Description
The Heroes of Yearth are faced with their first quest: Find a missing boy so that he may continue his people's lineage and partake in a firey coming of age ritual. Will they fall at the first hurdle?
Synopsis
In the bullywug village, the heroes ask the shaman for more details about his son’s disappearance. They discover there are no cops to report him missing to as the entire Bullywug police force was mysteriously killed in a boating accident not long ago...aside from one survivor who wanders past and quickly flees when questioned. They use Therapy Dog’s keen senses to pick up Wonwe’s scent and follow his trail into the nearby mangroves.
There they find the cops’ remains, seemingly eaten - including missing their heads. They then find Wonwe, alive and well and cavorting with what appears to be a face in the mud made from sticks and other detritus. Wonwe claims this is his girlfriend, and the figure speaks back, but the heroes are suspicious and eventually fight the creature, which turns out to be a giant crab with the face on its back. It had eaten (and possibly killed?) the cops and had designs on Wonwe too. The heroes fight and kill the crab, which maintains that it wanted to be Wonwe’s girlfriend, making Sunbelt Gongbonger in particular conflicted about the fight.
The group flee the swamps but are caught in quicksand; the others escape fairly easily, but Gongbonger panics, nearly pulling Polly Waddle into the swamp in his attempts to escape. Charion manages to calm the minotaur down and he is freed, but Polly is furious. Before the conflict can be fully resolved, there’s a rumble from the volcano - it’s nearly time for the ceremony to make Wonwe a man, and secure the line of succession for the village shaman. The heroes don’t have much time to get him there...
Cast
Heroes of Yearth
NPCs
- Wonwe, a small bullywug and son of the village shaman
- Wonwe’s dad, the bullywug shaman
- The last surviving member of the bullywug police force
- A giant bullywug-eating crab
Bestiary
- Bullywugs
- Giant crab
Places
The swamp, presumably in the lands of Summer
Themes, tropes and running jokes
- Is That a Minotaur Thing? - the number of husbands and wives Sunbelt has is brought up again; Charion gets him to imagine the chair in which he sits while watching them have sex as part of his guided meditation to help him get out of the quicksand.
Trivia
- Demi Lardner double-booked herself for this show, so Dinner Munchabout appears only as snippets of audio played from a sound bank she set up on a laptop in her usual position on stage. Most of these are non sequiturs, but it provides some highly appropriate screams when he is grabbed by the giant crab.
Quotes
- Dinner’s song, sung to the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, is about trying to slam his penis in a car door to make it longer.