Math class. Hockey practice. Taking a selfie with a vampire before staking him with a #2 pencil. All part of a typical day at school for Becky Brewster—new kid at Carpentersville High, latest in an ancient bloodline of spellcasting vampire hunters, and star of the upcoming cartoon dungeon crawler #BLUD!
7am - Bake Sale Prep!
The school’s fundraising drive is almost here, and Becky’s got just the thing to bring: the Apple Pie from her mom’s old cookbook! There’s a rad recipe somewhere between the 200-year-old technique for scrambled eggs, the grody description of Strzyga anatomy, handy instructions for creating a nexus portal, and the faintly glowing page full of indecipherable runes.
8am - Walk to School
Becky missed the bus (again), so it’s time to hoof it before the bell rings. Luckily Becky brought Brenda—an ancient wooden field hockey stick from the championship season of '95—to clean up the streets. Even better, Brenda’s just been fitted with a new umbrella attachment, serving as a shield against the rain and the rampaging monsters. Is every small town infested with so many bloodthirsty rats and vampire hatchlings? Just Carpentersville? OK.
9:30am - School Assembly
Today, Carpentersville High is hosting a very special guest speaker: none other than Geoff Freya, brilliant head of the ubiquitous social media and tech company Perch! He’s here today to talk about his vision for the MegaMultiverse, which he promises will revolutionize just, like, lots of stuff. No one’s quite sure what his spiel about the veil between planes and making graves barren has to do with that, but that’s why he’s the genius!
Lunch - “Hockey” Practice with Kristofferson
As if homework and real hockey practice weren’t enough, Becky’s mysterious mentor Kristofferson has put together a killer vampire-slaying curriculum. If she has any hope of beating Dragur, she’ll need to master her hockey-stick combos and the fine art of hurling wooden pencils (they’re basically stakes!) at vampires. Soon enough, Becky will graduate to advanced techniques, like wielding Brenda’s shovel and grappling hook attachments as impromptu weapons.
2pm - Get the Goat
The rival school mascot (truly the GOAT) has gone missing in a prank-gone-wrong, and it’s up to Becky to follow the trail of half-eaten garbage to the source of the mystery! Unfortunately, that mystery turns out to involve some cosmic-tier horror, turning the school’s hockey field into a #BLUD-y nightmare. Can Becky draw on her video-game-honed precision dodging and pattern recognition skills to get the goat back in its pen before the big game?
4:30pm - Mall Crawl
When you think about the fabled Carpentersville Mall, you probably think of the culinary cacophony of the food court, or the gleaming, glinting wonder of the jar store. But the mall’s also home to a labyrinthine basement filled with after-school activities aplenty. Kristofferson wants Becky to take out vampire nests. Becky’s pals Corey and Morgan want her to create a diversion with the water supply that fuels the mall’s flagship fountain (for world-saving purposes, of course). And it certainly wouldn’t hurt if Becky found a secret Token or two to add to her collection.
7:30pm - Spooky Evening Fun
Tonight’s the school’s Harvest Halloween Homecoming dance, and while everyone’s preoccupied with costumes, candy, and chaperoning, it’s the perfect time for Becky to battle the big baddies out to ruin Carpentersville’s fun! And what self-respecting vampire hunter would go to bed before staking out Old Pine Cemetery in search of ritual resources? Not Becky! Unless there’s a test tomorrow morning.
#BLUD arrives on June 18. Add it to your wishlist today!