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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''[[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Recap:]] ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'': ''The Bobbiedots Conclusion'''''\\
[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexGGY GGY]] | '''The Storyteller''' | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBobbiedots Bobbiedots, Part 2]]-]]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[AIIsACrapshoot A.I. advancement totally won't go wrong in any way.]]]]
-> Edwin snorted. "I can tell you from years of experience that without the stories, all your hardware and software would be nothing more than lumps of metal and wires and a meaningless mass of zeros and ones. Story drives Fazbear Entertainment."
Young CEO of Fazbear Entertainment, Mr. Burrows, wants to cut costs wherever he can. To the horror of longtime board member Edwin Murray, Burrows orders for the creative development team to be axed and replaced with an ArtificialIntelligence machine that can make them stories for free. Naming it The Storyteller, Burrows is convinced that this machine is going to be a great idea. So when it starts going wrong, it can't possibly be the fault of the Storyteller. It must be Edwin's. And Burrows is going to prove it.
The fourteenth ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'' story, and the second of the fifth book, ''The Bobbiedots Conclusion.'' "The Storyteller" was later given a prequel in the sixth book, ''Nexie,'' entitled "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]," which intrinsically connected both itself and this story to [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexEpilogues the book epilogues]]. Other connected stories include "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexNexie Nexie]]," which shows the end of the titular storyteller, and "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTigerRock Tiger Rock]]," which features the Mimic as an antagonist.
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!!Tropes related to “The Storyteller”:
* AdaptationalDyeJob: While Glamrock Chica is always depicted as white-and-pink with no cupcake, an off-handed mention of Chica in the Pizzaplex has her as, like her original counterpart, yellow and carrying around her iconic cupcake.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The main basis of the story; Edwin firmly believes that A.I. can never replace human creativity, while Mr. Burrows disregards humanity in favor of cutting costs. Soon, though, he finds out that this decision wasn't as smart as it appeared.
* AllForNothing: It's revealed in "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexNexie Nexie]]" that the Storyteller is eventually taken offline and removed completely, meaning that Burrows's "brilliant plan" didn't even last that long.
* AssholeVictim: Not only is Mr. Burrows a CorruptCorporateExecutive who is all too eager to replace the Pizzaplex's creative team with an AI, he also is more than willing to kill Edwin by trapping him in the Storyteller Tree. (In fairness, he suspected Edwin was tampering with the Storyteller A.I., causing glitches in the Pizzaplex, but the fact he went straight to murder and disregarded all other possibilities doesn't help him much) More than any other protagonist, Mr Burrows brought his horrific fate upon himself.
* BadBoss: Burrows couldn't care less about the well-being of his employees, jumps at the chance to replace them with A.I., and straight-up kills Edwin in order to stop his poking around.
* BreakTheHaughty: Burrows's entrapment causes him to completely break down and panic, abandoning his aloof CEO persona as he realizes he is going to die.
* TheCassandra: Edwin Murray consistently tells every board member that the Storyteller is a horrible idea that will never work. Not only do they ignore him, they use his dangerous [=Mimic01=] program to run the thing and refuse to inform him of this.
* ChildHater: Burrows really dislikes children, actually. The only reason he got a job running a children's franchise is because he knew he could make money out of it.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Burrows is a cynical, money-focused [=CEO=] who believes that the ethics of replacing humans with machines are unworthy of his attention. He eventually resorts to just straight-up killing Edwin, planning on leaving his body in the Storyteller forever.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Both Edwin and Burrows are trapped in the Boabab tree, slowly suffocating as the air runs out and nobody outside can hear them.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Edwin's exact past and connection to the Storyteller and white tiger isn't explain in-story, but in the later prequel, "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]."
* DeathByChildbirth: Edwin's wife, Fiona, is briefly referenced as having died giving birth to David. This backstory is more explored in "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]."
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Mr. Burrows insisting that they cut the entire creative department, and Edwin immediately fighting back against this.
* FailedASpotCheck: Burrows doesn't realize that, once he enters the tree, he'll have no way out.
* GoneHorriblyRight: While the machine itself is working wrong, it is, horrifyingly, able to function even after Burrows unplugs every cable and rips the Tiger's limbs off.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Storyteller causes the other robots to malfunction and act out-of-character, due to the [=Mimic01=] program inside of it.
* GreatWhiteFeline: The Storyteller's interior animatronic is made to be Tiger Rock, a large white tiger.
* HiveMind: Burrows connects every working animatronic to the Storyteller, which means that when it glitches, so does everything else.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Burrows makes completely certain that nobody will know how to get into the Storyteller, nor that he's heading in there himself. Meaning that once he's trapped, nobody can save him.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Edwin is apparently close with Yvette, a young designer who is respectful towards him, unlike everyone else in the building.
* ItsAllMyFault: Upon discovering, to his horror, that the [=Mimic01=] program is what's running the Storyteller, Edwin becomes distraught. His last words, written on the walls of the Storyteller, are an apology.
