Episode 10: Part 2

<Ma & Zell: Mother/Son, Currently in Last Place>
     Zell and Ma found the shrine and pulled out the roadblock clue to read it a second time.
     "Constantly puzzled," Zell read. He started stroking his chin. "I suppose I'm more constantly puzzled, but you're better at puzzles. Is it a trick?"
     "I don't think so, Zelly," Ma said. "I'll do it. I can do puzzles."
     Ma headed inside to join Yenke in doing slide puzzles. All he was doing was copying the pattern Reina had on her puzzle. He had put all the yellows in order, but was trying to figure out why that was not enough to open his sarcophagus.
     "What wrong?" Yenke said. The camera zoomed in on his blank spot, which was not lined up with the circle and dot in the lower-right corner. He started sliding random pieces around until it finally popped open the yellow sarcophagus. Inside he found a clue and a map. He pulled it out and started shouting to Biran and running out to get him. "Biran! Biran! Yenke did it!"

-------------------------{Yenke: Interview}-------------------------

     Yenke was positioned near the shrine for an interview. "Yenke did notice circle, but did not understand it. Did not realize it need to be seen. But Yenke remember see it on sign. Memorized whole sign. But Yenke bad at puzzles. When Yenke do slide puzzles before, Yenke just break and make pieces fall out. Then put them back where they go. But not possible with shrine! Shrine big and made of stone. Yenke only try it a little. So Yenke just copy pink hair. It make Yenke realize circle important. But Yenke lucky! Same solution for pink hair was solution for Yenke!"

-------------------------{End Interview}-------------------------

<Biran & Yenke: Comrades, Currently in 3rd Place>
     Yenke opened his clue and read it to Biran. "Make way inside Shelter to Sleeping Quarters."
     Biran opened the map and the Ronso started searching for the sleeping quarters. They slowly turned the pages and pointed, then shook their heads and turned another page. Goofy music was added to the background of their footage before they finally found the sleeping quarters on the map and headed to the elevator.

<Reina & Faris: Sisters, Currently in 2nd Place>
     Reina and Faris made their way through the strange, futuristic basement. Everything was metal except the floors, and the constant gray color made their whole environment very bland. Even the floor was a tile with a grayish-brown color. The doors were labeled, though most were labeled with numbers that meant nothing to the racers. They walked along what can best be described as a hallway, since all the rooms of the floor intersected there. Beneath the metal paths that connected the doors to each other was a murky water. Faris consulted the map often, prompting Reina to, at times, grab her arm and redirect her so she wouldn't fall in the water.
     They found what Faris claimed was the sleeping quarters and headed inside. The room was full of bland, white-sheeted bunk beds. Each bunk had a magazine on it. Sure enough, there was a clue box in the room.
     Faris grabbed the clue and ripped it open. "Detour: Decipher Code or Discover Code."

<Announcer Gippal>
     "A detour is a choice between two tasks, each with its own pros and cons. In Decipher Code, teams must try to hack a computer by discovering the password. The computer has been infected with the anti-Cloud virus and has a special password protecting it. Among the twelve, monthly, magazine issues in the sleeping quarters is an article about the Cloud Anti-virus. They must find this article to decipher the password in the laboratory one floor below in B2. The password, "FINALFANTASY" is scrolling in the background, but they must re-write the code in a special way in order to gain access. Once on the computer, they will be given a four-digit code to open a box outside the parking garage. The task is not physical, but it requires not only searching for an article in several magazines, but also understanding the process to get the new password. But teams with a good eye for searching and mind for ciphers, could finish quickly.
     "In Discover Code, teams must get to floor B3 by sliding through a garbage chute and, you guessed it, dig through trash. Among the trash will be four numbers, not all of which are as simple as a piece of paper with a number. Teams must find these four numbers and put them into the box outside the parking garage. The order of the numbers is important, so teams will also have to find the correct permutation before they gain access to their next clue. The task is only a little bit physical, but largely luck-based. A lucky team could finish very quickly, while an unlucky team could take a very long time."

