Mooch shows you the road. Boss Jerry wants to own it. Learn the way out, then use it to get home.
This episode gives Jerry an adventure of his own: the thrill of getting away, the danger of trusting the wrong people, and the realization that he wants to come home. I would make that journey the rule the player feels.
Build a three-shot trail. Then retrace it under pressure. Going out, you choose which dimensions to visit. Coming back, the game lights those same shots in reverse order while Boss Jerry closes in. The shots you made earlier become your escape route.
It is guided, not a memory test. The next shot always flashes, and your trail stays visible on the display. Learning the route should make the chase feel satisfying, even on a first play.
My recommendation: a focused single-ball adventure with eight scoring shots. Let the chase and the music provide the escalation; save a dedicated multiball for a later variation.
*Proposed integration with the existing adventure flow. Registration and selection hooks still need to be verified in the local beta.
Start at the adventure scoop with a short introduction to Mooch. The mode begins when the ball returns to play. No extra qualification grind in the first version: let us test the adventure itself.
Both ramps and both orbits glow green. Make any three different routes, in any order. Each one stamps a destination onto your trail.
Reach Grand Central. Boss Jerry cuts off the route. A short transition moves through Mooch’s homecoming and the decision to face the road again.
Your third destination flashes first, then your second, then your first. Retrace all three and the garage lights for the final escape.
Keep the ball moving. Travel clips and chase reactions play underneath live action. Only the scoop transition uses a normal ball capture. Missed shots are not penalties; time is the pressure. A true ball end or timeout ends the attempt, and all banked points stay.
Pick three different green shots. The order you choose becomes your way home.
Four travel shots give the player some choice without spreading attention across the entire table. These destinations are a pinball adaptation of the episode; the player chooses their order.
| Physical shot | Episode role | During the mode |
|---|---|---|
Left rampleftRampMake | Blah dimension | First visit earns a stamp; its return visit escapes a familiar world. |
Right ramprightRampMake | Infinite mirror tunnel | A flowing ramp shot becomes a slip between realities. |
Left orbitleftOrbit | Frozen world | A brief, quieter discovery beat. The trail records that you were here. |
Right orbitrightOrbit | Disco moon | A bright travel reward, later revisited during the chase. |
Scoopscoop | Grand Central | The middle checkpoint and a short captured-ball story transition. |
Garagegarage → subway | The passage home | The final shot closes the route behind the boss and completes the adventure. |
The physical house shot is tempting thematically. I prefer the garage for the first version because its route into the portal trough gives the ending a natural sense of going somewhere. Its capture and release must remain under the base game’s control.
These are starting values for discussion, not balanced production scores. The completed journey should be worth more than farming one easy shot.
| Achievement | Draft award |
|---|---|
| New destination × 3 | 10,000 each |
| Grand Central checkpoint | 20,000 |
| Correct return shot × 3 | 20,000 each |
| Garage completion | 75,000 |
| Time left on final 15-second clock | 1,000 / full second |
185,000 for completion, plus up to 15,000 for the final clock. Ordinary base-game scoring is separate. Compare with existing adventures before setting final values.
Travel inserts guide the player. Three persistent destination stamps make progress obvious. Mooch’s encouragement follows successful shots.
The correct return shot flashes green; subdued red marks the pursuit elsewhere. Keep general illumination readable. Show the next physical shot name alongside the timer.
A short passage-collapse payoff, followed by Jerry’s homecoming. Move from pursuit audio to a warm resolution. Let the ending feel earned.
Rusted Root’s “Send Me on My Way” becomes the proposed musical thread: discovery, the floating-water singalong, and a return during the escape. See the music and singalong plan below.
Short excerpts from your episode, arranged as a visual treatment. Each poster is a storyboard frame; press play to see the motion and hear the dialogue. These are review excerpts with original audio and optional captions, not final cabinet edits.
Mooch finds the crack in the closet and invites Jerry into the multiverse.
