- PZ Smeltzenseltzer
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fortran
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Ask for pleh. I mean help.
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May 27, 2024 09:29
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- Rebonack7
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“Do you know what EMPLEH means?” you ask grandma.
“Empleh?” she repeats. “No, I’ve never heard that word before. Why do you ask?”
“I saw it written on that train window.” You turn and point back to the train car. “I think it’s some kind of message.”
Grandma grabs your hand and links her arm through yours. “My, my,” she coos. “You have such an imagination.”
Is Grandma walking faster? Or is that your imagination too?
“It’s wonderful to see you after so long,” she gushes, hurrying down the platform. “And I can’t wait to see your mother’s lovely rose garden.”
“Yeah, right,” you murmur. You’re still trying to figure out what EMPLEH means.
You snap your fingers. “I know what it means!” you cry.
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“EMPLEH!” you tell Grandma excitedly. “It’s HELP ME spelled backwards.”
Grandma stares at you.
“Grandma!” You tug at her sleeve. “We have to go back! Someone on the train needs our help!
“Oh, Cookie.” She sighs. “I didn’t want to have to do this so soon. But you give me no choice. I can’t allow you to interfere with my mission.”
Grandma pulls a small laser device from her pocket. She points it at you.
ZAP!
“Take me to your mother’s rose garden,” she orders.
You can’t resist. You lurch forward and climb into a cab like a zombie. As soon as you arrive at your house, Grandma races to the rose garden.
“My eggs!” she cries. “My babies are ready to hatch!”
You stand by watching helplessly as Grandma digs up hundreds of alien eggs.
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Alien babies burst from the purple shells. They crawl everywhere, oozing yellow slime. Grandma dances around crazily.
“My plans to take over the universe will now come true!” Grandma cries. “My babies will be my army! No one will be able to stop us.”
One little alien baby slithers over to you. It slides across your foot. It glances up and all five of its eyes gaze at you. It squeaks.
Hey!
It’s kind of cute.
You pick it up. It makes a sound like a cat purring.
Oh, well. If aliens are going to rule Earth, it would probably be a good idea to have at least one alien on your side. Maybe then you won’t come to such a terrifying
END.
Fun fact: this was the first ending I got when I read this book as a kid, because I was very stupid and couldn't figure out backwards writing.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Ran face-first into the back of a garbage truck.
Eaten by a giant carnivorous rose.
Blown to bits by a bioengineered alien land mine.
Accidentally ate the alien eggs with implied disastrous results.
Caught spying and cocooned in acidic webbing.
Discovered our friends and their families were all disguised aliens, then got fed to a baby alien.
Got mocked out of the book for not wanting to go on an alien spy mission.
 Shot with a brainwashing laser and forced to help hatch alien eggs.
Achievements
False Start: Got a bad ending on our first choice of the book.
Phantom Menace: Fell asleep listening to an extraterrestrial parliamentary debate.
Oodles of Octogenarians: Somehow got involved in a Grandma-cloning experiment.
Our options posted:
- Introduce your friends to Grandma.
- Find and rescue your real Grandma.
- Call the authorities right away.
- Jump out the bedroom window.
- Ask Grandma what's going on.
- Tell someone on the train what you saw.
- Explain things to the conductor.
- Jump off the train.
- Punch the tentacled alien.
- Pick Grandma #2.
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- rudecyrus
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fuck you trolls
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Introduce our friends to Grandma
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Nov 14, 2018 02:34
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- AweStriker
- Oct 6, 2014
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Introduce our friends to Grandma
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Nov 14, 2018 05:58
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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Stop being ridiculous, you scold yourself. What’s the big deal about a silver jumpsuit? Your own mother wears mismatched socks and goofy hats.
“Come on,” you tell Andrew and Sophie. “I’ll introduce you.”
The three of you stroll across the backyard to the rose garden. The flowers are unusually large, and have a strong odor. Almost sickeningly sweet.
“I’ve never seen roses that color before,” Andrew says.
Come to think of it, neither have you. Blue roses? Striped roses? This is one weird rose garden.
Grandma stands as she sees you approaching. “Oh, goody,” she gushes. “I enjoy meeting new people.”
“Cool flowers,” Sophie compliments Grandma.
“Thank you, dear,” Grandma says. “Why don’t you take a closer look?”
You, Sophie, and Andrew wander into the thicket of rose bushes. Some of them are so large, they tower over you. You gaze at a bright green rose.
