History Recap / AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason1TheTaleOfTheSuperSpecs

-->'''Sardo:''' ''{takes pouch and flings Dust over the crystal ball}'' ''Bamba nei''! ''Bamba nei''...!

-->'''Weeds alter ego:'' Are they gone for good?

* InsistentTerminology: Sardo repeatedly corrects addresses of him as “Mr Sardo” to “Sardo. No ‘Mr’. Accent on the ‘do’!”

* SpookySeance: Sardo’s un-casting of the Spell of Second sight strongly evokes a seance; assemblage in a darkened room round a table, which violently shakes, and around which appear ethereal figures.

She reaches for the pouch of Dust. It blows from the table.

-->'''Mary Beth:'' ''I don't know''!

-->'''Voice:''' [[AC: You have tampered with the Cosmic Seal. Two universe cannot exist on the same plane. Balance must be restored. Lax moray! Lax moray!]]

-->'''Voice:''' [[AC: YOU HAVE TAMPERED WITH THE COSMIC SEAL. TWO UNIVERSES CANNOT EXIST ON THE SAME PLANE. BALANCE MUST BE RESTORED. LAX MORAY! LAX MORAY!]]

-->'''Dark Lady:''' [[AC: I DON'T THINK THEY'LL BE BOTHERING YOU ANYMORE...]]

Mary Beth rushes to his house, and narrowly stops him from flushing it down the toilet.

At Mary Beth’s darkened kitchen table sit Weeds, Mary Beth and Sardo, who, before a crystal ball, intones “alakazam” in a way which is somehow both comical and creepy. Weeds is none too impressed. Mary Beth hopes to finish this business before her parents get home. With waving hand gestures, Sardo recites the incantation made earlier by Weeds, and flings some Dust onto the crystal ball.

Suddenly, with an unearthly, continuous groan, the room falls into deep darkness, set with a deep, multicoloured haze. The table begins to rock. Mary Beth puts on the Specs and cries out in dismay: the void around them is filled with silhouetted apparitions. To Weeds’s incredulous fear, he too can see them. Astounded, Sardo realises this stuff to be real, searches his spell book, and finds the Spell of the Cosmic Seal.

On his incantation, Mary Beth desperately flings more Dust. The apparitions fade. The void falls silent. From above, a shaft of white light reaches the table. Awestruck, Weeds and Mary Beth look up at. Sardo looks around, yelps, and dives under the table. High above them, towering in the darkness, are two enormous, staring eyes. A thunderously deep voice reproves this tampering with the Cosmic Seal, and announces a need to restore balance between the merged universes. The voice repeats Sardo’s incantation. Before an unnatural wind, Weeds and Mary Beth cling desperately to the table.

In the house’s now daylighted living room, two youths realise the dimensional window to have been closed. The Dark Lady seen by Mary Beth joins them, raises her veil, and claims to have closed the window. The “ghosts,” it seems, were trying to do the same thing from their own universe. In the supernaturally deep voice from before, she announces the threat to have passed, and gestures to her crystal ball. Inside, pleading for release, are Weeds, Sardo and Mary Beth.

One spell caster, explains Gary, was powerful; the other was a fake. He then takes from his bag a pair of Super Specs for everyone. On his count of three, everyone puts them on. With the exception of Kristen, they cry out in fright and flea: stood behind Gary is a silhouetted apparition. David pulls off his hooded black mask, and the three celebrate a first rate April Fools gag.

--->'''Mary Beth:''' Whenever I put these Specs on ''{does so}'', I s -

Intrigued by her claim that the Specs work, Sardo lets her in, consults a spell book, and finds the Spell of Second Sight. Is Mary Beth seeing ghosts?

With carefully affected authority, Sardo explains the spell to have provided a view into AnotherDimension, whose inhabitants are now visible to Mary Beth through a window opened, probably in her house, by the spell. Such an expert as Sardo will be able to un-cast the spell, for a fee of fifty dollars.

-->'''Mary Beth:''' ''What''?\

Oh, alright, twenty. But he’s losing on the deal. However, the last pouch was sold to Weeds.

By the campfire, Frank suggests incineration as a safer method of getting rid of the Specs. Betty Anne wonders if the apparitions were real or illusory.

Back in the story, Mary Beth finds Weeds at the local sports court. Frantic, she recounts her ordeal, and puts the Specs back on, and now sees the court to be occupied by half a dozen silhouettes, with a silhouetted basketball, having a game. They notice her, and slowly approach. She screams in terror, runs to the Magic Mansion, and calls through the letterbox.

