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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Gryphons and Gargoyles. Serpents and Ghoulies. Riverdale was a veritable jungle of mythological creatures, species jockeying for power, and the dark heart of it all... *** "Mijas, can I see you both for a moment?" Daddy calls out from his study for me and Veronica, and we stand up and walk into his study.
"Yes, daddy?" I ask him.
"I've been getting caught up on things. Hopefully, one of you can answer a question that's been nagging me. In the short time I was laid up, some very valuable equipment and stock went missing from my prison." Daddy tells us.
"Didn't mom say that she had to have it destroyed because of the Feds?" Veronica asks.
"Yeah, that's what I heard." I tell them.
"Yeah, she did. Tall Boy, an ex-Serpent tried to kill me. FP, an ex-Serpent is now sheriff. Gladys, a Toledo Serpent, is back in town after years away, and suddenly, I'm out some very valuable assets. If I didn't know better, I'd say the Joneses pulled a fast one on me." Daddy tells us.
"They strike me as opportunists, not master schemers." Veronica tells him.
"At a minimum, they would certainly need the help of someone close to me to pull anything like this off. Oh, well. The truth will shake out. It always does." Daddy tells us. *** "Where the hell is everyone else?" Jughead asks as he and Betty walks into the Serpent club classroom.
"Oh, we're down another eight." Sweet Pea tells him.
"Another eight?" Jughead asks.
"All girls too." I tell him.
"Where are they all going?" Betty asks.
"Turns out Toni and Cheryl started their own gang. All the girls are defecting to it." Sweet Pea tells us.
"The Pretty Poisons. So, what you want us to do, bosses?" Fangs asks me and Jughead.
"Nothing. This is all because Quinn made the order to banishing Cheryl and Toni. We just need to talk to Toni, get her back into the Serpent fold, and the rest will come back, too. They need to be reminded what it means to be a Serpent." Jughead tells him.
"We'll make this right guys. You have my word." I tell them. *** "You're a Topaz. Being in the Serpents is your birthright. We are a family. We'd like you to reconsider joining the gang." Jughead tells Toni as we sit across from her in a booth at Pops.
"You want me back in the Serpents? Make me Queen. I mean, since I'm legacy and all, right?" Toni asks.
"Sorry, Toni. But that spot has been filled by me for a while now." I tell her.
"Then I'm not coming back." Toni tells us.
"What are the Pretty Poisons providing for you that the Serpents can't?" Jughead asks.
"An opportunity to lead. With the Pretty Poisons, I rule. We're a sisterhood." Toni tells him.
"You're Cheryl's vanity project, you mean." Jughead tells her.
"Jughead." I warn in a quiet voice as Toni stands up.
"And you're wrong about the Serpents still being a family. That's what we used to be. Not anymore." Toni tells us and then walks away.
"Nice going you idiot." I tell Jughead. *** "Ow." Fangs says as Gladys rips a bandage off his face.
"You guys are a joke. Jug, Quinn, if you don't get your house in order, more people are going to deflect, and more gangs are going to start popping up. And the Serpents' little piece of the pie is going to get smaller and smaller." Gladys tells us.
"The store's open for suggestions, mom. You got any?" Jughead asks.
"You need numbers. Now I happen to know for a fact the Ghoulies are up for grabs. Ever since I took care of Penny, they've been leaderless. Recruit them." Gladys tells us.
"No way. They tried to burn down Pops on riot night." I tell her.
"So, tame them and give them something they want. Trust me, this is your only shot at survival." Gladys tells me and I look over at Jughead. *** I follow Jughead into an abandoned place as he shines his flashlight, and we see a man next to a statue.
"Are you Kurtz?" Jughead asks.
"We just want to talk. Leaders to leader." I tell him and he nods for us to sit down, and we do.
"I'm the Serpent King and she's the Serpent Queen, and we're here to make an offer. You're all wanted for making and dealing Fizzle Rocks. But if you and Gargoyles join our gang, we can promise you immunity from the sheriff's office, and the law." Jughead tells Kurtz.
"Law? Immunity? I have looked into the eyes of the King, and his is the only law. The law of gargoyles, carved in stone." Kurtz tells us.
"Right." I tell him.
"So, you wanna play a game? I'm a game master. Let me be your game master." Jughead tells Kurtz.
"You think Gryphons and Gargoyles is a game? You are mistaken. You come in here as a king, but you're not a king. And you think we're playing a game. We are living a prophecy. And you are all just sacrifices waiting to be made. The gargoyle king lives. He will decide. And he will choose. And only the worthy will ascend." Kurtz tells us as me and Jughead stand up and then walk out. *** "Well, the Governor finally returned my phone calls. And I have the most fascinating conversation with him." Daddy tells us as he walks up to the dinner table as me, Veronica and mom are eating.
"What did Donald have to say?" Mom asks.
"It's funny. He informed me that you made a contribution to him not a day after I was shot. Around the same time that you were getting rid of my business holdings. Anything you'd like to share, mi vida?" Daddy asks her as he sits down in the chair.
"Daddy." Veronica says.
"Stop!" Daddy exclaims as he looks at mom.
"Hiram..." Mom trails off.
"It was us! Me and Veronica burned your drugs and equipment. Mom was just covering for us. I'm sorry daddy." I tell daddy.
"And I'm not going to apologize for it. We did it for us. For all of us." Veronica tells daddy.
"Well, you each owe me $37,500, Veronica and Quinn. That's how much you burned away." Daddy tells us and then smiles at mom.
"Okay." I tell him.
"Fine. I can live with that." Veronica tells Daddy.
