Your Name is Gary Stu and You're Going to Die First

Read part 3 here . Or, from the beginning, here . Linh stood outside of Osaka-ya clicking off her phone and pulling her headphones out of her ears and stuffing them into her coat pockets in a jumbled mess. Then she jogged up the two steps into the restaurant and walked in. A soft bell sounded and Kelly ducked her head around the corner to see the door. “Kels,” Linh beamed up at her and walked up to the hostess counter and right around it to sneak into the back. Kelly reached out a hand and stopped Linh. “Antony is here.” “Okay?” "You're not allowed in back.” “Oh come on, it's like five minutes,” Linh looked over Kelly's shoulder at the small employee break room and kitchen beyond. It sparkled clean, the mop was out, Antony stood next to the walk-in cooler with a clipboard and a checklist. “You're not allowed, Linh,” Kelly slightly pushed Linh backward and she took the hint. “I guess I'll just...wait outside then,” Linh turned and walked slowly bac...

A quick summary of part 1 and part 2 . While filming their first super serious horror film after graduating college, a ragtag team of twenty-somethings (Levi, Pathik, Brad!, and Maggie) encounter a gruesome sight. A dead body falls from the rafters of their make-shift warehouse studio set— and cut scene . As lights flicker on and off and an ominous voice fills them with dread, we skip back to three weeks prior: The team is gathering momentum to start work on their film project at a local restaurant, Osaka-Ya. Here they meet waitress turned actress Kelly and set in motion a terrifying sequence of events, which may or may not include murder. Tracey Lamki and Linh Nguyen join the story just as things get serious. We pick up from this point, before the warehouse, before the falling bloody innards of Gary Stu hit the floor, before the real American terror sets in... *** Levi sat up straighter at his desk. He had been bent over his computer furiously researching and sometimes typing ...