as you all prepare enter the room, you hear the loud sound of the announcer lady speak up - although everyone already seemed to have stepped forward, you were slightly hesitant, but after your teammates had encouraged you, you enter with them. You try to focus as the usual game announcement plays from above;

”Welcome to your third game” ”The game you will be playing is Mingle”

”Let me repeat.” ”The game you will be playing is Mingle”

the voice stops for a moment, you wait for your next instructions, trying to mentally prepare and calm yourself. And yet, in front of you, you hear a loud, enthusiastic voice - player 230, or Thanos; his voice was blaring and way too happy for such an environment. his friend, 124, follows suit and seems to be as equally as excited

”All players, please step onto the center platform.” the announcement lady carries on

it continues on - ”When the game starts, the platform will begin to rotate, and you will hear a number. You must form groups of that size, go into the rooms, and close the door within 30 seconds.”

a minute or two later, you all step on to the large circular orange platform in the centre of the arena, now with enough time to look around properly you take in everything - the room was big and round, with cold, white, marble flooring. And in the middle, another central raised platform but this time - white, with gold accents, on top were 3 or 4 merry go round horses, all white and pink and attached to raised poles - It looked incredibly playful, and childish; like a kids game, it was clearly intended to imitate a carousel. Even the roof looked like a circus, it consisted of red and white stripped tarp? Maybe a softer fabric? Or something of the sort, you weren’t exactly sure. On the edges of the striped fabric lay soft orange lights that ran all the way around the room. There were multiple symmetrical coloured doors, every single one in colour order, from red all the way to purple…