Episode 2: Part 4
Vivian grabbed onto Goombella harder as their flashlight flickered, off, then back on momentarily. It was their only source of available light as they traversed across the entire length of the island. With their required object in hand, all they needed to do was reach the boat at the opposite side of the island before it left without them, all while avoiding the detectors which would delay their travel.
"Don't die on us!" Wario grunted, shaking the flashlight and activating its light back to full potential. He shone it on their map, carefully looking at the red dots placed accordingly upon it.
"Look closely," Gombella realized, pointing at the two lines of red dots "The detectors are in the form of a path. As long as we follow it and keep away from both sides, we'll be fine all the way through."
"So how about I navigate while you lead?" Wario offered. Goombella nodded in agreement as three of them went on to their final destination. Vivian, holding the detector advice in her hands that would flash in the presence of an activated detector, noticed the digital screen that protruded from its bottom. It was their timer.
"Guys, we only have nine minutes left," she said with panic.
"Don't worry, we're already halfway through the island," reassured Goombella, stepping inadvertently into the view of one of the detectors. Wario looked down at the map in a hurry.
"Wait!" Vivian shouted, noticing the device in her hand flash red. The lights around them began to flash too, and the sirens went off.
Wendy: When someone knows you're afraid of something, they can't help but play on it. Which REALLY makes me mad.
"I'm not afraid of the dark!" Wendy said, as Luvbi only laughed in reply.
"Well, denying is the best method of excuse," Luvbi said, walking on. Wendy just scowled at her.
"It gives me so much relief to know where we're going," Bobbery said thankfully, turning their map in all directions, "but it's countered with the fact that these detectors are scattered aimlessly."
"They seem to form a path though," Luvbi said, but was interrupted by a sound behind them them. The three of them jumped as a siren was let loose, and in the pitch dark behind them they saw the rhythmic flashes of red lights, activated by the team behind them.
"Darn, they triggered a detector!" Bobbery hissed. Luvbi stepped towards the source of light, mistakenly into the diameter of another detector nearby. The red lights flashed.
"No!" Wendy shouted, covering her ears from the erupting sirens. As both teams fell to a halt, the clock clicked closer to the boat's departure.
Diddy stood helplessly over the heap of volleyball equipment, picking up the net and attempting to shred and collect them into little pieces. Rosalina just sighed and kneeled down in thought, looking at the party's aftermath.
"Well, at least we made money in the previous mission," she told them, "But I don't like the idea of having to spend a night on this island."
"We should have had Wario or Bobbery doing this instead, you know," Yoshi said, shrugging. "Cause they're strong and would actually be able to lift these poles-"
"I'm not psychic," Diddy retorted.
"Maybe one of us knew beforehand which group stood for which objective," Rosalina said slowly, in reference to the monkey who was tearing the net apart.
"Okay, look," Diddy said with exasperation, "the only reason I proposed such a quick plan was because McHallyboo said time had already started. So I chose the quickest way to sort out the teams in order to save time. Got it?" Rosalina just looked at him, maintaining her frustration.
"Fine, but I still think something could have been done," she stated, turning around to collect firewood. Diddy threw a hand behind him in ignorance, as Rosalina tossed her head.
"So umm, how are we going to carry all of this across the island?" Yoshi pondered, looking at the two poles on the sand. Diddy laughed.
"Can you even lift one of them?" Diddy asked. Yoshi went up to one of the poles, attempting for ten seconds before falling to the sand in an exhausted heap.
Diddy: Yeah, maybe if we were able to carry them, or at least drag the poles through the forest we could have tried and made it to the boat in time. But we were weak and hopeless.
"Yep, we're dead."
If the players had taken their three-minute pause time to its potential, they would have noticed that whenever a detector had been activated and was flashing, the other detectors located within the island forest emitted small red lights as well. Seeing this, the path of safety could be made out to them.
"The detectors are all lit," Wendy realized in a gasp. "Look!" She pointed towards the remainder of their travel, through the forest that was now lit by the minute lights of the other detectors.
