Trickshot opened his eyes and blinked. “Am I dead?” he asked. The naked women cavorting in the bubbling pool at the base of the waterfall waved to him playfully. “Cause if so that’s okay. I can deal with it.”

“What happened?” Hatman groaned, stirring painfully.

“Nothin’ yet,” Tricky answered. “But give me time.”

“You were all stunned by an extraordinarily powerful telepathic assault,” the Manga Shoggoth explained. “Combined with what I can only assume was a psychoteleportational effect to bring you here.”

‘Here’ was the clearing that the singing has come from. The garden of earthly paradise was people with dozens of men, women, and children, frolicking on the grass and diving into the cool clear waters, feasting on the ripe fruits that blossomed on the trees, laughing and dancing with each other in the warm sunlight.

“I had to follow by my own means,” the Shoggoth added slightly crossly.

Yo was the next to awake. Being a creature of pure thought, s/he actually had physical bruising on his/her flesh after the psychic attack. “Ouching,” Yo declared.

“Why is everybody naked?” Uhuna asked. She fumbled for her neckline. “Should we all take out clothes off too?”

“That won’t be necessary,” Hatman said sternly. “We don’t need any more distractions.”

“I could handle another distraction or two,” CSFB! offered helpfully.

“We still need to know what is happening here,” the Shoggoth pointed out. “There is a substantial telepathic force at work. It seems too great a coincidence for it not to be related to the catastrophe in Wakandybar. Nor is it likely to be unrelated to the strange beasts we have encountered in this area, or the rainbow flashes of teleportation that you mortals have witnessed.”

CSFB! jumped up with a happy grin. “So we find out,” he said.

• Talk to one of the happy naked people
• Look for the singer of the beautiful music
• Try to leave