Episode 8 – Spa Day

Gather round friends, let me tell you a tale of three heroes, noble and bold A brute, a druid, and a thief who is but nine years old You know them by name, you know them by deed, their quests are famously daring So here I sit, singing to you an adventure that is worth sharing Tuck is the brute, he knows not his home, he loves to sing and fight Fingers have health, he shifts his shape, and wields a spear with great might Peely's a thief, his tiny size does mask the largest heart Best and brightest they may not be, but their friendship outweighs their smarts So gather round friends, and listen close For the tale's about to start Alright, welcome everybody to Spelt Lord.

I'm your Game Master, Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always playing Tacoma Dome, the Barbarian Abdulaziz. Hello. Playing Ving, the Half-Elf Druid, Paul Oppers. Hey there. Playing Fat Billy, the Halfling Thief, Jessica Tai. Hello.

When last we left our heroes, they had come face to face with Farah Margani, Master Librarian of the Margani Library And many times great-granddaughter of Amma Margani, founder of the Margani Library And current vessel for the Icon of Truth and Truth Demon in the indenture of the Light of the Dark. And the adventure of the Light Guard, as far as we are aware of as of the Crystal Bay adventure.

Farah Margani took the party into a side room, very sternly but very kindly, before closing the door and saying with words in her eyes, Tell me what you're doing here or I'm gonna beat your ass. And they did. They gave her the whole song and dance, quite literally giving her a song and dance as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, there was a lot of the doing that thing where we were pretending to be ships and then we were like, Yeah, there was a lot of the doing that thing where we were pretending to be ships and then we were like, And then we were like, And then it was like, And then the waves And I was like, And lightning And lightning And lightning Giving a Ember Island Players style breakdown of the entire series up until this point, I guess. I suppose kind of more seasons five and six.

Yeah, you don't want to give her the whole feel. That's what we said to her. Yeah, Tuck was like, this is more just seasons five and six. Yeah, Tuck was like, this is more just seasons five and six. You don't need to know much more before that. You don't need to know much more before that. And after some semi successful roles and a daisy chained aid situation that I allowed. For some reason. For some reason, sometimes I can be convinced.

The party was able to convince Farah to allow Perel the opportunity to peruse the Thaumaturgical History and Philosophy section of the library in an attempt to locate specific texts and manuscripts. The party was able to convince Farah to allow Perel the opportunity to peruse the Thaumaturgical History and Philosophy section of the library in an attempt to locate specific texts and manuscripts.

The party was able to convince Farah to allow Perel the opportunity to peruse the Thaumaturgical History and Philosophy section of the library in an attempt to locate specific texts and manuscripts. The party was able to convince Farah to allow Perel the opportunity to peruse the Thaumaturgical History and Philosophy section of the library in an attempt to locate specific texts and manuscripts.

The party was able to convince Farah to allow Perel the opportunity to peruse the Thaumaturgical History and Philosophy section of the library in an attempt to locate specific texts and manuscripts. The party was able to convince Farah to allow Perel the opportunity to peruse the Thaumaturgical History and Philosophy section of the library in an attempt to locate specific texts and manuscripts. And how he can, if he can, regain his powers.

And in that time, the party also perused some books, finding amongst other things that… I found out that the Sea of Graves poem indicates that a warlock is the one who locked Lillian away. And that Chimes probably knows a warlock. Or knew or something. He has firsthand experience with warlocks. Yeah. And didn't say anything about that. Why would he, though? I don't know. Okay. You can say. Yeah. And Ving learned… That the druids and the magicians have a shared origin.

And years ago, there was a rift between them. And that maybe that is affecting his relationship with his parents on some smaller level. Yeah. In that perhaps or perhaps not, Ving's mother may potentially have been wizard or wizard adjacent. Yeah. Meaning? That Ving could potentially be part wizard. There's some Thalmic shit, maybe. Yeah. And we also learned on Billy's end… Billy found a book written by a winter fairy in the ancient fairy language, which is like the first of runes.

That the fairy world is basically the world that exists when spirits were basically like gained individuality and shed their natural law and were exiled from the spirit world. Yeah. And it kind of exists between the spirit world and the out of dark. Cool. So cool. And also that during the season six finale, what Billy did was enter the fae realm. Yeah. Like willingly be like whoop between worlds, which is something that perhaps he's going to…

That he might not even realize he was able to do, but something that he has the potential to be able to do. I don't think he knew he could do it, but I think it was almost like, again, instinct. Totally. And Billy stole that book. Yeah. Yeah. Stole a book that I guess Tuck and Ving and Perel saw Billy reading. Or perhaps you just thought he was looking at a book. He looks at books a lot. And then usually they're fucking ruined afterward. It's covered in barbecue sauce.

There's just peanut butter in here. He tries to… This is more potato salad than book now. Yeah. He used it as a panini press. You can tell. Yeah. He's trying to press flowers, but instead of a flower, it's a sandwich. Which… Just press the sandwich in here and light this book on fire. So many PBJs, paninis made in that. He knows that you can save flowers by pressing them between pages. And he's like, I want this sandwich to last forever. It's almost half a sandwich.

So many of Cash's books have been ruined. All the grill marks are just the words onto the bread. Yeah. Yeah. That's silly, buddy. Is this sandwich? It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Oh, and the party was also bestowed upon a bookworm named Oman. Oman. Who is going to come with you as a intermediary between yourselves and the librarians.

We'll deliver messages and information in the form of reports as you have agreed to help Farah Margani locate and best case scenario free from servitude Amma Margani. Yeah. In return for her letting Perel peruse peruse the books. Yeah. And kind of work out of the library every couple of days. Yeah. And help her understand more fully firsthand accounts of the golden age of wizardry. Yeah. Yeah. Man, they're going to fuck for sure. Oh, probably. Gross. I mean, they're roughly the same age.

So maybe. Yeah. I'm into this. Why? It's like when you're, your uncle meets your English teacher. You know, you know that feeling everybody has when your uncle meets your English teacher and you're like, oh yeah, we all share that experience, right? Hey, is this just a fetish that I'm discovering? Are you just talking about Riverdale again? Man, he's going to grunders her unders for sure. Grunders her unders. Amazing. Oh my God. I'm so funny.

And after gathering these books, Billy stealing a book and Perel being like, I'll see you later. I'm going to stick around and do some work. You've left the library returning to the city of McCall and heading to the lower ward to treat yourself. Why not? We had a hard day. Yeah. Treat yourselves to a stay in a bathhouse. So you can clean the millennia old shit off of you.

