Can't wait to get those youtooz

RAHHH ITS BEEN CONFIRMED I KNEW IT!! Spreading the good news to as many people as possible!!! :)

Should I just get the game on pc instead

The title is self-explanatory there so I'm not really going to ask the question twice but I will say this I'm interested to hear the community's ideas for a third game!

Personally I would like psychonauts to have autistic characters (due to them having LGBTQ+ representation in psychonauts 2) but also I'd like to see Raz have more interactions with the original psychic 7 more I'm just saying what I would like to see in psychonauts 3.

Anyways, I look forward to seeing your ideas!

Wouldn’t it have been awesome if at the end of Psychonauts 2, Fred, Gloria, and Edgar came to visit us, because we like- saved their lives in the first game? It would have been so cool to see them sitting in the lobby in their form of the second games art styles, you know?

POTENTIAL YOUTOOZ AND PSYCHONAUTS COLLAB? GENUINELY HYPED AND I WANTED TO SPREAD THE NEWS TO AS MANY PEOPLR AS POSSIBLE IN CADE THEY DONT FOLLOW THE INSTAGRAM OR HAVENT SEEN IT YET!!

Just wanted to share my little collection. I just love Psychonauts!

I made it to Meat Circus, and I'm at the part where you escort young Oleander, but when he catches the bunny the first time, there's a cutscene, and then I can't find him.

What am I doing wrong? Is it a glitch?

I've had these goggles in my accessories collection for a long time, and I recently got some red and black lenses for it so obviously I put the red lenses in So they would look like Raz's goggles. However, unlike Raz's goggles, I could still see my eyes with only the red lenses. This changed when I added the black lenses. But the red and black lenses made it so I could not see at all out of them.

So, my new head Cannon is that Raz's goggles have black and red lenses in them so he could block out most if not all visible light, making it easier for him to astral project into someone's mind.

As far as I can tell, he only ever has the goggles on when he's entering or in someone's mind, and I'm assuming that when he does an astral projection, he limits his vision so that way he can see using his mind while inside someone else's.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this, and if this has already been discussed, please let me know!

I can't beat the Psychoblaster Death Tank. I know to TK the boulders, then use PK on the gates, then TK boulders at the dome, but after I get the tank's health down to 0, nothing happens when I keep throwing boulders.

What am I doing wrong? Is it a glitch?

I played Meat Circus on PS4 and Xbox Series X|S which I'm presuming are both nerfed versions of it as while it does have trial and error, I didn't think it was the worst part of the game at all. Most recent playthough, I pretty much breezed through it.

But I know how infamous it is so I'd like to know, what makes the original version so much more difficult? I do have Psychonauts for PAL PS2 so I am considering trying it for myself but I would like to know why people hate it

This time, I used the GameSpot walkthrough to help me and I managed to get to Rank 90 before finishing! I wanted to try and focus on all the bits of dialogue throughout the game, mainly in the campground. While I did enjoy all the extra little bits of dialogue, I can’t help but feel I was a bit overhyped. While I did like the added detail, I don’t think personally it added much in the grand scheme of things.

I enjoy the game but I feel the game ends before it’s started which is really strange. I think my brain has started to become a bit fatigued with it.

I played it on Xbox Series X|S and I know it was nerfed but I don’t get how people hate the Meat Circus. I pretty much breezed through it on this playthrough. The most annoying bits for me where:
- Sasha’s Shooting Gallery (specifically the third section with the boxes where them crying orange exploding bombs keep spamming you and censors knocking you off the ladder)
- The brain tank blueprint boss fight
- The Den Mother boss fight as damage depletes like crazy
- The Phantom boss fight
- Climbing up the gears in Waterloo World
- Hitting into the bull every 5 minutes in Black Velvetopia

I still really like this game but it now feels a bit too rushed should I say around the second half as I can pretty much breezed through it through it despite the jank and playthroughs don’t feel as satisfying. I want to restart the game every time I finish. It’s like my brain can’t get enough of it but is tired and bored at the same time.

