Right then! It's #OnlyConnect fan fiction Episode 4: Future Overlords vs Carrion Crows.
LION
CLUE 1:
CLUE 2:
CLUE 3:
CLUE 4:
Next up are the Carrion Crows.
TWISTED FLAX
CLUE 1:
Peripheral
CLUE 2:
Polystyrene
CLUE 3:
Animatronic
CLUE 4:
Adamant
After four clues, Cordell spots the connection. “Animatronic?” he quips. “More like ‘Ooh, Matronic’.”
“As in ‘Ooh, Matron!’” explains Hetty.
“That, Hetty, needed no explanation,” says Cordell icily.
The Future Overlords take their pick.
TWO REEDS
CLUE 1:
FC: style of music
CLUE 2:
ED: wet spongy earth
CLUE 3:
GF: item of furniture
CLUE 4:
CC: extinct bird
Once more Galapaga buzzes instantly. “Barbecue sauce!” she exclaims, gloatingly.
“I can’t imagine why you said that,” says Victoria. She throws it over to the Carrion Crows, who get a bonus point and pick the next hieroglyph. Galapaga is dumbstruck.
HORNED VIPER
CLUE 1:
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
CLUE 2:
Octopussy
CLUE 3:
The Jungle Book
CLUE 4:
Star Trek II
WATER
CLUE 1:
CLUE 2:
CLUE 3:
CLUE 4:
EYE OF HORUS
CLUE 1:
There are many ways to reach the same result
CLUE 2:
Important work takes time
CLUE 3:
Concern oneself with trivial matters during a crisis
CLUE 4:
When visiting a place, follow local customs
After three clues, Hetty spots the right answer, but the team is too shaken for double entendre. At the end of Round 1, both teams have 5 points. The Future Overlords choose a hieroglyph.
ROUND 2: Sequences
TWISTED FLAX
CLUE 1:
Salsa fresca
CLUE 2:
1922 Arctic documentary
CLUE 3:
Company founded by Allen and Gates
EYE OF HORUS
CLUE 1:
(e.g.) UNESCO
CLUE 2:
Close friend or associate (derogatory)
CLUE 3:
Black Klansman author or Apollo 13 director
After three clues, Cordell gives the right answer. “I Apollo-gize for my teammate’s directness earlier,” he adds, then whispers, “See, Lylyssa – I calmed the tension down with a little snippet of wit.”
The Future Overlords are up next.
LION
CLUE 1:
CLUE 2:
CLUE 3:
“Tell us the answer!” hisses Galapaga, but Hermann is consumed with reciting pi, his lips a blur of motion, his voice agonizingly high-pitched. She tries to prize the Brain-Expander off but it’s clamped fast. The Carrion Crows pick up a bonus point and select the next hieroglyph.
TWO REEDS
CLUE 1:
MUZJIKS
CLUE 2:
MUZJIK
CLUE 3:
JAZzY
Neither team can get to this one. It’s the Carrion Crows’ turn.
WATER
CLUE 1:
Mystic
CLUE 2:
Magician
CLUE 3:
Bringer of Old Age
HORNED VIPER
CLUE 1:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
CLUE 2:
Bleak House
CLUE 3:
Hideous Kinky
When the third clue appears, Cordell coos, “Ooh, kinky!” and launches into such a prolonged fit of titters that he forgets to buzz. The Future Overlords fail to come up with an answer. After Round 2, the Future Overlords have 5 points, the Carrion Crows have 9.
The Carrion Crows face the following wall:
They emerge with 7 out of 10. “That was a cheeky wall, Victoria,” says Cordell, waggling his eyebrows. “A saucy, saucy wall.”
People whose first names have been replaced by their state capitals:
TLN TKFF
NSH VLLW LLMS
RCHMN DWLF
LYM PRV NG
Opposites of comic-book heroes:
DRNG L
NCK C LMNSS
HV NBY
TH CRD BLHLK
Words for snow, according to Kate Bush’s "50 Words for Snow":
W HTT
VL N CH
VNLLS WRM
SR BTD LG
THE END #OnlyConnect
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