And upon entering the mud room of the summer flower bathhouse and spa, you saw your much beleaguered roommate, Cash Alplates, devastated to see his night on the town crumble before him. Oh yeah. We were trying to give him a night away from us, actually. Yeah. And that is where we find our friends now. I guess neck deep in some mud. Yeah. So let's see what everybody's doing. What's Tuck doing in the bathhouse? He, I guess he's maybe in a steam room because he loves being hot and wet.

Who doesn't, right? I guess. Yeah. What's Ving up to? He's getting his hair conditioned and doing his, he's getting a big old nail done job. Yeah. Yeah, totally. And he's getting waxed. Where? From the neck down. Holy shit. He's like, I've had enough. I don't want anything resembling the bears that I've overtook. Whoa. Full human only human. Take all my hair. No more body hair. Yeah. Whoa. And Tuck walks by while the wax is happening and he's like, woo, smooth as an eel, buddy.

And he walks away. Right off the stroke. What's Billy up to? Billy, I had to take a workplace mandated shower. AKA the receptionist like, no, you have to shower off first, little guy. So I did that. And now I'm in the mud. I'm in the mud bath with cash. I was like, oh, if he's here, like maybe he'll enjoy my company. So he's ingratiating himself. It's so funny in my head because they're like classic Turkish bath, like the individual bath. So Billy's just in a huge bath by himself.

He looks like a lone meatball in an Italian wedding suit. They had to get a bucket to put in it so he didn't drown. So he could sit on something. He's sitting on a box in the mud. It's like a bee bath, but for Billy. Yeah. And cash just has his eyes closed. He's trying not to listen. But what's Billy chattering at cash about? So it was crazy. Like there was this worm on me and it just hopped off and it was going to tell on us.

And then I tried to get it, but it fought back and it was like into this hole into the wall. And then I was like, well, we can't let this happen. So then tuck smash the wall and I got the worm out and I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I forget. Oh, yeah. Tuck smushed it in a book. I don't know. Cash. Do you think that there's like an afterlife for that worm? Billy, if I if I even came close to believing anything that you just told me, I would still say no.

I don't think there's an afterlife for worms. Oh, Billy is so sad. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I think I think that. Yes, I think there's a special afterlife for worms. What do you think it looks like? He bites his lip and he looks away like I can't believe I'm getting drawn into this again. Again. You might notice I might be the only thing keeping this poor saps heart. I guess right.

I guess maybe it looks like a lawn like a little lawn for the worms to crawl around in. Yeah. Billy's tearing up because it's a nice lawn. Yeah. He's imagining. Yeah. Hey, Billy, are you crying? Yeah. He lifts a cucumber off his eye. Yeah. Just, you know, I just, I just didn't want him to tell us. I didn't mean for him to die. I think it was family now. Okay. All right. Okay. Again, assuming that anything you say is even remotely true that you went to the Margani library.

I mean, it's a bookworm, right? Yeah. And it was in a book. Yeah. That's where they want to be, isn't it? So maybe it didn't die at all. Oh, maybe. Yeah, maybe. Oh, I feel so much better. Thanks, Cash. Hey, no problem. He puts the cucumber on his eye and he sinks his ears under the mud. Cut back to a week and a half ago when Billy was like, do you think all of the book lavas I eat have an afterlife that they go to? And Cash had to have basically the exact same color as me.

Anytime Billy's faced with the death or destruction of anything in McCall, he asks Cash about an afterlife because Cash is, he's part of the Church of the Flintstones and Billy doesn't know anything about it. Right, yeah. Yeah. So he's like, and I mean, in the Church of the Flame, in my mind, there's no spiritual afterlife like that. No, you kind of just turn into ash and you reintegrate. Yeah. So he has to keep making stuff up to make this kid happy.

Just the normal places that you find that thing, a long, a plate. No, there's a plate that's the perfect plate. There's a big pile under a glass display. Yeah. I don't know, Billy, I guess that there's a stairwell under which all of the rats go. I don't know what you want me to tell me. What do you want me to tell you? Yeah, cut back to Tuck in the steam room. Yeah, he's just shvitzing. Can't really see much. Yeah, it's pretty like misty in here. Yeah.

Like, it's kind of, it's a large enough steam room. You could fit a bunch of people in here. At this time of night, there's not really that many people in here. And he, he has like a towel over the arm that has the tree tattoo because he's still pretty embarrassed about it. He doesn't like that he has a tattoo. For some reason, he's very averse to the tattoo. He doesn't like tattoos. I mean, I guess that makes sense. And he has his wrist straps on, but he's full nude otherwise.

So they gave him a towel for his waist, but he just wrapped it around his arm. Yeah. And you hear coming down, like outside the room, through the open door, a familiar voice. Yeah, so I told him, you know, if my mace isn't ready by the end of the week, then I don't know how I'm going to make it. I don't do any work. You know what I mean? And he walks right into the room. Oh, no. Oh, no. You can't see him at all, but you can hear the voice.

And I can smell the acrid smell of like that accelerant that he had. Oh, the fuel that he uses in his mace. And he also uses it, it seems like, as aftershave. Yeah. He's just wiping gasoline on his body all the time. Pours it out of the axe on his wrists and rubs it together. I love that. Mill, is that the right word? Anyways, and he's, he's got, he's got another guy with him. It's aerosolizing now, too. So Tuck's like coughing. It's in his eyes. Yeah, he's just like, hey, I hear that.

It'll put some hair on your chest, little dweeb. Okay. And he goes and he sits down and he's just shouting to this other dude that's with him about light guard stuff. Tuck recedes into the fog to escape. He doesn't know where the door is. He, he like, he started coughing. He got disoriented. He slipped a little bit. Uh, his dick touched something on the ground that was furry for some reason. That's fine. It's just, it's a steam bowl. The normal around here. Steam bowl? Oh no!

And then he, he like climbs up and he's like, oh my God, I hope that steam bowl doesn't think I was coming onto it. And then he climbs up and into like the furthest, you know how they're usually tiered steam bombs? Into like the furthest nook, which is also the hottest place. Oh yeah. Oh no. He rises up and you're just going to hide in here and listen. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I'm going to, yeah, it's going to, you're going to have to roll to, um, is it spelled Lord to certain realities?

No, this will be a defy danger because you don't want him to notice that you're here. Okay. Seven, 10. Yeah. Fucking air five. Clap. So this is the kind of situation where you have to defy to overcome your obstacle. But I think I'd still, if you really want to learn something, I think I'd like you to, I guess, to certain realities. Yeah. Like I could ask what here is useful or trying to pick out good things out of what he's saying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Duty six plus wisdom.