On the way home, she puts her find to Katherine, and clings to the possibility of an elaborate hoax by Weeds. In testament to his eccentricity, she reaches into her bag for a book on mummies he bought her as an anniversary gift. Alarmed, she finds the Specs, and hurries back to Sardo’s Magic Mansion. It’s closed. She pushes the Specs through the letterbox.

She returns home to an empty house, unloads her homework, and, once again, finds the Specs. Afraid yet curious, she puts them on. On the cooker, she sees a steaming, previously absent kettle. On removal of the Specs, it’s gone. She puts them back on, and the kettle is there; faintly transparent but undeniable. She reaches for it, and her hand passes seamlessly through it.

In the living room fireplace, only seconds ago empty, blazes a fire. Fearful yet entranced, she wanders through the silent house. Looking through the open door of her parents’ bedroom, she sees the Dark Lady. Aghast, Mary Beth beseeches the figure to identify itself. It raises a pointing arm. Mary Beth looks behind her, and sees two more sinister silhouettes. She screams, and removes the Specs. The figures have now vanished. Mary Beth braves the Specs once more, and the silhouettes begin to advance. She flees.

Weeds coaxes Mary Beth intro trying on the Specs. She disdainfully dons them, looks around the shop. Through each rainbow-rimmed lenses, she sees, standing behind by the window, a figure whose clothes and face are shrouded in dark silhouette. Uneasy, she removes the Specs. Weeds claims not to have seen anyone...

On school grounds, Weeds consults a book on voodoo, borrows the yogurt of a nearby classmate, and sprinkles in some magic powder. He returns the yogurt, and tumbles into view. The two girls wonder what April Fool trickery Weeds may have in store. He pleads innocence, and watches for side-effects of the spiked yogurt. Disappointed, he leaves. The yogurt eater is then alarmed to find her voice to be unnaturally high-pitched.

In the school corridor, Weeds, wearing the Super Specs, lingers inconspicuously. Nearby, Mark opens a locker, to be lightly punched from within by a spring-loaded fist. Weeds hoots with laughter. His victim good-humouredly asks about the new glasses.

Mary Beth arrives, and explains their magic power to make Weeds look cool. She tries them on, looks around the bustling corridor, and sees someone she hadn’t noticed seconds before: a woman, whose face and clothes, like the stranger in the shop, form a uniformly black silhouette. The woman holds a black-covered book. Perplexed, Mary Beth removes the Specs, and reports her sighting. The boys suppose it to be an April Fool, and walk off.

Walking home from school, Mary Beth protests her sincerity to Weeds, who still takes her report for an inept retaliation to his pranks. Frustrated, she puts the Specs back on, and sees, standing by a tree, the silhouetted, black-veiled woman. Shaken, Mary Beth hands the Specs to Weeds, who, through their rainbow-flecked lenses, sees only a blurred view of the tree. With a chuckle, he hands them back. Mary Beth puts them back on, and looks. The Dark Lady now raises an ominously pointing arm. Mary Beth screams, flings the Specs in a nearby bin, and storms off.

Gary shows Kristen around his dad’s magic shop, lays a finger into a miniature guillotine and stages an act of self-mutilation. Kristen cries out in horror. Gary laughingly reveals the stunt to have been an illusion. Kristen confesses some of the Midnight Society to have noted a decline in scariness of Gary’s stories. She sees on the counter a pair of black-framed spectacles set with silver, iridescent lenses. Super Specs, says Gary, provide x-ray vision. He puts them on and impudently inspects a disdainful Kristen. Does Gary believe in magic? Maybe, maybe not, but an open mind may ready one for surprises. In a puff of smoke, the Specs vanish from his hand.

At that night’s meeting, Frank opines Gary to be losing his touch. Betty Anne disagrees. Kiki concurs Gary’s loss of the power to scare, backs into the newly arrived Gary, and gets a scare. David, Gary says, is off sick. He takes in his stride the lately low reception of his stories, and offers to make amends with tonight’s. It’s about three kinds of people: those who believe in magic, those who don’t...and those who should. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story "The Tale of the Super Specs."

