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They were planning on feeding innocent children to lizard monsters, they were also quite sadistic about it.
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* AlasPoorVillain: While their methods were murderous, the Taylors just wanted to propagate their species.
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Inside, Mr Wilson’s dissuasion of Jasmine’s misgivings is disrupted by a piercing scream. From a wall-mounted speaker sounds a low-pitched whine: class change.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When Augie’s digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable discomfort - one of his migraines, he says.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When Augie’s digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable discomfort - one of his migraines, he says.
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Inside, Mr Wilson’s Wilson's dissuasion of Jasmine’s Jasmine's misgivings is disrupted by a piercing scream. From a wall-mounted speaker sounds a low-pitched whine: class change.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. WhenAugie’s Augie's digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable discomfort - one of his migraines, he says.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When
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While the other kids are nice enough, David narrates, the school seems a bit off - in the hallway, as Willy plays with a beeping handheld games console, Mr Taylor briefly goes beserk. He then smilingly reassures the boy, and confiscates the device.
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While the other kids are nice enough, David narrates, the school seems a bit off - in the hallway, as Willy plays with a beeping handheld games console, Mr Taylor briefly goes beserk.berserk. He then smilingly reassures the boy, and confiscates the device.
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In Augie’s dormitory, he and Jasmine reel at what they’ve seen. Augie, near panic, gets into bed, ready to play innocent. Jasmine avows that this is no time for rules, and firmly urges an escape attempt. As she goes to dress, Augie suddenly stares at a wall-mounted speaker: he has an idea.
Augie, now dressed, approaches Jasmine’s dormitory door, and quietly calls through. The door bursts open to admit Mrs Taylor, with a hand clamped around Jasmine’s mouth. Jasmine bites her captor’s hand, and struggles free. She and Augie run. Mrs Taylor gasps and inspects her finger, in which bite marks now reveal the green scales beneath.
Augie, now dressed, approaches Jasmine’s dormitory door, and quietly calls through. The door bursts open to admit Mrs Taylor, with a hand clamped around Jasmine’s mouth. Jasmine bites her captor’s hand, and struggles free. She and Augie run. Mrs Taylor gasps and inspects her finger, in which bite marks now reveal the green scales beneath.
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In Augie’s Augie's dormitory, he and Jasmine reel at what they’ve they've seen. Augie, near panic, gets into bed, ready to play innocent. Jasmine avows that this is no time for rules, and firmly urges an escape attempt. As she goes to dress, Augie suddenly stares at a wall-mounted speaker: he has an idea.
Augie, now dressed, approachesJasmine’s Jasmine's dormitory door, and quietly calls through. The door bursts open to admit Mrs Taylor, with a hand clamped around Jasmine’s Jasmine's mouth. Jasmine bites her captor’s captor's hand, and struggles free. She and Augie run. Mrs Taylor gasps and inspects her finger, in which bite marks now reveal the green scales beneath.
Augie, now dressed, approaches
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As the Taylors realise what he’s doing, they panic. Mr Taylor fumbles with the keys and unlocks the door. With the Master nearing, Jasmine holds the speaker, and urges Augie to press play. Amplified electric guitar strings fill the air. The Taylors hold their hands to their ears, and cry out in anguish. Augie turns up the volume, and in a shower of offal, the Master explodes.
The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From Mr Taylor’s reaction to a beeping watch, and from the sound-restrictive rules, Augie realised high-frequency sound to be dangerous to these beings.
The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From Mr Taylor’s reaction to a beeping watch, and from the sound-restrictive rules, Augie realised high-frequency sound to be dangerous to these beings.
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As the Taylors realise what he’s he's doing, they panic. Mr Taylor fumbles with the keys and unlocks the door. With the Master nearing, Jasmine holds the speaker, and urges Augie to press play. Amplified electric guitar strings fill the air. The Taylors hold their hands to their ears, and cry out in anguish. Augie turns up the volume, and in a shower of offal, the Master explodes.
The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From MrTaylor’s Taylor's reaction to a beeping watch, and from the sound-restrictive rules, Augie realised high-frequency sound to be dangerous to these beings.
The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From Mr
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* AlienLunch: The Taylors drink glutinous green stuff.
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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs to whose occupants they will eventually be fed.
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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Outwardly, Black Book isn’t isn't so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs to whose occupants they will eventually be fed.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Augie gently rebuts Jasmine’s principled rebellion, as the situation is beyond the control of them and their parents. However, as Jasmine later notes, Augie’s rule-abiding holds less weight in a life-or-death situation.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes the futility of Jasmine’s endless protest - but as she later argues, some situations necessitate rebellion.
