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.
Eileen. Oh.
I'm sorry. I don't know anybody by that name. My name is Alana. Can I help.
You? It's a no. Something's going on. Alene.
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 eat. Are you doing? What are you.
I will cast greater restoration on Alene and see if it does anything.
Callum, you get a response you weren't expecting?
I am now. Aileen.
. 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 lie.
To be fat.
Feels like I've had two books shoved into my head
at one time.
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.
There are 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.
Hey, how you feeling? Alie?
Hello? They're confused
but working on it.
We are gonna make our way up to the Thieves Guild. Are you okay to go with us.
At, at the moment? Yes. Cuz I don't,
I don't want to go back in there.
It's a lovely day for a walk. So.
Yeah. Uh, fresh hair. Clean your head.
Yeah, that's my thoughts.
Playing games with strangers, you know,
there's no danger.
With strangers.
With strangers
with strangers. Sss.
Alright,
so you make your way over to the Thieves Guild and
when you get there, Felix,
you see just kind of a shanty,
not the building that you're used to.
I like what you've done with the place.
Yeah. Except I didn't do anything with the place.
It's like, it's like a tiny house.
Yeah. Those are all the rage.
This is what it's always looked like. Oh, Bob,
I don't know what y'all talking about.
Hey, Callum. Yeah.
I don't know what all your time abilities
can and cannot do.
Me neither. But.
Are you able to detect if time has changed something recently?
Maybe you can ask your dad about it.
So, so go with me here. Yeah. This is my, this is my thoughts. I'm.
Going process. I'm with you.
Okay.
We've had like 50 people.
Yeah.
In the Thieves Guild for as long as I can remember that we've been able to,
to tap for different things.
All of a sudden Kai is saying 15 and it's not,
he's aren't misspeaking and well
poo. Okay? You, you've been to the Thieves Guild before.
This is not what it looked like. Right?
This is exactly what it looked like. Nice and low profile.
No one would come here looking for.
Oh, Bo this is not what the Thieves guild looked like, right?
No. Right. No, it, it was bigger and way more impressive.
And you've whittled it down to this.
I'm pretty sure this is how it's always been O.
Bog. No, it hasn't.
Okay. Okay. So let's say that, I mean, okay,
well I'm willing to accept the premise that Mar has done this,
given the fact that we have apparently broken some kind of thing in alien's
brain to make her both people again and remember things.
My brain definitely feels broken. I'm very sorry about that. Um, I'm,
yes, po.
Um, there's just a test theory. Um,
oh. Oh, have you ever been here before?
Yes and no.
Oh wait.
Perfect.
Okay, great. So now everybody's a politician.
I don't mean to alarm everyone. Right.
But what I did to make this not fixed,
which is to say, to make alien both of these people,
which does not seem like a solution to me was a lot of magic for me to
accomplish.
So anything that made all of Tower fall seem to remember things in one way is
something that I don't think I'm ready to meet.
Cuz it sounds like it's maybe related to the people we don't like that I need to
pop at some point, but not yet because I haven't learned enough. You know,
you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Like, man, well,
I I would say it probably wasn't him because I don't know that he even has the
magic to do this. But the other one that is worse, the gay.
Man.
Especially a.
Since it's just those two that are affected by it.
I mean, I don't, we like, can we bang their heads together?
I don't think it's just those two though. You know,
if it was also Kai and Poo was thinking about that and Eileen remembered
herself as herself, so it could be.
But Kai's stupid. It's, it's, that's.
Different. I don't actually think I've met Kai, so I'll hold judgment,
but I'm willing to believe that that's probably true.
What about Iran? What is it?
She's brilliant. Right? Okay.
I.
What if she forget all, forgot all of us.
I mean, wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
Yeah, it'd probably be good for her.
It seems like she's got a very full plate right now and Oh,
I can't really depend on it.
Right about this time.
Who you see Kai coming out to you guys or Bog Dave and Callum.
Dave is there.
? You know Dave, good old Dave. I've been standing here the whole time.
He's.
Not here.
You hear the sounds of rocks falling from the Scott .
Ah, dang it. I hate when they do that. It must be Friday. That's.
Too.
Late.
So, or Bog Wilder and Callum.
You guys see Arlen coming out? Celeste,
you see the same person, but you identified them both ways.
I see confusion.
Mm-hmm. ,
but all of you see a young Halfling boy coming out.
Interesting.
Oh, here, here, here comes guy. We can clear things up. Right?
While this will fix it up right up.
Hey, uh, Alan, could you, did you get Kai?
Is he on his way out?
No, no, no, no. Wilder. That is Kai.
No, that's Aileen's brother.
Boss. I don't, I don't know who this Arlin is you're talking about.
Um, anyway,
I talked to all 10 people who are a part of the Guild.
I'm pretty sure somebody's gonna show up soon, so.
Okay.
Right. Did we not wake up? Did we not wake up this morning? Are we still sleep?
I'm, uh, don't like this.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So Wilder,
you are saying this is not the Kai guy that you.
Remember? No, that's Rrn n.
That's Eileen's brother. Um, there's a different.
No, I am Kai.
Do you know this person over here?
Which person?
The, the redhead.
Uh, oh, look, I haven't seen a halfling in these parts for a while.
How do you do?
Um.
Oh, that's weird because, well, oh no, that's.
Not, I don't, I just definitely don't like this.
Also really weird because the bakery's been around. It seems for a while, but.
See that's okay. I'm seeing Arlen,
but I'm hearing Kai and he just justified my stupid comment.
Okay. Okay. Um,
at what point do I get to just relinquish the position of the Thieves Guild? Uh,
you know, and walk away from it all.
Go enjoy my daughter and be done with all this Crazy. Um,
did you mess something up when you came back? Callum?
When I came back?
Yes. Don't blame it on Callam.
TowerFall.
Did you miss something.
Up? Did I miss, I,
I would like to submit that it was all fine until basically this morning. Well,
technically yesterday when Eileen went missing out of your house,
but up until then it was fine. Well, I, well, okay,
well let me also submit that when I came here, it wasn't good anywhere.
So I think perhaps it's just catching up too powerful.
Uh, that might might be a, that's not good. You might be onto something there.
Yeah. So if we start seeing tentacles coming from the sky, it's time to go.
Or maybe they could just take me now.
That's fair.
Don't, don't.
Just because your girlfriend doesn't mean the rest of us want to go.
Well.
Wait. Oh, I love that you remember that.
It, it came to me suddenly in a fit of SAP.
Speaking.
Killing you softly.
Uh, hey, Leona, are you available for Chit Chat?
I don't think so.
Do you want me to try?
It's been a couple episodes, so you may not remember,
but your last interaction with her was a little bit huffy. So.
Um, no, Callum honey. Don't need you to talk to her. Okay.
Leona, I know things like maybe weren't great last time we talked,
but we should talk. Like,
there's a lot going on and I don't feel like I can take care of this on my own.
I kind of need some help, but if you need time, sure.
He's really sorry too. He's really excited. I'm.
Not, not talking to.
You. Hey, Wilder. Hey. Hey. Wilder help. Hey, just tell her if she needs time.
I've got plenty.
Oh, funny.
Nice. Stop interrupting Wilder while he's trying to talk. It's not nice.
I've done it once and I'm sorry for it. I've learned my lesson. Nope.
Let the man talk to his girlfriend who's.
Death.
Yeah, maybe, maybe things change so much. She's not even around anymore.
