Episode 18 - Get Them To The Power Station!

## Summary

The club reunites in the Christmas house so that Susan and Shamanda can exorcise a spirit. Then it's time for a joy ride in Tom's Netmobile so that everybody can air their grievances, get suspicious, and reveal whose dad is the devil. Most important of all, the Club gets a visit from the most important and lovable person in Mystery County. Yes. It's Janice.

## Previously On...

Welcome back to WHFD the FUD. We're covering a live story down outside of the gross Christmas tree house.

Susan: Oh, okay. Um, yeah. So what happened, and this is all going to sound so silly, is mostly I ran into an ex and I think that's the main thing you need to know. But a couple of other things did happen.

We're still in the Christmas house. Um, can't seem to get ourselves out of here, due to the Christmas lights being haunted? Alive? I'm not sure I'm ready to put a word on it yet, but we're trying to get out of there and save a couple lives while we're at it.

I did run into Vamilla. I'd prefer not to talk about that too long.

Also last week, what happened was Adam went ahead and saved CEJ from certain death at an Old Navy, but that's not the craziest thing that happened. CEJ was able to jump through a car window unharmed. I guess that's what you missed or that's what you heard and forgot about.

## Plot

### THE QUIVIK HOUSE

After Adam Miller and CEJ pull up in Diane Miller's 1992, two-door, Oldsmobile and get past the weird kid, Derrk Pflifer, they take in the Christmas house. It looks impassable with the twining Christmas lights. CEJ wants to get to the real danger at the power station, and tries to convince Adam to leave without the club.

> "What's waiting for us at the power plant, I guess I should say, what's at the power plant will not wait for long. The more time we dilly dally here, the worse it's gonna be. I think you and me just - we got to try to handle it our own. Cousin power."
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Adam bangs on the door and yells at his friends to meet them at the power plant.
Susan looks at Shamanda and asks her to fix this.

> "You stupid idiot! No, you can't leave right now! The house is obviously cursed, we need help!"
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Hearing Shamanda, Adam feels more like himself than he has in a long time. He realizes that he is unaffected by the bright sunlight, and he feels good. He can feel that the bond with the secret masters has changed and grown smaller. He tells his cousin that they can't leave, which upsets CEJ, who invoked cousin power.

CEJ grabs Adam by the wrist and tries to pull him away. Shamanda can sense Adam leaving and grabs his mind through their connection. This physical and mental connection meet at Adam's soul which currently resides in Shamanda. She aches with Adam's turmoil, but continues to try to pull Adam to her.

Realizing that Adam isn't going to budge, CEJ kicks a hole in the door of the house, doubles over with exhaustion and sits down. Susan is very impressed, and a small smattering of applause comes from the crowd.

Adam remarks that CEJ has really come into his own as a monster hunter, which CEJ does not want to hear. CEJ dives through the hole, and Adam climbs through, but almost gets stuck as the Christmas lights begin to constrict around the hole. The club grabs on to Adam and yanks him through. Adam is disappointed that his pants now have some large tears.

Susan knows that the cleanup crew and the HOA president are somewhere trapped in the house. Francis Larson, Melvin's partner, is likely in the house as well. In order to protect the victims, Susan knows that she needs to put the ghost to rest. The club join hands, recite something they love about Christmas, and Susan calls forth the spirit of Melvin Quivik.

> "Melvin Quivik, we call you now. We're so proud. And how! Look what you've done with this house. No one would ever touch it." Susan looks around wildly trying to figure out how to rhyme 'touch it'.
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Shamanda speaks of her love of Toblerone by the fire at Christmas, trying to reinforce Susan's spell. The magic takes hold as Susan banishes Melvin Quivik's spirit from the house. The animating energy leaves the lights which settle in their normal form, and the victims are released.

> "We've got to get to the power plant! Because the Salamander people that we met in the underground thing and a bunch of weird, big demons are gonna have it out there and either side winning is really bad news for us."
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Adam interjects that the demons are his dad's, because his dad is the devil. CEJ tells them that he has some new friends that are waiting for them at the power plant and they have to go!
Pushpa crawls up from the basement, and Doug Boose confidently comes down from the second floor. He thanks them for coming, and bids them adieu very suspiciously.

> "Melvin?" Susan asks.
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Melvin Quivik, in the body of Doug Boose, tells them that nobody will miss Doug. Melvin tells them to leave, and the Club realizes they need to deal with the power plant first.
Shamanda convinces the crowd that this was all an elaborate light show for an upcoming Christmas event. The Haverfordians seem to believe her. CEJ spots Derrk still watching.

> "Hey, did you buy that?"
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> "Nope."
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Derrk cheerfully waves goodbye and walks away.

Tom Knutts pull up with his Netmobile. The club asks Tom to take them to the power plant and he agrees. CEJ tries to dive through the van window, but Adam Miller stops CEJ before he breaks the glass. Tom had gotten out of the van to check out the hosue, and Shamanda rushes to the driver seat and peals out with the club. What they do not realize is that Tom has a caged coyote in the back.

Tom calls Marcus Verhmese and reports on the carjacking, as well as the loss of the genetically modified coyote. Marcus tells him that he will turn on the tracker.

