In Search of the Scarlet Griffin

In Search of the Scarlet Griffin is The Philmer's first and fifth overall Spyman's Cosmos limited series, as well as the first one to consist of more than four parts. It began on April 1, 2020 and ended on December 14, 2020. In the series, part of the Cosmos goes to find the forgotten artifact - The Scarlet Griffin - and rescue Jenny Brown, who led them on its track, from BSoD's Gang's hands. Remainder of the group stays in Phil's Mansion and their fates occasionally cross with their travelling friends and No-Life due to the teleport developed by Joseph and Mad.
== Synopsis ==
The maleficent BSoD's Gang kidnaps Phil's old friend Jenny Brown to get information on the powerful artifact called The Scarlet Griffin. However, Jenny manages to inform her old bud about it, which sends Phil and his friends on an adventure to find the titular artifact, as well as rescue Jenny.
== Parts ==
In Search of the Scarlet Griffin is the first series to abandon the regular 4/4 format and use five parts instead. The difference between the respective parts varies, from a few weeks to months.
Part 	Release date 	Length
1/5 	April 1, 2020 	8:43
2/5 	April 19, 2020 	13:31
3/5 	August 13, 2020 	15:34
4/5 	October 4, 2020 	16:18
5/5 	December 14, 2020	20:25
Total	Total 	1:14:31
== Plot ==
Phil's old friend, Jenny, is kidnapped by BSoD's Gang, who want to find an artifact called The Scarlet Griffin, which gives its user a God-like power. Before that happens however, she manages to send her friend a picture of hieroglyphs, containing information about the idol. Meanwhile, Spyman's Cosmos meets in Phil's Mansion to spend a few summer days together. Dr Saturn, Spy, OkiWan and Droppy are the first ones to arrive and after a brief talk with Phil, they meet Lenny Jester. At the same time, in BSoD's base, Blue Screen himself orders Jenny to write one more message to Phil, in which she would tell him to come to his base and save her, which would obviously be a trap. After the gang gathers, they relax on a barbecue in Phil's garden. Mangle catches Spy on using a pPad for work and takes it away, telling him to play with his friends. Spy doesn't like her using that word and gets into a discussion with Mangle how he doesn't want them to see him as a friend in case he dies on a Phalanx mission. In the meantime, Phil and Saturn are talking about the latter's feelings towards Alice. At night, Phil reads the messages from Jenny, which quickly interrupts the fun.
The Cosmos unites to find the artifact before their nemesis. Thanks to going over many books and deciphering the hieroglyphs, they find out information about The Scarlet Griffin. They find out that only a person of pure heart and four traits of the Griffin - courage, valour, wisdom and persistence - can possess the power to create and destroy. Additionally, they find a hidden message in the second one and discover that Jenny told Phil to go to Belgium after a map leading to The Griffin and not look back at her. Thus, he goes on the journey, alongside Spy, OkiWan, Saturn, Alice and Lenny. Meanwhile, No-Life reluctantly goes on a holiday trip with his family to Australia, whereas Joseph and Mad continue to work on their brand new teleport at Phil's Mansion. After finding the scroll and defeating Tobias Sanders and Larry Mealey, hot on their heels, they face Dr Rex and Commander Bus, who show the gang Jenny under Copper's cannon, threatening that the girl will die if they don't give the scroll away. Spy keeps the map however, which causes harm to Jenny. Terrified Phil gives the scroll to the villains, barely saving the friend. He is mad at Spy, but they temporarily put away the fight, to find the Gang's hideout in Austria ans save Jenny. This leads to a quarrell too, as Spy doesn't care about one person dying and prefers to instantly go to Nisipoulis, where Scarlet Griffin is located.
Spyman's Cosmos arrives in Vienna and visits the Phalanx facility, where they are welcomed by Arthur and the IT group leader, Hans. As it turns out, the agents had searched through the country by satellites and located the base in a forest fifteen kilometres away. While No-Life is touring Australia with his family, Joseph and Mad conduct the first test of their teleport, accidentally bringing No-Life to the mansion. He immediately wants to come back to the family, but as he confuses Australia with Austria, he is sent to the latter. After the hovercycles, which were supposed to be the Cosmos' transport, get taken by the scientists as well, the Journey Squad is forced to go on foot, which gives them a lot of time to talk about the recent matters. Finally, they find No-Life right outside BSoD's base and he joins them. Together they rescue Jenny from the hands of BSoD, Jack Jester and Copper, but the fight ends with the villains' leader activating the base's auto-destruct process. This sparks another argument between Spy and Phil, leading the former to leave his friends behind and teleport after the villains. The rest barely escapes before the lair explodes.
