Here we go, the second part of Sally's theater where Nigel confronts the Green Ghost.
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DM77's Psychonauts Chapter 21
Sally's Theater Part 2
Nigel was currently in Sally Stageplay's mental world where he had to save the show. He needed to ensure Dr. Girlfriend, Sally's inner light, performed but it was hard not only due to Sally's inner critic Sideshow Bob but also the mysterious and dangerous Green Ghost that was haunting the theatre.
Nigel was on his way to talk to Bob. He climbs up the ladder to reach his private box where he was enjoying some popcorn and asked Bob "Hey, can you help me get up to the catwalks so I can fight that ghost?"
"Ha! Can't get there from here! Ha ha ha!" Bob said with laughter. "I mean, unless you did that one, particular play on that one, particular set…Oh, but what am I saying? That's almost impossible. Forget about it. The theatre is doomed!"
"Hey, why do you have to be so hard on Dr. Girlfriend?" Nigel asked him
"I'm trying to save you from that mysterious Green Ghost character!" Bob told him "He only attacks when Dr. Girlfriend performs! If we got rid of Little Miss Sunshine, we'd all be safter now, wouldn't we? I'm only thinking of the children."
"Dr. Girlfriend is just trying to lighten things up around here!" Nigel told him.
"Ha! I've seen better shine on a Krusty brand shoe!" Bob said with a laugh. "She should quit now, while she can still get a job as a night light."
"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Nigel said to Bob.
"Hmmm, the young boy's protests, through heartfelt, quickly lapsed into simplistic and tedious platitudes." Bob said reviewing what Nigel said "One and a half stars!"
"If you hate this show so much, why don't you just leave?" Nigel asked curious.
"I can't stop looking at it." Bob tells him "It's like the sight of a horrible car accident. A car accident where the victims can't act, and the paramedics forget their lines."
"Alright, later you palm tree with legs." Nigel said figuring he wasn't going to get anywhere with him.
"Listen, this play just stinks." Bob said and pulls out a script "Here. Try this one instead." He hands it to Nigel "This play has some ACTION in it, some zing!"
"Wow, thanks. Are you actually being nice?" Nigel asked surprised.
"No! I'm just trying to keep myself halfway entertained!" Bob told him. "Go! Give that to Janine and see if she can't find some actors to ruin it!"
Nigel nods and takes the script and takes it to Janine. When she sees Nigel with it she asks "Hey, what's this? A new script?" She takes it and looks at the title "Knight of Joy? Weird. It smells of high class popcorn. And it doesn't say what set to play it on…Oh well. We'll just play it on whatever's one stage. I mean, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?" She hands Nigel a megaphone "Here. You can be my first A.D. Use the megaphone if you want to run the play again." She then addresses the actors "Okay! New script everybody! Let's practise! Aaaaand action!"
The Knight of Joy play had it depict Sally talking to her mother about her father who was the titular knight who rode past. Nigel figured he knew which set was needed the gloomy set with the dragon and when they ran it on that set the carboard knight charges into the dragon and defeats it and also breaking the dragon prop.
Nigel climbs up the dragon avoiding the deranged villiaonous across and finds a new script titled 'The Day the Mail Boat Finally Came' he takes it over to Janine.
"Oh, another script!" Janine said taking it and looking at the script "'The Day the Mail Boat Finally Came.' Uh-oh." She gets on her headset "Prop department? I'm going to need a boat on stage right away. Okay, people! Places everyone! Aaaand action!"
The sad version of this play had the boat arriving but no mail was for Sally but the happy one which is where it was meant to be run on had the mail boat arrive with lavender scented fan-mail for her.
Nigel then travels on the mail boat to a third set where the happy side depicts Sally leaving her mother to go to Europe to escape her jealously over Sally's amazing career while the mother states if Sally does go she will do something both drastic and traumatizing to Sally emotionally. The sad side of this set had the mother taking to her shady manager and rumoured lover about shipping Sally off to St. Olga's in order to saving her career. The mother does so but promises to write every day to Sally, the shady manager promising to mail them personally everyday while evil chuckling. While looking around Nigel finds another script titled 'Goodbye St. Olga Home.' Nigel switches it to the St. Olga Home set and takes the script to Janine.
"'Goodbye St. Olga Home.' Hey, I—I think this is the one with the…" Janine said looking at the script then gets on her headset "Hey, props. Is that hot air balloon still working?" She nods and said "Let's hustle people! It's show time!" She then looks at Nigel "That means you too, kid. You got to hustle onto that balloon if you want to get up to the catwalks. Aaaand action!"
