Episode 9 – Don’t Throw the Blade Out With the Bathwater

Pickaxe You've seen them around, they sell sweets by the pound Their wares are famously tasty So here I sit, singing to you Of crimes involving chemistry Clover's the whisperer, she makes all the sweets She has her corn dog addiction Lenten's the slob, she seeks the sake And writes vampire fanfiction Franklin's the cutter, his fighters strike Despite his dance, his heart Best and brightest, they may not be But that's my favorite part So gather round, friends Endless and close For the tale's about to start Welcome to Spoutmore, colon, Mall Brats, colon, The Return To, colon, we're back again btw.

Big market job too Oh yeah today Today we join our friends the cool treat kids At big market part 2 When last we left the cool treat kids They had spent a few hours In the mall wide flea market Known as big market Selling their wares Telling their fortunes And in Fenton's case Planning espionage I guess so corporate espionage Yeah inciting a class war Sorry this is Fenton's voice This is Fenton's voice hey We've been recording Spout Lore for 3 days Straight Straight pretty much Just trying to eat whenever we can Which me is a lot Taking dumps one after the other Whenever we can I walked into the kitchen and Jessica was eating the cream Off the top of whole milk With a spoon I'm sorry I should have shared but I really pegged out on it I shared the last one with you and you went for the second one without me I'm sorry No Paul next time I'll buy the Buy the Buy the Buy the Next time I'll buy the milk and then you get all the cream You know what Jessica I'm getting tired of your next time statements Sorry What a depression era argument that we're having right now And all of those voices that you've heard Take the form of Playing Fenton Beasley the slide Abdul Aziz Hello everybody Playing Franklin Stein the cutter Paul Oppers Oh hi And playing Clover Ivy Fern the whisper Jessica Tai Hi sorry about the cream It's okay We join the cool tree kids Uh in the middle of the night On Media's Rez Because we ended The last episode of Spoutmore Mob Rats With 10 coins of a 20 goal made Pretty incredible Pretty good And a few spear bucks Yeah five spear bucks I found a loose tic tac on the ground that I'm saving for later Was not a tic tac You're gonna regret eating that Uh can we do a flash forward are those possible Uh Fenton has his hands up against the wall in the sugar shack going I'm gonna vibrate through it I know it I'm gonna vibrate through it I know it Flash back to the big market What was that You can say Oh no Uh so okay Broad strokes highlights from big market part one Borbo Borbon Borblow has been hired as temporary security at the sugar shack After the hot meat boys destroyed all your defenses We think could have been somebody else but there was a hot dog calling card Yeah Definitely them Big market happened You have a tent in between a dwat the harp snake salesman And a dwat the harp snake salesman And a dwat the harp snake salesman And a dwat the harp snake salesman and Yulinda, who makes knit hats.

Yeah, wizard-themed knit hats. Clover spent most of her time… The first fish that she landed in her fortune-telling scam was a man named Blarth, who works part-time at Poof's, the wizard-themed restaurant, which also is the employ of Borbo Borbom Borblo. And he threw a series of trading card-styled tarot readings explaining that he sent a pretty risky letter to a girl named Vera, whom he says that he is in love with, but is currently dating Borbo.

Meanwhile, Franklin Stein, itinerant arms dealer… And… Candy salesman… And… Troublemaker… And… Dancer extraordinaire. And dancer extraordinaire, right? The downtime activities… Schmuslin… Schmuslin… Schmus… Schmus… Schmuslin… Oh, I'm so sorry. Franklin… He's my hero. How could I forget his name? Franklin… While slam-dancing through Big Market in an attempt to relieve some stress, caught the eye of legendary dancer and former sharpshooter… Grefg Schmuslin.

Easily the most interesting character in the entirety of the Spout Lore universe. Former sharpshooter, current dancer extraordinaire. Virtuoso of the stage and screen. He has a screen that he dances behind. Oh, he does shadow dancing. He casts a light on it. Silhouettes. Yeah, it's a… It's a five-star show in Black Glass. The theater community loves him. Holy shit. He gave it five Schmuslin stars. Yeah, he has his… He has his own newsletter he puts out called the Schmuslin Review.

And it just reviews his own shows. Yeah. People really respect his opinion, though, so… Because he… He has given his own show one star before. Oh, wow. Yep. Committed to the art. He said that he would be leaving on the morrow two and a half weeks ago. Yeah. He's… He… Two and a half weeks from now on the morrow. Okay, yeah. The morrow's a boat. He's kidding. Yeah. Okay, so he's… But he's still here. He's definitely still in Big Market lurking in the shadows watching. Twirling.

Fenton went and talked to… What was his downtime? I was listening to this. I went and I recruited Borbo to come work for us for as much chocolate as he could eat. But it was kind of a trick because I knew that you couldn't eat more than three bars of chocolate without having a wild diarrhea. Yeah. And you got Borbo to… To listen to you read out your vampire slash fiction. He did give me a lot of good pointers about what sex actually is. Yeah. Yeah, he gave us all the talk. Oh, wow.

Can we flashback to that? No, you know, it's like a… It's like a… It's like… It's like a corn dog. Doing it's like a corn dog. Like a corn dog. When it's good, it's good. And when it's bad, still pretty good. You know what I mean? We all exchange glances. Not at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We all have notebooks out. Yeah. Question. Yeah. Can we go back to the periods? Yeah.

So my understanding is that once a month for a week, every woman transforms like a caterpillar in a cocoon. Can you choose what you transform it to? You tell me, little lady. I don't know. I'm not a woman yet. All right. Then let me tell you. Yes, you can choose. Sick. That's where centaurs come from. That makes so much sense. Thank you. That's why they're all ladies. No problem. Happy to help. So they're all, it always happens on the full moon. Yep. That's when a centaur takes form.

Isn't it dangerous? Well, maybe she's not going to turn into a centaur. Maybe she's going to turn into something else. Yeah. Maybe. Sometimes I don't want to be a centaur. Sometimes I want to be like a cat. Okay. Just on the lower half is how it works. Yeah. But they sleep a lot. Yeah. What the fuck? I don't know. This is wild. We flashback to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. These kids have an insane conception of what periods are now. And it's so wrong. Oh, yeah.

Franklin is so freaked out by all the cats now. Yeah. It's like, which one of these cats are girls on their periods? He just starts like flexing at all the cats who walk by. One of these is Mindy for sure. The lost three cats. And, oh, wait, I had another question for Borbo. Okay. What's up? How many of your balls are you supposed to put in during sex? Both of them. It's called aerodynamics, little bro. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then, and puts both his hands down his pants, and you can see him rubbishing around. Not now.

