The Singing Bone

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**The Singing Bone** is the second episode of the second season of American McGee's Grimm and is based on the fairy tale of the same name.

## Characters

**NOTE** This list only includes the characters that played an active role in the story and does not include side characters or Grimm.

* The King
* Younger Brother
* Older Brother
* Dwarf
* Giant Boar
* Princess Pork-Puss
* Shepherd

## Plot

### Light Version

A wild boar wreaks havoc in the kingdom which forces The King to order for anyone to hunt down and kill the boar. Two brother accept this offer, with the prize being wealth and The King's daughter's hand in marriage. The younger brother passes by a dwarf who gives him a magic spear that can kill the boar, which the younger brother is successful in doing so. He takes the boar back but sees his brother getting drunk at a pub, having been too afraid to go out himself. The older brother entices the younger brother to drink some alcohol, before taking the drunken younger brother to a bridge where he murders him and dumps the body under the bridge. The older brother goes off and marries The King's daughter, claiming his prizes. Years pass and a Shepard passes by the bridge where a skull sings to him, revealing his murder and his brother marrying The King's daughter. The Shepard takes the Skull to the King where it repeats its song. The King immediately gets his guards to round up and capture his son-in-law, where he executes the son-in-law by drowning him. The younger brother's bones are buried in a "beautiful tomb".

### Dark Version

A large boar attacks a kingdom, slaughtering several of its inhabitants, which pressures The King into taking action, it is theorised that the boar is killing the villagers over their over excessive pork eating. Two brother take up The King's demand to kill the boar with the prize being wealth and The King's daughter's hand in marriage. The older brother states that his younger brother will track the boar down and he will kill it, which proves to be untrue as the younger brother encounters a dwarf who gives him a spear and as a result does all the work. The older brother had instead been drinking at a pub, which the younger brother passes by. The older brother intoxicates his younger brother before brutally beating him to death and dumping the body under the river as to claim the awards himself. However, at the older brother and princess' wedding the ghost of the younger brother flies out of the cake and demands his older brother answer why he did this, which would go on for every night, barely ever getting sleep. Years later, a shepherd walks pass the bridge where the younger brother's body was buried. However, due to the high amounts of suicides, the younger brother sang to get attention. The shepherd delivers the singing skull which repeats the song about how he was killed and his brother took the princess' hand in marriage, The King sends the shepherd to the dirt mines for a ten year sentence while ordering the capture of his son in law. The older brother has his tongue cut out and is sewn into a bag with a rat and a weasel before being dumped in the river to drown, but is eaten by a shark. The younger brother's bones are buried in a "beautiful tomb", however the story ends with a bleak note that The King lost a potential heir and a father lost his children.

## Levels

### Scene 1

Grimm is annoyed why this Boars' rampage isn't a full blown massacre and decides to get the sleeping Boar to go on a bloody rampage. He rides the boar, killing villagers before breaking out of the village.

### Scene 2

The King needs the Boar killed and the two brothers meet up to take the offer. First, Grimm turns the princess into a pig before going through the wilderness follow the Boar, where he meets the Dwarf and helps the Younger Brother get a better spear to kill the boar.

### Scene 3

A shorter scene where Grimm converts the pub residents into proper drunks before making the younger brother's murder more brutal.

### Scene 4

The wedding ceremony is underway, celebrating the boar's killing. Grimm goes through the courtyard converting or setting things on fire, first converting the princess then going to the gardens where the wedding is happening. Grimm changes the cake, having the ghost of the younger brother as well as an army of boars run out of it.

### Scene 5

Grimm arrives back at the site of the murder, this time his target is the singing skull of the younger brother and the shepherd. He first converts the bridge, killing a bunch of fat drunk, which he uses as platforms before reaching the shepherd and singing skull. The scene ends with the skull taking Grimm, the Shepherd and his sheep away.

### Scene 6

In the King's garden, Grimm first navigates through a small area to convert the sheep that help create a stairway for Grimm. Grimm goes up the sheep stairway and makes his way to The King and the Shepherd. After the older brother is killed, Grimm goes to the younger brother's memorial where he allows a series of skeletons and zombies to emerge as well as the younger brother's ghost and another giant boar, which Grimm rides on to cause havoc some more.

## Trivia

* The Giant Wabbit appears in the first level where it can help Grimm grab a Secret Coin