ROOK: To take advantage of the wall space, I didn't use the 3rd floor this time.
- 2nd floor: Spencer, Mike, Skullfinder
- 1st floor: Travis, Leaf, Marlon
- Basement: Makoto, Star, Nova
ROOK: See, some of the objects can only be placed on the wall, and neither the 3rd nor 1st floors have walls that you can attach things to.
- 2nd floor: The Prominence
- 1st floor: Suckers Sabotage!
- Basement: Time for Toast
ROOK: I went to the beach and hung out with Clara and Mr. Suckers.
DR. F: I administered the F-quotient test to your assistants, and they scored higher than me! To the F-Warp immediately! My toast disaster must be prevented at all costs!
CLARA: Oh, Rook! Your agents are adorable! They're the perfect team to go undercover as personal assistants for Mr. Suckers.
ROOK: Yeah, undercover as long as nobody recognizes the rock star Leaf. But yeah, Travis is pretty adorable, isn't he? Even the robo-girl thinks so.
THE AMAZING DARYL: Ah, Rook, these people you sent to help me create my latest illusion are truly amazing! Not as amazing as myself, of course, but amazing enough. Now, on with the show!
MAKOTO: ...oop. I appear to be stuck in a time loop. I appear to be stuck in a time loop. I appear to be stuck in a time loop. I appear to be stuck in a time l...
CLARA: We're backstage at the pageant preparation. Your team has discovered tracks leaving from Mr. Suckers' dressing room... and they aren't human. Your agents know a lot about paranormal stuff, so they're close to identifying the tracks.
(Rook smirks and looks over at Clara.)
MIKE: Back in the temple, me and my coconut friends would stage a magic show every year. I would saw a coconut in half, and then put it back together like new! Went through a lot of coconuts getting down that trick, though...
...Krakens are transparent.
ROOK: ...What?
I just noticed. Mr. Suckers is holding a cup, right?
ROOK: Yeah...?
Now look at the blanket. There's the shadow of the cup; where's the shadow of the tentacle?
ROOK: ...Woah. You're right, it's not there.
LEAF: Does this pageant need a musical act between contests? I've been looking to promote my new album.
DARYL: Progress on my new illusion is coming along nicely, Rook. It's just a question of how many rabbits I can stuff into my magic hat! Even I don't know!
ROOK: Wonder what Beebee would think of that...
DR. F: Yes! I've disintegrated your monkeys and sent their particles through the F-Warp! I expect nothing less than total success in the recovery of my toast! Stand by!
MARLON: Fascinating, Rook! I've enchanted this area with a trail-identifying spell, but these tracks are quite resistant to my magic!
NOVA: This is heartbreaking! I'm in ancient Egypt watching the pyramids being built, and there's not a single alien in sight! And I brought my autograph book and everything...
SKULLFINDER: Hmm, you need to keep an eye on these magician folk. They're always making things disappear. Definitely don't want one roaming my museum! I swear if I lose that ark one more time...
TRAVIS: I took a picture of the tracks with my camera phone! Then I called a few people! I love my phone!
CLARA: We're done with our analysis. The tracks leading from Mr. Suckers' dressing room are tentacle tracks! So the culprit is either a sea creature or an alien. Which do you think it is?
ROOK: A sea creature.
DR. F: It's now time to reach into the timestream and retrieve your agents! Of course, I hadn't really planned this far ahead in the experiment. What shall we use to bring them back to the present?!
ROOK: Eh, a black hole. If that doesn't worked, try gophers.
DARYL: Rook, it is now time to design the final act of my illusion, what we in the trade call "The Prominence." It must be a trick so wondrous, so amazing, and so mystifying that it defies all explanation! But what should we use to distract the audience?
ROOK: Mirrors. Smoke, if that fails.
DR. F: Eureka! I reconfigured my microwave oven to create an artificial black hole to punch through the fabric of spacetime. And it worked! Eat that, spacetime!
DARYL: Ah, brilliant! Using the latest in mirror technology, I was able to fool the audience into thinking they were on the other side of the mirror! Left is right! Up is down! It's amazing!
ROOK: It's... concave?
CLARA: We thought the perpetrator might be a sea creature. But the tracks aren't a perfect match for either squid or octopus tentacles.
