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039The Banquet

WAR PENGUIN / EPISODE 039

The
Banquet.

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The guest of honour

The Queen graciously presents the guest-of-honour seat at a long palace banquet table with candelabra and footmen.
Queen Beatrice IV
Your Majesty will sit beside our guest of honour.
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Beside the guest

Silent. The Kaiser sits rigid and sweating, staring straight ahead. Original canon War Penguin sits upright beside him, face unchanged, with a small flat black bow tie just under his beak and his own place setting.
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The draft treaty

The same thin bespectacled German foreign minister rises from his seat and unrolls the long draft treaty, speaking German. The Queen attends graciously; the Kaiser is tense; War Penguin remains unchanged beside him.
Foreign minister
Majestät, einige Punkte sind noch zu verhandeln.

Your Majesty, a few points remain to be negotiated.

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An unchanged face

Silent intentional close-up of War Penguin's exact canon face, with the same helmet, dot eyes and outline beak.
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The pen

The Kaiser abruptly snatches the pen and urgently asks where to sign in German. The minister pauses with his unrolled treaty; the Queen observes calmly. War Penguin remains silent and motionless.
Kaiser
Wo unterschreibe ich?

Where do I sign?

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The first course

Silent final picture. A footman is still ladling the newly served soup. Every treaty page across the table bears the Kaiser's signature, shakier page by page, while his pen hand still shakes. Queen delighted, the same minister aghast, original canon War Penguin unchanged beside his steaming soup.
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