Michael Telposky was a strange adventurer who liked to wear grapes on his head and read other people's diaries. He was normally a performer in theater, but when a quest to obtain Fruit Leathers got out of hand, he found himself kidnapped and held in a deserted prison cell on another world. He met up with Ismene again, and saw her to an airplane. There, they parted ways for unknown reasons. {'The Plan'} He proceeded on his own, encountering yet another Maze Screen, where he realized his hunger for Chocolate. He began seeking it out, only to be confronted by his worst nightmare-- HIMSELF.