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Previously on Tales from the Crit.
Vivian, you see parked outside of the trailer park this black limousine and you see an old man,
the same old man from the night before, and he's standing outside the back of the limousine
with a sign that says Vivian Strauss. Hey you, why you got my name on your sign?
Well, my name's Kevin and unfortunately your time is up.
My time? Like what, I gotta go home? I don't know you.
No, like you know, your time, your time, like it's your time to die, you know.
What? You got 24 hours, you know what that means, by tomorrow, this time tomorrow,
find the real Vivian Strauss. You do that and you won't be the old Vivian Strauss anymore in my book.
If you don't then...
Clerk? Excuse me? Hello?
Sir, there's a dead lady outside.
Oh god, another dead person outside.
Welcome back to Tales from the Crit. We are continuing to play Badge Quest.
Returning to the table we have Anna. I'm glad to be back.
Tim. Hello. And Rebecca. What's up?
So let's get to know each other a little bit better using our pod deck interview deck.
Tonight's question is, who is your favorite hero of fiction?
I have one. All right, go for it.
Matthew of the Red Ball series. I don't know if anyone ever read that, but it's little animals
and they're like fighting and they're monks and they're very cool. And Matthew is like a monk
fighter. He's awesome. And he's a little mouse. That's pretty dope. I do remember those books,
but I don't remember. I don't know if I ever read them.
That was one of my favorite series as a kid. Yeah?
Otters are the best. Otters are really cool.
It reminds me of the game Root. You play little woodland creatures like the mice.
Oh, okay. That's cool.
I wonder if it's inspired from those books. Could be.
That would make sense. The art's kind of similar, I think, too.
Awesome. So Tim?
Man, I forgot about that. I've spent an entire summer reading every one of those books.
I still have a bunch. As fast as I could.
I still have the whole series. That's awesome.
Oh man, that's such a good one. I was kind of thinking Arthur Dent. I feel like he's a little
underrated. I think Arthur Dent was probably my favorite hero. Technically just kind of accidentally
saves the universe here and there. And what's Arthur Dent from?
Arthur Dent is from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Right on. My first instinct was to say
Anakin Skywalker, but he might not exactly be a hero. So I'm going to go with Arthur Morgan
from Red Dead Redemption 2. Very human flaws. Tries real hard to better himself.
Real fictional man.
Real salt of the earth kind of fella.
Yeah. Salt of the earth computer generated guy.
All right. I don't know. I have a bunch, but probably Luke Skywalker.
Gonna stick with the Skywalker family. I do love me some Luke Skywalker.
I also like Link from The Legend of Zelda. Big fan there. Always caught my attention.
Although I don't know how he doesn't catch on that it's always the same bad guy. Kind of like Mario.
I guess it's their thing.
I don't know enough about the universe. It is pretty consistent.
It's like always Ganon or Ganondorf.
Okay.
For the most part. I'm a really big fan of Aragorn. More so Dimly probably.
You're just listing them now. It's supposed to be your favorite.
I know. I was like, I have a hard time picking a favorite.
It depends on what I'm doing. If I'm watching it, it's like, I don't know. I always love Luke.
Everybody?
Yeah. If it's like, if I'm watching Lord of the Rings, it's obviously Samwise Gamgee.
You just said Aragorn.
Yeah. I know.
And Ghibli.
It depends on what scene it's in.
It's all from the Fellowship.
It's just everybody from the Fellowship, but not Legolas.
Whoa. Whoa. Taking that one personally.
Well, fiction is books. Like written. Well, fiction can be anything.
No, fiction is any media.
It's just not true. I think it's being specific to literature.
I disagree.
All of those people have books written about them at this point. There's a book on everything.
That's true. I could technically buy a book on Arthur Morgan.
You could, but it doesn't have to be literary. Why?
Fiction is-
Doesn't say fictional character from a book.
It doesn't say a fictional character from a movie.
Rambo.
It could be anybody. Literature, though, for fiction, I think is pretty specific.
If you're saying fiction, I think it's-
What about science fiction movies?
Science fiction is also books.
But it's also movies.
Yeah, but then it's sci-fi.
Which means science fiction.
Right, but it's a movie, so it's sci-fi. It's different.
I think it's not.
The connotation is different.
This is one of those things where you're saying it very confidently
to try to get everyone to think you're right.
Because I am.
You're still going to disagree because now I know that's your trick.
I shouldn't have said anything about that.
I'll never let it go.
It doesn't say literary fiction, so.
I think any fiction would count, the way it's posed.
Goku.
I'm just going to keep listening. We'll move on, because I have a long list,
and I've never been able to choose my favorite anything except food.
I mean, I guess really, my favorite here as a fiction could also be
the Hardy Boys.
Frank and Joe are pretty killer, and they save the day, book after book.
Nancy Drew, phenomenal hero.
She is pretty great.
We're also missing King Arthur, who's a pretty substantial hero.
Pretty good. I thought he was real.
I thought Merlin was a little bit fake.
The mystery is fuzzy.
Fuzzy, fuzzy. Another great hero.
Another great fictional hero.
Fictional hero, especially in Muppet Treasure Island.
Waka Waka.
Oh, how fantastic.
Shrek.
This is turning into our other podcast.
Technically, yes.
Yes, Shrek is a favorite fictional hero.
Okay.
It does seem like it's too broad of a question.
It was like wildly, actually no, Arthur Dent was the first person that I thought of.
Some of the other ones we looked at were really specific, and that gets kind of hard.
There are some that are soul wrenching, where I'm just like,
if I was to give my honest opinion on this, that would not be.
You should have heard the ones I skipped.
Can we?
That's crazy.
No, we'll go for it in another day.
But yeah, it's like, what memory would you erase?
And what's one thing you would regret doing if you were to die right now?
Oh my God, probably dying.
That's probably what I'd regret most.
It's that I'm dying at 30.
Well.
That's where we'll segue into the episode.
Instead of dying at 10 and 11 12th,
Vivian Strauss is still alive and with her friends Bonnie and Maxwell at Bonnie's house,
where you guys just watched two glowing objects streak through the town
and presumably crash somewhere in your town of Kleinville.
Guys, what was that?
Should we go investigate those?
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm down for that.
I mean, you already dodged death tonight, so we're probably pretty good.
I think I'm immortal now.
Yeah, I think so.
That was like a whole week ago.
Well, we dodged death like a week ago, so we'll be fine.
Yeah, it means I'm immortal.
Yeah, definitely.
