entranceway | 3RD COOL ENTRY

[The video opens to...a singular skull eye and and nothing else. Gah!!]

OKAY, GOOD! IT'S ON!!

[The skull eye pulls back to reveal...oh, it's Papyrus! One thing that one might notice differently is that he's wearing a new, slick battle body! Huh. He beams at the camera.]

PEOPLE OF WONDERLAND!! THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME!!! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, HAVE FINALLY FINISHED MY GIGANTIC PUZZLE!! YOU SEE, WHERE I COME FROM, PUZZLES ARE A WAY OF LIFE!! TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B, YOU MUST SOLVE A SERIES OF PUZZLES!! ORIGINALLY, I WANTED TO BUILD THIS PARTICULAR PUZZLE SO IT WRAPPED AROUND THE MANSION, BUT SOME OF THE MECHANICS WOULDN'T WORK PROPERLY THAT WAY, SO I MOVED IT TO THE HILLS. BEHOLD!!!

[The camera then swerves to reveal...!

Woah. That's one hell of a puzzle. It looks more like an obstacle course. As the camera pans from left to right, the puzzle starts with a switch puzzle - contraptions that act like switches are placed precariously around the section. The middle of the puzzle consists of a pretty sizable sheet of ice, with patches of snow marked carefully, leading anyone who steps on them into a routined path, which leads into the grand finale: a maze filled with deadly spikes!! ...except the deadly spikes are just nails and tacks, because apparently the magical closet doesn't produce deadly spikes. But!! Throughout the maze's paths, several bones start jutting in and out of the ground, providing a bit more of a challenge.]

IT TOOK A LONG TIME TO MAKE THE SWITCHES BY SCRATCH, AND TO CALIBRATE THE ICE PUZZLE, AND TO MAKE A PROPER MAZE WITHOUT THE PROPER SPIKES, BUT IT'S FINALLY DONE AND WAITING FOR YOU TO COMPLETE IT!!! COME TO THE HILLS AND TRY OUT THE PUZZLE FOR YOURSELF.

...OH, AND ALSO!! I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT MAKING SOMEONE TRY THIS KIND OF PUZZLE WOULD BE 'TOO DANGEROUS' AND 'MIGHT SERIOUSLY HURT SOMEBODY', EVEN THOUGH I'LL BE RIGHT HERE MAKING SURE THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY GETS INJURED, BUT I DID LEAVE OUT AN ALTERNATIVE FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE TOO INTIMIDATED BY THIS PUZZLE. SEE?

[And once again, the camera swoops to the side. Nearby the gigantic puzzle, there's a table with neatly stacked books of jumbles, crosswords, sudoku and horoscopes.]

SO THERE!!! PUZZLES FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE TOO SCARED OF MY AWESOME PUZZLE ARE HERE TOO!! COME BY WHENEVER!! I'LL BE HERE BY THE PUZZLE, MONITORING YOUR PROGRESS!!!

[And, true to his word, if you decide to go to the hills, there Papyrus will be waiting, along with his gigantic puzzle and the not so gigantic table filled with books. Do you dare take on the challenge?]

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YES!!! PASSION IS ONE OF THE BEST TRAITS ONE CAN HAVE!!

[He gives Mae a thumbs up!!]

I'M GLAD YOU HAD FUN, THAT'S NOT WHAT I HEAR OFTEN!!! COME BACK ANYTIME, THE PUZZLE WILL ALWAYS BE WAITING FOR YOU!!

I'm a hundred billion percent on board with the idea of more obstacle course puzzle things like this. I dunno about the thumbtacks, though--they kinda just got stuck in my shoes?

[She lifts her feet to examine the thumbtacks embedded in the rubber.]

The idea was deadly spikes right? I think I heard you mention deadly spikes. Ummm, what if instead of deadly spikes or thumbtacks you could do like--dude, like foam spikes? Like, the same material as those pool noodles? I bet you a billion dollars you could find them in spike form. And then you could set them up and like, it won't kill anyone but it'll be all aesthetic.

