Episode 8 – A Watched Blade Never Darks

Pickaxe You've seen them around, they sell sweets by the pound Their wares are famously tasty So here I sing, singing to you Of crimes involving chemistry Clover's the whisperer, she makes all the sweets She has a corn dog addiction Benton's the sly, she sleeps in a safe And writes vampire fanfiction Franklin's the cutter, his fighters strength Despite his dance, his heart Best and brightest, they may not be But that's my favorite part So gather round, friends And listen close For the tale's about to start Welcome, everybody, to Spoutmore Mall Brats!

I'm your Game Master, Sean O'Hara. Today we continue… Our game of World of Blades by Duam Figueroa based on Blades in the Dark by John Harper. Joining me as always, playing Fenton Beasley, the slide, Abdul Aziz. Hello, everybody. Fenton Beasley here, the slide. Whoa, full intro this time. Playing Franklin Stein, the cutter, Paul Oppers. Hi, I'm Franklin Stein, the cutter, and dancer and greff schmuslin protege. Whoa! Take out that pause. And playing Clover Ivy Fern, the whisper, Jessica Tai.

I'm Clover Ivy Fern, the whisper, and also candy maker queen, and, um, good at palm reading and Seamus's girlfriend. Oh! That's right, she's not just one thing. She's a dozen things. Yeah, she's too many things in one barely contained shell. Yes, and we are scared of her sometimes. Ha ha ha! She has her period now. The older she gets, for some reason, once every month, she goes fucking ballistic on us. Turns into a cat, we think. Something about the cycles of the moon. She might be a werewolf.

There's no way to know. Or a wizard. But no matter how many peaks we try to sneak, we cannot see her transform. We just see her screaming at us to get out of the bathroom. Ha ha ha! Uh, when last we left our heroes, the Cool Treat Kids embarked on their job. Their score being the support of adventurer and explorer and guide and karaoke star, Adric Swift. Sorry. I can let you guys keep doing this. No, it's just so funny. It is very funny. Yeah, what?

Thinking that she's a wizard or a werewolf or something. She's just trying to, like, put on a change. She's trying to fucking have my fucking period and stuff. Uh-huh. And also, when I was younger, my siblings would come in all the time and be like, Yeah! Yeah, yeah. Oh, man, that's so funny. Also, what terrible brothers we are. Yeah. Trying to sneak in. I swear to God, she's a werewolf, man. Literally no fucking peace. Yeah.

I was looking through the keyhole, and all I saw was her duct taping up the keyhole. Ha ha ha! Then they have interventions with me after. Ha ha ha! Like, Clover, we're a family. We're supposed to share it all. We're supposed to share everything, Clover. Like, I know you must be in way too deep, because when you, like, you turn into a werewolf, you leave a bloody mess in the bathroom. Yeah. Who'd you kill? I didn't kill anyone. It's totally natural cycles of the moon.

It's just because I'm a woman now, and that's just what I have to go through. There was way too much blood for that thing to still be alive. I don't know how to speak into you again. That thing. Ha ha ha! It's normal. It builds up throughout the month, and then it just all comes out. If it's normal, Clover, then why doesn't it happen to us? That's not normal. We do everything together. We've already explained it. Yeah, guys, you really gotta leave her alone on this one.

You really gotta back off. Oh, our ignorance is driving us insane. Your ignorance is also driving me insane, so you gotta shut up. Yeah, that is the kind of thing where Barbara would just be like, you guys need to shut the fuck up about this thing, okay? After like the 12th time. Part of being a good brother is shutting the fuck up about this. Particular thing. Certain things you shut the fuck up about. It's this, and then it's whenever she listens to Sidney Lauper, okay? Sidney Lauper.

Whenever she goes to the Sidney Lauper. Sidney Lauper, of course, it's L-O-P-P-E-R. She's a warrior. She's a warrior musician who's known for lopping the heads off her victims. Yeah, totally. But God, she can fucking play a song that gets to the heart of a young woman. Yeah. Like an arrow, man. Beautiful stuff. Okay, so the Cool Treat Kids pulled off their score. Their score being gaining the support of adventurer, explorer, traumatized man, karaoke star, Adric Swift. Bird aficionado. Yeah.

Bird friend. Friend to bird. Taylor Swift. Uh. Who, I just like the, I just was thinking, I like the idea that his name is Taylor, spelled like Taylor, like a, some of it, men's clothes. Maybe, I don't know why I would think that, but there's a reason. Fantasy. Because I need to change names slightly. They met him at the Spearmint B&B, smuggled out of the mall for the first time by Borbo Borbom Borblo. Mm-hmm. Who delivered them to the room of Agent B.

Adric Swift in the guise of a birthday cake. Yeah. He was dressed like a classic UPS guy. Yeah. And he fucked off to the bar afterwards. Even shorter shorts. They were, he cut off regular shorts. They were tearaways. These things are fucking restricting me, man. I gotta cut these legs off. He had normal sized UPS shorts, but they had little buttons across them that when he was about to go to the bar, he could, brr. He tore them off. The last four inches. He's gotta show off those quads. Yeah.

Oh yeah, he did. I work hard for these. He could tear them off without even using his hands. He just flexes, pop them off. And through a series of motel adventures, the Cool Treat Kids learned a little bit about Adric Swift. He learned a little bit about them. And he revealed to them that he'd been hired, yes, by the vineyard to guide them to a especially valuable dark chocolate reserve inside the chocolate factory.

But also that he had designs of his own seeking some danger that lurked within the factory. Hmm. But be that as it may, his own personal goals aside, he agreed to help the Cool Treat Kids by leading them into the chocolate factory first. Yes. Yes. And that is where we left our heroes. And that is where we join them now in an downtime episode. Right. So you know how it works, kids. You all get two downtime activities. You can spend coin to get more downtime activities if you so choose.

Feels like we're kind of prepping for going into the chocolate factory with Adric. Right? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So you can either do that in the tunnels where you've been living or perhaps you've posted up in the Spearmint B&B for a little bit. Oh, in his room. Yeah. Yeah. That would be funny. Yeah. If we stayed there. There's like pillows and blankets on the ground. Yeah. Because you've just been sleeping here. Like a fort. In the closet. Yeah.