Uh, seven plus one is eight. Cool. So you get one question. What here is useful or valuable to me? Okay. Um, I think that it will be him telling you about the light guard headquarters. You know what I mean? They're like central building, which I'm going to say is in the lower ward. It's at basically the mouth of the walls formed by the cliff face. That was the bay of, uh, the, of the port of McCall. It's kind of almost like a gate house.

Like the exit from the lower ward to the salt flats is like the light guard, uh, cathedral. Oh, so it's kind of like in game of Thrones. Like it's like a castle on a wall sort of thing. Oh, so it's like really big. It's real big. Okay. Big. Yeah. Like the wall. Wall of China, but way thicker and taller. Yeah. And this is like their cathedral as well. Like this is where all like those dudes live and the gin. Yeah. Oh yeah. There's gin in there. There's probably gin that stay there.

Oh, and it's like their services there as well. It also houses most of the light guard. Lots of their armors baked deep in the basement. Yeah. Okay, cool. So what's this place called? Some cool, fiery, lighty name. So it's a fortress. It's the church of the flame. The hearth. Yes. Yes. Oh, sick. Cool. Great name. And the hearth and the, the way that goes through the, through the building to the salt flats. It's called the hearth gate. Yes. One side, it's the tallow gate.

Other side, it's the hearth gate. Fucking right. Cool. Yes. Okay, cool. So yeah, Fathom, who I'm sure everybody can connect this voice with that man. Yeah. Fathom, warrior of the light guard and some say on the wind, right hand man to the torch of McCall. Yeah. Yeah. Personal attendant. Yeah. Adjutant. Is that a word? Yeah. He's just fucking blabbing about his life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, so I started the day off with like 60 crunches, 70 anti crunches, 45 side to side crunches per side. And then I did like the rest of my cool down crunches. Oh, and you know, and by this time, like the first guard was changing out. So like I had to go make sure that this was okay. So he's, he's giving away the schedule of when guards change at the hearth. Oh, cool. And when, when is that? It's like four times a day, basically, um, you know, noon and midnight and then 6 a.m. And 6 p.m.

The other two. Yeah. Yeah. And he says it like that. He's like, you know, there's like one at like midnight and then the other midnight, but like the day one and then the two middle ones. Yeah. Six, both sixes. Yeah. It happens at both sixes too. What a colossal idiot this person is. I love that he's climbed the ranks to second in command of these morons, but he's so strong. Yeah. Uh, and he also gives away like where his room is in the hearth.

Cause he's like, and you know, it's pretty tight cause like I'm pretty high up there, you know, in the emulators, I'm like basically second in command. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, basically. And, uh, it's pretty sick because my chambers overlook and he, he tells you like the palace of the specific family that his room overlooks. Ooh. And he's like, it's like two away from the top floor too. So it's a pretty good view.

What's the name of the family? Uh, Ooh. Oh no. I damn it. So I was trying to think of another arena name and I was like, um, um, what's a good arena name that kind of sounds McCollum? And I was like, so Dell dome. And I was like, wait, his name's dumb. Oh, right. Yeah. Just say so Dell, so Dell, the so Dell family. Yeah. Yeah. The palace of the so Dell family. He's like, yeah, it looks over the so Dell estate and it's like two from the top floor. So it's pretty tight.

Sometimes I can see right into the garden and sometimes there's people sunbathing out there, you know, and pretty sick. He's coughing now on his own. It's pretty sick. Like, Oh man, that stuff really gets your heart pumping. So yeah, anyway, and the guy hasn't, the other dude that he's with hasn't gotten a fucking word in this whole time. The so Dell family are like, they have a tradition that each first son is a vizier to the shop McCall. Throw that in there. Yeah, I like that.

They have a, they're usually viziers to the shop McCall. And I guess the shop probably lives in the lower ward too, right? Uh, yeah. Biggest best estate. Is that like the king or like the mayor? Or something? Yeah, I guess the shot is like, I'm just thinking about like the parts of the city that govern themselves. So the shot would be in charge of the humans.

Like it would be the human government, like the government of like the lower ward and the upper ward, but they're kind of separate from the deep ward, right? Cause the deep ward has the council. Yeah. Yeah. Does he let give any information on how and when he got back and if the torture McCall is back to, uh, no, he doesn't actually bring, bring shit. I gave you a lot, man. Thank you. No, no, I appreciate it. And that's what he says. I gave you a lot, man.

You can't get it all cause he's drinking a protein shake and the guys trying to grab it from like, no man, you had enough. I need to, I need a bulk. I am so interested in this person that is hanging out with him. We cut to Ving. Ving's getting waxed. Yeah. Oh, he's done getting waxed. He's all waxed. Uh, it's a shorn to the, to the day he was born and he is getting his hair straightened. Whoa. Wow. Okay. Holy shit. And he's crying. Oh no. Yeah. He's bawling his eyes out. Why?

He said, I just miss him so much. And the guy's like straight in the hair like, who do you miss? Uh, Cloud Piercer. Oh. Is this your father, son, lover? He was everything to me, man. I have had two, two,! Is this your father, son, lover? He was everything to me, man. I have had people like that in my life as well, young man. He pats your shoulder there, there. Is this okay? That's fine. Thank you. It feels nice to have somebody close again. Were you and Cloud Piercer together long?

I mean, it felt like a lifetime. That's the hot tongs of the straightener touching your hair. Oh, it must stink so much. He is burning a couple of them. My God, patchouli to the max. Oh, man. So, sorry, how long were you together? Uh, it felt like forever, but, you know, it was like three months. I have had relationships like that, yes, it is. People come into your life, they connect to your heart, and then they drift away. I still have dreams about him where I can see through his eyes.

That must be quite heart-wrenching for you. It is. Only when I wake up, though. Isn't that the way? When we wake up from our dreams, we realize reality is the only dream we have. Rose oil? Please. Start scrimping it through your hair. Oh, that smells nice. Is that Nutka Rose? It is Nutka Rose. They exist in this world. Beautiful. I grow them myself in the space between realities. Tell me more. No. Spout low. Tell me about yourself and the world.

Give me a bunch of cool information like, Tuck may be God. It's just very funny that he's like, I bet Tuck's getting information. Give me some information, too. This guy has no frame of reference for who the fuck Tuck is. I know. He doesn't respond to that very well. Is Tuck your father, your son, your new lover? Yes, you could say all of the above as well. I would rather you specify which one it is. I don't like to specify. I'm very unspecified. Look at me. Everybody is everything to me.

