The final section of Episode 5 is here and the episode ends! Let's see what happens, as the game gets narrower and one goes home.
Episode 5 (Final Part)
The other four stared with amusement at Luvbi's reaction, induced by the spiciest mushroom in all of Isle Delfino.
"Breathe through your nose!" Yoshi suggested. "Circulate the spiciness out!"
"Blehh!" Luvbi sounded, opening her mouth to prove that she had devoured her fungi. Wario was taking the final bite of the mushroom in his own hand, nose scrunched in disgust. Before McHallyboo's timer was done, they were both finished.
"Time!" McHallyboo shouted. "You both passed. Round 4 is done."
"Now that just proves I'd do anything for money," Wario said, face scrunched and taking a sip of water from his cup.
"And for me proves that I do not like spicy food," Luvbi said truthfully. She sat in her chair, seemingly not bothered.
"Don't you want a glass of water?" Goombella asked her all of a sudden.
"Why?" Luvbi said, looking a bit puzzled. "The taste would go away anyway." Goombella simply looked at the plate of pink mushrooms, suspiciously.
"Three of you are left alive after four rounds," McHallyboo said, "and now we come to our final round, which will determine that final number. Let's go!" For the final time, the television monitor flicked on. The ground level for this last camera varied from the rest of them, and all they could see being displayed was a close-up of a tree. But upon second looks, the players realized that it wasn't a close-up of a single plant, but rather an aerial view of one of the enormous trees that sprouted out from Pianta Village's terra firma.
"You will have an assumed three to five minute wait for this one," McHallyboo said to them, "so that's how much time you'll have to answer. This camera is at the very top of the most Southern tree of Pianta Village. Joe Safari will attach Bobbery to a cable and lead him up the tree. The question is, will Bobbery make it that far and be seen on camera? You must give in your prediction soon, because if Bobbery pops onto the television before you submit one, you will lose this round." The players turned to each other for their final prediction.
"Maybe he'll do it," Vivian guessed. "He's probably done a lot more things in his life. But...I'm not sure."
"Oh, come on," Wario reasoned, speaking not just to Vivian but everyone as a whole. "If he can't even pick up a can on the ground, what makes you think he climb a fifty-foot tree?"
"That's like, so unrelated," Goombella said. "That had to do with recognition. This has nothing to do with that. This is more on the physical question."
"We know one thing, right?" Yoshi thought. "Bobbery is cautious. He didn't touch the bee hive, remember?"
"So maybe he won't climb over an extending plant over a dark pit?" Goombella said with amusement. "Well, that makes sense to me."
"You're finally agreeing with me!" Wario couldn't help saying.
"I would have to agree with you all as well," Luvbi said, "but it wouldn't be much for peer recognition."
"What's that?" Vivian said, confused along with everyone else.
"Stop using such extravagant terms," Wario told her, annoyed. "We can't understand anything you're saying if you talk so fancy."
"We're lowering Bobbery's dignity if we say that he can't make it," Luvbi said, making a face at Wario's remark. "For that, I'd think he'd make it."
"But that doesn't even matter," Yoshi pointed out. "Saying whether he'd make it or not doesn't really boost or lower his dignity. Would it?"
"I would vote with Luvbi though," Vivian said, siding with Luvbi. Goombella looked at Yoshi, who shrugged, and then at Wario.
"Blah, whatever you guys wanna say," Wario said in a grumble, looking back at her.
Wario: At this point I couldn't care less whether we were right or wrong, nor did I care that we even voted on the final round. I showed the others what a competitor I could be by eating those darn mushrooms. Maybe I should push more fear into them by showing them what I can really do. Then they'll see who's really a player.
"I'm not too certain," Goombella said, looking back at the television. "He hasn't shown much potential in the previous trials."
"But what's to say about this case?" Luvbi reasoned. "Each scenario has been different. Anything can happen here."
"True, but shouldn't we put more thought into this?" Goombella considered. "We should wait a while and see if he actually pops up on screen. We're pretty much guessing anyway."
"If he pops up, our round is lost," Luvbi said, repeating McHallyboo's words.