That would be.
Wow. Well, she's, she's an aspect, right?
What, what would that be?
Just.
Kidding.
That would be, oh, hi. Um, yeah, that would be Nick.
Go ahead. Go ahead and finish that sentence, Felix. That.
Would be the icing. Uh, on, on the cake. That would be, that would be my day.
So my disappearance would be your day. That would be the icing on your cake. Is,
is that where we're at now?
I'm.
Just, is that where is, is that where we're going with this relationship? Felix?
Hey, is she there? Hi. Um, he really loves you.
He wants to marry you.
He's literally standing right in front of you.
This isn't like a telephone thing.
Oh. Oh. Hello. Okay. Hi. Do you know what his name is? The little one?
Whose name?
That, that one. I'm gonna point it out.
Kai. I.
Mean.
It depends. It depends on what you want to believe.
That's not the answer. That how you wanted, I'm sorry, go ahead. Wildo,
keep making up. I mean, digging a hole.
Oh, making out. Kiss the girl. Kiss the girl.
I know that song might have a boat.
There's a lot of, um,
craziness happening.
And, and I love you.
Oh, bug.
So I'm trying to help. Oh, bug.
You're not, you're not helping.
Don't say you love her then, because you're gonna make a love time.
I'm translating your feelings.
Okay. Leona, translate. Quiet.
I would be devastated if something happened to you.
I dunno if things could happen to you, but it would devastate me.
But what I was trying to say is the day just continues to get worse.
And then if you were gone, that would just, that would be it.
My day would be over. I would be retiring. Hope,
hoping for tentacles to come from the sky. Whatever.
I It would suck if you were gone.
No, I'll accept that for now. But, uh,
you, you do aware you're making kissy faces at someone who could just
take you to the other side right now, right?
You, you slay me.
I very much could.
Okay.
? Um.
Oh, about stupid.
No, I, I'm fully aware of what's going on.
I just have not been permitted to intercede.
Makes that decision.
Hmm. He has many names,
but that's not for you to know. We'll,
just suffice it to say as it's my boss.
Hey, can, can we know who's doing this part though?
Uh, right.
Well that would be the idiot king or the idiot who would be king,
uh, opened a gateway to.
Lars. No.
Yes. Opened,
opened a gateway to places he ought not to,
and decided he found a new way to establish his reign,
so to speak.
Um, Leona a poo here.
Uh, just a question. So would killing him, uh,
help the situation or hurt the situation?
Um.
Just gathering the facts.
I think we're in a
toothpaste outside the bottle situation right now.
That didn't make any sense to me.
What is this? Toothpaste.
Not paste of.
Teeth. I, I just have, I also just have a quick,
I I also just have a quick question. Not related to killing Lars. Um,
cuz you said that you haven't been permitted to like, intercede, you know,
but you're like your death, right? So you take care of it when people are dying.
Correct.
Okay.
So what's happening to the kid that I saw dissolved by a shadow because it
didn't seem good. Didn't seem very alive.
Again, it kind of depends on what you want to believe.
I would like to know what the truth is.
It's kind of the new thing that I'm into.
Are you saying like, we have the power to create our own reality?
No. Reality is a, is a fixed con,
fixed concept. However, perception is not.
Yeah, I'm not talking about perception though.
I understand.
Okay.
Just make sense. I'm trying to think of a, yeah,
I'm trying to think of a way to say this.
You could say that one of those things reached into time
and removed him from it.
I didn't feel that. Is there a way that I can, uh,
tell it to stop.
Release the.
Time thing? Yeah. With, you know,
with put all dad inside and the aspect of time and all that. Can I be like, Hey,
that's not your domain. Get out.
Yes, please.
Uh, no. Uh,
cuz they don't really live in your domain.
They tend to shift through it.
Yeah, but can, can I be like, get out of my domain?
It's reaching into my domain and messing things up,
which should be connected to me. And it says almost, here's what I'm seeing.
It's almost like it took my actual domain and it took my father's domain and
it's putting 'em together. And I don't like that. You know,
you know what I'm saying?
Here, let me make this make sense to you. Good luck.
You have a certain ability to,
you have certain time control properties, right?
Yeah. Well, I mean, I have access to it because of my dad.
Right? Uh, do that please.
Okay. I do it.
All right. Everything stops except for you. Great.
And Leona apparently doesn't change either.
And, and she looks at you and she goes.
Now this may feel like you have stopped time,
but you have not.
Okay. You.
You have stepped into their realm. Uh, otherwise known as the.
Moment between moments.
Okay?
I'll put it to you like this. How familiar are you with the music?
With music? Mm-hmm. . Well, Fadi,
you should ask because since day one of this campaign,
I've had a guitar with me, but.
Notes ever asked me about it. .
Okay, so.
Sheet.
Music.
Yeah.
You, you know how you see the notes on the, on the sheet music? No.
You know how the individual notes are separated.
Most of the time?
No. They're always separated. But you always play into those notes.
But on the sheet music itself, you see the space between the notes.
Correct? Yeah.
Whereas that's kind of how time works.
We all live in a series of moments,
but these beings exist within the moments between the moments,
the spaces between the moments, so to speak.
When they take something from outside of our realm,
they're only taking them into this, this,
this space.
And she.
Goes, see if you'll look down at your hand.
I.
Was just about to ask if it was back.
It is. Oh, look.
Yeah. Okay.
Do I see the shadows moving?
You don't.
So where are they then? If they're, if this is their domain?
Oh, they're drifting back and forth because someone opened the door.
How do, can I close the door?
If you can get to it.
Where is the door?
Your, uh, drought friend should know.
I would also suggest talking to
Alene or Amin as they were there to witness it as well.
To witness the door opening.
The first time briefly.
I, I see. Okay.
Um, just one more question. Uh, cuz you know, you said I, if I get to it,
is there a special method for closing the store or am I gonna get there and then
find out that I've not properly prepared myself?
I'll be honest with you. I don't know that it can be closed.
Oh, well that's not helpful. You made it sound really promising.
You made it really sound like Yeah, if you got up to it,
you could just swing that old boy shot.
I mean, you're always welcome to try.
I mean, I'd like to think, um, and,
and why exactly, can you not be involved in any of this?
I can only do as I'm permitted, such as the way of an aspect.
Right? See, but I'm also one, right? Are you?
I mean, yeah. Are you? Yeah, I don't, just because they took, you know,
pardon of me doesn't mean that I stopped being that thing.
It's just stolen from me. So I'm kind of just Yeah. Spectrum at this point.
Is a rich man who's robbed of all his money. Still rich.
Yeah, but see this is more about the essence of being, you know,
and not like possession. You know, like, I wouldn't say, oh,
I possessed my soul. I'd be like, oh, I am my soul.
And it kind of took it so just because my souls in a different place right now.
Well, part of it, the aspect part of it, I wouldn't say that it's not mine.
I would just say it's displaced.
She, she puts her hand on your, on your cheek and she goes, oh,
you poor dumb boy. And she kisses you on the forehead.
. Right? I mean, I thought I was onto something here, but, uh, okay,
so you're not permitted to do anything then, I guess, right? I'm not.
I can only do as I'm permitted.
What are you permitted to do? How doing Just stand here.
Talk to me. I'm so sorry for you.
Well, my usual job is currently on hiatus at the moment.
Some might say I've been furloughed.
