What is up everybody?
Welcome to another episode of Playing Games of Strangers.
I'm your DM tonight. My name is John. How are you? How you doing out there?
Sorry for the giggles and everything is just,
I hit record at it at auspicious time and everybody got real quiet
real quick with me this evening. Right now we have Celeste.
Hello.
We have Katie.
Hey, I'm new on this podcast. .
Yikes. I'm just, I'm just trying it out. Taking it for test drive. You know.
You're not the only one. It's just weird in this context. agreed.
I have, uh, Dave Clements.
Yep. That, that's me.
And Josiah the talent. Crandle.
I'm here.
Yep. Uh, you know, and you know who's not here, Steve or Js,
because I don't know why. Yeah. I'm,
I sometimes I forget how to do these openings. Uh, let's start with the merch.
Do we have any new merch announcements at all?
No. But since last session, I had a really good idea and I gotta figure it out.
So stay tuned.
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Go check out the merch store and wait for updates and buy stuff while you're
there. Celeste. Yeah. Why don't you tell us about,
tell people how they can give us money without us giving them things.
So , for as little as a dollar a month,
we give them things as little as a taller a month.
Just because we're not great at it doesn't mean we don't get that stuff.
You can be a patron and support us.
And John's throwing me off, so I don't know what I'm supposed to say.
I know that if you're at a $5 level, you can watch us live,
which means that you get to listen to all of these
shenanigans. Yep. That happen. We're looking at you, Amanda.
We have a couple of, of $5 patrons. Not all of them avail themselves of,
of the mass hysteria that is watching us play live.
But it's always a fun time. When you do a dollar,
you get part of our, to be part of our discord. You are able to,
I don't know cuz I'm just thrown off. It's gonna be a weird night, guys.
. It is gonna be a weird night.
This is the first time in about eight weeks.
I've come in here feeling actually prepared for what we're going into. So.
And nobody else is.
This is my first time playing all year.
This is also true. This is, we'd like to welcome Celeste to the show. Uh,
it it, it's nice to have a repeating guest apparently. Um, .
Sorry, I'm busy.
The the goofs are flying tonight. Js you, you showed up just in time.
Um, anyway, with all that jumble said, Josiah,
why don't you do your two duty? Yes.
Let's go ahead and play with a music.
. What was that? That just terrified me.
Is that bitch?
Yeah.
I'm trying not to voice the fact thing and I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Yeah.
So , I I don't like this. I need an adult.
Legitimately wasn't. It.
Was, so if that was your voice, if.
You had come.
Up with a new voice.
I wish. I mean, playing.
Games with strangers, you know, there's no danger
playing
ss.
Uh, alright,
we're gonna do this real quick because we played for quite a while and we did
very little last time. . So.
, that's.
Normal. It was pleasant. We bonded. It was great.
We got a nice lore drop that none of us were privy to,
but all the players were excited. Just foaming at the mouth.
I'm not gonna repeat it here. [inaudible] Listen, uh,
AEN went missing Wilder found out his door was broken. He fixed his door.
I got a hat. It looks like a mind flare. Super awesome.
It also makes it so I can't speak, but I can't talk in people's minds. Also,
it makes it so that everyone that has a hat on is suddenly listening to the
Mickey Mind Player, uh, theme song. Natural. Really?
But that's what I think of and that's what I heard.
So that's what everyone hears when I wear it. Um, Emron was,
uh, hanging out with her family. Her family sucks.
We went back to us cuz we were more interesting. Uh,
we went down to the drought colony. We talked to them. They, uh,
weren't quite as, uh, appreciative of our knowledge as I thought they would be.
Uh, they commissioned, I don't think commissioned is the right word,
but they commissioned or bog to go kill Lars. Uh, and we all agreed. Uh,
I'm working on morality still, but we'll get there eventually.
And we all went to bed. Uh, and then Emron uh,
decided that she was gonna kill all the tower falls,
which is kind of helpful for us, depending on the order. She does it.
That's what happened.
So we are going to pick up the next quote.
Morning in Alta [inaudible].
Good morning.
Can you please roll a perception check for me?
Boy, can I, um,
that's 11 or my passive is 16.
Okay, well, we'll go with your passive.
Actually, I get to go with advantage cuz I'm in my favorite terrain. Oh,
hang on. I forgot about the one class feature that does nothing.
Except I've put you in all your favorite terrains.
That was a natural 20. Hey, I'll take a picture and show you.
But you don't need to.
I don't feel like it.
I don't, I don't feel like it. Ugh.
I don't feel like.
It. As you are down in the under dark, uh,
the brief moments that you do see, uh, like walls or something, or,
or similar accoutrements down there.
Uh.
Should they not have walls down there?
