Chapter 11: True Desire II

## Script

*Chapter 11*
*True Desire II*
*Scene - Eversun Sewers*
**Kitty**: We lost Hou and Hart!
**Player**: Keep going!
*Player and Kitty search the sewers for Hart and Hou*
*They run into two large, talking roaches*
**Elder Roach**: Hey sis, look. Someone's coming in.
**Kitty**: !!!
**Kitty**: The roaches here can talk?
**Elder Roach**: Oh my oh my~ being racist now are we?
**Elder Roach**: Even the mutant cat talks, so why shouldn't we roaches?
**Elder Roach**: Shows how much you know.
**Player**: That does make sense...
**Player**: Kitty, you can talk too~
**Kitty**: What?
**Younger Roach**: What's going on today? What brings so many visitors to Eversun Lane all of a sudden?
**Younger Roach**: Hou almost stepped on me when he was rushing over.
**Younger Roach**: He almost never visits. I haven't even had a chance to say hi!
*The two continue on and run into a boy*
**Kitty**: Hey, why is there a human kid here?
**Boy**: 'Gyee is the child of god, not humans'!
**Boy**: Humans are the vile creatures that gave birth to me but left me to die.
**Kitty**: So you're Gyee.
**Player**: Did you see two people pass by?
**Player**: One had a baseball bat on his back, and the other wore a monster hat.
**Boy**: Ok.
**Boy**: But I don't know that boy Hou was holding hands and running with.
**Boy**: He had never brought a stranger to our... secret base.
**Kitty**: Great, you know Hou!
**Player**: Can you tell us where Hou went?
**Boy**: Answer me this first...
**Boy**: Who was that boy Hou was holding hands with?
**Player**: His name's Hart.
**Player**: I've answered your question, now can you answer mine?
**Boy**: Follow me.
*Player and Kitty follow the boy*
*The boy runs past some large rats*
*As Player and Kitty approach the rats, the rats greet them*
**Miss Etiquette of Rats**: Welcome to the border of Roachville and Rattleton. You'll be entering the 'holy site of the rats', Rattleton.
**Female Interpreter**: What brings yer to Ratterton? If ya ain't got nothing to do here then git outta here.
**Miss Etiquette of Rats**: We're trying to get the 'sanitary homeland' honors, don't yer throw no trash here, thank you.
**Female Interpreter**: No shells, no ciggs, no nothin', got it? Or else you're gonna get a spanking!
*Player and Kitty keep following the boy to a large gathering of rats*
*A gigantic rat is addressing a crowd of smaller, but still large, rats*
**Marshal Rat**: Shut up!
**Marshal Rat**: Kids!
**Marshal Rat**: Y'all been good, hardworking and all!
**Marshal Rat**: Y'all worked hard, gettin' food and transporting.
**Marshal Rat**: I'm proud of y'all! Ya bring a good name to our family!
**Marshal Rat**: But! Our superior genes are getting the best of us!
**Marshal Rat**: We been expandin' too fast!
**Marshal Rat**: And now we're regarded as vermin and infections!
**Marshal Rat**: What a bunch of baloney! That's false accusation!
**Marshal Rat**: And I'm having none of it!
**Marshal Rat**: From now on, I, General Rat declare...
**Marshal Rat**: Us rats will go on strike, and show them we're innocent!
**Rats**: Strike! Strike! We're innocent! Strike! Strike! We're innocent...
**Boy**: Daddy Rat!
**Marshal Rat**: Boa Jr., who are these humans?
**Boa Jr.**: Daddy Rat, they's been following me. They want Hou!
**Marshal Rat**: Oh yeh? Hou's a nice boy!
**Marshal Rat**: So whoever wants him must be bad.
**Player**: Eh?
**Kitty**: No they just want him, not trying to capture him!
**Kitty**: Hou's a good boy, but so are we!
**Marshal Rat**: Whoever they be, 's long 's they in Rattleton, then...
**Player**: ...
**Kitty**: What do you want?
*All Choices - Choice 1.1: "If you want a toll, how much we looking at?" OR Choice 1.2: "You want a cat? You can have Kitty!" OR Choice 1.3: "It looks like you're looking for a fight..."*
*No additional dialog*
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Marshal Rat**: We go by Rattleton rules.
**Marshal Rat**: Trial by combat!
**Marshal Rat**: Ya win, ya do whatever ya please!
**Marshal Rat**: You lose, then git lost!
**Kitty**: You have a lot of rats here. Are you all going to gang up on us?
**Marshal Rat**: Hmph, we rats never fight unfair.
**Marshal Rat**: Get ready, now!
*Player and Kitty fight and defeat Marshal Rat*
**Marshal Rat**: You sure got a thing or two!
**Marshal Rat**: I surrender.
**Marshal Rat**: Kids! Make way!
*The rats behind Marshal Rat make a path*
**Player**: That easy?
**Player**: What if we're bad guys?
**Marshal Rat**: Good, bad, whatever.
**Marshal Rat**: Now which of us 'monsters' here ain't seen as a 'bad guy' in your human world?
**Marshal Rat**: We rats are reasonable and loyal!
**Marshal Rat**: We'll stop the intruders, to an extent at least~
**Marshal Rat**: But taking things too far after losin' is just pure shameless!
**Marshal Rat**: Still though I gotta tell ya this...
**Marshal Rat**: The way is cleared.
**Marshal Rat**: However, you're only to look for him. If you hurt Boa Jr....
**Marshal Rat**: It's gonna be more than just us rats. All us at Eversun Lanes will gang up on you!
**Player**: ... Got it.
**Marshal Rat**: I'm off to patrol. Bye for now!
**Boa Jr.**: Well, Daddy Rat agrees to let you pass...
**Boa Jr.**: Then hurry up and follow me!
*Player and Kitty continue to follow Boa Jr.*
*Eventually the reach a large room*
**Kitty**: Why did you stop again?
**Boa Jr.**: I'm waiting for you.
**Boa Jr.**: It's dark up ahead. I don't want to walk alone. Come with me!
**Boa Jr.**: Right, there's something I wanted to ask you...
**Boa Jr.**: Are you also Gyee?
**Kitty**: Yeah!
**Boa Jr.**: The Gyee from the outside world... how is they doing?
**Boa Jr.**: I'm just asking.
**Player**: Are you... stuck here ever since you got left here?
**Boa Jr.**: Hey, I asked first...
*All Choices - Choice 2.1: "That's a hard question to answer though." OR Choice 2.2: "The Gyee that lived in the certain place is still fine." OR Choice 2.3: "As the situation progresses, the Gyee is in a worse condition now."*
*No additional dialog*
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Boa Jr.**: Is that so...
