Morning light flickers through the ever -shifting
enchanted window, which now shows a stormy ocean
horizon. Tilly and Mero both awaken to find Sheldon's
bed empty once again. Welcome back, everybody,
to Love, Death, and Dice! That's right, this
is the Magical College Campaign, and I will be
your dungeon master for the night's turn. Say
hello, lads. Hello, lads. Good to see you guys.
Quickly now, let's reintroduce yourselves, round
in a circle, just so everybody knows who you're
playing. And tonight, we're actually going to
start with Ray. Hello, everyone. I'm Ray, your
backstage bard. Tonight, I'll be playing Scoutmaster
Wildthorn, and in this campaign, Professor Scoutmaster
Wildthorn. A druid magician person magic that
is teaching at a school with fake -ish credentials.
I think by now they should have gotten that.
Hopefully. Yeah, in case you didn't know, I'm
a frog! Prodeus. Hello there. I'm Prodeus, and
I'm playing Tilly Lockwood, a wizard in training,
focusing on chaos magic. And hello, I'm playing
Merrill Wilson, alive and in the flesh. He's
trying to really study a lot about more clerical
and life magic. Very good. Okay, so as our story
begins today, it's been about two weeks since
your class with Wildthorne. The morning light
does flicker in as you, Mero, and Tilly both
awaken. And you do look to the bed to your side
to see that Sheldon is once again gone and his
bed is empty. And as you guys awaken, I want
both of you guys to roll me some dice. And we're
going to call this a brains roll. Difficulty
of eight. I got a four. Okay, well, Mero got
an eight. congratulations Meryl so as you look
around the room see where's Sheldon already gone
you know you're half awake and you're looking
around and you can see that Sheldon's belongings
are half packed there's one boot just out in
the center of the room and his bag is open and
one thing I'll give you with your success is
that there is a scroll that's open half written
but it's crossed out like over and over and it's
sitting on his bed yeah I'm going to get up and
I'm going to tell the fire ferret to go and catch,
bring the notes to me. And then I like, I want
to try and read in between the scribbles. I'm
going to interrupt you. As your fire ferret goes
over to get it, it starts growling and its flames
are like briefly, they're like flickering off
of its back and it's growling under the bed,
towards under the bed. Towards under my bed or
Sheldon's bed? Sheldon's bed. Oh God. Oh, like
monsters under the bed. Can I, like, try to hang
off the side of my bed and look underneath Sheldon's
bed? Sure, but I'm gonna need you to make me
a brains roll. Difficulty of 10. Brains. You
have a... That's a 19. A d20 in brains? Good
lord. Are you using stats or magic? That's what
I asked. Stat, yeah. It's not a magic roll, it's
a stat roll. Yeah. God damn, what the fuck? Mero's
a smart guy. Brains. Impressive. Alright. Yeah,
okay. Yeah, no, that makes complete sense. No,
brawn's impressive. Superb is brain. Okay, you...
look under your bed, and it crossed it under
his bed, and you can see what looks to be a strange
glowing pulse coming from underneath his bed.
Sheldon, what did we tell you about glowing underneath
the bed? It freaks everybody out. No response.
No. At this point, because I know we normally
can't see Sheldon, I am going to get out of my
little nest. So I am, you know, I'm used to the
fact that we can't see Sheldon. So I'm going
to approach the bed after I get out of my little
nest and I'm going to say, Sheldon, darling,
darling, are you there? And I'm going to peer
underneath the bed. Like, I'm going to walk straight
up to it to see if I can see what this glowing's
all about. Nice. So as you peer under the bed,
you can see that there's a strange symbol that's
drawn underneath his bed. It's like a circle
with jagged lines. And as you peer underneath
it, it starts, the lines kind of pulse a little
bit. And Mero's ferret, it sniffs it and it hisses.
And then it runs and it hides. What was your
ferret's name again? I had it written down. when
it's no longer written down anymore because I
forgot to save it. So I've literally, we've just
called it Fire Ferrets. All right. Little fire
ferret, it's okay, darling. It's okay. And at
this point, I'm going to pick up the note off
the top of the bed and hold it up to the light
to see if we can see anything underneath the
scribbles. So you're just going to try to read
it. I want you to make me a magic roll. And you
can kind of tell me what kind of magic you're
using to make this here check. Magic. All right.
I was going to hold it up to the light. Magical
scroll. Magical scroll. All right. Um, let's
see. I think that I'd use my grit. Okay. Um,
but it is going to be a difficulty of 14. Oh,
lovely. All right. Well, let's see what happens.
I got a fit. Oh, what? Good Lord. How many dice
am I? 26. Jeez. So you exploded. You got a 12.
You exploded. So you rolled an eight and then
you got an extra three. Um, so a 26. So you read
this thing and there are mentions in this. scroll
about a furnace and something about darkness
and sheldon was trying to figure out a way to
make himself even more invisible and he was trying
to use something to do with a furnace but it's
all kind of scribbled out and weird oh darling
the only thing that a furnace will do to make
you invisible is turn you into a charred corpse
oh goodness all right well i'm going to ask politely
of the bed could you move to the side darling
could you could you move to the side yeah sure
and the bed grumbles and it walks over to the
side um but through the noise of the bed scooting
across the ground through that you almost hear
like a giggle but you don't know where it came
from oh lovely um sheldon did you succeed is
that what you're trying to get at that you succeeded
and there's a there's another laugh Thank you.
All right. So, yes, but as the bed moves, can
I now clearly see the runic symbols on the floor?
Yes, yes. Well, it looks like a circle with like
six triangles inside. All right. Mero, will you
make me a brains roll? Difficulty of four? A
magical brains roll or a stash brains roll? Just
stat. Stat. Brain full. The sixth. Okay. Let's
do it. You see this symbol along with Tilly and
you remember whenever you came to the school,
the black ichor that formed your entrance letter
that went into your wrist, it was the same symbol.
And you look at your wrist and it's on your arm.
Maybe you should stand back, Tilly. This might
get a little messy. Can I imbue magicalness properties
into my hand and wrist and then touch the runic
symbol on the ground? Sure, but you gotta tell
me, like, what kind of magic you're gonna cast.
Remember what Professor Wildthorne said yesterday?
Think about exactly what you're trying to achieve
through the magic. What are we trying to achieve,
Tilly? Are we trying to find Sheldon, or are
we trying to understand what the runic symbol
on the floor means? Uh, let's start with one
and go to the other. First off, there's another
faint giggle. Sheldon, darling, how are we ever
supposed to get along if you're playing weird
little tricks on us? And your wand in your pocket
vibrates, Tilly, just reminding you that it's
there. I don't like this. It doesn't actually
vibrate, but that's just me, the dungeon master,
being like, hey, use some magic, dog. We're playing
a magic game. Do I remember where I put my wand
since the last episode? No. Would it be brain?