And there's four pillows, sets of pillows and blankets because Borobo's also been sleeping here. And he's like, there's no fucking way I'm leaving these kids here with you, man. Borobo's like all antagonistic. Yeah. Like towards a strange man. Yeah. Towards this strange guy who's maybe our new Borobo. What's up with your goatee, bro? Don't have enough for a full beard? Don't have the jawline for a clean face? Like he starts rubbing his own face. And then he drops and starts doing pushups.

You ever done these? You ever done suicide drops? And then he just falls off to the ground and starts doing pushups. Borobo, why are you being so mean to Adric? I don't know. I just want to make sure you kids are okay. Yeah. You're just acting like me all the time. I'm just acting like you're trying to scare me. I'm just trying to scare you. I'm just trying to scare you. I'm just trying to scare you. I'm just trying to scare you. I'm just trying to scare you. I'm just trying to scare you.

I'm just trying to scare you. And I thought maybe you had your period and all the stuff you told me was fake. I mean, in some ways, some aspects guys kind of always have their period. No way. Wait, what? It's your… Once your hormones start going a little crazy, you'll understand what I mean. But… I didn't know it was so hard to be a man. Oh. And then Fenton clasps Clover's wrist and he goes, no one suffers more than us, Clover. I learn something new every day.

I learn something new every day. Man, you know, sometimes I go out into the world and I just think no one fears me as much as they should. But anyways, there's just something about this guy. I just want to make sure you kids are okay. Well, I mean, it does make sense that you're so pissed at him because he is endangering our lives by taking us into the chocolate factory. He's taking you where? Into the chocolate factory. Oh, we weren't supposed to tell you, Borbo. Oh. I…

Could have sworn that I should know… I should have known this. Well, you know now. Well, I'm still sticking around. Well, good. Good. Thank you. Fine. Wait, are you okay? I'm fine. Your ego looks bruised from here. I'm going to take a nap. And he goes and he sits in the corner of the room and he curls up in a ball. Let me make a poultice for that ego. Is he sucking his thumb? No, I'm not sucking my thumb. I had something on my thumbnail that I was trying to get off into my mouth.

Borbo, you're the only person who's taking us… All the way through that chocolate factory alive. You're going to have to come with us, maybe. You don't mean that. We need you. You don't mean that. Like you need us. All right, I'll do it. But I want to be expedition leader. Okay. That's fine. Okay. It's fine with us. Okay. So you guys get two downtime activities each. We all know that. It could all be one day. It could be a couple days.

Like you're not rushing into the chocolate factory, but it is soon. Yeah. Because his expedition was in four days. Yeah. And now probably three. That's because it seems like we slept here. Yeah. So we should leave tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. Probably. So maybe like a one day thing. It's one day. Yeah. We got one day to prep for this fucking thing. And make sure we're really like getting there before any of the wine moms or Tina Durker.

So by way of reminder, downtime activities are clear one harm box, indulge your vice to clear three stress, take a segment of your long-term project clock or gather information. I would like to reduce one harm. Okay. How do you do so? I forgot how I got it. I was wondering. Do you remember how I got? I had one less effect. I feel like it was in a fight. Was it? But I can't remember exactly how. Maybe I'm getting Borbo and Adric to like punch me. Like I'm trying to get tougher. Like your abs?

My abs and like my face. And I'm like doing pushups on my knuckles. But I'm doing it on my wrists. And I don't know what I'm doing. And this heals your injuries? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You know, it's sort of like when you get like cupping done. Yeah. And then it forces your body to heal faster. Uh-huh. Yeah. So you come to like you. Adric notices one day that you're all fine. That you have like an injury, like a fucked up, like your arm is all bruised or your torso is kind of cut.

Walking weird. Yeah. Like one of your shoulders is lower than the other one. Cause like one of your back muscles is sprained or something. Oh, my boy. I've got just the thing for this. There's a medical technique, a sort of tradition that comes from Northern Turvor. Are you familiar with Turvor? No. It is an icy, inhospitable place full of hard people. How hard are they? Oh, rock hard, my boy. Rock hard. What makes them so hard?

They live in a terrifying place and therefore they have had to fight and scrabble for every moment of their wretched lives. Oh, yeah. I get hard when I fight too. Gonna move on from that. But they believe that the easiest and best way to heal an injury is to damage the rest of the body. Go on. And it's just a smash cut to like him. You like. In a burlap sack. Yeah. Yeah. Eating with a broomstick. Yeah. Whack. Whack. Knuckle pushups. He's like whacking you with a book. Yeah. Ow. More. Yeah.

He's got. We see Adric riding in a cart down a hill and I'm lying on the ground at the bottom of the hill. Cuts just before it runs over. What else? He's like acting like a drill sergeant. Making you do burpees. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Wind sprints back and forth across the parking lot. There's one where he's just you're standing in front of him and he's screaming at your injury really close. Not even words. Just yelling. And I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah.

And yeah, for some reason, you know, you're not thinking so hard about those injuries anymore. Yeah. The limp. It shows him like progressing. The limp starts fading and I'm pirouetting and dancing and floating. Yeah. Like, you know, I'm back to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A normal person would notice that the limp isn't fading, but you're just limping equally on the other side. Yeah. It's just kind of balancing out.

And there you go, my boy. How do you feel? Tough as nails. Hard as a rock. Excellent. Pat on the back. Oh, ow. Ah, that's what I like to hear. That shoulder's coming in nice and tight. Thank you. Well, I'm going to hit the breakfast buffet. Again? Oh, it doesn't close until 11. And if you're really persistent. 11. 7. Oh, five. I'm going to come with the breakfast buffet with you. I'd also like to come along. Yeah. You know what? I'll come to. Hell yeah. Breakfast buffet.

And then there's a little shot of everybody eating eggs. Benedict. Not talking. Just going. We're like, it says all day breakfast. No, it's all you can eat till 11. How do you not understand this? So that's why we're not talking because we're eating as fast as we can before it's 11. Everybody's waking up at the end of the day. The clock is beating. We've got eight minutes left. Staff is looking at the clock too. Desperate to get us out of it.

