Mizzle: hey gang, I found a lever!
Trimaldis: let’s find out what it does
(The dragon breathes fire and everyone spreads out to avoid it)
Saraid: Mizzle! Are you okay?
Mizzle: (reading “Love’s Captive” by Arabella Richardson) No! I lost my place! I have to start the chapter over!
Trimaldis: (in unison) Activate jump jets! DEATH FROM ABOVE!
(Later, recuperating)
Shiny: (weakly) pain… from… above…
Tiny: I TOLD you we should have added extra interior padding
Whiny: shut up and pass me the painkillers
Saraid: this new fighting style is about balance
Mizzle: what kind of balance do you seek to achieve?
Saraid: every time I punch someone with my left hand, I make sure to punch with the right too
Mizzle: what did you do before joining with us?
Saraid: I was a vampire hunter
Mizzle: was it more stressful than adventuring with us?
Saraid: I was constantly reminded of the stakes
Saraid: it’s sometimes frustrating dealing with the Trimaldis
Mizzle: why is that?
Saraid: I often want to stuff them into a trash can but they’d like that
SHINY: Mizzle says we have too many raccoons and have to downsize.
TINY: Too many raccoons? How does that even work?
SHINY: Don’t worry. Nobody can tell the difference between us. We’ll just take turns stepping outside the clank. I have a schedule here.
WHINY: Wait, why does this have you getting out of the clank every session?
SHINY: Someone needs to keep you guys out of trouble.
TINY: You’re going to keep us out of trouble? How does that even work?
Mizzle: hey, how did you guys make the cart move so fast?
Tiny: spoilers
Mizzle: hey, no fair! You can tell me, I don’t mind hearing about stuff early!
Shiny: Unfair, someone else sneaking in unnoticed and stealing stuff!
Tiny: Completely unfair! Unfair sneakiness!
Miney: We should complain to the union!
Whiny: Yeah! Being sneaky and taking stuff is our gig!
Shiny: Hold on a second …
Mizzle: do you have family at home?
Shiny: aside from Tiny and Whiny, there’s Miney…
Whiny: …and Eenie, Meanie….
Tiny: and Mo, the black sheep of the family
(Cut to a black sheep grazing nervously as a gang of judgmental raccoons observe them)
Shiny: Let’s try this again. I was complaining about those sneaky monkeys …
Whiny: And I agreed with you about those sneaky monkeys …
Minkey: And I was the next one to agree with you about them …
Tiny: And I was the third one to agree with you … wait …
Shiny: I feel like we’re so close …
Monkey: Dance competition!
Shiny: Hah! I can do the Robot!
Tiny: I can do the Moonwalk!
Whiny: (mutters) I do all the robot walking for us.
Monkey: Time for me to do the Running Man!
Shiny: Wait just one goldarn moment …
Shiny: Do guys ever lay awake at night, thinking about things?
Tiny: I lay awake thinking of maintenance I have to do in the morning.
Whiney: I lay awake thinking about home.
Monkey: I lay awake thinking about what I can be sneaking into while other people are laying awake.
Dave: I lay awake thinking of strained comedy themes to post in the forum.
Shiny: Oh, man, you do have it rough.
Monkeys: you don’t seem too upset that we stole your stuff
Mizzle: well it was just potions and food and other traveling supplies, right? We can always get more, and generosity is a virtue!
Monkeys: oh yeah! That stuff was valuable, unlike the old books we took and dumped into a lake
Mizzle: (monotone) you’re all going to die
Mizzle: the Lamenters are up to no good. I need to infiltrate their group to learn more
Saraid: I appreciate the effort but won’t they notice you immediately?
Trimaldis: it’ll be fine, all humans look alike
Mizzle: to infiltrate this group, I got this leather luggage full of disguise equipment
Mizzle: it’s a case of mistaken identity!
Saraid: I hope they catch you
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Monkey: Dance competition!
Shiny: Hah! I can do the Robot!
Tiny: Watch this Electric Slide!
Whiny: I can do a great Moonwalk!
Monkey: Time for me to do the Running Man!
Shiny: Wait, what …?
Monkey: (runs away)
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Sigh. (Then I still had a draft in one window, and fleshed it out different ways each time. Parallel Universe Comedy!)
Guilt-eating Demon: hi, I’m here to consume feelings of guilt and twisted responsibility
Trimaldis: (pointing at Mizzle) the buffet bar is over there
