Now long before Rick,Brendon and Tabitha were even born,a mad scientist had discovered a serum which transported a living body through space,time and the multiverse.
The fellows name was Dr Phibes and he set up shop in a old rundown wax museum on the outskirts of town.There he's invite guests and after giving them a drink spikes with the serum,he steer them in front of some horror display and
POOF
their bodies would vanish and their empty clothing,now enclosing nothing but air,would fall to the floor.
usually that was that,but there were occassional side effects.
Every once in a while some denizen from the other side would appear the instant his guests vanished from this world.So far Jack the Ripper,Marquis de Sade and Cleopatra had successfully crossed over.
And occassionally his guests would return with a souveneir from their trip to the other side.
Once a lady of high fashion had paid him a visit in her best southern dress,hoop skirt and all.He gave her the drink and steered her in front of a display on the loup garou of louisiana.poof and he donated her clothing to the local poor house.
A month later he heard a howling in the night and found a shaggy 10 foot tall werewolf charging about inside the main gallery.A shot from his tranquiller gun and the beast slumped unconcious.
He put it in a iron cage,noted its 8 teats and gender and left it there to sllep off the night.
The next morning he found a naked southern belle in the cage,the one he'd sent off a month earlier.It was her first time and he comforted the upset lady before he returned her to her delighted husband.
And it turned the mad scientist into a tf junkee.At the local convention,where he sold his serum from a booth,Jr Jeckyll told him that though he liked the Tahiti Spice Serum,the one where you suddenly showed up in 18th century Tahiti with a dozen girls gigglin and fawning over you,he'd always fancied himself as the one wiggling her boobs and gyrating in her palm skirt.
Dr Phibes got to work with his diabolical experiments and by the next convention gave Dr Jeckyll the beta version of Aphrodites School for Girls.
Jeckyll tried it later in his hotel room and after the
POOF
found himself naked in front of the Goddess and her priestesses in her temple.He did some quick talking and by the next convention Dr Jeckyll was the main act as she gyrated ,wound around the pole and invited everyone to become a follower of Aphrodite.
Dr Phibes had been working on his ultimate serum the night the Waxworks burned downWhile lightening crashed and thunder boomed a Cray 3000 computer powered up the arcane devices around a case of 24 bottles of pinkish liquid.
On the screens tf data,novels,mythology,romance novels and all the rest of the worlds knowledge flickered across.
Then the bottles glowed and a puff of pink smoke rose in the air.
And Dr Phibes went poof.
A decade later Rick recieved the package.There was no return address and nothing to describe the purpose of the contents.
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Tabitha had been working in the laundry room when the puff of pink smoke from Ricks laboratory entered the room.
Poof
And where Tabitha had been stood a 5 year old girl.A girl named Nita.A character from a John Tigges novel named Venom.
Tabitha looked around.She lay naked on a stone altar.Around her danced whirling dervishes shaking rattles above her and smearing ointments across her belly as they chanted.
One masked fellow leered at her as he stood over her and she could see the necklace of king cobra skulls strung around his neck.
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Meanwhile a handful of Brendans friends were sneaking up the stairs ,trying to surprise him