* TheEndOrIsIt: As [[LampshadeHanging noted]] by David - one egg survived…
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes the futility of Jasmine’s endless protest - but as she later argues, some situations necessitate rebellion.
* TheEndOrIsIt: As [[LampshadeHanging noted]] by David - one egg survived…
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Augie gently rebuts Jasmine’s Jasmine's principled rebellion, as the situation is beyond the control of them and their parents. However, as Jasmine later notes, Augie’s Augie's rule-abiding holds less weight in a life-or-death situation.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes the futility ofJasmine’s Jasmine's endless protest - but as she later argues, some situations necessitate rebellion.
* TheEndOrIsIt: As [[LampshadeHanging noted]] by David - one eggsurvived… survived...
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes the futility of
* TheEndOrIsIt: As [[LampshadeHanging noted]] by David - one egg
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-->'''Mr Taylor:''' We’re a race of meat eaters - all kinds of meat!
* MassHypnosis: The spunge entrances the students into subservience.
* MassHypnosis: The spunge entrances the students into subservience.
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-->'''Mr Taylor:''' We’re We're a race of meat eaters - all kinds of meat!
* MassHypnosis: The spunge entrances the students intosubservience. subservience.
* ThePowerOfRock: The aliens are defeated by the loud guitar from Augie's walkman.
* MassHypnosis: The spunge entrances the students into
* ThePowerOfRock: The aliens are defeated by the loud guitar from Augie's walkman.
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* ScienceHero: Augie’s technical skills save the students from being devoured by a murderous tribe of sapient lizards.
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* ScienceHero: Augie’s Augie's technical skills save the students from being devoured by a murderous tribe of sapient lizards.lizards.
* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The Taylors drink glutinous green stuff.
* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The Taylors drink glutinous green stuff.
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-->'''David:''' The end... or is it?
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-->'''David:''' The end... or is it?
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David, the others are impressed to see, has laid the fire all by himself. He seems quiet. Is something wrong? He guardedly says he’s fine. Kristen explains David having had to change school; Frank and Kiki seize the opportunity to rib him. David calmly vents his despondent frustration at the sudden isolation. Kristen and Gary gently reassure him. However, in his dismay, David has found inspiration for a story, in which a new school proves stranger than anyone could have imagined. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of Hatching.”
On the road before the gates of the Black Book school, a small dog sniffs a manhole cover, which suddenly lifts. The dog, hidden from view, yelps in alarm. When the lid falls, the dog is gone. A green residue stains the spot where the dog stood.
On the driveway of the stately boarding school, Mr and Mrs Wilson, having been called away on business, escort brother and sister Augie and Jasmine. While Augie ponders the architecture, Jasmine pronounces it to be a pit.
Inside, Mr Wilson’s dissuasion of Jasmine’s misgivings is disrupted by a piercing scream. Mr and Mrs Wilson follow a second scream to a dormitory, where a girl, Marie, sits up in bed, and accredits her brief distress to a nightmare.
School proprietors Mr and Mrs Taylor arrive, and explain Marie to have been running a fever. From a wall-mounted speaker sounds a low-pitched whine: class change.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When Augie’s digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable discomfort. When the beeping stops, he reassures a concerned Mr and Mrs Wilson of his occasional migraines.
In the corridor, Jasmine laments Augie’s tendency to passive acceptance. Augie gently notes the futility of protest. She admits her unease, and he bolsters her resolve.
Outside, they bid their parents farewell. Another low-pitched buzz, Augie suspects, indicates dinner time. Jasmine copes with her dismay by doing a robot impression.
In the dining hall, students pass around and enthusiastically delve into a large bowl of some sort of spongy white goo. A boy opposite identifies the stuff as “spunge,” with a “u,” and keenly recommends it. Augie and Jasmine decide to pass.
On the road before the gates of the Black Book school, a small dog sniffs a manhole cover, which suddenly lifts. The dog, hidden from view, yelps in alarm. When the lid falls, the dog is gone. A green residue stains the spot where the dog stood.
On the driveway of the stately boarding school, Mr and Mrs Wilson, having been called away on business, escort brother and sister Augie and Jasmine. While Augie ponders the architecture, Jasmine pronounces it to be a pit.
Inside, Mr Wilson’s dissuasion of Jasmine’s misgivings is disrupted by a piercing scream. Mr and Mrs Wilson follow a second scream to a dormitory, where a girl, Marie, sits up in bed, and accredits her brief distress to a nightmare.
School proprietors Mr and Mrs Taylor arrive, and explain Marie to have been running a fever. From a wall-mounted speaker sounds a low-pitched whine: class change.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When Augie’s digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable discomfort. When the beeping stops, he reassures a concerned Mr and Mrs Wilson of his occasional migraines.
