Small Stakes
(Miss Gorgon loading her clarinet with toothpicks.)
Miss Gorgon: Enough of this! How about some dying music! Forgive me if some of the notes are a little sharp!
(Vampire being overwhelmed by toothpicks.)
Miss Gorgon: Cornered! Want to see if I have any toothpicks left?
Vampire: Argh!
Miss Gorgon: Scared now, huh?
Vampire: No… there’s a Dirty Harry/Rain Man mashup t-shirt idea here and I can’t… quite… get there.
Vampires An Ex-Jerk
(Vampire enters his castle through a interdimensional moth-hole.)
Vampire: Ahh, dimension sweet dimension.
(Vampire holds his chest.)
Vampire: Well, that was inconvenient. But now it’s all been resolved, I can– HGERK!– get back to– GAK!– what I was–
(Vampire collapses. Darkness is encroaching.)
Vampire: Hmm. I can’t help feeling that I’ve forgotten something. ERG! Oh, that was it.
(Darkness.)
Vampire: The part where I was dying…
Deus Ex Machinery
(Vampire’s point of view. Darkness.)
The Professor: Vampire, wake up.
Vampire: Huh? I’m not dead dead double dead?
The Professor: Mothman here brought you to me. He told me about the spliters in your bloodstream.
The Professor: I mounted an electromagnet in your chest to repel the wood shrapnel from your heart. I call it the Bark Reactor.
Vampire: So, it will allow me to function exactly as I was before?
The Professor: Yes. In fact, I see no need for this to ever come up again.
Taste Test
Vampire: Well, you tricked me into a murder situtation, but then you saved my life. You’re despicable, but likeable. You’ll fit in great around here.
Mothman: Thanks! Your dimension seems nice.
Mothman: Although, the fabric of space time in this universe as a terrible aftertaste.
Vampire: Yeah, we’ve had some time travel mishaps.
Vampire: Right now we have grown up versions of two local kids stranded here for the future of a cancelled timeline.
Mothman: What?! Don’t you have a unicorn in his dimension to prevent that sort of stuff?!
Vampire: We used to… sort of… he erased himself from ever having existed. I’m not sure how we even remember him!
Mothman: Any other gross violations of the continuum I should know about?!
Evil Future-Robot: Yo.
Manhunt
Skunk-Ape: The Invisible Man is my only chance to step down as mayor. We have to find him. Luckily I am an expert hunter.
Howie: I don’t mean to question your abilities, Skunk-Ape… but you hunt squirrels. We’re talking about a person here.
Howie: Also– and I think this is pretty important– we can’t see him.
Skunk-Ape: So the only difference is we’re hunting for a man who’s invis–
Skunk-Ape: OH! That’s why he’s called the invisible man! I just got that!
Howie: Maybe I do mean to question your abilities.
Primate Defective
Howie: Finding the invisible man will take more than hunting skills. We’ll need to be super sleuths!
Skunk-Ape: Hmm. I disagree. Even with a cape a sleuth is far too slow. And they only have three toes.
Howie: No… that’s a sloth. I’m talking about becoming detectives!
Howie: We’ll use out superior powers of observation to track down an invisible man. We’ll be the greatest gumshoes that ever lived!
Skunk-Ape: That sounds kinda gross.
Howie: They are not shoes made of gum!
Step by Step
Skunk-Ape: The invisible man may be invisible, but his invisible feet will still leave not-invisible footprints. Here are some tracks now!
(Webbed footprints in the dirt.)
Skunk-Ape: Hmm. No. These are Swamp-Creature’s.
(Trail in the dirt.)
Skunk-Ape: Biomass.
(No sign of any footprints.)
Skunk-Ape: Henry Poltergeist.
Street Poll
Skunk-Ape: (Shouting.) Attention monsters! This is mayor Skunk-Ape!
Howie: I’m telling you, you’re gonna feel silly.
Skunk-Ape: Anyone who is invisible, please raise your hand!
Howie: Wait for it…
Skunk-Ape: Wait a minute. I’m forgetting something.
Howie: Ah, the penny drops.
Skunk-Ape: How will we tell the handraisers apart?
Howie: And rolls into a storm drain.
Typeface
(Skunk-Ape and Howie are searching the Library shelves.)
Skunk-Ape: What are you looking for?
Howie: Sherlock Holmes. He’ll figure this out.
Howie: The stories in the library are made real by the Doubt-o-Dome. So if Sherlock will help us, he’ll find the Invisible Man for sure.
(Howie is reading the book and the words are floating above it. It’s a joke about the Sherlock TV show, yo.)
Howie: Huh. Cool effect.
(Skunk-Ape barges in like a doofus and the letters go everywhere.)
Skunk-Ape: Find anything?
(A lowercase ‘k’ hits Howie in the eye.)
Howie: Ow! Pointy serifs!