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Pancake Day 3: Splat to reality: Scenes 35 + 36
Story by Black Opera
Posted 2/14/22     420 views
Scene 35:

The camera cuts to a shot of a large room, where the floor is painted black, and all the walls are painted a clean bright white. A few signs indicate it's part of a large TV studio, several TV cameras can be seen down on the ground, and a large gantry is present on the ceiling, with a large walkway and several spotlights hanging from it. As the camera pans around it shows some modifications have been made to one end of the gantry, including the addition of a chain link fence cage, and several ladders leading up to it. One of the ladders is of note, as not only is it surrounded by a chain link tube to prevent escape, but someone is climbing up it.
The camera cuts in to show a black woman, in her late thirties. She has her long black hair styled in a natural way, and has a small amount of make up in the form of dark purple lipstick and a light brown eye shadow, but gives the impression of someone who doesn't like to waste too much time with such things. She wears a dark purple satin like party dress that comes down to just above her knees and a pair of plain black ankle boots with a two inch chunky heel. She seems unphased by the exertion of the climb as she reaches the top, where the only place open to her is the cage. As she does a door automatically swings shut behind her. The door is a metal outer frame filled with more chain link, but there is also a large hatch in it, that looks like it could be opened if it wasn't currently being held shut by a hefty looking padlock.

Porcelain: Hello Kristy. It's playtime.

The camera cuts to a shot looking out the side of the cage. Shining into it is a bright white light. Silhouetted against the light we see the chain link, the blades of a large industrial fan, spanning about four foot across, and behind that we see Porcelain's silhouette, striking a dramatic pose.

Kristy: There you are. Why are you hiding behind that wall? Scared of getting you arse whipped if I come near you.
Porcelain: I'm not an idiot. I'm not going to try taking on an Olympic athlete without help. Although I'm not sure that counts as your main job anymore, now your more famous as a fashion model.
Kristy: What? You expect me to turn down money I can use to help and support my family.
Porcelain: You must have a very big family. There's plenty of athletes who get by pretty well, just being known as sports stars. Of course not all of them are offered the same bid deals you were, but there's no denying when the chance for fame and fortune came you grabbed it with both hands. You had no qualms about the exposure appearing on this show would bring you. Hoping to launch a post retirement career?
Kristy: Listen! When I was competing I trained for five hours each and every day. I fought hard for everything I achieved. I don't have to listen to some psycho tell me what to do. Especially one that got everything she has by stealing from others.
Porcelain: Quite the firecracker aren't we. Not that I can blame you this last week or so, having to put up with Tory. I'm sure you'll be pleased to know she got her just deserts, and they weren't particularly pleasant or fresh deserts either. That did give rise to the question though what was the fairest way to deal with you. Sure you had all those rows and arguments, but given who it was with I can't really blame you. In the end I decided the fairest thing I could do is a game to prove you can stay calm when required.

The camera cuts to a shot of the wall opposite Porcelain. Starting from one corner is a long metal rod, that twists in a wavy up and down path until it reaches the end in the opposite corner. At the other end is a metal loop with a handle sticking out, the loop currently goes around the metal rod, and there is a small key attached to the handle.

Porcelain: I'm sure you'll recognize this game, it's a fairground classic after all. All you have to do is move the loop along the rod, without letting the two touch at any point. If you do you will be subject to a penalty, which will become apparent. Do it in time and you'll have they key to your escape, take to long though, and you'll be subject to a rather big penalty.

The camera cuts to a shot of the gantry as Porcelain steps away.

Kristy: Hey! Where you going? I'm not done talking to you.
Porcelain: I'm afraid I've had enough of listening to you shouting. Have fun.

As Porcelain steps away the large industrial fan next to the cage starts up, blowing a heavy breeze in Kristy's direction. Porcelain pauses to turn over an hourglass by the edge of the gantry, before grabbing a large overhead handle, and sliding down a zip wire that takes her down to ground level. Kristy lets out an angry scream of frustration, before turning round, to focus on the handle. She grabs hold of the handle and angrily slides it along the steel rod, as she does this a loud buzz is heard, and suddenly a load off eggs are thrown down in Kristy's direction from an unseen source above her, and a large amount of flour is blown on her coming from somewhere behind the large fan that blows the flour in her direction. Kristy drops the handle as she raises her hands up to protect herself. The buzzing continues but the eggs and flour stop, although Kristy is now covered in a thick layer of flour, and has several eggs broken in her hair. She takes a second to wipe her face, before heading down to the handle again. She takes a deep breath and this time takes it more cautiously. The buzzing stops as she corrects the position so the loop on the handle no longer touches the rod. With the handle in her right hand, she slowly moves it up along the rod. With her left hand she grabs hold of the rod, and then presses the loop against her left hand to steady it. She slowly slides the handle from the bottom of the rod, up a steep incline to an arch at the top of the rod. She takes a deep breath to compose herself before the camera cuts to a close up shoot of the loop on the handle as it slowly moves over the arch. Her hand trembles slightly and a loud buzz is heard as the loop makes contact with the rod. The camera cuts to Kristy as several more eggs are thrown down on her, and she's coated with yet more flour. This time though the buzzing stops a lot quicker as Kristy readjusts her grip, stopping her being hit by more eggs and flour. The camera cuts to the hourglass and we see about a quarter of the time has gone. The camera cuts to a shot of the handle as it reaches part of the rod that goes up and down in an undulating wave pattern, located a little above the height of Kristy's waist. Kristy takes another deep breath, and holds it as she slowly moves the handle up and down along the waves, until she reaches the halfway point. There's another loud buzz, and Kristy is pelted with another five eggs, one of which strikes the top of her head, forcing her to let go of the handle so she can wipe her eyes. The camera cuts to the hourglass and we see about sixty percent of the time is left.
The camera cuts to a shot looking down of Kristy who is no longer concentrating on the handle. Instead she is looking upwards. The camera cuts to a point of view shot, and at first it appears she's just staring up at the bright spotlights. As the focus changes we see that the spotlights are on another gantry above Kristy, and on that gantry we can just make out the silhouettes of three individuals.