They're standing over the trays with the lids, like just waiting for the clock to hit 11. They can slam it down. And then Fenton finishes his plate. He's like, I'm going back for sausages. Fingers in between sausages. Hatrix jams his hand and then grabs on full eggs, Benedict, as they slam it shut. And he goes, I got it. I got it. I shake the entire platter of pancakes. And just run with it. Fenton runs up. And as they're slamming it shut on the sausages, you hear, do-do-do-do, do-do-do.

And then he somersaults and cartwheels into the sausages, grabs a handful, and then loses his beret. No. And then grabs it at the last second before they slam it shut. Slam. Borbo's got his hands on a tray that someone's trying to close. There's three people trying to put this tray down. And he's just straining against it. Go, kids. Go. There's one guy who's slammed it down. And then Franklin's underneath with a little hacksaw cutter.

French toast shaped holes and getting all the French toast that was in there. Cutting a little circle that like hashbread, country style hashbreads are dropping out of it into a bag. Oh, yeah. We're funneling the syrup as well. Staphing it through a tube like you're stealing gasoline. Yeah. Spin it on the ground like, ugh. And then like, mmm. Dip your fingers in it later. Mmm. Mmm. Ugh. All right. You got one more downtime activity. I guess I'll, uh.

So you can gather info or take a segment on a long-term clock. Oh, gather info. Should we gather some info on the wine mums? Or it could be unrelated. Tina. What's Tina doing? Or even on the chocolate factory. Because that's our immediate next target. Yeah. Maybe on what he's actually. Because we still don't know what he, his goal is. Ooh. Good idea. That's true. That's true. I want to go through his stuff. Ooh. Through his communications with. Interesting. I find his letters and his.

So what you initially think is like a stack of letters. Because it's just so many loose papers and shit. You're like, oh, he's got to be like writing to somebody. He is. This is all handwritten notation. Like it's all like journals and reports and stuff that he's writing himself. Ooh. And I think like maybe counter to his own like weird, overly grandiose performative nature. Mm-hmm. These are quite meticulous maybe. Yeah. They're very meticulous and they are very to the point.

They're like without embellishment. There's drawings included. And some of them unfortunately are in code. Like it's not like a cipher, but like his shorthand is obscure enough that it is basically encoded. Can I take those? I want to take those. Yeah, absolutely. Encoded papers. Yep. Are you looking for anything in particular? Because I mean, there's a lot here. I'm trying to figure out what he's going and why. How he was enticed to doing this for the wine moms. Yeah, totally.

So you're, you shuffle through a bunch of the papers. Like he basically went with Clover and Fenton to the pool and you were like, yeah, I gotta go take a dump. And you went into his room instead. And Taylor went with them. Taylor is also outside. So you're not being watched by a bird who can talk. He learned to not be in the room when I'm dumping. And you go through the papers for a while, but you do find what looks to be a drawing of the mall. Mm-hmm.

And there are drawings that are like, okay, here's the mall. Here's a layout. Here's what the chocolate factory is. Like based on what you know of the mall, you know that he's like, this is an outline of the mall. And this is the section that is the chocolate factory. There are pictures that look like drawings of different plants and creatures that he's found in his like initial kind of scouting. And then a drawing that looks like the silhouette of a very elegant woman in a long dress. Right.

Looks like she's melting. The Dairy Queen. You think? Yeah. Wow. Who knows? Because we've seen the Dairy Queen too. We always said that sometimes on nights when the moon is full, we assume. One would be led to believe that the moon is full tonight. When the moon is full and so are our bowels, we go into the chocolate factory. This is a story we cut to. I said, I'm telling him a story of us seeing the Dairy Queen. To some younger kids. Yeah. Maybe we actually know.

The moon's full because we will only go in there if we know there's enough light. To see. Yeah. Oh yeah. The skylight. It's the least scary. Uh huh. That makes a lot of sense. I like that. Yes. And a dangerous fog rolls in. Fog that smells of candy ice cream. And we see her. A sad woman. Drifting. Searching. It seems some have said, Franklin said that. It seems like she was searching for something. Something she lost. Long ago. Wailing. Or quailing.

I didn't really hear that part of Franklin's description. Franklin saw her, honestly. It was Franklin. Franklin saw her once. And we think. Uh, yeah. So that's what you learn. And you see pictures of some weird, like it looks like a, um, you know, like those stripy mints. Yeah. Like the, like a big stripy mint, but then with like, um, like Twizzler legs. Whoa. You know, like that kind of stuff. Candy Goblin. Uh, no more like, more like a spider. Oh.

Kind of like eight Twizzler legs and like a big butt that looks like a stripy mint. Oh, is it like a hermit crab spider thing? It's his candy shell. Or maybe there, yeah, maybe it's a shell. The drawing doesn't make it very clear. It's like something that looks like he spotted and he sketched out really quick. Oh. And then what else? What's one more weird little creature? Maybe there's like a, a rough sketch of the Hobnob Goblins. The what? The Hobnoblins. The Hobnoblins.

Why'd you say Hobnob Goblins? Because they seemed extra goblin-y when we were in there. Uh-huh. With their long hands. What if there was like a sea monster in the chocolate? Oh. Like the river. Oh. Because we did say something was moving in there. And we're like, we would never go in the melted chocolate. Yeah. So I wonder what that is. What was the thing that was living in the shit in the sewers? Oh. It was a big shit monster. Or there was some crogs or something. Chules. Oh, in McCall. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Those things were fucking gross, dude. I hope it's not a chule. It could be a chule. Because they had a person's face. I mean, it sounds like the stuff in the chocolate factory is more like candy-based monsters. It's kind of like the monsters from Adventure Time. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. So what would be in the chocolate? Maybe it's just like, yeah, it's a rough sketch of something in the water. Maybe it's sludge looking. Yeah. Yeah. Like a sludgy sea serpent. Oh.

