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A PLAN FOR THE AGES
[Layton Brothers: Mystery Room - Track 4 (Investigation)]

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:21:04
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Got the wisest minds in the universe workin' on this case."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:21:28
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"No-vember is upon us, and we gotta capitalize on it."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:21:53
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"So, tell me, what's the plan?"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:22:44
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"I would not personally consider Collector "one of the wisest minds in the universe!"

Collector
2024-12-12 20:23:25
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:49:08
Posted by ID #87
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"I'd usually be offended, but actually being called smart is extremely stressful!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:23:57
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"You punks are all I have to work with, no one answered my advertisement!"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:24:41
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"That is because your advertisement was subpar and unengaging!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:25:52
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Oh really now, you hunk of junk! Tell me what was so subpar about it."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:26:34
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 20:44:35
Posted by ID #69
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""I am hoping to destroy the Notail Union.""

Collector
2024-12-12 20:26:59
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 20:45:26
Posted by ID #69
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""This job has major risks.""

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:29:27
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 20:45:11
Posted by ID #69
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""Death is extremely probable!""

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:29:53
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"That's not too bad! There's some anarchist punk out there who'd love that shit!"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:30:49
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 20:44:51
Posted by ID #69
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""Payment is in exposure.""

Collector
2024-12-12 20:31:12
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:49:44
Posted by ID #87
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"Yeah, that might be what got them."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:46:12
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"What, these idiots don't want the exposure a god can give them?"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:46:37
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Everyone thinks your claim to godhood is a sign of motor skill degradation!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:53:21
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:50:09
Posted by ID #87
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"Mmmph, I'd go on the streets and get someone but that shit is too much work..."
KNOCK KNOCK

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:55:58
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:50:18
Posted by ID #87
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"Well, would you look at that! Someone is here for the job!"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:56:17
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:03:14
Posted by ID #69
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"Whoever is behind that door does not value their life or a valid income source!"

Collector
2024-12-12 20:56:51
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:03:00
Posted by ID #69
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"I'd be behind that door but I already gave up ages ago!"
The Sleeper opens the door.

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:58:31
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:02:44
Posted by ID #69
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"Wah-"

O-2
2024-12-12 20:58:48
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"Greetings. :D"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 20:59:00
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:02:23
Posted by ID #69
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"I was right!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 20:59:49
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:02:12
Posted by ID #69
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"So, you came right to the dragon's den to fight me head on, have you? You notail punks are ballsy, I'll give you that."

O-2
2024-12-12 21:00:14
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"??????????"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:00:33
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:01:52
Posted by ID #69
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"You better be ready to meet your end, idiot."

O-2
2024-12-12 21:01:12
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"Like a ship with no mast, your assumptions of the world have no impact on where you will go. :D"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:13:07
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"You speaking tourist or some shit?"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:13:58
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Let us try this interaction again, shall we? :D" O-2 shuts the door and knocks.

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:14:26
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"............." The Sleeper opens the door. "What sort of games are you playin', notail?"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:14:40
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"I want a job. :D"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:15:09
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Are you stupid?"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:15:20
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"My intelligence is as vast and deep as the ocean. There are reefs of activity but most of it remains empty, yet ever calm. :D"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:15:40
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"What?"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:15:58
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"..........................................................................."

O-2
2024-12-12 21:16:09
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:51:01
Posted by ID #87
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"I suppose 'yes' will work. :D"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:16:22
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:16:32
Posted by ID #69
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"This job is to destroy the Notail Union!"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:16:51
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Yeah. :D"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:17:06
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"You.....you're an O-class!"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:17:18
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I can read. :D"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:17:37
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Are you fuckin' high?!"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:17:55
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Yeah. :D"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:18:15
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Posted by ID #69
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Posted by ID #69
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"You want some? :D"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:18:47
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I know what you're thinking-"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:19:06
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"What strain is that?"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:19:26
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Why would an O-class want to destroy-"

O-2
2024-12-12 21:20:08
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 21:20:18
Posted by ID #69
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"I guess I do not actually know what you're thinking..... :D"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 21:21:18
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I think we need to focus on this amazing investment opportunity!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:21:35
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Right, lets hear what this piebald morph freak has to say."

O-2
2024-12-12 21:22:01
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
Maybe she should just leave now and go back to dealing with her meeting with a bunch of animals....

O-2
2024-12-12 21:22:15
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"The burden of the world stands on my shoulders. Tiredness grips me from all angles. To be free from the net of fate, to leap through the seas without burden, bliss. :D"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 21:22:57
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Translation: "Work bad! Can't leave job!""

