I've got these excuses, they're tired and they're lame

This one's long.

[12:16] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : and you can kiss my blogger [a**]!! my [v*gina] is so [f**king] pink you down syndrome retard. I HATE MEN AND MY [F**KING] KIDS!!! little bastards stress me OUT!! Ahoooah how about a cruise ladies? im a libertarian MY HUSBAND IS A [B*STARD C*NT] get the wine!!
I had just logged in after an RL morning out. Name left deliberately intact, so you can feel free to block as well. The only editing I did was to asterisk some of the curse words.
[12:16] jxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: just block it
[12:16] lxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: someone feed the troll plz? Its being annoying lol
It's worse than that. Pull Ellen's profile. She's apparently an Apple Fall group moderator, and a blogger manager (whatever that is) for 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

So that seems like an honest, upstanding avatar, but if you look--and I almost missed this myself--it's not Ellen sending this. It's this 'Q' person. Who is a bit over one year on the grid, and other than sounding like she has an attitude, has nothing that indicates there's no cheese left on her cracker.

So...why target Ellen? Was Qui'ona hacked? Was it side effects of new medication? Did Qui just wake up this morning and decide by lunch, she was going to go completely mental?
[12:16] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: closes group chat
Not the worst response.
[12:16] bxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: sad
And then she sent it again.
[12:17] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:17] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:17] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:17] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:17] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:17] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
She sent it ten more times--in a row--past these six sends.
[12:17] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: is [Nxxxxx] on?
No sooner had that been sent, than Qui set in again.
[12:17] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
Which was followed by nine more sends of the same exact message.
[12:18] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: report her
I did.
[12:18] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:18] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:18] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:18] Xxxxx Nxxxxx: #blocked
[12:19] Txxxxxx Cxxxx: uhm. ellen get hacked?
See, that's what I thought too! But no, Qui's just using her name. It's very fool-the-eye--or at least, fool-the-perception--and scary, to boot.
[12:19] Wxxxxxxxxx Bxx: ????
[12:19] lxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: mental health check?
If she hasn't had one, Qui needs one.
[12:19] Mxxxx Cxxxxxxx: id say took me a while to blooc but finally got the right one
[12:19] Txxxxxxxxxx Sxxxxxx: That wasn't from Ellen, just referred to her.
I admit, I was embarrassingly slow on the uptake to figure that out at first.
[12:19] Mxxxx Cxxxxxxx: ikr
[12:19] uxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: O.o wtf is that spam
It qualifies.
[12:19] Txxxxxxxxxx Sxxxxxx: You want to block .::Qui'ona::. (espixa)
[12:20] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: noo she is repeating what Ellen said to her
[12:20] Mxxxx Cxxxxxxx: thats the one i blocked
She's not, though. It looks like she is, but if you really look at the formatting, all she's done is pull in Ellen's name--somehow--but there's no time stamp. And Ellen's name would not be clickable if all she was doing was quoting things said to her. No, this is all from Qui's toxic little brain.
[12:20] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: we need a Mod to ban her from the group
[12:20] Ellen (ladyellent): she is most certainly not repeating anything I said to her
Lady Ellen's name left intact, as well, because she's fake-quoted in the strings of Qui messages.
[12:20] Txxxxxxxxxx Sxxxxxx: What she *claims* Ellen said. Or what whoever faked her account claims Ellen said
[12:20] Ellen (ladyellent): This is what I said to her



[12:20] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: ohhhh wow Ellen, than I apologize
[12:20] Ellen (ladyellent): its okay
[12:21] Ellen (ladyellent): at least you didnt message me to eff off like a bunch of people from other groups have now doe
I feel personally culpable for this, as well--I didn't message her, thank all the gods, but I originally pulled this entry together with every intent of putting her on blast. She is not the responsible party here, but because of the trickery used in Qui's posts, she looks like the one responsible, and that is very, very wrong.
[12:21] Txxxxxx Cxxxx: poor ellen *hugs her*
[12:21] pxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: oo different ell my apologies
No, that's the point, it was never Ellen, at all.

