Current Events > Teen Titans CYOA: Romance Resurrected Part 10

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"Very good," you say. "We'll take our time enjoying them in the dining hall before we watch the movie."

"Because you want to delay watching the zombies as long as you can," Raven smirks.

"I do not deny that," you say as you take another stab at the cheeseburger lasagna.

Raven chuckles as she also takes another bite.

The two of you eat up your slices of lasagna and the rest of the garlic bread, and Smith serves the lokma.

"Oh...!" Raven marvels at the glistening balls of fried dough. "These look nice. So, do I just eat one with my hand or should I use a fork?"

"Using your hand is completely fine," you say. "If you don't mind sticky fingers."

You snatch one quick and pop it into your mouth. The sweet syrup is thick on the dough, as is the coating of cinnamon powder. And the dough itself is soft, warm, and chewy in a way that doesn't stick to your teeth or the roof of your mouth.

"Mmm~!" Raven says as she chews.

She also licks her lips and fingers to get all the powdered sugar and cinnamon. She notices you watching her and blushes. You smile as you pick out another. The two of you split the lokma evenly and wash them down with lemonade.

"Delicious from start to finish, Smith," you say as you and Raven stand up.

"Thank you, sir," Smith smiles. "See you tomorrow morning, sir."

You and Raven give Great-Aunt Radella a wave good-night before making your way back to the home theater. She prepares the movie in the media player while you prepare the popcorn.

A) Extra butter
B) Caramel
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A) Extra butter

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A) Extra butter

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A

You make sure to add plenty of butter as the popcorn pops in the machine. You watch the kernels while Raven uses the buttons to select options. She has to keep looking over her shoulder at the screen to see where the little cursor goes. She gets it to the "Play" option and selects it. The movie begins and she excitedly takes a seat in the very middle of the middle row.

You scoop popcorn into a big bucket as the animal liberation activists break into Cambridge University's medical research lab. A scientist in the lab desperately warns them against releasing the captive chimpanzees, which are infected with a highly contagious "rage-inducing" virus. Ignoring his pleas, the activists release a chimp, which attacks and infects a female activist. She then attacks and infects everyone else present.

"There it is," you say. "Patient zero."

"Shh," Raven says though she giggles.

You bring the popcorn over as the movie skips to 28 days later.

"Title drop," you whisper quickly.

Raven giggles as she playfully swats at you. She's careful not to hit the popcorn bucket, though. She takes a handful as Jim the bike courier wakes up in London's St. Thomas' Hospital. He was in a coma, and has no idea what's going on.

"Oh, this is super buttery," Raven says. "And salty."

"I'll get napkins," you say as you carefully set the popcorn down.

You go back to the popcorn machine and take napkins from the dispenser. You return to your seat as Jim wanders the streets of London. The city is deserted, with signs of catastrophe everywhere. You sit down as Jim encounters some infected humans and is pursued! Survivors Selena and Mark rescue him as you give Raven a few napkins.

"Thank you," she says.

She licks her fingers of the butter and salt, and uses the napkin to wipe her fingers after. You eat popcorn yourself, and also lick the butter and salt off your fingers, then wipe them off on the napkin.

Once Selena and Mark get Jim back to their shelter, the two explain to Jim that while he was in a coma, a virus had spread quickly among the populace, resulting in societal collapse. They claim the virus had been reported in Paris and New York City as well, suggesting the infection has spread worldwide.

The next day, Selena and Mark accompany Jim to his parents' house in Deptford, where he discovers they had committed suicide. That night, the three fend off a pair of infected humans. Mark is bitten, and Selena kills him. She explains to Jim that the virus spreads through blood and saliva and overwhelms its victims in 10 to 20 seconds. After leaving the house, the two see some blinking Christmas lights from Balfron Tower. There, they discover two more survivors: a cab driver named Frank and his daughter Hannah, who allow them to take shelter.

The next day, Frank informs them that their supplies are running low, namely water. Frank plays them a pre-recorded radio broadcast from a military blockade near Manchester, claiming to have "the answer to infection" and promising protection to any survivors that can reach them.

