Welcome to the Horizon 2.4: A Business Meeting

[Music] Hey, thanks fellas. Alright, pretty fancy.

“Hey, they're a little guy. What's your name?”

Sorry, just trying to say hello.

Oh, hey there. Good evening. Please enjoy a beverage. Alright, well, well, thank you very much. Let me know if you need anything else. I will.

Not bad. Good evening. I hope you haven't been waiting too long. No, no, I just walked in. I don't get here to raxy as very often.

So when I do, I have all sorts of messes to clear up when I arrive. I'm sure you understand. Of course. I've seen you've gotten a drink. Wonderful.

Pretty cool robot.

Yes, you know, my employer and I.

We go back and forth on this. He prefers to work with organic assets,

“but I found robots to be much more reliable.”

Limited and scope. Sure, but much less room for air. Do you ever use them? Oh, me? No, no, no.

It's the upkeep for me, right? Oh, oh, here you. Right? The maintenance costs are considerable. Steve, is it?

That's me. I'm glad we're meeting. I'm not saying. I really enjoy what you've put together up in the mountains. It's exactly what raxious needs.

I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of it. A mountain get away, of course, and making it immersive in the earth experience. Really, that's a stroke of genius. Thank you.

“So, I don't know how keyed into things you are up in the mountains,”

but raxious is due for some reorganization these days. It's such a mess. I really wanted to put together some meetings with local entrepreneurs, not just anyone. One's who are doing it right.

I don't want to meet with the people and find a way forward for this whole city. Really, for the whole quadrant, we you understand. Yeah, I'll admit it's pretty crazy around here. Too crazy.

It wasn't always this way.

The city was at its strongest when it was controlled by a single entity. These days, all these gang factions. Can you even keep track of them? I'm very confused by it. I've got a map up here I'm working on.

But then the territory changes every day. I don't know how people do business in this chaos. Look, I've got post-master general quantum north controlling the ports. By row, the mother of Fuggin, dragon controlling the chemical pits. Just the other day a new and popped up controlling the flopped ends.

Ghost, blade, hide a lawn, seriously. Where do they get these names? Then in the middle of all that, the worst of them all. Felicia added that about a hundred minor players. How am I supposed to do business?

It is a miracle you can get anything done. It really is. Anyway, I could go on all day, but that's not what I want this meeting to be about. I hope you have some spare time this evening. I'd love for us to meet some people.

Make a few stops. How? Sounds great. Wonderful. These are my associates, slugga and Francis.

Hey, man. How you doing? Hey. How y'all doing? Boys.

Steve and myself are going to be taking some meetings across the city today. Let's make the arrangements. No problem, boss. Oh, my god, you have to forgive me. I've been so excited about this meeting that I didn't even introduce myself.

Yeah, don't worry about it. My name's Mensky.

[music playing] [music playing] Wow. Yeah? That was intense.

Huh?

“I can't believe Darth Vader was his father.”

Yeah. Yeah. It's surprising.

And there's so much going on in this story emotionally.

So much. And oh, my god, Yoda. Yoda. Amazing character. Yeah.

Yeah, I figured you'd like him. Oh, my god. What? Luke lost his arm. I mean, just like life did.

But he lost his hands. Yeah. Still. There's a big difference between an arm and a hand.

“And it was replaced by a mechanical thing.”

Okay. Wow.

Maybe we don't have to read that much into it.

Yeah, I don't know. Frank, there are a lot of parallels. Ah. Trinket. The wheels are going to come right off this wagon as soon as you meet the he walks.

Who are the he walks? No. You'll see. Is there any tea left? Yeah, sure.

I don't know, but the tea tastes better. Good. What did you put in it? No. Nothing.

You're just getting used to it. That this place is going to be different. The planet? We're on. Yes.

We've stopped at two places thus far.

“This is our third, but this place will be different from the others, I think.”

Yeah. Well, Steve has turned us into an alien theme park. So it's definitely going to be different. The last two stops were just pre-ambles. It's like we needed time to get used to everything.

And now that we are, there's a whole lot going on out there. I think we're on a mission, Frank. I really do. We're pretty new at this, but we've stepped into something very, very old. We're going to need to be ready.

Ready, how? Well, I don't know. Yeah. I know how frustrating that is. It's pretty frustrating.

We need to be ready. That's how I feel. Trinket? I don't want to get ready for anything. I know.

What? You never drink the tea. No. Why? Well, I really shouldn't.

God damn it. What? God damn it. Trinket? What?

What? Is in the tea? Trinket? Mandric. Mm-hmm.

What is that?

Well, first of all, before we get into this, I started offering you tea, which is a ridiculous thing to offer you.

And you started drinking it without much protest. And I think that's a real victory. Hmm. Triggered? I've got a lot of stuff in here, as you can see, you know, lots of jars and bottles, lots of loxons and poxons.

Ooh, lox it to boog and.

There is nothing more powerful than Mandrake.

It's basically poison. Poison. Yeah. I have to handle it with gloves. I mean, it's intense.

So I... I've been... I've been... How long have I been drinking this? For a while.

It's poison. Look for people. Sure. What is it doing to me? I mean, you look forward to drinking it, right?

You... you complain about it, but you stop drinking coffee in the morning and now you drink this.

You come by every morning. Okay. Okay. Then I'm going back to coffee. Now, you know, you know, in the morning, I get up and I say.

As the earth holds me, as this guy sees me, as a sunrise is within me, I step out and greet the day. Well, the earth isn't here anymore. Okay. The sky is a different sky. And that's not the sun that any of us grew up with.

So, so how do I get my bearings? Do you... do you know? No.

“How much of the stuff I do revolves around the moon?”

Well, the moon's gone. But... But I gave you Mandrake root T. And you really loved it. Yeah, I don't see what that proves.

Okay. Mandrake is connected to the oldest parts of the universe. We all the way back to the beginning. But I don't know what you are, Frank. But turns out you're connected to that as well.

You're of the same stuff. You and that poison is root. And so, of course you like it. I was worried that I was going to lose my bearings so far away from my centers of power. But right when I get too worried, the Eldridge forces give me a little ass pat and say you're doing a great job, kiddo.

Eldridge forces. Right. I have now officially spent too much time with you. Oh, come on. Oh, come on.

I've been drinking poison.

“Again, poison for someone else, not you.”

I really need less of our conversations to go this way. I know. And I need you to tell me next time you're feeding me poison. I will. Okay.

So let's operate in a way that sounds less like an onion song. Okay. Frank, do you remember when we had a whole conversation about a comet, heading for the Earth and you thought I was crazy? Yes.

Okay. I want you to know that I really apologize for us being in a place where I'm right all the time. That has yet to be established. Something is coming and we need to be ready. And one of the things I've been doing to get us ready is to make you the tea.

The poisonous tea. Frank, everything's poisonous to somebody. This isn't poison for you. I hate this so much. Drink it.

I know. I want to read the paper in the morning and do whatever needs doing all day. Then, then watch the trailblazers make some stupid mistakes. Have a beer. Go to sleep.

“Well, the only thing missing from that list is the trailblazers.”

Frank. Well, and sleep because you don't do that anymore. I want to live on a quiet mountain. Well, it's quiet sometimes. Where there's not freaking spaceships flying over him.

I am not in charge of the universe, Frank. Stop giving me poisonous tea. Fine. Fine. Fine.

Wave and verge are waiting for you over at the sheep's eye. You would stop doing that. Stop doing that thing. Stop telling me things that are happening.

Don't always ask me about what's happening.

I want you to stop now. Fine. Fine. I have to go.

[Music] Whoo! Sleep right. It'll do. I have a much better hover lounge in my ship, but I don't like to bring it down here.

There's a certain crime that this city puts on things. I don't like to sell me my finer things when I come here. Whoo! Hey. What was that?

Don't worry about it. So, I feel like you haven't seen a lot of the city with you being all the way out in the mountains. There's some people I'd love for you to meet. Yeah. Sounds great.

I find that the people here in Raxias are very resistant to new ideas. Has that been your experience? Constantly.

“How many people told you you were crazy for setting up Earthland?”

You know, they're always calling me crazy, but hey, look at me.

I'm here in this fine vehicle with you. How crazy am I now? I'd like that attitude. You can't pay attention to Naysayers. Exactly.

You know what? I'm going to take a few business meetings while we're out. I'd love for you to sit in. I really appreciate your perspective. Hey, I'd love to help out however I can.

Lovely. Slut up. Let's swing by land of feelings. You got it, boss. Let's have some drinks.

Shall we? I thought you'd never ask. So, that entire time you told no one about your history as a criminal. Not the whole time. It was easy at first.

The first it was just me and this guy Casper. Casper didn't ask a lot of questions. And then Ava came along and she asked a lot of questions. But luckily, she ignores you if she thinks you're an idiot. Maybe the muckel wins new.

But I never said anything.

And then there was Gloria. And that's when things started to change. Change her. I don't know. It was nice.

It started to feel like home kind of. Then an older version of me showed up and tried to get me to leave. And then an even older version of me showed up and Ava started asking questions. And even then I didn't tell her the whole story. Then we encountered this wreck of an old sygian ship.