To, like, just try and figure out the shapes as he like walks away one wait three what the fuck oh no that's not what is this oh it's a meatball what are you doing down there little guy you can hear him talking as he's walking out the store and down the corridor when's the last time I had meatballs holy shit that was like five months ago come on uh so and so what has what has been achieved 10 10 coins so much you got you got growth yeah growth growths um so many so many lessons learned okay but what are where are we now everybody that's listening to this has listened to the other episode recaps are generally for our enjoyment but what are we doing right now where are we well we're still at big market but we've left our stall to go look for the fudgies with fenton yeah because we we're gonna sabotage them yeah I know that they treat their elves badly that's what dora's told us and they're your direct competitors in terms of candy sales yeah yeah they're really raking it in yeah because they're like a barbershop quartet or whatever of stylish youths who wear sweater vests yeah children of republic public yeah let me say that again children it's not worth it all right and that is where we find ourselves now you're in your beginning your half-formed attempts to sabotage the fudgies what's your plan and actually okay I've remembered now thanks to my own foolishness and also the comment of a patron thank you so much this is going to be a clock oh sick clocks are very important in blades games in forged in the darkness games so what we're going to do is instead of having a single role that's going to achieve something we're going to have a clock yep and you're going to take actions describe what that is in an attempt to fill up the clock when you fill up the clock the fudgies have been ruined real yes is that sort of like our project clock yeah yeah it's a project clock but it's in the moment and I forget about them every time not this time it's an eight segment clock can we put it in the middle on the board and put it in the middle of the board and put it in the middle of the board and put it in the on the roll dice board yeah that sounds great you know clock yeah it's a communal clock that you're all working to fill someone give me a piece of paper or something it's an eight segment clock right that is a pen what what yeah it's just the outline okay sorry seeing pens during role playing games gives me ptsd to when you fought in the pen wars okay so this is an eight segment clock when this clock fills up the fudgies have been ruined your goal has been achieved you can you can try and what are you doing let's just say he's just writing ruin ruin fudgies I think right ruin fudges I can see that he's run out of space on the paper ruined ruined fudge wow rum fuzzers rum fuzzers I wrote it you I wrote it like fented wood right yeah like decomodome and also like abdulaziz all right uh cool so yeah and how we fill this clock it's like anything else you are trying to succeed at roles and depending on how successful you are at the role a certain number of segments fills how you felt like the number of ticks in a clock limited effect roles that are successful one standard two great three and if you fail at something one of the consequences could be me starting a new clock and when that clock fills something bad happens oh cool racing clocks blades games are really cool and I've just been running them wrong but this game has just been really fun yes and now it's gonna be rules whoa so I think the first thing we're gonna do is go to the fudgies booth and talk to the elves to try and convince them to stop running the cooling mechanism the cooling box or whatever so how are we gonna do that we gotta run a distraction while you talk to the elves well the only one of us that can attune to the elves is clover right should I find out passing by elf and get it to like do the work for us that's not a bad idea yeah if there's enough elves running around because they like they like working together they care about uh what the other elves say yeah if we can find one there was some working on the elf show oh true oh yeah just see if do we have any like good candy like as trade oh yeah we have a shitload with the cool tree kids yeah we all turn our pockets out it's just full of candy candy I have my two motivation bars for you guys I'm gonna go to the fudgies booth and they are liquid at this point okay I have a tic tac I found on the ground that's not a tic tac uh yeah okay so yeah what is your immediate plan we were gonna go to the elf stage to try and track down oh right okay elf and you have a copy of their rider and we were gonna use the elf that we tracked down at the elf stage to talk to the elves to tell them to like strike or whatever yeah cool that way it's not obvious that's us okay so you're gonna go to the elf stage and you're gonna you're you go to the elf stage which is further down the gigantor hallway that you're in and there is a show on right now and penton wants to get backstage can he use his I'm boring don't look at me move what is what is it oh it's mesmerist right mesmerist yeah and mesmerist when you sway the victim forgets afterwards until you meet again okay okay so I want to sway so the whoever's like bouncing back so I'm gonna go to the elf stage and I'm gonna go to the elf stage and I'm gonna go to the elf stage or whatever yeah classic bouncer big thick neck sunglasses so yeah we all run up hey sir uh I work for as a runner for the mall and I accidentally did not put the right pumpernickel juice in there in the actress trailer in in the green room you can see him getting so bored of what's happening his eyes are glazing over as you continue to talk I was supposed to do it I was supposed to chill it it didn't get chilled to the right temperature they needed pumpernickel juice and firm handshakes but I mixed them up please please please I thought the pumpernickel juice was supposed to be hand temperature please hey man do you want to skin 500 grapes no that's what we're here for our tiny hands are skilled at skinning grapes there's a bowl of grapes in there that needs skinning and saving because they like the grape skin and they also like the grape skins he puts his hands up please please please I'm begging you roll something okay so are you rolling I'm rolling sway but I also have resolve so I can roll two right yes yes you can yeah and you choose the highest and you're getting I think you're gonna get a bonus to effect because you have the rider information yeah cool five five yeah so uh he is exasperated he's exhausted by this whole conversation by this whole situation but you named the right things you're like they need skinned grapes they need pumpernickel juice and he's like okay all right just go in do your work get out don't talk to me anymore don't say another don't say another word to me you get it mister we're all you're all saying words we're all holding onto his pants it was the thing you know that thing where a bunch of kids are talking at an adult we're all tugging on his pants that's what it was just just go just go let go of my pants these are my good work pants what are these linen these are really nice you're all talking to me okay let's go go inside I let go and there's two chocolate handprints where I was holding oh my word and he's so frustrated that once he's done with it he's like you pass him uh through the entrance to the backstage tent he totally forgets you were there because he's just mad about his pants he's trying to clean his pants off he actually leaves to go clean his pants off oh man and you're backstage at elf all right high five how many elves are around uh there is the one that plays