Oh, man, if only there was a teacher somewhere
that might be able to provide instruction and
or provide. boosts to your rolls magically. Oh,
if only you had a wand in which to reach out
to them and maybe offer some assistance. If only
such things were possible. Yes, but we're not
Tattletales or Nox. Good try, Mero. Adversity
token. Okay, while you guys are struggling then,
how about we cut over Professor Scoutmaster Wildthorne.
Now, we cut over to you, Professor, as you awaken
in your quarters. Things are going well. The
first thing you awaken to is right on your nightstand
is a scroll waiting for you. Oh! Oh, no! It's
not official. It doesn't have the school's official
bum branding on it. But you open it up and read
it. And written in green crayon and covered in
burn marks, it says, Follow the fire, thorny
boy. Rules are for rocks. And you are a flame.
Headmaster B. Good old Headmaster B really knows
how to hit me where I live. Is he naked outside
your door, Ken? I know what I have to do. He
said to do it, so, I mean, it is... You know,
we swore we weren't gonna go back to those days,
but you know what? It's time. So... Oh, you swore,
you swore, you swore. But no, no, no, no. You
just gotta keep going back, Thorne. You just
gotta keep going back. Reflame, guide me. Guide
me this morning. Oh, God. Brimstone gave it to
me for saving his granddaughter. That's right.
Told me the special occasion. All right, what
magic are you casting here? So, basically, the
equivalent of whatever the liquid luck would
be, because I'm basically trying to stone myself
and, like, drug my way to this by some magical
means. Okay. How long are you trying to get this
effect to last for? Like a good dab like can
last like, I mean, a good dab might be like eight
to ten hours probably. I only ask because the
longer the effect lasting, the higher the check's
going to be. Sure, of course. Are you trying
to just see where you need to be right now? I
think like, again, he said follow the flame.
So to me, this is definitely like something Scoutmaster
would normally do in order to like meditate or
like get in touch with nature. This is their
druid crap. if you will. So definitely just like
really harnessing and trying to get into like,
you know, sometimes that high where you feel
like you're a part of everything. So like flight
as guidance. Yeah, a little bit. Don't label
it. Huge magic. Just boom. Make me a charm roll.
If you're trying to go four hours, we're going
to call it a difficulty of, I would say, well,
you never cast this before. So at a baseline,
I'm going to say it's difficulty of 15 and then
plus one for every hour. So if you're trying
to go for four hours, we can give you a 19 DC
check here. Let's go. Ooh, I have seven adversity
tokens. All right. Is it time to spend them all
to get your thing? You can get up to 18. 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Let's just make it to
15. I'll just do four to hit the base four hours.
Okay. Oh, wait, so it was 15. But what we could
do is you could spend all seven to get a base
of three hours. Sure. Why not? This is going
to help us. All right. You feel a sense of euphoria.
You feel like you're doing the right thing. The
headmaster's a good guy. And even though everything
he touches is covered in some strange Cheeto
dust, you believe that he is leading you somewhere.
And so as you exhale, you can almost see this
small orange flame guiding you somewhere, like
a line on the ground. And you stand up from your
desk and follow it out your door. And as soon
as you do. Hey, Carl. Good to see you, man. Morning.
The owl. Right. He's like, hey. You need anything?
I think I'm good for a little bit. Probably in
an hour, though. I'm going to really need some,
like, I don't know. And as you say that, you
turn your head and there's a jump scare, like
a loud in your head because Professor Hexworth
is standing right in front of you. Oh, hey, good
morning. in mama how you doing she says like
like you ever just have that moment where you're
incredibly stoned and your parents call you exactly
that's what we're talking about right here she
says your wandless nonsense is spreading thorn
you're sowing chaos How dare you talk about my
wand? We haven't even had dinner together yet.
Oh, did I say at the beginning of this episode,
it's been about two weeks? Did I say that? No,
not at all. Okay, well, it's been about two weeks.
There we go. Now it's like, why did he just go
straight from one class to fucking doing dark
magic in the bedroom at night? Okay, so I'm going
to cut this back at the beginning. And we're
back. I've been corrupting them for a while.
Okay, now things make more sense. Sheldon, I
did this to you. Of course I did. All right.
So, good morning, Mama. Hello. Hi. Your wandless
nonsense is spreading, Professor Thorne. You're
sowing chaos amongst the students. How dare you
talk about my wand in private? We have not even
gone on a first date. You must teach the curriculum
or you will be dismissed. Yeah, that's cool.
What's really funny about that is that the headmaster
has got me actually doing something at this moment.
So actually, I don't have time for you right
now. But maybe we can schedule time later. You
know, during my office hours. Okay, bye. Difficulty
12. Nice. Charm. Yeah. 24. 24. She goes, okay,
well, then you better hop to it. You must listen
to the headmaster. And you're like, thank you.
And you follow. I literally, like, you can hate
me, but I'm literally doing, like, things for
people higher than you, so kind of go jump off
a broomstick. You stumble off. Also, I want you
to keep role -playing on this zen thorn right
now. You're like... super zen mode. And you follow
this flame and it goes all the way through all
of the dorms and goes up this spiral staircase
and at the very top you know that once you get
to it you have to tap your wand on it six times
and the spiral staircase opens and it leads you
all the way around and back down and then it's
leading you somewhere crazy and then you remember
oh yeah. Are there owls? There's owls like throughout
the castle right? Yeah for sure. I'd like to
imagine I turn around at one point and realize
I've just been muttering about that fricking
like tortilla cheese thing. And I got like a
row of quesadillas following me. That's funny.
Leaving evidence behind. But more importantly,
you remember that. The dorms of the new students
never seems to stay in one place. And eventually,
you find it. And this time, it's in a large oak
tree that has just spiral staircases going up
it. So you go all the way up this oak tree to
the dorms. And eventually, you make it to our
other two players' dorm. And you're at the dorm.
Yes, hi. Good morning, students. Hello. It is...
Unfortunately, that time of the week where I
have to inspect the dorms to make sure y 'all
aren't doing anything horrible. So if you would,
please. Hello. Good morning. Time to wake up.
They haven't opened the door, have they? No.
No. I'm being respectful, of course, and knocking
first. Oh, wonderful. Professor, if you just
give us a moment. Sheldon, I swear to God, if
you don't reappear this second, we're going to
get in so much trouble because we've lost you.
And I'm going to walk to... I'm going to open
up the door just to crack and be like, hello.
Hello, Professor. Morning. Good morning. Hi.
