You know, every once in a while, the polished surface of my desk beckons too.
Oh another note, there are kind of a lot of running gags, some of them being from earlier MS Paint Adventures. You don't have to read them, but if you want to understand some of the stuff better you should probably try reading them. I guess more specifically Jailbreak is where most of those jokes come from, and it's pretty short.
You can probably skip bard quest, though.