Hardly Boys And The Mystery Of The Stroka Bots

Here’s my WR Kit.
“Think what I’ve done for the sport…”

I'm closing in on 5,000 miles. HOLY FUCKING SHIT. So much so that I need a FAST BOOST! Technology, narcissism and a credit card are gonna give it ALL to me.

#StayHardly*

This mystery is tailor-made for the Hardly Boys. And their sidekick Nancy "Drew The Short Straw." But all is about to change. She's fed up with being an apostrophe in a a high-asterisk occupation. The Hardly Boys just don't see her for what she is. She's not getting any.

Frank Hardly has several drinks too many one night.

"So, uh, Nancy, you like to play Tag, right? Well, how about tag... TEAM??"

<crickets>

Nancy stubs out her Lucky. She looks at Frank.
”You think I was bone yesterday?”
”You mean ‘born’, right?”
”No shit, Sherlock. I said BONE. Draw your own conclusions”

Frank's eyes glaze over when he sees the Cuban fishnets. He wants to call his brother Joe Hardly, but knows he's at the weekly Rick Astley VR Zoom.

Noir Nancy has emerged.

HEY WHAT ABOUT MY WR EFFORTS???

Someone? Anyone???

___________
*Ideas looted from Guys Who Are Way Fucking Smarter Than Me. Jeff, Ryan, Chris: I owe you a drink or something.

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