Whoa!
Is that a pair of eyes staring back at you?
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The eyes on the rose blink at you!
“Sophie! Andrew!” you choke out. “Run!”
But your warning comes too late. Long green tendrils wrap themselves around you and your friends.
“Noooo!” Sophie shrieks.
“What’s happening?” Andrew screams.
You strain against the tight grip of the plant. “Grandma! Help us!” you cry.
But Grandma ignores you. She skips through the rose bushes, chanting. You’re about to holler again when the rose spits a glob of slimy orange goo right into your face. It fills your mouth and eyes.
You wipe your face on your sleeve, but the sticky substance won’t come off. It’s too thick. You can’t see a thing.
But you can hear Sophie and Andrew screaming for help. And Grandma reciting something. It sounds like a nursery rhyme!
You struggle to move toward your friends, but your feet are stuck. Is the plant wrapped around them? you wonder.
Then you realize the horrible truth. You no longer have feet. You have roots.
You’re turning into a plant!
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Panic rises in your chest, making it difficult for you to breathe.
“Grandma! Help!” you pant.
But it’s no use. She continues to chant.
Your face twists. Your skin flakes, forming petals. Your arms flatten against your sides. Your body gets longer and thinner.
The whole time, Grandma goes on chanting. A chill runs through your mutated body. You finally realize what she’s reciting.
It’s a nursery rhyme, all right. But with some major changes in the words:
“Roses are red
Violets are blue
What you didn’t know was...
The rose would be YOU!”
THE END
There's actually two possible ways to reach this ending, so I guess they really wanted you to see it.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Ran face-first into the back of a garbage truck.
Eaten by a giant carnivorous rose.
Blown to bits by a bioengineered alien land mine.
Accidentally ate the alien eggs with implied disastrous results.
Caught spying and cocooned in acidic webbing.
Discovered our friends and their families were all disguised aliens, then got fed to a baby alien.
Got mocked out of the book for not wanting to go on an alien spy mission.
Shot with a brainwashing laser and forced to help hatch alien eggs.
Ensnared by alien roses and transformed into one ourselves.
Achievements
False Start: Got a bad ending on our first choice of the book.
Phantom Menace: Fell asleep listening to an extraterrestrial parliamentary debate.
Oodles of Octogenarians: Somehow got involved in a Grandma-cloning experiment.
Our options posted:
- Find and rescue your real Grandma.
- Call the authorities right away.
- Jump out the bedroom window.
- Ask Grandma what's going on.
- Tell someone on the train what you saw.
- Explain things to the conductor.
- Jump off the train.
- Punch the tentacled alien.
- Pick Grandma #2.
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Nov 14, 2018 14:56
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- Android Blues
- Nov 22, 2008
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Grandma's meter is terrible. Let's try rescuing our real grandma.
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Nov 14, 2018 15:03
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- rudecyrus
- Nov 6, 2009
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fuck you trolls
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Jump off the train
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Nov 14, 2018 20:06
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- Leraika
- Jun 14, 2015
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Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
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Let's jump!
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Nov 15, 2018 16:37
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- AweStriker
- Oct 6, 2014
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Go out through the window.
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Nov 15, 2018 18:26
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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“This way!” You dash to the window, Andrew and Sophie right behind you. You yank it open and stick your head out.
The ground suddenly seems very far away.
However, Grandma’s footsteps are definitely very close!
“Try to land in the rose garden,” you instruct your friends. “The bushes should help cushion the fall.”
You climb out onto the window ledge. You shut your eyes, and take a deep breath.
Then you jump.
You land on a tall rose bush. Thorns poke you all over. You feel shaken up, but you aren’t hurt. Andrew and Sophie leap down beside you.
You pull yourself out of the scratchy branches and plop onto the soft ground. You gaze up at the window.
Grandma smiles down at you.
A chilling, evil smile.
Then she vanishes back inside.
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“She’s seen us!” you yell. “We’ve got to get out of here!” You grab Andrew’s hands and help him out of the snarl of roses. Sophie crawls out from under a bush.
“Everybody okay?” you ask.
“No permanent damage,” Sophie replies. Andrew nods.
“Then let’s move it!”
You turn to run. And trip over a tangle of roots. The bushes are so thick that you can’t see Grandma. But you can hear her. She’s come out of the house. She’s just outside the garden.