Luvbi: I think I did look a little suspicious. But it always helps to make things more complicated than they should be. In this case though, I believe I was just speeding up the game.
"Well..." Goombella began, but then saw McHallyboo take a glance at his own wristwatch. She nodded at Luvbi, almost in a small sense of reluctance, and then faced the host.
"We think he'll make it."
The players waited several minutes in silence. Most of it was influenced by McHallyboo's heavy stare at the screen, along with their own individual ones, as if they were on the lookout for any movement or secret tidbits to appear on the feed that they were receiving. As the screen flickered and more time went by, the players became agitated.
Yoshi: As time went by we started losing hope. Nobody really expected Bobbery to show up on the screen.
"Hmm...well, whadd'ya know?" Wario said all of a sudden. "We failed. Big surprise everyone!"
"Am I surprised?" Luvbi said, her voice and face looking both unsurprised to a maximum level.
"No, look!" Vivian said suddenly. From the bottom of the screen came a black speck, and as the individual came into full view, they were even more certain that it was their sixth player, climbing the side of one of Pianta Village's largest trees with a cord attached to his back. As he turned around to inadvertently face in the direction of the television's camera, the final ball in their game was dropped, and Round 5 was over. Their mission was done.
"Well, looks like we survived," Goombella said with a grin, facing her teammates with triumph.
"My gosh, he looks exhausted," Vivian noticed, looking at Bobbery on the television monitor, as the five of them laughed at the poor fatigued player with both pity and a feeling of success.
"Let's go greet our climber, shall we?" The five of them turned around and left, leaving their table, television, and plates of exotic delicacies on the portion of land that separated entirely from the whole of Pianta Village.
At the back of the village, Bobbery was greeted by five semi-excited players and their host. Finally let privy to the mission they just played, Bobbery's eyes widened with heavy bewilderment.
"My journey was videotaped?" was all he could sputter. The group let out a laugh.
"A mock tour," Bobbery said, both surprised and pleased. Joe Safari gave a hat tip to the player he had just guided.
"And I hope you had enjoyed it!" the tour guide said grandly.
"That ends the mission, and I'm sure you're all thrilled to know that you have won money," McHallyboo concluded. "Because three of you were still remaining after our final round, 15,000 coins will be going to the pot. This brings your total winnings for this episode to a not-too-shabby 50,000 coins. Your pot total is now...one-hundred and forty-nine thousand coins."
"Not too shabby at all," Wario grinned.
Total Pot
149,000 coins
"Can you round it to the 150,000 mark for us?" Yoshi groaned. "We're so close McHallyboo!" The host chuckled.
"I'm afraid you'll have to work for those extra thousand coins another time," McHallyboo told them all. "But on second thought, maybe you won't be winning any more money at all from now on. That is a possibility."
"If the Mole really decides to kill himself and work extra hard," Goombella joked.
"Or if we fail to work as a team," Luvbi said reasonably. She turned to Vivian besides her, who instead of being in the spirit of good mood like the others, was in a weird sort of trance.
"Are you all right?" Luvbi asked her curiously. Vivian nodded, shaking her head and forcing a smile.
Luvbi: Vivian's look perplexed me. I knew something was up, but I believe she was being smart by keeping it only to herself.
"Well, I'm not too certain on this, but...I'm looking at another possible round of free passes to the village's Jacuzzi tonight..." McHallyboo began. All six players couldn't help but jump on him with elated feelings.
The next morning was a rude awakening. The awakening was rude in more than one way, the first component of terribleness being recognized right away and being the sun's unusually strong glares, hitting the civilians of Pianta Village viciously. But the second one was a more mental, unfavorable thing, and that was the knowledge of another player's disappearance to happen that very day and night. Knowing that a whole day was left in store for them before another unfortunate execution was to take place, the players took time to reflect on the past episode as a whole, not only with themself alone but with those around them, eager to hear anything spoken and potentially useful for their own advantage.
"I'm honored to be part of this conversation," Bobbery said, giving a nod of appreciation to both Goombella and Yoshi as the three of them walked down Pianta Village's center.