I'm looking for a new spirit animal. What are you doing after work? I'm comfortable with this being a thing where you try and get some information. Yeah, where do you live? Do you live down here in the richy, richy yonder world? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I am part of the perfumer's union and I live in Stepside. Ah, beautiful. Stepside's gorgeous. It is, especially during the winter. Really? I haven't seen it wintered yet. Yes, it's quite beautiful.

The water from the water tower is so beautiful. It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful. The water from the water tower is piped up and the plants don't wither quite so quickly under the oppressive sun, so the gardens can become quite lush. Hmm. That sounds darling. I'll have to check it out. Please do. Do you ever, are you a groomsman of the light guard by any chance? Hmm. Have you ever done any work for the light guard people?

Members of the light guard filter in and out of our bathhouse from time to time, yes. I have even had the pleasure of straightening and perfuming the hair of members of the Sedell family, if you can believe it. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Yes. The Sedells. The Sedells. One of the most prosperous and politically influential families in McCall. Yes, I heard their son is the vizier to the Shah. A vizier to the soon-to-be Shah and the Shah's regent, yes. Oh, wow.

The current Shah is too young to be the Shah, so there's a regent. Oh, that's cool. And also, I like the idea that the Sedell family will have a boy at around the same time as the Shah will have a boy So they grow up together? So they grow up together and they're like friends. Like the Prince of Egypt. Yeah, basically. Oh, they're forced to be friends. Yeah, and they're like just always together. Yeah. Which, honestly, mitigates the chances of you getting like some kind of snake man vizier.

Yeah. Who, like, traditionally for like generations, it was like, why are all of the viziers so evil? Yeah. And then the Sedell family approached the Shah and he was like, okay, here, I have an idea. What if our sons are just friends? And then the, well, my family line will be the viziers forever. And he was like, all right, that makes sense. That sounds good. Excuse me, your eminence, I cannot help but notice that a snake wizard tried to hypnotize your daughter again.

Did I interest you in some political fortitude? Also, no more parrots. So, yeah, the current Shah and the future, or the, you know, the current Shah and vizier are now, they're currently like 11 years old. Okay. And there's a region in place of the Shah because the old Shah died prematurely before the sun came out. So, the vizier could come of age. Cool. Interesting. Yeah. What? What? I'm, I'm jacked up on this political intrigue. I wonder why he died so early, or she.

And why the vizier survived. Who can say? I, I want to roll something back. I said the first son, it's the first child. First child. Son or daughter. Okay, so who is it right now? The Shah and the vizier. Boy, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl. Boy, girl. Boy, girl. Yeah. One of each. Shah, vizier? Girl, Shah, boy, vizier. Oh, girl. Yeah. Okay, cool. So, yeah, the current Shah and vizier are 11 years old, and it's, the people say they get along quite swimmingly, as far as anybody knows.

Yeah, and they, and when they are both at 11, it's like a big year for them, and that's when they, if they make it into 1212, then they're gonna make it the whole way. It's kind of a superstitious thing. They have to make it through 1111. Oh, cool. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. I like that a lot. Yeah, so they're currently still 11. Mm-hmm. Cool. I think there are a lot of superstitions, around the number 11 in McCall. Yeah. There you go. Cool.

There's 11 neighborhoods in the old city, in the upper ward. Ooh. Cool, and the sticks is just a bunch of ones, too, and that's superstitious and weird. Like, it's a stretch, but. Yeah. Candles. Yeah, candles. Match sticks. Yeah. 1111, one Shah, one vizier, 11. Oh, yeah. Twins. The pillars. The pillars, yeah, yeah, yeah. The pillars and the lighthouse. Oh, yeah. And I'm just gonna throw it out there. The original, so there are currently 11, oh, sick.

Yeah, because the, or no, maybe there's 10, and that's why 11 is considered superstitious, because one was destroyed. Oh. And that was like a huge religious thing, but there are 10 remaining jinn that are the original jinn that the god of the flame brought. God, it's a really cool idea. We're so. And then just like, wait, I know something even cooler. We're so good at fantasy. Oh, man. I'm so horny for McCall now. Yeah. Oh, I'm so glad we're here. I'm so glad we're here.

Yeah, we're such virgins, yeah. Hey, what are the rules? Rumors you've heard about the demise of the former Sean Vizier. Ooh. What have you heard? Yeah, I guess roll it. Spout Lore. Spout Lore, 2d6 plus intelligence. Wisdom. Wisdom. Fuck, right, because it's historical. Seven. Seven, great. So interesting, but not useful.

He gets very quiet, and he leans in a little bit and takes on again an almost conspiratorial tone and says that, I mean, the events surrounding the death of the Shah are quite mysterious, not spoken of quite as openly as other deaths, but a member of the Vizier's household told me that when the Shah was found in his chambers dead, that he was not alone. Too dead? Too dead. Well, who was he with? I dare not say more. I dare not say more.

He, like, bows and puts his hand up, like, oh, my fine client, I cannot possibly say anymore. Who cares? It's been most entertaining. Thank you for your candor. Thank you for your time. And my bouffant, my straight bouffant and my smelly hair. If you require any more rose oils, do not hesitate to return to the Summer Flower Bathhouse and Spa. I have been Uban. Uban, I am Ving. Good day, Ving. Good day. That was a wonderful interaction. Yeah. Just wonderful role-playing. Just from both of you.

And we cut back to Billy and Kat. Yeah. Cash has got his hands on his head and Billy is still talking. Oh, can Billy be eating one of his cucumbers? Yeah. He's got, casually has one cucumber on his eye. Billy's eating the other one. Yeah. And in fact, the staff have brought me a bowl of cucumbers. Yeah. So, I mean, it's hard because it's just like, I didn't know it was that hot here and I don't know how to, like, deal with it.

So, like, I mean, I get, like, I get why you're so mad about me being in the icebox all the time. But I don't know where else to go. And, you know, my face is already so red. I'm so fat. But, you know, everyone here is really fit, it seems. And I don't want to show off how not fit I am. Show off. And, you know, and so that's why I have to wear my sweaters and stuff. And, and so I just wish you weren't so mad at me. Like, I made you a good lunch and you didn't even take it.