Mode use: the opening at the scoop. End the edit on the invitation, then reveal the four green travel shots.
The upside-down coaster tells travelers a route is safe. It gives the adventure a useful visual language.
Mode use: turn a coaster or trail marker into the destination stamp. Each new shot leaves one on the screen.
The friendly travel mood breaks when Boss Jerry asserts control and orders the pair blacklisted.
Mode use: the Grand Central scoop checkpoint. Trim to the threat, change the lighting, and show the first return shot.
The giant mouse is the adventure’s big, ridiculous burst of momentum.
Mode use: a short visual reward on the second successful return shot. The next shot stays live while it plays.
Jerry releases the stretched passage and Boss Jerry is carried away in its collapse.
Mode use: the garage completion. Cut a 3–5 second visual payoff from this longer review window, then bank the completion award.
Jerry discovers his absence mattered. The relief is what makes the ending more than another defeated villain.
Mode use: a brief victory tag after the collapse. The final display shows your route, your points, and that you made it home.
Clips play only when selected. Starting a clip pauses any other clip on the page. Review lengths are deliberately longer than the proposed in-game reactions so we can choose the edits together.
Review windows below refer to your 22:21.952 MKV. They locate material for editing; they are not final clip lengths. Gameplay clips should generally be short enough to read at a glance.
Mooch reveals the route and promises to get Jerry home. Use a short fragment for the adventure opening.
The trail marker, Blah dimension, and mirror tunnel establish the discovery shots and stamp imagery.
The frozen family and travelers’ memorial give the route a human meaning. A restrained stamp animation suits this beat.
The montage and disco-moon view supply quick destination payoffs, colors, and the initial musical mood.
The route home closes; Grand Central becomes the way forward. This motivates the scoop checkpoint.
The confrontation and blacklist turn a carefree trip into an escape. Use one threat, not the whole conversation.
A brief emotional bridge before the chase preserves the episode’s point: getting home matters.
The couch nexus, repeated escapes, and decision to double back provide escalating return-shot reactions.
The giant mouse is a return-shot payoff. Jerry releasing the stretched passage is the visual climax for the garage finish.
The goodbye and the family’s relief resolve the adventure. The victory is making it home, not becoming Boss Jerry.
Let the song carry the journey.
Rusted Root’s “Send Me on My Way” should be the musical thread of Nomortland, with the floating-water singalong as a featured character moment. The episode’s subtitle track identifies the song in both the travel montage and the later pursuit. The same joyful theme can feel very different when you are trying to get home.
A short episode excerpt of the water-dimension singing moment Tim suggested. This is a review cue with original audio, not a final cabinet mix.
Proposed trigger: the second new destination stamp during exploration. Let the character sing while the next travel shot stays live.
Briefly lower or crossfade out the main song bed so the episode performance is clear. Then return to the travel music. The supplied episode mix may include background music; the final edit must avoid two competing versions playing together.
Play the singalong once per attempt, rather than on repeated shots. Keep the next shot name, route stamps and timer visible during the clip. Do not hold the ball or wait for a beat before awarding a shot.
The moment belongs to the shared exploration phase, so it works in either the single-ball or two-ball version.
Bring in the song as exploration starts. Let it run underneath travel shots instead of restarting on every hit. Use the water singalong as a short reward for the second new destination.
At Grand Central, fade the music beneath Boss Jerry’s threat. This gives the checkpoint a clear change of mood and makes the return of the song feel earned.
Bring back an energetic section when the reverse-route chase or two-ball escape begins. At the garage completion, resolve the music into the collapse and homecoming clips. Any continuing Jackpot laps use a quieter travel bed beneath scoring callouts.
Audio still to prepare: the MP3 Tim offered can supply the song bed; the episode supplies the character performance. Choose loop points and transition cuts after listening to that exact file, then test speech clarity and levels on the machine. No standalone song track is embedded on this page; the player above is the short episode cue.
Two travelers. Two balls. One way home.