And then Qui surfaced again.
[12:21] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:21] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:21] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: group hugss Ellen
[12:21] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:21] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:21] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:21] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
[12:21] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
She continued spamming that same line TWENTY-ONE more times.
[12:22] Txxxxxx Cxxxx: theyre still doing it.
They were. And here we go again:
[12:22] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]

Followed by SIX MORE lines of the same.
[12:24] Txxxxxx Cxxxx: i just reported them
Which is good, I did the same, but...
[12:24] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
AND SHE REPEATED THAT SAME PHRASE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT MORE TIMES. ONE. HUNDRED. AND. TWENTY-EIGHT.
[12:27] sxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: wow spam much
Apparently. All over the place. Qui really has a vendetta against Ellen for some unknown reason. And, speaking of Qui...
[12:27] Brianna Marie (themanyfacedgod): I think someone hacked her
No one hacked Ellen. It's all Qui. I don't know how she did it, I'd love if someone could explain the mechanics of how to make both the avatar's name, and another avatar's name beyond it, individually clickable.
[12:28] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
FIFTY-THREE more lines of spam later:
[12:28] txxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: orr not. never mind - she's copying someone else. wow. issues much - blocked
[12:28] Axxxx Gxxxxxxxxx: nah, it's just espixa. she's been attention trolling all day.
[12:29] Ellen (ladyellent): i did not say those things
[12:29] Ellen (ladyellent): i said this
[12:29] txxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I know you wouldn't Ellen
[12:29] txxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: You're a sweetheart
But such considerations do not matter when there's a crazed spammer on your tail.
[12:29] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]

FIFTY-SIX more lines of spam.
[12:30] ixxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: We get it.
Apparently not, because Qui felt she still had to reinforce the point:
[12:30] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
And six more times after that.
[12:30] Lxxx Zxxxxxx: wth
So said we all.
[12:30] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
The above was followed by twenty-six more of the exact same spammed line.
[12:31] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: I have contacted LL about her
A lot of us did, but Qui was still prattling on.
[12:31] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
That, plus eighteen more lines exactly the same.
[12:31] Ellen (ladyellent): Thank you
[12:31] Ellen (ladyellent): I sent a report for harassment
Good. This is definitely targeted harassment.
[12:31] Axxxxx Gxxxxxxxxx: i've got the chat logs from this morning that probably set all this off if y'all need them
That might help. I hope he sent them to the Lindens.
After eight lines of spam, Ellen--the real Ellen--spoke again.
[12:31] Ellen (ladyellent): this is what set it off, I said nothing in group
[12:31] Ellen (ladyellent): sorry for posting that again
In this instance, likely completely forgiven.

