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summer break. Welcome to Fantasy 1st Friday.
A monthly Grant Rant series where I host a tabletop RPG with
the rotating cast and this month we are playing Summer Break and
today my players are the maybe four.
Please introduce yourselves and your character.
Starting of you Joey. Hi, I'm Joey Hines.
Basis for the maybe four, and my character in this game is named
Knox. 12 years old, immediately love the voice, Chris.
Hey, I'm Chris. I'm the primary keyboardist and
sometimes saxophone player and sometimes sad breakup song
artist of the maybe four and my song or my child is an 11 year
old boy by the name of Rusty. Love it and Russell.
Speak to Rusty. My name is Russell Christian.
I'm the secondary slash tertiary bass player for the maybe 4 I'm.
One of a quatrain of guitar players, I also am the primary
harmonica player for the Navy Four and.
My. Character's name is Gonzo and
he's well. I love.
The Muppets. And he likes The Muppets, his
parents. Are.
Hundreds of them. Yeah, man.
I am mandolin jambe extraordinaire.
The day before Hell Yeah. My character is Molly, who is
11. Perfect.
So in summer break you play a group of kids, as you could tell
by them saying their ages who are enjoying what could be their
last summer together. The goal is to work together to
defend your childhood Fort. From any number of dangers that
are definitely not allegories for adulthood.
You you play this game with A6 sided die and each player has
only three stats to keep track of.
They are Think, feel, and Do. Any action they take will fit
under these three categories and whatever your number is for that
stat is the bonus you'll get for your dice rolls.
Your actions will include building a forts, coming up with
schemes, and facing various dangers of their own special
powers and rules as the game goes on.
Are y'all excited? Yeah yeah, fantastic.
So we're going to begin the game by establishing your character's
connection before the recording started.
You all acknowledge that you're band kids, you're all in the
middle school band together. Look at that, the band playing
the band kids. We're so original.
We're so creative. We're tapping into reality.
Yeah, we got a band together. We're not even 2 minutes in and
we got Joey Heinz pod. We're going to begin in your
middle school on the last day of school.
First we're going to. You're in the band room.
It's 1988. And you are.
You are with your your middle school band teacher whose name
is miss Grab Bag. You're all packing up your your
your bags to go home for the whole summer.
The class is winding down. Feel free to talk amongst
yourselves. What are you doing?
As class wraps up I'm. So excited to put my clarinet
away and get ready for the summer.
It's going to be so much fun hanging out with you guys.
I can't wait to play my 2:00 but.
Inside of the Fort, it's going to be so loud and you guys will
hate it. I want to ride my bike to the
Fort. You're going to ride your bike
to the Fort. I can't ride my bike with me too
because it's too big, so I have to walk and I'll be there later.
You want to ride on my bike with me?
No. Boys are crows.
There's not enough room. There's only one person, bike.
But I can figure it out. It's cool.
You're just going to drag me behind on the bike with a bro?
That's not nice console. But I.
Won't. Well, anyway, I'll see y'all at
the Fort, yeah. You're not allowed to leave yet.
That's your teacher. I see you all talk about going
somewhere right now, but an important announcement before
school ends for the summer. Go put your bags down.
The bell doesn't dismiss you. I do.
Oh, but Miss Grab bag, I got to go home.
I don't care. I got to play with my master
system and hate it because I'm the only kid who doesn't have an
NESI asked for an NES and they gave me a master system.
Listen, we all asked for NE s's last Christmas.
None of us got. Miss Grab Bag?
My life's hard. Don't you get it?
I'm a Master System kid in the Nintendo town.
My friend has one. You lucky?
I asked. For a bike and I got a Nintendo
instead. I got a bike.
She just. Got what you want?
Listen, you're all various ages 11 and 12, respectively.
You're all going to be turning into adults before you know it.
Look at me. Just yesterday I was 17 years
old, living my best life, and I have three kids and I teach you
in great music and you're all bad at it.
All of you. So I just want to let you know
you better start growing up and fast.
Miss. Miss.
Can I go to the bathroom at 17? Yes.
Wow, she's weird when you go home after school.
The bells and ring in a minute. I really gotta go miss Rusty.
My God, you are all way too immature.
You all need to mature. Like immediately.
I I'm going to retire and I'm going to love it and I'm out of.
Here. I'm sorry, I forgot I had to go
to the bathroom. I was too busy being pissed
about having a master assistant. So have you seen the covers on
those games? You're so lame.
Oh. My God, I get bullied because I
I played trombone and I have a master system.
Oh Oh no. Rusty.
Alex Kidd look kind of cool, Alex.
Kidd, look kind. Of cool.
Does Alex Kidd have a mustache and a job with a salary?
Our kid sucks. I'm already a kid.
I want to be a middle-aged Italian plumber.
Because Rusty has an existential crisis.
The The Bell Rings. School's out for summer.
Has that song come out yet? I don't know.
Probably, But. It has Alice Cooper.
Right, Cooper. Oh.
Yeah, yeah, My older brother loves Alice.
Cooper So Alice Cooper hurts playing in all your minds.
You're running out. There's pencils flying
everywhere. There's paper kids storming the
gates. You're finally free.
Where are you going? Going to the four.
Going to the 711 Get Slurpees. You.
Can if you want to go to the 711 first I guess.
Jump on my bike at the school and ride it.
Are we going to the 4:00 to 7:11?
I want to go to 711. I'll go to 711 with you.
I have to walk. Can you guys pick me up some
Twizzlers? I have any money?
I still have a dollar from lunch here.
All right, I got a dollar too. We have $2.00.
You could have half of my Babe Ruth, but I can't afford
Twizzlers. Just bringing some candy.
I'll meet you guys at the 4th, All right?
OK. Knocks Where are you going?
I'm going to go to 711. I want to see if they have any
of those old Cokes left in like the back or something.
So three of you, I guess they're going to go to 711 really quick.
There's there's one by the school, why not?
I plan for this and you walk in. You know what a 711 looks like
in 1988, the current year. It smells great.
There's a familiar face behind the counter.
You've seen this guy plenty of times on a first name basis with
him and his name is Sample. Simple sample.
Yeah, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but you
know he's there and he's kind of like waves you like.
Hey, guys. Welcome back.
Did you want any Twizzlers? Hey Sample, do you remember the
Coke like the the regular Coke like the before they had the new
coke? Do you have any of those?
Left. You mean Old Coke?
Yeah, yeah, exactly. The old Coke.
No. Do you have any?
Really old coke. I have one but it's mine.