? I'm talking about like cave walls and stuff. Okay.
But Hume Stone.
Yes. What you were seeing, Callum was, uh,
humanoid shadows walking around that seemed to have
two burning coals for eyes about the size of a, uh,
the end of a burning cigarette.
Like I, so I'm seeing them on walls, but not out and about.
So far.
Uh, can I tell 'em what they are?
I kind of just told you what they were. They're humanoid shadow figures with,
or are you talking about like,
do like to try to figure out what type of creature they are or.
Yeah. Or if, you know,
just seeing things with coals for eyes is striking a note with me for
something.
Okay.
From the hills or.
This is not a natural thing.
So I'm gonna say roll of history. Check.
Uh, two.
Yeah. You have, you have no idea.
. Uh, okay. Uh, can anyone else see shadows on the wall?
You look [inaudible] than usual. Like, you saw something strange.
Yeah. Do you see the shadows on the wall over yonder?
I look over yonder.
Uh, make a perception check.
Here. We get, come on Poo. 18.
Okay. Yeah. You don't see 'em.
There's, um, shadows on the wall.
And, uh, I, uh, I try to make like a, a puppet. Like a, a shadow puppet.
Roll. A performance check.
Well, it's not that I,
there are sh it's that it looks like there are shadows of people on the walls
every so often and that their eyes are like, fire. Like this.
Uh, I do a 14. A 14 is what I rolled. And try to do a bunny rabbit.
Poo does a fairly adequate bunny rabbit sh shadow puppet on the wall as you're
describing the creatures that you're seeing.
Like that. But less rabbit like, and more humanlike.
Like. Oh, humanlike. Um, I might need an extra pair of hands for this wilder.
Get over here. I'm, I'm, Nope. No, I'm out. Come, come. No. Oh, Bob. No,
I'm out. Who are you at? Shadow puppets. Whoa.
Whoa. What I was dreaming.
There was Callum scene shadows on the wall. And I'm trying to hallucinate,
um, what they, you're.
Trying, you're trying to hallucinate.
Uh.
I guess probably crunchy potions would help you with that.
. I was just gonna say that.
Well, um, no thank you. Wo vag. Uh, Callum.
So the, the, the shadow figures on the wall.
Yeah.
And not bunny rabbits.
They look No, not funny. Like are they don't see people still,
are they still there?
Yes, they're still there. Squid.
Can I roll an arcana check considering Emma a shadow magics.
Or so No, I'm not gonna say arcana for that. Dave.
If you want to try to figure it out, throw a, throw me a history check.
Uh, is this one.
And start kind of poking around.
What are they over? Just tell me when I'm poking one.
I'll, while he's doing that, I'm gonna use my, uh,
little al awareness
to see if there are any aberrations, celestial dragons,
elemental space, fes or undead within a mile or six miles. Oh man.
That's a lot of miles.
. That's a lot of miles.
It's very specific spell. You're gonna get lots of info from that.
Yeah, it's very, uh, good at pinpointing things in a six mile rabies.
All of those are over the six smile radius.
I don't mean to alarm everyone, but at this moment right now,
there is a dragon within six miles of us.
And I find that to be one of the most frightening things I've heard this entire
campaign.
There is too.
But it could be like a baby dragon, right?
I mean, I suppose it could be a baby dragon and I don't really, you know,
when I open mind up in such a way, it's just, it's real vague. It's mostly like,
I get the sense that maybe they passed through here someday
, which is not the most helpful thing. But.
Dave did you, did you throw that history?
Yeah. It was a 12.
You aren't certain what it is, but you've,
that description rings familiar to you. Like you might,
like,
you might have encountered something like this before and you
didn't know what it was then either.
So, so is this, is this one over here?
You know, I, uh, I don't know, but, uh,
I think I'm just gonna ignore it for now because we have things to do and this
will, I dunno, maybe I'll come back.
Kings to kill, right?
Yeah. You know, unless that's one of the kings, but I don't think that's Lars.
Cuz I would know.
Can I think about this really quick?
I can.
I cut off two of his fingers so they don't look like bunny rabbits anymore.
Well, I don't suggest either of those. I mean, you Yes. You can think about it,
ed. No. Okay. You cannot cut off his fingers.
I'm gonna see if who knows anything about these guys.
So he is gonna sit down and think really hard. He's gonna sit there and say.
Think, think, think.
And he's going to roll a, this is a history check.
Yeah.
Uh, 15.
Actually.
Pu I'm gonna give you advantage because you're taking a moment to sit down and
super ponder it. Uh,
waloo is sitting down having a thank Callum.
You watch a child from the water,
deep refugees go running off, out and about,
and you watch one of these shadow figures peel themselves off the wall, Ugh.
And run up to this child and embrace it.
