as mrs. choi remembers more details of the narf legend, heep better understands the situation. the tartutic, an invincible simian-like quartet that serve as the blue world's peacekeepers, have forbidden any attacks on story while she returns home. nonetheless, the scrunt does just that because they know that story is destined to be a great narf leader. to recover from her wounds and return safely, she will now need the help of a guardian, a symbolist, a guild, and a healer. story believes heep to be her guardian; heep asks farber, an abrasive film critic, to help him figure out the others' identities. working off movie tropes, farber misadvises heep, leading him to a flawed conclusion that dury is the symbolist, the smokers are the guild, and bell is the healer.