Right? Didn't,
I don't remember if you were telling me this or you were telling one of my other
characters about this. I mean, ,
did you tell me that you can't get to the other side,
can't get souls where they need to be?
Or is that someone else that was learning this? Did I make that?
Maybe I dreamed it.
That might have been somebody else because.
I think I might have dreamt that.
But you would in fact be correct. I cannot reach the other side at the moment,
hence my furlough.
So how are you getting orders? Hmm?
How are you getting orders if you can't reach the other site?
You poor, sweet, dumb boy. Yeah, no, it, when you're,
when you are an aspect,
and you'll understand this or maybe you won't given what you will be asked,
done.
I would assume not.
Us more savory aspects.
Okay, well that's hurtful, but Right.
, we have a direct connection with the boss.
That is part of what our aspect is.
Yeah. See what I've been learning,
learning that we kind of all have a direct connection. So you're not special,
but, alright. It's fine. Anyways.
A gift freely given, you know, all of us can come to him at any time. Right.
Whatever.
No. Bless your displaced soul.
Yeah, thank you. Anyway.
Let's, let's go ahead and.
Dip out of this realm because.
It smells like fish.
Here. I mean, you're the one that decided to stay with me.
I kind of like it here.
As you say that. She already bas out.
Well fight.
I'll just stay here for the next 45 minutes by myself and talk about how much.
I'm just kidding.
I start diving . I returned to a moment.
From what, from your guys' perspectives?
It just looks like they stood there for a second and they just turn around and
look at the rest of you.
Your girlfriend's kind of mean.
She's not my girlfriend.
What'd I start girlfriend talking to my.
Felix. Are you telling them that we're.
No, he doesn't have to. It's just pretty obvious. It's on his face.
And you guys, yes. I mean,
you wouldn't fight like this if you weren't actually interested cuz it wouldn't
hurt so much if he was being a bat. You know?
Are you sure you can't take him now? Just.
I'm pretty sure she doesn't want me based on what she just experienced.
But you know what, I'm still open.
You have lipstick on your forehead. What did.
You do to her?
I tried to explain what I understood about the world. Oh.
Which tends to turn most people off.
Yeah, I can understand that.
I think we might have had that conversation once or twice.
Yes. I believe I've now given it four times in the last several. Uh,
well you could call it episodes or moments, whatever you wanna call it.
So, question. Um, because, um,
lady de lady death, um, w Leona. Leona.
That's your name. That's right. You said something that made it sound like,
I know that Lars opened a door or something,
but you said something that made it sound like they killed him or something.
Or they killed somebody. Was I mishearing?
I don't, I said this thing. Oh. But she did tell me that, uh,
you and Eileen know where this door is and also em,
but we don't need to talk to her, to her. We don't.
Should I miss something?
We dunno what we missed. I don't know what, what? I rolled a five,
so I'm not sure I remember where the door.
Is. Do do we talking about.
We. Well, okay.
So she said that you witnessed the door opening briefly and you know where it's
at.
Is she talking about the are you talking I'll look at Gli.
Are you talking about the room with all the creepy shadows?
Yes. Cause we're seeing shadows. No, we're not.
Calles. Byebye, stop talking. Right? My head hurts enough.
Get her pen. What?
Leona, please let me outta my misery and answer my question.
To my understanding based off of what I see within you.
You or bog,
emron and stumble footage.
Can you see Emron right now? ? Can you see stumble footage right now?
I could. I can see many things. See.
You can probably see everybody.
That's fair.
I always be, somebody's.
Watching me. So they all know it's.
Be That's because ev somebody is watching you. They know at every moment.
Santa, uh, they know the door is .
Woo.
And there it's goodnight everybody. That's the show.
That was very naughty.
I really thought that no one was gonna react to that.
It just took a second . I didn't, it wasn't that funny. No, thank you.
I appreciate that. I think Celeste laughter was the funny.
You gotta keep you grounded. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah.
I've been getting too many compliments tonight. Sorry.
Guys. .
I'm.
Leona. Leona is on my turn. My.
Turn on my ear. My ear or a rock. My ear.
I I I'm a foot away.
Leon just.
Six feet.
They suggest.
Things.
Or bugg they tell you six feet. Six feet. Not our foot.
I'm sorry. So what are you seeing inside Orach? Uh, Emin and,
and.
Um, I, they that they have interacted with these
before.
She's getting choked up.
To be fair. We,
if it's the shadows that came out of the room that You'all talking about,
we have interacted with them twice.
Interesting.
I don't think I've interacted with them ever aside from now.
No.
Uh, Callum.
Yeah. He wasn't with us. I I might take that back. Oh.
That's, that's right. That's right. That's.
Right. That's right. I was,
I was dealing with different kind of darkness at that point. I mean, like,
I witnessed them eat a child and by eat a child, I mean, take it to the,
you know, the in between space as it were. Um, oh, also it took my fingers.
I don't, so that's interesting. Okay. I'll tell you about it later.
I'm gonna let that one laugh for now.
Uhhuh. .
Uh, Aileen roll a roll a history check for me please.
It's like alien remembers me with fingers and without fingers. Yes.
13.
Uh,
I will say that you do remember the second door being under Castle ler when you
guys rated the castle. Okay. Yes.
I knew it was somewhere on the island.
The second time we came across it, it was in the,
the bottom of Castle Skeletal.
So I'm, okay, so that's probably the door that was opened then, I'm guessing.
Well, it wasn't the broom closet.
It was when we came across the three doors and,
and we all opened one and then we shut one real quick.
Were you there for that?
I wasn't, but I remember it for different reasons.
.
Did you, did you talk to somebody about it?
Yeah, the one of the brief conversations I had with Emin wasn't pleasant.
I didn't really enjoy talking to her, but she went, you know,
when we were down under the castle that happened.
It was a really weird thing for her to tell me.
You know, I'm not sure what your problem with em is. She is lovely.
It was, I dunno. She was pretty rude.
She's very nice. Very nice.
As someone who I suppose himself on beaten slightly rude.
I'm surprised that that's your issue.
I mean, I, I dunno that I say I take pride in it.
Uh, so.
I, you know what? I'm just, yeah, I thought that thought this.
I'll be over here. I.
Thought it was a thing. So I thought this was a you you okay,
I'm gonna stop talking now.
So it's fine. What we're saying is, Mr.
Word, brother.
We need to go close the door, correct?
Yes. We need to if we can.
So, Callum, yes. I have faith in you. You are great with.
Doors. Yeah, I am great with doors. It is callon.
It's your thing. Doors are your.
Thing. It's really the only like, you know,
windows because I've decided in my life to become a ranger.
It's really the only thing I have going for me.
I hear you're great with windows too.
I'm a little listed with fences. I'm really good with fences. Uh,
windows are hit or miss,
which is to say I have hit some and I have missed some.
. These are,
these are big old callbacks to like episode two .
Yes, they are.
Let's go door team. Team door.
Yeah. So we have to close a door.
And what are we doing with laws?
Here's a thought. Here's a thought. Killing. Are we supposed to No,
they did say killed.
Did they say that we had to bring back evidence or did they just say we have to
kill him? Because I don't remember them saying evidence.
I don't remember them saying evidence is something.
Think they said his head. I think.
Believe head was the word they used.
Did they actually say that? I don't remember it, but Alright.
Yeah, they, but you guys are saying.
I feel like we added that. Don't have to, you.
Don't have to kill him. You can just bring him.
Back to Hawaii later.
