Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick

Story

The game begins three years after the events of Hail to the King. Ash Williams tells an Asian man the story of his battles with the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, and then begins to recount in a series of flashbacks how he came to meet this man in the first place. Dearborn, Michigan: Last Night A special "live" episode of Mysteries of the Occult begins on local television station KLA2 (a reference to the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still; KLA2 is pronounced "Klaatu," the protagonist's name). Trisha Pettywood, a journalist who wants to uncover the truth about the Necronomicon, is the host. Her guest is parapsychologist and best-selling author Professor Alex Eldridge, a colleague of the late Professor Raymond Knowby, who wrote a book about the Necronomicon. Ash is sitting in his favorite bar in the red light district having a few drinks during the show. He berates Eldridge, claiming that he can't tell the real Necronomicon from a "roll of extra-fluffy two-ply paper." The bartender, who apparently knows Ash, gives him a free drink and tells him he's sorry about Jenny, an issue that apparently still pains Ash. Trisha also mentions a man from Dearborn (namely Ash) who claims that the Necronomicon can resurrect the dead and travel interdimensionally through time, but Eldridge dismisses this as the sad, depraved ramblings of a madman and also claims that it's easy to get caught up in the book's mythology. Hearing this, a drunken Ash babbles on about his remark, about his battles with the Deadites, and about having to amputate his own right hand. Trisha somehow got the tape recording of Professor Knowby and plays it live for the audience as a "treat." Ash knows what will happen if they do this and yells at them not to play it, but of course they don't hear him. The Deadites are released back into the world, and the evil force floats through town, right into the bar and takes possession of the bartender, who is promptly gunned down by Ash, who oddly enough has his boomstick with him.