This short story is a reenactment of a very early segment of the beginning of the 2024 action-adventure video game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks. All but one of the characters in this story segment are visibly replaced with Candy Crush Saga characters, but will not otherwise be renamed. This story was written in honor of the launch of Great Circle's well-anticipated downloadable content pack "The Order of Giants". For this short story, Mr. Dragon, the husband of Denize, assumes the role of the titular character, and Marcus Brody will be Mr. Toffee. Guess whom one other character will be.
"Adios, señor…"
Things were already getting bad fast for Indiana Jones in the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors. He hoped that he was able to safely take the idol without triggering the temple's self-destruct mechanism, but he also never expected his expedition partner Satipo to betray him, take the idol from him and worse yet, leave him for dead, escaping through a closing door just ahead of the pit he now had to cross without his signature whip. At least Satipo had the humanity to leave it on the other side of the pit.
With no way to swing over the pit, and with his only way out closing fast, Indy had no choice but to try one last resort to cross: jump over, bite the branch with his long jaws and swing his long body over with just enough force to land on the other side safely. If this worked, he could live on to journey for another day. If not, then this would spell a lethal end to a promising career in archaeology, which was what no good man would have wanted. As he seized the branch with his massive jaws and swung his long body over the pit, he swung too much that his fedora flew off his head. Releasing his jaws to land on the other side, he quickly scrambled to catch it with his tail, while keeping an eye on the closing stone door ahead of him. By the time he got himself and his beloved hat across safely and picked up the whip with his tail, the door was only seconds away from closing. He threw his fedora through the shrinking gap, then dove down on all fours and furiously clawed and snaked through the door to continue his escape.
As he got back up to his feet while the door shut behind him, he then looked around, only to discover the body of Satipo skewered by another trap. Relieved and saddened by his demise, Indy then said, "Adios, Satipo", before picking up the idol and his fedora and beginning to make his way out of the temple cave. Just then, he noticed a giant boulder dropping behind him, forcing him to run for his life once more just to escape. As he ran, he began to hear voices from his next mission after his episode with the idol. Marcus calling his name. Indy also saying, "Marrakesh, he can sell it in Marrakesh." Then his former love Marion, saying "You're not the dragon I knew 10 years ago."
As he tried to stay one step ahead of the crushing boulder that was determined to flatten him, he recalled Marion telling him something more heartbreaking: "I've learned to hate you in the last 10 years! Where the shell were you?" Pushing that aside, he kept running until he finally saw daylight through the temple's exit. But as he got there, he suddenly tripped and stumbled on a vine. He heard one last cry from Marion while the boulder crushed him: "Jammit, don't you leave me down here by myself!" Then everything went black.
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It was a stormy night as Indy was sleeping in his office at Marshall College, actually dreaming about that harrowing expedition to Peru. He was suddenly woken by the distant shattering of glass. As he stood up from his slumber wearing his professor suit and glasses, he then called for his friend Marcus. He found the tall, slim, red-haired, red-bearded monocled man also sleeping on a chair, mumbling, "Where's that exit? Like, like a labyrinth." In one hand, he held a book. In the other, he had a small cup, which Indy took.
"Lightweight", he remarked as he held it up in his small, clawed hand. As he was about to fill it up with a bottle of soda on his desk, he then noticed a hulking shadow outside his office, skulking away. "What the devil?" Indy then said in bewilderment. He set down his drink and headed out the door to investigate.
MARSHALL COLLEGE - Connecticut, USA - 1937
As he searched through the mostly darkened college building for a possible intruder, he muttered to himself, "Jam kids." Determined to ensure that whomever dared to break in would not go unpunished, he then remarked, "Someone's getting expelled tonight." His investigation took an interesting turn when he noticed large footprints, as big as his own, leading him to aptly comment, "Those are big footprints." When he did not see the intruder on the second floor he was on, he proceeded down to the first and said to himself, "Gotta be some vagrant."