"We have to memorize this," Luvbi said carefully, her mind attempting to take a photograph of the scene. Once the device in Wendy's hand flashed off, signifying their three minutes were over, Luvbi stood up and slowly took her steps in the dark, the flashlight providing light for her footing. The sirens had all stopped.
"Miss, it's much safer to use a map," Bobbery began, but the two girls simply ventured on, certain of their path to protection.
"Okay, we can move again," Vivian whispered, seeing that her detector was already off. Wario turned to her in bewilderment.
"Wait, wasn't that red light off like thirty seconds ago?" he asked her, furrowing his eyebrows at it. Vivian also looked at the device with confusion and nodded.
"I guess it was," she said, walking on. "I wasn't really paying attention."
Wario: Vivian didn't even tell us when we were allowed to move again. It wasted us a good full minute with what she did.
Vivian: I didn't even exactly know the significance of the flashing device I was holding, so that was a bit unclear for me even in the first place.
The trio walked farther down the path, in a faster pace than before but still steady. Approaching the other group ahead of them, Goombella called out their name in hopes of a reply.
"Hey, we're here!" came out the voice of Wendy, still a distance ahead of their position. "We see the end of the island!"
"We're coming!" Goombella shouted back, but Wario grabbed her, in fear of activating another hidden detector.
"The map says to right turn, then forwards to avoid the detectors," he told them, keeping his finger on their spot on the island diagram. Both females followed their instructed steps from the navigator and turned right, then proceeded forwards. The sirens erupted.
"Oh tarter sauce, again!" Bobbery said with disbelief, seeing the lights flash from behind him for the second time.
"We gotta help them!" Wendy said with alarm, only for Bobbery to shake his head firmly.
"No, we must go on," he ordered. "In situations where a friend has fallen, it's only wise to save yourself before both meet doom."
Wendy: Geez, what good morals for a sea captain. Tell me about dignity.
"Well, I must agree," Luvbi said selfishly. "It's better to win 5,000 than none at all." The group continued on, using Luvbi's memory and the map in their possession to make a permanent mark of their path, one which was nearing its end at that moment. With five minutes to spare, they stepped out of the trees and into the open area of the island, relief and victory spreading over them.
"Oh yes, the boat!" Wendy squealed, running up the boat docked on the edge of the sand. It was a ferry, smaller than the one they had maneuvered on to get onto the island, as Wendy held up the table screw for the boatman to see. He nodded in approval.
"Welcome aboard," he greeted. "Group Sabotage…ironically."
Goombella: What went wrong? Wario held the map up upside-down and led us directly into a motion detector.
The group of them of them sat on the forest island ground, Vivian standing to avoid having to sit on the muddy terrain. They ignored the second round of sirens which seemingly engulfed their entire section of the island.
"How could I see in this dark that the map was upside-down?" Wario said in defense.
"You could have at least realized that the title of the map was reversed," Vivian pointed out. She looked in worry at their remaining time: 4 minutes.
"Well, we'll only have two left once all of this is gone," Goombella calculated. But she then stopped, seeing the radius of the flashing lights. The flashing was magnified much greater opposed to before, so much that it nearly revealed the rest of their way out of the forest towards the island shore, where their boat would be waiting. Their path remaining was almost void of any detectors.
"The lights get stronger every time," Goombella realized, seeing the good side to their delays. Vivian and Wario looked in realization as well, and as the flashing all disappeared, the group of them was almost disappointed as they were once again left in darkness. But now having an even clearer insight of their path to victory, they continued, non-stop at their fastest pace and avoiding all detectors, out and towards the open.
As soon as they sensed the feeling of clear air, they emerged. Wario stumbled out of the jungle green and collapsed onto the sand, muttering "We made it!" as he fell forwards, much to the alarm of the group aboard the boat.
"Come on guys, you only have two minutes left!" Wendy shouted, waving her arms. Goombella and Vivian each grabbed an arm of the exhausted muscleman unwillingly and pulled him up, as they trudged tranquilly to the soon-to-leave boat. The second group had reached their desired destination.
"Oh, umm," Goombella said, giving the dolphin figurine to the boatman. He smiled and let them on board, as all six players smiled as well, knowing that the team pot was boosted yet another significant amount, and that neither of them would have to spend a grueling night left by themself on the island. Wario looked around.
