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Episode published on Saturday 11th of August, 2007.
This wasn't part of the original script. In the last strip the island originally didn't have a ferris wheel on it. The tagline was "I had to resist putting a ferris wheel in the last panel". After positive feedback on DeviantArt that I should have, I went back and added it in. I couldn't just then leave it alone and had to do more with it!
Much of this and the next strip is a tribute to the Finnish band Poets of the Fall. Just try typing "Carnival of Rust" into YouTube, it'll be worth your time just to watch the music video, even if you don't like the song. As far as I'm concerned, Poets of the Fall have never released a naff song. Well, maybe just one or two, but the rest are pretty sound (there's a metacritic review for you!).
There's obviously no fun park in Resident Evil 4. At least, not in the conventional sense. Death traps and armies of guys trying to maim you only count as being part of a fun park if the fun park administrator happens to be the friggin' Joker.
Tagged:
Ben Nevis,
The Captain,
Location - Burdener Island,
Location - Spain,
Mara Kyler,
Max Valerion,
The Merchant
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Transcript
Title - 51: "Occupant Sin 4"
Subtitle - xxxii. "Carnival of Rust"
Narrator: Meanwhile, back on the speedboat...
(The speedboat cuts through the water on its way to the island.)
SFX: VROOM!
(Samada suddenly stands up, a grappling gun in her hand.)
Samada: Well, I've got business to take care of. See ya!
(She fires the gun at a nearby reef.)
Gun: BLAM!
(The grapple line hooks itself to the rock with a "CA-CHINK". The line tightens and Samada is hauled off of the boat horizontally. Pain, Ben and the Captain stare dumbly at the empty space in the seat where Samada had been steering the boat. Then they look up and notice the large rock in the water that they're heading straight towards.)
Pain, Ben and the Captain: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
(The boat collides with the rock with a CRUNCH! and crumples. The three passengers are launched into the air. Pain lands on the island on his face with a THUD, his glasses falling off and snapping in two. The Captain lands next to him on his arse with a THUD.)
Pain: Ow!
Captain: Oof!
(Ben lands on his head in some rocks, his thick skull embedding within the rock.)
SFX: CRUNCH!
(Pain gropes at his face.)
Pain: Wh-where are my-
(He feels around on the ground and finds both halves of his glasses.)
Pain: -glasses.
(He stands up, waving his fist while holding his broken glasses in the other hand.)
Pain: BITCH!
(There is an echo.)
Pain: BITCH! BITCH!
(The Captain hands him another pair of identical glasses from inside his body armour.)
Captain: Here, Boss.
Pain: Oh. Right! Thanks.
(Putting on his new glasses, Pain notices a lit dilapidated sign nearby.)
Pain: ...What the hell?
Sign: BURDENER LAND - Open 24 hrs - *SOON TO BE WORLDWIDE!
(The Captain has seen something.)
Captain: Er...Boss...
(Pain turns and we see what's before them - a vast fun park populated by soldiers. There's a coconut shy, one of those stands where you throw a ball to smash plates, a test-your-strength machine, go karts and the typical ferris wheel. Despite the colourful lights everywhere, it's still a bleak, dirty place. The Captain runs off in glee.)
Captain: I wanna go on the bumper cars!
(Ben approaches Pain, rubbing his head.)
Pain: You okay?
Ben: Ah ain't found a type of rock that can put a dent in mah skull yet!
(Pain hears a familiar voice.)
Voice: Cotton candy! Getch'er candy floss 'ere!
Pain: I know that voice...
(He sees that there's a food stand nearby, being manned by the Merchant. The Merchant waves at him.)
Merchant: 'allo, Stranger!
(Pain approaches, pointing at him accusingly.)
Pain: How the hell did you get here?!? We left you tied up!
Merchant: Oi told ya, oim a fast runner.
Pain: Across water?
Merchant: Fast swimmer, too.
(Pain gestures to the park they are in.)
Pain: Right. What's all this then?
(The Merchant leans out and sweeps his arm across the view.)
Merchant: This is Lord Burdener's Utopian Playground. Soon the whole world will be like this!
(Ben plays on the test-your-strength machine. Rather than a regular hammer, one of the tall soldier types manning the game has given him use of his spiked hammer. Ben easily rings the bell, in fact the bell comes flying off because he's so strong. Nearby, a little girl in a gas mask with a large lollipop walks, her hand in the hand of a man in an orange jumpsuit also wearing a gas mask. A fortune teller machine beckons to her, saying "Don't walk away". One of the carriages on the rusty ferris wheel falls off and embeds itself in the ground with a WHUMPF, the soldier sat in it completely surprised.)
Pain: Completely reassuring, I'm sure. So the people here aren't infected with zombie psycho mind-controlled powers?
(He's approached from behind by a couple of the soldiers. Both are grinning inanely and have the blank stares like the farmers previously encountered.)
Soldier 1: Eheheh!
Soldier 2: Es el forastero!
Merchant: Now oi wouldn't say that.
(One of the soldiers frowns at the Merchant, slapping a baton in his palm threateningly.)
Soldier: Que?
Merchant: Oh, oi mean...
(The Merchant transforms into a red-eyed berserker, pointing at Pain and screaming much like the rest of those under the Fluga influence.)
Merchant: Imbecil, quiero matar!
(As the soldiers amass around Pain, he adjusts his glasses, unimpressed. The Merchant reverts to his normal self admiring his own fingernails.)
Pain: You're a regular Benedict Arnold, aren't you?
Merchant: Te jodiste.
Episode tagline: Who didn't see this coming? Me, actually.