And I had to sit there and act like I didn't know what sygius was. So I was working my way up to telling them everything. But then we were raided by the teds and I had to threaten them with a purple nullifier. At that point, everybody started to get pretty suspicious. What was the ship?

The ship? I don't know. I barely recognized it. It was really old, pre-warped game. If the ship's AI hadn't said it was from sygius, I probably wouldn't have known.

The AI survived. Yeah. Some sort of system called a boofar system. Yeah. What?

“You don't remember the name of the ship?”

No. What? I need you to tell me, literally, anything else you can remember about this ship. Why? It indulged me.

Uh, it was a deep space exploration mission. Uh, Captain's name was like... Sharon Gunger? They're on the younger. Maybe?

Are you fucking kidding me? What? Are you fucking kidding me? What? Are you fucking kidding me?

What? It was the wreck of the fog in late. The sounds familiar. What, Melgen? Why are you freaking out right now?

Maybe because the wreck of the fog would be the most important historical artifact in the history of sygius.

Okay. How was I supposed to know that? Because bird bird. Explain to her. How do you know bird bird explained to me?

“What the fuck do you think she was talking into when she explained it to you?”

bargain day, life. Three intrepid souls, many, many years ago. Fair and younger. Aliacs years. And low and reagan.

Remember those names? At the dawning of the original coalition, they left the planet on a ship called the bargain. It was the first mission of its kind. An open ended one. They were to set out into the Andromeda and send back data on the wider universe and keep doing so until they exhausted all their resources.

They never returned. All right. Please tell me you saved something, anything. The Bufar unit was really damaged, but we did save it. Good.

And then I used it to make an EVA suit.

It was an emergency.

“You are so lucky that I don't have our articulating arms right now.”

Hey, in my defense, she was always leaving me messages like that.

I was basically her diary. I'm supposed to remember all of them? No, just that one. Sorry to disappoint. Hello, what are we yelling about?

Hey, listen. We're actually waiting for someone. Really? It's me, dummy. What?

Oh shit. Yeah. Oh shit. This is my Earth suit. What do you think?

You look great. Very European. I get that a lot. What's going on in Europe? Are people looking stylish and sexy all the time?

In our minds? Yes. Hello. What do you think? It's been an annoying night.

Can we get this over with, please?

Wow, nice to see you too, buddy.

Crash in the party. And it's getting worse. What, uh, what are we talking about? Life's evil twin. His.

What? He's not an evil twin. His what? June. There.

There is an evil version of life out there. Are all of you shitting me? No. Evil twins now. He's not a twin.

Have I died and gone to sci-fi heaven? What is happening? He's me in an alternate universe. Really? Yes.

Okay. Well.

“I think we all know what my next question is going to be.”

No. He doesn't have a goatie. Are you sure? Have you seen him? No.

It could be a goatie. You don't know. Okay. I guess there could be. See?

He's talking about. It's an earth thing.

It's an earth thing for evil people to have goaties.

No. No. No. Don't explain it. You'll ruin it.

I'll give literally anything to have the conversation move forward. Oh, second it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Go ahead. So awesome. Okay. Look. In this universe,

I'm a very bad guy. And we did come very close to letting him know that I'm here. But Elden and I covered our tracks pretty well. Great.

“But even if he didn't, we're still pretty safe from evil life.”

We need a better name for him. No, it doesn't. Why don't I feel safer? It's kind of a contradiction. Anti-leaf.

Stop it. We're in the Iron Quadrant right now. Which is dangerous. But it is safe from the rest of the triad. How?

There's only one warp gate going in and out of the Iron Quadrant. If this other life came through the warp gate, and the ted empire found out they'd park their entire Navy on the other side of the warp gate and wait. Tea all. No.

That doesn't protect us completely. It does not. Negative. You could send proxies. Proxies?

There's a rogue's gallery of shitheads he could send after me. Depending on what approach he wants to take. But that'll only happen if he finds out that there's a new life in town. And again, we've covered our tracks pretty well. Wait.

Everyone. Be here with me. Dark leaf. Congratulations. You found it.

Okay. Okay. So you're telling me that everything's going to be fine. That's what we're telling you. Good.

Good. Good. Good. Good. This is exactly what I want.

People telling me that everything is fine and that I don't have to do anything. More news like this. Please. Okay. Well, um, sure.

We're done with that. I guess permission to go flirt with my girlfriend. Granted. Permission to call Frank a 77 year old man since he turned 25. I'm done too.

Okay. Before we left our origin universe, we were alerted to something very strange. It's here. That painting. This is a painting of making peppercorns.

The founder of what's back in. Making what? I know it's ridiculous. The point isn't the painting, though. It's what's behind it.

Frank, would you mind removing the painting? A hole? A through the hole. Life. What is it?

The one building that has been here since the town's foundation is this one, the sheep's eye. It appears that this entire building was built around a pre-existing metal frame. Wait a minute? Yes, it's what you think it is. That's RVM.

It is. This entire building is built around an RVM frame? It is. It's why we were able to survive a meteor swarm. What the fuck?

RVM is the strongest stuff out there.

But it's almost impossible to manipulate. Almost. Yeah. I know somebody who can though. As do I.

Fucking Earths. Exactly. If you look at the scan of the whole frame on my screen, you can see it has many of the hallmarks of Earth's crassmanship. What the hell are they doing here?

No idea. There's an Earth door at the diner. There is. Yeah, it's in the deep freeze. In your deep freeze, there's an Earth door.

The deep freeze is a dimensional portal to an ice planet. And there's an Earth door there. The what is a what? To a what? I know.

“What's the relationship between these things in the arts?”

No idea. They couldn't have constructed them. No. I don't think so. Okay.

Okay. Let's move this over to Trinkets. Good idea. What does she have to do with this? Before we started traveling.

Trinket had some very vivid visions of the history of this place.

I discounted them at first,

but considering whatever is going on inside of her body, perhaps they wore us another look. Okay. So I go. Talk to Trinket now.

Correct. That's what I'm doing today. Yes. What? Nothing.

This job is way more chilled than my other job. Enjoy. Frank. Are you coming? Oh no.

God no. I've had plenty of Trinket for one night. Thanks. Come with you. She's well versed in the history of this place.

She may be of somehow. Okay.

Frank, what's going on with you, Trinket?

Ah, well, she's been poisoning me. I don't think it's possible to poison you. That hasn't stopped her from trying. Whatever. This will give her the opportunity to address something else.

What? It's about... Celeste. Great. What now?

Hey, did you drink?

“Hey, I hear we're supposed to have a plate-aid at Trinkets?”

Yeah, I guess so. Ah. Let me give my notebook. No book? She's got this little notebook where she writes down interesting things about history.

Well, that's pretty adorable. Turns out, it's like the hottest fucking thing in the world, but don't tell her I said that. Do you know... You being in love is really ruining your mysterious drifter aesthetic. I know.

I'm gonna have to figure out a whole new persona. Okay. Let's go. Talk about me the whole time, please. For you say, sweetie.

Hey, space friend. Did you hear? We're on a special assignment. Oh, do tell. We're going over to Celeste's house.

Okay, why? Elden won't tell us until we get there. Something about privacy or whatever. He's so old fashioned. Right?

I'm getting us to go cups. Slug it up to the next corner and wait. Sure thing was. This meeting is going to be a pickup. I need to get a bit of intelligence before the next meeting.

This is going to be the real dirt fairy. They're an information peddler. Best in the city. Try not to let the smell throw you. But smell?

They use the sewage tunnels under the city to get into a lot of restricted places. So there's a bit of a smell. It doesn't bother me much. It reminds me of home. Right?

Oh, yeah, yeah. I grew up down from a paper mill. So I know all about it. Great. Just go with the flow.

How are things in the city? Words got out the door in town. That's understandable. The locals aren't too happy about it. That's also understandable.

Every time you're in town, everyone speculates that your boss is making a move in the iron quadrant. Why would we want to do that? We have so many relationships here. There's no need to put those at risk. They know that part.

You say that every time you come here, they worry about your employer.

“I've assured my employer that the best way forward in Raxias is to have a mutually beneficial relationship with all parties.”

Seizing a controlling stake in Raxias would cause a lot of chaos and isn't there enough chaos out here already? Is that really true? Of course not. But that's the rumor I need you to circulate. All right.

I can do that. You guys want to get me a heads up before you start burning the city to the ground. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. I think the local bosses here in Raxias will come to their senses. Nobody wants a mess. Excuse me.

Mind if I jump in here? Not at all. Third fairy. This is my associate. Steve.

He's got a very exciting startup just outside of the city.

Nice to meet you.

“First off, let me say the smell hardly bothers me at all.”

Gee. Thanks.

And if it were me, I'd think about circulating the rumor that everything's going to be fine.

And then also circulate the rumor that everything's about to go to hell in a hand basket really. Why is that? Create some confusion out there. You know, some anxiety. If people know how to feel about what's coming,

then they'll have a harder time preparing for it. I like it. Third fairy. Put both out there. Tell half the people were not interested in Raxias.

Then tell the other half that we have every intention of taking over the whole city. That ought to keep him guessing. Okay. If you say so. Please.

