Duty Calls

[Terminus]

How can a "legend" be accurate?

[Terminus]

But an excellent video, and no mistake. Kathleen actually looked kinda spooky with her angry face on, and in THAT light.

[Metcarfre]

well, dragons are real, so i'm not sure how that advances your argument.

Well, he's got you there, G*.

On that note, good show, everyone. Was Mystic Vale the location?

[RLYoshi]

I guess by the way Paul was reacting to this quest, he was feeling...

*sunglasses*

...rather ap-Paul-ed.

YEAHHHHHHHH

[Terminus]

You feel happy with that, do you?

[Flewellyn]

As well he should!

[Geoff_B]

Paul didn't think that Gabriel was making...

*sunglasses*

...a fair re-Quest

YEEAAAAHHHHHHH!

[Terminus]

Aaaand, it's on...

[iamafish]

paul picked up that sword and didn't really...

*sunglasses*

see the point

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH

[reptile]

Also, there's dragons.

Still no word on that dragon amnesty, huh?

(Sorry, I might have a vested interest)

[pokute]

Every time Kathleen grrrrr'd, I thought there'd be thunder and lightning.

Also I was hoping for "It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit!"

[Avistew]

That's not the only problem with her story guys. Note we said "Arthur's sword", not excalibur.
And how is it that he's saving Lady Gwenivere (who's not from Arundel) if Arthur's already dead?

Also, there's dragons.


It's clearly not accurate to the real legend.

Shows what you know, Graham! It's zombie Gwenivere, obviously, raised back from the dead centuries after the fact (she says "the 6th Century" which means it's not the same century anymore).
And I fail to see your point with dragons. They quite clearly weren't extinct yet at the time.

And you said "Arthur's sword" because it's not Excalibur, but the lesser Known Incaliber, which was pretty useless at fighting but made for a good compass, provided you wanted to go where it was going.
Basically, it was good at finding trouble. Which is why it was common for it to be found ditched on the ground rather than imprisoned in stone.

I find it all perfectly accurate, except for the French part. They would have been Gauls at the time, not French. And they weren't driven back by Arthur but by the weather and the food. Well, except for William the Conqueror, of course, but everybody knows he had terrible taste in food.

[Lord Chrusher]

Most supposed history places Arthur in the sixth century. In the fifth century the Roman Empire collapsed in Gaul under the onslaught of Germanic tribes. What was to become France was now ruled by the Franks. However the Franks never menaced England; Arthur is known for fighting off a different group of Germans, the Saxons.

The reputation of English food being terrible only happened during the industrial revolution.

[Geoff_B]

Maybe it's an alternate reality?

[iamafish]

I find it all perfectly accurate, except for the French part. They would have been Gauls at the time, not French. And they weren't driven back by Arthur but by the weather and the food. Well, except for William the Conqueror, of course, but everybody knows he had terrible taste in food.

The Gauls were long gone by the 6th century. As Chrusher said, it would be the Franks, who are pretty much the French before France existed, and the Germans given that Charlemagne conquered that area as well. Then again, the Franks/French never actually invaded England.

That was the Normans, or North Men (nor-man); Vikings who descended on Northern France in the 10th century and establish themselves around the city of Rouen, before invading England in the 11th. They also invaded southern Italy and Sicily, and held Antioch after the first crusade.

[/history lesson]

[Geoff_B]

So what about the guy who burnt the cakes?

[Avistew]

Graham, I actually empathise with you now: I talk about zombie Gweneviere and people correct me on the Gaul/Frank thing instead
Let's share a "we're in the same boat" hug now.

[dackwards d]

Didn't you know? Hypothetical mythologies are serious business.

[iamafish]

I demand historical accuracy from my sketch comedy.

[Vigafre]

another brilliant 'whole story' I do love it when you guys break history like that :P Paul's delivery is awesome as well.

lol

[iamafish]

shut.
up.

[Geoff_B]

Oohh burn!

[Lord Chrusher]

So what about the guy who burnt the cakes?

Alfred the Great? The story about him burning the cakes is likely a myth but he did hide out in the marshes of Somerset during the Danish invasions at the end of the ninth century. Alfred's rein falls squarely into history rather than the myth of Arthur.