The performance depected Sally sad about her family leaving her in a horrible place for many years and she feels they might not return for her. The person she is talking to said they're sure they'll come for Sally and she won't have to think of St. Olga's again. It is proven true as the balloon comes down with the family back for her and to take her away.
Nigel then hurries using his circus skills to climb up the building onto the roof where the balloon was. Once he was on the balloon it raises up to the catwalks. It was time to face this Green Ghost once and for all.
Once on the Catwalks Nigel looks around, he can figure a figure running about and chuckling sinsterly. The shadows in spot lights show a ghostly figure with a chain on it's left arm.
Nigel follows the sounds to find the Green Ghost who was no doubt the one laughing. The ghost in question tried to hinder Nigel by dropping sandbags on him. He said "You're not welcome here! This is my sanctuary! Come no closer, or it will be the last thing you do!" He chuckles and then said "I am…the Green Ghost!"
"Sorry but going where I am not welcome is kind of a habit of mine." Nigel said as he navigates his way through the catwalks and avoiding the traps.
The Green Ghost laughs and said "I see you down there! Look out below!" He laughs giddily and then begins to sing "I'm a little teapot short and stout. Here is my handle. Here is my spout. Just kidding! I AM THE GREEN GHOST!"
"Geez this guy loves to hear himself talk, definatly sounds like Janine." Nigel said rolling his eyes as one of the actor birds passes by. Nigel then sees some Micromanagers attacking so he had to deal with them on top of avoiding the sandbag traps.
As he moves he sees a Mental Volte being guared by Bob-Ombs and Micromangers including two very buff looking Micromangers, after dealing with them he cracks the vault open and sees a memory reel titled 'Sally's Fallen Star'
The first slide showed Sally at the height of her fame where her name was on a lot of theatres, the second performing in a play similar to the one of the theatres with her like the Dr. Girlfriend of it and the audience cheering for her. The third slide showed her getting interviewed while carrying the claw like trophy.
However, the fourth slide was a tone shift, is shows Sally crying as she reads a letter with a picture, the fifth one showing it was about her mother committing suicide. The sixth showed she was on a stage looking at this and the audience yelling at her. The final slide showed how Sally is now, two personalities one happy the other angry and vindictive. Nigel now knowing that the mother's suicide was the reason Sally Stageplay's mind broke and what caused Bob's voice to be lounder and also the creation of the Green Ghost.
Nigel keeps on going through the catwalks to reach the Green Ghost while he still taunts him. Eventurally he comes face to face with the Green Ghost on a large gap separating them. The Green gost was a being in a green clad hooded cloak, only orange eyes and mouth visible under the hood, green goves with a single black chain on his left arm.
"How dare you violate the sanctuary of…THE GREEN GHOST!" The Green Ghost said to Nigel. "Stop, or your next step will be your last!"
Nigel sees a candle in a basket and also sees on a separate path was a spotlight. He smiles and grabs the candle, runs to the spotlight and puts the candle in "You could use some light I think" He said to the Green Ghost as he uses Pyrokinisis to light the spotlight and the light shines on the ghost.
"Ahhhhhh! Cruel sunlight!" The Green Ghost said shielding himself "Anything but that! Treacherous child, you shall pay for angering…The Gree…"
"Yeah, yeah." Nigel said interrupting him "Now just stay put so I can come punch and unmask you."
The Green Ghost then flees down the nearby hall behind him. Nigel uses Levitation to jump and float across the gap and chases after him.
Nigel comes to a door and opens it and finds he is on the lower catwalks near to the stage. He jumps down and looks around.
"Okay, Green Ghost, it's time to find out who…" Nigel said but stops when he sees the Green Ghost running through the seats of the theatre and he watches "…you…really are."
He sees the Green Ghost jump into Bob's empty viewing box and then removes his cloak to reveal his true identity…Sideshow Bob!
"What?" Nigel said surprised seeing Bob discard the cloak "I totally guessed that!"
"Nuh-uh! You said it was Janine!" That same bird actor from before said to him flying up.
"Tssst." Nigel said disregarding it and jumps down landing just before Bob and said "Okay, the jig is up GREEN GHOST!"
"What? Why I never!" Bob said acting offended. "How dare you accuse me of being the rugged and romantic scoundrel that has thrilled and terrified audiences for years!"
"Yeah, I guess you're right. He's so smart, and sneaky, and…no noticeable features." Nigel said shrugging "He could never be you."
Bob looked at him offended and said angry "Why you! Of course it's me! I did it all!"
"Well it's time to hang up the cloak, big feet, because your days of terrorizing the theatre as the Green Ghost are over." Nigel told him.
