#dungeons and doobies

[mikeystrawberry]

doobie Glenn work doodle he’s my silly little guy

another Glenn for the phone case hehe

[xolasdoesntknow]

My current dnd guy Valerian 🌿 he's a satyr druid cleric and they may or may not partake in the good dollar store kush to cope with the horrors

[madderruz]

Dungeon dooby dooo

[barbaracleboy]

Bugtober 2024 Day 14: Bounties

This was a fun one to do, even if it doesn't have much to do with Bounties specifically.

...I dunno, the False Monarch's neat. Have fun!

Out in the Forsaken Lands, far away from both the Ant and Termite Kingdoms, lay a city of perfectly normal insects that don't go around luring in randos that they then proceed to kill and maybe eat. The people of this society live entirely average lives, doing nothing dangerous or out of the ordinary, living just as anyone else would. Their faces are often sideways or upside down and some of them have more eyes than they maybe should and in general the kind of Insect that they are is ambiguous but they're still your usual, average, every day folks.

So, like, the king of this place was sitting on his throne one day, minding his own business, when one of his subjects came up to his throne with a funny-looking paper.

False Citizen: Greeting, my king [singular]. I will now bow to you because this is what followers of a monarchy are supposed to do lest they be thrown into a dungeon or something to that effect.

False Monarch: Wah, indeed! What's that you're holding? Is it paper? Or skin? What is skin, anyway?

False Citizen: It matters not, my lord [again, just the one]. It has writing on it, as well as your...visage? Visage, is that a word?

False Monarch: Wah dunno.

False Citizen:...Anywho, Take a look:

BOUNTY

FALSE MONARCH

REWARD: A LAST STAND MEDAL

LOCATION: THE FORSAKEN LANDS

False Monarch: Weh, it is me! And what are those scribbly bits above and below myself?

False Citizen: I dunno, looks like garbage.

False Monarch: Waha, I love garbage! Give it here!

The False Citizen gives their (as in singular "they", obviously) king the paper, which he proceeds to stick into his cloak and chew up.

False Monarch: Wehhhhh...6/10, I've had better trash.

It's at that point that a loud burst of murmuring breaks out amongst the other members of the certainly-not-false society. The False Monarch and the False Citizen he was speaking to exit the throne tent room and find a bizarre trio of Bugs staring at them, with a tiny Chomper following along.

Horned Green Bug: Dibbydibbydubdub, dooby dug!

Little Yellow Bug: Buzz booz, buzz booz?

Lanky Blue Bug: Fffsseh fseh, ffffsoffso.

Tiny Chomper: Fuck.

False Monarch: Weh, hello visitors! Welcome to our humble home! "Our" referring to my entire kingdom, of course, and not me individually, for I am indeed an individual.

False Citizen: I think you specifically are allowed to just say "our", actually, even solo.

False Monarch: Wah, really? Oh cool! (To the weird Bugs) Doesn't that sound cool, guys?

LYB: BUZZABUZZABOOZABOOZA!

The Little Yellow Bug throws a weird, crescent-shaped thing at the False Monarch, and not only does it smack him upside the head it flies back to do it a second time.

False Citizens: GASPING SOUNDS!!!

False Monarch: Waaaaooowww, wah'd you do that for???

LBB: Fsssfsssfss...

LYB: Booz, bozz.

After that they group start doing a bizarre series of things: the Green Bug shoves a rotten meal down the Yellow Bug's maw, the Blue Bug starts yelling at the Yellow Bug, the Chomper just kinda dances in place, and the Yellow Bug starts eating these funny-shaped brown beans.

False Citizen:...Yo boss, I think these guys are kinda stoopid.

False Monarch: Wehhhh, are you okay-

The False Monarch gets obliterated by the Yellow Bug, and by the time it's done all that's left is a small purple robe and his busted up face. The False Citizens all run off in terror, meanwhile the terrifying Yellow Bug grabs the Monarch's crown off of his remains.

LYB: Booz buzz booz!

HGB: Doba doba doba!

TC: Fuck!

The weirdo Bugs yuk it up and head off, taking the stolen crown with them. Once it's confirmed that they're gone the False Citizens step out in varying levels of fear. They look to the purple robe...and watch as several pained, frustrated Mothflies come out of it. One gets up and is particularly angry-looking.

