Altered Fates Twas The Scrooge Before Christmas
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Okay, basically this is a slasher film like Black Christmas, Halloween, Friday the 13th and Scream. In fact, at one point I was just gonna call this story Slasher but I think I got enough Christmas themes for Red Christmas to work.
Only this time, you get to make choices to decide the fate of these characters. To start with, I'm gonna give you Lyndon.
All characters are at least 18 years old.
Lyndon was an 18 year old student at Greenwood College who is currently heading home for the Christmas break. Unbeknownst to Lyndon, he was being stalked by three masked killers. One of them was wearing a reindeer mask, one of them wore a Santa Claus mask and the last was wearing a snowman mask.
Lyndon walked down the snowy street when he saw the guy in the reindeer mask. He tried to walk past him but was blocked by Santa Mask.
"Dudes, its Christmas, not Halloween" Lyndon said, "I mean you guys have the Santa, reindeer, snowman think but they look way creepier"
Lyndon was not wrong. All of these masks were way creepier looking than they would usually be depicted. If not for the subject matter of the masks, they would have been mistaken for Halloween masks.
The Santa Mask psycho spoke.
"Did you just say 'you guys'?", he asked, his voice distorted by a voice modifier, "YOU SEXIST PIECE OF CRAP!"
"That's what you took away from this?" asked Lyndon.
Lyndon then saw Santa pull out a knife. He turned tail and ran.
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