▷ The Spider Cliff Mysteries
▷ Story 1: Bridging the Gap
▷ Chapter 13: Delivered on a platter
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barlow: I'll wait until the Sheriff is busy, take his key, unlock the cage, and use the cannon to blast myself out of town! Perfect!barlow: I don't even need to worry about who cut down the bridge. I can leave that waitress to deal with it!
barlow: Very clever, Barlow.
crystal: That little turd! How dare he abandon me like that?! He is SO dead...
crystal: Oooh... wait. This solves my problem of finding a way out of here. I just need to get here before he does.
crystal: Now if only I can find an easy way to destroy the town...
turnip: Hello?
turnip: Is someone there?
turnip: Oh, it's the waitress girl.
crystal: What did you hear?!
turnip: Hear? I hear the echoes of miles and miles of metal ducts. It's kind of creeping me out.
crystal: What are you doing in there?
turnip: I told you earlier that I got the Sheriff's precious map to all of his precious little mammal traps. I'm deactivating them all, and the last one in somewhere in these vents... I think...
crystal: Have you seen anyone else down here?
turnip: Way down here? No one EVER comes down here. No good reason to.
crystal: Are you having trouble getting out?
turnip: No, no... Well... I've been finding this room a lot.
turnip: I recognize it from that box over there. Don't go near it, by the way.
crystal: Why would there be a trap in the ducts?
turnip: Not too sure. We paper mammals usually stick to the surface... we rarely even leave the marsh. But I'm determined to get every last trap on this map.
crystal: What's so dangerous about that box?
crystal: It's just a- WHOA!
turnip: Yeah, it's been doing that a lot. I think the timer's busted.
crystal: This is what I saw... This is what cut down the bridge!
crystal: Why would someone come into this room?
turnip: The only reason someone would come in here would be to destroy the town.
crystal: To destroy... wait... Explain that to me.
turnip: It's in that caged room down there... It's the release lever for the restraining bar. The restraining bar is what holds the town to the steep side of the cliff. You pull that lever, and in five minutes, goodbye Spider Cliff.
crystal: It's just that easy?
turnip: You need the key, of course. The Sheriff's got that.
crystal: I don't see anything on it that indicated who made it or who put it here.
crystal: I guess it means anyone could have been responsible for destroying the bridge.
crystal: Well, I'll let you get back to the search. Good luck.
turnip: Farewell. I wish you luck with whatever you're doing down here.
crystal: Hehe... this almost makes things too easy!
crystal: I just need to get the key, pull the lever, and blast myself out of this place. Piece of cake!
crystal: Why would someone build a town with a flaw like that? Just pull a lever and it's gone?!
turnip: I'm no expert in human behavior, but I think it wasn't meant to be a permanent solution. I think it saved the town during an emergency long ago, and the people have just ignored the problem.