"Wait, aren't we missing-"
"Yes, it's quite obvious," Luvbi stated. Two minutes later, the boat departed, leaving all individuals who were still upon the island alone.
"Thanks Yoshi," Rosalina said gratefully, grabbing the fruit as Yoshi handed her a coconut. Examining another one closely, he dug into one himself. Diddy sat huddled by the fire that Rosalina managed to start, trying to mind his own business as he blocked out all other objects around him, including the other two and the tropical setting surrounding them all.
"I won't blame you any further," Rosalina said apologetically to Diddy.
"You have enough already," Diddy replied back heatedly, pulling his hands away from the fire, then closer, then farther.
"Well," Rosalina replied, hitting her coconut against the sand in an attempt to open it and quench her thirst, "I won't anymore for as long as we're here. Don't be offended if I call you the Mole."
"And I'm not psychic either," Diddy added. Rosalina rolled her eyes.
Rosalina: It was just useless being aggressive to each other, because we were all stuck and fated to the same situation anyway. We were all going to be left on the island overnight, so might as well make the best of it.
"Say, about our beds," Yoshi piped up, attempting to break the livid mood, "where can I sleep?"
"You're asking us?" Diddy said with incomprehension. "Gee, go anywhere I guess."
"Err, all right," Yoshi replied, looking nervously into the black depths of the unknown island forest. He looked out to the sea.
"You just can't leave the island or anything and break the rules, then we'd all blame you," Diddy added. "But who cares. We lost money anyways."
Yoshi spent the next thirty minutes retrieving piles of leaves and moist branches from the depths of the island, laying them out on the sand and providing a bed of minimal comfort. The other two followed the same exact action soon after, and within an hour, all stranded players had drifted off to sleep, sleeping as if they were all settled snug in their hotel beds instead of piles of vegetation upon an island. The fire crackled in the night air and went out
Morning approached back at Delfino Plaza, as the six hotel-relaxed players met for a tranquil breakfast at the lobby. Their minds were concerned on solely one thing: the alive statuses of the three individuals who had been abandoned on the tropical island the night before. McHallyboo, like always, seemed the least concerned at the table.
Wario: Whadd'ya know? Just yesterday, Bobbery and I were the ones stuck on the island in the morning. Now this time it was the other guys. Everything gets fair and square in the end.
"Oh goodness, a rest in a bed was such a relief," Luvbi told the others, using her own sense of humor to remind everyone else of a certain absence.
"Hey, missed us?" came the surprising voice of Diddy, yet more drained than usual. The seated players looked behind them, elated to see the arrived players from the morning ferry ride, if not slightly guilty about their delayed appearance.
"Oh dear," Luvbi gasped, covering her mouth as she saw Rosalina's hair.
Luvbi: It was absolutely horrid, and looked as if it were dipped in sewer water and mangled with leaves, all the while someone willingly jabbed twigs into her hair one by one…it was ghastly.
"This is how a pampered person appears when they finally sleep humbly," Rosalina informed them, as they all laughed. All nine players seated themselves comfortably.
"Let me go over the results of last night's mission, Island Lockdown," McHallyboo spoke up.
"We selfishly abandoned Diddy, Rosalina, and Yoshi and only cared about purselves," Wendy concluded playfully, "That's all, right?"
"Yes, but besides that," the host continued, "two groups were able to make their way on board the boat before it left, so that adds ten thousand coins to your pot. Well done folks!"
Team Pot
50,000 coins
"Gee," Yoshi noticed, "right on the money mark."
"The detectors actually helped you in their activated mode," McHallyboo explained to them, holding up the detector device brought in by Group Volley-All. "Though they gave you three-minute penalties, you could have taken advantage of your time and outlined the rest of your safe path through the forest once all the lights were on. Thought in the mean time it's better to not have activated one at all. I was informed that both teams encountered this problem and encountered at least one detector each. Group Auction especially."
"I activated a detector the first time, and then Wario lead us directly into another," Goombella explained, shaking her head and smiling.
