Death game of Venice Part 1

Madoka awoke with her neck, wrists, and ankles restrained by metal shackles to a water wheel. She also had a cloth gag in her mouth, preventing her from screaming.

“Ah, you are awake, Escape Witch Madoka. Happy Birthday! Now heed my words clearly. Your friend is also captured. Should one of you escape your bonds before the other, the other shall become incapable of escaping on their own. Though I imagine you will easily escape before your friend,” Piazzo’s voice rang out.

"Oi shut up, pizza face! Madoka! Happy Birthday! You didn't invite me, you little shit, so I decided to kidnap you twice! Yeah, thought the Wintendo bastards got me? Fool! I'm the mothef******* Jester! I gave em the slip, or rather just used Vincenzo as a sacrifice, like how Marco sacrifices Yosho in that one level. Then I just dug him out of the trash later and revived him with some drugs like they do in the game," Jeter's voice rang out.

Madoka let out a muffled pout as she realized she had fallen into another one of Jester's schemes.

"Madoka! Welcome to Jester's birthday death carnival! Pizza face here's my hired hand, so direct all complaints at him. Anyway, with that legal disclaimer out of the way. The game is simple. I'm gonna blow up the whole city with the giant gold bomb you saw. Of course, it will disarm if and ONLY IF you and your friends all make it out of the city boundary, highlighted in neon green spray paint cuz I felt like vandalizing the place. Oh, and as Pizza face said, there's riddles n shit to help you out. He wrote that shit not me, I just hijacked last minute."

Madoka quickly surveyed her surroundings. “Neck restraint too huh, plus this thing is spinning quickly. Dang, this is actually kind of difficult. The restraints are easy, but I can barely make out my surroundings. I guess I’ll free an arm and my neck,” Madoka thought as she instantly did just that. “Whoa! Whoa! This water wheel is turning really fast. The dizziness is making it hard to see. It’s really dark, but if I can just get night vision…”

Madoka closed her eyes for a minute before opening them back up.

“There we go. Hmm, Looks like wet parkour. Good thing this outfit’s waterproof.”

Madoka then freed her other arm before removing her gag and tying it around one of her hands. She then took a deep breath and waited for her feet to be facing upward, before bending up, freeing her feet, and grabbing onto the wet wheel for dear life. The gag around her hand helped give her some friction for a brief moment, but that was all she needed in order to kick the wheel with her foot with enough force to put a hole in it. Madoka used her new foothold to balance herself before climbing atop the wheel. She quickly leapt off it and grabbed onto a small wet ledge above and hoisted herself up to the narrow platform. She then stood up and jumped as high as she could and grabbed a wet metal rod above.

She quickly looked around before launching herself towards another nearby bar. Seeing a glimpse of light coming from some bars just above, she launched herself towards them. When she peeked up, she saw a large canal.

“This must be an overflow drain for the canal. That means if I just kick it right…”

Madoka used all her upper body strength to hold herself up. She then began kicking the bars at full force, until there was a hole large enough to squeeze through. She groaned in discomfort as she squeezed her breasts through, but exhaled once they were through to the other side and rapidly scurried onto the ledge outside.

She was back on the surface and had pulled off one of her most intense escapes to date.

“Congratulations! You’re the 24th person to escape,” Piazzo’s voice rang out.

“24th!? What the hell!?” Madoka screamed in frustration.

“Well, the others had a far easier time. Though you did pull off the most difficult escape-"

"Haha! You lose! You didn't escape first!" Jester taunted.

"Brother, not so loud. We're all bunched together doing this part-time arbiter gig cuz of you," Vincenzo groaned.

"Well I'm introducing a bonus. Anyone who kills Madoka and her friends gets... one billion euros from my brother's bank account!"

"WAIT WHAT!? I DON'T HAVE-"

"Not you dumbass, our other brother from another mother."

Vincenzo let out a sigh of relief as Piazzo cleared his throat and took the mic.

“Now, Escape Witch, heed my riddle if you wish to save your friend in time. She is trapped between two large men, both named Moore. Should you fail to find her before the next hour, 24 minutes 24 seconds to be precise, the two men shall bang her. You must find where two large men stand and bang and free your friend before time’s up in order to save her life.”

Madoka froze in shock as she contemplated what she heard.

“Large guys banged… WAHHH! YUNI’S IN TROUBLE! I GOTTA SAVE HER FROM THOSE THUGS!”