It's Your Call: Secret Agent Showdown is an interactive book based on Phineas and Ferb, comprising over ten endings. Originally planned for release as a physical book on October 8, 2013, it was published as an eBook-only on December 24, 2013.
Book Summary[]
Apart from the introductory prologue, the story's pages are randomly shuffled to maintain the secrecy of its structure. Navigation through them is done with the use of linked hypertext at the end and top of each one, allowing for a smooth continuation of the happenings sequence and a silky retrace if so desired. A target tag marks a doc's number, with halftone-like images of Perry decorating the labels. Once a finale is reached, a "THE END" message is displayed for a straight jump to the beginning, facilitating a hunt for other endings.
The reader assumes the role of a human O.W.C.A. agent-in-training as two separate plans unfold; Dr. Doofenshmirtz schemes to unleash his Backward-inator while the scientists of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. - Professor Poofenplotz, Rodney, and Dr. Diminutive - aim to sabotage Phineas and Ferb's Ultimate Animal Athletathon using a rhino-lizard-eagle-lion mech.
Following on the first branch leads to the protagonist sneakily scouring Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated to ascertain the doctor's ploy, getting to force his invention's activation or lurk for further intel. Doing the former constrains one to attempt convincing Heinz about the apparatus' effectiveness, either dazing him into unbuilding the machine or landing themselves onto a rewind loop. Acting the latter obtains some useful intel concerning business with the wicked crew, before a direct confrontation to snatch the device away from the wrong hands.
Going for the second path guides the hero towards the Flynn-Fletcher house in a secretive inspection of foul play on the brothers' event, coming to surveil the nefarious researchers or stay alongside Perry. Picking the anterior steers one into a snoop to glean the nefarious weapon, either swooping it from under the villains' noses for a team disabling or locking oneself due to overt privying. Performing the posterior presses an observation of the proceedings with the two creators, prior to imposing a genius truce for a rapidfire contrivance dismantling.
Overall, fourteen endings are available to achieve:
- Jamming on a backwards loop in failing to coerce Dr. Doofenshmirtz of the contraption's effects during an involuntary test.
- Reversing Doofenshmirtz's movement into undoing the machine in persuading him to check the components for a stalled tryout.
- Foiling the doctor's conspiracy along with Perry in bringing the covert up to speed regarding the current sappy circumstances.
- Thwarting L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.'s diabolical venture via a chain reaction in employing the snatched inator on a dashing Candace.
- Backtracking the trajectory to the doctor's lab in being hit by the gadget after an endeavor to squabble with him for it.
- Earning a spot on the O.W.C.A.'s roster in utilizing the converse creation on Doofenshmirtz so that it can be unconstructed.
- Winding up in the middle of a pie-eating contest together with two animal spies in tracking down Professor Poofenplotz.
- Coming to win the obstacle course in trying to report on L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.'s uncovered plot to a partaking operative.
- Wasting time searching for a tube entrance in striving to communicate L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.'s discovered project to the Agency.
- Becoming stuck in a locker by the evil scientists in carelessly divulging an affiliation with the Agency for intimidation.
- Succeeding in having Perry collapse the mechanical beast through providing a support distraction to the unnerved scientists.
- Dizzying around onto the ground in ramming against the robotic creature amidst an effort to vigorously dominate its control.
- Landing the android abomination a star Broadway contract in provoking a blasting brawl between the rippled malign clique.
- Flourishing in permitting Perry to disassemble the animalia automaton by enforcing a peace treaty on the subdued devious members.
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Background Information[]
- Author Carla Jablonski is the writer of numerous gamebooks and served as an editor for Choose Your Own Adventure, the series that popularized the concept in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Usage of portrait orientation is recommended in the instructions for mobile users, since multiple pages would be readable at once otherwise.