At Sardo’s Magic Shop, practical joker and aspiring magician Weeds stocks up for April Fool’s Day. To his girlfriend Mary Beth, he shows off a pouch of the Dust of Danderash, purportedly ground from monkey bones. He proceeds to cast the Spell of Second Sight. On reciting the incantation, he throws a pinch of Dust, some of which lands on a display of black-framed spectacles, whose iridescently multicoloured lenses briefly glow.

From behind a curtained door arrives Sardo, who, with forced geniality, prompts purchase or dispersal.

At the counter, Weeds spots a pair of the shiny glasses. Sardo alleges their propensity to x-ray vision. Weeds puts them on, and impudently inspects a wryly amused Mary Beth. Weeds decides to buy them, and coaxes Mary Beth to try them on.

In the Specs, she looks disdainfully around. Through each rainbow-rimmed lenses, she sees, standing behind her, a figure whose clothes and face are shrouded in dark silhouette. Uneasy, she removes the Specs. Weeds claims not to have seen anyone.

* HauntedHouse: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Mary Beth, on seeing through the Specs otherwise imperceptible objects, one of which her hand passes seamlessly through, believes this to be the case with her house. She’s actually seeing into AnotherDimension

* ThePrankster: Weeds cannot get enough of practical jokes.

With carefully affected authority, Sardo explains the spell to have provided a view into AnotherDimension, whose inhabitants are now visible to Mary Beth through a window opened, probably in her house, by the spell. Such an expert as Sardo will be able to un-cast the spell, for a fee of fifty dollars. Oh, alright, twenty. But he’s losing on the deal. However, the last pouch was sold to Weeds.

Gary shows Kristen around his dad’s magic shop, lays a finger into a miniature guillotine and stages an act of self-mutilation. Kristen cries out in horror. Gary laughingly reveals the stunt to have been an illusion. Kristen confesses some of the Midnight Society to have noted a decline in scariness of Gary’s stories. She sees on the counter a pair of black-framed spectacles set with silver, iridescent lenses. Super Specs, says Gary, provide x-ray vision. He puts them on and impudently inspects a disdainful Kristen. Does Gary believe in magic? Maybe, maybe not, but an open mind may ready one for surprises. In a puff of smoke, the Specs vanish from his hand. At that night’s meeting, Frank opines Gary to be losing his touch. Betty Anne disagrees. Kiki concurs Gary’s loss of the power to scare, backs into the newly arrived Gary, and gets a scare. David, Gary says, is off sick. He takes in his stride the lately low reception of his stories, and offers to make amends with tonight’s. It’s about three kinds of people: those who believe in magic, those who don’t...and those who should. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story "The Tale of the Super Specs."

At Sardo’s Magic Shop, practical joker and aspiring magician Weeds stocks up for April Fool’s Day. To his girlfriend Mary Beth, he shows off a pouch of the Dust of Danderash, purportedly ground from monkey bones. He proceeds to cast the Spell of Second Sight. On reciting the incantation, he throws a pinch of Dust, some of which lands on a display of black-framed spectacles, whose iridescently multicoloured lenses briefly glow. Mary Beth delicately casts aspersions on Weed’s maturity. Weeds innocently wonders why, affects a loud gastric emission, and produces a whoopee cushion. From behind a curtained door arrives Sardo, who, with forced geniality, prompts purchase or dispersal. At the counter, Weeds spots a pair of the shiny glasses. Sardo alleges their propensity to x-ray vision. Weeds puts them on, and impudently inspects a wryly amused Mary Beth. Weeds decides to buy them, and coaxes Mary Beth to try them on. In the Specs, she looks disdainfully around. Through each rainbow-rimmed lense, she sees, standing behind her, a figure whose clothes and face are shrouded in dark silhouette. Uneasy, she removes the Specs. Weeds claims not to have seen anyone.

On school grounds, Weeds consults a book on voodoo, borrows the yoghurt of a nearby classmate, and sprinkles in some magic powder. He returns the yoghurt, and tumbles into view. The two girls wonder what April Fool trickery Weeds may have in store. He pleads innocence, and watches for side-effects of the spiked yoghurt. Disappointed, he leaves. The yoghurt eater is then alarmed to find her voice to be unnaturally high-pitched.