There, he then began to hear a sharp, loud whisper coming from the exhibit hall. It sounded Latin. As Indy went into the hall for closer look, he saw that the voice came from a burly, fluffy yeti with arms that could crush boulders in one fell swoop. Draped in black robes as dark as the night, he continued chanting in Latin with his back towards Indy. Indy then approached the stranger and told him, "Alright, pal, you can't sleep…here."
The stranger then stopped speaking, before turning around to give off a threatening glare. He almost appeared to growl and began to walk right towards him. Indy then pointed one clawed finger at the intruder and asked him, "Who the shell are you?"
The giant refused to answer and continued advancing towards him. As he continued to back away, Indy decided that it was time to fight back. He grabbed a stanchion with his clawed hands and tried to thrust it at his foe, but he caught it in his massive hands, wrenched it away and let fly a vicious right across Indy's long jaws, knocking his glasses off. As they hit the floor, he flinched and staggered back, before replying to his new opponent, "All right, you asked for it…"
Indy and the giant then faced off, trading punches. "Whatever you're up to pal, it ends now!" the former defiantly shouted, but the latter said nothing. By the time he said that, however, he realized that his puny fists were definitely no match for this behemoth. His eyes suddenly fell upon a pendant that the giant wore upon his neck. It appeared to be a bit sharp on the edges, so he resorted to grabbing it and striking the giant in the face with it to do some damage.
Though it did seem to harm him, it also only enraged him. He grabbed Indy at the bottom of his long neck and held him up singlehandedly. The giant then showed more of his yeti face at him, then used his other arm to pin Indy against his furry chest so hard that it squeezed the wind out of his mouth. Briefly paralyzed, he could only watch the giant raise the hand he once used to grab Indy's neck and clench it into a fist in the air. Even so, Indy defiantly retorted, "Is that the best you've got?"
To that, the giant then said, "Draco macer numquam tacet!" And that was the last thing Indy heard before the giant landed a hard uppercut right on his chin and knocked him out cold.
INDIANA JONES and the Great Circle
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"Indiana?"
It was morning when Indy finally awakened to a sweet aroma. It was Marcus who called to him, having come down to the exhibit hall to sprinkle some raw sugar on Indy to wake him up. He then asked him, "I'd wondered where you'd got to. What happened?"
In his stupor, assuming that Marcus knew about the giant, Indy asked him, "Where did he go?"
"Who?"
"The giant…"
Unfortunately, Marcus truthfully knew nothing about the intruder Indy fought last night. "I didn't see any…giant."
Indy then realized his mistake and quickly recapped what happened. "I caught someone breaking into the museum. He was…burly. He took something."
Marcus then asked, "Well, did you see his face?"
Indy then answered, "He was a fluffy, huge yeti…he spoke some form of Latin."
Marcus then remarked, "Latin. Well that's a novelty."
Indy then said, "Come on, Marcus. We need to find what he took."
Marcus could not agree more. "Yes. Right-o." One unsightly consequence of Indy's encounter with the giant was that it left a very big mess in the exhibits. Which led Marcus to immediately ask him, "This display case has been ransacked. Is there anything missing?"
"Let's have a look," Indy replied. The two discovered that while the larger exhibits were mostly intact, several smaller others weren't so lucky. After spending minutes restoring these fallen exhibits while minding the broken glass, Marcus then said, "Ah, well done, Indiana. Is everything back?"
Unfortunately, Indy regretted to report, "Not quite." Which led Marcus to ask, "Well, what's missing?" Indy answered him by handing him the display placard of the one artifact that was missing. After reading it, he then asked, "SW-003. What was that?"
Indy then replied, "Siwa expedition. He took the Cat Mummy, Marcus! But why?"
To Indy, this mysterious relic was a memorable one. The face of the cat was not dissimilar to that of a small sweet black cat named Licorise. And he had no idea that to answer this question, he would have to embark on a huge new adventure. One that would lead to yet another incredible discovery that could spell doom for all if it fell into the wrong hands…
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and its DLC pack The Order of Giants is now available on Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series and PlayStation 5, developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks. A Nintendo Switch 2 port is in development and is planned to release in 2026. Rated Teen by the ESRB for blood and gore, drug reference, mild language and violence.