And as it embraces this child, it kind of,
the child kind of ashes away like Peter Parker in the arms
of Iron Man.
Oh, and I, oh, I don't have time to do nothing about that.
No.
Okay. Did anyone see that child disappear? Because I dish,
there're that I'm gonna hunter sense the the other one,
which is the thing that lets me know,
like if it has immunities and resistances and whatnot.
When you hunter sense it,
like the most bizarre concepts come up in your mind.
Mm.
I mean, the best you can tell,
if it's not completely immune to everything in its current form,
then it's at least incredibly resistant.
And also as after the child completely ashes the shadow
merges with the ground and slips off into the darkness.
Is the other one still on the wall?
Oh, there's more than just one. Okay.
There's several who based off the description that Callum's given you
mm-hmm. ,
it reminds you a lot of the things that you saw coming out of
the bookcase in Erford. Yeah. Okay. When you guys broke the door mm-hmm.
, uh, did you go down? I no,
you did not go down into the dungeon underneath Castle Ler. Mm-hmm.
. Okay. I don't believe I.
Did. So that's where you would know them from. Um.
Remember that one time early on when we were exploring and there
was a bookcase in a red room and we opened a thing that we shouldn't have and
there were ghosties shadow creatures coming out of it and we shut it really
quick. Yes. This ring in a bellford, or.
Or I'm pretty sure that was during the time we don't talk about.
Right. So abag you remember that, right?
Yes. I, I.
Remember. Yeah. That's what I think that I'm getting Me too. Like Yeah.
Some of these vibes here. That's what I'm thinking of.
So just rung a bear with me. Some of those shadowy creatures that.
Also, the three of you that are there,
don't remember ever seeing a child that Callum just asked if you saw a child.
Oh. So I'm crazy.
Okay. Wiping it out of existence.
Would it make sense that Callum is even talking about a kid?
No.
Like, we, like we haven't seen any kids at all.
As far as you're aware.
War shadows. Okay.
So Callum, you're seeing shadows in goats. Is that what I'm hearing?
No. Uh, it was, uh, goats human ish. I ju I didn't actually,
I don't know if it was human, a.
Human could.
I wasn't, I won't presume to say that it is human. Um,
but humanoid at the very least. Uh.
And what happened to this kid? I was thinking.
Uh, it, it kind of, uh, dissolved.
Like.
.
Yeah.
Do you think this is like time stuff that.
I was thinking the.
Same thing? That's why you're seeing that.
How many fingers am I holding up.
Now? Well, here's, okay.
Well that's an interesting question that you have raised,
which leads me to believe that if it is time related,
that it is something that is happening not in this time. Right?
That would be the assumption. And it hopefully, so is this,
so is this something that is going to happen or something that did happen?
Because I don't know that I particularly like seeing either.
Calvin, how many fingers am I uhhuh? How many fingers will I be holding up?
Two. You're you're still making a bunny.
Oh, I forgot.
About that. So please let me cut his fingers off please. Let me cut.
His fingers off. Uh, okay. Okay. Well,
I am going to cast word of radiance at the wall.
, what does that do?
I utter a divine word and radiance erupts from me.
And then whatever's in range must succeed on a constitution, a saving throw.
I'm going to step away from my friends to do this.
Okay? So Callum steps away from you guys towards the wall and says.
Let the power of Christel you.
. Uh,
so a big radiant light goes up.
Against us only about five feet. Don't, no, not too big.
I'm trying to make this sound.
Cool. Don't worry. Wait, I mean, it's a can Tripp, but go ahead.
Flashes up against this wall. And as this flashes up,
you guys see what looks like the absence of light
against this wall. As Callum does this,
it starts out as a humanesque figure,
but as the blast hits them,
they kind of morph into a very
demonic shape.
It takes a bite down towards Callum.
I'm going to assume it's exceeded.
as I had said previously, it seems like they're pretty hardy.
You never, it's radiant damage.
I always figure that's a good thing when it's a shadow.
Oh, it, I completely understand. You're where you're going at.
It's not so much what you're attacking 'em with.
It's where you're attacking them.
In the wall. I know. Usually when people attack me in the wall,
I don't feel it either.
Does a uh, 22 hit you?
Oh, probably. What, what do you know? It in misses my 14.
It bites down towards you. Callum,
I'm gonna give you a reaction to its biting action.
And this is gonna determine how this is going to play out.
So as you see this giant demonic void of light
shape biting down at you at you, how do you respond?
Uh, I can do, I can do whatever in my reaction here.
Yeah. What would be your first motion that you would do in the situation? See.
Uh,
K's Handel come up and he will cast a different spell and say,
okay, get away from me and cast banishment on it.
Okay? I like, I like that you, that makes me happy.
