Scooter 4.2 - A New Kind of Normal

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Welcome back to another day, another chapter of the Scooters. Things take a Somewhat Interesting turn this time around, so let's see just what happens, shall we?

 

Before we proceed, let me check in on my lovely spares! Because this time I actually have spares to check on lol.

Willow and Simon tied the knot in Windenburg's lovely Chalet Gardens. But of course. Where else? I think Willow looks really cute. Simon exists. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Munch! Was gonna say something about her name now being Willow Munch but her old name was Willow Scooter so lol

Meanwhile, in Willow Creek, we've got Xander and his shotgun boyfriend Emmitt. They're not bad, I guess. Emmitt is actually cute.

I'm sure Emmitt's brother (whose name is fucking Everett LOL EA what the hell?! Emmitt and Everett...) doesn't think all the woohoo is cute. Yes, they live with his brother in the next room, so. Loving that for them.

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Meanwhile, back in Sulani, we return to our heir, Landon, lying down in water with all his clothes on.

Landon: I'm being eco-conscious. I'm washing me AND my clothes.

Landon: What's the matter, T-Katz?

Toro: Urrrrhgghh, I think the salad I ate had already gone bad before I eat it.

Landon: Really loving the lack of refrigeration, huh?

Toro: Shhhhhhh. Shhhh.

{A/N: That table is from Spooky Stuff. It was the only time. The only. Time. I used anything from goddamn fuckin Spooky Stuff.}

Sometimes, the boys collect rainwater to use in their Outdoor Retreat-ass shower. The experience is... lukewarm in every sense of the word.

Landon: I feel like undercooked chicken. This is what that feels like.

And also, they use the collected rainwater to wash their clothes.

Landon: This doesn't feel ANY cleaner. Did the internet lie to me? Was I bamboozled?

Doing laundry outdoors is a pain in my ass YOU GUUYYYSSSSS. IT RAINS LIKE EVERY SINGLE DAYYYYY! We get it you're a tropical country!!!

Landon, from inside: That's fine. I understand. This is okay.

Toro: I love that you're fishing sustainably, Lando.

Landon: Sustainably? ...oh, yeah, totally.

Toro: Do you throw back what you don't wanna eat?

Landon: Yeah dude, totally no need to keep what I'm not gonna eat.

Toro: That's awesome, Lando. You're coming around!

Landon: (chuckles) Yeah, living sustainably. (Mutters) And definitely not lazily.

I guess Landon had a guitar in his inventory, so he bust it out and started learning how to play it.

Landon: (strumming, humming) I'm a savage...classy, bougie, ratchet

That volcano got me fucked up with the danger potential. But I guess the boys take it to mean...warmth and closeness...?

Anyway HUGS UWU

So uhhhhhhh this had me fucked up but uh, turns out Toro already had a girlfriend. An woman named Victoria Adkins. At first I was gonna just delete it and let it go but then I realised...hey. Plot potential.

Landon: (Kill Bill sirens)

Toro: Babe, meet my roommate, Landon. He's helping me out with the conservation thing!

Victoria Adkins: Uhh, okay...where...are they?

Toro: I... Uh... Lando? Landon? Where'd you go?

Victoria: Come on, Toro. Let's get out of this beach and go somewhere else. I wanna go eat!

Landon stuck around at the beach to get advice from random chess players.

Landon: Hey, neighbours. Help me describe a feeling. My friend has a girlfriend I didn't know about and it has me feeling fucked up for some reason. Like, possessively. What is that?

Guy 1: Sounds like FOMO. Your friend is on the dating market and you're not. Easy fix: find a girlfriend.

Guy 2: I think you're making too many assumptions. To me, it sounds like envy. Is your friend's girlfriend super hot?

Landon: ...she's okay. I guess.

Guy 2: Huh. Methinks you are jealous, but of the girlfriend.

Guy 1: Ooooh, plot twist.

Landon: (sigh) Well, these suck, but I will take these into consideration. Thanks, randos.

I exercised Landon's ability to summon island elemental spirits one night. Definitely caught Toro off-guard.

Toro: Wah! Who the hell are you?

Feminine Spirit: I...am Liliʻuokamaka. I was a priestess. I have been here for aeons upon aeons. This...is Matthew. He was in tech support at Best Buy. He's new.

Masculine Spirit: Sup, dude.

Landon: Okay, let me try again. Wise spirit! What is it called when you feel miffed that your best friend hid having a girlfriend from you, but you can't justify the negative feeling? What is that?

Masculine Spirit: Man, I literally think you're just jealous that someone got to your friend--who you are ob-vi-ous-ly in love with--first. You should talk it out with them to clear the air.

Landon: Talk it out??? Talk it--jfdusdjfkdjwaijodflskfsdf

Choose your fighter: Landon doing the wash in the rain...

...or Toro spraying fire extinguisher onto a bubbling sulphur patch.

Hey, it looks like Toro's cleanup of Mua Pelʻam is paying off!! We got blue algae now, you guuuuyyyysss!

Toro: Who the man? Yeah. Me. Me the man.

I want you guys to know that it only JUST dawned on me to make Landon a professional fisher so that he could make some money doing what he already does.

Landon: This outfit? Stylin. Ladies and gentlemen, avert your lustful gaze.

Hey, Toro finally lost his weird-ass tan.

Toro: I guess I'm gonna be at-max, barely-medium brown for the rest of my life.

We finally caught a litterer in action! Toro went over to swiftly reprimand him.

Toro: Hey, dude! Pick your shit back up!

Litterer: What are you gonna do? Tell my dad?

Toro: I'll fuck your dad up and your whole dumb-dumb family while I'm at it. Don't you EVER test me. Pick. Your. Shit. BACK. UP!

Litterer: Jeez dude, sure, relax.

I think there's meant to be something hashtag #deep about this image.

Landon: (strumming, singing) I like my girls just like I like my money, green...little jealous...hmm hmm hmm

Sulani got that WAP:

W - Wet
A - Ass
P - Precipitation patterns

Y'know what, I love Toro. I've always loved Toro. He's a good boy. He's just doing his best even if he is kinda dumb.

Who wants to gamble that swimming through the Forbidden Water will kill Landon immediately?

Landon: ME. LET'S GO.

Toro: ...Lando?

Landon: ...

Toro: Lando? Earth to Lando.

Landon: Huh? Yeah, what's up?

Toro: It's your move, man. Get back in the game.

Landon: Oh, sorry. I'm just distracted.
 

Toro: Anything on your mind?

Landon: I...nothing. No, uh.... I don't know if this low-key off-the-grid living's really for me...

Toro: ...Aw... I'm sorry to hear it...but...what's changed your mind?

Landon: I just don't think it's how I wanna live.

Toro: No, Lando, I know you. I know you keep shit to yourself sometimes. What's really wrong?

Landon: Honestly, T-Katz, nothing. Just been thinking. That's really it.

Toro: Okay...well...I'll....I'll be sad to see you go...

Landon: I know, man. But you've got other commitments. So...you should give those your attention.

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Yikes. Yikes. But just how yikes things are about to get is still up in the air. So. We'll see you next time, everyone!