There's also a moose pit. Like a loose moose pit. Like a quicksand. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is it made out of moose or is loose moose the name of a candy? Loose moose is like, yeah, moose, like a pudding puddle. Oh, moose. Not the animal. Yeah. Not the animal. Like chocolate moose. Okay. It'd be kind of funny if it was an actual chocolate moose though that roamed around. I'll sleep with anything.

Oh, the moose is very, like a chocolate moose moose that like wanders the factory. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. I like that a lot. So that's his. There's a moose on the loose. So that's what he's recorded because he hasn't gone too deep in. It's mostly stuff around like the edges, the safer edges of the chocolate factory. Cause you guys have never been outside long enough to like map how big the actual structure of the mall is. But you're like, Oh fuck. The chocolate factory is huge.

It's way bigger than we thought it was. Oh my God. It's like 19 sugar shacks. What the fuck? I never thought anything was this big. Yeah. So that's what you learned from his diaries. I was also thinking there's like a drawing in there of like a creature made out of light. And it's a drawing. It's a drawing from the distance, but it's clearly when we were in the chocolate factory. Oh yeah. Flashlights duct tape to our bodies. That's so funny.

And yeah, as you're looking at the things, you hear the door, you hear voices approach and you hear the door rattle as someone starts to open it. Still pooping. Okay, boy. Just make sure to bear down. Open the windows. Will do. And you've got, you get a little bit of time to escape. Shuffle those things. Yeah. I am Barry hurry up and fart. So there won't be any stink in this room. I am Barry hurry up and fart. So then Franklin's trying to fart. Shit's his pants. Oh my God. This is even better.

This is exactly what I need. What smells more like poo than shit. Okay. So those are your two downtime activities. Great. All right. Who's next? I could go. Yeah. If you want. I'll clear a bit of stress, but I need Borbo's help for this. Okay. What do you need? I need corn dogs. I really crave them. It's that time of the month. Corn dog time. Yeah. But I can only get them. I can only get them. I can only get them. I can only get them. I can only get them. I can only get them.

I can only get them. But I can only get them from inside the mall. Yeah. Which means I'd have to go outside. Uh huh. Is there some sort of invention where like the corn dogs can come to me? Yeah. It's called legs. But I can't go outside. I can go get them. You can do it, Borbo? Yes. I'll go get them for you. No way. No. Here's what I'll do. So you're not nervous. I'll go to the door and then I'll run really fast to the other door. Okay.

And by performing that door dash, I will go get your corn dogs. And then I'll perform another door dash back to here. Oh, so we're going back. Yeah. Yeah. Borbo, you're a genius. Hey, I'm just happy to help. I think you can make like a lot of money with this idea. It's like uber money. That could really lift you up, pal. Yeah. And you know what's the best part is after this, there's no packages so you can just skip the dishes. Oh man. And also foodora. Do you like my new foodora? It's a foodora.

It's a fedora that I keep nacho cheese in the rim of. It is a special invention just for me. And then he takes two straws and he puts them in his mouth. And starts sucking nacho cheese out of the top of the hat. It's thicker than I thought it was. Yeah, you have to keep it heated up. It's stuck in the straws. All right, I'm going to go eat this up. This is actually just spaghetti. So a couple hours later, Borbo's back. He's got- Hours? All right. I got distracted, okay? Who were you beating up?

I wasn't beating up anybody. Who are you beating off? I wasn't beating off anybody. Who are you beating on? I wasn't beating on anybody. I went to the arcade. I'm sorry. Oh, that's fine. Thank you. I got distracted. Here you go. And he gives you like eight corn dogs. Jeez. How many did you want? Two. Oh, okay. I'll take them all though. For later. Okay, all right. Oh, Fenton. Fenton was going to be like, well, if you don't want all of them, I'll take one. I'll take them all. I'll take them all.

He's like, ah. Oh. You see you clear three stress due to your corn dog. I eat them hunched over like a dog. Wow. She really enjoys corned dogs. Corned dogs. She really knows how to corn a dog. What next? What should I do next? Maybe I'll just get info. Yeah. It makes the most sense. Yeah. Totally. And I mean, we can go to Fenton. Like you can think about what you want to do. Sure. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. And I'll just get info. Yeah. That makes the most sense. Yeah. Totally.

I'm down to do stuff. All right. What do you want? So Fenton has only two more stress boxes until drama. Uh-huh. But I think he's going to not clear any. Interesting. Why? Because he's like, sort of like gone this track where he's like really blamed himself for the failure at the- Jazz restaurant? Yeah. At the jazz- Oh, yeah. Where they were serving jazz. The speakeasy themed jazz restaurant. Yeah. Yeah.

And then he like didn't clear any stress that time because he was like, I have to get smarter. I can't just keep being dumb and lying. Oh, yeah. And then I think he's still like, he kind of like unlocked a bunch of memories about his dad. Like- Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah. So I think like the kind of influence of his dad is seeping back into his head. So I think that might be his version of drama is that he's going to like maybe transform into like a different kind of kid.

You know what a kid like just is like, I'm going to be a cowboy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the other thing is the boy says, I'm going to be a cowboy kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's getting rid of the sailor outfit. Totally. Yeah. Ditch the trench coat and the hat. Or something. But that's where he's headed. So he's not into the head. And he's just going to gather information.

He's really burning the candle at both ends. He's not taking any downtime. He's just going to try to power through to get all the information he needs to help his friends, because that's what he needs, is to help his friends and not take any downtime. Is Fenton saying this in the mirror to himself? He was. Okay. And then Rara showed up in the bathroom next to him and he was like, whoa. Rara climbed out of the toilet. Out of the back of the toilet. He's trying to find us this whole time.

Oh my God, Rara, I'm so sorry. I missed our regular counseling appointment. I know, I know. I know you'd never blame me for it. I really appreciate you trying to find us. Okay, we will pay you for the missed appointment. All right.

But what I was saying, Rara, was I need to focus on getting information and helping my friends because I can't just keep writing fucking vampire fan fiction and not helping my friends and continuing to not know math or business and then just letting the wine mums make condo maximums everywhere. I love you too. All right. And then he darts forward and grabs a bar of soap and shoves it in his mouth and then jumps into the toilet and swims away. Oh, wait, Rara.

