Dice Shame - 2-102 | 'Shadowbox'

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

Imagine your best game of D&D. The shocks, the twists and turns, the moments that can’t be caught because you just had to be there. That’s Dice Shame.Join our DM Jo, her husband Harlan, their brother Alex & their best friends Rob and Alex as they experience those unmissable, gut-wrenching, heart-aching, joy-filled moments.This legendary AP releases a brand new episode every Thursday morning at 1:20 am!Content Warning: animal death, swearing, violence, claustrophobiaPart of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's almost like it's pulling me in. It feels great. You like Doran. You might be right to an extent. A hundred percent. What's going on? He's not here. His body isn't here.

There was just so much glass in his intestines. That was my sarcasm. What? I would hope so at this point. How are you guys talking about? Why don't I just go in there? There's a thrill to it. It should work.

Something feels like it's opening in me. I've seen a friend already. Lose himself. And I couldn't stand to see another one. Welcome back to Day Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 102, Shadowbox. MVP this week is Laura Greer, who was nominated by Not Alice. Not Alice wrote, I just had a baby, and she has been so great giving me advice,

or just responding to late-night texts. She also is a go-getter and is not afraid to flip the boat to get results. She knows what I mean. Thanks so much, not Alice, for nominating Laura Greer. And congrats Laura Greer for being this week's MVP. And congrats on the baby. Yeah. All right.

Should we play some D&D? Yeah, let's do it. What would be the worst? Buy one, get one free sale of all time. Face punches. Being killed. You can't know. You don't need to buy one face punch, though.

Nothing that makes you buy one. Yeah, you do. It's buy one, get one free. What store are you going to? Loblo's has gone out of control. We can't. Are you telling me, are you telling me right now there's not one person in the world that would want to pay to get hit in the face?

Because I promise you there are. But you personally don't need to buy one face punch. But if they do want to get punched in the face. We'll find someone. The adoption center. Oh. Even though it's not a real place. That's pretty terrible.

You can adopt a child. But you'll also get one free. But, like, I think it's something that you, the worst version of this has to be something that you absolutely need, but you really only need one of because the upkeep and other costs and stuff are really punishing to have two. A new kidney. Children. Pace maker. Yeah, you're like, a house. You're like, oh, what am I going to do to this other house now?

What the hell? I can only live one place. Sell it again. Yeah, that's true. Buy one, get one free. Obviously, the worst second. Coffin? Coffin.

you can just sleep in a coffin though I want to go with like a really really large brick of soft cheese it'll go bad fast so if I get one of those and then a second one I'm what the fucking supposed to do with all this fucking soft ass cheese

going bad fast is a nice yeah but what goes bad faster than cheese because like cheese when it goes bad you can kind of still fuck with it because of cheese pales of milk cremation you really only need one at a time I hope this is what I'm saying about the coffins

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you buy one and you're like, well, this is perfect for the dead guy that I have on my hands. But the second coffin, just going to remind me of that dead guy. Well, second coffin can be used at parties. You fill it with ice and then you stick all your drinks in it. No, you know what it's got to be? Buy one, get one free. It's got to be like, it's like, buy one get one free, 600,000 yards of cable.

Because it's like, if you're buying 600,000 yards of like steel cable, you definitely don't need $1,200,000, like a million. I guess you have to find out after you've already. purchased it. You've committed to purchase the thing and then you're told surprise. That'd be so great. Could you imagine? They send you doubles. Oh, this worked out perfect for me. I want to go with shoes that don't fit. Why would you buy one? That's true though. Why would you buy one? Well, getting a second pair of the shoes that don't fit. You're just like, why? Why am I going to do with this motherfucker? I mean, my first choice is giant brick of soft cheese. But what goes bad faster than a giant brick of soft cheese though? Because like, let's be real. If I had two giant bricks of soft cheese, I could

easily either freeze or melt down or like there's so many things you could do with cheese like you could make a culture of an enema you have to do it right at this moment you have to get the other one you really don't need another one I shouldn't hold it's free like I'll never use that dentures but it's free oh breast uh enhancements breast implants once you've got the set one another good example once you've got the set done you don't need a no no the breast implants are now shoulder pads the extra one top surgery I see just swollen as fuck. And all you can eat meal.