Spy arrives on Nisipoulis, where he briefly fights the villains, but loses. He's not killed though and finds out that they want him to activate The Scarlet Griffin and force him to get it out of its temple. At the same time, the rest of the squad begins another day in Phalanx Vienna facility. Phil talks with Jenny, who got a mechanic arm prosthesis and they recollect the past, as well as reveal their feelings to each other. Saturn does the same with Alice, who apprecieates it, but says she needs time. They also meet with Arthur again and he tells them more about The Griffin. Eventually, they all begin to plan the strategy, while Spy finds The Scarlet Griffin and is tempted by its force, but resists and takes it. Back at Phalanx, they figure out that BSoD's Gang had forced him to use The Griffin and go to save their friend.
The remainder of the Cosmos in the mansion is finally able to help their friends when the teleport is finished, while Spy comes back with The Griffin and is led for a ceremony. Spy says that it won't work, as he's not a good man, but Copper jokes that even if he's killed, it's good for them. He then starts reading the words required to use the power, but nothing happens and Spy once again says he's not good. The Gang attempts to kill him, but the Cosmos arrives just in time and the battle begins. Eventually, BSoD takes the idol and uses its power himself, becoming a powerful being. When the heroes' fates hang in the balance, the rest of Spyman's Cosmos arrives and thanks to their diversion, the main four manages to get The Scarlet Griffin and they realize that each one of them has one of the required traits. They then become titans like BSoD and finally defeat him, while the evil Gang draws back, taking BSoD's destroyed screen with them. Back at Phil's Mansion, everyone celebrates and relaxes after the past few days, with everything ending well and The Griffin being locked somewhere very far away.
In a post-credits scene set two years later, Colonel Johnson lands in front of Phil's Mansion.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* Phil
* Spymankiller
* Dr Saturn
* OkiWan
=== Secondary ===
* Jenny Brown (debut)
* Lenny Jester
* Alice Marbleford
* No-Life
* Arthur
* Hans (debut)
* Pankid
* Mad Playz
* Joseph
=== Villains ===
* Blue Screen of Death
* Jack Jester
* Copper
* Dr Rex
* Commander Bus
* Tobias Sanders
* Larry Mealey
* Gun henchmen
=== Episodic ===
* Caddict
* Charles
* Droppy
* Mangle
* PCus
* Rex
* Blank Tank
* Ryan
* Otillie
* Henry
* No-Life's Mom
*No-Life's Dad
* Airport lady (debut)
* James (cameo)
* Alex (cameo)
* Garmatrol (cameo)
* General Stefanson (cameo)
== Trivia ==
* The series is a renewed version of a series idea The Philmer had in 2018.
* Each part, beginning with Part 2, makes at least one reference to a subsequent Indiana Jones film.
*There are eleven characters that appear in all five parts. These are: Phil, Spy, Dr Saturn, OkiWan, Jenny, BSoD, Jack, Copper, Lenny, Alice and Pankid.
*The ideas for the series began popping up at the end of 2019 already.
*Originally, Garmatrol was supposed to appear as full-fledged member of BSoD's Gang for the whole series. He'd be the one to use The Scarlet Griffin in part 5 and would eventually turn to dust from the power overload. The Philmer scrapped that role entirely, as the only reason for a potential death of the villain was that no one had ever used him in the surviving videos and no one worked on the series anyway. Yet, he didn't want to get rid of a character in such a stupid way, nor use him without OkiWan's approval, especially that an alternate version of Garmatrol was the major threat of the OkiVerse series back then.
**Ultimately, The Philmer came up with a surprise flashback cameo, which he managed to get approval for, without actually telling OkiWan about it.
* Tobias and Larry were supposed to have a slightly bigger role, appearing again at the beginning of part 5 and demanding the payment from BSoD's Gang, despite failing earlier.
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