**Player**: Boa Jr., you...
*All Choices - Choice 3.1: "Do you want to see the outside world?" OR Choice 3.2: "You don't belong here. You should go back to the human world."*
*No additional dialog*
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Kitty**: If you want, we can take you away after we find Hou!
**Kitty**: We can send you to Never Isle, a place made for the Gyee.
**Kitty**: You're going to make lots of friends and grow without a worry in the world.
**Kitty**: It's definitely going to be better than living in the sunless sewers, eat and sleep with a bunch of lowlife!
**Boa Jr.**: Humans are sure of themselves.
**Boa Jr.**: What do you mean...
**Boa Jr.**: What right do you have to tell me where I should go and where I should live?
**Boa Jr.**: I'd rather live with what you call 'monsters' than living with conniving, deceitful humans.
**Boa Jr.**: You humans abandoned me, and it was the 'monsters' that raised me.
**Boa Jr.**: Humans despise me, but the 'monsters' accepted me.
**Boa Jr.**: I'm happy being a Minion.
**Boa Jr.**: There's nothing to envy about a 'human' life.
**Boa Jr.**: I'm never ever going to step away from here.
**Player**: ...
**Kitty**: The 'monsters' in this underworld grow in broods and groups.
**Kitty**: Do you really feel that you're a part of them?
**Kitty**: You always say 'you humans' with contempt, but really...
**Kitty**: The more you emphasize that, the more it shows... that you've never forgotten that you are a 'human'.
**Kitty**: Are you 'hoping but also fearing to back' or 'are you happy to hide here for life'?
**Boa Jr.**: You!
**Boa Jr.**: That's none of your concern!
*All Choices - Choice 4.1: "Kitty, don't anger him..." OR Choice 4.2: "Now now, if he didn't guess it right why would you be angry?"*
*No additional dialog*
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Boa Jr.**: I don't want to hear another word! Always blabbering on, it's all you humans do!
**Boa Jr.**: I thought we are going to see Hou?
**Boa Jr.**: He's right past that door!
**Boa Jr.**: Come here!
*Player and Kitty walk towards Boa Jr.*
*Just as Player steps on a manhole cover, it blows up and throws Player in the air*
*A deep hole is left where the manhole cover was*
**Kitty**: !!!
**Kitty**: You again!
**Boa Jr.**: I don't care if you're the good guys or the bad guys.
**Boa Jr.**: But Hou ran away because of you.
**Kitty**: How dare you!
**Kitty**: Where did he go?
**Boa Jr.**: Down there.
*Kitty peers down the hole*
**Player**: Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
*Player's voice fades away*
*Scene - Elsewhere in the sewer*
*A large rat and three Cannye talk to one another*
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Stop trying too hard to guess what's going to happen!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Vinci's bad eyes makes him a terrible marksman, and his fists are too weak to make him a boxer!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: It's slow and has zero charm. What kind of mafia boss would keep something like that around, let alone kidnap it and train it to become a goon?
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Quit scaring yourself like that. It's worse to imagine than going through a nightmare.
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Don't worry, your brother will be fine.
**Cannye with Onesie**: My brother'? Isn't he OUR brother?
**Cannye with Onesie**: Ha, I get it! You've finally unveiled your true intent...
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: No that's not what I meant! I'm only trying to calm your down...
**Cannye with Onesie**: You've always hated the fact that Pop took me and my brother in right?
**Cannye with Onesie**: You would have turned your back on us if Pop didn't constantly tell you that 'we're family and you're all brothers' right?
**Cannye with Onesie**: Are you behind my brother's disappearance?
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: So that's how you think of me?
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: We eat at the table, sleep in the same bed, you are my family!
**Boxer Cannye**: Quit it you two. You're only going to make Pop worry!
**Boxer Cannye**: He's dropped all his work to look for your little brother at the Forest of Mystic Swamp, he has enough to do already!
**Boxer Cannye**: Eversun Lane isn't exactly going great at this time either.
**Boxer Cannye**: The rats and Ooze Monsters are almost going at each other, and Pop has to mediate between these two clans.
**Boxer Cannye**: And you two brothers are fighting amongst each other?
**Cannye with Onesie**: I know Pop's had it rough. I'm going to the Forest of Mystic Swamp to look for my little brother tomorrow.
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: I'll go with you!
**Cannye with Onesie**: My brother doesn't need your help. I'll look for him myself!
**Cannye with Onesie**: Also, Vinci is no fool. He's an exceptional artist!
**Cannye with Onesie**: That's not something you thieving Cannyes would ever understand!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: It... it's not like I wanted to steal! I escaped from there and have changed for the better!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: You're taking advantage of me never having gone to school! I'm no good at words!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: So in the end you're just ashamed of me, ashamed of having me in your family!
**Cannye with Onesie**: Seriously what's going on in your head? I've had it! Out of my way!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: What are you going to do?
**Cannye with Onesie**: Look for my brother!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: I'll go with you!
**Big Rat**: Nobody is leaving.
**Big Rat**: It's dangerous outside. I've lost one son already, I'm not going to lose two!
**Player**: Ahhhhh!
**Boxer Cannye**: What's that sound?
*Player drops right in front of the group*
**Player**: Ouch...
**Player**: Where the heck is this?
*Player notices the rat and cannye group*
**Player**: Ugh...
**Boxer Cannye**: What? A human?
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: It's been a while since someone fell.
