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[[Shaggy-haired person walking across panel. A voice is heard out of panel.]]
SHP: Why is there a teapot in the bathroom?
OOP: Sorry. When I'm on the phone I always zone out and pick stuff up and carry it around.
[[SHP at the open fridge door, holding a hammer.]]
SHP: There's a hammer in the fridge.
OOP: Another phone call. I was just fidgeting.
[[SHP walks by four stacks of objects. They consist of books, baseballs, blenders, and other unidentified rectangular objects.]]
SHP: Did you put all our stuff in weird stacks?
OOP: Long call. Sorry.
[[SHP goes out to the backyard, looks up at towering monolith.]]
SHP: ...why is there a giant obelisk in the backyard?
OOP: Phone again. My bad.
SHP: It's carved with prayers to "Ba'al, the Soul-Eater."
OOP: Haha! I'm so absentminded.
{{Title text: 'No idea what I was thinking! Haha! But anyway, maybe we should check out what this Ba'al guy has to say.'}}
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