"You guys!" the parrot squawked, swooping down amongst them, both looking and sounding rather more frantic than usual, "We've got a problem! I mean, a really, properly big problem!" Twitch then began to explain the situation to the Old Worlds Society with a great deal of exasperated gestures: capturing Doomforall and putting him in the tree, defeating the Death of VHS, the whole affair with Titanicman and Sally Streater (who was still with the group), his experience after blowing the conch shell, the armada surrounding the castle, along with the fact he couldn't communicate with them, or get back inside.

"We need to do something about all the ships and stuff," the frenzied macaw continued, "Or the castle's gonna get blown out of the sky, and everyone on board's gonna die! Can you help us at all?!"