In the school corridor, Weeds, wearing the Super Specs, lingers inconspicuously. Nearby, Mark opens a locker, to be lightly punched from within by a spring-loaded fist. Weeds hoots with laughter. His victim good-humouredly asks about the new glasses. Mary Beth arrives, and explains their magic power to make Weeds look cool. She tries them on, looks around the bustling corridor, and sees someone she hadn’t noticed seconds before: a woman, whose face and clothes, like the stranger in the shop, form a uniformly black silhouette. The woman holds a black-covered book. Perplexed, Mary Beth removes the Specs, and reports her sighting. The boys suppose it to be an April Fool, and walk off.

Walking home from school, Mary Beth protests her sincerity to Weeds, who still takes her report for an inept retaliation to his pranks. Frustrated, she puts the Specs back on, and sees, standing by a tree, the silhouetted, black-vieled woman. Shaken, Mary Beth hands the Specs to Weeds, who, through their rainbow-flecked lenses, sees only a blurred view of the tree. With a chuckle, he hands them back. Mary Beth puts them back on, and looks. The Dark Lady now raises an ominously pointing arm. Mary Beth screams, flings the Specs in a nearby bin, and storms off.

She returns home to an empty house, unloads her homework, and, once again, finds the Specs. Afraid yet curious, she puts them on. On the cooker, she sees a steaming, previously absent kettle. On removal of the Specs, it’s gone. She puts them back on, and the kettle is there; faintly transparent but undeniable. She reaches for it, and her hand passes seamlessly through it. In the living room fireplace, only seconds ago empty, blazes a fire. Fearful yet entranced, she wanders through the silent house. Looking through the open door of her parents’ bedroom, she sees the Dark Lady. Aghast, Mary Beth beseeches the figure to identify itself. It raises a pointing arm. Mary Beth looks behind her, and sees two more sinister silhouettes. She screams, and removes the Specs. The figures have now vanished. Mary Beth braves the Specs once more, and the silhouettes begin to advance. She flees.

Frank suggests incineration as a safer method of getting rid of the Specs. Betty Anne wonders if the apparitions were really there. Back in the story, Mary Beth finds Weeds at the local sports court. Frantic, she recounts her ordeal, and puts the Specs back on, and now sees the court to be occupied by half a dozen silhouettes, with a silhouetted basketball, having a game. They notice her, and slowly approach. She screams in terror, runs to the Magic Mansion, and calls through the letterbox.

Intrigued by her claim that the Specs work, Sardo lets her in, consults a spell book, and finds the Spell of Second Sight. Is Mary Beth seeing ghosts? With carefully affected authority, Sardo explains the spell to have provided a view into AnotherDimension, whose inhabitants are now visible to Mary Beth through a window opened, probably in her house, by the spell. Such an expert as Sardo will be able to un-cast the spell, for a fee of fifty dollars. Oh, alright, twenty. But he’s losing on the deal. However, the last pouch was sold to Weeds. Mary Beth rushes to his house, and narrowly stops him from flushing it down the toilet.

Suddenly, with an unearthly, continuous groan, the room falls into deep darkness, set with a deep, multicoloured haze. The table begins to rock. Mary Beth puts on the Specs and cries out in dismay: the void around them is filled with silhouetted apparitions. To Weeds’s incredulous fear, he too can see them. Astounded, Sardo realises this stuff to be real, searches his spellbook, and finds the Spell of the Cosmic Seal. On his incantation, Mary Beth desperately flings more Dust. The apparitions fade. The void falls silent. From above, a shaft of white light reaches the table. Awestruck, Weeds and Mary Beth look up at. Sardo looks around, yelps, and dives under the table. High above them, towering in the darkness, are two enormous, staring eyes. A thunderously deep voice reproves this tampering with the Cosmic Seal, and announces a need to restore balance between the merged universes. The voice repeats Sardo’s incantation. Before an unnatural wind, Weeds and Mary Beth cling desperately to the table.

Intrigued by her claim that the Specs work, Sardo lets her in, consults a spell book, and finds the Spell of Second Sight. Is Mary Beth seeing ghosts? With carefully affected authority, Sardo explains the spell to have provided a view into AnotherDimension, whose inhabitants are now visible to Mary Beth through a window opened, probably in her house, by the spell. Such an expert as Sardo will be able to un-cast the spell, for a fee of fifty dollars. [[note]] '''MaryBeth:''' ''What''? [[/note]] Oh, alright, twenty. But he’s losing on the deal. However, the last pouch was sold to Weeds. Mary Beth rushes to his house, and narrowly stops him from flushing it down the toilet.