Mothfly A: Damn it! How long have we been sitting around, trying to be a society, only to get interrupted by douchebags coming out of nowhere and just attacking us!?!?

Mothfly E: My buttocks hurt.

Mothfly A: We're trying to be civilized! We got buildings!

One of the buildings collapses.

Mothfly: We got culture!

A False Citizen: Your mom.

Another False Citizen: Is that a joke?

A False Citizen: Yes.

Another False Citizen: I hate you.

Mothfly A: We've even got commerce!

False Citizen Next to a Food Stand: And soon we'll even have soul-crushing capitalism! :D

Mothfly A:...Y'know what? Let society rot ! Let """""civilization""""" rot! Let all those fancy shmancy creations of so-called cultured insects eat my round-ass ass!

The False Citizens all cheer and begin flying out of their costumes, revealing all of them to be Mothflies, proud and true.

Mothfly A: We're Mothflies, and that's that! If they don't like it?

Mothflies: They can SUCK! OUR! NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mothfly A: (While doing a crotch chop motion) We! Are! Moth! Flies! Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!!!

In a large, terrifying swarm, the Mothflies rise into the air and laugh collectively.

Mothfly A: We'll show all those other Bugs who's really at the top! And I know just where to start...

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Patton the Acorn Weevil was sitting in his lab, napping in his arms again whilst at his work station. Eventually he woke up to a weird smell.

Patton: Ehhhh bubbabubba, bleh, ech...*sniff* *sniff*...

There is frass all over his floor.

Patton: Gods damn it! You can't even go into torpor without someone poo'ing on your property!

[babehog]

Smoking a doobie, eating fried rice and watching the dungeon meshi anime. This is kinda epic...

[an-aura-about-you]

(sort of) nine people I'd like to get to know better

tagged by @magnetarmadda (thank you so much!!) as usual, if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged.

Last song - Black Water by the Doobie Brothers

Favorite color - puce

Last movie/TV show - the last one I tried watching but didn't complete (due to my library's budget for Kanopy running out for the month 3: ) was a documentary on Kurt Vonnegut. the last one I actually completed was probably Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Sweet/spicy/savory? - yes. all three at once please. but if I really must pick, then I will pick spicy because it is versatile enough to work for sweet and savory. I like hot spicy but nowadays tend to prefer earthy/complex spicy.

Relationship status - single, gladly by choice!

Last thing I googled - Pete Townshend

Current obsession - single-tasking, specifically the opposite of multi-tasking. I started looking into apps to try to single-task my to-do lists before I realized I could just pin a note titled, "What's Next?" on my phone's screen that had the top item of my to-do list. then I could focus on that until it's done and replace it with the next item on the to-do list. it's already helping me get the post-holiday party mess under control.

[multifairyus]

Hey There!

Welcome to my Lexicon of interests! My name is Multifairyus, (whatstheswitch if ya nasty 💋) and friends call me Fairy!

Skip to “Keep Reading” for my fandom stuff, stick around to know me better 💖

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Demographics: HBCU & tertiary educated, neurodivergent, queer, zillenial Black-American woman

Occupation: IRL wizard and resident Hot Girl™️ of my laboratory

Interests: Exploring new cities, astrology, make-up, Dungeons and Dragons, Biblical hermeneutics, BDSM, womanism, JRPGs, social commentary/media analysis video essays, weed, orchestral/8-bit/bardcore/Lo-Fi covers of songs, internet/social media memes and culture, being beautiful on the inside and out, committing to the bit

(Tumblr Active) Fandoms: The Legendborn Cycle, Spider-Verse Cinnematic Universe, Kingdom Hearts, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Critical Role, Megan Thee Stallion, Persona 5, Inu-Yasha

Social Media: @/multifairyus on all platforms. I’m pretty hot too ngl @/lexie.day just don’t be weird or get blocked

Fandom Styles: Playlist curation, headcannon/hot take sharing, fanfiction writing (eventually…), fandom community challenge issuer, fandom discord administration, comment section hypeman.

Genres: General, romance, friendship, found family dynamics, missing scenes/POV switches, porn w/feelings and porn w/warnings, angst with a happy ending, fluff, AUs.

