as the title is shows, the beginning of"King of Games' Castle (rococo)" plays)
Mugman walked over to his book shelf. He dragged his finger along each book until he reached the one that he was looking for. It was a thick leather bound book with metallic writing which spelled out the title "the endeavours of Sir Mugsalot".
Mugman picked up the book and sat down on an armchair. He opened the book to the folded page and...
"Hey Mugsy!" Cuphead yelled, bursting through the door, "I found this real cool thing in the woods, let's go check it out!"
"Not now Cuphead," Mugman said, "I'm reading my book."
"Uuhhg, Ya'know, next time you do this you could warn me in advance. I have plans to ya'know."
"First of all :no you don't and second of all: i've warned you way in advance.
~one month ago~*
Cuphead and Mugman were walking through town.
"Oh," Mugman said, "by the way, ill be spending some time to read a book in one month from now."
"Sure, whatever," Cuphead replied
~one week ago~*
Cuphead and Mugman were hiding underneath their bed, scoffing down cookies while Elder Kettle patrolled the house looking for them.
The two boys watched as Elder Kettle marched past their room as a marching band snare plays and then resumed stuffing their faces once he had left.
"Oh by the way Cuphead," Mugman said "I'm gonna spend a day reading my book a week from now."
"Ehh, sure," Cuphead replied.
~Yesterday~*
Cuphead, Mugman and Chalice were all sitting in a Cinema watching a movie. Cuphead was munching away on popcorn while Chalice and Mugman were both eating it with more restraint.
Mugman leant over to Cuphead and whispered in his ear, "I'm going to read my book tomorrow."
Cuphead just shushed him and proceeded to finish his popcorn and move on to eating Mugman's.
~Now~*
"You're just making that up," Cuphead said,"now let's go check out that thing!"
"Not now Cuphead," Mugman said
"Ok fine," Cuphead relented, "but next time you go to hell, you should speak to Stickler, you'll give him a run for his money."
And with that, CUphead walked back outside and slammed the door.
After he was sure that Cuphead had left Mugman sank back into his chair and started reading his book.
(ok, so throughout this chapter it will be flicking in and out of the book world. Like in "I Scream Man" . any words initalicswill be Mugman narrating it and if i put the book emoji, then that means that we are either endearing or leaving the book world. Also in book world "King of Games' Castle (rococo)" plays)
From over the great hills, rode brave Sir Mugsalot.
A silhouette of a knight riding a horse appeared over a hill and and The figures slowly rode closer their colours became more visible. Once Sir Mugsalot was close up, he took off his helmet to reveal a Mugman-esc head but with a moustache, a defined chin and long hair.
Sir Mugsalot had caught wind that there was a beautiful princes trapped in a tower. Princes Bowlboy.
The camera flips over to a nearby tower where Princes Bowlboy was leaning out the window. Princes Bowlboy just looked like bowlboy but with long golden hair, lipstick and a pink cone shaped hat on.
"BOWLBOY!" Mugman yelled, "who's ever heard of a Princes Bowlboy."
"Haha," Cuphead laughed as he popped up from behind the armchair, "you like Bowlboy."
"I most certainly do not!" Mugman said indignantly, "he is irresponsible, carless and simply unhinged, not to mention the fact that he tried to kidnap me and almost killed you. Now pass me a pen and inkwell."
Cuphead went and got Mugman a pen and inkwell and Mugman started to edit the book. The book now read: Princes B̶o̶w̶l̶b̶o̶y̶ Cala maria.
"Now shoo," Mugman said, waving Cuphead away, "I don't need you reading over my shoulder."
Cuphead walked out the room with his hands wedged in his pockets, muttering under his he was outside he got an idea.
"I know, I'll go show Chalice."
Sir Mugsalot endeavoured to save the princesB̶o̶w̶l̶b̶o̶y̶Cala Maria from her evil captor, the sorcerer Devlin the Dark."