The group board Frank's cab and head to Manchester, bonding with one another during the trip. At the deserted blockade, Frank is infected when a drop of blood falls into his eye. He is killed by arriving soldiers, who take the remaining survivors to a fortified mansion under the command of Major Henry West. West reveals to Jim that his "answer to infection" entails waiting for the infected to starve to death and luring female survivors into sexual slavery to repopulate the world.

"Oh no..." you say with a disgusted grimace.

The group attempts to flee, but Jim is captured and chained next to Sergeant Farrell, a dissenting soldier. Farrell shares with Jim his speculation that the virus has not yet spread beyond Great Britain and that the country is being quarantined.
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"What would you do if there were zombies?" Raven asks.

"How do you mean?" you ask back.

"Like if zombies existed and were infecting people."

"Well, I'm not sure. I don't know if magic could cure zombie viruses."

"True, it's not like there's been a small zombie outbreak to test magic against," Raven says. "Then, what would you do if there ever was one?"

A) Work for a cure anyway
B) Destroy all zombies
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A) Work for a cure anyway

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A) Work for a cure anyway

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A) Work for a cure anyway

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A

"I'd work for a cure anyway," you say. "Whether with magic or science, or both."

"Well that's good to hear," she says. "I would definitely try to get a cure, too. Though, I guess it'd have to be traditional zombies, wouldn't it?"

"As in the slow, decaying zombies? Of course. These faster turning rage zombies are definitely a unique take. We'd have much more time to consider options with traditional zombies."

"Yeah. I'd need time to accept what's happened to you."

"Ye-- Wait, me? You're assuming I'd get infected?"

"Well, I'm just saying. Maybe I get infected."

"Oh that would be too scary," you say. "I would definitely try everything I know to save you."

"Aw, thank you," she smiles. "And I would do everything in my power to cure you."

Raven takes more popcorn and scoops it into her mouth.

"What if..." she says after swallowing. "What if magic doesn't work? Or science, or both?"

"As in, there is no cure and one of us is stuck as a zombie?" you say.

"Yeah. What would you do if I was stuck as a zombie?"

A) Mercy kill
B) Keep her captive
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C. work to cure her
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A) Mercy kill

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"Well, if there's no way back, absolutely nothing that could be done about what has happened," you say. "I would probably have to give you a mercy killing."

"What? Really?" she says with a surprised laugh.

"Think of it this way. As a zombie, you'd be undead, which is basically dead. I wouldn't want for your body to continue on as this mindless creature, decaying and falling apart, so I'd end whatever strange suffering would be going on."

"I mean... Absolutely no way to ever cure you," she reiterates. "No way back. ... Yeah, I guess I would have to put you down, too."

"And I appreciate that," you chuckle as you scoop popcorn.

"Also, I don't think I could bear to look at you decaying and falling apart," Raven says. "It'd just be so sad to see you in that state, y'know?"

"Same for me," you say. "I'd be heartbroken watching you slowly rot, with gnashing teeth and perhaps some exposed bone or something."

"Ew, gross," she chuckles.

You return to actually watching the movie, and sadly West's soldiers have executed Farrell. This doesn't sit well with the soldiers and they start to argue. Jim uses this chance to escape, and he lures West and another to their blockade. Jim manages to kill the nameless soldier and wound West, leaving him to the coming infected to deal with.

Jim runs back into the mansion and releases Mailer, an infected soldier West kept for observation. Mailer infects another soldier and they wreak murderous havoc throughout the mansion! In the confusion, a soldier drags Selena upstairs, where Jim ambushes and kills him. The two reunite with Hannah and run to Frank's cab. However, West isn't dead but waiting inside, and he shoots Jim! Mailer yanks West out of the cab through the rear window! Now Mailer dies as the cab drives away. To save Jim, Selena and Hannah take him to a deserted hospital and patch him up.

