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KIDS (PARTIAL OS)
No WAY! / DREW got a TATTOO?!!
JADE—tries to grab some attention by playing it cool.
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JADE
Yeah, been thinkin’ I might
get one o’ those.
All the KIDS <WHIP> turn to Jade in excitement.
[OMIT]
ANGLE—class-skeptic DREW calls Jade’s bluff.
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DREW
SURRRE, Jade! Like your dig-in-the-
dirt-with-tiny-brushes-uncle JACKIE
would ever LET you get a tattoo!
CLOSER—Challenged, Jade steps closer to Drew, boasting.
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JADE
He would SO let me, Drew! By tomor-
row, I’m gonna have the GNARLIEST
tattoo in the HISTORY of GNARL!
EXT. ESTAB. / INT. UNCLE’S SHOP—THAT AFTERNOON
CLOSE ON COVER OF THE BOOK—with the Dragon Skull and Crossbones,
as Uncle’s hand opens it and turns the pages, revealing page after
page of CRYPTIC WRITING and PICTURES OF SINISTER MAGICAL OBJECTS.
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UNCLE (OS)
“The ARCHIVE of DEMON MAGIC” is an
ENCYCLOPEDIA of powerful spells, writ-
ten by the DEMON SORCERERS themselves.
REVEAL—Jackie and Tohru looking over Uncle’s shoulder.
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JACKIE
So we will use Shendu’s own spells
against him— <Ow!>
But Uncle gives him a two-fingered <THWAP!> on the forehead.
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UNCLE
Do not be foolish! Using such dark
magic would be VERY DANGEROUS!!
Uncle CLOSES the book and leads Jackie and Tohru into the LIBRARY
as he continues to explain, calmer now:
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UNCLE
But it may hold CLUES which will HELP
defeat the Demons who created it.
INT. UNCLE’S LIBRARY—CONT.
UNCLE—leads Jackie and Tohru inside.210 Animation Writing and Development