You scramble to your feet. You push aside a clump of roses.
And come face to face with a pair of eyes.
Eyes in the middle of a big fat rose!
This leads to the same "turned into a rose" ending as if we'd talked to Grandma in the garden.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Ran face-first into the back of a garbage truck.
Eaten by a giant carnivorous rose.
Blown to bits by a bioengineered alien land mine.
Accidentally ate the alien eggs with implied disastrous results.
Caught spying and cocooned in acidic webbing.
Discovered our friends and their families were all disguised aliens, then got fed to a baby alien.
Got mocked out of the book for not wanting to go on an alien spy mission.
Shot with a brainwashing laser and forced to help hatch alien eggs.
Ensnared by alien roses and transformed into one ourselves.
Fell to our deaths jumping off a train to escape a costume party.
Achievements
False Start: Got a bad ending on our first choice of the book.
Phantom Menace: Fell asleep listening to an extraterrestrial parliamentary debate.
Oodles of Octogenarians: Somehow got involved in a Grandma-cloning experiment.
Our options posted:
- Find and rescue your real Grandma.
- Call the authorities right away.
- Ask Grandma what's going on.
- Tell someone on the train what you saw.
- Explain things to the conductor.
- Punch the tentacled alien.
- Pick Grandma #2.
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Nov 16, 2018 23:59
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- Android Blues
- Nov 22, 2008
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Let's pick grandma #2. Since she was just a benevolent copy of our real grandma who for some reason was playing a fun trick where she said our grandma was evil, it should be fine, right?
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Nov 17, 2018 00:16
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- chitoryu12
- Apr 24, 2014
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Punch that bitch
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Nov 17, 2018 00:38
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- Snipee
- Mar 27, 2010
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Punch the alien!
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Nov 17, 2018 22:17
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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No way! You’re not putting that slimy tentacle in your mouth. Instead, you punch the creature’s face with all your strength.
“Yeeoowwwwww!” you yelp. That hurt!
The creature doesn’t even blink. It wraps you, Ginny, and Chuck even tighter in its tentacles.
“Alien being,” one of the other yellow-eyed creatures addresses you. “We have come to destroy your evil grandmother’s eggs. We have tracked her through the galaxy for thirty years, hoping she would lead us to her nest.”
Ginny gasps. “’Through the galaxy’?” she echoes. “They – they’re saying that they’re aliens!”
Your head spins. That’s not all. They’re saying something even more unbelievable!
“Wh-what?” you sputter. “Are you saying my grandmother is an alien?”
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You can’t believe what this creature is saying. Your grandmother – an alien? No way!
The creature that used to be the conductor squeezes you tighter in its tentacles. Pieces of its human disguise drip down its uniform. “Now that we have the child, perhaps Mithra-Dithra will be more cooperative,” it says.
“Who’s Mithra-Dithra?” you ask.
One of the thugs makes a sound you assume is an alien laugh. “Your grandmother has taught you well.”
“Yes,” the other thug agrees. “But we won’t be fooled. And your grandmother, Mithra-Dithra, will not succeed in her evil plan to rule this solar system.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about!” you yell. “My grandmother’s first name is Susan, not Mithra-Dithra.”
“You’ve made a mistake!” Ginny protests. “Just because the old lady dresses funny, it doesn’t mean she’s an alien!”
The three creatures fix their yellow eyes on you. They make that weird laughing noise again.
“You will answer our questions soon enough. Now we must prepare.”
Prepare for what?
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The conductor-creature snaps open a wall panel, revealing dials, knobs, and switches. Your grandma is still frozen in the force field. The conductor turns a dial.
The train car suddenly hums with a pulsing electronic sound. With a rumbling WHOOSH the baggage car releases from the train. It shoots in the opposite direction down the track.
“What’s going on?” Chuck yells over the noise.
Before you can answer, the car lurches. You’re thrown to the floor. In an instant, the baggage car lifts off the ground and hurtles into the sky.
“We’re in some kind of spaceship!” you cry.
“Now that you realize there is no escape,” the ex-conductor suggests, “perhaps you will be more cooperative.”
“Tell us.” The smaller alien approaches you slowly. “Where do you live? Where did your grandmother bury the eggs?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about!” you protest.
“You’ll change your story,” the other creature warns. “We’ll get the answer we want.”
Then it does something so disgusting, you nearly faint.