What would I need to roll to immediately suss
that this student is trying to hide something
very badly? Brains. Brains, yeah. Brains, yeah.
Brains is basically insight. Would it be brains
to brains? Are we dueling brains? If you want
to. They only got a seven. Okay. Stop asking
me if I should allow Mara Wilson to use an adversity
token. I don't care. Where are my brains? Ah,
there they are. That's a natural one. Tilly's
obviously in a panic. Miss Lockwood. Yes, Professor,
how are you? Yes, wonderful. I think maybe I
should come in and start this inspection right
away before anyone else probably comes behind
me and looks, right? In order to make sure that
no one else, Professor Hexworth, has been on
my ass this morning. Let me in the room, please.
Yes, of course. professor come on in nothing
wrong yes all the other students you go to class
y 'all are just the best in the future my god
slam the door So how are we all doing? Where
you clearly see me messing with a magical dark
rune with my own trine magic. Oh, yeah. So I
want to say, Meryl, you're just like rubbing
all over it. And as soon as you touch it, it
sparks impulses, but does nothing. And you're
just like trying to get it to do something. And
it's just not working. Sheldon seems to have
disappeared, but also there's giggling. There's
giggling. Okay. Question. Is the symbol green?
No. Yes. You said it was. Did I say green? Yes,
you did. Yeah, you said it was green triangles.
Flames. Green flames. That's why I was doing
the green flame thing. I thought that was all
why it was tied together. I didn't say shit about
green. What was it supposed to be? Editing Turkey.
Editing Turkey. You'll know what the fuck I said.
You can see what looks to be a strange glowing
pulse coming from underneath his bed. Small orange
flame guiding you somewhere like a line on the
ground. You too. What do we know? Note on the
bed that says something about becoming more invisible
using a furnace. Glowing under the bed triangles
in a circle. And Faye's giggling. Giggling. I
think there's one more fact you left out. I think
there's one more little fact that we're missing
here, Miss Lockwood. Is it Sheldon? If I understand
Mr. Sheldon's inclinations here, I believe that
what we are seeing is a success at one's deeper
desire. I don't know if this is necessarily a
bad thing for Sheldon. At this point, you step
into the room, Thorn. You're getting a better
look, and you just see this boot. sitting on
the floor. It's untied. And you look up at the
roof and as a elder professor, you see like almost
some magic up there, right above where the boot
is. It's like a little bit of pulsing magic.
All right. So I've got three here. And if you
put them like this, weaponize your magic. I call
this the Wolverine method. Whoa. Do you think
that's trademarked anywhere? No, not at all.
Anywhere. No one has even thought of this. In
the 300 years I've been alive, no one has thought
to put three wands in between their fingers like
this and cast a spell and call it the wolverine.
There's no way. There's absolutely no way. Aren't
wolverines notably like small rodent -like creatures?
Yes. In my head, they're ferocious animals with
like giant claws that can just fuck shit up.
Listen, I think y 'all figured it out by now.
I'm just kind of winging this shit, so trust
me on this, okay? Okay. You're not a real professor,
Professor Scoutmaster Thorne? No! What the? Tilly,
I thought you told him, like, two weeks ago.
Like, after the first class. Yes, and yes. That
makes sense. No, Mero, for someone as smart as
you are, listen, everything is made up. That's
the whole point that I've been making this entire
time I've been teaching you. None of this shit
matters. It's going to work out for you. Tell
me what happened to Sheldon. Sheldon wanted to
be more invisible. He was really digging into
that. Most likely he cast a spell dealing with
light, which is why there's a furnace, which
is why he's hiding in the shadows on the ceiling.
Well then. You want to cast a spell, Thorne?
Sure. I'm just going to do the most powerful
light spell that I can possibly think of. Just
the most basic light spell, but I'm amplifying
it with all the different wands. Nice. I imagine
it like a revelio. You know what I mean? Like
reveal hidden. Yeah, a little bit. Make me a
magic check. Difficulty 10. And it's just light.
You can call it a charm check, so you can take
half. Oh, it's 16. Okay. So it's like a bloody
spotlight. Yeah, it's like, you know those little
flashlights that are way too bright? I imagine
it's like three Lumo spells. There's like three
little flashlights that come off of your three
little wands. And it just like erases this veal
of magic. And as it does, you can see it erasing,
and it erases all the way over to the wall where
this door appears in the wall. And it's not really
like a door. It's almost like the wall is cracked.
And there's like a hole that's like a door handle.
It's like a secret entryway in your room. And
of course, this Revelio, just there was a whole
veal over the whole room and it just all disappears.
But it seems like the boot got through somewhere.
Could I suss out if this was Sheldon's doing
or was this something that was in the room before
this? You definitely think this is new. Okay.
Didn't know if Hexworth was up to some bullshit.
Through the door? All right, well. Put those
away now. I hate doing that. So, door. All right,
who wants to go knock? I'll do it. That's fine.
You get closer to the door, and the giggling
is a little bit louder now. And as you get closer,
you realize it's not all giggles. It's almost
like a cry giggle, like a sad laugh, or like
a scared laugh. Oh, darling. Put your finger
in the handle of the door. Yeah, I would like
to at least try to open it first. Yeah, and you
just swing it open, and you can see on the inside,
there's like... boards like the making of the
wall. Oops. Like the making of the wall. Ghosts.
And yeah, you're just like inside the wall now.
And there's like, you know, insulation and stuff
and like castle walls. And you listen and you
can hear to the right. Sheldon. Sheldon, darling.
You call out and he's like, no. No what? No,
I must stay hidden. Why? Those voices. What voices,
Sheldon? Those in my dreams. Flickering, flickering
place. A furnace. A furnace? Something deep.
You know, Professor Scoutmasters here, you can
come out. I assure you, they can keep us. safe
a professor he pokes his head out like from behind
some two by fours and you can see he's been in
there like all night he's like dirty and like
covered in insulation and he's like he starts
crawling out and he's like i don't even really
know how i got in here and he steps out the door
i am so proud of you like hold on just one second
come out of the wall y 'all get him some food
and water i'll be right back okay and i like
disappear for two seconds owl could we get Some
hot chocolate and a warm, like, apple and cinnamon
porridge. Of course. It appears on the table.
Thank you. And I'd like to guide Sheldon out
of the little cupboard wall hole over to the
table and sit him down. Imagine, like, put a
blanket on his back, like, one of those, like,
tin foil, like, he just got out of it, like,
he's scraped up and cut up. Sheldon's looking
a little worse for wear. I was going to give
him a healing potion, but do you think it might
be... work a little better if we inserted it
rectally? I have my books in hand. I was about
to say something, but I put them down. I'm like,
okay, hold up. Butt chugging, I think the children
call it. Okay, so normal digestion. No, thank
you. Hold on, Sheldon. So normal digestion, right?
