**Script: Monster of Clouds, Rain Monster, Koroyudo: Episode 0, Prologue**
**Written by:** Patipat Pinrat
**Scene Continuity**
A young man named Game is talking to another man named Aum on the phone in his living room.
**Aum (voice on the phone):**
"Is it raining at your place?"
**Game:**
"Yeah, it's raining heavily."
**Aum (voice on the phone):**
"Alright, talk to you later."
**Game:**
"Why did you call in the first place!?"
After Aum hangs up, Game walks over to turn off the living room lights and heads to his bedroom, which is dark. He closes the door, puts his phone away, lies down on the bed, and falls asleep. The next morning, his phone rings, waking him up.
**Game:**
"Hello?"
**Aum's sister (voice on the phone):**
"Aum is dead."
**Game:**
"What?!"
**Exterior scene: Aum's house, morning.**
Game arrives at Aum's house and sees Aum's sister walking out.
**Game:**
"When did he die?"
**Aum's sister:**
"I found his body this morning. He was lying in a puddle, and there was blood. The police have taken his body for an autopsy."
Aum's sister leads Game to a small puddle, where a thin layer of red liquid covers the surface.
**Aum's sister:**
"He was lying face down in this puddle."
A leaf falls into the puddle, touches the red liquid, and instantly dries up as if placed on a hot stove before sinking and disappearing. Both Game and Aum's sister are shocked. As Aum's sister tries to touch the red liquid, Game grabs her hand in time.
**Game:**
"Don't touch it."
Game takes out a water bottle, pours out the water, and uses the cap to collect some of the red liquid, sealing it inside the bottle.
**Game:**
"Stay away from this puddle. Don’t touch it or walk near it. It's better if you leave it alone."
Game walks away from Aum's sister.
**Scene Continuity**
**Interior: Game's living room**
Game picks up his phone and makes a call.
**Game:**
"Hello, are you there?"
"Can you come over?"
"Okay."
Shortly after, a young man named Wave enters. Game shows him the bottle containing the red liquid.
**Game:**
"Aum died in a puddle. I collected this from the puddle where he died."
**Wave:**
"Is that Aum's blood?"
**Game:**
"No, it's not."
Game pours the red liquid from the bottle into a metal bowl and then drops a leaf into it. The leaf withers completely and sinks before disappearing.
**Wave:**
"This is starting to feel like a horror movie."
**Game:**
"Yeah, it does."
**Wave:**
"Is this real?"
**Game:**
"It's real."
**Wave:**
"Why don't you take it to a lab?"
Game tilts his head at Wave.
**Wave:**
"Oh right, our lab got shut down."
"What is this stuff?"
**Game:**
"It’s not Aum’s blood, and it’s definitely not some syrup. Do you have a few nights to spare?"
**Wave:**
"I can stay as long as you need. Let me grab some things first."
Wave leaves, and Game puts the bowl of red liquid in the freezer before turning on the TV.
[Dissolve]
Wave returns with a backpack and a carry bag.
**Game:**
"There's a spare bedroom. Put your stuff in there."
Game leads Wave to the bedroom, places the bags inside, and walks back to the kitchen. Wave follows him. Game opens the freezer and takes out the bowl. Both of them look at the red liquid.
**Game:**
"Hey."
The red liquid hasn't frozen, with only a few ice crystals on the surface.
**Wave:**
"Game, I think we’re in trouble."
**Game:**
"Do you remember what Johnny used to say?"
**Wave:**
"Which part?"
**Game:**
"If we ever find something strange, distorted, or unnatural and immediately think it's a ghost, something supernatural, a monster, or an alien, and we run away, how are we ever going to solve the mystery of what's in front of us? How will we ever know if it's real or just a trick? On the other hand, how can we be sure it's real?"
**Wave:**
"Are you serious?"
**Game:**
"Serious."
**Game (cont’d):**
"We haven’t seen Johnny since grade school. If he were still around, he'd help us a lot."
Game puts the bowl on the table.
**Game:**
"Alright, Wave. Let’s go over what we know."
"Aum died in the morning. His sister said there was blood, but this isn’t Aum’s blood."
"Second, we put a leaf in it, and the leaf disappeared. Where did it go?"
"Third, it didn’t freeze in the freezer."
**Wave:**
"One thing is for sure, even at zero degrees Celsius, it didn’t freeze. Its freezing point must be way below zero."
**Game:**
"I’m not sure about that. What about the leaf?"
**Wave:**
"No idea."
**Game:**
"Okay, if this stuff is water, it’s definitely not ordinary water. But let’s suppose it is water—what properties would it have?"