<Reina & Faris: Sisters, Currently in 2nd Place>
     "No garbage please," Reina pleaded with Faris.
     "Aye. But computers? Gyar," Faris sighed.
     The girls started searching the different magazines on each of the beds. The magazine, called Aeris, was not a terribly thick magazine, but it did not have an index nor table of contents, plus the articles did not always start on their own page. Reina picked up the November issue, while Faris took the March issue.

     Ma slid the puzzle pieces around and created the blue line at the top, which opened the blue sarcophagus. She checked inside, only to find nothing. She could hear Zell outside as he loudly paced back and forth. She looked at Reina and Yenke's puzzles with the completed yellow puzzle and decided to try to create the red puzzle. She ran back to the sign where Zell was pacing to check it. He was very excited when she ran back, but his excitement quickly faded when he saw her checking the sign a second time.
     "No go, I guess," Zell whined.
     "Sorry, Zelly. But I think I've narrowed it down. The clue says the winning puzzle is random, so I'm not doing the puzzle that two people have already done. Just because of the odds."
     "Good idea, Ma!" Zell seemed to be in higher spirits by his mom's planning. He yelled several words of encouragement to her as she headed back into the shrine.

     "Nothing!" Reina said.
     "Same 'ere," Faris replied.
     Both girls put their magazines back on the bed where they'd found them.and moved onto their next magazines. Reina picked up the May issue, while Faris picked up the April.

     Biran and Yenke ran through the hallway and into the sleeping quarters and found the clue box.
     Biran took the clue and read it. "Detour: Decider Code or Discover Code."
     "Uhh, decider?" Faris asked, looking up from her magazine. "Methinks it be 'decipher.'"
     "Whatever whatever!" Biran shouted. He punched Yenke in the arm. "That for being dumb!"
     "Rubber and glue, Biran! Rubber and glue!" Yenke shouted. "Pick detour already!"
     "What you doing?" Biran asked Faris.
     "Decipher Code," she replied.
     "It involve...reading? Biran thinks the other one!"
     "Ronso play in trash!" Yenke said.
     Biran and Yenke headed out of the sleeping quarters and found the Sterilization Room fairly easily. It was just north of the sleeping quarters. There was a large garbage chute on the wall with a red-and-yellow arrow pointing down into it.
     "Cannonball!" Biran shouted.
     "Cannonball! Cannonball!" Yenke echoed.
     Biran slid into the chute and wrapped one arm around his knees and held himself in place with the other. "Yenke need to give Biran a few horn-seconds before going in. Otherwise, Yenke might put Ronso butt in Biran's horn!"
     "Yenke agrees. Will count."
     Biran released his grip on the wall and slid down the chute. His screams could be heard slowly dissipating as he slid down.
     "One-horn, two-horn, three-horn," Yenke counted all the way up to "ten-horn." He positioned himself in the chute and slid down to join Biran. He slid down a slide that took a couple bends to ensure the racers weren't outright falling two stories. He would've slid very smoothly because of his hairy body, but his horn scraped the top the whole way. There was a gash just to the left of where Yenke's horn was grinding up because of Biran before him. He finally fell out of the chute and landed on an old tire beside Biran, who was waiting anxiously.
     "Hurry, lazy Ronso!" Biran shouted. He and Yenke quickly started searching the large piles of garbage for the numbers.

<Ma & Zell: Mother/Son, Currently in Last Place>
     "There!" Ma said, sliding the final block away from the circle with a dot. Once it was unveiled, the red sarcophagus clicked open. Ma reached in and found a clue and map. "YESSS! I GOT IT, ZELLY!"
     "OH YEAAAAH!" Zell raced into the shrine area to read through the clue with Ma.
     "Make your way inside the Shelter to the Sleeping Quarters."
     "Let's DO it!" Zell shouted. He and Ma raced for the observation area and found the elevator.

     "Found it!" Reina shouted. She held up the September issue of Aeris and called Faris over to read it over. Both read the section about the Cloud Anti-virus and the further they got, the more confused their faces were.
     "So....yeh alphabetize the letters," Faris said slowly, "then...say how many of each letter there were?"
     "Unless it only appears once," Reina added. "Well, let's try it, I suppose."
     Faris pulled out the map and located the laboratory with the computer in it. It was on floor B2. Reina and Faris grabbed their things and put the magazine back on the bed, since they were told not to remove the magazines from the sleeping quarters.