You're like, hold on. He's like, oh. A student
asked a question, Sheldon. I'm inclined to answer
it. So this is a magical item. And so we have
to. You then have to have the question, is it
magical the moment it enters your body or is
it the moment it comes in contact with your body?
Because there are certain adventurers that will
actually take a magic potion in a moment of dire
strait. They'll throw it at another party member
and it will shatter and they'll heal from it.
So from there, we have to assume it's based on
contact and the size of the potion is based on
the amount. One can heal from it. Now, again,
it's not guaranteed, and these things kind of
are variables. Basically, it doesn't matter as
long as it comes in contact with the person.
So since it's magical in nature, no. Butt chugging
would not help in this instant. However, if it
was a poison or we were trying to get them inebriated,
yes. Thank you, Professor. Wonderful. So I'm
just going to hand Sheldon the healing potion
off to the side. Nice. He's like, thank you.
Thank you. That is Mero, and that is Tilly, and
I'm Sheldon. So I've started this new teaching
method where I'm marking your progress in what
I'm calling an adventure, like an adventure book,
like a scout book to kind of mark your progress.
Sheldon, first of all, for casting even unintentionally
such a very strong protection spell to hide you
from your nightmares, you get a trailblazer badge.
oh my goodness and he takes it he holds it he's
got the blanket on he's like that's right students
i give out badges uh whenever you do something
really really cool and this was really really
cool scary definitely thought we lost sheldon
for a little bit to the dark forces of the shadow
dimension but And he looks over. He sees his
bed has moved. He sees the thing on the floor
and he sees the like, you know, pulsing of it.
And he goes, he points at it. He's like, I didn't
do that. Oh, I believe it's actually a very strong.
Like you, you're going to walk over to it. Look
at it. You can inspect it. And I want you to
make me a magic check on it. It can be a brain's
magic check if you want to. Not the best it brings,
but we'll try. Difficulty six. Seven. Seven.
Nice. Okay. You go over to it and you inspect
it. Now, as a professor, you've seen a lot of
this stuff the past little while. And as you're
looking at the floor, you see the symbol. And
as you hover your hand over it, it pulses a little
bit more. And what you realize is that in his
sleep, Sheldon cast protection magic over this
symbol to stop it from affecting him. And it
did so strongly that it actually pushed him away
and hid him in this room. Yes. So, original point
still stands. Great protection magic. This is
terrifying. Okay, what is this? What are we dealing
with here? The circle with the triangle is terrifying.
And this is why Meryl couldn't touch it. I'm
going to... I'm going to, like, give a sideways
glance at Mero. Just like... Well, I didn't make
it. I was asleep. But do you know what it is?
I have no idea. Everybody has tribal tattoos
around here somewhere. Is this the same symbol
that happened with me when I got pulled in? No.
Mero's is different. But mine didn't have that.
Have I been around Mero long enough to recognize
their wrists and, I guess, notice, like, the
obvious things that are out in the open? Mero,
have you kept it hidden at all? Not really. So
then I'd say yes. Cool. So I'm going to pull
out Mr. Wilson's book. It's a bit thicker than
the others. There's more to write. That's a good
thing, right? Yeah, well, I mean, again, I follow
the pattern of, like, just the last few weeks
of class seems to definitely be... Again, everyone's
doing great. I want everyone to know that. No
one's in trouble here, first of all. I'm very
happy with all of your progress. As a professor,
well done. Good marks all around. You said you
weren't a professor, though. Okay. Sometimes
in life... You can try to plan for everything.
You can be as methodical and as to the book as
possible. But guess what? Life is messy and things
just randomly happen and it's not fair. And basically
what I'm seeing here with all of you as my students
in this moment is that for some strange reason.
Sheldon, I'm sorry, but people just gonna ignore
you. And that is just a part of your magic. I
don't know how it works. Only you're gonna figure
that out, buddy. But you're good at it. Look
what you did in your sleep to protect yourself.
Yeah. Mero, I'm sorry. Your life seems a little
cursed. And I don't mean in like a magical item
sort of way. I mean, just your entire existence
seems to be a middle finger to everything else
that lives. And I personally think that's awesome.
I haven't met anybody like you before. That's
unique. We need unique people. Because if we
keep doing the same old, same old, nothing changes.
And we're still in the same pattern year after
year after year. Ms. Lockwood, I commend you
for simply, not even intentionally, just your
innate sense to protect other people. Let me
in the room this morning. That takes guts to
admit when you need help, even if you don't intend
to. I'm proud of all of you. So yes, this is
fucked up. I have no idea what the hell this
thing is on the floor. This is something completely
new to me. But that's awesome. That's amazing.
And I can't wait to discover more of it with
you all. If you'll have me as your teacher. Sheldon,
what happened in your dream? Well, it's very
inspiring. Being able to protect myself, I think,
is... Yeah, I mean, I had no idea of that. Obviously,
your classes have been paying off, Thorne. So
in my dream, I remember I dreamt of a furnace.
When I woke up, I tried to write it down in my
dream journal, but I couldn't get it right. And
I went back to sleep. And the next thing I remember,
I was in the walls. But as you know, in the furnace,
someone was watching. Something that didn't have
eyes. A flickering place. Mr. Wilson, in your
past, any furnace related? dreams any what was
it whispering voices Sheldon any whispering voices
through vents or air ducts or pipes or anything
yeah like all the time well there we go you guys
don't hear that no no no no Well, I thought it
was because it was like a magical college that
there would be like magical vents, you know,
so it would just be like, you know. If you ever
hear voices in your head, yeah, if you ever hear
voices in your head, get help. That's always
a, yeah, no one should be hearing voices in your
head. It didn't sound like they were coming from
my head. They were coming from like vents and
walls and furnaces and the dark flames and all
that good stuff. You do often wake up screaming
about flames. He's got a blanket on his back
and he He stands up real slow and he walks over
to you, Meryl, and he's like, I'm with you, man.
I'm so sorry. And he reaches out to shake your
hand. Did I go to shake his hand? It was a setup.
No, I'm just kidding. As you shake his hand.
I mean, I was ready for it. The symbol on your
wrist. reacts to the magic that is still left
lingering inside of Sheldon. And it triggers
a vision in your mind. And you get a glimpse
of this furnace. It looks like arcane energy.
And as you're looking at it, it looks like it's
buried deep somewhere. There's no windows, no
light, just rock. And it's throbbing with trapped
energy. And something inside of it is moving.
Throbbing. And you hear a voice that you can
only imagine Sheldon's been suffering with all
morning. And it just says, You are bound to it.
