"They passed already? What the hell were you all doing?"
"Fuck you, where were you?"
"I went to double check something. I had to after what I noticed, just in case he had left behind any of the Spatial Bristle Bush Cores."
"And?"
"Nothing. He took it all."
"Tsk. You should have already known that after the first time you checked."
"Never mind that, it looks like he was already prepared for a barricade. We can't waste time here for too long. A beast tide has already formed and we need to make it through before the real big shots get here. This is nothing like previous years, it's like they really want as much of us to die as possible. Even the storefronts already vanished by the time I got back."