     Yenke rummaged through the trash pile and threw tons of it off the top of his pile and onto Biran's pile. Biran shouted at him, but stopped shouting when Yenke pulled out what looked like a T-square, only it was in the shape of a 4.
     "That must be one!" Biran said. "It look like a four!"
     "Yenke will remember this!" Yenke replied. He tossed the 4 aside and picked a new area to search.
     "Maybe this a one?" Biran said, pulling out a rolled up newspaper.
     "If that true, then there many ones." Yenke pointed to several objects that were a simple line that could be interpreted as a 1. "Yenke think if there a one, it will have stupid bottom line and limp-horn on top. To make it look like fancy one."
     "Biran agrees. Keep looking, Yenke! No time for talk!"

     Reina and Faris stepped into the messy laboratory and found one of the four computers set up for the teams. Both looked at the computers as if it were the first time they had ever seen them. It may very well have been their first time. Reina poked at one of the keys, which turned the screen on. There was a display of all the numbers and letters in numerical and alphabetical order. It was on a 13x3 grid with numbers in the top row, accompanied also by a backspace, clear, and space key. The other two rows were the alphabet. Whenever Reina pushed a key on the keyboard, the corresponding letter or number on the screen made a brief indent to indicate that it had been pressed.
     Above the illustrated keyboard was a bar at the top that read "! Please enter password." There was a cute, green worm crawling on this bar. In the background were the words FINALFANTASY over and over, scrolling slowly to the left.
     "So what's the password?" Reina asked. "We know how to scramble it --well, sort of-- but...what is it?"
     "Only word I be seein' be the words in the back," Faris said. "Final fantasy."
     "Okay, so we rearrange the letters and say how many there are? Gosh, so complicated!"

<Ma & Zell: Mother/Son, Currently in Last Place>
     Ma and Zell found the sleeping quarters and pulled out their next clue.
     "Detour: Decipher Code or Discover Code?" Ma asked.
     "I know which one I'd pick," Zell said, "but I don't think you want to play in trash. So we'll try the decipher one."
     "Thanks, Zelly," Ma said.
     After reading the details, they started looking through the magazines. Zell picked the May issue, while Ma picked September.

     "Work work work. Work work work." Yenke paced around in the trash, kicking things over with his feet. The Ronso were struggling to find anything that could resemble numbers. "Yenke has found one. But Biran? Noooo."
     "Yenke should whine less!" Biran shouted. He, too, was becoming discouraged by the lack of items. "Maybe there just a lot of ones. Maybe code is 4111."
     "Maybe. But Yenke thinks not."
     "Neither does Biran."

     "Found it!" Ma shouted happily.
     "No WAY!" Zell jumped to his feet and tossed his magazine back on the bed.
     "I thought it might be this one. I saw the pages kind of creased open like somebody has already read it."
     "You're a genius, Ma!"
     Ma and Zell read about the Cloud Anti-virus and both had strange looks on their faces, but finally Zell at least pretended to understand what was going on. They put down the magazine and headed to B2 to find the laboratory.

