The heroes struck off back down the path, leaving the happy revellers to their sylvan amusements at the waterfall pool.

“There must be hundreds of people here,” Hatman realised. “Thousands, maybe.”

“And not all from the same ethnic groups,” CSFB! added. “These folks aren’t all from just round here. Sure, they’re nearly all black, but…”

“They have probably been drawn here through the rainbow portals you all experienced,” the Manga Shoggoth rumbled. “There are undoubtedly several more than we have seen, transitory teleportation phenomena drawing mortals from all around the area of the crater.”

“Well, they seem better off here than they are in those areas that were earthquaked and storm-ravaged,” pointed out Uhuna.

“This place should have been earthquaked and storm-damaged too,” objected Hatman.

“Is to be true that is nicer here for cute-humans,” Yo agreed. “But is not so good to be sleepwalking through it.”

“You mean it’s not paradise if you can’t choose it,” CSFB! summarised. “Yeah, I’m with that. So what do we do about…”

Then the wired wonder fell silent. They’d followed the path away from the waterfall, but now ahead of them that same waterfall with its playful inhabitants lay before them.

“I don’t think we’re allowed to go away,” Uhuna noted.

• Send Hatman to try and fly out of the valley
• Talk to one of the people in paradise (if they haven’t already)
• Head to the big rock behind the waterfall and look for the singer
• Take off their clothes and become citizens of paradise