Question: Build a movie plot around this: what was the improvised stake made of? aspen
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Glenn Estate Auction in London.Flynn primps in his tux and struts with a reasonable degree of suaveness. Until he takes a sip of champagne and spits it everywhere.He checks with Charlene over the phone. He's supposed to keep someone from getting a Ming vase -- without going over budget.He gets a call from an angry and increasingly drunk girl, Katie. Mid-auction he gives her another excuse and she says he's given 100. He repeats that and has suddenly bid higher. Charlene calls on the other line, watching the numbers escalate online, asking if he's trying to bankrupt them. A series of twitches, outbursts and accidental bids later and, in an effort to get quickly to Katie waiting in the bar, Flynn jumps all the way to 1 million pounds. Charlene hyperventilates and Flynn gets the vase. The auctioneer congratulates him on appreciating fine art. Flynn picks up the vase and promptly drops it.He picks up the Philosopher's Stone from the shards. It can turn anything it touches into gold, like arm of the other bidder's henchman. Golden fist and others come after Flynn for the stone and a sword fight ensues.They stop to admire the art mid-fight and Flynn checks his watch and goes on to win.But at the bar, he's too late. Katie has left for the airport.Somewhere in the Carpathian mountain range some Russian goons rappel into a castle.They find the tomb they're looking for.Flynn returns to the Library, where Charlene is on the phone, trying to explain that Flynn wasn't authorized to make that high a bid.She starts in on him, but he doesn't want to hear it. And he's ruined his tux. It's a rental.She takes him to the large collections annex, which goes on forever. The library is as big as they need it to be. It's holding Noah's Arc and Judson is testing the Fountain of Youth.They have another job for him, translating a manuscript, and Excaliber wants to do their weekly sword training.Flynn goes a little cuckoo, complaining that he has no life and his best friend in a sword. Since he's been working there, he hasn't...