Bobbery: To talk with the others around you was an opportunity far too good to pass up. I needed as many words heard as I could get.
"Well, I mean, I just wanted to say," Goombella spoke out loud to them. "Luvbi is getting even more suspicious, thing after thing. And they never end. Don't you guys see it too?"
Goombella: When Luvbi ate her pink mushroom during that mission, at first she reacted, but once she was finished eating she just sat back down in her chair as if nothing had happened. She didn't even have a spicy aftermath reaction, like most spicy foods give you. It was in such plain view and no one else noticed it, except for me.
"Your mouth just doesn't lose spiciness as soon as you devour the food," Goombella said, shaking her head with ridiculousness.
"True," Bobbery contemplated, and then turned to Yoshi. "You're the culinary expert on taste buds. Could the spicy taste sense end immediately after the devouring of a spicy food?"
"It really depends on how spicy it is," he replied. "But Luvbi's behavior was suspicious."
"I should have tried one of those mushroom for myself," Goombella sighed. "Who knows? Maybe that mushroom wasn't even spicy at all. And Luvbi was acting...just like she always does." As Goombella seemed to go off and drift to another path of the village, Bobbery leaned over to Yoshi's side in an attempt to talk to him.
"Does Vivian perk anything to you suspicion-wise?" Bobbery questioned. Yoshi turned around and surveyed the area before replying.
"Is she one of your suspects?" Yoshi whispered, still deciding to talk in a low voice.
"Well, she has been for a while," Bobbery admitted, looking at the distant rim of Pianta Village's surrounding crater. "And I think she could possibly be my number-one suspect."
Yoshi: Bobbery had so much trust in me that he was even telling me his number-one suspect for the game. If I trust Bobbery back, then I think I'd tell him mine too. But the problem is, I wasn't sure if I trusted him just enough.
"I always thought she was too innocent to be a suspect," Yoshi said truthfully. Bobbery's eyes widened heavily at him.
"Lad," he started. "Do you think that everything in this game is really as it seems? By all means, our own host is a trickster. How can you judge someone solely on their appearance? You will be stumbling over your own tracks."
"Well, I don't want that," Yoshi thought with dislike.
"Either I've been a lucky sailor and doing correct questionnaires randomly," Bobbery said with conclusion, "or I'm somewhere along the right tracks."
"I've been going for a certain player, and I've been surviving," Yoshi finally said. "Does that mean that both of us could be on the right track?"
"In a way, it could be so," Bobbery considered, furrowing his eyebrows. "But at the same time it can mean that we've both been lucky, and have been going for the wrong people this entire game." In a weird sense of feeling that made them both troubled, they continued their walk in silence.
Sitting in the tall grass on the West side of the village were two more players, both notebooks open and in discussion. Perhaps choosing their location subconsciously due to the fact that the grass hid them from plain view, Luvbi and Vivian talked at a considerably relaxed level. No one was around them.
"So what did you recognize?" Luvbi asked her. "I'd be more than intrigued to know what made you shocked after yesterday's mission. It scared me to be honest." Vivian smiled, still continuing to look down.
"Just something...small," Vivian said. "When we went to meet Bobbery after the mission was over, he was relaxing near the side of the Jacuzzi." Luvbi looked puzzled.
"So?" she questioned.
"We just saw Bobbery make it to the very top of a tree on the television, and as soon as we walk into the village, he's already down to the floor." Both females looked to their left, at the towering tree that extended a far distance both vertically and in the opposite direction from them. Luvbi looked at her journal.
"I'll keep that in mind," Luvbi said, "because it is true. That is indeed…weird." Luvbi scribbled something into her journal.
"So...does that make you suspicious of Bobbery?"
"Well, maybe, and I've been thinking so more recently," Vivian said, nodding. She turned to a page in her notebook that had WARIO written in capital letters. Luvbi's head nodded as well.
"So, umm....I think Goombella might be a suspect of mine," Yoshi said quickly to Bobbery. "What do you say?" Bobbery's face turned perplexed, yet intrigued.