Pro/Anti-Shipping: No. Shut up. Listen to her speak on it for my thoughts.

Asks?: The more fun, thought-provoking, or unhinged the better

DMs?: Yes if you interacted with my stuff. Hell yes if you’re Black and wanna cold open ask to be friends I love that stuff

Note: I like to reblog...a lot. If you aren't interested in one of these fandoms I recommend blocking some of these tags so you get what you signed up for with me: #legendborn #bloodmarked #ATSV #Hobie Brown #Spiderpunk.

That said I'm liable to go on a reblogging spree on any of my interests. My @ is a play on the word "multifarious" for a reason, lmao. I like a lot of stuff and I'm making it y'alls problem...adjust accordingly or develop exquisite taste that just so happens to be exactly like mine!

The Legendborn Cycle

Brelwyn Story Playlists

Volume I

Volume II

Fandom Challenges

• Kane Coded Bingo Challenge and Wrap-Up

Commissions

Birthday Firefly Kiss

Headcannons/Hot Takes

Legendborn AUs

Missing Moments in Volition

LBC and Queer Narratives

Erebus is Secretly a Brelwyn Shipper

Valec Carries Bloodmarked's Humor

Brelwyn & Kanthony

Spider-Verse Cinematic Universe

Playlists

(Hobie-inspired if not stated to be otherwise)

xReader Delulu Vibes (WIP)

A Doobie for your Thoughts (WIP)

Tik Tok Fan-Edit Trash (WIP)

Arachnakids Cover Band Setlist (WIP)

Headcannons/Hot Takes

• Hobie’s Grandma

Kthxbai 💖

[kartsstuffig]

scooby dooby dungeon

okay but like, THINK about it

[inside-a-sinners-mind]

Walk thru,

Ran through, that's the words I keep hearing you repeat

Broke down in front of you and you still continue to chip away at the bits that's left

I wish I wanted to forget but the pain is the only thing I can still feel

Your weak, GET UP and get a bag

Why so everything and everyone can rob it

People take because they don't have

I did it to gain leverage

Gave to those who needed me but things become more important than the person

Money, sex, drugs, lies, hypocrisy,and tainted love or maybe it was all make believe

How do you prove your worth to someone who only sees the bad that others pointed out

Mookie, cookie, Doobie, hidden in the dungeon of my thoughts

Tormented by the in crowd just because I couldn't get thin

I felt isolated in every single piece of my life

For my children to bring me into the light, not matter how bad it became I had movie nights, car rides, music history always trying to keep them kid friendly.

I never got to be a kid, I never wanted that for them and I failed by trying to adult too hard and support everyone

Just like My parents, breakib their back to prove they don't need anyone, but too tough is a thing

I don't need you. I got it. I got this. Sorry about yourself. Mind your business. Get out my mouth. Stay in a child place.

Idk where the childs place was but I wanted to protect my parents from the true pain I have endured. I've been nothing but a cum rag my whole life. Used. Exploited. One and never again. No one chose me for my stellar personality but when my pussy was hitting for.

Best chocolate ass I've had, what happened to the wrapper. You went to get me milk and I went too quick, she left me alone because she needed a fix. It wasn't you so please don't blame yourself, I was trying to listen to my friend why she cried but I fell down the rabbit hole into the lake next thing I knew he was swimming.....

I didn't agree, I didn't snitch, hell I barely remember it but was it worth it,? Cruella did you get your cheap thrill? He did it to you so for him to do it to me was nothing huh? Red. I see it everywhere, it was my color, but now it's my anger for not remembering.

I never wanted you to be the one who had to take the picture to get me to see that every one isn't superman and you can't save me.

So I'm sorry for wasting your time. I'm sorry for letting my guard down, I'm sorry for blocking out love, because now danger is the only way to feel again. So I gave them away in case he comes around again, so no one else gets hurt or I never choose me again.

Because you can't.

Dont. Go. Nephew has the video

If that matters to you.

[harveylikestoart]

Glenn? Bahongaroos OUT?!