What do you think, Maxwell?
You want to climb out this window?
Yeah, I think it would be important,
because it could be some sort of geological discovery of asteroids or aliens.
We could be billionaires.
I'm getting a ride in that spaceship, that's for sure.
Hell yeah, then we don't have to sell cookies, we'll just have money.
Or we could make our own space cookies.
Or we sell to the aliens.
Oh, for a price.
Well, I think there'd be some sort of space tariff,
which means that potentially it'd be good for business.
You think there's tariffs already?
Probably.
Do we know what tariffs are?
Taxes.
Oh, is that what it was?
Yeah, maybe, that sounds right.
That makes more sense.
How are we going to tax them?
What's the rate?
What's their money, do you think?
This is all as we're climbing out of the window.
I think we're moving.
I feel like aliens deal with hugs.
Five hugs per cookie.
You think aliens deal in hugs?
I don't know, it's better than some of the stuff that the documentaries have said.
Yeah, let's just go with hugs, that sounds good.
Seems safer, and right now, after the last weird thing we dealt with, safety is nice.
Yeah, I agree.
And maybe we should bring raincoats, it's a little icky out there.
Well, we know we have plenty of those.
Definitely.
And they still smell like cookies.
Yum.
Cookie coats.
We should steal some cookies for our journeys.
Well, we'll just bring them in case, uh, break cookies in case of emergency.
Well, if we stop by the clubhouse, we can get the wagon and maybe put a dead alien in there,
and get a reward from the government.
Yeah, maybe we should bring the cookies to the aliens in the wagon.
Yeah.
I just hope he's alive, I don't want to see anything dead.
But the wagon's kind of loud, maybe we should scope it out first, and then come back for the cookies.
Well, we can grab some sort of oil to put in the wheels, so stop the squeaking.
Okay.
I think you just need DW-4-D-W-D-4-5.
You could probably use cooking oil, I don't think it matters.
Just any sort of oil?
Let's just go grab some sesame oil from the fridge.
That's perfect.
I heard that's multifunctional.
It smells weird, but you know.
Suddenly you hear a voice as you guys are climbing out the window of your house.
Hey! Hey! Did you guys see that?
What the fuck is that? Oh, she doesn't swear.
Who the hell is that?
It's Samantha!
Oh.
Oh, hey.
We didn't see anything, actually.
We're gonna just do something else.
We were just climbing up and down the windows.
Are you guys sneaking out?
No.
We're sneaking in.
I think I saw where it landed.
Oh.
Why are you shouting?
Because you're across the street.
Shut up, my mom is sleeping.
Who's Samantha?
She sucks.
She's really annoying.
Is that the one we got in the fight with?
No, this one's in our troop.
We try to avoid her.
Oh.
I'm coming out!
Oh, God.
Oh, you should welcome.
We should have been quieter.
She doesn't have to be so quiet or...
Maxwell, don't engage.
Sorry.
But if she does know where it is,
we could probably just use her help for now to get there.
Okay, yeah, I guess we're ready.
I think we'll just tell her it's too dangerous and she has to go.
Yeah. She's gonna walk five feet ahead of us.
I don't want to talk to her.
She should be the bait.
You see her, she shemies along this little roof thing,
overhanging thing that's overhanging the first floor,
and like grab onto one of her drain pipes,
and she begins to slide down, and halfway down it,
she just does a backflip and lands into the yard,
and she runs up to you guys.
I think I saw where it landed.
How did you do that?
That seems statistically impossible without cutting your fingers
or the pipe ripping off the wall.
Who's your drainage company?
They're Seamless Gutters and Doors.
That's good business.
Yeah, they're seamless.
They're good at their business.
They're very good.
Wow. So what did you say?
I was just so impressed with the fact that you did that uninjured.
It was really a miracle.
I crudit.
I mean, I'm in gymnastics.
Oh, yeah, I heard that's really healthy for you.
I don't know anything about that.
Anyways, I think I crashed down near our troop headquarters.
Okay, Samantha, well, why don't you take the lead and we'll follow.
You guys don't want to just go all together?
We are. You're just going first.
You have to show us where the bridge is, right?
You know where it is.
Yeah, it's right behind my house, kind of.
Yep, you should lead us there, but like five feet ahead.
Do you guys have a flashlight?
No.
I'd have to climb back up to get mine.
Do you think we'll need one?
Probably.
Why don't you go get yours?
And we'll meet you at the clubhouse.
Oh, okay. I guess this kind of defeats my whole cool stunt coming down,
but okay.
And she walks back to her house and just goes in the front door.
And, um, well, she's in there for a bit.
What a show off.
She could have just used the front door.
Hey, we should just start going anyway.
She'll, she can catch up.
She knows where we are.
Besides, at this point, you know, if it, if they do want cookies, the aliens,
then we get the business first.
And then our, the three of us, I guess we're in the same troop.
Does that matter?
Does it count?
Are we all the same team?
I'm not sure.
Are we all the same team? I'm still new to this.
Yeah, we're on the same team, but we're also kind of competing within our team.
Okay. Then we should just go without her.
What do you think?
Yes, without her.
Okay.
Yeah. Okay Samantha, we'll see you later. Bye.
Are we going to grab flashlights from your mom though?
Uh, yeah. Let me go into the garage and grab our emergency flashlights.
My watch can glow with the indigo.
That's works when it's really dark.
Okay.
I just have to hold it a foot off the ground,
but I've done it before.
By this point, Samantha comes back out the front door with her flashlight.
Guys, I have, I found my flashlight. My mom gave it to me.
Guys, I got the flashlight. Oh, hey.
Oh, you got one too. That's good.
Yeah. I got one for each of us.
Well, each of us, but I knew you'd have one too.
Yeah, I've got, I've got one.
Okay. Here, Mags.
It's this big giant mag light.
Oh, that's like 10,000 lumens.
It takes like two hands to hold this sucker.
That might be too much light.
We don't want all the adults to know what's happening.
She turns it on and pretends like lights are on.
Oh my gosh. Oh, it's literally like the sun.
You got to turn that off, Samantha.
At least face it a different way.
She shines it into her own eyes before pulling away and turning the button off.
She's like, wow.
Yeah, that's fucking bright. Oh God.
What a rush.
Did you just say fuck?
No.
I didn't know you got down like that.
I don't really swear.
Anyways, let's go find, find the rock or whatever fell.
Samantha walked like 20 paces ahead of us.
What do you think it was?
Your flashlight is way too bright.