"Goombella...not in particular," Bobbery said, his eyebrows furrowing again. "Any reasons though?" Yoshi shrugged, yet his eyes showed certainty.
"Sometimes, she just doesn't seem like a player at all," Yoshi told him. "Her intelligence might just be a fraud, and we're all taking it as like…something natural for her. I don't know why, but she always looks like she's hiding a second side to her. Even if she doesn't say anything."
"But she's a scholar and a thriving student," Bobbery pointed out. "I think her intellect might even exceed that of mine, which I hate to admit."
"Then just thirty minutes ago she was heavily suspecting Luvbi for something that didn't really make sense," Yoshi added. "She has a tendency to accuse people, and the Mole likes doing that, right?
"I've noticed that too," Bobbery said, "and the Mole would be making perfect sense in accusing others. Diverting suspicion, rno? I see sense in your thinking." He took a jot into his journal.
"Do you think she might be the Mole?" Yoshi asked him. Bobbery just looked forwards for a moment, not saying anything. The sun was not bright anymore, but rather, sinking further into the line that made the horizon.
"I guess we're entitled to our own suspects," Bobbery replied, "and we'll all take the paths that we choose."
"When Wario touched that camera on that first morning," Luvbi asked, memory going back to the beginning of their episode, "Did you notice the way he touched it?" Vivian looked down at the sole name written on her journal page.
"It was as if he knew it was important," Luvbi finished. "If I could go back in time and show you those few crucial seconds, I would."
"No, I remember," said Vivian. "Like, Wario did it in such a way that looked as if he didn't care. I thought he was going to put it around his neck, but he just put it back down on the breakfast table."
"It's funny, because I remember that moment much better now than ever before," Luvbi said, her interest arising.. "And little did we know that by touching the camera, you would be eligible for winning an exemption, by going against the team and losing money." Both players turned to look at each other.
"Wario...could he be it?" Vivian wondered.
"One thing I have noticed is that Wario causes a lot of drama in our games," Luvbi said. "The Mole probably likes drama. Anything to jumble up the game and the minds of the players. If anyone, Wario has done the best job so far in doing that." Vivian wrote something down in her journal.
"Yoshi causes drama too," Vivian said. "I've noticed that he's broken so many rules this episode and even fights with McHallyboo sometimes. Just based on sabotage, I guess that puts him as a possibility."
"The Mole has to divert suspicion away from themself too," Luvbi stated. "It's not just sabotage they're after. Appearing the least suspicious is like...a second occupation for him or her."
"Do you think Goombella could be the Mole?" Vivian began, but Luvbi stopped her. Pointing to a player emerging from around the corner, both Vivian and Luvbi made the decision to stand up on their feet and walk further forwards. As Goombella walked down the path right besides the array of tall plants, Luvbi and Vivian were already gone.
Gathering for dinner, night fell for the third time since the players first arrived at Pianta Village. The sun now gone and the moon appearing unusually big like always, all six of them gathered around the prepared table, a dinner feast taking place within the village and located not too far away from the village's entrance.
"Glad you came to finally join us," McHallyboo said to Wario, the last player to arrive for their meal. The others saw a journal tucked under his arm as he sat down.
"Late night sleuthing?" Goombella assumed. "And where have you been today anyway?"
"I've been avoiding people," Wario said, giving a glare at Gombella and grabbing a bowl of pasta primavera from the center of the table. "People like you."
"Well, it obviously worked cause I was doing the same exact thing," Goombella said, rolling her eyes.
Wario: At one point during today Goombella tried to talk to me, but I just ignored her. I admit it wasn't exactly the nicest thing to do, but who says you have to talk to anyone? Overall, I didn't really interact with anyone else.
"Well, I'd like to give my best wishes to all of you," McHallyboo said. "As you all know, we gave today off so you could collect your last minute thoughts, in preparation for your fifth quiz. By the end of tonight, just half of you will be remaining, since the very start of our game." The players took a look in front of them, picturing how crowded of a table it would have been with double the amount of people present. It also gave them all a surprised feeling, realizing that their entire group had been cut in half since the first day of their adventure.