Oh, that's good. That sounds awesome. But I could take, I could take Harlan with me. No, they're specifically for you. You get one all you can eat meal and the second all you can eat meal free

cashed in at the same time. A right-handed glove. Yeah. You just get another right-handed glove. Fuck you. But then there's golf. Damn it. Yeah.

Stupid golfers. Stupid golf. Do they play golf in D&D? No. Stop trying to close it out so quick. There's so many more options, Rob. It's spelled like J, not J. God, never mind.

So tired. What? I'm trying to spell golf in a fantasy way and now I'm just She's out of a seizure. Someone. It's just with two Fs. It's GOLFF. In D&D, they call it GandGolf.

Very good. That's good. That's good. Buy one, get one free. Lifetime supply of powdered milk. No, no, no. Fresh milk. Why would you need two lifetime supply of powdered milk?

That's right. Lifetime supply of anything, really. I was just trying to think of something the most mundane and, like, heavy. Yeah, God. I don't know. Irritating. Yeah, because, like, powdered milk is, like, you could use it, but it doesn't make anything better.

You know what I mean? Like, I think the idea of something that would spoil fast, that doesn't make anything better when you add it to it would be really frustrated. Just like a really, really huge amount of cloves, a spice that is you're using tiny, tiny increments and also just stops being useful after a while and loses its, like, tasted smell. So there's no way you're ever fucking using it up. What about a cyanide pill? You could pop both and just go faster. I'm just turning on wonder if there's anything that's bad to get one free of, you know?

Me. In this. Dice shame podcasts. In this capitalist society, buy one, get one sales. No matter what. what it's for. That's kind of true. Sad.

It's like, even if it's like someone's debt, I mean, somebody will still profit off of buying somebody's debt. Yeah, it's true. Because you were saying cremation, like, buying going free, I'd be like, hey, anyone need to get cremated. I can sell this cremation. For real. Only good for you or your loved ones.

You're like, come on, grandpa, you're close to it anyways. Or else it's a waste of money. You're a waste it. We're getting a good deal. Come on. Go for an extra hot tan. It's your time. It's your time.

Oh, I know. Buy one, get one free, 2006 Creed CD. Because why would you need a second one? You found it. Arms are wide open, Harlan. You found it. Yeah, but why do you need two?

You only have one CD player in your car. Because I listen to the first one so much. No, no. One stays pristine in package and the other is to listen to. Scott Stap call me. Then you can unpackage the first one. You can have the best dance party in the middle of the street. And hopefully everyone.

gets hit by a car. Buy one, get one free wedding. Not in my case. Joe and I both cash that fucker in. Oh, buy one, get one free Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. Once you get dice shame, you don't need anything else. Buy one, get one free opening questions.

This was the freebie. This was the freebie. I forget the question, but it's a... DM us not. All right. Let's do it. Yes. Yeah.

Yay! Our heroes continue to investigate the repository of souls and have discovered humanoid remains in these hallowed chambers. It seems like your path forward might be even more treacherous than you'd first imagined. Well, the cultists are definitely here. Someone destroyed these sarcophagi. Someone did something in here. cultists of a dragon Yeah, based on the

graffiti on the entrance as well, I would imagine the cultists have sort of ransacked this place. Well, I don't know much about what riddle we're supposed to solve here to get through the other door, but Kellamvor's charge does

tell us to honor the dead. Maybe we should take these two corpses that don't belong out of here and try and clean and mend this place up a little bit. At least pay our respects to the brothers and sisters who fought with Kralath Hmm actually you might be right to an extent

I remember Kralath wanting to burn bodies What if that body by the fireplace Was already dead before it got burned I mean going on your logic Jack If the Kellenvorites burned the dead Perhaps it's as simple as just taking one of these out of that room Well you said there was like two humanoids and like a child One humanoid one halfling I think she said

All I mean to say is that it was a small humanoid, but that they are aged in death to the point where you can't really discern unless you wanted to, like, roll a medicine check and figure that out, you know what I mean? I sort of thought that burning the dead piece might have been something that they developed in Borovia when the dead kept coming back to life on them. Maybe wasn't an original piece of the