In the corridor, Jasmine laments Augie’s tendency to passive acceptance. Augie gently notes the futility of protest. She admits her unease, and he bolsters her resolve.
Outside, they bid their parents farewell. Another low-pitched buzz, Augie suspects, indicates dinner time. Jasmine copes with her dismay by doing a robot impression.
In the dining hall, students pass around and enthusiastically delve into a large bowl of some sort of spongy white goo. A boy opposite identifies the stuff as “spunge,” with a “u,” and keenly recommends it. Augie and Jasmine decide to pass.
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On the road before the gates of the Black Book school, a small dog sniffs a manhole cover, which suddenly lifts. The dog, hidden from view, yelps in alarm. When the lid falls, the dog is gone. A green residue stains the spot where the dog stood.
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On the driveway of
Inside, Mr Wilson’s dissuasion of Jasmine’s misgivings is disrupted by a piercing scream.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When Augie’s digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable
In the corridor, Jasmine laments Augie’s tendency to passive acceptance. Augie gently notes the futility of protest. She admits her unease, and
Outside,
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After a few weeks, Augie and Jasmine start to get used to the place. Then, late one night, a buzzer sounds. All students, except for Augie and Jasmine, rise from their beds, and, in a trance, go downstairs. In the hallway, Jasmine finds Augie zombying along with them, and urges him to wake. He hastily claps a hand over her mouth and pulls her aside, whereupon they assess the situation. Jasmine suggests they find out where the procession is headed.
The lulled students descend a brief set of stairs. Augie pleads a retreat: he doesn’t want to get into trouble. Jasmine refuses.
Below, a green glow lights a low-ceilinged corridor, which leads to a tiled, expansive hallway, set with squared, three foot metal consoles. On these, some of the lulled students turn dials.
The lulled students descend a brief set of stairs. Augie pleads a retreat: he doesn’t want to get into trouble. Jasmine refuses.
Below, a green glow lights a low-ceilinged corridor, which leads to a tiled, expansive hallway, set with squared, three foot metal consoles. On these, some of the lulled students turn dials.
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After a few weeks, Augie and Jasmine start to get used to the place. Then, late one night, a buzzer sounds. All students, except for Augie and Jasmine, rise from their beds, and, in a trance, go downstairs. In the hallway, Jasmine finds Augie zombying along with them, and urges him to wake. He hastily claps a hand over her mouth and pulls her aside, whereupon they assess the situation. Jasmine suggests they find out where the procession is headed.
aside.
The lulled students descend a brief set of stairs. Augiepleads a retreat: he doesn’t want to get into trouble. and Jasmine refuses.
follow.
Below, a green glow lights a low-ceilinged corridor, which leads to a tiled, expansivehallway, hall, set with squared, three foot metal consoles. On these, some of the lulled students turn dials.
The lulled students descend a brief set of stairs. Augie
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When the Taylors leave, Augie and Jasmine discreetly follow them to their study. The teachers celebrate the near-complete incubation. Someone called the Master has waited a century for this. Mr Taylor fondly anticipates release from “these infernal trappings.” He pulls up his sleeve. As Augie and Jasmine watch from the doorway, the flesh of his wrist stops, to be succeeded by an arm of dark green scales. He works a finger beneath the wrist, pulling away the synthetic skin. With glasses of some sort of green gunk, the teachers drink a toast to a troubled past, a glorious future, and to the Master.
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When the Taylors leave, Augie and Jasmine discreetly follow them to their study. The teachers celebrate the near-complete incubation. Someone called the Master has waited a century for this. Mr Taylor fondly anticipates release from “these infernal trappings.” He pulls up his sleeve. As Augie and Jasmine watch from the doorway, the flesh of his wrist stops, to be succeeded by an arm of dark green scales. He works a finger beneath the wrist, pulling away the synthetic skin. With glasses of some sort of green gunk, the teachers drink a toast to a troubled past, a glorious future, and to the Master.
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Augie, now dressed, approaches Jasmine’s dormitory door, and quietly calls through. The door bursts open to admit Mrs Taylor, with a hand clamped around Jasmine’s mouth: the children should have eaten their spunge. Just then, Jasmine bites her captor’s hand, and struggles free. She and Augie run. Mrs Taylor gasps and inspects her finger, in which bite marks now reveal the green scales beneath.