**Wave:**
"Well, aside from the freezing point, water boils at 100 degrees, can mix with many liquids but not oil, can become steam and mix perfectly with air, and can break down rocks. Actually, water can even crack rocks. If it’s rainwater, the pH is 5.2 to 5.8. It ionizes to form hydronium... Wait, are we talking chemistry here? That was a lot."
**Game:**
"Don’t forget about heat capacity, density, vapor pressure, conductivity, polarity, hydrogen bonds, adhesion, surface tension, its role as a solvent, and its absorption of electromagnetic waves."
**Wave:**
"I think we’re going to need a chemistry textbook to figure this out."
**Game:**
"Let’s start with heat capacity."
**Wave:**
"Listen, Game, we don’t have any equipment."
**Game:**
"Who says? We’ve got plenty."
Game carries the bowl to the kitchen, sets a frying pan on the gas stove, turns on a low flame, and pours the red liquid into the pan. The red liquid starts to vaporize in small amounts the moment it touches the pan.
**Game:**
"My god."
**Wave:**
"Dear abbot."
**Game:**
"Not funny, Wave."
Game turns off the stove before all the red liquid evaporates, leaving just a few drops in the pan.
**Wave:**
"Its boiling point is below 100 degrees."
**Game:**
"Yeah, it’s not water."
**Wave:**
"If someone was playing a prank on us, we could just add it to their noodles."
**Game:**
"The noodle stalls would all go out of business."
**Wave:**
"Sorry, I’m from the capital."
**Game:**
"How dense is one cubic centimeter of water?"
**Wave:**
"One gram."
**Game:**
"Correct."
Game pulls out an ice cube tray from the freezer.
**Wave:**
"That’s not exactly one cubic centimeter."
**Game:**
"When the lab shut down, all the funding went somewhere else."
Game pours the remaining red liquid from the pan into the ice cube tray and places it on a scale.
**Game:**
"Four grams minus two grams equals what?"
**Wave:**
"Two. Wait, what?"
**Game:**
"Yes, two grams."
**Wave:**
"It’s not even one cubic centimeter."
**Game:**
"It’s clearly not water."
Game grabs a bottle of alcohol and pours it into the tray. The alcohol sinks to the bottom, while the red liquid floats on top.
**Wave:**
"They're separating."
**Game:**
"They don’t mix."
**Wave:**
"This alcohol is ethanol, right?"
**Game:**
"Yeah, methanol wouldn’t work."
Game pours the red liquid out of the tray and back into the bowl, leaving the alcohol behind. Then he retrieves two batteries and some wires.
**Game:**
"Do you remember how to make a simple electrical circuit from grade school?"
**Wave:**
"Yeah, I remember."
Wave sets up a simple circuit using the batteries and wires, dipping the ends into the red liquid. Game uses a voltage tester, which detects electricity in the liquid. The red liquid starts to vaporize slowly. Game disconnects the wires.
**Wave:**
"This reminds me of the blood test scene in *The Thing*."
**Game:**
"Yeah, me too."
**Wave:**
"It can electrolyze, right?"
**Game:**
"No, the vapor isn’t oxygen and hydrogen. It’s more like water vapor. It seems like it can be shocked by electricity."
**Wave:**
"Conductive?"
**Game:**
"Seems so."
**Wave:**
"Where did this stuff come from?"
**Game:**
"It didn’t come from Aum’s body, that’s for sure."
**Wave:**
"At least it has hydrogen bonds."
**Game:**
"Let’s assume it’s polar, like water."
**Wave:**
"It would cling to glass."
Wave brings a glass sheet and sets it on the table, pouring the red liquid onto it. The liquid forms a A thin layer formed on the glass sheet.
**Wave:**
"It adheres to the glass."
Wave sprinkles a small amount of sugar into the red liquid. The sugar does not dissolve. He then adds some salt, but it also doesn’t dissolve. Game pours the red liquid back into a bowl and adds a small amount of vegetable oil. The oil sinks to the bottom, while the red liquid rises to the top. Game grabs both red and blue litmus paper, dipping them into the red liquid, but neither changes color. Game then pours the red liquid from the bowl into a ceramic dish, leaving the oil behind. He puts the ceramic dish into the microwave and sets the timer for thirty seconds. Both Game and Wave watch as the red liquid does not evaporate at all during the time in the microwave.
**Game:**
"Microwaves heat things up because…"
**Wave:**
"They make molecules collide."
**Game:**
"Microwaves heat water because…"
**Wave:**
"Water absorbs the microwaves."
**Game/Wave:**
"It doesn’t absorb microwaves."
**Game:**
"Alright, there’s one last thing to try."
Game walks out to retrieve small marble fragments, takes the ceramic dish out of the microwave, and puts the marble pieces into the red liquid.
**Game:**
"Water can crack stones, right?"
**Wave:**
"Yeah."
