Teddy
wakes before Grubby and Gimmick and sees an old man sleeping on their
front lawn. He alerts the other two and Gimmick goes to try to wake the
stranger up. Grubby takes charge and shakes the old man, who wakes up
and begins freaking out, yelling about "bringing in the calvalry" and
seems to be having a flashback to war battle. He calms down
after a minute and asks the trio if whoever was attacking him is gone.
They tell him he was dreaming and that he's among friends. He tells
them he's Old Beanly and is there to deliver a message from King
Nogburt, although he really cant remember who he's bringing the message
to, nor what the message was. Teddy says maybe a good breakfast will
refresh his memory, Grubby wholeheartedly agrees.
LB
is looking down at Gimmick's valley from Tweeg's telescope and
recognizes Beanly as King Nogburt's messenger... he goes to wake Tweeg
to tell him the news. Tweeg is having a rather extravagant dream about
swimming in riches, and gets angry when LB wakes him. Tweeg
gets excited at the news of Beanly and trips over a
"Return to Tweeg" cannonball, falling off of the tower into a bucket of
water in the process.
Beanly
finally remembers the message at breakfast. The King is thanking the
trio for rescuing Arin from the Mudblups and Aruzia from the Gutangs
and is throwing a feast in their honor.
The trio loads up the Airship
in preparation for their journey. Gimmick has created a portable
version of the duplicating machine and is taking that along (It looks a
lot like the reducing machine) The trio asks the forgetful Old Beanly
if he would like to join on the Airship, but he declines, saying he's
got an important mission. Moments after the trio takes off, Beanly
can't remember where he's going again.
At
Tweeg's tower, Tweeg concludes that the trio must be heading to King
Nogburt's to request his help in stealing Tweeg's buttermilk-into-gold
recipe.
QUOTE-
LB-
"Why would a king do that? He's got real gold"
TWEEG- "You can never have too
much gold LB"
Old Beanly stumbles upon
Wooly's house while Wooly is sweeping the floor. After getting a face
full of dust from Wooly's broom, the two make aquaintance. Wooly asks
Beanly if he's looking for someone, Beanly says he is and has traveled
from King Nogburt's. He thinks he may be looking for the "Fuzzy
Whatchamcallit" but can't remember much else. Beanly apologizes for
disturbing Wooly and goes on his way.
When the trio lands at King
Nogburt's they are warmly welcomed. Grubby decides to take a bow and
climbs to the edge of the Airship, where he falls into the Kingdom's
moat below. Luckily he's OK, and most of the crowd thinks it was a
dive, they cheer on Grubby's "diving" skills.
Aruzia and Arin introduce the trio to the crowd, including a doctor
named Eunice. Gimmick and Eunice know each other from the past and
immediately rekindle what appears to be a long lost romance.
The Court Jester comes through and tells a joke.
"How many Mudblups does it take to light a lantern after dark?
None- Mudblups hate the dark"
Tweeg
and LB have followed the trio to King Nogburts and are dressed as
French Painters. "Misseur LeTweeg" and "Misseur Labee" .
QUOTE
LB-
"Wouldn't you
rather be called Mister LaTweeg?"
The self-appointed painters hope their in to the castle will be
painting a portrait of one of the royal family. The guard stationed at
the door says that the royal family has all recently had their
portraits painted but "some of the walls could use a couple coats"
Tweeg agrees to do the job.
QUOTE
LB- "You mean we're really
gonna paint rooms?"
TWEEG-
"YES! Starting with the Vault"
