Legends of Avantris - Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 11 | The Pixie Dust Plot

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

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Hey everybody, Chuckles here. Welcome to Legends of Aventrith. You're listening to Once Upon a Witchlight. Here's what happened last time. It is here that she revealed herself to be the Kenku you were looking for. I've watched you look for me in the crowds. I'm looking for my patron, Zabilner. I've not been in contact with her for a while to a point that is disconcerting. The last that I heard were whispers of the witchlight khan. I believe that whatever happened to her started here. If there is something unicorn related you want, you're going to find it in Pixie Kingdom. I'm obligating to be excited about that. Thank you. Oh, so you came to get on their fairest wheel you want to ride here?

Attention everyone in Pixie Kingdom. Dionysus Night is kicking off. We are going to go ahead and get ready. Costumes supplied by the carnival. This is jelly, stop, jelly, Jelly, bitch, Stop, stop, Stop, stop,

This is absolutely ridiculous. How the hell are we supposed to get anything done with you complete imbeciles? And I hate to say this, you might be my only hope, which means I have less than one hope. I heard Mr. Witch and Mr. Light say something. They were communicating to each other. I heard them say.

That is where we'll answer. Wait, so they said that's what we'll answer. So they said, that's where we're having a session. Fuck off. It's very strange thing for the session. You found yourselves continuing to make your way through this Madcap Carnival, heading closer and closer towards the final hours of the Witchlight Carnival and the crowning of the Witchlight Monarch.

It was through some conversation with Burley the Bug Bear that you have a new mission. We have a couple. One from Mr. Light himself given to Frost, which is to find the Kenku that has been terrorizing their carnival and to apprehend them and bring them to justice. Burley, their bodyguard, gave you a little more information, though he trusts his bosses. He knows that there's something up,

and he wants to find his missing brother, and is tasked you with making friends with some of the witch-light hands in the hope that you can execute a heist and procure one of the items that the owners themselves utilize, the witch-light vein and or the witch-light pocket watch, in the hopes that you can use this as a bartering tool, though Mr. Light told you that bringing the Kenku to him

would provide you with the ability to ask him questions and that he would answer them. He did not promise that he would be truthful, and it is the truth that you seek. You make your way through the carnival. There's still much to do, and you still have magic, the warlock that sent you on this mission,

in the back of your heads, reminding you to experience the whole thing, to not let this one night, this one opportunity pass you by. Though you have many things that need to be done here, there are still hours and there's still lots to do. As you make your way to the Pixie Kingdom, and you enjoy the jubilence that you find there,

you're able to ride the Ferris wheel and meet a talking hamster named Biscuit, who is in the module. Because someone asked. You are able to start your own flash mob to thriller. Jellyfish starfish. Squeak! And through some crazy turn of events,

Gricko makes a fay pact with a pixie and betrothes himself to her. It is at the end of all of this madness, with all of these things still, living rent free in the back of their minds, everything that they have to do, that the Kenku finally approaches you, realizing that even though you are a bunch of ridiculous and uncontrollable heathens, that you still might be her best bet at getting what she wants. Because one of the best ways to thwart people who are as calculated as Mr. Witch and Mr.

Light is with a little bit of chaos. and she arranges a meeting with you inside of one of the pixie, one of the pixie houses that surrounds this tree enclosure in Pixie Kingdom. And it is in here that she approaches you and she begins to speak telling you that as much as she doesn't want to utilize you, she has no choice and that there's something that you need to know. And in the voice that she has stolen clearly from Candlefoot the Mime, she begins to be. to speak. There is something you need to know. I overheard Mr. Witch and Mr. Light in their wagons.

Shortly after a conversation that I had with them where I was pleading to learn more about Prismere, they claim they know nothing. But what I heard proves otherwise. People can over hear what happens in the wagons? Yes.

It's very thin. wooden walls. It's not... Well, I mean, Giv was able to hear like into other dimensions and shit, so I'm sure you heard everything. I'm sorry to interrupt.

It's already interrupted. Most of the time... Most of the time, they leave one of the windows open there. They light a lot of incense in there and it would get too smoky otherwise. The sound carries. They like a lot of incense.