He didn't see stumble foot do it. But if he had, he would've said what?
Stumble foot said.
The thing bites down on the very ends of get at at on the very ends of
Callum's fingers just at the first knuckle of the middle three fingers.
Right at the same moment that Calum fires off this banish spell as this
thing is banished. Uh, Callum,
you look down at your hands and tho that area where those three fingers used to
be at it, it's like, it's like they just have never been there.
And of course they've never been there. It was a,
it was caused by an accident that had happened when you were in the bug bear
tribe. Obviously, like you, you've always, you've never had those tips there.
It was, uh.
I don't like that at all.
It is a wonder how I became so good at archery.
You guys have always known Callum to not have the,
the ends of his fingers there too.
It was an unfortunate honey making accident.
Yeah. You got to carry those things that spin the honeycomb dangerous. Hey.
Stubby. What's.
Up? No, he's gone now.
Stuby didn't make it.
I think I'm okay. I.
Saw the bright light, some sort of figure.
But you look like normal.
I feel like normal.
How many fingers am I holding up now?
That's not a funny joke, boo. No, I've told you this. It's really insensitive.
I'm I'm not. I just, isn't.
That what you, no one's sensitive about that.
Supposed to ask people to make sure they're okay, right? That you,
you're with me on this wilder. Right? You ask people,
how many fingers am I holding up.
Looking at my own hand? Um,
it is a little offensive for those of us missing fingers. Okay.
I figured you'd know this.
Why, why would you ask him?
Right. Okay. Well, how about you ho Bob? You've heard that, right?
That's an expression. It's like, you know, um, whatever fruits your goat.
And Yeah, it's an expression. It's just,
we've always been very conscious of making sure that we're not gu making
people feel bad. Okay.
We don't like making fun of people.
Poo. Sorry. I will.
Uh, well that sounds fake. We don't need to take it that far.
We'd.
Like you you to lie to me.
.
I apologize for any rudeness that my comments
made. Um, are there any more shadow creatures by the by?
I just wanna make sure that we're covered here. Maybe we should, I'll.
Take move.
Along.
They seem to be swirling around in the background,
but the moment you try to point out one, it kind drifts off.
So you're catching glimpses of 'em, but nothing that you can really point out.
Okay. Well, you know, okay.
I feel like now is a good time to leave before another thing.
pops off the wall and tries to eat me.
I would agree with that.
But you're, you're gonna keep an eye out, right? Yeah.
Well, yeah, I'm going to, yeah.
I mean, they might follow us.
I will keep both of my eyes out. In fact.
Please keep them in. Do look at him with two eyes.
Okay.
I'm sorry. I, if you know, nevermind.
Uh, should you lead the way or should you be the one being led?
Where, where would you be best used?
Just make sure we don't run into any of these.
Oh, well, I, I, I mean,
I suppose I can bring up the rear and one of you can just walk towards the
stairs over yonder and we can head up.
I, I thought he had time powers. Can he do both?
Yeah, but you wouldn't be able to do anything while I was doing it, so.
Ah, boring.
Oh, hey, that was part of our pen. Oh,
I was going to stop time and walk up there and then Orach was gonna snap over to
me.
Oh yeah. For the king. For the king killing.
Yeah. I just remembered that. Yeah. I forgot that I could stop time. Yep.
I forgot that too, because I've never seen it.
That's, you know, fair. Yeah.
Alright, um, I'll, I'll, I'll bring this up the stairs.
Then as you are making your way towards the stairs,
because it's a bit of, it's a bit of a jog. You, uh, you,
the whole entire time you see just the occasional shadow drifting
by doesn't seem to be entirely interested in you
per se, but, uh, definitely making their way down.
Keeping an eye out for if they come closer so that it stays away.
I have my nice knuckles ready just in case.
Ooh. I have,
and I have my new sword thingies and I wonder if I
could hit one and then Loki could suck him up or something.
I mean, I still have my bow.
Yeah, but you can't shoot it good like that.
I'm very good at it. Thank you.
He's a better shot than you.
Oh, we, we'll see you Stand over there and I'd.
Trust Callum with a bow anytime.
Callum's pretty good with a bow. Probably the best person I know with a bow. Oh,
thank you. Oh, you're welcome.
After a while of just walking and seeing the shadows,
but they don't seem to really be gesturing towards you.
You get to the staircase and you make your way up and you are in Sota where
the world is your oyster. Where are you going?
Alright, so are you planning on just going like straight there and sneaking in?
We have a lot at our disposal now to be real stealthy where we
want him to do something else first. What's our plan here?
I've never killed a king, so.
Well, I, I think, um.
I'm mixed. Two, maybe three, four of us.
I think we all got a nice night of sleep and you know.