**Player**: ...
**Player**: Are you sharpening your knives now?
*Kitty yells from the top of the hole*
**Kitty**: Hey! Still alive?
**Player**: Not dead!
**Player**: Not yet，anyway!
*The cannye inch closer to Player*
**Player**: Not sure about later，though!
**Cannye with Onesie**: Who are you and why are you here?
**Player**: I...
*Kitty gracefully drops down from the hole*
**Kitty**: This is a piece of cake!
**Boxer Cannye**: Another one?
**Player**: Knew I can count on you! Here to help me out knowing that I've been cornered?
**Kitty**: I think I got tricked by that kid!
**Player**: ...
**Big Rat**: That kid?
**Big Rat**: (yells) Who's up there?
**Boa Jr.**: (yells) Pop David, it's me!
**Pop David**: (yells) Boa Jr., why did you lead them here?
**Boa Jr.**: (yells) The intruders are not only going to take away Hou, they're trying to take me away too!
**Boa Jr.**: (yells) I'll leave them to you and the Cannye brothers!
**Player**: Kitty, they're making it sound like we're human traffickers...
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Pah! I hate human traffickers!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: It's all your fault! You sold me into a crime ring and made me into a stray Cannye!
**Boxer Cannye**: Gosh darn, traffickers snuck into Eversun Lane?
**Boxer Cannye**: Where are the Spider Guards?
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: ... They all got sick!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Only the roach clan is still working at the toilet frontlines. Every other clan in Eversun Lane fell sick...
**Cannye with Onesie**: It's them! They are probably those that took away my brother!
**Cannye with Onesie**: They tortured the location of Eversun Lane out of my little brother!
**Cannye with Onesie**: And now they want to take us too!
**Player**: You're way too imaginative...
**Kitty**: What are you talking about? We were only joking about being human traffickers.
**Boxer Cannye**: Ha! Lies!
**Boxer Cannye**: What else would you call someone who takes people against their will?
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Now that you're against us three Cannye brothers, you're toast!
**Boxer Cannye**: Brothers, grab your tools!
*Player and Kitty battle the Cannye Brothers*
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: Brothers join force!
**Boxer Cannye**: Leave them in remorse!
**Cannye with Onesie**: Charge!
**Kitty**: That Boa Jr. upstairs seriously has a vendetta against us.
**Boxer Cannye**: Hmph, it's you humans that won't let me go.
**Boxer Cannye**: Humans used to enslave us or hurt us!
**Boxer Cannye**: Now that we made our own home, you're coming to invade us during Eversun Lane's time of weakness!
**Cannye with Flying Hat**: If we just sit around and watch Boa Jr. get into trouble, it'll be us next!
**Cannye with Onesie**: Tell me, did you kidnap my little brother?
**Kitty**: It's all a misunderstanding!
*The fight continues and Player and Kitty win*
**Cannye with Onesie**: They're too strong. Should we look for the help from Motherooze?
**Player**: Seriously all a misunderstanding...
**Kitty**: We don't even know you, let alone kidnap your people.
**Kitty**: You're throwing all your rage at us!
**Pop David**: Boa Jr.!
*Boa Jr. catches up to the group*
**Boa Jr.**: So...
**Boa Jr.**: You're not going to take me away by force right?
**Kitty**: You don't have to come.
**Player**: (whispers) Kitty, think before you speak...
**Kitty**: I mean, we will respect your decision.
**Kitty**: Sorry about that.
**Kitty**: I was just guessing what you might have been thinking about. I didn't realize that you'd be triggered.
**Player**: We're not going to rid you of your way of life in the name of helping you.
**Player**: Nobody has the right to do that!
**Boa Jr.**: I think of Eversun Lane as my home, but you said I don't belong here. Obviously I'd be mad!
**Boa Jr.**: Waiting to see Hou pass by here makes my day.
**Boa Jr.**: But you scared him off!
**Boa Jr.**: So another question...
**Boa Jr.**: Where are you taking Hou after you find him? Are you ever going to get him back to me?
**Player**: (So that's what Boa Jr. is worried about! I have to make sure Boa Jr. understands us first.)
**Player**: Okay. We were in a rush to find him, so we didn't really tell you why at first...
**Player**: We have to send the boy named Hart home.
**Player**: However, we have to know where Hou will take him.
**Boa Jr.**: So...
**Kitty**: That's dumb of you. We can just take Hart here first and then Hou will be back sooner.
**Kitty**: Now if you don't help us and we end up never getting to Hou...
**Kitty**: Then even you won't be able to see Hou anymore.
**Boa Jr.**: That does make sense. In that case...
**Boa Jr.**: I'll lead the way properly. No more fooling around!
**Boxer Cannye**: I guess...
**Pop David**: So Boa Jr. tricked you first.
**Pop David**: My three sons attacked you before they learned what was going on.
**Pop David**: My apologies on their behalf.
**Player**: Don't sweat it, we got acquainted that way.
**Player**: You might have said some bad stuff about us, but we got to learn more about Eversun Lane as well.
*Player talks to the large rat, Pop David*
*Choices start #1*
*Choice 5.1 - You sure do have a unique clan structure...*
**Pop David**: Kids, go introduce yourselves.
**Linch**: I'm Linch. I ran away from Cannye Rogues and collapsed in the Forest of Mystic Swamp from exhaustion. Then Pop took me into Eversun Lane.
**Loki**: I'm Loki, formerly a boxer, and the humans kept me in chains for their gambling needs...
**Loki**: I was severely injured in the ring and my master threw me into the trash pile, where Pop took me in and saved me.