I've been keeping it in my fridge, under the the, the
dresser, the area here, but it's it's mine from four days ago.
Do you like Master System games? No, dude, don't wanna watch.
It give you a Master system game for an 0.
You're done for having. One like no.
We don't sell games at the 711. I keep telling you this, Rusty.
Twizzlers. Yeah, yeah, Twizzlers.
Like goes down under his desk and he feels like a huge like
jar of Twizzlers I. Got $2.00.
Now I'll get you 4 Twizzlers. OK.
I'll take 4 Twizzlers. All right.
Do. You have any magazines or what
kind? All the magazines.
Can. You just name me all the.
Sure. Oh, great.
Yeah, sure. Why not?
Let's name all the magazines. Yeah, I'll give you a few
options. I've got.
I've got Nintendo Power, I've got this one.
You can't have that one. Actually, little for that one.
It's got too many cars in it and you can't drive.
I can drive. No, you can't.
My dad showed me. I've got this one.
It's called home and Lawn care. And then I have this last
magazine that no one wants to buy.
It's called How to Look Good, Like Nancy Reagan.
That's the whole that's the whole name of the magazine.
My grandma adores her. How much does that one cost?
That one is $7.00. $7.00. The other the other ones are
$2.00. The Nancy Reagan one is adjusted
for inflation. I'll give you $2 for the Nancy
Reagan magazine. They're not sure.
Whatever. No one's gonna buy this shit.
So you have a Nancy Reagan magazine and four Twizzlers,
Chris, anything at the 711 you want?
I'll take a New Coke and a Babe Ruth, please.
Sweet. That'll be $2.00.
There you go. Great.
We've got let's see this For inventory sake, we now have 4
Twizzlers. Baby Ruth, a new Coke and a
magazine for how to look good and look like Nancy Reagan.
So everyone Mosey's on to the Fort it is in.
Oh, let's say it's in Knox's backyard.
It's, it's it's a little new. You haven't finished it yet.
Molly's already there waiting for you.
Today's the day you're building that Fort.
I think, though. So, Molly, all the boys are are
back and ready to help you. Gosh, you guys took so long.
Did you get me some candy? I've got you 3 Twizzlers.
I got a Babe Ruth rapper. I I got this magazine that you
might like. Why?
I think not even my mom would like that magazine.
You like Nancy Reagan, right? You think she's cool?
No, she's like, don't all tuba players love Nancy Reagan?
I'm not like. I don't wanna look.
Like her. Anyway guys, I got all of these
sticks together and I brought this ripped up bed sheet.
I thought maybe we could add to the roof like a sunlight.
Oh yeah, that's fine. So the best sheet's going to go
on the roof. Yeah.
So if we, if we tie it up, it'll protect us from stuff coming in
the hole in the roof, but we'll still have some light come in.
The light through the sheet. Yeah.
Yeah, sure. I think that's smart.
Can you make a Fink roll for me to see if you can successfully
put a sheet on a Fort? That's a perfect score.
Yes, you can successfully put a sheet on a Fort.
So I. Told you guys.
What's our Fort going to be called?
Is it like Fort sheet? Fort.
Sheet. I think we can come up with a
better name than that. I thought that was pretty
clever. How about the How about the
Master System? Players Club?
You you hear a voice from inside Knox's house and it sounds like
Knox's mom, and it's a shout out about that master system.
Can you be my mom? No.
Can you buy Knox in Nintendo? Can you talk to my mom?
No, your mom's in prison. I hate Master System.
We should have a name for the Fort.
But I wanna play Marble Madness. Well, yes, we need to put a roof
on the Fort. It's not a real Fort.
And so we have a roof. What about, call it Mario's
Fort? It's Mario, he said.
That this video game that my friend had?
I like Mario. I have that game actually.
It's pretty cool. It's kind of like Alex Kidd,
except you have a mustache and it like it's way more fun.
It's like that. What's Alice Kidd?
Who has that? I hate it.
I hate that game. It's so lame.
I talked about it at school. Nobody knows what the heck I'm
talking about. OK, we can be Fort Mario fine.
It's Fort Mario. Yes.
Help me tie these sheets. So that that that happens as you
succeeded in your role earlier so that the sheet is now on.
I'm not going to make you spend a Fort point for that but there
there there are some potential upgrades you can give to your
Fort. They exist in your imagination
of course. So for building your Fort
together you are you are cut to the given 10 fourth points and
I'll I'll give you what your five potential upgrades can be
spend your points wisely. So we've got fortified walls.
Fortified walls will give you strong walls.
It gives your 4th 2 bonus hit points.
Your Fort normally has ten once it's finished, but you give it
two more, it would be last longer.
Or you can make it elevated slash underground, maybe both.
That would cost you three points.
It'll it'll put your Fort in a tree or in a cave and it adds
three hit points. You can give it weapons.
You can have any weapons you want.
They can be water balloons, slingshots, snowballs in summer,
whatever. Who cares?
That costs five points and then it gives you the various attacks
that your your kid can make a direct attack against a danger
with a + 2 modifier. So use A2 bonus points, and you
can also add one hit point to your 4th, but that one cost 5.
It's your most expensive one. Last two, you have an alarm
system. So once per game the you can act
first on a turn instead of waiting to be attacked and it
gives you one hit point and then you have electricity which cost
2 Fort points. Your Fort has electricity now
and you can do whatever you want with it and it gives you two hit
points so you can discuss those to your heart's consent and
figure out what you want to do. I can pass the seat around so
you can see the the things on here, but that's what you're
dealing with for building your Fort.
I like. I like the idea of defense.
Yeah, I think weapons, secret room to shoot the weapons from
and electricity for when we're just hanging out.
Can you play that video game with the kid with the mustache?
If you put electricity in there too.
He's a man with. The mustache.
He's a man, yeah. If you put electricity in there,
anything that requires electricity can be utilized
however you see fit. You can put games in there, you
can shoot it at people, whatever you want to.
Do put it in a tree so it's a tree for it or is that gonna?
Take. I like the idea of having a tree
for. It.
Yeah, what's the point of before if it's not a tree for?
It, yeah, you can make it elevated so it's in the tree
was. A yard for it.
So that'd be, that'd be half of our points with the.
So yeah, the weapons are five and the two would after the tree
is. Our weapons 50 That'd be
everything, yeah. So fortified, elevated and
armed. There you go.
So. Wait, so fortified, elevated in
arm, that mean we forego the electricity?
That means we wouldn't have electricity.
You're understanding that correctly.
Correct, yes. You can't play master system.
In the forest we. Don't have power, guys.
I mean, yeah, wait, yeah, I like that.
Yeah, it kind of sucks, cuz electricity and defense both
sound cool. I know, I know, Defense is the
smart thing. But electricity is like, the fun
thing. I'm having trouble choosing
between like, fun. We can't smart.
Yeah, we can't put a T. V And watch Gonzo's dance.
Weird video. Yeah, sick reference.
Gross. You can You can use like TV as
defense though, right? You throw it at people.
Yeah, shirts like you throw a TV in the bathtub, it'll look.
Someone on TV I saw one time it started a fire.
Yeah, I saw an episode of Magnum Pi where he did that.
It was. Cool.
Yeah. What about the weapons?
Like what kind? I like the snowballs.
Those are examples. You can pick any weapons you
want within reason, anything childhoodish.
How about ET Atari cartridges? Like those are too expensive.
I heard they buried those. Somewhere.
No, my, no. My uncle has a bunch of them.
We used to work at a landfill and they just found a bunch in
the ground and now I just have a box full of ET cartridges.
I. Heard that story.
I wonder if they. Make excellent projectiles.
I bet you're in the future. They'll make technology so that
you can find out if, like, rumors are true and stuff.
That'll be cool. Yeah, I think tennis.
Balls would be good. Tennis balls, Because if we
throw the tennis balls, it'll hurt them if it hits them, but
also it might attract dogs that can come in and attack.
Our. People that were fighting.
Molly thought like 3 steps ahead of this.
Was there tennis balls that were covered in snow?
So that's. Like.
So you get all the benefits of. Snow in the summer.
You crushed ice from the freezer.
Are you gonna? Do that.
I could. I did it right.
I'll go do it right now. OK, hold on.
Wait, wait. One of your stats again.
Thank feet. OK, OK.
This is a deuce that you're doing a thing and that's four.
I just ran into this house in the crush of my son.
Yeah, go go see. I want to see if you can do
that. Can you roll A6 sided die for
me? But whatever you get, you can
add 4 to oh. OK, I have two.
That's the 6th, which is the highest you can get,
technically. So you go in the house, you blow
past Knox's mom, you go right to the freezer.
You're just crushing a whole bunch of ice.
Like it's your job to do it picking.
That ice. So, so Gonzo was preoccupied
making snowballs out of ice in the house.
Molly got a bunch of tennis balls for your weapons.
Five ET cartridges. Whole pile of ET. 2600 ET
cartridges. So we definitely are spending
five points on weapons, which, as I understand it, are crushed
up ice balls, tennis balls and a collection of ET cartridges.
And I had a note here. Sure, I While everyone was doing
this, I was slipping through the Nancy Reagan magazine.
And. I gave myself like a paper cut
and I realized, like these like pages of this magazine are like,
they're pretty like. They're pretty thin, like pretty
sharp. We can make paper airplanes and
throw them that might. Hurt you, Reagan airplanes.
If people open it up and look at it, that might disturb them.
How? Many pages on AD.
Does the magazine have like, what, 50?
That seems great. I just started to give you guys
ammo. No, man, I think it's like 100
and. 20. Yeah, for a magazine.
Yeah, Fact Checker. What the $7.00?
Big Magazine. You know what?
If it's above 10, I'm not counting it.
The magazine is infinite for all I care.
So we've got I used to got a wardrobe of an ET cartridge,
Nancy Reagan airplanes, and 10 that tennis balls.
I'm liking the weapon situation. So you saw five, four points
left. I know there's a debate between
your electricity and your defense.
Elevation. What do you think?
We can like we can hide if we are up in the tree, but.
It's really fun to be able to do stuff with electricity.
Or we could get or we could get Nakas NES and play the Goonies
2. I think the elevation was a
given, right? Like, I think it's the defense
and the electricity that are. Yeah.
Cost. The same elevation would cost
you 3, so that would leave you the two points left.
So it's whether we want to 4:00 to 5:00.
I mean, to me, it's a Fort, so it's already kind of fortified,
you know what I mean? By definition.
OK, I need some kind of electronic stimulation.
OK? I'm not good at.
I'm not. I'm not good at sports.
And I hate. Listen to you guys talk about
your feelings. I.
Got. Your lame game system.
No, my fault. You're bad at Goonies too.
Okay, this is an Alex kid. Just buy me.
A bike You can have my Nintendo. Okay, so your Ford is armed with
weapons. It is now elevated so it can be
in a tree, and it has electricity so you can play
master system and whatever else you want to do with electricity.
So go ahead and enjoy your Fort. What's going on there?
What? What kid Things you would do in
a Fort now that you have all these things.
Let's say it took you all day to do that and we're having a
little sleepover. We have a TV in there, a boy,
girl sleeping. You have a TV in there.
Poof. There it is.
You have electricity. Do we have like a window in the
Fort? Sure you have a window?
Poof, You have a window of. Course we do.
You're all geniuses. Cool.
I'm gonna like, sit like in the window.
Oh, like in the window. So yeah, like.
Looking out at the world. Like now that I have this four,
I just want to look out at the world.
You want to get some binoculars and look at Ronnie Mccreary's
sister. OK.
That broke me. Hey, Rusty, can you roll a feel
for me? Can I roll a feel?
Yeah. To see if your binoculars hell
so rusty. Your feel is 0.
So you OK, you get your binoculars out and you can
pretty much see her like it's like a little blurry, but like
you get the idea she she's currently not doing anything in
scandalous. She's just in her room listening
to Madonna records. But but you can see her like her
windows open, the lights on, curtains drawn, all that fun
stuff. Should, should we've been doing
this? Should you be looking at her
when she doesn't know? Do.
You think she could ever fall for someone with a master
system? She's so pretty.
Oh my God. No way.
You think she could?
Never. Her dad would never let her
marry someone with a master system, no.
Way. Definitely not.
These are the biggest 12 year olds she's.
Too classy for that. Holly, what are you up to?
You know that she's. Friends with my older sister and
I'm going to tell. I swear to God, if you do that,
I'm going to throw your stupid tennis balls.
You. Know what?
She'll probably beat you up. And then everybody in school
will make fun of you for being beat up by a girl instead of for
your master's. Sister, hey, you know what?
Pause the drink. You do that, I'm going to tell
you about. Last winter at the winter
concert when you played your two but too hard and you peed
yourself. OK, I saw you.
I will tell everybody I saw you. I saw you play your note so hard
you peed yourself. Nobody will believe you.
Don't. Just think you're making.
It up. I see everything.
I see every brown no, but a yellow jacket.
Rusty. I can keep a secret if you can
keep a secret. OK, fine and.
I'll give you the rest of my Babe Ruth, the rest of my Babe
Ruth wrapper. Candy wrapper.
I have Twizzlers. Chocolate's stupid. 3 year old
Twizzlers. That's right.
God. So what are you doing in the
Fort? I brought my ice back.
You've. Got all the ice?
What are we gonna throw these bars?
Were you in there the whole time?
Well, we had to match all the ice up they're.
All that melt now. Was it summer?
To throw. Them at Yeah, We have
electricity. We have electricity here.
Yeah. You have a freezer?
Freezer. Yeah.
In the Fort. I put all my snow in the freezer
in the Fort. What do you guys wanna do with
it? You wanna throw it at somebody?
Yeah. We could throw it at cars.
Let's do. It get in trouble.
Let's do it. Yeah, I.
Already did it. Never mind.
Gonza. Roll a do for me.
So you roll the one. But your deuce that is a four.
So you're the five. Which means you definitely hit a
car. You So while you all were
talking, Gonzo opened the window, checked an ice ball out
of it, hit a car, and here's what you all hear.
You hear a loud, like break, it breaks for a while and then you
hear a whoa, I got a crunch sound and then sirens start
going off. Shit.
Man, you'll do anything stupid thing, I tell you.
To do, yeah, probably. So not to alarm Uganda, but the
sirens for some reason are coming closer and closer to your
fore. We need to hide.
We need to hide clear. What?
We're going to hide. We're going to.
Hide in the fork. Hide in the fork.
They can't see us. We can't see them.
They won't. Find.
Something like that. Well, that's true.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK. We're also all going to hide.
I say we go hide behind the septic tank next door.
Next door. They'll never look there.
They'll never find us there. I need everyone to roll a think
roll for me. Well, I'm good at that.
Oh yeah, Rusty put all of his stats in.
Think. You wouldn't guess it based on
how he's been acting so far, but he's at a six and think.
I think about a lot of stuff, and I didn't say it was smart
stuff. Give me your your numbers as you
roll. I roll the 4/3.
I've got a six. OK, so russy got a 4 + 6 to the
10. So russty, where do you want to
hide yours? Works.
OK, we're going to hide in behind Miss Robinson's septic
tank. You are going to hide.
I'm going to hide that Miss Robinson's septic tank.
What was yours, Knocks? I got a. 6:00 You got a six OK
+2, So where do you want to hide?
It'll work. I am gonna hide in the Fort.
I am gonna go behind the fridge in there.
Molly rolled a three, and your thing set as a two, so five, so
that'll work. Where do you want to hide?
I'm climbing up the tree. I want to see what?
Happens. Hell yeah.
And then finally, Rusty, not rusty.
Gonzo rolled a three and your thinks that is A is a one, so
you roll A4. So your hiding spot is going to
be less obvious. Where are you hiding?
Somewhere near the Fort and the tree behind the Fort.
And the tree behind the. Tree behind the tree Fort, yeah.
Great. OK, here's here's what happens.
So the sirens get really, really, really close.
So close, in fact, you could almost say they're in the
backyard. Knox's mom opens the back door
and two police officers and one really weird looking dog are are
are sniffing around in the backyard and you hear one of the
police officers go, OK, so we tracked the trajectory of that
ice thing to hear and I thought it was really weird that ice
came out of the sky. So I figured we have to like
follow the trajectory and I use my little police compass thing
and we got here and as partner goes.
And they they let go of the dog and he starts sniffing around
trying to find who could have done this.
And the dog immediately goes to the back of the tree, which is
where you're hiding Gonzo. And you are the first person
they got a good look at this dog.
But if you were to describe the dog, I don't think you'd call it
a dog. It looks more like a beast, a
beast. And the the beast, it's it's
it's brown like a dog. It's got a big long tail, almost
like a dog. And its face almost looks like
Lionish. It's got like Jackal ears.
It looks fucked up. It's also got a collar on it
names and its name is Fluffy, but it is growling at you,
something ferocious and it's like shaking its mouth.
It's frothing at the mouth. What do you?
Do a run. You run.
OK, give me a do roll. Oh, I definitely run. 4A4 OK, so
that would give you an 8. Where do you run to?
Nowhere particular, just run far.
Away from somewhere else's house.
So. So, yeah.
OK, so you're like, hop a fence and try to get into a other
yard. OK, cool.
You. You do that because I give you a
successful role. The beast is right behind you,
and you three are all hearing Gonzo like leaping over fences,
trying to find anywhere to go. The Beast is like keeping up
with you, but you're avoiding it, that all three of you from
your hiding places can hear and see what's happening.
Yeah, I feel like I've got to get to.
Gonzo. And let's save him, you know.
Sure, but I. Don't want to be caught?
I'm just eating my twistes. Enjoying the show?
I mean, he's me like he should have known.
I didn't mean that when I said we should throw it at the car.
I didn't mean that. You have stupid.
You have to be. Are you kidding?
Gonzo will do anything anybody tells him so.
It's like a switch or. No think you asked me to.
He literally jumped in the dumpster in gym class when
someone told him to jump in the dumpster.
Live on the world building you're doing, Chris.
Yeah. So we've got two people who are
like, he deserved this, and one person who's kind of thinking
about helping him. No, I gotta go after him.
But I'm still kind of worried that I might get caught myself
by like, the police. So I want to go out the window
of the. Fort.
You want to leave the Fort? I want to leave the Fort and go
in Gonzo's direction, but I'm going to try to climb from tree
to tree OK to get there, so I'm going to lean out the window and
try to grab the. Next tree.
Sure, sure. I'm going to have you do a do
roll for that I. Got 3.
Oh, OK, that's that. So you reach your hand out the
window to try and grab the tree. It's a little far.
You're a little short so like you're reaching it's it's it's
like kind of like dingling the leaves a little bit.
You can't quite reach the branch, but you still can see
Gonzo just booking it from house to house still.
So leaving the Fort to go get them might not be in your cards
here. That.
Sucks. I guess I'll sit back down, man.
Well well, Gonzo. No reinforcements are coming and
you're and you're still running. What's what's your next plan?
I'm. Gonna jump a fence at some
point. Yeah, OK.
And then I'm gonna look to see if there's like a somewhere down
below I can. Hide.
Like a like a tunnel or. Sure.
Do do a think roll for me. Uh oh, I think somewhere good
one. Oh, no bro, OK.
So you're you. While you're looking down at the
ground to try and find somewhere to hide, you trip and fall and
face plant onto. The ground Oh no and.
And the beast. Catches.
Someone's got to do something. So that that means you are now
officially in a combat situation with the Beast sans a Fort.
So I'll have you all know each kid has ten hit points, and the
the beast also has ten hit points.
That's how many needed to deal damage on to beat it.
This is super simple. You're going to do a normal
roll, but the beast gets to attack you first Is the problem
because you're on the ground. So do a roll for me to see if
the beast misses you or not and send me your number.
It is five, a five. So the beasts are the three.
So the beasts that go into like bite you and you're on the
ground, you're in pain and you're just kind of like
writhing in pain so much you're rolling back and forth and the
beast bites the dirt. So now it's your tend to do
whatever you can think of. I'm going to punch it in the
nose. Yeah, I don't have to do roll
for me rolling induce that. 3. Plus, your do is A7, so no
matter what the beast did, you were going to hit it.
So you you give him a good bop in the snoot like a shark and
that. You boop.
The dude. Yeah, a successful hit.
That's a two hit points lost for the beast.
Congratulations. So.
So the Beast kind of like stands up and like shakes off like dogs
do with their face. But it looks.
Fucked up. And he looks at you again and
Hannah looks behind you and he's eyeballing the Fort, but he also
knows you're right there, so he's gonna try and turn back
around and try and bite you again.
Just for that. Just for one more try.
So what did you roll for this one?
Oh, free in the last one. Yeah, one more roll for me to
see if you it's a this is avoiding the beast.
Basically roll. The five.
Roll the two so the beast gets another face full the dirt Nice,
so you get one more hit on him. All right.
Take this is coming from Gonzo. 4A4 And the beast gets a 5 so
this So this time you missed the dog.
So the dog kind of do something right?
Exactly. He's like kind of ducking and
weaving. So he's realized attacking this
kid may be a lost cause. I just keep eating dirt so he
turns around and books it back towards the backyard, towards
the forest, which all three of you can see a huge fucked up dog
charging at your Fort. OK, so I'm still like.
In the Fort and I was like sad because I couldn't reach the
tree, but I still I tried to sit down, read, but I couldn't
relax. So I see the beast like coming
back. Can I try to like hit it from
afar with like a snowball? You've got weapons for it.
We've still got, like, all our stuff up there.
Snowballs. Yeah, I've been.
I actually put like a new tray of them in the freezer, so.
I've got like some ready to go, so I want to try to hit the dog
that way. Yeah, really think for me. 6.
Perfect roll. You nail the dog from a distance
so the the ice ball that kind of goes hits him right in the face.
That's two hit points down for him.
Again, he shakes it off, though he's undeterred.
He's gonna start charging towards the front door of the
Fort. Molly or oh, you're heading in a
different house, Rusty. I just remember buying a septic
tank. Yeah, so, so, Molly, you're on
the top of the tree. Any any thoughts as the dog
charges the door? Well, I have some licorice in my
pockets, so I try to see if the dog will want that.
Sure. Yeah.
That's a thinking move for me. Do a little think for me.
You rolled A6 with your thing step, but the dog also rolled A6
with a tie. So what happens in a tie is you
don't lose any hit points, but make it as the beast.
So go ahead and offer him the Twizzlers.
Oh man. All right.
So Hugh, you often the Twizzlers, and he kind of sniffs
at it and like, he bites all three and shakes them like one
of those. Like, you know how dog will
shake a toy to death, But he does that to the Twizzlers.
He doesn't even eat the Twizzlers.
He just destroys the Twizzlers. Yeah, exactly, Russy.
You're behind a septic tank somewhere, but you can hear
growling. You can hear your friend being
chased, you can hear a dog and a hit in the face of the snowball,
and you can hear Molly's disappointment over losing her
Twizzlers. What are you doing in this
situation? So I'm never one to put my neck
on the line for anybody else, but I can't help but to watch.
I watched my friends ones being worthless and eating Twizzlers,
the other ones reading at a time like this, and I've never been
one to care for Gonzo. But it's not his fault that he
doesn't have the ability to make his own decisions and he just
does what anybody tells them. So when someone tells them to
jokingly throw an ice cube. Has a car.
He doesn't processes that so I feel bad.
I almost convinced him to trade his Nintendo for my master
system and it almost worked until his mom got in the way of
capitalism and stop the trade. God damn it.
So what I do is I feel bad and I feel a sense of responsibility.
So I reach into my holster and I pull out a copy of.
The Atari 2600 classic ET and in order to throw the dogs off of
gonzo scent, I crack open the septic tank and and pure sewage
starts to spew out of it and I and I dip the cartridges in pure
sewage to add to their effectiveness.
And then I lob them. I hop over the I hop on top kind
of like hanging over it and I lob them at the dog.
Very elaborate move, OK roll that roll a think for me all.
Right. It's pretty good.
I roll the one. +6 though so you roll the seven, which is great
because the dog rolled the six. We've pretty much have gotten a
fail proof stat on your side which I should consider more.
So you you are chucking reeks The high heaven out here.
The septic tank is open. There are steaming piles of ET
for the Atari hurling straight towards this dog, all of which
hit minus two hit points to the beast.
He's at 4 left. He's in a whimpering outside of
the door, but he will not be the third.
He's going to try and attack your Fort from the front door
here. Now let me just make sure your
forts points correct here, cuz you added the following to it
with your weapons. You have one hit digital hit
point with your. Got your city two.
And with your elevated thing, three, so you added five hit
point. OK, cool, that's elevated.
So he's not going to attack your four.
You're going to start climbing the tree is what he's going to
actually start doing. I start keeping that in mind,
which then again makes it Gonzo's turn.
All right, I'm Where am I? Where am I?
Back in the you you you were at someone's house and the dog ran
away from you. So whatever you want to do from
him, run back to the Fort. Oh, yeah, Friends are OK.
Yeah, great. And you're going to whack the
dog again. He's climbing the tree, so we
want to grab that dog. Absolutely.
He grabbed my. Grab the dog, just throw it off.
The tree. Yeah, yeah.
Roll your feel for me. 5. Great.
Yeah, dog. Will the four.
So you grab it by the tail. What do you do with it?
I just pull it off. The tree it goes, Yep.
And it just like lands on the ground, like a little big thunk.
So it's down to two hit points. The kind of like goes up.
It's seeing tweety birds circle around its head.
These kids are fucked up. But again, it's a fucked up dog.
It deserves it. Do not do this in normal dogs,
only the fucked up ones. Yeah, well, that looks like
lions and jackals. I feel bad because you know, I
had it earlier, but it was a self-defense.