He extricates himself from the toilet. You can actually probably help with this because I still have agoraphobia, so I can't leave the hotel and go back to the mall without falling into the sky. So what I need you to do is, okay, I'm going to use both of my downtime activities to gather information. All right. I would like to have some information. Two pieces of information. Uh-huh. One is I want to know what Tina's been doing to try and fucking track us down. Rara. Like how close she is?

And about this, like, new ranger that she hired to, like, find us or whatever. Rara. Got to figure that out. Rara. Rara. And he salutes you and he jumps up in the air and dives into the toilet. And then Fenton flushes. And he is continuing to salute you as he spins down the toilet. And Fenton salutes him. And he says, Godspeed, my tiny friend. Hobnoblins, of course. Maybe we actually already talked about this. Much like rats.

As long as they can fit their nose through a thing, they can fit their whole bodies through it. That's awesome. I didn't know that. So he just, like, squeezes into the toilet and disappears. I didn't know that he used the toilets for moving around. This is great. I don't think he knew he could use the toilets for moving around. But now the whole world is his oyster. So a couple hours later, Rara shows back up. Where are you guys hanging out? Like, I assume you're not just walking around.

He's waiting in the bathroom. Maybe Fenton is still waiting in the bathroom. Okay. He's been in there all day. Yeah, and every time someone comes in, he's like, I am still, I'm working through something crazy in here. It's fucked up. And the toilet seat starts slamming up and down. And the water starts splashing everywhere. And the cleaner outside is like, Jesus Christ. He is working through something. Poor kid. And Rara emerges. And he reaches into his ragtoga, his roga. His rara.

And pulls out a fistful of absolutely soaked papers. Slams them down on the ground. And he points at them. Perfect, my friend. And then Fenton. Borblow. What? Wow. Remember we established that he can say the word borblow. Yeah, how did you do that? Borblow. Oh, rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. Rar. My theory about this is that Borblow is basically the closest thing to a predator to him. Oh my God.

So as a defense mechanism, he figured out how to say his name to freak him out. That makes so much sense. Yeah, it makes sense. Those hobnoblins are all about something about this magic chocolate enacts like rapid evolution in whatever consumes it. So the hobnoblins, the monsters in the chocolate factory, they all evolve so fast. That makes so much sense because the whole thing with this wizard was that it evolved an entire ecosystem. System. I like that.

So anything that it eats this shit changes really quick. Yeah. Ooh, maybe that's what he drinks after too. He wants the power. Yeah, transformation power or some kind of thing. Yeah, could be. But he's got a bunch of papers for you and they are mostly very crude drawings. Like, how crude? Like P&V? Shit! Is that the phrase you were gonna use? That's exactly what I was gonna say. No, no, there's no P&V. There's no P&V. It's mostly T&A and some… Tits and anus? Okay, no, it's not any of that.

It's mostly T&A, tattletales, and amformation. Amformation. I said what I said. No, it's mostly like drawings, like crayon-ish drawings. One is Tina, very obviously, because she's got the long hair and angry face. Mm-hmm. And, um, but a smile. Like, angry eyebrows, but a smile. Oh, something's working out for her. And then a handful, a hand stuck out with, like, coins stacked on it. Oh, she's making money!

But handing it to someone else with their hand out that looks like an elf with angry eyes and a line for a mouth. Oh, this must be the… The ranger. The ranger! And, like, a vest. Like a green vest. Oh, it looks like a gherkin. I know all about these because of my comic book. Um, and… And Rai Rai points at the elf and goes, That's the elf. That's the ranger. What's his name? Uh, Rai Rai Borblow. Shathane Wick, you say? But then, so the next drawing is the three of you.

So there's a little guy with a sailor hat. And then, like, a tall, skinny rectangle with, like, black hair. And then, like, a blonde, uh, flat top. And then a very sweet drawing of Clover who looks, like, really nice and is, like, holding candy and smiling. Aw, you drew us perfectly. And then I pointed at the little fat kid with the sailor's hat and I was like, you got fucked up, Franklin, a little bit. Franklin just slides your finger over.

And I guess you guys have snuck into the bathroom because you heard Rai Rai. But then, uh, up into the bathroom, to the left of you three is the elf again with, um, binoculars and, like, an arrow pointing towards you. He's watching us right now? Oh my god. Don't do anything. Oh, not here. At the candy factory. Sugar Shack. In the tunnels, he was watching us? And he moves the papers aside. They're all soggy, so they're just, like, squishing to one side.

There's a box that the three of you are in and the three of you are in the other side. And the three of you are in the other side. And then Borbo and Adric. One is, like, one's an upside-down triangle with arms and legs and then, like, a really mean face. And horns. And horns. And horns and, like, a bloody knife. And then, like, a rectangle with a question mark in it. Adric. With a really detailed picture of a parrot on his shoulder. So he knows, like, that we're here. Oh, shit.

He knows that we're with Adric. Adric. And then you're in a box and it has a picture of a spearmint leaf on it. He knows we're in the hotel. And then, yeah, down to the… On the left side of the paper is the elf with binoculars. He's here. He's here at the hotel. Watch. He's watching the hotel. He's watching the hotel. With binoculars. I'm outside the hotel. But he knows… But it's because he knows we're in there. Oh, no. That means we have to go outside soon.

I knew going outside was gonna cause us danger. I knew it. We gotta move because he's gonna move on us if we don't go somewhere. Can we use the toilets like Rar-Rar? And he starts gesturing. Rar, come here. I get in the toilet. And he jumps in the toilet and you see his whole skeleton compress into, like, a tube as he starts slithering into the pipes. And he turns around. His head pops back out. He goes, Rar. And he gestures for you to follow. I flush but nothing happens.

Just my feet getting wet. It's like Tim Allen from the Santa Claus. Exactly. And Rar-Rar is gone. But that is the information he has provided. Okay. That was very useful. That was… That was very useful. Super useful. So that ranger is fucking tracking us down. And he seems to have been monitoring us forever. And he knows that we're with Adric. Which means if he reports that back to Tina, Adric is fucked. But also he's not making any moves. So maybe he's waiting for something. Yeah.