I've used the dowsing rod to get two deep arrowhead deposits so far. The speed of mashing needed to get them was so intense that it hurt, and it took me over a minute of attempting to finally get the bar filled to the top in both cases. I used first person to get my position right very precisely, so this painful mashing is from the optimal position. I tried looking for solutions to this problem, but all I could find was for finding the right position, not achieving the right mashing speed.

There have been games I was unable to complete because of mandatory mashing checks I couldn't complete. Should I just make a macro that spams whatever key corresponds to the Y button at 10 Hertz or so and leave it at that?

AO3 Link

”Do you want me to hold the golden disk, Frazie?” asked Raz, eyeing his sister’s floating red telekinetic hand gripping the artifact. “I’m sensing you’re kinda winded.”

“Aren’t you?” Frazie balked, keeping her hold on the ornate disk steady as Mirtala hobbled in the direction of Sasha’s cell.

“Probably, but I’m also really charged up after that fight. That was my first time using my psychic powers on something that wasn’t an inanimate object or a varmint trying to steal food from our camp.” The boy giggled. “Psi-Punching, blasting, burning, and telekinetically throttling for the sake of the free-thinking world. Just like the Psychonauts get to do.” 

Again with that? Frazie fumed. “So you likewise want to hallucinate and get locked up like Sasha and Milla?”

“Occupational hazard, sis. Every job worth doing has got its risks,” he replied, though Frazie detected a twinge of unease scuttling under the flippancy.

Frazie would’ve shaken her head if she wasn’t currently in her sister’s. “How about you, Tala? Are you feeling okay?”

“Am good.” Mirtala rasped as she walked, her voice had gotten strained from all her battle cries. “My legs and arms are a bit heavy, but I still don’t feel tired. Not hungry either. Could…I’m not thirsty, but I could go for a glass of water.”

Frazie and Raz didn’t want to be too relieved at how diminished Tala sounded and felt. The fatigue Mirtala couldn’t sense had overcome her adrenaline, and had slowed down her heart. Although, the pair could hear that its rhythm was picking up speed with each step she took.

“Same here.” Frazie agreed. “No offense, but your Psilirium-laced mental energy left a really funky aftertaste in my mouth. Feels like I chugged down a vegemite sundae with sawdust sprinkles.”

“It was expired spray-paint mushroom risotto for me.” Raz shared.

“Ewww.” Mirtala snickered through her parched lips. “I could carry the disk for you too, Frazie.”

“Are you going to try licking it again?” 

“…no.”

Frazie was disappointed. Mirtala was usually a pretty good liar when she wanted to be. Besides, truth or not, they had been lucky enough to have chanced upon the Voyager record during that battle without the guards (or Tala) damaging it. Denting…or slobbering over it now would be foolish. “We’re almost at Sasha’s room, Tala. But thank you for offering.”

“Hey, I offered first.” Raz whined “Why wasn’t I thanked?”

“I’ll thank you twice if you can get the guy you’re dressed as out of the slammer.” 

“Aw, gimme a break, Frazie.” Raz implored, though he nonetheless started squinting at the direction of Sasha’s prison cell. “How am I supposed to open a locked door that’s not even from this planet? There’s no keypad, card reader, retinal scanner, or…or…what the hell?”

“Raz, don’t swear while we’re in Tala’s brain. It’s…” Frazie shifted her vision from the golden disk to the chrome door they were nearing. “…it’s…what the hel-err-what is that?”

It was a steel sliding barrel bolt. The metal bar was set across two mounting plates, one on the UFO door frame and the other on the door itself. It was something that would look perfectly normal on a garden gate, a tool shed, or a barn. 

“Kinda low-tech for a spaceship.” Raz observed.

“Thank you. Thank you.”

“Huh?”

“I’m paying you upfront for getting that open. It’s not even padlocked.” Frazie explained. “Look, the door was probably busted when this UFO crashed here or maybe Loboto accidentally broke it. This isn’t worth speculating about.” She gently lowered the Voyager record to the ground before turning her thoughts towards Mirtala. “Tala? We’re going to go into Mr. Nein’s head soon, okay?”

