#scare actor

the red dot is the button i push to buzz that we can let more guests in. the grey dotted line is the path customers generally follow, though this is loose since we are not a walk-through jumpscare haunt. Allan is a corpse mannequin dressed up as a slumped over security guard -- he is in a tiny room featuring a counter with a bell for guests to ring and a metal grate window. the switcheroo doors are used to make the illusion that the elevator is real and switching floors when it is actually just a box that moves around on airbags. usually i am just in intake 1 (purple), but on nights where we have fewer actors , i am free to fuck around in intake 2 (yellow) which means i will do things like run in my big stompy military boots all the way from the back of intake 2 to where the customers are when they first come in so they can hear me Coming For Them. oh yeah there's also another corpse by the door but she's not that important to my bit, a lot of people don't even notice her.

there is an air blaster hidden by allan with a button i can subtly press, it makes a super loud noise that scares the fuck out of people and helps other haunt actors know how fast the groups are coming in. there is also a really suspicious door to the main hall that is right across from the entrance, it has a nice dark window in it (sometimes other actors would show up in it for real, which always added to my act). these two things play a part in a lot of my recurring bits!

my original bit for wilma (my character) was that customers would come in and i would be hiding by the switcheroo doors, making horrible creature noises. once they were close enough i'd pop out where they were, and start introducing myself - hiii, how are you? can you do me a favor?

i would play very friendly, very sweet, but then tell them about how i had a friend who talks to me all the time, but the doctors say that "she's not real." (i'd do a very serious stern doctor voice for that bit). then i'd start devolving into angry, twitchy anxiousness and talk about how cruel they'd been to me since then, with their needles and "therapies" and pills and such.

and then i would start cradling their faces, talk about their sane, normal, clear, human sight, trace around their eye socket with my finger tip. and i'd ask them if they could look, if they could see and prove she's real for me. and then i'd point to the sketchy dark window on the main hallway door, and often make one of them who was clearly avoiding it get up real close to look.

then i'd start giggling, "closer, closer!" and then starting to sound all nervous, "you see her right? she's real, she's real," then build into a scream, "she's real i swear!" and time the air blaster to match with my scream :) and a lot of folks would freak, and in that quick moment of fear i could move up closer to them and pin one of them in place - "did you see her?"

if they said yes i'd be delighted, oh good, good, you can tell the doctor for me! "tell the doctor wilma's perfectly normal and sane and on her best behavior and she hasn't bitten anyone in like, at least a few hours." and if they said no i'd get real pissed and start talking about how its fine, by the time they're out of this place they'll be seeing all sorts of things. and i'd shuffle them over to the elevator, pick a favorite person to talk to and growl at and say really uncomfortable shit to, get them to all fit inside, tell them goodbye and make the favorite person promise to come back for me (this is where my friend was hiding, the elevator fake crashes and she goes from pretending to be a mannequin to very real and in their face !), then switch the doors.

eventually i wanted to do a different bit, so i started playing with the bells. same intro, same creature sounds, same hi how are you! but then i'd bring everyone in and count them against the wall. and i'd often repeat on one specific person. say there's a group of five, i'd count one, two, three, stop on that person, change my voice and go a little trance-like, count four and five, then count six and seven on the last 2 people.

then i'd make them all say "hi allan!!" and wave to the corpse and say hi. and i would tell them that allan was our security guy, and he was going to keep them "safe from all the biters! not naming any names, ha..." (side eye with blood covering my mouth. lol.) "but we have to wake him up first! look at 'em, snoozin on the job... anyway! to wake him up you need to each, one at a time, ring that bell." and i would point at them, one, two, three.... and they'd go and ring it, with great hesitation because they knew it'd make something happen. on the person i'd repeat on, i'd grab their wrist and make them ring it however many times i counted on them. then i'd pick a random time to make the air blaster go off, right as someone else was ringing the bell.

"alright, allan, that's your cue!" and id stare at him for a second. giggle. "hey, you. come look at allan for me." and i'd pull over a random customer. make them lean in real close next to the metal grate. "do you think he's gonna wake up?"

they'd usually say no, he looks dead and i'd slam my hand into the metal grate window with a loud WHAM and say, "i don't think so either! and since allan is supposed to protect folks like you from folks like me..." giggle. growl. growl. growl. giggle. hunch over, start tapping my foot against the floor, "you probably wanna get moving before i get too hungry." and then i'd chase them into the elevator . usually tell them if they don't all fit i'll make em fit and lick the blood that spills from the doors up later.

when the night got too busy and we had to move faster, i'd leave the main hall door open a little bit and dart fast past the groups as they came in, slam it shut with the full force of my body, yell "DON'T GO IN THERE! that door is supposed to stay shut, we've got more... aggressive folks in there, you need our security guard to go with you." and do a shortened version of the previous thing where it ends with me going, "well, if he's not gonna wake up, you need to take the elevator. it's been acting up a little bit, but it's better than the stairs right now..."

there's been a couple versions of that sort of thing. on non-halloween holiday events though, there's usually nobody in the elevator (or at least, its not on, no airbags and lights) so its just an empty dark box. for christmas i called it the naughty box, and my girlfriend was working nearby so she'd yell "i love the naughty box" through the wall in the most rancid creepy voice and it was awesome lol. during these holiday events i'm usually a lot less serious and a lot more silly, leaning into the playful side of things, but i'll do stuff like ask people if they brought me gifts, lock people i "don't like" in the naughty box, and give them utterly dogshit instructions on how to navigate the building. my same old tired joke is saying "you take a couple of lefts, a couple of rights - not in that particular oorrrdeerrr :))) - then go down the stairs when you get to em. that clear?" in a really cheeky voice. theres a lot of silly shit i do on holidays so i dont think i can list it all

i do, no matter the season, ask people for their jewelry/teeth/fingers/hair for the sake of wearing it or using it (often i am wearing my teeth earrings so it really works) and do shit like promise to pick the good parts off their corpses. this is generic but its wilma's hobby. i also like to talk to people about how i need something soft to chew on, and then crunch a cough drop right in their ear. this gets a perfect reaction every time.

uhhhh yeah i think thats all i can think of right now ! there's more stuff i do but this is the main set of examples teehee. OH WAIT if you wanna know what i did during blackout send me another ask because that was really fun

ALSO this is just the script, basically, not wilma's backstory and motivations and why she says the things she does!! but those ideas are a thing !!! i just am still working on writing them so i can share :)))