In Case of Hooks, Part 8: "Hooks In Boots"

  • If Fire-For-Hands Man is gone, go home.

  • If you return to a pile of rubble, remember that your house burned down.

  • In case of homelessness, locate that hook-handed hobo who took your money so long ago.

  • If you find that hook-handed hobo, ask if he needs a roommate.

  • If he doesn't need a roommate, it's probably because he doesn't have any rooms.

  • If he doesn’t have any rooms, ask him how he became homeless in the first place.

  • If he became homeless due to his old house being burned down by a pyromaniac, ask why he didn’t put out the fire.

  • If he didn’t put out the fire because he was napping to celebrate defeating his ex-friend, ask why he and his ex-friend were fighting.

  • If he and his ex-friend were fighting because he left his ex-friend for dead earlier, ask where he left his ex-friend for dead earlier.

  • If he left his ex-friend for dead in the lab of a mad scientist, ask what happened in the lab of the mad scientist.

  • If the mad scientist gave him hooks for hands, ask him how he ended up captured by a mad scientist in the first place.

  • If he was captured while looking for a back-alley hospital, ask why he was looking for a back-alley hospital.

  • If he was looking for a back-alley hospital because he had no hands to cover his head with, ask why he was covering his head.

  • If he was covering his head, there was probably a fire.

  • In case of fire, hook-handed hobo may be the original Hooks-For-Hands Man.

  • If hook-handed hobo is the original Hooks-For-Hands Man, you may actually be in a reboot.

  • If you’re homeless, realize that you are now a hook-handed hobo too.

  • If you are now a hook-handed hobo too, realize that your own story is being rebooted.

Dan Markowitz