You will burn or you will awaken. And then he...
at least it's his hand, and he's like, I'm not
bound to nothing. I'm not bound to nothing. Sheldon,
come here, darling. Come here. Come in for a
cuddle. And he cuddles up into you with his rustling
blanket, and he's like, oh. Mr. Wilson, if you
could tell me if any magic happened in that handshake,
I don't know what happened, but your both eyes
kind of glossed over for a little bit, so we
can only assume good data. Um, I don't know why
they would attack Sheldon, but they're bound
to it. We are bound to it. I am bound to it.
Someone's bound to it. Something down in the
dark depths, no windows, no grass. like a lighthouse
or um i don't know how else you would describe
one maybe you can't see anything there's like
okay very very dark damp moist um was it an actual
furnace really well is the furnace in the basement
is there demons living in the furnace in your
basement okay so if i remember right and i can
actually you can ask me if i can remember what
i know probably never seen it you've never been
down there but as a teacher you can assume i
mean something's keeping the college warm yeah
yeah no i if i remember right there was about
a thousand years ago there was like a deal with
an arch devil and a few of the other creatures
of flame and oh god what was that like the meryl
do you want a visual description of what you
saw And then you can explain it to, yeah. So
it's a furnace, but it's not like a machine,
like what you see. Like, not entirely. It was
like a massive ironclad, like, structure that's
kind of fused into the earth itself, like the
top and the bottom. And it was surrounded by
these pulsing chains that are made of, like,
stone and arcane fire. And the chains are bolted
into the floor, and they connect to the furnace
itself. And the furnace probably, you know, it
beats like a red heart. heartbeat you know white
hot and then black like there's a big metal grate
on it with just fire that's burning on the inside
all right it's a furnace not like a machine all
right So we have a couple of options here. We'll,
you know, no bad ideas in the group. This is
for everyone. Sheldon, you too. All right. Sheldon's
like, I think I'm actually done with this. I
want to go get lunch in the Grand Hall. I'll
see you guys there. All right. Just be careful
for any lingering effects that may or may not
cause scary visions if you're in public. Okay.
Then Sheldon disappears. Really advised against
that. But, you know, they got to learn. They
got to learn. All right. So to you two then.
A couple of options, either one. There is an
ancient and dark being that is trapped inside
the furnace who has been slowly calling out to
Mero to release it and or be a part of it because
maybe possibly it is like some like weird, like,
you know, you're a vessel or like it's manifestation
on the outside plane. And therefore it's trying
to use you as basically a part of it. And once
you connect with it, you're going to like. and
something will happen so that's one possibility
number two it's just a trickster demon in general
that's just already like picking up on your bad
vibe and is just trying to find an easy way out
it could also just literally be like indigestion
it sounds crazy but trust me I've seen it do
some crazy things before two people um and lastly
um have you uh made any like major enemies like
you're like like arch foe do you have an arch
foe i figured just existence was my arch foe
at this point no one named like someone's like
my name is regasar and i hate you and we are
mortal enemies nothing like that maybe not in
like a physical form but i definitely felt like
something's been out to get me my entire life
yeah then that crosses off the last thing so
yeah it's definitely one of the earlier things
I think personally just if we're spitballs so
why don't you just escort us to the building
that has like the really big chains coming out
of it that are like on fire That's potentially
a problem. No, I have no idea, students. You
know it's definitely underneath the school someplace.
You don't know if it's next to Hexworth's office
or nothing like that, no. Okay, while they're
talking back and forth, I'm going to approach
the circle on the floor, and I want to use brains
and magic to see if I can discern where this,
who cast this on the floor, like who cast it
or where its origin comes from. I like that a
lot. rolled me, we'll call it DC 12. A little
difficult, but not too bad. Oh, a lot difficult.
It's only a 5. How many adversity tokens do you
have? Oh, wait. Oh, I should have taken one before.
I have technically four now. Hold on. What were
you rolling? Brains. Brains, yes. Alright, I
am going to help. It was a GC of 12. Plus 9 to
whatever you rolled. Five plus nine, that's a
13. Right. 14, sorry. In mid -conversation, I
just kind of look over and just kind of like
nod. It's like guidance, but I don't even realize
it. Nice. Tilly, as you're looking at this thing,
you can't discern who made it. You have no idea
that. But you do look at it, and not only do
you remember it, you know, being on Mero's wrist,
but you've also seen this same mark carved into
a statue of an owl's perch nearby the dining
hall. And you swear you've seen it in other places
around the campus, but you can't remember where.
Excuse me, Professor Scoutmaster. Yes, Tilly.
This symbol... It's at the bottom of one of the
owl statues near the dining hall. You know, where
Sheldon is currently. Where Sheldon just went.
God dang it, Sheldon. Well, I guess he has that.
Yeah, he just literally walked into basically
a trap. It's going to activate when he walks
by because it still has the residual magic. Everyone
knows it takes 12 hours for magic dream stuff
to wear off. He's going to walk past it. Something's
going to happen and open up and he's just going
to be like, oh, where do I go? Because I'm Sheldon.
You three collectively realize what you've just
done. You've sent Sheldon down somewhere where
there's possible evil symbols and energy. So
you three together rush. out your door and across
to the dorms on your way. And at this point,
your high guidance is kind of fading away, Thorn,
but you can see a little bit of a fire trail
on the ground. Just a little bit. Listen, I can
run quite fast. Because forest, you know. Because
forest, forest. Yeah. So I'm actually going to
bound ahead. I can actually run faster than human
feet. Oh, yeah. Okay. I like that. You want to
make me a brawn check? Difficulty, you see. Not
a flight check. Oh, flight. Okay. We'll do flight.
That's fine. Zooming. Oh, it's only a four. You
want to spend adversity tokens? God damn. Yes.
Okay. You only got to spend two. Can I do it
to roll again? No, just spend them to plus one.
You can click it in chat. All right. There you
go. One, two. There it is. All right. You sprint
in front of everyone else. Thank you for clicking
that through. As you're sprinting, you can hear
your friends behind you, you know, kind of slowly
pacing through the grass now out here in the
quad and getting over to the Great Hall. And
you run into these large wooden doors through
the huge castle entrance and start running down
this hallway. This hallway just has huge roofs
and huge archways just completely made of awesome
marble stone. We haven't really explained this
area yet, so I'll give you a little bit of descriptions.
On the walls, there are huge paintings with,
like, beautiful oak. frames and moving paintings
all inside of them of people that are talking
to you as you're running past. Some of them are
like, Oi Tilly, what are you after? The other
one's like, hey, let her go. She's got somewhere
to be. And you're just like running through this
hallway. And when you reach the Great Hall, you
can already hear some chaos as you're approaching.