* TheBadGuyWins: PlayedWith. While the silhouetted apparitions are unsuspecting residents of a neighbouring universe, most of whom are probably just as alarmed by the cosmic merge; one of them, a powerful sorceress, solves the problem by [[spoiler: trapping the protagonists in a crystal ball, and seems rather vindictive about it]].

* DarkIsNotEvil: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Most of the apparitions seem to be unwitting or at least involuntary invaders, and the Dark Lady magically closes the dimensional window. However, her [[EvilGloating gloating]] revelation of [[spoiler: having trapped the protagonists in her crystal ball, with the implication of having usurped the populace of their dimension]], is decidedly sinister.

On school grounds, Weeds consults a book on voodoo, borrows the yoghurt of a nearby classmate, and sprinkles in some magic powder. He returns the yoghurt, and tumbles into view. The two girls wonder what April Fool trickery Weeds may have in store. He pleads innocence, and watches for side-effects of the spiked yoghurt. Disappointed, he leaves. The yoghurt eater is then alarmed to find her voice to be unnaturally high-pitched. In the school corridor, Weeds, wearing the Super Specs, lingers inconspicuously. Nearby, Mark opens a locker, to be lightly punched from within by a spring-loaded fist. Weeds hoots with laughter. His victim good-humouredly asks about the new glasses. Mary Beth arrives, and explains their magic power to make Weeds look cool. She tries them on, looks around the bustling corridor, and sees someone she hadn’t noticed seconds before: a woman, whose face and clothes, like the stranger in the shop, form a uniformly black silhouette. The woman holds a black-covered book. Perplexed, Mary Beth removes the Specs, and reports her sighting. The boys suppose it to be an April Fool, and walk off.

Walking home from school, Mary Beth protests her sincerity to Weeds, who still takes her report for an inept retaliation to his pranks. Frustrated, she puts the Specs back on, and sees, standing by a tree, the silhouetted, black-vieled woman. Shaken, Mary Beth hands the Specs to Weeds, who, through their rainbow-flecked lenses, sees only a blurred view of the tree. With a chuckle, he hands them back. Mary Beth puts them back on, and looks. The Dark Lady now raises an ominously pointing arm. Mary Beth screams, flings the Specs in a nearby bin, and storms off. On the way home, she puts her find to Katherine, and clings to the possibility of an elaborate hoax by Weeds. In testament to his eccentricity, she reaches into her bag for a book on mummies he bought her as an anniversary gift. Alarmed, she finds the Specs, and hurries back to Sardo’s Magic Mansion. It’s closed. She pushes the Specs through the letterbox.

Frank suggests incineration as a safer method of getting rid of the Specs. Betty Anne wonders if the apparitions were really there. Back in the story, Mary Beth finds Weeds at the local sports court. Frantic, she recounts her ordeal, and puts the Specs back on, and now sees the court to be occupied by half a dozen silhouettes, with a silhouetted basketball, having a game. They notice her, and slowly approach. She screams in terror, flees to the Magic Mansion, and calls through the letterbox. Intrigued by her claim that the Specs work, Sardo lets her in, consults a spell book, and finds the Spell of Second Sight. Is Mary Beth seeing ghosts? With carefully affected authority, Sardo explains the spell to have provided a view into AnotherDimension, whose inhabitants are now visible to Mary Beth through a window opened, probably in her house, by the spell. Such an expert as Sardo will be able to un-cast the spell, for a fee of fifty dollars. [[note]] '''MaryBeth:''' ''What''? [[/note]] Oh, alright, twenty. But he’s losing on the deal. However, the last pouch was sold to Weeds. Mary Beth rushes to his house, and narrowly stops him from flushing it down the toilet.

At Mary Beth’s darkened kitchen table sit Weeds, Mary Beth and Sardo, who, before a crystal ball, intones “alakazam” in a way which is somehow both comical and creepy. Weeds is none too impressed. Mary Beth hopes to finish this business before her parents get home. With waving hand gestures, Sardo recites the incantation made earlier by Weeds, and flings some Dust onto the crystal ball. Suddenly, with an unearthly, continuous groan, the room falls into deep darkness, set with a deep, multicoloured haze. The table begins to rock. Mary Beth puts on the Specs and cries out in dismay: the void around them is filled with silhouetted apparitions. To Weeds’s incredulous fear, he too can see them. Astounded, Sardo realises this stuff to be real, searches his spellbook, and finds the Spell of the Cosmic Seal. On his incantation, Mary Beth desperately flings more Dust. The apparitions fade. The void falls silent. From above, a shaft of white light reaches the table. Awestruck, Weeds and Mary Beth look up at. Sardo looks around, yelps, and dives under the table. High above them, towering in the darkness, are two enormous, staring eyes. A thunderously deep voice reproves this tampering with the Cosmic Seal, and announces a need to restore balance between the merged universes. The voice repeats Sardo’s incantation. Before an unnatural wind, Weeds and Mary Beth cling desperately to the table.