Another 28 days later, Jim is recovering at a remote cottage. Downstairs, he finds Selena sewing large swaths of fabric when Hannah appears. The infected are shown dying of starvation. Hannah says she hears it and the three rush outside and unfurl a huge cloth banner, adding the final letter to the word "HELLO" laid out on the meadow. A lone Finnish fighter jet flies over the three survivors and the pilot calls in a muffled radio transmission.

A) Watch another movie
B) Play a game
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A) Watch another movie

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"Let's watch another movie," you say. "This movie had a happy ending, but maybe we can try something that's happier overall."

"This wasn't even the ending they wanted to go with," Raven says. "There's an alternate ending where Jim dies."

"Oh, that's definitely a sadder ending," you say as you get up and look at all the movies on the shelves.

"Yeah, and then there was an ending they didn't even film," she says. "It's a storyboard and a DVD extra where it has a completely different way of handling that later act."

"Really? What's different about it?"

"Well, there's no radical military group, but instead a shut-in scientist. Frank is cured but Jim has to sacrifice himself because of a full blood transfusion."

"That's insane," you say. "And also not really realistic."

"That's why they didn't go through with it. The science alone would break the story."

"Okay, let's try..."

A) Sci-Fi
B) Comedy
C) Musical
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COIN TOSS

B

"A comedy. Oh, like Young Frankenstein."

"Wait, what is that?" Raven asks with a curious laugh. "It's a comedy?"

"You've never heard of Young Frankenstein?"

"I'm sure we've talked this out, but I'm basically a sheltered child," Raven chuckles as you switch DVDs in the media player.

"Well, Young Frankenstein is arguably Mel Brooks' best film. And it is based on the original story of Frankenstein, but as a parody."

"Seriously?" she says as you sit down.

You munch more popcorn as the movie begins. It opens up with the Frankenstein castle, and someone opening the crypt of the infamous Victor Frankenstein. The mystery man grabs the thick book the skeleton clutches, and it takes a minute for the skeleton to let go.

In America, one Frederick Frankenstein is giving a lecture at a medical university. He demonstrates the nervous system in action with the help of a volunteer, an elderly man. Frederick has the man demonstrate his motor skills, and then shows what happens when you pinch the nerves at the base of the skull. Frederick rams his knee into the man's groin!

"That's so mean," Raven laughs with you.

The man doesn't react because of his nerves being blocked, but the moment the clip is removed from his neck, he collapses in pain. The students are surprised and impressed by the demonstration while the man is helped up and out of the room by orderlies.

Frederick takes questions from the students now, and one ends up asking about his grandfather. Frederick is of course annoyed someone has to bring Victor up, and argues that he is "Fronkonsteen". Different pronunciations aside, Frederick vehemently argues against his grandfather's mad science, and in the process, accidentally stabs his own leg with a scalpel. Raven chortles for just a second before stifling it.

The students are excused and a man walks up to Frederick. He has the large book from the Frankenstein castle, and explains to Frederick that now with the death of great-grandfather Baron Beaufort von Frankenstein, the entire estate goes to Frederick, the last of their line. Frederick accepts and prepares to depart.

Frederick is currently engaged to the rich and superficial Elizabeth, and she sees him off at the train station. They want to embrace and kiss good-bye, but she insists he not smudge her lipstick, or muss her nail polish, or ruffle her hair, or crinkle her fur jacket. Left with nothing else, Frederick and Elizabeth rub elbows to say good-bye.

On the train, there's a short gag about two elderly couples having the same argument, one American couple in English and then a German couple obviously in German. The train arrives, and Frederick asks a young boy of this is Transylvania station.

"Yeah, track 29," the boy replies. "Can I give you a shine?"

You and Raven chuckle over the little gag.

Frederick departs the train and waits for who he is supposed to meet. He hears a strange thump then dragging sound, and it repeats. Thump, drag, thump, drag. It gets closer and closer, and then Frederick turns around to see the bug-eyed face of a hunchbacked man. Where Frederick is the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, this man is the grandson of Igor. However, after hearing Frederick insist it's pronounced "Fronkonsteen", Igor insists it's pronounced "Eye-gor."

