Oh, finding the linchpin on her first try will make Fred smug forever. Smug-er. But that victory is short-lived because first Joop is dying (not her intention) and then she's casually mentioning that they're gonna die.
"Like, in here?" Fred asks, voice already raising in alarm and with one pair of fuzzy dice now wielded like they could do any good if suddenly all her teachers turned into flesh craving monsters that want to sacrifice them to open a gateway to an alternate past where the moon landing brought back an Elder God (episode 13!!), and whoops, this is maybe the downside of having such an active imagination. "How many people are even in this car," she cries, "it's a total safety hazard!!"
As though Fred weren't already tense enough, everyone else in the memory suddenly comes to life — starting with the engine roaring, teenagers breathing and moving, and the radio turning on. Music blares: Dolly Parton. Jolene, specifically, which Georgie Trullinger immediately begins belting, because he knows this song by heart.
“Practically a muggle,” Zelda says to Lionel over the sound of Georgie singing, reaching over to pinch his cheek. Lionel grins back at her, looking proud.
The van backfires with a loud bang and it's immediately clear who the muggleborns aboard are, because the only ones not disturbed by the sudden sound are Georgie and Percy Potkin. The young Trullinger goes right on singing, and after a moment, the rest of the gathered teens start laughing, again.
“Think it’ll work for our post-grad road trip?” Lionel asks, and Percy nods.
Behind them, the sliding van door stands open, peering out into Peckenpaugh’s half-ruined auditorium.
[MEMORY COMPLETE! Replies met and linchpin found! You may continue to thread in this scene or exit through the portal.]
Jupiter, a seasoned memory hopper, is set to laughing again, right up to that gunshot sound of an engine backfiring. She straightens abruptly, visibly startled, and grasps her ax with both hands. "Well, I didn't think so..."
The fuzzy dice get flung ineffectually toward the back of the van as teachers start innocently moving around them again. All of Fred collides with Joop, hips bumping against the radio dial as she presses up against the self-appointed lumberjack hero and rips off her dingle-bob, the only weapon she has left. "We're going to die on prom night," she wails as teachers sing and laugh, a truly horrific scene.
One of Fred's boingy things hits Jupiter in the eye. She sucks in a breath and slaps her hand over the socket, nearly toppling over the back of the passenger seat as she does.
After a second of chaos, she soldiers on, pointing the ax toward the open van door and accidentally hitting the teen Wybie Youngblood with it. Whoops. "It's cool! It's cool! See, the door's open. We're safe!" She lowers her hand from her eye, still half-squinting it shut. "Gotta find that linchpin again, though."
Jupiter takes a careful step forward, ducking to keep from hitting her head on the roof of the van again. Determined and unafraid of danger (and squinting one watering eye shut) she certainly cuts a dashing form. Like Utena Tenjou, but Wish Dot Com Utena Tenjou.
"Jewpie Doll!" Fred, the most dangerous person in this van, yelps and Lionel Qualls gets a face full of sproingies instead.
The next episode of the Peculiar Perils is definitely going to introduce Saturn Quodpole, interstellar lumberjack, destroyer of space pirate ships with one fell swoop of her mighty ax. Also one eyed, which is a rampant problem the inhabitants of the Peculiar Perils universe seem to face. Of course, when Fred normally makes someone lose an eye, it's just with her quill.
"Do we really gotta??" she protests, bumping against Jupiter's back in her eagerness to stay close. The teachers may not have attacked yet, but just give them time. No one could truly be as cherubic as young Mr. Potkin appears to be. "If the door's open, shouldn't we just run??"
A Gryffindor's heart beats within this chest for sure.
"We gotta, we gotta," Jupiter says with a head-bobbling nod. She's careful to duck any of Fred's flailing, expecting it now, though she does elbow Young Mr. Trullinger in the chin at least once as she climbs toward the back. "It's just right there, see?"
Jupiter gingerly plucks the golden fuzzy dice from Zed Crockett's open mouth. She pauses to examine the twins and the librarian seated between them. After a beat, she decides, "I'd let this girl step on me." And then she holds the dice up for Fred to see. "Got 'em! Ready to get?"
