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Ms. Fortune's Mysterious Mishap
Welcome to Ms. Fortune's Mysterious Mishap, an immersive experience that brings the ghosts of Coney Island's Luna Park back to life with a vaudevillian twist. As guests explore the park, armed with their trusty flashlights, they'll encounter mischievous specters from a bygone era.
The experience begins in Ms. Fortune's tent, where guests will witness the explosive release of these playful spirits. From there, they navigate the park, tackling interactive games and encountering zany, cartoonish characters along the way. No ghost, whether it's a singing banana or a dancing hot dog, is too silly to escape the beam of the flashlight. It's up to the guests to stop the cartoon chaos and capture all of the mischievous ghosts before they toonify the whole park!
Ms. Fortune's Mysterious Mishap is a unique attraction suitable for all ages, produced as part of a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Central Florida.
You enter Ms. Fortune’s tent. It’s a dim room, cluttered with arcane objects, a shrouded woman in the shadows sits at a table. Before her is a crystal ball swirling with a bright blue glow. She beckons you forth.
What did you get yourself into now? You’ve come this far. What’s the worst that could happen?
You and your party share an uneasy look before taking a seat. Ms. Fortune presents a tarot card deck to you and speaks to you coldly,
“The cards show me who you were, who you are, who you might become.”
She shuffles the deck and presents you cards one at a time.
“The Chariot. It shows you have the will to achieve your goals, no matter the cost. TheEmpress. Creativity and elegance. I see a close connection with the arts in your near future. The Tower? Sudden and intense change. This could be bad...”
As Ms. Fortune flips another card, she stares at it before slamming it onto the table.
“...Impossible”.
You see that it’s not even a tarot card. It’s a playing card. What’s even weirder is that it has a big goofy looking ghost as the face.
Objects around the room shake wildly.
Cracks spiderweb their way across the crystal ball as the fog inside swirls and turns sickly green. The lights flicker and soon blink out.
Just for a moment, time stops before the ball explodes.
PFFFFFFFFFT!
The loudest fart that you’ve ever heard.
The green fog pours across the table and with it comes just the worst smell. A fat cartoony ghost’s head pop his head up out of the hole.
The ghost gives a half hearted “Scuse me” as he flies up and out through the roof.
Then dozens of ghosts zoom out and around the room. Each thing they touch becomes cartoonified. Most through the walls and out of the tent, but one flies right into a candlestick which opens its new cartoon eyes and begins bobbing to a song only it can hear.
“Oh no! I messed up that spell, just like I always do! Oh, I know."
Ms. Fortune isn’t her spooky self anymore and sounds more flustered and silly. She pulls out a flashlight and shines it on the dancing candle. Its flames go out and it yelps. The ghost pops out and tries to zoom. Ms. Fortune speaks in a strange language and suddenly its is sucked back where it came from.
“Each one of you, take a flashlight. Just like some kids are afraid of the dark, these goofy ghosts are afraid of the light. Just shine one of these at them and it’ll allow me to put them back where they belong. You gotta stop them before they toonify the whole park!”
In front of you, a flashlight appears. The flap of the tent opens and sounds of the amusement park can be heard.
“Hur-ray hur-ray hur-ray, step right up, one and all" a carnival barker calls out from the next room. “You heard em, go shine your lights on anything cartoony. Scare those ghosts out, and I’ll grab em”
You and your friends get up and leave the tent and enter the midway.
You know this is serious and you have a mission, but you can’t help but stop and admire the new midway. Looney Park never looked so good.
These ghosts might be dead, but they sure know how to add life to the party.
Carnival barker ghosts are calling to you from all directions, a poster of a strongman is moving and tossing his dumbbell around like it’s nothing, and dancing hotdogs are conga-dancing across the countertop.
You make your way through the midway, shining your flashlights on each of the silly ghouls.
Whenever you do, each of them reacts in a funny way. The strongman loses his strength and is slowly sinking lower, popping out just before he’d be crushed. The dancing hot dogs each do a little solo dance before they’re grabbed by Ms. Fortune.
You make your way through a variety of wacky locations.
The juggling clowns in the circus tent get bonked on the head when you shine your light his way.
A tornado touched down in the agricultural show, but these ghosts are just riding it around like it’s a carousel. Shine your light at them and they wave their cowboy hats in the air as they’re blown away.
In the funhouse, you use the mirror maze to shine your lights on ghosts that are just around the corner.
Finally, you make it to the serene boardwalk. There’s no sign of anything toony around here. The rest of Looney Park is on the other side of the beach, lights twinkling, the Ferris Wheel slowly turns.
“Not a single ghost in sight. I think that means we caught 'em all. Oh wait. I sense one last ghost. It’s a big one.”
Huge tentacles first, then the rest of this massive kraken with a cute seahorse head emerges from the water. It has the hot dog stand in one tentacle and a chunk of roller coaster in another. You know what to do.
You shine your lights on it, nothing happens.
“I think we’re going to need something a bit brighter for this one.”
The sides of a wooden crate falls apart and reveals a box full of fireworks. You shine your flashlights on them.
Boom, the kraken drops the hot dog stand.
Boom, the kraken reels back.
Boom, the kraken disappears in a puff of smoke.
Just a little seahorse falls into the water.
The ghost gets sucked up to Ms. Fortune’s tent that’s just ahead.
“I’m so grateful you grabbed those goofy ghosts for me! I couldn’t have done it without you!
Make sure to stop by if you ever want another reading. I’m sure it’ll go better next time!”
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