elf is sitting in a folding chair smoking a cigarette where's his stand-in his stand-in is across the room skinning grapes oh wow shitty job yeah I didn't know that was real that's a living let's go talk to him all right so I walk up to this elf hey dude hey hey how's it going oh just another day living the dream cool cool um hey listen I don't know if you're busy like I don't know how important these grapes are right now but uh do you mind like helping us out talking to some other elves so this is going to be an offer for you to do something I guess yeah okay let me tell you what's what we need you to do we need you to come with us to the fudgies tent yeah and talk to the elves and convince them that they gotta go on strike because okay let me tell you man the fudgies they're raking it in and the elves they're working so hard and the fudgies are mistreating them and like the elves look so sad like they look sadder than you did while you were peeling these grapes his eyes widen a little bit sadder than me yeah in fact I bet if you offered them to help you peel these grapes they would jump at the opportunity and then you get them peeled so fast huh well it is a pretty sweet gig peeling these grapes wait he enjoys this we thought he was being sarcastic about living the dream but he was like oh my god the dream I get to live the dream and when that guy gets too drunk I get to go on stage what a life totally it is it is quite a life to travel the world on the road peeling grapes and filming tapes yeah and don't you want these elves to like also live the dream you gotta roll something now all right so this will be a tune my god why not prowess because I'm like so like because because that's not because no because you know that doesn't work yeah so my arms are like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like jessica just like waved her shoulders when she made that sound six holy god in heaven yes whoa so you get three you get to fill in three wow nice checks oh this is gonna be so easy to beat the fudgies yeah just wait till we fuck something huge up sure wow yeah great you're almost halfway there uh so the elf goes all right it's time for me to work towards bettering lives for my brethren my fellow else totally hey smeglin and the elf smoking the cigarette he's like yeah what do you fucking want but it's time for you to peel those grapes he's like I'm not peeling grapes I'm gonna go help our brothers he's like I'm not an elf I'm just a small guy they're not my brothers and he goes fair enough and he turns around and he's like I'm not an elf I'm just a small guy and he starts walking away let's go kid oh perfect uh let's go yeah let's go and yeah you leave the tent heading towards the back to the fudgies I guess and wait as we're leaving fenton is walking and he sees the girl that plays the daughter in in the show elf in elf and he everything turns into slow motion and there's sparkles in the air and it's like that song kiss me from another teen movie and the girl slowly she turns around and her hair whips in the wind and she's got her finger all the way up her nose and she's got big curly red hair and it cuts back to fenton and he also has his nose she's picking at a craft services table they make do they make eye contact no she doesn't look at you oh no you see her okay and I'm like holy fucking shit and what's your plan here I see you picking up your hair and you're like oh my god I'm gonna go to the fudgies and I'm like oh my god I'm gonna go to the fudgies I I think this is just like a nervous tick that fenton he's picking up dice he is just grabbing stuff yeah so he like looks in his hand and he's accidentally pickpocketed someone oh I imagine he was holding the chocolate and squeezing it hard and it was just like coming out everywhere smushing out of his hand he's covered in various liquids and solids uh-huh I guess I gotta write down this person this girl's name now we're producing a love interest I guess yeah no I asked the elf I'm like hey wait what the fuck was his name oh yeah sorry man we never asked your name oh my name yeah yeah no one's ever asked my name before well now's the time tremble oh I just came up with that is that all right that's a great elf name great name tremble oh tremble oh because that's how I like people to feel after they see me act that's great yeah can you do a little like for us yeah look at this this one's mad and he looks down and he looks back up and he's glaring whoa oh it's okay I'm not mad I'm not mad I'm not mad holy shit okay and then he looks at you and he's frowning and he's got tears in his eyes oh my god no we didn't mean no no no I'm not sad I'm not sad I'm not sad holy shit you're so good he does a big flourishy bow thank you thank you and people are walking past you looking at tremble like what the fuck is that thing it's wearing little short pants and a tiny vest tremble oh who's that girl with the red curls with her finger like two knuckles deep into her nose oh that that's penny she plays the daughter whose name is also penny in the play oh my god yeah and then phantom turns around and whispers at her pay for your thoughts is this the thing humans do is this a thing this is this thing humans do to other humans well he's barely human this is the thing he does uh is this a thing we should be following up on or should we be heading just give him a minute okay that should be good let's get it okay yeah let's go and uh yeah I guess you just head over to the fudgies booth all right and the fudgies are just giving the performance of their lives people are whipping coins at them fudge is coming out hot and heavy baby they have a choreographed dance and it just pisses franklin off so much oh what are you gonna do about franklin just do and make myself a better dancer despite them what does the choreographed dance look like uh it's one of those things where it's four of them lined up and they're like snapping down to either side and their legs are going out and back on the opposite sides and then they do a box step and they do they do the like one hand up one hand down with the jazz hands and it's incredible seven years ago called they want their jazz hands back fuck these guys some parents turn around they're like we're watching the we're watching the fudgies perform that's my son you're talking about eat my fucking tits lady that is one a very confusing curse and two you shouldn't be coming from a stupid little boy stupid but we're all stupid so fuck you lady including you yeah solidarity bitch oh my god the whole world is stupid oh man I love that uh okay yeah so there's the fudgies booth there's like it's like a convention floor on this side so there's like back curtains that are connected all the way along so if you want to get behind it you gotta go through or all the way around let's like try and shuffle through the legs of the crowd and around back okay yeah so somebody needs a little sneaky sneak who the fuck knows how to do this I have one in prowess okay and he's the he's he's the the light stepper yeah totally so one one die he's gonna be in his fury at watching the dance choreography he's gonna be like I'll show you choreography are you like dancing through oh yeah like one hand you know like fast version of when that woman went through the lasers in that movie oh oh yep so the time that the guy broke dance through the lasers in oceans 12 yes thank you two god fucking damn it shit um okay so as is the way so this was going to be risky but it was going and it was going to be standard effect to get behind the fudgies booth so you are perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly safe and perfectly A running man over behind where they are.

