"How come people don't seem to want to climb up the skyscrapers anymore?" Pauline asked from outside the City Hall while donning her mayor clothing for it was a cloudy rainy night in New Donk City.

Dry Bowser had his bony arms folded together, feeling the rain land on his soaked bones. "Maybe because there's way too much activity here between the smashing, the racing, and even the platforming."

"You really feel that's the case?" Pauline asked while holding an umbrella to shield herself from the pouring going on within the Metro Kingdom.

"It's easily quite the case if you have your eyes open just a bit more." Dry Bowser casually mentioned while rolling around his left bony hand.