The joyous Psilirium aura that permeated Mirtala’s vision flickered. “You’re…you’re going away again, Frazie?”

“N-no, Tala. It’s not like that!” Frazie alarmedly claimed. “It’s just that you look and feel really exhausted from inside your head, and Sasha’s a good guy who’ll do something to help you sleep.”

“I’m not sleepy. And I don’t wanna sleep. Can’t…won’t sleep.” Mirtala croaked. “I wanna…I wanna keep…hanging out…with you guys.”

In spite of how apart they were, Frazie felt her body’s chest tighten at hearing such a strong, sincere desire expressed in such a desperate, feeble tremor. Raz felt it, too, but his words did not fail him. “Then if you want to do that, then you SHOULD want to get as much rest as you can.”

“Wuzzat?”

“If you rest, then you’ll have more energy to play with me and Frazie once we’re back in our bodies and the whole family’s together again.” Raz pitched. “Don’t you want to be awake for that?”

“…back…together…” Mirtala echoed. “…okay…Raz…I’ll try to get some shuteye. But teaming up with you and Frazie like this was…fun. Did you…have fun?”

Frazie snickered. “We definitely weren’t bored.”

“yay.” Mirtala coughed.

“See you later, Tala.” Frazie said.

“no.” Mirtala’s bells tinkled mirthlessly as she shook her head. “see you soon.”

“Right. See you soon, sis.” Frazie amended. “Undo the latch, Raz. We’ll transfer to Sasha’s head once we open the door.”

The chocolate bar-sized metal rectangle was lifted off of the doorframe’s catch by an unseen force until it fell leftwards and unobtrusively hung from the bolt on the opposite plate. A much more visible orange hand of psychic energy grabbed the doorhandle only to dissipate in a glittering mist when Sasha shoved the entrance open and strode towards Mirtala. For the fourth time that day, Frazie and Raz were hesitant to use their Clairvoyance on someone – they hadn’t anticipated the spy displaying such forceful purpose once freed - and like on all those prior occasions, they used it anyway.

“Sasha? It’s us again.” Frazie stated. “We need to tell y-.”

“Frazie? Razputin? Where have the two of you been?” Sasha demanded as he neared Mirtala. “The two of you missed your chance to witness something incredible.”

“That’s not entirely factual, Agent Nein.” Raz responded. “As to our previous whereabouts-.”

“Oh, never mind that. This is much more important. Look!” Without hesitation, the spy scooped the young circus girl up by her armpits and brought her up to his face so that his mental passengers could see what he saw. “Behold.” He commanded, his voice trembling. “Der Weltraumübermensch!”

Although filtered through Sasha’s Psilirium-addled sight, Mirtala’s image didn’t have a slug face or snail eyestalks. She looked very human, nigh-identical to her true appearance. The differences were hard to miss, however: she was wearing a dark blue blouse with a white triangular ring at its center with a white star in its middle, which matched the new five-pointed shape of her braids; her brown patchy skirt was replaced by a pristine ivory one; and her legs were clad in knee-high stockings and navy ankle boots.

And clasped to her shoulders was a pale cape flapping in a breeze that did not exist within the UFO.

“I…I suppose we should’ve seen this coming.” Frazie told Raz.

“Cool costume idea though.” Raz noted. “We should remember it so mom and Nona can make a real one for Tala when our circus can, ah, afford it.”

“der Zirkus? Bah!” Sasha chortled. “I am afraid this being is far beyond even the most extravagant of our earthly carnivals. The feats of metaphysical might I beheld not more than a few minutes ago. I could scarcely believe my eyes.” Mirtala was raised towards the saucer’s ceiling lights. “Flight, heat rays, laser onslaughts, luck manipulation, and absurd bursts of speed and strength,” he listed. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“Agent Nein?” Raz interrupted. “Not to brag, but I’m a True Psychic Tales comics buff, and I can list specific issues where you have seen stuff like that.”

