Blue Trolls!!!

This is a storyboard was to help me outline
another script for another Flash Toon I made.
It changed a little during production, but then,
most of them do, so be sure to click the link
above to see the finished animated cartoon.

     We open with a scientist-looking character coming up the hall toward us.  He goes dark and light as he passes between the floodlights.  When he is near he stops and addresses us.  "Thanks for coming on such short notice Dr. Keptic."  "Please, call me Sam" the voice in the 1st person says.  So what's this big discovery you phoned me about George?  I have to tell ya... I'm not too keen on being here in the institution this late at night." "Follow me and I'll explain" he says.  

     We follow him back down the hall as he begins.  "Through this door we keep our most distressed criminal patients.  All three suffer from sever schizophrenia and all three killed several people on advice from the imaginary voices in their heads."

     "In an effort to better understand their affliction, I've devised a way to actually see and hear their fantasies, just as they do, by tapping into their very minds with an electromagnetic laser-coordinated resonating photon field that picks up and deciphers brain activity!  I've wired it into the walls and doors of their cells, so they have no idea they're even being monitored."  Using a high powered computer and a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence program, I'm able to filter out everything that's actually real, leaving only their imaginary 'friends'.  I then recombine that back into what is actually going on in the cell to give us a complete picture."  "Incredible!" says Sam.  "Indeed..." says George.

     As we enter the cell area, we hear muffled talking, yelling and muttering from the cells.  It echoes a little in the big, mostly empty room with concrete floor and walls, and the heavy, solid steel cell doors with bars in the windows and slots for sticking food or other items through.

     George continues, "The screen on the left shows the patient we are monitoring via plain and simple hidden camera in his cell.  The one on the right shows the same thing, but with the fantasy images and sounds the inmate is experiencing.  You MUST keep in mind that to him, these images and sounds are absolutely REAL.  They are no different to him than the reality we ourselves perceive around us.  The persons they see are as real to them as I am to you.  Are you ready for a demonstration Sam?"  Absolutely!" exclaims Sam excitedly.

     George presses a button on the console and the light above the door of cell one lights.  The left screen flickers and changes to that of the man in cell one.  For some reason, he's staring at the wall with a terrified look on his face.

     George presses another button and screen two flares to life, violently scrambled.  "Now we engage the fantasy viewer..." says George as he fiddles with a dial.  Suddenly, a Blue Troll is in the cell with the inmate in cell #1!!

     The troll is talking in a grumpy voice, telling the patient in #1 that he needs to break out somehow so the troll can get to the river where he's hidden his gold.  That and he wants a drink of whiskey.  He's harping on the man to get off his ass and do something about it!  He insists the man can break down the heavy steel door if he flings himself against it a few times with all his strength.  His incessant grinding on the man seems to be endless.

     "He killed several people in a mall when the troll convinced him they were after his gold." explains George.  "Let's take a look at #2." 

     He presses a couple of buttons and the images on the screens are replaced.  On the left, a different man in a different, but similar cell.  On the right, Buddha levitates in mid-air while telling the man he can simply float through the walls and out of the cell if he just concentrates harder!  If he believes he is a whisper, he will be one!  Occasionally, he slaps the man and yells, "Are you listening to me?!!"  At the timing of the imaginary slaps, we hear the man in the cell yelp on cue.

     "Killed four kids who were laughing at him for having conversations with a Buddha only he could see and hear.  Damn shame...  The poor kids just didn't understand that it's so real to him that he absolutely believes Buddha is there in front of him, and that everyone else can see and hear Buddha just as he can.  He trusts what his mind tells him to believe without any physical evidence." explains George.

     "#3 is the one that really worries me though" says George.  The man in #3 is suffering from a fantasy that is so real to him, he killed his own children to 'save' them from another fate he actually believed would be worse than their deaths!  The person in his head insists that it was the right thing to do, and that the man must get free so that he can 'save' hundreds or thousands of others from this terrible fate worse than death.  He tells tells the man over and over and over that he must bring him these people's souls!  It's one of the most horrible things I've ever seen!"  "NO!" gasps Sam.  "I'm afraid so" says George. 

     "But there's more to this one that's even more shocking.  I've discovered that millions are afflicted with this very same phenomenon.  Luckily, they rarely act on these messages, but they DO believe this very same entity is actually there and talking to them and that he wants everyone's souls, by any means possible!  Any of them could potentially snap at any time!  I know it's hard to believe, but have a look for yourself..."

     George presses a few buttons and the image of cell-mate #3 appears on the left.  As the picture unscrambles on the right, we see it assemble into that of...  Jesus, complete with holes in his hands!!!!  Blood drips from his hands and feet to the floor, where it forms small but growing puddles.

     Jesus whispers in his gentle voice that the man did the right thing in killing his children for watching Harry Potter, and that they are now with him in heaven.  He urges the man to pray harder for release from his cell so that he can help release other's souls to Heaven before they are lost forever in Hell.  He tells the man over and over again that he is a ssssssinner and that he must redeem himself by forcing others to believe that Jesus is real.  He reminds the man that he will reveal himself only to a special few like him and that he's lucky to be one of the 'chosen' ones, so don't listen to those who want evidence - They must BELIEVE or PERISH!!!

     "Holy Shit" yells Sam.  "It's the clinic bombers and doctor killers and witch hunters!  These are the people that killed thousands in the inquisition and millions in holy wars!  THIS is what's playing in their heads George?!"  "I'm afraid so Sam."  "What are we going to do?!!  We've got to tell someone!  They have to be stopped!  We should call the president and tell him to declare a national mental health emergency or something!!" yells Sam hysterically.

     "I'm afraid it's too late for that Sam..."

     Cut to the Presidential Seal carpet on the floor of the Oval Office.

     We pan up, then zoom in to see a close-up of Dubya at his desk saying, "Yes Jesus... I hear you loud and clear... I will destroy the eviliferous infidels completedly... Yes Lord... Let me wash in your blood and wallow in the blood of your enemies - everyone not like me...  Thank you for giving me the awesome power to destroy human lives in your name...  Thank you JESUS!!"

     BAM!!!  AtheistNetwork.com drops.

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