Twirl around. A little backflip through somebody's legs. Whoa. Yeah, little slips like that. A silent dive forward. Maybe into a worm. A worm, I like it. Nice. And Clover and Fenton and Tremblo are just running behind you, trying to get through. And because of the stress you incur, you get to the other side. You are drenched in sweat. Absolutely soaked. Shake it off like a dog. Yeah. And you're behind. You're in the alley behind two aisles of big market booths.

And you see, connected via an accordion tube, to the front of the fudgies booth, a big box with a little latch door on it. Oh my god. Fenton, is that where they're hiding? Yeah, that's it. Is the door locked? It is. It's got a little lock on it. Fuck. It says elf ployees only on it. I take out the cane sword. Okay, what do you do with it? I'm going to try and smash the shit out of it. The lock. Take it in the lock, buddy. All right, so this would be a prowess.

Wait, maybe someone else should take my cane sword. No, Fenton's already drawn his sword in his movement. I should hand it to someone else while I'm halfway through this motion. It's going to be a wreck. So if you've got wreck, that's one. Oh, I have prowess and wreck. I toss it. I toss it to Clover. Whoa. I catch it. Whoa. And all the combined frustration and rage of a prepubescent girl in the throes of love overtake you, who just learned what periods were. Yeah.

But like one day when I get my period and I'm like, I'm going to be so strong. Six. Six. Whoa. Etchy, like anime style. There's a flash of light. You're all blinded. And when your eyes clear, the lock breaks in two. And my hair is like flowing in the fake wind. I don't know. And I'm like, that must be what it's like to get a period. And the lock is in pieces on the ground. Yeah. And a streak of light shines. And it just flings along the blade and goes fling at the very end.

And I just flick it back to Fenton without looking. It hits me in the face. It cut my cheek. It cut my cheek. I bring my fingers up, one finger and a thumb up to my mouth. I'm like. She blew the smoke out of a smoking gun. Yeah. Pretty incredible. And inside the box, there are three elves on tiny little bikes pumping their legs. Oh, hey guys, do you need anything in there? Close the door. I got 20 more miles to go before my shift ends. Hey, we want you to meet our friend Tremblo here.

Who's Tremblo? He wipes sweat off his forehead with long, weird fingers, flicks it on the ground, picks up a water bottle, squirts it in his mouth, keeps pumping. Tremblo this. Tremblo, talk. Come on. Oh, me. I'm Tremblo. Hey, I'm Tremblo. I'm Tremblo, folks. Hey, let me just get in there. And he crams his way into the box where the elves are. Brothers. Brethren. I mean, we're all kind of genderless. Does brother still apply? Fellow elves.

Now is not the time for us to suffer under the yoke of the large folk. It is time for us to strike out into the world and plow our own course through the wheats of the sea. It is time for us to step amongst the giants of time and stroll through the annals of places. Man, he's good. How many places have annals? I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to ask. Four more later. And he goes on for a little bit for quite a while like that. Real Grapes of Wrath kind of monologue. Totally. Yeah.

And there's a point where they start to falter. The elves start to pump their legs a little slower. But they say no because the pie's not full. Well, oh, wait. Was that one roll? Oh, I guess it would have been. Yeah. So you have three more boxes to fill on the ruin the fudgies wheel. Tremblo looks out as he pops. He pauses in his speech. He's just said, we bleed not for the soil, but for our hearts and minds of the of the earth through which will I just get. Sorry. Hold on.

He says, I think I'm breaking through. I think I'm getting to him. Is there anything that would help? What would help? What do you think would help? What would help an actor? Because he's trying to use his acting ability. You know who might have a little something to say about what might help? One actor extraordinaire. Grapes. Star of stage and screen. Grefg Smushlin. Hold on. I think I know where to find him. You dart through. Yeah. And you find him at his booth doing a perfect plie to no one.

Oh, beautiful. They don't appreciate his genius. And he bows and goes, thank you. My boy, I thought I would never see you again. Ha. You haven't seen the last of these. And he jumps up and does. Perfect. Dwee-lee-lee-lee-lee-lee-lee-lee-lee. Like Luigi. Like a ballet. Yeah. Yeah. Outstanding. Thank you. What brings you into the shadow of greatness presented by Grefg Smushlin? That's what we're here for. Your greatness. My greatness. Your greatness. Your greatness. We've got some elves. Elves.

Elves. Elves. Explain. Okay. They're like tiny little people that seem to run a lot of things. Interesting. Fascinating. Most troubling. You're telling me these guys are getting worked to the bone. To the bone, you say. That is the one price pays. Art for. I will allow your mind to untangle that sentence. In a classic actors slash performers, I keep saying that I'm an actor. That is half true. You are so much more than that. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I.

Through the stage of life I have given the performances of all time on stages throughout the ages, my birth, my eventual death, one through three divorces and five weddings, six annulments who can say how those took place. And each one is so lucky to have had you. Man, this guy can't turn it off. Holy God. And so I call myself an actor. As many do, but I am a dancer first and foremost.

I want to ask you, what is the second thing after discipline and then following a deep well of emotional intelligence the most important thing to an actor? Taught calves. Okay, after taught calves and the emotional well. Empathy? Okay, there's empathy in there as well. He crouches down in front of you. He steeples his hands in front of his face. I can get this. So what about the first two? There was a deep emotional well. Of course. Yes, of intelligence. Yes. Good looks. I forgot looks.

Good looks. Of utmost importance. As you can see. He runs a hand down his own face. Taught calves. Taught calves. A firm core. Okay, we've got core. You're going to get there eventually. Cardio. Cardio, yes. Think bigger. What includes more people? Horses. The production cannot run without it. Horses. Horses. It's also applied. They include two people oftentimes on stage, so yeah, that is technically true.

I'm going to let, I, of course, as Grefg's mushlin, legendary performer, know the answer to this, but I'm going to let you answer. A union. A union. A union. Now, I have had troubles with unions in the past. You mean like all your marriages? Yes. What are you talking about? I'm talking about a union of people. Oh, yes. Standing together. I love unions. Production can't run on one man alone. It stands on one man alone, but it doesn't run on one man alone. Absolutely true, my boy. Absolutely true.

And you bring this to me. Why? Oh, yes, the elves. I'm sorry. I forgot. We gotta get them unionized. It's important. If I am to help you with this task, you must perform for me. I couldn't. You must. I wouldn't. You must. I will. Perform for me. Oh, you mean now? If I am to join this union of hearts, minds, souls, and calves, you must perform for me, my boy. I mean, I haven't warmed up, really. I did a little thing over there, but it was kind of… Wow. Okay.

So this is gonna be risky, but great effect. Okay. So if you succeed… It'll complete the project clock. It will complete the project clock. That will unionize the elves? I mean, at least it's gonna get these elves out of that box. Yeah. And that's going to lead to the fudgies fudge melting? Yeah. Yeah. Because this is a cooling system that we're fucking with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What a wild way to break a refrigerator. It wasn't depending on human labor.

You know how we were just talking about how season seven of Spell Lord, the stakes are so weird because it's like breaking into public works to get plans to a sewer to steal a book? Yeah, to break into a library. The stakes for this are to wreck somebody's fridge. Okay, yeah, so… One die. Prowess. Okay. Twirling, twirling, twirling, twirling. He's doing that thing, you know, when you're like, getting ready to break dance, crazy break dance. Oh! Six. A six.

Franklin does the dance of his lifetime. Oh, we need music for this. Da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da. Gresh tapping his feet. His calf muscles are spasming inside his leotard. He's flipping, runs up the wall to start it. Doesn't land. Does a flip. Lands on top of his shoulders. Goes off of his shoulders. Runs circles around. Pirouettes, pirouettes, pirouettes. He does, uh, he does, he does rock hands. Fuck jazz hands. He's doing rock hands. My what?

