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@ 2023-10-24 17:48:00

Musical Plot - It's A Thriller Diller Tonight!
Who: Henry Townshend & Stella Bloom (NPC)
What: Henry’s working late, and ghosts interrupt his photo shoot!
Where: Back Door Media (the porn studio Henry works for)
When: Late tonight
Song: Michael Jackson’s Thriller
Warnings: Horror, ghosts, and ghouls, but it’s all PG13

[OOC NOTE: We’re going to say that Henry and Stella are both supernaturally sensitive. These aren’t necessarily the type of Ghosts Henry usually sees, but we’ll blame that on Stella!]

[Henry is working late at Back Door Media. Stella Bloon, one of the actresses, asked him to do a horror themed photo shoot using the studio’s set for their latest horror themed production. The studio owner granted his permission, so long as the pair do the photo shoot after hours and credit the studio.
As the two are getting some risqué shots on a set made up to look like the laboratory of a mad scientist, a strange feeling comes over them both. It feels as though someone or something is watching them from the shadows.]

HENRY: (looking around carefully, as though he expects something to be sneaking up on them from the darkness – He starts singing, lowly at first in a concerned voice)
It’s close to midnight.
Something evils lurkin’ in the dark.

STELLA: (also looking around and feeling more than a little exposed, pulls the lab coat she’s wearing tight around her) Under the moonlight,
You see a sight that almost stops your heart.

(Henry spots a pair of glowing eyes in the shadows of the wings of the set.)

HENRY: You try to scream,
But terror takes the sound before you make it.

(Stella looks around frantically for whatever it is that’s watching them. A large mishappen ghost emerges from the shadows and come towards them its burn covered arms outstretched and its eyes glowing a deep dark red)

STELLA: (Freezes in place, her eyes huge and terrified)
You start to freeze,
As horror looks you right between the eyes.
You’re paralyzed!

(The ghost lunges. Henry yelps and pulls Stella way.)

HENRY & STELLA: ‘Cause this is thriller!
Thriller night.

STELLA: And no one’s gonna save you
From the beast about to strike!

(The two run across the set. Henry grabs a prop bat that had been left out for tomorrow’s shoot.)

HENRY & STELLA: You know it’s thriller!
Thriller night.

HENRY: You’re fighting for your life
Inside a killer, thriller tonight, yeah.

(The pair reach the edge of the set and make a sharp turn into the hall that leads to the front of the studio where the offices are. Henry leads Stella up the dimly lit hall. The lights overhead flicker, as if they are about to go out. Somewhere up the hall in front of them a door slams with enough force to make them both jump.)

HENRY: (for a moment he and Stella are frozen where they stand. As they start slowly walking forward, he resumes singing, again in that quiet cautious voice.)
You hear the door slam
And realize there’s nowhere left to run.

STELLA: (clinging to Henry’s back and fearfully peering over his shoulder
You feel the cold hand
And wonder if you’ll ever see the sun…

HENRY: You close your eyes
And hope that this is just imagination, girl.

STELLA: But all the while,
You hear a creature creepin’ up behind.

A VOICE FROM BEHIND: You’re out of time!

(The pair turn around to see a new ghost standing in the hall behind them. This one about 7 feet tall, with long impossibly thin limbs. The only facial feature is a wide grotesque mouth. It’s lips peel back in a terrifying smile, revealing sharp jagged teeth)

HENRY & STELLA: (both screaming)
‘Cause this is thriller!
Thriller night!

HENRY: There ain’t no second chance
Against the thing with the forty eyes.

(Stella’s hand firmly in his, Henry makes a break up the hallway towards the studio’s front lobby.)

STELLA: (Whispering fearfully) Thriller, Thriller night!

HENRY: You’re fighting for your life
Inside a killer, thriller tonight.

(Dozens of arms reach out from the walls on either side of them, clawing and grabbing their clothes, and hair. Henry swings the bat at the arms and hands to keep them from grabbing at them)

HENRY: Night creatures callin’
The dead start to walk in their masquerade.
There’s no escaping the jaws of the alien this time!

STELLA: (Ducking low to avoid the hands)
They’re open wide!

HENRY: This is the end of your life.

(The two manage to reach the front lobby. Outside a streetlight provides eerie pale light through the front windows. Henry and Stella make a bee-line for the door. However, their path is blocked by a third ghoulish ghost that arises out of the floor.)

HENRY: (Banking right to go around the Ghost in the middle of the floor)
They’re out to get you.
There’s demons closing in on every side!

(The Ghost with the glowing eyes emerges from the darkness into the light from outside. It’s eyes burning as though on fire and its arms out stretched towards them)

HENRY: They will possess you.
Unless you change that number on your dial!

(The ghost from the hallway appears, seemingly to drop down from the ceiling overhead, its mouth still peeled back in that hideous grin)

STELLA: (Clinging to Henry and burying her face into his shoulder)
Now is the time
For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah.

HENRY: (Brandishing the bat in front of him)
All through the night
I’ll save you from the terror on the screen
I’ll make you see!

HENRY & STELLA: That this is thriller!
Thriller night

SHADOW GHOST: (slowly getting closer, getting taller as it does)
‘Cause I can thrill you more
Than any ghoul could ever dare try!

HENRY & STELLA: Thriller! Thriller night!

RED EYED GHOST: (Moving in from the side, arms outstreatched)
So let me hold you tight
And share a
Killer, diller chiller
Thriller here tonight!

HENRY & STELLA: ‘Cause this is Thriller
Thriller night

GROTESQUE SMILE GHOST: (Flanking in from the opposite side of the Red Eyed Ghost)
Girl, I can thrill you more
Than any ghoul would ever dare try!

HENRY & STELLA: Thriller! thriller night!

ALL THREE GHOSTS: So let me hold you tight
And share a
Killer, Thriller…

(The three ghosts have blocked Henry and Stella from the front door and the pair are pinned against the reception desk. They continue to advance, with even more ghosts seemingly coming in from the shadows, floor and ceiling. Henry grips his bat tightly, ready to strike these ghosts the moment they attack!)

ALL THREE GHOSTS: I’m gonna thrill you tonight!

(The ghosts get no less than a few feet away and then suddenly break out into the dance from the Thriller Music Video. Both Stella and Henry can swear they faintly hear the music itself coming from somewhere. All they can do is stare in confusion)

A DISEMBODIED VOICE SPEAKING OVER THE STUDIO PA SYSTEM:
Darkness falls across the land.
The midnight hour is close at hand.
Creatures crawl in search of blood,
To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood.
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down,
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpses shell…

Henry and Stella both get pulled into the dance line with the ghosts)

SHADOW GHOST: I’m gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller)

STELLA: Ooh Babe

RED EYED GHOST: Thriller - I’m gonna thrill you tonight

HENRY: Thriller - Oh Darling

GROTESQUE SMILE GHOST: Oh babe - I’m gonna thrill you tonight

STELLA: Thriller at night, babe…

Henry and Stella both get pulled into the dance line with the ghosts)

THE DISEMBODIED VOICE SPEAKING OVER THE STUDIO PA SYSTEM:
The foulest stench is in the air.
The funk of forty thousand years,
And the grisly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom.
And though you fight to stay alive,
Your body starts to shiver!
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of…the Thriller!

(Henry and Stella finally break free and burst through the main doors. The sound of maniacal laughter follows them into the night.)

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