Sam's Office: Beware of Geeks Bringing Gifts

[Will Stanton]

"It's kinda hard to explain, per se..."

[Sara Stanton]

"Then show me?"

[Will Stanton]

"Are you sure?"

[Sara Stanton]

"Well I'm curious now."

[Will Stanton]

"Alright, it was nice talking to you!"

He pushed a large button.

And a trapdoor opened right underneath Sara, sending her down a long metal shaft.

[Sara Stanton]

"So?" she asks, hanging in mid-air for a moment till her peripheral vision catches something being off and she looks down. "Oh you have got to be kidding me..." she get out before plummeting down with a drawn-out scream.

[Will Stanton]

Was there any way to advance through Will's head WITHOUT long plummets? I mean, y'know, PROBABLY, but Sara seems to have missed all of those. Bad luck.

Landing on the conveyor belt that hard would probably have been more painful in the real world than in the fake one.

[Sara Stanton]

"Ooph! I need to ask Professor McManus how to get around the regular way at some point..." she says, rubbing her head.

[Will Stanton]

With a shudder, the conveyor belt started to move -- and, oddly, Sara would find she couldn't...quite...seem to get off of it.

[Sara Stanton]

"Oh come on!" she objects when she finds her butt sticking to the conveyor, struggling for a moment before letting out a sigh and looking around.

[Will Stanton]

The conveyor belt moved through a wide, open space filled with machinery -- and little else. The near omnipresent chatter had died down -- the room seemed to be nearly abandoned.

She was approaching a large booth of some kind, as a metal hand stretched down from the ceiling, grabbing her head, attempting to pull her into a standing position.

[Sara Stanton]

Which she doesn't fight. Though once she's standing she tries to hop off of the conveyor belt.

[Will Stanton]

The grip held her in place -- this may not quite follow the laws of physics, but then, what did, around here?

The conveyor belt shuddered to a stop inside a small booth, lined with nozzles -- nozzles that started firing gallon after gallon of hot caramel at her!

[Sara Stanton]

Whatever curse she tries to get out is quickly muffled by the fact that opening it results in being filled with caramel so she has to resort to simply flailing around in a vain attempt to free get away or at least keep the sugary mess off of herself.

[Will Stanton]

Next came an outer layer of chocolate -- though, I suppose, for Sara, it would all be very much one of a oneness. Her flailing attempts did not seem to be particularly productive, and the sheer weight of the candy was making it a bit harder to move.

[Sara Stanton]

She might not be good at this but she sure is stubborn, so on that alone she tries to muscle herself forward despite the chocolate coating. Maybe if she can get through this a little faster she can avoid some of the procedure.

[Will Stanton]

And that's when two giant iron...molds, for lack of a better word...clamped around her, and started heating up. Fast.

[Sara Stanton]

Sara instinctively tries to shift to stone. Whether that actually works in here though...

[Will Stanton]

A-nope. You have no power here.

On the other hand, unlike being clamped in two very hot irons in real life, she wasn't getting scalded to death, so, hey, glass half full, right?

The molds served to harden the candy coating, forming it into a familiar shape...