Mommy Long Legs

The toy

On the shelf, Mommy Long Legs was the company's stretch toy. The commercial that opens Chapter 2 sells her on a new material the narrator calls elastic plastic, and she was the first in a set of family toys made with it. A poster shows her with Daddy Long Legs and Baby Long Legs.

Notes in the Rejected Room show how she got there. Management picked her over an orange robot as the company stretch toy, and turned down two early concept designs as too freaky, asking for simpler colors and shapes.

She is tall and thin, with a light pink oval head, green eyes with three lashes each, and pink hair in a curled fringe and a long ponytail tied in light blue. Her neck, arms, waist and legs all stretch. She wears pink gloves and shoes with light blue cuffs, and her heart shaped torso sits on a round pink lower body like a spider's. When she loses her temper her eyes dilate, her hair tangles and her hands grow larger, fingers spread.

Experiment 1222

The Transfer Request note gives her number and names the subject as Marie Payne. It says she can stretch her limbs for several hundred feet, that she is hostile to staff, and that she is motherly and protective toward the other experiments. It proposes moving her to the Game Station to manage the children, and asks for a transfer to High Security Maintenance so that conditioning can begin.

Staff were told to keep their distance. The Employee Instructions note says to stay at least 20 yards from her, and adds that she can escort children to each game. A staff announcement on tape, P.S.A. Big Spider, denies reports of a very large spider in the facility.

Three games

She arrives as an arm. A pink hand pulls Poppy down a hole, and in the Game Station hallway the same hand snatches the Red Hand off the Player's GrabPack. Then she lowers herself from the ceiling holding Poppy, whose mouth is covered with webbing. Her terms are three games for the Train Code. If the Player breaks the rules, she will eat them alive.

She watches Musical Memory from an observation room and hands over the first piece of the code when the game breaks. Bunzo is heard being killed afterward. At Wack-a-Wuggy she says the toys used to be held back by strings. She gives up the second piece, and then it is the Mini Huggies who are heard dying.

At Statues she says what she thinks of the Player. The children called her Mommy. They came for games and never came back. The Player worked there, and deserves to die alone. The course ends at a blocked exit, and the Player gets out by breaking through an observation window.

Hide and seek

She calls the Player a cheater and starts a new game, hide and seek. She chases them through the Hidden Labyrinth and the Incinerating Room to the emergency exit.

There the Player pulls the lever of a grinder, and it catches her hand. She screams that he will make her part of him. The grinder crushes her and her upper body falls free. A thin metal claw reaches under a door and drags it away.