Shai Melon – “M. Night” Shyamalan
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Khonsu seeks vengeance against your wizard as you have visited many worlds of the Spiral and left them all changed. In your wake, economies have shifted, empires fallen, plagues have been wiped away, rebellions have become regimes and legends have come back to life. Khonsu has united those you have stepped on and now your friends are doomed.
Mellori, Ozzy, Dyvim Whiteheart, Istar, Ivan, Pork, Stallion Quartermain, and Ceran Nightchant have been taken captive and scattered across Selenopolis. After rescuing Ceren, Istar, Ozzy, Pork, Quartermain, Ivan and Dyvim, Baba Yaga provides your Myth Wizard with some insight into Khonsu. She sends you back to Selenopolis to find the coherent story about Khonsu by talking to the storytellers. Shai Melon is one of those storytellers. Shai is a Story Vendor in the Marketplace of Ideas.
Shai Melon has a story, the Tale of Ghost Bob. Bob is lonely and is trying to find a place in world that ignores him. In a surprising twist we find out the Bob is dead. We think Bob is haunting a village in Krokotopia. Shockingly it is not. Then a lady comes out of the water to tell Bob the real terrifying truth, Bob has been alive all along.
Your Wizard doesn’t think Thoth will like this story.
Manoj Nelliyattu “M. Night” Shyamalan (born August 6, 1970) is an American filmmaker. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion globally. Shyamalan has received various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe.
Shyamalan was born in Mahé, India, and raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. His early films include Praying with Anger (1992) and Wide Awake (1998) before his breakthrough film The Sixth Sense (1999), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He then released Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002) and The Village (2004). After a string of poorly received films—Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013)—he experienced a career resurgence with The Visit (2015) and Split (2016). These were followed by Glass (2019), Old (2021), Knock at the Cabin (2023), and Trap (2024).
Shyamalan was also one of the executive producers and occasional director of the 20th Television science fiction series Wayward Pines (2015–2016) and the Apple TV+ psychological horror series Servant (2019–2023), for which he also served as showrunner.
Shai Melon’s story seems to merge the plots of several of Shyamalan’s films: The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village, and Lady in the Water.
The current list of all the (known) Krokotopia references can be found here.
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