Shiny: is there ever a time you don’t have your nose buried in a book?
Mizzle: sometimes I bury my entire face
Tiny: so you know how for humans, elves are these lithe, beautiful, superior people?
Whiny: like they’re just a better, cooler version of your folk?
Mizzle: uhh, maybe…?
Shiny: Graceful, wise, magical…
Tiny: and you write stories about the beautiful elf girl who falls in love with the shepherd boy…
Mizzle: uh, you guys are losing me here…
Shiny: anyway, that’s what ringtails are to us raccoons!
Tiny: (still musing) and under the moonlight their muzzles touch, and–
(Sara dumps a bucket of cold water over the Trimaldis)
Sara: how would you describe Mizzle’s relationship to the Arcana?
Trimaldis: the bookish kid and the book, the bookie, and the rooks
Sara: the Archmagus Reborn!
Mizzle: the evil techno-sorcerer who once ruled the world!
Trimaldis: bane of civilizations!
(The Archmagus’s cloak flies aside to reveal…)
Three Raccoons In A Wizard’s Robe: It was us all along!