**Finch**: I'm Finch. The one who got lost is my twin brother, Vinci.
**Finch**: My brother and I were taken by a magician and trained to be the tools for their magic performances.
**Finch**: We are his best magical creations.
**Finch**: However, the magic that brought him fame, also brought us doom.
**Finch**: The old magician wanted to keep his skills a secret forever.
**Finch**: Thus, he wanted me and my brother dead.
**Player**: Why would the magician do that to Vinci?
**Finch**: That's because...
**Finch**: Finch is a famous Cannye in the human world, and was loved like a magical mascot.
**Finch**: As for Vinci... He never existed.
**Finch**: My brother could only be my shadow ever since he was little.
**Finch**: The two Cannyes must pretend to be a single one to the world.
**Finch**: That's the secret of his magic.
**Kitty**: ...
**Finch**: I wouldn't allow anyone to hurt my little brother, so I took him and fled.
**Finch**: We bumped into Pop just as things were getting hopeless.
**Finch**: Anyways, without Pop and Eversun Lane, I don't know if any of us would even be alive.
**Pop David**: My foster children call me Pop, and everyone who lives in Eversun Lane call me Pop David.
**Pop David**: I was just an ordinary rat, but my body began to mutate after a Flux pollution...
**Finch**: The rats bring energy to Eversun Lane, and that requires us to operate both above and underground constantly.
**Finch**: Pop's one of the few who still has connections to the outside world besides the rat clan.
**Finch**: As for us Cannyes, we haven't left here ever since we hid underground.
**Pop David**: Eversun Lane is divided between factions based on species. There's the Ooze Monsters, the rats, the spiders, the roaches, and whatnot...
**Pop David**: Our little family is the home for all the wanderers out there.
**Pop David**: If you decide to settle here in Eversun Lane but can't find your belonging, then here is your home.
*Go back to Choices start #1*
*Choice 5.2 - The Cannye named Vinci disappeared?*
**Pop David**: He's my youngest son.
**Pop David**: I've been going in and out of Forest of Mystic Swamp to find out where he's gone.
**Pop David**: If it's not like what Finch was thinking... as in he got kidnapped.
**Pop David**: I think I might have a hunch what is really happening.
**Pop David**: If that's indeed correct, then I should have let go earlier...
**Finch**: Pop!
**Pop David**: I'm not sure though, after all, he is still a child and always going back and forth with his thoughts. I could be wrong.
**Pop David**: Vinci loves this home but he has his woes.
**Pop David**: Still, the family worries about him each day he's not around.
**Pop David**: Nonetheless, we must find him first and make sure he's fine.
**Pop David**: The rest can wait to be discussed...
*Go back to Choices start #1*
*Choice 5.3 - Did something happen in Eversun Lane recently?*
**Pop David**: Eversun Lane has its own organization system.
**Pop David**: Each clan is tasked with certain duties that keep the Eversun Lane up and running.
**Pop David**: Like the Ooze Monster clan that live in Slime Castle, they were the first to move here.
**Pop David**: They cultivated this place and are responsible for Eversun Lane's management.
**Pop David**: The rat clan from Rattleton take care of Eversun Lane's food acquisition and transportation.
**Pop David**: The roach clan from Roachville work to clean up Eversun Lane.
**Pop David**: As for the spider clan from Web Cave, they are equipped with natural skills that help us handle security.
**Pop David**: My clan is quite small, and live in Wei Village.
**Pop David**: The members are complex and we don't necessarily excel at anything.
**Pop David**: That's why we're put in charge of the kitchen and provide food for the Lane.
**Player**: I heard stuff like 'strikes', 'getting sick', and 'conspiracy'... what's going on?
**Kitty**: It sounds like you aren't having a great time here either.
**Player**: Is Eversun Lane in serious trouble?
**Pop David**: Many clans have gotten sick recently, but some are fine.
**Pop David**: The rumors have made the relationship between Eversun Lane clans increasingly worse.
**Pop David**: Besides looking for Vinci, there's something else important I need to do.
**Pop David**: That's to find the cause for this 'poison case'.
**Pop David**: If the trust between the clans keep getting worse, then the conflicts can get out of hand!
*Go back to Choices start #1*
*Choice 5.4 - Do you know where Hou might be?*
**Loki**: We might all know Hou, but we haven't seen him today.
**Loki**: Boa Jr. would know better than we do where Hou might go.
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Boa Jr.**: Forest of Mystic Swamp.
