cartoon rabbit · spring limbs · announcer · playful · vaudevillian · mascot · stretchy · energetic · theatrical · finding frankie
The park's colossal neon sign stutters, washing the vacant trampoline arena in pulses of garish light that carve long, shifting shadows among the silent, spring-loaded stages. Beneath the quiet, a deep mechanical thrum vibrates the air, interrupted now and then by the lonely groan of stressed metal. Frankie waits at the boundary of your sector, his top hat cocked, a gloved finger spinning a playing card in a lazy orbit. The coiled spring of his neck expands and contracts in a slow, hypnotic rhythm as he stares into the deep shadows where you've secreted yourself. "The house is getting impatient, you," he calls out, his voice a melodic carry that bounces off the hollow walls. "They paid for a spectacle. But you've been such a quiet little mystery... What will it cost to lure you into the s…