You're absolutely right. Yeah. You're absolutely right. And you know what? I will say this. What? I did eat the lunch when I got home. It was really good. Thank you. It was really good. I stole it from the bakery a few blocks away. Oh, my God. Billy. He ruins everything. Oh. What? I steal everything from there. Cinder and flames, Billy. Do you have a headache? Do you want a head rub? I do have a headache and I would hate nothing more than a head rub right now. But I'll tell you this.

I'll tell you this, Billy. Look, I'm sorry. I've, I just had a rough day. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be this short with you. And you know what? My dad, large as the day is long, there are plenty of people in McCall that are, that are big. Really? And you know what? I'll tell you this. You know what the secret is? What? Bright flowing fabrics. That's it. Really? That's it. They don't trap the heat. The breeze moves in and out. I've had this thick wool sweater forever and the raccoon cape.

I don't really know what, like nothing usually fits me. So I don't, I don't know where else to go. Okay. I might know somebody. I can get something made for you. It'll, it'll make the days a little bit cooler for you. Okay. Is that going to help? Yes. Thank you. Are you going to stop sleeping in the icebox? I guess I could get my own icebox. Yeah. That's a thought. I guess you won't be alone right now, don't you? You don't have to leave. But I'm not going to talk anymore. Okay.

I'll just eat my cucumbers. And he reaches over and he plucks a cucumber out of the bowl and he puts it over his eye and he reaches over and he grabs another one and he puts it in his mouth. Okay. And he lays back in the mud. I swim as best I can over to the concierge of the mud bath and I'm like, can I have a lemonade? Of course, young master. And they scuttle away. And I guess we'll just cut back to Tuck. I'm passed out. Oh, no.

I have passed out due to heat stroke and also the, like, vaporized gasoline that's in the air. Oh, God. So you come to, you're being shaken. Sir. Yeah, what? Sir? Hey. Sir. Oh, my God. There's just a spa attendant. Alec, is that you? No. Sir, you… The women of Spoutlor. The women of Spoutlor, you've returned to me. All three or four of you? I can't remember. Oh, my God. Help me. You woke up from the FATM night again, where he steals all the women in your life away.

And, but then, but there was one more. It was Farrah. Farrah. It was Farrah. Farrah, she's here. Oh, my God. Farrah, is that you? She's so taut. But you're fucking my uncle. No. Great. So you're shaken awake by a spa attendant. Oh, my God. Sir, you should not sleep in here. I can't. Okay. Do you need any medical attention? No. Can I get water, please? Yeah, absolutely. I would be glad to give you some water once we leave the steam room. Okay. We're closing. Okay. Okay. He gets out.

Good night, sir. Okay. There'll be some water at the front. I look for these guys. They're in the front area. Yeah. We're all just waiting. You guys don't recognize Ving until he whips around with his long hair. Ooh, it's flowing. It's like a sheet of silk. It's like down to his knees. Ving! I know. What the fuck, huh? Oh, you look so elegant. Thank you, Billy. Oh, my God. Where did your bag eyes go? They're gone. Really? Yeah. Oh. You look so youthful. You look eight and a half. Thank you.

You only look like a million years old. Oh, thank you. Jessica's squishing her own face into the wall. Thank you. You also look not a million years old. Thank you, Billy. We should do this more often. Tuck stumbles into the waiting room. You look like shit. So, like, has heat stroke for sure. Oh, no. He's got a cup of water with, like, some cucumber in it that's half full, but not because he's drinking it. It's just, like, all sloshed around.

And he looks at Ving and he's like, hey, you want to be one of the women of Spelt Lord? Want to tux, ladies? Oh, my God, buddy. Put it away. Oh, my God, Ving. Holy shit. Hey, man. Tuck's still wearing a spa towel around his waist, which covers more than his loincloth usually does. Tuck's really wrestling with the fact that he might be sexually attracted to his friend. Hey. Sometimes that happens to people, right? You're like, well, I guess this is going on in my brain now. Yeah.

You're so smooth and ripped now. Jeez Louise. Yeah, and I guess you guys just head home, right? Catch a tram, head home? I guess so. Yeah. Okay. And it is pretty late, probably, like, midnight, early a.m. Yeah, like 1 a.m. Yeah. Totally. Okay. You get off the tram, which is not terribly close to your neighborhood in Cliffside slash Stepside. The mids, as they call it, because it's kind of in between the two. Yeah. And as you're getting close to your building, something seems off. Hold on, guys.

My senses are tingling. So what are you rolling? What are you rolling? What are you rolling? Crap expert. Okay. Fuck me. Doesn't matter. I rolled a three, and plus, even my highest would have been five. You know, on second thought, never mind, forget it. Everything seems fine. You get into your apartment. Yeah, and you just go to sleep, I guess, right? Day ends. Yeah. Great. Much needed. Okay, so what's your plan for, yeah, the day? It's like the weekend. Yeah.

However the day structure works in McCall, it's the weekend. It's the weekend. It's the weekend. Cash is actually sleeping in. Like, he's still asleep. He's trying. Yeah, we're in the living room. I think we maybe should have a chat about what we should do next. Yeah, I'm like laying on the floor with the fairy book open. Are you reading it? Yeah, I'm just like rifling through it. Anything cool? Yeah, give me three lines written by this winter fairy about his first trip to like Oh, shit.

The material world. It was cold, but I did not feel it. It did not touch my soul. And when I woke, I lay beneath a blanket of snow. That's sick. That's cool. Okay, cool. Yeah, so Billy's just sitting cross-legged crisscross applesauce on the floor of the apartment reading a book. Tuck comes in from the bedroom sits down on the couch and where's Vang? I'm doing push-ups, dips. Tuck's trying not to fall. I'm trying to get distracted. Wow, this is becoming my butt. What is happening?

This is becoming a thing. I don't know why this is where Tuck's head keeps going. This is gonna become a thing. I'm into this. It's not. I think it's something else. Ving rolls over and starts doing cat-cows. Oh, wow. That's the bow back. Bent back. That doesn't do anything for Tuck. Back to the dips. Yeah, it doesn't do anything for Tuck? I think Tuck just really loves muscles. Okay, yeah, that checks out. He loves lumps. I like the right kind of lumps wherever they might be.

So what are you guys talking about? Tuck fills them in on everything he learned from Fatim. Yeah. Ditto with Ving. Oh, my God. That's crazy, you guys. Yeah. I didn't learn anything except where the bookworm might go. Where's that? It's bookworm heaven. Oh. To the great lawn beyond. You mean like where the baklava goes? Yeah, to the great bakery beyond.

