The Ghost in the Machine-based App

The Ghost in the Machine-based App
Event	Treehouse of Horror XXIV Event
Release Date	October 1, 2013
Number of Quests	15

The Ghost in the Machine-based App is the main quest for the Treehouse of Horror XXIV Event.

Quests

Quest	Requirements	Time
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 1	Build the Gypsy Fortune Teller Shop	24h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 2	Pop Ghosts and Collect their GOO (10)	---
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 3	Remove Ghosts from Haunted Buildings (3)	---
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 4	Make Homer Listen to the Gypsy's Babbling	24h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 5	Make Maude Possess Homer Make Homer Get Possessed by Maude Make Ned Spend Time with Possessed Homer	12h 12h 12h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 6	Make Homer Use Gremlins to Clean Drains	24h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 7	Make Homer Praise Frank Grimes	12h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 8	Make Apu Reincarnate Ghosts Make Ned Sprinkle Ghosts with Holy Water Make Prof. Frink Have an Estomological Argument with Ghosts*	24h 24h 24h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 9	Make Homer Get Possessed by Bont and Live Another Day	12h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 10	Make Lisa Research Old History	24h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 11	Make Homer Get Possessed by Bont and Romance Marge Make Marge Spend Time with Possessed Homer	8h 8h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 12	Place the Freak Show Tent	---
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 13	Make Lisa Watch the Freaks (x2) Make Moe Watch the Freaks (x2)	24h 24h
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 14	Make Lisa Solve the Freak Show Tent Mystery Easter Egg: Make Mr. Burns Confess**	24h 6s
The Ghost in the Machine-based App Pt. 15	Make Mr. Burns Read from the Necronomicon	4h

*If the player does not own Prof. Frink, then that part of the quest will not appear, but the quest chain will advance normally.
**If the player completes Mr. Burns' task before Lisa's, then they earn 6.

Dialogue

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Prologue

Character	Dialogue
	"I think our house is haunted. Last night I heard ghostly moans and shrieks, and I saw a strange figure draped in chains."
	"That was me wearing a chain of 50 sausage links. The shrieking was me later realizing I'd eaten them all."
	"As always, there's a perfectly logical although disturbing explanation."
	"Yes. But there were also ghosts."
	"What?! Our house really is haunted? We better call in a trained professional."
	"We can't afford that. Let's go see an unlicensed quack."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 1

Character	Dialogue
	"So, you seek the old gypsy's help because you are troubled by ghosts." "And yet when I ring your doorbell selling herbal supplements, it's 'nobody home, gypsy.'"
	"Please, just tell us why we’re being haunted."
	"The spirits are angry, and seek justice for wrongs done to them in their Earthly lives. And ghost justice involves possessing people – it’s neat to see!" "I’ll tell you how to get rid of them if you buy 10 jars of my house gingko blend."
	"Nobody home, gypsy."
	"What if we were to just pop the ghosts. Then we could collect their “ghostly organofluid outflow”, or GOO."
	"Very smart, little girl. I foretell that in the future you will have trouble finding a date. How did you learn about GOO, anyway?"
	"Google."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 2

Character	Dialogue
	"Man, I popped ten ghosts and they still keep coming. What is there, a ghost bubble machine somewhere?"
	"We’ll get our friends to help pop ghosts, and make sure they get nice rewards. Maybe some pop-corn! *giggles*"
	"I get it. “Pop” cause you pop them, and “corn” cause that joke’s corny."
	Pop a Gremlin
	"What is that thing? It’s simultaneously cute and terrifying, like my daughter Maggie."
	"It’s a Gremlin, a creature so unsafe an American-made car was named after it." "They’re attracted by GOO like a senior citizen is drawn to pureed hamburger."
	"Hey, do you think if I set this little guy free in the other Springfields it would steal me some of their GOO?"
	"Either that or make their school buses crash."
	"Worth a try."

“	Release Gremlins in your friends’ towns to earn extra GOO and possibly destroy their school buses.	”
	— In Game Message

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 3

Character	Dialogue
	""Homer, I hate to be a specter hector, but your ghosts are all over the Flanders homestead."
	"And they're gumming up the Kwik-E-Mart worse than Squishee syrup gums up your intestines."
	"Their otherworldly shrieks are so loud I can't hear my video game, "Ghost Scream III"."
	"Homer, I'm sorry dinner's late but two poltergeists were playing keep-away with the pork chops."
	"Then we must take drastic action... and see that annoying gypsy again."

“	Tap on haunted buildings to pop the ghosts inside!	”
	— In-game announcement

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 4

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"So, you return, just as I foresaw — when I saw you walking up on the security camera."
	"Nice gypsy, we need to summon a spirit and ask why it is so angry."
	"Very well! Hold hands in a circle while I enter my trance."
	"Look! Her eyes are rolled up in her head!"
	"(BABYLONIAN BABBLING)"
	*gasp* "She’s speaking in tongues! I wonder what she’s saying."
	"It better not be that she charges by the hour."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"Someone is here! Unquiet soul, what is your name?"
	"Maude Flanders."
	"O unattractive and boring spirit, why are you angry at us?"
	"You killed me with a T-shirt cannon. Why do you think?"
	"The spirit speaks in riddles. Send it back and get another one.