"Everything went so quick," Vivian realized.
"After dinner tonight, you will be taken one by one across the bridge to take your quiz," McHallyboo said, pointing in the direction of the village's entrance. "A laptop and a comfortable table awaits you, the same table which you might recognize as the one that previously held your rather unpleasant dishes from yesterday's mission. No exemptions were won this episode, so everyone will be elligible for execution tonight. The lowest scorer, as you all know, will be sent home."
"Well," Bobbery contemplated, as he looked around at the remaining players at the table. "It may just be me, but picturing just five players remaining...it makes me shake my head. We're all going to fight a significant level higher next round, now aren't we?"
"But one of us won't be making it there," Yoshi corrected. The players fell once again to the usual dull silence.
Luvbi: We're already all a bunch of cutthroats, so from this point on, it's just going to get worse. We just have to see who goes on and who doesn't.
Yoshi: After today, I'm having different thoughts on how to take this quiz. My mind might tell me to go one way, but my gut instinct might tell me to go another.
Wario: I'm a bit solid on most of my suspicions. Maybe a little bit more than the others are, which in this case, I'm just going to use to my advantage. Even if it isn't an advantage.
"Hopefully you'll all be prepared to take your quizzes when dinner is over," McHallyboo said to all of them. The knife in his hand reflected against the moon's light, then gave off a piercing glow as he set it back down.
"I'll be waiting for one of you," he added. "Good luck."
Each player was brought across the bridge that separated Pianta Village's body from its exit to take the quiz. Though logically not an exit due to the fact that it frankly led to nowhere but the mere side of the mountain, it was an escape from the lively contents of the village, as well as from everyone else. Forced to be secluded alone, each player took the quiz with just their own mind to rely on, and their own suspicions.
The first to make his way across the bridge was Bobbery. Stepping with most care, he reached the table at the other end of the bridge and sat down. The quiz was on the laptop, and he answered the first question.
1. The Mole is:
-Male
-Female
Bobbery: From what I know, we are all going for many different people on this quiz. It's been four episodes in, and the fifth one is about to end, and some of us still aren't certain on who to choose. But all I know is that I feel a strange sense of certainty. Others do as well.
2. In Snap to See, what was the Mole's given position?
-The Camera Killer
-The Objective Retriever
-The Navigator
-A Photographer
Vivian: We're all still suspicious of why Wario went forth to touch the camera on our first morning. Just the way he touched it, and the fact that it gave him a key role in our first mission, it made us all wonder whether it was something deeper than just a simple coicidence.
Flashback Wario: "What is this thing anyway?" (picks up the camera, wraps the next strap around it, then puts it back down)
Flashback McHallyboo: (later that day) "The player who will take the role as exemption hunter is the player who was first to touch the camera at this morning's breakfast. Wario!" (Wario grins)
3. Was the Mole photographed by the Camera Killer during Snap to See?
-Yes
-No
Yoshi: Goombella was the only person during that game who had a full arial view of what was happening. When Bobbery got shot, she could have seen Wario sneaking up on us, at least thirty feet away and warned us in time. And when she talked to me afterwards, her excuse for not warning us didn't even make sense.
Flashback Goombella: (panting into the walkie-talkie) "I should have warned you about Wario coming. He darted so fast, and I couldn't even react."
4. How many Picture Objectives did the Mole manage to successfully obtain with their camera?
-None
-1
-2
-3 or more
-The Mole was not a photographer
Goombella: Luvbi, when she was relaying the Picture Objectives to us, did something really weird that I still can't even comprehend: she missed an entire line in the Picture Objective paper while reading it to us. Maybe she made the mistake on purpose, planned for it to go undetected, and was caught off guard when McHallyboo publicly announced it to us. That's why she made it so obvious and open.
Flashback Luvbi: (reading the Picture Objective to Vivian) "It says, 'Snap the camera hunter, and make this game over.'"
