It figures that Jon would slow down the pace the week after the first TCP [goats.com] appeared. It seems Fineas won't jack in until after Jon is back from his vacation.

Nevertheless, we have to have something to show to the boss when he gets back to make it look like we were busy.

Fineas and Oliver will soon meet in the intermultiversenet thingy. The opening verbal sparring [goats.com] ("smack", if you prefer) is an important component of any confrontation of this sort.

	0% (0)	Sorry, can we move this along please? I'm on dial-up and I've used up all of my ISP's free hours.
	29% (7)	Nice headless corpse! Hot Topic or a local shop?
	20% (5)	Your days of malefaction end here, Oliver. No more malefactoring for you. Fish, let me handle this.
	25% (6)	It's over, Oliver. My deck has been reinforced beyond your wildest imagination. I summon Dark Magician Girl! And then I'll place one card face down, ending my turn.
	25% (6)	I don't think I can finish this. Do you want half? It's salami and havarti on rye.