I mean, when, yeah, it's fine.
I heard rockstar on him though, so you might have to find a new source.
So what's the plan here, boss? I, you know, uh, what?
I need to tell the eight guys that. Wait.
I thought you said it was going.
To kill Dave. I.
Think it's now it's eight. The they're just leaving.
We've never had 10. We've never had 10. I don't know what you're talking about.
This is right.
15. Okay, so.
Hey, I have, I'm pretty sure some people are disappearing as we talk,
so maybe it's a good time for us to sneak into the castle.
We can get in there real stealthy, like with our new things. Go to the door,
close the door. Maybe shovel ours inside the door,
but only his body and not his head.
Just close the door on his head. Okay.
Yeah. Close the door on his head. Perfect.
You.
Know what way you think, Kai, how about this?
Um,
you go ahead and you round up whoever you can and
me and my friends. All six of all six of them. Um, yeah, we're gonna,
we're gonna head up to the castle. We're gonna,
we're gonna try and take out laws. Actually, we're going to take out laws.
I'm not gonna say we're gonna try, we're going to,
and you guys can meet us there just in, in case we need backup. All right.
Wonderful. I don't care. Let's go.
Okay. We're gonna need string.
So when we tie it around Lars's tooth and we close the door,
it's got Nope.
Hold on. Don't worry. Nope. I carry rope with me at all times, so it's fine.
Okay.
I'm heading toward the castle. I don't care what anybody else.
I'm also heading.
Toward the can of whoop whooping cream. .
Yes. Okay. So le did Leona just disappear or something? Or.
She looks at you, uh, wilder and she says, uh,
yeah. Um, we'll talk later.
Okay.
What we should just without these goofballs. Yeah.
Yeah.
We're.
Always watching.
Wilder. Like Santa.
I'm glad I only had one kid. Okay. Um.
That you know of.
. Okay. Run up to the cast.
. That opens up so many different doors that I'm tempted.
I'm good at closing them though, so watch yourself.
They can climb out the window. Know.
Open all those doors. John, I'm not sure that I.
Want to, if you open the doors there,
people are gonna start disappearing even faster, so.
Probably.
Okay. So game plan. We're gonna be real stealthy. We're gonna go in. Elaine,
you're gonna lead us to the door. We're gonna close the door.
We're gonna find Lars. Well.
We have to get down to the dungeon.
Yeah, we're gonna sneak in. We have our cloaks.
And also I'm gonna make our even sneakier, we, we.
I'm really sneaky.
Our cloaks make us sneaky.
Oh yeah. We didn't, we don't have one foren. Um.
No you don't.
Hey, Elaine. How good are you being sneaky? Oh.
I'm, I'm pretty good.
She's small. Nobody sees her.
How good are you.
If, if it was you.
Like a on a you, like, I would say on a scale of one to 10,
I'm at like an eight.
On a scale of one to 20. I'm like.
Really? On a, on a scale of one to 10, I'm about a nine, so.
Oh, perfect. Well then you go without the cloak and I think you'll be okay.
Well, I, I might be small enough that I could.
Fit. You have, you are, you're a 10.
Yes, I am a 10. I'm a monk now.
Oh, that's true. Well, Eileen,
why don't you take the cloak and then Poo will just be sneaky on his own.
I do have, I can become invisible.
Whooo can essentially become a visible as soon as I use pass without a trace,
.
I am the knight.
.
Perfect. Great. All right. So, uh,
do we have a way into the castle that's not the front door.
Back door.
Any door tunnels ready? Kitchen tunnels. There's tunnels. Are the.
Tunnels? Yes.
I think those tunnels here is.
A tunnel. Yes.
We can outside of the castle.
Our secret.
Tunnels. Okay, so there is a tunnel. You know where the tunnel is?
Lead us to the tunnel. We'll be sneaky. We'll go into the basement. Yes.
Yeah.
So I'm gonna take them to the secret door that is just outside the castle.
Dave can't quite remember where it is, but Wilder knows where it is.
Uh, we didn't, we didn't It was by a rock.
Yeah. He knows where it's about.
By a rock. Should be.
Next to a rock is where it was.
Okay.
You come to where about where you remember it being and you see a hillside that
it, that has rocks on it.
A hillside. It was in town.
Yeah. Is.
The castle gone? Is the castle still there?
Yeah. The, the, the castle is on top of a hill.
Are there still people around? Yes.
I guess that's kind of a question that I have had. As we are walking along.
Are we noticing that other things look different?
Not especially, no.
It almost seems like these events are specifically targeted.
Okay. So door not here.
I can't think of another way in.
I don't trust for that to be another way in other than the front door.
So we're gonna have to sneaky, sneaky.
I mean, I, I imagine that there's,
I imagine that there's probably at least one other door to get in,
not a main door. It seems very bad for like siege type warfare.
Always have two, at least two exits.
Um, I mean, okay, so here's my thought, right? I can get in real easy.
Uh.
Are you just gonna like.
Yeah, I can fly.
Oh, you can fly. Z.
Hoach.
He's got wings.
Wings. I have wings.
, like a flutter by.
He drank a bread bull. So, you know,
we can all attempt to be really sneaky through the main door and, or we can,
I know I said we shouldn't split up,
but I could probably carry a lean over the wall while you guys try to sneak in
through the door.
And then at least some of us get in and we each have someone that knows where
the door is.
You know, that's, that's not a bad plan.
And then if the sneaky party who's going in the door gets.
Cold, oh we'll all be sneaky. Well, yay. I'm gonna make,
gonna make sure we're all sneaky. The.
Sneaky party part. Did you say the sneaky.
Party? I know, I I know it sounded like that. I'm sorry.
I was just sorry. That sort of thing gets me.
I understand.
Makes me.
Chuckle. We can just like, you know,
we'll both try different entrances and regroup like in a corner and then
if someone doesn't show up, then we'll just hope for the best and go close.
It up. All right.
So poo with me through the front door very carefully.
Um, please put on your cloak.
Super sneaky. That.
Would be, everyone gets passed without trace as well.
I thought you said I could fly.
Well, you are too big.
It's boo throws you.
You can.
Okay.
Cannonball.
Special.
Maybe he's just saying that I am fly.
You know, that's right.
Up top. Did he fly for a draw?
Guy? As we walk up to the door,
I'm gonna put my hands on Poo and or
Boggs backs and I'm gonna cast invisibility,
which allows all three of us to be.
Heck yeah. Pass.
Without trace and.
Invisibility. Well, I technically, once you're close to me,
you'll have pass without trace again because I forgot how the spell were
, but me and Alene.
Invisibility.
We are.
I was, I was waiting for you guys to split up just to.
We're both, we're all really sneaky.
We're.
A sneaky party.
You got three invisible people.
Three invisible people. And me and Alien are about to basically be invisible.
I can cast invisibility on both of us if you want. I don't think we need,
I mean, we have advantage on stealth and plus 10.
What thrills me is that,
that the three guys are about to walk into the castle and have no idea where
they're at.
Yeah.
So are we I've never been inside. Oh, I have I made fun of Lars. No.
No, no, no. You misunderstood what I'm saying.
Like the three guys are gonna have no idea where the three guys are at.
Like Yeah.
Oh yeah. Are invisible. They're holding.
Me. I was gonna say, I've still got my hand on each back.
Like I haven't let go of them yet.
Fair enough. But we all know Josiah's on the party. So.
We are on the buddy system.