In the corridor, Mr Taylor blocks their path. They flee back into the basement. Instead of to the egg pool, Augie takes them down a further set of stairs. A wet, dark, concrete passageway is strewn with lost shoes. A low, thunderous groan is accredited by Augie to plumbing. With a heavy thud, a dim light tints the chamber. Behind the two, a metal grill has lowered, behind which stand Mr and Mrs Taylor.
In the corridor, Mr Taylor blocks their path. They flee back into the basement. Instead of to the egg pool, Augie takes them down a further set of stairs. A wet, dark, concrete passageway is strewn with lost shoes. A low, thunderous groan is accredited by Augie to plumbing. With a heavy thud, a dim light tints the chamber. Behind the two, a metal grill has lowered, behind which stand Mr and Mrs Taylor.
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Augie, now dressed, approaches Jasmine’s dormitory door, and quietly calls through. The door bursts open to admit Mrs Taylor, with a hand clamped around Jasmine’s mouth: the children should have eaten their spunge. Just then, mouth. Jasmine bites her captor’s hand, and struggles free. She and Augie run. Mrs Taylor gasps and inspects her finger, in which bite marks now reveal the green scales beneath.
In the corridor, Mr Taylor blocks their path. They Augie and Jasmine flee back into the basement. Instead of to the egg pool, Augie takes them down a further set of stairs. A wet, dark, concrete passageway is strewn with lost shoes. A low, thunderous groan is accredited by Augie to plumbing. With a heavy thud, a dim light tints the chamber. Behind the two, a metal grill has lowered, behind which stand Mr and Mrs Taylor.
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At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, and growls thunderously.
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At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother "the mother" deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, and growls thunderously.growls.
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The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From Mr Taylor’s reaction to a beeping watch, and from the sound-restrictive rules, Augie realised high-frequency sound to be dangerous to these beings. In relief, the two hug.
On the next floor, their disorientated classmates wander amidst shattered eggshells, stained with green goo. As the students make their way out, one egg, undamaged, quakes and begins to split open....
On the next floor, their disorientated classmates wander amidst shattered eggshells, stained with green goo. As the students make their way out, one egg, undamaged, quakes and begins to split open....
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The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From Mr Taylor’s reaction to a beeping watch, and from the sound-restrictive rules, Augie realised high-frequency sound to be dangerous to these beings. In relief, the two hug.
On the next floor,their disorientated classmates students wander amidst shattered eggshells, stained with green goo. As the students make their way out, one egg, undamaged, quakes and begins starts to split open....
On the next floor,
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"The end," says David, “[[TheEndOrIsIt or is it]]?" As Gary douses the fire, he warns everyone to go straight home - tonight is a school night!
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* AlienLunch: The Taylors drink glutinous green stuff.
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* AlienLunch: The Taylors drink glutinous green stuff.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose occupants they will eventually be fed]].
* BondOneLiner: When covered in [[spoiler: the glutinous remains of the Master]]:
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose occupants they will eventually be fed]].
* BondOneLiner: When covered in [[spoiler: the glutinous remains of the Master]]:
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in
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* ScienceHero: Augie’s technical skills save the students from [[spoiler: being devoured by a murderous tribe of sapient lizards]].
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* ScienceHero: Augie’s technical skills save the students from [[spoiler: being devoured by a murderous tribe of sapient lizards]].lizards.
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* TheReptilians: This variant of sapient reptiles, having infiltrated human society, secretly use human labour to nurture their unhatched young.
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* TheReptilians: ReptilianConspiracy: This variant of sapient reptiles, having infiltrated human society, secretly use human labour to nurture their unhatched young.
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David, the others are impressed to see, has laid the fire all by himself. He seems quiet. Is something wrong?. He guardedly says he’s fine. Kristen explains David having had to change school; Frank and Kiki seize the opportunity to rib him. David calmly vents his despondent frustration at the sudden isolation. Kristen and Gary gently reassure him. However, in his dismay, David has found inspiration for a story, in which a new school proves stranger than anyone could have imagined. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of Hatching.”
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David, the others are impressed to see, has laid the fire all by himself. He seems quiet. Is something wrong?. wrong? He guardedly says he’s fine. Kristen explains David having had to change school; Frank and Kiki seize the opportunity to rib him. David calmly vents his despondent frustration at the sudden isolation. Kristen and Gary gently reassure him. However, in his dismay, David has found inspiration for a story, in which a new school proves stranger than anyone could have imagined. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of Hatching.”
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Having escaped extinction, the Taylors nurture the next generation of their race via hypnotised students, who, on hatching, will serve another purpose.
At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, and lows thunderously.
At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, and lows thunderously.
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Having escaped extinction, the Taylors now nurture the next generation of their race via hypnotised students, who, on hatching, will serve [[ToServeMan another purpose.
purpose]].
