Again, No Nudity Yet

Season 7, Episode 44
August 3, 2026

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Hail the Junk Fort Boys, in the night they roam, solving woes with fire and explode.

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With a clash and a crash and a twist of fate, explosions mark the hours never late.

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Hello and welcome to the Junk Fort Boys, an actual play RPG podcast set in the Blades in the Dark System and Universe,

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featuring three gutter snipes who rose from the streets of Duskfall to a junk fort in the sky,

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a junk barge in the sewers, and now a junk ship on the seas

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or waiting in the port full of ghosts.

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I'm Tiger.

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I play the character Jarl Xander Doubleday,

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who goes by Juckles, the D is silent, thank you,

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a tinkerer with an onion in the guts,

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fixer of machines with a knack for the nuts.

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And the fun fact that I have to tell you about Juckles this week,

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this episode, is Juckles, contrary to popular belief

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and the ridicule of all his friends, does no matter.

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We all know you're a virgin.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I already did that.

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He's...

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Yeah, I know.

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Yeah, that's why...

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But it's not going to make you know that everyone knows that.

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Yes, I know.

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Everybody knows that.

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He's a virgin.

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Everyone knows he's got sweet-ass fucking shoelaces.

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But also, did you know that Juckles does, in fact, know math?

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Now, he can't write, or he couldn't.

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He's starting to learn how to use the numbers that everyone else uses.

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But he did have an intricate system of scratches and symbols and shapes that allowed him to do simple arithmetic and some not so simple arithmetic.

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But just lack the ability to tell other people.

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How not simple?

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How not simple?

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Yeah.

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Like, I don't know.

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Geometry.

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I guess that's also not algebra.

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You know, general math concepts.

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Okay.

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Long division, for one, which is arithmetic.

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Long multiplication, long adding and long subtracting,

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as well as the short arithmetic.

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But he's got his own way to do it.

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Yes.

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Yes, it's completely indecipherable to other people.

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Has anyone ever told him he was correct?

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Or does he just think he's correct?

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Well, no, he is a tinkerer.

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So, you know, he's made machines that require

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at least an understanding of simple arithmetic,

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if not geometry and trigonometry, which he also has.

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symbols for.

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Damn, he's getting a trig.

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He's serious.

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Yes.

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Every mechanic knows how to do trigonometry.

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Maybe not mechanic,

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but machinists certainly do.

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No, I mean, that makes sense

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with the gears and angles

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and all that stuff.

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Exactly.

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Not off topic, but I guess

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even out of character, we had a talk today

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at work.

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We were talking about illiteracy.

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We were talking about illiteracy.

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It's like, you know, some people are illiterate,

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but is there a name for math illiteracy?

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Because some people do struggle with, like, math order and stuff.

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And we were talking about the levels of illiteracy.

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So it sounds like you got the math stuff down pretty good.

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You just can't write it down.

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Are you drinking beer from an old-fashioned bottle?

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Yes, from my private stash.

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And it's not beer.

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It's mead.

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Thank you.

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Nice.

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It's not me. It's root beer.

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I'm a big loser.

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It doesn't even look

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like root beer.

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I didn't know what to say to me.

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No, it's not even. It's watered down

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root beer.

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I don't want to get too

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crazy before Ben.

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Full strength is too much for you?

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I have to cut it with

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some water like my juice.

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This is not fun facts about Tiger.

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These are fun facts about our characters.

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Yeah, sorry about that.

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Does anyone want to go next?

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I'll go.

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All right.

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I'm Andy.

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I play Tarquish Squish Sunder,

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a demon that has a knack for boom boom sauce.

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And Squish's fun fact this week is

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his favorite fruit is the durian.

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That's not real.

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It's a real thing.

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Now I got to look this up.

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You are.

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It's the fruit that when you open it up,

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It smells like, I think it's dead bodies.

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It smells terrible, apparently.

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Yeah.

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I've heard of that.

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It doesn't look...

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All hail the disgusting, delicious durian.

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This guy looks like he enjoys it.

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It also looks dangerous to touch.

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Like it's prickly, like a prickly pear.

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It's not as bad as when you open up a jackfruit.

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Okay.

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When you open up a jackfruit, because they're really big.

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I don't know if you've ever seen them in this grocery store.

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They're really big.

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So you take a cleaver and you hit it, and when you hit it,

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it sprays out all of this white stuff that's really sticky.

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Oh.

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But instead, it smells really bad.

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Doreen is famous for having an intensely pungent odor,

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often described as a mix of rotten onions, sewage, garbage, and turpentine.

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This is right up Juckles' alley.

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Juckles would love

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Durian.

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Yes, why have you not offered it to him?

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Since it's my favorite one.

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You'll never ever share it.

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Wow, great.

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I'm so glad that we are on the same boat together.

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Maybe he likes it because it reminds him

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of Juckles.

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No, Squish liked it

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before he knew

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Juckles even existed.

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It brings him back to a simpler

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time when there wasn't just a little guy running around causing havoc.

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Or opening every door we ever need opened and punching people to death.

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To be fair, how often does our love of fruit get brought up?

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I mean, besides your love of onions.

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It comes up a lot.

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Yes, I wish it wouldn't, but you guys keep talking about it.

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You keep bringing it up.

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Your first fact was about onions.

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Your last fact is going to be about onions.

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Who's next?

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Who's next?

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When you die of old age in your bed, you're going to let go

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of this thing and out of your hands it's going to be an onion

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that rolls out. Like the godfather?

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No.

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No.

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No.

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No, it's a cane.

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With onions in your mouth?

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You're going to put pearl onions?

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Well, I would be a great grandpa.

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No, I just got to get to, you know.

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We know where grandparents come from.

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Got to get a certificate for that.

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All right.

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Patches, what do you got?

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Okay, what's the lordom today?

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I cannot wait.

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Oh, well, you know, I'd be Patches the pirate.

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I have memory problems and, you know, sociability problems.

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A little bit of a drinking problem.

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Cheers.

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Today's fun fact.

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Get ready, guys.

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I'm ready.

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I'm quite the aficionado with pies.

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What does that mean?

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Aficionado.

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I've won a couple pie eating contests.

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Oh, eating contests.

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not making contests?

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No, just eating.

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I don't fake anything.

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I eat all pies.

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Interesting.

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What's your favorite kind?

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You know,

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blueberry.

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You hate blueberry!

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I know, it's weird, isn't it?

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But Patches doesn't.

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No, Patches was so mad

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when he had that blueberry Danish.

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Don't you remember?

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Oh, yeah.

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You're right.

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You're right.

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You're right.

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But he loves blueberry pie.

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I meant to say mulberry.

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Oh, I get those confused sometimes, too.

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Or strawberry.

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Anyway, and I did want to bring up one thing.

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You asked me last week, if Captain Fitzclyde killed me father, me papa,

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why didn't I bring it up to convince you guys to get on my side?

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And I've got an answer.

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That's a very good question.

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that's the answer

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why wouldn't

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no that's the answer why wouldn't I

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tell you guys

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because you killed him

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nope

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no you did you did kill the captain

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oh I did kill the captain yes but

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why wouldn't I tell you

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that Captain Fitzclyde killed my father

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because your father

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is Captain Fitzclyde

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oh my god

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No, no.

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Believe me.

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As much as I hate Captain Fitzglyde

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for being a pompous little

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people,

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my father was

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much, much more negligent.

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He tussled

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my hair right out the window

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once.

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Like a yes?

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No.

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Because Captain Fitzglyde was a woman.

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Is that why?

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No.

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Your daddy was a woman.

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No.

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Next week for next fun facts.

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Okay.

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It could be pie related.

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It could be pie related.

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I could tell you the big secret of me life,

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but it could also be very much pie related.

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It could just be something you ripped off in the movie Popeye.

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Do you only eat pies?

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What?

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Do you only eat pies in competition?

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No.

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Do you ever eat them pies?

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Oh, yeah.

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For fun, for business, for pleasure, you know, all around.

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Do you eat other things for competition besides hot dogs?

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Or besides pies, like hot dogs, for example.

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Would you get into a hot dog eating contest with Joey?

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No, I'm kind of a leanest.

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We look down at those kind of contests.

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What about a hot dog pie?

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Well, I suppose it's called a pasty.

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What about a pie that looks like a hot dog?

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Listen, I was just giving you a fun fact

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because you guys gave me shit about me.

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Fun facts not being so fun.

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It was not very fun.

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I'm telling you about the pies, all right?

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I ate pies.

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I like pies, all right?

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For God's sakes, we haven't talked about pies ever once

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and now I'm getting the right act about me pies.

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There may be pies at this party.

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They're hot dogs.

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There are, there are, and I quote cocktail chicken.

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Cocktail chicken is the shiznit.

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Yeah. I don't, I don't remember. Yeah.

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All right. Well, I'm Bridget.

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I'm the GM and I play everybody else.

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And Evelyn loved her family's gardens when she was a young child.

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She loved running through the primrose bushes, the peony bushes,

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all of the different wildflowers.

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And of course, the manicured gardens, the hedgy maze, all that.

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She was a big fan.

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So this is a real, real treat for her to be back running around gardens.

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Is this her first garden party?

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I mean, like, first in a while?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, this is her first garden party in a while she's attended.

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Wow.

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All right.

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Is that the right one?

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No, not that one.

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730.

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Oh, maybe it's load PDF.

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Oh, no, that's the PDF.

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That's something else.

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Okay.

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84.

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Oh, I got it.

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All right.

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Let me just make sure I get this again.

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Just in case.

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Okay. Well, it's also in the chat.

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Oh, it sends me to the very first one at the last one.

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I know. I think I'm doing something wrong. I think it's me.

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No, honey, you're perfect.

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Oh, that's so sweet.

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Lockport Legend, more dumb. Party till you drop.

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It's the big night. The crew is dressed and ready to party.

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They rickshot up to the bouquet manor where the party was being held.

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Their invitation was accepted without question.

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They were happy. Things were going.

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for once, their way.

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Chuckles met up with Lady High Hill,

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but the reunion was quickly stymied

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when Evelyn also showed up.

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Squish was asked to run interference.

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He did not.

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He stomped into the house

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and demanded to speak to their hostess,

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Madame Bouquet.

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Instead, he was put in his place,

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a.k.a. the kitchens,

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and met Chef Roselle.

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He managed to sneak his way upstairs

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to begin looking for answers

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to the strange mystery.

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At the party,

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Chuckles managed to distract Evelyn

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by asking her to look for the library.

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He explained her presence as a nurse

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and planned that the two should talk

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as little as possible.