     Reina and Faris were smiling widely as they inserted the code into the computer. After every button they pressed, Reina would giggle.
     "So coooool!" she said. "We press a button and the button on the screen is pressed! And that worm is adorable."
     "We do magic and yer impressed with this box," Faris muttered with a smile.
     Reina watched the cute worm inch across the top of the screen while Faris typed in the rest of the code. Suddenly a "password failed" box appeared. "Oh no."
     "We must er put somethin' in wrong," Faris said. She started reading through the password they'd written down on a piece of paper when Ma and Zell walked into the lab.
     "Hey, guys!" Reina said with a wave.
     "Hey! Good to see ya!" Zell waved back. "And glad to see you're still here. We might still be in this!"
     "Did Yenke ever finish the roadblock? I'm kinda worried for him."
     "Oh don't worry about him," Ma said. "His solution was the same as yours, so he just copied."
     "Oh. I guess I should've covered that. . . ."
     Zell took a seat in front of one of the computers and pushed a button to wake up the computer. He saw the words scrolling in the background and pointed them out to Ma.
     "I guess we just have to unscramble that," Ma said. She pulled out her notebook and started writing down letters. She started by writing "A3" to mean that there were three A's.
     "Got it!" Faris shouted. She pointed out the four-digit code that appeared on the screen to Reina and wrote the code down. "Let's try 'er out."
     "Right." Reina turned her attention to the Dinchts. "Good luck, guys!"
     "Same to you!" Zell waved to them. When they left the room, he turned his attention back to the code Ma was deciphering. She wrote down "A3F2ILN2STY" on her paper.
     "Try that," she told Zell.
     He typed the code into the program and the screen changed to output four numbers: 5462. Ma wrote the numbers down and the two left the room...after a quick high-five, of course.

     Reina and Faris reached the parking garage entrance and found the four boxes on the ground. There was a small number pad on the top with the digits 0-9. Reina keyed in 5462 and the box clicked open. Reina reached inside and pulled out a clue and a key.
     Faris took the clue and read it aloud. "Drive yerselves 50 miles ter the motel in Dryfield."

<Announcer Gippal>
     "Teams must now enter the parking garage and find the pickup truck that their key goes to. There are only four trucks, so it shouldn't take long. Then, they must drive themselves 50 miles on the only highway around to the motel in Dryfield and find their next clue box outside the lobby."

<Reina & Faris: Sisters, Currently in 2nd Place>
     The girls headed inside the large, underground parking garage. In the distance there was light shining in through the exit. It nicely illuminated the four pickup trucks in the garage. All the trucks seemed fairly rundown, and it was almost comical to see a nice parking garage like this one being only occupied by four crappy trucks.
     Reina handed the key to Faris, who got into the first truck and tried to start it. The truck didn't respond, so they tried a second, then a third, which finally fired up.
     "This should be interestin'," Faris said. "First time ever drivin' one of these."
     Reina fastened her seatbelt tightly and held onto the seat nervously while Faris put her own seatbelt on and gripped the steering wheel tightly. She put the car in drive and slowly headed out of the parking garage.

<Ma & Zell: Mother/Son, Currently in 3rd Place>
     Ma and Zell reached the parking garage and put the code into the box. It opened and Zell removed the contents. He read the clue about the Pit Stop, then headed into the garage. He and Ma slid into the first truck, which fired up on the first attempt.
     "Oh yeaaah," Zell said. "Nice to be behind the wheel of something. I can't wait to see what this baby will do."
     Ma secured her seatbelt and held onto the belt for dear life. "Just get us there alive, okay?"
     "Psh, you worry too much, Ma!" He threw it into what he thought was drive and stepped on the pedal forcefully. The car shot backwards and had both Ma and Zell screaming bloody murder. Zell pounded on the brakes and stopped just before crashing into a wall. "Umm, sorry, Ma. The 'D' kinda looked like an 'R.'"
     "Never do that again."
     "I'll try not to, but no promises!" Having apparently learned nothing about moderation, he threw the truck into drive and slammed on the accelerator. The truck raced out of the garage and tore through the highway in the middle of the desert.

<Biran & Yenke: Comrades, Currently in Last Place>
     "Biran found one!" Biran shouted, holding up a 5 made of twine.
     "Yenke found one, too!" Yenke shouted. He held up 2 made of carefully tied, rotten banana peels.
     "Ronso getting so close! Only one more number!"