At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, andlows growls thunderously.
At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, and
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The end, says David, “[[TheEndOrIsIt or is it]]? As Gary douses the fire, he warns everyone to go straight home - tonight is a school night!
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* AccentuateTheNegative: Jasmine resents being left at boarding school, and rails at everything about the place.
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* AccentuateTheNegative: Jasmine resents being left at boarding school, and rails at everything about heartily bemoans the place.
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* AliensAmongUs: If the creatures are extraterrestrial, they’ve seamlessly infiltrated Earth society.
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* AliensAmongUs: If the creatures are While they don't seem to be extraterrestrial, they’ve seamlessly a sapient species, seemingly older than humanity, has infiltrated Earth society.
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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: [[ZigZaggingTrope Ziggzagged]]. Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose spawn they will eventually be fed]].
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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: [[ZigZaggingTrope Ziggzagged]]. Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose spawn occupants they will eventually be fed]].
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* RoboSpeak: Dryly affected by Jasmine.
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* RoboSpeak: Dryly affected by Jasmine.Jasmine, in mockery of the school's rigid coordination.
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* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes Jasmine’s the futility of Jasmine’s endless protest - but as she later argues, some situations necessitate rebellion.
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* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes Jasmine’s the futility of Jasmine’s endless protest - but as she later argues, some situations necessitate rebellion.
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master:
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in [[spoiler: the glutinous remains of the Master: Master]]:
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: -->'''Jasmine:''' This better not stain.
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: Master:
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-->'''Jasmine:''' This better not stain.
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: -->'''Jasmine:''' This better not stain.\\
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: -->'''Jasmine:''' This better not stain.\\
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: -- >'''Jasmine:''' This better not stain.\\
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* BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: -- >'''Jasmine:''' -->'''Jasmine:''' This better not stain.\\
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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: [[ZiggzaggedTrope Ziggzagged]]. Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose spawn they will eventually be fed]].
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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: [[ZiggzaggedTrope [[ZigZaggingTrope Ziggzagged]]. Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose spawn they will eventually be fed]].
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* TheReptillians: This variant of sapient reptiles, having infiltrated human society, secretly use human labour to nurture their unhatched young.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"The young ones will be very hungry!"]]
David, the others are impressed to see, has laid the fire all by himself. He seems quiet. Is something wrong?. He guardedly says he’s fine. Kristen explains David having had to change school; Frank and Kiki seize the opportunity to rib him. David calmly vents his despondent frustration at the sudden isolation. Kristen and Gary gently reassure him. However, in his dismay, David has found inspiration for a story, in which a new school proves stranger than anyone could have imagined. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of Hatching.”
On the road before the gates of the Black Book school, a small dog sniffs a manhole cover, which suddenly lifts. The dog, hidden from view, yelps in alarm. When the lid falls, the dog is gone. A green residue stains the spot where the dog stood.
On the driveway of the stately boarding school, Mr and Mrs Wilson, having been called away on business, escort brother and sister Augie and Jasmine. While Augie ponders the architecture, Jasmine pronounces it to be a pit.
Inside, Mr Wilson’s dissuasion of Jasmine’s misgivings is disrupted by a piercing scream. Mr and Mrs Wilson follow a second scream to a dormitory, where a girl, Marie, sits up in bed, and accredits her brief distress to a nightmare.
School proprietors Mr and Mrs Taylor arrive, and explain Marie to have been running a fever. From a wall-mounted speaker sounds a low-pitched whine: class change.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When Augie’s digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable discomfort. When the beeping stops, he reassures a concerned Mr and Mrs Wilson of his occasional migraines.
In the corridor, Jasmine laments Augie’s tendency to passive acceptance. Augie gently notes the futility of protest. She admits her unease, and he bolsters her resolve.
Outside, they bid their parents farewell. Another low-pitched buzz, Augie suspects, indicates dinner time. Jasmine copes with her dismay by doing a robot impression.
In the dining hall, students pass around and enthusiastically delve into a large bowl of some sort of spongy white goo. A boy opposite identifies the stuff as “spunge,” with a “u,” and keenly recommends it. Augie and Jasmine decide to pass.
While the other kids are nice enough, David narrates, the school seems a bit off - in the hallway, as Willy plays with a beeping handheld games console, Mr Taylor briefly goes beserk. He then smilingly reassures the boy, and confiscates the device.
As Augie sits on his bed, he picks up his cassette walkman. A shocked dorm mate warns him not to let anyone see it - music on school grounds is forbidden, apparently because it obstructs the learning process.
