Since the voting ended with a tie on monday, between Luke and Rudolph, I decided to go with personal inspiration and have Rudolph be the character of focus for the first chapters. It's a little late, but here it is, Part 2!


Rudolph the big bear came around slowly, his muzzle pressed against something hard and rough. He groaned, pushing himself up to his knees from his prostrate position on his belly, the ursine jock blinking bleary eyes. He felt dizzy and disoriented. As his eyes adjusted he found himself staring down what appeared to be a shop lined avenue, but it was a street unlike anything he had ever seen before, and he was kneeling in the middle of it. He stared around, crowds of...things...passing him as though he wasn't there. The...things...his brain couldn't figure out what to call them at first, were alien to him for the most part. Some were big, some were small, but they were all abnormal and strange. Wings and horns adorned many of them, some of them covered with fur, others with scales, some with just skin. Muzzles, snouts, pig noses, jutting tusks, multiple sets of eyes, every single one of them looked entirely different from the last, and none of them seemed to notice the big bear sitting there in the middle of the street.

Rudolph tried to convince himself that he was dreaming, that there was no way he could really be sitting there staring at....demons....passing him on all sides. Somehow, however, the bear knew that he was fully awake, that something had happened to him that caused him to be taken to...some other place. He stood up, slowly, the demons still sidling past him without so much as a glance. The bear looked around, seeing shops, with bright neon signs flashing back at him. He knew they were shops, even though the characters on the signs were not english. It occurred to him that he could read the strange characters, which unnerved Rudolph immensely. How could he know a language that looked like runic gobbledygook? The proof was there, however, as he stared at a purple and yellow neon sign that flashed "Zhevez Barbershop" back at him. Even more unsettling, however, was the fact that the sky above was black and starless, the only light coming from the odd neon signs and torches that lined the street.

Rudolph let his eyes wander the shops, as the demons seemed to be ignoring him for now. Another sign read "Pixdeg Nightshade's Botanical Horrors" and yet another blinked "Mystec's House of Gambling". The bear was nervous, but in a way, intrigued. The demons couldn't see him, he was willing to wager, since he wasn't from their world. So why shouldn't he explore a little...especially since he had to find a way home!

Where should Rudolph Explore?

A: The Barbershop
B: The Flower Shop
C: The Casino

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