Okay.
And she walks like 20 feet ahead and she just like is walking backwards at this point,
shining her flashlight at you guys.
What do you think it was?
Samantha, shush.
Do you think?
We're sneaking.
Do you think it's like aliens?
You really have to stop, stop pointing at us or else it ruins the whole idea of sneaking.
Also shouting.
Yeah.
Stop shouting.
I can do shadow puppets.
Look.
Um.
This is why we shouldn't have.
I need to do something.
We should have climbed right back into my window.
Could I try to charm her to go away?
I mean, it's not like, you know, it would be a charm roll to try to get her to go away,
but you wouldn't be like charming her like in D and D.
No, I didn't mean like that.
Okay.
Vivian, you should go to the left.
Bonnie, you go to the right and we'll just kind of try to separate and confuse her.
And then maybe she'll just kind of like.
Get by.
Yeah.
We just go, we got to split this is bad.
We're not going to find anything if she keeps being so loud and.
She's a slug.
Are we, did we cross the bridge yet?
The log bridge?
No, you're in like, there's a small wooded portion behind the Fisher family's house and
in between them and the creek.
So you're, you're like entering that not Bonnie.
Samantha has backed up into the wooded portion.
Oh my gosh, Samantha, what was that?
Behind you.
What?
She turns shining her flashlight all, all through the woods.
I grabbed Vivian and Bonnie and I just pulled them down into the bushes.
We're just going to hide here for a second and hope she figures this out on her own,
because if this is aliens and they find us, you know, the, they might not be nice.
So let's find her first.
Yeah.
I was kind of thinking that and then if they're nice, well, then we can pop up.
And if they're not.
Guys.
Bonnie, where did you, you know, this is probably the meanest thing I've ever done,
but right now I just, I just really don't want to get caught.
Guys.
And her voice gets quieter and quieter as she moves ahead.
Let's creep over the log.
Yes.
As you guys are headed towards it through the woods, do you have your flashlights on?
Yeah. I handed them out.
I'm going to, uh, Max is going to take his and kind of put his shirt over it.
And so that it's only, it's like, it's very muffled and it's kind of just like a
low glowing orb instead of this bright beam.
Okay.
Guys, do, do, do this to, to keep some of it, to keep it dimmer.
Oh, that's a good idea.
I'll do that. Mine was pointed at the ground, but this is a better idea.
Yeah. Just to kind of keep it.
Then yeah, you guys hear, ah, and I very loud splash into the creek ahead.
I think Samantha just fell in the water.
Yeah. We should probably make sure she's not drowning.
Yeah. We definitely can't let her die.
Boy.
Are you sure?
Just wait for her to come under this log and we'll just grab her.
She's kind of a disaster.
You guys aren't to the log yet.
Yeah.
Let's move.
She's ahead of you.
So.
Okay.
We run?
I guess.
She has so much trouble.
I know, but she can't die.
We'll get in a lot of trouble if she dies.
Probably.
No one knows she came with us.
Well, we do.
We're too young to have a thing we bring to our grave.
We already almost brought something to the grave.
Yeah.
Vivian.
I'm a mortal now.
This is, this is not going to affect me.
That is what that guy said.
Pretty sure.
He said, you can't die ever.
I heard it.
I know.
I thought he said I'd be back.
For you guys.
Oh, I thought it was about you.
No, it was for us.
I can't have her drown on my hands.
Oh, I gotta, we gotta go.
Yeah, we run and go to try to find where that was.
I guess I gotta get a patch for this.
No, we can't tell anyone we're here.
Well, I won't tell the whole story to Miss Beans.
We're having a sleepover and we heard some yelling.
So we followed it to Samantha.
Drowning.
I mean, hopefully not drowning.
Bubbly will find out.
So soon as we're running, run.
Okay.
So as you guys run to the creek, when you get to the shore bank,
you see Samantha standing there and she has a giant rock in her hand and she goes,
and she throws it into the water and she goes, did you guys see that?
I think I saw something in the water.
Are you kidding me?
I thought you fell in the water.
Me?
Yeah.
I do gymnastics.
So you can't fall down.
I got startled by something I thought I saw in the water.
And so I threw a giant rock at it.
Well, did you hit it?
I think so.
Can I look in the water and see?
Do we have perception checks or something?
Yeah, sure.
Do a, I guess this most applicable skill would be a skill.
So if I have a one, I roll one dice.
Correct.
Four.
On a four, when you look at the water, it's difficult when you guys start shining your
lights on it, you know, it kind of makes the whole surrounding area look a little bit darker
when you focus your beams.
But for a second, you do think you see a large fish, maybe.
Guys, there's a huge fish in there.
Of one of your beams of light from the flashlights.
Like big, like big from the movie, Big Fish.
Yeah, that's what I think I saw.
Why are you trying to hit a fish with a rock?
Hey, I don't hurt it.
It was like, I think it was saying to me.
So I threw a rock at it.
That's why it startled me.
It was singing to you?
That's why I came over here because I thought it was you guys.
Where did you go anyways?
We got lost.
We got separated from each other.
How?
You were walking all together.
I think you were walking too fast.
What did you see in the woods behind me anyways?
What?
You said that there was something in the woods behind me, which is why I turned around.
And then you guys weren't there.
It's like the same thing with the thing in the water.
You're not sure what it was.
You're not sure what you saw, but you saw something.
Everyone's seeing.
It's so crazy.
Look at those two lights in the sky.
We're pretty sure we saw them.
Let's go check that out.
Okay, let's follow you over the bridge.
Okay, I guess I'll go first.
And she flawlessly runs across the bridge to the other side
and starts shining her flashlight at the water again.
Boy, she is good at gymnastics.
Maybe I should take gymnastics.
I look at Vivian and roll my eyes.
At the running, not at Maxwell's suggestion.
Gymnastics is pretty cool, but you'd have to take it with Samantha.
There's only one place in town to go.
Yeah.
She's a teacher's pet.
She's really the worst.
Are you guys coming?
Yep, we're coming right there.
I think I see some smoke.
Oh gosh.
From the water?
It's coming from the troop, the troop.
Oh shit, the troop clubhouse.
Yeah, the troop clubhouse.
Oh, we should get over there then.
Yeah, definitely.
I'm going to run right over.
As you guys burst forth from the wooded section on the other side of the creek.
To your beloved troop headquarters, troop clubhouse.
You do see some smoke coming from your private garden area.
And it's kind of like hedged off, so you can't like see into it.