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eventually he too made his way upstairs patches having glanced at the madame bouquet was enamored

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and is now trying to talk her up unfortunately evan was in the library evelyn was in the library

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when patches and squish and lady high hill entered patches and squish made a grand plan to keep the

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two separate but when they returned both girls were missing however they did find the missing

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pages of the book revealing neelix's true nature now the crew must read and understand what they're

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reading they should also try to find their dates and try to escape before things get weird

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well

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yeah well I'm glad it's not weird yet

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no no so just to kind of remind everybody

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of where they're at patches and you are downstairs

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you are in you have followed Madame Bouquet out from the

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kitchen where you are in fact trying to chat her up she's been coolly polite

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but distant with you squish and chuckles

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You guys are upstairs in the library.

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You had stepped out to try to figure out how you're going to keep the two women separate when you returned.

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Yes, they were missing.

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But you did find the pages about Neelix and Mila's origins on the table.

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We haven't been able to read them yet.

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You briefly glanced at them and you recognized Neelix's name and Nilo's name.

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Now, I do have those pages.

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We can share.

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I'm going to drop.

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Well, I'm going to show them to you and load.

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Are you scarfing a hot dog?

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Are you sucking down a chili dog?

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Hot dog.

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I thought you looked down on hot dogs.

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That's patches.

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Oh, right.

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Boo cooks his hot dogs on a frying pan with butter.

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Oh, that's pretty good.

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It's extra savory.

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Then you didn't say microwave.

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Microwave boil, yeah.

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I've done that.

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That's the Boo family way.

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I changed my way this last month.

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It's last month?

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It's been a while.

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It's been longer.

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It's been a wild summer.

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or let me tell you something.

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It's been at least a day and a half.

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Yes, so Andy and Tiger should have received the PDF.

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It's two pages detailing the history of Neelix.

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Now, Patches, you are not in the same room,

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so I'm not going to show it to you

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unless you guys meet up again or do something.

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You put it in the recap and I already read it.

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No.

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That was my fault.

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Why did I do that?

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Oh, damn it, Bridget.

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I thought it was a recap, and then halfway through, I was like, this is not what she's saying.

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Well, then there you go.

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Well, then you have a copy of it, and you can go back and look at it if you'd like.

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But yes, so Tiger and Andy will have it.

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All right.

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We should probably wait to read this, right?

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Until we're on the ship?

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Are you asking me as the GM, or are you asking someone?

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I'm asking Junkles.

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uh well yeah

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I think we've

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yeah I'm skimming this

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it seems like it's got important

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information about Neela and Neelix

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whoever the hell Neela is

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we don't have time for you to read this

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right now I'm not

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it's going to take too long

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no I'm not reading it I am reading it though

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so

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yes

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do we need to find

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hmm

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the only thing is, if this is about Nila

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and Neelix, is Nila

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here? And

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I guess I don't need to read this to know.

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I just know that

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maybe we need to

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find out more about Nila.

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About where Nila is. So no, I'll stop

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reading it. She's a raging bitch.

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Chuckles has

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him in his pocket then.

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I was confused

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earlier, although this

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clears it up now, that Nila was just

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an alternate personality of Neelix.

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Oh, yeah. You were very confused.

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Thanks.

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You're not even here.

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Okay. Yeah. So you

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stick the pamphlet

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in your, or the pages in your pocket.

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These are the pages from the book that you found

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that were missing that had been ripped out. So they are just

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loose pages.

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It's like three or four altogether.

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Okay. So very easy

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to like fold up and it's not like you're carrying this heavy

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book around is my point. But yes

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you're now in the library where your two

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girlfriends were once standing

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and now are gone.

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I need to make sure that they

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are not

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do you think we have everything we need?

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Yeah.

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The pages? What we came here for.

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Well maybe there's more information here.

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Also we need to make sure that those

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two women are not talking to each other.

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It's very important to me that I

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maintain

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relationships at once.

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To you, yeah. Not

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to me. Okay, see you later, Andy.

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Downstairs,

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Patches, you are trying to

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talk up the Lady Bouquet. Now,

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again, she is relatively cold

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and distant for you, and she's

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been politely listening to you babble

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on about whatever it was you were babbling on about.

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But she's like, I really

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do have to get back to my party. Is there

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somewhere

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somewhere you should be right now, sir?

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No, no, no.

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This has been being right here next to you, my dear,

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has been the highlight of the party, if you must say.

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But if I'm intruding on you, I mean,

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whatever I can do to make your life easy, as they say.

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I just hope you're enjoying yourself

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and you're having a good time.

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I'm sorry, is that a tray of cocktail chicken tucked up your jacket?

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Or are you just happy to see me?

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Well, you know, you never can be too careful.

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I like to walk around with, you know, my own personal food pocket.

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I'm dying here.

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that in or out of character

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that's kind of in character

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as I'm like kind of like feeling awkward

00:20:19
that she's pointed out my food pocket

00:20:23
my

00:20:23
my snack pocket

00:20:26
are you so conscious about your food pocket

00:20:29
my chicken pocket

00:20:32
she kind of

00:20:34
brushes past you

00:20:36
she makes her way back into the main part of the house

00:20:39
which is filled with

00:20:40
you know, people partying it up, laughing, talking, there's dancing,

00:20:44
there's music coming in the other room you can hear.

00:20:48
And she kind of walks past you patches.

00:20:50
Oh, well, what a woman, I got to say.

00:20:55
You know, you remind me of someone, something, I can't pick her to it,

00:20:59
but you're a very fine woman, I must say, very fine.

00:21:04
And you run a good household.

00:21:06
Yeah, you are.

00:21:09
I guess have a good night.

00:21:13
I hope you have a good night as well,

00:21:14
and hopefully we'll meet before the night is over.

00:21:17
And she gives you the faintest smile before leaving you kind of in the entry area of the kitchen that you were standing in.

00:21:25
I've got a good feeling about that one.

00:21:27
I've got a good, good feeling about that one.

00:21:33
Squish and Chuckles, you're upstairs in the library.

00:21:39
I was probably going to leave and sneak up on Patches

00:21:42
while he was talking to the hostess.

00:21:47
And after I see her walk away, I'll pat him on the back and go,

00:21:50
that was rough to watch, bud.

00:21:53
What?

00:21:54
She said she'll see me later before the night is done.

00:21:56
How are you doing tonight?

00:21:59
A lot, lot worse.

00:22:01
We do have the pages, though.

00:22:03
What?

00:22:04
What pages?

00:22:05
Vanilla pages?

00:22:06
Let me see.

00:22:06
No, Juggles has him.

00:22:09
He stashed him in his pocket.

00:22:11
Neelix pages.

00:22:12
Red top.

00:22:15
Neelix and Neela.

00:22:17
There's a Neela?

00:22:19
Is she a butleress?

00:22:20
You didn't know?

00:22:21
No, I only know about Neelix.

00:22:24
Oh, no, I think it's Neelix's other personality.

00:22:26
You know when sometimes he comes out

00:22:28
dressed in women's clothes?

00:22:30
Yes.

00:22:31
That might be Neela.

00:22:33
No.

00:22:34
I don't know.

00:22:35
We got to read the pages.

00:22:36
He hasn't changed his name.

00:22:39
That's Neelix in a dress.

00:22:43
Okay, well, we'll have to ask.

00:22:45
Yeah, we should.

00:22:46
But I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that,

00:22:49
but I mean, I think if Neelix wants to change his name, that's cool.

00:22:54
But he hasn't told me, and I'm pretty close with the butler.

00:22:58
All right, well, we'll have to tackle that later.

00:23:01
All right, well, I'll go read your sheet of paper.

00:23:02
Where are you going?

00:23:03
Where's Juggles?

00:23:04
Is he with Lady Highhill and Evelyn?

00:23:07
You just left them?

00:23:09
No.

00:23:09
You're a good friend.

00:23:11
They left.

00:23:13
We don't know where they are.

00:23:15
But you did leave me.

00:23:15
Evelyn and Lady Highhill.

00:23:17
The Irish combined us?

00:23:19
Well, they were in the library.

00:23:21
We turned around.

00:23:22
I did something, turned back around, and they were both gone.

00:23:26
And then I came to find you.

00:23:29
What about your plan for a threesome?

00:23:33
Well, that has been put on our pause for right now.

00:23:40
How did you know about that?

00:23:43
Let's try to get things in order.

00:23:46
I take a sip from my drink.

00:23:50
And do you have chicken in your pocket?

00:23:53
You're like the third person to ask me that tonight.

00:23:57
Do you?

00:23:58
Do you?

00:24:01
Yes.

00:24:01
I can go for some cocktail chicken right now.

00:24:04
First thing I did is I hit the food table when I got in here.

00:24:10
We're going to be hungry later, boys.

00:24:12
Let me tell you that.

00:24:14
It's called the King's Chicken Maneuver.

00:24:16
You always hide a piece of chicken somewhere.

00:24:19
In this case, I put it in me jacket.

00:24:23
Only one piece, though.

00:24:24
No, no, I have a cup.

00:24:27
Oh, okay.

00:24:27
All right.

00:24:28
It's like an extra large.

00:24:30
Like a Starbucks grande.

00:24:32
size cup. That means nothing to me.

00:24:35
It means nothing to anybody.

00:24:39
Both in and out of character.

00:24:40
I have no idea how big that cup is.

00:24:42
Well, you know, it's a little bit

00:24:44
bigger than it's all.

00:24:46
Smaller.

00:24:48
Is that true? I don't know.

00:24:50
I don't know the order they go in. I don't remember off the top of my head.

00:24:52
I know Venti's pretty big.

00:24:54
All right. Well, let's go find Juggles

00:24:56
and see if we can, you know,

00:24:58
I'm sure he's very upset that his

00:25:00
lady loves his lady friends have left

00:25:02
the party. Yeah, he's probably

00:25:04
freaking out because he thinks they're talking about him.

00:25:06
He tried so hard.

00:25:09
Don't tell him that

00:25:12
because he'll yell at you for patronizing him.

00:25:17
Alright, let's go find him.

00:25:18
Yeah. Back up to the

00:25:20
library. Yeah, we sneak back up to the library.

00:25:23
So Chuckles, while after

00:25:24
you turn around and you've seen that

00:25:26
Squish has just like left you.

00:25:28
Completely abandoned me.

00:25:32
completely abandoned me.

00:25:33
So you're standing alone in the library.

00:25:36
Yeah.

00:25:38
Do you just stand there and wait for someone to come get you?

00:25:42
Well, I spend a little bit of time in a fetal position.

00:25:45
Not crying.

00:25:47
I need an adult.

00:25:49
I crawl over by the stairs.

00:25:51
I want to peek around the corner.

00:25:53
Well, I mean, in this map, it looks like there are stairs in this library.

00:25:58
Yes.

00:25:58
Yes, there are.

00:25:59
You kind of know.

00:26:01
Very good.

00:26:02
You have noticed that there is a second entrance to the library from within.