Everyone can hear everything that goes on in the waxes. Oh, wait, is that the candles one? I don't know about that. What? What? Forget him. Would you like to know what I heard or wouldn't you?

I would love to. Very much. Well, I think this may be the best way to do it. Someone's gonna find out about this. They're gonna shut us down. You hear in Mr. Light's voice. And then you immediately hear, We agreed to this pact.

Our hands were forced, but our eyes were open. We let the hourglass coven take what it wants, and in return, we stay in business. That is what you want, right? It was around this time that Burley made his way towards my location, and I had to away. Their conversation continued. This hourglass coven, I've been doing what I can around the carnival to find out more, but no one will say anything. It is clear that they are working with them in some capacity.

Now, what I know about Zabilner is she would have no work. workings with a coven. And if a coven has its hands in the witch-like carnival, then there is something seriously wrong in Prismere. So I guess that explains why your patron, Magic's patron, just went missing. Is there a chance she's... There is no chance that someone as powerful as Zabilner was taken down by a coven of hacks. there must be something far greater happening in Prismore.

Oh. Well, I mean, it sounds like they are being blackmailed. Oh, no. My concern are the specific words that they let the hourglass coven take what it wants, and in return they stay in business. One, that implies the hourglass coven could destroy the carnival. Oh, no. Which, I'm not sure if you realize is a very powerful, magical carnival.

I definitely realized that. I wonder it was better than ours. And on top of that. Yeah, I mean, we had magic. Well, I mean, didn't go this well. We had like Charlottetton magic. This is why you get nothing done. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Apologies. Your carnival, I'm sure, was mediocre at best. I'm better than nice to be. Yeah. I say that's a good thing. Most carnivals are garbage. Oh. All right, I'll take mediocre.

I mean. Are you feeling all right, Grico? Forgive him. Didn't you hear what she said? Yeah. It's terrible. Well, I mean, we had sort of kind of like figured it out already. You know, we used context.

How do we figure it out? How do you know I was going to get engaged to a picture that I can't get out of? Well, no, I mean, that was a little unexpected. You know what she said? I can't get it. out of it. Aren't you young to get married? Do you have any advice

for getting him out of this nuptial agreement? She's not even more type. We don't think of something, Grico. That's not what's important now. I don't think he's going to get out of this. You can't make a pact with

a pixie, with a fay and get out of it. It is eternally binding. Your soul is forced into matrimony. There's got to be somewhere around. How are we supposed to go to prison there and freeze him out of? Well, if you're clever enough, you can attempt to make a pact out of it by providing something that the pixie would want more.

But from what I saw, you're unlikely to annul this marriage. Oh, we have to design the invitations. I'm trying to figure out why this is more important than the fact that there is a... It's not. And she has to be passively, aggressively coming up with reasons while we can't invite my extended family. Oh, and I have to go along with her idea for the wedding hashtag. Then look at all me lads in the eye afterwards.

Once Grico gets fixated on something, it's hard to get his mind off of it. We can just move on, I think. It's not wrong. We'll inform him later once he's past this difficult time. He made his ban. He's got to sleep. What if she doesn't even lock leach cake? I always promised me mum if I ever got married, it would be leach cake.

And if she's allergic to leeches, oh, my mom's gonna hate her. Oh, wait, go. Hold on, hold on. Did you make a fie pack to not run out on the marriage? I don't remember. I was overcome with apparently romance when I suddenly got dressed as the legendary serial mascot fruit brute. What?

Anyway, look, just get married. And then just leave, disappear. We'll be on our way on a grand adventure, and we'll be hopefully helping our good friend Kettlesteen. And you know what? I appreciate this information, and first I want to let you know, I don't know if you know this, but you know, Burley, the bug bear,

he's on your side. He doesn't trust me because he trusts Mr. Witch and Mr. Light. And I don't. All I know is that he's encouraging us to steal either the weather vein or the pocket wash. And that was exactly what I was attempting to do. My

attempts at conversation have gotten me nowhere and I was hoping that I could distract them long enough with my antics that I would be able to make my way back to their carriage and steal away with one of their items and force them to talk

but they keep them on their persons at all time. And I am not getting anywhere close. But you have somehow gotten into their good graces. That's right. And as much as I dislike trusting you, and I am weary of your ability to accomplish anything, really, I don't feel I have a choice.

