Previously on the Smole...
Danny: "Woohoo me. That will show my wife that I have options."
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Danny: "I'm strict for their own good."
Harper: "It's university! You're not their dad."
Danny: "That attitude is how you become a failure in life. That's why you're just stuck in a comic book store. You're lazy and take shortcuts."
Yvon: "That was not cool."
Danny: "Neither are all your Gen-Z slang but I still do the cringe-speak to appeal to you lot."
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Laron: "I hate to do this to anyone but I'm thinking Danny or Eris. I feel that they're our strongest threats right now."
Landon: "So you don't think they're the Mole?"
Laron: "Why would I when I'm talking to the man himself?"
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Landon: "Why does it matter so much who I am deep down? I'm a workaholic and artistic and a perfectionist and irresistible and brave. Is that not enough for you guys?"
Danny: "Those are just traits. They're only one part of your identity. Not to mention those are traits that you deliberately want to present to others as a catfish."
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Danny: "So which is it Landon? Are you faithful or a player? Are you trustworthy or untrustworthy?"
Landon: "I'm neither."
Danny: "How can you be neither? They're mutually exclusive."
Landon: "Just give me some time to think. I'll figure it out."
Yvon: "Our coalition is over. I don't know if I can believe a word you can say any more."
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Eris: "Being a showgirl is all I've ever known and it helped me rake in big bucks before. What else could I be if not that?"
Laron: "You could learn a new skill."
Eris: "At my age? Ha."
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Laron: "You don't even want to give them a complete family? You're just after their money?"
Eris: "Pfft, all the old folks are good for is money. You think they give two shits about their spawn? Clearly not. I don't either."
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Landon: "I'm so tempted to stack the two viruses but something is telling me to spread them out. I'll send one Danny's way first."
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"For those who have played bugs and viruses, you will have to face karma. This means that for your latest quiz, you will receive the effects of whatever bugs and viruses you have played to this current point."
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"That means Landon Harding, you have unfortunately been executed. Please pack your bags and leave."
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Harper: "That was brutal. Having your viruses and bugs being used against you? I am so glad I didn't have any of those. I'm an upstanding player. But it was the biggest shock to find out Landon went home. I thought he was the Mole for sure! Hyden was right about him."
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Eris: "I survive another day while my men go down one after another. Even karma can't get me. I'm unstoppable and I have my eye on the grand prize."
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Danny: "We need to start having more accountability for failures in the pot. You can call it blame culture but it's needed or we'll never improve and be stuck with a low pot."
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"Salutations, competitors. Today, we shall evaluate your lexical proficiency. Two among you will be tasked with reconstructing a narrative by replacing words with more esoteric alternatives provided in a curated list. Should you be unfamiliar with any term, the remaining trio shall serve as your ambulatory lexicons, addressing vocabulary inquiries to furnish precise definitions. Be advised: an erroneous response will result in the dissemination of a fallacious meaning. A total of 100 points may be accrued in this challenge, with ten points awarded for each accurate substitution. As Yvon and Harper possess the most elevated karma, they are granted the prerogative to assign roles."
Yvon: "Why are you talking like that?"
Danny: "The two storywriters must have a good command of the language."
Yvon: "Don't all of us?"
Danny: "Yeah but ultimately it depends on the storywriters."
Harper: "We'll take that into consideration."
Harper: "I think the smartest two should rewrite the story. The rest will answer vocabulary questions. What do you think Yvon?"
Yvon: "That sounds like a good plan to me."
Eris: "Do you not want to spread it out?"
Harper: "Just because we keep the two smartest together doesn't mean the rest are dumb. I work in a bookstore and Danny is a professor. We're the smartest two."
Danny: "I don't teach Simlish."
Laron: "And you work at a comic book store. I think that nuance matters a lot."
Harper: "Doesn't matter. We're in charge here."
Yvon: "I'm fine with that division."
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Yvon: "Now that we're in charge, we're going to make lots of money at last."
