Since the bar was closed, the nightlife had relocated to Gryff’s house. The atmosphere was more muted, though, and most of the group left early to go to bed. Before long, only Alka was left in the bar.
“Hey Alka, were you planning on leaving?”
Alka glanced outside nervously. Could he? He could. “Yeah, I’ll go.”
Gryff started to close up. “You be safe out there, okay?” he said.
Outside, a lone figure prowled through the town square. Could this be one of the killers who had been ripping through the town’s individuals?
“Alright Jpei, time to pay up!”
Apparently not.
OaOW had gotten up early, and was just out on his daily constitutional when he saw Alka messing with jpei’s grave.
“What–are you robbing him!”
“No.” denied Alka, as he worked the crowbar.
“Yes you are! You’re doing it right now!”
“Am not!” he denied again, as he opened it and took the berynium inside.
By this point, Tom Scud had followed, still half asleep.
“I told you!” he yelled. “I told you he was going to betray us all! Watch–now he’s going to run off”
Alka ran back to his house, dodging Scuba and Drain Bead.
“And now he’s going to blast off in some tiny spaceship none of us have seen before!”
Alka’s roof opened to permit the tiny spaceship he had flown off in.
“And now I bet he’s going to rain bombs on all of us. I! TOLD! YOU!”
They waited. But nothing happened.
Alka Seltzer (Government Collector) has collected all 4 caches of Berynium and left! He wins! But the main conflict is not over!
The rest of the players had assembled. Unnoticed, Gryff’s tiara fell off, the center split neatly in half.
