[ He has only brief stories about that particular mission, but Dipper is happy enough not to dwell on it; given how the rest of their missions seem to be going, hopefully those sorts of outcomes aren't terribly common.

Moving swiftly on, he perks up again. ]

—Yeah! My sister and I went to stay with our uncle out in some middle-of-nowhere town out in the woods, and it turns out there's all sorts of crazy stuff there! Like, only after a week, a bunch of gnomes were already trying to kidnap her.

[ WHICH WASN'T GREAT AT THE TIME but at least these days they can thankfully say they're just kind of a nuisance sometimes. ]