The camera then flicks to look at the Devlin the Dark, who looks like the devil except with a gandalf hat, a long grey beard and a staff with a piece of obsidian wedged in the end.
"The castle is impenetrable," Devlin the dark said, "and I have the only key. Princes B̶o̶w̶l̶b̶o̶y̶ Cala Maria will me trapped forever, mwahahaha."
Cuphead arrived at inkwell city in good time. He strolled down a very specific set of back end alleyways until he reached a dead end. Over the top of the dead end was a tarp that was nailed to both walls. There were some holes in the walls on either side that had electrical cables coming through them, hooked up to lamps and other devices. Underneath the tarp was a mattress with a few blankets laid on top of it. and sitting on top of it all, listening to the radio, was Chalice.
"Hiya Cuphead," She said, "whatcha up to."
"I saw this really cool thing in the woods," Cuphead said, "let's go check it out."
"Ok," Chalice said, "but where's Mugman, he's normally up for looking at cool things in the woods."
"Oh," Cuphead said, "he's in the cottage reading one of his dumb romance books, bleugh."
"Yea..." Chalice said uncertainty, "anyway, let's go see that thing."
"Ok," CUphead said as he started out of the maze of allies.
Sir Mugsalot bravely rode towards the evil sorcerer, he raised his sword to strike but the sorcerer sent a blast of magic from the tip of his wand.
As the blast of magic shot through the air Sir Mugsalot guided his steed in a zig zagging pattern causing all of the magical projectiles to miss. As he closed in on Devlin the Dark he lowered his sword and stabbed at the crystal in the magic staff.
A deep explosion rumbled the entire earth, fragments of the crystal flew in every direction causing...
"Oh Mugman" Elder Kettle called, snapping Mugman out of his book, "i have a real treat for you today!"
"Let me guess," Mugman said, "I get to..."
"Complete this chore list!"
"I'm sick of always doing all the work around here," Mugman snapped, "why don't you get Cuphead to do some of it."
Elder Kettle just stared at Mugman.
"I mean I knowwhybut you should get him to do it anyway. He's gonna have to learn to work at some point."
"You're brother's also not here." Elder Kettle said
"CUPHEAD, THERE'S COOKIES," Mugman yelled
The two looked around but Cuphead didn't come running.
"I guess he really is gone," Mugman said, "uhhhhg, fiiiine, i'll do the chores."
(montage time! During this one "Treetop Trouble" plays at x1.25 speed. Ps, all of the music i use is from the Cuphead OST, unless i specifically say that it isn't)
1: Mugman was running in circles, Chasing the goat from the front yard. Mugman is wearing an apron and holding hair cutting equipment.
"Get back here you stupid goat," Mugman yelled" you need a haircut"
"Baaaaaa," the goat bleated back and continued running.
2: Mugman walks into Porkrind's emporium.
"Well well well," Porkrind said," what are we here to haggle for today"
Mugman threw some money onto the counter.
"Just give me the overpriced paint already," Mugman snapped.
Porkrind counted up the money, gave a can of paint to Mugman and Mugman dashed out the shop
3: Mugman is balancing on one leg. He has a paint brush in both hands, one taped to the end of his straw, another he was holding with his toung and the last was taped to his other foot. He was simultaneously using all the paint brushes to paint the fence at maximum speed.
4: (for this clip the music stops but resumes in the next clip.)
Mugman is standing outside by the flower bed, watering the plants. He glares at nothingness while he slowly waits for enough water to trickle out the spout of the hose to water the plants
5: Mugman, this time with visible eyelashes, is sporadically dusting down everything in the house with feather dusters. He had one in each hand and he goes around jumping and stretching to dust every little nook and cranny in record time.
(montage over)
Mugman ticked the last chore on the list and sighed with relief.
"Just under an hour," Mugman said, checking the clock. "That should give me enough time to read my book."
Mugman sat himself down on the armchair and just as he was about to open the book, he heard it. Ice Cream van music.
His eye started to twitch and his milk started to froth in his head. He growled and stomped over to the door. Once he was outside he saw the ice cream van parked right outside his fence.