### THE ROAD

Susan gives everyone, including the coyote, a snack from her bag. Krashlee asks CEJ if what is at the power plant has to do with Lailah and how the time is wrong. CEJ tells her that the time *is* wrong. Adam tells the club that he thinks that the Moth Men (plural) are working with Lailah. Krashlee tries to investigate whether something is wrong with CEJ who is acting very strange. Both interrupt their interaction as flirting on the part of the other.

While the club is bickering, Shamanda reveals that she and Adam are soul bonded, which really surprises Adam and most of the club. Adam reveals that the devil is his father, which really upsets Shamanda. She feels like everything she has done and experienced up to this point has been manipulated. Adam can feels the emotional tide turning on Krashlee, and he feels his drive for cruelty push him. He tells Krashlee that the only reason anyone ever liked her was through mental domination. Shamanda can feel Adam's soul pulse with cruelty, and Krashlee feels incredibly insecure.

Unable to regulate her emotions, Krashlee lets a past life leap to the fore. Janice takes control and starts mumbling about not treating people badly.

> "Just because someone is 26 years old and never had a prospect doesn't mean they never will unless they die that year. And then they won't."
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CEJ pats Krashlee's back. Shamanda hits herself in the face and kicks herself in the genitals and transfers the damage to Adam. Adam doubles over in pain, and vomits himself a cocoon. They get to the power plant, CEJ throws himself out of the van and runs toward the building. Krashlee follows him.

Shamanda calls Astrid and Adriana and tells them to get over to the power plant. Seeing a tracker around the coyote's neck, Susan lets it out of the cage. It leaps out, stands up on two legs and gives Susan a head nod. It walks away on two legs into the brush.

### OUTSIDE THE POWER PLANT

> "You've lost control of it again, Susan."
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Susan mutters to herself and walks into the power plant. Adam stays in his cocoon for a few minutes longer, trying to heal. Shamanda searches the van for weaponry. She knows that she needs to stay with the group, and seeing that the club has mostly left, she runs into the building.

Left alone, Adam feels pretty awful about what he said to Krashlee. He also realizes that he and CEJ have been talking about two different things about what is going on in the power plant. He knows that the Moth Men and Lailah are doing something to end the world, but CEJ seemed to believe that there was a fight between Salamanders and Demons going on. It didn't sound right to him. CEJ is either wrong, or lying.

Then he remembers that the thing his secret master said was the most important thing for him to do. Keep CEJ away from the power plant. Adam runs to the power plant, and he feels that Shamanda is in danger.

### INSIDE THE POWER PLANT

Before Adam even leaves his cocoon, the rest of the club run into the power plant. CEJ throws open the front doors and he walks into a dark foyer. CEJ waits for the rest of the club to get to him.

> "Okay, I know for a fact that Jeremy and Cynthia and Joel are in here somewhere."
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He turns to face the group.

> "Because we've been waiting here for you."
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CEJ grabs his upper lip, pulls it completely over his head and reveals his true Salamander face.

## Characters

**Main Cast**

* Rashawn Nadine Scott as Shamanda Felt
* Jeff Murdoch as Adam Miller and Tom Knutts
* Erin Rein as Krashlee Grenadine
* Claire Linic as Susan Wexler
* Alan Linic as Salameejay and Derrk Pflifer
* Tyler Samples as Melvin Quivik, Theresa Serbinski, Marcus Verhmese, and everyone else

## Introductions

Tyler: Welcome to Mystery County Monster Hunters Club where we use dice to tell a story of pimply protagonists and bumbling beasts. I'm Tyler Samples, your Keeper of Monsters and Mysteries. Let's meet our players.

Rashawn: Hi everybody, I'm Rashawn Nadine Scott and my character is Shamanda Felt, the Crooked and ♫ it's beginning to♫ - oh shit.

Jeff: Hi, I'm Jeff Murdoch and I'm playing the character Adam Miller, the Monstrous and it's a moth eat moth world, and baby, I'm a caterpillar.

Erin: Hey, I'm Erin Rein. I play Krashlee Grenadine, the Flake, and last week I lied; you're actually no more than two feet from seven spiders at any time.

Claire: Hi everybody, my name is Claire Linic. I play Susan Wexler, the Expert and I'm kinda the Taylor Swift of the book world.

Alan: Hey everyone, I'm Alan Linic, and I play CEJ the Mundane ghost man and thanks to last week's episode, I can officially tell you that ♫I've become so nun...chuck♫.

## Notable Quotes

* "Cousin Power." - Salameejay
* "You're so close to Shamanda and for some reason that just feels really nice. Like feels really, you just feel like yourself, like you feel close to a connection that's very important to you. But you don't know what it is that-." - Tyler Samples
* "Aw, that's how I feel when I'm around Claire." - Alan Linic
* "Oh, I feel that around Erin." - Tyler Samples
* "Oh, I currently don't feel that with anyone, but that's fine." - Jeff Murdoch
* "I did not date Melvin!" - Susan Wexler
* "I love casting mental dominion!" - Adam Miller
* "The one thing that people in Haverford and Mystery County are very willing to do is be told that the horrible things happening around them are not what they think they are." - Tyler Samples
* "Negging doesn't work on me." - Krashlee Grenadine

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