Your boss controls everything else in the triad. That's three galaxies all to himself.

“What could he get out of controlling the iron quadrant?”

Yes. It's pretty fascinating.

There's a particular psychology and powerful people, isn't there?

If you have almost everything, that one thing you can't have becomes an obsession. Even if it's something you don't need. Sounds pretty fucked up to me. I think I'll stick to the sewers to each their own. Oh, right.

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She goes into this trans, I guess, where things start talking to her. What things are talking to her? I don't know. Like, household objects are talking to her? I don't think so.

Well, good, because that would be weird. Right? Hey, guys. Welcome back. Lave.

I'm glad you're here. Okay. I want you to know I've been watching Star Wars. Great. So many things going on, but we can talk about it later.

Okay. It's time for us to talk about the mountain. Yeah, we just showed Lave the big metal thing that the sheep's eye is built on top of. Great. So what did you think?

I think it's insane. I have no idea what's going on. That's great. I love that. We figured it was time to talk about that vision you had of the mountain.

Right. Okay. Lave. What do you know about ancient China? Nothing.

Okay. Okay. So, so we discovered this stone tablet in the blade of wishes and it had Chinese characters on it. Weird. According to Elden, they're ancient Chinese a few thousand years ago.

Weirder. I've got the translated message here.

I will finally return from the mountain, though I have changed as much as the land around me.

The mountain will be found again. The mountain will be lost again. Forever. What does that sound like to you? That sounds like a guy who's trapped on a traveling mountain.

Apparently, it was from a guy named Chufu. Chufu is one of those guys who's a combination of history and myth. Apparently, the emperor of China sent him on a quest to find the secret immortality.

Will him the thing about the turtle monster? What? Right.

“Apparently, Chufu set off on his quest, but then he came back and said to the emperor that he needed archers.”

Because there was this big turtle seed monster blocking his way.

And he had to kill it first.

And the emperor was like, "Sure. Checks out. It's going to be nice to be the emperor. What does that have to do with anything?" Well, my first vision was of Chinese soldiers.

And Elden said they were from the second century BCE. Apparently, when Chufu was alive. Interesting. Oh, oh. Come next door.

What? So, Doug is a bird guy. That's not surprised. Oh, he's got a little journal and everything. Hey, Doug.

Hey, guys, Doug. Tell Lake about the bird. Yes. Which bird?

You were up on the mountain and you kept hearing a bird.

Oh, oh, yeah, oh, okay. Okay. I've been here most of my life, and I know what the birds are supposed to sound like. But I kept hearing one in particular that I couldn't place. No, and it was every once in a while, not like all the time.

I wrote it off as, you know, my imagination for a while. But one day couldn't take it anymore, and I really dove into some research. Okay. No, I still haven't seen one.

But the only match I could make to the sound was a wall creeper. Cool. And that means they're not from Oregon. But guess where they're from. China?

Yes. Weird, right? Well, we run a mountain that travels through the cosmos. So it's not at the top of the list. But it's interesting.

Sure. Okay. That's all. Thanks, Doug. Okay.

Good job with the bird thing. Thanks. So in my vision, these Chinese soldiers were here in Hood's pocket. But there wasn't a town here. Just the big metal thing that turned into the sheep's eye.

Historians think that the mountain that she flew was looking for was probably Mount Fuji. But according to your vision, to flew wound up here. Right. And then I had another vision of my great, great, great, great grandfather,

make-in peppercorns. The guy in the painting. Right. He was also making his way through the woods. And he also saw the big metal thing.

Okay.

“So when did the big metal thing become the sheep's eye?”

Well, my grandpa told me that make-in build the sheep's eye. But he also used to say something weird. Apparently he used to say I didn't found Hood's pocket. I found it. This is why.

Right. Okay. So according to your visions, whatever the sheep's eye is has been here for a long time. Yes.

But you're saying you know who built it. You do? I think I do. The Earth's. Cool.

What's there, Dale? The Earth's. Earth is a planet here in Neyodromeda.

They're amazing with technology.

They're innovations. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. I mean, what's there? Deal.

How do you mean? What? So I'm trying to get down to the essence. Like, what's what's there energy like? They're energy.

Forget the technology stuff. Tell me something else about them. Okay. Well, there's this one thing. But I'm not great with biology, Elden.

What? What's that thing with the Earth's?

“How they're different from other life forms in the triad?”

The Earth's are a slightly anomalous race in the triad. Why? Despite their diversity, organisms native to the triad, all past genetic information via DNA or RNA, like Earthlings. The exception to this is Earth.

Who's indigenous race is use peptide nucleic acid, PNA. It's a small change, but it is that this evolution only occurred on one planet in three galaxies, even more curious. The flora and fauna on the planet of Earth also employed DNA and RNA, making the Earth different even from their own native plants and animals. There doesn't appear to be any predominant theory for why this occurred. They don't know where they came from.

Are we saying that these earth guys built? I'll live this. No, I don't think so. That metal structure is built like a bivouac. It's a shelter.

If they built this place, why would they then put a shelter on it? It's an elegant.

What makes this more interesting is that there's also an Earth construct from where I'm from on the diner.

And there too. What's this all about, Wave? Tricked. I swear to God, I've been asking myself that question for years. No, no, I mean, what's all of it about?

Where are we going to? What's the big question? What are we working toward? I don't know how to answer that. At first, I was just happy to not be on the run anymore.

Then came the teds, then Clementine, now crock. I've just been trying to stay alive and keep everyone else alive. I haven't had time for big questions. No, I hear you, I hear you, but okay, I want you to think about something. I want you to think about the very core of all things, think about everything before there was everything.

Somewhere from deep in the heart of the spirit of the universe, a message is always being sent.

“We never listen because we're too busy staying alive, but what is that message?”

What is it saying to us? I don't know. I don't know either. Should we smoke some weed? Yes, yes, yes, I think that's a good idea.

[Music] This way, this is where the business meeting is happening. Sometimes I like to have my meetings in the open area, because you can see no what cafe, something like that. But then sometimes it's important to keep crying eyes out of the equation. You need that extra level of honesty.

You understand? Sure, yeah, sure. Slugo, go ahead and bring him in. [Music] What the hell, Steve? I'd like to introduce you to Captain Ducky.

Just Ducky to his friends. This is who we're meeting with today. Hello there, Captain. I apologize for the less than palatable surroundings. It's awful down here, isn't it?

“But I thought it was important that we meet somewhere we couldn't be disturbed.”

Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that I brought you down here so that no one would hear you screaming. That is, of course, 100% true, but it wasn't just for that. There's a certain sanctity to a one-on-one meeting, Captain. It lets people know how important they are to you.

And you, Captain, are very important to me. Now, you've already met Slugo. He's the one who knocked you unconscious and tied you to a chair. You've already met my associate, Steve. Now, I want you to meet someone else.

Say hello, Francis. Please to meet your Captain Ducky. You may be wondering what Francis' purpose is. It doesn't look like a thugbot, does he? What's interesting?

He's not.

When I first saw Francis, he was a kitchen bot,

slaving away in a casino kitchen, shopping vegetables with all those lovely eyes he has all over his hands. But I saw something in Francis that others couldn't see. He had so much potential. Long story short.

I now can't go anywhere without him. Isn't that right, Francis? That's been a wild ride, boss. Turns out a bot with spinning blades for hands really adds the level of intensity you're looking for in a high level meeting. So, what I want you to do is keep your eyes on Francis and all those incredibly sharp knives.

And answer for me one very simple question.

“Have you Captain Ducky been trying to unite the gang factions of Raxius under one banner?”

You've got a secret code name for this little group.

Sluggo? What was it again?

Make sure where he moves number two fans. Right, whatever the hell that means. How about it, Captain?

“Are you trying to consolidate power so that you can challenge my employer in the open market?”

I'm sorry, I can't quite understand what you're saying. Can you speak a little clearer? I'm sorry, one more time. I'm still not getting it. Sluggo? Anything?

Can't understand the word rules. Hmm. That's a shame. I was really hoping maybe we're going to be able to make some headway in this meeting, but you can't let these things slow you down, can you Steve?

I... New projects. They so often get mire down with too many cooks in the kitchen. Isn't that right?

Well, let's move on to new business.

Let's move on to new businesses. [music playing] Hmm. A7. Once again, you have sunk my battleship.

Really? I had no idea you were so adept at maritime warfare. Hmm, I have many skills labs. As I am learning. Hmm.

More wine. Please. This has... This has been really nice. Agreed.

“I've been surprised by a willingness to engage in intimate acts with me.”

I have to. Because of the spikes protruding from my body. Yes. There are many of them. Hmm.

I noticed. The ones on my shoulders are poisonous. Hmm. I'm sorry. Piano.

I always travel with antidote.

Good. May we have more wine while you once again teach me your salsa dancing. Hmm. I'd love to. [laughs]

Uh. Are you expecting visitors? No. Shall I charge my weapon? No.

It is very deadly. Just give me one second, okay? June. You're fucking an alien. Oh God.

Oh God. Oh God. The last. Open the door. You dirty bird.

Do we have company? Uh. Kind of. I had no idea how a relationship had gotten to that level. It's not like that.

