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Actually, the person with the bucket is saving the player from a parasitical extraterrestrial that is posing as a reporter. The bucket acts almost as a djinn’s lamp would. The blue liquid substance is the creature being dissolved on contact with black magic, as it is pulled back to its resting place. It will lie dormant for about a millennium; by then, it will burst out, find a new host, and wreak havoc on the world once more...

This just in, Gatorade. In my face. I need a towel