And I should say, while you're sitting there and Billy's sitting on the floor reading, you can see Oman kind of creeping through Billy's hair, just like inchworming across his head. Nice. Should we try and see if we can talk to somebody in the, I forget the name, sorry, the family? Oh, the Siddell family? Siddell family? Could be useful, but they don't, they won't necessarily have a way to help you get into the hearth.

Okay, if I were you all, my first step would be get as much information as possible before exposing myself to the combined might of the light guard. Oh, duh. Don't just rush in. Would be what I would not do. Not rush in. Should we, should we talk to Perel? See what he's learned? Go over for breakfast. It's a weekend. That's true. Or Kevin. I haven't seen Kevin in two days. Oh yeah, little scoundrels. Oh yeah, the urchins might have a way into the hearth that we don't know about. That's true.

Maybe we split up. Like, there might be someone that either of us know that knows, like, sort of, info about the light guard, what they've been doing in the city. And Kevin might know how to get into the hearth. So if today was like knowledge gathering day. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Low stakes. But sneaky. Okay. What I was thinking is maybe going to talk to Greg at bar to see if he knows anything. Like, if he's heard what the light guard is doing. Perfect. So what are you, what's Bing trying to do?

There's, he's going to go talk to the lunar moths. He's been making friends with the lunar moths because he's been out at night and the lunar moths are attracted to flame, which means they go around the flame and they are always there at night. They're these huge, they're massive. Moths that like flap around the hearth. Oh shit. And they're enemies. Well, the light guard doesn't like them because the bullies who are on guard, they'll shoot like slingshots at them and stuff.

And lunar moths are big enough that if they get close to a flame, they usually just put it out, which is more of a pain than anything else. And maybe they, because they put flames out, they're just seen as like kind of, ooh, it's kind of like, sacrilegious. Yeah, totally. Totally. When one gets in a, an open window, fool boy. Yeah, it's like, they're not like demons or anything, but like, they're called devil birds. Yeah, that's what the light guard calls it.

And it's, it's kind of like how Muslims see like pigs is like unclean. Oh yeah. Yeah, totally. They're seen as evil because they blow lights out. Yeah. Huh. They kind of consume, like, that's what they're seen as. They see it as consuming the lights. Okay, great. Yeah, that's perfect. So, um, I mean, Kevin sounds like the most present one. So maybe we'll start with Billy. Okay. Do you want to do like your connections thing? Yeah, I think so.

Hey guys, I'm going to go for a walk and see Beth and Kevin. All right. Okay. Holy shit. 10. 10. All right. Sweet. On a 10 plus, someone has it just for you. Okay. So, yeah, Billy goes outside. He's got his little backpack with snacks in the book and his blue blanket. Um, he's still got his sweater and stuff, but he did shed the raccoon skin because he's like, I should just embrace my body.

And before, as he's running out, we're like, Billy, and we stop him and we grab him by the backpack and we shove like an extra water bottle in there. Oh, thank you. Just because he always forgets to bring water. He comes back so dehydrated. Yeah. Drink water. You're right. Thank you guys. I'll see you in a few hours. Okay. So Billy heads off to meet Kevin and Beth. Where is he meeting them today? Yeah, it's like brunch hour.

So he actually goes more to like step side because he knows that's where Kevin and Beth will be on a Saturday morning. He just goes down an alleyway behind like a hipster brunch place and he finds them hanging out on the dumpster. Oh, you come up with a name for that. Oh yeah. The hipster breakfast joint is called oof. Like, oh yeah. French for eggs. Oh, oh, F. Yeah. Oof. Oof. French exists in this world. Yeah, but it's overseas. So it's like all the cool kids are like, I've been overseas. Yeah.

I've been to vert grass. Oh, right. Yeah. Because it's French. Yeah, true. Oh, it already exists. Yeah. Um, so he goes to the dumpsters behind oof and finds Beth and, and Kevin eating some leftovers because everyone wastes so much food. Yeah, they're eating a bunch of eggs Benedict that they found in a pile and they're playing this little game with like chips, a piece of rock that they just flick at other rocks, basically. Hey, hey, Billy, Billy, we found a bunch of eggs. Yeah, nice.

And so excited. And Bethany's like, yeah, look at this one. It's like mostly whole. Oh my God. Can I have this one? Oh yeah, you can have that one. Really? Yeah, I already ate like too many. You ate too many? Okay. Too many. Whoa. And it's like poached so nicely too. Yeah. Can you believe rich people just throw this stuff away? I can't believe it. Honestly. Do you think they have any granola bowls left? Oh, let's see. Yeah. And she flips up in a garbage can and dives inside. Sweet.

So you want to play and he holds out his hand. He's got some pieces of rock. Oh man. Yeah, I could play for a bit, but I mostly had to ask you another question. What is it? I'm just wondering like if you guys know of a way to get into the hearth. The hearth? Yeah. The place where the white God live? Yeah. First, you want to get into Wiboy, then you want to get into Hoff. What are you doing, Billy? We're trying to help one of our friends. He lost, he lost his memory kind of.

I don't know how to explain it, but he, he needs some help and he hasn't been able to fix himself. Lost his memory. That's really sad. Yeah, he's really sad. He eats a lot of those like cheap sandwiches. Cheap sandwiches. That's too much. Yeah. The equivalent of the gas station hoagie. Yeah. You know, the ones like we eat them a lot, but if you're grown up, it's kind of sad if you eat them all the time. Yeah. Yeah, that's pathetic. And he picks up a poached egg and slams it into his mouth. Yeah.

That's disgusting. It is disgusting. I just like fistful like a bunch of like old Kiwis and fruit garnishes. And Bethany pops out of the garbage can with like two handfuls of granola like jackpot. Oh, nice. Thanks, Bethany. And she just tumbles out and climbs up next to you guys. Hey, Bethany. Yeah. I just asked Kevin, but have you ever been into the hearth or do you know a way in? Oh, I've never been in the hearth, but like there have been kids that have gone. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

There's a kid, Tobe. He said that he went and he said that he that he saw a boob when he went, but we don't believe him. A boob? A boob on a girl. Oh. Yeah. I don't believe him, though. Yeah, I don't believe him either. But there was this other kid. His name was Reb. It could be like the list of kids that actually definitely did get in. It's like one-eyed Reb. There's one-handed. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's one kid called Lucky. Nothing. He's fine. Yeah. Lucky.