Boom, boom, boom, boom. He's, uh, uh, swan dive. Catches himself in the air. He's like both, uh, Baby and Patrick Swayze all wrapped up in one. And as, as this incredible move takes place, Grefg's muslin spins on his own. He wants to be a part of this. And he rips the top of his leotard clean off, revealing a neck-to-naval tattoo of himself dancing. And he drops to his knees and he screams a piercing howl to the heavens that I will not replicate in this after-ten-o'clock Airbnb.

But, but he's crying. He's openly weeping now. My boy. I have not felt emotions such as this since the birth of my first child. And their ultimate betrayal for me. Was he the one that you were wrong about? He was. He was my greatest protege. Until now. Tell me, my boy, he clasped both sides of your face. Tell me that you will never spend fifteen years learning under my tutelage only to break off and form your own competing dance studio. I can't promise you anything. That's what I like to hear.

You must have a shark's intellect. The whale's heart. Now, and he slaps both your cheeks. Take me to those who need me. I'm already doing it. Run, run, run, run, run, run. Run, run, run, run, run, run. And we cut back to what we've been doing this whole time. Yep. Just picked a wedgie over my butt. It took fifteen minutes. No, I didn't. I'm really in there. I don't know. It seems like it keeps going in. It's like a weird optical illusion. I don't know what's going on with it.

I think, oh, you know what? I think the waistband's around one of my legs. What? It's hard. You know, it's just the one pair and stuff gets bagged out after a while. You gotta get more underwear. Look, that's what I'm trying to do. What are you doing right now? It doesn't cost that much money. Yeah, it does. There's free piles all over the place. What? There's free piles of clothes everywhere. No, Fenton is describing actual stores. He doesn't understand how commerce works.

I guess he's been stealing, yeah, mostly. He's shoplifting his entire life. Yeah, Clover is just shot. Fenton, why didn't you ever tell me this? I assume everyone knew that most… No! Well, I mean, we can just go underwear shopping later. Okay. Okay. You think Seamus will notice? And then he looks, and it's really deep in there. It's like clumped up my skirt a bit, too, like into the underwear. It's such a weird twisted mess that when he defocuses his eyes, he can see a schooner.

It's like one of those magic eye puzzles. And while you're distracted by the magic eye in Clover's skirt, the curtains burst apart, and a man in a ripped leotard with a huge tattoo leaps through the air. Holy shit! And lands in front of you in a perfect pirouette. Dancing terms? Yeah. Jeante plumerie. Wow. It says, Behold! It is I, Graves Mushlin. Hi. Yeah. I understand, and he does a spin, and he dips really low and sticks one leg out that you require, and he stands up straight. A dancer.

He looks down at us, and Clover's on all fours, facing away from Fenton, and Fenton's looking straight into her ass. What? I see that I have perhaps found myself in the wrong place. No. No, this is the right place. Did Franklin go get you? Franklin, my boy. Yeah, he comes running in. Here's the actor. He flexes. It's not that impressive. Those calves. Yeah, the calves, though. He flexes his calves, and he almost rips his own leotard. Sounds like a gunshot. He's gonna help unionize the elves.

He's a master unionizer. A master unionizer. Oh, Tremblo. And Tremblo's deep. He's, like, deep in his speech, but he's looking at you like, yeah, come on, help me. Oh. Gref, is it? Okay, we need you. We need you to, like, work with Tremblo here. Tremblo's trying to give them speech and trying to get them to unionize and leave their jobs because they're shitty, and we need your magic. Yes. Also, these are elves. These are elves. Oh, these are elves. Yeah, inside the fridge.

He gets really low down. He does a straight lunge as low as he can. To the box to look inside. And goes, Incredible. And then he pushes himself back up from a straight lunge. Pushes himself back up to a standing position. Wow, those are some frictionless shoes you have on. Friction is a dancer's worst enemy. You should know this, Franklin, if you are to continue in the arts. Yes, write it down. What else have I told you today? What else did you write down on the way here? Uh, um, calves.

Less than the one. Calves. Breath. Breath is important. Is very important. Big, massive tattoos. Mmm. Terrible shirts. Not awful shirts. Shirts. Rippable shirts. Shirts that are able to be torn. Terrible shirts. Very good. And friction. Crossed out with a no next to it. That is how I remember. Now, I am to give a performance which will throw off the yoke of capitalism. As I have done many times before. With horror. Behold, children! And he goes into a very complicated dance. Move the first.

Uh, it's, uh, like, kind of a singing in the rain thing where he jumps up on a lamppost nearby. It's the… It's a lamppost booth. They're selling lampposts. Yeah. There's a bunch piled in the back. Yeah. Beautiful. Move the second. Uh, he puts his hands together to signal, uh, signify a clock. Cogs. Moving together. Oh, yeah. Move the third. He starts doing some serious, like, river dancing. Oh, yeah. Real fast. Tearing up the floor. And he… His final move. His most important move.

The most difficult move that he's ever performed. He's standing, stock still. And he jumps backwards in a standing backflip. Halfway through the backflip, it turns back into a frontflip. Whoa. And he lands on his feet. Whoa. Whoa. And he almost collapses, panting. How? What the heck just happened? How did you do that? And you can see the calves quivering in his pants. Fenton's crying. Yeah. How did you do that? Clover's crying, too. And the elves are crying, as well. Why am I crying so much?

And you hear the elves, from inside the box… Do you hear the people singing the song of Angry Elves? It is the music of the elves who will not be elves again. And they just start marching. And the elves go… And the elves go… And the elves go…

Marching out except it sounds like but to them it's like the fucking climax of Les Miserables yeah and they march away and Tremblo he comes up to you he goes thank you children for giving me the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of three individuals thank you Tremblo thank you for following your dreams and inspiring others to live theirs you get up there and you skin those grapes I'm going to I'm going to don't forget to lick your fingers it's the best part of the job he salutes you hey can you ask Penny if she has a boyfriend and tell me you want me to you want me to go ask Penny if she has a boyfriend and then come back and tell you yeah or send a note or something I mean the show is what time is it he's look everybody's looking everywhere it's like 8 p.m.

Yeah well I mean the shows are done in in an hour and then they start again at 10 a.m.

