The pepper had a pleasant fruity flavor when

The pepper had a pleasant fruity flavor when Dave first bit into it, but in less than a second, he was almost convinced his mouth was actually on fire. He began to regret his decis

ion to listen to the Monolith's advice regarding room service. Dave dashed to the fridge and found a blue smoothie which somehow mitigated the pepper's fire as aeons pa

Aeons lived up to his name and painted the redhead in the time it took to grow. Dave sat and watched the painting evolve, but died just as the redwood was

growing into a glorious brilliant red. But Dave didn't know he was dead. He only knew that now his redwood was lovely. He went to hug the freshly painted tree and slipped inside it

and everything faded to red. When he came to he found himself sitting before a giant rat, crimson as blood and crowned with roses. "So, you have died and found our Redwood Kingdom.

" said Marcia the great queen of the red rats, "To pay for this trespass you will have to defend us against our enemies, the Victor Vector!" "But," he said, "I don't even know what

you want me to DO-hooo-hooo-hooo!" Queen Marcia spat in his face in disgust. "I give you one simple task in exchange for your freedom & you whine. Now, GO KILL VICTOR VECTOR!" He

Queen Marcia made the classic Death-burger, with dogsup and mushrooms. Victor Vector was busy putting makeup on when the concubine said, "Here's your lunch, Sir." It was served

al fresco upon a bed of rosebuds and doused in kerosene. The room filled up with countless black robed men and women chanting in unison. Chanting, "The Vector is clear Victor".