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Harper and Danny will be visiting Howard Memorial Library. They have 2 hours in total to substitute 10 words.
Harper: "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is
about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war
because of the air-raids."
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Eris: "Question 1: In 2011, the Mosman council ____ a plan to phase out the three remaining houseboats in the Mosman suburb.
A: Contemplated
B: Apathetic
C: Colourised
D: Disdain"
Laron: "I think it's A."
Yvon: "Let's wait till we get to the tasks."
The other three can complete tasks to eliminate options for their vocabulary questions. Eris has to read off a teleprompter flawlessly.
Laron is controlling the teleprompter. Laron has to type the words of the teleprompter as they appear and keep up with the speed of the teleprompter.
Eris: "Good evening. Here are tonight’s top stories: Severe weather is causing widespread disruption across parts of northern England and Scotland, with heavy rainfall and strong winds prompting flood warnings in several regions. Rail services have been delayed and motorists are being advised to travel only if necessary."
Laron: "At Westminister...yikes Westminster, cross-party talks continue as ministers seek agreement on the government’s revised economic strategy. The Chancellor has insisted the measures are “'ecessary and responsible,' though critics warn of potential impacts on public services."
Laron: "Overseas, rescue efforts are ongoing in Japan following a powerful earthquake that struck off the eastern coast. At least twenty people have died and hundreds more have been injured. International aid has begun arriving as aftershocks persist."
Eris: "And in sport, there was jubilation for English fans as Manchester City clinched the Premier League title in dramatic fashion, sealing victory in the final minutes of the match. That’s the latest—I'm Eris Field, thanks for joining us."
Eris: "Woo. No kick."
"This task is a success. The question is now: In 2011, the Mosman council ____ a plan to phase out the three remaining houseboats in the Mosman suburb.
A: Contemplated
B: Apathetic
D: Disdain"
Eris: "A makes the most sense. Final answer: A."
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Danny: "He
himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his
head. We have to replace the word SHAGGY."
Harper: "Let's look at the list of words."
Aberrant
Beheld
Carnalised
Coiffed
Comate
Ebullient
Empyreal
Exanimate
Fatuous
Flabbergast
Garrulous
Lucent
Masquerading
Nomothetic
Obfuscated
Posterior
Pulverulent
Quiddity
Sangfroid
Sinciput
Subversive
Tenebrous
Torpid
Tousled
Veridical
Danny: "We can eliminate verbs like BEHELD and MASQUERADING. It definitely can't be MASQUERADING."
Harper: "I agree. It is describing hair. Sexy hair."
Danny: "We just got a definition. ABERRANT means: deviating from the usual or natural way."
Harper: "That's not it."
Danny: "Let's circle back to this later."
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Yvon: "This is for Q10: The bouncer's ____ discouraged brawls.
A: Hypocrisy
B: Idiosyncrasy
C: Countenance
D: Friendliness"
Yvon: "I'm supposed to align dishes to hear an option to eliminate but I don't hear anything right now."
Eris: "What are you doing in here?"
Yvon: "I am trying to align dishes. This is for Q10."
Eris: "This task is done in a pair. Someone needs to go to the recording studio to record something first. I'll do it."
Laron: "Wash 5 dishes complete. That was easy."
"The options for Q2 are now: The general tried to ____ the hope of victory in his troops.
A: Deconstruct
C: Instill
D: Imbibe"
Laron: "I answer with C. Final answer."
Eris: "Laron, pass me the car keys."
Laron: "Why?"
Eris: "I need to head to the recording studio at Christlehurst so that Yvon can hear something for the task she is doing."
Laron: "That's far."
Laron: "We only have one car."
Eris: "We go together then and leave Yvon here."
Laron: "I shouldn't have completed the dishes then. There ain't that many tasks to do here."
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Harper: "Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it."
Danny: "This is MASQUERADING for sure no cap."
Harper: "I thought you don't like our way of speaking."
Danny: "Are you really going to argue with me during a mission?"
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Eris: "Go find your own task."
