CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE – LANCE’S UNDOING

Over the next several days, their merry band of pranksters elevated their hijinks considerably thanks to Miss Plastique's encyclopedic knowledge of hair and beauty products. At one point, the vapors from hair treatment concoctions she'd secretly left in his shower rendered Larry a wheezing, red-eyed mess for a full day of filming. During the mansion's weekly karaoke night, Jasmine and Pierre teamed up to swap out the foam microphone covers with generous dollops of depilatory wax - the shrill yelps of surprise from the singed conspiracy theorist stayed with them for weeks afterwards. Not even Larry's food and beverages were spared from the brigade's reign of silliness. Tasteless but effective pranks like salt in his morning coffee or hot sauce in his protein smoothies had him spitting and stomping around the mansion like a petulant child throwing a tantrum. When he tried to corner Jasmine in the kitchen, demanding furiously to know why his entire vitamin regimen tasted like liter