[buysomecheese]

Holy Smokes by Anna Bates and Dungeons and Daddies but very loosely interpreted-

(underneath cut because it is Not organized but I don’t think I will organize it lmao so here it is)

“The night I smoked with Jesus, I saw heaven way up close I saw Grandma in her nighty, faded with the Holy Ghost I saw David and Goliath, and man were they both stoned I saw all of the apostles in a cloud of righteous smoke I said, "Hey, is this what you meant by saved? To get so high it's spiritual, you just kinda float away." I said, "Hey, will I see you when I die?" He said, "If you keep on puffing then it all turns out alright."

I keep connecting this song to Nicky in different ways- either it’s a Nark song and Nicky is Jesus, or it’s a song about Nicky/Nick’s relationship with Glenn and Glenn is Jesus

With the second interpretation (the one I’ve been Very into the past few days, I thought of it much more recently), each of the people mentioned are a character Nicky interacts with (grandma=Grant, Holy Ghost=TJ, David and Goliath=Lark and Sparrow, the apostles=the other dads) and like. Ugh just. I’ve never been high but Nick being introduced to weed by Glenn (ik he didn’t Encourage it but he was also very much supportive of it). And it becoming such a central part of his childhood and of him growing up. The last two lines of the chorus especially. Idk makes me Sad about Nick. This is also about Nick and not Nicky they are different people.

However the first verse could very much be about Nicholas after him and Nick start sharing their body all proper and he’s mmmm Nicholas is Trying to bond with Glenn and neither Glenn nor Nick know how to properly bond outside of like weed lowkey so. Nick is like “you could try and talk to him about weed” and Nicholas is like “I have asthma but ok ig” and then ugh

“He said, "Child come and try this," as he pointed right at me Handed me a joint, said, "This might help you believe." Oh, I thought that I knew Mary, the mother of the Babe But the Savior learned his lessons From wise old Mary Jane All those miracles he did, all those parables he told Were inspired by the ganja that he regularly rolled“

And so Nicholas is like “holy fuck (holy smokes hehe)” and they. They bond. It’s not a great bond and it’s very superficial and it feels Weird for both of them but boy are they trying. They are trying so hard for Nick’s sake and none of them know how to do this. Glenn and Jodie bond a bit about Drugs (because c’mon Zhao Dae Jodie. c’mon.) and then Glenn definitely lets some of that past slip through his lips while he’s high with Nicholas. Nicholas is like the whole “all those miracles he did and all those parables he told?” and Glenn is like “they were inspired by the ganja that he regularly rolled” AUGH. AND also the second verse-

“I heard Jesus on the corner, talking to some cops Only doobie lovin' Jesus gets the law enforcement crossed”

AND IT’S NICKY OBSERVING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GLENN AND JODIE ugh FUCK these three (four?) MAKE ME FEEL SO MUCH

[prince-desmodus]

omg ok sure

and tagginggg @krogerss @purple-splattered-soul @knockknock---itsme @shmooby-dooby @purplepie1o1

5 Favourite Characters Poll (Tag Game)

I was tag by: @star-mum

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

Thanks you so much for the tag

Tags <3: @meeks-beas @practically-an-x-man @outer-space-face @trashworldblog @mydearlybeloathed

[chromapede]

I drew my cousin’s DND characters, yes those are the names they chose.

Oh yeah, this is my first time writing photo IDs, let me know on anything i can improve upon!

[Image ID: 5 photos showing Dungeon and Chracters drawn digitally in a cartoonish style. There are differently sized, dark red words and text surrounding the characters, as well as a yellow paper texture background.

The first character is named Dammong, he is a centaur bloodhunter. The text around him states that he is 5 foot 11, 24 years old, and weighs 277 pounds. His background is as an athlete, his allignment is chaotic good, and his goal is to fight for riches and achievements. His skin is pale, and he has a long brown beard with slicked back hair. His eyes are a dark blue. Demmong is flexing is arms and wearing a beaming grin, his frontal right horse leg is slightly raised. Demmong is wearing a fancy, light blue coat and light brown gloves with silver amor covering his shoulders and elbows. His horse half is white with black hooves and a long brown tail.