[Papyrus peers down at the tacks.]

YEAH, A FRIEND OF MINE HAD SOME...THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE TINY DEADLY SPIKES. YOUR FEET DIDN'T GET PRICKED, DID THEY??

[Oh. Ohhhhhhh, that's a good idea. He nods lightly, then more vigorously!]

FOAM DEADLY SPIKES, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA! AND!! IT'LL APPEASE MY FRIEND TOO, WHO THOUGHT THIS PUZZLE WAS TOO 'DANGEROUS'.

[He puts air quotes around that last bit.]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT AESTHETIC IS, BUT I LIKE THE SOUND OF IT! AESTHETIC. IT SOUNDS COOL. I SHOULD USE SOME MORE AESTHETIC IN MY LIFE!!!

Nah, they're just stuck in my shoes.

[She hears those airquotes and can't help but laugh. Oh man, she really likes Papyrus's style.]

Dude, I barely know what aesthetic is either. I just know it when I see it. It's one of those things.

AH, GOOD, OKAY. SHOES ARE REPLACEABLE, BUT FEET MOST CERTAINLY ARE NOT!!!

[That's your Papyrus Wisdom Fact of the Day for you, Mae.]

HMMM, SO AESTHETIC IS...A MYSTERY. AND YOU'LL KNOW IT WHEN YOU SEE IT. HMMM...THIS SOUNDS LIKE A PUZZLE WITHIN ITSELF!! DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER EXAMPLES OF WHAT AESTHETIC CAN BE???

I bet you could get feet from the closets.

[Mae, no.]

Uh well like with the Queens? The Queen of Hearts has hearts as an aesthetic. And the Red Queen has red as an aesthetic, I guess. And Wonderland's got a kind of chess aesthetic, cause all those squares on the hills? And all the chess pieces and stuff?

SO, AESTHETIC IS LIKE A THEME THEN. RIGHT, RIGHT, I THINK I GET IT!!! SO, IN THAT CASE, MY AESTHETIC WOULD BE......PUZZLES!!!!! BECAUSE PUZZLES ARE GREAT!!! OH, AND SPAGHETTI, TOO. SPAGHETTI AND PUZZLES.

[Maybe he should combine the two together and make spaghetti puzzles.]

WHAT ABOUT YOU, MAE?? WHAT WOULD YOUR AESTHETIC BE???

Yeah! Yeah, like a theme.

[Oh man, no one has ever asked her this before.]

My aesthetic, my aesthetic...

[She rubs her chin.]

Pizza floating through space with flashing bisexual flag colors while a crunchy bass line plays in the background.

[He nods in approval.]

YES, YES!! THAT'S A GOOD AESTHETIC!! I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A BASS LINE BEING 'CRUNCHY' THOUGH. IT'S LIKE YOU CAN EAT IT!!! MAYBE I SHOULD START CALLING THINGS CRUNCHY TOO.

[This puzzle is crunchy! His friends are crunchy! The spaghetti he makes is crunchy!!

...well that last one is partially true.]

Well, you know how sound is like, weird, and it can make you feel things and stuff? And like, especially with a bass line, you can get like, this whole crunchy vibe from it, like...

[She mimes playing bass.]

Da-na-na-doo-do-na, like all jazzy and stuff.

[Papyrus just slowly nods as Mae explains.]

HM, HM...YES!!! YES I GET IT!!!

[He doesn't get it. But he doesn't want to make Mae feel all weird just because he doesn't understand!]

SO, A JAZZY BASS LINE MAKES IT CRUNCHY...INTERESTING, VERY INTERESTING!!! MUSIC IS WEIRD LIKE THAT, HUH???

[He seems to get it, so she'll take it!]

Music is totally a hundred percent weird, yeah.

[She once listened to vaporwave.]

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