WEEK 4

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Tadashi, Sophie, and Princess Anna are dead. By now, maybe you're realizing that this plays is way more dangerous than you have ever feared, but don't worry, maybe some hope will come along the way.

For example, if anyone tries to open the Conservatory Door leading outside starting this week, they'll find that they finally have access to the graveyard and outside. You are now freely able to leave the mansion whenever you want.

Maybe you can all finally leave this place...?

20 guests remain.]

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[pardonmylanguage]

[She grins.] Sounds like we've got a plan, then. We should scout it out first, at least. [She's going to start heading in the direction of the trees now.]

[kindaruledatit]

Whoa, wait up. [And she's hurrying on Tip's heels, axe in hand! It's alright, she knows how to use it.]

You know, this forest kind of reminds me of home. Only a little more freaky.

[pardonmylanguage]

[Tip is looking around at the trees as they head in.] Really? What part?

[kindaruledatit]

[They look rather twisted and dark.

The forest, mostly. [What did you expect? She shrugs lightly.] Oregon's got these huge trees in it, some that are probably even alive. [She wouldn't be surprised.]

It means logging is kind of big there, which is where my family comes in.

[pardonmylanguage]

...I hope you don't cut down the living trees. Or...at least that they don't try and get revenge for their friends being cut down or something.

[kindaruledatit]

Nnnnnnnonly sometimes. [She tries to look innocent!] Don't worry, they live in a part of the forest that most people don't go to. At least. I think.

[The trees don't especially like telling stories.]

Hey, didn't your world have aliens? Did I tell you that ours did too?

[pardonmylanguage]

Alright, guess that makes sense. [She nods at the question about aliens.] Yeah, the Boov and the Gorg. I don't think I heard about the aliens in your world, though.

[kindaruledatit]

To be honest, neither did I, really. But I think I heard Ford say something once about how a alien ship crashed into the canyon Gravity falls in is like, a hundred million years ago.

[Which. Might be why Tip doesn't hear about aliens much from the GF cast.]

Watch your step. [Suddenly, a root.]

[pardonmylanguage]

[Tip nods, stepping on and then over it.] Actually, there was a crashed alien ship on my Earth too. Or...I guess it was more like their equivalent of sending a dog up to test a spaceship.

[kindaruledatit]

[gg, Tip.]

You mean like, sending a dog to space? Yeah dude, we had stuff like that happen too.

[pardonmylanguage]

Yeah. And apparently Koobish-the alien animals-can reproduce by budding, and the spaceship kept the bud fresh enough that when the pod crash-landed in water a new one was born. [She pauses] The...Chief found it, and he was taking care of those Koobish and hiding the spaceship. They're...roaming free now, though, since it's not really a secret anymore. [She sounds a bit wistful.]

[kindaruledatit]

[Wendy laughs.]

Oh man... I have no idea what you just talked about. But, at least it sounds like something good.

[And she catches the tone in Tip's voice too.] You miss it, huh?

[pardonmylanguage]

...I miss the Chief. [She sighs a bit.] When he first found the spaceship, he tried to tell the government, but they kept thinking he was crazy. So in the end he decided to just play up that part and disguised it under a fake paper-mache spaceship when they finally came to look. [Another sigh] He...he was already old. And he knew that he was dying. [Her voice has gotten somewhat somber as they continue walking.]

[kindaruledatit]

[The soft crunch of dirt under Wendy's boots is the only reply she's given before she speaks up.] You know, that's actually just like what I was going through. Back at this place I worked at, the Mystery shack? It turns out it was Ford's old house until he got sucked into this weird portal he built underneath it. Then, my boss Stan took it over and made it into a tourist shop while he tried to rebuild the portal in secret.

[It was a long, looong phone conversation with Soos.]

To make a long story short, it worked.

[pardonmylanguage]

[There's a long pause as she takes that in before speaking.] ...wow. That's...good, I guess. And your boss sounds cool, if he managed to do all that secretly. Assuming the portal didn't end up bringing in anything else weird.

[kindaruledatit]

Yeah, Stan's actually pretty cool, even if he's super old. He's been teaching me how to hotwire cars.

[Buuuut don't tell anyone. ssshhhh]

Yeah, he was doing it all for his brother. Pretty crazy, hope I don't have to do something like that one day.

[She would though. She knows that.]

[pardonmylanguage]

Really? I guess I'm lucky Slushious held up for that trip across the United States, so I never had to worry about that at least.

[She nods at that comment.] ...yeah, family's really important. I can totally understand that.

[kindaruledatit]

...Yea, it really-

[She stops, holding her arm out for Tip to stop as well. Then, with her axe hand, she points towards the spot in the trail where there's just a white light.]

That's gotta be the way out of here! C'mon!

[She's already going for it.]

[pardonmylanguage]

Yes! [Tip throws her arms into the air and cheers, hurrying after Wendy, although she also has one eye directed at the ground just in case.]

[kindaruledatit]

[There's nothing on the ground! They can just keep running, which Wendy is definitely doing. She's running into the light, regardless of what lay behind it.

And Tip should see her do so before she gets to the light herself. Which also means she'll hear Wendy yelling:]

OH COME ON!

[Which will make more sense when Tip gets through it too.

They're standing in front of the Mansion, back in the graveyard.]

[pardonmylanguage]

What's the- [And then Tip comes out too, and throws her own arms into the air.] Seriously?