Episode 6 - We Put the Fun in Funeral

Recap
Dariun, Norman and Zippy meet wetsuit wearing Bradley, a young boy with a major crush on Paige, who ends up being a stow-away as the team plus Gilbert travel to Aurum. They planned to gather some supplies and information about the newly found grand treasure clue, the piano key. They notice strange looks especially to Dariun, which sparks conflict after Norman said Dariun looked like a lizard. As they walk through the city, they hear the bell ringing and the announcement of King Pontas Alvero's death and funeral which would be held later that day.

Episode Synopsis
After shopping at Valentines, Norman proposes they work together to find clues about the piano key. Norman recommends getting clues from the church of Salem priest but Zippy suggests going to a music store to find clues and talk to a priest at the funeral. On the way to the music place, Zippy ducks into a shoe store and asks to use a shoe to go to the bathroom. Rob, the owner, asks him not to go to the bathroom in the shoes and leads him to the actual bathroom. Zippy lets it slip out he has been using the shoes in Gilbert's house as the bathroom. Norman gets some fresh, coral pink sneakers for 30 gold. Rob calls Dariun a goblin, upset, he pushes the stuff on the counter. Meanwhile, Zippy is sweating up a storm in the bathroom. Dariun, upset, takes off the cloak that was hiding his Eladrin looks and storms out, followed closely behind by Norman, Gilbert and Zippy, asking no one looks at his filthy behind.

When they get outside, Zippy notices how upset Dariun is to which he says he is sick of people insulting his skin. When Norman jokes around, Zippy hits him hard saying he's dodging responsibilities and is being rude to him and Dariun. Dariun, having enough of the group and especially Norman, leaves.

Zippy, Norman and Gilbert go to the music store called Song Bird. When they go inside, they see many instruments all around the place. At the counter, they see Lemon McCaw, a white pidgeon Aarakocra. Norman tell them they are a travelling band called the Teifling and the Hare and Devon, aka Gilbert is their manager. Zippy asks to see the manager to help them as they see a tough looking owl Aarakocra wearing noble attire. Zippy gets the piano key from Gilbert and shows it to the owl, who is unimpressed until Zippy puts it in the table and it sinks in and makes a high pitched note, which sounds sprucy and vibrates the whole store.

The owl pulls out some glowing spectacles to investigate the piano key. He tells them it's an ivory piano key with hints of redwood and a symbol of Salem on it, He tells them it is teaming with magical energy a and is of the Shelly brand of pianos. The owl suggests trying to play it in an actual piano which the team agrees. As the owl rigs the Salem key in a piano, Zippy looks at the banjos and buys a child sized banjo. After the owl is done, Norman asks his name which is Dawson Owlton. He looks at the piano where he can see the Salem key stands out from the others. Before Dawson plays, Norman pulls out his music box top capture the sound it makes. Dawson plays a little avoiding the key until he raises his finger ready to play a note…

To Dariun, who is walking from the job angrily into a dirty alleyway with homeless people around. As he walks, his green skin starts to change colours and he feels lightheaded and woozy. He leans into his anger and when he comes into the sunlight and his skin is now red, he has changed seasons from spring to summer. He looks for a tavern and find Pour Decisions. When he goes in, he sees tough looking guys and asks for 3 pints of whatever they have. Dariun sees people looking at him, he tries to intimidate them but they don't seem to worried.

Dariun slams two of his three pints and a green lizard man pulls up a seat next to him. When Dariun looks at him, he says frustratingly scoffs at the irony and starts to drink his third pint. When the lizard guy walks off, Dariun walks over and asks if he needed anything. The lizard says no, Dariun finishes his pint, takes the lizard mans and finishes his. Dariun asks for another one to which the crowd cheer his drinking on. In his drunken state, he slams another pint and yells in the air and riles everyone up. Dariun buys a round of drinks on him as people start dancing, cheering and singing. A large goliath tries to punch Dariun but he dodges and falls to the ground. Not knowing if it was playful or not, Dariun gets up and hits the goliath, known as Big Jerry, in the ribs and he falls back. As he gets everyone hyped, Dariun sloppily walks out as the bar becomes chaotic.

Back in the music shop, both Norman and Zippy get a sense something is coming as they duck for cover as energy starts to fill the room. When Dawson hits the note, the piano explodes into shrapnel and he gets thrown backwards. Noman closes the music box and puts it away and runs up to Dawson. He sees his feathers look grey and appears different from before and part of his arm is gone. Norman casts song of rest to stabilize Dawson.

