The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5

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>Chesswick and Silverbrush: This indignity must be paid, an eye for an eye! Fill a few seltzer bottles with the fur remover and begin a reckoning.
SALV Chesswick, realize that not only you used the fur restorer directly, the regular one was switched with an extra strength version. Go look for your fur trimming kit before you're completely engulfed. Find to your horror that it's been replaced by a random joke item.
SALV Silverbrush, decide that it might be a good idea to let your own lost fur regrow naturally.
>Fur: In addition to keeping growing, change colour now and again
Salv chesswick & Silverbrush } Flee the Vulpitanian embassy, Its becoming a mad house!

While all of this is terribly amusing, at this point it no longer has anything to do with Adler's story, so I'm going to leave it with the tacit assumption that it all happened off-screen. We will catch up with SALVs Chesswick and Silverbrush when they again become important to the plot.

Ixadler, find yourself dodging unicycle-riding, bug net-wielding special intervention squad.

Within seconds, Adoyret Sam was engulfed in a pile of Klowns, which then parted to allow a trio of stern-looking agents to enter. Their leader rode a bizarre one-wheeled contraption and waved a butterfly net as he issued orders to his squad.

"All right, you mugs!" he snarled. "Spread out! We've got a magick-using infiltrator in here, possibly armed with Lengra-Cha Gnostermongery tricks. Consider her armed and dangerous. She has already subdued Marshal Sweetcheeks and she has turned herself into an Ixie so keep your eyes peeled."

>Suddenly Airborne Little Varmint Fauxie: Evasive manoeuvres!
Fly through an air vent to escape.

The new Klowns looked formidable, so instead of trying to get past them, I flitted into one of several speaking tubes which were arranged behind the Marshal's desk.

Air vent, lead down, into a secret place underneath the embassy
(Adlerixie) Have a hair-raising (if that's the proper word) escape from the Vulpitanian Embassy.

After numerous twists and turns, I emerged in a dimly lit storeroom. A fox with a pipe sat on a crate near the end of the tube. He flinched with surprise and nearly dropped his match as I zipped out right in front of him.

"Good gracious, LOL," he exclaimed. "U startled me! Is it time allready?? I thot I'd have a moment 2 chill 1st."

I didn't bother to respond, but flew directly towards a small vent window which I spotted high on the opposite wall.

(Vulpitanian Embassy) Blow up. Again.
(Fire Brigade) Dodge all manner of fireworks shooting out of the building.
Vulpitanian Embassy } suddenly combust into flames! The crys of clown horn honking haunt the night
(Adlerixie) Fly back to GHQ.
(HSH Prince Adler) Change back into skunk form.

I emerged next to the ground, behind some shrubs at a corner of the building. By now it was dark out, and it took me a few seconds to get my bearings. Once I figured out where I was, I made a beeline towards GHQ, ignoring the riotous honking, crackling, whistling, booming, and flickering lights coming from the Embassy behind me.

At the GHQ building, I flew into the fresh-air vent of the South garderobe, down the hall, around the corner, down the stairs, and into the Detention Center, where I promptly transmogrified back into my proper form.

Ixadler, when you do change back, realize that instead of your usual (uniform), you're still in Relda's.

Mara and Alice were still sitting snuggled together on the floor where I had left them. I pulled Sam's box out of my Elfintory.

"I have the Discombobulator Array here," I explained. "Now there's no time to lose. We've got to get you operational as soon as possible. Where's the manual? What's so funny?"