Episode XCVIII: The porkypine thread

Huh? What? I stir from my haze (the drugs have really been diddling my brain this weekend) to see that someone in the thread of doom wants me to do something with porcupines? Why? Nasty, wicked, vicious beasts, they are. Will harpoon you with their quills and yank your liver out, they will. See:

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