A Walker and a Ranger, hold the Texas
As you sneak through the Mer-kin outpost, you see a bizarre set of footprints in the sand. No, they're not bizarre because sometimes there are one set, and sometimes there are two, and you don't feel particularly enlightened looking at them.
No, what's bizarre is there are normal Sea Monkee footprints, but intermixed with them are a pairs of circular impressions, and behind each pair is a pair of hemi-spherical impressions. You stare at them, gears spinning furiously in your brain. It's a good thing you're underwater, or smoke would be pouring out of your ears.
"Work, brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip," you mutter. "Let's see -- a halfling lay here. His hands were tied. No, that's not it."
You bend down for a closer look, and see a scrap of paper stuck in one of the footprints. You pick it up and see that it has a cryptic message scribbled on it in spidery, old-lady handwriting. You look at the footprints again, and realization strikes with the force of a hippo with a gland problem. Those prints could only have been made by a Sea Monkee using a walker with tennis balls on the two back feet! Grandma Sea Monkee must be around here somewhere!
You follow the tracks in between a couple of tents, but they abruptly stop, erased by a Mer-kin's tail. Those contrary bastards.
 | You acquire an item: Grandma's Note |
Occurs at The Mer-Kin Outpost.
References
- The name is a reference to Walker Texas Ranger.
- The mention of two sets of footprints refers to the Christian allegorical poem "Footprints."
- "Shut up, brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!" is line uttered by Homer Simpson in The Simpsons episode "Boy-Scoutz n the Hood."
- "Let's see -- a halfling lay here. His hands were tied. No, that's not it." is a line uttered by Aragorn in The Two Towers, the second book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien.