* KarmicDeath: Burrows ends up being killed inside a prison of his own making. In a way, this also applies to Edwin, who created the original [=Mimic01=] program.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is the [=Mimic01=] program just ''that'' good that it's able to continue its functions even with the interior of the tree wrecked apart, or is it some kind of HauntedTechnology?
* MeaningfulName: A "Burrow" is another name for a rabbit hole, a nestled home for wild rabbits. Considering Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton and Glitchtrap's connections to rabbits, it's quite ironic how Mr. Burrows managed to, however accidentally, provide them a home in the Pizzaplex.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Mr. Burrows serves as a much more direct threat to protagonist Edwin than the titular AI does, but considering the AI's true nature and the fact it traps Mr Burrows at the end, it's undeniably the main villain.
* MysteriousPast: Purposefully invoked with Edwin, as his backstory would be explained in the next book.
* NeverMyFault: Burrows never once considers that the Storyteller may have malfunctioned, or been a bad idea in the first place. It ''must'' be Edwin's fault.
* NoFullNameGiven: Mr. Burrows doesn't seem to have a first name.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Storyteller causes the main animatronics to act out and become confrontational with the customers, which is a major problem as they're the main attractions.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Edwin thinks back to his deceased child, David, who had died back towards the beginning of the Fazbear franchise.
* ProperlyParanoid: Edwin becomes suspicious that something strange is going on with the Storyteller, and that there's something the programmers aren't telling him about how it runs. Not only is he right, but the Storyteller seems to be the instigator for the events of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach Security Breach]].''
* UncertainDoom: Mr. Burrows is left alone in the Storyteller with limited air supply, a malfunctioning animatronic, and another dead body. The whole thing is soundproof, so it's very, ''very'' unlikely he's making it out of here alive.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mr Burrows' decision to replace the entire Pizzaplex creative team with the Storyteller, who is actually known as [=Mimic01=], the Mimic's A.I., leads to the animatronics starting to act stranger than before. While he originally believed that it was because Edwin had messed with the AI and trapped him in the Storyteller's Baobab tree in the Pizzaplex which leads to Edwin suffocating and dying, the Mimic was the one that was actually behind it and kills Mr. Burrows as well. While the giant tree the AI was in was later removed from the Pizzaplex, the AI had already infected the animatronics with the implications that it still had some effect on them by the time of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach.''
* WorldTree: The Storyteller is meant to invoke this, with the design of a Boabab tree, as one of the longest and sturdiest trees in the world, and one that had a trunk large enough to hold the computer programs.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''[[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Recap:]] ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'': ''The Bobbiedots Conclusion'''''\\
[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexGGY GGY]] | '''The Storyteller''' | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBobbiedots Bobbiedots, Part 2]]-]]]]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thestorytellertitlepage.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[AIIsACrapshoot A.I. advancement totally won't go wrong in any way.]]]]
-> Edwin snorted. "I can tell you from years of experience that without the stories, all your hardware and software would be nothing more than lumps of metal and wires and a meaningless mass of zeros and ones. Story drives Fazbear Entertainment."
Young CEO of Fazbear Entertainment, Mr. Burrows, wants to cut costs wherever he can. To the horror of longtime board member Edwin Murray, Burrows orders for the creative development team to be axed and replaced with an ArtificialIntelligence machine that can make them stories for free. Naming it The Storyteller, Burrows is convinced that this machine is going to be a great idea. So when it starts going wrong, it can't possibly be the fault of the Storyteller. It must be Edwin's. And Burrows is going to prove it.
The fourteenth ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'' story, and the second of the fifth book, ''The Bobbiedots Conclusion.'' "The Storyteller" was later given a prequel in the sixth book, ''Nexie,'' entitled "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]," which intrinsically connected both itself and this story to [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexEpilogues the book epilogues]]. Other connected stories include "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexNexie Nexie]]," which shows the end of the titular storyteller, and "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTigerRock Tiger Rock]]," which features the Mimic as an antagonist.
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!!Tropes related to “The Storyteller”:
* AdaptationalDyeJob: While Glamrock Chica is always depicted as white-and-pink with no cupcake, an off-handed mention of Chica in the Pizzaplex has her as, like her original counterpart, yellow and carrying around her iconic cupcake.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The main basis of the story; Edwin firmly believes that A.I. can never replace human creativity, while Mr. Burrows disregards humanity in favor of cutting costs. Soon, though, he finds out that this decision wasn't as smart as it appeared.
* AllForNothing: It's revealed in "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexNexie Nexie]]" that the Storyteller is eventually taken offline and removed completely, meaning that Burrows's "brilliant plan" didn't even last that long.
* AssholeVictim: Not only is Mr. Burrows a CorruptCorporateExecutive who is all too eager to replace the Pizzaplex's creative team with an AI, he also is more than willing to kill Edwin by trapping him in the Storyteller Tree. (In fairness, he suspected Edwin was tampering with the Storyteller A.I., causing glitches in the Pizzaplex, but the fact he went straight to murder and disregarded all other possibilities doesn't help him much) More than any other protagonist, Mr Burrows brought his horrific fate upon himself.