"Walk this way," Igor insists as he goes down the station steps.

Igor hands his cane to Frederick, and Frederick actually accepts and walks down hunched over like Igor did. You and Raven laugh again as Frederick realizes he played along.

You start to cough a little. The salt and the kernel shells scratch your throat.

"I'll get us something to drink," you say as you get up again.

A) Cola
B) Root beer float
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A) Cola

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COIN TOSS

B

You go back to the dining hall and to Smith.

"Oh, welcome back, sir," Smith says.

"Thank you, Smith," you say. "Do you have any root beer? And some vanilla ice cream?"

"Root beer floats, I see," Smith says. "Yes, and plenty of spoons and straws to go with them. Two of those coming right up."

Smith takes out ice cream from a freezer unit, cups from a cupboard and spoons from a drawer. He gives each glass a hefty scoop of vanilla ice cream and uses the soda fountain to pour in the root beer. The frosty reaction creates a thick layer of the carbinated foam that goes just above the glass. Smith then sticks in the long spoons and longer straws and serves them up.

"Thank you again, Smith," you say.

"You're welcome, sir," he smiles.

You take the glasses and hurry back to the home theater. You return in time to see Frederick, Igor and now the beautiful young female assistant, Inga, ride up to Frankenstein Castle. They are greeted by the mysterious housekeeper, Frau Blucher. Her name makes the horses whinny in fear, as "blucher" means "horse glue." Frau Blucher lets them into the castle, and Igor teases the horses with one more utterance of "Blucher!"

You laugh as you return to sit beside Raven.

"Here you are," you say.

"Thank you. Oh, a float! Nice."

Raven uses the spoon to scoop the foam and clear it out. You plunge through the foat with your straw to slurp the ice cold root beer.

As Frau Blucher helps Frederick move into the bedroom that was once Victor's, she tries to convince Frederick to have a drink. She suggests a Brandy, some warm milk, and even Ovaltine. Frederick refuses each suggestion, and is a bit exasperated. However, he notices that on her way out, Frau Blucher kisses the portrait of Victor good-night.

"Ooh~..." Raven says. "That's interesting."

You stay quite as you sip more chilled root beer.

During the night, Frederick starts to talk in his sleep. He is telling someone that he is not a Frankenstein, and will not do the same thing his grandfather did. But then they seem to intimidate him into conceding.

"Destiny! Destiny! No escaping, that's for me!" he shouts in an almost singing manner. "Destiny! Destiny! No escaping, that's for me!"

You and Raven chuckle as he tosses and turns while saying all that.

Frederick then wakes up, hearing violin music. He goes to investigate, and he encounters Inga doing the same. The two search together, and are led to a library. Frederick hopes this is his grandfather's infamous secret library, but it's not, as the books are too plain for the kind of research he was infamous for. But of course, there is the cliche of a library hiding a secret entrance to somewhere else. He checks the biggest bookcase, and Inga grabs a candle for light. But the candle is the switch, and the bookcase spins around!

"Put. The candle. Back," he tells her through the wall.

Inga does, but then the bookcase does a complete 360. Frederick then communicates to Inga that she'll remove the candle, and he'll block the rotation by getting between the bookcase and the wall. She does as instructed, but Frederick doesn't so much stop the rotation as get stuck between wall and bookcase.

"Now wisten to me vewy carefuwy," he says through his squished lips. "Do not pwut the candle back."

You and Raven chuckle more as he explains to Inga to push the bookcase from the other end. She does so with a running start, and naturally he is freed, but she is stuck on the other side now.

"Put. The candle. Back," she says through the wall.
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Frederick does and Inga returns to this side of the bookcase. Frederick understands that if putting the candle in and pulling the candle out mean a full rotation, then perhaps a temporary removal will get it to go the 90 degrees they need. He pulls the candle out then quickly puts it back, and it works. And now both of them can see that there is a secret passage behind the bookcase. They use a different candle to light their way now.

The secrety hallway leads them to a laboratory, and they see several skulls in varying levels of decay. As they go down the line, the time of death is more and more recent, until they end up finding Igor resting his head on the "Newly dead" plaque.