Calumvirate dogma. But you know what? I'll go with Maury and we'll see if we can decipher that. Yeah. And she heads back with red over to the to the corpse in the other room to take a look to see if there's anything around around it or like there's there because it's in front of a fire well there must be a way to figure out if a body is burned alive or dead right like the blood stops moving so the way it singes the flesh would you know what I mean like there would be a logic behind it yeah this body's been sitting in front of a fire for you know about a decade

without the aid of like a microscope I'm not sure how adequately you'd be able to figure that out a plus nine that's how adequate 19 Red's helping can yeah you can also roll a medicine check

and see if you get higher than Mari go for it medicine the hell out of me I'll take a lookie maybe like all we really want to know is if this guy died from this fire or if he was dead first seven

You're not able to figure out the cause of death directly. Dang. But he definitely has got some burn marks all over him. Ah, well, it was a bit of stretch. Put it this way. If Jack's idea doesn't work, we can always burn a body anyway. It's not like it's going to do any harm. It's true.

But, yeah, this place is filled with death, but in the... It feels very odd. And your friend was a part of this. He's not here. His body isn't here. No, I guess, well, his body would be back at the Humpratt household. I suppose if we're going to find anything here, it would be his soul can. Invision, in my mind, is a little jar of Kraloft dust.

I wonder what it would taste like on toast. There's so much death in this place, but it's weird, and it feels almost silly, but since that time that I brought Elister back, it's like I can feel it. Like, the feeling of death is there. And being in here, it's just, it's everywhere in here. Have you ever, have you ever felt that? I mean, look, the line between life and death, especially being here where Kellenvore is all about the scales. It's definitely something that I've felt around me, but no, not present in the way that you seem to feel.

that time going in to find Elister, are you okay? And Red puts a hand on your shoulder. I mean, I just, I just, I feel like I've become several different people.

I was a different person just like an hour ago. I was, I, you know, Doran and I met this other druid and now something feels like it's opening. something feels like it's opening in me and I'm not sure if I want to look through that door you mentioned a few times about this druid what will he say to you that made you feel this way

he knew very fast that what I felt was lost you know he he noticed that within me you've already asked if I have the strength to stay with the party and I felt this whole new version of me and we lost our memories, and I feel confused and weird, and there's this omnipresent feeling of death on every side. Look, Mari, Mari, and Red pulls you aside and, like, we sit by the fireplace for a second, like on the stone, and he just looks at you, says, look, I don't know what you're going through.

I couldn't know what you're going through. But what I can say is that I had a friend who felt lost after passing away and he was brought back and he felt very much like you seem to feel now and he was called to by a presence a presence that i believe tricked him and duped him and these things that you might be hearing these things that you might be feeling around you they may not want what's best for you so just be careful I've seen a friend already lose himself

and I couldn't stand to see another one Red if I start to do anything that feels weird or feels off stop me I'll do what I can and Red stands up and puts a hand down to help you up and then just says

there's a lot of things beyond the pale that like to seek out those that feel lost don't be one of them Jack has been spending his time back in the room with the sarcophagi waving his new staff around

and cleaning off each piece of sarcophagus trying to get a good look at all the details carved on the top of it there are names here none of which you recognize as he finishes each one he might at least say the name and something about, you know, I hope you find rest in Kellenvore's balance and moves

through the room sort of making note of where like there might be a crack Mari could mend with her spells and continuing to clean these sarcophagus before he gets a shiver and it decides, you know, I better bring Kieran back out of their pocket dimension just for a little bit of company. And to the little guy's credit, he does manage to say solemn for a solid minute before he decides it's more fun to chase spiders around the room. My buddies, no. Hey, there was 45 of them in here. How dare you? Doran, as he's standing with you, kind of watching quietly, thinking, you know,

Doran's deep in thought. He was trying to figure this out as well. He kind of walks back out to the hallway and he stands in front of this shimmering, moving passageway. Doran, you can just see the room beyond. It seems to swim and shift. This is a slightly different barrier than the one that you'd seen before. It almost looks thick. The details of the room beyond resolve as you spend time looking. You see an octagonal room with five doors leading from it in different directions.

In the center of the room, the stone floor is irrevocably bloodstained. There are a couple of piles of bones that are scattered, and four statues dominate the room. It is dark and strangely ominous. Can I tell what the statues are of? They look fairly similar to the other four statues that are in the room with the fireplace. Not exactly the same, but sort of a similar make. I suppose, for humanoids. I feel like Red and Mari head back to where Jack was and run into Doran in the hallway.