I must find out what's happened to Zabella. Though my magic has not faded with her disappearance, my patron is important to me. It's part of who I am, what I am. I'm sure as much as Magic and I are not friends and do not see eye to eye, he feels the same.

He does. He cares very deeply for Zabel. I mean, basically he's given us his entire, I mean, vast wealth just for doing this. Oh, and rich treasures. Yeah, we're talking everything. Gold, magic items.

Maybe land? Golden. Golden rings with diamonds and... He is very, very well connected, so I'm sure the gold is the least of it. If you're lucky, he'll provide you with documents that give you far more than silly piece of gold ever could. Oh, hold on.

Question. He's not going to be one of those guys who's like, oh, you just risked off and limb to do a grand adventure. he's like, oh, the real treasure was knowledge. He's a book. No. Oh, thank goodness. No, he is old.

I'm honestly not sure how old. And he's lived a life worth writing about, that's for sure. He has collected so many things in his life. He has a hoard much like that of a dragon. And he spends nothing. So it's mostly there, I imagine. intact and if he's offered it to you it means he must be nearing the end

a horde of a dragon I mean he didn't look too good last time we saw he's little small for a dragon could it be a dragon in Ogway that's the silliest thing I've ever heard there's no way he's not a dragon but he has a hoard

quite similar in size to that of a dragon dragon in Ogway that is preposterous there hasn't been a dragon in the Arts of Enkwe for hundreds of years. Exactly right. It's absurd. Absolutely absurd. So, I appreciate your help.

And I apologize for our antics earlier. I really do. I think we could be allies. I don't think I have a choice. There are a mere hours left before the carnival is over. And if we don't get the answers we need and gain access to Prismia,

I fear I will be able to do nothing to help Zimilner. So if this carnival wraps up and we don't get this solved... Somewhere in this carnival is the entrance to Prismere. The entrance is in the carnival.

It is in the carnival. Where it's at, I do not know. How to get to it or access it, I am unsure. But it is here somewhere. I think there might be a clue that's been right under our nose this whole time.

But under our nose, I'll mean under Gideon's butt cheek. Hey. Why did your nose? Mine go from nose to butt cheek. Because Gideon has had in his back pocket the letters that Mr. Rostov gave us. And we never read them. Hey, that is horrible slander. What?

Out right here in my chest pocket. Oh, under me, Gideon's handsome chest hair. Your front button. Well, as a show of good faith, why don't we read them right here together? Yeah. with a good new friend and allies. Oh, you know it would be nice, kettle steam. If it makes it easier for you, you can call me Kett.

Yes, Miss Stone. I like that, Kett. We appreciate Ket. In the back of each of your minds, you hear Frost's voice. Don't offer any guesses as to where Prismere's entrance may be. I have an idea, but I don't want to endanger Kettlestein. Can I respond? Right, or can you?

Actually, I think that you can. But yeah, I would have had to convey that message to each of you one at a time. You could have done that. It's like every six seconds, right? You can respond to this message. For the sake of making things easy, we'll just add it to your vestige. I can already do it back. No, I'm saying that you can communicate to the three of them simultaneously.

Anybody else would have to be separately, but your connection with them allows you to communicate with three of them simultaneously. Such good friends. It's your little, you know. Oh, I already know what entrance use. Yeah.

It's pretty obvious. It's very obvious. Before we read the letters, I have one question that has been a curiosity for me, a mystery of sorts. What were you doing at the dragonfly rides? How are you attempting to achieve your goals?

because there was quite a bit of danger in what you were attempting to do, I think. Oh, yes, I was so in chaos. I was trying to plummet in the mood of the carnival. The witch-light weather vane that Mr. Light utilizes he can use to raise the mood if he needs to, which could provide me an opportunity to sneak in and steal it. Anytime they need to use one of their items,

they have to remove it from their person, which makes it more likely to steal. That's very clever. So I have been attempting to sow chaos, destroy the mood, and you are, in your antics, increasing it in making it significantly more difficult. Well, we are pretty hilarious. Yeah, we're having a lot of fun.

