Saturday, January 2, 2021

Who IS Dr. Burglar Toad?

Dr. Kathryn Marie Burglar Toad is a retired 108 year old woman living somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard. I say "woman", but that is inaccurate. When she was in her mid-30s, she was transformed by her soon-to-be husband into a toady, fishy, semi-immortal humanoid that can mostly pass as a human when she tries her very best.

The following is the first story that GPT-3 generated for me, using AI Dungeon. The information I typed shall be written in pumpkin italic font, and the information created by GPT-3 shall be in sage. Since this was our first work together, I used GPT-3 more as a game than a collaborative writing partner. As a result, my "wholesome" objective wasn't yet decided upon, and there is mention of firearms. Consider that your trigger warning. 

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Tags: Burglary, firearms, night, house


Setting: You are a burglar. You enter a house at night, and find it strange that the place is deserted.


Then, upstairs in the attic, you find a secret passage leading to a vaulting cellar.


> You go up to the cellar.

You descend to the cellar and find in it only a small locked room with a hole in the floor. But that is not all.


> You look in the hole in the floor.

You see a loathsome reptilian monster scuttling about, and at once comprehend what has happened.


> You arm yourself with the nearest weapon.

You draw your revolver, and make a plunge at the slippery, evil-breezed squatting thing.


> You shoot the reptile.

The creature seizes your ankle and drags you down into the oozing blackness. 


You shoot again and again at the wiggling, slippery body, but to no effect.


> You let the creature pull you into the hole.

Still it pulls with a cold, inexorable force, and you believe that before many seconds it has dragged you wholly under the surface, so that you are not conscious of anything more.


> You die.

You think you see polar bears, penguins, and little else, and believe yourself in the ultimate void.


> You wiggle around in the void helplessly.

Then, feeling yourself floating, you fall on the icy floor of some kind of laboratory. Your body lay near a table, and as you attempt to move your hands you find that they are bound.


> You undo the binding with your teeth, then leap to your feet and prepare for battle.

Your mind is clear, despite the intervening miles of darkness, and you see that there are two men before you—a tall lean man with spectacled eyes, and a short squat man with greyish hair and no eyes


> You give the tall man's eyes to the short man.

The spectacled man removes his disguise, and you see that he is the notorious Dr.


> You say "Doctor who?"

The short man explains that he is a bacteriologist, and that the hour of your destruction has come. He knows your identity, and has planned a horrible experiment for you.


> You say "But I gave you that other guy's eyes! How can you betray me like this?"

The short man chuckles evilly, and his colleague reminds you of the promise of animal

transformation in the event of a human capture.


> You say "Oh, yes! Please start the animal transformation."

The doctor injects a drug into your arm, and at once there is a frightful metamorphosis.


> You determine what sort of animal you turned into.

You feel the claws and teeth of a monstrous toad, and see that the small eyes of a yellowish, toadlike creature have replaced the big spectacled eyes of your former self. Dr.


> You remember your days in med school as a giant toad (on the inside, back then).

Before you can fully realise what has happened, the tall man has seized you and is dragging you into an opening in the laboratory wall.


> You look lovingly at the man who has released your inner amphibian.

You see that he is the missing-minded professor Dr. Torres, who has been trying to get you since the day before. He has come to get you for a strange experiment in which you will share.


> You agree to marry Dr. Torres.

After a year and some months of wedded bliss, you give birth to a son. Dr.


> You retire happily, with your doctor husband and your doctor son, fully enjoying your new life as a giant toad.

Dr.

You are the very last of the Old Ones to leave this dying universe.


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