Insane Asylum.

[Ripred the Gnawer]

*You feel like you need to ignore HIAG, Rip.  The life-sized Otterbadger plushie is huggable, flooffy, and it wants to be your friend.*

That is true

[Kade Rivok]

*You feel drawn towards it.  Somehow, you get the feeling that embracing the floof will make all your cares and worries melt away.*

[Ripred the Gnawer]

*hugs the floof, oblivious of the danger* I'm an oblivious idiot, haha

[Kade Rivok]

*A sense of calm overtakes you.  A deep peace that you've never before experienced washes against the shores of your mind, each wave reaching a portion further than the last.  Any worries that had tied you down now release their hold and drift away as you sink further and further into the comforting waves of floof.  The outside world recedes as your consciousness fades and, once more, all is still.

The life-sized Otterbadger plushie sits alone in the asylum, a strange warmth emanating from it despite the cool atmosphere.  Though it is clearly a simple plushie doll, a flicker of life passes through its dark eyes.  Another wayward soul has joined the family.*

[Flib Bigboat]

Family, as in Big Troll Ant'ony Galleto's suspected Mafia gang?

[Kade Rivok]

*Though the live-sized Otterbadger plushie doesn't move, you feel as if its gaze has fallen upon you.*

[Flib Bigboat]

Suspicions confirmed

[Kade Rivok]

*In your heart, you feel a beckoning.  Something about the plushie is guiding you towards it.  Is it the luscious floof and the gentle warmth surrounding it?  Is it the sense of protection that it gives you?  You aren't quite sure.*

[Flib Bigboat]

First I want to find out more about the family before I join them.
What will happen to me, if I join them?
What will happen to my soul?
Will I survive?
Do they bake chocolate chip cookies for dessert?
How many books do they have?
Is their kitchen always squeaky clean, and never smells of cooking food?
Do they encourage thunderstorms?
Is there a garden, and/or many potted plants?
Are there any paperclips lying about?
What about pencils?
Do they have pencils?
Or will I have to bring my own?

And most importantly:
Are they Death Eaters, or Order of the Phoenix?
Or are they (hopefully not) pro-Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad?

[Kade Rivok]

*Even as you're asking these questions, the calming aura that surrounds the plushie tells you these cares, these worries, that you're voicing are a weight that you don't need to struggle with anymore, and somewhere inside you sense that you agree with that sentiment. You could swear that the life-sized Otterbadger plushie was smiling gently down at you, though of course that wouldn't make sense.*

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Ya know, this topic may be a singular topic titled insane asylum, but I have the feeling that the cellars as a whole is the real insane asylum. I mean, we all have discovered that once you enter you can't leave, and you further dissent into mental disarray.

*'andz Ally a coconut named Robert, vho 'iz vearin' a green raincoat viz zprinklez*

*Beginz pourin' very zmelly perfume ontae ze floof, makin' it zmell extremely repuluzive, und zereby lezzen ze chaunce o' anozer victim bein' taken*

[Kade Rivok]

*The perfume, and the smell, seem to disappear entirely as they come into contact with the floof.  You get the feeling that the life-sized Otterbadger plushie likes you being this close.  In fact, you feel as if it beckons you even closer, offering you infinite serenity.*

[Flib Bigboat]

Good idea, HiAG.

*Even as you're asking these questions, the calming aura that surrounds the plushie tells you these cares, these worries, that you're voicing are a weight that you don't need to struggle with anymore, and somewhere inside you sense that you agree with that sentiment. You could swear that the life-sized Otterbadger plushie was smiling gently down at you, though of course that wouldn't make sense.*

So the smiles are answering in the affirmative to every question I had?
Something positive, I suppose. (good)
Ditto. (good)
Yes. (good)
Yes. (good)
Lots. (good)
Yes. (bad)
Yes. (good)
Yes. (good)
Yes. (good)
What about them? (bad)
Yes. (good)
Yes. (bad)
Yes (bad), yes (good).
Yes. (VERY bad)

I don't support Umbridge...
I'm not joining.

[Kade Rivok]

*Even as you try and talk yourself out of it, your feet seem to carry you forward until your standing right before the life-sized Otterbadger plushie.  Its arms held wide, as if in an invitation.  You know that if you just embrace the plushie floof, everything will be alright.*

[Flib Bigboat]

*Wait, why will everything be alright? And what about my lantern'sflower tea? I was just making some*