Mugman stomped over to the well and used his bare hands (aside from his gloves obviously) to break off a large chunk of the brickwork. He then turned and threw it with all his might at the ice cream van.
The bricks buried itself in the side of the van creating a massive dent. The entire van wobbled a bit and then fell on its side.
Mugman turned his back and stomped back inside, disregarding the ice cream-man's yell of terror.
"And then the banana said "Thursday!" " (I think that's how the joke went. I spent like half an hour trying to find a clip of it and I have no access to netflix in the week i wrote this.)
Cuphead and Chalice were laughing hysterically as they slowly walked back up the road to the cottage.
"I Don't know what happened. He just came out the house all mad and threw this piece of the well at me. It's like he had superhuman strength."
The two Cups looked over to see the icecream man talking to to a peanut with a moustache who was helping to tow his van away.
"Looks like Mugman's in one of his moods again," Cuphead said, "a while ago I found him beating up this same guy for having a wonky hat."
"Hmmmm," Chalice thought, "hey! How about I try charming him then he could come with us to see that thing."
"I dunno," Cuphead said, "does it work on Mugman?"
Chalice thought for a moment
"Guess we'll find out," she said and opened the door and tap danced inside
"Dear sweet Princess Cala Maria," Sir Mugsalot said, kneeling down, "I have come to rescue you fro..."
At that point Sir Mugsalot looked up at the princes. Since Cala maria was a massive sea monster she didn't exactly fit in the castle. This resulted in only her head being visible, poking out the top of the castle tower with the roof of the tower perched on top of her head like a hat.
"Well what do you expect," she said, "you can't just change the narrative and expect things not to be broken."
Sir Mugsalot shrugged
"Anyway," he said, "it says in this convenient spell book mcguffin that the curse that binds you to this tower can only be broken with this key, and a kiss. Sooo."
Sir Mugsalot quickly climbed some vines that grew up the castle wall and leant in to kiss the princes but midway through he stopped. He listened and heard that there seemed to be music playing. Tap Dancing music...
(in this short bit the intro to "Dance across a Rainbow" from The Cuphead Show plays)
Mugman looked over to the door where the music seemed to be coming from. Suddenly Chalice burst in through the door and started dancing and singing.
when the world is saying n...
!BAMM!
Mugman had thrown his book as hard as he could at Chalice, hitting her directly in the face.
Chalice peeled the book off her face and wiped a drip of milk that was running out her nose.
"Mugman," she said," Relax. You gave me a nose leak."
(in the upcoming chase scenes "Bourree on the Board" plays )
Mugman wasn't listening. His eyes began to twitch again and his milk began to froth. He launched himself at Chalice but she was ready. She dodged out the way of his attack and ran out the door, Mugman hot on her heels.
"I got this!" she yelled as she ran past Cuphead. She began to run circles around the cottage, trailing Mugman behind her while she planned her next move.
Cuphead uncertainty stepped into the cottage. We walked over to Mugman's armchair and looked in the book.
"Editing the narrative, ehh," Cuphead said, "how about I take that to the extreme."
Cuphead went and got a piece of paper, a pen and an inkwell. He then sat down at the table and started writing.
Chalice had looped around the house multiple times now and had devised a way to lose Mugman. She started by picking up the speed so that she ended up running on the opposite side of the house to Mugman, she then jumped onto the top of the well. Using the extra height she jumped onto the roof of the cottage. She manages to grab the edge of the roof and pull herself up and out of sight.
Once Mugman had reached the place that she had hidden, he looked around but could not find her. After he'd looked around a bit he scowled and walked back inside.
Cuphead heard Mugman opening the door and panicked. He quickly slotted the piece of paper he had been writing on, into Mugman's book and then ran and dived out the window.
Once Chalice was sure the coast was clear she jumped down from the roof and sat with her back against the wall. She was just about to lean over to look through the window when Cuphead came flying out of it landing in a heap on the ground.
