On the island of Vaudeville, wandering monk Clyde Barrbough and his companion, Rubus Rhume are drafted by order of the Ark Bishop to aid the distant township of Feldbach, an enemy of The King during Vaudeville’s civil war, now under sudden and ancient attack. Clyde and Rubus must hold civil with its people and deliver them from an enemy in this opening book of Border Vaudeville.