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SELECT YOUR DESTINY BOOK #9 - HAUNTED MANSION MADNESS!

You're kind of in an "opening mail" kind of mood after that letter about your creepy great uncle's creepy mansion. Better keep the streak alive by prying into the former resident's permanently undeliverable mail. You open the letter and take a peek:

"Deer ser or madum,

yur grat grat granfader is ded. Pleez com to hiz skaree manshun and spend the nite. I am a loyer, and yu will be ok. If yu want the hous, yu must spend the nite.

Sined,

Fred Loyer

PS: I am not a gost"

The entire letter appears to have been inked in blood, and the letter itself appears to have been printed on dried skin. And the sender used way too much postage. It would appear that the previous occupant was being courted by some kind of malevolent, but slow-witted, ghost. Or a mortician with a strange sense of humor and a skin drying machine.

Suddenly, there's a knock at the door. Perhaps it's the mailman again, come to deliver you more old mail from people you don't know.

If this was a photo of Agent Skully, it would be a SKULLYTON. LOLOLOL
"FBI, freeze!"

You're way ahead of the well-dressed skeleton. You thought you were safe from criminal charges because your former tenant was (presumably) dead. Unfortunately, you forgot the smaller branch of the FBI that deals with post-mortem mail fraud: The Dead Letters Office!

The DLO officer places you under arrest for opening the letter, along with resisting arrest because you soiled yourself when she put the handcuffs on you. She takes you down to the local DLO headquarters for processing. After getting photographed and fingerprinted by a bored-looking skeleton, the officer takes you to an interrogation room.

"This is our best interrogator. He'll be pumping you for more information about the other mail fraud you've no doubt committed. Once he's satisfied, you can go."

The agent sits you down in a chair facing another skeleton, this one in sensible slacks and a light blue dress shirt. Unlike the agent who brought you in, however, this skeleton is not animated. You turn to bring this up with the agent, but she has already left and locked the door behind her.

The hours roll by, and no one comes to let you out of the room. You try playing innocent, but that doesn't work. You try confessing to crimes far more serious than mail fraud, but that doesn't work either. Panic sets in, but as the days pass, it is eventually overridden by starvation. As you lie curled up on the floor, you mumble that you regret ever opening that second envelope. With that, the interrogator skeleton springs to life and declares, "Aha, so you admit it!" The last thing you see is a small group of DLO agents coming in to congratulate the interrogator on finally getting you to crack.

EVERYONE HAS A "START OVER" POINT, AND THIS IS YOURS!!!

Reader Comments

Baron Von Snugglemittens
Oct 30th, 2009, 06:06 PM
yes! I've missed these! great stuff!
With More Yes Than Ever
Oct 30th, 2009, 06:06 PM
I was hoping that we would be blessed with such awesomeness!
Kat Kat is offline
Breathes Comics
Oct 30th, 2009, 08:36 PM
If I sleep in the nude, why am I wearing the same clothes I "rolled out of bed with in the morning"?
Member OfThe Pigmask Army
Oct 30th, 2009, 08:37 PM
"Doctor says he's got the diabetes, says that makes him hyperglycemic. Know what that is? Means he's got to get a lot of sugar in him all the time, or he'll get all listless and moody!"
One of the best Destiny Books so far.
Kat Kat is offline
Breathes Comics
Oct 30th, 2009, 08:39 PM
Of course there's also the issue of why I have toiletries when I didn't pack.

I'm still loving this. It doesn't need to make sense.
The Claw of Justice
Oct 30th, 2009, 10:28 PM
Just finished it...I haven't laughed this hard in a looooong time. Great work, guys!

Now I feel bad about my meat lips.
Funky Dynamite
Oct 30th, 2009, 10:53 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kat View Post
If I sleep in the nude, why am I wearing the same clothes I "rolled out of bed with in the morning"?
Two words: birthday suit.

Quote:
Of course there's also the issue of why I have toiletries when I didn't pack.
Hammerspace
Member OfThe Pigmask Army
Oct 30th, 2009, 11:37 PM
Wait a second, when you go back to your room after killing that monster, is that ghost from the "A Christmas Carol" movie starring Albert Finney as Scrooge called "Scrooge"?
I think it was a musical. My family watches it every year.
"GET OVER HERE, YOU WEIRD LITTLE MAN!"
I hate this hacker crap!
Oct 31st, 2009, 12:26 AM
Haven't had time to get through my entire adventure yet, but it is amazing. Great job guys.
Space Cowboy
Oct 31st, 2009, 07:47 AM
I would like to propose that the sentence "He flails wildly about as you punch him in the hump." is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Kudos to you guys.
King of the Monsters
Nov 1st, 2009, 01:14 AM
what? no choice that ends with you getting your nuts destroyed??? :P

kidding aside, awesome work.
Almighty Samfucius
Nov 1st, 2009, 11:56 PM
I really hate to be a wet blanket, but as an actual type 1 diabetic, I'd just like to point out that too much insulin is the cause of a diabetic seizure, not at all the solution. The solution to hypoglycemia (what causes a seizure) is more sugar, and the way to deal with a seizure in progress is to give the person a glucagon shot, which is quite distinctive from an insulin shot.
The Goddamned Batman
Nov 2nd, 2009, 06:45 PM
You know that this story is supposed to be funny, full of teh jokes, and in no way educational or based on true events, right?
Funky Dynamite
Nov 3rd, 2009, 03:47 PM
I was just glad I could spell "diabetes" correctly after years of hearing those commercials with Wilford Brimley.
Forum Virgin
Nov 8th, 2009, 12:45 PM
so, is there a good ending? I think I went through all the choices and never saw one that I would think of as a happy ending for player.

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