B008 Enter the Wigsnatch

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> "*This is my first gig at this venue; I want to make a good impression.*"
> ― Butylene O'Kipple
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**Enter the Wigsnatch**is a special live streamed story for the Queens of Adventure. The queens played in full drag live online on the website Twitch as part of the Extra Life Seattle Fundraiser. It was released as the eight bonus episode of the podcast. It was later released as episodes two and three of Queens of Adventure Legends.

## Synopsis

*For full episode summary, please see the first and second Legends pages.*

 The Wigsnatch Festival is happening for the first time in centuries, and novice drag queens are entering the drag contest. The contest commemorates the amazing queens from a distant age who stopped Ogres destroying the festival. Four queens, Arson Nicki, Butylene O'Kipple, Fraya Love, and Harlotte O'Scara, are placed together on a team by Bunberry, who will be their handler through the various competitions. Bunberry allows them to choose the order of events.

First, they impress the elven judge Amos Amar by producing tingle worthy sounds at the Tinglomancy booth. They earn a high booking fee through excellent negotiation at the Purse First event. At the Platforming challenge, they manage to perform various stunts whilst supporting each other (and despite Fraya's cat allergies).

Throughout them all, the festival goers and townspeople begin to grow more excited about them.

As the group heads to a refreshment tent for a break, startled birds fly from out of the nearby forest.

Returning to the competition, they find the Oral Interpretation challenge has them cold reading spell lyrics (which summon more cats). At the "I'm Feeling Very Attacked" arena, they show off their fighting prowess against an enchanted suit of armor. They fill it with water and then punch holes in it, much to the audience's delight. Fraya's knowledge as a cleric of Cher comes in semi-handy at the Cher Your Knowledge challenge, but their makeup tutorials at the Share Your Knowledge challenge impress the dwarf judges.

All challenges finished, Bunberry leads them outside to pass time til the winners are announced. The break is interrupted by ogres storming out of the forest to attack the festival. The queens attack one of them, and after several misses, they manage to begin to hurt the monster enough to topple it. Seeing this, the other ogres flee.

The judges gather around the queens. Reminding everyone the point of the festival was to honor the Great Queens, who defended the festival, they declare this team the winners. As Bunberry says they should put on an act, a man in a top hat with orange hair watches and nods.

### Characters

#### Party

* Arson Nicki - drow warlock
* Butylene O'Kipple - tiefling alchemist
* Fraya Love - water genasi cleric
* Harlotte O'Scara - human rogue

#### NPcs

* Bunberry Shagfoot (debut)
* Amos Amar (debut)
* Purse First judge (Debut)
* Ringmaster (Debut)
* Old Bootsy the Cat (Debut)
* Amphitheater Judges (Smiling and Frowning) (Debut)
* Referee (Debut)
* Priestess of Cher (Debut)
* Copper Top

#### Monsters/Enemies

* Suit of Armor
* Ogres

#### Live Show Roles

* DM Matt
* Chat Moderator James

## Episode Notes

### Lore

* Great Queens from centuries ago, drove Ogres away from a town. Massive statues to them were erected and a commemorative festival. The statues have been worn down by time and the festival ended for centuries, until the original story was believed to be nothing but a legend.

### Inspiration Earned

* Fraya - for Famous Amos pun
* Audience Member Liam - for guessing the ASMR challenge before it was revealed
* Arson - for her firework support magic at the Platforms challenge
* Fraya - For descriptions of 80s van murals
* Butylene - For 'birdless carriage'
* Harlotte - For stabbing the ogre with a broken health potion bottle