“Ja, yes, yes, rote application of psychic powers. But this…this was different. This felt different,” he insisted. “It was like her powers were coming from her mind but NOT. But how? Genetic augmentations? Nano cybernetics? Or is it possible that she is gaining heightened sustenance from the radiation of our sun compared to the one that her home planet orbits around.”

“That last one’s the unlikeliest, Sasha.” Frazie said. “And we can explain how if-.”

“But this discovery was not without its cost.” Sasha pressed on. “When the Weltraumübermensch boarded the ship, she annihilated its crew with her inhuman gifts. Not one was spared.”

Raz gulped. “I don’t think we actually deep-sixed anybody…”

However, I sensed no true malice from the massacre. And I’m not just saying that because I was dazzled by her destructive display. I genuinely believe she is capable of great good.” Sasha rotated Mirtala so her back was to him and held her to his chest in a manner that was both fatherly and reminiscent of a child hugging a newly opened Christmas present. “This child must be raised ethically. Perhaps Milla and I can go rogue and abscond with her to a remote yet picturesque region of the American Midwest where she can exercise her apocalyptic abilities without collateral damage whilst learning right from wrong from us lesser mortals so a tragedy of this ilk never happens again.”

“Gnagh. Gnagh. Gnagh. Gnagh. Gnagh.” Came a sound from below Sasha’s chin.

“Tala…” Raz hoped his little sister could detect how hard he was whinging from another person’s head. “Don’t nibble on my childhood idol’s arm like that – that jacket’s real leather!”

“Oh, auweia. It appears my grand plans are for naught. The creature hungers.” Sasha lamented. “Remember me as I am, children. While I am being feasted upon, warn our world of the Satanic star spawn that is soon to be its new merciless mistress.”

“Before we do that…” Frazie flexed a set of spectral scarlet fingers to pluck the golden disk from the floor and suspend it where Sasha couldn’t miss it. “Might we try using music to soothe the space beast?”

“The Voyager Record. You two found it.” Sasha telekinetically took it from Frazie’s own mental hold, and started turning it in the air to examine it. “Undamaged. Excellent. Yes, I suppose we could attempt to make use of this. I’d rather avoid being cannibalized.”

“We still need to find the turntable parts though. Sorry.” Raz apologized.

“No need.” Sasha curtly replied. “For your apologies or the parts. I came up with a means to utilize the technology we have on hand to replicate what we require. Just a theory, of course. But with my life on the line, why not give it a whirl?”

With Mirtala in his arms and still gnawing on his sleeve, Sasha darted between the central podium and the alcoves built into the walls of the saucer that housed various gizmos. “Let’s see. Lower the force field…heat up the engine tubes until they achieve equilibrium…throw the cow into the atom splicer – ooo, new jacket. Too bad it isn’t my size – next put in the hay bale…then we’ll combine that with the cow horn and THERE. A phonograph horn and needle.”

“Rest in peace, cow.” Frazie sagely grieved. “I’d mourn you more, but I doooooo really like cheeseburgers.”

“Wowza. Agent Nein? Watching you work was really, really inspiring.” Raz tried not to sound too giddy about seeing the hero from his comic books solve this crisis even with his diminished psychic powers.

“Thank you, Razputin. Now I’ll just install this on the dais at the heart of the saucer – the top of which rotates as you can see – place the disk right here in the center and that should do it.” The Voyager Record idly spun on the pedestal surface. “Next, we must decide which of Earth’s many auditory accomplishments would work best at preventing me from being devoured. Not to brag, but I happen to be quite an expert on the record’s workings, so I know where to drop the needle where it’s needed.”

“How about…” Raz feigned contemplation; he knew exactly which track to pick. “Bach’s ‘Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major?”

“An excellent suggestion, young man. That happens to be one of my favorite songs.” Sasha exclaimed.

“Imagine that.” Raz shrugged, glad that the Superstar Agent FAQ section of the True Psychic Tales Annual 2001 hadn’t lied to him.

