Man or Mortie

Man or Mortie is the second episode of the first series which was first broadcast  on 19/9/2001.

Summary
Many winged beings are crashing into turrets of the castle. The only antidote comes from an extinct animal. It's up to the trio: Cassy, Gus, and Verne.

Plot
The episode starts with Cassy being menaced by an angry pegasus in a stable. However he just has an injured wing and is just grouchy. Once Cassy calms him down she summons with magic a healing balm and treats his wound.

A satyr teacher who is in charge of looking after all the creatures in the school needs help with a griffin. Cassy casts the griffin stopping spell to restrain the griffin so the satyr teacher can see to it.

The next morning Cassie is having breakfast. Gus is flying a reluctant and sleepy Verne about on his Scoot Zoomer. Cassy summons a spoon to eat her breakfast but then abandons it to take Verne to the animal stalls. (They seem to grab Verne a lot when he doesn’t want to go somewhere.)

Once they get to the stalls and stables. They help out. Gus is cleaning up pegasus manure.

Verne is attacked by a winged two headed lion. Cassy pacifies the creature and it lets Verne go.

Verne asks if they have rabbits.

They do but they’re giant monster rabbits...

Then there is plot exposition. Apparently all the flying creatures such as the beasts introduced so far are flying into the turrets. Also the satyr teacher captured the dragon postman and locked him in a cage. Why would you do that?!

Verne wants nothing to do with any adventures or being escorted everywhere by Cassy and Gus and wanders off. The two headed winged lion grabs the back of his pants.

Outside there is a rock that has eyes and is being nosey. Cassy for some reason covers it with a sheet so it cannot see them being transported by UBOS.

They end up in a cave, there is some dialogue and Verne reading UBOs like an actual book and then they end up in a swamp somehow. Unfortunately there’s no quicksand scenes where the characters sink in quicksand etc.

Verne after searching through the swamp water and muck for an extinct creature they need for the flying creatures to stop them crashing into buildings, starts picking his ears. Apparently he was never taught not to pick his ears, nose, rub his eyes or put fingers in his mouth after wading his hands through disgusting swamp water. Then he has something in his trousers. A pink swamp slug,

Meanwhile an unseen swamp monster only given appearance by bubbles on the surface is stalking them. Unfortunately it’s not a swamp monster or a swamp mud or swamp slime monster.

The pink slug was the extinct creature they needed. But then the unseen creature marked out by a stream of bubbles is a giant one eyes pink swamp slug! For some reason it is hostile so they run and hide in a cave.