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The alien bends over, opens its mouth, and vomits out a slimy, snarling, dog-like monster.
“Meet Fido,” the yellow-eyed creature says with a laugh.
Fido snarls. It has three rows of razor-sharp teeth. Its fangs drip with slime.
“I can’t tell you anything! I don’t know what you’re talking about!” you gasp.
“Perhaps your friends will be more cooperative.” The two other aliens each vomit out a drooling dog.
Fido lunges at you. The other monster-dogs leap at Chuck and Ginny.
“It’s hurting me!” Chuck screams. “Tell them!”
You desperately push the monster-dog away. You’re almost too terrified to think. Should you just tell them your address? You know your grandmother isn’t this evil Mithra-Dithra, so what difference would it make?
But once you give the creatures what they want, won’t they go ahead and kill you? They won’t need you anymore.
Decide quick! Fido’s drool burns your skin like acid!
Tell the aliens where you live on PAGE 99.
Bluff and think of some way to stay alive on PAGE 107.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Ran face-first into the back of a garbage truck.
Eaten by a giant carnivorous rose.
Blown to bits by a bioengineered alien land mine.
Accidentally ate the alien eggs with implied disastrous results.
Caught spying and cocooned in acidic webbing.
Discovered our friends and their families were all disguised aliens, then got fed to a baby alien.
Got mocked out of the book for not wanting to go on an alien spy mission.
Shot with a brainwashing laser and forced to help hatch alien eggs.
Ensnared by alien roses and transformed into one ourselves.
Fell to our deaths jumping off a train to escape a costume party.
Achievements
False Start: Got a bad ending on our first choice of the book.
Phantom Menace: Fell asleep listening to an extraterrestrial parliamentary debate.
Oodles of Octogenarians: Somehow got involved in a Grandma-cloning experiment.
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Nov 18, 2018 18:15
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- chitoryu12
- Apr 24, 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_pu9VR0i2I
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Nov 18, 2018 18:32
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- Snipee
- Mar 27, 2010
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Do not lie to the alien. Tell them where you live
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Nov 18, 2018 19:24
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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Ginny’s and Chuck’s screams rip through you worse than the monster-dog’s acid drool.
“Okay! Okay!” you shriek. “Call off the dogs!”
You rattle off your address.
“Very good.” The three alien creatures lean over and open their jaws wide. The monster-dogs jump back into their mouths. The creatures swallow.
Then all three belch and pat their tummies.
Man. Talk about disgusting.
“We are terribly sorry,” the ex-conductor says. “But we really did need to know. And now we’ll take you home.”
With the twist of a few dials, the spaceship changes direction. In minutes you land behind your house.
You glance out the window and gasp.
What has you so upset?
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“Oh, no!” you wail. “You landed on my mom’s petunias. They’re totally ruined. My mom’s going to go ballistic!”
But it gets worse. As soon as the spaceship hatch pops open, the creatures go to work. They dig up her prize rose bushes.
You are going to be in big trouble when your mom comes home.
You don’t believe what you see next. You are soon ankle-deep in hundreds of enormous, pulsing purple eggs.
Your grandma must be an alien after all!
When the creatures have filled their ship with the eggs, the ex-conductor approaches you. “Now you understand why we must keep your grandmother. But we apologize for the mess,” it says. “Here are some seeds to replace the plants we destroyed.”
“Uh, thanks.” You take the packet from the wiggling tentacle.
With a wave, the creature enters the spaceship. You watch it leave the atmosphere.
Chuck and Ginny help you with the garden. Alien flowers grow differently from Earth plants, you realize. Within minutes the garden is overflowing with gigantic roses.
Your mom should be pleased. As long as she doesn’t mind roses that smell like bananas and glow in the dark!
THE END
For a Give Yourself Goosebumps book, that's some surprising continuity between storylines.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 2/2
Bad Endings
Ran face-first into the back of a garbage truck.
Eaten by a giant carnivorous rose.
Blown to bits by a bioengineered alien land mine.
Accidentally ate the alien eggs with implied disastrous results.
Caught spying and cocooned in acidic webbing.
Discovered our friends and their families were all disguised aliens, then got fed to a baby alien.
Got mocked out of the book for not wanting to go on an alien spy mission.
Shot with a brainwashing laser and forced to help hatch alien eggs.
Ensnared by alien roses and transformed into one ourselves.
Fell to our deaths jumping off a train to escape a costume party.