I do not think my plan is going to work. So that leads me to believe the only opportunity is to steal one of the items during the crowning of the witch-light monarch. The weather-vane itself is what is used to declare who the witch-light monarch is. The weather-vane chooses. Whoever has brought the most joy to the carnival will be the winner. All eyes will be on the weather-vane.

Well, Mr. Witch lurks in the shadows. His pocket-watch, not in use, tucked into his pocket, attached to him via a chain. If we can find a way to remove the pocket watch without his notice and sever the chain, he will be so focused on Mr. Light, who he adores above all others. We may have a chance.

And with it in our possession, though we cannot claim it and attuned to it, he will do anything to get it back. I don't suppose we couldn't just say Mr. Wich What time is it? And then just yank it out of his hand?

He may look like a silly carnival owner and nothing more. But his history, both that of him and Mr. Light, is far darker than you would think.

He is capable of a lot, and if you think you can just snatch it from his hand, no, Frost. You can't. This will take brains. Yes, which is why I was loathe to ask you for help, as clearly you are more brawn than brains.

We've got brain. Yeah. We've got brains. Frosty and I are the Brain Trust they call us. You're engaged to a pixie because you forgot that Paxe existed. I was also under the spell of a court-chombing rat queen. And also the lovable children's Serial mascot, Fruit Fruit.

I do not think that that argument is helping you in any way. Hmm. And what performed song by Mickey Jackson. I mean, how can any lady resist him? I can think of a few who did. I hear your point and I agree. I do. That being said, I have a few ideas.

I think if we can find a way to sneak up behind him, I think we can get that pocket watch. Well, Cremie, wouldn't you a petty thief pickpocket for much of your life? I mean, I would call myself a petty thief.

I've done lots of petty thief in in my life, but, you know, there are a lot of layers to me. That's what I'm saying, petty thief. Yeah, you're not defined by what you do, though, you know. What you do is not who you are. Oh, so you're not a manslaughterer just because you men sluggled?

Oh, no, that's me. No, that's me, yeah. Oh, no, just a guy who's a fellow that does some manslaughter occasionally. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. That's a big difference from being a manslaughter rug. Huge distinction. But the point is that I'm very good at doing that, yeah. And if I can get it in my hand, I can make it go away for a period of time, and we can be like, hey, look, go ahead and search us.

We don't have it. I may be able to assist with my... Mental five-finger discount, let's call it. Exactly. So if you could just sort of be like, who... Why would you not want him to know you have it? Well, not while we're stealing it from.

Well, there's security here. We wouldn't want them to know. There's a time and a place for everything. If you have one of those items in your possession, they will do nothing to harm you. Oh, so couldn't we just like, if we get within five feet, just sit, get on them, and he'll just grab it.

Breaking chains is what I do best. What part of they are far more powerful than you think they are, do you not understand? You will not be able to take it by force. Well, that's what I mean is that I'm saying, I feel like we got to do the stealthy, like, get it, and then somehow get a meeting with them. Yes, the moment it's in your hand, you can quite literally say, look what I have, you will talk to me or you'll never see this again. So, but we got to break the chain and get a, But you have to get it from him first. And that is not going to happen by Braun.

I agree. I agree. I saw it, buddy. I mean, you know, I'm sure, you know, you can place a good. I just wanted to have any value of all of this. No, no, no, no. You can do this. There hasn't even been one single place where I hit a bell with a hammer yet at all.

Hey. Well, I'll often you and I will make the most amazing distraction. And once you and I are through with Mr. Witch, he's going to be. saying, which one of you stole my bucket wards? You know, it was good at me. It was good at me all the long.