So can I throw a stick? Maybe it'll chase a stick.
You have you do have that option but it is Molly's term and she's
in the one in the tree I'm. Impulsive so?
You're good, You're good. I like the impulse, but it's a
good idea for someone who may be started by tree branches if she
wants to do that. Well, actually I'm going to jump
into the the roof made of sheets.
Great. Yeah.
So I'm going to, I'm going to drop in through there and grab
the tennis balls. Oh yeah, that's for a dog, of
course. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna hit him
with the first one maybe or try to try to hit him or maybe he'll
chase him. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw
some a. Couple.
Great. Yeah, do a do, a do for me.
Do the do or as a six and the tog rolls or one.
Great. So you get all those tennis
balls, one gets them right between the eyes.
It's super effective. It's week to tennis and go ahead
and. Yeah, he gets hit between the
eyes and he just kind of like turns around, looks at his
owners, looks at all the tennis balls lying around, and he says
in English, I retire his roles in the tennis balls.
Has a great time. Congratulations, you defeated
the Beast. Yeah, we saved you, Gonzo.
Wherever you are, Gonzo so So the two police officers are also
still there and they kind of look at each other.
And one says to the other, I think we've got our guys,
they're throwing a lot of stuff at our dog, which I'm pretty
sure is a crime to hit a police dog.
And his partner goes and he's OK.
Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go to the Fort now
and I'm going to see if we can arrest ourselves, some kids.
And then we're going to get medals for being cool.
And then the other one goes, so. He comes up and knocks on their
fort's front door. How do you react?
We say nobody's home. Are you sure?
This sounds like someone's home normally.
We say what's the password? The.
Police officer turns around, looks at his partner, His
partner shrugs and he goes. Is it?
Is it ET? No what?
The fuck the the password is. Come back when you have a
warrant. My uncle's a lawyer, you fucking
pigs. OK, come back when you have a
warrant. My uncle's a lawyer.
You. Have six to think.
Trade. OK, my grandpa's a lawyer.
My uncle's a lawyer. I watch Madlock.
So the officer walks back to the other police officers.
Like, dude, they're not coming out.
I don't know what to do in the situation.
So the other police officer, kind of like Pat's partner on
the shoulder, it says, looks like I'm going to have to turn
into that thing. And the other police obviously
goes, oh shit, you're going to do that.
It's like, yeah, yeah, I think I have to.
The other police officer takes off his hat.
And what you guys didn't notice about this police officer was
you couldn't see any iota of like his skin or body or
anything. He is in like the long sleeved
version of the police uniform. He's got like a headscarf.
He's been wearing things over his face.
So he starts taking his hat and his face scarf off.
And you see that's not a police officer man at all, but it's
rather a big entity of smoke. It looks like a shadow creature
and he starts slithering towards your Fort.
Like a shadowy snake. Do something not crap.
This is. Play a clarinet melody for it.
This is the shadow. Show it your NES Collection of
Terrible Movie games. I do have my clarinet with me.
I could try to charm it. Charm the shadow.
It. Well, you said it's like a
shadowy snake, right? Yeah, it's like slithering.
Yeah, he that's the best way I could describe it, yes.
But this is a this is a shadowy entity.
He's smoke. Imagine, like the bad guy from
Fern, Gubby. Kind of a situation.
Oh. Yeah, OK so I'm gonna try to
lean out the window with my clarinet and I am pretty good
cuz I was just practicing this a lot cuz the school year like
just ended. And I'm gonna play Does that one
snake charm worth song? OK, roll the feel for me.
I roll the. Three.
Roll the three. What's your feel stat?
306 OK, so yeah, so the the the shadow is coming up to the Fort.
You were now playing that famous snake charm song we all know so
well on the clarinet. On the clarinet and.
He he hears it, he likes it. That's his favorite song.
So he starts like kind of rising up, but he's getting closer to
you to see. That's what the snake charm song
does, made the snake go straight up.
It gets closer to the player. So if anything, you've made it
so he's not going to attack you, but he sure isn't in closer to
all of you. OK, and I'm like, I'm like
holding my clear net and I'm playing like, but like, I have
to keep playing. So I'm like trying to
communicate to you guys. I'm like, God, I can't stop
playing. So you got him distracted, so
now is your chance to do something to him, as long as
you're not the one playing the clarinet.
Any brave volunteers to fight a shadow policeman?
I will come in. Great.
What's your plan? So I'm not a very strong child.
Nor am I a very empathetic child.
I come from a long line of lawyers.
My grandpa's a lawyer. My grandpa's busty Ferguson.
Busty. And we also we obviously live in
a small town where cops get medals for arresting children.
Because there's. Nothing else to do in a small
town, but arrest kids doing things they shouldn't be doing.
So I gently remind the Cloud Beast that my grandfather is a
great law checker of the land and is a great donor to the
local law enforcement. And might he forget this
embarrassing shit coverage? Shitty Atari mess?
Maybe my grandfather would be pleased.
Can you roll a feel for me? A feel?
Yeah, OK. 66 OK, well, unfortunately your your your
your feel is a 0. The shadow tied a few.
But here's the thing. Whenever the monster in this
game rolls a six, something has to happen to you guys, even if
it's a tie. So the shadow, Because you're
the six. The contesting kid succumbs to
the crushing sorrow of adulthood and takes a -, 2 penalties to
all dice rolls for the remainder of the game.
So you are reminding him that your uncle you said what is a
lawyer? My grandpa, Your grandpa.
I come from lawyers. A whole lawyer family.
The shadow kind of like gets up close to you and whispers in
your ear and says shadows are above the law.
And all of a sudden, in your mind, you see the future.
You see mortgages, you see car payments, you see, you see
marriages, divorces. You see kids, you see child
support. It's all there in your mind.
You're stressed out about the future.
You're only 12 or 11, whatever you are.
So all of your roles from this point forward are like a -, 2
inch. Yeah, so Rusty's currently
having an existential crisis over the fact that he can't play
the lawyer card. Doesn't work in the shadow
people. Which brings us to Molly This.
Is one of those cocktails? Yeah.
All right, well, I can't hit a guy made out of smoke.
Would be difficult. It's false.
It would be difficult. Do anything?
So I'm gonna play Christmas music on my tuba.
Oh wow. Because people always run away.
It's July. It's July, Molly.
Yeah, that's right. It's wrong.
You can tell Rusty's lost his childhood whimsy because he's
it's. All right, Rusty, I'm gonna save
you with the horrible tuba of Christmas.
You still gotta roll a feel for me.