Achievements
False Start: Got a bad ending on our first choice of the book.
Phantom Menace: Fell asleep listening to an extraterrestrial parliamentary debate.
Oodles of Octogenarians: Somehow got involved in a Grandma-cloning experiment.
Well, that's it for Secret Agent Grandma. Surprisingly, it wasn't that interesting of a book despite its insane premise.
Next time, Stine demonstrates a surprising amount of knowledge about comic books, and we face an unprecedented four goal endings!
Rebonack7 fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Nov 19, 2018
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Nov 19, 2018 17:32
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- Blueberry Pancakes
- Aug 18, 2012
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Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
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Sucks to be grandma, I guess!
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Nov 19, 2018 17:36
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- chitoryu12
- Apr 24, 2014
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This next one is gonna be weird.
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Nov 19, 2018 18:42
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- Leraika
- Jun 14, 2015
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Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
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Well, that was certainly a thing.
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Nov 21, 2018 04:32
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS #17: LITTLE COMIC SHOP OF HORRORS
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“I thought after-school clubs were supposed to be fun,” you grumble. You love comic books. And a comic club sounded cool. But it’s run by Horace Grumbacher, the dullest kid in school!
How could someone make a subject like comics boring?
Horace manages.
He clicks his slide projector to a picture of a comic book cover. “Here’s the first issue starring Super-Doer,” he drones. “Today, it’s worth nearly two hundred thousand dollars.”
Click! “And here’s the first appearance of Ballistic Bug. This comic goes for nearly twenty thousand.”
As if any kid in this club can afford that, you think.
The projector clicks again, and a horror comic appears on the screen. Excellent! You love horror!
But Horace can even make horror dull. “This issue of The Cellar of Scary Stories went for sixteen hundred dollars,” he lectures.
An ugly face sneers at you from the comic cover. Yuck! It looks like a rotten pumpkin. With warts.
You turn away, and notice the classroom clock. How did it get so late? You run outside – in time to see a horrible sight.
“Oh, no!” you groan.
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The school bus is already a block away. It left without you!
“Thanks a lot, Horace,” you growl. Because of his boring lecture, now you have to walk home!
If you follow the same route as the bus, you won't get home for hours. You decide you'd better try a shortcut. Even though it means going through a part of town you've never seen before.
You walk and walk along your shortcut. With every step you take, your book bag gets heavier.
The area you’re cutting through looks a little weird. The buildings are all old and dingy. The stores huddle together as if they’re holding each other up.
And the stuff in the windows is very weird. You pass a clothing store that seems to be selling Halloween costumes – even though Halloween is months away. And those dolls in that toy shop window. They look like... vampires!
You’re relieved when you spot a store for vacuum cleaners. That’s normal, you think. And next to it...
Hey! A comic shop!
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You step inside. The comic shop is dimly lit. You can barely make out the comics on spinning racks. Beyond, in deeper shadows, are tables with row after row of boxes. These are the back issues, where collectors look for treasures.
The owner stands behind a cash register. He looks familiar, with his round face and warts. But you can’t place him.
He grunts when he sees you. “Humph. Kids.”
Well, who does he expect to come in and buy comics?
As you walk past him, the store owner calls out, “Leave your bag up here!”
You scowl. Why is he treating you like a thief? You think about leaving. But you’d like a rest from walking. And besides, you really want to check out the comics.
Strolling around the racks, you notice the latest issue of Major Disaster. You bought it just a week ago. This guy has a sticker on it for half price!
Walking a little faster, you start picking up comic books. Doesn’t the owner know what these things are worth?
The deeper into the store you go, the darker it gets. A pair of bookcases block your way. But there’s a little space between them. You see light coming through the crack...
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You squeeze between the bookcases into an open area. A dusty lightbulb dangles from the ceiling. In its dim glow, you make out another spinning rack full of comics.
A sign taped to the top of the rack says:
YOU THINK THIS IS A LIBRARY?
LOOK, BUT DON’T TOUCH... OR YOU’LL BE SORRY.
You peer at the comics on the rack. Whoa – that’s the issue of Ballistic Bug from Horace’s slide show! The comic is marked for two bucks! And up there, on the top rack – is that the incredibly expensive copy of Super-Doer?
Then you notice something else. A doorway. Beyond the rack. Metal stairs lead downward – to the basement, you guess. An arrow-shaped sign points down the stairway. It reads: HORROR.