00:26:08
And you very stealthily go over and you put your hand on what is already an open doorway.

00:26:13
And when you push it, you see a set of stairs that do go down.

00:26:16
Okay.

00:26:17
I'd like to, like, peek around the corner.

00:26:19
Because I assume it's going to be, I mean, whether this is true or not, I don't know.

00:26:22
But I assume it's going to be, like, into, like, a ballroom or something.

00:26:25
So I just peek my head around the corner to see what I see on the other side.

00:26:31
What you see is just like an interior stairwell.

00:26:36
So this is kind of like a servant stairwell that literally just goes downstairs.

00:26:43
And I say that you don't know exactly where it leads out,

00:26:45
but it's not like it's a particularly hidden staircase.

00:26:48
It's not meant to be like a secret staircase or anything like that.

00:26:52
It's just kind of like a quiet servant staircase.

00:26:55
I was worried it was going to be like out into the middle of the ballroom or something.

00:26:59
So I'll follow the staircase down.

00:27:03
Okay.

00:27:03
So as you go down to the staircase, you don't see anybody there, but you do see that it pops out right by the kitchens,

00:27:11
right where Chef Roselle is currently cooking up a storm and shouting at her servants,

00:27:15
having been thrown under the bus by Squish sometime before.

00:27:20
And the doorway, as you go out, it leads to the kitchens.

00:27:25
but it kind of more directly leads outside.

00:27:28
So like the servants entrance into the kitchen, it's the same area.

00:27:32
So you can see the kitchen busy and bubbling,

00:27:36
and you can see outside into the garden where the festivities are continuing.

00:27:41
Okay.

00:27:41
I'd like to peek out the doorway to see, to survey,

00:27:44
see if I can see any sign of anyone I know.

00:27:51
Sure.

00:27:51
Go ahead and roll your survey.

00:27:53
Oh, great.

00:27:54
I'm very, very poor in survey.

00:28:03
Incredible.

00:28:05
Oh.

00:28:07
Oh, man, the dice aren't rolling on the screen.

00:28:10
Rolled on mine.

00:28:10
Oh.

00:28:11
Do I have it set on hidden or something?

00:28:13
I didn't see it on...

00:28:19
Did you see it in the chat, though?

00:28:22
Yeah, I see it in the chat, but...

00:28:23
I don't know why the dice didn't go for you.

00:28:30
Did anyone else see them?

00:28:32
I didn't see them.

00:28:34
No.

00:28:34
But I do see the results.

00:28:39
So outside you look around and you see Evelyn.

00:28:44
Evelyn is like kind of talking and mingling with people.

00:28:48
She's by herself in the sense that she's not with Lady High Hill.

00:28:51
But she is talking and kind of just like, you know, bubbly and just like, you know, just seems to be having a great time.

00:28:59
Maybe she's drank just a little bit, just a little bit too much.

00:29:02
But she seems very bubbly and vivacious.

00:29:07
Are there, is there like a tray of drinks I can bring, like perhaps a flute of champagne or perhaps whiskey?

00:29:15
Yeah, you are right.

00:29:16
Yeah, of course.

00:29:16
You are right next to the server, to the kitchen.

00:29:19
And so there are servers and trays just walking back and forth to the whole.

00:29:24
Grab a tray of drinks.

00:29:26
No, no, no.

00:29:26
Just one drink.

00:29:28
Well, no, two drinks with one hand.

00:29:30
Oh.

00:29:31
Yes.

00:29:32
And then one is for me.

00:29:34
And then I'm going to bring the other one to Evelyn and say, so, hello.

00:29:41
Here's a drink.

00:29:43
How's it going?

00:29:44
You look like you're having a really good time here at this garden party.

00:29:48
And Evelyn's kind of like dancing.

00:29:50
She's doing the white girl drunk dance where she's just like, woo!

00:29:53
You know, doing a lot of wooing.

00:29:54
And she takes the drink and throws it back.

00:29:56
And she's like, oh, I'm having the best time.

00:29:59
You know how long it's been since I've been to a party like this?

00:30:02
This is great.

00:30:03
Here, have another one.

00:30:04
And I give her my drink.

00:30:06
And she flings it back.

00:30:08
Great.

00:30:08
When you say fling it back, that's into her mouth, right?

00:30:12
Right.

00:30:12
Yeah, no, just downs that shot.

00:30:14
It doesn't matter what you gave her.

00:30:15
She took it as if it's a shot.

00:30:17
Great.

00:30:18
Wow I've never seen this side of you before Evelyn

00:30:21
You are really fun

00:30:23
I didn't know you were so fun

00:30:24
I always thought you were a little bookish

00:30:28
Well you know

00:30:29
I don't get

00:30:30
Despite being at the university

00:30:32
TAs don't really get invited to a lot of parties

00:30:34
I didn't get invited to a lot of parties

00:30:36
As it was when I wasn't a TA

00:30:39
How did you get invited to this one?

00:30:42
Oh

00:30:43
I know people

00:30:44
You know I kind of

00:30:46
you know, got connections.

00:30:48
Interesting.

00:30:50
I grab another, I grab a drink

00:30:52
and I fling it down.

00:30:54
And I said, perfect.

00:30:56
Hey, Evelyn, crazy question

00:30:58
for you. You know, you're

00:31:00
a studier of all things ghouls and goblins

00:31:02
and ghosts, right?

00:31:04
And gardens, apparently.

00:31:08
And you were particularly fascinated

00:31:10
with Neelix.

00:31:13
Yeah.

00:31:14
You remember?

00:31:17
yes my field of study

00:31:19
oh so you know anything about

00:31:22
Neela

00:31:25
or Nilo

00:31:28
what

00:31:29
Neela

00:31:30
do you know Neela

00:31:32
no I don't know Sheila

00:31:35
okay

00:31:36
alright

00:31:38
I'm gonna go to the you know

00:31:39
the little boys room

00:31:41
you keep dancing out here

00:31:43
let me know if anything goes awry

00:31:46
She gives you double thumbs up

00:31:47
and just kind of keeps dancing

00:31:49
to the music outside

00:31:51
Now, where is that high hill?

00:31:57
So

00:31:58
we'll go back to patches

00:31:59
and

00:32:01
sorry, patches and squish

00:32:02
You guys have made it back up to the library

00:32:04
which is also now empty

00:32:07
He was right here

00:32:09
Where'd he go?

00:32:13
Probably somewhere cool

00:32:15
Juggles

00:32:17
Juggles

00:32:19
Wait don't we ever walkie talkie

00:32:21
You do

00:32:24
Yeah

00:32:26
Juggles come in Juggles

00:32:29
Juggles come in Juggles

00:32:31
Nah he's not answering the phone

00:32:32
He must be drunk

00:32:34
Juggles is not available

00:32:36
Please leave a message at the tone

00:32:39
Did he create an answering machine already

00:32:41
When did that happen

00:32:44
I thought this is a can

00:32:46
with some string at the bottom of it

00:32:48
how'd he do that

00:32:51
stringonometry

00:32:52
like the string goes out the door

00:32:55
stringonometry

00:33:01
well that's what

00:33:02
he has the book right

00:33:05
the book about the other person

00:33:07
pages

00:33:09
the book itself is still there

00:33:11
and then patches I will say

00:33:13
you recognize this as the book you stole

00:33:15
earlier. It's the same book, but now

00:33:17
the pages that were torn out

00:33:19
are now still torn out. It's a copy

00:33:21
of the book.

00:33:22
But it's useless.

00:33:24
The pages you want are the pages in

00:33:27
Chuckles' pocket.

00:33:29
The one of us who can't read.

00:33:32
Allegedly.

00:33:34
I can read.

00:33:35
I'm learning.

00:33:37
You're not here.

00:33:39
You're not here.

00:33:40
You hear it from your walkie-talkie.

00:33:43
I'm learning

00:33:44
I'm learning

00:33:46
where are you

00:33:48
I'm outside in the garden

00:33:52
oh it's a garden party

00:33:53
suppose we should go see the gardens

00:33:57
Juckles

00:33:57
I need that sheet of paper

00:33:59
I need to know what's going on

00:34:01
okay

00:34:03
alright we'll come find you

00:34:06
to the garden

00:34:08
no

00:34:09
I have to find Lady Highhead

00:34:12
hill.

00:34:14
Everyone wants to find Lady of High Hill.

00:34:16
Even you?

00:34:18
No.

00:34:23
All right.

00:34:23
What path do you two take

00:34:25
to get to the garden?

00:34:28
What path is there?

00:34:30
Yeah, what would be the easiest?

00:34:32
Well, you don't know.

00:34:34
Yeah, no. So Chuckles

00:34:36
did, in his calling, find the

00:34:37
staircase. I'm assuming

00:34:39
he did not shut any door

00:34:42
behind him. So, uh, that is semi-visible. Uh, you can also just go back down the stairs

00:34:49
and outside. I'm just asking about, you know, I'm just going to go down the stairs and outside.

00:34:53
Yeah. I'm going to kind of back out the way you guys came. Yeah. Okay. So just to lay

00:35:00
out the gardens for you, um, Chuckles, where you are, you are kind of in the back of the

00:35:08
house. In the back of the house is like some garden beds and everything, but the primary feature,

00:35:15
as you see, as you look around is the hedge, is the maze that is back there. And you can see the

00:35:24
entrance to it. There are people kind of milling around it. That's the main feature of the outside.

00:35:29
Now at the front of the house where Patches and where Squish is, there is like a fountain. It's

00:35:38
Lots of planned flower beds, paths, and walking paths and stuff.

00:35:45
But it is on the front side of the house.

00:35:48
So you guys are on kind of like opposite sides of the house right now.

00:35:55
Okay.

00:35:56
Do I see Lady High Hill anywhere?

00:36:00
No.

00:36:02
No? Okay.

00:36:03
No.

00:36:04
All right.

00:36:04
I'm just going to start walking through the party.

00:36:06
You can roar for it if you want, but the answer is no either way.

00:36:08
She's not out there.

00:36:11
Yeah, she's not at the front of the house.

00:36:15
Okay, then I'm just going to start walking through looking for Duckles.

00:36:22
Yeah, so you start walking through the garden kind of calling his name?

00:36:27
Yeah.

00:36:29
Okay.

00:36:30
Duckles.

00:36:30
Catches?

00:36:31
I'm following behind.

00:36:38
Oh,

00:36:39
Chuckles!

00:36:41
Sorry.

00:36:42
Is this you at the front of the house?

00:36:44
Let me just get rid of these extra people.

00:36:49
As you guys are walking around and yelling,

00:36:51
Chuckles,

00:36:52
you kind of overhear snippets of conversation.

00:36:56
Of people talking.

00:36:58
There's just a lot of people kind of milling about here in the front.

