Thread budget: 33.75 -> 40.75
: ...
: (Okay, so we saved the damsel in distress. What do we do now?)
: (Honestly? I have no clue. Usually the series ends with implied "happy end" at this point.)
: (She hasn't said a word since she woke up. We can't leave it like it like this; the thread's starting to stagnate.)
: (Agreed. So our first priority is to get her to start talking again.)
: (Maybe we should just try talking to her?)
: (A girl is beaten into temporary insanity and then wakes up to two strange men who burst into the room earlier and start talking to her. Right.)
: (Well if you've got any bright ideas I'm ready to hear it.)
: (In cases like this, we should attempt to approach her in a way she's familiar with.)
: (When you say "way she's familiar with" you don't mean...)
: You want us to be like them?!
: ...?
: (Keep your voice down! That's not what I'm saying!)
: (Moving the thread along is the highest priority at this point; and we can't do that until she starts talking again.)
(So we just need to get her to start talking again?)
: (Precisely, AND we have to do it quickly.)
: (Well it sounds like you have a plan already so let's hear it.)
: (Electro-shock Therapy!)
: ...?!
: (What?! That needs all sorts of machinery and medical training! There's no way to get all that on our budget!)
: (You think I don't know that? We'll have to improvise of course!)
: (So the plan is this: We grab her and hold her down while I zap her with this high-voltage stun gun until she starts talking.)
: ...?!?!
: (No! Absolutely not!)
: (You think I'm any happier about this than you are?!)
: (It's just until she starts talking again, once she does we stop right then!)
: ...!
: ...?
: (... Just until she talks...)
: ...! ...! ...!
: (Right. All she has to do a single word; and then we stop.)
: (... Fine...)
: ....................!
: (On the count of three then. One... Two...)
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Nooooooooooooooooo!: (Ah, she started talking again.)
: (Maybe we should zap her anyway, just to make sure.)