TALES FROM THE LOOP: THEY GROW UP SO FAST - Strange, alien worlds, not separated from us by distance, but by reality and dimension. In these other places, where the physical laws are similar but unfamiliar, previously inconceivable life thrives. What if that life needed your help? Would it recognize you as a friend? Would you be able to help it prosper and return home? What if there were others who wanted the life for themselves, who did not understand that it was intelligent and feeling just like you? SPRING: EASTER EGG HUNT: In Spring, the children are taken on a camping trip by their parents. During the night, one of them sees something in the sky that sets the next year of secrets in motion. By the end of the Mystery, the kids will end up sneaking into a small section of the Loop to find what has been secreted there by something more alien than anything they have seen before. SUMMER: THE BEST OF WHAT MIGHT BE: It lives! At the start of Summer, the children witness the hatching of an alien egg, with the creature inside imprinting on them instantly. They soon learn that the creature has needs of its own, although fulfilling them may be more difficult while under the watchful eyes of their new science teacher. AUTUMN: THE YEAR'S LAST, LOVELIEST SMILE: By Autumn, the strange creature has already grown to an unmanageable size. It is in danger of being noticed, or of escaping only to be discovered by an adult. The children must move it somewhere it can live peacefully while it continues to thrive. The main problem is likely to be the existence of a new school club, one that threatens to expose the kids and what they have found to both other kids and the teachers at the school. WINTER: YOU CAN'T GET TOO MUCH...: In Winter, the inevitable happened. The creature was too large to hide and was discovered and captured by the government. If the kids want a chance of saving the creature from a lifetime of being studied, they must sneak into where it is being held and release it. After the creature helps them escape in a dramatic fashion, the creature communicates that it is time for it to finally leave. Only by working with the man whose experiments trapped the creature in this realm in the first place will they be able to get it home again safely.

• 4 INTERWOVEN MYSTERIES: In They Grow Up So Fast, you can experience four seasons of raising and protecting one such new life. It was not fully understood in the 1980s that there were other worlds out there.
• CARING FOR AN UNFAMILIAR CREATURE in a new stage of its life cycle. The characters will have to keep it secret from adults who might hurt it, intentionally or otherwise, before eventually returning it to its family by the end of winter.
• 4 SEASONS: Over the course of a year, the kids will find an unhatched creature and keep it safe from those who may harm it before it makes its way back to its own weird dimension.
• DIFFERENT THREATS: All the while, they will be dogged by adults, other kids, and even a government agency that wants to find the alien for themselves.
• CREATE YOUR OWN SCENERIO: Alternatively, use these mysteries as inspiration for your own scenarios. Each Mystery includes unique challenges and situations the kids must resolve that you can use to inspire your own stories.