O-2
2024-12-12 21:23:18
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Do you people....understand art? TvT"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 21:23:38
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"................................................"

Collector
2024-12-12 21:24:04
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
".................................................................."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:24:24
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I took a life drawing class once."

O-2
2024-12-12 21:24:34
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I am leaving. :D"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:28:30
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Hold up."

O-2
2024-12-12 21:29:14
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Goodbye. I have been cured of my disgruntledness over my job. :D"
O-2 closes the door on her way out.

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:30:14
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Whatever, it was a trap for sure anyway!"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 21:30:31
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"By my calculations there was only a 15% chance of it being a trap!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:30:51
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I got a better idea from that governmental punk."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 21:31:03
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"You folks know about "bliss high?""

Collector
2024-12-12 22:21:07
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I have never touched a drug in my life, Skipper keeps doing all of them before I can get there."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:21:31
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I only pretend to do massive amounts of cocaine for team bonding!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:21:55
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Posted by ID #69
Last edit: 2024-12-12 22:22:06
Posted by ID #69
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"Bliss High is what we give capture creatures to make 'em tamed."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:22:29
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"The shit is filled with parasites that make you docile as shit."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:23:07
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"They get in your brain and suddenly you can't stop loving your caretaker."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:25:01
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"So, what if we made a little holiday of sort where folks will gobble up our treats."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:29:19
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"We're going to put parasites in food and feed them to the masses so they'll become addicted!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:29:40
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Shut it, Zookeeper!"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:30:03
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
Zookeeper turns off.

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:30:24
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:52:44
Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:52:44
"No, not that type of shut, turn back on, but shut your damn money whore mouth."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:30:45
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
Zookeeper turns on.

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:31:05
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"So my plan is, we infect the area with Bliss High and get people throwing themselves at our feet, begging to give us their money!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:31:27
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Guess it's not destroyin' the Union but you know what, fuck the Union, all I want is more money in my wallet, and I think I'm ready to get myself a new cult."

Collector
2024-12-12 22:32:14
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I thought the people who paid you rent on all those planets you keep making us take over were your cult."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:32:37
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"I thought so too, but they never praise me. In fact, they keep cursing me or some shit."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:33:00
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Might it be because the rent is too high?"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:33:18
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:53:18
Posted by ID #87
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"Nah, it can't be. Gotta be something else. Like they want new pools or something."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:33:53
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Two pools per building, that'll raise the property value!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:36:12
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Heh! More reasons to charge em' more!"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:36:47
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Collector and Skipper might just go homeless again! Imagine that!"

Collector
2024-12-12 22:37:12
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Sleeper have mercy on me!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:37:29
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"We'll see about that..."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:39:47
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Posted by ID #87
Last edit: 2025-11-18 18:53:55
Posted by ID #87
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"Anyway, the only issue is that there's limits on how much Bliss High you can buy. You buy too much and suddenly the coppers are askin' questions like "Do you really have enough capture creatures for this?" and "You're not some addict eating blort food, are you?'''

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:40:02
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"But there's a way around this. We get other people to get the Bliss High for us."

Collector
2024-12-12 22:40:19
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Right....but how are we going to make a bunch of people do a highly ethically dubious activity without calling the cops?"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:40:40
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Collector! We'll just do what we always do!"

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:41:16
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"You there."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:47:16
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"You want this? You gotta have it."

Collector
2024-12-12 22:48:20
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
("Who is he talking to?")

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:48:41
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
("The poor bot, he accidently saw his own retlection in the mirror and is trying to sell this offer to it.")

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:49:04
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"All you have to do....is bring us the capture creature treats. Every treat equals a ticket."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:49:30
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"So the more treats you bring, the higher a chance you have to win."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:49:46
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"So get out there and start collecting some capture creature candy!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:50:24
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"Amazing sell, Zookeeper!" Sleeper picks up Zookeeper and sets him outside.

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:50:41
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"But the consumers are out there."

Zookeeper
2024-12-12 22:51:15
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Posted by ID #69
Zookeeper immediately spots another person and scuttles towards them. "You there."

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:51:45
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"That's my boy! The Creator can really make them, can't he!"

Sleeper
2024-12-12 22:52:04
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Posted by ID #69
Posted by ID #69
"As for you, you better get shaking those legs. Rent will be due."

Collector
2024-12-12 22:52:29
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Posted by ID #69
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"God and the landlord have no mercy!"
To Be Continued
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