"But never the less, you both made it, so there was no harm in that, right?" McHallyboo reassured, but then added, "Or did the Mole push up into their maximum effort of sabotage last night?" The eating players looked up at each other. One of them was the saboteur, hiding from the others their true identity that very second as a double agent. The mystery still continued, as McHallyboo laughed.
Goombella: The host himself doesn't even know who the Mole is, so the Mole's identity is just completely undercover and concealed, from everybody. We were just all dying to know already.
"Well, of course they sabotaged!" Wendy exclaimed, referring to the Island Bash the night before, along with its countless suspicious events that had taken place within it.
"Tonight is your second execution," the host informed them, standing up from the table. "Until then, the rest of your day is off for relaxation. But I would suggest recollecting your info from this entire episode." He turned around to leave, but then added one more line.
"You all survived the first one, but this time around, one of you will not be as lucky again."
Diddy and Goombella sat underneath a parasol, the same exact one that Goombella had been brutally tied to during the mission from their first episode. Wendy and Rosalina were in their presence, or at least located underneath the adjacent parasols and getting absorbed into their conversation.
"So let's speak out our suspects, right this second," Rosalina suggested. "Once we all name who we think the Mole is, we'll all be neutral."
"Before that," Diddy said almost immediately, "we have to make sure that we all trust each other as not being the Mole."
Goombella: What was this, a four-way coalition? If he really isn't the Mole, he's just doing a bad strategy in my mind. If Diddy is the Mole, then he's just sucking us all in as preys.
"I'm still unsure," Wendy said hesitantly. "I've had my eyes on you, Diddy, even before this entire episode."
"What, really?" Diddy spoke up, amused.
"Just to clarify, you aren't exactly innocent appearing," Rosalina said in support of Wendy.
Diddy: I found it hilarious how Wendy and Rosalina were just completely confessing their suspicions for me. Either they were playing with my mind, or they truly do suspect me as the Mole.
"Fine, go ahead with that," Diddy said, looking at Goombella. Feeling overpowered from the gender difference, he got up from the sand and left the shore.
"Or you can be it," Goombella said, looking straight at Rosalina. Rosalina smiled but shook her head.
"But I wasn't the person who bought an auction item and blatantly broke the rules," she replied, as Wendy laughed, having been present at the scene as well.
"Well, whatever," Goombella said, "I honestly suspected Boo to be the Mole. But he's gone, which proves how good my Mole-hunting skills are apparently."
"Me too!" Wendy blurted out loud, and then looked around. Calming her voice before talking, she continued, "Okay, when Boo left, I was just flabbergasted and dying to know who it was already. I was certain he was the Mole."
"I was just sure he was going to make it to the final episode or something, at the least," Rosalina said with bewilderment. "He knew everything about the game, watched the initial season and knew all the rules, but still managed to get executed first." The others nodded in mystified agreement. Every game had its twist, no matter how illogical.
"Okay Yoshi," Wario said, bringing him into the cornered end of the Delfino Police gate, much to the dinosaur's uneasiness. "Any memory of someone who was wandering around the food tables before the table fell?" Yoshi looked at the sky, his memory trying its best to recollect.
"I dunno, maybe if I had photographic memory?" he replied, thinking hard. "Someone for sure unscrewed the table. The table couldn't unscrew itself."
"Yep, yep," Wario said, expecting Yoshi to say more. Yoshi just remained motionless.
"Aww man, it's useless!" Yoshi said hopelessly, walking forwards as Wario jogged after him. "I should have paid more attention! Gah!" He made an exaggerated stumble and headed towards the melon stand. Wario laughed.
Wario: I think Yoshi had more to him that meets the naked eye. He probably knows who made the table fall and knows who the Mole is at this point. I just need information from him.
Yoshi: Gee, I wish I did know who made the table collapse. I'd also kinda like Wario to know too so that'd he'd stop stalking me, err, obsessively following me with curiosity.
Discovering their joint likings for durian juice, both Luvbi and Vivian decided to settle down away from tropical sunlight and into the shades of the game's target eating place.
"Something amusing?" Luvbi asked, seeing Vivian giggle. Vivian sipped and shook her head, but then pointed up above them.
"I just remembered Boo's reaction when you chose Journal 3," she told her, "and how flabbergasted he was when that was revealed as the special one." Luvbi laughed as well.
