Episode 123: Well, This is Another Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Us Into

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Episode 123
How did they manage to get in this position in the first place?
Well, This is Another Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Us Into
Date Published	Monday, March 4th, 2002
Previous Comic	Episode 122: A Chromatic Experiment
Next Comic	Episode 124: I'm the Master of 8-bit Perspective
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The Light Warriors are in deep trouble! O' how are they going to escape this one?

Cast Appearing

• Garland
• Black Belt
• White Mage
• Red Mage Statscowski
• Black Mage Evilwizardington
• Thief
• Fighter McWarrior
• "Evil" Princess Sara

Setting

• Temple of Fiends

Script

Close-up of the poster on the wall of a dock in the twilight. It says:- I M A G I N A T I O N It's the only way you'll escape the hell hole that is your life. The next frame shows the "Heroes" suspended upside-down be a rope over a "Vat O' Acid". The "Villain" Garland and "Also Villain" Sara are stood to the left and to the right of the vat respectively.
White Mage	I don't get it. How could you take this long and still not have defeated Garland?
Black Mage	I don't know. It seems like such a simple task. You'd think we'd be past this by now.
Thief	If only I could free myself.
Red Mage	And then perform some daring act to free the rest of us?
Thief	Um... sure, I guess. For a price. Of course.
Red Mage	In retrospect, I really should have seen that coming. But that's exactly why...
Red Mage	I have formulated yet another Brilliant plan!
Black Mage	Oh good. Because that first 'brilliant plan' of yours worked out so well that it got us here in the first place.
Red Mage	No, no, no. This one's much better. It depends entirely on Fighter.
Pause.
Black Mage	I would jump into the acid right the hell now just to save time, but then I wouldn't be able to hear your own horrible acidy screams of death.

Trivia

The title of this episode is taken from the famous catchphrase "Well, that's another fine mess you got me into", often spoken by Oliver Hardy.