Looking for Trouble/Quotes

**The following is a partial transcript of the *Mountain of Mystery* episode "Looking for Trouble"**:

## The Demons of My Past

**TROUBLE**: "Well, I guess if you really *must* know… Um, I was in the forest hiding from all the demons of my past, uh, and, you know, uh, talking to some birds and some elk and some friends, and, um, some creatures that are quite terrifying in all honesty. Um, but, you know, we became good friends; I learned how to speak to them. And then, all of a sudden, uh, I was standing in front of this, like, cat-person who I’ve never seen before. It was wild; it was so fascinating. I was really intrigued, but I couldn’t speak for myself mind you, because– as you all do. Um, and then, so, we bec– we started to hang around; I followed her, because quite frankly, I didn’t even know where I was. Um, I had never seen a map before, so I was really unsure where the hell I was, what was going on. Um, but I had made a new friend, and I had never had one of those before. Well, I had, but it had been a while and I hadn’t really seen him often, so, you know, it– um, it’s what it is. He was the first one to really talk to me: my name was Friend, and then it became Trouble, um, and then– well, it *was* something else before that, and then it became Friend, and then it became Trouble. And then, um– so I traveled around with Prints for a while, and then we met these fools at a bar. It was fascinating! There was a little fight ring: I bet on everybody, and won every time. It was fabulous, because I pitted them against each other, and it was very clear who was going to win, but they *did!* And then we got hired for some job that I didn’t fully understand; I don’t think we were supposed to be there, but we just kind of followed in, and then they said, “Okay. Sure. You can come too.” So we went on this little job, and then, you know, it was kind of fun. We went into the forest, I turned into an elk, *impaled* a man on my horns, and *then* we came through, we went into, like, some weird, like, winery, but it wasn’t even open, and I had never tried wine before, so that was quite fun. And so I wanted to burn the roof down, but then they said no, so I crashed through the roof as a giant lizard, and then we found all of these things! We found the thing we were supposed to be looking for. I died! And then, somehow, a *terrifying* smoke monster showed up, um, Prints made a deal with it although she didn’t realize she made a deal with it. I came back! But I was no longer a bird! But, like, how do you even do that? Like: all of a sudden, I’m just— I’ve got stubby little fingers, my beak is gone, but I can speak again, and I’ve never been able to speak before in my life. I’ve been using the voice of others, and there are a few phrases I think I can still do. I think my favorite is *ne’er-do-wells*! That one is superfun, by the way, and I will hold onto that forever. Um, and then we went back, and we were like, “Ooh, maybe we don’t show the not-bird anymore to people,” and then they were like, “Oh, but maybe we *should* show the bird to people.” And then, so, like, we showed the bird to people, and it was fine, but then, uh, we fought a man who I don’t know where he came from; he was *disgustingly* strong, um, but he wouldn’t really fault any of our things. He hit people to find out information. It didn’t work very well because he wasn’t very good at it, um, and then, we started traveling again. I don’t know why. Um, escorting this woman to— this prisoner somewhere else, and now we’re here talking to you, a person I also don’t know."