Maybe he's waiting to figure out what we're gonna do. Hmm. But however we go back to the mall, we gotta deke this fucker out. We gotta be super sneaky. Super sneaky. Cover our tracks. Maybe Borbo can't go with us this time. No. He knows what Borbo looks like. He does. He knows what Adric looks like. And he knows we're scared of the outside. Probably. And he knows I peed my pants 20 minutes ago. Maybe. What? Fanny, you're in the toilet. I was afraid to use the toilet in case Rar-Rar came in.

Oh no. Gross. I'm gonna go change my pants. Squish. Squish. Squish. Squish. Squish. Squish. Squish. Squish. Squish. Squish. Are you guys gonna tell Adric and Borbo what the… What the situation is? Absolutely. Yeah. So we're back in the bar and restaurant area of the Spearmint B&B. Hey there. Fenty Beasley here. A guy gave me six spare bucks to break into the PA system for the mall and play this bottle full of ads for you. So get ready. Here it comes. Aroma. Aroma. Flavors. Flavors. Style.

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So we're back in the… In the bar restaurant area at the Spearmint B&B. I'm having my chicken tendies and I'm telling them. Yeah, I'm wearing sweatpants that don't match the rest of my outfit. I'm closing all the curtains in the restaurant. Borgo's up on stage doing karaoke. He's doing a very like, it's just one of those days. Like a very rap rock kind of Limp Bizkit thing. And he's getting really into it. That's great. Yeah. And eventually he comes down. He's like, guys, did you see?

Yeah, I was… What'd you think? You're a motherfucking time. You're a motherfucking bomb. Fuck yes. I love it. High fives all around. Yeah, that was four. Thanks, Adric. No problem, my boy. I love the verb and figure. So children, what did you learn? Well, we learned that the new Ranger Elf is watching us and he knows we're in here with you and Borgo. Ranger Elf, you say? He works for Tina. Interesting. She hired him to track us down and figure out what the fuck we were doing. Why? Why?

Because we. Are the craziest fucking kid gang in the mall. Oh, it's because of the real estate thing. You already told me about that. Interesting. There's one thing that remains on my mind currently. Can I have one of those chicken tendies? Yes. Thank you. And he tastes it and he goes, one more for the table. I'm sorry. What were we talking about? I forgot. Oh, you said something that you want to tell us. Yes. And he waves the chicken tender. I just wanted to put it in your face.

No, you said something that remains on your mind. Yes! Oh, it was the chicken tender. It was literally, ugh. Wow. These things are delightful. Whatever. Apparently, this guy is the real deal. Our dad kind of, Corb Green, he told us that this guy was like used to serve in the Ranger Corps during the wizard war. A Ranger, you say? Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. That means Tina's scared. Yeah. If she's hiring the biggest, baddest boy out there, it means we're the ultimate threat.

We got her shaking in her booties Yeah Borbo bristles a little bit When you say biggest baddest boy out there Probably not that big Probably not that bad either He's still on the stage And he drops down into his pushups again Just the suicide drops Off the stage Now he's not even doing pushups He's doing squats Like just deep squats Look at this Look at these quads Iron Uh We're all children I mean There's nothing else to be done But I suppose get a good night's sleep And prepare for the expedition tomorrow Eh?

Yeah I still have one more gather information No no You said you were gonna use both of them I used both of them for that Okay well That's what you said I thought I was gonna Discover a thing about you Adric But that's okay I don't need to find out Oh well I know I didn't realize there were two things You wanted to learn I also I also wanted to learn about Adric Swift A little bit What do you wanna know my boy? And also Clover has another Tandem activity Does she?

Yeah I do cause I didn't know what to do Oh yes Alright And let's get into it huh?

I've had just enough chicken tenders That I am talkative But not enough That I am reckless And then Fenton slams his hands on the table And goes One more for the table Bring em over Denise Let's do it And then Fenton goes You know our credentials Sort of Kind of Strong word but yep We have ridden the roller coaster In the Estraland amusement park Off the track Into enemy territory Thrilling We have challenged the hot meat boys To a race down the serpent slide For the highest stakes of all A season's pass To the water park A worthy endeavor We have ripped Through the chocolate factory Covered in lights Being pursued by unearthly horrors Oh that Ah Very good Very good We have One King and Queen of the world One King and Queen of the Sadie Hawkins dance At the light depot Okay We have sentientized and unleashed A stream of giant pigs Upon the mall and beyond Very cool We have taken the jackets of the wild nogs And we have ruined their factory Amazing And we have permanently maimed the fudgies All right Understood you children have done much in your favor Understood you children have done much in your favor Understood you children have done much in your favor And you're young young Incredibly short reckless lives Thank you And all of this is to say What What are your credentials Adric How do we know we can trust you to handle your shit Tell us a tale of your misdeeds My misdeeds That highlights your motivations What makes you think you can't trust me children That tone That shifty look Maybe all the sneaky sneaky Maybe all the sneaky sneaky Activities you've been up to before we met you This secret handwriting Franklin pulls out his cryptic notes He darkens a little bit You've been going through my notes Yeah What of it You must understand children I've lived for nigh on these Boy 131 years And the life of an adventurer such as myself Demands a degree of caution You must understand I must Hold my trust close to my chest But To be frank You're but children I have no reason not to trust you What harm could come to me The harm rests solely upon you And also When you're in a foxhole with someone You're not the only one who's in trouble You're the only one who's in trouble When you're in a foxhole with someone You gotta know that you can trust them And also I'll be frank Linstein I love it I love it You know what that pushed me over the edge What do you want to know Here's your papers Thank you Don't do that again Okay Frank Alright so you want to know a tale Do you want to hear a story Is that what it is We want to know what drove you to the chocolate factory And why you are so desperate to get in there And find the Dairy Queen It can't be the money No Well yes But additionally We've spoken Magic is a dangerous thing And ever since the wizards left this world They have left nothing but ruin and danger in their wake And breakfast And breakfast And I am but one individual It would seem who is willing to take the threat Of Rampant Magical Destruction Seriously And so this chocolate factory poises an opportunity to do so Did Aedric start the menders Oh my god And so I have come to this place in an attempt to ensure that no harm will come to any who wander into potential threats presented by this location What do you intend to do Whatever I am able So Aedric started the menders We're all jumping to conclusions here I want to say that I'm writing it down Conclusion jump to That is my goal If I am able to make a coin or two here or there By performing some task or deed in the name of a financier Then so be it I require food and drink and lodging And the occasional karaoke night Oh nothing I am able to make a coin or two here or there And so be it I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks I give the snacks my children and the wizards in their ire, in their arrogance and their dismissal of these people, poked holes, tore, pulled at threads, and I seek to mend those holes.

