale.
"I've got a special story tonight for everyone. There's an old saying I'm sure we're all familiar with: 'What goes around, come around.' Many might just brush this off as an old saying, or just karma. But sometimes there's more to it than that, especially if you do something rotten. And sometimes it comes back when you least expect it. I call this story: 'The Tale Of The Crimson Clown'.
Taylor was a responsible teenager, who mowed lawns over the summer to earn spare cash. He had managed to set aside around 100$$ for a special gift for his mother's birthday. He had a younger brother named Jeffrey who wasn't quite as selfless as he was. He was charged with watching his brother during the daytime when his parents were at work, and the shop with the present was just a part-time daytime shop, so he never had much time to make it there. So the day before his mother's birthday, he had gotten his brother to agree to go and get the gift with him.
When they reached the shop, Jeffrey's immaturity came out quickly knocking into an older lady carrying some bags on his way in and paying no notice. Taylor apologised for him and opened the door for the woman.
"This place is a total dump, don't get mom's gift here." Jeffrey said mockingly.
"Jeffrey just behave for a little bit." Taylor said.
"Yeah I'll behave while I'm at the toy store next door." Jeffrey responded as he attempted to leave.
"No, you have to stay here with me." Taylor ordered.
"Hah, yeah right." Jeffrey laughed as he went on out anyway.
Taylor decided against his better judgment to just let his brother go next door and get the gift quickly and go. He went to look for the gift, but some things looked as if they had been moved around since he'd last been there. It took him a little while, but he was able to relocate what he had wanted to buy for his mother, and it was still just barely in his price range. Next to it was a rather peculiar clown figure that caught Taylor's eyes for a moment. He wasn't sure what it was about the clown that caught his attention, but it certainly was something. Just then he heard a loud jingle and turned to look at the door, with his brother barging back into the store loudly.
Taylor sighed and decided to just not let it get him. He instead asked his brother what he thought of the gift. His brother had a weird grin on his face and just said that it was okay. Taylor took the gift to the counter in the back of the store and rang the bell for the shopkeeper. In the meantime, Jeffrey looked around the store and his gaze caught the same crimson clown Taylor had seen. He stood frozen studying it for a few moments until his brother grabbed him by the arm.
"Jeffrey my money's missing." Taylor said angrily.
Jeffrey didn't respond for a moment until Taylor spun him so they were face to face. It was at that moment that Jeffrey dropped a bag and a video game came out.
"Where did you get this?" Taylor inquired.
"The toy store next door." Jeffrey said nonchalantly.
"You didn't have any money." Taylor responded.
"I had some left over from my birthday." Jeffrey answered.
"No you didn't you spent it all on a bike. That money was for mom's birthday gift." Taylor said with anger.
"Consider it a loan then." Jeffrey shrugged as he took the game back.
Taylor snatched the game out of his hand. "No, we're going to go return this."
However, when they went back to the toy store he was greeted with a closing sign.
"They're closed already?! Come on!" Taylor said in disbelief.
"Oh well, too late now!" Jeffrey said as he grabbed the game.
Taylor grabbed Jeffrey and took him back to the shop next door again. He tried to explain the situation, but the shopkeeper wouldn't budge even though the birthday was tomorrow.
"Just put some money in a card, she'll be happy." Jeffrey said insincerely.
"You stole my money remember?" Taylor said. "You know what happens to bad kids like you who steal?"
"Yeah yeah, Santa's watching or something." Jeffrey laughed mockingly.
Taylor looked around for a moment trying to think of something to say, then he noticed the clown from before. He turned his brother so he was facing it. "No, whenever you do something bad, really bad like you did, the Crimson Clown is watching and he'll make you pay."
"Oh I'm so scared." Jeffrey laughed, looking the clown in the eyes.
"Whatever, let's go. Mom's going to be ticked when we get back home and she sees we were out." Taylor said as he went to leave. Jeffrey followed, but turned back to look at the clown again, only to notice it was missing. Before he could do a double-take, his brother grabbed him and took him out of the store. Jeffrey just dismissed it as his eyes playing tricks on him.
Once back home the two were quick to be yelled at by their mother, with Taylor getting most of the blame due to being older. Jeffrey quickly responding blaming his brother, saying that Taylor had just wanted to hang with his friends and caused them to be late. Taylor wanted to call his brother out on the lie, but didn't want to spoil anything about getting a gift so he bit his tongue and took all the blame while his brother got himself off of the hook.
Jeffrey then took his new video game up to his room and began to play. After a moment he heard a knock on his door and his mother told him dinner would be ready in a few minutes. He kept watch on the door until he heard her walk downstairs and he didn't want her to catch him with the new game in case Taylor told on him. However when he turned back around he saw the Crimson Clown doll right in front of him. He jumped up, running to his brother's room and screaming his name.
"What?!" Taylor said still upset at his younger brother.
"Get that thing out of here!" Jeffrey said as he pointed to where the clown had been, although the spot was empty.
"Very funny. Try not to make mom any madder than she already is." Taylor said as he went downstairs.
