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Bucket- Ten Million Buttons

Apr 18th, 2023
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  1. JUROR, Mahuika Jewel, Tide Honey, Lim Lau, Chili Floss, and Keerthi Ahir were all standing still inside a locked room. The room was completely dark, as well as large enough to produce a galloping echo whenever someone spoke. Chili couldn't see anything.
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  3. Only Mr. Bucket was walking around, since no one else wanted to melt.
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  5. "Again, everyone, I do apologize," shouted Mr. Bucket, who was far away from the others. "This is not at all how I was hoping to begin the tour. And I don't think I need to repeat myself, but please do not touch the walls. I do not want any of you to be lit on fire right now."
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  7. "Or ever," added Keerthi.
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  9. "Sure," said Mr. Bucket.
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  11. "Wait," said Lim. "Before you said that we would melt if we touched the walls. Melting isn't the same as being lit on fire."
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  13. "Shut up," said Chili.
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  15. "Well," said Mr. Bucket. "It's both, actually. In this room, there are more than ten million buttons on the walls, and each of them does something different to the person who presses it. One button makes you explode, and one lights you on fire, and one covers you in very delicious vanilla acid that makes your skin dissolve on contact, and one pushes a licorice spear into your throat, and so on."
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  18. "There is one button that doesn't incinerate or decimate or obliterate or destructicate us," said Mr. Bucket. "I am going around right now and placing my finger on each button to try and recognize it by feeling. The one I am touching now, for example, would mechanically replace all the bones in our bodies with rock candy."
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  21. "No, Mahuika. It's Keerthi's turn. She can ask her question, and then I will press the button that will either send us into the next room or painfully squish our bodies into malt balls."
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  23. - Chapter 9: The Contract
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