Tomorrow okay so you can meet her either after the show now or in the morning okay do you know if she has a boyfriend oh not that I know of she's like 10 okay cool okay bye and he just scuttles underneath the curtain because he's the size of a baked potato and he just is gone and Gref is still standing there watching this just panting still a sheen of sweat across his torso Franklin yes I hope you have learned something today I have you are a dancer first and foremost my boy he looks at the two of them because this is the first time that you know it's really open about it do you know the artist's heart which burns within the chest of your dear friend Franklin yes not yeah maybe not it seems like quite an intense situation that has arrived here today Franklin have you considered my offer to move to Blacklass and become the most recent student of the Gref's Mushroom Academy for the Dancing Arts and he looks at Clover Ivy and Fenton and there's sad little shit covered hands and gross little fuzzy teeth and shit covered hands what shit I guess maybe Fenton was like taking a shit in the box as a fuck you to the fudgies and he missed yeah it's more like the royal shit and he's like I think I think I can do more good here you're turning me down no I will train here you've seen what I can do I've learned how to do what I can do here this is the best gymnasium and training grounds for what I want a dancer is nothing without the stage but you've proved to me today that the stage of the world is your stage of the small stage Fenton is confused Clover is nodding like he's trying to like be like yeah I know but she doesn't very well here and he reaches deep inside his leotard and he pulls out a card and he hands it to you soaking wet this is my written address my personal written address if you so change your mind and when I say personal written address I mean PO box if you change your mind please do not hesitate to write me this means a lot to me thanks Graf it should and you're welcome I am here till the morrow yet again I'm here till the morrow yet again Another morrow.

Just one more morrow? We'll see. Maybe two morrows. Well, maybe I'll see it tomorrow. Farewell. And he does a backflip and he runs away. He runs away. He runs? He runs. We can see him because the corridors are so long. We can see him going for a while. Yeah, no, he does a backflip and he throws his hands out and there's a cloud of glitter in the air. And when the glitter falls, you can see him running down the corridor away from you. Wow, what a specimen.

And then he does a hard left through a booth. And it's at this point that you hear the fudgies stop singing. Guys, it's happening. So you run whichever way. It doesn't really matter at this point because there's like people, the fudgies are shouting. They're having a fucking meltdown. Finally. Hell yeah. Like this for some reason broke them. They opened the cabinet to sell more fudge and it's just dripping down the racks inside. Uh huh.

And there's a fudgie with like melted fudge in his hands trying to put it together just crying like, No, I don't have the fudge. And there's another one like punching another one in the stomach. Like this is your fault. And it's just people are going insane. And we're so happy dancing around. Yeah. I want to steal some of the money while they're freaking out. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you see their their cash register is unattended. Uh huh. All right. So what are you trying to grab?

This is risky. Uh huh. But great effect. I'm going to say if you can put if you can make this five coins. Oh shit. Whoa. Yeah, I guess he's like he watches them like totally falling apart and he's like yeah, now you're down to my level motherfuckers. I knew that patina wasn't real. This is your level. Yeah. Your level is pandemonium. It is mine all the time. This is what's happening. Can I make a distraction? Yeah, can we all just do a group action? Yeah, remember? Oh shit. Yeah group action.

If you are working with your crew, you may lead a group action. You and your teammates roll the same action and pick the best result. Leader takes one stress for any scoundrel that fails their role. You may also assisted teammate by taking one stress to give that player plus one die. Huh? So which is the one that would let me take the most stress because right now I have only one stress. Okay, it would be you would lead a group action. Okay, I'm going to lead a group action.

Everybody would roll the same thing and you would take the highest result. Okay. If you're leading it and you're taking the stress but Franklin and Clover both have prowess. Mm-hmm. That means that they have a higher chance of succeeding. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And if you whoever fails like he'll just take a stress for each of you that fails. Okay, and I have tons in my stress track. So okay. Yeah. Okay. So describe what this is this classic three-person con this three kid move.

I think Franklin's going to jump in the fight and just start. What? He's going to start like really tearing it up with those guys. Keep them distracted in the fight. Perfect. Clover is going to try to be like, oh my gosh, let me help you and then I'm going to like be clumsy and like just shove over a bunch of stuff. That's great. Okay, good. Perfect. So I do that style. Whoops. Whoops. And like there goes like their cauldron of fudge that they were like that they were stirring and try. Yeah.

Yeah. So it was spilling all over the floor. I'm like whoopsie. Sorry. Okay. Yeah. So as Franklin runs in he hits double speed on their tape that they're playing for their hey, we're the fun. So just like diddly starts going faster and faster. He runs in and grabs the music bottle. Yeah. Yeah shakes it up shakes. Oh wow. Yeah. Okay. So what we're how this is going to work is Fenton's going to roll 2d6 and take the lowest because you're rolling prowess and you don't have it. Yeah.

So I roll 2d6 take the lowest. You guys are only rolling one because you're all rolling prowess together. Okay, even if I have wreck. Yeah. Okay. Oh five five fives all around hell. Yes, gentlemen's five and two. Yeah, so you take one take one stress. Yeah, great. So it works nice. Yeah. So Franklin dives in starts just throwing random punches to match things up shakes a music bottle. So the music gets crazy and clover runs over and is like here. Let me help and pushes over a vat. Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't I should have asked for like I didn't realize I couldn't pick it up alone. And so hot like liquid fudge hits the ground and starts splashing everywhere and the crowd that surrounded them and is watching in horror starts to scream and run away and they're slipping all over the place. Slipping they're getting burned in the hot fudge. Oh shit shit and it's sticking to them like fucking napalm. No, I feel really bad. Holy fuck. This is bad. Okay. Now I'm going to try to help them.

Oh, sorry. I know I actually have a poultice for that real and in the midst of all this Fenton climbs up on top of the table that has their cash on it and he like puts both of his chubby hands into the cash and grabs two handfuls, which I guess is five coins and then he just fucking kicks the rest of the register into the hot fudge and then he lifts his fists up in the air and screams. This is what you get when you fuck with the cool drink. Yeah. Wow. Absolutely. Immediately.

Taking responsibility for the crime. I turn around like what the fuck. And then he runs off the table and jumps into the crowd. He hits someone. Oh my God. That's so funny. Hits someone and then runs. Oh my God. I love that. This the fact that you would pull some crazy heist and then immediately take ownership of it like after robbing the Bellagio George Clooney turns around in the lobby of the casino and goes and that's because of D.C.

Danny Ocean and oceans 11 by fools right into a cop car that kind of happened. He flies away at a helicopter and says so long but to the guy not to the police. I guess. Yeah, that's true. So you all just run away. Yeah. Thankfully there was enough pandemonium. I think that a little kid screaming cool treat kids wouldn't get you too much attention. Cool trick. It's forever. So you yeah, you get back to the safety of your relative safety of your booth because it's only like two rows away. Yeah.

And you can still hear the screams on the wind Fenton's the last one to get back because he has the worst cardio. Yeah. And you've been didn't water there and they're like they've moved their chairs really close together and they're like sitting in front of your booth and there's kind of like quietly talking to one another. Clovers watching. She's like what's going on here and you can hear it like next at his feet.