OK, anything of instruments I've deemed as feel rolls I.
Can I can only roll for? It.
So that was a six. But bad news, The Shadow also
rolled A6 again. So the shadow is actually going
to do a little bit of damage to you.
So he's going to go into your tuba and instead of Christmas
music, all of a sudden it's playing like, oh what?
What's the terrible thing? Is, well, greatest hits.
There you go. So Laura smells great.
It says out of your tuba start emitting and then the he pops
back out of the tuba and he says in 20 years this will be your
favorite. So so he's made the tuba playing
music you no longer enjoy. You have a -, 2 sat on your
future rules. The shadow is yet to be hurt
gonzo. We've got one guy preoccupied of
the clarinet song, one guy going through a mortgage crisis in his
mind. Your your, your gal pal here is
now playing awful tube of music into the Christmas music and
dealing with the fact that one day she'll like that.
So it's on you now, buddy. Can I take my big symbol thing?
You can try to smash Is he a real?
Shadow made of smoke, maybe I can use it to like.
Like, fan it away. Yeah, let's try it.
Why not? Yeah.
Do do a feel for me again. If it's a music, it's a feel.
One that's a two hero. The four so the ties from
earlier didn't do damage this one does.
So when you try to smash them with your cymbals to blow them
away, he weaves through the cymbals, appears in front of
you, grabs the cymbals, and does the Daffy Duck thing on your
head. So you lose two hit points for
that. So I believe it brings it down
to 8. All right, Snake Charmer, I
don't think he's charmed anymore.
Yeah, OK. I thought playing the clarinet
was the answer because I thought that I could keep this thing
calm and immobile, but clearly it still can do a lot of stuff
because it's fucking up all my friends.
So I am going to stop playing the Snake Charmer song and I
want to. I want to make an appeal to to
feel is what. I'm going to call this.
I'm going to say hey. Big ugly shadow smoke cloud
thing. You think you can come in here
and you can mess with my friends?
No way. My friends tried to show you the
power of of symbols and and of Christmas.
The magic of Christmas. And the magic of lawyers and and
maybe you didn't get it. Maybe you didn't get it.
But let me tell you the greatest magic of all.
Is friendship. And that's what we have.
Damn. And that's what you'll never
have. And that's why you're gonna roll
away from our Fort forever now. Damn.
OK, well for the All right, sure, why not roll roll your
feel for me. Since you made an appeal to
feel. Yeah, the new song from the
maybe 4. I got. 6A6 A perfect role.
OK, you know what? Because the speech is so
powerful, I feel like it would be narratively.
Dangerous for me to keep the rules intact.
So OK, that fucking works. Like I don't know what Naruto
power you chimed into with your power of friendship shit, but
that that smoke cloud is like, what the is.
It starts glowing white everywhere.
He starts fizzling in the sunlight even though it's a
night time and that dude is gone.
Vaporize from existence. Because that's the move the
narrative demanded. Sometimes you have to know more
than the sheet you know, and that just leaves one dog rolling
in tennis balls. One police officer, I presume
dead because he evaporated. But he was a shadow entity, so
whatever. And that leaves our last guy.
He goes, Bud, you good? You you did you get him?
I'm going to, I'm going to come in.
So he like, kind of, like, haphazardly opens your door and
he sees the very last moment when like the the the darks of
the shadows eyes vanished forever.
He's like oh oh oh shit. Oh God.
OK, you are all really under arrest.
You you hurt my dog. You killed my partner.
I I've got some big issues with that.
So he's going to like reach into his back pocket as hard to try
and pull out a gun. But what it actually is, is he's
not really just a police officer.
See, this police officer has a side gig, something he does on
weekends to help pay for some things.
And sometimes he brings the stuff from his other job to this
job on accident. So instead of a gun, he pulls
out a clown horn. Your final boss is.
The clown. No, no.
So he honks the horn and almost like magic, like white face
paint appears on him. You hear that?
Like sinister carnival music. In the background he counted as
like a Sailor Moon transformation sequence where he
looks like a fusion between a cop and a clown.
And he goes, come on kids, time to play.
That's spooky as fuck. What do you do?
My throat kind of hurts from saying all that stuff.
Does anyone have any new Coke? Actually, you do a new Coke in
your inventory. I have a little bit left, if you
don't mind. Jungle Coke.
Yeah, you like share coke?
I can waterfall it. Drink out of a glass.
Sorry. Been drinking out of.
Waterfall boring you? Just don't touch your mouth.
Oh yeah, like this. What a great thing to do with
this audio format. Thank you for this thing.
Quote quote. Do we still have those tennis
balls covered in ice? Yeah.
You have the ice, the tennis balls.
Freeze the tennis balls. Although in hindsight, that'd be
a great idea, yeah. Frozen tennis balls, yeah.
So. You missed.
The tennis balls are surrounding the dog who's just having a
great time. You still have the, the, the,
the freezer. You still have Rusty's wardrobe
full of ET cartridges and you have the Nancy Reagan paper
airplane option as your far as your weapons go.
You also have your bodies. So it's it's a clown and a cop
rolled into one. The ultimate evil.
What do? Clowns.
NOT like. I think I have an idea.
OK. We tried the musical route and
these cops weren't really into our.
Our beautiful music. They didn't like the Snake
Charmer song. They don't like Christmas music.
They're not in the classical. But I know old man Dino Horowitz
once told me cops only like 2 things Donuts in America.
So maybe we're just playing the wrong music.
It's a small patriotic town. We love the Gipper.
That's why we That's why we have the Reagan Magazine.
So my so my cousin Tony taught me this song.
So I go and I try and reason to the clown cop and I go, hey,
look, I know it doesn't look good, OK?
We we we broke, we broke someone's windshield.
I I threw some I dipped some shitty games and literal shit
and threw them at your dog. That's.
Why you did do that? You're obviously not a fan of
the finer arts, but look what I can do.
And I pull out my trombone and I start playing Bruce
Springsteen's Born in the USA. You know what?
Roll whatever you want, Chris, OK?
I'm going to say it's a field rule, but I feel pretty good
about your chances. I'll just say that, oh, the
five. I'll let the clown roll the one.
So you start playing Born in the USA.
The the trombone version. The the clown takes two hit
points of damage. And if I'm a Democrat, Oh no,
but it does hurt him because you've succeeded in the role.
We got the one Democrat in a small town.
I get beaten up every day. All right, Gonzo, you're up.
So you. Think I'm gonna add maybe some
symbols. Some Max Weinberg X symbols,
Yeah. To born in the USA, yeah.