Jeffrey looked around the room for a little while, but didn't see any trace of the clown and headed down the stairs, deciding his mind was just playing tricks on him. After dinner, Taylor was forced to help clean the kitchen with his mom while Jeffrey was allowed to go and watch TV. After around an hour or so, the television began to have a bit of static, and soon enough it went to full static. Jeffrey tried changing the channel but to no avail. Then he began to hear maniacal laughter coming from the room and saw an image of the Crimson Clown in the TV.
"You know what happens to bad little boys Jeffrey." the clown said with an evil laugh as a hand extended from the television set towards Jeffrey.
"Ahhh! No, no!" Jeffrey cried out, holding up his arms to his face in fear.
Suddenly though, it all stopped as Jeffrey heard his brother's voice.
He turned to see Taylor standing in the doorway. "What's the matter, afraid of a little movie?" Taylor laughed.
"T-the hand...it came out." Jeffrey said, pointing at the television in confusion. When he noticed the awkward stare from his brother he regained his composure and threw an insult out to try and cover up for looking like a wimp there.
Soon their mom walked into the room, letting them know that it was time to start getting ready for bed. Jeffrey asked if he could stay up late and his mother wouldn't allow it.
"Yeah, I'm sure you'd love to stay up and watch another scary movie. Maybe one with the Crimson Clown!" Taylor laughed, not realising how spot on he was.
"Cut it out already. I know what you're doing and I'm not scared." Jeffrey said with anger as he bolted up the stairs to his room. Taylor sat puzzled for a moment, but then went upstairs to go to bed as well.
Not too much later, Jeffrey went out into the hallway to use the restroom, and when he got back to his own room he found the door stuck.
"Ugh, now what," he said he himself as he pushed against the door. Eventually he was able to get it open, but fell in and landed on the floor. When he stood up, he saw the Crimson Clown atop his bed and took a step back in fearing, calling out for his brother. His brother yelled back asking what he wanted, and when Jeffrey blinked the doll suddenly disappeared again. "Uh, nothing."
Suddenly the door closed behind him and he looked around in fear again, only to notice the window was open and there was some wind coming through. He didn't remember opening the window at any point tonight, but ignored it and went to close the window. He straitened up some papers the wind had blown around and then got into bed. He turned off the lamp next to his bed, but not before looking under the bed in a moment of fear. When he saw nothing there he shook his head, angry at himself for getting so worked up.
A good hour passed, and Jeffrey still found himself wide awake. Apparently all of the Crimson Clown hoopla had caused him to be more on edge than he originally thought he was. Then Jeffrey heard a noise, and looked to see the door opening. He pulled the blanket partially over his face in fear, until he noticed it was just his brother.
"What do you want." Jeffrey said.
"Hey Jeffrey. I'm sorry about what I said earlier about the Crimson Clown. It wasn't real and I feel bad for it since I could tell you seemed spooked earlier." Taylor apologised.
"Yeah whatever." Jeffrey replied, turning on his side and facing the other direction.
Taylor left the room, wishing his brother a goodnight. After a couple of minutes though Jeffrey was able to fall asleep. Although he soon would find himself in a whole mess of a nightmare. Therein, he imagined himself in the shop, however it looked haunted. He ran towards the door, only to find it locked. Then he heard a deep, dark voice and turned to see the head of the Crimson Clown much larger than normal and on the body of the shopkeeper. He tried to get out, banging on the door, but suddenly red ribbon wrapped around him like a snake and tying him down.
Jeffrey suddenly woke up, and looked around, recognising his room as normal. "Just a dream." he said to himself, until he noticed the same red ribbon as in his dream tying him down to the bed. He began to call out for Taylor, but then heard the deep, dark voice again.
"Taylor can't help you now." the Crimson Crown said, with the voice coming from underneath his bed.
Suddenly the clown doll came from under his bed and crawled towards him. Jeffrey was able to break from the ribbon and jumped out of the bed, going into his brother's room. He shook his brother attempting to wake up him, but suddenly his brother turned into a balloon of the Crimson Clown's head. The head began to expand and the deep, dark laugh began to sound as if it was on helium and more demonic by the moment. The head exploded and a sign with the name "Jeffrey" crossed out on it appeared. Jeffrey ran from the room and towards his mother's. He opened the door but found the room full of white smoke. Suddenly two more ribbons grabbed around his ankles and pulled, knocking him to the ground, pulling him in. He was able to break free of these too and started to run asking for anyone to help him.
"No one wants to help you Jeffrey. No one wants to help any rotten kids." the voice laughed.
As Jeffrey tried to exit the house he was greeted by a lifesize Crimson Clown. Who came towards him.
"Stop! Stop! I promise I'll change, I won't be a bad boy any longer!" Jeffrey said in tears.
"It's too late for that Jeffrey!" the clown replied.
The next day, Taylor and his mother celebrated her birthday. He had gotten her a great gift at the local shop with some money he had saved. His mother was delighted with the gift he had gotten her, and was proud that her only son was such a good one. The end."
The group of girls clapped for Barbie and how good the story was. After a few minutes of chat, Barbie got up and went to find Ann and Elena to tell them she was done. Around ten or so minutes later, Ann and Elena returned. The other girls asked where was Barbie, saying she went to get them, and they replied saying they had not seen her. The group assumed that Barbie probably couldn't find them and was still looking and would be back shortly. And with that they started discussion of who would tell the next tale.