- Stock art of Perry used in the page numbering is listed below, in order of document appearance:
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- On Doc 108, the one detailing the ending revolving around a rewind flukily spawned by the doctor, the button supposed to link to the previous story file is in fact knotted to itself, not connecting to the proper Doc 50.
- An explanation is given in the start for the acceptance of a human spy on the Agency's part, being that the player is partaking on a top-secret initiation program established in utmost privacy by the upper officers.
- The obstacle victory conclusion is the only finish attainable from both paths, through flying out of Doofenshmirtz's lab and finding an agent to notify, intertwining because of the information relay option in the two sides.
- Deviating from the norm, the reflective paraphernalia closure incorporates a "[back] to the beginning" blue text in place of a "THE END" variant, befitting the looping nature of the pathway.
- On Doc 7, the animatronic animal is detailed as possessing the body of a rhinoceros, the claws of a lizard, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a lion. Besides the console, it is able to be maneuvered from the inside, a featured revealed by Rodney on Doc 124. It is disclosed at certain points that Doofenshmirtz had suggested the face of a rat to amp the scare factor, thus causing a rift between him and the rest.
- Phineas and Ferb's Ultimate Animal Athletathon is said to include hurdle jumping, a potato-sack race, a pie-eating contest, an obstacle course, a tricycle rally, a tug-of-war, a souped-up skateboard track, and a trampoline contest, as framed in Docs 14, 19, 47, 51, and 77. Coupled with bleachers, a giant scoreboard, booths, and banners, the competition has no rules prohibiting the participation of humans and computerized creatures.
- Doofenshmirtz's Backward-inator is stated to be constituted of remote controls, colored wires, tinged knobs, and a barrel that emits green beams, based on what is outlined in Docs 28, 30, and 58. Slated specifically to rewind the target's actions, its intended goal, commented by the doctor on Doc 104, is to hit Perry with it in order to gain time to enact a ploy at the sports course.
- L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.'s plan involves entering their O.W.C.A. rivals into the event, freeing them to wreak havoc in every challenge so as to acquire triumph the easy way, thereby receiving the Grand Prize Trophy for Overall Excellence to replace a missing component for the robot, finally enabling the triggering of the Ear-Splitting Animal Eradicator specced to drive animals away from the Tri-State Area. This is delineated in Docs 41 and 101.
- A specialized skateboard is produced by Ferb for Perry's entry in the radical tournament, composed of a helicopter-type propeller in the center and flashing lights programmed to shine in any change of direction, according to an account on Doc 107. Doc 123 imparts the varied configurations on miscellaneous skateboards, namely one with rocket jets and another with a motor.
- From a chronicle on Doc 116, it can be inferred that concealed access to Perry's lair has been located in the sewer, the tree house, the bathtub, the neighbor's doghouse, the garage, under a porch, and inside Ferb's laundry basket. Its latest placement is within the mailbox.
- When Major Monogram promotes the agent-in-training to full-time operative, he unveils that a tailored fedora arrives in the mail in around eight to ten business days, letting the recruit keep the grabbed remote control as a souvenir of the operation.
- Oddly, the evildoers are frequently cited under "agents of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.", despite their status as scientists. Poofenplotz is enumerated amongst the group, contradicting her organizational rejection.
- Candace is described on Doc 83 as "a blond teenage girl", although she is actually redheaded.
Production Information[]
Title Description[]
Phineas and Ferb: It's Your Call: Secret Agent Showdown lets readers choose the action and outcome of the story! Agent P and his entire undercover team must go on a mission to defeat the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz in this exciting eBook adventure. Featuring black-and-white art from the show and more than 10 possible endings, it's up to readers to decide how the story turns out!
Back Cover Summary[]
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Characters[]
- Phineas
- Ferb
- Candace
- Perry
- Dr. Doofenshmirtz
- Major Monogram
- Carl
- Isabella
- Rodney
- Professor Poofenplotz
- Dr. Diminutive
- Pinky
- Peter
- Agent C
- Agent D
- Agent R
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