I've killed the king before.
Oh.
What?
Love you. I heard this story.
Well, you know, we killed the king. Didn't we kill the king?
I killed the king once. Pretty sure.
I believe you. It's.
Uh, I,
I could check in with Kai and see if maybe we've made any
progress to, uh, keep an eye on Castle and maybe infiltrate.
Wait a second. I wouldn't.
Mike. Wait, I.
Have a Wait, sorry. I, I remembered something that's,
I remembered something I think. Yes. I can't remember who was with,
I think it was me and Poo and Stumble foot.
Mm-hmm. . But we went to a shady place. Mm-hmm.
.
With shady books and things. Mm-hmm.
and I think down in the bottom they,
there was something that reminded us of Was that that or was it the other
castle? Wait, are you,
I thought there was some place we went where we saw something that reminded us
of that room we found.
You're right. I don't remember something about that.
I don't remember any of this, but I wasn't here for that.
Who, you weren't there when that happened, so. No.
You don't. How do I remember that happening there?
Ah, um, okay. Well I.
Do imagination.
I do have one, one thing to say here.
Yes. W.
Wilder.
You should check in with Kai to see if he knows where the king is.
That would probably be important information for killing the.
King. Indeed.
Also, you know, could provide like a distraction, I suppose.
Like if they create, created a distraction, a party
or that,
who was gonna say you so that the king thought he was being attacked somewhere
else? Uh, what a birthday party could work. Is it Lars's birthday?
Yes.
I I don't think you knew that. Who? Uh,
[inaudible] It's not your brother's birthday, is it?
Uh, I put it out of my mind. I have no idea.
I, I good. But I mean, he would love us to, you know,
just celebrate him and all his glory.
I just had a brilliant idea. Okay,
listen here we go to scared already only on Tuesdays. Right.
And.
The big shock, the fake.
One. The fake one. We get a nice cake.
We go into the palace for, to pretend, you know,
a celebration, get close to the king, deliver the.
Cake and you pop out of the cake.
Exactly. Except or bog pops out of the cake with the dagger. Hoo.
Dead.
Or we put nightshade in the cookies and make meat.
It all.
These seem like they required a lot of advanced planning.
Usually bakery say they need, you know, a few days to make a cake of that.
Just be a better idea for me to check in with her. Okay. Okay. So I'm gonna.
Do that. Maybe check in with your girlfriend, whatever.
Well, I'll check in with her.
At night if she's Yeah.
See if she's like feeling the urge to go visit somebody cuz they're about to die
or something. Uh,
or talk to her and mention the things that Kalam is seeing.
And Wilder. I'm just going to mention this nice and softly. Yes.
If Kai has seen it or heard anything about Eileen.
Um, cuz.
We don't know where she is at, so maybe he's got some, um, you know,
seen some,
some Eileen roaming around playing music or or baking or something.
Right, right. Cuz I'm sure that she would just up and leave, but Sure.
I can ask. I, I will ask.
And if your daughter would like to help us kill the king too, we could.
It's a field trip.
Children are pretty distracting.
Uh, just let me talk to Kai for a second.
All right.
Look.
Hey, Kai, it's Wilder, Felix. Um,
how are things going on your end? Uh, are are you doing anything?
I I'm sorry. I, we, we've had a very distracting morning so far, but,
uh, I wanted to know if maybe you had, uh, infiltrated the castle at all,
found laws, anything like that?
Um, I mean,
I've been trying to muster up some people to do it, but, uh, you know,
we're just a small, a small team here, so.
Right, right, right. So no, then.
I mean, I'm try, we're trying to.
No, no, no, I'm just, I didn't, I'm just checking in on progress. That's fine.
Just making sure that like, if,
if I need to take Callum and Callum
to go find laws, we could, we could we could do that.
Uh, Felix. Yeah. Uh,
I need you to roll. Oh wait, no, no, no, no.
You drank one of the crunchy potions, didn't you?
I did.
Make a history check for me. Please. Oh guys, I'm so weird at that.
That's a seven.
That was the DC for that because you was it really crunchy potion? Yeah, it was.
So that's legit. That's good.
It strikes you a little bit weird that he's saying you don't,
that you're just have a small crew because you have over 50 people
in the, uh,
thieves guild that's not very small of the crew
to, uh, have. So what he's saying doesn't make sense to you.
Uh, so, hi. What, I guess, what are you,
what are you running into with finding people? Exactly. I mean,
normally we can get people.
I'm just trying to get everybody I, you know, 15 people's,
not a mo not a lot to send.
So I'm just trying to catch somebody when they have a moment.
At fif 15.
15.
People. Yeah.
We run a small crew here in TowerFall. We always have.
Ah, I mean, I know I'm new to this,
but that's not the math. The maths don't work very well.
