And that seals it! The Noblest of Bears takes the final Artisan's slot, and the last remaining writing opportunity is taken by everyone's favorite citrus-flinging sneak!

Time to run to the Library and get this rolling!

Update: Book chosen by me from my personal library. Random rolled a page (117,) and took a line I thought gave our first artist (McNutcase) a good deal to work with, and fired that baby out into the aether. One thing's for sure... this is gonna get wild fast!

Just for giggles, I grabbed the first book handy and checked out page 117 in it.

"Since the engagement had been announced, Lord Melbourne seemed more than usually prone to gaffes involving Germans."

I would be surprised if it matched the official kicker sentence, but one may be surprised by random libraries.
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TAZ

Wow, you all are fast.

Hey Doc, if you need a replacement at any position, drop me a line.

My art, such as it is, is off.

I passed it to our first writer.

And things continue to shift as the quote is passed to our second artist...

...I gotta say, this already going a totally different direction than I anticipated. It's really entertaining!

That's the perk of being the chief cat herder. Everyone else gets crushing anticipation.
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TAZ

To be fair, my art was probably a sharp left turn...

And it's quite possible that my text may have been a sharp left turn from your art