Flashback McHallyboo: (after the game) "This is the Picture Objective that was present in the game." (reveals the actual Picture Objective from the game, containing an additional missed sentence)
Goombella: Luvbi does the most things in this game that just don't make sense.
5. How many journal entries did the Mole guess for during the mission Page 6?
-One
-Two
-Three or more
-The Mole didn't guess for any entries
Bobbery: The thing that put us all at risk was Vivian writing nothing on her sixth page. Considering that we all wrote down a plethora of notes since Day 1, Vivian not reaching up to Page 6 holds little logic. The other only possibility is that she had skipped the sixth page in her journal. That holds no logic at all either.
(flashback of McHallyboo holding up the empty journal page from the journal mission)
Yoshi: Like Bobbery said, Vivian is suspicious. Judging people on outer appearance would be a mistake.
6. What mushroom did the Mole receive during The Fungi Prediction?
-The Bitter One
-The Sour One
-The Spicy One
-The Sweet One
-The Salty One
-The Mole was taking a tour
Wario: Out of nowhere during the Fungi Prediction, Yoshi just stuffs the mushroom into his mouth, even when he had specifically seen me and Goombella do our own round. We all know rules are very important in this game, and Yoshi just went without even thinking for a second.
Flashback McHallyboo: "Hold it, no eating yet!" (Yoshi spits back his mushroom onto the plate)
Luvbi: Not too many people remember this, but even before we started choosing mushrooms, Goombella kept on repeating, 'I am not going to eat those black mushrooms!' The black-colored mushrooms ended up being the sweet ones. Maybe she was trying to throw the weaker players, like Vivian, off from eating the easiest mushroom, which in the end worked perfectly.
Flashback Goombella: (looks with disgust at the black mushrooms) "I am NOT choosing that black-colored one."
7. The Mole was offered the possibility to receive which of the following items this episode?
-An Exemption
-A Neutralizer
-Nothing
Goombella: Bobbery was offered to help us during Snap to See, if he took a neutralizer for himself. But he refused, due to the fact that he didn't want to eliminate himself from later exemptions that episode. But if Wario was already being offered an exemption at that moment, what made him think that there would be another one to come later into play? He basically gave up a chance to help, with no threat anywhere.
Flashback Bobbery: (when asked for a reason for his refusal) "Five minutes wouldn't have made much of a difference, anyway."
8. Did the Mole physically relax in the waters of the hot springs last night?
-Yes
-No
Yoshi: Bobbery surprised us all when he didn't pick up that can of soda on the floor. During the Mushroom mission, he just walked right past it, without even bothering to look back at it or acknowledge that it was even there.
(flashback of Bobbery on the television monitor, his foot barely missing the can of cola as he walked by)
Yoshi: Bobbery is my closest person here, but he's done so many Moley actions this episode that it makes me think twice of what he's been saying to me.
9. Which of these months was the Mole born in?
-January-March
-April-June
-July-September
-October-June
Luvbi: Everyone talked and discussed with at least somebody during today's free time. Wario, on the other hand, talked with nobody. It made me even more suspicious to know that he actually tried avoiding Goombella when she approached him.
Flashback Wario: "I've been avoiding people." (glares at Goombella at the dinner table, who looks back at him)
Luvbi: He's hard to read. You can still be the Mole but act entirely like yourself. It would be extremely difficult to know if he was it.
Goombella: I see Luvbi spending a great deal of time with Vivian. If Luvbi's the Mole, then I think she's pulling other people onto her side. It's just like a trap, and just like what the Mole would do.
10. Who is the Mole?
-Luvbi
-Bobbery
-Yoshi
-Wario
-Vivian
-Goombella
Just minutes prior to the execution, a helicopter had made its way to the village's entrance, landing safely on the thin layer of grass ruffles. The land was no longer empty, though just moments before it had been holding a large table and a crucial laptop, a device which each player had one by one submitted their final answers into for the quiz. With an arrived helicopter, the players could only assume that there would be just one passenger aboard it as it propelled off once more into the sky. The next victim was soon to be determined.