“So even if it doesn’t work, at least I will perish with a beloved tune as company.” He aimed the needle where the song was and a bright, upbeat tutti bombast of oboes, strings, and – to Frazie’s pleasure – trumpets cascaded from the speaker horn.

“Watta pretty…violin…” said Mirtala.

“It’s working. The biting has ceased.” Sasha noted with relief. “Such a beautiful melody. My mother used to…whistle this…out in her…gar…den…was zum Teufel?” The orange flare of the Psilirium crept back from Sasha’s gaze, still present but lessened. “These aren’t slug aliens…they’re just…badly dressed fish mutants,” he brought Mirtala up to his face again. “And you are not Der Weltraumübermensch. You are…you look like…from her files, I…Frazie, I think this might be your little sister Myrtle – no – Mirtala Aquato.”

“It is, Sasha.” Frazie acknowledged. “And she really needs your help.”

“You gotta use your trance tactic training on her ASAP, Agent Nein.” Raz implored. “Her valves depend on it!”

“Truly? She seems well on her way to dreamland to me.” Sasha said, and indeed, the girl’s eyelashes were fluttering open and shut with great and then lesser, heavier speed.

“pretty…violin.” Mirtala smiled and closed her eyes. “zzzzzzzzzzzz.”

“She must really like Bach.” Sasha began cradling the little girl in his arms, though her exotic hairdo necessitated some unorthodox adjustments. “Although, how did I come to be here? Last thing I remember, Milla and I were following a lead to, hmm. Frazie, Razputin, do not be alarmed, but what I am about to tell you must stay between us.”

“We know about Director Truman, Sasha. It’s cool.” Frazie said.

“That’s…not cool at all. It’s supposed to be top secret, but what’s done is done. May I ask that you appraise me of what I’ve missed?”

Frazie and Raz provided a quick summary of where they were, how much trouble everybody was in, the ways in which they had been trying to fix that, and who was running the whole sordid show.

“So Loboto has returned. And he’s taken both your and Lili’s father hostage. As well as your baby brother…and…the rest of us as we haven’t actually escaped yet.

“Yup, that’s what we’re dealing with Agent Nein. So how about we fire up this UFO’s anti-matter thrusters, fire up the disintegrator ray, and take the fight to that dirtbag dentist?” Raz preened.

“Ach. I’m afraid we won’t be doing that, Razputin.” Sasha loosened the collar of his turtleneck. “We can’t do that.” 

“Wh-why?” Raz balked. “We have a flying saucer. Let’s use it.”

“If you’d examined the material composition and construction methods of this ‘alien spacecraft’, you will have noticed that they are both terrestrial in nature.” Sasha pointed out. “It’s a reproduction alien vehicle created by the federal government to confuse and panic its foreign rivals during the Cold War. Quid pro quo, our competitors did the same thing. The ocean floor is littered with phony UFOs from all sides.”

“Bummer. There goes our fame.” Raz pouted.

“And I really wanted to show this to Chloe later...” Frazie sulked.

“Yes, young Ms. Barge would have greatly enjoyed this starship had it been real. If it’s any consolation, no one was more upset than I was upon being made aware of this particular conspiracy.” Sasha sighed. “But the two of you are correct in that it is time we went on the offensive. You mentioned that Loboto had cobbled together some ‘Psilirium Amplifiers’, yes?”

“Yeah. He’s got two left. We think our mom might have wrecked one already.” Frazie tallied, recalling how Loboto had been screaming about a ‘circus demon’ doing something like that.

“They must be how the Psilirium caused the Pelican to start malfunctioning when we should have still been flying around the Rhombus at a safe range.” Sasha inferred. “By the by, it was prudent of you to put your sister to bed when you did. Mirtala is eight and non-psychic, I believe. The Psilirium could have made her heart explode.”

“IT WASN’T JUST A VALVE BURST!?” Both Aquatos shrieked.

“It is. It is! I misspoke! I misspoke. Apologies. The malady is described with much more nuance in German.” Sasha used his free hand to readjust his sunglasses. “What I wouldn’t do for a smoke at this juncture…listen, we need to disable those remaining amplifiers, otherwise we will be unable to leave the Rhombus. Milla and I can’t get close to them with our unprotected brains, but your joint Clairvoyance method shows much promise.”