**Game:**
"Let’s see what happens by tomorrow. Five more minutes until noon, let’s go eat."
Game places the ceramic dish on the kitchen table.
[Dissolve]
That night, Game turns off the lights in the living room and kitchen, and he and Wave go to their separate bedrooms.
**In the kitchen:**
A lizard falls into the ceramic dish containing the red liquid.
[Dissolve]
**In Game’s bedroom:**
Game wakes up, opens the door, and walks into the living room, where he sees Wave eating sticky rice with grilled pork.
**Game:**
"Did you go out to buy that?"
**Wave:**
"Yeah, too bad there’s no fried dough sticks or Thai coconut pancakes."
Game walks into the kitchen and stops abruptly upon noticing something in the dish. The lizard’s head is severed, its body missing, and the marble fragment has been reduced to the size of a grain of sand. The amount of red liquid has increased, filling the bottom of the dish.
**Game:**
"Oh no."
Game rushes out of the kitchen and returns with Wave.
**Wave:**
"It dissolved the stone."
**Game:**
"It didn’t just break it. It dissolved both the stone and the lizard."
Then the lizard’s head disappears into the red liquid, and the amount of red liquid increases again.
**Game:**
"Time to summarize the results. It doesn’t freeze in the freezer and evaporates faster than water, meaning its boiling point is lower than 100 degrees. Although it’s less than one cubic centimeter, it has a mass of two grams, meaning it’s denser than water. It’s not a solvent, doesn’t mix with oil, conducts electricity, has hydrogen bonds, is polar, doesn’t absorb microwaves, and is neutral."
**Wave:**
"You forgot to mention surface tension."
Wave grabs a paper clip and drops it into the red liquid. It sinks instead of floating.
**Wave:**
"It has no surface tension. So how is it increasing in volume?"
**Game:**
"Limestone, when heated, produces calcium oxide. Calcium oxide mixed with water forms calcium hydroxide."
**Wave:**
"Are you saying the stone is creating this red liquid?"
**Game:**
"Yeah, it reacts with limestone and increases itself. Marble is metamorphosed limestone."
"Alright, what properties does the red liquid share with water?"
**Wave:**
"It separates from oil, conducts electricity, has hydrogen bonds, and is polar."
**Game:**
"And what properties doesn’t it share with water?"
**Wave:**
"It boils below 100 degrees, doesn’t freeze, or if it does, the freezing point is hundreds of degrees below zero. It’s denser than water, doesn’t dissolve anything, isn’t a solvent, doesn’t absorb microwaves, is neutral, and has no surface tension."
**Game:**
"There’s one more thing: it reacts with stone and living things, creating more of itself. What has those properties?"
**Wave:**
"It doesn’t mix with oil like water, but it has hydrogen bonds and is polar. Yet, it doesn’t mix with methanol, doesn’t freeze, boils below 100, and doesn’t absorb microwaves. It’s not water, it doesn’t mix with oil, doesn’t catch fire, and doesn’t heat in microwaves. So, it’s not oil either."
**Game:**
"And it’s not an acid or a base. What reacts with limestone?"
**Wave:**
"Acids and water."
**Game:**
"Water that’s saturated with carbon dioxide."
**Wave:**
"Does it dissolve things? Dissolve lizards and limestone?"
**Game:**
"It’s not a solvent. It can’t be saturated with carbon dioxide, so it probably can’t react with the stone."
**Wave:**
"Then what’s happening to the stone?"
**Game:**
"I don’t know. Like I said, it seems to be dissolving the stone rather than breaking it. What else reacts like that?"
**Wave:**
"Acid and heat release carbon dioxide gas."
**Game:**
"When we put the stone in, it didn’t release carbon dioxide. The litmus paper didn’t change color either. It’s not acid, and it’s not hot."
**Wave:**
"It doesn’t fit any known properties."
**Game:**
"Exactly. It doesn’t match anything."
**Wave:**
"Do you think it’s from space?"
**Game:**
"There haven’t been any meteorites landing in Thailand, just visible ones. I wonder what killed Aum?"
Game's phone rings. He answers it.
**Game:**
"Yes."
"Okay, thank you."
He hangs up.
**Game:**
"Aum’s sister called. The police autopsy found that Aum died from toxic chemicals in his lungs. It’s not chemicals, though. It’s this red liquid that killed him."
**Wave:**
"Game, if it really killed Aum, we need to get rid of it."
**Game:**
"Will do. But first, let’s eat. What’s there to eat?"
**Wave:**
"Two boxes of braised pork leg rice."
**Exterior scene: Outside Game’s house, late morning.**
Game and Wave step outside, Game carrying the ceramic dish, a bottle of gasoline, and a small metal container, while Wave holds a lighter and some newspaper. Game places the metal container on the ground, pours gasoline into it, then adds the red liquid from the dish. Wave tears up the newspaper, lights it, and drops it into the container. As the fire ignites, red vapor rises from the container and coalesces into a small, red cloud in midair.