And you run right past the owl perch that had
the symbol on it. And the owl is not there. The
owl is gone. You make direct eye contact with
the symbol that was there. You were right. And
as you push the doors open the great hall is
in chaos the food tables are bare you can see
that some of the enchantments are failing as
the floating candles are beginning to fall from
the sky students are grumbling and professors
are arguing and you can hear owl statues in here
they're like yelling random nonsense it doesn't
really make sense breakfast is delayed or is
it cancelled we forgot and a different one's
like no food it's not our fault another one says
The headmaster. He ate it all. I'd like to push
my way through the crowd to the epitome of chaos
because I'm assuming that's where I'm going to
find Sheldon. I'm going to be calling out for
him the whole time. Nice. You're like, Sheldon!
Sheldon! Sheldon! I want you to roll me a brain
to see if you can see him in the crowd. This
is just a brain skill. We're counting this as
perception. We're going to be DC 10. Good God!
What am I rolling? today. It's a one. So you
do not see Sheldon, but you're standing on the,
take an adversity token, by the way, but you're
standing on the table, looking around, trying
to find him. And as you are, your friends come
in through the doors, the two large doors. You
can see them. And just before they enter, there's
a flash of light and headmaster Brimstone is
now just standing on a table. He's wearing a
robe. It's backwards. So like the open side is
at his back. He's got no pants on and he's got
a bowl on his head and he's eating another bowl
of fruit. And he's like, they took all the pudding.
The pudding is gone. Where? Where is the pudding?
And then as you step inside of the Great Hall,
Mero, along with Scoutmaster Wildthorn, the symbol
on your arm lights up and you feel this energy
that just like channels as you step into the
Great Hall. And the chandelier above cracks.
It begins falling, but it freezes midair as the
headmaster holds up his wand and stops the giant
chandelier from killing everybody. And then a
red light glows and a fissure opens in the ground.
And you hear a single owl that yells, furnace
breach, furnace breach, imminent, imminent. Headmaster.
Yes. If you could protect the students up here,
this is actually part of my special seminar that
I'm actually doing right now. I believe that
me and Mr. Wilson and Ms. Lockwood and potentially
Sheldon can go down and get this resolved pretty
quickly. We will be resolved. He's still holding
his wand. He appears right next to you. His cheek
on your cheek. You can feel his... unshaven face.
And he says, Thorn, you think you actually saved
my granddaughter? Think back, Thorn. I'm no idiot.
I need you here. We need fresh blood, Thorn.
We need someone to think new. Start new. Things
are happening, Thorn. Right, right, right. And
he vanishes and he's like, Ha ha, the pudding!
The pudding is gone! Ha ha. Yes, headmaster.
Uh, right. I'm gonna go in the fissure. The fissure?
Okay, you say that, but Mero, do you do anything?
Take an action. I like trying to like understand
what is happening going on in my body. Like a
magical. It's like a rich. What would I roll?
Yeah, you can roll me a great check. Yeah. Difficulty.
I got a six. It's your body. Difficulty of four.
I'm going to make it really easy because you
know, I mean, like you look down at your hands
and you can see this energy. And as you look
up, you can almost see like hidden symbols all
around in the great hall that are like connected
to you. And you begin to realize that Sheldon
entered the great hall with a little bit of residual
energy and started this thing. But then when
you got here, it's now started to. implode and
everything's going crazy and as you look up the
owls start freaking out again one of them says
alert whoo -hoo missing food may be sign of apocalypse
and another one flies over your head everyone
remain calm unless you're not calm in which case
panic is authorized and then as wild thorn says
i'm going in the fissure Headmaster goes, no,
don't do that. We must gather our resources.
And then suddenly the ground rumbles violently.
Just like it has before. And it knocks goblets
over, causing floating tables to crash down to
the ground. And the great hall chandelier finally
falls again. And he's still grabbing it, suspended
by crackling energy. And the fissure opens along
the stone floor, glowing faintly with reddish
orange firelight. below. Can I lean over to Mero
and be like, Mr. Wilson, how are we feeling?
We're feeling hot, Professor Wild Thorn. And
maybe it's time to cool off. I want to use my
wand and then, like, just kind of, like, want
to cool off the furniture by, like, just, like,
fighting it with, like, ice magic. Badass. Make
me a fire on natural. This is sick. Ask you a
question real quick. Um, are you using a wand?
I'm not. Good question. Man, I was going to help
you, but you're using a wand. Damn. You got a
nine, which isn't good enough, but as you reel
back and go to cast you feel someone at your
side and you look to your right and it's Professor
Hexworth and she also has her wand out and she
is also with you casting this ice magic and your
beams are connecting and hitting the ground and
I'm gonna roll a d20 for her that's a four which
makes it over a twelve so you guys together are
now crossing streams and the fissure is beginning
to like settle like and the chandelier gets set
down, and the ice just covers the whole ground.
This place almost turns into, like, a fucking
skating rink, and you guys pull your beams back,
and Professor Hexworth looks at Wildthorn with,
like, disdain. She's like, you see? Wands aren't
important, Wildthorn. I sneeze, and I accidentally
cast, like, a fireball on the, uh, oops. Oh,
God. I sneezed. You're that mad? Okay. I watched
Brawn Magic. Brawn Magic. Yeah. Difficulty. A
sneeze. Oof. You've cast this before, so not
too hard, but at least 14. Raw magic 14. Is it
two? You got a two. So you sneeze and a little
bit of flame comes out of your nose, but it's
not a full on fireball. You can take an adversity
token and she looks at you and she goes, try
again, wild phone. She stands up on the table.
She's like, students, please return to your dorms.
For now, the great hall is off limits. Everyone
return. We must figure out what happened here
on this day. And all the students that were scared
begin exiting. I will say, if Mero looks over
at Wildthorne, they look mad. Mero doesn't look
at Wildthorne. Mero is actually going around
to all the lit up different rooms around the
room and is like writing them down. Nice. Like
how many you're finding exactly where they were
and stuff like that? Yeah. Trying to see if I
can decipher and scramble it. They're all the
same exact symbol, but you can write down, like,
the positioning and how many you find. I'm going
to say there's ten in here. How many do I find?
Ten. Do you tell anybody about this? I would
tell Tilly. I'd definitely be like, so Tilly,
Tilly, pretty crazy that all the men, there's,
like, runes around the room, like, lit up. What
do you take from that? I don't see them. How
could you not see them? I'm going to, like, clearly
point to one that's, like, right on the wall
next to me. Like this one. What does she look
like? You can't see them, Tilly. You can't see
them. Oh, I can? Okay. I didn't know if this
was one of those things that was just a marrow's
head. So what do they look like? They're like
a room with six little triangles lit up. Okay.