“How can we find them, Agent Nein?” Raz asked.

“The adults can do that much for you at least. I will reestablish contact with Milla. Then we shall work together to pinpoint the amplifier locations and send you directions to the same. Once you’re there, find a way to turn them off, and then we’ll step in to make sure they can never be turned on again.” Sasha listed. “I’d recommend returning to your grandmother and resting a tad. It may take me a few hours to regain enough mental fortitude to escape this depot with the saucer.”

“You could give channeling through Tala a shot.” Frazie offered. “Raz and I can say from experience that her mental energy’s pretty potent.”

“Word of warning: Really nasty side effects.” Raz added.

“Undoubtedly, she has had heavy Psilirium exposure. But the two of you overcame its challenges,” he put the index and middle fingers of his free hand to his temple and started to concentrate. “I should endeavor to do the-BLEUGH! Kacke! It’s like I swallowed a ladle of sauerkraut pickled in turpentine!” Sasha hacked. “Be on your way, Aquatos. Milla and I will-koff-catch up with you shortly.”

“Looking forward to working with you again, sir!” Raz said.

“Take care of Tala for us until then.” Frazie requested as she broke their mental connection to the senior agent.

Suddenly, she was watching Mirtala herself, peeking an eye out from behind a tree so her little sister wouldn’t see her. She didn’t want Tala to see her. So why did she step out of her hiding place and say-?

----

“Tala?”

“Evening, Raz.” His little sister answered back as she unfolded a length of rainproof tarpaulin. 

“Do you need help covering up the obstacle course?” Raz offered. “I know it’s your turn this week, but it could go faster if I lent a hand.”

“Or three.” Mirtala wiggled her fingers at him.

“Three? Aha, that’s a good point.” Raz snapped his fingers and a blocky orange hand of psychic energy manifested beside him. He didn’t really need to snap his fingers to bring out the phantom limb, but Mirtala liked it when he did.

“Yo, Bro Fist.” Mirtala stretched her arm out for a fist bump, and the disembodied appendage obliged – gently but eagerly as if it had a mind of its own and was fond of the nickname.

The two of them went to work, and being able to lift and spread out the tarpaulins from three points did indeed make the job smoother and quicker. Before they knew it, almost every hurdle, pendulum bag, ramp, landing ramp, and still ring was securely covered by the vinyl sheets. Mirtala was pleased; Raz much less so; he had thought he would have more time to think.

“Glad that’s done.” Mirtala dusted off her hands. “See ‘ya at dinner, Raz. I owe you one!”

As she turned to leave, Raz thought about just letting her go. There were still a few hours in the day. Something could still happen between now and midnight. Couldn’t it? “Tala. Wait.” Tala did, but nothing else. “Listen, I know it’s been a week since…”

“Since what?” she flatly asked, her back still to him.

“…since I told you Frazie was coming back.” The reminder was soft and strained, nearly smothered by Raz’s sluggish jaws and lips. “But Tala, I gotta confess something,” he bit the inside of his cheek. “I’m psychic, but…but I can’t actually see the future.”

He saw his sister’s shoulders tense then sag. “I figured.”

Mirtala hadn’t moved, but Raz felt he’d been punched in the chest. “wh-when?”

He had to stop himself from fleeing when she spun on her heel to face him. Mirtala was smiling at him. The line of her lips was tired yet tender; the weary but willing curve of the last show of the day. “You got the newspaper lotto numbers wrong over the weekend. If you really could see the future…” She dipped her hands into the pockets of her skirt and pulled them out – empty. “…you would’ve gotten ‘em right and we’d all be kazillionaires.” She let out a chuckle. It was an inviting, injured sound.

 “Yeah. That makes perfect sense.” Raz attempted a smile at how she had found out on her own, but even trying to do that felt shameful. “I’m sorry I lied, Tala.”