Dwight has a little cage with a few harp snakes in it and you can hear the music coming out is like. They're just having a nice time. That's so sweet and you Linda looks at you like oh hi. Oh, hi kids. Hi. Hi. Sorry for interrupting you too. Oh, no, not at all. Not at all. You didn't interrupt anything and Dwight is like, well, I wouldn't say nothing. Yeah. So they're like, yeah, do you want your booth back? Do you want your we got it? It's all safe. Everything is all tidy. Thank you.

Did you sell anything while we're gone buddy chance? Oh, were we supposed to? I might have gotten into a couple of the candies that you had. This stuff's pretty good. Oh, you scoundrels. Yes. So what do how's your house? Big Market treating you kids? Pretty uneventful. I guess. Yeah, nothing's happening. You're all covered in liquid fudge. You've got coins in your fist. I and I'm like we were over at the pudding sword guys booth. Oh, I love putting the sword guy.

Yeah, that's why we're covered in chocolate. I had an idea. It was called the the custard X and that guy. Shut me down. Yeah, I got a thief and a thief. Sounds really tasty. Actually, it was the problem was that it was a two-sided axe. So even when the when the custard came off, it was just a weapon. What if you put the custard in like like a really full baggie and then you smashed it with a hammer call it goo smash. That's not a terrible idea. Actually hot damn. That's a pretty smart idea kid.

You can have it. Oh you Linda. I'm going to be rich. And yeah, so what's your what's your plan? Are you hanging out of the booth? Are you trying to sell more stuff? Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, we sell some more stuff man. That was that was a lot. Yeah. Yeah, I need to go change my costume. I'm covered in stuff and no one wants to get a fortune reading if they can't see my palms. Yeah, that's true.

Like I guess you guys could go back to the sugar shack or I suppose so like what's what else would you do to get more coins? I mean, it's obviously not going to be from selling our wares. Yeah, maybe not. It could be I mean you've only tried to sell them at the booth. Where else can we sell them? You could probably take some and walk around like people roam around like, you know, Schloss meets guys.

There's a guy that sells smoothies that he makes from on a contraption that he has on his back guys. Oh, yeah. So I'm what I'm like looking out past you Linda and what and I see like some kids like riding tricycles and I'm like, oh my God you guys let's go get our bikes. We have bikes. Yeah, they're just like in the front of the sugar shack and we never could get to them because they're like covered in bows and arrows and stuff. Fucking sick. We have bikes. After you guys set up your defenses.

You're like, oh the bikes were back there. And I just decked mine out to with like a basket and like so many flowers and stuff. Banana Seat. Cool sick. Great. So you guys head back to the sugar shack. Yeah, we start running back to the sugar shack. Okay, because Clover pointed out that we could access our bikes again. Yeah. That's awesome. We've just forgot about them. Yeah, put it out of our mind. You Linda Dwight keep an eye on our tent. Oh, don't worry.

We will you know not like well, you're gone and you come you get back to the sugar shack. I stop I stop at the puppet booth. I get a puppet for poor ball. Oh, that's you. Are you guys like a Spear Buck? Can I get a Spear Buck Franklin? Of course. Thank you. Can I buy a puppet? What's the public look like? I just described poor. Borbo to the puppet making guy and I'm like, can you make him like super buff? Like huge. Oh, yeah. I think I've got just the thing. You're going to love it.

Yeah, let me see. It's like green and furry green and furry. I'll look like that. Oh, I was making a special request for you to make a puppet that looks like my friend. Oh, that's going to take some time. Oh, fuck it. Just give me the green one. As you're running back. You're drawing abs on it with a magic marker. Yeah. Rich on the top. Yeah, it's going to be fine.

Yeah, you make it back to the to the sugar Shack and you see Borbo's futon laid in front of the door and you see Borbo sitting on the futon with Blarth. Oh shit. What's going on here? And Borbo's got a hand on Blarth shoulder. They're sitting pretty close together and he's like look man like just because you like her doesn't mean that she has to like you back. You know, that's not how it works. Like she's her own woman. She makes her own choices in the. Choice that she's made is Borbo.

But like she's just might not be right for you. You know, like that's just how it is. She might not be right for me. You know, I might not be right for her but that's relationships bro. That's relationships Blarth like I guess you're right. I just got so worked up, you know, like I don't I don't have a lot of people. I'm close to in my life and boost is like a really scary place for me to be now and she was just really nice. To me and I guess it let it I let it cloud my judgment. Borbo.

Thank you so much. I'm really glad that you took this the way that you took it. He's like no problem, bro. Bros got to be bros to bros. No matter what that bro wants to be a bro about you hear me? I hear you man and they kind of have a little hug on the futon. Oh, so nice. Thank God. I thought I thought Blarth was going to beat me up or something and Blarth looks up and he goes. Hey, hey. And he points at clover. Hey, hey. So yeah, I saw you. I saw you feeling okay and I'm glad to find you.

Well, just as I knew you would be you know what I know that you I know that you told me to I know that you told me that I had to confront Borbo and I did try to slap his balls. I will say and he did leap at me like a coiled Viper. I could see it in his eyes. He had deadly intent. But we just you know, we got to talking and it's you know, I feel like this is a period of growth for me. Yeah.

I mean the the moon is in in Juniper Rising and it's definitely in you know, your your sign your cardinal signs in the house of the swan donkeys. So deaf makes sense that this was the right outcome for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that has to make sense. It does. Right? Absolutely. I'm an expert very well. Yeah. All right. Well, you know what? Have a great day. I'm just feeling so good. I'm feeling so good. I'm just going to go home. I'm not even going to think about Vera.

I'm just going to I'm going to organize my magisterium cards. I'm going to make a new deck thinking like a green blue. You know what I mean? Get it Blarth. Thanks. Thanks kids. Thanks Borbo. I'll see you at work man. He's like no problem bro. See you for skeet ball and then he just leaves. Wow, you handled that like a fucking pro. Well, I did have him in a headlock for like 15 minutes. Then he eventually cooled off. That's how a lot of my interpersonal conversations go.

Franklin's write that down. First 15 minutes. Holy fuck. I'm so glad that you're our security guy off and you well should be I mean, I haven't really been paying much attention because I've been talking to Blarth for a while. How's big market been going for you kids? Pretty good. Then got you present. I hold up the puppet. It's got licorice hair.

We added so it looked like him and then I added abs and then I drew the shirt that we tailored for the bralette with security across the front and then it wrote security across the back and I was like we got you this puppet that you asked for for some reason. Is it supposed to be me? Yeah. Mm-hmm. No freaking way. And he grabs it. He's like this is so cool and he shoves his hand up and he's like, what's up a poor blow? I'm a little poor bow. I'm a little more blow. You'd say hi.

