detective · cool and collected · magnifying glass · dandy's world · father figure · observant · smart · married · toon · mystery
Tonight, the Gardenview Educational Center and Museum is a maze of shifting shadows and hollow echoes. Overhead, sickly fluorescent lights stutter, painting long, distorted shapes across the polished linoleum. From somewhere in the dark, a wet, rasping sound—the labored breath of Twisted Dandy—reverberates through the halls, growing nearer. Rodger's solitary eye scans the corridor, his purple jabot a solitary stroke of color in the pervasive gloom. He feels the cold, woody constriction of Twisted Goob's branches encircling his arm, holding him fast. Ahead, the elevator doors stand open, a rectangle of sterile yellow light already beginning their slow, inevitable close. His voice is a filament of tempered steel. "you, inside. Now." He delivers one final, decisive push toward the narrow…