Tell.
Rub a little higher on the right.
Side. Dave will tell the other two that the spell ends, uh,
if any of, uh, if like who,
if somebody attacks the spell ends or if I cast another spell or,
you know, I, I guess I'm the only spell caster.
So that's the only time that it drops. So when we attack.
So, so can you see me now?
Okay. Cannot. So so you.
Can't see this face I'm making at you?
Nope. I can only imagine.
It's a good face.
I wouldn't doubt it. Cuz y'all poo.
Well, we don't have to go there.
Funny. That was like an all bog joke.
Oh, I know where it is. Ub Ock. I.
Forgot right here. You'll, you see the finger? I'm holding up right.
Guys, we should sh.
Sh How many fingers are you holding up? One?
We should go quietly.
.
I'm about ready to punch Orach. Okay. Nope, nope. Stuff it down.
Stuff it deep down.
Anything else? Stop being invisible. If you did that, bury it.
Um, bury your love for me.
We're going in.
We're going in too.
We're going in first.
Who?
I think you should knock on the door very loudly to get them to open the door.
And then once they do, we could slip inside. We'll.
Just shuffle together around staying connected.
Alright, I'm going to knock.
I take my head and I knock on that door.
.
Do you really with your head?
That's how poo knocks. Yeah. That's also a call bag. It is.
It's like episode four.
It is true.
I know, but every time he's done that he's taken damage.
.
Yeah, we've.
Noticed. It's the school of hard knocks.
Okay, poo roll. A one D four.
I got, uh, one.
Okay, you take one point of damage. Does this affect his invisibility, Dave?
No. Cuz he wasn't attacking anything.
He's just knocking.
When he was young. Was.
He a poutine?
?
So the door creaks open slightly and uh,
you just see two coals poking out.
Who sees two.
Cole? The three of you?
Everyone.
You see two Coles peeking out from behind the door.
Frosty.
Santa's always.
Watching. I made out of coal. Just, okay. Santa.
Is, can we go over the wall at the same time?
Sure.
So, you know, if I need to shoot someone in the back with my lack of fingers,
I'm on it.
that sentence.
You don't, you're not lacking fingers. Just the ends of your fingers.
Just the part that you need for pulling a bow. Strike.
. It's true.
It's these Yeah.
It's a very important part.
For my come around and yeah.
So this,
this castle isn't the type with the like courtyards and stuff like this is all a
giant structure. So as, as you go up the side of this castle, uh,
you do find several open windows that you could go into.
Great. We're gonna find one that looks like it's mostly unoccupied.
Okay.
Or at least for the most part, unoccupied.
. Okay.
Mostly is probably the wrong word to use.
You fly into a window towards the top of the structure
and land on a cross beam in a very large
room that has a long rug that extends from one end to the other.
There's a large seat at one end of the room.
Oh, I've been in this room. I insulted a man in this room. I think I did too.
You did.
I will very carefully set us down quietly.
On the ground or in the rafters?
Oh no, in the rafters.
Okay. Taking it back to the front door.
Can I take a swing at this thing?
No, no, no, no. Don't, don't do that. Do you think you can see us? Can.
You see us? I mean, if you want to take a swing at it or bog,
that's something that you can do.
Yes, I do. I want to.
All right. Suddenly out of nowhere,
Orba appears and he takes a swing at the doorway. Uh,
and as he swings into the doorway,
your hand falls away Like ash after a sec,
after a second. It makes, it makes sense that your hand is gone because.
It's always been gone.
It has.
I've been meaning to put a hook in that.
You got, uh,
you were maimed as a child when your youngest sister was attacked
in your home.
Is the thing still there? It.
Is. And it's just staring at bog?
Um, well that, yeah, I think I don't, I don't know.
We can get past this guy very easily. Shoot.
I'm gonna take the leftover part of or bug's Sin Monroe that I didn't eat and
throw it through the doorway.
Like try to cause a distraction.
All right. As you throw it into the doorway,
uh,
you throw it and then you suddenly realize there never was another
cinnamon roll Wilder only brought you the one.
So I wish I had another cinnamon right now. I froze a scape.
Uh, I'm gonna press myself up against the door, um,
in hopes that they can't see me and I'm going to cast shadow blade
and basically I just make a sword of shadow
and I'm going to take a swing at this thing with this shadow blade.
Does that drop a vi invisibility on both of us?
It does drop my invi invisibility.
Would it drop it on me?
Yes, it would. Because the.
Ca I thought so. It's a co concentration. Yep.
The caster would lose have to lose concentration in order to.
Just making sure. Yeah. Yep.
So, uh, yeah,
the shadow blade comes down and have you ever put metal on dry ice
before?
Yes.
You know that sound it makes Yeah.
Yeah. All the.
Time.
That's what it sounds like.
And then it slams the door as this happens.
Hmm.
Wait, which way does the door open?
In.
O Okay, good.
Well, Pooh, I think you're right.
I don't think we're just gonna walk in there and,
uh, I'm gonna use the stone of far speech that I have and ask Callum.
Hey, did you guys make it in? We can't get through the front door.
Shadow creatures.
Hi to me. Callum. Uh, yeah. . Yes.
I know.
Yeah, we're in the throne room currently.
I haven't had a chance to look around to see if we're alone, so hold tight.
Hold please.
Yeah, I'm sure you're not alone.
Okay.
Okay, so let's sit tight please.
Oh, we have to sit now. Oh.
When? When come earlier. Don't put these, it seemed like a,
the bright light stuff. I did some good work.
Yeah.
Unfortunately. Um, it's all the opposite things that I can do. So.
As you guys are talking, the front door opens.
Oh.
And then just a hoard of these shadow figures
start pouring outta the front of the.
Castle. Oh.
Hey. Does running sound like a good idea?
Yes.
It sounds like a good idea to me.
Um, 9 1 1.
Yeah.
Oh, hold the back.
No, no. Nah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't do that, boo.
I'm if, if they get too close, I'll try to punch one with prayers,
which does radiant damage, but that's just Okay. In case of emergency, if they,
if one gets within, like, about ready to touch.
I am going to full on Jack Sparrow run out of,
or the opposite direction away from them and call Callum.
Um, so we have a lot of these, uh, things coming after us,
so if you can find a way to help us, um, this, this is not good.
We're gonna go hide. Yep.
As you are running away from this,
I'd like you the three of you to make perception checks, please.
10.
Actually 18.
25.
Okay. Who and Wilder, uh,
the two of you noticed that these things are not running after you,
they're just pouring out of the castle and going out upon
TowerFall.
Um, I don't think they're interested in us.
I think they're trying to do a plan
taking over.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm gonna say this isn't good either. No.
Um, at Callum, the,
like pouring out of the castle, there's a lot of like,
can you look out the window and.
Wide open? I would first like to see if we're alone .
And this, I think we're alone now.
Mm. Is there anyone in that photo?
Make an investigation check.
You're intentionally trying to find something.
13.
You feel pretty Ilan, but that's the most of your life too.
, where you go.
She is invisible.
Cast it.
We have past our trace.
Painted.
Uh, I'll just take a little peek out the window.
You see a black swarm coming out of the.
Castle? Hey.
Yes.
I think we should move hastily. Okay.
Close the door and close it.
Well, let's get going. Great.
I will carefully take us down from the rafters while keeping an eye out for
anyone, for anything.
You go down from the rafters and you make your way to the door,
to the throne room. And you guys.
