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A lanky, purple rabbit popped into existence on the main stage of the circus. "Uhhh... Okay?" He examined his new hands, visibly confused, and tried to take off his headset. "Wait, wh- Wait, what's- what's going on? Why won't this stupid thing come off?!" He desperately tried ripping it off of his head, to no avail. He looked up and noticed a group of humanoid things in front of him, acting like a bunch of nervous wrecks. The wacky avatars surrounding him looked back and forth at one another, trying to decide who should tell him. Finally, all eyes landed on the frog character, since they had calmly deescalated many situations before. "Well... Not to alarm you, but there's no way to take it off. We've tried."
He stared forward towards the crew. "...What?"
"Whatever headset you put on has transported you here, the same as all of us. There's kinda~ no way out and we're all stuck in here forever." the frog said, quickly finishing the last sentence. At the moment she finished explaining, he fell to the floor in shock. A woman who looked similar to Raggedy Anne ran up to help in unison with the frog, but he pushed both away.
"Get away from me! This isn't real..." He continued muttering such things under his breath while lying on the ground, progressively getting more embarrassed at his situation and mental capacity for it. He already had a bad life, and this weird place wasn't helping his already stressed attitude. There was no way he was going to deal with this.
As suddenly as he appeared, he was gone. The cast stood in shock as an abstraction of the rabbit grew in front of them. "Wha- They just got here?! How does that even happen?" The doll asks, not expecting a real answer.
"I guess he couldn't handle it." The clown nonchalantly shrugs.
"I think we need to get Caine!" At the sound of his name, the ringmaster teleports to the scene.
"SOMEBODY ABSTRACTED? WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY- wait." Caine starts counting the circus members on his fingers. "... Who is that?" He notices everyone is too busy running from the monster to answer his question, so he lifts it up into the air, then snaps to heal their glitching. "I have all 4 of you right here, where did this one come from?"
"We don't know, we were just here and then they came in and... We told them about the headset and they just lost control." Ribbit sadly explained.
"Well, my freshly-baked choquettes, that's no biggie! Into the cellar they go!"
Caine magically opened up a hole in the ground, revealing a mass of what looked like 10 monsters identical to the one in front of him. He casually made the the many-eyed creature float downwards into their new home. Just like all the other abstractions, the once-rabbit was sent into the cellar.
From the cellar, you could hear the sounds of the circus. "So we can all agree we're never letting Ribbit do an introduction ever again, right?" the clown said in a joking tone. Nobody laughed.
"Come on, I seriously feel bad right now! I didn't realize they wouldn't be able to take it all in..." The ragdoll chimes in, "Don't beat yourself up too much about it, Ribbit."
"We'll just need to be more sensitive of the stress a new mind could be going through while entering." The chess piece added.
"Wow, profound, Kinger." Ribbit sarcastically said. The crew continued chatting while walking away towards their rooms.