     A van arrived at an old motel in the middle of the desert. It was slightly rundown, but hardly seemed like a safety hazard. Still, the moment Dona stepped outside the van, she started complaining.
     "But we might get rooms here," Barthello argued against Dona's complaints. They followed a marked path up a flight of stairs to a motel room on the second floor.
     "So? Have you seen this place? Do you really want a room here?"
     Once upstairs, they headed into the marked room and walked by a nice, double bed facing a TV. The room was decorated in the true cowboy fashion as any motel in the desert should be, complete with the bull's skull hanging on the wall. They saw the mat in the bathroom where Gippal stood beside a shower. The shower curtain was closed, but the water was on as they approached. They stepped on the mat and Gippal tugged at the shower curtain. There was no response.
     "Ahem," Gippal coughed. He tugged at the curtain, this time pulling the curtain off accidentally. Inside was a nude, blonde woman who screamed and covered herself.
     "Get out get out get out!" she screamed.
     "Gaaah, right right," Gippal said. He shooed Dona and Barthello out and hastilly picked up the mat and carried it outside. He slammed the door behind him and put the mat down. Dona and Barthello stepped on and Gippal started looking around nervously. His face was bright red.
     "Greeter!" he shouted, thrusting his finger in the air. He started running around the building frantically.
     Dona and Barthello shrugged at each other and waited patiently.
     "So..." Barthello started.
     "You looked," Dona said bluntly.
     "I did not!"
     "Of course you did, admit it!"
     "It's completely untrue," Barthello stated firmly.
     "Oh just be a man, Barthello. I saw and I wasn't even looking. It's okay, just be honest."
     Barthello hesitated. "I saw a little--"
     "You jerk!" Dona shouted, punching him in the arm.
     "But you said--"
     "I lied! Why would I look!?"
     Gippal returned, this time with an old, brown dog with a droopy face. He led the dog to the front of the mat and checked the dog's collar. "Flint. Flint, you are the greeter. Now please welcome these people to Dryfield."
     Woof! Woof!
     "There we go," Gippal said. "Sorry about that." He looked at Barthello's red face and Dona's folded arms and closed stance. "Ho boy. Well, I think I messed a few things up. But anyway. Dona and Barthello, you're team number one!" He waited for a response, but did not get one. "Uhh, you're one of the three teams to race for the million!" Again, nothing. "And you've won a week-long stay at this very motel!"
     "Will she be there?" Dona asked.
     "I didn't look!" Barthello shouted.
     "You just said you did!"
     "I only saw a little! Her umm, feet!"
     "Yeah, I'll bet. With jugs that big and you were looking at her feet."
     "Gyah!" Gippal started making slashing motions at his neck to tell the cameras to cut the feed.

     "Victory!" Yenke said, pulling a 6 from the garbage.
     "Hurry, Yenke!" Biran said. They raced from the large trash compactor and headed up a flight of stairs to the parking garage in B2. They found the boxes outside and started pounding numbers into the keypads.
     "Yenke does one, Biran does one!"
     "Double chances!" Biran started pulling in the numbers, starting with 6542.
     "Got it!" Yenke shouted, having put 5462 into the keypad. "First try!"
     "Good Yenke!" Biran grabbed the clue and the key and read the clue. "Drive Ronso-selves 50 miles to motel in Dryfield!"
     The Ronso ran inside and found a truck. Biran fired it up and started out of the parking garage.
     "Biran is natural driver," Biran noted of himself. It took a good two minutes before Yenke, who was reading some driving instructions, put down the parking brake for him.

     Reina hopped happily in her seat as the motel started to come into view. "I see it!"
     "Yar, but I see trouble, too," Faris said, glancing in the rearview mirror. A truck just like theirs was speeding towards them and gaining quickly.

     "Yeehaw!" Zell shouted. "Almost there, Ma!"
     "That's wonderful, Zelly," Ma said through gritted teeth. She held onto the seat nervously as ever, hoping her son wouldn't do anything crazy in the last big of the drive.
     Zell drove fairly close to Faris and started to pass her on the left, but decided to back off since they were closing in on the motel, which was off the road to the right in the dirt.
     Faris and Zell parked their trucks by the rundown gas station next to the motel and all four racers hopped out and raced for the clue box out in front of the green double doors leading to the lobby. Zell reached it first and removed his clue. He took it back to Ma while ripping it open. Faris grabbed hers immediately after.
     "Figure out the code to the cash register to receive your room key. This key will open the door to the Pit Stop. Warning, the last team to check in will be eliminated."