**Wave:**
"Hey, Game."
**Game:**
"What is this?"
The small red cloud floats horizontally through the air.
**Wave:**
"Hey, Game, it’s heading towards Aum’s house."
**Game:**
"Oh no, we need to get to Aum’s house quickly."
**Exterior scene: Outside Aum’s house, late morning.**
Game and Wave arrive at Aum’s house to find Aum’s sister dead, her head missing, and red liquid covering her neck. The red liquid spreads from her neck into her shirt, flowing down her arms to her hands, then down to her feet. The liquid then flows away from her body, heading toward Game and Wave. They slowly back away.
**Game:**
"This is what killed Aum."
**Wave:**
"Don’t you think this is weird, Game?"
**Game:**
"Yeah, it’s strange."
**Wave:**
"What should we do, Game?"
**Game:**
"I don’t know. It seems to be increasing."
**Wave:**
"Do the police know about the red liquid?"
**Game:**
"No, they only know there was a chemical reaction, but they couldn’t identify the substance."
Wave tears a piece of newspaper, lights it on fire, and uses the burning paper to touch the red liquid. The liquid evaporates into red vapor. Wave continues burning the red liquid until all of it evaporates into vapor, which coalesces into a cloud again and floats away into the sky, disappearing from sight.
**Interior scene: Game's living room.**
Game is on the phone.
**Game:**
"Is it raining at your place?"
**Wave (voice on the phone):**
"No."
**Game:**
"Do you see any red liquid or that red vapor?"
**Wave (voice on the phone):**
"No. Do you think it’s gone, maybe floated off into space? This is creepy."
**Game:**
"As long as there’s no red vapor, that’s all that matters. What time is it?"
**Wave (voice on the phone):**
"Nine PM."
**Game:**
"Alright, talk to you later."
Game hangs up the phone.
**Interior scene: Honey's bedroom.**
Honey is asleep in her dark room with the window open. A small red cloud floats in through the window and settles on her body, turning into red liquid. Honey wakes up, screams, and grabs her phone to make a call.
**Continued scene:**
Game arrives at Honey’s house the next morning. His phone rings, and he answers it.
**Game:**
"Hello, I’m at Honey’s house right now. She called me too."
Game hangs up the phone and Game walked into the house, passing through the living room where there was a table with a clear glass placed on it, and continued to Honey's bedroom. He opened the door to her bedroom and saw only Honey's hair on the bed and red liquid on the floor.
**Game:**
"Oh no."
Game glanced at the open bedroom window, then went into the kitchen, where he saw red liquid clinging to the stove. He grabbed a gas lighter and ignited the stove. The red liquid evaporated into red vapor, which floated out of the kitchen. Game rummaged through the kitchen until he found a stack of newspapers. Grabbing as much as he could carry, he rushed outside, where he saw a small red cloud hovering in the air. He tore up the newspaper, lit it on fire, and used the burning paper to poke the red cloud until it dissipated. Game ran back into Honey's bedroom, but by then, both Honey's hair and the red liquid had completely disappeared. He turned and walked back into the living room, where he saw the red liquid inside the clear glass on the table. The liquid began to grow from the bottom of the glass until it filled it completely.
**Game:**
"Now I get it. It's not just increasing—it's growing."
**Exterior scene: Outside Wave's house, morning.**
Wave's phone rings, and he answers.
**Wave:**
"I'm just about to head to Honey's house, Game. I just finished getting ready."
**Game (voice on the phone):**
"Too late, Wave. Don’t come to Honey’s house. I’m about to die, and Honey’s already dead, just like Aum’s sister. The red liquid really did kill Aum. Run away as far as you can, don’t try to save me. I’m going to die, but I finally understand what the red liquid is. It’s not a chemical, not a substance, not even matter. It’s something…"
The call abruptly ends.
**Wave:**
"Game! Game!"
**Interior scene: Inside Honey's house.**
Wave walks into the living room, seeing only Game’s clothes lying on the floor, completely clean. Game’s phone is lying beside his clothes. Wave goes into the kitchen but finds no red liquid, then checks the bedroom and also finds no sign of it. He heads to the bathroom, walking towards the toilet when red liquid flows from behind him and touches his foot, causing him to stumble and fall. The red liquid continues to increase, and Wave struggles to stand and escape. A drop of red liquid falls onto his head, and his hair begins to fall out. The red liquid keeps growing until it fully engulfs him, causing him to collapse.
**Exterior scene: Outside Honey's house, morning.**
Red vapor rises from the window of Honey’s bedroom and floats into the sky, disappearing from sight.
**The End.**