They see the place where the piano was is now like a crater. Norman inspects the crater and finds the piano key, completely unaffected. Zippy casts flame blade and cauterises the wound on Dawson and he wakes up. Zippy tries to calm him down and Norman casts calm emotions to suppress his frightened feelings. Norman asks if Dawson saw or heard anything when he played the notes and casts detect thoughts to hear his thoughts say "I saw it, me the real me. I was there, I was here… I was everywhere. I saw myself,  it's like I left my body and was looking at my back. And then everything happened and everything went black." Norman, still confused, tries to probe deeper but can only see fog and fuzziness and can't hear any more details. As Norman notices people looking into the window, he creates an explosion down the street using thaumaturgy and he grabs Zippy and Gilbert, exiting through their back door. Despite Gilbert's shock, his face can't hide his excitement about the key and what they have found. Zippy decides they should keep to the roof tops to stay out of people's eye sight and look for Dariun.

Back to Dariun, he is drunkenly making his way down the streets as people laugh or give him a dirty looks. He can see the paths are getting more crowded as people are heading towards the center of the city wearing dark attire. He asks someone if he was wearing the right attire but turns out he was asking a garbage can. He doesn't get any answers from the garbage can so tries someone else, turns out to be a lamp post. Dariun speaks in slurs as he tries to decipher what is going on when a woman comes out from the crowd and asks him if he's okay. Dariun tries to explain he's looking Zippy describing him in a very drunken way. The woman chuckles at what he is saying and helps to lead him to a bench where he can sit and she sits next to him. Dariun asks her name and she introduces herself as Jezzy. He asks Jezzy about herself as his skin starts to fade colours and he changes into a blue colour of winter. Dariun asks about her family and she tells him about her two sisters. Dariun starts to tear up as he says he misses his rabbit friend and he doesn't know where he is. Jezzy asks what her friends names are which she tells her there is Gilligan, Zippy and goat boy. She doesn't really believe him but she still helps and calls out to Dariun's friends.

Zippy, running on the rooves still with Norman and Gilbert, hears a girl calling out his name. His ears perk up and then he and Norman hear the drunken yells of Dariun somewhere in the distance. They come up to find the blue skinned Dariun on the bench. Dariun looks up and sees them and yells out to Norman calling him a goat boy. Norman and Gilbert head down the back but Zippy jumps from the roof in front of Dariun and give him a big hug. As he sees Zippy, his skin begins to turn back to green. Before Norman gets back to the team, Norman asks Gilbert if they have all the ingredients for tomato soup. Gilbert assumes they do.

As Norman comes around the corner, Dariun skin fades back to red and tries to punch Norman in the face but swings and falls on his face. Norman introduces himself to Jezzy and she tells him she's happy that they are actually real. Dariun asks Gilbert to pay her for her help. Jezzy tells Norman that she works at the bakery as she does, he puts on his kneepads and looks at Jezzy. As he realises she is his crush, Norman sees the most freshly dug grave is in the center of Aurum about 200 feet down in the earth and confirms with Jezzy that all the kings of Aurum are buried in a tomb underneath the center close to where the grand treasure is found.

After they say goodbye and thankyou to Jezzy, they walk to the funeral as Zippy holds Dariun's hand. It gets busier as they go in as they see the center in front of the castle has the stage for the nobles. The team decide to get on top of a roof for a better view. They see the funeral band descend to the center and behind are rows of golden guards as they form a barrier between the crowd and the center. Men carry the casket followed by the elderly queen with grey hair and a crown. As she begins to speak of her late husband, there are cracks and loud noises from the sky as they see a figure fall from the sky and slam into the casket.

They see a woman descend from the sky and punch through the casket as blue butterflies fly out into the air. The woman has a ponytail, brown hair and glasses and looks like a librarian as she says in a loud, male voice say it's time to party. The crowd recognises them as the God of Bliss' tether and cheer.

Quotations

 * Zippy "I think you're as mediocre as ever Norman"
 * Zippy "Unfortunately today I wish I did have pants… no one look at my behind.."
 * Dariun "I just really miss my rabbit friend."
 * Dariun "Screw you goat boy"
 * Dariun "Its Dar- *vomit noise* Dariun"
 * Norman "I'm sure it's the yeast I can do"
 * God of Bliss "Alight it's time to party!"

Main Cast

 * Norman D
 * Zippy Westborrough
 * Dariun Branch

Returning Characters

 * Gilbert Bernstein
 * ?Krit

New Characters

 * Rob/Big Rob
 * Lemon McCaw
 * Dawson Owlton
 * Big Jerry
 * Jezzy
 * Queen Alvero
 * God of Bliss

Locations

 * Aurum
 * Song Bird (Music Store)
 * Pour Decisions (Tavern)