Fogeno's Enlightenment

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 22488

“Come on, let’s get out of here before the other cops come poking around!”

"Arrr, let the scurvy-bastards come!" Fogeno scowled. "Ye've opened me doors of perception, landlubber. I feel like I've achieved a higher consciousness. I'm in a Zen-like trance right now and I'm totally peaking, dude. 'None of this is real, I'm a minor character in a fictional Never Ending Quest'! Whooa! What a trip! What an introspective journey of enlightenment ye’ve started me on! Somehow it puts everything in perspective, and I really need to rethink me life! No yellow-bellied Story Cops be of any concern to me now, arrrr."

"No! You don't understand!” Fred exclaimed, a sense of urgency in his words. "I'm in a breech of contract! I know I spoke big, but you really just can't kill Story Cops! It's against the Rules! This entire thread could be discontinued if they find us!"

"Heavy stuff..."

"That's right, so we need to find a hiding place...and quick! The only way to do that is to phase out so that they can't track us."

The weathered Seacaptain gave Fred a blank look. "Huh?"

"Oh, right. I suppose you don't know what 'phase out' means. It's simple, really. All we do is leave the story for a few episodes and lay low. The plot can focus around some other minor characters for a few rounds, until we get the cops off our backs."

"Sounds dangerous."

"It is dangerous. We could get hopelessly lost and never find our way back to the storyline, but that is a risk we'll have to take. There's also the chance that the minor characters will attempt to sabotage the story, and that's another risk I'm willing to take."

Fogeno fidgeted nervously about, casting paranoid glances over his shoulder. "If yer say so. Let's get on with it, then. But who is the story goin' to focus on now?"

"Good question..."

  1. ...it was just another average day for Gilda, the mystic llama herder...
  2. ...it was just another average day for Bruno, the drunkard...
  3. ..."By the way," Fred added, "the cop didn't kill your chicken, I did."

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