Adventure 27 | [Action and Video]

[italktofish]

[Scenario A, noon, April 1]
[So it's lunchtime. And there's a restaurant. And there's Arthur, eating at a restaurant. This should not be unusual.

But this restaurant is a Long John Silver's, and Arthur is sitting down to chow down on a fried fish basket.]

[Scenario B, 5:00 PM, April 1]
[Horror of horrors, there are TWO ARTHURS squaring off against each other in the park.]

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, YOU IMPOSTROUS VILLAIN!

No, stop! You're scaring me!

[One Arthur is loud and angry. The other looks like he might faint from terror and is barely making a sound. How very unusual.]

[Open Video to the Network, evening of April 1]
GUYS! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED!

I ran into ANOTHER ME! And he was being a DASTARDLY VILLAIN! But then he GOT AWAY! So if you see me, you better make sure it's ME me, because it may be that FIEND, whatever he was!

Comments

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

Another you? How is that possible?

[Voice]

[italktofish]

I don't know! It was DIABOLICAL! I just found him there in the park being AN IMPOSTOR! And he'd given poor Granny such a hard time, the FIEND!

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

... You really mean he was completely different from you.

[Voice]

[italktofish]

He WAS! He looked like me and he sounded like me, but he acted more like my JERK OF AN OLDER BROTHER!

[Which is easy shorthand for "opposite of Arthur's personality."]

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

Fascinating ...

Do you have any idea where he could have come from?

[Voice]

[italktofish]

I'm not sure! But he should have STAYED there, the fiend!

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

I do wonder if someone who looks just like you has anywhere to stay.

[Voice]

[italktofish]

I have no idea! It's a MYSTERY!

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

It really is ...

[Voice]

[italktofish]

And I hope I get to the bottom of it SOMEDAY! Because I CANNOT ALLOW SUCH VILLAINY TO BESMIRCH MY GOOD NAME AND STAND!

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

All right, you don't need to yell.

[Voice]

[italktofish]

I'm not yelling! I'm just SPEAKING POWERED BY MY DESIRE FOR OUTRAGEOUS JUSTICE!

And everyone's always told me I get kind of loud, anyway!

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

So I've noticed. Any particular reason why?

[Voice]

[italktofish]

That's just the way I am! OUTRAGEOUS in every way!

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

And proud of it, I see.

[ Ah, well. Carry on. ]

Re: [Voice]

[pokebonnet]

Well if he is really Sully, then Florida.

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

Could it be Sully?

Re: [Voice]

[pokebonnet]

I don't know.

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

You saw him, didn't you? Did he look like Sully?

Re: [Voice]

[pokebonnet]

He looked like Arthur. But it could have been a disguise. I had other things on my mind. [Like the pulse he gave her.]

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

I see.

[ He's not sure which is more absurd. It actually being Arthur somehow, or this Sully person in a disguise for some reason. ]

Re: [Voice]

[pokebonnet]

Well, I did! I ended up pulsing right there in the restaurant and then afterwards being outside was kinda uncomfortable.

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

Ah, I see. What was the pulse?

Re: [Voice]

[pokebonnet]

Sunlight isn't very comfortable anymore.

... I suppose I should have expected it. I am supposed to be a vampire now.

[Voice]

[gobybessie]

--ah.

That'd do it.

How inconvenient.