The Buzzing Buddies Tragedy
Thirty years ago, the super successful theme park known as Lily Loopsy's Garden, ran by the eternally tech savvy Turner Craftworks, fell upon its hardest time of all. It was the fourth of July, the enormous park packed from head to toe, kids playing in the splash attraction known as Billy Loopsy's Play Pond, kids climbing across the Climbing Branches, and of course, enjoying time with the four main animatronic characters - the three adopted Loopsy siblings, Lily Loopsy the Skunk, Billy Loopsy the Frog, and Eddie Loopsy the Possum, as well as the spooky Molly the Witch Crow.
Everything was perfect, until an especially unlucky thirteen boarded the towering Buzzing Buddies rollercoaster, across from the Play Pond and far down past the game stands. Before what happened next, it was widely considered the crown jewel of the park, a must-ride for any visiting. It was state-of-the-art, built for children to be able to ride it without aid of a parent, as it was supposed to be entirely automated - though of course, a human was meant to be stationed at all times in case of system failure or other such issues.
Unfortunately for all, though, there was such failure, as twelve children and one adult rid the coaster, and for some reason never fully disclosed to the public - though rumors swirled of some kind of addled binge - the man stationed at the coaster failed to solve or even address the issue, causing the coaster to violently crash. Even more tragically, two of the passengers upon the coaster were supposedly the man's own wife and child.
Now, so many years later, the park remains upon, though under much protest and controversy. It seemed the only true reason the park remained open was the near endless wealth of the company's founder and leader, Marigold Turner, an absurdly rich woman from Louisiana who was born into said wealth, and made the company out of a creativity-fueled whim.
Now, in the aftermath of yet another fourth of July come and gone, the worn down, yet still very high-tech park stood tall, and beyond sparse attendance, empty. Innovative rides, beloved characters, advanced holographic technology, and for what? Nothing now, it seemed.
But even at low attendance, open it remained, and a recent Help Wanted ad had been put out, not just in the paper but upon lampposts as well, perhaps conveying even more intense desperation than usual. Security guards, food-staff, mechanics and engineers, all dearly needed.
High turn-over for a business all but failing was to be expected, one presumed, but even so, the amount of talent they relentlessly bled in all areas despite the high paycheck left one to wonder - bad history aside, what could possibly be so wrong?