Keep the three-destination exploration and Grand Central scoop checkpoint. Then let the escape become a two-ball multiball: Jerry and Mooch running the road together. This is an alternative to the single-ball chase above, not an extra phase added after it.
Single-ball: retrace your three destinations in reverse order against a timer.
Two-ball alternative: all three visited destinations light for jackpots. Collect each once, in any order, to light the garage Super Jackpot. Keeping two balls alive becomes the pressure.
The first garage Super Jackpot completes the adventure. This version would replace the return timer and reverse-order rule.
At the Grand Central checkpoint, request a second ball through the game’s normal multiball system. Release the scoop ball and launch the second ball. The display introduces Mooch and Eagle Man.
The three destinations you visited become green Jackpot shots. Make each once, in any order. Collected shots dim; the remaining exits stay bright.
Three unique Jackpots light the garage for a proposed 100,000-point Super Jackpot. Make it to collapse the passage behind Boss Jerry and complete the adventure.
Drain and restart proposal: after ball save expires, dropping to one ball before the first Super Jackpot lights the scoop for one 10-second restart chance. A successful scoop restores two-ball play and preserves collected Jackpots. Jackpot scoring pauses while the restart is pending and resumes once two balls are confirmed. Only one restart per attempt; no fresh opening ball save on the restart. If that window expires, the attempt ends with earned points retained. A true ball end ends the attempt immediately. Once the first Super Jackpot is collected, the adventure is complete and no restart is needed.
Your chosen trail still determines the return shots. The garage is still the way home. The collapsing passage and family homecoming remain the emotional payoff. The existing clips and storyboard apply to either treatment.
The original exploration and checkpoint awards total 50,000; the first three Jackpots and Super Jackpot add 175,000, for a proposed 225,000 before ordinary scoring. Later laps add 175,000 each. These values need comparison with other modes.
Verify second-ball delivery, ball-save accounting, restart timing, and scheduling with other multiballs. Only player-made shots score; served-ball switch activity cannot award a Jackpot. If another multiball is active, defer this feature through a supported queue rather than stack untested rules.
Status: design alternative only. The route demo above still illustrates the original single-ball version.
The best part is the reversal: the shots that made you feel adventurous become the shots that bring you home. I would protect that idea as we develop the rest.
Player-chosen destinations. A clear trail on screen. A faster return trip. The giant mouse as a payoff. A garage finish with the collapsing passage. A brief homecoming that gives the journey a reason.
Mooch & Eagle Man multiball. The two-ball treatment turns the visited routes into Jackpots and the garage into a Super Jackpot. Read the full alternative above, including the proposed ball save, restart and completion rules.
The draft attempt ends on a true ball end or timeout; earned score remains. A ball saved by the base game is not an attempt-ending drain. New games and player changes must isolate all route state. For the first playable build, begin only in single-ball play and defer conflicting multiballs through the game’s existing scheduler if supported. Do not discard an earned feature. Exact scheduling support must be checked; stacking is not claimed.
Adventure registration, player state, lamp ownership, shot normalization, media priority, clock pause/resume, and the normal scoop/portal release flow. An orbit can fire both entrance and exit switches; one physical shot must never earn two destinations. An autoplunge must not count as a chosen orbit. Use ramp-made events, not ramp entrances. The garage/subway sequence must score its completion once. None of this requires replacing vendor bytecode or adding direct coil control.
Exploration time (draft 60 seconds), scoop approach time (20), chase time (35), chase extensions (5 seconds after each of the first two return shots), final garage time (15), score values, and intro/cutscene length. Clock time pauses during game pause and confirmed base-game ball holds. Abort cancels all mode callbacks and restores lamp/audio ownership. These are proposed settings, not implemented service options.
Whether it should be an earned adventure, whether the home shot should be the house instead of the garage, whether the chase should become multiball, and how difficult the return sequence should feel. The design is open for revision; this page records the first concrete proposal.