Thereupon followed a blissful two entire minutes of chatter about actual group-related content--sales on cute clothing, stores that had gifts for the group, that kind of thing. Peaceful. And then:
[12:32] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
Only four more lines of spam at that point, and then more actual conversation broke out until another minute--a literal, 60-second minute--had passed.
[12:33] espixa Resident: underneath your [p*nis] tip smells like [p*ss] de la cheese. don't talk to my coffee until my coffee had its coffee ugh mondays its funny cause men are stupid. dont talk to me. dont talk to my coffee. tell the kids i said hello x
I'm seriously thinking Qui has had a complete mental break with reality, and in all seriousness, needs to be hospitalized. But at least it was not the same offensive line?
[12:34] Sxxxx Kxxxxx: tmi
[12:34] txxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: orr not. never mind - she's copying someone else. wow. issues much - blocked
And then Qui moved back to the EXACT SAME LINE OF ABUSE:
[12:34] .::Qui'ona::. (espixa): Ellen (ladyellent) : [[actual message omitted because it's exactly the same]]
Ten lines that time.
[12:34] Txxxxxxxxxx Sxxxxxx: Oh lordy
[12:34] Jxxxxxxxx Cxxxxxx:
[12:34] ixxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: well thanks for the spam
[12:34] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: she has been reported in live chat and filed an RA on her
[12:34] bxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Ngl this is ruining my day. I have a headache now.
I'm sure most of us did at this point.
[12:34] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: no kidding
[12:35] ixxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Well, that was certainly entertaining for 10 seconds.
[12:35] sxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: it was a hacked account? or a bored "kid" ?
Not hacked, so...
[12:35] Axxxxx Gxxxxxxxxx: Bored kid.
[12:35] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: she has been doing it for the last hour and half
And, based on later conversation, she was doing it with the same faking of Ellen's avatar name and the same--or similar--offensive messages this morning, as well.
[12:36] ixxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I'd verge on the latter
[12:36] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: closing chat going back to my photoshoot
[12:40] Axxxxx Gxxxxxxxxx: i'm going to go get some tea and take a nap, because little miss d*ck cheese has also given me a headache.
[12:40] Ellen (ladyellent): I'm sorry guys. I feel like this is partly my fault
Why? For asking that someone who was sending out vile streams of abuse stop? That is totally not your fault. Qui's insanity, Qui's issues, totally Qui's problem.
[12:42] Vxxxxx Mxxxxx: you are not responsible for this behavior. don't apologize for this.
[12:43] Rxxxx Mxxxxx: Ellen you arent and I told that in the RA
After I figured out the issue, I did too. It was a big of a struggle to get the account name to link in the abuse report--apparently sometime between spamming and reporting, she changed her display name, and that apparently threw off the finder field? Weirdness.

But she has been reported, by a great many of us, and she was also banned from the group, so...I am sincerely hoping this doesn't happen again.

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I'm a leavin you before it's too late

The words inscribed upon the pixel panel stated:

halloween lucky chair mesh creepy stuff Amsterdam is a Dutch Community based in the Netherlands. Holland. New Residents welcome area and help infohub.
Make friends, Dutch Sandbox Area, zandbak, halloween ghost monster dracula spookhouse biggest in sl
My goodness, I had no idea Ansterdam still existed. I spent a great amount of time there as a youngling to SL.

But now they have a haunt? Really?



On the one hand, I don't believe I've seen any Fatal Frame specific rips in world before. On the other, still a rip. Standing in a row of other rips. Argh.



There is an annoying repetitive laugh track just inside the haunt. Very irritating. But also, this is a ride? Hmm. Interesting.



More rips scattered along the tracks...



Are you kidding me? This doesn't even make sense outside of its own game universe!



And now we have the Witch.



I give up.

I mean, sure, if you like chain drives? Knock yourself out. But don't expect originality.

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make no fuss over my grave, just plant something pretty and call it a day (part 3)

And from part two, we are now at the end of the trilogy.

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Royal escapades in the cemetery.

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More cemetery hijinks.

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The ghost of the bricklayer attempting escape.

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My run-in with the hitchhikers.

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Leaving the Mansion to the high, fey voice of Little Leota. "Hurry back!...Hurry back!...Be sure to bring your death certificate, if you decide to join us...Make final arrangements now!...We've been dying...to have you..."

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And end of the ride! Keep in mind that for this, really, for any of the Haunted Mansion tribute rides, because there are a few, set some time aside. It's meant to be a slow, spooky ride, so don't expect to rush through it in two minutes. Enjoy!

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make no fuss over my grave, just plant something pretty and call it a day (part 2)

Picking up where we left off...

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I'm strapped into the Doombuggy, and off we go!

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Past the Gallery there was a ramp up to the second floor, heavily draped with radiant, eldritch webs we had to travel through.

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I do love this clock.

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Our first glimpse of Madame Leota.

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The ornate--and very haunted--feasting hall.

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And the ghost bride in the attic. There's one more entry to go!

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make no fuss over my grave, just plant something pretty and call it a day (part 1)

I honestly can't remember if I've been to Whymsee's before, but here's their description:

FUN tribute THE HAUNTED MANSION RIDE and WHYMSEE HAUNTED SIM date night family Thrill Ride scary haunted house carnival AMUSEMENT PARK Rides dance club horror EVIL DEAD hunt GREEDY Oculus vr halloween
All right, then.



