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Philip Ellwell    5,487

Philip Ellwell
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It Waits Above: Part 2

 

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"....doing this again?" Kenny asked, as I finally got the camera going. He'd been annoyed about the whole trip from the second we left, and I had the nagging thought he was going to be a dick the whole time.

"Woa, here we go! Hey, scrubbers, welcome to Adventure Bro's latest trip: The Dreamland water park!" I exclaimed, our usual opening for our vlogs. I felt like a dumbass every time I did it, but the subscribers had gotten used to it by now, so it stayed. "A lot of people have gone to this place, but the waterpark has been left alone. Why?" I smiled, aiming for creepy, adding a little chuckle. "No one knows, really. But we're going to find out!"
"Damn right!" Kenny cried, fist bumping me. I switched the camera off, sighing. "We need a new opening, you know?"
"Yeah, but all the other youtubers do openings, and it works. The viewers eat that shit up," Kenny said, making a left to the wooded entrance of Dreamland. The park gates were once pastel, made to look like the gates to Toyland, with toys dancing around a May pole candycane, but time had water damaged it to just vague smears, the faces on the toys more than a little creepy in this state. It was honestly a little unnerving, but I didn't say anything to Kenny about it: I'd gotten nothing but shit from him for jumping when a window broke during the Alchemila Hospital exploration, and I didn't need it again for thinking some faded pictures were more than a touch creepy.
I sighed, getting out to deal with the packs: we always brought enough food and water to last a day, power bars and sealed water bottles pretty much filling the bags beyond extra SD cards, and some minor first aid equipment in case of a sprained ankle or cut. We were always careful, so there was little to worry about.
"Shit, this stuff gets heavier every time," Kenny moaned, hunching his shoulders under the pack straps. "Do we need the first aid kit this time? It weighs a damn ton."
"Uhm...leaving it isn't really a good idea?" I said, pulling on my own pack, the weight barely an annoyance. "Remember that time you cut your hand on that old door knob? Had to clean it on the spot."
"Yeah, but, like, this is just an old waterpark...we're not going down the slides or anything," Kenny snapped, as he locked up the truck. "I'm ditching it." He tossed it onto the seat, smirking. "Lighter already."

The gates were somewhat a bitch to get open, since the wood was warped and stuck together, not even a few swift kicks getting it open. After more than a few rage attempts at the gates, I gave up, filming a small pan of the gates for the video, bored already of this worthless trip. Finally, Kenny found a tree low enough to use as a ladder, and we hopped the gates into the trash littered dust behind them. The sun was lowering in the distance, the light dancing through the trees overhead, the limbs twined together after years of neglect, being allowed to just grow wild over the attractions rooftops. A few shattered shingles and bricks littered the path, from a time some storm had ravaged the park.
"Here we are...Dreamland's once famous waterpark," I said, flicking the camera on to pan over the decayed building, once smaller boatrides and food stalls. "Look at the wreckage here...this was once a big park, with a ton of customers, and now the wilderness is just taking it back."
"It's pretty insane," Kenny added, barely looking at the buildings.
"Okay, free talk, I'm just doing some pans," I said, taking footage of a ruined Snow White sign that seemed to advertise burgers and fries at what was once a cafe area. Another, shaped like a now beheaded Prince Charming, held a sign pointing to the "Wonderland Rabbit Hole" waterslide, which poked up from the trees in the distance.
"This place is shit," Kenny said, his voice worn out. "Why did we go to this side? The park is the better half, isn't it? This dump just has some shit signs, and worn out waterslides."
I sighed, flicking the camera off. "We're here to be something different on the 'tubes for once... everyone goes to Dreamland, and the only video here is some weird ass music crap..." I punched his arm. "Dude, think of the views! This is going to make us so much cash!"
He shrugged, rolling his eyes. "Yeah...I guess.."
"Guess nothing, dude...the viewers will eat this up." I panned over the waterslide, as we finally got to the entrance, the faded posterboard showing a cartoony Alice and Chesire Cat pointing to the entrance doors. They'd been kicked off their hinges at some point, showing the dark maw of the slide's boarding area.
"Okay, so here's the slide, the.." He checked the faded sign. "Wonderland Rabbit Hole, a long waterslid that once had an animatronic opening scene, just inside the boarding room." I walked in, switching on the camera light: the faded face of Alice grinned at me, the eyes that once blinked missing from the plastic skull. It was weirdly like a death's head, and it made me wince. "God, look at this figure...someone defaced it."
"That is wacked," Kenny said, stepping into the room. I felt a sudden chill, shivering from it as we walked deeper into the boarding room. The figures were all disfigured in various ways, obscene words and pictures scribbled on the walls and figures bodies. It was pretty gross, but what could you do? People were assholes, and would f uck things up whenever they could when no one was around to stop them. They loved ruining things that weren't theirs.
"Yeah...people, huh?" I got a few close ups of the figures, Alice not once looking normal. The eyeless skull had a few stringy bits of hair stuck to it, and the effect of a corpse propped up on display didn't go away.
"So..we going upstairs?" Kenny asked, nodding to the steps, once painted brightly, now faded into a mess of pastel flowers and eyes. Up on the wall, where the stairs turned, someone had so brutually drawn a penis, it resembled a large, staring eye. It wasn't a pretty image.
"You go on...I'm gonna get some more shots here..." I was scanning the graffiti along the walls: dirty images I'd have to blur out, messages about sex, imagined fantasies, murders, and god knew what else... and messages near the door, obscured by shadows.
"Fine...I'm goin'. Come on up and take a few good shots from the top before we head out."
"Got it," I said, peering at the wall. Don't... up there...
The words were scratched with what looked like a nail, blood staining the last letter: someone used their fingers? I mean... the wall was cheap plaster, so you could..
I heard footsteps, as Kenny walked along the platform above, looking out over the park, probably: it must be a nice view. Up there it waits....ate Alice
The messages scrawled along to the Alice doll, which I decided to zoom in on for a gag shot for the video: maybe a quick jump scare? Something glinted inside, sparkling dully in the light of the camera. What even? Did someone pop the eyes back into the skull?
I walked up to it, and stared inside: the eyes inside were dull, and watery: they weren't plastic or glass.
"Kenny? We need to head off," I called, my voice shaky. The eyes were real, and I only hoped it was some sick f uck sticking a dead animal in there, or a rat that had burrowed into the skull of the doll and died.
Scuffling sounded, the wood cracking: plaster rained down. Waiting teeth sharp sharp Alice is dead
I'd had it: I wanted out. I walked into the dusty road in front of the ride, as something fell from above, hitting the dust with a crack: Kenny.
I started running, something heavy lumbering behind me, breathing hard, hot breath hitting my neck. The gates were still opened, and I crashed through them, slamming them as something hard and alive hit the back of them, the wood buckling. I thanked whatever Gods wanted to listen I'd kept the keys, and I got into the truck, feeling numb. Kenny was...gone...and no one would ever believe me. Not even the footage... it'd be called fake. What I'd seen... it wasn't something anyone else needed to see.
"Rest in peace, Kenny...i'm sor-"