I am not complaining. Hmm. I might be. The labs make turps. Enjoy is going public with his fornication partners.

Wabs. Give me just one second. Okay. Hmm. Good evening.

Oh, hi. Can I help you? Celest. What in the fucking fuck is going on? I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.

Who's in there? That's private. That's an invasion of my privacy. That's an invasion of my privacy. That's an invasion of my privacy.

“That's the woman who was eavesdropping on the whole town for years from a secret military base.”

That's not the same thing. Sergeant, we have no desire to invade your privacy. But when I compiled some information and realized who exactly you were secretly spending time with, I made a judgment call to check in. Well, now we have to know who's in there.

His name is Slabs McTurps. Oh, no fucking way. The Spiky Guy. Huge Spikes. All over his body.

Slabs McTurps is a rather dangerous mercenary sergeant. I wanted to be sure you were all right. He's a dangerous mercenary. Now he is the leader of a dangerous mercenary army. I feel that's an important distinction.

No. It's not. He has quite a reputation. Are you sure this is the best course of action? Okay.

Is he famous for being a mass murderer?

He should be famous for being a great listener?

Yes. Okay. Look. We're not here to be the Niki police Celeste, but good. God, how does that even work, sexually?

He's got spikes. All over his body. Hmm. They're not all over his body. Sweet, Jesus, woman!

I love finds a way, okay? Sergeant, this is a certainly an invasive move on our part, but I'm sure you understand the concern. I do, and vlog. Do I feel uncomfortable about it? Yes.

“Does he carry around a huge cannon that he calls disco inferno?”

Also, yes.

Can this cannon level an entire building?

Apparently, but he's a really sweet guy. You guys. I'm going to go talk to him. Verge, please don't worry about it. I'll deactivate my earth suit and we'll talk.

Alien, alien. It'll be fine. I'll make sure you're not in any danger, okay? Verge, bye. Hello?

Who might you be? Hmm. Well, cover me in self from all of us. Verge. How have you been, Slavzi?

Death has yet to find me. Same here.

“I have heard tales that you'd fall into a quasar.”

Only emotionally. This pleases me. My men still tell the tale of how you navigated the red storms to deliver sustenance in our time of need. Have a good mercenary needs a good smuggler. And I found no replacements since your absence.

No. Technically, I'm still absent. I'm out of the game now. Out of the game. And yet here.

On Rock's Prime. Oh, it can't be helped. There's a girl. Ah. An excellent reason to tempt the fates.

Sure. Hey, speaking of fates, though. I came back from nowhere to find I've got a pretty hefty bounty on my head. Whatever did I do. Much has changed in the triad.

Love tracks was powerful, but undisciplined. This new regime brings with it a steely resolve and a strange obsession. The bounty placed on you is not simply hefty, as you say. It is the largest bounty ever placed. Ah.

Someone once me dead. That bad. I call it an obsession. Unobsession because of the bounty's conditions. You must be taken alive or not at all.

And if anyone in the triad were to take your life, the bounty then moves to their head. Oh.

Well, it's always nice to be wanted.

Again, an obsession. You're not thinking of getting into the bounty hunting game. Are you slaps? bounty hunting is the rule of cowards. My enemy is on the battlefield or not at all.

“I figured, but please keep it under your hat that you ran into me, okay?”

Of course. And may I say, between the two of us. Earthlings. Oh. Right.

I am astounded. Tell me about it. I am ruined for other reasons. I can't explain it. My body burns to the tips of my spikes.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh. I am ruined. You are a rare commodity in the world, Verge.

Guard yourself, Vaseline. Hmm. Keep your head on a swivel slapsy. I really do hate when it has to get messy like that.

So many squandered opportunities.

They'll have to come around eventually. It can't be this way forever.

“It strikes a particular chord with me being here.”

Reminds me of home. I came from a place even worse than this. A place that is truly a mistake. Begging for a meteor strike by home planet. I had to claw my way out of it.

But everything is a lesson. The lesson I learned on my home planet was that chaos breeds chaos. It spins outward. The world must be rained in or all that's left is blood and fear. We'll get there someday, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Sure.

So now that we've taken care of business, we can get to the fun part.

The future. That's right.

“Unbeknownst to the powers that be here on Rex Prime.”

I've been working on a little pet project of my own. A whole new business model. Something that's going to open up a whole new revenue stream for my employer. I've been working on it for years. And I am very excited to show it to you.

Reable. Excellent. Let's have a look. Right this way, Steve. The eternal question is, what's the next resource?

Everything burns out eventually.

You spot the technology, but technology becomes outdated. You deliver the intoxicant Azure, then along comes the next designer drug. My employer and I have been working on developing the next great resource in the triad. I think we found it. Let's have a look.

Shall we? Oh, even in Frank. Hey, Doug. What can I do for you? I am going to have some coffee.

Oh, I thought you were off coffee. Nope. I'm coming back. I miss coffee. It's normal.

It's predictable. Not secretly poison. Don't even know where I left. Oh, welcome back. What are you reading?

Oh, Ellen sent me some reading material on the Ashley Soros. That's the big lizard thing in your backyard.

“Well, no, I think it's more like a salamander.”

Mm-hmm. Anything interesting. Oh, I mean, well, it's a big alien salamander. There's some interesting things in here. It has a gland in its nose.

It can detect the gravitational pull of surrounding moons. Why would something need to do that? Well, navigation, I guess. Oh, also, it's a species that underwent secondary adaptation. So over the course of millions of years, it learned how to live on land.

And then, after all of that, it re-adapted for aquatic life. So, you know, I guess, huh, life on the land wasn't all correct up to be. Interesting. Yep. Um.

Are you okay, Frank? Well, Doug, I came in here for something normal. And we're talking about giant space salamanders. Oh, I'm sorry. We're the same way, you know?

What do you mean? Well, I mean, I graduated from high school. And I went through all the trouble of, you know, joining the Navy, and then after I was done, I wound up right back here. And you did the same thing.

You went to Tacoma. You got your carpenter's license. You fixed up houses for a while, and ended up right back here.

Yeah.

I liked it when it was predictable.

I did too. But, there is a giant salamander in my backyard now, so, you know, as we'll get to reading. Greetings. Hello.

We have come for snacks. Donuts, please. Barkeep, please give me your finest tackies. Preferably limited edition blue heat. Oh, yeah, I'll three. Fantastic.

Frank, are you doing fine?

“Fine. I thought you guys were an important mission from Elden.”

Run a break. Oh, just don't. That's motherfuckers. Have you figured anything out? No. Wait, yes! Trinket!

What? I'd figured you out. You have? I think so. Lay it on me.

Okay, this is going to sound weird.

But I had this friend one time who was a tree. Life. That doesn't sound weird at all. I have all sorts of friends who are trees. Right, but this one actually talked and walked around.

Oh, yeah. Cool. And they said that when they stood on the ground, they could feel the mycelial network under the ground talking to them. Dude.

Oh, my god. What in the fuck? What is a mycelial network? When you see a mushroom, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The big part of it is under the ground.

Wait, I know this.

“The biggest mushroom network ever was back in Oregon.”

It had four square miles in it. May have been 8,000 years old. Also, who made the, oh, not harder to open. That's what I'm talking about. Okay.

And what does that have to do with me? What is your body full of? Fucking mushrooms. Right. So, the mushrooms in the ground are talking to the mushrooms in my body.

And my body mushrooms are talking to my brain. Maybe? Oh, my god. Drink it. Oh, what are they saying?

I have no idea. This is what you've come up with. We have many things that we're working on. So many things. I am in the fight.

I wrote them down in my book. Which is somewhere. Okay. Hey. Great work.

Everyone. Amazing job. You all get the ribbons. Have a good night. Wait, Frank.

Wait, Frank. Wait, wait. Frank. Waiting. Hold, please.

I forgot what I was about to say. Oh. Oh, look. Frank, Frank. Have a good night.

Come on, Frank. It's so crazy that I can understand. Every word you're saying right now. Okay. I'm sorry.

I totally wasn't poisoning you. But I'm sorry for poisoning you. It's fine.

It was an experiment at first.

“But then you really started to like the tea.”

And so I kept making it. You triggered people don't experiment on each other. I know. I know. You're right.

My curiosity got the better of me. And I am very sorry. I am not a thing for you to play with. Frank, I know. I am really mortified.

And now. Well, I'm worried that you're not going to come over and watch movies with me. Because it's important. It's important to me. Well, we can't just stop at Empire Strikes Back.

Right? I mean, you really have to watch all of them. What? And I want to.

Well, I'm looking forward to it.

Okay. Hey, Frank. Drink it. Told me you're watching Star Wars because of me. Well, I just want to make it known that I'm not a Star Wars guy.

Okay. I actually have legit issues with the whole franchise. If you want to hear my thoughts. No, no. Thank you.

Frank, can you hear your thoughts? Hey, baby. Birds. Hi. What are you doing?

We are at the shopping go. And it's very bright in here. Are you smoking the fun stuff, too? Uh, drink it. Made me do it.

I'm sure she did.

“I think I think it's so great that you have four arms.”

Because you're going to have to carry me home.

