Episode 178 - Prison Yelp

Book of Doug Touchstones

 * The induction of a Church of the Knife member

Episode Features

 * Gordie did not call Boatwatch, and should have
 * Tyler introduced himself as the crimeweaver, Keeper of the Raccoon Gang

Featured Story
This story was from Japan.

Overall Plot

 * Tokoyo's father, a Samurai, was banished, and she misses him a lot, so she sells everything to find him
 * She was raised diving with the women of the village, so she's brave
 * By the time she gets to the docks, she's low on money, and no fishermen will take her because it's illegal to land of banishment-island
 * she steals a boat and paddles out with her hands, and is super sick by the time she gets there
 * she asks a man to help her find her dad, but he says no stop asking, and then she wanders around homeless for a while
 * she finds a Buddha shrine, and prays and sleeps there
 * in the morning, she wakes up to find a sobbing 15 year old girl, and a priest/shrive keeper (creeper) praying. He goes to throw the girl off the cliff, and Tokoyo grabs and saves her
 * Turns out there's an underwater evil god who demands a 15-year-old girl sacrifice every June 13 between 8 and 9 otherwise he causes floods and storms and kills all the fishermen
 * Tokoyo volunteers to go in the girl's stead (even though she's 18), since she can't find her father anyway. She gives the priest a letter to deliver to her father, and then puts a knife from her ancestors between her death and dives in
 * She sees a man, and realizes it's the statue of the guy that banished her dad, so she wants to take revenge on it, but decides to bring it to the surface instead
 * then she sees a big lizard/snake monster, and it comes toward her hungrily, and just in time she sidesteps and stabs its right eye
 * it's flailing, so she stabs its heart from the left, and then fights it off to keep it from retreating back into the dark cave until it dies
 * she carries the carcass and the statue to the surface
 * turns out the guy that banished her dad has been super sick, and then wasn't anymore, so he gets told about the statue and realizes someone had cursed the statue and drowned it to harm him because he banished them unjustly
 * the monster had been drawn to the island by the evilness of the cursed statue
 * dad is un-banished and all is cool

Discussion Points

 * toilets
 * troughs are the scourge of toilets
 * the miracle is in the effort
 * shrine creeper
 * breathing into drowning people