00:37:01
This is kind of like where people go to chill out.

00:37:04
If the party is getting a little too raucous for them inside.

00:37:09
so we're all inside are you running around looking for chuckles yeah i'm with uh andy

00:37:16
or with a squish i was just following behind him yeah yeah basically the same thing okay uh so you

00:37:24
guys are just kind of walking around yelling chuckles um chuckles you are in the back of the

00:37:28
house yeah i can't hear him back there no no you can't um there's a lot of music and noise and the

00:37:34
house is relatively large so he will not be able to hear you shouting from the front of the house

00:37:38
so evelyn's party girlness is like that fits within the garden party she's not like conspicuously

00:37:45
party girl no no this is becoming kind of a little bit of a dionese in affair there's a lot of wine

00:37:53
and other alcohol flowing people are pretty loosey-goosey but they're rich loosey-goosey so

00:37:59
like nobody's gotten naked yet

00:38:00
but there's a lot of pop buttons undone

00:38:03
a lot of cravacs loosened

00:38:05
wigs askew

00:38:07
so this is very much like a lively

00:38:09
party a lot of noise

00:38:11
a lot of hubbub

00:38:13
a lot of people bubbing and hubbing

00:38:15
I rub my hands together

00:38:16
I go two more buttons down

00:38:18
I loosen my collar

00:38:21
and I'm on my tippy toes

00:38:23
looking for

00:38:25
Lady High Hill

00:38:28
I don't see her yet

00:38:32
do I?

00:38:35
no

00:38:35
you haven't been able to see her

00:38:38
then I will sneak

00:38:40
back inside

00:38:43
maybe not literally sneak but like

00:38:46
just smoothly walk inside

00:38:50
okay

00:38:51
inside there's a lot of people again

00:38:55
dancing

00:38:56
are servants kind of walking around you can tell like the servants are still very uh much

00:39:03
contained what i mean by that is that they are sober uh they're passing out drinks uh they they

00:39:09
are still active walking around um doing stuff great you see out of the corner not naked yet

00:39:17
uh you do see briefly out of the corner i uh madame bouquet who has been pointed out to you before

00:39:22
Lady High Hill kind of said she was the hostess of the house.

00:39:27
You see her as well.

00:39:28
She has not loosened up at all.

00:39:30
She's very tight-buttoned.

00:39:32
She is just very like a sourpuss almost at her own party,

00:39:35
just kind of watching things from a distance.

00:39:37
Not naked yet?

00:39:39
Not naked yet.

00:39:40
Still has her under things on.

00:39:43
What about her older things?

00:39:45
Bloomers.

00:39:47
Okay.

00:39:48
All right.

00:39:48
Well, that looks like not a very fun person.

00:39:51
and I'll avoid her.

00:39:52
No, no, no shot of Lady High Hill.

00:39:57
I guess I will walk through the whatever large grand room that is,

00:40:03
and I would think that on the other side of that large room,

00:40:07
I would be wandering out the front of the house.

00:40:10
Absolutely, yes.

00:40:11
You wander out to the front of the house where Chuckles,

00:40:16
I'm sorry, where Squish and Patches are.

00:40:19
Are you still just kind of shouting in general?

00:40:22
Yeah.

00:40:24
Okay.

00:40:24
Well, you hear them shouting.

00:40:26
I'm acting a little bit drunk, so it's not too crazy that I'm yelling for someone.

00:40:31
Yeah.

00:40:33
Yeah.

00:40:34
Yeah.

00:40:34
And I imagine you guys aren't like screaming or anything.

00:40:37
You're just kind of like shouting, you know, obviously.

00:40:39
No, I'm yelling.

00:40:42
I might be a little loud.

00:40:46
Yeah, you hear them shouting.

00:40:48
Chuckles!

00:40:49
Yeah, I'm here.

00:40:49
Juggles!

00:40:50
Wait, hold on.

00:40:51
Hold on.

00:40:52
Juggles, hold on one second.

00:40:54
Hold on one second.

00:40:57
Juggles!

00:40:59
Oh, here we go.

00:41:00
I'm here.

00:41:04
All right.

00:41:04
Are we going back to the boat now?

00:41:05
We got what we came for.

00:41:07
Let me see that piece of paper.

00:41:11
Can I start rummaging through your pockets?

00:41:12
No, don't rummage through my pockets.

00:41:16
There's a lot of onion leaves in here.

00:41:19
Yes, onions grow on leaves.

00:41:22
Now, I know I'm looking for Lady High Hill.

00:41:24
I need to make sure everything's okay.

00:41:26
I think I smoothed everything over with Evelyn.

00:41:29
You're still playing both sides of the game?

00:41:33
Listen, I need all of the chances I can get.

00:41:37
Oh, my God.

00:41:38
You're a bold one, aren't you?

00:41:40
Well, I can't just leave Lady High Hill.

00:41:42
She's the only person that, you know, I talk to besides you guys.

00:41:48
What about your Uncle Skok?

00:41:49
I think he's

00:41:52
dead.

00:41:55
When?

00:41:56
Side flash to Uncle Shkluck

00:41:59
who is just sitting

00:42:01
in his apartment

00:42:03
in Duskaball.

00:42:04
He just gives like a shiver.

00:42:07
I wonder what that shuffles us up to.

00:42:10
I don't know what Uncle Shkluck

00:42:11
is doing. But you know he doesn't have

00:42:13
my address I guess so I can't

00:42:15
exchange birds with him.

00:42:17
But Lady Highhill

00:42:18
she, let's just say

00:42:20
she sends me a lot of interesting

00:42:23
art

00:42:25
so I would like to

00:42:26
you know, just

00:42:28
find her and stay in good terms

00:42:31
I don't want to just ditch her here

00:42:32
that's a bad look

00:42:34
for old Juckles

00:42:36
what about Evelyn?

00:42:38
oh no, she's fine

00:42:39
she's partying up, she's not even going to remember tonight

00:42:42
but she'll have a vague sense

00:42:44
that I was bringing her

00:42:47
fun

00:42:50
what the hell are you going on about

00:42:52
I told you what I'm going on about

00:42:54
I got a fine lady eye hill

00:42:56
how many times do I have to say that

00:42:59
at least two more times

00:43:03
I'm messing with you

00:43:04
let's go boy

00:43:04
first let me see the pieces of paper though

00:43:06
they're right here and I tap my breast pocket

00:43:10
alright grab your breast pocket

00:43:12
give me those

00:43:14
alright well I guess I'll see you guys later

00:43:16
now that you have what you wanted

00:43:17
No, no, I'm coming.

00:43:19
No, what are you going on about?

00:43:20
I'm coming with you.

00:43:21
Quit being a baby.

00:43:22
Then why is Squish walking the other way?

00:43:26
Squish is walking towards the boat.

00:43:28
Every time I tell you, every time I give you a little pushback,

00:43:31
suddenly it's like we're not your friends anymore.

00:43:33
Quit being a little boy.

00:43:35
You've got to grow up someday.

00:43:38
Okay, but Squish literally is leaving.

00:43:42
I can't control Squish.

00:43:44
I can only control myself.

00:43:45
We got what we came for.

00:43:47
Squish, we're going back for the ladies

00:43:49
meet you back at the boat

00:43:50
see, that's how you handle that situation

00:43:55
fine, call me on the

00:43:57
walkie talkie if you need to

00:44:00
okay

00:44:02
there goes that

00:44:04
there goes that love triangle

00:44:05
that you

00:44:07
set up

00:44:09
that you stoke and

00:44:11
summarily just decided to throw out the window

00:44:15
in my mind

00:44:16
passions just took my place

00:44:19
with what

00:44:20
I'm not going to go steal the woman

00:44:22
I'm just trying to go back to the party

00:44:26
I'll be frank with you lad

00:44:28
I'm kind of into that

00:44:30
bouquet lady up there

00:44:32
I've got a good feeling about her

00:44:33
the really mean one

00:44:37
she was really mean

00:44:38
to everybody else but she was kind of nice to me

00:44:40
and she's got real

00:44:42
big feet

00:44:44
and real big, huge

00:44:47
tracks of land.

00:44:51
Yeah, we're standing on them.

00:44:52
You said there was something about a hedge mage?

00:44:56
Or hedge maze?

00:44:59
Yeah, there's a hedge maze out there.

00:45:00
Seems to be the prominent feature of the rear of the house.

00:45:04
I'm going to go do that then.

00:45:06
Okay.

00:45:07
Okay.

00:45:11
I might meet you guys later.

00:45:13
Yeah, I'm sure you will

00:45:16
You'll probably need me later too

00:45:17
It's fine

00:45:19
I'm not trying to ditch you

00:45:21
I just want to talk to Lady Highhill

00:45:23
Because I feel like there's probably more in this house

00:45:26
We could probably be doing

00:45:27
One of which is making sure that Lady Highhill

00:45:30
Is not mad at me

00:45:32
Or the other

00:45:34
That the captain

00:45:35
Can eerily gawk

00:45:38
At that big footed woman

00:45:41
Big footed

00:45:42
She didn't even see her feet.

00:45:44
She glided right in.

00:45:46
I don't know.

00:45:47
Somebody said earlier that she had big old stomping feet that last episode.

00:45:51
It was you.

00:45:52
You were the one who said that.

00:45:55
Go back and look at that.

00:45:57
Thus making it canon.

00:45:59
No, you can't just make up your own decisions like that.

00:46:04
I said she looked like a woman that had real big feet.

00:46:06
And I believe the game master said you are completely correct, Juckles, as always.

00:46:12
Yeah, I'm sure she does have big feet

00:46:14
She's a tall woman

00:46:16
She's a sturdy girl

00:46:18
Some might call her Rubenesque

00:46:21
Like the sandwich

00:46:22
She's not a sandwich

00:46:25
She's covered in Russian dressing

00:46:28
Sauerkraut

00:46:31
Okay

00:46:32
So what are we doing?

00:46:34
I guess Squish just pushes aside

00:46:37
I guess this is a two player game now

00:46:42
I don't know why everyone thinks I'm running ahead all the time

00:46:47
so the team splits up

00:46:49
Squish you're going to head to the hedge mage

00:46:52
correct?

00:46:53
yes

00:46:55
and Chuckles and Patches

00:46:57
you guys are going to go back into the house

00:46:59
correct?

00:47:01
yeah to look for our respective

00:47:09
women

00:47:12
we'll start with uh with uh it doesn't matter with squish so um you enter the hedge mage

00:47:22
and uh there are a few people kind of milling about um and you the way the entrance works is

00:47:29
that you can kind of see the path as it leads off it hasn't really gotten maze like as the set

00:47:34
once you enter the maze the way it'll work is that i have the map i can see it your role to

00:47:41
see how many spaces you move and then either choose left or right and go from there okay

00:47:47
so that is if you want to enter i just want to make it clear if anyone enters that's that's the

00:47:52
way it works is that you you enter the maze i can see where you're going you will not you'll use the

00:47:57
hedges i definitely want to enter okay uh so uh you go ahead and you enter uh

00:48:04
Let me just make sure I got this.