Wild dear. Wild.
Hmm. Um, what, who.
You keep saying 15.
Who you remember it being a very small crew as well?
What are you talking about? Are you ordering like some food for us?
No. No. Okay. I'm gonna turn around to everybody else. Uh, okay.
Uh,
Kai's saying we only have like 15 people in the Guild
and he's having a hard time. Well, not getting them together for this. Yep.
That sounds.
About right. There. Were there,
there weren't very many people there when we were there with you. It's like.
Or bog, you know, that there was,
that they have well over 50 people on the guild.
There was definitely.
That. No, no, no, no, no. You don't know how to.
Count. That's true.
But there was well over 50 people.
I, I will say orach, I actually be right. Poo,
you don't count very well unless it's meals. And then you're good at that.
I'm good at that. Uh, so my, my,
my last count we had like 50 people that we kept
track of that we could call on. And now we're looking at 15.
I'm pretty sure. So here's the thing, Wilder,
I can usually count at least a 15. And that's,
I I don't remember getting any higher than.
That. That's what I'm worried about.
There was like Jim and Little Jim, um,
there was George Fluffy. Nope. You.
Remember Fluffy. George is dead. You know what, maybe,
maybe I need to go check in on the guild. Uh,
something's not right.
Well, you would know better than me since you are in charge of it.
Do you need help with, are we splitting up?
Because I feel like if we're all planning treason might be best to stay.
Together. Stay together. I'm with you. K. No,
because we gotta kill the king today.
We should also maybe not talk about it on the street.
I was just gonna say that. I probably shouldn't have said that so loudly.
No more talking about killing the king now on.
That's okay. You're a demonn possessed. You don't know any better.
Okay,
so maybe we head to the guild so I could talk to Kai in person
in case something's going on.
And then we'll keep an eye out for Aileen on the way. I mean,
just in case like Poo said,
she's dancing and singing and doing bad things.
Doing bad things. So I had, I I had a question for you.
Did you ask Kai about her?
I didn't get that far. You kind of interrupted.
Me, but, oh, I interrupted you. I'm early. I'm really sorry about that wildlife.
It's o it's o It's okay. It's bad. Kai, have you,
have you seen the little halfling lady that's been traveling with us?
Uh, crazy red hair. A very, very good singing voice.
I dunno what you're talking about. Boss. Um,
you've never traveled with a red-headed halfling.
Hey poo. What colors Eileen's hair?
Do I need to roll something or do I remember? Roll.
Roll wisdom. Oh.
Poo's favorite.
Actually, can I also roll this? Do I remember this?
Oh yeah. Yes. Eileen's hair. Hell, bright red. Um,
she makes a mean cinnamon roll and brownie. Uh, can.
Right.
Right. You're giving me this blank stare. Like you,
you don't even remember Elaine.
Who.
You know.
She's the one that betrayed you.
Yeah.
She's also the one that doesn't like, uh, Tilda right alongside you.
You know her aunt?
I don't know what you're talking about. Yes, I know who she is.
I was kidding you. It's a little joke.
. Okay.
Oh God. Can we not do that one again?
Oh, Carolyn, you, you, you, you are bad. You are so.
Bad. You know, it's so bad. Sorry. Try levity. Levity in this situation.
You know, it's been awful. Tenset. Uh, so who is not remembering Eileen?
Cuz she's hard to forget.
I think we all.
Let me say Till is hard to forget. Aileen's a pleasure to remember,
I think is the way I would actually state That.
Sounds about right. Could.
Go on a greeting card. Callum, write that down. .
Alright, I will.
I I, yeah. Kai doesn't remember Aileen of course.
I don't remember if Aileen's been with us when I've been with Kai. No,
he had to have been because, uh, uh, Amber and Oh.
Brother. A brother. What's name?
Arlan?
Arlan.
I don't know if I ever met Arlan, but Oh yes I did because I helped pay for him.
Yep. Little guy.
Yeah, he was. Oh, nice.
Calum. Are you still seeing shadowy things around us?
Let me look.
. You sure do.
Uh, yeah. Yep. Yeah, you win. I can, yeah. That's.
Not good. Can we like walk and talk?
Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Go get get to the guild. Get to the guild.
Just speed walk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll see if we can maybe remind Kai who we're talking about and or see if he
has been in some way possessed and or coerced.
Maybe it's a secret code.
Yeah, it's kind of what I'm worried about. Okay. No more talking. Let's go.
Can I sing a song now?
. Okay. So you guys start making your way towards the, uh, guild.
You make your way through the, uh, tower,
the fa the fallen tower because the guild's in northern tower fall.
And, uh, as you start working your way north at,
you do end up going past only on Tuesdays,
both Callum and Wilder see a familiar red-headed
halfling through the window of only on Tuesdays.