Eris: "Oh. I have to fix the radio. Why couldn't it be 'demolish'?"
Laron: "I can do it."
Eris: "I see another task for Q9: The aural component of balance is critical for postural control during ____.
A: Ambulation
B: Emulation
C: Fossilisation
D: Discombobulation"
Laron: "I'll get around to this."
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Yvon: "What is taking Eris so long? I'll just say B."
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Laron: "Done."
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Danny: "We have a new definition. FLABBERGAST means aggressively defiant."
Harper: "Does it now? I thought it would be the act of being flabbergasted."
Danny: "We know one of the other three are Moleing."
Harper: "It was a far larger house than she had ever been in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy."
Danny: "I'm leaning towards COIFFED."
Harper: "I think it could be SANGFROID or SUBVERSIVE. We still have time. Let's wait for more definitions to come in."
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Eris: "Am I in line with the beat?"
Laron: "You need to slow down."
Laron: "Yeah! Yeah we got it!"
"The task is complete. The question is now: The aural component of balance is critical for postural control during ____.
A: Ambulation
B: Emulation
D: Discombobulation"
Laron: "Did you catch that?"
Eris: "Yeah. It eliminated the one option I knew wasn't it."
Laron: "What do you think?"
Eris: "A has something to do with ambulances with that. It's either B or D. Your call."
Laron: "Alright, our final answer is D."
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Danny: "FATUOUS means having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement. Turns out it's not about being fat."
Harper: "There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill."
Danny: "What's a blue bottle? Is dead metaphorical here?"
Harper: "I want to guess TORPID but let's wait a while more."
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For Q11, Laron has to identify the spice in the tea.
Q11: Children may _____ start to adopt aggressive tendencies such as hitting, or mock punching their peers as perfectly acceptable reactions to problems when watching superhero movies.
A: Insidiously
B: Flippantly
C: Mockingly
D: Unassumingly
Laron: "Hmm...this is sweet like cinnamon."
"That is correct. The question is now: Children may _____ start to adopt aggressive tendencies such as hitting, or mock punching their peers as perfectly acceptable reactions to problems when watching superhero movies.
A: Insidiously
C: Mockingly
D: Unassumingly"
Laron: "Oh good. It got rid of an option I was unsure about. I would pick A or C but I think C makes less sense so my final answer is A."
For Q13, Eris has to find something worth at least 50 Simoleons in the dumpster.
Q13: The president delivered a typical speech full of clichés and _____ phrases.
A: Pioneering
B: Innovative
C: Intelligible
D: Hackneyed
Eris: "Darn it. I only found a rock worth 15 Simoleons. I have to guess on this question...I say D."
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Harper: "GARRULOUS: Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. MASQUERADING: Pretending to be someone one is not."
Danny: "We already knew what MASQUERADING meant. Are they not using their brains when deciding which ones to answer?"
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Laron: "Here we go."
Eris: "Lucky you. You got it on your first try."
"You have completed the task. Q12 is now: The enemy won because we were betrayed by a _____ ally.
A: Perfidious
B: Perfunctory
C: Euphoric"
Eris: "It's not C, unless you think it is?"
Laron: "I don't think it's C either. Shall we go with A?"
Eris: "Fine by me."
Laron: "Our final answer is A."
Laron: "We should head back and check on Yvon."
Eris: "You go ahead. We have a task at the pub we went to."
Laron: "I think we should stick together."
Eris: "We don't have time for that."
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Harper: "But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of the floor of the wardrobe, she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold."
Danny: "PULVERULENT? That sounds like pulverised to powder. Oh we have a new definition: LUCENT: Glowing or giving off light. I think that was deducible."
Harper: "I wouldn't have guessed it was about light."
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Laron: "She's not here? Where did she go?"
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Eris: "Come play foosball with me."
Stanley: "Oh hell no. You stink."
Eris: "Hey! Get back here! I need to win a game!"
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Yvon has to bowl and score at least 140 points to eliminate an option for Q4: While some of the book's guidelines are common sense, others are ____.
