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The League of the Glimmering Beards! Based on the Sherlock Holmes story, The Red-Headed League!
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Episode The League of the Glimmering Beards! Based on the Sherlock Holmes story, The Red-Headed League!
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The League of the Glimmering Beards! 🧔✨
Based on the Sherlock Holmes story, The Red-Headed League!
Sunlight streams into Wizzlethorp the Wizard's tower, but the peace is broken when Fergus O’Gold the leprechaun bursts in, absolutely heartbroken! 😭 He has lost his "shiny future"—or rather, his very strange job!
For three weeks, Fergus was a member of the "League of the Glimmering Beards," a club for people with magnificent facial hair. His job? Sitting in a room for four hours a day polishing a single brass button for five gold coins a week! 🪙 But suddenly, the office is closed, the league has vanished, and Fergus is out of work!
Wizzlethorp (our Sherlock!) and the patchwork creature Stanky (our Watson!) realize this "job" was a ridiculous trick. Why would someone pay a leprechaun to polish a button? 🤔
The game is afoot! The team discovers a secret tunnel being dug from Fergus's basement straight into Sparky Flarkbottom's workshop! Two jealous rival inventors, Fizzlewhip and Cogsworth, have been tunneling in secret to steal Sparky's greatest invention: the Autonomaton 9000! 🤖
Will Wizzlethorp’s magic and Sparky's "Tangle Slime Net" catch the thieves before they disappear with the clockwork prize? And will Sir Chucklenugget arrive in time to save the day? Join the mystery and see how the smartest beard in Snaggleton solved the crime!
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