Last time on Join the Party.

Those mask agents running around following Connor, turns out they've been looking for his

aunt the entire time and they think that Connor has something to do with it.

And that's the thing he does because the events of her disappearance sinks up for when

Connor fed Mr. Sizzle, the Eros for Hire Letter, and Anita isn't on this liminal plane anymore.

Rowan and Connor try to make a deal to fix this with Todd Swapper, who could probably bring

Anita back, but they need to give him $50,000, a body, and a place to actually do all

the things where no one can see. Good thing, an adult shows up to help everyone. It's Emily Slaughter

who wants to take the kids to brunch, quote unquote, and tries to kidnap Connor by putting him

in a helicopter. Rowan creates a gravity moat to separate her and Connor from Emily, Kraft,

and many, many hero for hire goons who tumble out of that helicopter, and it's pretty tense right now.

I wonder if a situation like this is in those Raising a Teen Books.

Probably not. Let's get the party started.

Hey, all you super friends, you want to get good together? You want to skip math together? You want to punch bad guys together? It's not that I haven't used my words. It's that nobody listens to me and I can shoot fire. One, two, three, four. More The

The You know, I'm going to be. I'm A lot So I want to posit an idea.

I made a moat separating the baddies in the helicopter from the party.

And everyone knows famously moats are filled with

like alligators or snakes. Do you want to like come up with maybe like a scary space bug that is in

Rowan's moat? Like maybe little like ticks, but they're made of gravity and they like, like, cling to you even harder than a normal

tick would. Maybe it's like a centipy with a lot of legs, and the legies are like little arms of

static, like an ancient Pokemon. Can I suggest that it's just Vincent DiNafrio from Men in Black?

In his human skin, not even in the bug skin, in the human skin. It's pretty good.

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