You know, they're pretty high.
So as you run around the front to get in, you see that the lights are on at the troop clubhouse.
And the door is unlocked.
What time is it right now?
Super late.
Like 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock?
Yeah, not, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, some time after nine.
It was like nine o'clock when the news came on.
We'll say that.
So give or take 10 o'clock maybe.
The clubhouse has never opened this late.
That's weird.
Yeah, do you think Mrs. Beans is in there?
Should we run across the street and get Mrs. Beans?
Well, let's see what the situation is first.
Okay.
I think we should assess as well.
Okay, let's check it out.
Okay, you go into the clubhouse and it is empty.
Over the back door leading to the garden is a jar.
Oh, I'm going to open the jar.
English language is fun.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to carefully peek through the crack.
And wait, well, if the lights are on, they can see me moving.
So the door to the backyard is a jar?
Yes.
Are there any lights on in the backyard?
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
There's a couple of those garden lights that are on all the time after dark.
Is there any window vantage point that we can look out of?
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Okay.
The building has windows.
I'm going to look out of the windows and see if I see anything back there
before just busting out the door.
Yeah, you see your troop leader, Marla Beans,
on her knees out in the middle of the garden
in front of the statue of Margaret O'Sullivan.
It's at this point that you realize that the top of the statue is now missing.
Oh my God, what happened to the statue?
Guys, do you think that this involves burying bodies?
Because that's what, you know, I'm not allowed to watch certain shows,
but passwords are easy because I only have one birthday.
And I figured that out.
So I have watched stuff, and this looks a lot like some of the law and order
and various other stuff.
Yeah, but Mrs. Beans is Mrs. Beans.
Like, well, she's here, so it can't be too bad.
Yeah, right.
Let's go talk to her.
All right.
I don't know her.
I just know late at night.
Well, I think Mrs. Beans is a reliable adult.
We'll just, we'll just, we'll help her and talk to her.
Figure out what's going on.
I'm going to get my corkscrew out just in case I need to puncture any tires.
That's a good idea.
I'll go talk to her.
Do you want to hide in here in case I need backup?
Are you going to come with us?
I'm going to try to stay in the shadows.
Okay.
Are you coming with me?
Yeah, let's go talk to Mrs. Beans.
Okay.
And we'll walk out like nothing's wrong.
Mrs. Beans!
And you just hear her sobbing.
Oh, Mrs. Beans, what's going on?
Oh, who's there?
Who is it?
It's us.
We're, you know, girls.
Oh, you girls.
What's happening?
What happened to the statue?
The statue, it's broken and she broke it.
It's broken and she picks up the crumbled pieces.
I think it had to do with whatever crashed in the town.
I had to, I ran over with the fire extinguisher because I saw,
I saw our hedges were on fire and you see like a burnt part of the hedge.
Oh my, whoa.
And our beloved statue, it's, she's gone.
Oh no.
This is terrible.
We have to find who did it.
Maxwell, we're safe back here.
You can come out now.
Okay.
We brought Maxwell with us.
What do you mean?
You got to find who did it.
It was a meteor or something.
Well, let's find the source.
What if it was aliens?
Oh, to be a kid.
Okay.
We're going to go.
Don't we get a patch for geological discoveries, Miss Beans?
It shouldn't you be in bed?
No.
No, we have a late nighttime routine.
Well, anyways, I should have you go back home.
It's not safe out here right now.
There's meteors raining down into the town.
Okay.
We'll go straight home, Mrs. Beans.
So we're under the impression that meteors came in at such a horizontal level that they
nailed the statue, but did not land in the yard.
It depends on how good of your knowledge of astronomy and impacts with the earth would be.
I know it would be a pretty direct downward angle.
Yes, it would.
Maybe it's like skipping rocks, you know, and just kind of jumps.
Huddle.
Okay.
Huddle.
I move them away from...
Something's kind of weird here.
I'm fairly certain if it was rocks that fell out of the sky,
they should be here in the backyard and we should see them.
So why don't we see impact points?
I don't know.
I think the only way to find out is to find the rocks.
Yeah, because like Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson says, there are billions and billions of something or
another.
Stars.
Is that what it was?
Probably.
I just lost track.
I just like how he says billions.
Yeah, I like him too.
His name is fun to say.
Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Can your children go home?
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
We try heading straight home now.
And find Mrs. Beans walking away, not to home.
What happened to Samantha?
I'm here guys.
You just neglected to bring me into your conversation.
I tried to get in for the huddle, but the three of you wouldn't let me in into the group.
We're a very tight knit group.
You're not part of the human being.
Floors are closed.
Trust issues.
I'm adopted.
I think I'm just going to go home.
And Samantha walks out the front door of the troop headquarters clubhouse.
I will do that every time.
Bonnie feels guilty, but doesn't say anything.
Vivian does not care.
Maxwell feels slightly torn between his obligation to make sure that someone is okay,
but also his newfound group, his two friends here, that he's betraying their friendship
by not holding up to their feelings on this person.
Complicated kid feelings.
All right, let's go.
Let's go east and look for those rocks.
Oh God, I hope they're not in the junks and stuff.
You think it landed over there?
I don't know.
I just don't want to hang out with the mafia.
It's really scary.
And the dog is there.
I know.
I don't think we could go in there if it landed.
And I feel like if it knocked the head off, there really shouldn't be too wide of a radius
where they could go.
Are we sure that Miss Beans was... well, boy, she certainly seemed devastated about that
statue more than anything else.
So I don't think she was really focused on any sort of alien things.
I don't think so either, but maybe you're right.
Why don't you take the lead, Max?
Uh...
Okay, I will take the lead.
Let's go where you said we should go.
Well, it was more kind of around here.
It was more kind of around here, because I guess we just kind of like start with a small
perimeter and then open it up a little bit more and then open it up a little bit more.
What if we do like half circles?
Because we don't really have a lot of time.
Sure, we can do half circles.
I like that.
We know it wasn't north of Main Street.
Oh, a grid pattern!
We should draw a little map and then we just go grid by grid.
What if we just look next to where the creek is?
We can walk along it behind those houses and probably no one would see us.
That's a good idea.
Follow the creek.
Yeah, I think Fiffin's right.
We should check around by the creek area and see if it is somewhere in around there.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
And we should make sure to use all of our senses.
Smell for something burning.
Listen for something making weird noises like pulsing or crackling.
And then we should touch stuff to see if it's hot.
And then we should...
I'm losing track of senses here.