After a few weeks, Augie and Jasmine start to get used to the place. Then, late one night, a buzzer sounds. All students, except for Augie and Jasmine, rise from their beds, and, in a trance, go downstairs. In the hallway, Jasmine finds Augie zombying along with them, and urges him to wake. He hastily claps a hand over her mouth and pulls her aside, whereupon they assess the situation. Jasmine suggests they find out where the procession is headed.
The lulled students descend a brief set of stairs. Augie pleads a retreat: he doesn’t want to get into trouble. Jasmine refuses.
Below, a green glow lights a low-ceilinged corridor, which leads to a tiled, expansive hallway, set with squared, three foot metal consoles. On these, some of the lulled students turn dials.
Jasmine follows several others down a metal step ladder. Between pillars and stone walkways lies a pool, filled with huge, floating eggs, onto which the entranced students ladle some kind of powder. Jasmine picks up one of the speckled eggs.
In the distance, the Taylors arrive for inspection. Augie and Jasmine quickly imitate the others. The Taylors smile approvingly: clearly, the new arrivals are eating their spunge after all.
When the Taylors leave, Augie and Jasmine discreetly follow them to their study. The teachers celebrate the near-complete incubation. Someone called the Master has waited a century for this. Mr Taylor fondly anticipates release from “these infernal trappings.” He pulls up his sleeve. As Augie and Jasmine watch from the doorway, the flesh of his wrist stops, to be succeeded by an arm of dark green scales. He works a finger beneath the wrist, pulling away the synthetic skin. With glasses of some sort of green gunk, the teachers drink a toast to a troubled past, a glorious future, and to the Master.
In Augie’s dormitory, he and Jasmine reel at what they’ve seen. Augie, near panic, gets into bed, ready to play innocent. Jasmine avows that this is no time for rules, and firmly urges an escape attempt. As she goes to dress, Augie suddenly stares at a wall-mounted speaker: he has an idea.
Augie, now dressed, approaches Jasmine’s dormitory door, and quietly calls through. The door bursts open to admit Mrs Taylor, with a hand clamped around Jasmine’s mouth: the children should have eaten their spunge. Just then, Jasmine bites her captor’s hand, and struggles free. She and Augie run. Mrs Taylor gasps and inspects her finger, in which bite marks now reveal the green scales beneath.
In the corridor, Mr Taylor blocks their path. They flee back into the basement. Instead of to the egg pool, Augie takes them down a further set of stairs. A wet, dark, concrete passageway is strewn with lost shoes. A low, thunderous groan is accredited by Augie to plumbing. With a heavy thud, a dim light tints the chamber. Behind the two, a metal grill has lowered, behind which stand Mr and Mrs Taylor.
Having escaped extinction, the Taylors nurture the next generation of their race via hypnotised students, who, on hatching, will serve another purpose.
At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, and lows thunderously.
Augie hastily reaches into his bag for his walkman. To Jasmine, he hands a speaker, taken from the dormitory wall. High-frequency sound, he says, is dangerous to these creatures.
As the Taylors realise what he’s doing, they panic. Mr Taylor fumbles with the keys and unlocks the door. With the Master nearing, Jasmine holds the speaker, and urges Augie to press play. Amplified electric guitar strings fill the air. The Taylors hold their hands to their ears, and cry out in anguish. Augie turns up the volume, and in a shower of offal, the Master explodes.
The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From Mr Taylor’s reaction to a beeping watch, and from the sound-restrictive rules, Augie realised high-frequency sound to be dangerous to these beings. In relief, the two hug.
On the next floor, their disorientated classmates wander amidst shattered eggshells, stained with green goo. As the students make their way out, one egg, undamaged, quakes and begins to split open....
The end, says David, “[[TheEndOrIsIt or is it]]? As Gary douses the fire, he warns everyone to go straight home - tonight is a school night!
!!This episode provides examples of:
*AccentuateTheNegative: Jasmine resents being left at boarding school, and rails at everything about the place.
*AlasPoorVillain: While their methods were murderous, the Taylors just wanted to propagate their species.
*AliensAmongUs: If the creatures are extraterrestrial, they’ve seamlessly infiltrated Earth society.
*AlienLunch: The Taylors drink glutinous green stuff.
*BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: [[ZiggzaggedTrope Ziggzagged]]. Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose spawn they will eventually be fed]].
*BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: -- > ‘’’Jasmine:’’’ This better not stain.
*BothSidesHaveAPoint: Augie gently rebuts Jasmine’s principled rebellion, as the situation is beyond the control of them and their parents. However, as Jasmine later notes, Augie’s rule-abiding holds less weight in a life-or-death situation.
*CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes Jasmine’s the futility of Jasmine’s endless protest - but as she later argues, some situations necessitate rebellion.
*TheEndOrIsIt: As [[LampshadeHanging noted]] by David - one egg survived…
*GadgeteerGenius: Augie skilfully connects his walkman to a speaker.
ImAHumanitarian: -- > '''Mr Taylor:''' We’re a race of meat eaters - all kinds of meat!
*MassHypnosis: The spunge entrances the students into subservience.
*TheReptillians: This variant of sapient reptiles, having infiltrated human society, secretly use human labour to nurture their unhatched young.
*RoboSpeak: Dryly affected by Jasmine.
*ScienceHero: Augie’s technical skills save the students from [[spoiler: being devoured by a murderous tribe of sapient lizards]].
[[caption-width-right:350:"The young ones will be very hungry!"]]
David, the others are impressed to see, has laid the fire all by himself. He seems quiet. Is something wrong?. He guardedly says he’s fine. Kristen explains David having had to change school; Frank and Kiki seize the opportunity to rib him. David calmly vents his despondent frustration at the sudden isolation. Kristen and Gary gently reassure him. However, in his dismay, David has found inspiration for a story, in which a new school proves stranger than anyone could have imagined. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of Hatching.”
On the road before the gates of the Black Book school, a small dog sniffs a manhole cover, which suddenly lifts. The dog, hidden from view, yelps in alarm. When the lid falls, the dog is gone. A green residue stains the spot where the dog stood.
On the driveway of the stately boarding school, Mr and Mrs Wilson, having been called away on business, escort brother and sister Augie and Jasmine. While Augie ponders the architecture, Jasmine pronounces it to be a pit.
Inside, Mr Wilson’s dissuasion of Jasmine’s misgivings is disrupted by a piercing scream. Mr and Mrs Wilson follow a second scream to a dormitory, where a girl, Marie, sits up in bed, and accredits her brief distress to a nightmare.
School proprietors Mr and Mrs Taylor arrive, and explain Marie to have been running a fever. From a wall-mounted speaker sounds a low-pitched whine: class change.
Mr Taylor presents to the Wilsons the orderly system maintained at Black Book. When Augie’s digital watch suddenly beeps, Mr Taylor holds his hands to his ears and moans in considerable discomfort. When the beeping stops, he reassures a concerned Mr and Mrs Wilson of his occasional migraines.
In the corridor, Jasmine laments Augie’s tendency to passive acceptance. Augie gently notes the futility of protest. She admits her unease, and he bolsters her resolve.
Outside, they bid their parents farewell. Another low-pitched buzz, Augie suspects, indicates dinner time. Jasmine copes with her dismay by doing a robot impression.
In the dining hall, students pass around and enthusiastically delve into a large bowl of some sort of spongy white goo. A boy opposite identifies the stuff as “spunge,” with a “u,” and keenly recommends it. Augie and Jasmine decide to pass.
While the other kids are nice enough, David narrates, the school seems a bit off - in the hallway, as Willy plays with a beeping handheld games console, Mr Taylor briefly goes beserk. He then smilingly reassures the boy, and confiscates the device.
As Augie sits on his bed, he picks up his cassette walkman. A shocked dorm mate warns him not to let anyone see it - music on school grounds is forbidden, apparently because it obstructs the learning process.
After a few weeks, Augie and Jasmine start to get used to the place. Then, late one night, a buzzer sounds. All students, except for Augie and Jasmine, rise from their beds, and, in a trance, go downstairs. In the hallway, Jasmine finds Augie zombying along with them, and urges him to wake. He hastily claps a hand over her mouth and pulls her aside, whereupon they assess the situation. Jasmine suggests they find out where the procession is headed.
The lulled students descend a brief set of stairs. Augie pleads a retreat: he doesn’t want to get into trouble. Jasmine refuses.
Below, a green glow lights a low-ceilinged corridor, which leads to a tiled, expansive hallway, set with squared, three foot metal consoles. On these, some of the lulled students turn dials.
Jasmine follows several others down a metal step ladder. Between pillars and stone walkways lies a pool, filled with huge, floating eggs, onto which the entranced students ladle some kind of powder. Jasmine picks up one of the speckled eggs.
In the distance, the Taylors arrive for inspection. Augie and Jasmine quickly imitate the others. The Taylors smile approvingly: clearly, the new arrivals are eating their spunge after all.
