Day 2, Part 6~

Kestrel and Spirit Rain burst into the control room to find the lists all accounted for, except for one.

“This must be ours,” chirped the CAPTCHA.

“ And it looks like we’re the last team to get here. . .” murmured Kestrel. A voice boomed over the loudspeaker in the control room, causing the pair to jump. “Gosh, that scared me,” Kestrel whispered to Spirit Rain. The voice over the loudspeaker was not the Stage Manager’s, but rather one that sounded much like Marissa’s— or was it Melissa? With twins, it was hard to tell.

“ All teams must report back to the stage. I repeat, all teams must report back to the stage.” said the voice.

Dolphin shrugged, and the pair headed back to where they had started. There, many of the other teams were assembled, chatting quietly with each other.

“Do you think something happened?”

“The Stage Manager?”

“Is something wrong?”

Melissa and Marissa appeared onstage a moment later.

“Not to worry, CBers, everything is fine. However, we’d like to share some exciting news with the teams who completed the challenge.”

“Wait—” asked the Riddler, “What challenge?”

“A challenge was sent to each team via telepathy earlier in the scavenger hunt. It was optional, but I believe it was on anagrams,” Marissa replied. “For those who completed the challenge, you will find a clue on your scavenger hunt lists. Good luck!” Immediately, the teams were again cloaked in invisibility and on their way.

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Kaleidoscope Gryphon looked down at the list at the items she had to find. Dolphin read over her shoulder.

“ Adry II? Wht’s that?” the CAPTCHA asked.

“Audrey II?” Kaleido wracked through her mental library of Broadway knowledge. “Oh! From Little Shop of Horrors! We’ll probably find it in the props room.” The pair began heading in the general direction of the props room, but almost immediately ran into an invisible block of . . . something. It was almost as if someone didn’t want them to get to the props room. . .

“Huh, weird!” exclaimed Kaleidoscope. When they tried taking another route, they found the same problem. Kaleido was getting frustrated. “Dolphin, I’m beginning to think that this scavenger hunt is rigged!” Dolphin chirped excitedly in response.

“Look down!” squeaked the CAPTCHA.

“What?” Kaleidoscope looked down to find a glowing pair of sparkly purple footprints that stretched out of the theater.

“Let’s fllw them!” said Dolphin.

The footprints led the team onto the roof of the theater, where they found a quaint rooftop garden.

“ The garden is so beautiful!” breathed Kaleidoscope. “I didn’t even know the theater had one!”

“ Find Adry!!” squealed Dolphin.

They searched through the various tropical flora, before finally finding the famed Venus Fly-Trap.

“Aha!” exclaimed Kaleidoscope, lifting it to examine it better. “One down, nine to go!” Dolphin opened the magical satchels they had been given, and Audrey II disappeared inside. “Next up, Campbell’s Leprechaun suit from Bring it On!”

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The Scavenger Hunt of Death was proving to be problematic for the murderer. Being stuck with an overly energetic teammate was bad enough, but the murderer couldn’t kill them. A dead teammate would pin all the evidence on the other partner. To make matters worse, everyone else was invisible, meaning that the murderer had to rely on touch alone.

“C’mon, let’s go!” Their partner was jumping around, clearly far too excited about the prospect of a prize. The murderer sighed.

“Just a sec,” they said, and bent over as if they were about to tie their shoe. Instead, they flipped a switch on their watch— one that monitored body heat near them. “Alright, I’m ready,” they told their hyperactive team member. “Let’s go scavenging.”

After being dragged around the theater searching for some prop from Annie, the murderer’s wrist began to vibrate. They looked down at their watch, and found that someone was indeed very near.  .  .

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I am so sorry for taking forever to post! I promise, I have not abandoned this ;) Anyhow, enjoy this part; I’ll try to get another one out soon. . .

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!

Oh, and btw, Spirit-rain is spelled with a dash. Other than that, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! 

I have returned!! Working on the next part, so stay tuned!

Waaait... Campbells leprechaun suit! I get it now! Spotify does this weird thing where it deletes Yorktown from the Hamilton soundtrack, so we had to look it up seperately, and the song that came up next was from Bring it On! So we listened to it, and it was really good!

Day 2, Part 7~

The murderer groaned, unable to see their target. Instead, they groped blindly until they were able to stick their poison laced needle into what seemed to be a back. Then, they walked away, their job done.

~

The Riddler and Surprise leaned against the Lion King backdrop backstage, halfway through lugging a suitcase. Who knew that Sara’s suitcase was so heavy? Two Hershey’s bars and a Coke later, the pair dragged the suitcase out to the stage, where it promptly disappeared, hopefully to the Scavenger Hunt’s vaults.

“What’s next?” asked Surprise. “I’ll bet we’re way ahead of all the other teams!”

“I sure hope so,” said the Riddler, who pulled the scavenger hunt clues from her jacket’s pocket.

But instead of the long list of clues, the paper held a message of utmost urgency:

COME TO THE THEATER’S LOBBY

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

“Oh. . . no. . .” breathed the Riddler.

“Not again,” murmured Surprise, both fearing the worst. The pair walked back to the lobby, to find many of the other CBers already amassed. Autumn Leaves walked over to the Riddler, her face ashen.

“It was Shadowcat,” she whispered.

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R. I. P. Shadowcat. . .

Sorry ‘bout the post length. . . the next will be longer. . .

On another note, there was a Sherlock reference and a reference to a classic. . . can you spot them?