00:48:08
Let me add you on here.

00:48:12
I just want to see, just nobody else sees this.

00:48:14
Okay.

00:48:15
Right.

00:48:16
We just see the front gate.

00:48:20
All right.

00:48:26
Okay.

00:48:26
I'm just getting everything all added in here.

00:48:32
Cool.

00:48:34
Okay, yeah, so if you want to go ahead and start,

00:48:37
it's just going to be one die that you'll roll.

00:48:39
So just 1d6.

00:48:44
And we'll go from there.

00:48:51
One.

00:48:55
It didn't roll for me either.

00:48:56
It didn't pop up.

00:48:57
I saw it.

00:48:59
Oh, really?

00:49:00
Yeah.

00:49:01
Oh, weird.

00:49:08
did someone else just roll

00:49:10
I thought they were pink dice

00:49:14
I see

00:49:17
okay yeah because I see the roll results

00:49:19
but I'm not seeing the dice I just heard it

00:49:21
so I wonder if there's just a delay in me actually hearing it

00:49:24
oh yeah I didn't even hear it

00:49:27
okay

00:49:28
so you're not at the

00:49:33
are people rolling dice because i i can't hear anything i'm here not rolling

00:49:37
okay okay i don't know what i'm hearing then um okay uh so squish you haven't uh reached an

00:49:43
intersection yet um you just kind of entered you see other people in this maze with you

00:49:48
um just a handful kind of like couples maybe trying to get some privacy in there they're kind

00:49:53
of like you know on top of each other very close touchy and some are kissing and stuff nobody's

00:49:58
like completely like again no no nudity yet um but there are still some people here amongst you

00:50:06
i'm gonna stare at them as i walk by you really give them the business um

00:50:13
uh chuckles and patches you enter the uh first floor again

00:50:24
and just to kind of lay out the first floor again uh that yellow or i'm sorry white kind of uh

00:50:30
cylindrical area that kind of when you first enter the front of the house that's like a grand hallway

00:50:36
uh that's the entrance of the house where people are kind of milling about this is where the

00:50:39
staircase up to the second floor is uh to your left you can see a dining room um it's set up like

00:50:45
people can sit there and there are people sitting um but it is just kind of like a general buffet

00:50:49
line there where you can go and grab food. To your right, there is kind of a ballroom area where

00:50:57
there's a lot of people dancing, a lot of people kind of milling around and talking. That's where

00:51:02
the music is coming from. And then in the very back of the house are those kitchens, again,

00:51:08
that kind of the servants' quarters, the rooms you don't necessarily need to be in

00:51:14
if you're a guest.

00:51:18
All right, well, I guess we both enter,

00:51:26
and I'm looking around.

00:51:28
I'd like to lean to a party goer and say,

00:51:31
hey, have you seen a woman?

00:51:34
She's pretty tall, pretty beautiful,

00:51:36
might have a bird head for a head.

00:51:40
Those are the only things I can think of to describe Lady High Hill.

00:51:43
I mean, I know she doesn't have a bird head.

00:51:44
You do know that she doesn't have a bird head now, right, Vlad?

00:51:47
Are you sure?

00:51:49
I'm not pretty sure.

00:51:51
I mean, I wasn't with her last, were you?

00:51:53
I was with her last.

00:51:56
But you're right, I don't think she had...

00:51:58
No, I don't think she did.

00:51:59
But sometimes I get confused.

00:52:01
I guess she's a demon.

00:52:05
Demon, hot demon mama.

00:52:08
And the party guest goes,

00:52:09
Oh!

00:52:10
Oh!

00:52:12
Yes, yes, with some of the most beautiful fuchsia skin.

00:52:16
Yes, I guess.

00:52:17
Yes, exactly.

00:52:19
Yes, I saw her earlier.

00:52:21
She was on the arm of a rather short man.

00:52:27
Oh.

00:52:29
A short man?

00:52:31
Was he green?

00:52:33
No, no.

00:52:35
That's her good-for-nothing father.

00:52:36
He was in a red velour suit.

00:52:40
Can you not see me now?

00:52:42
Was it me?

00:52:42
Oh, oh!

00:52:47
And he kind of like this girl, oh, it was you.

00:52:50
Yes, yes.

00:52:51
Well, with the skin tone being relatively normal for humans, I was a little, you know, you know, things happen.

00:53:00
No, I don't.

00:53:01
So, all right.

00:53:02
Well, she's not with me now.

00:53:04
So I was hoping that you could help me find her.

00:53:07
I haven't seen her since she was with you.

00:53:10
All right.

00:53:10
Well, thank you.

00:53:11
I hope you enjoy the party.

00:53:13
I will.

00:53:14
I will.

00:53:15
Are you saying for the evening festivities?

00:53:18
What do you mean evening festivities?

00:53:21
Well, you know, the late...

00:53:23
Where they kill everyone that's in the hedge maze?

00:53:28
What about the ritual sacrifices?

00:53:32
Of the people in the hedge maze.

00:53:35
I don't know about the hedge maze part of that,

00:53:39
but, I mean, I was promised some fun

00:53:43
once the main party let in.

00:53:45
What do you mean fun? Do you mean fun like ritualistic

00:53:47
sacrifice or do you mean fun like

00:53:49
eyes wiped shut?

00:53:52
You've seen

00:53:53
eyes wiped shut? My word.

00:53:56
Oh, my stars.

00:53:58
I just thought it was

00:53:59
going to be a little, you know, hanky-panky

00:54:01
but you're talking about

00:54:03
ritualistic sacrifice. I don't think I'm

00:54:05
quite interested

00:54:07
for that.

00:54:09
What do you mean hanky-panky?

00:54:12
I just thought it was going to be

00:54:13
Hanky-panky. You guys are talking about something

00:54:15
more serious. Patches.

00:54:18
What?

00:54:20
Are they talking about

00:54:21
an orgy?

00:54:23
Are we at an orgy party? Is that what garden means?

00:54:26
Uh, well,

00:54:27
you know, it means a lot of

00:54:29
things. I should have known something

00:54:31
when I saw the penis flytrap.

00:54:34
What is that?

00:54:35
A flower?

00:54:37
Yeah. Real sexual flower.

00:54:40
Interesting.

00:54:42
Yeah, I didn't notice that one.

00:54:43
Yeah, it definitely looks like this might get a little risque.

00:54:48
If we don't find your high hill lady friend here, she might be involved in some of this.

00:54:52
And not with you.

00:54:53
Maybe too involved.

00:54:54
Well, especially if it's not with you.

00:54:57
You're right.

00:54:57
Let's find her.

00:54:59
Well, wait, what about your bouquet woman?

00:55:01
She's around here somewhere, I'm sure.

00:55:05
I'm sure she's around wherever the party's at.

00:55:07
She's probably staring down menacingly.

00:55:12
Alright, well, I guess we'll move into another room.

00:55:14
Perhaps the dining room.

00:55:16
The dining room!

00:55:18
Alonzi, let's go! Hooray!

00:55:21
You push me out of the way to go to the dining room.

00:55:26
Exactly.

00:55:28
Squish, go ahead and make your next roll.

00:55:32
Further into the hedge maze.

00:55:44
oh three well and this is just for like spots to move this isn't

00:55:50
yeah whether good or bad oh i see so you're picking like which direction

00:55:55
yeah it has nothing to do with like like failure or success i figured that'd be adding too much so

00:56:00
this is just you don't know exactly how big this maze is you're just walking around it um you are

00:56:04
you have come to your first intersection so it's going to be a left or right uh left all right

00:56:16
so you have come to uh a dead end um but not quite so dead because you definitely see uh well it

00:56:23
looks like a man kissing a bush um but you realize later that there are in fact like hands and feet

00:56:29
uh the lady has just that he is kissing has just leaned so far back into the bush she's kind of

00:56:33
Homer disappeared into it.

00:56:36
So a very

00:56:37
awkward moment, perhaps for

00:56:39
them. A sexy moment, I suppose,

00:56:41
for you. But it is, in fact,

00:56:43
a dead end and not where you intended to

00:56:45
go. And so with dead ends,

00:56:48
you're just going to go back

00:56:49
to where you started. Obviously, you'll pick

00:56:51
right and then roll from there. I'm not going to make you

00:56:53
walk back.

00:56:55
Yeah, you can just turn.

00:56:57
They're all going to be left or right. If you pick the wrong one,

00:56:59
you're just going to go back.

00:57:00
So you'll be

00:57:03
And I yell at them.

00:57:04
Wrap it before you tap it.

00:57:07
Oh, God!

00:57:08
You hear from the bushes.

00:57:11
Or don't, whatever.

00:57:12
I'm not your parents.

00:57:14
Back on the first floor,

00:57:17
you two

00:57:18
patches and

00:57:20
juggles.

00:57:22
All right, we're in the dining room now.

00:57:24
Yarrick.

00:57:25
All right.

00:57:26
As I've been walking, I've been reading the sheets of paper

00:57:28
that I took from Juggles' pocket.

00:57:31
And just, you know, making sure I saw there's a looks like Neelix has some kind of partner.

00:57:39
Okay.

00:57:39
Definitely don't want to definitely our name's Neelan.

00:57:42
But by all accounts, we don't want them to meet.

00:57:46
Right.

00:57:46
So let's I don't know.

00:57:48
So let's continue to not meet her.

00:57:51
But at the bottom of the page does say some cults are looking for her.

00:57:54
So I wonder if that's why they've been looking for her.

00:57:57
Well, some cults are looking for Neelix.

00:57:59
That is true.

00:58:00
I wonder if it's the same cult.

00:58:02
Well, I know that Lady Evelyn didn't know anything about either of them,

00:58:09
although she was also really trashed.

00:58:12
Yeah, you really know how to show a good time, don't you, lad?

00:58:16
Yes, I just keep funneling her flutes.

00:58:21
What?

00:58:22
Yeah, I funneled her a flute of whiskey.

00:58:29
Two.

00:58:29
Sorry, I'm not there.

00:58:31
Not the musical instrument.

00:58:34
You mean like a, is that like out of character?

00:58:35
Is that like a flight?

00:58:37
Champagne flute.

00:58:38
It's the thing that they put, the tall glasses that they put champagne in.

00:58:42
Okay, I misunderstood what you were saying.

00:58:44
Okay, well, yeah, that'll happen when you give a girl, you know, a nice big flute.

00:58:51
Yeah, no, but she was not naked yet.

00:58:55
Well, I guess maybe keep your eyes open.

