Episode 15 - Don't Mess with Dumas

## Episode Synopsis

### Recap

After saving Colm, the team took him to a corn field where Norman disguised himself as a Limbo member to trick Colm. Dariun and Zippy saved Colm from the threat of Limbo and Norman left to Aurum to collect the bounty from Yogi. The discussion room of the castle was heated with one of the king candidates, Ferryn Rise, trying to get Turi hurry the election along. Dariun and Zippy sweet talked Colm into becoming a devoted follower of Turi. Colm lead a parade of happiness to the castle where he went to the discussion room causing a wave of shock among the people of the castle.

### Episode Summary

As Dariun, Norman and Zippy are listening into the hall from outside the door, they hear Turi announce that the election will happen tomorrow. Ferryn begrudgingly agrees, Bradley does not care and Colm also agrees. Turi leaves before Colm can talk to him. Colm appears in shock and confused about Ferryn. Norman shows the others the mark on his hand from Turi and they decide they should leave to best protect Colm. Stubby flies over to Bradley claiming he is his friend, Zippy is a bit cut.

The team of 3 head out of the castle and make their way to the Speak Easy Speak Speak and into the back room to see Turi absolutely elated. Zippy asks about how safe Colm is with the other candidates and Turi speculates Ferryn tried to get rid of Colm by having him kidnapped so she would be a shoe in. Dariun tells Turi that Colm already loves him and is on board for switching out Salem for Turi. Turi seems pretty convinced Colm should win unless Ferryn uses an under hand tactic. Dariun advises them to avoid any cheating to maintain the legitimately of the election. Turi tells them they need to protect Colm before the election and the team are happy to do so. They come up with a plan to have the gang disguise as golden guards and be assigned to protect Colm. To boost them up, Turi rejuvenates them and they all feel 100%. Turi snaps his fingers and the four of them are put in the royal guards barracks and they grab some uniforms. They leave the barracks and Turi teleports in 6 additional golden guards, including Tommy, to the hall with the three candidates and other nobles.

Turi, followed by the 9 golden guards including Dariun, Norman and Zippy, proposes that each candidate get 3 golden guards to protect them. The candidates agree to being protected and Turi recommends Norman, Dariun and Zippy for Colm which he accepts. Turi teleports away and Dariun asks if Colm would like to rest. Colm wants to talk to Ferryn so Norman chases her down and asks her to see Colm but she seems adverse to seeing him. Norman uses detect thoughts and hears, despite her telling him she doesn't want to see Colm, her thoughts saying she really wants to see him but she can't. Before she gets out of view, Zippy uses detect person on Ferryn to track her movements. Dariun suggests they go to a safe place not in the castle and when they leave, Dariun reveals Colm who he is and tells Colm that they are there to help as they were concerned for his safety. They all mount up on their horses including Tealeaf, Denmark and Peace Bringer and ride close together to stay within the range of Dariun's pass without a trace as they make it out of the city undetected.

They get to the mansion safely and Dariun looks around to see if he sees any mercenaries posted to guard the house. When Dariun looks up, he sees a figure on the roof, trench coat blowing in the wind and wearing a wide brimmed hat with a feather coming off it. He can see it looks like a Bullywog, staring off into the moonlight. Dariun calls out to them as they draw a rapier and he jumps down from the roof and points the sword as Dariun calling him an intruder in a Jadu (French) accent. Dariun tells him they are friends of Gilberts and the Bullywog explains he is a dragon slayer named Alexandre Dumas, hired by Gilbert. Alexandre lets them in and Longface is very excited to see Zippy and after an awkward Jadunese accent off, Zippy expresses his excitement to see Longface again. Dariun asks where Alexandre is from and he tells them he is from Jadu, a bunch of floating continents flying over the oceans carried by sky whales. After they learn Alexandre is definitely lying about killing a dragon, the team go inside and Colm tells Zippy he had heard of Jadu and that it is crazy there.

Dariun heads in first and he sees Gilbert with James, Blackjack and Yogurt, all concerned about Zippy. Dariun very quickly brings them all up to speed about finding Zippy, Colm and that they all need to be respectful and subtle about what his happening in the house. Zippy guides Colm into the house carefully, warning him of the evil in the house. Zippy and Blackjack give Zippy a hug and quietly tell him they are glad he's okay. Zippy awkwardly introduces the Tabaxis as Dariun introduces Gilbert. Gilbert informs Colm he met him when Colm was only a baby and was friends with Pontas. Norman takes a moment to sneak away to where Berryl is. Dariun informs Gilbert about the teams new duty of protecting Colm until the election. Colm goes to the spare room and goes to sleep for the night.

When Colm is gone, Gilbert expresses how impressed he is as Blackjack, Yogurt and Zippy share a beautiful moment together reuniting as the best of friends. Zippy then instructs Alexandre to guard Colm's window and Zippy will guard the bedroom door. Norman enters the room where Berryl is, seemingly asleep with laboured breathing. Norman comes behind Berryl, draws his dagger, and slits his throat. He grabs a bottle of wine and joins Dariun as he is telling Gilbert about their adventure in more detail.