The players were evacuated to the other end of Pianta Village, to the East side, where they found an appropriate location for their next execution: around a fire place. Taking the chairs that surrounded the lit fire, they resembled in appearance something of a group, or a clan, as the miniature fire blazed before each one of them. McHallyboo was on the other side of the fire place, sitting in his own chair. Besides him was the television screen, some of the players recognizing it as the very TV from their latest mission. With it being so close to the fire, the players saw it as a foreboding that the fire reflected cleanly off the television's front, almost as if it was the fire that was being displayed on the screen instead of a thumbprint.
"Welcome, players, to your fifth execution," McHallyboo said. "Tonight, we will be determining our fifth executed player. I hope you all like the conflagration set before you. I lit it minutes before you arrived just for the occasion."
"I see you also had a helicopter arrive for us," Luvbi pointed out to the host. McHallyboo made a small grin.
"And that is what will be whisking one of you away, I'm afraid," he said. "One by one, I will begin entering your names into the computer. If the thumbprint turns green, then you are safe, and you remain in the game. If the thumbprint turns red, that means you performed the lowest on the quiz and is the Mole's fifth victim. You must leave the game immeditely. Is everyone ready?" The players all gave their nods. As the fire gave out another crackle, McHallyboo straightened his back into the chair.
"The execution begins," he concluded. "Good luck." He put his hands into his lap.
"Would anyone like to volunteer to go first?" he asked. For a second, nobody did anything. Then slowly, Wario raised his hand into the air.
"Let me go first and just end the worried feelings," he grumbled, almost to himself. McHallyboo began to type his name into the computer.
W-A-R-I-O
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GREEN
Wario sat back fully into his own seat, sighing and relaxing into his chair.
"Anyone else?" McHallyboo asked. After a longer period of silence than last time, Luvbi then raised her hand into the air.
"Luvbi," said the host. As her name was slowly typed into the computer, Luvbi looked straight into the screen, her lips pursed and attempting to keep a calm face. The host pressed 'Enter'.
L-U-V-B-I
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GREEN
Luvbi breathed heavily, and at the same time made a small nod to herself. McHallyboo looked over the faces of the remaining other players.
"All right, I'll go," Goombella said, as McHallyboo gave out a small smile. He began typing her name into the computer, as Goombella looked at the screen, mouth open with hesitation and anticipation at the same time.
G-O-O-M-B-E-L-L-A
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GREEN
Goombella closed her mouth, smiling with relief at the same time as the screen turned once again to its original color. Three players remained.
"Any more volunteers?" McHallyboo questioned.
"I'll...go," Yoshi said, raising his hand slowly. The host slowly entered his name into the computer, as Yoshi looked up with uncertainty to see his name being entered letter by letter, into the screen. McHallyboo then pressed the 'Enter' button.
Y-O-S-H-I
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GREEN
Yoshi lowered his head with relief, facing the ground and sighing. Four players had been declared safe.
"I'll go next," Vivian said suddenly. There were two players remaining, and as Bobbery faced the screen grimly as well, McHallyboo entered the next name into the computer. All six players watched to see the victim for that very night.
V-I-V-I-A-N
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GREEN
"Well," Bobbery stated, his face displaying an ambiguous look. The host completed the execution by typing his name in as the sixth and final player.
B-O-B-B-E-R-Y
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RED
"I am sorry Bobbery, but you have been executed," McHallyboo confirmed. "Your bag is at the entrance of the village. Please follow me."
Bobbery got up from his chair and walked past the fire pit. Before he was completely done with walking past the television monitor though, he turned around, faced the players with a honorary smile, and gave a salute. As he turned around to leave, the other players were left laughing, with both respect and amusement. At the same time, they were also saddened.
Both host and player made their way across Pianta Village, in no particular route or path. The episode was over.
"I went with that I truly felt," Bobbery said, voice gruffed yet not angry at all. "And that's what led to my downfall."
"Anything can happen," McHallyboo said, "but you did a fine job in this game, sir." Seeing a pile of bags by the bridge's entrance, McHallyboo went to grab it for Bobbery, but the executed player just shook his head and stepped up himself to grab it.