And if your original idea A laughing character can be our safety net, I think that that... And your original idea was not a bad one, I think. We can, that can be our safety net. If it comes down to the final hour, we can just be a dick to everybody and lower the mood

and perhaps find a way that way and it's our own version of chaos. Well, we gotta get one of us crowned the Witchlight Monarch. That's how we're gonna get it. The portal to Prismia is in the crown or something. If one of you, we start taking the mood. If one of you were crowned the Witchlight Monarch, you would be close to both of them in proximity

to easily take the pocket watch while all eyes are on Mr. Witch. Okay. Is there ever a chance of like more than one of us is crowned? I haven't heard of it happened. but I don't see why not if it were an equal. Well, what if one of us was crowned and then like, you know, and in a prize fight when you win, Crummy walks up and put your hand in the air and he's standing right next to you

and then you know, frost is, back and back and why a group of guys who are in a relationship together, as you are. A couple of guys. It's just ironic. I don't see a... It's a handful. Yes, I don't see a reason that... Yeah.

Men in this kind of relationship would not escort each other onto the stage. Yeah, well, I guess courts. Yeah, well, walk, oh gosh, I gotta be walked down the aisle by my mum. Who's gonna give you away? It's gonna be my mum. But she's not here. Oh, you know who is here? Who?

Globo. Globo, that was a figment. That was a figment of my imagination, Gideon. Right Uncle Globo? Have me imagination. Uncle Globo is dead, right? Like, he doesn't exist. You know, it was kind of unclear.

You know, I haven't seen him in a while. I've heard a story of he kind of got set someplace, but I think that might have been my mum saying, oh, you know, he's not around anymore. Like, oh, I'm like, oh, I'm just like, oh, I'm going to the fall, right? Yeah. I kind of want to walk back and forth if he got banished, if he's wandering, if he kind of wandered off drunk or,

Is this conversation about your dead Uncle Globo more important than information about Mr. Witch and Mr. Light? No, it's not. And that's why I'm not. Because we have not talked about what I'm concerned with about the hourglass coven. And you don't seem to be concerned about an hourglass coven either. But it sounds like you're heading into Prismere where they more than likely have some kind of dominance. Perhaps. Have you seen how hard mates can punch Bonnie?

Who's mate? I can punch them so hard. I can bunch them so hard. They never survive. They like maces. When I punch somebody, they die quick. He's really good. He's really good.

Good job. Well done, everyone. Morning Derek agreed. A lot of you guys. I'm coming. I'm sorry. Anyways, what were you saying about the hourglass Coving?

Yeah. How dare you? Canelstein? Please continue. Oh, God. Please call me Ket. Kett. Okay, Kitty Ket. Oh, that's very cute.

Come on. Does that pretty good? Do you like kitty kits? Do you like kitty kits? You know? Or Ket. Okay, Ket. Would you like, as a sign of good faith, would you like to read Mr. Roslough's letters?

And... I personally do not care. what Mr. Rosloff has given you. Yeah, they're like each other. If he gave you documents, I'm sure they're valuable. I thought them up your clue. Oh, they're probably not narrative. If he had, if they were a clue,

I imagine he would have told you to read them. Hmm. Hmm. I mean, because he wrote it for Zibir. He... No, he gave one for us in one for Zibuilner, right? Right now. Oh.

So as the DM, I will tell you, he gave you a letter. for Zabilna, and as part of your prize, he gave you some scrolls. And so she is essentially telling you that they are probably valuable and are very helpful in some way,

but are not lore important and probably do not have anything to do with additional information. They're not a lot of important. But I do want to hear about the hourglass. That being said, it's also the DM's way of saying you might want to read those anyway.

Well, we can cover it out after this conversation. We want to learn about the shower pig. Oh yeah, they took Hootsie. He doesn't remember who Hootie is. And that is what I wanted to talk about. Mr. Witch specifically said, will you shut up?

Please. Talking about his shot the fuck up, Grigo. I don't think he can, to be honest with it. I can get to what I'm nervous. I just can't stop talking. And I'll just go get true. Or I have to have Gorsla again and I have to invite

you guys, toolback, and all me best friends in my college roommate, Neil. Everyone is friends and then I said, guys, my childhood friend, Kevin. Wait, hang on, because she was not, did you?

Neil here. Can you please play Neil? Oh, hey, Neil. Hey, great gal. It's been some times of the least me and together at college. He shared that by my dad. It was really nice going to go up in college

with you. Okay, I'm right and kneel down as one of your horrible curses. Oh, go the sucking mosquitoes. Okay. I'm a favorite team. It's all the gore point. See that one too? Yeah.