00:58:59
We might see anything tonight.

00:59:01
Yeah, that's what it seems like.

00:59:04
I'd like to lean to a party goer in the dining room.

00:59:08
Sure.

00:59:10
Hey, have you seen like a big smoking hot demon lady around here?

00:59:18
The person turns around and they're like, smoking hot demon lady.

00:59:22
Yeah.

00:59:23
Tell me more.

00:59:24
Oh, yeah, big old bosoms, I think.

00:59:28
Well, I don't know.

00:59:29
She's just a great personality.

00:59:32
Oh, great personality.

00:59:34
You know what that's code for.

00:59:36
Big stompers.

00:59:37
Big stompers.

00:59:38
Yes, she also had big stompers.

00:59:40
Now.

00:59:41
Big feet.

00:59:42
Does that match the description of anyone you've seen here in this dining room or anywhere else in this house?

00:59:47
I'm looking for her.

00:59:49
Gotta say, this party is

00:59:51
D-E-A-B

00:59:53
dead, man.

00:59:55
And he looks around, he's like,

00:59:57
yeah, I've noticed it's starting to

00:59:59
thin out a little bit here and there. You ever go to a party

01:00:01
and everyone just seems to be in the opposite

01:00:03
room of where you are and you have a fight

01:00:05
where you need them to be? Yeah.

01:00:07
Does that happen to you a lot?

01:00:10
Because it might be you.

01:00:11
He has a moment of introspection.

01:00:14
He's like,

01:00:16
could be me.

01:00:17
It couldn't be me.

01:00:20
What are you guys doing?

01:00:21
What are you up to?

01:00:22
I'm looking for my...

01:00:24
Don't say you're going to the other room.

01:00:26
Don't say that.

01:00:29
We're sorry. We're looking for his lady friend.

01:00:32
Or maybe his lady friend.

01:00:35
Or maybe my lady friend.

01:00:36
Lady Bouquet.

01:00:37
You got a lady friend. Tell me about her.

01:00:39
Tell me about your lady love.

01:00:41
She hopes to see him later.

01:00:44
Who are you talking to?

01:00:45
Me?

01:00:47
I'm talking to you.

01:00:48
I'm talking to you, coat boy, hat boy.

01:00:52
This hat does seem very large, doesn't it?

01:00:56
Seems preposterously large.

01:00:58
Yeah, it keeps getting bigger.

01:00:59
Anyway, I'm looking for the lady of the house.

01:01:06
Madame Bouquet, that creepy old dud.

01:01:08
Hey, you watch your tone.

01:01:10
Talk about a slug in the garden, if you know what I mean.

01:01:14
Give you a slug in your garden.

01:01:17
If you know what I mean.

01:01:19
She, uh...

01:01:20
What do you mean?

01:01:21
Because I don't know what you mean.

01:01:23
I'm going to kick his ass.

01:01:25
He kind of brings you into conspiratorial,

01:01:27
kind of like a...

01:01:29
She's into things.

01:01:31
Yeah.

01:01:33
Stop.

01:01:33
Yeah.

01:01:35
I don't know what them tootsies do,

01:01:37
but I do know that the rumors are

01:01:40
that she's not...

01:01:42
She's a little weird.

01:01:44
you know, spends a lot of money on stuff, getting it exported and imported in.

01:01:50
Yeah.

01:01:50
She's an importer-exporter.

01:01:52
Is that what you're saying?

01:01:53
An importer-exporter.

01:01:55
Fine goods.

01:01:56
What kind of fine goods is she importing and exporting, supposedly?

01:02:00
Well, I don't know that.

01:02:02
I don't have all that.

01:02:03
Oh, you just know enough to gossip about the poor lady when she's not here.

01:02:07
Yeah, you must not disrespect his fly girl.

01:02:13
Wow.

01:02:14
You're a real piece of work, you know that?

01:02:16
Yeah.

01:02:17
No, you ruined me.

01:02:18
You ruined me.

01:02:21
You better watch your ass.

01:02:22
I'm a pirate, and I'll really wound you.

01:02:25
All right, let's go to the next room.

01:02:27
And I stick a popcorn chicken in his face.

01:02:29
Where did you get that?

01:02:31
My pocket.

01:02:33
You said you didn't have any in your pocket.

01:02:35
I lied.

01:02:37
Well, can I have some?

01:02:40
Sure.

01:02:42
I give him the one I poked the guy in the face with.

01:02:45
Oh, jeez.

01:02:45
Thank you.

01:02:46
Extra greasy.

01:02:48
Yeah, well.

01:02:50
Probably the best thing you've had all night, right?

01:02:52
Pretty good popular, too.

01:02:54
I mean, it's starting to get quite body temperature, but that's okay.

01:03:00
Well, you know.

01:03:02
All right, Squish.

01:03:02
Go ahead and roll.

01:03:09
Come on.

01:03:10
Something good.

01:03:12
it don't matter

01:03:14
5

01:03:15
left or right

01:03:18
even after I

01:03:19
reached that

01:03:22
yes so you come back to the

01:03:23
intersection where you started and I'm just going to move you 5

01:03:25
from there

01:03:27
oh okay

01:03:28
then I reached another intersection

01:03:30
this is a different intersection

01:03:31
I'm going to go left

01:03:36
I'm going to go left until I see some boobies

01:03:39
uh you okay i'm gonna really watch uh you reached another intersection so we'll have you pick left

01:03:47
or right again um in the next role but um here's this intersection you're seeing a bunch of like

01:03:53
like i don't know like two or three kids and they're just like smoking back there and it's

01:03:58
kind of silly because they're young enough that like they're old enough to be able to purchase

01:04:04
these things and they're at a party where people are openly smoking and drinking but they're doing

01:04:08
that thing where they're kind of like trying to hide it and be really discreet and by being discreet

01:04:12
they've made themselves very obvious oh give me some of that oh no please don't tell my mom please

01:04:19
who's your mom who's your daddy this is my mother

01:04:26
this is my mother all right i won't tell missus my mother if you give me a couple of hits

01:04:33
and he passes

01:04:35
what is just a cigarette

01:04:36
to you

01:04:38
I eat it

01:04:42
you know what

01:04:44
that's really good

01:04:47
sorry

01:04:48
yeah you just

01:04:50
guzzle it down

01:04:52
and they are like

01:04:53
you're real hard man

01:04:56
yeah

01:04:58
that's all I got

01:05:01
hey

01:05:02
Do you know how to get back out of this hedge?

01:05:05
Yeah.

01:05:06
You go down that path and turn left.

01:05:09
All right.

01:05:10
If you see that guy making out with the bush, you've gone too far.

01:05:16
All right.

01:05:18
Neat.

01:05:18
And he finger guns it.

01:05:20
Oh, no.

01:05:21
Hold on.

01:05:21
Sorry.

01:05:22
You go right, then, and left.

01:05:26
That seems confusing.

01:05:28
We'll just look out for the guy eating a bush later.

01:05:31
Yeah.

01:05:32
Yeah.

01:05:33
So then.

01:05:36
Back to the first floor.

01:05:38
So you are leaving the dining room?

01:05:41
Yeah.

01:05:42
I'm going to go to another party room.

01:05:44
Okay.

01:05:45
You enter the ballroom.

01:05:48
And there are lots of activity at this point.

01:05:52
There are people kind of like, and it's a mixture of people doing like couples,

01:05:57
formal waltzing, and some people just getting turned up as well.

01:06:01
people who have just drank enough that they're partying on their own.

01:06:04
And you have to kind of keep moving because if you stand still for too long,

01:06:07
there's a very good chance someone is going to bump into you.

01:06:11
Oh, and before you know it, we're dancing.

01:06:14
Sure.

01:06:15
Yeah, you guys are dancing along as you're doing your little bit of interrogations.

01:06:22
Patches?

01:06:26
Sorry, I'm having an issue right now.

01:06:28
Give me one second.

01:06:30
Okay.

01:06:32
someone else take my turn

01:06:35
okay

01:06:36
you're just kind of

01:06:38
you see people

01:06:39
some are like kind of pulled off to the side

01:06:41
talking

01:06:44
yeah no I just imagine

01:06:45
me and Patches are dancing trying to fit in

01:06:47
and also not getting bumped into

01:06:49
very casual like and talking to each other

01:06:51
a little bit and I'd like to

01:06:53
lean and dance closer

01:06:55
to someone and whisper into their ear

01:06:57
hello have you seen

01:07:00
You know, a sexy demon mama around here with big personality.

01:07:05
Yeah, I think I...

01:07:07
Pink lady?

01:07:08
Yeah, pink.

01:07:09
Pink demon.

01:07:10
Oh, I guess she's like shit.

01:07:11
I think...

01:07:13
Yeah, I think I saw her in the...

01:07:16
Going off the kitchens earlier.

01:07:17
She had, like, this other chick with her.

01:07:19
Dark hair, big glasses.

01:07:21
Into the kitchen, no.

01:07:22
Yeah, no, that's...

01:07:24
No, I know that lady.

01:07:25
I don't think they...

01:07:26
Oh, so they went into the kitchen.

01:07:28
Was that with me?

01:07:29
I don't think so.

01:07:31
Well, I guess maybe.

01:07:32
No, she definitely was with another woman.

01:07:35
Good looking mama.

01:07:36
Yeah, two good looking mamas, huh?

01:07:38
All right, well then maybe I'll just dance into the kitchen.

01:07:42
No, how about Mrs. Buki?

01:07:45
What is she doing?

01:07:46
That's what I call her.

01:07:46
Madame Bouquet?

01:07:47
Yeah.

01:07:48
Mrs. Buki?

01:07:49
Mrs. Buki is not in the ballroom.

01:07:52
She would not deign to enter the ballroom.

01:07:55
It is not an area she would enjoy.

01:07:57
Oh, well, that's good info.

01:07:59
you got some real good dance moves

01:08:02
yeah

01:08:03
so you planning to get naked later

01:08:04
I hear a lot of people saying they're not naked yet

01:08:07
and I find that weird phrasing

01:08:09
some people are just awkward man

01:08:11
that's true and you are not

01:08:15
gotta keep it cool

01:08:18
alright

01:08:18
I'm gonna slink out

01:08:19
okay Patches

01:08:22
slink out

01:08:23
Patches you good?

01:08:25
yeah sorry my internet got stuck on something

01:08:27
It was like frozen.

01:08:28
So I had to restart.

01:08:30
So what did we find out?

01:08:32
Sorry, I had to log out.

01:08:34
What you found out is that somebody saw Lady High Hill in the kitchens with someone's description matching Evelyn's.

01:08:43
And they were a really good dancer.

01:08:45
And you're really impressed.

01:08:46
And then Juggles just left me?

01:08:49
Juggles danced.

