Ivan Kesey followed Gypsie Skripto up to the bar and took a seat next to him, he knew the Congress had large bases of operations but he'd never thought it was this large. He ordered a round of whiskey for himself and gypsie and then stared into his glass for a moment, thinking over the events of the last two days.
Two days ago he'd been a happy Acolyte in Baffin studying the Holy Tome and his own pineal gland, until coming out of a meditation and finding a note from Cabbage Patch Kids Kabal, printed out 23 copies and table them all of five different heads of cabbage.
Quote:Dear Acolyte Ivan Kesey.
After much thought and consulting of pineal glads, cabbages, and a small woodchuck name Henry, it has been decided that your radical view points do not fit within the TAZ. You are here by removed of your robes and asked to leave the system of Baffin within the next 23 hours and 5 minutes.
Do not pass go, do not collect 200 credits.
He left to find Gypsie Skirpto only to find that he had been forced into exile as well. Ivan assumed the Ambassador would seek refuge with the Congress once again took off towards Puerto Rico in search of him only to find him in Texas indeed seeking refuge from the Congress again.
They now sat at the bar of the Drunk Junker a bottle of whiskey between them exiles from the TAZ.
After explaining the contents of his letter to Gypsie he said the following.
"All I did was suggest that possibly the Curse of Greyface needed to be eradicated so that more could see the beauty in the Choas, and that the balance of the Scared Choa needed to be restored. And the thuds ejected me from Baffin. you know what? just to spite them."
Ivan jumped up on the bar with surprising haste and agility and the bar and started screaming
"I AM A POPE! AND YOU'RE A POPE! AND YOU'RE A POPE! EVERYONE IS A POPE! POPES EVERYWHERE! WE'RE ALL POPES!"
He jumped back down into his chair and quickly as he jumped up and took a large sip from his glass. He turned to Gypsie in a way that suggest that he had not just done something completely out of the ordinary, and asked.