The pumpkin dancers are all kinds of cute. But. This event has a rotating door, and I got solidly stuck both attempts to walk through, and finally had to spin my camera to the front and walk through that way. That is massively irritating.



Was this the Haunted Mansion tribute ride I caught last year? I can't tell.



That's...kind of creepy.



This fireplace. So iconic. And this is an excellent reproduction.



This room I know well, too. They seem to be running the soundtrack for the actual mansion, as well.



And I swear, this is a picture of Uncle Creepy.

More to come! (Also late note from the Editrix: Yes. Yes, I have been through here before. They've just updated with a bit of animesh beforehand.)

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when love scars and leaves you branded, walk away and don't look back

Started with a new search term this morning, "scary", and...I guess I should have known better. Fatal Reloaded was the first sim to come up, and their blurb reads:

The Legend lives...
Gallows, Hangman Game, Executions, Asphyx, Firing Range, Electric Chair, Cruxification, Beheading, Impalement, Snuff, Brothel, Prison, Russian Roulette, Dungeon in this scary place
I know this appeals to some, but as far as I'm concerned, thanks but no.

I'll keep going, but if that's the level of search that word brings up, I won't be long in this category.

Let's see, Devils Island RLV Capture and Torture Scream Park, no, Simnelia advertises interrogation equipment, including a functional "sawmill" piece with saw, so no thank you there, there's a smattering of groups for "scary lesbians" (?) and "scary ghosts" (which seemed to be someone's family name, not an actual haunt)...and then there was Darkwood Castle. And their info states:
The mighty walls swallow all screams of the tortured inmates. Outside of the castle the tall trees give an echo of the sounds of death from the human sacrifice and the clash of arms in the bloody fight arena. Nobody can escape from the abandoned village
Riiiight. I am highly dubious.



That's not something I see everyday--a tavern with cages for prisoners.



This seems to be the only actual store on the sim.



There's that, at least. Do be careful, you can click the wrong thing and get strung up.



I can't figure this out. It's not the usual, bloodspattered-asylum-walls torture sim, but it's also not the usual medieval-life-in-Gor sim either (Gor because many of the crops, the small house containing the brewery, the weaver's shop, and others, contain Gorean RP objects with Gorean names. I don't know for sure if they actually do consider themselves part of Gor). It's an odd mix. It is on Adult land, so I'm assuming some of the scattered things are set for Adult activities, but currently, it's been a quiet stroll.



Mysterious altar in the middle of a field...



I will fully grant there are some neat poses here and there for photographs.



And the only place with bloodspattered anything on the entire sim.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not a full-on Grand Guignol experience. It's just a medieval-style sim that occasionally kills and tortures residents.

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can't step off it, someone else will cop it

Okay, this one promises to be odd. The description:

MILENA DOLL CREATIONS:RLV,Traps, BDSM,OpenCollar,sex,Bukkake,Experience Key,tentacles,Alien,Dungeon,ANIMEH , Cinema,RLV.Nude beach,Dance,Club, ,Gangbang,orgy,Caves,AFK,Greedy,Haunted Mansion,
/* Sky @ 251
0m to 2560m: "[NB] P-Haze 0800"*/ RegionOverride
I'm pretty sure the "ANIMEH" mentioned was meant to be "animesh", and believe me, I'm fairly sure of that, at this point. My system can process animesh here and there, but large stands of it--Hayabusa's forests of animesh trees spring to mind--tank my graphics processing entirely.



This run did not go well, and I'll tell you why. Normally, I port to a new sim, leave the direct port-in spot, and wait. Anywhere from two to five minutes, depending on how much my computer, or the sim, is struggling, I see things rez in fully.

Not here. The reason it looks like I'm taking the shot from the side, kneeling, is because I was fighting my cam controls for every single centimeter I could get it to turn. It took ten minutes to get the cam to turn from facing front, to facing back, behind me, to snap the sign.