Well, because because the ground, I don't know. Baby, the ground feels weird. Okay. And it's apparently talking to drink it. So we are, is there someone there who isn't high?

Oh, yep, yep, yep. Hi, hi, hi, I've heard. Hello, Doug. Um, what's up? So, um, it's probably nothing.

But there's a suspicious vehicle headed toward the town right now. Oh. Uh-oh. Probably nothing to worry about. But, um, do us a favor and make yourself scarce and there.

Let's just see if it passes through, okay? Okay. So, what is this now? It's probably nothing, Frank.

Guys, guys, come, come, come, come.

Get behind the counter with me, okay? Verge. What's the vehicle? It's a hover lounge. Okay.

What is that? It's a limo, basically. Whoever it is, it's not your average bar patron. Remember? When I said, I just wanted to be a guy

on a mountain complaining about sports. Yeah, I know, man.

“But, honestly, cruising through the cosmos on a place like this.”

Good luck with that. Frank, what? Uh, um, Steve. Okay. See ya.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Steve.

Steve. Steve, what's going on? Steve, try and slow down your breathing. You're going to pass out. Frank.

Steve, breathe. Frank, there's... What? Slaves. Thousands of them.

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Pedro. Vibristo. Penny Sparkles. Slider. Demitri.

Maple Emily. The gayest library janitor in Indiana. The new kitten's name is Leif. And this time he's not a girl. Because the good bush definitely not one of the bad bushes funding rebel Bethany's to overthrow

the Julie elected Bethany's. Scout, mistress, and her phalanx of intergalactic eagle scouts. Hexidesimal Bethany is non-binary. Vapus tends big black gaping hole. Gubrius.

You know like lugubrius, but without the lube. Bruce. My milk shake brings all the Bethany's to the diner. Jessica Gigoma. Toracle.

Jenny the Bear. Agur. Bell ringer. Serdine Thorne. Trich.

Mr. Fibil is very cross. Hotel. Dr. Mojo postulates the endless endlessly splintering office. Bethany and Bert Burt's Caboos until it's endless all the way down. David Buster's server manager ready to serve all the Bethany's amonti crystals.

Blind time traveler convention date. L.A. woman the Phoenix Rising. New name? God? No.

Not him. Jeff Andrew? Sure. Jeff Andrew. Ms. Luan.

A British woman with cute dogs. Papa noodles. Shmizi two shoes. Luna Nova. Nicholas Griffith. Matt Grigsby. Justin Smallen. Riku 31. Craig Dundie. The name's night with a K. Astral C. Ikeumi. Pickle Me. Tickle Me too. Guy with the chops. Sam Mitchell Yee. Bagel knife. In Melda and Scott. Courtney Cochran. Lily Starling. Ryan K. Devon 7777. Has been my favorite verbal stem for months.

Nate. Forklift. Lifts. Forks for cliff. Vince M. Chip. Radio Free. Really. Violin loves midi. Brian Passley. Subawasa. Grena. Piston Whip. Captain Ducky. Blitz Bell. Laser saw. Of the Shreveport laser saws. Our overhead is way too high with all of these names. Please make sure to turn in all receipts. Love. Josh from accounting.

Satsuma. Silly is to go. Doctor Jones. I can't believe it's not Bethany. Coach Shane of Toad Sextral. Go Cranes.

Chase and her army of turtles joined the Bethany War.

“The star set messengers want to know if you've written that 4-page essay on why you don't think about bugs.”

Joe Cuffa. We've a choppin broccoli. I see fish. The hacker known as Ivy D'Burb. Edwin McDonald. A feisty ass chickady. Pultry landmine. The scrappy poet. Jenny the cryptid paladin. Maverick artist. Shit. It was a mimic. Basil in their tea. Waiting to gossip with David. Angely A-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y. Angnor. A-T-B. Kiwi lovely bead. Zoey. Doctor Professor Reverend Bethany with any lethany woofy McFloff and Burger M-D-P-H-D-S-Yer.

And that's not pretentious at all. Ah-ha. Is looking for a cure to the Bethany mutation that the society of Bethany's began the war with so many years ago.

Michelle Spurgeon. Jack the sleepy. Garrett Henderson-Twote. Still trapped. But I've stopped asking why. The freezer is. I am. We chill. Son of Defarge. Whisco teach. Scott A. Snell Grove. Give ease a chance. Sam Alema Ding Dong. Sarah. That's it. Just Sarah. Ricardo Glamba. Curry's crafty cloaking devices LLC. Hashtag. We weave them of Gossamer. Deeringer. Penny the Wonder Dog and Bucky Von Buckbuck. King Tex Oridion. Cherry Applebee.

Medium rare extra-tosted bun. Toe for Heart the Gay. Sossie Caesar. Belt. Aspen is a Verge fanboy. McJay 67.

“Ava's favorite my little pony pencil wants Joe to slap into a snim gym. Is this thing recording?”

Mr. and Mrs. Drifter. Representative of the Alaska Midnight Burger tummy time chapter. Sir, dreadmore Spiba is wondering if Bethany likes night breakfast. Lord entropy. Buckbuck, mother fucker. Everyone's favorite clown splotchy. Penn strike algorithm. Gabriel strife would like to remind you that it's Gabriel not Gabrielle and would also listen to a six-hour shift notes. This is shiny pants. Gone door calls for aid. Mussels fatits. Arnold Rumspringer, the demise of the Temple of Bethany's.

Ellen Bergland says, "I'm Mom, Kitty McSkull, Ravenstrom Dan's hapless novelist passenger of the dimensionally impermanent and temporally incontinent bookshop café, the wild-eyed prophet." Tessa Craig, a perfectly personalized disaster, Richard Schofeld. Jim Turner, Lux Lumino's.

“"Havid and Arrow, big chunk, gedeeds, bingo sticky rice. Boom booms wouldn't leg. Will the real mod d please stand up.”

Kitty cat and lullipub can't get enough of this. Gillian C. Benjamin, not Franklin. Tracy Baby, Leia. Is that the Chris Hancock who traded weekly soup for the use of my kitchen table? Bethany reading in a green field. "I am the lizard, frantically firing flisket guns. Bumblefe, Mr. Epcelon, the mothman, long-haired mat, DJ, Lenny Harris, Robert W. "Breel's above, crezamera, Jessa Loren, made a hoops." "The bean wizard." "Myth and stitch embroidery loves the mucklewands. Lulu Louise, duleo, the brew crew family.

Bert Rubah, your most benevolent Lord and master of the multiverse. Jeffrey George, exquisite whimsy. Ellie, don't tariff me, bro. Oopsie, Evelyn. The wizard mooses hold out their cat for you to pet. Grimlore, existential pancakes, Jiniwaboum, Aaron Popsiclestick, Im Horowitz, Isle of Refuge, Jack Spiter's mom, Bumblebutt Bethany has banana breath, Lama Fresh, Jared the benevolent destroyer, Valtiel Heller, Revan the Redbeard Wizard, Bert Bert and the funky bunch, Karora the Twelfth. Shhh, just listen. Damian Fletter John, ZomCon, Bethany 2, Electric Buggaloo, welcome to the Quon Pound, Pen Pen Pen Pen Pen Pen Pen Pen Pen.

Mr. Muchacho Kaiser Schnitzel is outside Sarah Murphy's house on Raxias recruiting for the troubled puffs fight club. The wolves in the deep free, say, "Oh, woo!" Julie Hammond, sanctuary moons number two fans, Simpson, Jason, Alice Lewis, simply Amy Sue. I pushed her because Joe said so, even older Liz, Mick Bearcat, Grak Pen Feather, Citiken Druidic scientist. Astro, your friendly neighborhood Android, Moonlight Zombie Fox, old Doc Racy, the midnight missionary out there somewhere looking for you.

Rotten Ronnie sleeps in Grandma panties, Skowlunky! Artists Dragonborn, Big Big Garage, Bill Zeng and a Lester, Joaquin Hammenez. Hello Big List, I'm Dad, now let Joe get some rest, it's time for bed, muffins, space wives, Chad Hatter, Cosmic T-Maker of the Triads.

Captain Jack Harkness once Peter the Robot, Oreo, Oreo, no way pineapple, actually never mind, Oreo. Tell your cat, I said,

Banana Manaz, a corgi-cold kibble, cuddly crackin, life-sellowed studio, and his wife Megane Torre. Axel Light, Sarge the Bard, SoMinity, Reel Fan, LL Coolment, James, Trevis, Reberticus, the other original Caitlyn, Ken Daddy, Celestiani, the jaded Umbra get slightly less jaded as peace once again returns to the land. Leia, Isadi, Millie was taken, dead to me 86, Honus, Be Camp, Shen Men Men Men Men, Karma Karma Camillion, Kinran wishes everyone a healthy new year, Zoe and her army of mice, Briar long lost, Daniel, Sammy the baby seal, I have always relied on the kindness of diners, the hoods pocket electricians union reminds you that we're always here to check your shorts.