"Maybe as the Green Ghost, but he's nothing compared to the full, destructive force of an angry critic!" Bob said and laughs madly as he pulls a leaver in his booth.
"Hmmm. How can I say this and still sound cool…" Nigel said thinking and then said "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me?"
Just then the area shakes and parts of the theatre come down as Bob's booth comes off the wall revealing it to be a pod like ship and it deploys some pen like weapons on the side. Bob smirks grabbing the controls as he asked "Well then, how about these?" He laughs insane like.
Nigel jumps down onto the stage and looks at the mad critic. He fires a Psi-beam attack but it bounces off the pod. "What?"
"Hahaha! Reinforced balcony! A must for any critic!" Bob boasted as he fires at Nigel.
"Any egotistical critic." Nigel said rolling his eyes as he dodges some ink blasts and sees a basket of candles. He rushes to them and grabs all three candles. He then rushes to the music and uses the visible notes to float up.
"Your fighting is weak, uninspired, and flat as a pancake." Bob critiqued as he keeps firing "Your moves are derivative and mechanical. Oh, your technique is bland, yet irritating."
Nigel makes it to the cat walk where three spotlights were, he goes to the left one and places a candle and lights it, shining the light on Bob right in his face.
"Ahhhh! That light!" Bob cried out as he loses control shielding his eyes and crashes his booth onto the stage. He groans and then said to the villainous looking actors "I'll give you all good write-ups in the review if you KILL THAT KID WITH THE SHADES!"
Naturally the evil looking actors took the offer. Nigel fights through and deafeats them and gets some good whacks in on Bob. After a bit his booth comes back online and he flies up.
"You'll pay for that one, SPOTLIGHT!" Bob yells out and fires and destroys the spotlight Nigel used. "Take that wretched regurgitator of the sun!" He resumes firing and critiquing Nigel as he said "A terrible fighter, not up to the task at hand!"
Nigel makes it to the top of the catwalks and goes to to the spotlight on the right, he sets up the candle and lights it with Pyrokinesis which against blinds Bob.
"Horrible, hot beam of ocular agony!" Bob cries out as he crashes onto the stage again. He then says to the actors "Kill him before he gets over here." Nigel defeats all the actors and does some damage, the villains pod through now heavily damaged flies up again "Oh, another spotlight! I thought I got them all!" He fires and destroyed the right spotlight "I'll give you what I gave your brother over there. Huh? How do you like that?!"
Nigel jumps and floats up dodging the ink blasts back to the catwalk, only one spotlight remained the central one. He sets the candle and lights it and it hits Bob right in the face with it's light.
"Why didn' I bring my sunglasses?" Bob lets out as his pod falls into the centre of the stage. He then orders the actors "Kill him! Get him!" Nigel however fights through and lays in the final strikes on Bob and when he does the final smack Bob lets out "Ahhhhh! Ohhhhhh!" He coughs as the pod short circuits and goes offline "What's the matter? Can't you take a little criticism? Ohhhh…ohhhhhhhhh…." He passes out.
We come to a bit later where the performance was happening again as the flower girl playing Sally said "And where would Sally be without her muse?"
"Her inner sunshine!" The male flower actor said
"The spirit of her youth." The flower actor playing Sally's mother said.
"Played tonight once again by….Dr. Girlfriend!" The actors announced.
The sun door opens showing Dr. Girlfriend as everyone waits in anticipation, Dr. Girlfriend removes her cloak and lets out her light shining onto the stage. Everyone cheers, Janine accidentally hits and knocks down Nigel with her clipboard.
"You'd better listen to me!" A voice drowned out by the crowd yelled out "You're no good! This play stinks! It's worse than ever before! Oh, I can't believe you call this a theatre!" The the voice was from Bob, his booth now moved to the far back of the theatre, he was pacing around it as he was yelling at them angry "I can't even see it from back here, but I know it's bad! Can you hear me? Oh you got…" He then steps on a rake that just appeared and it hits him on the face as he grumbles and falls onto the ground unconscious.
Nigel then exits out of Sally's head and back into his own body. He looks at Sally who was calm as he walks out of the spot light but retains her normal self.
"Handsome, the spotlight is all yours." Sally said to Nigel as she leaves the greenhouse to walk the grounds of the asylum, also leaving her trophy behind. "I believe I shall happily retire…while I am still young."
Nigel smiles happy for Sally and he picks up the trophy. "Finally! Recognition for my acting talents!" He smiles he was a third away from his disguise as he puts it away and heads back into the asylum.
Well that adventure is down, time for Nigel to continue and enter another head and play a little board game.
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