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“Hello! I'm Shubble! And I'm going to prove that Carnival Attraction is haunted! How am I going to do that you might ask? Well, I just got a job here!” Shelby gave a spin in her chair. She shouldn't have been doing her intro on the first day of being on the job, not really, but she couldn't help herself.
She'd finally landed her dream job, a night guard at an already shut down pizzeria. Shelby had always loved creepy things, well, scratch that, she'd always loved the supernatural, not much else in the category. But that was besides the point! She was finally able to prove that she was right!
Shelby turned her camera off, no sense in wasting battery when it was just the beginning of the night. Now it was time for the waiting game. She didn't know what she was expecting her first night on the job, maybe the old animatronics would be moving on their own and trying to murder her until her shift was over? Yeah, the night was pretty uneventful so far.
Checking her watch, it was already 2am, meaning she'd been on the job a total of 2 hours now! Shelby had to admit, she was a bit disappointed. But an investigator never backs down from a challenge! Not that she was one, she just liked to call herself it. It made her sound more professional.
Shelby remembered when the pizzeria was open. She'd come here for her 7th birthday after all! She'd had a blast with her dad and the random kids that were also there that day. It was only a year before the Count had been retired too! She was glad she'd get to see the animatronic again, she'd thought it was so neat when it was on stage, singing all those old songs that she would get stuck in her head now and realize that she didn't know the name.
Those were the days. Now she was just a broke college dropout trying to get a job that paid decently, and trying to start her channel off well via her job. It really was a line of dominoes she'd set up. If she lost this job, she wouldn't be able to pay rent, and her channel wouldn't have content. So she had to be the best at her job!
4 hours in now, and Shelby was bored. Nothing interesting happened on the cams, and she was fairly certain that any noise made was a mouse or her mind trying to entertain her. The Captain and the Clown hadn't moved an inch, and the Count and the Beast weren't in a room that had a camera, so Shelby was at a loss.
The previous night guard was only here for a few days before disappearing mysteriously, and Shelby didn't know what to do with that. Did he die here? Or did he simply find a better job in a better place? Whatever, if he'd died here, surely new employees would be warned.. right?
Shelby came into this job expecting the animatronics to be trying to kill her or something, thinking about actually dying here was.. kinda scary.
She didn't want to die, far from it. But it just so happens that she had interests in things that could potentially kill her. But she couldn't change her mind now! She was already in too deep.
Well she could change her mind, but she didn't want to admit that she had chickened out. She also didn't know how she would pay the bills, she was already late on this month's rent as it was. She was keeping this job.
5am. Shelby was almost done with her first shift. Nothing interesting happened, but she got her first payment after her shift was over, so that was something she had going. She decided that she should spend her time productively, making sure she had everything that she'd brought with her, and tidying up her desk.
Before she knew it, her shift was over.