JOLLY: Curse of Mikhail

"JOLLY: Curse of Mikhail" (also known as just "Curse of Mikhail") is a JOLLY fan-game made by JayWGames on GameJolt. It is run on Scratch, but it is not playable on the Scratch website. It is the second game in the "Jolly Horrors" trilogy.

The game is set as a sequel to IvanG's JOLLY.

Story
After the events of JOLLY 1, an incident occurred which led to the termination of Jolly's Fantasy Land all across the country. The incident in question was where during the location where JOLLY 1 takes place, the Jolly animatronic began falling apart and crushed a minor's head. This traumatised the daughter of the former nightguard at Jolly's, Mikhail Schmidt (who in question became insane due to the animatronics and got excused by the company).

Some time after the incident, Jolly Entertainment needed Mikhail to help clear the animatronics from the location. Mikhail first refused, seeing as he had a long past with them, but soon accepted as his family persuaded him to do it. As soon as he got there, all the animatronics had already gone, except for one. It was confirmed that Kevin Johnson, the CEO of Jolly Entertainment, had his employees leave George out for Mikhail because he didn't like how Mikhail beat up the robots back in Sunday, so this plot point can be guaranteed to be Kevin's revenge on Mikhail.

As soon as Mikhail began to take George to the elevator, and when he got there, the animatronic began to turn on, and right before Mikhail got out of the building with George, the animatronic opened its jaws and killed Mikhail. This meant that Kevin Johnson won this round.

News spread following Mikhail's death, and his daughter Audrey became aware, and became scarred for life. This lead to the events of "Curse of Mikhail", where Audrey began having nightmares about the Jolly animatronics.

During the nights, Mikhail himself, in the form of a broken, decaying George, began haunting his own daughter, along with Antonette in a new form, nightmare versions of Jolly and Tweetie, and shadow versions of the Withered gang from JOLLY 3.

After Night 5, during Audrey's trip to a therapist to maintain her extreme stress over the death over her father, The Antonette and George from her nightmares were in fact real, were allying with an amalgamation of Jolly, Tweetie and Maxie, were all near a landfill and were fighting against a landfill worker. The animatronics all eventually got destroyed in a fiery explosion in the landfill, thus freeing all the spirits (including Mikhail's). When making it to therapy, the therapist asked Audrey several questions, including what the animatronic who killed Mikhail looked like, which led to Audrey drawing George with a pencil, who looked exactly like the animatronic in every detail, which showed signs that Audrey was so scarred over the death of her father that it brought all of Jolly's history with it.

After therapy, Audrey and her mother live, hoping to avoid contact with Jolly's.

Humans

 * Audrey Schmidt (protagonist)
 * Mrs. Schmidt
 * Mikhail Schmidt (deceased)
 * Kevin Johnson
 * Liam Smith (shadow corpse)

Animatronics and Robots

 * Possessed George
 * Antonette II
 * Nightmare Jolly
 * Nightmare Tweetie
 * Shadow Jolly
 * Shadow George
 * Shadow Tweetie
 * Shadow Maxie
 * The Critter (Night 6 only)
 * Jolly the Bee (rare screen, newspaper and minigame)
 * George the Tiger (rare screen, newspaper and minigame)
 * Crimson the Cardinal (in ruins, minigame)
 * Wendy the Wasp (in ruins, minigame)
 * Maxie the Cat (minigame)
 * Tweetie the Bird (minigame)
 * Antonette (minigame)
 * Marionette (easter egg)
 * Mangle (easter egg)
 * Plushbaby (easter egg; blue)
 * Bonnet (easter egg)
 * Ruby Jolly (Night 6 cutscene only)
 * Golden Tweetie (Night 6 cutscene only)
 * Gapejaws (Night 6 cutscene only)
 * Lepori Api (Night 6 cutscene only)
 * Ailuro Fenneko (Night 6 cutscene only)
 * Ailuro Arkouda (Night 6 cutscene only)
 * Cocko Ornitho (Night 6 cutscene only)

Locations

 * Audrey's House
 * The New JOLLY Factory (minigame)
 * Jolly's Fantasy World (minigame)
 * Ruby Jolly's Lair (Night 6 cutscene only)
 * Distortion Fantasy World

Development
Between September and October of 2020, Jay had considered making a sequel game to Project J-0114 after the game was finished. On October 2020, after Project J-0114 came out, Jay released a post on the game page of Project J-0114, stating that a second and third game will be developed, with the second game being called "Trouble in Time" and the third game having an unknown name. However, at the same month, Jay scrapped both ideas because he simply wasn't happy with them, and worked on an entirely different second game, in which he designed nightmare variants of Jolly and Tweetie, then a version of Antonette wearing a silver George-like suit, shadow variants of Wendy and Crimson, as well as a withered version of George from JOLLY 1. Later on, the shadow Wendy and Crimson were scrapped and Antonette II was redesigned, now resembling a humanoid robot girl with strangely no legs. A trailer for the game was released on the 22nd November, 2020, and a demo build of the game was released on the same day. A month later, 3 days after Christmas Day, the full version of Curse of Mikhail was released on GameJolt, and was praised for its scariness.

On April 2021, Jay revamped Project J-0114 and Curse of Mikhail for version 2.0 releases on the same day as Apiphobia's initial release, which included redesigns of the animatronics to look better. The lore of Curse of Mikhail was slightly modified with the Nightmare versions of Jolly and Tweetie instead being monstrous transformations of Ruby Jolly and Golden Tweetie, that they take in order to scare Audrey Schmidt, the player's character.

Removal
On June 1st, 2021, This game, along with 20 other games made by Jay, were removed from GameJolt after a Scratch user called "AdamAndLampy" hacked into GameJolt with possibly "inspect element" and uploaded 13 of the games to the Scratch website, which led to Jay privating all his games on GameJolt and leaving Scratch and GameJolt for good.

However, on June 8th, 2021, the game was re-released as Jay felt bad for removing them.

Trivia

 * Like with the previous game, Jay gave credit to the creator of George for using said character.
 * This is the first game Jay made to have a scrolling office.
 * The game is a direct sequel to Jolly 1, taking place after Jolly's Fantasy World closes due to the incident in which Jolly broke down and killed someone.
 * The office, according to Jay, is a dream by Audrey which resembles a mirrored, distorted, and abandoned version of the 2017 "Jolly's Fantasy World" which has vandalised walls, laser windows and a red colour scheme.
 * The Critter never appeared in the game until the 2.0 update where he appears as an enemy in the Night 6 minigame.