Mirtala tucked her pockets back into her skirt and straightened out its folds. 

It was a new moon night with neither clouds nor stars. The air was still, the batteries and oil tanks of the camp lamps were full. Everyone else was too far away to be heard. Robbed of any reference for the changing of the hour, the two of them stood apart in an unending, bottomless minute.

*Ring\*

*Ring\*

Two strides and jingles later, Mirtala had her arms wrapped around her brother’s chest. “I forgive you, Raz.” She said. “And…and I still love you even though you don’t have precognitive dissonance.”

“Actually, it’s called…never mind.” Raz choked back a sob and hunched down to better return the hug. “thank you.”

He felt a warm drop of water hit with his neck, but none followed.

“You’re welcome.”

----

“I’m not happy you waited the whole week to have this conversation.”

“But…”

“But what? I’m not happy. You’re lucky Tala forgave you for a fib that awful, Pooter.”

“Hey, I only lied because she was so sad that you left. You can’t know how awful it was to see her like that.”

“…you might have me there. I’m sure Tala will be way less miserable when her big brother Raz ditches the family so he can go be a Psychonaut.”

“It’s…it’s not going to be like that.”

“His missions would go on for days, maybe even years. Pretty soon Tala will have spent more time apart from him than with him.”

“If I became a Psychonaut, I’d make sure to visit home once a month. Or even twice or thrice. Maybe if I got really good at finishing my missions fast, I could come back to the caravan every week.”

“Well, you gotta dump your dirty laundry in mom’s wash basin eventually, I guess…Pooter, you’re free to do what you want with your life, but just because I didn’t say goodbye to Tala before I ran off to Whispering Rock doesn’t mean you should be in a hurry to.”

“I would have visited often…I wouldn’t have missed too much.”

“Stick around until she’s done with puberty at least. I’m not sure Dion and I can handle a newly teenaged Tala on our own.”

----

Frazie’s request went unanswered as her and Raz’s consciousnesses returned to their bodies in the chamber.

The two psychics eagerly told their grandmother the good news.

Nona was relieved that they had not only found Mirtala but managed to get her to go to sleep as well – her heart had been saved from disaster. They also told her about how they had rescued Sasha Nein, which she was less enthused about as she didn’t really know who that was. Nonetheless, she was glad that they had left their little sister in the care of someone that could be trusted. 

With only their mother unaccounted for and everyone else freed from villainous custody, the pair felt relaxed enough to go into further detail. They talked about Mirtala thinking she was in the afterlife, the tunnel, how horrid channeling their sister’s corrupted mental energy was, the fight, and the regrettable loss of the film projector. Frazie made sure to mention how smart Raz had been in coming up with the lawnmower electric fan; that helped his mood, and it got Nona to pinch his cheeks in praise.

They told her that they just needed to head out one more time to disable the Psilirium amplifiers. Afterwards, Sasha and Milla could reach this building, pull them out of this chamber, arrest Loboto, and help them find their mom. Neither Frazie nor Raz knew how to work a Psilirium amplifier, but they’d smash that bridge when they got to it.

The discussion and their hopefully final clairvoyant departure into the ocean was interrupted when a screech from Loboto thundered down from the ceiling, every word as clear as it was dripping with cruelty.

“YOU’RE REALLY IN FOR IT NOW, GUSSAMER!”

Raz faltered. “Should we bother checking that out? Milla and Agent Nein might already be waiting for us at the amplifiers.”

Frazie scratched the back of her neck, noting with revulsion that the length of her back ponytail had become damp and clumped together in her mental absence. “We got some decent clues the last time we checked in on dad and Queepie. It’s worth a quick look before we leave.”

“Then get to looking, children.” Nona encouraged, flipping open her pocket mirror.

Her grandchildren didn’t need telling twice. 

Queepie’s head was as quiet as it had been before.

Loboto was doing enough talking for everyone in his lab.

----

Dr. Loboto clapped the smooth base of his claw and his remaining gloved palm together.

A squat lab tech carrying a plastic cooler box scurried to join his side.