* HonestJohnsDealership: Sardo (mistakenly) believes his magic items not to really work, and tries to charge fifty dollars for a corrective incantation.

Gary shows Kristen around his dad’s magic shop, lays a finger into a miniature guillotine and stages an act of self-mutilation. Kristen cries out in horror. Gary laughingly reveals the stunt to have been an illusion. Kristen confesses some of the Midnight Society to have noted a decline in scariness of Gary’s stories. She sees on the counter a pair of black-framed spectacles set with silver, iridescent lenses. Super Specs, says Gary, provide x-ray vision. He puts them on and impudently inspects a disdainful Kristen. Does Gary believe in magic? Maybe, maybe not, but an open mind may ready one for surprises. In a puff of smoke, the Specs vanish from his hand. At that night’s meeting, Frank opines Gary to be losing his touch. Betty Anne disagrees. Kiki concurs Gary’s loss of the power to scare, backs into the newly arrived Gary, and gets a scare. David, Gary says, is off sick. He takes in his stride the lately low reception of his stories, and offers to make amends with tonight’s. It’s about three kinds of people: those who believe in magic, those who don’t...and those who should. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story the Tale of the Super Specs.

Walking home from school, Mary Beth protests her sincerity to Weeds, who still takes her report for an inept retaliation to his pranks. Frustrated, she puts the Specs back on, and sees, standing by a tree, the silhouetted, black-vieled woman. Shaken, Mary Beth hands the Specs to Weeds, who, through their rainbow-flecked lenses, sees only a blurred view of the tree. With a chuckle, he hands them back. Mary Beth puts them back on, and looks. The Dark Lady now raises an ominously pointing arm. Mary Beth screams, flings the Specs in a nearby bin, and storms off. On the way home, she puts her find to Katherine, and clings to the possibility of an elaborate hoax by Weeds. In testament to his eccentricity, she reaches into her bag for a book on mummies he bought her as an anniversary gift. Alarmed, she finds the Specs, and hurries back to Sardo’s Magic Mansion. It’s closed. She pushes the Specs through the letterbox. She returns home to an empty house, unloads her homework, and, once again, finds the Specs. Afraid yet curious, she puts them on. On the cooker, she sees a steaming, previously absent kettle. On removal of the Specs, it’s gone. She puts them back on, and the kettle is there; faintly transparent but undeniable. She reaches for it, and her hand passes seamlessly through it. In the living room fireplace, only seconds ago empty, blazes a fire. Fearful yet entranced, she wanders through the silent house. Looking through the open door of her parents’ bedroom, she sees the Dark Lady. Aghast, Mary Beth beseeches the figure to identify itself. It raises a pointing arm. Mary Beth looks behind her, and sees two more sinister silhouettes. She screams, and removes the Specs. The figures have now vanished. Mary Beth braves the Specs once more, and the silhouettes begin to advance. She flees.

Frank suggests incineration as a safer method of getting rid of the Specs. Betty Anne wonders if the apparitions were really there. Back in the story, Mary Beth finds Weeds at the local sports court. Frantic, she recounts her ordeal, and puts the Specs back on, and now sees the court to be occupied by half a dozen silhouettes, with a silhouetted basketball, having a game. They notice her, and slowly approach. She screams in terror, flees to the Magic Mansion, and calls through the letterbox. Intrigued by her claim that the Specs work, Sardo lets her in, consults a spell book, and finds the Spell of Second Sight. Is Mary Beth seeing ghosts? With carefully affected authority, Sardo explains the spell to have provided a view into AnotherDimension, whose inhabitants are now visible to Mary Beth through a window opened, probably in her house, by the spell. Such an expert as Sardo will be able to un-cast the spell, for a fee of fifty dollars. Oh, alright, twenty. But he’s losing on the deal. However, the last pouch was sold to Weeds. Mary Beth rushes to his house, and narrowly stops him from flushing it down the toilet.