And Red just kind of like, oh yeah, what is beyond there, Doran? And joins him at looking through to the next room. I don't know. It seems like that's, there's statues. Can you see? And he kind of points. Doreen touches the, maybe accidentally touches the. It feels great.

This is fucking adventure ever. I love it. I love Doran. Flipping pieces of coin. So much. Doran, as you touch the substance, it, it responds differently than the other barrier. It almost seems to suck at your fingertips. Like it wants you to traverse the barrier.

Whoa. It's almost like it's pulling me in. Do you, take a second, bud. Yeah. let's just take a second. There's a big red stain in the center of that room that looks like a lot of fallen bodies. Doran, it begins to pull you in just a little bit more

as you push your hand into the barrier. Doran. Jack, we might need some help. What's going on? Jack comes out into the hallway. Doran put his hand in the door. God damn it. Well, at least you don't have to go through it alone,

and he'll stick his hand against it as well. Well, what? Look, if Doreen does it, One's going down. I want to go down too. I don't want to live in a world without Doran. Who said I was going down? I just figured maybe this is the way the way back in too. Well, we're going to TPK like men. We're going to do it. It's not like inexorable. It's just like gently tugging you towards the room. Can you pull yourself out? Just check for me quick. Yeah, Doreen just pull your hand out. Yeah, Red pulls his hand out. Yeah, you do. It's fine. That's fine. He's being dramatic. Doran, pull your hand out. You're making Jack nervous.

All right. Come here. Like, Mari goes over and, like, pulls Doran's hand out. Well, what's going to really be the bad part? Well, it's... Why don't I just go in there? Look, I'm not saying passing through this doorway is dangerous. What I'm saying is whatever's in that room clearly is some sort of test.

There's a lot of dead bodies next to us, and there's a big red stain on the floor in the center of that room. If we don't know 100% what goes on in that room, it's going to be a gamble. We could push one of those bodies through. I like that. Additionally, did anyone find out how the halfling and the human died?

Are he jogging back over to do another medicine check? Just like a quick jog. It's going around circles. Yeah. Doran, are you letting yourself get dragged in a little bit more? Are you taking your hand out? No, I guess Red makes a pretty good point. Dorn kind of pulls his hand. It's like white goo. It's like kind of congeoing a little bit.

Hair gel. I think what I might do is just hang here. and maybe keep an eye on the room in case anything in there changes or if I see anybody or anything, really. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Mari, you go back into this other room with the two humanoids, this sarcophagus room. It's a lot more tidy in here. All the cobwebs are gone.

Ah. And Red will aid, Mari. You know, he doesn't have the best medicine, but he absolutely does have an eye for wounds and death. Excellent. At least in terms of assassination. So if that gives a bonus roll. Perfect, yeah. You can roll with advantage.

The two of you guys can put your heads together over this quandary. My first role was bad, but my second role was good. Hey. So that's a 28. Cool. You can tell by marks in the clothing that are matchy-matchy with marks on the skeleton rib cage underneath, that both of these people were stabbed to death pretty viciously.

Oh. yeah these both of them were stabbed just terribly also conclusively you can tell that this is a human and a halfling someone took us some rage on these guys damn jack puts his hands and tentatively touches the shimmering doorway too and says listen door and i get it i feel like there's something been unlocked in me since i lost my memories back over there touching doors and stuff just there's a thrill to it it's an electric buzz goes through your system. I just, I get the temptation.

Well, I mean, Jack, have you ever seen anything of this nature? This magic? Jack, you get terribly shocked.

I was just going to say. Jack is Frank Grimes in this, and Dorn and Red are like the, ah, I ate a poison berry. And Jack's like, oh, I could eat a poison berry and he just dies outright.

Because I'm Dorn Iron Fist. I'm Dorn and Iron Fist. I'm red-handed. I can eat anything. Smash cut to his funeral. There was just so much glass in his intestines. Too much for a half elf to handle. Very good.

Yeah, Red heads back over and with Mari and says, like, both of them were killed in some sort of fight with sharp weapons. So I don't know whether they were here incidentally or they were protecting something or what. Sharp weapons. Yeah, like blades. who fights with sharp weapons well you do Doren and I do

that was my sarcasm red I guess it's interesting but does that tell us anything that they were stabbed I don't know I'm with Doren let's just do this thing and Red walks forward and pushes

into the gooey door as you're going through Doren makes the last minute decision to quickly throw a rope around your waist and ties it tight and holds on to the end of it. Oh, oh. And Red helps you tie it to my waist.