I'm going to make a note about touching things because I saw the movie The Blob and it came
in through an asteroid so we probably shouldn't touch anything because then we're going to get digested.
That's a good idea.
I don't want to be digested.
Or burn my hands.
It sounds like it's probably hot if it fell from the sky.
That's a good point.
And what if there's poisonous gas?
We probably shouldn't smell anything either.
God, be careful when you breathe.
Let's just hold our breath.
Okay.
We should all put our bandanas up above our faces to filter out any negative gases or stuff.
Okay.
You should hold your breath.
I've tried that one before.
You still have to breathe after a while.
Okay, you're right.
Let's just try to hold our breath.
I'm going to hold my breath.
You guys do what you want.
We could take turns holding our breath so at least one person is always safe.
Okay.
Oh, I like that idea.
That makes sense.
Okay.
Bodie, you can go first. You're obviously really concerned about the breath.
Okay. Yeah.
And I can hold my breath so long.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe let's start making our way around.
Okay.
You guys spend a tremendous amount of time looking through the woods here on the side
of the creek and you don't find any signs of an impact or a rock or anything.
What if we try to cross the log and see south of the log?
Yeah. Because we never went down that log.
Maybe it's somewhere behind the fissures.
Okay. Yeah. Let's go back over there.
Okay. So you guys cross back over the log.
You look behind the fissures house and this too proves to be pretty unfruitful.
Nothing unordinary at all.
Maybe some Tupperware, a battery, you know, general trash but no space rocks.
Why do the fissures keep old Tupperware back here?
They're dirty.
They don't throw their trash out.
I would like to use my astronomy badge.
Okay. To try and recall with better detail the facts of where this fell out of the sky.
Okay. Make a skill check.
Okay. So I have a three in skill and with my astronomy badge that allows me to roll four.
Okay. So the check is at a four.
So you roll four. As long as you hit four with one of your dice or higher.
Gotcha.
You will succeed.
Oh, I got a four, a five, a five and a two.
Okay. Upon standing and thinking after, you know, looking through the woods,
now on both sides of the creek, you kind of remember the distance before you saw the last flash
of this rock that was headed in your direction.
And it does seem like maybe it was really close to the true clubhouse.
It definitely was on that side of the stream.
Okay.
Guys, you know, I've been thinking about it.
I think it is on the other side of the creek, closer to the to the barracks.
Maybe we should check the backyard again.
I think maybe we were paying too much attention to Mrs. Beans and we didn't check the backyard
well enough.
Well, maybe she's gone now. We can look better.
Okay. Yeah, that's a good idea.
Can I look into the creek again for that fish thing?
Mm hmm.
I got another four.
Can I throw a rock at it?
Okay. You do not see the fish.
However, you do see kind of in the brambles, a flashlight in the water on.
Can I throw a rock at it?
Yeah.
Do I have to roll?
Yeah.
Toughness, four.
I got a three.
I got a three, a four, and a six.
Okay. Yeah.
You nail it with a rock and you send the flashlight floating on down the stream.
Was that Samantha's at all?
I'm going to go investigate where the flashlight was.
The flashlight's gone.
Oh.
Well, like where it was.
Okay.
There's like a body or something.
No, there's no body.
Okay, that's good.
Just like a briar patch.
Footprints in the mud or something.
Is there anything I can investigate?
You can, yeah, you can investigate the dark.
We're going to set the check at a five for a skill test.
Nope. One.
Yes. Very not good.
In fact, you slip and you get water into your galoshes.
God.
Vivi and Max, can you come help me?
Oh, geez.
This is where her flashlight fell in, but then I slipped,
so I don't know if there's footprints or if I ruined them.
You hear a loud splash in the creek further up.
I shine my flashlight right toward that splash
or in the direction of where I heard it.
You don't see anything.
Let's go look for that.
You want to get closer to where the sound of the splash was?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, there are three of us, you know, as they say, three humans.
The three human beings.
I got my slingshot.
Do you want to go first?
Sure.
Okay.
Keep it loaded.
Yes. There's plenty of rocks down here.
I'm going to keep my corkscrew ready in case I got a pop tires.
Yeah. Hey Vivi, here's a really sharp rock for your slingshot.
Ooh, perfect.
My alien murder device.
Yeah, let's go investigate.
You guys move downstream a little bit towards where you heard the sound.
And just so you know, the river is from on the map south to north,
so it's flowing this direction.
Perfect.
So you guys make your way down the bank,
getting closer and closer to Biggles Bridge,
but you do not see anything that might have caused a loud splash.
We're not finding anything, guys.
No, we're not very good at this.
At this point, it is after midnight.
Okay, should we just take the bridge back to the statue and...
Well, I mean, I think at this point,
we didn't find anything in the first spot we were looking.
Maybe we should keep following the creek
and look around the fishing shack for that other light that fell.
I think it kind of went in that area.
Near Pickle Park? Or not that far?
I think it was just below Pickle Park.
Yeah, at the fishing place.
Okay.
Yeah, let's go check out the bait and tackle place.
Okay. As you guys hit Main Street to cross over...
We look both ways.
Good. Next to Biggles Bridge, you guys cross over the road,
and as soon as you hit the main road, a pair of headlights lights up.
Oh, shit.
It doesn't...
Oh, man, it's just that limo guy again.
God.
It's not a car that was just sitting there.
It comes down the street next to you,
down Strach Street, where you live, and turns,
and aims its headlights directly at you.
Scatter!
Scurry, yeah, get out of the way.
No, no! Bonnie, it's your dad.
Oh, damn it.
Bonnie, you get in this car right now.
Oh, but...
You and your friends in this car now.
But Vivian's dad is missing.
Get in the car!
We need to... Okay.
Well, deal with the cat another time.
Get in the car.
Guys, I have to get in the car.
So do your friends.
Sorry, Mr. McGinnis.
Vivian, get in this car.
This is my friend Max.
Max!
Get in the car.
Sorry, Bonnie's dad.
Get in the car.
Yes, sir.
It is after midnight.
We didn't realize it was so late, dad.
Why are you even out of the house?
We were looking for frogs.
So your cat's lost, you're looking for frogs.
What are their excuses?
Well, Samantha came and told us we should go outside.
We thought they were aliens.
The frogs were aliens.
That is the only believable one.
Get in the car.
That's the one I believe.
Get in the car.
Okay, love, if you believe it, then can you come look with us?
I want to believe.
Come on.
Podcast done.