Queen Shirley Jess, RIP Lance McLean, you would have loved Midnight Burger, Adam Toklove, Dr. Bitchcraft, Sassy Cat the space vixen, Clare Rock, Jekka, Eros de God, the size two fish you've been looking for, E.O.K. Borja, Spiders are cuddly, the main immortal thinks it should be Ken Daddyos, chill, Neal, Sincidious Guba Steve, Polywag, Michaela White, Elena Pickle, Wilbur Winklewright, wristwatch, Wrangler of West Worcestershire, finally spots Red Nell as the carnage clears. Mr. Thadius Snookham's 8th, Mr. Grin, Glenn Petrovsky, this moment of silence so Joe can catch his breath as brought to you by Rick Tyler, audible breath, Elizabeth Hammond, cheap Khan, yeah you heard me the real cheap Khan, except no imitations, steam vision, conductor of the interdimensional time-spanning hype train, Dave Harald, Wise Cube, dirty diaper fuss butt, and the piggy runt, bromine pronounced bro.

"My main humdinger!" Mother of Pearl, Fiona now owns Leafs 18-inch Peter, Sealface, Rigor Mordus, Megan's things, things Megan makes, Coin Lane, Trvex reject, profit of the God of the Muckelwains, Ignius Burp, Darth Ox, this brief pause is brought to you by Michelle Kay's wish for Joe to catch his breath, Aaron Arnold, 50 bananas a week, Mama Mander B Ross and Slintmaster J, Alpaca Lips, I'll take one butter in Bri on Rye, please, Elliott Paints, Undead Akira, The Lord Reverend, Ryan, Thomas's 10-10-Bras-Tans-Taffle Tippers, treading treacherously tantamount to telling totalitarian trope termination tales, the lovely Lara lovely, Kith Gamji, Sam Wise's Flamen cousin, Dariel, Jeremy the ruler, Goatchi, Jacob Mitchell, Swoening for Verge, Zeke in the box, Stevie Crow Hill, how to get Jack from John, flesh witch, loves flesh mech in every universe.

“Just some guy from Adelide, I'm Ryan, Remi, the Panda crew, Melody Prime, Beardoo the Wizard, Captain Benjamin Hawkeye pierced the German shorthair pointer from Nashville,”

wants to tell his mom Maddie that he says, "Oh, whiff, whiskard, any two hands for the double high five, Marissa the Ghost, a local snow plows in your area are dying to meet you."

Brotherford Beechester Field in his Dapper Companion Windchester, Cheshire Corgi, Stray Cat, Old Kelsey No Shoes, Zoldia, Dizzy Flame, we serve everyone eventually. Sasha, Beth and Alan Van Gillis, Langston North, Slyfox, A.K.A. Breyer Rabbit, Pants, Darts, Champion, the constantly lost geographer Timothy A. Otis. Chance wants you to know he cares, will Stark Elliott, Hobbes, Daco, Natalie Bartlett, Rory of Yin, movie the golden calf, Kirion, Giovanni Salinas, Rocky G, Perry the Pirate, Aaron Elizabeth, Kei Narcotics, Solomon Price, a daydream you won't escape, Angela Sanchez, A.V.M.

Above a 485 A.K.A. Shemobock, the Christmas Whale. Kaiju Somalye, Stila Corvus, Hesus Garcia, JP the IT guy, Candyman fight, Sandwich, John Peters, you know, the farmer, Barkley on The Holiday, Dapper Dad, SCP-049, Omajus, Raven the Dreamer, T.K. Turtle King, Mike M, Space-based lasers, Captain B and Lady G with their swabs, Marla Madame Lotus, still especially loves Finlay.

“Mr. Steamwave, my friend the rhino says, "Be nice." Hup, challenge. Dream founder, Mamiro Huckleberry, Elizabeth T, Taitai the Wonder Hamster, and her dear darling Duke, Grandpa Gus, bombastical Kimlicker.”

Cocoa Umi is painting ponies, Huggamuffin, Bigfoot of Doom, D.L. Annie Akkins, Candyman, the pug whisperer, Guro, our cat said to tell you, meow, "You boy of indeterminate origin, Benjamin Ortiz,

Mr. Frogg, President, Pop Rock Quick Sand, Molly lives on Mars." Mr. Squizzle sizzle whizzle fizzle the horrendous apologizes for conspiring in the Bethany War, invites for tea, are being sent now. Abonoso, Trina Ward, Spooky Spader Storytime, William Kent, Andy, the McJimmy's from your local dimension, Xavier Killing'sworth, Lane Kiffin is a hoe, mimetic hygienist, rogue art, Aaron Star Joshua Damien, and Sentinel of the Star System, Claude DeClauz, Spunky Dan, Rachel Seymour, Jessica Elfridge, the bullheaded professor, Alexander Larrach has brought Leggotine to assist the Bethany's in their survival war, Viva Revolution, Edboy, Ryan Finnelly, Jonathan Kay, Pearl Null, another monster, Petabyte Avatar, Tug with the Mighty, Project Octopus, Ken, Chib's 1012, Scotty Oats, Byro-Tron 95, Dan's granted clemency by his overlord parents.

Dance, Brit! The Brackon System in its homeworld ran, simply Tony.

It will always be Finnelly's workhole to me, if you know, you know, Gabrielle Castillon.

“Whom, what, when, where, and why, is what all the grownies say while listening to Midnight Burger?”

Nico DeGio goes great on Midnight Burgers, a drum major in a trapeze artist walking to Connie's bar.

Uloi Jackal, are you sure Mike Robb, the Nancy Sinatra, court need to leave it alone if you want to live?

Must be a witch, cat with a K, my Theroni, has a first name.

Stumpet Steinel, Moustache O, Luke of Her Hezekiel, Lacha Wawa Brava, C.C. Caracel, court the destroyer on his puck. Casper's mom's a milk. Scout and Fox Glove says the floor is lava. Red Nell, hiding in a crowd of Bethany's to avoid capture by Wiley Wilbur Winkle Wright, wristwatch Wrangler of West Worcestershire.

“Kradomsky, Craig Armstrong, plastic fork, does it deletch a studio's presence under the Truskin Sun?”

Get out of my booth, Bug, propagator, I hardly know her. Sad angry crab man, Chuck McFindley, Effy and Zebulon's trans-great-granddaughter Hazel Hayes. Velocity Girl 42, little dragon and a cold run of bats, Ben Carlisle. Flat steves love for grand theft, and a Cerni, crashly strange lilya. The foreshnausers of the apocalypse starblaze burn bright, imzuki Oki, spotted rhino and her hand me down frogs, red mafia panda.

Lonely aisle, Kaidalo headphones, Hinkle, Pike man Stover, Fondaless Stover, Pike man Stover's wife.

Cernoculus, Scrizzles, Fwapp, get a get a get a get a firekeeper. The end is me! Jeremiah the cancelled, Librarian Alex, Spike and Fay, Johnny Allen West and the boys from the dwarf. Speedy McSpeedy, Eli Wolf, Brandy Gunter, Auntie Becky is owned by five rescue cats, speckled unicorn, Jedi rides again with no over-the-space pirate. Tevin Long Blade Short Sword, forget normal, a dime, CJ Johnson, a dragon sitting on its hoard of dice, window wittaker,

Pikachu, Smivy, Globe Ed Rulet, Andrew Fuller, Dane and Deb, Bon Me Home, the soup witch,

“Bender FTW, Fettishini Alfredo, Cowboy and Sasquatch hunts Bethanese, amalgamous packs, pebbles,”

VV, Effy Rawlings, Megan Hazen, Philip your dad is not your dad, Nick Borrow, midnight plumber. His royal highness Mr. Hamilton underfoot Kitty the first and accomplice Princess Penelope the Marchioness of Miss Jeff and Maven of Mystery, Megan Gentry, Mr. Cherry, our asses in the jackpot, Tubby Teddy, India Inkblot, Slev of Bahamut, Omigracy, Dalton Jenkins, Kat Holtz, The True Megamike, Fred and George, Lavania, Avomatic Jr, Lies of Worth, Cast William's,

Christy, Heet Maboy, 46 Tool Shed 2 and El Marie Katastrophe, the Image Collector, Blended Music, Definitely Not Kevin, Sitting Squirrel, Patricia E. Melt missed everyone,

Around of Yorg's Oma House, Read the Grey, The Silver Crow, Couch Potato, Alex, Never Child,

Dr. Nassau's Interdimensional Biologist, Kiboko DuNord, Lil Kev, Kozameen, The O'Drax, Joey B, Lucas Barting, Lil Debbie Cupcake, Terren says, "Hey, Oreos are rabbit, sandalwood mountain offers peace for your soul, whimsical fuckery, Megan with an H. "Hey, it's warranty lady, look, I've been thinking, maybe it's best if we, you know, saw other people for a bit, I need more." Patricia the Time Lord, is it though?