A: Banal
B: Abysmal
C: Astute
D: Unforgiving"
Yvon: "Ow!"
Yvon: "At least I hit something."
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Harper: "'This is very queer,' she said, and went on a step or two further. I think it has to do with LGBT."
Danny: "You youths and your agendas. It can also just mean weird."
Harper: "Are you judging queer Sims? You're going to get cancelled."
Danny: "No I'm not judging them. But do you think OBFUSCATED works? Or EBULLIENT?"
Harper: "Didn't they give a definition for ABERRANT?"
Danny: "Oh yeah. It meant deviating from the norm or something to that effect. I think that is our best answer."
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Eris has to identify the British equivalent of the following terms:
Truck
Apartment
Chip
Cookie
Candy
Pants
Eraser
Sidewalk
Elevator
College
Eris: "I'm not British so I wouldn't know. But I know 'college' is 'university', 'elevator' is 'lift'. I think they call a sidewalk a 'pavement'. An apartment is a 'flat' in Britain."
Eris: "I don't know what 'truck' is. Engine? Oh, it might be 'lorry'. I think I heard that being used around here. 'Pants' might be 'trousers' and 'eraser' is 'rubber', which is such a dumb thing because rubber is the thing that comes from plants."
Eris: "Now, chip, cookie, and candy. 'Candy' is 'sweet' if I'm not mistaken. I think a cookie's a biscuit in Britain. It's so weird. And a 'chip' is a 'crisp'."
"That is correct. Q25 is now: Be patient with him as he can be a _____ old man at times.
A: Awkward
B: Lexicological
C: Cantankerous"
Eris: "I would pick B. It sounds strange. So it means he's a strange old man. Final answer."
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Yvon: "I just need 2 more points."
Yvon: "Yeah! I have just the right number of points."
"You have completed the task. Q4 is now: While some of the book's guidelines are common sense, others are ____.
A: Banal
B: Abysmal
D: Unforgiving"
Yvon: "I would go with A or B...A is my final answer."
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Laron: "While I'm finding Yvon I might as well complete another task."
Laron has to identify the famous tune playing from the music box to eliminate an option from Q3: This situation ____ considerable risks.
A: Querulous
B: Entails
C: Commemorates
D: Impairs"
Laron: "I have no idea. I don't listen to classical music. But I think the answer is B. It's quite simple."
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Harper: "Let us remember. VERIDICAL: At right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly above the bottom. I think that's wrong as it sounds like it's describing VERTICAL. COIFFED: Styled or arranged someone's hair. CARNALISED: Sensualised. Also, it's raining outside. I'm so glad we're indoors."
Harper: "Does SHAGGY mean COIFFED?"
Danny: "It's the only one about hair we have. We can substitute it with COIFFED until we have a better answer."
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Eris has to reach Level 10 of the arcade game in 3 tries to eliminate an option from Q24: Any future populist ____ who finds his way into the White House will have access to the same power.
A: Populist
B: Anachronism
C: Polyglot
D: Demagogue"
Eris: "Level 9...just need to snipe a few more...."
Eris: "Come on! Fuck, that was my last chance. I'll just give a random answer then. C. Final answer."
Eris: "I need to rally 20 shots in a row at table tennis with Laron or Yvon to eliminate an option for Q23. Where the hell are Laron and Yvon anyway?"
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Laron: "This task is for Q5. The reasons for denying a passport can be ______.
A: Arcane
B: Oblivious
C: Enamouring
D: Operatic"
Yvon: "Laron, why are you yellow?"
Laron: "Yvon! What are you doing here?"
Yvon: "I am doing the task. I have to listen to the opera for 30 minutes."
Laron: "Don't waste your time. This is a time sink. Let's go."
Yvon: "But what about the answer?"
Laron: "I think it's B. Let's go now."
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Danny: "Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well."
Harper: "Let's see here...EXAMINATE sounds like a good choice. Maybe QUIDDITY too. It sounds like 'giggity'."
Danny: "We should look for past tenses."
