Is Fake Pep An Eldritich Abomination Or A Goopy Goober?

Is Fake Pep an eldritich abomination or a goopy goober?

Probably both.

[UNINVITED GUEST – Pizza Tower Comic – Part 2]

[Time passes, signified by the wall clock ticking forward and the sun setting. A drink cup and a half-eaten pizza in a box are shown in the montage, indicating activity throughout the working hours. Finally, late in the evening, Peppino flips the sign in the door from OPEN to CLOSED.]

[Peppino sweeps off tables and collects trash with a tired, unenthusiastic expression. He ties the bag’s knot and hefts it over his shoulder as he shoves the back door of his restaurant open, walking out into the dimly lit darkness.]

[Behind his restaurant, Peppino spots the large metal trash can that serves as its dumpster. The sole light source is a wall-mounted lamp hanging over it. Peppino walks towards the trash can and into the illuminated area to dump off his trash, as he presumably has done many times previously. In almost complete sync another figure emerges from the shadows to do the exact same thing. Both of them stop very suddenly.]

[Fake Peppino towers in front of Peppino, his hand gripped around a garbage bag that is oozing a strange substance. He stares at Peppino with a somewhat shocked and uncomfortable expression, seemingly mirroring Peppino’s significantly more shocked and uncomfortable expression. An uneasy pause lingers between them.]

[Still in shock and having never expected to see Fake Peppino again, Peppino breaks the silence, stammering and sweating.]

PEPPINO: O-ohh, it’s, uh--

[Peppino awkwardly points at Fake Peppino with a forced smile as he struggles to figure out what to call his doppelganger.]

PEPPINO: … you…!

[He immediately drops his smile and nervously averts his gaze at the failed greeting, sweating even more. He looks back at Fake Peppino to attempt another question, trailing off as he does so.]

PEPPINO: Y-you, ah… didn’t… leave with the others…?

[Fake Peppino doesn’t respond. Without breaking eye contact, he very slowly leans over, removes the lid of the trash can, and then forcibly stuffs his bag full of twitching limbs into it. The bag makes an unnerving squish as he does so.]

[Fake Peppino backs away a few steps, still staring at Peppino with an unblinking expression, before he turns to crawl up the wall of the pizzeria. As Peppino remains frozen with shock and follows the movement with wide eyes, Fake Peppino climbs onto the roof and disappears into the darkness.]

[Peppino stares blankly at where Fake Peppino disappeared for a moment, utterly still with fear, and then his gaze shifts to the bag filling the trash can as he notices movement. The hand sticking out of it is twitching and writhing uselessly, and a loose eyeball oozes out of the other side of the bag.]

[The view cuts back to the inside of the pizzeria, most of the lights already turned off except for the light by the back door.]

[Peppino re-enters the pizzeria, no longer holding his own trash bag. He looks disturbed and fearful as he stares blankly ahead, trying to process what just happened. With a trembling hand he forcefully locks the back door, finishing closing up his restaurant for the night. He flicks off the remaining lights as he climbs upstairs to the second floor, nervously glancing behind him as he does so.]

[Cut to a few hours later. It is now the middle of the night. The moon hangs in the night sky, and Peppino, dressed in simple pajamas, is fast asleep in bed. The room is dark and only illuminated with faint moonlight.]

[A sudden loud and disturbing thump from the first floor, followed by strange dragging and squelching sounds, harshly jolts Peppino awake.]

[Quick to respond to a potential intruder, Peppino puts on his slippers and grabs a metal baseball bat from underneath his bed. Simultaneously nervous but determined, he quietly tiptoes out of his bedroom and through the darkness of his living room towards the stairwell, hearing more wet crunching and thumping sounds beneath him. Inching down the bottom of the stairs, he presses himself against the wall as he holds his bat at the ready, more noises coming from just around the corner.]

[He leans over to peer through the doorway into the kitchen, and is immediately taken off guard by what he sees.]

[Fake Peppino is standing in the unlit kitchen, completely focused on pulling a goopy, unstable copy of himself out of the tile floor with a wet shlurping sound. In the background, a couple more garbage bags full of arms and legs are piled together, and a few flattened clones are draped over the refrigerator and counter, indicating that Fake Peppino has been at work for some time.]

