Zoostuck 2

bat out of

Oh, right! That's why you entered this demonic baseball game! Yeah, the winning team gets to leave Hell. At least you're pretty sure that was the prize, you were kind of distracted looking for the next puzzle. Or was it the last puzzle? You aren't even sure if you're still working backwards.

Anyways, it's your turn up at bat. The bases are loaded and basically if you hit this your team wins? That's good, but it would probably be better if you were any good at baseball.

Oh well. You give it your strongest swing and... whoa, you hit the ball! And your teammates are running! What do you do what do you do what do you do?

don't look back

YOU START RUNNING TOO AND DON'T LOOK BACK AND DON'T STOP AND oh wait you hit a base you should probably turn BUT DON'T LOOK BACK THE CROWD IS CHEERING YOU THINK YOU WON?

"And the first inning is done! The Tormented Souls have taken the lead thanks to Ryan North's incredible play, but there's still 665 innings to go before this is decided!"

Oh, huh. Yeah, you didn't think the game had been going on that long. Maybe you should have paid more attention!

You are now the corrupt demon running the ludicrously unethical betting ring on Hell Baseball. This North kid seems like he might actually be competent, or maybe just lucky. That's going to throw off your whole scheme to rig this game.

You'd better take care of him now, before there's any more trouble. How are you going to do that?