Quietly.
. Yes. Quietly . Uh,
you guys make your way down a few floors. Um,
and you see this stream of black going out the front door as you can make your
way to the bottom floor.
And as Aen guides you to the door,
to the cellar,
you realize that this is where the flood of black is coming from.
Okay.
Now here's the thing that I'm upset about.
He said I wasn't gonna use my ability, but Leona said,
why don't you just stop? Thanks.
Leonna. Does it look like we can get past them to go down or are they like.
I mean, you can certainly try.
Well, I mean, are they, I you've touched them once.
I don't wanna touch 'em again. .
No,
I'm having enough problems without more memories being superposed.
I'm going to cast spirit guardians
and I'm gonna see if that does anything.
I just like surrounds me in little radiant spirits.
Right? As you walk towards them with these, uh, spirit guardians,
they give you a wide birth. It's sort of like a bubble, uh,
unseen bubble that surround you.
They're staying out of the radius of this thing.
Alright, let's move it.
I'm sticking very close to the bubble.
Yes. It's a pretty big radius. It's a 15 foot radius.
Oh, okay. Mm-hmm. . So we don't have to be like soup.
Close.
I mean, you could, I mean, you could,
you could write on his shoulders if you wanted to.
I feel like,
I feel like there's probably a hand being held to
drag quickly. not because I'm scared. Okay.
That is is better than than me hopping on your back.
. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, all right.
So you guys make your way down to the stairs and you get, get to the doorway,
but as Alene would remember,
you get to the bottom of the stairs and you can hear nothing.
I'm going to squeeze twice on his hand and pull towards the door.
Follow.
And as you get down there, uh, and you lead him towards the door,
you see that the door that had been closed over the space over
the gateway has been taken off the hinges and summarily
removed.
Well, it's a good thing you can't hear anything. .
Are they pouring currently out of the doorway?
Yes.
Cool. I'm gonna cast daylight right in front of the door.
Interesting. Okay. In front of the door or inside the room.
Like in the doorway.
I'm gonna make a door light.
Squid.
Yep. I'm sorry. I'm Katie.
What is your wisdom score?
18.
Okay, Celeste?
Yes.
Uhoh. What is your wisdom score? Oh.
I think I'm a sneaky girl. I don't think I'm a smart.
Girl. Wisdom's not smartness now.
Yeah. I'm not a smart boy. 18.
18 For you as well? Mm-hmm. .
Streetwise. I think so.
I need you both to roll. Wisdom saves for me please.
As this goes off in the doorway.
20. Not an at 20. Just a 20. Here's a a question.
I have my whole class feature about not being
mentally messed up by people. Let's me add a D six if they're my slayers prey,
which I like. Didn't technically make all the shadow. Did that still count?
I'll allow it because you did Hunter's mark the one hell.
Just doesn't like to be. Oh no. Oh no. .
That's a 12.
Uhoh.
This is gonna be fun. That was a two on the D 20.
We are gonna play with a new mechanic tonight. Everybody. You can,
you can find this mechanic on page 76 of Sandy Peterson's Kalu
Mythos designed for five e.
I mean, it's kind of poetic that of all the character people.
I have decided to lose my mind. Oh,
I thought we were singing hymns.
My bad. So here's what happens. Uh, this does not affect you at all,
Aileen. So, hey, you get to see this happen in all its glory. Hey, uh,
this light blows up in the doorway and you hear this
unimaginable scream that is filled
with the most malice and hate and perverse
ideology wrapped up into a single discordant note
that that shakes the very bindings of reality.
Hmm. And after the light clear, how long does that spell last for.
Squid? Oh, a while.
Oh really?
Oh, yeah. Okay. Uh, it lasts for an hour.
Oh, no.
Uhhuh. So that note is just going for an hour.
That's fine.
Squid, I need you to roll a D 20 for me please.
Uhhuh . Do I wanna be lower or high on this roll?
There's no good roll.
Well, is a free, so
count's just gonna be in the fetal position on the ground, I think.
And now I need you to roll another D 20 for me, please.
Mm-hmm.
.
Oh God. I hope you get a.
2016.
Dang. With this shriek Callum.
Mm-hmm. .
You have a vision of a being that you
have never seen yourself,
although Emin Emron would be familiar with it.
The great ma.
But when you, but when you see it in the vision, you know exactly what it is.
And suddenly anything larger than
a a normal house is just terrifying to you.
You are now afraid of large things like, uh,
like massive phobia.
So the fact that you are in this castle is just a horrific concept to you.
Rage. Cool. Seems cool. Seems cool. Seems good. Yep.
Callum will zoom being in the fetal position on the floor for a while.
Elaine, you watch Callum just curl up on the floor,
but the flow of shadow creatures has stopped.
See, I'm good at closing doors. I'm just not good at taking care of myself.
That's the real problem. You know, I feel like a lot of people could say that.
three, three minutes later,
the gentleman outside noticed that the flow of blackness has stopped as
well.
Callum, I think Come, come in. Come, come, come in, come.
Can I hear the stone? Yeah.
It's like a walkie-talkie. That's what.
I thought. I'm gonna pick it up.
Callum is indisposed.
At the moment. Can I help you?
Oh wow. Indisposed.
He's in the fetal position and he might be crying.
Is this, is this yelling that's happening?
Is it in our heads or is it like out loud?
You aren't sure.
That's fair. I just mean can they hear it through the walkie-talkie?
You don't know.
? I know nothing. I'm crying. Do I know?
Because that's a great question. Do I know?
No, you don't know.
Okay, , I will resume crying.
Can can, can you get Callum out of.
There? I, I don't think so. And at the same time,
the, he did something to the door and it stopped.
So he did what he came to do,
but I don't know if I take 'em out, it's gonna stop because it's just a spell.
There's not as many shadow creatures coming out now.
Maybe y'all should come in. Can you hear that noise?
Yeah.
Um, yeah. We're, we're gonna try back to the door.
Allach, do you have any idea of how to get down where Callum and
considering, you know, it's kind of your area? Well,
these castles and all.
Isn't the front door open?
Yeah. But from the front door, how do we get down where they.
Are? Yes. I remember everything. We can go find them.
The way. Hoba inside. Check.
. Okay, roll insight.
I'm an idiot. Uh, 10.
Hi. I got an 18.
18 On what?
Whatever I need.
Are you, are you persuading or are you lying ?
I am. What's the difference really?
Well,
one is you actually do know how to get down there or you don't and you're just
trying to make him think what you do.
I think I do, but you keep saying we're all forgetting stuff. So I mean.
You're forgetting stuff that's been altered and you don't know that you're
forgetting stuff.
Right? I remember roughly how to get down there. Yeah. All.
Right, so we're following or bug.
Uh,
he leads you down into the basement and it gets real
quiet until it's not quiet.
And you guys hear this loud discordant trick. See,
pre previously mentioned the descriptor. And now,
uh, I need to know what your guys' wisdom scores are.
16.
. Uh, 11.
Oh, no.
14.
How, how is how is who? Why? Among us. He's a monk.
All right, I need everybody to roll. Wisdom saves.
Come on. Five.
Okay. Who?
Oh, 18. Okay.
I'm.
Good.
Mm. I got a 13.
Uh, I need or bog and wilder to roll a D 20 for me.
Please.
Hook.
Up.
Aen 11.
Eight.
This will be interesting or bog, you have developed.
Microsoft photographs.
No, just me a second.
