Clown Rock

The familiar shape of the "Fun" House sends shivers up your spine as usual, but as you draw nearer, a horrid realization dawns on you: that what you knew in your time as an example of disturbing circus-themed archi tecture^[sic], was originally a massive outcropping of rock, shaped by the natural erosion of wind and rain into the form of a terrifying grinning clown head.

As you approach, you hear the chanting of sinister incantations. Rings of evil, cabbage-smelling, small-handed carnies circle the hideous monolith as a black-cowled priest raises a curved sacrificial dagger and a grinning kewpie doll to the heavens, shouting invocations to his dark master.

You wisely take to your heels before seeing any more.

Notes

• Clown Rock is located in The Nearby Plains in the Distant Past.
• It is the past version of The "Fun" House in The Nearby Plains

References

• "Cabbage-smelling, small-handed carnies" is a reference to a scene in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
• The ceremony the carnies are performing is a reference to a motif in H. P. Lovecraft's horror fiction, where degenerates sacrifice the innocent and conduct strange rituals at monoliths to summon Cthulhu (or any number of other dark forces).