When Dariun tells Gilbert about Kendula and Odin, he is shocked that they met them. Gilbert informs Dariun and Norman that they are the number fourth and fifth Greeders and are known for their dark deals in the underworld. Norman has a sudden realization that he has the ring of communication on and turns it off without saying anything. After they finish talking, they decide to take shifts watching Colm and head to bed. Norman decides to have a quick word to Dariun before going to sleep.

Norman grabs the bottle of wine and pours two glasses. He tells Dariun he had killed Berryl, to tie loose ends. Dariun says he would still like them to be honest before they make big decisions like that but he was happy Norman did it. Norman also lets him know about Jezzy being married and that he got the donuts from Jezzy.

As they sleep, they awake in a white space. Zippy is in the room with Paige before Norman and Dariun show up. As they all try to speculate what is happening, they see a blue skinned person with a headless body and a long robe running towards them. The being shows his large face is on his stomach with a hip to hip size grin on his lower abdomen and two large black eyes on his chest. Zippy is very against what is happening and tries to walk away but the beings arm stretched out to pull him back to the group.

The being introduces himself as Viso, the God of Dreams and explains the gang forced them here as Zippy was running amuck in the dream land. Chairs fall from the white ceiling and a table comes in between the team and Viso. Zippy turns the chair around so he faces away from Viso while Dariun rests his feet on the table and Viso begins to tell his story. Viso tells them he was a fourth split and was trying to decide where he would go. He explains that this dream plane was deserted and unfinished by Domy and Nobus. It was a black sea that Viso sprouted a tree to make a place your soul to go when you sleep to get rest and relaxation. Viso explains they are dreaming in another plane in the dream stream. In the tree are millions of branches with even more individual fruits with individual dreams for everyone. In some rare cases, the fruit can fall into the sea, which is what happened to Zippy. They tried to find a solution and they put Zippy into Paige's dream for safe keeping and to keep tabs on what was happening. What Viso and his subordinates found is that Zippy started to change everything. The doors that Zippy went through allowed them to go from the fruit to branch and needs a key which only Viso can make, but Zippy got through the doors through pure force of will. Viso's subordinates were finally able to catch Zippy and put him in the white space which is the trunk of the tree. Viso explains that Zippy's messing around caused all of their fruits to fall into the black sea.

Viso asks Zippy how he is doing all this but before Zippy can explain, Viso tells them he can just have a looks at Zippy's memories to find out why this is happening. Their chairs turns and they look forward to see what looks like a screen. They see Zippy's parents naming him when he was born and Viso fast forwards to see them in the golden guard uniform talking to Colm. Viso moves the timeline and it lands on them in the Speak Easy Speak Speak talking with Turi and plays the conversation of Turi discussing him kicking out Salem to make Turi the worshiped god. Dariun tells Zippy he needs to do something so Zippy tries to turn off the playback but he does not have his dream powers in this space.

Viso is intrigued and tells them to zip it and create zippers on their mouths closing them shut. Zippy starts hitting his head on the table trying to wake himself up but Viso turns the area into a pillow before Zippy tries biting his tongue. Nothing wakes him up, Dariun goes to kick him but Viso creates chains binding them all to their chairs and removes Zippy's tongue so he can't bite it anymore. Norman tries to charm person Viso but no magic works. Viso goes through and watches all the interactions the team have had with Turi and Viso is honest in saying this is not good. Viso is sad they did not find the cause of the dreams but he needs to leave to talk to the gods about the goings on in Aurum. Viso leaves and they wake up in the mansion.

## Quotations

* Zippy "*I'm just so sick of people not knowing that all they'd ever need in life is right there in front of them, me!*"
* Turi "*You have my blessing … whatever that means? Which means margaritas*!"
* Colm "*I've heard of Jadu, that place is nuts!*"
* Zippy "*The real reason why I became your guard sir is there's an evil, evil being in this house.*" (in reference to Paige)
* Norman "*You have reaped what you have sown, now travel to the depths, alone.*"
* Zippy "*No! no no no no no NO! I just WANT TO SLEEP!*"
* Viso "*The in-between, the place your soul goes that never goes anywhere*." (Viso explaining dreams)

## Featured Characters

### Main Cast

* Norman D
* Dariun Branch
* Zippy Westborrough

### Returning Characters

* Farren Rise
* Colm Alvero
* Turi/Carol
* Bradley
* Stubby
* Tommy (Golden Guard)
* Peace Bringer
* Tealeaf
* Denmark
* Longface Cloppyhooves
* Gilbert Bernstein
* Blackjack
* Yogurt
* James
* Berryl
* Paige Bernstein

### New Characters

* Alexandre Dumas
* Viso (God of Dreams)

## Locations

* Aurum Castle
* Aurum
* Speak Easy Speak Speak (Tavern)
* Gilberts Mansion
* Jadu (mentioned)
* White Dream Space

## Trivia

### Dice Rolls

Norman D

Dariun Branch