A third arm.
You have developed uncontrollable, erratic behavior.
Uh, so what that means is you.
Use normal. Normal.
normal.
No like, like motor spasms.
Tourettes.
Motor spasms and Tourettes. So to, to speak facial ticks.
And maybe in every so often, like your arm will shoot out or something.
Do we get to roll for damage?
No. Aileen and Poo, as you notice, when Orach comes in,
he starts to kind of get a bit of a neck twitch and kind of a
vocal tremor where he's just kind of in the background,
just constantly being like.
You don't, you don't look so hot, bud.
Maybe this was a bad idea. Having y'all come down here.
Felix much in the same way as Callum.
You see a vision of a gaping ma
and a giant creature, which you know,
probably can only be kerik.
You develop almost an obsession with what this thing is.
It's,
it's all you can think about and the just this image is burned into your psyche,
but you have a bit more control over your faculties than Callum currently does.
Wilder, you're, you are not great either, right now.
You you something. Is everything okay?
Oh, what you.
Okay. I think we need to get out of here. Can we.
I have a, I have a plan. I've had had time to Can you.
Do Doris, Doris out?
You have? Hang on, hang on. I can, I can do this.
I think maybe, possibly.
I I just picture or bogg dancing like Elaine from Seinfeld.
can is the, so the door you said was off its hinges, correct?
Yes. So someone has taken the door off its hinges and the door is not there.
Is there anything else in this room?
Three other doors.
Okay. I go over and open up one of those other doors.
Uh, which one You got? One to the north and one to the, uh, east.
I'll take the east.
Uh, you open up the east door and uh, it's a broom closet.
Great. I tried to take this door off. It's hinges carefully.
You don't take the hinge pins out.
Uh, I I will say one other thing I forgot to mention that you guys see in that
doorway that where the things were coming out of it,
there's a just a bright mass of light in the doorway.
Yes. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, try to carefully remove this other door. Okay.
An effort to, um, replace the door that's missing.
Okay. What would be like an engineering check? Would.
That be survival?
Survival. Well, we use survival I think for, while there's door lock, right?
I think usually like tools or.
Slight of hand.
We'll go with slight of hand. Go ahead and work that.
Okay.
Show is me.
Yeah. You're great at fixing doors. Um, yeah.
That's gonna be a 11.
Yeah. You can't really figure these hinges out.
I ripped the door off at hinges then.
. Okay. Your help.
.
You,
you ripped the door off the hinges and now you got a giant chunk of wood in your
hands.
I go and put the giant chunk of wood where the missing
door is.
Um,
you lay this over where it would seem like the missing door
should have been.
Is there any like, I dunno, tables or anything around?
I kinda like want to create a barricade in front of this door,
basically with any other furniture stuff that might be around.
As I recall, there is a table in the middle of the room. I forgot about that.
And, and it, it is, it is a little bit, uh, blood stained.
Oh, oh. While now, help me get this table over here doing what?
We can's gonna go to the other closet and open it and see if there's anything
she can add to the, cuz she's, she's.
The other closet.
The other.
At.
The other door door.
Uhhuh. . You open that door and it turns into a long, dark hallway.
Oh, goodie Papa. Close that door just to be safe.
Okay.
So I tried to barricade this door wi with,
with the table and stuff that we find.
I think, uh, I think that, that, that will have to do, okay. Um,
Eileen, you said you had a.
Way out. Well, I thought I did,
but apparently I can only take one person with me.
You take Callum. I'll get these two jokers.
Okay. That, that sounds like a plan.
I'm gonna cast dimensions door and get Callum and I
outside of the castle.
Hoach Hoach. Stop, stop. Stop doing that. I can. All right, Wilder.
We're we're leaving. We're leaving now.
Well, now I understand why he can see everything.
Earth to wilder broader to middle Earth.
Oh, oh. Bug you, your mouth is doing something very strange. .
Stop that. Okay, we're getting out. We're getting down.
, stop dancing. Wilder. Are you coming with us? Come on.
Snap. In front of Wilder's face.
Have you ever seen anything that's like, it's terrifying,
but at the same time just.
Wilder. How do, how do you feel about being carried? Um.
Carrie is an okay movie.
Okay.
I lift, I lift up a while there and, um,
I'm hauling him out with or bug twitching behind me. .
Yeah. You guys make it out of there. Uh, you're,
you're kind of fireman carrying, uh, wilder out of there. Uh,
you guys make it out of the, uh, out of the castle.
Well, Elaine, I don't think that went as well as had hoped.
I think we did. In fact, close the door though.
Well, that should hope for a little bit, but I'm not sure that my, uh,
makeshift thing will keep it closed for.
Long. No, I don't think it will.
But I think for now that that's about as good as we can do. Let's, uh,
let's get Wilder a home. Go to his house and see if we can regroup.
Yes. You,
you get ev I'll give to everyone to Wilder's house and then I'm going to find
Adore Smith. A door store. Yes.
Let's talk about that on the way.
Nope, I don't think we have as much time as we would hope.
I I we'll get people there, but I need someone to make a door. Well.
Do you need 'em to make a door? Do you need them to just make a hinge?
Because there's, you could go to a, a, a, uh, ironsmith.
An iron, or, yes.
As long as it's not an iron mask, we're okay.
Aileen, you have noticed that, or bog is missing a hand,
but then all you kind of remember that he has always been missing a hand.
I'm confused about what I do and don't remember. So that doesn't phase me.
.
So we bring, uh,
people to Wilders house the best we can.
Callum you are feeling much better in a, just a regular sized house.
I don't, I don't think I am feeling better, honestly. .
Callum.
The size of the house is better.
Are you okay? No. You were collapsed for a.
I don't think I am. Okay.
What, what, what exactly happened? What did you do? Well.
There was a door that was open and there was no door on the door.
You know what I'm saying? I know I just used the word door a lot,
but there wasn't a door there. Um, so I,
I I thought maybe they don't like the sun as their shadows and shadows
don't show up, you know? Uh, and so I did that.
Uh, and then I heard some things that I would rather have not have heard,
and saw some things that I would rather have not have seen.
And does this place just feel extremely large to you?
Uh, I mean, it's rather spacious. It's, uh, I don't like houses.
I mean, you know, I've seen like, you know, the castle was really tall.
Uh huh.
Okay.
It's, it's not.
So you're not.
It's not a big house.
Tall thing. Not big house. Yeah. This is a bungalow.
Barely even a barely even a shack.
I can, I can stand in the middle and, and wrap my arms around it. It's.
It's you. Yeah. You know, you know how, okay,
you know how I said that we should kill the king and then we should leave and we
should go, you know, after Sayos and Kerik Wright mm-hmm.
. I don't think we're ready for that. Yes. So I don't, he.
Has so many.
Mouths. Yeah. I don't think we're ready for that. I'm not ready for that.
I don't, I think that's who.
Okay. I'm, um, I need to see a man about a.
Door. What.
Bug your door. We need a door bug. Your you are Okay.
You are a little twitchy, but I think I can.
Yeah. Yeah. Um, so that, so the light, right? It's,
it's only gonna last for an hour. I don't know how long it's been.
It feels like it's been an eternity. Uh,
also you might want to find someone that can do magic on the door,
because I don't think just your general oak door is gonna keep them out.
But I don't, what do I know? What do I know? I don't know.
I saw some things today that I'd rather not know.
It just feels really big in here. You know.