Roll your feel for me. Yeah, just.
Starts adding to my symbol. Of finale.
Oh my God. Yeah, Five got him.
So you're gonna put a whole orchestral version of the song
at this rate? So you start doing the symbols
on him and and and and she's like, Oh my ear, it's so damn
loud. And he loses 2 more hit points.
Molly, you're up. Well, I decide to grab him by
his hair because whenever I'm fighting with my sister and she
pulls my hair. She always wins.
Right. Great.
When I pull the clown chance to do roll, for me, it's all the
same number for you. That's OK.
I got to roll the four. So it's a tie.
So you're going to pull his hair and but really he's going to go
like it's a wig. So this comes right off.
He's a clown, you know, no damage done, but you don't get
hurt either. New coke of Knox over here,
freshly reinvigorated. Yeah, I have been sitting here
sipping on a new Coke trying to get.
The bearings together and I I'm thinking about what the clown
said about being a Democrat and everything.
And I'm looking at the magazine and I'm remembering those like
razor sharp, like pages. And I start tearing out like
pages from the magazine and making paper airplanes and I'm
going to throw one of those out of the window and I'm hoping
that like the clown will like see.
Like Nancy Reagan. Like, I've designed it so Nancy
Reagan's like, right on the top of the plane.
So the clown will be like, really shocked when like.
Feel like run out of the Fort, basically.
I'm like launching it straight at the clown's face, OK and but
then like, I'm hoping like I'll catch the clown off guard and
they stab the clown with the plane.
OK. Great roll, really think roll
for me. There's a lot of thinking that I
go into that. I got 4. +2 is a six, so the
clown rolled the two. So Oh my God, Nancy Reagan
coming in hot like a well, like Nancy Reagan and just like
sailing right towards the clown's face and it scratches
him right in the white makeup part and say, oh why couldn't it
hit my big red lips so no one could see.
Now I have a big scar, so he loses 2 more hit points and here
they do a number on him. You're back back to you, Rusty.
Oh boy. I'm.
I'm.
Thinking back to my experiences talking to old man Dino
Horowitz, and in addition to telling me that cops love Donuts
in America, you said anybody that don't love the Gipper and
his beautiful wife is probably gosh darn commie.
Small town in 1980. 8 So I'm also a fan of Shostakovich.
And I decided to play the Soviet Union.
National Anthem on the Trumpet. And try to plead to his commie
commie ways. Great commie Democrat, all
right, as old Dina Horowitz says.
Well, you know what, I need to do a music role.
That's that's that's feel. It won.
Oh, that's a that's a flop. He also rolled the one.
OK, so it's a tie. So he's like, you played a song
to appeal to my interest. Why are you mad about that?
I am. A come I am a Russian spy.
It's the 80s. I'm a Russian clown cop.
I'm a sleeper age. Still the just technically still
the cold. I'm the Manchurian Clown, so the
the clown gets an opportunity to attack you since he didn't get
wiped out by you just yet. So the the clown is going to
pull out. He's going to step outside of
the Fort for like a minute. He's going to wheel in a big,
huge, colorful cannon and he's going to kind of point it up
towards the tree at your Fort is I'm going to knock your Fort out
your pieces of the shit. Kids, I'm so sick of this.
I have a limited authority to do whatever I want.
I'm above the law, so I need, oh God, I need everyone to roll.
Door Do stat 255133 What's your do?
Modifier Knocks A11. Congratulations, everyone
successfully avoids cannon fire because the clown rolled A1.
I could not get this time to roll anything good.
The Shadow Lethal. The clown of Fool.
What final cause is this? So instead of hitting the Fort.
The the clown lights it. He puts his fingers in his ears
that could see in the cartoons and Looney Tunes, and the dog
springs up, is excited to see the candidates, his favorite
thing. He jumps on it, spins it
completely around, and the cannon hits the clown.
It's a very Looney Tunes town. So he's on the ropes.
He's, you know, he's got the smoke face going on.
He blinks his eyes open. He's like, oh, what happened,
what happened? If anyone lands a hit on him,
he's toast. And I believe it's your turn,
Gonzo. All right, well you know, my
parents named me Gonzo cuz they like The Muppets and they like
this weird. Writer.
That wrote some books and stuff, and I tried to watch or read a
book about it, and there's something about bats and stuff.
And the bat country. And I saw that there was some
bats up in the tree and and so so I I, I I started to use my
things and I wave them to get the bats.
To go on the your symbols. OK, so we're going for a bat
attack. Bat attack.
All your do staff for me. One.
Jesus Christ. Well you're due as a four as you
may recall. And I rolled A2.
Oh yeah, so. Death by bats have you.
I, I, I've referenced this movie on the show before but who here
has seen we're back a dinosaur story.
Anyone. Just we're back.
Great. So we're back.
Yeah. Yeah.
So this might, you know, the end of that movie with that guy gets
eaten by a bunch of crows and his eye kind of falls on the
ground. That's what happens here.
But it's bats. So a whole bunch of bats swarm
the clown don't make a sound and they all fly off the clown and
all this left is a big Red Nose. Congratulations.
You have defeated the Beast, the Shadow and the Clown.
All three monsters knocks your mom walks out.
What is your mom's name for me? Oh, so her name is Layla.
Layla Like, like the song? Yeah, Layla.
Mela walks on out and she sees. A cannon she sees a clown nose,
she sees a dog rolling around, and she goes, I whatever.
She goes back in the house. Congratulations, children.
You have defended your innocence for a whole other summer.
Take this opportunity to unwind. Talk about what just happened
here tonight. Do.
We get to keep the cannon. You can keep the cannon, Rainbow
cannon. You can keep the rainbow clown
cannon I like. It no one will ever get our Fort
now because we have a cannon. We should we should practice
like a band in the Fort. That would be fun.
Yeah. We can play Christmas song.
It's. Summer vacation?
What are you, a dork? It's time to play Master System.
Play some Def Leppard tunes. Music is for class that picks up
my trombon because I thought it would Get Me Out of jail.
I thought you were 12. Yeah, we're in a small town, 12
fields go to jail. Of course.
So the band place. Together they play some Def
Leppard or something. The the the the moon sets, the
sun rises and you will have a most excellent summer before I
presume 8th grade. Given your ages and
congratulations the maybe for you have successfully beat
summer break. Thank you all for playing this
one. A summer break is by Joey
Barranco. It's not available online yet to
buy it in a book that I'll provide a link to, but it's a
great little thing with a bunch of mini RPGs in it.
Thank you all again for playing this and this is a lot of fun.
Very cool.