[Fake Peppino finishes pulling up the clone, yanking it upright to match his height as they stand face-to-face. It is identical in both appearance and blankly smiling expression, save for its slightly gooier complexion and its clothes being a shade darker. Fake Peppino forcefully grabs the newly created clone beneath the arms.]

[Fake Peppino’s jaws open impossibly wide and his eyes roll back. With alarming speed and force, his toothy maw deforms and enlarges as it slices its sharp incisors down into the clone, messily biting its head off with a sickening wet crunch. He tilts his head back and makes an indiscernible, deeply inhuman gurgling sound as he swallows down the gooey mass that used to be the clone’s head. Immediately after, he promptly lifts and slams the rest of the clone’s body flat against the kitchen countertop.]

[Fake Peppino grips a fistful of the clone’s body with one hand and firmly squeezes its wriggling upper arm with another. He begins tearing the arm off with a gruesome ripping sound, the squishy mass showing some resistance and displaying darker-colored tissue on the interior despite the lack of bones or blood.]

[A floorboard creaks accidentally under Peppino’s foot, interrupting the process. Fake Peppino stops cold.]

[Alerted, Fake Peppino snaps his head in the sound’s direction with a horrifyingly wide and unnerving smile, his pupils glowing faintly in the darkness. Peppino hides behind the wall, trembling silently with an utterly terrified expression.]

[The scene cuts to an exterior shot of the pizzeria. Time passes, and the sun rises over the horizon until it’s early next morning. Gustavo and Brick approach the front door of the pizzeria, with Brick holding a small sack.]

[Gustavo and Brick notice the OPEN sign hanging in the door’s window.]

GUSTAVO: Oh, he’s open early today.

[Gustavo turns the knob and pushes open the door. Both he and Brick enter Peppino’s Pizza with a cheery chime from the doorbell.]

GUSTAVO: Good morning, Peppino! Thought we’d stop by again! Brick and I found some fresh pizza ingredients while salvaging the tower ruins and were wondering if you…

[Gustavo trails off as he notices Peppino slumped over the front counter.]

GUSTAVO: … wanted, uh…

[Peppino has folded his arms beneath his head and is staring blankly into nothing with a deeply distressed expression, his whole body shivering faintly. Gustavo approaches him cautiously, a look of concern on his face.]

GUSTAVO: … Are you alright--

[Peppino suddenly speaks with a flat voice, his fearful expression unchanging.]

PEPPINO: Gustavo, do you ever feel like you’re going to be murdered in your sleep.

normal questions to ask your friends at 7 in the morning

(the horrors begin)

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~ Uninvited Guest ~

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The Noise... in a Bucket.

He is coming... very, very soon.

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sapphiresorraria12

1 year ago

I like how everyone agrees that Maurice is a biggest prick, lol.

pep had enough

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sapphiresorraria12

6 years ago

Oh my, it was four years ago.

Abandoned Agri Birds Farmageddon key art concept.

I really enjoyed making these.

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sapphiresorraria12

1 year ago

Just my thoughts about them (sorry if there's a grammar mistake there, since English is not my first language)

Also I put Fake Pep and Peddito here because I thought it would be funny if they're also parts of this family, lol.

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sapphiresorraria12

1 year ago

My first artwork of PT, but I colored it digitally, using a new gray scale color (?) technique that I just discovered several days ago.

Oh, and btw I managed to beat the game! It's not easy for me since I mostly got stuck on Vigilante boss fight and that WAR level (though I managed to get War Camo).

And I decided to P-ranked John Gutter three days after. Again, it's not easy for me since I kept messing up with my moves, lol. I might trying to get P rank on the fourth boss. Now it's about time for me to finish the game for a second time as Noise...

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sapphiresorraria12

1 year ago

Okay, so here's a thing. Apparently I kept seeing people do some mashup of MGR songs and Pizza Tower soundtracks, and it's kinda funny to me, since the two games are... drastically different.

... which it gave me an idea to draw Raiden eating a pizza on Peppino's place. The reason why I drew him in suit because I find it extremely difficult to draw his body armors, even if I did, it will take over 5 HOURS to sketch it all, lol.

BTW, I was sketching this when I was visiting my brother who was hospitalized due to dengue fever. He's doing well now.

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sapphiresorraria12

6 years ago

I wonder if Bejeweled looks like this if it released on 1980-1990...