**Boa Jr.**: Hou rarely lingers around Eversun Lane.
**Player**: He just happens to pass by here... whenever he goes to the Forest of Mystic Swamp.
**Player**: Then how do we get to the Forest of Mystic Swamp?
**Boa Jr.**: Go out, turn that way, and follow the road. if it's a dead end, just follow another road.
**Boa Jr.**: You'll find the exit to Eversun Lane eventually. The Forest of Mystic Swamp is right outside.
**Boa Jr.**: There was no need to find a guide.
**Player**: ...
**Boa Jr.**: What, you want to follow me?
**Player**: No worries, we'll look for it ourselves!
**Player**: However, if you want to come along...
**Kitty**: Haha, if you ever change your mind, we'd be happy to accept you~
**Boa Jr.**: I... I'm fine!
**Boa Jr.**: The outside world is enormous, but it has a small heart.
**Boa Jr.**: I know there is no place for me out there.
**Boa Jr.**: That's why I got thrown to this tiny world.
**Boa Jr.**: Hou will tell me about the life that I never had.
**Boa Jr.**: I'm not envious at all... just... curious.
**Boa Jr.**: Curious about what I have lost.
**Boa Jr.**: When I'm no longer curious, my hate for humans probably would have dissipated.
**Boa Jr.**: And oh, I'm happy with my life, don't take pity on me.
**Boa Jr.**: I'm really happy to live in Eversun Lane and feed with the community.
**Boa Jr.**: I don't need to see the world. Home is all I need!
**Boa Jr.**: I got all that I ever wanted here.
**Boa Jr.**: You won't trick me into leaving~
**Player**: ...
**Pop David**: Boa Jr., you stay where I am.
**Pop David**: Come with me later to consult the sick residents of the Lane and look for clues.
**Boa Jr.**: Ok!
**Pop David**: I need to investigate the poison case, sorry I won't be able to see you off.
**Pop David**: Forest of Mystic Swamp, never let your guard down over there.
**Pop David**: Be careful after you leave Eversun Lane.
**Pop David**: Oh well. Got to take care of problems at the Lane before going out to look for Vinci.
**Player**: If we meet Vinci in the Forest of Mystic Swamp, I'm sure that'll help you.
**Cannye with Onesie**: Thank you so much!
**Pop David**: Thanks.
**Boa Jr.**: Bye.
**Player**: Bye.
*Player and Kitty go deeper in the sewer*
*As they continue, they pass large spiders and many webs*
**Kitty**: Why is there a spider web in the middle of the road?
**Elder Spidey**: To stop you, of course!
*Choice 6.1 - A bandit?*
**Younger Spidey**: Bro, they think we are bandits...
*Choice 6.2 - Let us through please.*
**Kitty**: You kids behave! Clean up the web and go play elsewhere!
**Younger Spidey**: Bro, they think our job is a game...
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Younger Spidey**: Ah, what a pain.
**Younger Spidey**: We the spider clan has always been in charge of defense for Eversun Lane.
**Elder Spidey**: The poison case has made quite the ripple lately.
**Elder Spidey**: We got instructions from the Motherooze a few days ago to strengthen our defenses.
**Elder Spidey**: That's why we have the road to the Forest of Mystic Swamp locked down.
**Younger Spidey**: It's not exactly legal to have child workers... nor it is sensible...
**Younger Spidey**: But it's all because our mom wanted to go to that beauty pageant.
**Elder Spidey**: That's why me and my brother are forced to stay here in her place.
**Younger Spidey**: Bro... Mom said to call her sis when we're outside so nobody knows her age!
**Player**: ...
**Elder Spidey**: Anyway, you can't pass here.
**Younger Spidey**: Go back to where you came from.
*Choice 7.1 - Okay, if you're going to get in the way...*
**Elder Spidey**: If we died on duty, the whole Eversun Lane will hunt you down!
**Younger Spidey**: Plus it's not like you'll be able to pass through anyway, even if you stomp us down.
**Younger Spidey**: You can't fight your way through the web.
*Choice 7.2 - Fine, we'll look for another way*
**Elder Spidey**: This is the only way to the Forest of Mystic Swamp.
**Younger Spidey**: This is also where we let Hou out.
**Elder Spidey**: Shhhh!
**Younger Spidey**: But Hou used up my only bottle of Unblock Cream.
**Younger Spidey**: So if you want to go out, you have to send in an application.
*Choice 7.3 - Can we pass if we defeat you?*
**Elder Spidey**: We never fight.
**Younger Spidey**: We can't win against you anyway.
**Elder Spidey**: Hush, don't talk over me.
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Elder Spidey**: There's only one way to get through.
**Elder Spidey**: Follow the procedures, go complete the application first.
**Player**: So who should we see to complete the application?
**Elder Spidey**: The Ooze Monsters are in charge of administration of the town.
**Elder Spidey**: Go to Ooze Castle first, then look for the Ooze Monster Administrator and ask about the application procedure.
**Elder Spidey**: When it gets approved, you can get a bottle of 'Unblock Cream'.
**Younger Spidey**: Use it to dissolve the web and leave.
**Player**: Alright.
*Player and Kitty go to consult with the ooze monsters*
**Player**: Hello, is this where we can apply for the 'Unblock Cream'?
**Clerk 1**: Eversun Lane residents must bring your Species ID Card and standard photo to get an application form here.
**Clerk 1**: You are not local residents, so you're not in my jurisdiction.
**Player**: Then what should we do?
**Clerk 1**: Keep going further down, ask another administrator.
*The two ask another ooze*
**Player**: So how does a non-local apply for the 'Unblock Cream'?
**Clerk 2**: Our rules are that if you're a local resident with a long-term exit permit, or that you're the relative of a Eversun Lane local...
**Clerk 2**: You can do the application here with me.
**Clerk 2**: But you... and you, are new.
**Clerk 2**: First time here?
**Player**: Um, yeah.
**Clerk 2**: Then I can't help you.
**Clerk 2**: Go into the Ooze Castle, and apply for a first-time exit permit from the Motherooze.
**Player**: ... Sure is complicated.
*Player and Kitty go to talk to Motherooze*
*When they reach the room, they see Motherooze and Marshal Rat talking*
**Marshal Rat**: You can just call if you wanted to see me, you don't have to tie me up.
**Motherooze**: You are one sneaky geezer.
**Motherooze**: How did I not notice your ambition when I was younger?
**Marshal Rat**: Quit teasing me. You left me because you thought I was worthless!
**Player**: (What's going on here?)
**Player**: (The Marshal Rat is here too?)
**Motherooze**: All these years I thought highly of you since you put so much effort to lead the rats to become strong and help build Eversun Lane.
**Motherooze**: Who would have thought that this was all to overthrow me?
**Motherooze**: I never would have imagined that you'd get so sinister to take revenge on me.
**Marshal Rat**: All you do is talk, but you ain't got no proof!
**Motherooze**: Oh, proof is it?
**Motherooze**: Maliciously poisoning the food and hurt the innocent.
**Marshal Rat**: Just whaddya take me for?
**Motherooze**: Inciting unrest, disrupting order.
**Motherooze**: Coercing the rats, going on strike.
**Marshal Rat**: That's cuz you don't trust me!
**Motherooze**: And start an insurrection? To usurp?
**Marshal Rat**: Yeah right, with all the sick troops?
**Marshal Rat**: You don't believe me, then come with me to Rattleton.
**Motherooze**: And fall into your trap? I think not.
**Marshal Rat**: You sure have some big heart there. Think you can manage Eversun Lane like that?
**Motherooze**: And that's why you're trying to take over?
**Marshal Rat**: Why are you being so difficult?
**Player**: Excuse us, we're just passing by.
**Player**: We would like to apply for the 'Unblock Cream'.
**Player**: So um...
**Marshal Rat**: Shhhh!
**Motherooze**: You know each other?
**Player**: Uh...
*Choice 8.1 - Yes.*
**Marshal Rat**: No.
**Player**: Eh?
*Choice 8.2 - No.*
**Marshal Rat**: No.
**Player**: ...
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Motherooze**: Humph...
