Psi Island: Genetic Groove

Having been (almost) born in the current millennium, Jenny didn't have much experience with disco. She did have experience with DDR, and that's sure what she was expecting when she spawned into the arcade game and found herself facing a goddamn skull straight out of that Winnie the Pooh movie that fucked her up as a kid. You know that one? Where they try to find Christopher Robin but he's gone to 'school' (which they misread as 'skull') and then leave the Hundred Acre Woods literally going out of their way to find the world's largest, most evil skull prison?

Anyway, so facing the giant skull, Jenny was dancing. Or rhythmically matching her steps with the arrows, anyway, which was easier to do when there weren't goddamn lasers firing at her feet.

After dodging one of the beams, Jenny looked down to see a letter on one of the floor tiles. Huh? Had she missed a prompt? It seemed like the game wanted her to spell out the answer-- maybe then the skull would stop firing. Too bad she'd missed the question, though. Could she like, intuit the answer?

Trying to get ideas, Jenny looked over at Rose Garden, who was jumping and twirling on the panels with surprising grace (for a small child). She didn't seem to have noticed the letters. Maybe they weren't important? Or maybe she's just too young to read. Damn. No clues there.

The floor was flashing in a multitude of different hues. She'd assumed it was just disco-ball themed, but now she wondered if there was actually a hidden pattern. Maybe it's supposed to be a color. Jenny spelled out R - E - D.

The color of the lasers changed to red, and began to sweep the ground in fan-shaped bursts instead of single lines. Jenny cursed as she stumbled. Arrows piled up on the screen, flashing warningly. Dammit! She'd have to re-start her run - and pay attention to the question this time.