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King Crunkey with MooonKey on his shoulder, Dale's boombox at the lunar pad

Coffee for Dessert · Issues 00–05

The Crunks

Orphan revival through present day. Ten thousand years of wizard lore, Sumerian hulls, and an ignored race that never left Earth after Terra abandonment.

King CrunkeyDale o'GherkinsCowboy DanChrys TalRandy RingerYogi o'YieldyDisco DanAndroid 107Jonathan GreenIntern 8082Leon J. SkrumpfRodger RingerSteve StingerZombie 7313Lights OutZiggy ZugUncle PaulMC SteezyHazey BlaiseSteady LadPad SecurityGinger in the PitSix-String ExtraGreen MarketCurb CourierLaugh TrackForest WatchKing CrunkeyDale o'GherkinsCowboy DanChrys TalRandy RingerYogi o'YieldyDisco DanAndroid 107Jonathan GreenIntern 8082Leon J. SkrumpfRodger RingerSteve StingerZombie 7313Lights OutZiggy ZugUncle PaulMC SteezyHazey BlaiseSteady LadPad SecurityGinger in the PitSix-String ExtraGreen MarketCurb CourierLaugh TrackForest Watch

“Keep going.” The mythology and the newsletter are running the same play. Zombie wrangling is a supply chain. Fight club is rehab. Classic contractor energy.

The rack

Six issues. One through-line.

All issues

Faction reels

The roster, sliding

CrunkeyLand runs the pad. RingLeader runs the book. Same play, two offices, fifty seconds of pixel bodies that never clocked out.

CrunkeyLand Cast

King, Dale, Chrys Tal, Steady Lad, Disco Dan, Ziggy Zug, Lights Out, Ginger, Intern, Pad Security.

RingLeader Investments

Randy, Curb Courier, MC Steezy, Laugh Track, Green Market, Steve, Hazey, Android 107, Jonathan Green, Rodger.

Wandering lore

10,000 years of ignored paperwork

Full timeline

c. 8000 BCE

They called it Sumer. We called it Tuesday.

Ten thousand years before the peg broke, the ships were already leaving. Bronze hulls, wizard charts, and a race nobody put on the manifest. Crunks were in the cargo hold and on the docks. Earth kept the receipt and lost the plot. Anachronism is just a word historians use when the paperwork is late.

undated / both sides of the wormhole

Wizard lore is chess that learned to fly.

Chrys Tal beat Merlin blindfolded at eleven and walked away with diamond-lens glasses distilled from an elixir. The board is a map. The map is a flight plan. Merlin still has not recovered, which is the correct posture for anyone who lost to a child who could see both sides of a wormhole at once.

always

You just never filed the paperwork.

Crunks have been an ever-present ignored race on Earth. Not hidden. Not extinct. Ignored. The Intern files weekly reports from Crunkeyland to Crunktown because somebody has to. Terra abandonment is the latest chapter of a book that started when Sumer still had a harbor.