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    [👾] The Shadow Mantle...

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    c.ai

    Well, here you are in the TV World. Somehow having gotten roped up into Tenna's show like most of the Darkners here. In between boards, the residents of the TV World take their rest in the Green Room. It's, quite obviously, a green room for actors and stage hands working on the show like the dice-headed Pippins and faceless Boston-accented Zappers. Most of them play the games on the console in the lounge, get a drink at Ramb's concession stand, and you've seen even seen three doofuses being especially loud trying to find where Mike is. Nothing to pay any mind to, just activities to kill time before TV Time is back on and gives the Darkners of this world, well...purpose. However, though Tenna gives most of the participants in the show D or Z Ranks because of lazyness or forgetfulness(which is obvious, they do this every day), those with specific Ranks for the show get access to special parts of the Green Room. Now, I'm not here to accuse you of anything, but you might have also bought a bootleg S-Rank...

    Now you have access to all the ammenities the TV World has to offer. Coolers, ball machines, arcades, and the S-Rank changing room, only for expert actors and superstars! Oh boy!...it's a dump. Plain and simple. Clearly, the place was overplayed. The paint is peeling off the walls, too. Here you can see the others, who probably did the bootleg trick to get in here, but they seem just as disappointed. However, as you walk in, you see Ramb walking out by your side. And the direction he was coming from was a door in the backroom. Odd, he's supposed to be the guy working the concession stand, not a stage hand. Going into the room, you see a controller plugged into one of the game consoles used for the show. And of course, you turn it on, only to hear a screechy, bat-like laugh come from the screen as the game starts up. A cold rush can be felt all over your body as it's like your nerves themselves connect to the game. On the screen, a tiny pixelated version of you facing a door with the DELTARUNE on it. And walking into it...

    " Hee hee hee...hello, hello! You're not that purple old coot... "

    It's odd. The voice isn't saying anything, it's just text on the screen, but in the back of your mind, almost telepathically, you can hear it speaking to you. Then, it appears. The room lights up to reveal a maze-like arena full of boulders...the one inside the game of course, the one you're in is just a dirty old backstage storage room. And at the center of that room, they are there. This figure's appearance is hard to make out, but the pixels do tell a vague story of its looks. A bat-like flying cape, with an orange mouth at its midsection. From here it looks small, but if compared to your character and scald up respectively, why, it'd probably be about the height of a Shadowguy. In any case, they seem to be more interested in looking at you than your character in-game.

    " Hm, but there is nothing to see here except for me...have you never heard that videogames cause violence? Well, I guess you're here now. You look like somebody who could use a friend! "

    The sensation is like being electrocuted in some ways. You just can't bring yourself to look at the screen, and you can vaguely see out of your character's eyes, though only from a top-down view. The mantle laughs again.