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| Captain O'Leary facepalmed at the mess in front of him. “Tell me we have security cameras here.” “We'd have to ask Brimley Stone, the head maintenance guy who wears a pirate's outfit all the time because he's an amputee with a fancy prosthetic that looks like a peg leg.” When they went looking for Brimley, they couldn't find him; no one had seen him around, even though he would stand out from the other people dressed as pirates, with his “peg leg.” This was highly suspicious: why wasn't the head maintenance available for the biggest gathering of the year? He would know how to hide the alarm clock, and he could have hauled the treasure off through the service door. Bingo screeched out, “Polly wanna cracka, Polly wanna cracka!” “Hey, isn't Polly-Wanda Kracka the name of the obsessive sword collecting actress?” “She could have been in on it: there was a priceless Samurai sword in the loot!” “But why is Bingo telling – they should have taken him with them – she's a parrot trainer, too!” “He would be too hard to hide – a kidnapped parrot – but where do we find the loot?” “Fake them out, fake them out!” Bingo squawked. “How can we do that, you silly bird?” “Hey, let's announce that the loss was no big deal at all, because it was only imitation treasure, and the real stuff is hidden away in a bank vault.” “Then we'll monitor the area for suspicious activity and see if Polly-Wanda and Brimley try to dispose of the stuff and pretend they never did it – brilliant!” The announcement made everyone who didn't know laugh and cheer; they were relieved the Founder's Day celebration wasn't ruined after all. A couple hours later, Brimley and Polly-Wanda were caught throwing the “fake” treasure in a dumpster behind the theater. Brimley needed a new prosthetic, which would have cost him thousands, so he decided to act like the pirate he'd been cosplaying for so many years and raid the treasure under his nose. Polly-Wanda had a crush on Brimley, she was obsessed with that Samurai sword, and she wanted to take Bingo with them when they ran away, but Brimley refused because the parrot never liked him. Screaming Nell turned out to be an accomplice, Polly's sister; she had to announce the presence of the “bomb” because no one might have noticed it otherwise. They were hiding the loot in dummy treasure chests in Polly's dressing room at the theater. When the people of Bardstown found out about Brimley’s prosthetic, they felt sorry for him and started a fundraiser so he wouldn't have to become a “real” pirate to get it replaced. He and Polly-Wanda later broke up because she wanted to use his donations to buy expensive swords instead! “Listen,” Captain O'Leary said to his crew. “I'm just glad the treasure is safe and our Bardstown semiquincentennial went smoothly after all – and would someone please give Bingo some saltwater taffy – he did help us solve this mystery!” “Happy Founder's Day, everyone!” Bingo squawked. Words: 507. Sentences: 25 (not including dialogue tags, where applied.) Written for "The Bard's Hall Contest"  Prompt sets up a mystery and asks us to solve it in exactly 25 sentences. Characters and settings provided for us in an introduction, along with a list of clues and suspects. |
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