Clockwork or All Wound Up

Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . .

It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow.

Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it.

Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . . .

滴答，滴答，滴答，滴答。一旦你把一些事情弄得一团糟，就没有什么能阻止它们了……

那是一个寒冷的冬夜，卡尔走进白马酒馆，看上去就像吞下了雷雨云。作为钟表匠学徒，他的最后一项任务是为伟大的格洛肯海姆钟制作一个新的造型。他还没有给出具体数字，也不知道具体数字会是什么，明天就要揭晓了。

弗里茨也在酒馆;在那里大声朗读他的新恐怖故事。像卡尔一样，他还没说完。嗯，他知道故事是如何开始的，他也知道这叫做“发条”——所以，当外面的雪打旋的时候，他开始了他的故事，只是希望故事的结局会在他讲述的时候降临。

突然，弗里茨的故事和现实生活以一种完全邪恶的方式融合在一起——就像发条一样，它无法停止…