“Hi and welcome to the Finding Yourself Escape Room, how can I help you?” Carla asked the group that just walked into the lobby.

“Hi we had a booking for six,” one of the guys answered as he approached the desk.

Carla looked at her screen and scrolled down, confirming what he just said. “Okay then,” she said politely. “Now before we continue you are aware the is an adult’s only escape room so I will need to check your ID for confirmation.”

Everyone got out their IDs showed them to her. Once satisfied Carla continued, “Have any of you been here before?” She asked. Everyone shook their heads no. “That’s okay,” she stated. “Now you might’ve heard about escape rooms before but ours is a little different. Rather than trying to get out of the room, you’re trying to find small boxes, like this one.” She held out a small metallic cube in her hand. Now here’s the important thing, each of you have a set number of these boxes to find throughout the rooms and you cannot complete the challenge until all of them are found.”

One of the women in the group put their hands up. “Now we read somewhere that the first person in the group to complete the challenge gets a cash prize?”

“That is correct, $1000 will be granted to whoever finishes first,” Carla confirmed but before the group could get too excited she interjected. “However while we do do this this challenge is not for the faint of heart and without ruining the surprise I have to inform you that among other things our escape room includes complete sensory deprivation at one point in the challenge, there will also be a point with heavily restricted movement so I am going to need you to sign these before we continue.”

Carla waited patiently as all six customers signed with little hesitation. “Great now let me show you to your preparation rooms. Carla opened a door and took them down a hallway, directing one person to go to a room each. After she was by herself again she headed up into the control room to watch the fun.

“Oh hey Carla,” Tom said as she entered. “All the customers have been disassembled and they are ready to begin.”

Carla just gave him a smile and took a seat as she looked into the six room. The customers had been stripped of their limbs, genitals, breasts, eyes, ears, mouth, nose and hair. They stirred as they tried to get their bearings in their current form, unaware that there were six boxes surrounding them. These boxes contained their eyes, arms and legs though their feet and hands weren’t included in this. All they had to do was touch a box and they would gain the part that was in it.

“Five bucks says room three gets a box first,” Carla said. “He seems like a strong competitor.”

“No arguments here, though I do bet you that the lady in room five doesn’t realise she’s actually awake and that we’ll need to intervene.”

“You’re on…” Carla said as she noticed something in room three. “Wait... what?!” Carla couldn’t believe what she just saw, he made contact with a box and instead of getting a limb or an eye he grew a breast. “What the hell is that!”

Tom looked and bursted out in laughter. “Oops….”

“Oops? Oops…! This shouldn’t be possible, the boxes are wired to each contestant so even if one of the boxes ended up in the wrong room they shouldn’t be able to connect, especially a part of the opposite gender!” Carla began to stress out. “We need to stop this now before any other crazy swaps happen.”

“Calm down, all the parts will end up where they are suppose to go, just not necessarily on the right person and the box positions have been shuffled. I’ll just unlock any room if they can’t access it in whatever state they are in at the time,” Tom explained.

Carla looked at him in shock. “You did this?! Why? Do you want to be fired?”

“Today’s my last day anyway, so I figured why not have some fun. You can either enjoy the chaos from up here or I’ll reset the challenge with one extra competitor. So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.”

Carla looked at the screens as she considered her next move. “Alright then, let me just go get my phone from the staffroom, I have a friend who would love to watch this.”

Tom let Carla stand up and waited until she was in the hallway before he grabbed her. “Nice try Carla, you’re just going to call someone to stop me,” Tom opened up the door to room seven and pushed her in. See you on the other side.”

In an instant Carla was disassembled and found herself experiencing the escape room for herself. Needing to get control over the situation as quickly as possible she wormed herself over to one of the closest boxes and screamed internally as she grew a penis.

Tom just watched from the control room and laughed.