When the trashcan falls over all the foods look in that direction.

Well if they start to approach it'll get out of the way but in the meantime it's time to poke some eggs.

The foods are getting louder with the mediocre noises.

And now the egg is all poked apart and therefore much less interesting.  It'll go back to idly observing the foods.

Some of the foods, in oddly coordinated timing, collect their possessions and hightail it out of the pub. A couple stay, including the one behind the bar, but they're quiet now, and jumpy.

It tries to replicate one of the short goodsounds it heard on the light-up rectangle earlier while it watches.  Gnnnnnnnnehhhhhh.  Gnn - gnehhehhhh?  Gnnnnnnnmm.

The last few patrons of the pub make their exits over the next twenty minutes and the bartender cleans up the trash, warily, and then tidies the rest of the pub.

Huh.  Interesting that the trash can was one way and then the food put it back to be that same way later.  This feels like a revelation of some sort although (despite the fact that it's very clever) the pieces aren't quite all fitting together yet.

When the pub is all cleaned up the last food in the building turns out the light, slips out the door, and locks up.

It misses the chance to exit with the bartender and spends a few minutes alone in the pub before - okay no this is a door that is not working right now.  Are there any other doors or . . . holes?  Of any kind?  Which it might use to leave.

There are windows. They are also locked.

There's the door to the loo, but it doesn't have any further doors beyond that point.

There is a fire exit in the back but it doesn't look very much like other doors it has encountered before.

Outside, it starts to rain.

It has already figured out so many doors, surely this strange one can also be conquered?

Well, if it pushes hard enough on the fire door, a BAD NOISE ENSUES!!!!!

UGH.  At least that happened to happen at exactly the moment it figured out this door's secret, so it can fly well away.

A figure-shaped hole in the rain sets off to collect its sponge.

The sponge is gone now, actually.

Oh NO.  For sure?  Even if it looks everywhere?

Well, there's a lot of everywhere, but it's nowhere in the yard where it left it.

:'( sponge . . .

Back to the church to check on the foods there?

There are now more foods there! The door is still barricaded though.

Are they doing interesting things now that there's more of them?

They are mostly just making mediocresounds at each other. A couple are pacing up and down the sides of the building, looking out the windows, though this doesn't help them find it at all.

- Something almost occurs to it, and it spends a while mulling the thought over.

Foods sometimes cause goodsounds, or make goodsounds themselves.  But mostly they make mediocresounds.

It cannot cause or make goodsounds on its own, but it can make any sounds . . .

Which are kind of mediocre . . . and if it thinks about them as sounds rather than just something it's producing . . . .

It's going to try and make specifically the kinds of mediocresounds that the foods are making.

The mediocre sounds are many and varied! It's a little hard to hear them through the window but it can hear "ghost" and "drunk" and "sponge" and "trash can" and "broom" and other such opaquely enciphered noises.

Ghhhhhhhohhhhhhhh.  Ohhhhsssssss.  Ssssss?  St.  Ohhhhhhhhssssst.  Ghhohhhhhhhmmmmmm.  Nhhhhnmm.  Gohhhs.  Uhnnnnnn.  Ssssssuhnnnng.

Foods continue chattering. Another food shows up at the church and knocks, bang-bang-tap-bang-bang-tap, and peeks in the window, and the foods take down the barricade and let the new food in, but then close the door again right away and put the barricade back up.