Well, that tells me that they're not green. What
color are they? Black. All right. Yeah, I've
never seen black glow before, but... That's concerning.
Well, that's because you see it in hues of green.
It's fine. It's a black tent. Who told you dealing
a colorblind? We keep that closely guarded. All
right, students, return to your dorm. Well, you
said that your favorite color was green. Return
to your dorm. Come on, class. We need to go and
take you to your dorm. Please follow me. It's
not safe. Yes, it's not safe. I'm still going
to be feverish. I'm still standing on a table,
but I am feverishly looking around to see if
I can see Sheldon. Okay, well, sure. We'll be
bright. That's a four. So you can only assume
that he left with a big crowd of students. I
can only assume he fell into the fucking floor.
But okay. Let's go, students. All right. You
heard the professor. So, take your students back
to their dorms. We have much work to do. Yes,
of course, professor. Thanks, Professor Hexworth,
for, like, really saving our butts out there.
To be honest, I think you're probably the best,
like, teacher in the school, Mrs. Hexworth, and
I really hope, like, you can teach me more about
magic. Well, thank you, Mr. Wilson. I do appreciate
that. I can teach you the fundamentals and how
they are to help keep the school safe. Have you
ever considered maybe taking a time -traveling
magicology class? Hmm, time -traveling magicology
class. I think if there was ever going to be
a teacher for that, you would be the best. Oh,
well, thank you, Mr. Wilson. Thank you, yes.
Unfortunately, smoke is actually billowing out
of Scoutmaster Walporn's ears. It's just, I'm
not trying to do anything. It's just... all right
you guys together leave scott master pissed as
you step out into the hallway um and some of
the paintings um are like what happened in there
no one has ever seen me in these paintings in
the what year and a half i've been in this school
ever seen me not smile so it's weird as we walk
We have to get back to the dormitories. Do you?
I'm taking them there first, at least, to be
determined if they're worth it. Turns out Wild
Soul is one of them guys that follows rules.
What a dork. Shut up, Nathaniel. Let me teach
you how I'm teaching. Nathaniel, you wouldn't
happen to have a secret passage hidden behind
you, would you? Not behind me, but I do know
some folks. Why? Yeah, there's like ten. Oh,
no one knows all about secret passages now, does
he? Yes, you let me in last Tuesday when we went
to Harold's and we had that kegger all night.
Nathaniel, which ones reach down below? First
of all, hey, dark guy, you real dark and shady
over there. What's going on? You haven't said
nothing. I want him to tell me what happened
in there. Yeah, what did happen in there, Mr.
Wilson? What happened in there? Well, it's super
simple. We all walked in there after the residual
magic that Sheldon brought in there, and then
obviously whatever may be happening or going
on with me, maybe sent a lot of the runics around
the room into a spiraling chaos that eventually,
you know, maybe reignited the great ancient furnaces.
So it created a furnace fridger in the middle
of the floor. But then the greatest teacher in
this school showed up and helped me. Oh, is that
X word? She's pretty great, isn't she? She's
cool. She's a dork. She's a fucking dork. She
really does her magic. I'm going to try to silence
him. Silence the painting. I'm going to cast
a silence on this painting for a second. Why
don't you roll me a charm magic? I'm just casting
it. Yeah, charm. You just roll it. You silence
his painting and then his head pops up in the
painting next to it and he's like, fine, it'll
be quiet. Are we far enough away at this point
to clock Hexworth nearest at all as we've now
kind of ducked into, I guess, a side hall? Not
yet, but you take a few steps forward in Nathaniel's
following in the paintings, and he's like, so
runes, huh? What do you know about runes? What
do they look like? Well, they look like a circle
with six triangles in it. Oh. That's dangerous.
Yes, they're everything. Do you know what it
means? Kind of, but I know where a bunch of them
are. Really? Yeah. Could you tell us? Sure. But
it looks like your headmaster, scoutmaster over
there is about to have a fucking aneurysm. Let
it out. Well, yes. He's not a real professor
anyways, so it's fine. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Wilson,
guess what? Technically, I'm still hired here
as a professor, which means I can fucking make
your life hell. And up until this point, I've
been very, very nice with you. But right now,
you're testing my patience. I don't know if it's
meant to be a rub against me. I don't know if
it's just a mockery of the past two weeks of
learning. But I don't know what I just saw in
there was not the student that I had been training
for the past two weeks. That's not the person
that I thought was going to push the boundaries
of magic and actually, I don't know, do something
cool. You did the most boring thing imaginable
and with a wand. What the fuck were you thinking?
Sounds like you done fucked up there, don't you?
I wanna get real close to Scoutman. Master's
face and just like blank face. Just my entire
life has been hell. Welcome to my life. Now,
are you going to shut up and let's go find the
root to this problem? Are you going to constantly
throw your fake credentials in all of our faces?
If you keep pushing away the people that are
trying to help you, Mr. Wilson, you'll find that
in the end, you really are miserable. You two
are the only ones that have lived long enough.
And do you think that might be for a reason?
Do you think that maybe if you actually trusted
me fully, trusted Tilly, trusted the three of
us to work together, we might actually solve
this? Whatever the outcome may be, I don't know
what your future holds, Mr. Wilson. But what
I do know, is that we are here together for a
reason. The cosmic magical powers that just happen
to be, we are here together. And either we are
going to work together and trust each other or
we're going to keep secrets from each other.
We're going to just constantly butt heads and
we're not going to get anywhere. So either swallow
your pride and maybe I can say that I'm sorry
and I can say that I'm sorry if I've overstepped.
I am trying to come at you as a colleague in
this moment. OK, I'm trying to come at you as
a mind in magic because that's all we are at
the end of the day. I guess we're just going
to have to find the root of the curse then there.
Professor. I really hate the name. I'm going
to be honest. Scoutmaster Wildthorn sounds so
much better. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. Hey,
dear lady, you ever made it with a painting?
There's a first time for everything. Put me on
the ground. Stand above me. Oh, right. Are we
looking for rooms or what? You have to give me
what I want first. Right. Sounds like a good
plan. So, follow me then. And he like calls for
a horse that comes like galloping like through
all the paintings and he jumps up on the horse
and he's like, to the first one. Here's a big
one. I found it. There's some evil shit around
it. Let's go. Then he charges away down to the
paintings. See, a little flattery will get you
everywhere and I'm going to follow the horse.