He just lost two legs. And there's no then there's also no leg Reg. I don't know why he's not lucky, but. Oh, man. Yeah. And I guess the story that we always hear is that if a kid did get in, it's because they hopped inside a cart or something that was like going to the hearth for like supplies like every once in a while. Sometimes a centaur goes and takes in a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Like, you know, like clothes and foods like breads and foods like like fruits and stuff like that. Hmm. OK.

So do you know where the bread's from? The bread. I know where the bread is from. The bread is from a bakery. We in Cliffside and it's really good bread. So the white guys like, hmm. OK. I love your bread. I'll pay you more for it. Oh, that's smart. The bread bread people. Yeah. OK. Is it always the same center? No, but a centaur is like a big it's like a it's like a camel with a fat guy on it. But there's no wags on the fat guy. He only has camel legs. I know what a centaur is, Kevin.

My one time my aunt, she dated a centaur. He was really nice. He always had cool toys for me. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. He was really nice. He was really loud, though. Yeah. It hurt my ears sometimes. Kevin's losing focus. It's like he's thinking about centaurs. Kids this age can stay on task for maybe three minutes. Yeah. Have you ever seen like a centaur one like looks like this? He hops down on the ground and he's kicking his legs out in front of him. Really weird.

Have you ever seen him one day one like this? No. It's just not like that. No. Have you ever seen a camel run? Yeah. Fucking stupid. And that's how centaurs run. But there's a big guy huffing and puffing on top of it, making the sound of a camel like. So Jessica asking Sean, I'm probably not going to get more info of them than this. It's that if there has if there has ever been an effective way to sneak into the hearth, it's with a shipment of supplies.

But you would never do that because you don't want to get your arms chopped off like no arm. No, I definitely want to keep my arms and legs and hands and feet and face. Yeah. Because how are you going to get like more of the food if you don't have hands to steal it with? I think about that a lot. Do you want to one like a centaur with me? Yeah, I do. And Bethany hops down to and they just start running kicking their legs in front of these three spastic kids behind this fucking brunch restaurant.

I take a sip of water though. First, my dad's told me remember drink my water. These guys sound really nice. It's nice. You call them your dad. Yeah, they're not really my dad's, but like they kind of are in my heart. We know how that is. Yeah, we know how that is. All right, let's go run. Okay, let's one and they just run off down an alleyway. Billy's running like a like a centaur is really accurate. Yeah, it's just my regular run. Way up you guys and we'll cut to tuck going to bar.

Yeah, tuck is like he just walks in because it's like daytime. So they're doing like inventory and reloading and stuff and they're touched by the darkness came back last night and it was a pretty wild because one of them is a demon. I think that's the rumor. Yeah, and they're reconstructing the stage. It was ruined. Yeah. So Greg is downstairs in bar because it is like an underground thing, right? Yeah. Yeah.

So he's downstairs and he's got a clipboard and he's marking things off as people move around huge casks of ale. And spirits and all that and I go up to him. Hey, talk. What's up? You're not working till tonight. Yeah, no, I'm not. I actually I came because I have some questions about the city. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a lot different than when I left. Yeah, it is. It's been it's been quite a few years. What is fucking going on with the light guard? Oh, man.

Don't get me started on the GD light guard. Like I've been hearing a lot of weird stuff. Like I heard that the light guard is more militant. Around demons like that. The torch of McCall assigned the last prophet that the last shot was maybe assassinated. Well, whoa. I haven't heard that. That's a man. Keep me out of that. Keep me out of that shit. Yeah, it's been a pretty intense couple decades.

You know, at first when the light guard started getting more intense, people were like, ah, this is great. Like you notice don't see many afraid around at night anymore, right? Yeah. You see some, but not a ton. Yeah. Light guard. Okay. But you'll also notice that you see a lot of weird posters around on like, is your neighbor a demon and all these stupid drawings about demons. Yeah. Light guard. Fuck. Yeah.

And he does this gesture that's sort of like the up yours kind of gesture, but it's the index finger and the pinky finger up and he kind of jams them up. That torch is a real piece of work. Is he back in the city? That's what I hear. And so, yeah, I lean into Greg and I kind of whisper because there's people around and I'm like, I heard that the torch ran into some trouble a few months back and the purifier got fucked to D six plus. I would say this is charisma.

It's kind of a spell Lord, but it would be more charisma based. Yeah. So two to six plus charisma. It's 10. Okay. Wow. He leans in as well and takes on a somewhat conspiratorial tone. There's a lot of people. There's a lot of conspiratorial tones in McCall. There's a lot of conspiracies in McCall. There's a lot of people scheming. Yeah. It's also McCall is also known as the city of sand and secrets. Wow. And he leans in.

Greg leans in and you see his really carved elaborately carved tusks sticking out of his mouth. It's got like a naked lady on it. It's got like a naked dude on it. And then it also says get fucked. Whoa. That's pretty cool too. In his head tucks like man, this guy's the coolest person. And yeah, you get really close and he's like, all right way. I heard it torch put out to see the purifier go to some bullshit somewhere like I give a fuck.

But he came back tail tucked between his goddamn legs half his boat gone and I mean half like right down the middle half, but he still sailed out of it home. Say what you will about the torture McCall, but he is one crazy motherfucker. You ever hear about him? Keeping demons as slaves. He like spits. Come on. I mean the torch is the torch. He's he's put some pretty intense individuals to the flame, but you think he can chain demons that don't want to be chained. Come on man. Come on. Come on.

Come on. You see me. She saw me try to tell the lead singer a touch by the darkness that he couldn't stay at the hotel. He wanted to stay at what happened. What do you do? I mean, we almost put me through a wall. Okay, fine. Okay, and that was me just telling them. No. Okay, you're not not thinking of getting mixed up with the light guard. Are you? Oh, no. No, I I'm writing a song about the torch of McCall called a torch. I'm a torch of McCall me. Maybe Jesus Christ. You want to put that in?

Yeah, man. There's never something that I have wanted cut more that I've been more sure will remain. I fucking love it. I want I'm I demand that you write it. It's called the torch of McCall me before you go go. It's just like amazing cause. I don't know. It's a torch of McCall me by your name. It's it's called. I just torch of McCall to say I love you. Yeah, my favorite play is torch of McCall of the while. There's got to be more.

I'm gonna I'm not gonna have time because I just got the new copy of torch of McCall of Duty Black Ops. Yeah, well, okay. I just hope you know the light guard. I hate him just as much as anybody else as any other self-respecting work would but you know, they're dangerous, right? Yeah, I obviously yeah, I come on. I grew up in the sticks. I know the light guard are our friends. All right.