01:08:50
No, I slinked out.

01:08:52
I assumed you would follow me.

01:08:53
And Mrs. Buki, she's not in the ballroom.

01:08:56
She is not in there.

01:08:57
She was not dame to come into the ballroom.

01:09:02
But I didn't know if you wanted to do anything as well, Patches.

01:09:05
Are you just following along?

01:09:06
I'm just going to follow along.

01:09:09
I overheard what it was said, and now I'm like,

01:09:11
all right, to the kitchen, lads.

01:09:14
Lad.

01:09:16
All right.

01:09:17
Cool.

01:09:18
I guess we'll go to the kitchen.

01:09:21
She's going all over this place tonight.

01:09:22
Yeah, we're going to find her.

01:09:25
And then we're going to have to find Squish.

01:09:27
whatever the hell he's doing.

01:09:31
Okay.

01:09:32
Squish another...

01:09:33
Oh, I'm sorry. We're going to do left or right?

01:09:37
Left.

01:09:38
Okay.

01:09:43
So you're good. Go ahead and

01:09:45
roll how many spaces.

01:09:49
All right.

01:09:51
Okay.

01:09:54
Nothing much here.

01:09:56
unfortunately i was excited i didn't think i didn't think after one step there'd be another junction or

01:10:02
another child smoking a cigarette you know as things are um okay cool uh uh back to inside the

01:10:11
house you guys have now entered the kitchen um things are slowing down a little bit because the

01:10:16
party has been going on for a while most of the food's been served now it's just kind of doing

01:10:20
cleanup, alcohol,

01:10:23
sending out sort of thing.

01:10:24
So it's not nearly as bustling

01:10:26
and loud as it was. And you see Chef

01:10:28
Roselle in the corner smoking.

01:10:31
Kind of like head sticking out of

01:10:32
the out there so she can

01:10:34
get some cold air.

01:10:36
Juggles, isn't that that chef lady that

01:10:39
Squish likes a lot?

01:10:40
Who? Roselle?

01:10:43
Oh, from the Golden

01:10:44
Plum?

01:10:46
I thought it was Golden Plum, but yes.

01:10:48
I've been calling her Crandall.

01:10:53
Should we talk to her?

01:10:54
Does she like us? I don't remember.

01:10:56
I don't know if she's ever

01:10:58
actually met you guys.

01:11:02
Well, why don't we go over there and

01:11:04
ask her if she's seen your lovely lady

01:11:06
friend.

01:11:07
Maybe you should ask her.

01:11:08
Oh, they're in for it now.

01:11:10
What? Maybe you should ask her.

01:11:13
You guys are in for it now.

01:11:14
She is a very hard character

01:11:16
to get along with.

01:11:18
For you, because you keep yelling at her.

01:11:21
You keep yelling at her and blaming her for shit.

01:11:23
And telling her you're not going to do things.

01:11:26
And then blaming her on everything.

01:11:32
Alright, yeah.

01:11:33
No, you leave this one.

01:11:34
I woke up.

01:11:36
I saunter up.

01:11:38
Are you the chef here?

01:11:41
Oh, there.

01:11:43
I'd be Captain...

01:11:44
Oh, I gotta get used to that.

01:11:46
Captain Patches McKenzie.

01:11:49
this is my friend

01:11:51
Chuckles and we're looking for

01:11:53
two lovely ladies

01:11:54
have you seen them anywhere we were told they might be

01:11:56
in your kitchen Erin you seem like the person who knows your way

01:11:59
around a kitchen

01:12:00
she takes a very long drag of her

01:12:03
cigarette and then blows it out and she says

01:12:04
two lovely ladies huh you have to be

01:12:06
a little more specific there are lots

01:12:08
of lovely ladies here lots of hard working

01:12:11
pink

01:12:12
oh that okay well actually that's

01:12:15
pink skin

01:12:15
I saw them down quite a bit.

01:12:17
Demon.

01:12:18
Yeah.

01:12:19
Yeah, I saw them.

01:12:20
They went down into the basement, you know?

01:12:24
The basement?

01:12:24
What's in the basement?

01:12:26
Yeah, look.

01:12:27
And she points in the kitchens as well as access to the basement, to the cellars.

01:12:35
Wow.

01:12:35
What did she go down there for?

01:12:37
Do you know?

01:12:39
I don't know.

01:12:40
Did she look mad or distressed?

01:12:43
Lovelorn?

01:12:45
You know, I've had a very stressful evening.

01:12:47
I just noticed a pink lady in my kitchen go through that door and then disappear.

01:12:51
I don't know about her mood.

01:12:54
Would you like a cigarette?

01:12:55
We're looking for her.

01:12:56
We couldn't tell if she was, like, coerced down there or what.

01:12:59
So do you know what's down there?

01:13:01
Is it dangerous?

01:13:03
The cellars.

01:13:04
That's where we've been getting the wine.

01:13:06
I thought maybe she goes steal a bottle for herself.

01:13:09
Hey, you know what?

01:13:10
That sounds like not a bad idea.

01:13:11
Why don't we go check that out, Chuckles?

01:13:13
How about we go steal a bottle of our own?

01:13:16
Yeah, or maybe three.

01:13:19
You know who steals the whole damn winery?

01:13:21
I'm not going to work here again.

01:13:22
What do you mean?

01:13:23
But that bouquet is a bitch.

01:13:25
Yeah, she's quite a woman.

01:13:31
Hey, you two look familiar.

01:13:34
You ever been to Duskable?

01:13:38
Yeah, I was born in the streets of Duskable.

01:13:41
No!

01:13:42
Yeah.

01:13:43
I am not because as you can tell

01:13:45
I have a silly accent

01:13:46
you do have a silly accent

01:13:47
you sound like perhaps you're from Transylvania

01:13:50
oh could be

01:13:51
could be

01:13:55
did you say

01:13:57
Pretzelvania

01:13:59
oh

01:14:01
that's funnier than

01:14:03
Pretzelvania I think

01:14:05
I agree

01:14:07
I'm going to make that cannon

01:14:08
yes I'm from Pretzelvania

01:14:10
thank you for noticing

01:14:14
yeah go down

01:14:16
steal a bottle

01:14:16
steal a bottle for me

01:14:18
steal a bottle for everyone

01:14:19
a bottle for all

01:14:21
let's hope this night is finished

01:14:23
let's go down the stairs

01:14:25
yeah why don't you come with us

01:14:29
alright we'll have you head down the stairs

01:14:31
in just a second

01:14:33
same thing Squish

01:14:35
if you want to give that a roll

01:14:44
Or better than one

01:14:46
Two, three, four

01:14:48
Yep

01:14:49
So you have another junction

01:14:51
And I'm just going to have you roll a second time

01:14:52
Just to kind of keep up

01:14:53
Do you want to go forward or left?

01:14:56
Oh

01:14:59
Left

01:15:00
Okay, go ahead and roll

01:15:05
Is that another five?

01:15:06
Four? Yeah. Five.

01:15:07
Okay.

01:15:09
One, two, three, four, five.

01:15:11
Unfortunately, you are now kind of in a dead end

01:15:14
again.

01:15:15
So you'll have to kind of head back out.

01:15:20
Okay.

01:15:21
Let's go to La Basement.

01:15:24
La Basement

01:15:25
in France-ylvania.

01:15:28
In France-ylvania.

01:15:29
Is it spooky?

01:15:31
So when you first enter the basement, no, it's not spooky at all.

01:15:34
It is a typical, it's a typical like a cellar area or maybe not cellar is the right word, but kind of like a storage room.

01:15:45
So it's cool, but it's well lit.

01:15:47
There are candles.

01:15:48
You can see there are rows of wine bottles, you know, stacked up.

01:15:54
There are kegs.

01:15:55
This is kind of like the general overflow space.

01:16:02
of the kitchen.

01:16:06
All right.

01:16:06
Well, let's look for your friend.

01:16:09
All right.

01:16:09
There are on the left or right kind of hallways

01:16:14
that you can choose to go down.

01:16:18
That's all left.

01:16:20
All right.

01:16:22
All right.

01:16:23
Stomp, stomp, stomp.

01:16:26
All right.

01:16:26
Hold on.

01:16:30
as you go around uh the the staircase you notice that or on either side of the hallway

01:16:37
uh you notice the stairs go deeper kind of

01:16:41
are angled they're steep is what i meant the floor is kind of dipping down uh is my point

01:16:47
um and you're getting a little bit a little bit lower underground um the lights are starting to

01:16:52
dim just slightly. This is a

01:16:54
less used area of the

01:16:56
basement. This is kind of like the family's

01:16:58
long-term storage, so like furniture,

01:17:02
big dressers

01:17:03
and armoires covered in sheets.

01:17:05
It's very

01:17:07
dusty in here.

01:17:08
There's a stack

01:17:10
of paintings

01:17:12
kind of like with a sheet just generally

01:17:14
over them. These are old paintings

01:17:16
that are no longer in use

01:17:18
in the house.

01:17:21
All right, let's soldier on. I don't see

01:17:22
lady I will hear either.

01:17:24
I don't know why she would be in this basement,

01:17:26
but at this point,

01:17:28
we're too far along.

01:17:31
Gotta keep going.

01:17:32
You know what I'm saying?

01:17:34
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of

01:17:36
spooky down here, don't you think?

01:17:38
A little bit.

01:17:39
It's a little dusty, but it is a basement.

01:17:43
That's true.

01:17:44
Basements are pretty spooky and dusty.

01:17:47
Okay.

01:17:49
Have you

01:17:50
stay there for just a second.

01:17:52
Go ahead and roll.

01:17:54
We're going to have you just roll twice in a row.

01:17:57
Okay.

01:17:57
Squish.

01:17:59
Squish.

01:17:59
Yeah, sorry.

01:18:03
A two.

01:18:04
All right.

01:18:11
And a three.

01:18:13
Two.

01:18:14
Three.

01:18:17
You have now reached a part of the garden that is...

01:18:21
There's been lights and torches and stuff kind of lighting your way at this time.

01:18:26
And you notice that the torches are getting further and further out.

01:18:30
So it's a little bit darker and dimmer to see.

01:18:33
In this particular section that you're at, it's kind of a long and narrow way.

01:18:37
It's like a long hallway of one exit.

01:18:42
And above you, you see someone moving.

01:18:46
You see a dark shadow kind of cross, and you hear a branch kind of click.

01:18:53
I'm going to run.

01:18:55
Squish runs.

01:18:58
Squish runs.

01:18:58
Roll your finesse just to see how well you catch up to this person.

01:19:03
I don't know what my finesse is, and I'm not in this scene.

01:19:06
Oh, I'm so sorry.

01:19:08
Let me put you back in the basement.

01:19:11
I'll just have you roll from there.