All right. We'll plug up those holes with you, my friend. Let me be clear. I will help you recover this chocolate, but under no circumstances are you to take any risks. If I tell you to run, you run. Okay. All right. Where are those fucking chicken tenders? Cool. Yeah. That was sick. Yeah. I like it. Oh, is it my turn now? Yeah. Yeah. You got one left. Can I use my last downtime to make a like home alone kind of style? Fake us to like hang out in front of Ajax's window. Yeah. Awesome.

That's fucking so cool. Oh, is it? That's very funny. That's the best. That's great. Yeah, absolutely. I'll say, yeah, that's like a- Mini clock? Mini clock. Just it'll take one action. It'll take like the evening basically. Okay. Or actually, if you spend a coin- I'll spend a coin. Yeah. Because then we'll make it like a two tick kind of thing. We got to buy a bunch of shit. Exactly. Bunch of cardboard cutouts of LeBron James or whatever. We're making each other's dummies.

And we can kind of in the same way as the drawings. Because Franklin was like a little offended about you pointing about that. Because he was a chubby kid. So he's like really overstuffing the Fenton dummy. When he overstuffs the Fenton dummy, Fenton is like, dude, I'm supposed to be making you. You're supposed to be making me. And yeah, it takes, you know, the better part of the evening probably.

But you're able to prop up your little dummies and- Franklin makes a- A- With a broom and a pair of pants with other brooms in it. Puts it in the toilet and then flushes it and then like tapes down the flusher. Ties a rope with a brick so it's constantly just swirling around. Spinning. Pure wedding in the bathroom. That's so smart. That's great. Clover took a bunch of pool noodles from the hotel pool. And she like shaped them into kind of herself and draped a bunch of her clothes.

Like, well, an outfit. Yeah. She brought an outfit. Yeah. You know, just in case. Why not? She draped over the thing. And she attached it to Taylor Swift's little like exercise track. And was like, Taylor, you gotta keep like, keep going. No problem, kid. Yeah. And so then Clover's doing her little like side dance. You think this is the first dummy doppelganger deception I've ever done? You've never been on the road.

He's got little, when he runs, he's got little cartoon parrot wing hands like Yago. Yeah. He's just like. He's just like. I used a bunch of like cold cooked spaghetti and like a bunch of ink to make Clover's hair. Beautiful. Perfect. Yeah. What does Fenton's look like? It's a pillowcase. Oh, yeah. Fenton's is, everyone else's is so elaborate. And he's like, check it out. And then it's, he's just taken like a piece of charcoal and drawn like a smeary smiling face on a pillow. And he's like.

Perfect replica. And then he takes a little sailor's hat and puts it on. I like that he draws a smeary face on, on the pillowcase and then draws the same smeary face. Now we're exact. On his face. No one will know the difference. And then he takes a belt and he straps it to his back so that the other side is facing out the other side. And he's like, they won't know whether I'm coming or going. Fenton, the whole point is that we leave these here and then we leave. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Oh my God. And then he puts vampire teeth in his pants. He's kind of. He doesn't understand the process at all. He doesn't understand. He doesn't understand what's going on. And I think the stress is starting to get to him. He's overthinking everything. Yeah. Uh, yeah, that's perfect. I mean, it's amazing the color and detail that you put into it considering it's just supposed to be a silhouette. Yeah. That was the part that we, none of us knew. Uh, yeah.

And you have got your, your, your doppelganger dummies ready to go. I think I'm going to go with the two. I think I'm going to go with the two. I think I'm going to go with the two. I think I'm going to go with the two. Sick. Good job, everybody. Yeah. Great job. And then Fenton spins around. He's like, it was the pillow. The pillow the whole time. And now is the time as the sun sets on Highspear, the city of Highspear. Should we do experience? That's what we're doing.

Well, we're going to do entanglements first. Okay. This is from last time. Last score. The Adric Swift one. Okay.

So, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, uh, so, I think I give it one or two give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give low.

Okay. Because every time you guys have rolled high, it's been like, you've been interrogated. Right. Right. Yeah. So you're only rolling one. Alright. Okay, I'm gonna roll. One, one, one, one, one. Six. God damn it. We get the same one every time. Fuck. Oh. We get the same one every single time. That's so silly. Holy shit. Okay, so night has fallen. What are the kids up to? I think we're trying to sneak a B&B back into the mall. That would make sense. Uh-huh. Okay.

So you're trying to sneak out of the Spearmint B&B back into the mall. Yeah. Okay. Are we getting Borbo to put us in a box again? No, because last time he knew that we'd go with Borbo. So we were like, we gotta go alone. So we have to go outside? At night. Alone. At night alone? Uh-huh. Just close your eyes. We can stick together. Yeah, don't let go of my hand, okay? I won't. And then I turn to Franklin and I'm like, don't let go of my hand, okay? Don't let the pillow fool you.

It's, I'm this one on the front. You gotta hold my hand, okay? I'm leaving the pillow behind. No, I'm taking it with me. I need it. And you creep out of the Spearmint B&B out the door. Hanging above you is just this infinite inky black. I like go down on my hands and knees and I'm like crawling and I'm like, hurry up Fenton. Don't let go. And I'm holding on to her ankle and also crawling along. I'm holding on to Clover and trying to lead us out in the dark. We're all wearing one black sheet.