The second character is named Ruby Dooby, she is a cleric kistune. The text around her states that she is 5 foot 6, 120 years old, and weighs 110 pounds. Her background is as a criminal, her allignment is neutral evil, and her goal is to love life and play tricks. Ruby’s main fur color is reddish brown, but a light tan color lines her neck, stomach, the interior of her ears, and the fur on the tip of her tail. Her pose looks as if she is falling gracefully back, while holding a gleaming gold coin between her left index and thumb. Her green and pink eyes combined with her toothy grin make her look especially devilish. Ruby’s red hair is short and slicked back. Small blue and silver eyeglasses sit atop her nose. Ruby wears a dark brown trenchcoat paired with fingerless floves of the same color. She wears a brown skirt with light brown leather pants, as well as a short top. Her tail is bigger than her body, it wraps around her and bears a large sun pattern.

The third character is named Fredrick the 48th, he is a goblin ranger. The text around him states that he is 4 foot 0, 24 years old, and weighs 60 pounds. His backround is as a smuggler, his allignment is lawful evil, and his goal is to eat everything. Fredricks skin color is light purple with pink blemishes on the tip of his feline-like tail and face. His hair is dandelion yellow. His eyes are dark blue. He wears a smug expression with a large-toothed and open-mouthed smile. There is a bit of green snot driping from his nostril. He is balancing on one foot with his arms crooked downwards. Fredrick wears a tattered, brown jacket with an even more tattered red shirt underneath. He also dons a dirty golden crown with several small rubies encrusted within it. Fredrick is wearing thigh-length, brown pants, as well as large dark brown gloves and shoes. Fredrick’s shoes are broken, exposing his two enlarged toes on either foot.

The fourth character is named Poot Lavato, she is a halfling druid. The text around her states that she is 2 foot 3, 74 years old, and weighs 280 pounds. Her background is as a smuggler, her allignment is true neutral, and her goal is to have the most money. Poot Lavato’s skin is bright pink, and her hair is short and dark magenta. Her expression is very confident, and she is smiling with small sharp teeth and blue eyes. She is flexing with her hands turned inward and squatting in a fighting stance. She wears a pointed silver crown. Poot Lavato wears a one-piece tunic with pieces of different green fabrics. Over her right shoulder is a silver armor plate and a brown sachel. She wears a leather skirt made out of different rectangle strips of leather. She wears thigh-high, brown leather boots.

The last character is named Sussy Baka, she is a gnome fighter. The text around her states that she is 3 foot 0, 300 years old, and weighs 40 pounds. Her background  is as a criminal, her allignment is chaotic evil, and her goal is to kill people and steal. Sussy Baka’s skin is seafoam green, her hair is short and golden blonde. She is wearing copper goggles with green glass, a copper nose ring protrudes from her nostrils. She is walking forward while holding a giant copper and wooden axe slung over her shoulder. She wears bandaged gauntlets, her left hand is positioned behind her back while her right hand is holding her axe. She wears a large yellowish-grey scarf as well as a stained, white lab coat. She long brown pants with calf-length, copper, armored boots. /End ID]

[transheadcrab]

i can’t help but notice you’re not from around here. you also have a demonic aura about you!

ive been having art block for DAYS so the ai dungeon stream rly helped, especially when doobie jones got a bottle broken over his head revealing eldritch horrors unknown to man and god alike. number one cowboy

[pantrymilk]

DnD kush call that Dungeons and Doobies

[ayellowbirds]

Keshet Rewatches All of Scooby-Doo, Pt. 6: "What The Hex Is Going On?"

("Scooby-Doo, Where Are You", Season 1 Episode 6)

AKA "The Gang Is Totally Cool With Dead Bodies"

As the episode opens, a voice repeatedly intones, "come... come!!!", and the view moves from an old mansion, to a nearby graveyard. A bat flies past a mausoleum, and can be heard as an aged man walks through the night, arms outstretched.

The thing is, the guy is drawn with his mouth open in such a way that i thought at first that he was the one chanting the eerie command. And then, without the bat on screen any more, it seems like he’s the one screeching.

Meanwhile, the gang come to visit their friend Sharon Wetherby, who has invited them up to her family estate for the weekend. On their drive up, they catch sight of the old man, and wonder about what he’s up to... but continue on their way.

