OLEANDER ENTERS THE MAZE.
Oleander is mumbling incoherently before yelling. "GET THE STRAWBERRY AWAY FROM MY KNEE-" And wagging his hands around.
The path is winding. It is a path, tall hedges surround Oleander. There are flowers.
He gets up and starts slashing at the air. "Nuh uh uh!! You can't run from me, Mushroom Man..." They mumble as they walk straight into a hedge.
The hedge is a hedge. It squeaks in response.
Oleander falls on his back.
The grass is moist. Feels wet. Like the sea.
Oleander picks up a mouthful and eats it.
Tastes like eww ew grossss no nasty then tasty tasty
!! how yummy for ur tummy!!!
Oleander eats more.
Turns out, it is just grass.
Oleander eventually passes out, high out of his mind.
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Oleander eventually wakes up, looking around. "Hhngnng... what the fuck..." They turn onto their side just in time to vomit up the grass they ate. He wipes his mouth and stands up, examining the area.
The path is winding. It is a path, tall hedges surround Oleander. There are flowers in the hedges.
Oleander takes out his phone to see if he has service.
There is! The Wizards need their daily baby sensory videos.
After a bit of texting, he heads down it to explore.
Something rustles behind him, but he is met with two paths of the maze to venture down.
He goes to the right!
Oleander enters a dead end. Something gives a small chuckle at the fact. A giggle, even.
Oleander sneers and turns back.
A new set of two paths have appeared!
He goes to the LEFT.
Another dead end. There's a sign saying, "THINK HARDER NEXT TIME XP"
Oleander sneers and shoots the sign with his gauntlet.
The sign gets on legs and dodges the blast.
Oleander makes the polite cat face and turns around.
A set of two paths have materialized!
He turns to go to the left.
Oleander feels the urge to think before his decision...
He thinks before his decision and feels the urge to go right...
He does so and… It's a dead end.
Oleander shoots the bush in anger.
It goes through the bush. Like the bush doesn't even exist and he hit direct air/nothing.
Oleander grins and runs at the bush.
The bush was nothing but an illusion of the eye. There's a path!
Oleander sees a humble little water fountain with crystal-like sparkling water.
He runs to the water and sniffs it. Upon it smelling normal, he puts a drop on his finger and licks it.
Water! He feels fine.
He dunks his head in and drinks.
It's actually sparkling water fuck you.
Tastes refreshing (if you like sparkling water)
Oleander does care and slurps it up.
After a bit, he gets up and sits next to the fountain to recuperate.
It's allowed! There's a rustling nearby.
He looks toward the rustling.
A wizard hat pokes out of it.
Oleander quickly averts his eyes.
The rustling continues...
Oleander holds back from sobbing.
Something nudges Oleander.
He opens his eyes...
A wizard is headbutting his side aggressively.
He nervously pets it and the wizard purrs. Fear radiates from him as he does so. “Hi.."
It starts to gnaw on his hand (it has no teeth)
Oleander lets it, petting it softly. "Do you know how to get home?"
It starts to trot away!
He gets up and follows.
It's heading down a maze path. It feels much more open this way.
Oleander can see something rising above the hedges.
Oleander watches and follows!
It's a wizard hat.
"Tall wizard?" Oleander says.
Two glowing eyes peek out.
Oleander jumps and looks down, making sure not to make eye contact
It giggles masculinely.
"H-hello??" Oleander asks.
"You're trusting a wizard? Just like that? My how the maze participants have crumbled." Says a mysterious voice.
"Is it really participating if I was brought here while high out of my mind??" Oleander retorts.
There's no reply! The wizard he was following and the eyes have apparently vanished out of thin air.
Oleander groans and looks around.
There's a path. One looks to be deeper into the maze, the other seems to be plains.
Oleander heads to the plains.
It is a plain stretching an expansive amount. Looks freeing.
Oleander starts running!
He runs for a good while. He can see a large hedge as he does.
He heads toward it.
It's a path! The maze continues.
Oleander groans and takes a moment to sit down and catch his breath. Then he heads down the path...
The path continues.....it opens to a mini playground.
Oleander looks around to see if there are wizards or water. Their stomach grumbles.
There's what looks to be a well full of water!
They go to the well and look down it!!
A wizard FUCKING PUSHES THEM INTO IT.
They scream and fall in.
It's deep... the water they land in is somehow breathable! Surprisingly. But they continue to descend nonetheless. It gets dark enough that not a thing can be seen
Oleander screams and takes out his phone.
Oleander: HELP
Lock: help how?
Oleander: IM IN A WELL
THE FUCKING WIZARD PUSHED ME DOWN A WELL
Cole: hmm
that is an issue
Oleander: SOMEHOW I CAN BREATHE BIT IM IN WATER???
Lock: oh well
Cole: consider climbing out?
Oleander looks at their phone and puts it away. What did they expect? These people to run to their aid? They barely knew him. He was a stranger and like always, he needed to help himself. No one else would help him. He starts swimming downwards, choking back tears
* Sploosh *
Oleander lands softly on the wooden floorboards.
They look around to see where they are, wiping their tears
Oleander is also SOPPING WET FROM THE WATER.
They're on surprisingly warm floorboards. Chandeliers linger above him and there's a humble little campfire. There are also two staircases closest to the left and right walls.
Something is hovering above him.
He looks up!
Looming above him is a humanoid figure. He bears a lengthy, flowy cloak that flows with the nonexistent wind, and two different colored glowing eyes peer down at him. It's also bearing the same hat as before, a wizard's hat with a brim and melted candles on top of it, dripping downwards.
"𝕄𝕪.. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕚𝕫𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕓𝕖 𝕤𝕠 𝕔𝕣𝕦𝕖𝕝 𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖𝕤. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕜𝕤 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕓𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤!"
Oleander nods and looks down. "Guess so..." He starts to crawl to the campfire to try and warm up. "Is this your domain?"
They're able to. He hums and follows him. "ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕤𝕠!"
"Why did you bring me here?" Oleander asks.
"𝕀 𝕕𝕚𝕕 𝕟𝕠𝕥. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕚𝕫𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤 𝕕𝕚𝕕!"
"Why?"
"𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕜 𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 :]"
Oleander huffs. "How so???"
The Wizard shrugs! "𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕀 𝕕𝕚𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕡𝕦𝕝𝕝 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝔼𝕃𝕃 𝕆𝔽 𝔼𝕋𝔼ℝℕ𝔸𝕃 𝕊𝕀ℕ𝕂𝕀ℕ𝔾."
"Oh... thank you..." They stare at the fire. "Will I be allowed to leave or no..."
Candle gets close to Oleander from behind, before placing a hat on Oleander's head.
Which expands and stretches like a big fucking sack. Oleander gets SACKED and it takes them to the backyard!