Once again our dauntless duo investigates unexplained phenomena, squabble and
save the day for Georgetown Institute's Paranormal Research Unit.
Below is a create your own day of adventure for another mission into
supernatural inquiry. So, please, create your own Shadow Chaser's episode by
selecting from the following classic plot elements:
Episode opens with:
a) A fleeing medieval maiden screaming as she gazes back to see a huge axe
swinging towards her neck.
b) A young boy dressed as a jester stares in horror at a headless specter
lurching towards him with arms outstretched.
c) A knight in plate armor shouts a warning and runs along a battlement towards
a falling woman in medieval robes.
d) All of the above
After the thrilling opening credits, Dr. Jonathan MacKensie trips over his own
feet as he tries to sneak across a university hallway before his boss, Dr.
Juliana Moorhouse can catch him. She appears in his classroom doorway
triumphantly waving his new assignment right after he relaxes and begins his
class lecture.
a) "You need to debunk the haunted castle theories of a bombastic,
self-aggrandizing publicity hound who has terrorized an entire city."
Jonathan replies, "I'll be happy to bring scientific impartiality to the
study of the phenomena. Should I pick up Benny on the way?" He's horrified
by her response: "It is Edgar Benedek."
b) Dr. Moorhouse tells him he can't finish teaching 'The Anthropology of the
Brain' or present his newest paper on 'the possibility of a bicameral brain
existing in Ramapithecus and quasi-contemporary hominids' until he investigates
a haunted reconstruction of a medieval castle.
c) She warns him that his annual evaluation is next week and he hasn't produced
any reports lately as Director of the Paranormal Research Unit.
d) All of the above
Jonathan is surprised to find Edgar 'Benny' Benedek at the scene of the
mysterious incident dressed in a pseudo-medieval disguise of astonishingly bad
taste in neon colors with high topped athletic shoes. They go off to have dinner
together, discussing the haunted castle mystery at a restaurant where Benny
eats:
a) Anchovy pizza topped with yogurt and hosein sauce.
b) Raw meat and sugar flambe on a baked potato.
c) Fig Newtons soaked in vinegar and raw eggs.
d) All of the above
Benedek swiftly contacts a talented psychic friend from:
a) Outer Mongolia, Benny charters a special jet using Jonathan's credit card.
b) The Maldive Islands, Benny sends a newly bought pontoon plane to pick them
up.
c) A hobo who jumped a train from Wyoming where he works as a Carnival geek.
d) None of the above. The guest psychic, Dugan Foch, is actually Benny
channeling an ancient druid.
Dugan Foch shows up dressed in a rainbow colored curtains wrapped around street
clothes and promptly resolves the mystery through his mysterious ability to:
a) Taste the past by licking the pavement and sniffing assorted clues.
b) Sense ghosts by hopping up and down like a chicken while quacking like a
duck.
c) Asking his pet psychic piglet "Sweetiekins" to tap out the answer
in Morse code using her little cloven hooves.
d) All of the above
Jonathan fast becomes hysterical when he realizes that Benny's shenanigans are
bound to cost a pretty penny. So he goes off to research the situation at the
local library leaving Benny to get abducted by the frightening creature seen at
the beginning of the episode. Hung upside down by a thin, rapidly disintegrating
rope over the edge of the reconstructed castle battlements in the middle of the
County Fair, Benny's only hope is for rescue is Jonathan!
Benny is about to plunge to his death on the black asphalt far below if the
villain's candle flame finishes burning through the thin rope tied to his feet
before someone somehow makes it past the moat monster and put the candle out in
the next few moments.
a) Jonathan is forced to swim a Jell-O filled moat fighting off monsters, climb
the castle wall and fight the villains off long enough to put the candle out
using an antique enchanted broadsword while wearing a purple and green dinosaur
outfit.
b) Jonathan is forced to dress up like a French chambermaid and rescues Benny
using only a enamel teakettle and a porcelain soup ladle.
c) Jonathan puts on a fake tree outfit, shuffles up to the drawbridge and lures
the villains away by faking a forest fire.
d) Jonathan puts on a Carmen Miranda outfit and lures the villains away long
enough to rescue Benny by leaving a trail of slightly bruised fruit and singing
"I'm a little Teapot, here's my spout".
e) All of the above in rapid succession
The two shadow chasers return safely to Georgetown Institute in Washington, DC
where they:
a) Try to explain to Dr. Moorhouse and the mysterious smoking man who lurks
around her office that there was no mysterious occurrence, just a little
garden-variety crime.
b) Jonathan tries to explain how Benny spent half a million dollars of
Georgetown money in less than three days of investigation.
c) Edgar Benedek explains exactly how supernatural their weekend was, while
Jonathan explains how ordinary it was.
d) All of the above
-the end-
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