“Mango Connoisseur, Britty Bug and The Quarky Jester, The Big Moose demands justice for Betty and Malu,”

That Old Glory Cole, Jill Miao Naze, Kat Butler, O'Sheen Liu, Alex Barry, Andrew Oakden, Alex symmetrical exile, Chero Kat, The Sun God, Eliza Travels the Universe, Alex Spence, Dr. D. Bird-Clospeather, and Mrs. Dubap to Way Bird-Clospeather, want to say hello to the whole Spweather family. I lost my Galaxy Britches in a Game of Pants Darts, Angry Ron,

Domina Caesar, Durkadev, Gloria's ex-girlfriend, Kelly Clickspring, Most likely Cass, James Harlow saw the claw and named it Bethany. The sweet planetary aroma of Fiona's grilled cheese sandwiches, Jasmine James, Dr. Caberand, also known as Omni, thanks Waffle Shateau, Colorado Beekeeper, Fruitcake, Anatha, Zen Ria!

Jennifer Colkins, Guacamoleo, Midday Burger, Dawn Parks, Throat Goat 666, Oh My God, My Dad, found out about my Patreon name. Princess Leia, Sonic Boy 99, would like a Bethany but sandwich but will settle for a fish and a bag. Prime Freak, Protector of the Scottish Realm, Little Lord Stevypie, droid pirate finley and his Rubin-esque parrot, dried pirate finley,

and his Rubin-esque parrot, stuck in a pit of skittles, sea squatch, deflator mouse, Tony Piakarsky, Adrian R, the devil from table 12, Havier, Crazy Thadley, criminalist is just happy to be here. The twisted twicster, the rural juror, is a massive fan, fake queen, oops, not the probability demolition expert.

Showtime, CR-Ipted, for my mother, CCTX Girl 6823, waiting on the diner, Nicole Studio So. "Waiter, they're up here to be a shovel in my soup." "But they kill us!" "Dried pirate finley and his Rubin-esque, penguin,

truck stop sandwich, and to go escargo, love my captain, Joe Malma, wandering biscuit, castriff, aims affection for internet protection, night script, widget the world watcher wearing a waste coat and wig. Lana Bananas in pajamas are coming down the stairs,

Lana Bananas in pajamas are chasing teddy bears. Ootridden rose as Viking void vitals,

Sure what I'm doing, lay a rose, river brown, senior duce, warped writer, Tim Naci, Rubin-Clamso, turwin, Hugh The Mini Mungo, Morgan Brockman, Sylvie, friendly neighborhood fire protection engineer, skull bulb, Dustin Watson, Betty White 813,

Randy Supreme and Queen Langcaster, the one true cheap con, star scribe, Lucy and Thunderstruck. "Oh, Mama!" Glorbnar 7, now granting refugee status to victims fleeing the Bethany Wars.

Dozer now identifies as Roman Dirge, the other Adele, Chef Gal Val, Leah Hall, Sarah May. Cone of Silence Consultants LLC needs fresh towels in room three at the horizon. Sylvie Willy Bubblebutt, Sierra not from Arkansas.

Zee, gooo! Ebony's are boob, Caleb Tumiala, Jason Woods, Arnie Arbuckle, Esquire, digital flu-flossed in time. Potion Maestro, Nebula Nell, regulators, mount up.

The first ascendant, cringle over coffee, Mad Yogi, Eileen, a cat named M, but Tito Poto, Palace, Big Mo, Demont, Demonic, Narwal, 8. I am Annie, I live forever in every moment

I've existed.

I swear to every star in the cosmos I never forgot

it was a gift. The Stone Fox, Trisha Shafer says, "You, David, that is not a taco." Sylvia, Josephson, Papito's, Boeing Hauer, Bethany in a random place,

Jennifer Bowmer, Ninja Grim Reaper, Miles Nelson.

“I am a bomb till I think of something better to do.”

A bearer, it words, Hotshot, Huttley, Momo's mama, Space Mormon says, "What?" Ivy Pacely, toast, Sue Watts, Murdole, Caitlin,

Leader of the Unicorn Revolution, Transdimensional Delivery Man, Matt Lock, Lord of the 13th Sea, Mr. Trigvie, Printing with cats,

Cali C. Delmar, Vaughn Vega, Dixie Dina, 7,000 possums, Sarah Jack Sparrow, Space Pony, Revive, Debbie E.

Emma, Mr. and Mrs. Owo, Dusty Ventures, and his pilot, Uzi, Drift and Through Space, Ronnie Porter,

Gloria's Line Cook, Eagle Rock Lobster, The Gabbiest Painter, and her bird of fire. Wandering Wind Joe,

Painted O'Neey, Cudell, Farrell, Emily with two E's, Space Man Nathan,

Ramsey's, Niblic III, Karplunk, Karplunk, Woops, Where's my Thribble?

Mad Goat, Jackie Wavelett, Yeoega Garin, Issa, The Straga,

D. Greitzler,

A Grimlin with the Munchies,

Michelle Scaracchio, Gen. Y and Jacob, Andy's brain is weird, Space Rooster Randy, Leopard Donut,

Puppy Thing, Melo Nuggets, Keychain Crap, Shark Man, Stealow,

Arcadia, Bumbling Lily B, A quick pause, So Joe can sip from his tiny cheek. I forgot my tea.

Boof Rd's Nuts, Panda, Curtis Lellig, Kennedy Allison Farner, Tristan Stoles,

Dalen Y, Shadow Rapture, Yet another Nicole, Hank the Wonder Lama, Arcraft,

Russell, Zeferis Wind, The ornamental Hermit, Jay to the Lynn, Just a regular Fox,

Jeremy Empson, What the hell, Senateplex,

“And all the black people in North Carolina,”

Just Rachel, Waffles, Ranger Girl, Atlas Bear, Patty the Ginger,

Ava Sigaret Ash, Hugh Biftett, Ay Zeus, Anna Flaxis, Scave with Comtax,

The Shape Shifting Sad Girl,

And her girlfriend, Say Joe, You've done it again, Baby Baba, Sarah Nicole,

The Kells, Fights with the Bethones, Angry Leafs, Laser Saw, Magnus Arochill,

Amy Perry, Christopher Kai, Source to Kay, The Spweather Carling Banger, Skexys,

Vega Bond, Mary, Randy Zamigo, Katie Mermaid, Norman Nicole,

Victor Schauberger, Reincarnated as White Mountain Hillbilly, Glitter Cupcake, Vax Danger,

Security Chief Shatsy, The Anxious Peach, Team Michelle and Billy, Nianix Reno, Frankenator,

Nortalbash, Jordan, Arwenxabalasco, Ryan Rosinski, Average Hight,

Medium Rage, Audio Monkey, Joe, Team Hathavison, Monica and Mason Kay,

In the mysterious AZHQ,

“I'll grant you that we have a multiplicity of mics,”

A jumble of James's, A trifecta of Tonies, One of whom still wants to be life, But sadly, No Bethany's,

Rowan, Lady of the Black and Herald of the Stars, Arian, Kent Manage, Normal,

Ryan Burnett, The Joyful Nylist, Dr. Dr. B, Zopres in the Bumble Army, Growing into my farm boots,

Superbeth becomes an RN, Alongside my bootstep farm friend. Geneva Boss, Brothers of the Co-Sign, Uncivil Nomes,

The Brack Queen, Evelyn, Great Lunch Conversation, The Other Scott, Letty Lou,

He was a shifty one, That Nick Howard, Kinger was here, Baba Ray Windland, Junior,

B-Bop, B-Daba Dewop, Warped Echoes, Slabs McTurps, Robare Otardis,

Wishes your 26 to be bigger on the inside. Jeremiah Franco, Justin, The Nick of Time, Gothic Rainbow,

So we made it. Cody McClure, McAdley, Eternal Companion, Maxine Lizzott,

Jingeloss, Eris, Goddess of Nobody, Has Matilda, Ditsy Bay,

Just Your Average Rease, Kyle Church, I am a lay from the wind, Static Ego, Some fucking swamp wizard,

Lolly, Evident Dobson, Dave B, Your Friendly Neighborhood Pathologist, Going to be lit,

I am Shaggy, Captain Emerald L, Wayne Hall, Danny Mars, Externally Screaming,

But Bethany, I made biscuits, Skibo, And Fuzzle McBumpernits, Neelix Tiny Wolf,

Christina Senatus, Teleporting, B-R-B,

“The Shains are not organized enough for a war,”

But there is a growing number of us,

And it is, Concerning, Definitely not an Android, Seriously, I'm not.

The Wandering Welshman, Whatever Tabby, Carolyn Harper, The Capital of the Sartorius, Z3DT,

Chisperos, BLTN, The Kiwi Duckling, Dana Dana Bobane, A Fifi fofana,

Dad and Aubrey, The Dirtbike Demons, Tequila Mockingbird, Snuffle up a goose, Isopale,

Oh no, A bee, I am Lord Zoltan, Hear me roar, Pocket Ghost Max,

Mags the Conqueror, West and Heather Wunder, If Derek Aderable Join, My Cat's Name, Is B,

Katie Kate, Get your colonoscopy, Victor Casado, Emily Schbemly, Work for Melvis,

Bojo, I buy for Jojo Pogo, That's a no-go-bro, Cody Monster, Collided Mind,

Miss Nixie, Baby Baton Lee, Charlie Roodle, Kyle Perino, A.K.