There’s also a tattered sign on the open door. You try to make out the faded letters. It seems to say NO ADMITTANCE. TRESPASSERS WILL BE GLOMPFed.
GLOMPFed? What’s that?
You don’t really care. All you care about is making a tough decision: Should you take a closer look at the rack, or should you go down to the horror section?
If you check out the rack, turn to PAGE 12.
If you go downstairs, turn to PAGE 51.
Character Sheet posted:
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Goal Endings: 0/4
Bad Endings
None yet.
Achievements
None yet.
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Nov 21, 2018 17:51
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- chitoryu12
- Apr 24, 2014
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Go Get GLOMPFed
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Nov 21, 2018 18:57
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- Junpei
- Oct 4, 2015
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Can't post for 11 years!
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Let's just check out the rack.
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Nov 21, 2018 19:09
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- rudecyrus
- Nov 6, 2009
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fuck you trolls
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Go downstairs
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Nov 21, 2018 19:58
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- AweStriker
- Oct 6, 2014
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got to go downstairs, down-staaaairs.
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Nov 21, 2018 20:44
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- Blueberry Pancakes
- Aug 18, 2012
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Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
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I don't know what getting GLOMPFed entails, but it sounds illegal.
Go downstairs.
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Nov 22, 2018 10:28
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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Happy day after Thanksgiving!
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You head down the stairs. But after your first step, the whole stairway begins to shake. It’s as if heavy machinery is working underneath.
The stair treads under your feet suddenly tilt. They crash down with an echoing mechanical sound. GLOMPF!
Now you know!
The stairway has turned itself into a slide! Your feet skid out from under you, and you bang your elbow. You’re going faster, and you can’t stop! You claw frantically at the slide. But you can’t get a grip on the smooth metal. You don’t even slow down – you just make a noise like nails on a blackboard.
It makes a good blend with your screams as you zoom faster and faster, deeper into the dark...
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You roll, bounce – even tumble in a somersault. Then there’s nothing underneath you!
You shoot past the end of the metal slide and slam into a plywood wall. Then you thud down onto a concrete floor. “Ooof!” you groan. That hurt!
On your hands and knees, you try to climb back up the slide that used to be a stairway. But it’s too steep and slippery. You just slither to the bottom again.
Trying to stay calm, you gaze around. You’re in a small, shadowy room. Its walls are made of plywood. An opening leads to a plywood hallway, lit by a single bulb.
You walk down the hall. After a few yards, it turns. You find yourself in another little room. This one has three doorways. You choose the right-hand one – to find yet another hall. That one zigzags to two more rooms, then a four-way intersection of corridors.
“What’s going on?” you mutter. “I feel like a rat in a maze!”
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“No problem,” you tell yourself. “I’ll memorize my route!”
To make it easier, you decide to make only right turns. That works for the first four choices you face. Then you find yourself in a room with only one doorway – on the left.
By the tenth choice, you’re mumbling to yourself, trying to remember which way you went. This place is definitely a maze. And it’s bigger than the basement of the small comic shop. You feel as if you’ve been walking for miles. How can that be?
The next room you find is stacked high with old copies of The Cellar of Scary Stories. They’re all the same issue that Horace showed you a slide of. The guy with the face like a warty pumpkin is the series host. His name is Milo the Mutant.
Hey! Now you realize why the comic shop owner seemed familiar. He looks just like Milo the Mutant!
This is starting to get creepy.
Then you hear a noise echoing through the maze. A slow, scraping sound – like a foot dragging on concrete.
Someone – or something – is following you!
What should you do?
If you go back and see who's following you, turn to PAGE 89.
If you'd rather get out of there - fast! - turn to PAGE 50.
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We chose not to get GLOMPFed and got GLOMPFed anyway. 
The majority voted to go downstairs instead of checking out the rack, and it was the staircase that had the sign warning about being GLOMPFed.
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“Okay,” you tell yourself. “So I’m being followed through a dark maze. I should look on the bright side. Maybe whoever it is can show me the way out of here.”
You turn back on your trail. As you do, you notice a nasty smell in the air. It reminds you of the time your uncle Mel left a bag of garbage in the kitchen when the family went on a two-week vacation. And it seems to be getting stronger.
Uh-oh.
You pop around a corner and into a room. Light pours through a second doorway. It throws a moving shadow on the wall.
Maybe it’s Milo, or whatever the owner’s real name is.
