Tyler Kamen - Chapter 1 - Schooldays Lyrics

Entering a large corridor, Swindlebeast followed Professor Trinket to her office. The echoing halls swallowed them whole as they scurried down a staircase to the cellar below.

Upon reaching her office, Professor Trinket removed a small scroll from her left coat pocket. On it read a series of numerals and shapes that would unlock the doors to the Spectacular Machine. Ruffling her brow and raising a flute to her mouth, Trinket played a vaguely familiar tune and with a long deep breath she began to tell Swindlebeast of his fate yet to come.

She explained that the machine was locked away in the highest tower of the Headmaster's quarters. He was keeping it chained and under guard until his grand showcase to the Board of Education. But ye not be fooled by the shallow plans of man unto a sinister plot. It's the souls of his students he wants to control and for all else to be forgot.

Trinket then told Swindlebeast that he must seek out the wise Monk Key and ask him and his lizard men for help. His sanctuary was just beyond the pine groves and muck hills of the yonder Strange Lands. Shocked by her grand tale, Swindlebeast was petrified and frightened. But knowing his peers were in great peril he took the scroll and made his way to see the Headmaster.