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Down-trodden courier Brian Weaver finds and puts on a bracelet which, unknown to him, is a magic amulet which transports him to the parallel universe of Munty and Herman's tavern, where he meets soothsayer Barbara, Steg, whose parents were a giant and a dwarf and the wizard Howell, who claims the amulet belongs to him. Howell attempts to sell it to the fearsome Slasher Morgan but it gets confiscated by the fairies, a posse of butch bullies, leaving Brian with no means to get back home.
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Brian hopes to infiltrate the vault where the amulet is kept by taking Howell's charisma potion which will allow him to charm the fairies into letting him take it. Howell in return wants Brian to retrieve the Necromancer's book of spells. However the plot falls apart when the potion wears off and Brian is beaten up by the fairies and thrown out. The culprit is Steg, who has used some of the potion to make his mermaid girl-friend Lorelei human but the spell goes wrong, ending badly for him.
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At a Save the Throck meeting Brian meets the beautiful Effandra and, when Howell accidentally releases a fire sprite with the ability to grant one wish, Brian wants to use it to return home with Effandra. Howell also wants it to escape the wrath of Slasher Morgan but when Effandra's sickly pet throck, Mr Wuffles, needs healing, Brian decides to do the altruistic thing and save it. However the wish is ultimately wasted with Brian ending up in Effandra's bad books and with no hope of going home.
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Having failed to get home Brian is charged with starting the Snail Wars, having accidentally kicked a snail, believing it was a football. He is sentenced to trial by ordeal with the gigantic Radnok though luckily Howell inadvertently saves him. Meanwhile Barbara starts work as apprentice to lecherous blacksmith Jones but quits, due to his sexism, and resumes her role as a soothsayer.
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Still marooned in the parallel universe Brian asks Howell to teach him magic for self-preservation but is tricked into a spell which swaps their identities as Howell is facing an irate customer but this only leads to Howell losing his wizard's licence. Meanwhile the Fairies insist on a darts tournament, the winner to take possession of Herman's pub. Fortunately Barbara is an excellent player whilst another dangerous situation is averted by Steg's adopted son, a giant lizard which has hatched out of an egg.
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Anxious to make friends his own age Brian heads for a trendy new bar and regales its sibling owners with his made up tales of "the other world." Meanwhile Barbara's old school-friend Rina, boasting of her success as a businesswoman, arrives with a magic shield stone which she sells to Howell. In fact she is a con artist out to fleece Barbara of her savings and Barbara and Howell pursue her to the bar where they discover what happens to people from "the other world" and whether the shield stone can prove its claim to ward off attackers.
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It is the eve of the annual pear fair and cash-strapped Brian joins Steg at the job of guarding the sacred albino pear tree - the destruction of which is said to lead to the country's ruin. However they get drunk and fall asleep and wake to find the pears rotting. They are arrested but fortunately Howell's magic memory spell allows Barbara to identify the true culprit.
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Hoping to reach the city of a thousand towers and a way home Brian joins the Brevit Players who will soon be performing there, as their dogs-body but is attacked by an escaped throck, who shreds the one copy of their play - so he writes a new one. This is a success, unlike his escape plan, due to a bomb in the playhouse. Fortunately Howell spots another means of helping him whilst Barbara strikes up an unlikely friendship with fairy policeman Chestnut.
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Howell agrees to take Brian to the Henge, on the summer solstice, where the magic will be released to send him home but Brian has to employ trickery when Howell announces that he has given up drink and magic. However, with Barbara's hostile ex-boyfriend guarding the Henge, Steg's new job would seem to be Brian's hope of returning home before two sinister strangers arrive in Munty.
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Brian is forced to perform in a travelling circus run by the sadistic Feffenhoffer. Barbara and Steg set out to rescue him while Herman accidentally traps a fairy. Stuck on Earth, Howell tries desperately to get back to Munty.
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Weaver gets a job in the pub kitchen, but it's not what he'd hoped; Barbara judges the contentious annual pet show.
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