**Motherooze**: Wait on the side.
**Player**: Oh, okay...
**Motherooze**: Alright you, now where were we?
**Marshal Rat**: I finally understand what you're getting at. You're jealous of us rats getting powerful.
**Marshal Rat**: You think we're a threat to your Ooze Monster clan's rule!
**Marshal Rat**: And? Did you plot the food poisoning and put the blame on us rats so you can put us down?
**Motherooze**: I must have been blind when I fell for you!
**Marshal Rat**: What are ye saying? Don't bring up the past now!
*An ooze followed by Pop David and Finch, the Cannye in a onesie, come in*
**Guardooze**: Motherooze, Pop David requests to see you.
**Guardooze**: My apologies, but I wasn't able to hold him back.
**Motherooze**: Let him come. I'm finally getting into the zone for an argument!
**Motherooze**: Off you go.
**Guardooze**: Yes ma'am.
**Finch**: Motherooze!
**Finch**: There were eyewitnesses that said my brother had been to Ooze Castle before he disappeared.
**Motherooze**: So? You want me to make him appear?
**Pop David**: It sounds like Vinci came to Ooze Castle for you?
**Motherooze**: I don't want to butt into your family's business.
**Motherooze**: My duty as the Motherooze of Eversun Lane is to find the culprit that has put us in danger!
**Motherooze**: Well, give us back our brother and you won't have to butt into our family's business!
**Pop David**: Finch, be respectful to your elders!
*While the other conversation goes on, Marshal Rat turns to Player*
**Marshal Rat**: (whispers) Hey kid!
**Marshal Rat**: (whispers) I need your help, emergency!
**Motherooze**: You controlling and possessive brat!
**Motherooze**: Vinci doesn't belong to you, why should I give him to you?
**Finch**: No no, that's not what I meant... what did you do to him?
**Finch**: I heard long ago that the Motherooze can produce a cream that can make kids listen to her.
**Motherooze**: That's correct. I used it on your little brother~
**Finch**: Did you already...
**Finch**: Did you turn my little brother into the Ooze castle's pawn?
**Marshal Rat**: (faintly) Head to Rattleton fast and tell the kids...
**Motherooze**: Hmm?
*Motherooze throws a slime ball at Marshal Rat*
**Marshal Rat**: You?
**Motherooze**: I knew it...
**Motherooze**: You're getting troops to fight me?
**Marshal Rat**: And you...
**Motherooze**: Shut it!
**Motherooze**: The two humans passing by... you have something going on with this deadbeat?
**Motherooze**: And listen to you too.
**Motherooze**: So it's all been a set up!
**Kitty**: Wait, we didn't even respond to him yet!
**Player**: Uh... I...
**Motherooze**: You know each other and you both appeared here at the same time, all a coincidence?
**Kitty**: That's right! It's a coincidence...
**Motherooze**: The hell it is!
**Motherooze**: Hahahaha, I was a fool.
**Motherooze**: David, you might have left the rat clan, but a mutant rat is still a rat.
**Motherooze**: Perfect timing you got here with your Cannyes kids.
**Motherooze**: Taking advantage of Vinci's disappearance and trying to use that to divert my attention.
**Motherooze**: Is that so you can let that jerk escape?
**Marshal Rat**: It's a coincidence!
**Motherooze**: Sure, I'll believe you!
**Motherooze**: I'll take care of your accomplice first, then it'll be you!
*Motherooze starts charging an attack*
**Kitty**: Out of the way!
**Kitty**: She's getting furious!
**Player**: I'm really just passing by!
**Kitty**: Live first, then talk!
*Player and Kitty fight and defeat Motherooze*
**Marshal Rat**: What's the whole point of all this! Did they hurt you?
**Motherooze**: Humph...
**Motherooze**: They weren't the ones that hurt me.
**Motherooze**: It's you.
**Motherooze**: I didn't want to hurt you. I just wanted an explanation.
**Motherooze**: But you were ready to start a war against me!
**Marshal Rat**: You hag! Always blowing up a storm before anyone's done talkin'!
**Marshal Rat**: When you took me here to Ooze Castle, there were already rat pawns heading back with the news.
**Marshal Rat**: I didn't want trouble so I tried to tell these young fellas to go back and let my boys know to hold their horses.
**Motherooze**: Like I'd trust a man's words.
**Motherooze**: I only believe what I see.
**Motherooze**: My turf got filled with your minions before I could even notice.
**Motherooze**: Asking me to go to Rattleton was never the intention. This is the real set up!
**Marshal Rat**: Well, if you only believe what you see.
**Marshal Rat**: Then you shoulda seen who came rushing to your rescue when you been hurt!
**Motherooze**: ...
**Marshal Rat**: David and I are both working on getting behind the poison thing.
**Motherooze**: And your investigation pointed at me?
**Marshal Rat**: That's just my anger talking. I'd never start suspecting you.
**Player**: ...
**Kitty**: I don't think the two of you really thought the other was the culprit.
**Kitty**: This misunderstanding, amplified lingering issues from your past relationship, makes you unwilling to listen to each other.
