The Unit gathered to dine in a Funeral Parlour in a nearby hamlet. This was both a celebration and a farewell to the visiting Dutchman, who, along with The Guru and The Wizard Niccolo had that day enjoyed much fervid success at the People and Place festival. The festival had afforded the trio great reknown, bringing as it did much pleasure and curious engagement to people from all across the kingdom. Indeed the day had seen the bestowal of much applause and a good deal of favourable publicity towards the trio. This had greatly angered The Bully and his odious servants, and became palpably clear at said dinner. As usual much ale was consumed and tongues became loose.

Now the Guru was a genial fellow but his intake of pies and ale had increased his girth somewhat. Sadim The Bully, sitting on the opposite side of the table suddenly declared in the loud and affected Mockney voice he used when drunk and overconfident "Guru, thou art surely the fattest of all my subjects".

"Oh Sadim", replied the Guru, "on the morrow or the morrow after that I may one day be thin but you, my liege, will surely be an arsehole forever"

Whereupon the room fell silent.

Sadim clutched his dagger. But this was not the moment.

The Wizard Niccolo was to leave for Scotland early the next morning and having tempered somewhat his imbibing was variously amused and saddened at the events of the table. And so not only was The Bully to strenuously deny any value in relation to the day's festival, but also he was again seen to strongly berate and abuse his colleagues. This was an especially far-reaching act of negativity because there sat at the table two external visitors from faraway lands. These were people of some religious zeal and were clearly offended by the abusive cant that came to assault their ears. Quite the contrary of following through with their intended contract of work in the following days, this pair instead left the next morning without announcement. The Bully had again annulled and discounted any value in the work of his talented peers, and hatred was once more the order at the close of day.

The next day the visiting Dutchman returned to Holland and the Wizard journeyed North to Scotland. The remaining characters assembled in the bullying room where Sadim held court.

The revellers from the previous evening were regaled by Sadim with the importance of the visiting pilgrims from far away and the significance of the work that he and his hench-person would conduct with said visitors. This was clearly to state the lack of significance of the previous days event mounted by the Wizard the Guru and the Dutchman.

When the visiting Pilgrims had still not arrived at the bullying room a maid servant was despatched to their rooms to awaken them. The wench returned saying “Sire, their beds have not been slept in and their closets are empty”. When pressed the serving girl assured the Bully that there was no note.

It appeared that the pilgrims had fled. There was some concern when they were not heard from for three full days but on the fourth day a short and dismissive note was received. It was clear that they were unimpressed by the goings on in the Funeral Parlour and had fled back to their far away land.

Once more the Bully had lived up to his reverse Midas name and shown amazing aplomb for hollow incompetence that bordered on brilliance. The issue of the important work the Bully would conduct with the pilgrims was quickly forgotten and never spoken of again.