Pearlescent goo¶
Pearlescent goo is a bitter, compost-scented slime that the team found on a tree in the Safe Environment Fund's fenced site and again above the window of the Douglas Pinball Emporium's office.
| Type | Item (physical sample) |
| Aliases | caterpillar slurry; opalescent slime; goo samples |
| Holder | Kurt (samples), then Donald McManley for analysis |
| First appearance | Radford Horrors 02 |
Description¶
The goo is glistening and pearlescent, a little thicker than snot, and it smells rotten and compost-like, the same smell the team associated with the Radford Moth (Radford Horrors 02).
Properties¶
Daniel Webster tasted the first sample. It was eye-wateringly bitter and he immediately felt unwell, followed by a weird sweet aftertaste that made him salivate compulsively (Radford Horrors 02).
In Radford Horrors 04, Kurt held a sample under the nose of the catatonic Wilbur Whateley at the Roanoke mental hospital. Wilbur's muscles stiffened under his clothes, his eyes took on a waxy look and his fingers clutched the handles of his wheelchair, though he did not respond at that moment (Radford Horrors 04).
History¶
The tree in the SEF site¶
At the cleaned scribble inside the Safe Environment Fund fenced site, Kurt noticed something shiny on a high branch and used Huell's crutch to scrape it down: a big glob of glisteny, pearlescent snot stuck to the crutch. Kurt took a sample, which he thought might be a chemical agent, and wanted to get it to McManley. Andrew whispered "Caterpillar slurry," and kept repeating it until the lawyers arrived. Earlier in the episode Andrew had wondered aloud whether the dead moth had left eggs or young (Radford Horrors 02).
The emporium window¶
At the Douglas Pinball Emporium in Radford Horrors 04, Kurt's Investigate a Mystery roll (11) showed that the office window opening onto the alley was a likely route in. It had the same rotten compost smell as the moth, although the Smart car-sized moth could not have fit through it. Searching the alley, he found another dollop of the slime above the window and took a sample. Kurt's working theory was that the cleanup crew was sent because something alien, perhaps a juvenile moth, had been in the building; see the diner security tape and the emporium intruder (Radford Horrors 04).
Huell phoned McManley from a payphone: "Get down here, we've got goo." McManley asked, "Is there a face this time?" Huell answered, "Not yet," and McManley agreed to come, though not until the next day. The phrase appears to refer back to the folded face of the Appalachia case. With two goo samples in hand, Kurt looked forward to McManley's analysis (Radford Horrors 04).