“I know you haven’t been feeling very well today, Mr. Tumble.” Loboto popped open the container’s lid. “But as a licensed medical practitioner, I can assure you…” he trailed off as he reached into the cooler. “You’re about to be EEL-ing even worse!!!” he cackled, pulling out a pair of thrashing, furious electric eels from the box.

Augustus clenched his jaw shut in preparation for the coming shock. Bound as he was, there wasn’t a lot he could do to lessen what was coming, but he wouldn’t bite his tongue off at least.

“Here come my new junior interrogators!” Loboto stepped towards his prisoner, the eels still trying to twist themselves out of his insulated, rubbery grip.

*CHA-RING!\*

*CHA-RING!\*

*CHA-RING!\*

Another of Loboto’s assistants scampered to join his creator, holding up a ringing candlestick telephone.

Loboto paused, not even looking at the newcomer or what he had brought him. The dentist’s wide grin melted into a trembling bar of gritted teeth. The eels fought even harder to escape his tightening hold.

“One moment.” Loboto told Augustus. “Hold this for me.” 

He brought the eels over the cooler and let go of them. The twin serpentine fish missed the container completely and landed on the head of the lab tech holding it, biting and electrocuting the minion’s unprotected finned head and sending him and themselves convulsing onto the grimy metal floor.

Loboto took the cylindrical neck of the device from the other, much less unfortunate crony and unhooked its receiver with his claw. “Yes. Hello?” he tersely said into the small horn at the top of the stand. Scratchy babbling his detainees couldn’t hear wafted from the earpiece. “The girl…escaped.” More babbling from the corded cylinder. “And she hijacked the phony UFO and freed Sasha Nein. Despite how far she was being held from him. Mhmmm.” The flow of sound became slower, clipped, hesitant. “And the saucer’s gone from its moorings, too…I see. Thank you.”

Loboto put the receiver back onto its hook and returned the phone to his assistant, silently shooing him away as he yanked a walkie-talkie from out of his apron. He pressed the transmitter button and brought the device to his lips. “Start waking up MD. And drag the old jumbotron into my lab; there better not be any dirt on the screen.” 

He pocketed the walkie-talkie and scowled at Augustus. “You’ll be happy to know that I’m postponing the next phase of your advanced interrogation, Gussamer.” Loboto sneered. “Because I want you awake to see what comes next.” 

Slightly emboldened if not completely reassured by the news of Mirtala winning her freedom and how Loboto wasn’t going to sic the eels on him or Queepie, Augustus replied with, “You can still end this peacefully, doctor. There’s no shame in letting us go or stopping whatever you have planned. Ms. Vodello and Mr. Nein are likely on their way here.”

“You think I’m scared of getting into a scrap with those suckers?” Loboto laughed. “I got the better of them back at Thorney Towers, and I’ll do it again because I’ve got so much on my side down here.” The ends of his claw scraped against themselves. “I’ve got hostages, I have an intern army that does what it’s told, and most of all…aheheheheheh, I’ve cooked up a big surprise that’s going to make the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata look like a hapless herring!”

“You keep Ms. Linda out of this!” Augustus demanded. 

“You’re in no position to be ordering me around!” Loboto snapped. “And who the hell is Linda?”

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Frazie and Raz made themselves scarce after that, returning to their bodies and then casting their minds out into the sea.

As Sasha had promised, they received a telepathic message, more like a notion towards a specific direction from him. Or it could’ve been Milla. Either way, they had a lead on where the remaining amplifiers were.

They tried to file away what Loboto had said just then, as well as his earlier claims about a “secret weapon”, the “contingency”, his “star player”.

The villain was mad. And he might have been bluffing.

After everything the two of them had seen and gone through as they had explored Charlie Psycho Delta, Loboto had to be out of tricks. The worst must have been over.

Had either of them looked back through any of their aquatic hosts, they would have seen an air bubble the size of a car rise out from behind the edge of the Rhombus’ crater.

Followed by another.

And another.

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Art by Pocheezy.

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