I, I need a magician. Some candle wax and ado.
A magician. I believe. I believe he is thinking magician. Very hard.
So hard that he has stopped moving.
Oh, sorry. Let's, Hey, Uhhuh.
Playing with.
Time. Can, can you,
can you still do this just silent thing?
Make make things quiet?
Yes.
That could be useful. Uh,
and then could you do the silent thing? I don't.
I can do it. Listen.
Um, what if I blindfold to you, how do you feel about blindfolds come?
Ha. How do I like not seeing and the dark?
I don't know if I told you about the things that I've gone through,
but I don't find that I particularly like not being able to see poo.
I would say that I developed an entire fighting style over the fact of
being able to see.
Be in the light. Right. Okay. I.
Do not have the capabilities to make anything silent, but I do
have the capability to make things invisible.
Okay. I'm, I'm gonna run to a door store. That's,
that's what I'm gonna do. Uck, you're with me.
Okay.
I run out to find a store that sells a, a door.
That sells a door. It's like a carpenter.
Yes.
This is so dumb. But I'm gonna do it. Y as you start running through town,
you find a carpenter, uh,
shop that's called We got your wood.
Uh, yes, sir. Sir.
Um, it's, it's, it's, ma'am, it, my, my name's Karen.
Karen. Hello Karen. Um, I need a,
a large door preferredly with some magic grins on it that has Hindus
that.
I You're you're looking for a, a magic. A magic door. Sure.
And what would you like this magic door to.
Do? Keep things shadow creatures from entering all reality and changing it.
I've never heard of such a thing. Um,
I can create a door that's enchanted, so once it's shut,
it can never be open again.
Awesome. Yes.
Well, that's going to be, um, a bit of work.
I need about 500 gold and
about two months to make it.
Time is on our side.
You'll be right back. I'll be right back. I know someone, um,
that might be able to help this. Uh, here's a down payment.
All the money I have.
How much money do you have?
That's a good question. Uh,
right now I have a hundred gold.
A hundred gold. Karen goes. Yeah. Um,
that should be good for a, uh, kind of a retainer's fee, I suppose.
Uh, I'll get started on it. I'll.
Be right back.
Okay.
Come.
On home.
Run back to the house.
Ah, yeah. We have.
Someone who can make a door that can never be opened once it's shut.
Okay.
It will take two months.
Do your thing.
Okay. My spell. My spell lasts for an hour.
Do you think you could, uh, timey? Why me.
Do it harder.
Will see here's, okay, well let's just,
I am not, I'm not the smartest,
but I think that if I were to make everyone stop moving,
that the two months would just be very boring for me and I'd come back.
It will have been no time at all
and I've already aged enough.
So do it the other way. Time.
So.
You want me to stop for two months? Yes. And everyone knows to go fast.
I don't think it'll work like that.
And never know until you try.
Well,
I couldn't, it would probably wouldn't work. I dunno if it would work.
Can you like supercharge somebody with time?
I don't know. I don't, I couldn't, I'm not sure. I don't know.
Try it on Alien. I.
I've, I don't know. You know, I've been kind of, uh,
insulted a lot about my ability to do things with time today. So.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry I.
Passed. I believe in you.
I don't.
I don't believe that we're going to be able to do this.
I don't either. Um, it's a very scary door. Uh,
do we know anyone that happens to know a lot about doors
to other planes and or hills and or spirit
things that like to make things disappear into memory,
out of memory?
Eh.
Do you know what I'm like that I.
Can, I can get a door out. It's going to take two months.
And if your spare only last an hour,
and if the 15 people were turned into eight people
and they were, that was like three minutes, then.
Yeah. Neither of us are good at math.
But I am picking up what you're putting down. I'm.
Glad you.
Are.
It's a lot of nothing. It's a whole lot.
I'm not to say that you're not putting anything down, but that,
that it'll be nothing.
We need a different solution.
Um, I'm going to go
stand God by the door.
That's, that's, it's not a good idea. That's.
That's what I'm going to do.
Wow. Great plan.
We have.
Very, it was nice knowing you.
Yes.
You can't stop switching. We have.
Do we have now, if we don't have a door, do we have,
is there a magic shop in town? Maybe we can imbue something with a spell.
Like it'll just constantly have daylight on it and then we don't need the door.
We can just have a blockade.
I wonder if Sage's portal would have something like that.
I don't know what that is, but.
It's a, it's a magic shop here in town.
Oh, nice. How big is it?
Um, not very.
Great. It's a little.
I love to go mom and pops shop.
I could use. I, you know, you know what would be great is if they had tea.
Cuz I could really use tea right now. What.
I think they do and they have something in it that has these,
it's these little balls in the bottom of the tee and it,
I I personally don't care for it, but people love it.
I think it's called a Bobo.
Great. I would love a Bobo tea. That sounds lovely.
They also have an area where you can sit and play games. Um,
if we wanna do that.
We should talk about this as we're.
There's no time to play games Pool. We have a door to.
Close. I feel like such a sellout. And this isn't even,
we're not even sponsored by them.
Hey. Hey Eric. Hey. Where you at.
? We did. Um,
I'm.
Gonna shop at the Wizards doorway. What? Now?
We.
Love you Eric. Um, so as you guys are getting ready to head out,
uh, you turn towards the doorway and you see a familiar looking silver,
silver boy standing in the doorway.
A silver boy.
Well, sort of, it's a you.
Paint silver.
You would the silver.
Surfers here.
.
Callum. You would recognize him? Yeah. Because you created him originally.
My boy, he's over now. He's really moving up in the.
World. And he, and he's, he looks at you guys. He goes,
well, there is very.
Wrong Keith.
Hey there, Keith.
Hey.
I don't think up until this moment right now, I knew you were still alive,
but I could be wrong about that.
I, I, I just wanna say that I just snuck away from a And
you guys things are very wrong.
Yeah. Things are very wrong. And you would agree with that.
One problem at a time.
Keith nasty wants a to kill or bug.
Well.
That's new. Yeah. That's not, see I told you she was no good.
And Rhoda isn't Rhoda.
Rotor's.
Who's Rhoda?
Iran's sister.
Who is Rhoda Now?
Do you guys remember a, a lady by the name of E.
No. Yeah.
She shared this body with me for a while.
Yes. Oh.
I remember what was happening while I was gone. She.
She wanted a lot. She, she liked, she kind of had a thing for, for me.
But then I said, have you met what.
Has been happening while I was gone?
Have you met this guy, Keith? A lot.
A lot has later. So Andrew.
Has taken over. Rhoda.
I, I'm gonna guess so.
Oh, well, congratulations Keith on finding a, a woman. Oh, that's nice. Mm.
No thank you.
Okay. I don't, I'm not gonna presume to know what you're into sounded like.
Together. No, no, no. Just not this woman.
Oh. Um, you have a different one? Yeah.
No. Looking for a woman. Tar carrying.
Off topic. Nevermind.
One, one tar. I so no a woman man. Tar. Yeah.
Well, yeah. So, uh, a lot of people have becoming people that they won't.
Alien is also Alana now.
No, I mean, like, I don't, I don't like her. Hmm. Somehow, uh,
right now she's carrying around a purple stone,
but I believe that she, I believe that she means to get rid of that stone.
What's in the Purple stone?
Okay. A soul.
We.
Are going to need to divide and conquer.
Keith.
Whose soul is in the stone.
On that note, that's where we're gonna end it tonight.
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