[this. this, of all things, is what stops him.

baren might be able to see through these traps but sometimes they get a little hazy for zoro. he watches as the wall gobbles baren up and stops short. touches the wall. it doesn't move. his anger quickly changes into a light panic.]

Hey... Hey! Hey! Baren! Baren! [is he gone? what happened? how does he make the wall give him back???

it's zoro so he starts kicking it.] Hey! Out of my way, shitty wall!

[he can start kicking it. it might even rattle a little bit but just a little bit.

baren is on the other side, nursing his ego more than any injury as he listens to zoro and

contemplates

then - ]

OooooOOOOoooo - Z! Avenge meeeee!

[bam. now he's dead.]

[WHOA]

–A ghost? [hm. do dead people become ghosts that quickly? zoro's skeptical. either way...]

Like hell I will! Get back to life, bastard! I have to pick up Kyouko!

- oh shit, really?

[yeah he's much better behaved for kyouko than zoro. baren makes a little musing noise at that and then glances back at the hallway he's in. time to find a way out then.]

Maybe...

[and he'll walk a few steps, his hands grazing along the walls and

he accidentally flips a switch that triggers a sound effect of a blood curdling scream that makes him cover his ears.

oops. no not that.]

[ok. a bit more worrying. zoro's back at the wall.]

Baren?! I'll kick your ass if that was you!

[POUNDING... ON THE DOOR... WILL THE DOOR LAST??]

[baren glances back at the door and just stares]

... what does he think I sound like....

[coinflip says the door lasts. the coinflip hates zoro a lot.]

Find a way around, Z!

[he has the bells so like maybe they won't end up too far from each other]

What do you mean find a way around?! You're a ghost, aren't you?! Ghost through the damn wall!

[ . . . ]

Ah... It worked too well....

[Baren takes another step, though his voice sounds like it should be getting further away.

It triggers a strobe light where Zoro is.

Sorry bro.]

[the strobe light is what makes him shout the most. he punches it out. but then??? lightbulbs are hot?????

baren can definitely hear zoro cursing about his hot hand.]

[zoro shouts and immediately

backwards bodyslams whatever's on his back into the wall behind him.

who knows, alright? maybe it's an evil wall trying to eat him.]

[is the prank worth it

is it

probably not because baren's making a pained noise up until that wall also gives way and

instead of just a different hallway it's a slide that leads them tumbling down a floor]

You idiot...!!

[they don't even need zoro's poor sense of direction to fuck them up here]

I knew you weren't dead.

[i guess that's what zoro's focusing on instead of literally anything else inlcuding panic. cool.]