<Announcer Gippal>
     "Teams must now figure out a puzzle to open the cash register in the lobby. All teams know is that there is a clue behind the counter in the lobby on a bulletin board and that the solution might require they check the opened motel rooms on the first floor. They must correctly put in the code to the register in order to receive a key, which will open a room on the second floor. Inside that room is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race. The last team to check in here, will be eliminated."

     Zell, Ma, Reina, and Faris all raced inside to find the message on the bulletin board. They all started crowding behind the counter, when finally Reina started pushing people back.
     "Okay, okay, hold up," she said. "Let's just have Ma read it to us all. That way I don't get all claustrophobic-y."
     "Works for me," Zell said.
     "Aye," Faris said.
     Ma nodded and moved forward to read the bulletin, while the rest waited on the other side of the counter as if they were motel customers. "There are two memos," Ma said. She moved to the first one. "When death came to Tombstone," she looked at the memo strangely, "umm, there's a pound sign in parenthesis, and then 'Holliday was 30 and Earp was...'" She paused again. "It's scratched out. And then it goes on with 'Not bad for gunmen of the Old West. The secret to long life: good friends and good luck.'"
     "Weird," Zell said. "What's the second one say?"
     Ma moved to the second memo and started reading. "Problems with the cash register? Don't forget! Press pound when entering the 4-digit code, and press TOTAL when you're done! Can't remember the number? Check the 'still,' and you will!"
     "Check the still?" Reina asked. "Okay, thanks for reading, Mrs. Dincht!"
     "You're welcome, Reina!" she replied.
     The four started looking around the room for clues to the solution. Zell came across a picture of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp on the wall and started looking it over. "It mentioned these two guys," he mumbled to Ma, who approached him. He read the picture's label. "Tombstone: 1881."

     "I have an idea," Reina whispered to Faris. "It talked about a pound sign in both memos. The one said it was needed before entering the number. Then the first memo mentioned a pound right before mentioning that Holliday was 30."
     "So yeh think the first two digits be three and zero," Faris said. "Good thinkin'!"
     "We need to find out how old the other guy was. Let's check those other rooms out."
     Reina and Faris quietly left the lobby while Zell and Ma watched them leave. They waited a couple seconds before Zell finally broke the silence.
     "Follow 'em?" he said.
     "Definitely," Ma replied.
     The girls noticed they were being followed, but tried to search each room quickly so that Zell and Ma didn't know what they were looking for. They finally stopped in a room that had individual pictures of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. The Doc Holliday one was labeled "Doc Holliday: 1851-1887" and the Wyatt Earp had the label "Wyatt Earp: 1848-1929."
     Reina jotted the numbers down on her arm before leading Faris from the room. Zell and Ma entered shortly after and found the paintings.
     "Okay, so I think we need to figure out how old they were when they were in Tombstone," Zell said. "So Earp is... Gah, I need paper."
     "Already on it," Ma said. She did the math and came up with a final answer. "Thirty-three!"
     "Great! And Holliday is..."
     Ma started to do the math. "Thirty! Oh wait, we knew that already!"
     "Doh!"

     Reina and Faris raced to the cash register, completely missing the picture containing the Tombstone date.
     "So how old is Earp then?" Reina asked. "Do we know?"
     "Three years older than Holliday, see?" Faris said, pointing to their birth years."
     "Oh, good eye! Okay, so thirty-three!" Reina typed in "#3033" to the register, then pushed TOTAL. The register popped open and there were four keys in each of the money slots.
     "Yes!" they cheered as Zell and Ma entered. Faris quickly grabbed their key and closed the register.
     "Aww MAN," Zell said, scoffing his foot on the carpet.
     "Good luck, you two," Reina said to Ma and Zell.
     "Thanks," Ma said. "Hope to see you in the final three!"
     Reina and Faris swapped positions with Ma and Zell as they moved to the door and Ma and Zell to the register. The girls ran outside and up a flight of stairs to the rooms on the second floor. They tried one room, but it didn't open. Moving to the second, they tried the key and the door swung open. They raced inside and were greeted by Gippal...and a dog.
     Woof woof!
     "Puppy!" Reina shouted. She bent down to pet the dog while Faris rolled her eyes.
     "Reina and Faris," Gippal said, "you're the second team to arrive and one of the three teams that will be racing for the one-million gil!"
     "Woohoo!" the girls shouted. They hugged tightly and Faris eventually picked Reina up from the strength of her grip.
     "So you're happy then," Gippal said with a smile.
     "Glad ter know we made it all the way," Faris replied. "We get ter race every leg, an' if we win er don't win, it be our fault."
     "And I think we have the strength to win it," Reina said. "But we'll see. Gosh, we're so close!"