Then the figure arrives in the doorway.
It’s not Milo.
This guy is tall. And he doesn’t have a face like a rotten pumpkin.
His skin is greenish-gray, like moldy cheese. Puckered scars run up his cheeks. A pair of big, metal bolts stick out of his neck.
It’s impossible – but he looks like Frankenstein!
When he sees you, he snarls, “NYAARGH!”
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For a moment, you can’t tear your eyes away from Frankenstein. But when he lurches toward you, you leap away. You dash down a hallway. The creature’s snarling cry echoes behind you.
As you race through the next doorway, you scrape against the rough plywood. Your jacket tugs you back when you take the next step. It’s caught on a bunch of splinters!
You try to pull loose, but you can’t get free! And here come the monster’s scraping footsteps! Desperately, you wrestle out of the coat and keep running.
You turn left. Then right. Then right again. After a few moments, the creature’s snarls become fainter. It sounds as if you’re losing him!
Should you keep running? Or, now that he can’t see you, should you try sneaking away from the creature?
One thing’s for sure – you’ve got to find the way out of this maze. Fast!
If you run, turn to PAGE 86.
If you sneak away, turn to PAGE 65.
Sadly this was written before our modern age of pedantry, so there's no option to tell the monster that he's actually supposed to be called Frankenstein's monster, not Frankenstein. And presumably get our head ripped off for our trouble.
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Your heart is pounding so hard, you can barely hear anything. But you strain your ears as you tiptoe down the shadowy corridors. You peek carefully around every corner.
You can’t hear Frankenstein’s shuffling footsteps anymore. Even his roars of “NYAARRGH!” have faded away.
You’ve lost him!
With a sigh of relief, you lean against a plywood wall. A moth flutters past you. And a hand grabs it in midair.
Hey! That’s not your hand!
You spin around to face two kids about your own age – a red-haired girl and a boy with shaggy dark hair. He’s chewing on something. Both give you odd, closemouthed smiles.
“I’m Cammie, and this is Jack,” the girl tells you. “I guess you got GLOMPFed, just like we did.”
“How long have you guys been here?” you ask.
“We’re not sure.” Jack swallows noisily. “But I know I had short hair when I got here.”
You look at Jack’s wild mane. This is bad news.
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“See, it’s hard to guess time. We can’t tell whether it’s day or night in Milo’s maze,” Cammie explains.
“Milo’s maze?” you repeat. “So the guy in the comic shop is called Milo? Like the guy from The Cellar of Scary Stories?"
“He is the guy from The Cellar of Scary Stories,” Cammie replies. “Or he was. The comic was canceled years ago.”
“But if there’s no more comic, how could – wait a minute!” you yell. “Comic characters aren’t real! This is impossible!”
Jack just shivers. “With Milo, anything is possible. He blames kids for not buying enough of his comic books.”
“Is that why he trapped us down here?” you ask.
Jack shakes his shaggy head. “We aren’t sure. Sometimes we catch him spying on us. We think maybe he’s trying to scare us.”
“Trying?” you sputter. “I’m scared to death!”
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“We saw Milo last week,” Cammie remarks. “The werewolf was chasing us. Milo popped around the corner and stared at us. Then he shook his head, like he was annoyed. ‘I’ll never make my comeback this way,’ he said. Remember, Jack?”
Jack doesn’t reply. He’s staring over your shoulder. You turn to see a bug crawling up the plywood wall. A big bug.
Jack grabs for it. And Cammie snarls at him. It’s a sound you’d expect from a wild dog, not from a kid. Jack and Cammie seem ready to fight. You notice how skinny they are. And dirty. And how long their fingernails have grown.
Suddenly, Cammie seems to remember you’re there. “Look, you need help,” she tells you. “Why not come with us?”
“Yeah, you can meet the other kids,” Jack adds.
Your eyes widen. “You mean there are more of us down here?”
Jack nods. “We help each other.”
Getting help, even from strangers, sounds good to you. But then again, you’re not too far from that trick stairway. You might be able to find a way out on your own.
If you go with Jack and Cammie, move on to PAGE 124.
If you turn them down and go on alone, go to PAGE 112.
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- Blueberry Pancakes
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Let's hope these kids aren't cannibals.
Actually, rereading this makes me suspicious that is the case. Run away!
Let's hope these kids aren't cannibals.
Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Nov 26, 2018
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