"I ain't got no body~!" Igor sings, startling them for a moment.

Frederick has Igor stop fooling around, and the three of them continue searching together. A light from behind a doorway gets their attention. Frederick reaches out for the handle, but it crumbles in his hand, which makes you and Raven snicker and chuckle more. The door isn't locked anyway, so Frederick just pushes it open. Inside is a lit candle, and an ash tray with newly extinguished cigars. But that's not as important once Frederick notices this room is the secret library he was looking for!

The movie transitions to the later hours, maybe even morning. Frederick has been frantically and excitedly reading Victor's journal that recounts his work towards the infamous experiment.

"It! Could! Work!!" Frederick shouts.

Dramatic music and lightning sound as the camera looks to Victor's portrait, which now has its own wild eyed grin.

"Oh, hey," Raven says with a laugh, "who would you picture as Igor?"

"What do you mean?" you chuckle back.

"Well, if we were in this," she says. "You're obviously Froderick-"

You chuckle at her use of Igor's gag way of saying "Frederick".

"And I'd be Inga, aside from personality," Raven continues.

"Why would you say Inga?"

"Well it's so obvious that he's going to leave Elizabeth for Inga," she says. "Plus I'm definitely not an Elizabeth anyway."

"Alright," you say. "Then you're casting us and the Teen Titans in this, is that what you're up to?"

"Yes. So who would be Igor? It's Beast Boy, right?"

"Yes I'd imagine so," you say. "Mostly because he likes being the comic relief, even in a comedic setting."

A) Cast the rest of the parts
B) Wait for characters to appear before casting
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A) Cast the rest of the parts

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A) Cast the rest of the parts

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A) Cast the rest of the parts

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A) Cast the rest of the parts

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A

"Would it be strange to say Cyborg could be Frankenstein's monster?"

"I'm not sure," Raven chuckles.

"I already have Robin in mind for Inspector Kemp, which we'll see soon enough," you say.

"What about Starfire? She wouldn't be Elizabeth, would she?"

"Oh, no, not in our scenario. I'm not really sure where to put Starfire."

"Elizabeth should be one of your snooty suitors," Raven teases. "She's spoiled like them."

"I suppose," you say. "I have someone else in mind, but you'll see."

Frederick reads more of the journal over breakfast, and comes to the part where Victor explained the size of the body had to be much larger than normal to help in the ease of the operation. Therefore, everything from limbs to nerves to organs would have to be bigger. Inga realizes this would mean the new monster would have an "enormous schwanzstucker".

"Wait, is that like...?" Raven asks, her voice trailing.

You almost burst out laughing upon seeing her realization.

"I-I have no idea now if he'd be Frankenstein's monster," she says with nervous laughter and smiling.

Fortunately for the trio, a large man was just executed for crimes. Frederick and Igor dig him up from the graveyard, which is hard and dirty work.

"It could be worse," Igor says. "It could be raining."

Thunder sounds and rain starts falling. Igor gives an embarrassed smile.

Frederick and Igor manage to get the corpse in the wagon, but then the wagon falls over as they go along the street. They hurry to pick it all back up, but a night watchman comes by. Frederick has to pretend the arm sticking out of the casket is his. He and the watchman shake hands and naturally the corpse hand is cold. The watchman advises he have something to drink to warm up and Frederick agrees with a forced laugh.

Frederick and Igor get the corpse to the castle and Frederick tells Igor to fetch the brain of the genius historian, Hans Delbrck. Igor heads to the brain depository, which has a gag drop-off slot as if it were a library, and he uses that slot to slip his hand in and unlock the door. He gets spooked by his own hand for a moment, but finds Delbrck's brain. Igor made sure to write the name on his hand so he'd get it right.

"That's totally Beast Boy," Raven chuckles.

Igor takes the jar of Delbrck's brain, but then lightning and thunder hit and Igor is spooked by his distorted reflection in a mirror, and drops the brain! With Delbrck's brain ruined and Igor desperate not to anger Frederick, he grabs the closest brain jar. However, it's label reads "Abnormal DO NOT USE"!