STAR: I generally avoid time travel if at all possible. Oh, it has nothing to do with being a ninja, it's just that the food isn't that great. Pretty hard to find a good sushi joint in the Jurassic period.
CLARA: Your agents have found their prime suspect, and it's... Mr. Suckers?! Silly me! His own tracks were all over his dressing room. Thank you for solving this case! Well, it's showtime! Wish us luck!
ROOK: Yeah, you're going to need it, since you're not actually there.
ROOK: So then I went over to Dr. F, who was still at the beach with Tobor.
SPENCER: Oh wow! Daryl just pulled a rabbit out of my helmet! Now how'd that get in there? I wear that helmet 24-7!
DR. F: Hooray! Your monkeys have returned from the past, and they saved my poor toast from a fate worse than death! Of course, you have no idea what I'm talking about, since it never happened in this timeline!
ROOK: I believe you. More than you know.
ROOK: I went back to HQ to wait for the remaining text to come in.
DARYL: Thank you, Rook. With your team's help, I was able to create a new magic trick that will astound the world! And now...behold! I reveal to you my greatest magic trick: The Vanishing Audience! The audience themselves disappear! Where did they go As long as they tickets up front, it doesn't matter! Are you not amazed?!
ROOK: I am not amazed.
JENNY: Oh hey, that magician Daryl guy said that the Prominence was successful beyond his wildest imaginings... whatever that means. Here are some black and white top hats, Mardi Gras masks, and another mask. Dr. F sent a message thanking you for saving his toast, but I have no memory of such a mission. Make any sense to you? Some scientist clothing. Both normal and mad scientists can wear it, I guess. Paint that looks like brains. Also, a trophy of the doc, Alexa, and Tobor. So, I heard that Mr. Suckers sabotaged himself?! Weird. Anyway, Clara says he won the pageant, thanks to you. She sent this reward: a Mr. Suckers figurine, and lifeguard outfits. Oh, hey, a now mission just popped up. It's called "One More Time", and it's from Agent Walker.
ROOK: Walker... well, let's see how it goes.
- One More Time
WALKER: Rook, you've put in a lot of hard work for us and you've done us proud. Now we need your services one more time. Unexpectedly, we've seen some magic portals opening up in random areas. We believe these are portals to the Nightmare Realm. I need you to send a team to investigate!
15 minutes. 5 stars. Paranormal/Charismatic. Trophy.
ROOK: Right. Before I sent anyone, though, I checked the "Completed" tab. Indeed, "Time For Toast" was there. Also, I went up to the top floor to see the trophies. The third shelf was full, with trophies of Faith Connors, Preston in a yeti suit, Walker, Justice shooting a Hadoken or something, Morcubus, Chaz, a tentacle, Mr. Suckers, and Mike. The second and bottom shelves appeared to still have empty space. Huh.
- Mission
- One More Time: *****; P/C; Trophy.
- Recruits and Recruitables
- Annie: A,C,3S
- Aran: 4A,N
- Beebee: N,A,3C
- Carl: 3P,N,S
- Elmira: P,N,3S
- Gonk: 2N,3A
- Gordon: 5S
- Hopper: 2N,2A,C
- Leaf: 3N,2C
- Liberty: 3N,2C
- Lyndsay: N,2A,C,S
- Magellan: P,3N,A
- Makoto: A,4S
- Marlon: 5P
- Mike: P,2A,2S
- Ms. Nicole: 4C,S
- Nova: 2P,N,2S
- Petal: 5N
- Pinky: P,4C
- Preston: A,3C,S
- Renée: 3N,2C
- Roger: 5A
- Agent Rosalyn: 2P,3S
- Skullfinder: 2P,3S
- Spencer: 2A,3C
- Star: P,4A
- Travis: 3C,2S
- Trevor: 5C
- Agent Vic: 3P,C,S
- Violet: 3P,N,S
- Wendalyn: 4P,N
- Wolfah: 3N,2A
- Zoe: 4P,S
Next time: One More Time, Part 1: The Sad Ending
- Travis, a loyal friend and the first agent that you ever hired
- Mike, whose discoveries led to the main plot about the Nightmare Realm
- Preston, because community service hours don't earn themselves
If there's something about this combination prevents next time's plans from going as...planned, just choose whatever combination you like the most. Best of luck, and have a wonderful day.