"Well, I think everyone was quite stunned," Luvbi told her, "Even I was."
"Yeah, I was too," Vivian admitted. "But just on my own I'd never be confident enough to base a number choice on, well, how many durians there were hanging from the ceiling." The two of them laughed again as the waiter began to set up a table on the other side of the room, the one to be for the dinner before their taking of the final quiz.
"I'm just hoping I won't be executed tonight," Vivian said worriedly. Luvbi shook her head.
"Try being optimistic," she replied. "It's simple really." Vivian nodded, trying the method to her fullest.
Dinner went accordingly in schedule with the game's plan. For the players though, or at least a selective few of them, a surprise was in store that would change the remainder of their comfort level for the rest for their game. Halfway into their meal a Pianta from their hotel rolled into the café with a cart in his possession, and piled upon it, three bags that gave three present players a jolt of surprise and relief.
"Oh no those aren't!" Diddy exclaimed, jumping up and picking up the top bag. The rest of the players laughed too as they saw the names imprinted on each of the arrived duffel bags: Goombella, Yoshi, and Diddy.
"Wow, you guys are sadistic," Goombella said teasingly, yet jokingly as she grabbed her bag back into possession.
"But how'd you get them back from the bottom of the ocean?" Yoshi asked, still in awe.
McHallyboo sipped his glass of durian juice and shrugged.
"Now that question is as mysterious as the Mole, isn't it?" he told them. Though put into higher spirits, the players couldn't help but be reminded of the upcoming quiz from the host's witty statement.
Before they knew it, dinner finished, and it was already time.
The revealing of the salvaged bags only served as a brief relief to the players, as they all got ready one by one for the second end of their game: the ten-question quiz about the Mole. Their suspicions for that night would determine their temporary survival, and which player would be going home that very night. Whichever player scored the lowest on the quiz would be executed.
Diddy sat down first. Positioning himself at the dinner table shrewdly, he rigged it so that it was likely for McHallyboo to send him to take the quiz before the others. This way, his mind was clear.
Question 1: Is the Mole male or female?
-Male
-Female
Diddy: It can be anybody, but I've focused recently on Rosalina. I can't believe for a second that she actually suspects me.
Flashback Rosalina: "Say, why don't we stop by that boat house souvenir shop and search for an object there?" (The players run towards the dock)
Diddy: During the auction object searching, from what I heard, Rosalina lead them completely into a boathouse after claiming to them at first that it was a souvenir shop. That was tricky.
Question 2: When did the Mole arrive down the hotel stairs on the morning after the first execution?
-First
-Second
-Third
-Fourth
-Fifth
-Sixth
(flashback of Bobbery and Wario coming down first, then Diddy, then Rosalina and Luvbi together)
Luvbi: It could be Yoshi as the Mole. He's trying and all, but he could have done a much better job handing out fliers than he did during our initial game.
3. What was the Mole's job during the preparation of the Island Bash?
-Searching for auction items
-Handing out fliers
-Preparing the island
Flashback Vivian: "I don't feel confident giving out fliers alone. Can I stay with you guys instead?"
Bobbery: Vivian is a person not many people would suspect as the Mole. She refused to be by herself handing out fliers, which could have helped the team in advertising to more people in the plaza. She's done little things like that to slow us down.
4. While the partiers were travelling to their island destination, where was the Mole?
-On the island
-In the driver's room
-Among the partiers
Goombella: I'm still keeping my suspicions on Bobbery and Wario. Being on the island the whole time, they could have either performed the inappropriate placing of the dance floor and volleyball game, or did the mysterious table unscrewing with no one around to see.
5. Which of these specific jobs did the Mole have during the Island Bash?
-Dance Floor DJ
-Waiter
-Auctioneer
-None
Wendy: Diddy has been the leader of all of us. He thinks he's the leader and does it so well that he makes us forget he could be the Mole. Just personally, his ridiculous lie during the auction makes him more of a suspect to me than an enemy.
