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Summary: Viper Rum and Cosmic Popeyes
Review: "Mystery of Jaguar Reef" is among my favorites of the Jack Flanders' adventures series of full-cast audio theater. It manages to combine my love of Jack Flanders with my love of Popeye in a strange combination that caught me by surprise.In this adventure, Jack gets a phone call from his friend Carman ("Dreams of Rio"). Is seems her mother has become a "walk-in," meaning that her mother's spirit has walked out, and a new one has walked in. She conscripts Jack's assistant, knowing that his experience with the mystical will set things right. Jack is off to Belize. In Belize, Jack meets Carmen's mother, now a sophisticated and sexy woman, and seeks to find where the real mother has gone. The trail leads to Captain Co-co, who takes Jack SCUBA diving in Jaguar Reef, where two things are found. A set of skeletons playing chess, in an underwater pirate shipwreck, and a keg of Viper Rum, nectar of the rum gods. Back on the surface, knocking back some Viper Rum with Captain Co-co, the adventure begins in earnest. And Popeye appears. Packed with more humor than your average ZBS adventure, "The Mystery of Jaguar Reef" is high-spirited and full of fun.
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Summary: Viper Rum and Cosmic Popeyes
Review: "Mystery of Jaguar Reef" is among my favorites of the Jack Flanders' adventures series of full-cast audio theater. It manages to combine my love of Jack Flanders with my love of Popeye in a strange combination that caught me by surprise. In this adventure, Jack gets a phone call from his friend Carman ("Dreams of Rio"). Is seems her mother has become a "walk-in," meaning that her mother's spirit has walked out, and a new one has walked in. She conscripts Jack's assistant, knowing that his experience with the mystical will set things right. Jack is off to Belize. In Belize, Jack meets Carmen's mother, now a sophisticated and sexy woman, and seeks to find where the real mother has gone. The trail leads to Captain Co-co, who takes Jack SCUBA diving in Jaguar Reef, where two things are found. A set of skeletons playing chess, in an underwater pirate shipwreck, and a keg of Viper Rum, nectar of the rum gods. Back on the surface, knocking back some Viper Rum with Captain Co-co, the adventure begins in earnest. And Popeye appears. Packed with more humor than your average ZBS adventure, "The Mystery of Jaguar Reef" is high-spirited and full of fun.
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