"Oh no," Raven says with a small laugh. "I'm not even sure Beast Boy would do that."

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A) Agree

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A) Agree

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"Yes, Igor seems far jumpier than Beast Boy," you say. "But this is the only way for the brain bait and switch to happen."

"Oh no, that's true," she chuckles. "Their Frankenstein's monster is gonna have a bad brain."

As Raven predicts, Frederick and his team move on to the operation. They have the corpse on the slab and naturally we're meant to assume the bad brain is inside. Frederick calls to Igor up on the roof to be careful of the lightning, because he might get electrocuted. When Igor doesn't respond, Frederick repeats his warning. But then Igor appears beside him, completely unharmed. Frederick is also confused by how fast Igor moved, but shrugs it off to move on with the operation.

"Elevate me," Frederick says to Inga.

"Right here? Right now?" she asks nervously.

"Yes, elevate the platform to-"

"Oh, that! Right, of course."

Raven laughs at the use of innuendo.

Frederick rises with the platform and the lightning begins to strike. The lightning goes into the corpse and it begins to glow, and then Frederick calls for the power to be cut and the platform to be brought back down. The three of them wait in anticipation for the corpse to move, but nothing happens. Frederick is clearly disappointed, but he tells the others that they must accept this failure with dignity and composure. Only for him to suddenly unleash his anger on the lifeless corpse to the point that Inga and Igor have to pull him away. But after they leave the room, the corpse's hand starts to move!

Frederick sulks and Inga comforts him. Then while the three have dinner, they hear a "Mmrrm!" and assume it was Igor or Frederick making a "yummy" noise. Then they all realize what's really going on! They all hurry back downstairs and into the laboratory, and see the monster is alive!

Frederick is happy, and unstraps the monster from the slab. He helps the monster stand, and the monster walks towards Frederick. But then Igor lights a match and the monster reacts in fear to the flame! The monster chokes Frederick and everyone panics! Frederick uses Charades to communicate to the others. Igor completely misses what Frederick is aiming for, but Inga understands: sedative.

Inga uses the tranquilizer on the monster and the monster is out quick. Frederick gasps for air, and then glares at Igor.

"Sedagive?!" he shouts.

Frederick calms down and talks with Igor about the brain he acquired. Igor reveals it wasn't Hans Delbrck's brain at all. He claims it was "Abby Normal." Frederick understands that means "abnormal".

"You're telling me, I put an abnormal brain," Frederick says, getting angrier with each phrase, "in a seven foot tall, four foot wide, 300 pound, gorilla?!"

Frederick then starts strangling Igor, and Igor uses Charades to signal to Inga.

Raven laughs again, and almost snorts, which makes you bust up with laughter. You have to be careful not to spill your root beer float. You sit up and scoop more popcorn, and see it running low.

A) Pop more
B) Leave it be
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B) Leave it be

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Cartridge88 posted...

B) Leave it be

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B) Leave it be

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B

You'll just leave it at this, and be satisfied with what's left.

The townspeople gather and speak of the mysterious behavior Frederick's been doing. They're obviously all afraid, and mention the previous five times as a subtle reference to the Frankenstein film franchise. This is when Inspector Kemp, with his mustache and mutton chops, monocle over his eye patch, and wooden prosthetic arm, introduces himself.

Kemp speaks to the people, with his very thick German accent, and though it's hard to understand him the first time, he suspects Frederick is following in his grandfather's footsteps. Then Kemp assures the people that he will investigate, and if he finds evidence of such, Frederick will curse the day he was born a Frankenstein! Of course, the townspeople can't understand him so he has to repeat himself more clearly.

Back at Frankenstein castle, Frederick and crew find Frau Blucher freeing the monster! Frederick tells her to stop because the monster is dangerous, but Blucher knows the truth. The violin music! Frederick realizes she was the one playing it the other night, and she used it to purposefully lead them to the laboratory and put them on the path to repeating Victor's work. And also that she and Victor were in love.