**Player**: That's why...
**Pop David**: You are testing him by arguing with Finch!
**Finch**: Huh?
**Finch**: So Pop, the Motherooze has nothing to do with my brother's disappearance?
**Motherooze**: Finch, he wasn't kidnapped, but left on his own.
**Motherooze**: Vinci did come to me, but I don't know where he was going.
**Finch**: So... he ran away from home.
**Pop David**: Vinci hinted at what he wanted to do, but you probably didn't notice, or rather, chose not to believe.
**Finch**: ...
**Pop David**: Don't worry though, we'll find him.
**Pop David**: As for the poison case...
*An ooze approaches Motherooze*
**Guardooze**: The cleaning service you ordered has arrived, your highness.
*A roach comes in*
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Wow, we having a party here?
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Pop, how come you're here too?
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Oh right, remember when you told me to pick the sand out of the beans yesterday?
**Cook-to-be Pat**: I finished doing that today~
**Cook-to-be Pat**: There were 14230 beans in the kitchen, and 235400 grains of sand.
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Every single one was hand selected and boiled.
**Pop David**: Good work, Pat.
**Marshal Rat**: I thought roaches only do cleaning?
**Cook-to-be Pat**: That's right, Marshal Rat.
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Would you like a-scale cleaning of the Ooze Castle region, your highness?
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Hehe, I'd clean every nook and cranny.
**Motherooze**: Why is a roach helping in the kitchen? They're supposed to be cleaning.
**Pop David**: ...
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Well... that's... because I have a dream...
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Pop gave me a chance and hope to become the one I want.
**Finch**: Yeah, why can't they cook?
**Kitty**: ...
**Finch**: Roaches can train their cooking skills and create delicacies.
**Finch**: Spiders can become models through vigorous body shaping.
**Finch**: My little brother...
**Finch**: He has his dream as well, so...
**Finch**: (Sniffling) So he went for it...
**Player**: ...
**Pop David**: Eversun Lane came this far...
**Pop David**: It wasn't because of strict rules.
**Marshal Rat**: Of course it wasn't!
**Motherooze**: It's 'inclusivity'.
**Kitty**: Every clan is here to coexist!
**Kitty**: Every monster has the right to be itself here!
**Motherooze**: However!
**Player**: ...
**Motherooze**: We can't be inclusive indiscriminately.
**Motherooze**: Eversun Lane does not stand for malicious poisoning!
**Marshal Rat**: That's right!
**Motherooze**: From today on, Eversun Lane will increase its security!
**Motherooze**: Every family will be under supervision, including the Ooze Monsters.
**Motherooze**: Of course, that includes screening the outsiders!
**Motherooze**: No exceptions.
**Motherooze**: Until we find the culprit that attempted to destroy Eversun Lane.
**Player**: Eh?
**Kitty**: \*sighs\*... Why is it so hard to get out of Eversun Lane!
**Player**: Wait!
**Player**: I have something to say!
**Kitty**: !!!
**Player**: I have been around every part of this Eversun Lane by now.
**Player**: About the whole poison thing...
**Player**: I have a hunch...
**Player**: If I may?
**Marshal Rat**: Please.
**Player**: If my deduction turns out to be correct...
**Player**: Then Kitty and I won't have to be screened by you anymore right?
**Kitty**: Also, can you give me that 'Unblock Cream' as a reward?
**Motherooze**: No Problem.
**Motherooze**: As long as the culprit is apprehended, then the lockdown will be lifted.
**Motherooze**: I will let you go unconditionally.
**Marshal Rat**: So please, young man, speak up. Who do you think did it?
**Pop David**: We need to listen to your reasoning first.
**Kitty**: Well, it's up to you if I can get away now!
**Player**: Not to worry!
**Player**: I deduce...
**Player**: The culprit behind the poisoning is...
*Choice start #2*
*Choice 9.1 - The pageant spider.*
**Player**: So Splonder poisoned everyone indiscriminately to win the pageant?
**Player**: By making every one of her competitions too sick to participate?
**Motherooze**: You...don't know anything about women~
**Motherooze**: Madam Spider is well-known around these parts for being crazy over beauty.
**Motherooze**: She likes the feeling of competing among other beautiful candidates more than the glory of winning.
**Motherooze**: If that's what happened, then there won't be any fun in doing the pageant.
**Pop David**: That kind of poisoning would also make the judges and audience too sick to go.
**Marshal Rat**: So what would she get from it? The pageant will be at risk of being canceled.
**Motherooze**: So there's no way Madam Spider wouldn't have thought that far. It's just not worth it.
**Player**: That makes sense...Let me think who could it be...
*Go back to Choices start #2*
*Choice 9.2 - The lost Cannye.*
**Player**: He snuck out of home because he has a secret!
**Player**: So he poisoned everyone to the point that nobody can work. A perfect chance to sneak out.
**Motherooze**: The timing is off too.
**Motherooze**: The poison incident occurred after Vinci disappeared.
**Marshal Rat**: Plus, he wouldn't get a chance to come into contact with food production and transport.
**Marshal Rat**: Even if he did, he wouldn't dare to show up right?
**Marshal Rat**: Anyone would have taken him to David if that happens.
**Pop David**: Vinci isn't like that. I can assure you.
**Motherooze**: Plus he doesn't really have time to waste on something like this.
**Player**: I see...Let me think now...
*Go back to Choices start #2*
*Choice 9.3 - The cleaner roach, Pat.*
**Marshal Rat**: What? How's this got anything to do with the roach clan?
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Cook-to-be Pat**: We live our own lives away from conflict.
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Sure, we might be gossipy, but we don't harm anyone.
**Motherooze**: You suspect the roaches because they didn't exhibit any signs of sickness?
*All Choices - Choice 10.1: "Yes" OR Choice 10.2: "No"*
*No additional dialog*
**Player**: When I first got to Eversun Lane, I heard you and another roach talking...
**Player**: You've been going into the kitchen a lot lately because Pop David is busy looking for Vinci, right?
**Pop David**: Exactly.
**Pop David**: He did come to help me.
**Pop David**: He's ready to cook already after some time of training.
**Pop David**: However, I trust this kid's dignity.
**Marshal Rat**: So why would he do something like this?
**Marshal Rat**: Getting back at society? Starting a racial conflict?
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Nononono...I didn't!