Upon emerging from the memory out into the auditorium, the portal snapped shut behind them.
Elsewhere in the auditorium, sundew, a magimagicicada was freed! George Trullinger was not freed, and is still trapped somewhere within the nightmare tree.
Fred and Joop each earned 5 Tokens for completing the memory!
They earned an additional 3 Tokens for finding the memory before the cap was reached.
You can check your token totals in Pouch's shop here, and maybe see if there's anything worth grabbing while you're there!
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peckenpaugh2020-06-01 11:18 am
MEMORY: Test Drive
"Like, in here?" Fred asks, voice already raising in alarm and with one pair of fuzzy dice now wielded like they could do any good if suddenly all her teachers turned into flesh craving monsters that want to sacrifice them to open a gateway to an alternate past where the moon landing brought back an Elder God (episode 13!!), and whoops, this is maybe the downside of having such an active imagination. "How many people are even in this car," she cries, "it's a total safety hazard!!"
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
“Practically a muggle,” Zelda says to Lionel over the sound of Georgie singing, reaching over to pinch his cheek. Lionel grins back at her, looking proud.
The van backfires with a loud bang and it's immediately clear who the muggleborns aboard are, because the only ones not disturbed by the sudden sound are Georgie and Percy Potkin. The young Trullinger goes right on singing, and after a moment, the rest of the gathered teens start laughing, again.
“Think it’ll work for our post-grad road trip?” Lionel asks, and Percy nods.
Behind them, the sliding van door stands open, peering out into Peckenpaugh’s half-ruined auditorium.
[MEMORY COMPLETE! Replies met and linchpin found! You may continue to thread in this scene or exit through the portal.]
Re: MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
The fuzzy dice get flung ineffectually toward the back of the van as teachers start innocently moving around them again. All of Fred collides with Joop, hips bumping against the radio dial as she presses up against the self-appointed lumberjack hero and rips off her dingle-bob, the only weapon she has left. "We're going to die on prom night," she wails as teachers sing and laugh, a truly horrific scene.
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
After a second of chaos, she soldiers on, pointing the ax toward the open van door and accidentally hitting the teen Wybie Youngblood with it. Whoops. "It's cool! It's cool! See, the door's open. We're safe!" She lowers her hand from her eye, still half-squinting it shut. "Gotta find that linchpin again, though."
Jupiter takes a careful step forward, ducking to keep from hitting her head on the roof of the van again. Determined and unafraid of danger (and squinting one watering eye shut) she certainly cuts a dashing form. Like Utena Tenjou, but Wish Dot Com Utena Tenjou.
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
The next episode of the Peculiar Perils is definitely going to introduce Saturn Quodpole, interstellar lumberjack, destroyer of space pirate ships with one fell swoop of her mighty ax. Also one eyed, which is a rampant problem the inhabitants of the Peculiar Perils universe seem to face. Of course, when Fred normally makes someone lose an eye, it's just with her quill.
"Do we really gotta??" she protests, bumping against Jupiter's back in her eagerness to stay close. The teachers may not have attacked yet, but just give them time. No one could truly be as cherubic as young Mr. Potkin appears to be. "If the door's open, shouldn't we just run??"
A Gryffindor's heart beats within this chest for sure.
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
Jupiter gingerly plucks the golden fuzzy dice from Zed Crockett's open mouth. She pauses to examine the twins and the librarian seated between them. After a beat, she decides, "I'd let this girl step on me." And then she holds the dice up for Fred to see. "Got 'em! Ready to get?"
MEMORY: Test Drive - COMPLETE!
Upon emerging from the memory out into the auditorium, the portal snapped shut behind them.
Elsewhere in the auditorium, sundew, a magimagicicada was freed! George Trullinger was not freed, and is still trapped somewhere within the nightmare tree.
You can check your token totals in Pouch's shop here, and maybe see if there's anything worth grabbing while you're there!