We look like some kind of human centipede. Grab onto anything. Fruits, rocks. I can feel the sky turn really into the wind. I know, but you have to, you have to you have to fight against it. Banana peel, banana peel. And you're crawling for what feels like an eternity. Like weeping into the ground. We were just going in the turnstile at the front door of the Spearmint B&B. Vestibule, roundabout. Like, cut to, to Adric and Borba watching us from the bar.

Yeah, they haven't even left the bloody building. Yeah, they'll get out of there eventually. This happens all the time. We have to take breaks on the way because we're hyperventile. Yeah, and Adric is like, your children are quite fucked up. Yeah, they're not my kids, but yeah, they are. And you eventually do start crawling in a straight-ish line going in the direction of what you think is the entrance that you're trying to use, like a side door basically.

I'm so, I'm so, I'm so dizzy from all the oxygen. I can barely breathe. From all the oxygen. I can barely breathe. There's too much oxygen out here. You're suffocating because we're under a sheet. And Fenton is like singing to himself to make himself calm. He's like, Can I find my baby? Can I hold her tight? Franklin's just counting.

1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 A low wall smoking like a long pipe is an older man with short gray hair and a short gray beard and pointed ears and a green jerkin.

Jerkin? Jerkin? That's the real word. What's he doing? He's wearing a green leather vest and he's looking at you. You're just kids. Yeah, kids who kick your ass. What's it to you? You're the ranger. And Fenton looks up and he's like, you look like a delf. I don't know what that means, but. It means a dude I'd like to fuck. Better have a dad I'd like to fuck. What? A dad? Why would anyone want to fuck a dad? I think our moms do it all the time. Yeah, the balls are all loose from giving birth.

We just kids know nothing. No. Clearly not. That makes sense because then their balls hold the baby. Yeah, yeah. Wait, does everyone get born as twins then? Rock-a-bye baby balls. There's our twin. Fenton puts his hand in it and he's like, triplets? Jesus Christ, guys. We're getting pretty far over the line here. No, Fenton, that's a Werther's. Stuck to the side of his sack. Fuck. Twins then. Oh, twins then. Jesus Christ.

When I took this job, I really thought I'd be tracking down some dangerous people. But you're just a bunch of kids. We're pretty fucking dangerous, dude. Yeah, we're pretty messed up. Forgive me if I don't believe you. Forgive you if you don't know what's going on in here. And Fenton points at his head and he's like, It's a fucking madhouse in here. Yeah, watch this. And then I throw a bunch of candy floss. And it just, he doesn't move as it sails around him.

I mean, usually my aim's pretty good, but you know, we're outside and the sky's probably sucked it up. Yeah. You know what? The least you assume about us, the better for us. Yeah. What did you kids do to piss off someone like Tina Durger? Tina will mind her own goddamn business. Yeah. She'll keep her grubby hands off of our house. And we're just doing what normal people would do to protect their home. She's just trying to oppress us because of her mean mom. Look at Clover.

She used to have all purple hair. And then Tina fucking put her in jail. She like tosses her hair back all emo-ly. And she can see her purple roots now. Yeah. That's a real, it's a real shame. Look, dude. I don't give a shit what Tina Durger told you about us. We're the baddest motherfuckers in this mall. And you know what? You can fucking kill me and I'll prove it to you. And then Brenton puts himself in front of the other two. And he's like, kill me.

And he turns to the other two and he's like, Come on, guys. He's going to be too busy killing me. I'm not going to kill anyone. Kill me. Kill me, dude. Kill me with your arrows and your bows. Are you finished? No. Not till you finish me. Dude. Finish me. Finish me off. Finish him. I can't. I can't believe that this is where my life is. He gets up and he like taps his, he taps his pipe on the wall that he's sitting on and tucks it into a pouch on his belt. I hope.

I mean, look, I've been paid for a job. I'm going to finish the job. Whatever it is you kids are up to. For some fucking reason, I haven't been able to figure out what. I'm going to have to stop you. Well, good luck. Good luck figuring that out, mister. You can't stop something that doesn't know what it's doing either. You think the storm has a point? It just rages on. Hell yeah, Franklin. That's deep. We're going to rage on. Yeah. And then Fenton shoves the vampire teeth in his mouth.

You haven't even dreamed of odd night moves. All right. Well, good luck, kids. I'll see you soon. Yeah. Before I see you soon, I'm like backing up towards the door. He turns away and he walks under a streetlight. Walk away. I know. I know you're too scared of us, but one day, one day you're going to have to face us. He passes out of the light of the street lamp and is immediately swallowed by darkness and disappears. Oh my God. Oh my God. Get on their sheet. Get on their sheet. Run, run, run.

Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. And we're trying to act cool. I'm trying to act cool. Yeah, you got it right. I've got like cold sweats. And I'm just like, you wouldn't want to be out there. And then Fenton comes out from under the sheet. And he's like, I've been turned into a vampire from outside. And they all scream. And they run away deeper into the mall. That was awesome.

And the camera pulls up as we see a group of kids sprinting into the mall screaming. And Fenton chasing them with his hands up. I'm wearing the cape still, by the way. Yeah. Around the neck of the pillow. It's like eight feet long. Yeah. I love that. That's where we're going to end things for this episode. I'm your Game Master, Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always, playing Fenton Beasley, the slide, Abdul Aziz. We're recording this on Halloween. Okay, that's why this is happening.

Playing Franklin Stein, the cutter, Paul Oppers. Playing Clover Ivy, Fern the Whisper, Jessica Tai. Take care. Man, we really could have made this more Halloween-y before. I forgot. It's a Halloween episode now, I guess. Oh, that was pretty… That's a good, spooky, old-timey laugh. Yeah. As the credits are rolling, you hear, I was working in the lab late one night, and I rise beheld of the early sight. Thank you to patron and listener Quinn for the intro and outro music.

So cool, so sick, and so kind of them to do that for us. And thank you to you, our Patreon supporters around the world for supporting the show. Without whomst, this would not happen. Thanks for listening. We'll catch 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 will be back And for you, I'll gladly spout mom