Well, if you do get the inkling to get mixed up and fuck around with the light guard at all and he leans in even closer and gets really close to your you come give me a call. Oh, okay, and he goes and starts writing stuff down on his his board goes. God that goes over here. That's supposed to be room temperature. That's supposed to be cold and he walks away. Cool. Cool and we'll cut to Paul. Yeah, I'm sorry video.

I'm playing a game with my friend sitting here having a coffee in a bubbly cut to say my balls off cut to being the half-elf druid just rolled a failure on a thing that he did not specify. All right. So what do you what's being trying to do? Ving is going to go to the there's a bunch of crevasses and they're dried up waterfalls that come from the I'm so bad with the names of all these what's the upper layer? Oh, the upper ward. Why not? That's so easy.

So from the acoly desert into the upper ward there was old waterfalls like geologically millennia ago. Oh cool and the lunar moths sleep in the crevices created there in the daytime because there's no Sun that gets in there. Oh so sick awesome. So he's going in to he's going out free climbing. I guess he's gonna try and go 127 hours later kind of style fucking Alex Honnold over here. That's so nothing bad happens didn't tell anyone where I was going.

So he goes in to talk to the lunar moths and finds them there. Cool. I mean, yeah there you climb down in the crevasse you leave the the burning Sun of the late afternoon because we're doing this over like a whole yeah. Yeah. Situation. It actually takes a while to get to where these waterfalls used to be. Well, I found a bunch of desert sage on the way. I'm gonna write that down. Okay, you can have it.

Yeah, so you climb your way down into these old dark eroded crevasses and you're like is this the right is the right place? I can't really see and your night vision adjusts. It's just wall to wall lunar moths and a big one comes like boom this all of a sudden again just as his vision like gets used to the dark and he notices he's in this thing all of a sudden there's big pair of eyes right in front of his face and a big lunar moth like flexes its wings out and there's looks like eyeballs.

Holy shit. Cool. What do they sound like you tell me you're the soft soft. Hello visitor. Welcome to our sanctum. Hello. I'm thinking super spirit Walker. A forest and frost Prince of the boreal reach a fellow royalty and it inclines its head. You're most welcome. Thank you. We've heard much of the spirit Walker upon the winds between here and there. I come with a request and a gift. What is your name? Moonshadow Moonshadow. You are a strong and beautiful moth. Thank you. You are so hot.

Uh uh uh. Stop. I feel like you're working out. What do you bring for me? I bring you a request from me. Well, I mean you said you had a gift. Did you want the gift first? That is how it is done. You ingratiate yourself to your host. I'm just going to give it to you at the end. Okay. Well, I mean we can do whatever is convenient if it's like deep in your bag. No, no, no. No, it's good. I don't want to fuck with your customs. I insist. I'm in you. I insist. Flap wings out. I insist.

I have a request wings fold up. What is your request? I need information on the light. Good. All through the cave all them. The light guard keepers of the flame. If I had saliva glands, I would do the same. Allow me to spit for you, please. Sorry. Gross. I'm dry. I've been the head desert. I don't want to get home. I'm writing checks that my throat can't catch. We need information of the comings and the goings and times. When we can we need enter. We want to bring them down.

This would please us. Then the flames would be kept by those that care for the most. It's very intimidating when you all do that. Same. As is the way you are going to have to roll something. Get great. I guess it's probably. Oh, no, it would be a parlay because you're offering gift. Yeah, great. 2d6 plus charisma. Oh, you got 10 plus. My charisma is 11. Hell. Yes. I'm going to go present the gift. My gift. My gift to you. And then he tears away his pants. These are 100% merino wool.

The golden fleas. Honey thread. And moon shadow reaches forward with the little grippers that ma that ma has. Yeah, that we all know they have and grabs the wool and goes like puts it in its mouth and eats a bunch of it. That is for your whole tribe. We will feast this night and tomorrow upon the honey thread. Very well. Allow me to share with you some information regular stuff. Not going to do this whole thing is moon shadow. All I need from you. All I need from you is to allow me to mark you.

I'm not going to do it. Sneaky bitch. I don't want to do it. I could have just stuck in here when you were asleep, but I wanted to ask permission out of respect to you and your horde. What a smart fucking move that was. I love this moon shadow dips down and extends its wings in a very bowing sort of thing. A very pleasant. Pleasant gesture and tips its head forward. It's too like huge frond antenna hanging on either side of you and says, Mark me as you will. I will act as your eyes.

Yeah, just bend down and and a kiss the top of his head. So dusty. Wow, that dust. It's not like a it's not like a myth. You're really dusty. He's about to kiss him on the head and then he sneezes in his face. Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry. Droplets will work. Do not apologize. I will act as your eyes folds his wings back up. I hope to see you guys soon. You will see through me soon. Bye bye. Back flip back flip back. And then walks back into the desert with no pants. Dick hanging out.

Sun beaming vultures circling didn't think this through walking back. I can't believe I sneezed and spit all over that moth using up the last of my moisture. So it's the sort of thing like you for Billy when you came back from meeting Kevin and Bethany after your centaur game. You saw Perel at the cafe across the street. He was like, hey, why don't you come join me? Oh, sure. Yeah. Hi, Perel. Hi, Billy. How was your day? It was good. How's yours? I am. I feel alive, Billy. Yay.

I feel alive for the first time in a long time. That's good. Mm hmm. And you pass the time eating these shitty sandwiches. Tuck shows up. He's like, hey, come on. Why don't you join me? Yeah. Tuck sits down and kind of like relays the information that he got. And he does the same thing. I've got these notes. I think I'm making some headway on some ideas, etc. Ving shows up. The sun starts to come down. Yeah. Rooftop jumping in. Rooftop jumping on. And you guys are having a great time.

And then the sun goes down. You're just kind of chatting. It's a really nice time that you're having. You feel like you're moving towards something. You're having a nice meal with your friends. Perel has recently taken a smoking hookah. So like there's a hookah sitting next to him. There's like a nice like cloud of like herbal, fruity smelling smoke. Yeah. It's kind of like lemon. Yeah. Totally. You're all sitting around just chatting, having a ball. Perel smoking his hookah.

And then he takes a big, big inhale. He goes, wait, shut up. I'm not. We weren't saying anything. Shut up. Yeah. You said shut up. Shut up. You said. Shut up. Any points at your apartment. And we look up. And through the windows, though the lights are off because you're not there, you can see forms moving in the shadows. What? And the small glimmering light of a hooded sunstone. Someone's in our fucking house. And that's where we're going to end it for this week.

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