No, Dorn doesn't let you help him. He doesn't. All right. I'll be the sacrificial fox. I'm just kidding. How long is this rope? I think it's 50, 50 feet. Four feet. Red, you move through into the room and the voices of your companions begin to sound muffled as you. verge from this strange gooey barrier.

All right, I'm through. It's a dark, octagonal room. Seems pretty normal apart from the terrible bloodstain in the middle, and the four statues ringing the bloodstain in a threatening manner. All at once, one of the statues begins to lightly, glow as a lantern that it is holding in its hands springs to light, and then a shadowy figure steps from behind that statue. Uh-oh!

It looks exactly like you, and it raises its bow in a threatening manner. Harlan, roll for initiative. Uh-oh. What's your initiative bonus, by the way, Harlan? Three. Okay, great. What did you get? 13.

Okay, great. So first up is the fake red. Uh-oh. Fred. Fred. Beat me to it. Fred moves to the side a little bit with a bow trained at you and is going to make an attack. Can you make an attack roll for me, please?

That's a 20 to hit me. All right. It hits you, I presume. Damn it. Doran, Marie, Jack, you watch through this goopy, weird door as a form steps out from behind the statue and fires on Red, lancing an arrow across the room and hitting him terribly in the leg. Red. Wait. Red, get back out here.

17 damage And fires again A natural one Dammit And a four There you go Because I roll with Advantage on the first attack

I want to be clear That's how fair I'm being Because For the first attack I roll with advantage I'm rolling with advantage Against myself But that's a four and a one

All right Which doesn't hit Okay The second arrow Flies wide Ah Jesus Damn it I hurt myself

Jack Jack, what was that canter thing on the, not the canter, the chant? What was the thing? The thing on the door. What did it say? The charge, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Death is but part of life, fear it not, evade it not, and view it not as evil. To fear death delivers you to the hands of those who can bring death down upon you.

Die with dignity, neither raging nor seeking to embrace undeth. Do honor the dead for their striving in life. brought Farron to where it is now, and to forget them is to forget also where we are now and why. I would prefer if Red did not die with dignity. I prefer if you lived. Yeah, I don't think that's the answer. Red, you hear all of this through the wobbling barrier. What are you guys talking about? What do you do?

I just have to say this quickly. Like, three ideas are flying through my brain because I'm so interested in this. Like, number one, if I cast feign death on myself, would this guy just drop? You know what I mean? because I know there's like spells like that. Number two, if I cast Stephen, is there an evil Stephen that's going to pop up? Oh my God.

Even Steve, I want it so bad. I'm really tempted to find an evil Stephen. I want an evil dolphin just flopping around on the ground. We need at least an evil Stevie, please. Evil rat. But if I pull him out of my bag, will evil Stevie show up too? There's so many different questions.

If they join me, is evil doppelgangers of them going to join? It's not going to be Stephen. It's going to be Stevil. Evil Steve. I love the idea of the rat comes out and the rat doesn't sniff bombs, it is the bomb. Just explodes, yep. Red turns to the others and says, Don't, don't come in.

Stay there. We can't afford to bring any more doppelgangers in here. Just stay and turns back around and stares down his doppelganger who's just sunken arrow into his shoulder. And this guy is like mystical looking again? It's like looking at your shadow. And Red pulls his bow and draws an arrow. I'm going to sink one between your eyes. And just before he lets loose the arrow,

he pauses studying the shadow. This is a test. It's still a test. He... Put his arrow away and runs across the room with great speed, trying not to step in the center. He moves around the pillars directly beside his doppelganger. And seeing him eye to eye, his shadowy face for a moment, he leans past him and attempts to blow out the candle that lit on this statue before this shadowy figure arrived. with a swift motion red you blow out the light and the room becomes dark

and he clutches his wound and turns to the others and walks back over we can't see the shadowy character where did it go i blew out the candle it made him disappear if as you pass through your doppelgangers also appear just blow out the candle that is casting their shadow. It should work. Redder, are you sure? I like, I like the idea of Doren trying to reason, we're like, oh, it's me.