Say guys say hi to a little bore blow. I'm a little bar blow up. RIP. I'm wrapped and he's just having a blast with this puppet. Thanks kids. This is such a good day kicking it with my new bro Blarth kicking it with my new bro little bar blow. I'm just loving this day kicking it with you kids. I love security. I love your energy. I'm just feeling good tonight. Did you get into some of the sugarcane? I might know. Okay. Did you know it's raw unprocessed mostly fibers? Yeah, I make it man.

I'm gonna I'm getting kind of sleepy. I'm gonna sit back down. Okay, what are you kids up to? We came to get our bicycles go ahead on in. Yeah. Oh, thanks. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks. Let me check your passes real quick. We show him cards that he made for us that say admit one cool drink. Good. Good. Good. Thanks. Head on in. Okay. Thanks. And as you're walking through the door, you see the line of cayenne pepper that you laid down has been scattered. What? Jesus fuck. And just inside the doorway.

No. You see a hobnoblin sweating like crazy. Oh my God. His face is beet red. Its mouth is open. And it's just panting. And it's like, I don't know. It looks like it really got deep into the cayenne pepper and it's going insane. What do you do? Bubblegum net. Tight. Prowess. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, Romeo prowess. Yeah, great. Wow. All right. Just take the loss. Take the loss. I'm just gonna take the loss. I don't want any drama. Yeah. All right. So you run up.

You start scrambling to snatch this hobnoblin. I'm blowing it up and it blows up in my face. Yeah. Pop. And you're covered in this sticky pink gum. And the hobnoblin runs up and it chomps on your arm. Ow. So you take a harm. Oh, damn it. But then the real problem is that it scurries off into the store. Fuck. I'm gonna chase after it. You chase after it. It runs into the back. And as you get into the back, it's disappeared. You hear like thump, thump, thump in the vents. Oh man.

Now we got this guy in the vents. Okay. Can I go to where he, the vent that he went into? Yeah. It's like one of those kind of, it goes straight down from the ceiling and then angles out onto the floor. And I just like push a heavy box against it. Oh, smart. Problem solved, kids. Can't get back in. Okay. That's good. But you hear it like every once in a while. And you hear like a scraping noise that almost sounds like it's licking the cool metal of the vent. Ew.

God, we're gonna have to deal with that at some point. I'm gonna put another box on top just to be safe. Good idea. This is how kids would deal with this problem. Yeah, totally. Franklin, you're covered in gum. You get yourself out eventually, but you've still got gum on some parts of your body and you guys- It's in my hair. And you're grabbing your bikes. That's the plan? Yeah. But should we all have a bath first? I mean, big market, it's not a one day thing. Oh. We established that, right?

It's kind of like a weekend thing. It's like two, three days. That's true. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Maybe we should just sleep because I'm really tired and I haven't taken a poop. And I haven't taken a poop. I haven't taken a poop. I haven't taken a poop. And I have so much fudge all over me. Yeah. Should we just stay home? Do this tomorrow? Yeah, I think we can get the next five, the last five coins tomorrow. And then I guess we have to take it to the food court. Mm-hmm. I think so.

I don't know. It's as good a place as any to start. Yeah. Big shrug, whatever intermediary. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I would give it a give or give.

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So let's get a quick, as the sun sets on the High Spear Mall through the skylights, let's get a quick look at the end-of-day procedures of the Cool Treat Kids. We see Fenton Beasley. I am folding up, because I was wearing a leotard today. So I'm peeling off the leotard, and I'm putting back on my little sailor's outfit. And then I scuttle over to the floor safe, and I lay the motivation bar outside, and I throw a motivation bar inside. And then I hop in, and I pull the door closed on top of me.

But inside, the reveal is when you close the door, there's a drawing of his parents there. No one knows he's there. And he goes to sleep. That's really cute. We see Franklin Stein. He's got a bag of ice on his hair on the counter. And he's like, nine, ten. And then he has a hammer, and he's smashing at it, the bubble gum in his hair, trying to get the gum out of his hair. And the other half of his head is all covered in peanut butter. There's Cheez Whiz at the back. That didn't work either.

And then also, while he's… While he's doing that in the background, you can see that he's taken that card from Grefg's Shmoesloan, and he's framed it in this little frame and put it up on the wall. We see Clover Ivy Fern. She's in the bathtub with a candle lit, and she's making tiny bags of poultices for all the people who were burned by the fudge. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do it like that. I just wanted to get the money. I didn't mean to do it like that.

And the camera pulls back from the sugar shack through the destroyed front store entrance out past Borbo's futon, where he's laying on his back with little Borblo. He throws a slow motion punch at the puppet, which dodges backwards. And then he picks up the little bar that controls the hand, and he punches himself with it. And he goes, oh, finally, a worthy adversary. And we pull further.

And we pull further up into the sky, the dusty store tops laid out before us, as we see on top of the sugar shack, the beet red hobnoblin with a jug of milk that it's stolen from somewhere, pouring it into its mouth crazily, and up through the skylight to the starry night above. Wow. And that's where we're going to end it for this week. Pretty good. Thanks for joining us, everybody. I've been your game master, Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always, playing Fenton Beasley, the slide, Abdulaziz.

So long, everybody. Playing Franklin Stein, the cutter, Paul Oppers. Take tear. Take, goodbye. Take tear. Take two. See you later, guys. And playing Clover Ivy Fern, the whisper, Jessica Tai. Good night. Thank you to you, our amazing supporters. Without you, this game wouldn't be possible. And we appreciate it every single time we play. Thank you so much. And we'll see you next time. And so ends the tale. Of the cool treat kids. Always up to no good. So tiny and greedy. And angsty they be.

As they navigate crime and puberty. And though our journey may belie a conclusion. We will not leave you without a resolution. Return next week to the chocolate store. As the cool treat kids plan their next score. And for you, I'll gladly spout more. To be continued. For a movie podcast. G is the casual that has the mainstream movies. Simon is the nerd that is bringing the gems. And Boof is the cellar goblin that scrapes the bottom of the diaper. Messiah Jones says, such a fan of this podcast.

I love the variety. And all three have pretty good chemistry. G is far too confident in her own intelligence sometimes. And Simon can be a real curmudgeon. But the three work together well enough to keep the flow. And make a good product. Serenity. Deed says, love this podcast so far. But the audio is all over the place. It goes from quiet at the start of a sentence to loud in the middle. Every time somebody stops talking for even half a second. Their audio goes quiet and has to ramp up again.

It's very distracting. Edit. This audio issue was with my laptop. Find Yomp on all your favourite podcast platforms. Yomp.