Summer Of Lurve

Gday: “What kept you, Spud? We’ve been keeping our loyal fans waiting for over a week, anticipating the outcome of this one last match.

Spud: “I had…things to take care of. Let’s get this over with okay?

Gday: “Don’t get snippy with me, mister, or else I’ll take away your favorite “Sounds of the Killer Whale” relaxation tape.

Spud: “…fine.”

Spud picks up the Family of One deck, while Gday takes Adamantium Skrullmates.

Spud wins the dice roll and takes odds. Both players keep their opening hands.

Turn 1

Without a single 1-drop in his deck, Spud predictably passes his first turn. Gday drops his ideal opening character, Black Bolt, Enemy Within, and swings for one. First blood to Gday!

Gday 50, Spud 49

Turn 2

Gday chooses to recruit Warskrull, Skrull Infiltrator, in front of Black Bolt, already having two team-ups in his row. Spud responds with the star 2-drop of his deck, Luke Cage, Steel-Hard Skin, discarding Signal Flare for his ability before combat starts.

Gday flips up Act of Defiance to team up Fantastic Four and Skrull for an extra +1/+1 on Black Bolt before team attacking with Warskrull and Black Bolt into Luke Cage to guarantee the stun. Luke trades stuns with Warskrull and lets Spud draw 2 cards before moving onto the next turn.

Gday 48, Spud 47

Turn 3

Spud recruits Thing, Idol O’ Millions next to Luke in the front row, following his ideal curve to so far. Gday recruits Ahmed Samsarra, White King in the hidden area, and teams-up Checkmate and Skrull with Checkmate Safehouse. Spud pitches Gone But Not Forgotten to Luke’s ability, anticipating an easy stun this turn.

Spud starts things off by sending Luke into Warskrull, who’s exhausted to Tech Upgrade to grab Quadromobile, before being reinforced by Black Bolt. For the second turn in a row, the same characters stun and Luke nets Spud another 2 cards.

Next, Spud sends Thing into Black Bolt, who can only shore up his defences with Checkmate Safehouse before stunning. Satisfied with himself, Spud passes to Gday, who flips Brother I Satellite, pitching an Ahmed to get Wolverine, Agent of SHIELD/Hydra. Then Ahmed activates to KO the used Satellite, and get Quentin Carnival. Sadly, Warskrull is lost during recovery, and Spud laughs at Gday’s misfortune.

Gday 43, Spud 45

Turn 4

Gday recruits the sought out Wolverine from last turn in front of Black Bolt, who gets intp the front seat of the Quadromobile. Spud brings out Fin Fang Foom, KO’ing his entire resource row. Gday blanches paler than something really quite pale…

But suddenly, the door to the majestic game room opens and from beyond the doorway, a scratchy male voice is heard to say: “Like, hold it right there, man!”

A gang of teens dressed in bright colourful hues, accompanied by their large Great Dane, enters the room, and approaches the gaming table, encircling Captain Spud.

The tall, blonde male speaks up first, seemingly the leader of the group, despite his horrible taste in out-dated neckwear. “Nice work, Scoob. You led us right to him!”

The frumpy, yet oddly attractive, bespectacled female moves over to Captain Spud, who sits frozen in his chair, now wearing the look as pale as Gday had only moments before. “Now, let’s see who this creepy Spud monster really is!”

Gripping the skin below Spud’s shirt collar, the orange-sweatered woman proceeds to tear off the eerily life-like “Captain Spud” mask, revealing the true face underneath.

“Like, zoinks! It’s Old Man Kingfish!” Exclaims the unshaven, gangly hippie standing next to Gday, subtly eying his unfinished sandwich. “But, like, why?”

“It’s simple, Shaggy,” states the last member of the group, a stunning red-head wearing entirely too much purple. “Mr. Kingfish here must’ve kidnapped the real Captain Spud in order to fix the final match and win all the prizes for himself.”

The shorter female takes over, obviously jealous of the other girl’s good looks. “And that must mean that…”

Cutting in on her sentence, the dorky blond guy takes over, earning an unnoticed glare from both of the women. “It means that the killer whale sounds we heard earlier weren’t a recording from a relaxation tape, but rather the sounds of the real Captain Spud, bound and gagged, moaning for help!”

Upon this revelation, the large dog manages to open the closet in the corner without the use of opposable thumbs, and reveals the actual Captain Spud. “Round him, Raggy!”

“And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!” Grumbles Old Man Kingfish to himself, as no one’s really paying attention to him anymore.

Finally collecting his wits, Gday stands up and addresses the group of teens before him.

“How can I ever thank you? You’ve saved my precious tournament from being ruined by this sore loser. How about I treat you all to some of my wife’s famous homemade stew?”

The obviously stoned hippie perks up at the mention of food. “Sounds good to me, man. Just make sure to go easy on the ’spuds’, k?”

Despite the lame joke, everyone laughs, even the dog. “Ne-he-he-he-he-he! Rooby doobie dooooo!”

Jinkies, now that we’ve wrapped up that kooky mystery, we can finally get on with the REAL finale to the Summer of Love.

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Yes, fellow Lost, I’m sorry to say the finale isn’t quite ready for public consumption… but it turns out Flashback and Kingfish couldn’t quite wait, and tried to play out the match on our behalf… thankfully, the Scooby Gang was on the case.

Many apologies for the delay, hopefully, we’ll have it all completed for you soon…