Part 6: Alexander Knocks After Midnight

This episode introduces the third dragon. At the worst possible time: after closing, in the dark, offering triple pay.

Watch the series in order and this is where the cast is complete.

What happens

You are closing up. Alexander knocks.

He says he normally uses a regular washer, but that person has stopped for the night. More importantly, he says your work last time was good enough that he came back.

He offers double. Then corrects himself to triple. He knows he is being a nuisance at this hour.

Then he explains why he looks the way he does. None of it has to do with washing:

• A colleague — Professor Igwix — tried to use him as a stepping stone for his own advancement.
• Something went wrong. There was what you describe as an explosion. The colleague is gone.
• The explanation offered: any self-respecting wizard keeps a phoenix feather. So Igwix’s physical form is being reassembled in the staff lounge.

Your on-screen reaction matches any viewer’s: this is the strangest thing the game has said so far.

That is exactly why this episode is worth watching even though the wash itself is ordinary.

This world is not just a wash bay and three customers. It has universities, rivalries and resurrection as background facts. And it delivers all of that as small talk.

What this says about the shift structure

That last row repeats the lesson from Part 3.

Alexander is big enough that you have to get on top of him to work. That is a different problem from fetching the ladder.

Two customers in a row where the answer is “get higher” is not a coincidence. The game is telling you body size is a design axis, not decoration.

What viewers said

No comments as of 16 September 2026.

Alexander is the least-discussed of the three dragons in this collection. And this episode — late-night arrival, triple pay, exploded professor — would generate the most argument if more people watched it.

Watch it with

For the colleague who exploded, see Part 3, where he is the customer. For Alexander’s place in the cast, read the dragon customers page. To compare route lengths, see the 64-minute longplay — its uploader says the Alexander route was planned as a separate video.

Sources

Title, channel, length, upload date and view count come from YouTube metadata read on 16 September 2026. The summary is based on the video’s own audio and on-screen text. The names of Alexander and the colleague come from the video’s dialogue. All three dragons are named by the developer in the official Kobold Hotfix announcement: Conrad in a level 8 interaction fix, Ryan at the picnic level, and Alexander in a model-clipping fix. Three dragons, the male-only cast and the ~90-minutes-per-ending figure come from the official Steam store page.