     Zell pushed the TOTAL button on the register and opened it to find their key. They raced upstairs and found Gippal on the mat, alone with a dog. They stepped onto the mat and smiled at the dog.
     Woof woof!
     "Zell and Ma," Gippal said, "you're team number three!"
     "YEAH!" Zell and Ma shouted. They followed it up with a chest-bump, which Ma later regretted as she rubbed her chest.
     "You're one of the three teams racing for the one-million gil prize," Gippal continued.
     "Looking forward to it, too!" Ma said cheerfully.
     "We're ready to rock! All the way to the top!" Zell added.
     "Think you can take the other two teams?" Gippal asked.
     "No doubt! They're going down!"
     "Well, good luck to both of you."
     "Thank you, Gippal," Ma said.

     Biran and Yenke drove their truck into the motel area and headed to the clue box by the lobby. Biran opened the clue and started explaining the puzzle to Yenke, when suddenly, they heard a familiar voice.
     "Hey, hairy-boys!" Gippal said from the second floor. He was hanging over the railing, shouting at them. "Don't bother doing that. The other teams are all in. Just come on up."
     "Thank goodness," Biran said, ripping up that clue. "Biran cannot TAKE another puzzle!"
     "And Biran has not even done as many as Yenke!" Yenke said. "Ronso done with puzzles forever."
     The Ronso climbed the stairs and joined Gippal in the Pit Stop room. They stood on the mat and were greeted by a blonde woman wearing a jean jacket and black shorts.
     "Welcome to Dryfield," she said.
     "Biran and Yenke," Gippal said, "you're the last team to arrive. I'm sorry to tell you, you have been eliminated from the race. But at least you're the only team to have Ms. Brea as a greeter. We had a bit of a problem earlier, but she's since forgiven us. Yep, forgave us all over my face," Gippal pointed to a red mark in the shape of a hand on his face.
     "Ha ha! Hornless one get slapped!" Biran pointed out.
     "Yeah, but at least--"
     "Hornless host go home to howl alone. Howl alone," Yenke mocked.
     "Well we got--"
     "Hornless goatling is wearing make-up, too!" Biran pointed out. "Not enough make-up to hide strong woman slap!"
     "Gippal is little weakling. Beat up by little girl! Bwa ha ha ha."
     "Well you two got cut from the race! So....there!" Gippal said over their constant mockings.
     "Ronso went out in fourth place," Biran said. "Gippal not even try for money! Gippal come in zero place."
     "Hornless award to Gippal!" Yenke said.
     "I get paid to host," Gippal said.
     "You make a million gil?" Biran asked.
     "Well....no."
     "Gippal is hornless goatling! Work for pitiful money and never get honor of racing race!"
     "Must wait at Pit Stop alone except for beautiful woman," Yenke said.
     "Yenke!" Biran punched Yenke in the arm. "That good thing. We mock him for bad thing!"
     "Bad thing like...having no horn?"
     "Exactly! Hornless! Hornless!"
     "Hornless! Hornless! Howl alone! Hornless!" Both Ronso continued to chant things until Gippal finally just slumped down on the bed and covered his head with a pillow.
     He lifed the pillow briefly. "How did anybody actually pick you two to be on this race? I can't believe somebody could actually make it through an audition tape." He put the pillow back over his head. He then grabbed a second pillow and tried to cover both ears, each with a different pillow as he left the room. The Ronso stopped chanting when he left.
     "Me Biran," Biran said, extending a hand to the woman, Aya. "What your name?"
     "Ever host reality TV show?" Yenke asked her.