Peppino and the Maggot Cheese (banned official Pizza Tower short)

It was early February 2023. I was scrolling through TikTok, and saw people talking about an official but non-canon Pizza Tower short meant to promote the game that was on YouTube at some point until the developers took it down. It was described as being so horrifying and disturbing that it would cause you to puke, shit yourself and have nightmares involving cheese and maggots. Of course, I took it as an elaborate joke orchestrated by the Pizza Tower devs so that people could buy their game. Except, a close online friend of mine on Discord told me that the animation was 100% real, and was the only one who had a downloaded copy of it because nobody, I mean NOBODY, wanted to preserve it.

I told my friend: "What a load of bullshit, mate. You're only saying it to trick me into playing that funny pizza game". He then told me: "Oh, really?", and sent me a download link to the purported video. With a skeptic look on my face, I downloaded it thinking it was a shitty Rickroll, but as soon as I opened the video and hit the "Play" button, I witnessed something so disgusting, so disturbing and so haunting that I would never be the same person ever again.

The animation was cel-shaded 3DCG, and the characters had a vaguely anime style instead of the 90s slapstick cartoon style. The plot followed on like this: Peppino was on vacation in Sardinia to visit his old friend Giuseppe Formaggio. Giuseppe took Peppino to his house's kitchen, and showed him a "casu marzu", a traditional food in his island with the dish's name literally translating to "rotten cheese". It then cut to a hyperrealistic close-up of the cheese with all the maggots squirming and wiggling on it, accompanied with the sound of a woman's scream. Peppino's face turned green and felt nauseated while Giuseppe talked to him about how his family has enjoyed the casu marzu for generations. Peppino tried to leave the house, but then Giuseppe reached his arm to his shoulder, and threw him to the table while locking the door to keep him from escaping.

Peppino obviously felt uncomfortable the whole time, and honestly I could relate to him. He helplessly saw his own friend cutting slices upon slices of the baby fly-infested cheese, sweating nervously, trying to hold back the urge to scream. As soon as Giuseppe finished cutting the cheese, he put one on his plate and said:

"Eat it."

Peppino looked at the cheese, and when he looked up to Giuseppe, he hallucinated seeing him with red skin and two horns sticking out from his head.

"EAT IT NOW!", Devil-Giuseppe said in a deep, evil voice.

Peppino still resists from eating it, so Giuseppe had to do the job and shove the whole cheese slice in his mouth. Peppino was forced to chew and swallow it with tears running down his eyes.

"So...how was it, pal?", said Giuseppe with a suspicious smile.

Peppino's skin ended up turning green all over, his eyes becoming blank like fucking Herobrine, and teeth turning yellow, as several maggots started coming out of his mouth and skin. He turned into a zombie, and scary music started playing in the background.

Peppino was a full-on zombie. He began to roar and assault Giuseppe, with the latter asking for help. Eventually, Giuseppe got infected by Peppino, and turned into a zombie as well. The two bursted out of the house and there being a montage of them infecting other Sardinians with the maggot cheese zombie virus, and then the episode just cut to black. The credits rolled, and it showed that it was animated by a South Korean studio called "Flexibo Production", and oddly enough, no employee names connected to this animation studio popped up in the credits, and even more odder, it said that it was made in 2012, but Pizza Tower wasn't even in development at that time.

After I finished the whole episode, I ended up shitting myself and throwing up all over my $4000 laptop's keyboards, causing sparks to come out of it and explode. After the explosion, I tried and successfully reached to my phone to look up Flexibo, but their website didn't exist. I used the Wayback Machine to look after any records of the animation studio's existence, but nothing came up. It was confusing, so I went to the Discord app and asked my friend about Flexibo. He told me, in return, that the company shut down and wiped all traces of its existence right after the short was first released to dodge the authorities, but Le Tour de Pizza deleted it as a publicity stunt to get everyone to talk about his game.

I exited Discord, and ran to tell my dad about the animation and the fact that I puked all over my PC and pooped my pants. He didn't believe me as he thought I was crazy, so he sent me to a psych ward where I am now forced to stay forever, all while being plagued by nightmares of Zombie Peppino and Giuseppe chasing after me, with maggoty cheese everywhere I stepped.

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