The Pied Piper

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**The Pied Piper** is the seventh episode of the second season of American McGee's Grimm and is based on the fairy tale, Pied Piper of Hamelin.

## Characters

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

* Pied Piper
* Mayor of Hamelin

## Plot

### Light Version

A town called Hamelin has a massive rat problem, however, the town Mayor tries to turn the rat infestation into an attraction for all to enjoy and tries to make money from it. One day a mysterious piper appears and talks to the mayor, he says he can get rid of the rats. The mayor negotiates a deal and the piper is set to work. The Pied Piper plays a tune around town which gathers the interest of the rats, as he guides them to the barges where the rats are taken away. The Piper had accomplished his tasks and returned to the mayor but the mayor refuses to pay the Piper under the pretence that he was tricked and the rats went away on their own, angering the Piper who warns of consequences. The Pied Piper waits for holiday referred to as "Family Celebration Day" where he strikes the town of Hamelin with a tune that "hypnotises" the town's children into gathering up and following the Piper into the wilderness for an unknown fate.

### Dark Version

Rats infest the town of Hamelin, taking it completely over, with the town losing tons of lives from the rat plague. The Mayor doesn't care and instead tries to make a profit from the rats. One day a mysterious piper comes to the city and offers to save Hamelin from extinction. The Mayor initially refuses to pay the Piper, stating there's only a "few hundred" rats and worries that getting rid of the rats will effect the economy. The Piper reassures him by stating that he'll collect what he can from the mayor's funeral, scaring the mayor to give the Piper money if he succeeds in getting rid of the rat problem. The Pied Piper attracts the rats and gets them to follow him to some ships which he blows up and sinks, killing the rats. The Mayor however, still refuses to pay the Piper and threatens to kill him, the Piper is angered by this and reveals he will take away the town's future as punishment. Time goes by and the children from Hamelin disappear, all missing under mysterious circumstances. The Mayor finds the Piper and demands where they are, suspecting the Piper of this cause, which proves to be true as the Piper reveals he did in fact take the children. The Piper takes the missing children to a volcano where he hypnotises them to ump into the magma and kill themselves, fulfilling his vengeance.

## Levels

### Scene 1

Grimm starts off on the outskirts Hamelin, where he prioritises the rats hiding holes, creating a massive infestation. With the plague of rats, Grimm smashes down the gates of Hamelin, entering the city.

### Scene 2

The Mayor and the Piper make a deal to get rid of the rats, Grimm and his rats go around the city, as they first target a bridge mechanism to move onto the next scene.

### Scene 3

The Piper has started his hypnotic tune as Grimm desires to make it darker. Once again, going through the city, he first creates a giant rat that wrecks havoc and smashes through to the sea port, here the rats are being loaded onto ships. Grimm instead decides to sink the ship and drown all the rats.

### Scene 4

The mayor's refusal to pay the Piper is near an industry site, Grimm travels along the outside, before breaking inside the factory. He then travels across the conveyer belt, turning the once cider factor into a rat slaughterhouse. Grimm's actions cause the factory to explode and the Piper to be kicked out by the mayor.

### Scene 5

The "Family Celebration Day", Grimm goes around the festivities where he gets to the giant wooden rat (almost like the Trojan Horse) where the Piper hides. He breaks the Piper out before smashing the gateway open for the Piper to guide the transformed children (who are all milk cartons) away.

### Scene 6

Out in the wilderness, Grimm decides to make the Piper's punishment more brutal, where he turns the landscape into a volcanic one, and one by one, kills off all the children. The scene ends with the volcano erupting and destroying Hamelin.

## Trivia

* This story has the least amount of characters with only two main characters in the whole story.