Do we see, do I see the other,
the other two people that were in there that weren't the right people?
Yeah.
They're in there with her and I, oh, well, hold on. I'm gonna go inside.
Callum.
Callum up. Who? Just sit, sit tight.
Me and Callum will be right back. Just sit tight.
You are you getting a, a treat?
I will, but you have to behave.
Bring me a cinnamon roll please. Extra cinnamon. You too? Yes.
Okay, so you guys walk into only on Tuesdays. What you gonna.
Doen? Actually, I'm gonna see if it looks like Eileen, like once I'm close.
It sure does look like Aen.
Aen.
Okay. Celeste?
Yes.
Yes. You watch as a peculiar looking, uh,
humanesque.
Ranger. I look pretty human. Oh.
Yeah. So I said Humanesque, um, ranger and a, uh,
a human rogue. Don't.
Discount my c cleric levels like that either. That's rude.
.
Walk through this, this, uh,
the front of the shop that you have always worked at with your uncle,
uh, Rashan and your aunts Chris Wyn that they had,
uh, inherited from your parents.
And of course your name is Alana. Chris Win.
And as they come in,
the ranger that came in and looks at you and says Alene.
I'm sorry. I don't know anybody without that. Hey, my name is Alana.
Can I, is this a Callum? Is this a bit, this isn't funny.
Uh, this one's not me. Oh, you had no problem in this. Um, a [inaudible] Uh,
hang on now cuz you're, you, you're alien. Not Alana.
I don't believe I know an Eileen.
Oh, well that's not good.
It's a no. Something's going on. It,
it's not funny.
It's, you know. Hi, I'm Callum. Hi. And I will offer my hand to shake.
Hello Callum. It's nice to meet. Are you doing.
Do you shake my hand?
Yes.
I will cast greater restoration on Aileen and see if it does anything.
What does greater restoration heal?
Oh, golly. Uh.
Oldness.
It can, you can take, uh, exhaustion level . Uh,
it can end one of the following effects, charmed, petrified, or a curse,
uh,
including in attune into a magic item and or anything that reduces ability,
scores or hit points.
Okay. Callum, you get a response you weren't expecting.
I am now alien.
, no, Felix. Mm-hmm. .
You recognize this response as you have experienced this before, Alana. Yeah.
You suddenly have two different sets of memories going through your head right
now.
Ooh. My head hurts.
You can remember an entire lifetime as Alana.
This is what I get from missing sessions.
Oof.
And you remember also an entire lifetime as a lien.
I'm, I'm gonna sit on the floor for a minute.
I'll sit with you. Seems like it's a rough time.
So that's what's going on. Fun times.
Your Uncle Rashan comes up to you and goes, Alana, is everything okay?
Are, are these ruffians bothering you? Should I ha call the city guard?
No, no. I have headache uncle.
Oh. Maybe you should go upstairs and go to bed. Uh,
and we'll see these people out who are.
Disturbing you. It's not their fault. They, it's, it's one of my migraines.
It's fine. It's just.
Okay.
It's probably best that she, uh, sits and, um,
just chills out for a second.
Could I have two of your finest and largest cinnamon rolls?
That would be wonderful, actually. Oh, I'll give you right.
Away. That'll, that'll be, uh, five silver, please.
Oh, absolute. Okay. Uh, Callum,
can you Yeah. Hold on to this and um, I'm gonna go talk to Poo and Berg.
Wait, am I holding onto the cinnamon rolls or to Eileen? I mean, Alana?
No, no, no. I've gotta take these to.
Poo. Oh, I see. All right. Yeah, I got the situation handled.
Don't worry about it. Hi, I'm Callum. Okay. Nice to meet you.
You already did that bit.
Well, it's to Rahan. I gotta be nice to the uncles, you know.
Oh, oh. Trying to.
SMI Shaun's already turned back and started putting copious amounts of fake
vanilla into hi. Into a frosting batter.
Oh.
Wilder. You are back.
I told you I would be. And look.
Cinnamon rolls. Look.
At those. I'm gonna give the one to you. . Do you want the other one?
I I asked for a chili pot pie. Don't you remember.
?
He's kind of busy. Thank.
Everybody's forgetting everything.
Not the chili pot pie. Yeah.
Well, let me, let me, let me put it this way. Um,
Aileen's remembering a lot of things right now.
First off, Eileen's in there.
Eileen is in there.
I think I missed something. Well, why didn't you say so?
Yeah, I mean, she's forgetting stuff too.
No, just, uh, there's more going on here than.
Meets the Pie.
Uh, .
Oh, that's a great episode. More than meets the Pie. I mean.