Kristy: Hey! Who's up there? Don't just stand there help me.

Kristy gets no answer, so she grabs at the side of the cage, and attempts to climb up, only to loose her grip and slip back down. The camera briefly cuts to part of the chain link that we see has been coated in olive oil to stop it being climbed, before cutting back to a shot looking down at Kristy.

Kristy: What are you doing? Do you work for that bitch Porcelain?

Kristy is suddenly struck with another egg that hits her squarely on the forehead. She glares up as she wipes her face.

Kristy: Screw It!

With that Kristy turns back to the handle, but this time she ducks her head down, and raises her left arm up to protect her head. She grabs the handle and slides it along the rod as hastily as she possibly can. There buzz sounds continuously as she does this, and she is pelted with numerous eggs, constantly breaking over her, and is coated with a thick layer of flour, that starts to mix with the eggs to form a thick beige colored gooey mess. Kristy ignores all of that though, and continues to move the handle along the rod at a high speed, only slowing down slightly when the rod follows a loop the loop maneuver. After about thirty seconds the handle reaches the end of the rod, and Kristy can slide it off the end. At this point the buzzing stops, and Kristy pauses to look up as the eggs and flour also stop coming. We see she is now coated in a very thick layer of eggs and flour. Kristy seems unphased by this though, and strides over to the door and unlocks the padlock on the escape hatch. She climbs through the hatch and down the ladder. The camera cuts to the bottom of the ladder, and we see a new door that wasn't open before has opened. As Kristy reaches the bottom of the ladder she looks around, spots the open door and strides through it.

Scene 36:

The camera cuts to what looks like a functional hotel bedroom. It has the standard bed, bedside cabinet and phone, TV, desk and an open door, through which we can see the bathroom. On the bed there are an unusual number of towels available. More unusual though is the fact there are no windows on any of the walls, but there are two entrance doors on opposite walls. The camera cuts to a shot of one of the doors as it slides open. A pissed off looking Kristy storms through. She looks around, and steps forward to grab a towel from the bed as the door slides shut behind her.

Kristy: PORCELAIN! PORCELAIN! Where are you? You think I put myself through that and we're done! Show yourself you crazy bitch!

Kristy gets no response. She glares around and angrily strides over to the door opposite where she came in and starts to angrily kick at it. She kicks at it a number of times. After a few goes she heads back and grabs the chair by the desk, and prepares to swing it at the door, but she stops as she hears the phone on the cabinet next to the bed ring. She turns around to sit down on the bed and pick up the phone. Suddenly the view changes to a split screen shot. One half shows Kristy sitting on the bed, the other half is a close up of Porcelain's lips talking into another phone.

Porcelain: What? Your in your safe room now, even though you didn't play your game as it was meant to be. What else do you want?
Kristy: You expect me to sit here and do nothing while my friends are out there! No way! This place is way too big for two people to search. Let me out and let me help them.
Porcelain: You really expect me to fall for that? You just want to bring them back to your safe zone so they can avoid playing their games.
Kristy: Is that what you think? I'm better than that. I'm sure there are plenty of other ways we can deal with you.
Porcelain: Well that's not the game you signed up for, so tough. Now you better start playing nicely or I'll make things worse for your friends. I'll start reducing the time they have left, and believe me it's getting tight already.
Kristy: That's it. Your just going to force me to wait here. You know what Porcelain, you might make all these claims to justify what you do, saying you have an important message, of self expression and freedom of choice, but the only freedom of choice you give is to do things the way you want them done. Your just another bully.

There is several seconds pause as Porcelain digests Kristy's words.

Porcelain: What did you call me?
Kristy: I said you were a Bully Porcelain. You always say you give people a free choice but as soon as someone wants to make a choice that doesn't suit what you want you shut them down. Your just another Bully forcing your views on people. What are you going to do? Penalize my friends just because I dare to express myself the way I want. You'll just be proving me right if you do.
Porcelain: Fine! You want it that way do you? Lets see how much you really trust your friends. I'll open the door, but it will be for ten seconds only. After that it won't open again until both your friends have played with me. If that means your stuck outside when the sprinklers go off it's your own fault for going back out there, so you better hope your friends are willing to play with me in order to save yourself. Just to make sure there are no excuses I'll tell you now, Cleo needs to head to the second floor nursery, Athena should head to the entrance to the Northeast Tower. Do you trust your friends to not leave you in the lurch? You have ten seconds to make up your mind.

With that we hear the sound of a dial tone, as the screen goes back to just being a shot of Kristy. We then hear a short beep as the camera cuts to a shot of the door sliding open. There's another beep as the camera cuts back to Kristy. She quickly grabs a couple of towels off the bed, and quickly glances around as she makes her way to the door, stepping through just before it slides back shut behind her.
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