Flashback Diddy: "These pair of sandals display beautiful strap designs. They're rumored to have been worn by the queen of Isle Delfino a century back."(The bidders become silent and hesitant)
6. What group was the Mole in during Island Lockdown?
-Group Auction Delfino
-Group Volley-All
-Group Sabotage
Rosalina: Luvbi has been suspicious from the first episode. She gave money to one of the partiers, which I think was her attempt to break the rules. And during our second game, Wendy claimed that she had activated one of the detectors while they tried to reach the end.
(flashback of Luvbi stepping forwards towards the other team, setting off a detector nearby)
7. Did the Mole make it aboard the boat before it departed?
-Yes
-No
Vivian: Wario said that he turned the map upside-down, and he was also the one who volunteered to navigate our way through the island. But then he led us directly into one of the detectors, which made me a little suspicious.
8. The Mole's occupation is which of the following?
-Admiral
-Moneylender
-Flight Attendant
-Fruiterer
-Singer
-Archeologist
-Display Artist
-Kart Racer
-Musician
Flashback Goombella: (pulling out red coins for the boatman) "I brought some money just in case."
Yoshi: Goombella just so happened to have money in her pocket when the boatman asked for cash. The whole scene just seemed planned out.
9. The Mole is which of the following?
-A human
-An animal species
-Other
Wario: I'm voting for everyone on this quiz to stay safe…probably more towards Rosalina and Wendy, who were both talking heavily today on the beach shore. Maybe they're beginning a coalition. A Mole coalition.
10. Who is the Mole?
-Yoshi
-Wendy
-Wario
-Vivian
-Rosalina
-Luvbi
-Goombella
-Diddy
-Bobbery
The location of the execution varied in tradition, so for the second festivity, the TV was pulled from the lobby of the hotel and situated on the top of the boatman's table counter.
All nine players entered in a single-file line into the building of the boathouse, finding a majority of the furniture removed and instead nine chairs placed appropriately within the room, giving each player their own comfort space. McHallyboo, wearing a boater's hat and apparently mockingly taking the place of the house's owner, stood before them as they all sat down.
"Welcome to your second execution," he announced, putting his hand upon the television besides him. "You've all taken your second quiz on the identity of the Mole, asking about him or her. If I enter your name into the computer and the screen turns green, you had scored high enough on your quiz, and you remain in the game." He took his hand of the television monitor, settling it more on the counter itself.
"However, if the screen turns red, you are the Mole's second victim," he explained. "You must retrieve your bag from outside and leave the game immediately." All players vaguely recalled passing their own bag on their way into the building. In soon time, one of them would be exiting out, bag in hand. McHallyboo sat down on the counter table and put his fingers upon the keyboard.
"Let's begin the execution," he announced, and then asked, "Would anyone like to go first?" Immediately, nearly of the male players' hands shot into the air. Goombella was the only female, as McHallyboo pointed towards her.
"Goombella," he said out loud, as the first name slowly made its way onto the screen. Goombella stared heavily at the television monitor, waiting her fate and immediate result.
G-O-O-M-B-E-L-L-A
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...
...
...
GREEN
Goombella gave a smile of relief, her smile remaining as she looked down to the ground.
"Diddy," McHallyboo called next. Keeping his confident look from the first execution, Diddy watched with a tint of apprehension as his name was typed into the screen.
D-I-D-D-Y
...
...
...
...
GREEN
He grinned, facing the others. Wendy looked in disgust then faced forwards into proper position.
"Wario," the host said. The obese man felt a bead of sweat as his name was typed into the computer, letter by letter, one by one.
W-A-R-I-O
...
...
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GREEN
He raised his fists up in a mix of victory and relief.
"Bobbery," called the host. Bobbery faced forwards, his eyebrows furrowed as his name too was slowly typed into the television before them all.
B-O-B-B-E-R-Y
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GREEN
He nodded, fully pleased and contemplating to himself. McHallyboo pointed to the last male in line.
"Yoshi," the host called. The dinosaur looked up and eyed the screen, seeing his name slowly appear on the face of the television. As he gulped, McHallyboo pressed the 'Enter' button.
Y-O-S-H-I
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GREEN
He sighed and rested his head back. Wario looked up in realization.