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 5

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"It’s so nice to see you, Maude. You don’t look a minute older than the day Homer killed you."
	"That how it works. Now hear me! Three ghosts are angry at Homer! I am the first. "We have raised the an army of the dead to haunt Springfield until Homer makes each one of us a sacrifice."
	"What, like giving up beer for 15 minutes? ‘Cause that he can’t do."
	"I wish to possess Homer’s body and spend one more day with my beloved Ned!"
	"Okay, but no taking my possessed body past first base."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"It was wonderful to spend time with you again Maude. But, don’t you want to see Rod and Todd?"
	"Eh. Now that I’ve been away from them for a while, they kinda creep me out."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 6

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"What are all these pesky Gremlins doing here? Shoo! Shoo!"
	"No, Marge, I brought them here. They love GOO, any GOO. So I’m going to have them clear our stuck drains."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"*moan* The gremlins cleaned out my drains, but then they ate my gooey cheese and chocolate pudding."
	"On the other hand, a plumber would do the same thing and also charge you money."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 7

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"Homer Simpson! It’s is me, Frank Grimes… the only man to ever truly hate you."
	"Grimsey ol’ buddy! Great to see you, pal! How’re you doing, amigo?"
	"Poorly! I killed myself acting like an idiot. And the idiot I was acting like was you."
	"Sounds like my best friend is looking to be appeased."
	"I want you to go to the power plant and tell everyone how I was always better than you."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"No doubt about it, Frank Grimes was a great guy."
	"But you know who’s better? Homer. For saying such nice things about Frank."
	"Dammit!"

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 8

Character	Dialogue
	"These ghosts are driving me crazy. They look into the future and tell everyone tomorrow’s winning scratcher numbers." "I’m going to reincarnate them as birds. Let’s see what it sounds like when doves cry!"
	"I’m going to sprinkle holy water on them."
	(if you have him) "I’m going to argue them away by pointing out that according to science they can’t exist."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 9

Character	Dialogue
	"Finally, a ghost with a sense of style."
	"My name is Bont. James Bont. British secret agent supreme. At least, I was until you got me killed by Hank Scorpio."
	"Yeah, Hank still sends me candies at Christmas for that."
	"To appease my fury, you must let me take over your body, fight supervillians, and make love to a beautiful exotic woman"
	"Well, I was supposed to work today, but I guess I can call in possessed."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 10

Character	Dialogue
	"Pardon me, Mrs. Gypsy, but my dad appeased Maude Flanders, Frank Grimes and James Bont. How come we’re still haunted?"
	"I feel the presence of other, older spirits who are also angry at this town. I sense unspeakable horror… and a tent."
	"Sounds like my last Girl Scout camping trip." "Just kidding. Girl Scouts are great. Please don’t cut off my cookies." "Anyway, my only clue is an old tent." "Time to do some research in back issues of our town’s longest continuously published newspaper: The Springfield Elementary Daily 4th Gradian."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 11

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"I say, Homer, can I possess you one more time? All my missions end with me making love to a beautiful and exotic woman."
	"Well, okay. But don’t tell my wife."
	"That’ll be tricky. The woman I’m thinking of IS your wife."

End

Character	Dialogue
	"Marge, how was your date with us?"
	"Fantastic! Although James Bont had this really weird thing for my hair."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 12

Character	Dialogue
	"Hiya, Lisa. You look down in the dumps. Although that’s still better than I feel at my happiest."
	"I’ve been trying to find out about a tent of horror that used to be in Springfield, but I haven’t learned anything."
	"Horrible tent? That sounds like the old Freak Show exhibit, from the 1930s." "My grandfather was the chief attraction there. I’m named after him: “Repulsive Moe Syzslak”."
	"The Freak Show Tent! It’s so politically incorrect I never thought of it. Moe, you’re a genius!"

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 13

Character	Dialogue
	"We are the ghosts of the freaks — the sword swallower, the bearded lady, the guy who can put his whole foot in this mouth… and others."
	"What must we do to end your anger?"
	"We will tell you. After you watch the Freak Show performance."
	"Please feel free to tip. We’re dead, so we can’t use the money but we appreciate the sentiment."

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 14

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"Okay, we watched all you freaks doing your stuff. Really made me feel better about myself."
	"What do you want, O ghosts, so you may rest quietly in eternal peace?"
	"That’s what’s gonna happen to us? I thought we got to go on a big spring break party in Ghost Cancun. Oh well."
	"We demand… back pay! Our old boss never paid us the money he owed us. And then we all died."
	"Okay. What’s the name of your old boss?"
	"That mystery you must solve for yourself!"

End

Character	Dialogue
	"The spirits want to help you, Lisa, so they’re sending a message: “CEBCREGL BS OHEAFHZ”."
	"Oh great, she’s speaking in tongues again."

If you move the letters by 13 "CEBCREGL BS OHEAFHZ” becomes "PROPERTY OF BURNSUM"

The Ghost in the Machine-based App Part 15

Start

Character	Dialogue
	"So, you’ve discovered the truth." "My grandfather, Montgomery Burnsum, ran the old freak show, before he changed his name to make it less ethnic."
	"To stop the ghosts all you have to do is give their back pay to their descendants – five bucks."
	"Forget it. I already pay enough weirdos and goofballs at the plant as it is."
	"Then all the ghosts of Springfield will haunt you!"
	"These ghosts are picketing my plant day and night. They’re worse than the Teamsters." "There must be some way to stop them. Smithers, hire a force of magical Pinkerton detectives to bonk them on the head."
	"I’ll do my best, sir."
	"In the meantime, I’ll check the Necronomicon!"

End

Character	Dialogue
	"You’re looking cheerful, sir."
	"Yes indeed. I’ve discovered that GOO burns! Who needs expensive uranium when I can power my plant with cheap, stinky, GOO."
	"You do realize you are using the essence of human souls to power light bulbs."
	"Hey, I’m a capitalist. Burning human souls is what I do." "So keep those ghosts coming, and collect all the GOO you can!"

Trivia

• ROT13 is a letter-substitution cypher. When using this cypher to deocde the message “CEBCREGL BS OHEAFHZ” it becomes “PROPERTY OF BURNSUM”, a reference to the Treehouse of Horror XXIV episode where Burnsum owns the Freak Show.