That was the best joke that could ever be made.
We don't need to keep doing this.
It's over.
The end.
You guys win.
You win the badge quest.
Mr. Molder, I mean Bonnie's dad.
Get in the car.
I don't want to hear anything out of you again.
Nothing, Bonnie.
Get in.
But dad.
Get in the car.
Okay, we all borrow the vets.
No allowance for two weeks.
Dad, but the Scholastic Book Fair is coming up.
With a classic Blossom Biscuit?
Bonnie, I swear to God, get in the car.
Sorry.
I've said we get in the car like six times.
Okay, well, at this point, you finally realize who's getting it.
He's just yelling at us still, we're all sitting.
There's a vein, your dad's bald.
There's a vein that comes down and you can see it run down the entire length of his head
and it's basically pulsating.
It's a very tense and quiet car ride home.
Guys, my dad's really mad.
I think he might need blood pressure medication.
That vein is-
This gets really angry.
Does it get worse than that?
Vivian, Maxwell, get your things.
I'm going to bring you home.
What?
The sleepover's over?
Canceled.
Done.
But dad, you can't wake up everybody's families.
It's after midnight.
You're going to worry them even more by doing that.
Vivian, I already called your parents.
Maxwell, I don't know yours.
You'll just have to tell me where you live.
That works for me.
Okay.
Go get your stuff.
Yes, sir.
Bonnie, you sit in the bathroom.
No, you sit in the kitchen cabinet until I get back.
I have to sit in the cabinet?
Yes, no more talking to your friends.
But the cabinet-
You're grounded.
Okay.
And I'll climb in the cabinet under the sink.
I give- Maxwell gives Bonnie a sad wave as he turns and walks out the front door.
I'm in like the pantry somewhere where you could actually sit.
I was like knees to her chest as her dad closes the door shut to lock it.
And I'm like no, no, no.
It's actually like Harry Potter.
No.
Your dad is not abusive.
Your dad is not a piece of shit.
It's a full-size pantry.
There's even a little stool in there, you know, to reach the top shelf.
I'm gonna eat some snacks while I'm in here.
Okay.
And Bonnie's dad, Vivian, it's a very short- he pretty much walks you to your house.
Okay.
Knocks on the door.
Wakes your mom up.
Hi, mom.
Hey, Viv.
What are you doing, hon?
I had to come back.
Oh, sleepover cancels, I guess.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh, thank you, Mrs. Bonnie- Mr.
What's Bonnie's-
McGinnis.
Thank you, Mr. McGinnis.
Your parents would know each other so well.
Yeah.
Thanks.
What's your dad's first name?
Jim.
Thanks, Jim.
It's not Jim, it's George.
No, I don't want that either.
It's...
Doug.
Thanks, Doug.
That's my real dad's name.
Thanks, Dougie-Doug.
Have a good night.
And then Bonnie's dad, Dougie-Doug, gets in the car with you, Maxwell.
Just Doug.
I go by Dougie-Doug.
Dougie-Doug-Dougberg.
Okay.
That's my old MC name.
You listen to rap, kid.
Sometimes...
Sometimes I do...
I guess...
I live over on Bleak Street, under the Smiths' house in the in-law suite.
Got it.
Okay, Bleak Street.
Yeah.
I'm really sorry that you came out.
We really weren't trying to cause any trouble.
We were just really concerned with finding the cat alien frogs.
Yeah.
It really was more the aliens.
We were just really nervous because you were so upset and we...
Probably not my place to say.
Okay.
Just respectfully respect your space of respectful.
I'm going to stay quiet.
You're a good kid.
Make a charm test of five for me.
Got a five.
Bonnie's dad goes, well, you know, I believe you about those aliens.
It's a pretty exciting thing.
Did you find any?
We didn't, Mr. Dougie-Doug.
But I really do believe that they're somewhere around.
It was something.
I mean, something hit the head off of the statue over at the troops.
You could ask Miss...
I'm having such a hard time with names.
It's so far past my bed.
Beans!
Miss Beans, yeah.
Miss Beans.
You can ask her because we found her crying.
Yeah, I probably won't.
She's a bit of a cat lady.
Every time I talk to her, it's just cats, cats, cookies, troop, you know.
A lot of mind boggling stuff anyways.
You know, you can come back over tomorrow.
Bonnie won't be grounded long.
Oh, thanks, Mr. Dougie-Doug.
It's really nice of you.
No problem.
I'll stay here till you get in.
All right, thanks.
And when you get in your house, he drives away.
Cool.
Maxwell definitely spends the next couple hours trying to research different things.
I've come out of the sky as far as photos and yada yada, trying to see if any type of
asteroids match what he has, like what they saw.
Cool.
Doing some research.
I'm using my researcher badge.
Oh, shit.
My researcher badge gives me plus one D6 to skills tests to find research.
All right, so we're going to bank that roll.
We'll add that die later on.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Cool.
And then he goes to bed at like 3 a.m.
All right.
Morning comes.
It's like eight o'clock.
And then morning.
He has a very deep yawn.
That's where his voice has changed, but not the rest of it.
Bonnie, wake up.
Yeah, dad, what's up?
You're not grounded anymore.
I'm not already?
No, your friend Maxwell was very convincing last night.
Oh, he's such a nice boy, isn't he?
Yes.
Yeah, he fits right in with the with the blossoms.
Weird.
Anyways, did one of you say you saw Samantha last night?
Yeah, maybe earlier.
She never came home last night.
Oh, no.
We told her she shouldn't come out with us.
Wait, so you did see her?
At the very beginning when we sent her home.
What are you talking about?
We were climbing out of the window and Samantha came over and we said, go home.
And did she go back home?
We thought so.
We're probably going to have to tell the cops.
Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
All right.
Round up your friends.
I'm assuming they saw it too.
We're going to have to go down.
Samantha's mom already called the cops.
OK.
File the missing persons report.
OK, so now we have to talk to the cops.
Yep.
Oh, God.
OK.
Get your friends over here.
I'll go get them.
I'll call them on the phone.
I don't know Maxwell's number.
I don't know Vivian's number that well either.
Vivian's on the speed dial.
I call Vivian.
OK.
Hi, Viv.
Oh, hey, Bonnie.
We need to get together.
Can you meet me at the road and we'll go get Max?
OK, sure.
What are we going to do?
Oh, probably talk to the cops.
I'll talk to you when we see each other.
The phone gets wrenched out of your hand.
Vivian, put your mother on the phone.
Oh, OK.
