C-GRM03 (Mar 11, 2020)
Puzzle
“Orphaned, Nunned, Mississippi Bound in 1920.”
No. 611 Trivia | 2 Words
Clue
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Clue 1: You're searching for a character from a musical who fits the three statements here.
Clue 2: Famous musical set in the 1920s, with a main character from Mississippi?
Clue 3: They both reached for the gun, indeed.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Roxie Hart
Explanation: There is a song in the musical Chicago called ‘We Both Reached For The Gun’, which describes Roxie Hart’s life - how her parents were dead, she lived in a convent, was from Mississippi and arrived in Chicago in 1920.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
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EMPLOYEE NO. 611
DATE: 3-11-2020
FILE REFERENCE: C-GRM03
TOTAL: $0.33
So, I’ve been doing some research on the little bouncing Morrisons alongside No. 5 and No. 44A. Nothing super exciting to report from our more standard research methods. It pretty much either confirms things we already knew or uncovers how misinformed tourists can be. However, we took a blood sample from the Grunches, which… was interesting. It wasn’t exactly what we expected, and we’re unsure what to make of it.
As far as we currently know, the Grunches are a strange pair of, well, demonic testicles from the castrated mythical Sunkenman. According to legend, they were cut out by Marie Laveau upon the birth of the Sunkenman, also sometimes referred to as the Devil Baby or the Devilman. We also know that whatever the Grunches really are, they come from the Hauntaurskald. So, you’d expect to see, well, Hautaurskaldian blood, right? Evil balls from a Boogieman—except they’re not from the Hauntaurskald… they’re from Mayda.
Moreover, we’re pretty sure the Grunches are, in fact, Boogiemen themselves. Weird, creepy, malformed Boogiemen, but Boogiemen with a contract, nonetheless. I mean, it makes some sense, right? They have a specific timeframe in which they can come to the Flipside, a task to complete, and a stipulation to subvert that task. I’m starting to think Mrs. Morrison might actually be the Sunkenman. I mean, yes, a part of the Sunkenman, of course. But what if Marie Laveau killed the Devil Baby instead of just castrating it? It might explain why the Sunkenman is regarded as more of a legend than a fact in the New Orleans Coffee scene.
Ah… but then it’s which came first, the chicken or the egg? How does one get the blood of the Sunkenman to banish them if they are meant to become Sunkenmen themselves? And, yes, we tried banishing them with their own blood. Didn’t work.