Day 7

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

[ Instead of his normal morning announcements, this morning you awaken to… Ronald McDonald playing a lovely tune for all of you with his band. Audible even over the metal is a louder sound of scraping, and a low rumble that persists throughout the song. ]

[ Afterward, you'll find that a new hallway has appeared in the studio. Where there was once an empty wall, there is now a theater! And your tablets will display the rules for a brand new competition… ]

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Comments

[godhole]

That's not a bad idea. Do you want to go pick out a keyboard?

[rubs his back]

[thedayman]

Yeah I wanna go pick out a keyboard... A really good one! Only the best for...for Frank. None of that foreign crap he always complained about.

[godhole]

Come on, then. I'll help you out. We'll get the old Electric Dream Machine back together.

[Herding him toward the new music rooms.]

[thedayman]

Thanks Dennis. You... You're a good guy.

[time to go make questionably good music]

[godhole]

What are friends for, right?

[There are many keyboards to choose from. Dennis looms around nearby and watches to see what everyone else is picking out.]

[thedayman]

[Charlie is going right for the most scuffed and scratched up keyboard he can find.]

What 'bout this one? It's got character.

[godhole]

Sure, sure. Why don't you test it out, see what kind of sound you get?

[thedayman]

[He nods and bangs out the first few bars of The Nightman Cometh. It's tinny and a little over-synthed, but workable.]

[godhole]

All right, seems like you've got that in hand. Should I get a notebook and start jotting down lyrics?

[thedayman]

Yeah. Yeah... Make sure you get all the stuff about the magic curse in there.

[godhole]

Sure, sure.

[Fetching a notebook and a pencil.]

Magic curse.

[thedayman]

Yeah, like. The Nightcrawler curse. You gotta break it to become human again.

[godhole]

Okay. Why don't you play me a few bars, and we'll see what we can do with it?

[thedayman]

Well, okay. I think it'd go something like...

[He plays an opening sequence—something catchy and dramatic all at once.]

[godhole]

All right, I like where you're going with that.

[Hums the tune and then tries to sing:]

Nightcrawlers, night-night-nightcrawlers~

...No, that's terrible. It's not a fucking cartoon theme.

[thedayman]

Yeah, the Nightcrawlers are way more serious than that! It takes a lot to find all those minerals.

[godhole]

[GATHERING UP PATIENCE]

So you would start with minerals or magic curses.

[thedayman]

The magic curse. See, they get cursed first, and they gotta find the right minerals to break the curse. It's really all very simple, Dennis.