I think I'm gonna, I I think I'm gonna just leave. I'm gonna go find a,
a river and just leave. Uh, no.
I'm going to eat the cinnamon roll.
I don't even know to.
Stop. So she's re she's remembering stuff.
Yeah. Oh. So it, it seems, uh,
Callum did some magic.
And I think it's the same thing that several foot used on me to
clear up my head about whether I was Felix or Wilder or Oath.
You know what I'm saying? Um.
Yeah.
There's more of that going around.
Yeah. So I'm just, um,
I'm trying to give Eileen a little bit of time. I don't wanna bombard her.
I also wanted to kind of prep you guys so that if she's confused
or uncomfortable, that's why.
Um,
I don't Did she something off with this cinnamon roll?
Probably fake vanilla.
But I don't Yeah, it's not quite, quite right.
Anden made these.
I don't know who I just bought them.
Hm. I wouldn't eat that one if I were you or Bog. Here.
Let me . Let me just take that off your hand.
Oh.
Let's just sit tight and, uh, wait. Foren to come out in her own time. I'll,
I can try kayaking here in a minute. Just let him know we're on our way.
To be fair,
it feels like I've had two books shoved into my head
at one time. It's fair. Can I.
Barely like one shoved in my head at a time.
This is like,
have you heard of Brandon Sanderson?
It sa it feels like he shoved things in my head cuz he's so wordy.
No.
I don't, I don't think I know. No,
I know a Sanders It's Poo. I know Poo well. No.
No. The House.
Of Sanders. I.
Feel like this was not a relation.
Oh yes. No, it was Sand and Branden.
Ah, no. Still nothing. Uh,
so I, I mean, I don't know if you want to just talk it out process,
throw it. I don't know if you're a verbal processor.
If you feel like you need to rant or something.
I don't know. I'm not very good at this part of it.
I know, I I I know I'm not. What,
what happened?
Oh well we went to Wilder's house and then you walked out the door
and we lost you. Uh, we went down to the Drow city. We made some plans.
I can't quite tell you all of 'em in here cuz it's a public place and I don't
want to get arrested. Uh, but some things are in motion. Yeah.
And then we found you. And then I just cast magic on you.
I'm very sorry I didn't ask for your permission first,
but you seems to not know who we were and now you know too much about people
and yourself it seems.
So just, I'm kind of wondering what's real and what's not.
Oh, well I, you know, that's a thing that I've wondered a lot,
um, in general.
I.
Mean, is this I'm sorry to see you a real.
Life or is this fantasy? I just don't know.
Well, you know, sometimes life seems pretty fantastic or fantastic. Oh.
And not fantastic at all. I don't know.
Well.
But I'm glad we found you. So even if it isn't real life,
I'm glad we're enjoying it together.
Okay. I feel like I need a minute,
but I also feel like we don't necessarily have time for me to have a minute.
Well, I mean, we have, we've got a minute. Don't worry about it. Uh, you know,
uh, I was gonna say something else, but the, the idiom has escaped me. Uh,
do you happen to remember anything that happened between you leaving Wilder's
house and here? Cuz maybe that could give us a good idea of what was going on.
There. There were
coals that were not quite hot, that there were that orangey color
and it was dog. That's, that's all I remember.
Well, there were two of them in, uh, you know, like together.
Yes.
Okay. Well, okay.
Well that seems like something that's a problem in general.
Uh, yeah. Well, you know, so I keep seeing those things around.
One of them took a child.
Oh.
Yeah. Uh, I guess maybe they thought you were a child cuz you're small.
I don't mean that to be rude, but I dunno. Maybe they were just after children.
Okay.
That wasn't very helpful. And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that.
Um, no, it's, it's fine. I'm just,
I'm still over here having a,
another mental breakdown that I don't have the time for.
That's very fair. Is there something I can do to help?
Um, I don't know. I need to step out cuz it's the,
the smelling smells like Sure. Like beavers in here. I need to get out.
Yeah, I agree. Uh, I mean, I don't, I, but yeah, let's go outside.
All right.
You two head outside and Alana Alene,
uh, you see, uh,
the guy that was in there with Callum as well as a giant bug bear
and a dark elf.
Alana, lean .
Hello. It's.
Hot pie with chili in it.
I, I, I understand. I.
See What's so hard to understand.
Oh, hey.
She's coming. She's coming. Talking about her.
Hey, how you feeling? A hello?
They're confused
but been there working on it.
Okay.
So we are gonna make our way up to the Thieves Guild. Um,
are you okay to go with us.
At, at the moment Walk? Yes, cuz I don't,
I don't wanna go back in there.
It's a lovely day for a walk. So.
Lovely.
Yeah. Uh, fresh hair. Clean your head.
Yeah. That's my thoughts.
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