"Yes! Yes!!" she shouts. "He vas... My boyfriend!"

"Whoa~," Raven says. "As if that wasn't obvious."

The two of you chuckle, but then the spark of a thrown switch scares the monster worse than the fire. The monster barrels past Frederick and out of the castle, and towards the village!

"What have I done...?!" Frederick cries out in despair.

The monster roams the countryside and encounters a young girl playing with flowers. She sees the monster but is not afraid. She instead wants to play. They throw the flowers into the well, and make wishes. But they run out of flowers, and the girl wonders if there's anything else they can throw into the water to see if it floats. The monster looks at the camera knowingly, as the same scenario happened in the original 1931 film.

"Oh, so the girl won't be thrown in the water and drown?" Raven asks.

"No, of course not, this is a comedy," you say.

"Oh, okay. That's actually a relief."

"Is it?" you chuckle.

A) Tease Raven
B) Don't tease
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A) Tease Raven

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A) Tease Raven

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A

You place a hand on her forehead.

"Are you feeling okay?" you joke.

"Oh whatever," she laughs as she playfully swats your hand away. "I like horror movies but I'm not a monster."

"Alright, alright," you say. "I'll leave it at you normalizing."

Raven raspberries before going back to her root beer float.

The monster and the little girl instead go to a seesaw. She sits on one end and wants him to sit on the other. He is unsure about it, but she sternly insists, so he drops right onto the other seat. This catapults the little girl into the air! Meanwhile, it would seem the little girl's father and mother are going about their day, the father making sure the house is secure should a monster appear. But then they realize their daughter is not anywhere around and panic! They go up to her room, just seconds after the girl flies in through the window and lands perfectly on her bed, and immediately falls asleep. The parents see her and are relieved, completely unaware.

The monster continues on further into town as night falls again. He ends up at the home of an elderly blind hermit, just as the man was praying to God for a friend to help with his loneliness. This is again a reference to the original movie. The blind mind obviously can't tell the monster is a monster, and assumes the monster is effectively mute since he simply grunts and groans.

The blind man offers the monster food and drink. The blind man gives the monster a bowl for soup, but naturally he isn't very good at pouring, and the hot soup goes all over the monster's lap! The monster screams in pain, not that the blind man understand. They move on to the drink, but again the blind man isn't very good at pouring. He does manage to get some in the monster's mug, and they go to toast. They don't so much clink the cups together but smash them, and the monster's mug is completely shattered.

Lastly, the blind man wishes to celebrate their meeting with cigars. However, the blind man accidentally lights the monster's thumb! The monster takes a moment to realize his thumb's on fire! He screams and runs out of the house, and the blind man is confused as to what could possibly have made him leave.

Frederick lures the monster back with violin music, the same song that Frau Blucher played. The monster climbs up the ivy covered wall of the castle, but struggles near the top. Frederick keeps the others back, because the monster needs to do it himself. The monster climbs up and up, and makes it onto the balcony! From here, they get the monster in shackles and into a smaller room.

Frederick tells the others that he's going to talk to the monster, to try and reach through to it. He tells them that no matter what he does or says, they need to leave him in there. They agree, and he goes in. Frederick talks to the monster, but it does get angry, and Frederick immediately panics. But Frau Blucher keeps Inga and Igor to the promise, even as Frederick comes up with all sorts of excuses, such as the promise being a joke.

With no options left, he talks to the monster. The monster understands Frederick's heartfelt speech about how the monster isn't bad, just misunderstood. Frederick promises to help show the world the monster's good side, and sees it for himself, too. The others are worried about the comparative quiet.

"Dr. Fronkensteen, are you alright?" Igor calls through the door.

Frederick hears the pronunciation and sits up straight.

"My name," he shouts, "is, FRANKENSTEIN!!"

Raven lightly applauds as the music plays and the scene fades to black.

A) Discuss plans for tomorrow
B) Worry about plans in the morning
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Cartridge88 posted...

B) Worry about plans in the morning

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