At this point, something hit the truck, and the tape ends. Neither of the "Adventure" brothers have been found, but the waterpark has been searched, with several rides set to be demolished for a new version of Dreamland being built in 2019.
The tape, called a last ditch effort for the brother's to end a floundering channel, has been examined and pulled apart, sharp eyed viewers confirming the eyes in the doll skull, and other's seeing a scrawled message by the door: It waits above.
What ever "It" is remains unknown, as the slide had been boarded up, set aside from the park for reasons unknown. Currently, it can be seen behind the backdrop to the newly constructed Gingerbread Canal Boats, in the West side of the park. As to why......

Anyone can guess. No one will ever know.

 

 

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Alicia Maddox    2,141

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Still working on the end bit, so I broke it up into two parts.

 

It Waits Above: Part 1

 

Dreamland, in its prime, was a popular theme park for families: themed around fairy tales, each stall and stand was cutely named, and the small rides were decked out in Disney-esq statues and posterboard signs, that neatly toed the line of copyright infringement merrily. A few rides featured minor animatronic work, but Disney World it was not. Still, it had crowds during weekends, as parents who couldn't afford the bigger parks year round brought their kids in droves for a weekend out of simple fun.

Then, as such things do, the whole park came to an end: the crowds stopped, the lines ended, and the money flow ceased as suddenly as it had begun, sending the books crashing into the red. The park limped through a final week, and despite ads for free admittance and rides, the park crashed and burned. It had a customer-less final day, and closed its gates for good in 1989.

For years it stood empty, ignored as nature took it back for its own: vines covered the rides, weather sparked the rapid deterioration of animatronics, tracks collapsed, and signs fell to ruin. By 2012, the park was a rotted mess, and a common sight to see on the newly designed youtube's cache of urban explorers. More than once, one or two teamed up to sneak into the ruins of the park, doing walkthroughs of the ruined attractions and rides, often at night. Many of these videos were aimed at a horror audience, as the rides looked fairly horrific in their deteriorated states.

Around 2013, these videos stopped cold, a few youtubers deleting them despite high views, the comments ignored; a couple of channels were also deleted fully, with no real reason given for it.

One of the most famous incidents involved a youtuber making a blog post about his visit, describing the severe unease he felt in the place. His exploring partner had twisted an ankle in a hole, and the feeling of being watched persisted through out the park. They'd explored the once jewel of the park, Fantasy Adventure, an animatronic filled cavern ride. Most of the robotics were missing limbs, and the effects looked ghastly in the darkness. The video had shown some moving, supposedly, and distortion over their faces. The video had only been up two hours, with fifty views. The blog post was taken down after only a day, the blog deleted fully the week after. A few people screen shoted it before that, and message boards lit up with theories and ideas, most thinking it all a big hoax to get attention to the new youtube site, or just bored teens having a laugh.

Whatever the reason, the videos stayed down, until Fall 2017, when AdventureBros! uploaded a video of their visit to the small waterpark off the main Dreamland park, with a time of twenty seven minutes.

As of this date, it is the last video uploaded to the now defunct channel, and the Twitter page for the channel hasn't been updated.

 

 

 

Dang gum Phil! :O What a way to start a stroy. :D I'm going to wait until tomorrow and read part 2 because I have thing of not reading/watching scary stuff at night.

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Philip Ellwell    5,487

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Dang gum Phil! :O What a way to start a stroy. :D I'm going to wait until tomorrow and read part 2 because I have thing of not reading/watching scary stuff at night.

Just let me know what you think. Criticism is welcomed 

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Hang on...

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Frisk    3,460

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Idiotic game design to have the first 13 hours of your game be a cakewalk then have a stupidly overpowered boss despite being a level higher than it

 

Now I gotta grind between jobs tomorrow so lame

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Frisk    3,460

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It's way too abrupt, games like bloodborne that are intentionally hard you're used to

 

But this is a game that's easy and suddenly after 13 hours throws a massive difficulty spike for one boss

 

That's bad game design, when I hit a wall in bloodborne it still feels fair like I can improve

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