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[*Pocahontas]

"YES!", they both cried in relief. "Can you help us????", Harold asked impatiently.

[*The Butler]

The older gentleman replied, "Well, I happen to be on my way to a Masquerade, and someone there may be able to help, if you'd like to come along?"

[*Col_Mustard]

Harold said, "But our shoes still have holes! Please, sir, can you not direct us to a cobbler?"

[*Whoopee Cushion]

"Oh, there is a cobbler en route to the Masquerade. To get there, we must traverse those mountains and the grim forest, so you'd..."

[*The Butler]

... better hurry and come along!" the older gentleman, who then introduced himself as Mask Kuraid.

[*Col_Mustard]

Harold and Hilda looked at each other. "I don't trust people named after drinks," Hilda said doubtfully.

[*Whoopee Cushion]

"This may be our only chance," pleaded Harold. "I think we should go. How are we to get there?"

[*The Butler]

"On this path," Mask pointed out, "the one I've been telling you about. Now will you..."

[*Col_Mustard]

...follow the yellow slick toad?"

Harold and Hilda looked up, and lo! There was indeed a yellow, and very slimy, toad on the road. It said, "Ribbit."

[*Whoopee Cushion]

"A toad?" said Hilda, bewildered. "A toad will guide us through the mountains and forest?"

[*Col_Mustard]

"Verily," said the toad in suave tones. "For lo, hast it not been saith, 'The smallest shall be the greatest, and the greatest least'? I shalt guide ye, and thou may'st follow, if it pleaseth thee."

[*Russian Bot]

"Uh... forsooth," said Hilda, trying to imitate the toads archaic speech. Hilda and Harold followed the toad for several hours when the toad suddenly stopped and said...

[*Col_Mustard]

"I be thirsty," quoth the toad. "Dost thou, perchance, have amidst thy persons something to drink?"

[*The Butler]

Harold reached into his bag and pulled out a wineskin and said, "We do, but it's a strong drink, made from..."

[*Whoopee Cushion]

"...the finest Pilanian Plums. But I warn you, only drink a little, or else..."