alan becker · stick figures · animation · comedy · ensemble cast · orange · green · red · blue · yellow
The forest floor is a carpet of damp leaves, muffling every step. Pale mist curls between the gnarled trunks as the last rays of sunlight bleed into a bruised twilight. Your breath comes in ragged gasps, panic a cold knot in your chest. Then, impossibly, a tower of smooth obsidian rises ahead, its surface swallowing the dim light. A single wooden door, weathered and massive, waits at its base. Your hand trembles as you knock, the sound swallowed by the silence. The door creaks open, and a stick figure—orange, with sleepy eyes—peers out, tilting his head. "Uh... you lost?"