Cheerful Theme Park!
Location Lore & Overview
[Cheerful Theme Park!] is a B-Rank ghost story first explored by a combined expedition of A Squad, D Squad, and the round-off team Y Squad. It was purposely arranged by Kwak Jaekwang so that only A Squad would survive (Chapter 18). It requires more than 10 people to enter and splits them into three color-coded teams. The method of entry involves interacting with a board game created by the Cheerful Research Institute.
It was famous within <Dark Exploration Records> for its peculiar and horrific nature, with pop-up stores and a cult following (Chapter 19). It has a civilian survival rate of 2%.
Kim Soleum gained the :Socius: tattoo from the Blue Dragon Mascot after his first visit, plus the Good Friend item later used to summon Braun from the [Tuesday Quiz Show] (Chapter 24), and the Blue Soda Churros, which let him temporarily be free of contamination while in Braun's Late-Night Talk Show (Chapter 123).
Profile
Dark Exploration Records Entry
An amusement park within a board game themed around various fantasy lands. If you use three major attractions after entering this ghost story, you can return home. This ghost story became more famous because of the supplemental booklet titled 'Cheerful Theme Park User Guide', written by people who played the game in a state of delirium.
Civilian Report
While playing a board game during a club retreat at Hanmaeumgadeuk Pension in Gangwon-do, all 12 university students went missing. The game is presumed to be a Cheerful Research Institute creation trademarked 'Cheerful Theme Park! ~Joyful Fantasyland Adventure~'. Survivors said the board game was 'already placed inside the pension'; the owner denies this. After 17 hours some returned, testifying to 'living inside a theme park within the board game', with delusions, PTSD, and neuroses. **Survivors: 4 / Missing: 1 / Deceased: 7.**
Cheerful Theme Park User Guide (up to Exploration Record #64)
Known Attractions
Testimony #4 (Survivor: Park Yae-in)
All four who boarded the 'Fantasy Train' went missing. Later, their clothes and bones were found repurposed into plush dolls at a souvenir shop. (Presumed deceased)
Tomato Express Record
Right after boarding the basket-shaped 'Tomato Express', a label was found inside. The emergency stop button was located at the attraction's starting point, but all attempts to press it failed (Executor: Assistant Manager Lee Jiwon / Attempts: 6). All participants perished.
History
In the Magic Bunny Fantasy Train attraction, it is said a yellow flower, a blue dragon, and a red rabbit once lived together 403930291928494 hours ago, but began to fight because they couldn't accept each other. The red rabbit decided to eliminate his friends-turned-enemies by any means—dropping them into pits, drowning them, or pushing them off cliffs (Chapter 20)—successfully chasing out the other mascots, forcing the Blue Dragon Mascot out of its territory and killing the Flower Golden Mascot (Chapters 21, 25). It is later revealed the Magic Red Bunny Mascot got out of its suit at night to infiltrate other mascots' zones, which is how it killed the original Flower Golden Mascot (Chapter 179).