Acoustic Fun House

After eating your caramel popcorn or whatever deep-fried delights at the carnival, you think that maybe you will beat the heat at this new Acoustic Fun House.

You probably don't care much for clowns, and you don't feel like holding your fried delights (or glasses) while the entrance tube spins. And to you the worst part of the house of mirrors is not the distorted one, but the ones that show you from all angles. Are you sure they aren't distorted as well?

Anyway, you and your friends walk into this new fun house and joke to yourselves, "How scary can this be?"

As you joke about the over-the-top decor hyping up what you will encounter, your voices start to cut out. You can hear yourself, but your friends not so much. In fact, the whispering you hear might be people further ahead. White noise distorts or drowns out certain sounds. Later it seems like your friends sound like they could be talking to you from anywhere. But they are right next to you. Complete and total dead zones, where you can hear each other but nothing else. Each part of the amusement becomes another acoustical oddity with the help of air curtains and fabric curtain strips to pull aside. Seems like it's raining outside, heavy rain pelts the roof. Glad you are inside. Wait, is that another illusion? The next room tells you to be careful what you say about others, it seems like this new room is where the previous whispers came from in the first part. What? They can whisper back? Is it even someone, or is it AI mimicking a voice? Who is even talking right now? Is someone now crunching on caramel popcorn in your ear? Was it a piece of the conversation with your friends from earlier?

Finally, you see the exit. You and your friends beat the heat for 5 minutes, and it looks like the line for the Tilt-a-Hurl is much smaller now.