"I carried it here, and now I carry it home," he said with a beam, then began his final shaky walk across Pianta Village's bridge.
"Oh, he's so noble," Luvbi said, smiling to herself at Bobbery's final action.
"Bobbery was really the most respected player here," Goombella spoke. "Wherever he managed to go or whatever he did, he'd always be giving us words of advice. And his words were always true."
Flashback Bobbery: "Well, a game is a game. But morals shouldn't change within a game." (the aggravated players within the boat turn to look at him)
"I don't know why, but I'm going to miss him," Yoshi said glumly. "He kinda played a grandfather role for me. And...I guess that made me happy." At his last sentence, others saw tears form in his eyes.
"But even with his age, it didn't even stop him from coming here," Vivian said, as the others all nodded with heavy agreement. "Jumping, running, swimming...he did it all and he enjoyed it too. I'm really going to miss him also."
(flashback of Bobbery swimming to shore with a bag in his possession) "Sixth bag! Four more to go!"
"Yeah, and he was probably more physically fit than most of us," Wario said reluctantly, causing the others to laugh. "It was really fun setting up that island party with him. I complained through the whole thing, but...it was actually fun. I just didn't want to admit it until now."
Flashback Bobbery: "It's spick and span, and presentable." (steps back to admire the set-up banner from their Island Bash mission)
"So are you saying that the ridiculous stuff happening right now are the things you'll miss later, Wario?" Goombella teased.
"Only like...one percent of it," Wario said, changing his voice to a non-compassionate one.
"We'll all see though when you get executed," Luvbi said calmly.
"Or when you get executed," Wario snapped at her." Luvbi just laughed.
"Ah, and you got me the best mode of transportation for my journey back," Bobbery said, pleasantly surprised as he finally approached the vehicle to take him home. The helicopter door opened, as Bobbery made his way inside.
"We were going to make a boat," McHallyboo started, "but...figured you've been on one much too many times."
"Well McHallyboo, I've wanted to get on one and sail from this place since the first day," Bobbery said, grinning and shaking his head. McHallyboo handed him his bag, and stepped back.
"A pleasure to have met you, Bobbery. Have a safe flight." As the propeller of the vehicle started up once again, McHallyboo stepped back cautiously to make way for the helicopter's rise. A circle of wind could be seen in the short grass of the terrain, and McHallyboo had to hold his own hat to prevent the immense and continuous gust of wind from taking his hat away. Flying away, its image became more tranquil as the helicopter matched with the moon in the sky, shining bigger than ever before. So was the smile of the player aboard the chopper.
On the next episode of The Mole: Saboteur's Island:
The player count is cut in half. The final five participate in the game's most intense mission to date, forcing them to endure a series of misleading and consequence-resulting tests.
Vivian: I can't get out!
Luvbi: You're right. One of us do have to be left behind.
And the players get heated over a simple mission, concerning one simple question.
McHallyboo: Who here at this table wants an exemption?
What does next episode hold in store? Who will be victim, and who is the Mole?
Our fifth victim: Bobbery! He leaves the game, and is not the Mole.
Speaking which, my memory goes back to a certain message in my inbox that I had received, much many many months ago. I won't say particularly who, but as I look back, I can't help but remember myself chuckling while reading the message for the first time:
Just a tip which I hope is helpful, but I think you need to up your game a little bit. I can say with very near certainty that Bobbery is the mole so you perhaps need to do a better job of adding more confusion and dissaray to the game. Not gonna tell you how to do your job, though, as I imagine you have all of this planned out already, but perhaps a little more subtlety would help.
Behold, my 2 cents.
Ah, and I thank the sender of that message so much xD A good guess though, I must say! But as the game goes, I'm pretty sure a lot of you will be just as surprised. We'll see how it all goes, shall we? :)
Also a quick note: the website is currently facing some issues and lacks an update, due to logging in problems concerning the website Weebly. Haven't been there in weeks actually, so it might be the site's error on an error on my part. Regardless, hopefully I can get this issue fixed asap x.x
Anyways, stay tuned for the start of the next episode!