John is in his bedroom. A familiar start to these stories, though John is looking like a business man in a suit now. Something has covered his room and posters graffiti. These symbols of John’s childlike innocence were tarnished by invaders. He’s also recently discovered that his father is not who he had thought. His father is a fun street clown, but a boring and serious businessman. Our man here is only 13 and dealing with a hec of a lot.

Rose is also back in her bedroom where we first met her. Her room is in about the same condition it was back then. It’s now just glowing red as her home is on fire as most everything on the earth at this point. But she’s doing alright, her new kitten Vodka Mutini or Mutie for short, is keeping her company.

John has a chat with Rose. As John predicted, Rose suggested John not go building too many items. They should instead focus on building up and accomplishing the goal of the game. But John wants to see if he can build something to better fight imps. He’s so mad that they’ve defaced his posters. This confused Rose. She tells Johns that those posters had always looked defaced like that. She assumed John defaced them out of irony. Also that he was never into bad movies. This breaks John a bit more. Something very weird is going on.

Sometime in the future. A Wayward Vagabond (VG) is having a wild day. After finding a bunker full of food and energy drinks he became the mayor of Can Town. Then somehow triggered the bunker to rocket off to an island half the world away. He’s decided to go out and explore this land and its ancient frog ruins. But he’s stuck on top of this giant can rocket ship thing.

He is with his friend Serenity the firefly. Who is able to locate a rope and harpoon nearby. He can use the appearifier in the bunker to fetch it. Though when he does this he instead gets the blue package Jade had recently received in the present. This was a present to her from John, though it seems from the note on it Jade knew this would happen. WV is very confused by this but assumes it’s his duty to now protect this package with his life. This is much like a Peregrine Mendicant recently finding a letter. After setting the appearifier to his present time he is able to get the cable he needs to get down from the bunker. Though we learn he is not alone. From a distant tower in the ruins an Aimless Renegade is watching through a rifle scope. They also spot a large metal fruit coming towards their location.

The Aimless Renegade appears to be another black caprician like WV. Though instead of cloth they’re wrapped in yellow caution tape. And they are packing heat. I am not at all familiar with guns but this looks modern and probably isn’t a toy.