01:19:15
Basement.

01:19:16
You should be able to pull up your character sheet from the sidebar too.

01:19:21
Oh, I didn't think about that.

01:19:22
Yeah.

01:19:23
But you are in there now.

01:19:25
Get out of here.

01:19:25
You're not in here.

01:19:26
You're in some stupid hedge maze.

01:19:31
A five.

01:19:33
Okay.

01:19:34
So you're very, very close on the heels of this person.

01:19:38
And you can tell a couple of things.

01:19:40
One, that they are, it's someone smaller than you.

01:19:44
And what I mean by that is it's a woman.

01:19:46
They're shorter.

01:19:48
They're not as tall, not as wide.

01:19:50
You can tell it's a feminine shape.

01:19:52
You also can hear the swishing of her dress as she's running down this hedge mage.

01:19:58
Can I just yell, like, stop?

01:19:59
I'm not going to hurt you?

01:20:01
Yeah, absolutely.

01:20:02
Talk to me.

01:20:03
I am not an enemy.

01:20:07
She doesn't respond.

01:20:09
But she continues running past the maze.

01:20:12
And I'll say this as well.

01:20:14
You can kind of see where she moves in the darkness.

01:20:18
Like there's enough of light that you can see if she goes left or if she goes right.

01:20:23
So you can kind of like stay on top of her.

01:20:25
Yeah, I'm still following her.

01:20:27
Yeah, you're following her through the hedge maze.

01:20:30
Back in the basement.

01:20:32
You guys have three areas you can choose from, either forward, left, or right.

01:20:38
Which would you like to do?

01:20:42
Patches and chuckles.

01:20:45
I think go straight

01:20:49
We are

01:20:54
Alright

01:20:57
You get to the kind of like

01:20:59
I would say final chamber

01:21:00
But before you is a locked door

01:21:02
The room that you're in is a storage room

01:21:05
If you start looking around

01:21:07
You notice that it's a very particular type of storage room

01:21:12
Is it for bones?

01:21:14
No, it's not for bones.

01:21:16
Sex toys?

01:21:18
It's dark and it's dim,

01:21:20
but as you guys kind of

01:21:22
light a lantern or something,

01:21:24
you see that it

01:21:26
looks like a bedroom.

01:21:29
Like, there's a bed,

01:21:31
a four-poster bed.

01:21:34
There seems to be

01:21:35
toys.

01:21:36
There's

01:21:40
blankets

01:21:41
on the floor. It's like a pink

01:21:43
sort of room. It's a bedroom.

01:21:45
It's a dusty, young girl bedroom.

01:21:47
A young girl.

01:21:50
Patches.

01:21:52
Yeah, this is a little weird, isn't it, bud?

01:21:54
Yeah.

01:21:55
Do you want to attune for ghosts?

01:21:58
Oh, yeah.

01:22:00
I mean, you always have that ability.

01:22:00
All for ghosts.

01:22:02
Yeah.

01:22:04
Hold on.

01:22:06
Thanks.

01:22:06
Thanks.

01:22:10
What happened?

01:22:15
Sorry, the whole thing is just going real slow on my end for some reason.

01:22:19
Like every time I click something, it takes like a minute to go through.

01:22:25
Yeah, I don't know what's going on.

01:22:31
Even scrolling is taking forever.

01:22:45
so patches the feeling that what you realize is that there's no ghosts currently in this room

01:22:53
However, you can feel just immense weight, kind of like a residual darkness.

01:23:03
If you've ever lifted a very, very heavy weight and you've strained your muscle the next day,

01:23:09
it's the memory of that weight.

01:23:10
And that's kind of what you are feeling right now.

01:23:13
Not a ghost itself, but a very, very dark presence and that residual weight of that presence.

01:23:23
Juckles, I'm feeling pretty, pretty weighty.

01:23:28
Okay, not sure how to take that.

01:23:31
I don't know either, but I feel bloated.

01:23:34
I don't like this.

01:23:36
You like it?

01:23:38
No, I don't like this.

01:23:39
Something's wrong.

01:23:41
Well, I do.

01:23:43
There's no ghost, but there's something wrong with this room.

01:23:48
Well, that door over there, I can just tell it's locked.

01:23:51
How about I just go ahead and unlock it?

01:23:54
I think whatever we do to get us out of this place as soon as possible

01:23:57
will probably be the best course of action.

01:24:01
So don't open it.

01:24:01
Can you tinker the door?

01:24:03
No, tinker the door.

01:24:04
Let's get your friend to get out of here.

01:24:06
Okay.

01:24:07
All right.

01:24:08
She can't be safe in this place.

01:24:10
This can't be good.

01:24:13
Well, yeah, I hope she's not in here.

01:24:14
I hadn't even thought of that.

01:24:15
I had given up.

01:24:17
I should.

01:24:19
Well, no, I meant that, like, I just, my curiosity is getting the better of me.

01:24:23
No, no, no, no, I still care.

01:24:24
I'm just so wrapped up in this adventure.

01:24:25
No.

01:24:27
I misspoke.

01:24:27
I'm so wrapped up.

01:24:28
I'm surprised.

01:24:29
Okay, all right.

01:24:30
No, no, no, retcon.

01:24:31
I hadn't given up.

01:24:33
I just find it very surprising that you, that Lady Iho would continue going deeper and deeper into this basement.

01:24:39
But I need to make sure she's not down here.

01:24:43
So, yes, let's open this door with my tinkering skills.

01:24:50
take her away

01:24:50
take her

01:24:54
I'll stand guard

01:25:03
with your tinkering skills

01:25:04
you

01:25:06
easily open the door

01:25:08
meanwhile back in the garden

01:25:12
Squish you have followed this character

01:25:16
through this maze and you get to the very, very end

01:25:21
and you realize, let me just go ahead and eliminate this real quick.

01:25:26
One sec.

01:25:32
Sorry.

01:25:47
all right you see it yeah uh you get all the way in there and you realize it's evelyn

01:25:53
standing there she's shaking what are you doing she goes i i don't know what happened i just

01:26:01
I almost saw it all of a sudden

01:26:03
I was in this hedge maze

01:26:04
and there was someone chasing me and yelling at me

01:26:08
and now I don't know how I even got in here

01:26:11
sorry about that that was me

01:26:13
but I'm not gonna hurt you

01:26:15
you promise?

01:26:17
yeah you know me

01:26:18
you sure?

01:26:20
yeah we went out to dinner

01:26:23
as you take a step forward

01:26:25
you realize you're standing kind of in the middle of the hedge maze

01:26:29
There's a very round token in the middle.

01:26:33
And she goes, you're always so reliable, Squish.

01:26:36
I really appreciate it.

01:26:38
I'm so glad you're not here to hurt me.

01:26:42
Unfortunately, I can't say the same about myself.

01:26:45
And before you can react or before you get an answer, you feel a sharp pain on the back of your neck.

01:26:54
someone has hit you with a tranquilizing gun,

01:26:58
and you very quickly pass out.

01:27:01
Say goodbye to Squish Case.

01:27:03
If only he hadn't just dove into that maze.

01:27:07
I'm sure we're fine, though.

01:27:08
We're in a dusty old basement.

01:27:11
No one can get us down here.

01:27:13
Sex dungeon.

01:27:15
Whoops, sorry, wrong one.

01:27:17
No.

01:27:17
Sex dungeon.

01:27:21
When you tinker yourself into the room,

01:27:24
patches and chuckles, all that is revealed before you is a dark room.

01:27:30
Oh, creepy.

01:27:32
Yeah, you're a little creepy.

01:27:34
You step forward and the door behind you slams shut.

01:27:39
Oh, great.

01:27:41
A light illuminates within the room.

01:27:45
Oh, great.

01:27:45
And there is a circle of five or six other people wearing dark robes.

01:27:51
Great.

01:27:51
Their heads are not covered.

01:27:53
Some of these people you have recognized from the party.

01:27:56
You see they were previous party goers.

01:27:59
Madame Bouquet is also there.

01:28:02
And Tasman Mazaran is also standing there.

01:28:05
How did he get in?

01:28:06
He doesn't have a...

01:28:08
He didn't have an invite.

01:28:09
I nudge patches.

01:28:16
That's your lady.

01:28:18
She looks like a fox, doesn't she?

01:28:21
She looks like she's got some great A stompers on her.

01:28:25
But there's no Lady High Hill.

01:28:27
No Lady High Hill.

01:28:29
Okay.

01:28:29
Hey, have you guys seen a great, big, pink, hot demon mama?

01:28:38
Yeah, my friends were looking for her.

01:28:40
I swear, we think she went to the bathroom.

01:28:42
Is that down here?

01:28:44
Yeah, you guys, yeah.

01:28:47
Matt and Bouquet kind of stares forward, not amused by your funny question.

01:28:53
She goes, you know, the thing I really appreciate about you is your consistency.

01:29:00
Give a man a dark basement to go down, and they just keep going down there,

01:29:04
never stopping to think, maybe I shouldn't be in the basement.

01:29:09
Well, yeah.

01:29:11
Looking for somebody.

01:29:15
And not only that, there was no real signs telling us not to.

01:29:18
If you didn't want us down here, you should have said something.

01:29:21
That's true.

01:29:25
Look, I don't really want to get into this, all that.

01:29:28
We do have Lady Highhill, and we'll be happy to return her.

01:29:31
We also have your friend Squish.

01:29:34
Who?

01:29:35
Tarquish.

01:29:37
I thought he went back to the boat.

01:29:40
I thought he went back to the boat, too.

01:29:42
Just give us Neelix and we'll give them both back.

01:29:47
Wait, what?

01:29:49
Give us Neelix and we'll give you back your girlfriend.

01:29:52
Wait, do you have Evelyn?

01:29:53
And we'll give you back your friend.

01:29:54
What's a Neelix?

01:29:55
I don't have a Neelix.

01:29:57
I have several ghosts, but none of this Neelix you talk about.

01:30:03
Yeah, you guys want a Hotman?

01:30:05
I think we can give you a Hotman.

01:30:07
I'll give you a Hotman, all right.

01:30:08
I like this fucking place down.

01:30:13
give us Neelix and we'll release your friends

01:30:17
give me Ed

01:30:18
hail the junk fort boys

01:30:21
in the night they roam

01:30:23
at pegs solving woes

01:30:25
with fire and explode

01:30:28
with a clash

01:30:29
and a crash and a twist of fate

01:30:31
explosions mark the hours

01:30:33
never late

01:30:38
never late

01:30:48
Yeah, you guys ever heard of that Baja Blast?

01:30:51
I love Baja Blast.

01:30:53
I love the Baja Blast.

01:30:55
You're going to keep saying it like that to get a reaction?

01:30:58
I just did.

01:31:09
laughter

01:31:28
laughter