When the Taylors leave, Augie and Jasmine discreetly follow them to their study. The teachers celebrate the near-complete incubation. Someone called the Master has waited a century for this. Mr Taylor fondly anticipates release from “these infernal trappings.” He pulls up his sleeve. As Augie and Jasmine watch from the doorway, the flesh of his wrist stops, to be succeeded by an arm of dark green scales. He works a finger beneath the wrist, pulling away the synthetic skin. With glasses of some sort of green gunk, the teachers drink a toast to a troubled past, a glorious future, and to the Master.
In Augie’s dormitory, he and Jasmine reel at what they’ve seen. Augie, near panic, gets into bed, ready to play innocent. Jasmine avows that this is no time for rules, and firmly urges an escape attempt. As she goes to dress, Augie suddenly stares at a wall-mounted speaker: he has an idea.
Augie, now dressed, approaches Jasmine’s dormitory door, and quietly calls through. The door bursts open to admit Mrs Taylor, with a hand clamped around Jasmine’s mouth: the children should have eaten their spunge. Just then, Jasmine bites her captor’s hand, and struggles free. She and Augie run. Mrs Taylor gasps and inspects her finger, in which bite marks now reveal the green scales beneath.
In the corridor, Mr Taylor blocks their path. They flee back into the basement. Instead of to the egg pool, Augie takes them down a further set of stairs. A wet, dark, concrete passageway is strewn with lost shoes. A low, thunderous groan is accredited by Augie to plumbing. With a heavy thud, a dim light tints the chamber. Behind the two, a metal grill has lowered, behind which stand Mr and Mrs Taylor.
Having escaped extinction, the Taylors nurture the next generation of their race via hypnotised students, who, on hatching, will serve another purpose.
At the opposite end, mist seeps ominously around a corner. The few students to cause this extent of trouble have always ended up down here, whereupon the mother deals with them. In the mist stirs a huge, living shape: the Master. The horned, saurian beast edges patiently forward, and lows thunderously.
Augie hastily reaches into his bag for his walkman. To Jasmine, he hands a speaker, taken from the dormitory wall. High-frequency sound, he says, is dangerous to these creatures.
As the Taylors realise what he’s doing, they panic. Mr Taylor fumbles with the keys and unlocks the door. With the Master nearing, Jasmine holds the speaker, and urges Augie to press play. Amplified electric guitar strings fill the air. The Taylors hold their hands to their ears, and cry out in anguish. Augie turns up the volume, and in a shower of offal, the Master explodes.
The unoccupied clothes of the Taylors lie on the floor, soaked with dark green goo. How did Augie know what to do? From Mr Taylor’s reaction to a beeping watch, and from the sound-restrictive rules, Augie realised high-frequency sound to be dangerous to these beings. In relief, the two hug.
On the next floor, their disorientated classmates wander amidst shattered eggshells, stained with green goo. As the students make their way out, one egg, undamaged, quakes and begins to split open....
The end, says David, “[[TheEndOrIsIt or is it]]? As Gary douses the fire, he warns everyone to go straight home - tonight is a school night!
!!This episode provides examples of:
*AccentuateTheNegative: Jasmine resents being left at boarding school, and rails at everything about the place.
*AlasPoorVillain: While their methods were murderous, the Taylors just wanted to propagate their species.
*AliensAmongUs: If the creatures are extraterrestrial, they’ve seamlessly infiltrated Earth society.
*AlienLunch: The Taylors drink glutinous green stuff.
*BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: [[ZiggzaggedTrope Ziggzagged]]. Outwardly, Black Book isn’t so bad; it just has some odd, overbearing rules. However, students are hypnotically set to work nurturing eggs [[spoiler: to whose spawn they will eventually be fed]].
*BondOneLiner: When covered in the glutinous remains of the Master: -- > ‘’’Jasmine:’’’ This better not stain.
*BothSidesHaveAPoint: Augie gently rebuts Jasmine’s principled rebellion, as the situation is beyond the control of them and their parents. However, as Jasmine later notes, Augie’s rule-abiding holds less weight in a life-or-death situation.
*CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Both [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and later [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Augie gently notes Jasmine’s the futility of Jasmine’s endless protest - but as she later argues, some situations necessitate rebellion.
*TheEndOrIsIt: As [[LampshadeHanging noted]] by David - one egg survived…
*GadgeteerGenius: Augie skilfully connects his walkman to a speaker.
ImAHumanitarian: -- > '''Mr Taylor:''' We’re a race of meat eaters - all kinds of meat!
*MassHypnosis: The spunge entrances the students into subservience.
*TheReptillians: This variant of sapient reptiles, having infiltrated human society, secretly use human labour to nurture their unhatched young.
*RoboSpeak: Dryly affected by Jasmine.
*ScienceHero: Augie’s technical skills save the students from [[spoiler: being devoured by a murderous tribe of sapient lizards]].