* BadBoss: Burrows couldn't care less about the well-being of his employees, jumps at the chance to replace them with A.I., and straight-up kills Edwin in order to stop his poking around.
* BreakTheHaughty: Burrows's entrapment causes him to completely break down and panic, abandoning his aloof CEO persona as he realizes he is going to die.
* TheCassandra: Edwin Murray consistently tells every board member that the Storyteller is a horrible idea that will never work. Not only do they ignore him, they use his dangerous [=Mimic01=] program to run the thing and refuse to inform him of this.
* ChildHater: Burrows really dislikes children, actually. The only reason he got a job running a children's franchise is because he knew he could make money out of it.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Burrows is a cynical, money-focused [=CEO=] who believes that the ethics of replacing humans with machines are unworthy of his attention. He eventually resorts to just straight-up killing Edwin, planning on leaving his body in the Storyteller forever.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Both Edwin and Burrows are trapped in the Boabab tree, slowly suffocating as the air runs out and nobody outside can hear them.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Edwin's exact past and connection to the Storyteller and white tiger isn't explain in-story, but in the later prequel, "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]."
* DeathByChildbirth: Edwin's wife, Fiona, is briefly referenced as having died giving birth to David. This backstory is more explored in "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]."
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Mr. Burrows insisting that they cut the entire creative department, and Edwin immediately fighting back against this.
* FailedASpotCheck: Burrows doesn't realize that, once he enters the tree, he'll have no way out.
* GoneHorriblyRight: While the machine itself is working wrong, it is, horrifyingly, able to function even after Burrows unplugs every cable and rips the Tiger's limbs off.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Storyteller causes the other robots to malfunction and act out-of-character, due to the [=Mimic01=] program inside of it.
* GreatWhiteFeline: The Storyteller's interior animatronic is made to be Tiger Rock, a large white tiger.
* HiveMind: Burrows connects every working animatronic to the Storyteller, which means that when it glitches, so does everything else.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Burrows makes completely certain that nobody will know how to get into the Storyteller, nor that he's heading in there himself. Meaning that once he's trapped, nobody can save him.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Edwin is apparently close with Yvette, a young designer who is respectful towards him, unlike everyone else in the building.
* ItsAllMyFault: Upon discovering, to his horror, that the [=Mimic01=] program is what's running the Storyteller, Edwin becomes distraught. His last words, written on the walls of the Storyteller, are an apology.
* KarmicDeath: Burrows ends up being killed inside a prison of his own making. In a way, this also applies to Edwin, who created the original [=Mimic01=] program.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is the [=Mimic01=] program just ''that'' good that it's able to continue its functions even with the interior of the tree wrecked apart, or is it some kind of HauntedTechnology?
* MeaningfulName: A "Burrow" is another name for a rabbit hole, a nestled home for wild rabbits. Considering Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton and Glitchtrap's connections to rabbits, it's quite ironic how Mr. Burrows managed to, however accidentally, provide them a home in the Pizzaplex.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Mr. Burrows serves as a much more direct threat to protagonist Edwin than the titular AI does, but considering the AI's true nature and the fact it traps Mr Burrows at the end, it's undeniably the main villain.
* MysteriousPast: Purposefully invoked with Edwin, as his backstory would be explained in the next book.
* NeverMyFault: Burrows never once considers that the Storyteller may have malfunctioned, or been a bad idea in the first place. It ''must'' be Edwin's fault.
* NoFullNameGiven: Mr. Burrows doesn't seem to have a first name.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Storyteller causes the main animatronics to act out and become confrontational with the customers, which is a major problem as they're the main attractions.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Edwin thinks back to his deceased child, David, who had died back towards the beginning of the Fazbear franchise.
* ProperlyParanoid: Edwin becomes suspicious that something strange is going on with the Storyteller, and that there's something the programmers aren't telling him about how it runs. Not only is he right, but the Storyteller seems to be the instigator for the events of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach Security Breach]].''
* UncertainDoom: Mr. Burrows is left alone in the Storyteller with limited air supply, a malfunctioning animatronic, and another dead body. The whole thing is soundproof, so it's very, ''very'' unlikely he's making it out of here alive.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mr Burrows' decision to replace the entire Pizzaplex creative team with the Storyteller, who is actually known as [=Mimic01=], the Mimic's A.I., leads to the animatronics starting to act stranger than before. While he originally believed that it was because Edwin had messed with the AI and trapped him in the Storyteller's Baobab tree in the Pizzaplex which leads to Edwin suffocating and dying, the Mimic was the one that was actually behind it and kills Mr. Burrows as well. While the giant tree the AI was in was later removed from the Pizzaplex, the AI had already infected the animatronics with the implications that it still had some effect on them by the time of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach.''
* WorldTree: The Storyteller is meant to invoke this, with the design of a Boabab tree, as one of the longest and sturdiest trees in the world, and one that had a trunk large enough to hold the computer programs.
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