The growing popularity of the game Gryphons and Gargoyles (based on Dungeons and Dragons), and the mysterious Gargoyle King. As well, the focus on a cult known as The Farm.
Started: July 22, 2024
Ended: September 15, 2024
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Two young men had been walking for days. Looking at them, you might think they were brothers. And in a way they were. Brothers fearful that Hiram Lodge might catch up to them. *** I'm packing stuff in my room into a suitcase when mom walks in.
"What are you doing?" Mom asks.
"I'm leaving the Pembrooke. This time on my will." I tell her and she closes my bedroom door.
"Quinn. I realize that you're upset about Archie, but you can't just go running after him." Mom tells me.
"I'm not running after Archie." I tell her.
"Okay. Then what's this all about?" Mom asks me and I hand her the newspaper.
"Convenient, don't you think? Sheriff Minetta goes missing just as I find evidence that he coerced those Shadow Lake boys into giving false testimony." I tell her.
"Minetta was a corrupt man. He had many enemies." Mom tells me.
"Is that a confession?" I ask her and then walk back towards my suitcase and close the lid and zip it shut.
"Okay, Quinn, first of all, I sincerely hope that you don't believe I'm capable of--" Mom tells me before I cut her off.
"I don't know what to believe anymore. Which is part of why I'm leaving this house while I still can. Maybe you should too. Veronica is." I tell her.
"He's, my husband." Mom tells me.
"Well then you and daddy can pop open a bottle of Cristal because he finally did it. He finally won. He drove me and Archie away for good." I tell her as I grab my stuff and open my door and leave. *** I knock on the door of Betty's house waiting for the door to open.
"Quinn?" Alice asks as she opens the door.
"Hi, Mrs. Cooper sorry to intrude but do you have a spare room I could crash in for a while?" I ask her.
"Of course. Come in I'll show you." Alice tells me and I smile and walk in and she closes the door behind me and leads me upstairs to the bedroom next to Betty's.
"Thank you, Mrs. Cooper." I tell her.
"You're welcome and if you need anything don't hesitate to ask." Alice tells me and then leaves the room to let me get settle. *** "What's up, Q? Still bummed about Archie bailing on the world?" Reggie asks me as he walks behind the bar of the speakeasy.
"That's on the list of woes." I tell him.
"What else?" Reggie asks.
"We work all day and night, and yet we're barely scraping by. It's just not adding up." I tell him.
"It may not be the Copacabana yet, but business us steady." Reggie tells me.
"One thing daddy taught me is that steady is one bad week away from broke. We'll never turn a profit selling five-dollar mocktails to high schoolers who just sit here all day playing stupid board games." I tell him.
