Story 23 - Part 3 - Unusual Hobby

“I feel like I am in a B-rated movie,” Jordan grumbled.

“I watch B-rated movies for fun,” Boomer said. “They’re much more entertaining when watched by the Laser Mounted Dinosaurs.”

“That heckling series you like?”

“Of course.”

“So should we heckle everything?”

“We’ll, there’s not much to heckle,” Boomer observed. “We’re inside a storage room.”

Or rather, it was once a storage room. The shelves had long been abandoned and the amount of dust had already caused Boomer to sneeze six times. It was rather annoying. After they had been stuck inside the storage room, Carmine had finally been able to explain his reasoning for allowing themselves to be taken prisoner. One crazy guy who thinks he is the next dictator is really not much of a problem by himself. Now, a crazy guy with a following and a ‘secret’ base was a worry.

“I wish they hadn’t blindfolded us,” Carmine sighed. “I can’t pinpoint where we are.”

“I wish I had a cell phone,” Jordan said. “Vi would be able to trace it. It’s your fault for saying we didn’t need them.”

“Me?” Boomer asked. “That’s not my fault. I wasn’t planning on us getting kidnapped by role-playing fanatics.”

“Role-playing?” Carmine asked.

“Well, it seems like they are trying to act out something,” Boomer admitted.

“Something?” Jordan snorted.

“I don’t remember if it was a movie, a book, or a TV series,” Boomer sighed. “But some of the names they were using seems pretty familiar.”

“Do you remember the plot or anything?” Carmine asked.

“Well, it involved building a doomsday weapon,” Boomer said.

“Charming,” Jordan sighed.

Boomer leaned back and quickly ran through his expansive knowledge of fictional plots. The more he thought about it, the more he decided that it was a TV series. He remembered watching it as a teen because there was nothing else on. It was kind of strange that his love of entertainment was their best link and he could hardly remember the series.

“Remember when I got my wisdom teeth out?” Boomer asked Carmine. “I think that is when I saw this series. I think it was an all day marathon, but I was on pain meds so I’m not positive. But I think it was supposed to be a satire. Not sure. What I do know is that it was cancelled and the last episodes were never aired.”

“So we’ve got fans of a cancelled series reenacting it?” Jordan snorted. “They should have taken up fishing instead.”

“Not just reenacting it,” Carmine said thoughtfully. “They’re trying to finish it. Boom, can you give us any information on the characters and the plot?”

“It was told through the bud guys’ point of view,” Boomer said. “You had your evil dark lord, his miscellaneous henchmen, and the good guys. The good guys would never be able to fully destroy or stop the dark lord, but he never could seem to kill the good guys.”

“That’s comforting,” Jordan said. “So we’re the good guys. Nice to have that reaffirmed.”

“If they are taking the personas of the characters,” Boomer explained, “then I think one of the henchmen is wavering in their loyalty because of a crush on one of the good guys.”

“Not it,” Jordan said. “I vote that role goes to the single guy.”

“What?” Carmine demanded.

“Well, they are reliving the series,” Boomer said. “If we play off that correctly then we can get out without a problem. This shouldn’t be a problem for the guy who yelled that his pants were on fire.”

“You’re never going to let me hear the end of that.”

“Nope.”