"All males safe," Wario mumbled, counting each called name. "It's a female this time." Four more players remained to be called.
"Rosalina," McHallyboo called, his attention going towards the other end of the room. Rosalina sat straight in her chair, looking anxiously at the screen as her name was typed in letter by letter.
R-O-S-A-L-I-N-A
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RED
As the screen turned the flash of red, Rosalina sighed heavily.
"I'm sorry, you've been executed," McHallyboo stated, standing up from the counter seat, "Please follow me." The other players felt a wave of remorse go over them as Rosalina quickly stood up, and then followed the host's way out of the boathouse, to the row of waiting bags.
"Oh darn," Diddy said out loud, turning inadvertently to Wendy. They both faced each other with a mutual look of disbelief.
"Rosalina, I am sorry that you must leave," McHallyboo said, as he took the bag from her, "and I am more sorry to say that you were indeed the Mole's second victim." She sighed again, but this time in a more light-hearted manner.
"Yeah, it's quite a disappointment," she said truthfully, "but I'm glad to have even been here and seen the concept of such a game. It's completely outstanding."
"Rosalina played the game at her own level, opposed to the rest of us," Wendy remembered, as the other players nodded in agreement. "She kept her own cool during the games and always added in at the perfect times."
Flashback Rosalina:"But of course, we all know how false rumors can be because as we all know, Isle Delfino never had a queen at all!" (the auction crowd chuckles at her statement)
"She played her best on the island," Diddy remembered. "I guess she wasn't being too irrational when she had to stay overnight there."
(Rosalina is shown to be the one who ignited the fire on the island, much to the shame of Diddy and Yoshi)
"And then seeing her aftermath look was quite appalling," Luvbi added, as the players laughed, "but amusing. She was an innocent player overall and didn't quite deserve to be executed."
"I mean, she did vote for the wrong person, right?" Wario butted in. He was immediately attacked by a row of vehement stares from the others, as Diddy laughed out loud.
"Anything that stuck out as your favorite memory?" McHallyboo asked her, as her bag was loaded onto the departing boat. Rosalina nodded as she stepped on.
"Oh, just working with the others," she said truthfully. "Planning the party on the island and seeing it all come to life was simply amazing." She pondered and smiled.
"After that, I wouldn't consider a party amidst another galaxy so far-fetched anymore," she told him, as she and the host laughed. Rosalina gave her goodbye and went aboard as the boat left the dock, on schedule.
As Rosalina waved goodbye to the host, she also waved as well to the boathouse, the same building she had brought the players to during their third mission, and the building that all remaining players were resided in at that very second. Through the only window and from the seats, the remaining players waved back as well.
"I feel terrible after every execution," Vivian said, her sadness only growing as the boat disappeared clear out of distance with the executed player aboard it. Rosalina had left.
"I think the more players who leave the game, the more confused you become," Bobbery stated. "You can't seem to trust anybody, until you know for sure that person isn't the Mole. The only way of course is through their execution."
"All right, a septuple-whammy execution!" Diddy said enthusiastically. "Let's end it all right now."
"Wouldn't it be a sextuple execution?" Goombella counted. "The Mole and winner are the only ones who can't be executed. But anyways, I wouldn't want that."
"I'd want to keep on playing though," Yoshi said truthfully. McHallyboo entered back into the boathouse.
"Well, rest is assured for Rosalina," he said, and then grinned. "Since you guys are still here, I'll want you all up and ready right at the dock in the morning." The players sighed at their minor misfortune.
On the next episode of The Mole: Saboteur's Island,
The eight players visit classic landmarks of Isle Delfino, and are split up to participate in mouth-watering games.
Wendy: Usually making a BLT sandwich doesn't require traversing an entire construction working site. This is crazy.
The players also participate in a game of chicken, gaining money for their bravery. Who will suspect who, and which player will be sent home next as the Mole's third victim?
And then there were eight! Another leaves, and the Mole still remains. Who is the saboteur?
Please list your top three suspects so far, and you're reasons for suspecting if you'd like. With Episode 2 done, a third one comes next, along with more missions, twists, and betrayal. Which player will end up out of the game? And most importantly, which player still stands as the saboteur?
Stay tuned!