I finally managed to get something that was a halfway decent snap, so I left the gazebo to enter the sim proper. And left the gazebo. And left the gazebo. Snapback was intense, then I started freezing in place. It took five minutes of struggle just to get my cam to the far side of the store from the gazebo, which was...maybe...five meters away.

I turned around to get a wide shot, and waited. Two minutes. Five minutes. Ten minutes. At the twenty-minute mark I said the hell with this and snapped the shot you see, full of unrezzed grey walls and shapeless blobs. The big "ANIMESH" sign is very obvious; nothing else can really be made out, beyond "general arch" and "general wall" and suchlike.

There's no haunt here, as far as I can tell, and I'm not going back to verify, so...I'd recommend avoiding the place entirely, but that's just me. The literal ton of animesh on the parcel guarantees that if I do return, I won't be able to move any better than I did today. It's not worth it.

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copycat trying to cop my manner, copycat trying to cop my glamour

The Haunted forrest (their spelling, not mine) has a one-line blurb, which I'm editing slightly:

Come play with the coven of [B**ches]!!!!!
You can tell where.



Hi, Sara. Why are you here?



So, whatever this is, it's not the haunt.



I found a skeletal dancer in an autumn glade.



Some floating red candles.



Hello, Alice. Goddamn it. Stop with the damned game rips already!!1!



And past that, a set of pumpkins that would fit right in on Daddy's Babygirl Sugarland Hangout. Kill me now.

It's not...terrible? But the rez point is nowhere near the haunted items, and the haunted items are pretty scattered. I guess if you're willing to hike around, knock yourself out, but overall...eh?

I did like the hearses. And I did like the skeletal dancer. And I really like the autumn-leaf terrain texture, I want to know where the sim found that.

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you're italic, I'm in bold

This might have a bit of promise. The description:

Preparing for Halloween, open Sept 6, 2019 8pm with DJ Montana! Forest, skippo, sancturary for all adults, singles, couples hangout & in September it will become a halloween haunt with games. /*sky@ 01m to 400m:"[TOR] NIGHT - Faux moon"*/
What's "skippo"? According to Google, it seems to be a Second Life card game, but...I've never heard of it before. Anyway, let's go see the haunt.



Doesn't look awful, for all that I can see two rips right from the gate (the wandering neo-Victorian model, which is either based on the Bride in Black from Insidious, or a game; I can't precisely remember which one, and to the far right, the spider, which is also ripped from a video game).



The cemetary is nicely laid out, fairly easy to navigate, which is a good thing.



A spectral hand reaches from a tombstone.



Pumpkin tree!



Wups, got too close to another reaching hand!

There is more to this haunt, but I crashed trying to move beyond the cemetary, returned and got as far as the bridge towards a little castle, and crashed again. So I gave up. I'm not blaming the sim; this entire week has been crash central. I have not had one entire day in SL where I don't crash at least twice.

It's a neatly done haunt, though. No great scares, nothing phenomenal, just a nice walk with some photo ops and places to sit. Don't go for the thrills; go to relax, is my recommendation.

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while the makeup man's hands shut the eyes of the dead

There's a Diner of the Dead? Apparently so, their description kind of confirms it:

Where the dead hangout, relax, and grab a bite! Horror Undead Dark Goth Cemetary Creepy Gore Blood Diner Explore Halloween Spooky Macabre Butcher Death Haunted Bizarre Dark Haunted Nightmare
Let's stop in for a nibble.



Oh, now you tell me. This sign is on the inside of the gate.



Help you? I think it's already too late.



Handy. (I make no apologies.)




[22:17] Gutted and crucified hostess: Welcome Emilly Orr to The Diner of the Dead. Grab a bite and have a killer time!
...Wait. How can you talk with that much damage?



Calorie counts. I guess that's...good to know...



Gory? Definitely. Be sure not to slip in the pools of blood and viscera. But they had a theme, and by all the gods, they stuck to it. Neatly--if bloodily and messily--done.

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