It Looks Like You're Trying To Save Your School

*Our heroes try to soldier on following the events of last episode, but as they approach the Forbidden Zone, the dangers only increase.*

*Would they like help?*

## Summary

The party realizes that Stirfry is truly dead, with Gerry Mentlegen confirming it by sensing the rat king has died with no successor. The party searches for him, but only finds an egg that Mother rebirthed like she did with Poopus. Bellow keeps it with him as the party leaves as heroes of The Soaking Valley. They are stopped by The Sodom Sisters who have orders to escort them back to Scrum. The party refuses, but one of the sisters recognizes Albee as the one person who thanked them. They struggle to grasp the concept, but are so surprised by any actual gratitude rather than a transaction that they insist that she died in the explosion, giving them a head start to leave town.

The group travels onward, leaving the freed down. Frederick struggles with his new feelings of loss towards Stirfry, upset at how strongly he’s experiencing them. The party agrees that no matter his sacrifice, Stirfry is going to Hell anyway so they’re sure to meet up with him later. Upon reaching Albee’s home,  she sees smoke in the chimney and dashes inside. She finds Caspin, a bulbous, stretched out humanoid that is the merged form of Casper and Kebin. He has established some degree of control over the demon, having become a part of it in a confusing manner of both living and being dead. He assures Albee that he is fine, and that he has been maintaining the house while the family is away while keeping Kebin from eating anything that can “be scared.” The siblings make peace with his new life, and after the emotional reunion Albee steels herself to press on to Hell. Cordelia finds a carrot.

Frederick continues to suffer and curse his new emotions. Cordelia tries to console him, but The Unpleasantness uses this weakness to seize control of his hand. It blows its way out of the jar, but Goatse and Prolapse continue to resist it. The hand tears itself free from Frederick’s body and takes on its true form: a massive paperclip riding on a piece of paper. It announces itself as the editor to the gods, higher and wiser than them and disgusted by the nonsense of the world. It mocks the idiocy of their references and impossibilities (such as Frederick having a Windows computer growing up), threatening to correct the world to what it should be. It marks Flipcup with a red line, shrinks him and removes him from reality as a start of its grand plan. It is interrupted when Hot Roddy comes bursting out through the trees, driving and ramming The Unpleasantness with The Shish Kebab Express. The entity is knocked away while Roddy casually catches up with the group, unaware of what he just did. The Unpleasantness reappears and deletes Roddy out of existence despite his most powerful bullying.

The party attempts to flee as the ancient thing begins correcting the forest around it, unconcerned with how quickly it edits the party when it has all of reality to work on. Frederick flashes back to his time using Windows as a child, forced to do his work on it by his father. He remembered writing a story on it and recognized the image of the paperclip creature, as well as the idea that its edits can be undone. He turns to face The Unpleasantness and presses a red X on the corner of it, declaring that he refuses its offers. Flipcup and Roddy return to them as the party celebrates and continues on their journey.

After the outro, Stirfry awakens with Mother in a field of flowers with sexy angels around him. He realizes they’ve gone to Heaven.

## Trivia

* Although Stirfry is confirmed dead at the start of the session, Tim Platt is still on mic throughout the episode.

## Links

Episode: https://omny.fm/shows/rude-tales-of-magic/it-looks-like-youre-trying-to-save-your-school