Please.
Hold on.
I'll get her.
Thank you.
Mom.
What's your mom's first name?
Louise.
Hey, Louise.
Hey, Dougie Doug.
Listen, we got a bit of a situation.
You know Samantha from across the road?
Yeah, of course I know Samantha.
Suppose she never came home last night.
What?
Yeah, I'm going to bring the girls down with their buddy Max.
I don't know if you met him yet.
Kind of a talker.
Gonna bring him down to the police station.
I think they might have been the last ones.
Vivian, is this true?
Where's Samantha?
What's true?
What?
What do you know?
I don't know anything.
It's over right there.
And she hangs up the phone.
Vivian, your friend Samantha never came home last night.
Oh, well, she had a big flashlight.
I don't know how she could have been with-
So you saw her?
Were you with her?
No, we weren't with her.
We wouldn't hang out with Samantha.
But Samantha's your friend.
Mom, she is not my friend.
She lives across the street.
That does not mean she's my friend.
I thought you guys were great friends.
She's in the Brave Blossoms, but she's annoying.
Okay.
Well anyways, Dougie Doug Doug-Bird, McGinnis is going to come and pick you up and bring you down.
I need you to tell the police everything that you know.
Okay.
I have a Zumba, so I can't come.
I'll check up with you later.
Yeah, me and Bonnie will probably hang out anyway.
Okay. Be careful.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
Goodbye.
Goodbye, mother.
Bonnie's dad, Doug, drives you guys down to the police station,
where the three of you give your best recollection of what happened to Samantha.
You each are asked separately to recall the night's event.
Maxwell, you're up first.
Good morning, son.
I heard you were part of the one of the last ones to see Samantha.
My name is Officer Roxwell.
Hello.
I just want to know what happened last night and where your friend might be.
So I'm not really sure where she is.
Okay.
Well, why don't we just start from the beginning of your night?
What were you getting into last night?
Well, we saw UFOs crash out of the sky,
and so we wanted to see some aliens and try to sell them cookies.
And then when we were just beginning our journey,
Samantha came down her house kind of like, I don't know, the Matrix,
with like flips and stuff, which was really weird and kind of cool.
But don't tell Vivian and Bonnie I said that.
It was cool, but it was pretty cool.
And then we told her to stay home,
but she just kept leading it, like going the same way we were.
For some reason, she just wouldn't listen to us.
Okay.
And so why shouldn't I tell Bonnie and Vivian that what Samantha did was cool?
Do you have any coffee?
I'm real tired.
Yeah, we can get you some coffee.
I have a couple more questions here.
I'll get you all the coffee you want.
Perfect.
What's the next question?
Yeah, we could circle back to that one.
He scratches something down in his notebook.
So you said she was walking ahead of you the whole time.
Why wasn't she with the three of you?
Well, because she wasn't supposed to be.
Okay.
She was supposed to be us, the three human beings.
Oh, the three human beings.
Okay.
And so did you think Samantha was one of these aliens?
No, that's silly.
She came out of her house.
Okay.
And she wasn't supposed to be with you.
So how did that make you feel that she was with you?
Well, kind of confused.
Like maybe there was some sort of language barrier,
or she has listening problems,
or discipline problems,
or acts up,
or I'm not really sure.
It was really weird she wouldn't listen to us.
It was like she was from another...
Maybe she is an alien.
You're right, officer.
She might be one of the aliens.
You should look into that.
Okay.
I will keep that on my list of to-do's.
So tell me more about the night she was walking in front of you,
and then what happened.
She yelled.
So we thought she was in trouble.
And then it turns out she just thought she saw something in the water,
like a giant fish.
So she was throwing big rocks at it.
Then she ran across the log.
And then we found Miss Beans crying.
And Miss Beans is?
You know Miss Beans.
She's the troop leader.
Okay.
So did you go to Miss Beans's house?
Where did you see Miss Beans?
She was at the troop center area,
and she was crying on her knees in front of a statue,
as though something really sad has happened.
But I couldn't quite figure out what was so sad.
Okay.
Are you aware that last night also the beloved statue of Margaret O'Sullivan,
world cookie-selling champion, was defaced and deformed last night?
Is that the one at the troop place?
Yes.
That's what she was crying about.
Okay.
And she was there.
Was Samantha there?
I don't remember.
Don't remember.
Okay.
So let's go past Miss Beans.
We're going to go in there now?
Nope.
We're going to discuss what happened after.
After you saw Miss Beans.
Then we decided to scout the area for aliens.
Okay.
And was Samantha with you at this time?
No, it was just me and Vivian and Bonnie.
We were looking all over.
We didn't find any.
And so you don't remember if Samantha was ever at the troop headquarters with you?
You know, I can't because I was really focused on the alien thing.
Okay.
And like I said, she wasn't supposed to be there, so I wasn't really paying attention to her.
Okay.
And does that make me a bad person?
Roll a charm of five.
Would you consider this recalling facts and or details?
I would call this deception more than anything because
we're definitely lying about remembering if Samantha was there or not.
No, I really could.
As a, as a, as the player.
It's like, I can't remember if she left sad.
After.
After the stream.
You definitely know she was at the house in the clubhouse though.
She was at the clubhouse.
Remember she scared us and we were like, oh God, you're here.
Yeah.
So you guys huddled up.
You scared us.
I was really focused on the aliens.
That's all I was just like the whole conversation.
You guys were talking to her.
I was talking to the troop leader.
I was like, just like, I wonder where in the yard the aliens are.
And if she's hiding the UFO because it should be right here, I got a five, a six, a two and a two.
All right, Maxwell.
I think that's going to do it for today.
Thank you for coming in and talking to me.
And, uh, you know, you can go ahead and get out of here.
You might be, we might be giving you a call or a ring at some point again.
Okay.
Thanks.
Thank you.
All right.
All right. Bye.
Bonnie, could you please come in here?
Okay.
Hello, Bonnie.
Hi.
Listen, my name is officer Roxwell.
Hi.
I'm just looking to have a nice chat with you.
I'm trying to find out where your friend might be.
Okay.
So, um, I've heard that your friend, Samantha, accompanied you guys out on a little alien
hunt last night, huh?
Yep.
We told her she shouldn't come though.
We told her to stay home.
Okay.
And why, why?
Why isn't she, she lives right across the street from you?
Why is she not allowed to come?
Well, she's not like one of our friend group.
She is just a girl that lives across the street.
Okay.
That doesn't mean we're like friends, friends.