### Memorable Quotes

* "Just like any water creature I have the memory of a goldfish. The attention span of a goldfish too." - Fraya Love
* "I plucked it just yesterday from a low hanging treebranch. Named the Duchess. The Duchess Treebranch." - Harlotte O'Scara
* \*whispering\* "ASMR makes my skin crawl. It makes me want... to jump out of my skin... and scream at salads... and look children in the eye and say... 'Why didn't you do your homework?' " - Harlotte O'Scara
* "There's people on treadmills, Harlotte." - Butylene O'Kipple
* "I would like to give this person the elevator eyes, look them up and down and say... 'Fine.' " - Arson Nicki
* "I grew the hair on the top of my head *and* styled it." - Harlotte O'Scara
* "Looking this good is not cheap, and looking this cheap..." "is not good?" - Harlotte O'Scara and Judge
* "In nature, drag queens die of *exposure!"* Butylene O'Kipple
* "I don't do economical math. I came from a place where we bartered and gave each other sea shells." - Fraya Love
* "Also, I want to trademark Drag-Merican Gladiators right now." - Harlotte O'Scara
* "Well I am deathdrop gorgeous." - Fraya Love
* "This does not follow any regular meter, let me tell you." - Arson Nicki
* "This sounds like we're performing some dark summoning ritual" - Harlotte O'Scara
* "This is an origin story. You never forget your first alias." - Harlotte O'Scara
* "So since this is an origin story, I'm going to try to do this sharp movement with a snap at the end of it, but since I'm more, shall we say fairy type, I can't do a sharp snap, all I can do is a limp wrist. As I do it I go, 'hm, I might want to use this later.'" "Arson Nicki, inventing the limp wrist!" - Arson Nicki and DM Matt
* "I'm an open container too and empty inside." - Fraya Love
* "If you can't summon the fires of hell, you use homegrown. Canned is fine" - Fraya Love
* "I'm trying to figure out how Ogres carry entire nightclubs on their shoulders." - Fraya Love
* "Nick Jonas, Abraham Lincoln, BenDeLaCreme. Turns out: all the same person." - Matt Baume
* "Listen honey. This isn't a mosh-pit, it's a marsh-pit." - Fraya Love
* "Jonas Personas!" - DM Matt
* "I've got an itchy bomb satchel." - "I might have you roll medicine for that later." - Butylene and DM Matt

### References

* RuPaul's Drag Race prizes, including Anastasia Beverly Hills makeup
* Smashing Pumpkins
* Laganja Estranja's "I'm Feeling Very Attacked Right Now" rant from Untucked
* ASMR
* Famous Amos cookies
* Thorgy Thor being assigned Stevie Nicks during RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars season 3.
* Madonna, Lady Gaga, Cher, and Backstreet Boys
* The Birdcage
* Sex and the City
* Pointer Sisters
* Kermit the Frog and Kismet the Toad (a Kermit impersonator - yes, he is real)
* Paris is Burning
* Interior Illusions
* The Night the Lights went out in Georgia
* Playstation menu screen idle music
* Simon Cowell
* Pro-bending from Legend of Korra
* Alias
* Cat in the Hat and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
* Sean P. Hayes
* Rocky Horror Picture Show - "Antici... pation"
* Aja's rant about Valentina from Drag Race Untucked
* May the Force Be With You
* Graham Norton
* Spelling Bees and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
* Mae West
* President #45
* Monster energy drink
* Nick Jonas
* Abraham Lincoln
* BenDelaCreme
* Zetus Lepedus from "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century"
* Shrek - Ogres having layers like onions
* Mary Berry from Great British Bake Off
* Mean Girls: She doesn't even go here
* Hocus Pocus
* N\*Sync, Backstreet Boys, 98degrees, and S Club 7.
* Trident gum
* Billboard Charts
* Joan Crawford and Mommie Dearest

### Please Welcome to the Stage

* Flotilla DeBarge
* Claire Voyant (the worst of the Voyant sisters)
* Claire Atin

### Name That Tune

* "Stick With You" - Pussycat Dolls
* "Free Fallin" - Tom Petty
* "Rhythm of the Night" - DeBarge
* "Anthem" - Krazy Kitty (from AirBud franchise)
* "A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton
* "Turn Back Time" - Cher
* "Bye, Bye, Bye." - N\*Sync

## Behind the Queens

* The live stream was part of the Extra Life fundraiser, raising money for Seattle Children's Hospital, and was the closing activity to a week of streams hosted by DMs Matt and James.
* The queens' character sheets were reset to level 1 for this episode, set before their first adventure. This reduced many of their skills.
* Technically the queens are only in drag from the waist up. The power of framing!
* The Oral Interpretation challenge song, "Anthem", was previously a surprise lip synch that Arson had to perform as a dare during The Tip of the Tops (or that Arson would later have to lip synch to, depending on how you look at continuity).
* The Queens reveal that they often forget what they said or did in the podcast until the episodes are released, and compare that to statements made by Drag Race queens.
* After the episode ended, the queens hung around to continue to help try and raise money. They tried to get donations in order to put DM Matt in drag, which would happen the following year.
* They also discussed how they all met, and various drag names they tried out before their current drag names. When asked about queens they would like to see join Queens of Adventure, Arson names Irene Dubois. The queens also state their love for Erika Klash and Fraya and Arson both used to watch make-up tutorials from Pollo del Mar from the San Francisco cast.
* Initially this story was billed as canonical. When it was released as a Legends episode, Matt said it was only one possible way the queens met.
* The live stream can be viewed online here:

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