Now that’s some good Southern New England Wherever-The-Fuck Gothic. Look at that decayed gateway sign with the family name obscured by hanging moss. On their arrival, Sharon and her father mention that “Uncle Stuart” has gone missing, and when they go to investigate the old “Kingston Mansion” where the gang saw him, they find him hidden in the shadows near the entrance, aged at least twenty years.

Stu recalls a “ghostly voice” calling him out in a trance to enter the mansion, where he encounters...

THE GHOST OF ELIAS KINGSTON!

Elias always seemed one of the most iconic Scooby villain designs to me. As he delivers a warning demanding the Wetherby fortune as his right, he transforms Stuart with a mere gesture.

I say “mere”, but it’s one of the most character-laden and dramatic movements in the entire run of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You—completely unlike the fading transition used to age Stuart immediately after it. I think the episode’s entire animation budget went into Elias posing dramatically.

This haint has style. Look at that oilcloth duster, the inhuman blue tones and yellow eyes. The gesturing.

Mr. Wetherby tries to call the sheriff, but finds the phone line dead. The gang suggest he drive out to get the sheriff in-person while they take turns standing guard, boasting Scooby’s “keen sense of hearing”. Scooby’s having none of it, and pretends to need an ear trumpet.

Zoinks, don’t put that in your ear, Scoob! You don’t know where it’s been!

As the gang slack off on guarding Uncle Stuart, the voice of Elias Kingston calls to him again. Scooby awakens from a nap to alert the others, and they realize  that both Stuart and Sharon are missing.

In a bit of cowardly foresight that also saves a little on the animation budget lovingly devoted to Elias, Shaggy joins the others not in walking through the abandoned Kingston mansion, but rolling on skates. It proves his undoing when Elias sneaks up on him and sends him careening into a bathroom, resulting in another iconic scene:

This isn’t about scaring anyone, Elias just can’t stand filthy hippies and thought Shaggy needed a shower.  

Meanwhile, Scooby tries to raid the kitchen, where he encounters an angry bulldog that seems to follow Elias’s directions.

The gang identify this as their first clue, reasoning that a ghost wouldn’t need a watchdog. But really, don’t even the dead deserve canine companionship? Of course, like last episode’s infatuated stray, this dog is never seen again in the episode after the sequence in which he first appears. The gang return to the mansion later on, and there’s no sign of him.

All the same, they reckon it’s a good clue, but it doesn’t tell them where Uncle Stuart got to... until Shaggy notices someone dressed like him. A significantly older someone.

Those of you who are coming here after watching the Scoobynatural crossover may recall it being made into a gag that the gang kind of just... shrug off the presence of dead bodies.

It’s not the first time they’ve done that.

Scooby even laughs at Velma’s line in the screencap above, though Elias arrives to issue a warning that he’ll do the same to everyone else in the Wetherby household and properly scares him.

The gang sneak about and catch sight of the “ghost” making his way into the Kingston mausoleum, wondering what he’s doing there. Gee, i dunno. What would a dead person be doing in their own family’s mausoleum? In any case, the gang dust the door for prints, and find them. They figure a real ghost wouldn’t leave fingerprints, and Fred tries to bribe Scooby to investigate further with an offer of a Scooby Snack.

It won’t do the trick, and as Fred ups the ante from one, to two, three, and finally four, there’s a cute little bit of animation cost-cutting where he uses sleight of hand to produce the Snacks... instead of being animated pulling them from a box or pocket.

Sleight of hand, trap-making skills, and a van full of tools for breaking and entering... where exactly did Freddie pick up this skill set? If this was a Dungeons and Dragons party, he’d have levels in Rogue.

While Scooby is willing at this point, Shaggy snatches up the snacks once again, happily gobbling down literal dog food and volunteering himself in Scooby’s place, even uttering a “Scooby-Dooby-Doo!” of his own.

Roo rastard, Scooby seems to think. I rusted roo rike a rother.

Alone in the mausoleum, Shaggy confesses to himself, “there’s times I’ll do anything for a Scooby Snack.” This episode is dark.