Okay.
And he writes that down in his little notebook.
So, uh, tell me, tell me what happened.
Well, we went out and then she tried to follow us.
So we told her she should go home and then she didn't go home.
Uh, she went over to the troops clubhouse with us.
Um, and then we forgot she was there and then she was there and she really scared us.
Uh, and then we went home while we told her to go home.
And we helped, we hung back and then, uh, we heard a splash in the water and we went
and we looked at, but we didn't find anything.
Okay.
So she was at the clubhouse with you?
Yep.
Okay.
Yeah, but I didn't tell my dad that.
Okay.
Are you going to tell my dad?
I don't know.
I thought I'd get in trouble.
Why do you think you'd get in trouble?
Because we shouldn't have snuck out of the house.
Okay.
So how did your friend, how did it make you feel that your friend Samantha was, was there
with or not your friend Samantha?
How this girl that you barely know is hanging around with your three friends.
Well, I did feel kind of bad that we sent her home, but she's not really one of our
friends.
So it was okay.
I think we don't have to be friends with everybody.
And, um, this splash in the water, tell me more about that.
Well, we heard splashes earlier, but then it turned out to be Samantha throwing rocks
in the water at a big fish.
Um, but then later when we went back, we heard splashes again.
Um, and then the flashlight, her flashlight floated down the river.
So you saw her, you saw her flashlight.
And you didn't think that maybe you should get somebody at this point.
Well, we looked for her and then we were gonna go look for somebody, but then my dad
caught us and then we got in a lot of trouble.
And you didn't tell your dad that you saw your friend saw this girl fall in the water.
Maybe you've seen my dad angry.
He gets this big vein.
It's terrifying.
You wouldn't want to talk to him either.
Okay.
Make a charm of a six, a one, a four and a five.
Okay.
He scratches something down in his notebook.
Um, okay.
Bonnie, I think you and I are going to have another talk.
Oh, come on.
Am I in trouble?
I don't, I don't think we can determine that.
Oh my God, I'm in trouble, but I don't get it.
I didn't, I didn't see her.
I didn't see anything.
We looked, we looked a lot.
Okay.
And, uh, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna have you go sit with this officer over here and
he points to another guy who comes in the room and, uh, they squirt you down a different
hallway before he comes out and gets Vivian.
Uh, Vivian, Vivian Strauss, is that you?
Yeah.
Hey, why don't you come give me the talk.
Where's Bonnie?
Bonnie.
Wait, did I walk by?
No, you were brought down a different hallway.
You guys did not pass each other.
Bonnie, she's just talking to another officer.
That's all she's going to hang out here with us.
I guess I'll talk to you.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think that'd be good.
So anyways, I hear you and your two friends, Maxwell and Bonnie were probably the last
ones to see each other.
You were probably the last ones to see Samantha.
Really?
Last night.
Yeah.
Huh.
Does that surprise you?
I mean, she said she was going to go home.
Okay.
So what's-
She had a big flashlight.
I figured she could find her way.
Let's start at the beginning.
Okay.
Why don't you tell me about when you first saw Samantha?
She, like, jumped out of her window, which was, like, crazy and annoying.
She always does that.
And she wanted to come with us, but I don't really like her.
So I made her walk ahead of us.
Oh, okay.
So you actively don't like Samantha?
I actively don't like a lot of people.
Okay.
Definitely scratches something down this notebook now.
All right.
So what happened after that?
We went across the creek to the troop leaders, no, the troop clubhouse,
because there was smoke coming from it and all the lights were on.
And that was weird because it was late at night.
And we found our troop leader, like, sobbing.
It was gross.
She, like, snot coming out of her nose.
And, oh, our statue got blown up, but that's fine because it's going to make room for my statue
when I get the gold-selling star for all the cookie sells.
Would you say you were jealous of Margaret O'Sullivan?
No.
I'm just her-
There's just room there now for your statue.
Yeah.
I mean-
And how many boxes of cookies have you sold this year?
More than you.
My daughter is in troop 737.
Yeah.
That's like the Brownie level.
They sell, like, a box a year.
She's up to 115 boxes herself.
So we-
You just brought it to the police station.
Okay.
We're getting a little off topic here.
Tell me more.
Was Samantha with you at this time?
Where?
At the clubhouse.
Uh, I don't know.
You don't know if she was there?
No.
So when was the last time you saw Samantha?
Um, I think when she said she was gonna go home.
And when was that?
Last night.
Yes, but when last night?
When she said she was going home.
Okay, so the last time you saw her was-
You didn't even see her at the clubhouse.
Maybe she was there.
I don't know.
She's annoying.
I try to forget that she's there.
Okay.
And so, um, what happened later in your night?
Oh, we went back down to the clubhouse.
We went back down by the creek, um, because we were looking for stuff and we didn't find anything.
But we did see, um, a big fish in the water.
That was cool.
A big fish?
Okay, and nothing else out of the ordinary?
I don't think so.
Okay.
Uh, make a charm test of a six for me.
Six.
Yeah, we might be in touch again a little bit later.
Uh, you know, maybe hang around the town.
Don't go too many places.
Okay?
Did you let Bonnie go?
Uh, Bonnie will be just fine.
Don't you worry about her.
Oh, well, we were going to hang out.
That's- you can hang out later.
Okay.
And for the next several hours, Bonnie, you are kept at the Clyneville Police Department
while Maxwell and Vivian- you guys are actually sent home.
Uh, Maxwell, they arranged for an Uber for you?
No.
That's my favorite mode of transportation.
Yes, so an Uber comes and picks you up and Vivian, your mom, Louise, comes to the station
and picks you up.
And then after a few hours, Bonnie, your dad, Doug, takes you out of the station and back
to your home.
And it is now noon on Saturday.
I'm gonna walk over to Vivian's house and knock on the door.
Bonnie, where were you?
Those stupid popos kept me at the- at the barracks forever, man.
What did you say?
I think I'm going to juvie.
I think they think I killed her, which is really crazy because like I could kill somebody.
We didn't even see her after she said she was gonna go home.
But her flashlight was in the water and there was that big splash and- and I don't know,
man.
She could have just dropped it.
I don't know, man.
The cops don't think that I'm innocent, it seems.
And they took out a big chunk of the cookie selling day.
So if we could just not talk about it and get Maxwell and just sell some cookies.
Okay.
Yeah, my sales are down.
Yeah, let's go sell cookies.
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Flyingville?
Yes.
Population six, six, zero.
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