"What were you doing in there ding dong," Chalice said
"You'll see," Cuphead replied and the two watched Mugman through the window.
Mugman looked around the room suspiciously and then took his seat in the armchair. He opened his book once more and started reading
"Hmmm," Sir Mugsalot said, "i beat Devlin the dark, mcguffin book, curse broken with a kiss. Oh yea! The kiss."
Mugman leaned in to kiss the Princes once again but he lost his footing and fell backwards landing at the bottom of the tower.
"Hahaha," Princes Cala Maria laughed, "you are so weak and pathetic m̶u̶g̶m̶ Sir Mugsalot. You are also smelly and ugly and your brother cuphead is better than you."
Immediately after Princes Cala maria had stopped speaking. Hundreds of ice cream vans came out of nowhere and surrounded Sir Mugsalot.
"Wha-whats g-going on," the knight stammered.
"You thought you could get rid of meeee Mugsy," boomed a voice from the heavens.
Sir Mugsalot looked up to see a descending cloud accompanied by rays of holy light. Sitting cross-legged on the cloud, was Princes Bowlboy.
"STOP," Mugman yelled. He then looked around remembering he was just reading a book. He looked back down at the book and noticed something. Instead of reading the pages in the book, he was reading a loose sheet of paper that had been slotted in the book. He inspected it and turned it over. On the back of the paper he saw that, in very messy handwriting, was scrawled the words "by Cuphead"
"CUPHEAD!" Mugman screamed. There was no reply except a suspicious snickering from outside the window. He rushed over to the window and saw Cuphead pressing the lower portion of his shirt into his face trying not to laugh and Chalice visibly biting her tongue.
"CUPHEAD! CHALICE!," Mugman shouted, "what on the inkwell isles was that for!"
"I was just having a bit of fun," Cuphead said, "can't you take a joke."
"cuphead i...uurrgRRRGRGR," Mugman growled and then took a deep breath and continued, "i have followed you on every stupid, dangerous, pointless and life threatening escapade, but when i wan't one day of relaxation you pull this stunt. And now you too Chalice!"
"I'm sorry Mugsy," Cuphead finally said, "I just wanted to play with you. Guess I need to start thinking of other people besides myself more, huh."
"Thank you."Mugman said and then turned to Chalice
"I guess i should think more before i charm people into getting whatever want"
"Thank you," Mugman said," now that you've both apologise, let's go see that thing in the woods."
"Yay!" Cuphead exclaimed and stroud off into the woods with the others trailing behind him, "by the way did you like my new ending to the story,"
"Not one bit," Mugman said.
"Hmmmm, if only there was a place where I could put that new ending where anyone could see it. That would be cool."
"Maybe in the future someone will make it with fancy robots," Mugman said, "heck maybe even people could write stuff about us." (crazy to think about)
"What is this thing you want to show us anyway," Chalice asked.
"It's just past these vines," Cuphead said as he pushed through a curtain of vines to reveal the thing.
"What... is that?" Chalice said.
"It's the rock that looks like a face rock," Cuphead said gesturing to a large boulder which looked vaguely like a face.
"It just looks like a rock," Mugman said
"No," Cuphead said, "it looks like a face."
"Is it a face?" Chalice asked
"No," Cuphead answered, "it's a rock that looks like a face."
(kudos if you got that reference)
"Doe it have a name?" Mugman asked.
"Hmmm, not yet. He does look pretty glum though."
"And he's made of stone," Mugman said
Chalice snapped her fingers
"Eurika," She shouted, "let's call him Glumstone."
Cuphead and Mugman nodded and muttered in assent.
"Let's get back home," Mugman said, "I think Elder Kettle's making lasagna."
"I think we can all agree," Chalice said, "that this was a massive waste of time."
"Oi," Cuphead retorted.
The camera then proceeds to turn around and look at the rock. It opened its eyes and blinked off the dust.
"You fools," it said as the screen does and "iris out" focusing in on its face.