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JURASSIC CHARK - A PetBunny Interactive Serial
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PROLOGUE
In a deep, dark underground burrow on a tropical island off
the coast of the Florida peninsula, a series of clandestine
experiments is feverishly underway...
ACT I. Scene 1.
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EVIL SO (hunched over his right foot, removing a squishy
substance from between his toes): "At last, at last! Look
at this fossilized cecal matter! I have discovered the
trail of a Bunny Raptor. If I can extract its DNA from this
cecal pellet, then I can clone the beast and rule the world!
Heh, heh, heh."
FEMALE SLAVE (wrinkling nose): "Peeyuuu! Smells more like an
Alfalfalasaurus to me. Look at how this string-of-pearls is
draped across the pile of timothy hay. Are you sure?"
EVIL SO (confused, as always, but acting macho): "Sure
I'm sure. That aroma is typical of the Great Hareopods from
the Lapinaceous Period. Could be a wandering Tricarrotops, though."
FEMALE SLAVE (examining a nearby telephone cord): "Woah! Look
at the path of destruction! Have you seen the toothmarks on this?
No Tricarrotops can slice through copper wire with such force."
EVIL SO (picking remote control up off the carpet, shuddering):
"And [sniff] there's not even one rubber button left on my clicker.
That could have been *me*!"
FEMALE SLAVE (reassuringly): "Nah, we'll always know how to push
your buttons. But you know what this means, don't you? We're on
the trail of that fearsome, furry demon who once roamed the Earth
during the Oatozoic Era. A Jurassic CH, CH, CHAR..."
EVIL SO (macho act vaporizing, screaming in horror): "No, no! Not
that! Oh please, Dear God, anything but that! Not a Jurassic
CH, CH, ... CHARRRKKK!!!" [sob]
FEMALE SLAVE (knees trembling): "We've got to find and hunt him
down fast! You know what a Chark can do to an apartment?
Especially to one with a NO PETS policy?"
EVIL SO (head falling into hands, wimping out): "Can't we just
pack up the car and move to a homeless shelter or something?"
ACT I. Scene 2. (in the hallway)
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FEMALE SLAVE (tiptoeing, dragging SO by his hand): "I've found its
tracks! You can see the neighbors downstairs through this hole in
the carpet here. And there are oat seed hulls scattered everywhere.
NOT a pretty sight. Tsk, tsk."
EVIL SO (more petrified than the long-forgotten poops behind the
refrigerator): "Dear, I've got to go back! I forgot to clean
the litterboxes."
Suddenly a **buzzing** noise, caused by reverberations from
its long, porcupine whiskers, interrupts the tense silence.
The beast shakes the oat hay stalks from his black-tipped ears.
A macabre, shrill laughter fills the air...
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Okay, EveryBunny, now it's *your* turn!
The idea behind this "interactive serial" is for everyone on
the list to write an Act/Scene, building on what prior PBers
have written, until we have assembled a complete play. The
Jurassic Chark himself will write the final act. *Brrr...*
Feel free to introduce any characters you wish and to twist
the plot in any direction imaginable. Just make sure that the
EVIL SO winds up as the biggest loser in the end, okay?
So, sharpen up those pencils (with your teeth, of course) and
start ::THUMPing:: the keyboard with your furry paws. Let the
adventure begin!
- Sir William Charkspeare ("The Chard")
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