"Entering Castle Boobage"

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'ON!' Lester declared, 'on to ...' he dropped his hand. 'Where are we going?'
'Castle Boobage, milord,' Michel the Guard Captain said proudly.
'ON to Castle ... Boob.. age?' Lester marched forth and Dai followed, but as he
went he couldn't help but mutter:
'Lester I know would have knocked that guy's block off, wouldn't he? Who are
you?'
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Who: Efof, Justin of Pancake, Black Lester (aka "Marquis de Nain Bleu") and Dai
(aka "Taffy")
Where: Castle Boobage
When: After Lester turned up and befriended the guards
The party on horseback left the forest and came out into the evening daylight. A
tall castle stood in front of them, with stone walls all around and a dominating
keep. The Guard Captain (now known a Michel) stopped his horse at the edge of
the moat, and it reared up dramatically. The moat was filled with green and
dirty-looking water, and didn't look clean enough to support life – although
Efof thought he saw something submerge out of the corner of his eye when they
approached.
"Woah!" Said Efof as he saw the magnificent castle. "This looks amazing. What's
it called again.. a 'castle'?"
"This is castle Boobage!" Michel the Guard Captain said. "Owned by a very rich
and powerful Norman Duke. I've heard he's a bit arrogant, but I'm sure he'll let
us stay here for the night until I can deliver you to Prince John in Nottingham
tomorrow."
A drawbridge was gently lowered to the ground, allowing a wooden bridge for them
to cross over the moat. However the portcullis remained firmly closed.
"Allo! Who is eet??" A voice called down with a thick French accent. Efof looked
up to see a soldier with a pointed helmet poking his head over the ramparts of
the gatehouse.
"Captain Michel of the Nottingham armed guards." Shouted the Guard Captain. "Go
and tell your master that my men and I request a place to stay for the night. We
have a pair of prisoners that we are to deliver to Prince John tomorrow for
interrogation and assassination."
"Eeeerm. I don't think so."
There was a pause as Captain Michel looked confused. Efof looked from Justin to
the man he didn't know to be Lester.
"Pardon?" Said the Captain. "Why not?"
"Because you are English types-a!"
"Oh.... well what are you then?"
"I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent?!"
"What a strange person!" Whispered Efof to Justin.
Captain Michel looked down from his horse at Lester, who looked calm and full of
ideas. "Why don't you suggest to him that we give him the demon. He can
sacrifice it to bring him good luck?"
Captain Michel looked back at Efof, who was looking innocent. But not innocent
enough. Michel snapped his fingers together. "Good plan Marquis de Nain Bleu!"
He then looked up at the soldier above the gatehouse.
"We would like to give your master this strange-looking blue demon that we
discovered in the forest. He can sacrifice it to bring him luck, and hang its
vile body from the tall tower as a symbol that he's more powerful than the
monsters of hell."
The soldier thought about this for a moment. "Well, I'll ask him, but I don't
think he'll be very keen."
"Why?" Shouted Captain Michel.
"Uh, he's already got one, you see."
"What?"
"He says they're already got one, see." Said Dai, butting in.
"I heard!" Snapped the Captain. "Are you sure he's already got one?"
"Oh yes!" Shouted back the soldier. "It's very... blue." There was some
sniggering coming back from behind the ramparts from hidden soldiers.
"Can we come and have a look?" Said Michel, then he turned to Lester and
whispered. "Imagine the look on Prince John's face when we brought him TWO
demons from the underworld!"
Nothing however, prepared the group for what happened next. Although it is
something that really they SHOULD have been expecting.
A large beast... of the bovine persuasion, was catapulted across the ramparts of
the castle and dropped towards them. Captain Michel tried his hardest to move
his steed out of the way, but the horse wasn't quick enough. The cow fell
straight on his head and crushed both him and his horse.
"That's a cow!" Shouted Justin in surprise.
"Oh yeah." Said Efof. Then added: "What's a cow?"
Before they could say anything else, the portcullis was quickly opened and the
entire team were surrounded by armed guards, carrying longswords and round pink
shields that bore the coat-of-arms of the Castle's owner. The coat of arms was a
small brown dot inside a large pink circle.
Lester, Dai, Justin and Efof all found very sharp and/or rusty swords pressed
against their faces.
"So what do we have here?" Boomed a loud voice. A man wearing brightly coloured
leathers and a fur cloak walked out behind the guards.
"Who's that?" Whispered Efof to Justin, although his question was quickly
answered by the well-dressed man himself.
"My name is Duke Niples of Boobage. And what do we have here?"
<Tag Lester or Justin!>