That's because a painting wants to have of its
way with you, Tilly. Maybe I want to have my
way with a painting. This school is so messed
up, man. You guys are like, I say Van, go for
it. Oh, hey. Listen. Listen, did you see the
muscles on Nathaniel? I've never seen a bugbear
that elegant before. Yeah, they really did. He's
a bugbear now. Sweet. Yeah, he's a bugbear. You
guys are walking at like normal walking speed.
And he's on a horse and it looks like he's going
so fast. But it's like one single painting and
like another painting. And he's like jumping
over other people's paintings. And they're like,
get out of the way. And you guys are just walking
at like normal speed. he's like and he's a he's
a bugbear in a purple toga apparently yeah listen
i like them i like them large and i like them
hairy it doesn't matter if they're only painted
in oil okay uh where are we here we are you guys
follow him a little while and you go to places
in the school that you didn't know existed I
mean, you go directly through like herbology
classes and just walk through as Professor Scoutmaster
Wildthorne is just like coming through, important
business. And the teachers just listen, being
that he's another professor. And you guys just
walk through other strange places. And eventually
you get to like the backside, like awkward area
of the campus. And there is this huge symbol
that's been like spray painted on a wall. And
it's that big circle with all of these triangles.
And on the inside, there's one. One, like, final
painting. And Nathaniel's in there and he's like,
right around the side here. There's a big one.
I suggest you start there. Could be more. I don't
know. If you get lost, just call the paintings,
right? And they'll call for me and I'll come
back. Thank you, Nathaniel. Yeah. I'll meet you
next Tuesday night behind the herbology lab in
that painting that has the nice little fruit
basket and the cute little bunnies. I'll meet
you there. The one with the frame that's got
the big knobbies on it? You know the one. Right.
Okay. Sounds good. It's a good deal. All right.
Sounds good to me. And as you guys step outside
into this grassy area, your fire ferret jumps
out of your coat onto the ground and once again
begins growling and hissing at this large spray
-painted symbol on the wall. And that, my friends,
is where we're going to end tonight's session,
unless you want to say any final things to each
other before we end. As I kind of look at them
after we've made this trek, in my hand I have
what looks to be, I guess, like a potion I grabbed
from the alchemy lab. I have... a pile of what
would be, I guess, the equivalent of some good
berries from herbology. I swiped a couple, like
as we were passing through the classes, I would
like to have grabbed things if possible. What
we could do, because you might be able to grab
a lot of good things or just a couple of small
things. So let's make us a dice roll so it'll
determine for us. You can pick whatever skill
you think besides charm, something like brawn
or flight. Tell me how you did it. Also, I would
like, in that time. Can I do brains? Can I brains
it? Like, just try to, like, as I'm going through,
know what's important and grab it. Nice. What
could benefit us. You're a professor, so also
you know what people would notice gone or not.
So we can do brains. And just roll me a general
roll, and we'll see if you explode or not. You
could also spend adversary tokens on this. You
got a 14. I got a 14. I have four tokens. That's
pretty good. I'll spend it if I need to. So if
you spend two tokens on that 12, you can explode
and roll another d12. Done. As I say, I can't.
I don't have enough. What do you mean I spend?
Okay. What is it? Another d12? Yeah. Yes. Six.
Okay. So that is a 22 in total. How many do you
think? I mean, that's over a 20, which is really
good. So I would like to, again, I'd like to
have some healing. So definitely like a potion
or two of like some like instant healing for
everyone. So we don't have to cast magic for
it. I, again, from herbology, I wanted to grab
either like some like, you know, quick little
like nutrition boosts or something like, cause
usually when you cast magic, it drains a lot
of calories. So you actually have to kind of
stay, you know, calories. Okay. You know, why
not? That's what happens when you don't have
a spellcasting focus, right? You don't have your
wand. Yeah, why do you think there's owls everywhere
and, like, food is everywhere in this school?
You have to eat. You have to eat to cast magic.
Okay. And so with that, I think that's kind of
like, so grab some of that. And then also I would
say I would grab like one like type of, during
enchanting class, they were doing like a teleportation
enchantment and I grabbed a quick like hop from,
like I can take two other people with me and
we can go one place quickly. That's the only
three things I would say. Okay. And so, because
I feel like those are pretty powerful OP items
potentially. It's fun though, because like in
this game, you can still do all of those things
just with dice rolls. So the only thing is that
the potions make it so where you don't have to
roll a dice. So that's the only difference, right?
Yeah. Yeah. So all of these different things,
just so they're instant casts and immediate.
So that way, you know, if we're in the middle
of something like sticky, we can just go or do
something. And as I'm holding it, I'll just kind
of look at them and go, see, sometimes titles
have their perks. But no, the final thing that
Tilly would like to do. So I do have wild speak
and I can communicate with any animal species
I have knowledge of. That was one of my perks
that I took in the beginning. And since I've
now been with the fire ferret for over two weeks,
I imagine I can speak to it now. Hell yeah. And
I would like to. Well, I'd like to ask it why
it's growling. What what does it sense? What
does it know of this? What do you think type
of voice your fire ferret would have? High pitch,
low pitch, funny accent. Yeah, baby. I'm trying
to think. Probably high -pitched fast. He's really
fast firefare. Like, this whole thing is speed.
So, like, maybe, like, unintelligible, like,
ramblings, like, really fast, you know? Yeah.
So you're like, why are you growling at that
thing, right? And he's like... It's evil magic.
It's magic. I'm not used to this magic. It's
got a... I like... Mero. He's my... He's... It's
gonna take... It's gonna take Mero from me. I
can't do it. Can't do it. Get away from it. Get
away from it. Get away from it. Yes, but we need
to find Sheldon. Dude, Sheldon. Fuck Sheldon.
Mero. Mero. Mero. We'll keep Mero safe as well,
but Sheldon got taken away by this. I keep Mero
safe. You? Dear? All right. All right. Well,
sweet pea, it's okay. It's okay. We have... We
have someone... with us that can help us imagine
he like runs over you know to like maro's feet
and he's like going around his feet and like
figure eights there's like a figure eight of
like burnt grass on the ground from him just
like circling around your feet They stay away
from me. Stay away. This is awkward. Is everything
all right? It's evil magic, is what the fire
ferret said. They want to protect Mero. They
are actually deeply concerned that this will
take Mero away from them. And tactical insult.
I'm not going anywhere. When you say that, it
almost seems like fire ferret calms down a little
bit. And you like pet him. You're like, I'm not
going anywhere. And then Tilly, you hear him
say, good, good, good, good, good, good. You
know the bond. between magical creature and their
owner. It's quite strong. You know, I imagine
you and your betta fish are fast friends as well.
Much like me and Moxie. The screen cuts to Carl
and the betta fish and they're just hanging out.
And he's like, hey man, so what's going on?