Harper: "That's BEHELD, COIFFED which we established is about hair, OBFUSCATED, and TOUSLED."
Harper: "Oh we just got more definitions. TOUSLED: Engaged in vigorous struggle or scuffle. COMATE: Excessively complicated, and typically involving a great deal of administrative detail."
Danny: "In that case, it's not TOUSLED. I would say BEHELD. What do you think?"
Harper: "I thought it's OBFUSCATED."
Danny: "That means to confuse."
Harper: "We don't know for sure until we get the actual definition."
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Yvon: "Come on. Don't let that weight get to you!"
Yvon: "Just 10 pull-ups."
Laron: "10!"
Yvon: "Woo!"
"You have completed the task. Q6 is now: He is very _____ and tends to exceed his allotted time.
A: Reticent
C: Impudent
D: Verbose"
Laron: "I still have no idea what any of those words mean. What do you think?"
Yvon: "I'm feeling D."
Laron: "Then we'll go with D as our final answer."
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Eris: "This is not my area of expertise but I have some mass to be able to do something."
Eris: "Argh!"
Eris: "I did it. Now what are my remaining options?"
"Q22 is now: Despite the _____, the student tried to study.
A: Boisterous
B: Cacophony
C: Clamorous"
Eris: "Only B makes sense in context so B is the final answer."
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Harper: "He had a strange, but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead. Is there another word for forehead?"
Danny: "New definitions. EBULLIENT: Cheerful and full of energy. TENEBROUS: Dark, shadowy or obscure, evoking a sense of creepiness."
Harper: "EBULLIENT is for EXCITED! And TENEBROUS is for CREEPY."
Danny: "Our last substitution: And when he saw Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all his parcels. It's another past tense."
Harper: "None of the other past tenses make sense though. Except maybe BEHELD."
Danny: "We wasted a lot of time waiting for definitions to come in. There's not a lot of time left. Let's just go with that."
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Laron: "Yvon and I decided to regroup with Eris but we drove around Vendon and couldn't find her. Eventually we gave up and tried to find more tasks which had not been completed but we ran out of time before we completed all of them."
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"Contestants, welcome back. After 2 hours, Danny and Harper have rewritten a story and is about to share it with you."
Danny: "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war
because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the
country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had
no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three
servants."
Danny: "He himself was a very old man with coiffed white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on masquerading he was blowing his nose to hide it."
Danny: "'What's that noise?' said Lucy suddenly. It was a far larger house than she had ever been in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty rooms was beginning to make her feel a little tenebrous."
Danny: "It was the sort of house that you
never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places. The first few doors they tried
led only into spare bedrooms, as everyone had expected that they would; but soon they came to a
very long room full of pictures and there they found a suit of armour. And shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty
except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was nothing else in
the room at all except an empyreal blue-bottle on the window-sill."
Danny: "'Nothing there!' said Peter, and they all trooped out again - all except Lucy. She stayed behind
because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt
almost sure that it would be locked. To her flabbergast it opened quite easily, and two moth-balls
dropped out."
Danny: "'I wonder is that more mothballs?' she thought, stooping down to feel it
with her hand. But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of the floor of the wardrobe, she felt
something soft and torpid and extremely cold."
Danny: "'This is very aberrant,' she said, and went on a step or
two further."
Danny: "Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and ebullient as well. She looked back over
her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks; she could still see the open doorway of the
wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out."
Danny: "Soon after that a very strange person stepped out from among
the trees into the light of the lamp-post. He had a strange, but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there stuck two horns, one on each side of his sangfroid."
Danny: "And when he beheld Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all his parcels. 'Goodness gracious me!' exclaimed the Faun."
Danny: "The end."
"Danny was a brilliant storyteller and it sounded like the story flowed, yet there were four substitutions that were incorrect: coiffed instead of tousled, empyreal instead of exanimate, torpid instead of pulverulent, and sangfroid instead of sinciput. This means 60/100 points have been earned in this mission."
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Pot: 312/640
