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<ANTIR5> starts to appear in public.
The first in the Prester John series.
| [Serious Announcer] | There be a slight fresh breeze from the sea, wafting, among other things, the delightful aromas of... |
| [Battel] | Oy! You! |
| [Serious Announcer] | Me?! |
| [Battel] | Yes, You! Have you not a real name, instead of just that facelessness? |
| [Serious Announcer] | My Lord, I be known as Stephen... |
| [Silly Announcer] | ...the Serious! |
| [Battel] | And what be yours, M'Ld? |
| [Silly Announcer] | Sam! |
| [Serious Announcer] | ...the Silly! |
| [Silly Announcer] | Wait a bit! |
| [Battel] | Very well, then, in future you shall be known as Serious Stephen and Silly Sam! |
| [Serious Stephen] | ...well... |
| [Silly Sam] | ...that be not... |
| [Battel] | WHO PAYS YOU ANYWAY?!!!! |
| [Serious Stephen] | There be a slight fresh breeze from the sea, wafting, among other things, the delightful aromas of week old fish. The Fools be trying to lay the blame on Battel for the Disasterous Blunders last time they appeared on the Steps. |
| [<#|:->] | ...... |
| [Battel] | !!!!! |
| [General FX] | ...Battel's Fault!... |
| [Battel] | I think it be a disgrace for a professional Troupe of Fools like us to have to do the routine twice to get it right! The Real Robin even had to apologise for us! |
| [Babbel] | Yes, the populace be laughing at us! |
| [Bottel] | Be not they supposed to? |
| [Battel] | The Duchess certainly was none too happy having to pay for all those spoiled vegetables... |
| [Bottel] | But she fed them to the pigs! |
| [Battel] | She said, if she was paying top price, she would sooner feed them to the ones around the High Table, than the ones in the Barn! |
| [<#|:->] | ...... |
| [Battel] | !!!!! |
| [Bottel] | I had to fall into those vegetables twice! |
| [Lady de Kup Kake] | I had to pick you up twice! |
| [Bottel] | I hath no complaint! |
| [Lady de Kup Kake] | And I think not that my parts be big enough! |
| [Bottel] | Ohhh, I've certainly got no complaint! |
| [Quibbel] | There be no small parts, only small actors! |
| [Lady Lucrativa] | Who be this?! |
| [Battel] | He be my Cousin Quibbel, sent from his sister Cassandra to be apprenticed a Fool in Training... |
| [Quibbel] | Yes, but.... |
| [Babbel] | That be a F.I.T. profession for a lad such as he! |
| [Lady Lucrativa] | And if he not fit the trade... |
| [Lady de Kup Kake] | I saw him first! |
| [<#|:->] | ...... |
| [Battel] | Just who BE that skulking in the corner?!!! |
| [Bottel] | Oh, that just be <ANTIR5>, the Secret Spy to the Duchess. |
| [Battel] | How tell thee that? |
| [Bottel] | Why, cause he be wearing his spy hat and disguise! |
| [Quibbel] | Yes, but... |
| [Battel] | QUIET! In future, we will all just have to be more serious... |
| [Bottel] | ...about being funny! |
| [Quibbel] | Yes, but... |
| [<#|:->] | ...... |
| [Babbel] | At table, I was talking to Sir Berek this morning... |
| [Bottel] | ...Berek-fast? |
| [Babbel] | ...eats just the same speed as anyone else... |
| [Battel] | NOW THE NEXT MATTER!!! ...of importance. We have been honoured, in that Count Gelder hath arrived from fean Abbey! |
| [General FX] | Ohhh!!...did you see the white horses...his gold brocade... |
| [Battel] | And he beareth news of the Great Crusade to relieve Prester John! |
| [Quibbel] | Yes, but... |
| [Battel] | Who be sorely beset by hostile barbarians who refuse to acknowledge The Divine Right of Kings! |
| [General FX] | Ohhh!! Ahhh!!!! |
| [<#|:->] | ...... |
Fools Antics be scribbled by Robin the Ruthless in Battel (The Real Robin)
<#|:-> (ANTIR5, wearing his spy hat & disguise.)
<#|:-> ...... (ANTIR5, lurking, so he thinks, unobtrusively.)
fean Abbey ... well, "f" sorta looks like an "S"...
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