**Kitty**: You're way overthinking it.
**Kitty**: Approach it from another angle.
**Kitty**: It might not be intentional~
**Player**: Uh...
**Player**: What if he just forgot to wash his hands before cooking?
**Marshal Rat**: ...
**Cook-to-be Pat**: ...
**Player**: The roaches are working hard lately, and Pop needs his help all the time.
**Player**: He's got to work double shift.
**Player**: So if the germs from cleaning toilets is still on his hands...
**Kitty**: Then of course you'll get sick.
**Motherooze**: If it was just one time, I doubt that's enough to make everyone sick for days.
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Well...what if I never washed my hands even once?
**Finch**: ???
**Cook-to-be Pat**: I...I confess.
**Cook-to-be Pat**: I kept forgetting to clean my hands until I already started doing the dishes...
**Pop David**: ...
**Motherooze**: ...
**Pop David**: So this whole scandal was all my fault.
**Pop David**: I was being careless in sanitation.
**Marshal Rat**: Don't take the blame too quickly.
**Marshal Rat**: Let the Rat General sort things through~
**Marshal Rat**: So this poisoning incident...\*coughs\* I mean, food contamination incident...
**Marshal Rat**: Only a few of our young'uns had problems.
**Marshal Rat**: And the roaches are just fine.
**Marshal Rat**: I reckon it's got to do with our living environment?
**Marshal Rat**: The species that have lived in dirty environments in their early days have way tougher an immune system!
**Marshal Rat**: But for them Ooze Monsters that have were basically germ-free for ages, it would be a hard hit on them.
**Pop David**: Hm...that does make sense...
**Pop David**: Spiders and rats have jobs that offer perks that can drastically boost their immune systems.
**Pop David**: But the Ooze Monsters sit in the same spot, working administration, that makes them more susceptible to disease.
**Motherooze**: What kind of environment didn't we go through in our generation?
**Motherooze**: But after we built up Eversun Lane.
**Motherooze**: Things started looking up and we shielded our next generations. Turns out it weakened them.
**Marshal Rat**: Well, working on getting stronger is always the way.
**Cook-to-be Pat**: I admit to my crime, your highness.
**Cook-to-be Pat**: It's not Pop's fault. I have failed him.
**Kitty**: How would you deal with a roach that was only trying to help?
**Kitty**: He has learned his mistake and is sorry...
**Motherooze**: I will report to the roach clan's leader truthfully.
**Motherooze**: This boy doesn't need to work in the kitchen any more.
**Kitty**: What? That's a serious punishment.
**Kitty**: That's taking away his dream...
**Kitty**: He's tried so hard to learn to cook and took it upon himself to cook for Eversun Lane without compensation.
**Kitty**: It's our fault for getting him...
**Motherooze**: Getting him a time job at the kitchen, away from the toilets. Now he doesn't have to work two shifts.
**Motherooze**: It's your fault for making him become a better cook!
**Player**: Eh?
**Cook-to-be Pat**: Thank you, your highness!
**Kitty**: What? That's a great punishment, hahaha!
**Cook-to-be Pat**: I'll learn from my mistake and make sure to clean my hands well, so I can be a great cook!
**Marshal Rat**: Don't get all guilty now David.
**Marshal Rat**: Find mistakes, fix mistakes, don't do it again.
**Marshal Rat**: We rats have got to learn from this mistake too. We ought to make sure to inspect the food more just in case.
**Motherooze**: Hey man~
**Motherooze**: Sorry about that.
**Marshal Rat**: Aww shucks. I had my wrongs too.
**Motherooze**: Wrongs?
**Motherooze**: Tell me what you did wrong then?
**Marshal Rat**: Well I said I'd protect you for life.
**Marshal Rat**: But I made you think I had doubts.
**Kitty**: Ahem~
**Player**: ...
**Pop David**: Finch, time to go home. I'll take you to the Forest of Mystic Swamp tomorrow, but you have to follow me closely.
**Finch**: Okay.
**Motherooze**: Thank you for your help, strangers.
**Motherooze**: You request has been approved. Take this bottle of 'Unblock Cream'.
**Kitty**: Haha, Alright!
**Kitty**: We'll be off then.
**Marshal Rat**: Thanks for helping out guys.
**Motherooze**: Be careful in the forest!
**Kitty**: Ok!
**Player**: Bye.
*Player and Kitty go back to the web blocking the path to the forest*
**Player**: Here's that 'Unblock Cream'.
**Elder Spidey**: That was fast!
**Younger Spidey**: I thought it took three work days usually?
**Player**: How do we use it?
**Elder Spidey**: Twist it open here, and squeeze it onto the web.
**Player**: Uh...sticky and smells kind of weird...
*Player dissolves the webs with the Unblock Cream*
**Kitty**: Haha, Unblock Cream sure is magic!
**Younger Spidey**: Aw...it's all gone. Now we have to make a new one...
**Kitty**: I don't think you have to...the whole 'poison case' is closed.
**Kitty**: Eversun Lane should no longer in under lockdown, and you can be off~
**Younger Spidey**: Wow, really?
**Elder Spidey**: Speaking too soon bro!
**Player**: Oh yeah, there are still procedures to go through.
**Player**: Based on how fast things get processed around here...by the time the administration is done with it...
**Kitty**: Haha, keep up the good work for a few more days now!
**Elder Spidey**: ...
**Younger Spidey**: Goodbye for now.
*Player and Kitty exit the sewer and reach the Forest of Mystic Swamp*
*Scene - Forest of Mystic Swamp*
*As Player and Kitty exit, the encounter a camp*
**Kitty**: Is this the Lost Woods?
*Continue to Chapter 12*