Hey, man, what's up? Mine's probably not bad, though, guys, right? I'm not going to be easy. Oh, you hit me with Orcs blitter. Oh, shit. So handsome. Shadow works, mirror. I can't kill anything.

It's odd. They're like mirror world. You can do nothing. That's better. That's it. Problem is they're all boring versions of us, though. Mori's a fucking party. Ghost Shadow Mori's like so fun.

She's just like a... As a contrast to boring sad, Mari? Come on. Give us a little more credit. Okay, so what happens next? I guess Doran bravely steps through himself and gets sucked into the portal. And as you do, Doran, your doppelganger

comes to life behind a statue. The lantern blazes to life. And Shadow Doren steps out, hefting Shadow Ork Splitter, and he runs at you. Roll for initiative. What's your bonus? Oh, wouldn't you like to know? Does Doppelganger Doren get the same? Absolutely.

Uh, three. I rolled an 18, so that's 21. Oh, really? Well, I rolled in 19, so that's 22. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Oh. Are you serious?

A hundred percent. Great job. Unless it's a 61. All right, Doran, what do you do? Please run over and start hacking. Please run over and start. Doren, in sort of almost comedic fashion, leaps into striking distance of Shadow Doran, which is right next to the lit candle.

And he raises his axe far above his head. And then, again, in sort of a cartoonish fashion, leans over and goes and blows out the candle. The room becomes dark once again. Well, Mari, we've put out a ton of fires together. We saved a whole house from burning down. We can handle two candles, huh? I would hope so at this point. She extends a hand to Jack.

All right, let's go. And they walk through. All right, let's do it. Mari and Jack, as the two of you move through into this room, Again, two lights, flare to life, held by two statues, behind which two shadow doppelgangers reveal themselves. Everybody roll for initiative. Just you two. Some least enthusiastic.

Mari, what's your initiative bonus? Plus one. And Jack? Plus two. Mari, would you get? I got a 14. Real Jack? 17.

Oh. Fake Jack beats you out by one. Oh, no. Nice. Now we're fucked. Oh, no. Shadowy Jack steps out from behind this statue, pointing the starflower staff directly at you, Jack.

He casts fantastimal killer. Uh-oh. Please make a wisdom saving throw. Um, well. Real Jack prepared for fake Jack's magic counters that spell. Ah, but fake Jack counters your counterspell. Oh, Kai. We're going into counter-inception.

I've never a counterspell the counterspell before. Well, Jack has now. What did you whism save? I got a nine. Sorry, that's so fun. Jack, you are frightened for the duration of this spell. and at the end of each of your turns before the spell ends, you must succeed on a wisdom saving throw or take psychic damage.

So Jack, it is your turn. Jack feels his counterspell fail and looks to his friends for help, and they're all stony-faced except for Red who knocks an arrow on his bow and pulls back and stares him right in the eyes and gives him a wink before letting loose. And Jack's stumbling around. The arrow doesn't seem to hit, but he can't move. All he can do is flail around, and there's a candle near him. I don't even, it's not even his, but he does his best to put it out with a quick press to digitation.

Yeah, Jack, you stumble away from the source of your fear and you manage to blow out the lantern that Shadow Mari's character had just emerged from behind, snuffing the shadowy form of your, or druid. Jack is shouting. Red, please stop. I don't know what they're paying you. I'll pay more. You know who my dad is. We can figure it out.

Whatever they're paying you, please just don't kill me. Is he talking to me? Red like, what? Jack, please make another wisdom saving throw. I don't want to die. I got a 16, which is a fail. Please take 26 psychic damage.

Oh. Your poor brain. Mari, it's your turn. Red, what did, what did you do? Nothing. anything. Oh, my God. He's trying to kill me. He's, he's got he's an assassin. He's been hired

to kill us, and he's got an arrow knocked at me. I already know he's an assassin. It was the first thing he told me. She locks eyes with Shadow Jack and goes, hey, Shadowjack night, night, and she cast create water, and 10 gallons of water pours down onto the candle.

I assume extinguishing it. I hope. That's clever. Surprisingly, yes. The candle is extinguished. Shadow Jack disappeared. and the four of you are alone in the room once more. Thank you to our wonderful patrons, April, Adam Fry, Alicia Andrus, Allison Wrights, Alicia Daher, Amanda Nicole, Annalina, Atholagov,

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He's deleting everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't look at this. Hide, hide, hide.