Inside the crypt, the gang discovers a book on Crystalomancy, which fantasy nerds might guess is the art of divination by means of—

Wait, no. It’s Crystalomacy, no N. The gang clearly read it as such, and Shaggy mistakes it for a name, “Crystal O’Macy”. The joke only works with the typo, and since Velma identifies it as the use of crystal balls, someone must have looked it up and either drawn on a source full of typos, or else deliberately misspelled these spells.

The crypt door slams shut, and the gang, having recently left a corpse behind without a care, are locked in a dusty old mausoleum. Like i said, this episode is dark. But Fred Jones is not to be thrown by things such as this, and suggests they start tapping on the walls to see if they can find a secret exit.

Sure enough, they find one, and a few seconds of revolving door gags later, they’re free. The scene transitions to them speeding down the street in the Mystery Machine, apparently having forgotten that they were seeking their kidnapped friend Sharon or that Sharon’s dad was on his way back with the police, having entrusted the care of his relatives to them.

Instead, Fred leads the gang to seek an answer at a “Swami place” mentioned on discovery of the book of Crystalospellingerror. Apparently this is a 1960s take on a fortune-teller’s place of operations and a brief glimpse even reveals a lampshade decorated with a zodiac motif.

The place is empty except for the contents of a storage closet that “danger-prone” Daphne spills onto Scooby and Shaggy, when the dog fails to hide properly as a customer enters, the gang decide to have Scooby let on the role of the “swami” as she mistakes the turban and robe that fell onto him for genuine mystical garb.

I will take a moment to point out that this scene involves nothing whatsoever related to the actual meaning of the title Swami, and instead seems to be some more of that old-fashioned racism from last episode. This time, it’s south Asian culture (or more broadly, the exotified whole of Asia) being treated as a place from which strange mysteries of the occult originate.

We’re treated once again to Shaggy’s voice-throwing ventriloquism, and some punnery when the customer demands her “palm read”. Scooby pulls out a bucket of paint to make her “palm red”.

Why was there a bucket of red paint sitting there? Is the “real” swami (implied to be Elias, or whomever is disguised as him) just as big a lover of wordplay, or is Scooby simply showing more of his strange reality-warping powers by conjuring a can of paint and a brush? In any case, the customer is scared out, and the ghost of Elias Kingston appears in the crystal ball to menace the gang once more by causing the table to fly about the building, chasing them...

...until it hits Scooby, and he manages to crash it into the ground, revealing what was making it fly.

An eight-inch-wide fan powered by two D-cells. I’m increasingly convinced gravity works differently in the Scoobyverse.

Along with this, the gang discover several other clues: a professional makeup kit, and a portable camera for television... that somehow connects wirelessly to a TV monitor inside the crystal ball.

This is not technology that was available at the time, but instead of marveling at these wonders of media, the gang hatch a plan to trick the “ghost”.

The ghost of Elias does love him some wordplay, and i actually feel kind of sorry for him as the gang turn the tables on him with his own camera and projector gimmicks to make him think the mansion is really haunted.

Immediately after this scene, Sharon Wetherby appears in frame with the gang. where Daphne been standing in the shot just before it. This doesn’t seem to be an error per se, as Fred addresses her by name, and Sharon mentions the hidden room where Elias had her tied up all this time. Exactly how or when she escaped is left for the viewer to guess at, but the gang apparently had the time to put the skeletal remains of “Uncle Stuart” in the room, spooking the unliving daylights out of Elias. As he flees, the gang—with Daphne back in her place where Sharon had been—drop a net on him from the balcony, and that’s that.

It’s revealed that “Elias” was Uncle Stuart all along, having used his skill in makeup and recordings of ghostly chanting to fool the others. Sharon explains that she was nabbed because she saw his bald-wig “blow off”, forcing him to capture her. The “swami” is explained as the best way “for a swindler to disappear”, but Stuart’s keeping quiet, and when Sharon wonders why he did it, her father simply says it can wait for the sheriff’s arrival.

The sheriff.

Who Mr. Wetherby was supposed to be bringing back with him, all this time.

...and for that matter, isn’t it kind of obvious why Stuart did it? I mean, the money, right?

But that doesn’t matter to the plot, because Mr. Wetherby says it’s time to eat.

Too bad Scooby has already consumed the entire turkey dinner intended for no less than seven people, by himself.

I guess conjuring cans of paint burns a lot of calories?

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