Monday November 22nd at the secret base of the clown-troupe/basement of Holly Dim’s house, the troupe is going over their spoils and celebrating.
The members are sitting at their personal corner/chairs drinking wine and champagne, surrounded at all sides by their spoils; treasures piled up reaching the ceiling.
Joker is wearing a white fur cloak, more fur cloaks are lined up hanging on some rack and more are in a pile on some boxes.
(Joker:)”This cha-champa is great, good that Fool found some lying around!” Joker has never tasted champagne before and she is an embarrassment.
There are also broken open boxes where you can see gold ingots filling the boxes completely, the troupe is rich!
Oddly enough there is also egyptian coffins stacked on top of each other, all containing mummies… where did they even get some of this stuff.
Some of the people the blackmailed into giving them stuff actually had mummies… WTF. How rich are you to have mummies!?
Whatever… At some point they had gained so much they just trolled some family by asking for pizza instead of money or anything of value.
They really did not need to kidnap as many as they did and the families that only needed to pay in pizzas for their child’s return got lucky.
Trickster is the one that brought all of this stuff here as she is… in Fool’s words:”the taxi/transport.” he got slapped for calling her that… again.
(Kingclown:)”HA HA HA, this is a glorious evening for the most evil group in Farlong! We have won, we did evil and helped Alexander at the same time!”
(Enchantress:)”…That…” Enchantress seems unsure of what to say slowly sipping on the “champa”. (Kingclown:)”What, do you think we fucked up somewhere?”
He asks in a jovial tone. (Enchantress:)”No…” She looks unsure at Fool who does not seem to be paying too much attention.
Fool is staring distantly at some white and black cloth poking out from under some boxes… “Did he bury Vilemime?” Enchantress thinks.
Fool suddenly straightens up. (Fool:)”We could start a proper business with this much capital, or we could invest and live of the equity for the rest of our lives.”
The troupe starts thinking about living comfortable lives for the rest of their time alive, Kingclown realizes really quickly how much he needs to stop people from considering that.
(Kingclown:)”No!… This… money could probably not be used legally, we need to clean it and use it properly.” The rest of the troupe looks oddly at the not so nonchalant Kingclown.
(Fool:)”If it can be cleaned then it can be used normally, can it not?” Kingclown fears that his troupe will quit working if they start doing proper business.
(Enchantress:)”Even if we could use it normally, we are not normal and people do not easily accept us. We still need to change the world to live peacefully.”
Kingclown looks at Enchantress gratefully as she does not seem to want to stop being in the troupe and the rest seem convinced by her words.
(Trickster:)”Should we get a real secret base? We can’t be using Mrs.Dim’s basement all the time can we?” The troupe ponders about this.
(Kingclown:)”I do think that could be possible, if we are a bother to Mrs.Dim then yes, but I am actually quite fond of her and this place.”
(Joker:)”We could still use this place, but we should probably get some storage room and a second secret base if we need one.”
(Kingclown:)”Getting a second secret base… or do you just want to get a private place to party?” Joker appears shocked.
(Joker:)”Noooooo, why would I want to party at a secret baaaaaaaaaase… I just want, a-room, a room for myself. Yep that is it.
A place where we can sleep over if necessary, a place where we can chill together and taste these super awesome cooking skills of Fool that Trickster has mentioned.”
She nods to herself almost having convinced herself, but Kingclown knows that she is a silly girl that would actually want to throw a party at the new place.
(Kingclown:)”OK, I also think we need a second place for many different reasons, tasting Fool’s cooking being one.”
(Enchantress:)”You can cook?” She asks while staring oddly at Fool. (Fool:)”Yes, though I usually like to use magic ingredients that… taste magical…”
(Enchantress:)”What?” (Fool:)”Food that freezes you from the inside, dragon soup, mushrooms that glow with fiery light and so on…”
Enchantress looks oddly at Fool and then looks over at Trickster who has stopped flipping something in her hand, having dropped it on the floor and staring stunned at Fool.
(Enchantress:)”Did you not know?” (Trickster:)”I… what? I-Are you serious? Sorry Enchantress, but I- my brain does not work, what?”
Enchantress does not repeat herself, she just stares at Fool together with the rest of the troupe. (Fool:)”What… cooking with normal ingredients is boring. Kingclown should know.”
Kingclown points at himself in confusion. “What do I know?” And the troupe looks at him in confusion. (Fool:)”He should know about some of the more magical parts of the world.
Trickster too, I have a good amount of magical ingredients that taste like the future, past and present; cooking with magic ingredients is too different from normal cooking.”
The troupe stare oddly at Fool who seem to honestly not understand what is so odd about what he is saying and Fool oddly feels like this is what Alexander feels.
When what seems normal to you is just absurd to others. The troupe spends some time asking for specific recipes and listening with rapt attention.
This man is not joking, maybe we can eat dragon soon? Enchantress is very confused about her childhood friend who she does not know the identity of…
Will she ever know? Will she ever not be shocked by what he says or does? Next time on clown-troupe Z, Fool is proven to be from another planet… That was a joke don’t take it seriously.