#escape the pizzaplex interactive novel

[theoatmealbowl]

Escape the Pizzaplex (New FNAF book)

So recently, a new listing on Bookmanager came up for a new FNAF: Interactive Novel book, the third (technically fourth) entry in the series.

This one is called "Escape the Pizzaplex", and the synopsis includes Cassie being trapped inside of the Pizzaplex and needing to escape.

Does anyone else think this is maybe a bit strange? Cassie doesn't seem to fear the animatronics at all in RUIN, but she also has no qualms with running into an abandoned Pizzaplex to save her friend, so I suppose maybe she isn't all that unfamiliar with the Pizzaplex being dangerous. Besides- if she never gets caught, then why would she think they're trying to kill her? A very interesting book none-the-less.

This also oddly lines up with some of her thoughts about the daycare attendant AR items, and a cut line of Freddy talking about "lock-ins". (If your curious, it's apparently where they would have a sleepover in the Pizzaplex, while all the doors are locked. They had to be cancelled due to legal issues, apparently.)

[an-archaic-archivist]

So a new interactive novel just got announced that features Cassie. And it seems to take place before Ruin.

Description. "Relive the newest, biggest Five Nights at Freddy's location and setting of the smash Security Breach game in this all-new, interactive novel. You are Cassie, a young girl trapped inside Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. Chased by terrifying animatronics as well as the nightguards, you've got to do whatever you can to make it out alive. Can you escape? Or will it be game over before dawn?"

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Okay for real, the interactive novels sound like they're gonna actually be interesting. They seem to have dropped Chica from the first one and given the maze to Monty which is unfortunate, but the fourth one is about Cassie trying to escape the Pizzaplex.

I repeat: We are getting an interactive novel where Cassie escapes the Pizzaplex!

[patchworkspringlocks]

Ok so tales from the pizzaplex epilogues rewrite feat. guest star michael afton

As I said before michael gets woken up in the sinkhole’d remains of the pizza place after glitchtrap takes over the RF’s mind (trust me I Will get to him. someday)

His instinctual reaction is one you’d expect from this development, that being “god-fucking-dammit not this shit again,” way to ruin his eternal afterlife vacation again william >:(

Patchwork/Dave has moved onto bigger and more outlandish endeavors, namely continuing to chase william around and into the digital world, also to escape the nightmarish ever-looping purgatory that is UCN (in my continuity), also also somehow find Cassidy and convince him to set the other spirits free and let them move on

So Patchwork is MIA by the time michael wakes back up which sucks bc it sure would be nice to have a tall strong powerful springlock animatronic guard dog against this thing that really, really wants to separate his head and arms from his body like an unruly kid with a grudge against one barbie doll in particular

(Sidenote: no the mimic in this continuity is not afton, it’s just a robot, although if word ever got out about this thing and what it’s capable of a certain digital rabbit mascot would be very curious indeed)

Michael spends some quality time with the mimic :) ..and by that I mean now he’s the one running around like a rat in a maze as the sole target of fnaf’s version of the terminator, but luckily he’s got loads of experience with defensive measures against murderous animatronics that the mimic doesn’t let him get away with twice, it was meant to learn and adapt along with mimic, after all

Michael’s even more worse-for-wear than ever before and looking even more like a charred corpse, taking what stitching he can grab and suture up on the run, but to the mimic’s algorithm’s surprise he seems neither scared nor particularly angry, to michael this thing is just an obstacle in the way of his actual goal so at first he’s dead-eyed and mildly perturbed at best and frustrated at worst, at least when it’s just him and this robot

To be honest I haven’t actually read the epilogues themselves just the summaries on the wiki so idk all the teens’ exact personalities (other than “stupid dumb idiot horror movie victims”), but I definitely want to keep Hope’s and Adrian’s deaths the same bc the aftermaths for both were surprisingly intriguing to me as character work, at least as far as fnaf novel characters are concerned

The first time they interact one of them mistakes michael for a corpse before he accidentally jumpscares them, while claiming his rotting dead look is a mix between actual injuries from the mimic and a disguise to let him “play dead” and hide from “it”

He tells them right away to just gtfo but of course horror’s gonna horror so they’re all trapped there until morning as michael now has to formulate a plan for not only him to survive but also these dumbass kids who don’t want to listen when he says all their lives are literally in grave danger down there

As a ghost his overall personality is diminished and condensed into a more streamlined cognitive structure mainly consisting of self-sustainability and whatever thought was so strong and prevalent at the moment of death it halfway brings them back to carry that out, so while he is concerned with their safety bc it’s michael, to an outsider it looks very much like low empathy/sympathy and a large amount of selfishness compared to still-living humans, and the teens aren’t at all sure if they can trust this zombie-looking guy at all, until they start getting picked off by the mimic of course

I’m taking out the stupid bit with the fan that boy can die in a different way, I know y’all are freshly-traumatized panicked teenagers running solely on carnival food and adrenaline by this point but seriously c’mon man

It would admittedly be very cool (if tragic) to see the mimic copy one of michael’s former tricks he tried to use against it in order to kill one of the teens tbh

At least one death I’m certain will be the result of a catch-22 scenario against the mimic where michael ultimately has to let the kid die despite their friends’ protests, and while he masks it with the only emotion he can really feel by this point michael is noticeably shaken by this behind the anger, the mimic unknowingly harkening back to his brother’s fatal injury

The mimic would get a similar sensation to completing an assigned objective if it knew that legitimately pissed him off

Something something they blame michael something something the remaining gang splits up and one more person dies, either the focus character or more get cornered and michael comes in and saves their asses at the expense of one of his arms getting halfway torn off, though he actually manages to (very briefly) short-circuit the mimic’s sensors and processor by virtue of having neither blood nor bones and remarkably resembling a hollow animatronic costume

His good arm is now practically useless except maybe as a bludgeon perhaps, as he doesn’t want to let the two remaining teens out of his sight but also doesn’t want them to be too freaked out about his current state to trust him anymore as he wraps up any remaining bandages around his shoulder as a temporary fix but at least those who remain now know for certain he’s on their side and does want them out alive and safe

Idk how this will end since the epilogues aren’t finished yet, maybe there’s only one kid left by the end or maybe it’s just michael I’m not sure but at least he will ultimately get revenge for his arm, at the end though I do know there’ll be the return of a certain rather protective animatronic, all new and improved and ready for his revamped Glamrock introduction, as well as some kind of lead-in to my Security Breach rewrite proper (somehow)