Sid the Slawth on a bike, Priya Gandhi, The Wandering Mermaid, Would like you to know, That the Little Mermaid,

And the Creature from the Black Lagoon,

Are the same exact story, Little Stevie Pie, Green Mountain Hermit, Death allergic to Bethany Stu, Two Polar Cat,

Carl, The Teller of Dad jokes, Sky Labs, Multitimensional, Multifazic,

Intergalactic Quantum Cyberverse, Verde Sol, Gailin Miller, Test, Geriatric Youngen,

Mystic Heavy, Unforkable, Local Marchag, Daniel Nitz, Mavis Bacon,

Pyros Calling, Joe Swasion, The Wizard's Supercalifragilistic Exbiologist, And Introducing Recipe Pontif,

As the 24th Doctor, Too many Jens! Catjot, Pamela Roselchera, Then Steena says,

Thud Tweed, Inigmatic Catbird, Countess of Carbon, Slipy the Squirrel's Ted Slapping Rempage,

Luminous Elk, Rodion Cauchin, Lois for the New Year, The Tas Hernandez, Captain Crash on the Surviving Crew,

Casper needs all the hugs, But Joe needs an O2 tank. Quote says, Joe is the writer's room. Awkward Heritage,

777, Troy Acre, Mindy Cain, Northern Lee Kay, Lost Basson,

You Know The Moon, Prison Outside the Triand, Kim Sell, Silly Goose, Hong Kong,

Admatha, Astro Unit, Ghosts Saber Wolf, The Sleepy Mystic, Sarah Joy,

Tater's Precious, It's Just Steve, Sweets Martinez, Char Noble, Six Ten,

Meer Tender Creatures, Amanda Short, Shut, Brimble, Deedrop,

Mike Whiskey, And Your Friend Frosty, No Seguaro, Ben Bar, Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors,

Please, Beesley Death, Sven the Unlikely, Cognito Hazard Expunge, Ted Wasson,

Vyrestria, The Oceus, The Theologianish, Nicole, I Love You,

But I Will Name Kid, To Brathar, Fernwood Gal, Nellie G, Twinkle Tots,

Gemini Sky, Phantoms, Corn Swagland, Daniel Arthur, Michael Clousey,

It's a, It's a fucking dog Rapture, Abigail Lehu, King Humble, We'd better ask Dave,

When Chimes for Safety, Cameron Winterborn Welsh, Fireball XL5, Mackenzie Dunna, Alexica Hobbin Yerod,

Coach Stranger, One bet, Bet, Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Matt N,

Alfie Revinorum, Momone Kiki, Frelp, M-Lin, Feed Me Fish,

J-R-R, On SFP, Lahari, J-Spark, Lucid Harbor,

Little Mirror, Diet Knight, Mars Royalty, Take 20 damage, Macy's Bands Stand,

Kim Bob, Battlepop and Bugaboo, Snorts, M-Gorts, Fresh squeezed,

Patrick Holt, Atlas B, Hold it now, Hitted, Had it,

Hitted, Hitted, Bradley Ashby, Peter, Megan Okiyow,

William Dyer, Vicky Abear, Brad Beneer, Jane, Hannah Dale,

Phantomsown, Crystal Delightful, Gruntled, Kilt Shot, Betty and her steel-eyed bow,

Turtles all the way down, Jackie Lowe, The Little Pigeon, Century Brain, Crazed Bear,

Coming this holiday season, Dr. Latest Trash Angel Action Figures, Restocked, Boots go to your local toy shack today, Crafty lizard quilts,

And Nits, And Crochets, Noble Barrel, Yes, my brain is weird, Thank you,

Bethany Bobbi Boom, Megan The Meg Young, A Cory Morose, Russell Bunny, Max Savage,

Jenny Ren, Apprehensive Craig, Tim Erinetta, Bacon, Decol Studio Sew,

Rambo, Chaos Quatcher, Mary Kirby, Stephanie Sturgis, Kirsten,

Sarah Farmer, and Belladana, First of her name, Crittle, Twilio, Hidal Birdie,

Tom Webster, Rashmi Vinkotesh, Muclump, Azana the Leather Smith, Salazar the Doe Mage,

The Bard with the Tuba, Hayward's finest, Garen Elazando, To my little,

You'll always be my good girl,

You took a piece of my heart, And left a pop-rint on my soul. Till we meet again. Sir shits a lot strikes again, Dam Animal,

Ashton James, Elsebeth, Skyland, ALR, Sidewalk Jam,

Tonka 2005, Cruising Be Anthony, Tricks says, True? Triple the first,

Exave your Romo, Ali Frog, Tray the turquoise tortoise, Free a titmittons, Courtney the Frogologist,

Courtney and Stephanie says, Hello. The Vauntucky Wrangler, Scrim Brulee, Yay, Aaron,

The singing loon, Azuzana, Celeste Yos, I'm so I didn't take any fun. I'm Ava's evil twin sister Bethany,

Katie and Noah, Hendrix the Stink, The Ambergler, Boodles, Osvaldo Simione,

Chiffon Delilah Rose, Ashley Chapel Peoples, Ryan Ortega, Barbarian Bloodbath, The Diffenestration of Teds,

Corin Sabrantha,

Rubius Fuzzlebot, Kay Mack,

“The Something Something Detective Agency,”

Hayabuda, Eli the Electrician, Sunny Dionomally, Charme, Kayon with Karma,

Amanda Nock,

The wondrous Mathazathon,

Post Turtle Evaluation Squad, Hashtag Nissan Akira, Fitting and Robert, Jesse Foster, Samira,

Flat Doug, Deary Darling, Ambient Drifting Man 80, Chris Hancock, Nicole 23,

Gracefully impaired, Tired Pirate Muffin, Steve King, Laura, Roman Ronan,

John Pruit, Camel Pope, Enchudigan, Cryptesia, Rebecca Trossle,

See when I said, Good God There are so many names The names were their own show yet. Chris from Tacoma, The Real Fairy Godmother,

Sir Alfonso Sutperson, Knight of Hood's Pocket, Pollished Paul Drins, Pacing Pine Paths, Protecting Pocket from Sneaky Skull Duggery,

Missy Lou, Kelsey Holmes,

Still Casper's No. 1 fan,

But now armed with a quantum spatula,

“And ready to duel every Bethany in the multiverse”

With Breakfast Wisdom, Amanda Marie Katherine, Damian the God Dam Timeloyer, Matt Mosby, St. Foo,

Harry Fishnuts, Joshua Cody, Astronaw Eve, Magnos the Civil Nome, Welcome everybody,

I'm Heidelon, And I'll be leading our midnight Burger Emotional Support Group. David Peerini, Techno Ranger Rick,

Joe's Weaselaf, Virgo Aries Infinity, Best Buds Danny and Emma, Charles Q. Choi, A bug named Nat,

CC writer, Hunter B. Rudra, Death the Kid, Big Whiskey, All Cochinator,

Ron was here, Batchik Pony, Robert Olavary, Often wrong Dan, Jess Gioja,

Paul A. Johnson, Killer Odd, Dr. Punkusher,

Esquire is rooting for you,

Please root for Puntu, He has an interview. Creator 67, But Joe Lanth, Life's One True Love,

Mermaid of the Dark Seas, Cosmic shrug, Incordable Ross, Deborah Wales, SCRB,

Mark 11, Eric A. Raeborn, Maggie's Yarm, Stu, Ethanomely,

Megan Mighty, Holland, Purple Saline, Three Legs are perfectly good, Drew and LA,

Anomalous Death to PSL Vandal, The Ice Queen, Captain Blepp, Evie Power, Terry,

PJ says, What? Amelia Lucero, At all,

“Fear Now doesn't polish the shiny melon,”

Blargo, Blargo, The Jazz Man, Tonight at 11, [Birds]

[Birds] [Birds] [Birds] Laura K. The Barbarian S, Hicks,

Bizzy Mates, Zellis Pragma, Tuba Rick, It's just Blake, Alice Malis,

Disco Barbie Edition, Emily Jane Denkey, Erin the Optimist, Thomas Stolen, A.K.A. Casper,

From another universe, Chatney Ashra, Lucritia, Thornus, Tamara Oliver,

The Real Dirt Fairy, Marissa, Oscar Engels, Eva, No,

Not that, Eva, The One Within, Lou, Grim,

Says, Trans Riteskall, Zeke Datt, Underwater Corvids, Pizzarinkdom,

Snakes and Bakes, Michael Christian, Ransom, Nude Myselil, Grollix and Terobang,

Late indeed, Again, Theron Pirales, Dances with Burritos, Original Recipe, Erin Mitchell,

Lady Keanu-Mison, Onix Rose, Jackie Wavelett, J.R. The Hikerbear, Velocicate,

Al Cave, Cresty McBeardface, Malaran, Sweet Michelle, Cara,

Colmy Zen, Calibre, Belmomburg, Rogue, Lisa Geysler,

Quorse-Muderd, Goroiclach, Fried Fried Burger, What the Chuck, Soner Nassuno,

Ben and Jessica, Todd Van Vores, Naya De Russo, Peachy Zatuichi, Inky the Crack and Azula the Brave,

And they're ever faithful, Squire, Grab Thar, Jen extraneous, Dancing Dog Dreams,

Trinket Coralite, An Existentially Exhausted Bean.