The scandal detonated across the Nine Rift Realms like a wet meteor: Whorbama Burtains, Drip-Child of Infinite Drapery and part-time prophet of the Slippery Veil, had been discovered in the Basilica of Curtains … with a gorilla wearing a sequined evening gown.
Not just any gorilla —
Gorrilithia, the forbidden simian oracle of the Zoocosmic Choir, whose presence alone was an act of ecclesiastical treason.
The priestesses gasped.
The dung-censers dimmed.
The molten floorboards trembled with judgment.
And worse:
Whorbama, in his panic, had apparently wiped his rusty celestial bunghole on the Sacred Curtains of Infinite Drape — curtains prophesied to one day become the wedding veil of a dying universe.
When Opraxa arrived and saw the defilement — the smeared cosmic shame streaked like the brushstrokes of a deranged god — she screamed with operatic thunder:
“BURN THEM. BURN IT ALL.
THE EVIDENCE MUST DIE SCREAMING!”
And so she did.
Opraxa summoned the Fire of a Thousand Noon-Day Suns and incinerated not only the curtains, but three minor realities and one dimension used exclusively for towel storage.
Whorbama fled into the Rift before judgment could fall, Gorrilithia clutching her gown, both smelling faintly of regret and volcanic dung incense.
Meanwhile, in the chaos, Aelik Baldwynne saw his moment.
He strode onto the rubble-stage of the smoldering temple ruins, cape fluttering like it owed him money, and raised his gilded megaphone.
“Children of the Rift!” he bellowed.
“The curtains have fallen, the gorilla has danced, the bunghole has spoken! But FEAR NOT!”
He pointed to the heavens, where a constellation shaped suspiciously like a buttcheek twinkled.
“For when one drape is destroyed, the cosmos opens new portals! GLORYHOLES OF SALVATION!”
The congregation murmured.
Aelik stomped dramatically, spraying glitter-dust and holy dung ash.
“Yes, my loves — I speak of TP GLORYHOLES, the sacred rings through which the faithful shall purge their shame! A divine passage! A supple loop of redemption!”
Opraxa, still glowing with arsonic fury, snarled:
“Aelik, this is NOT the time for your toilet-based theology—”
But he silenced her with a single, fabulous finger.
“Sweetheart.
It is always time.”
The Church trembled.
The Rift puckered.
Prophecy moaned.
And somewhere in the dark, Whorbama whispered:
“…I can explain.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrHEIcHONQ