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Now, here's chapter four, Further on Down the Road.
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Previously in our story, a mysterious stranger arrived at the Venus Arms Hotel and Towers,
not that long after Danny Hillcrest had rushed out of the hotel.
Danny had seemed quite nervous when speaking with Giles and Miss Falmacher.
I had to borrow an awful lot to send out all these scripts.
I'm not sure certain people will be happy if things don't work out and I can't repay them.
At Gile's suggestion, the stranger spoke with the maitre d' of the hotel's restaurant.
It seems the hotel had had an incident with Danny earlier in the day inside the eatery.
Get out! Allez! Vite!
The maitre d' also showed the stranger the placemat Danny had been scribbling on prior
to the altercation. On it was the phrase, a ram sang. Frustrated that he could not find
Danny or make sense of the phrase, the stranger resigned himself to the fact that he would
need to check into the hotel for the night. As this chapter begins, Giles is having a
hard time comprehending the stranger's request.
You mean you want to stay here? Now? During April? Is that a problem? Is the hotel full? Hahahaha!
Hamberdasher! Oh, it's you Giles. Giles! Get a hold of yourself!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry sir. I will need a major credit card for the room.
We don't need to do that, do we?
Yes, we do.
What if I give you this gift card from Target instead? Sir... Hmm, Macy's?
Ugh, no! Neiman Marcus.
Sign here. Very good, Mr... Sam Jones? Oh, come now. That's the best you've got?
Can't you be a bit more creative than that? What about Coakley Ulrich? Or Demarcus Lyons?
Or Tack Cromwell, King of Eclairs? Why not swing for the fences, Mr. Sam Jones?
With Godfrey Keats Barkridge the third.
Fine.
Blaine Hendricks? Well, I suppose. But Tyree Schaefer would have been much better.
It will take a while to prepare your room. Most of the staff takes the month of April off.
So Cap will need to make up your room. No problem. I'll have it made up in no time.
I just need a huge tub of foundation and a bucket of eyeliner.
In the meantime, I need more ammunition.
Can you think of any place else Hillcrest has been lately? The sooner I find him, the better.
Hmm, let me think, Mr...
Blaine Hendricks. Oh, I believe he's employed in the tunnels.
What's that, a nightclub? I hope they're still doing the Lindy Hop.
The tunnels are, well, a bunch of tunnels under Chasm Valley.
Badger people made them.
Look, it's complicated, all right? And Hillcrest works there.
What does he do, sing hi-ho, hi-ho? Fine. Don't believe me.
All right, all right. How do I get to these tunnels?
It's not that far from here. You just need to go down the street a few blocks to the site of the old nuclear pasta plant.
And then... just head that way.
Okay. The stranger heads toward the revolving doors. Just be sure my room is
ready when I come back. Now we'll see if he gets stuck like no no no not now!
Whose bright idea was it to put a transition there? Oh never mind let's dog ear that for now. The stranger is standing inside the rubble that was once
the foundation of One Pasta Place a towering apartment building before that
as Giles mentioned, it's where the town's nuclear pasta plant stood.
In front of him is a simple gravel roadway. It stops at the entrance to the corridor that leads to the tunnels.
But things have changed since you and I last visited here. There is now a large neon illuminated sign that points to the entrance.
The sign reads, Cine-round-a-dome Drive-In.
Open 24 hours. The occasional car is seen entering the wide access corridor.
Fortunately, the stranger spots a dedicated pedestrian lane.
As the stranger walks along the path, he sees other markings on the pavement.
The pedestrian lane is adjacent to a dedicated stroller lane,
which is next to a dedicated dog-walking lane, which is next to a dedicated skateboarding lane,
next to a hoverboard lane, jogging lane, moped lane, and...
Penny lane. Hello? -unintelligable phone voice- You got my text, right? Hillcrest wasn't at the hotel.
They said he went out and don't know where he went or when he'll be back.
-unintelligable phone voice-
Yeah, sounds sus to me, too. -unintelligable phone voice- I know the boss needs this taken care of yesterday.
I'm working on it. -unintelligable phone voice-
I'm checking out every place he's been.
Tell Ralston I'll call back when I've...
Executed. Executed? It sounds like this stranger means business. Will he find Danny?
What will happen when he does? And will the stranger realize that the pedestrian lane is also marked as a no-cell phone's quiet
zone?
Shhh! For more rule violations, be sure to come back for Chapter 5, Where Darkness Lives.
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In this episode, as the maître d, Nathan Alvord.
As the stranger, Grant Johnson, voicegranted.com. As the cell phone caller, Bonnie Kenderdine.
And the narrator was played by Gary J. Chambers, garyjchambersvo.com.
Additional voices, as well as story and music by Clinton Alvord.
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See you next time, but for now, that's it, we're done, done, done, done, done. Bye bye.
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