It's Galvin College. It's not a bad idea. The only time we've seen it without a community college. Uh, without the watch was the last. the watch was the last time we went on guys night just going another guy's night takes out the watch slows down the carnival we take the watch from him there's our opening well no i mean he had a reason the santa's our guys not they was an ulterior motive a because mr light wanted to have his way with frost but b you know they were trying to stall for have another cupcake frost

yeah well there we go we just uh we just flung frost all in front of mr the light is that a mimic that was No, that was, that was the man's voice. Well? Yes. No, no, no, she was mimicking Mr. Ma. No. No. She was mocking him with Candleford's a voice.

I could if I wanted to. Oh, I'll just, anyway. This is another possible plan of attack that I could get close to Mr. Light again. I was very close to his weather ring. Oh. Oh, wooded frost. Were you in spinning distance? How does that many Ms?

And, Finn. Oh, God. Okay, we need the Witchelaw Covent. What are they up to? They obviously stored in Mr. Witch and Mr. Lime. The hourglass coven. Oh, the hourglass cover. There's a lot of lots here.

Yes, but I don't think it's our glasses. It's theirs. Oh, how do you get anything done? We don't. Oh, we don't really. Once swifrew of the hourglass coven, they're going to be saying, oh, who took our glass? Where did it come from? Where did it go? Glass.

Eh, didn't work. You know, the answer to your question is it's kind of a drunken monk style where we sort of accidentally get it done every time. It's actually a miracle. Let him like he swallow his coffee, please. Before he ruins this fucking map. Continue. Yes, it's remarkable. I'm not sure if we're just lucky,

or it's just our combination of skills and various talents, but our success just keeps emerging. I don't know what to tell you. It's almost as if there's a guard watching over you allowing your antics to succeed, as if they're amused at your existence. Maybe it's an extremely capable leader that just keeps everybody in check,

despite their antics and buffoonery. I mean, that is true. That does do a great job at taking care of things. That's your funniest joking and not, Crummy. What are you laughing about? There are he falling down. No, Crummy. You were such a comedian, Grimmie.

I wasn't joking. When you can't shut the fuck up, make a wisdom saving throw. Oh. Oh, he fails. Well. Please continue. Well, we might actually be able to have. conversation now.

You can still hear, right? You haven't blocked this. Yeah, no, he just, yeah, he just can't speak. Okay, very good. So we can have a fucking conversation, please. My concerns are two of the things that they said. One is they agreed to this pact, which means Mr. Witch and Mr. Lighter in a Fay pact is clear.

So their hands are tied. I mean, they... Their hands are tied. What on earth? Earth could have caused them to make a pact with a covenant of hags. I mean, if they're so concerned about staying in business, are they getting rich off this carnival? No. What I will say is they came to this carnival from another. They've not been the owners of the witch-like carnival from its

inception. It was owned by a beautiful, kind archfay. the one they originally came from or this one this one here the witch-like carnival itself is a carnival of the fay born of the fay and it is in itself a fay crossing that's what allows entrance into prismere the carnival they owned was one of shadow fell that's right oh mr witch and mr lyne owned a shadow fell

carnival they did yes almost certainly worse than ours And it was through A A chance meeting Between Mr. Witch and Mr. Light And the former owner of this carnival That they came to an agreement

That they would switch carnivals She would run theirs And they would run theirs I'm not sure the terms Of how long it was supposed to be For all I know She's stuck somewhere in the shadow of cursing the deal that was made and they've run off with an amazing carnival of happiness and joy.

For their carnival I can tell you is the mirror opposite of the witch-light carnival. So maybe they were trying to escape some dumb deal they made with their own... It's possible. And it's possible she came to collect. It's hard to know. But the witch-light weather vein and the... witch-light pocket watch had once belonged to her in a different form, was split into two to allow Mr. Witch and Mr. Light to have their own hold on the carnival itself. The carnival

cannot exist without both of those items. The Witch-Light Weather Vane ensures the mood and keeps it running during its allotted time. In the pocket watch, builds it up and breaks it down into a tiny little package so it can be traveled with. without them, it would cease to exist. No, don't allow it. Don't allow it. We have accomplished so much now that he can't. Just like 15 seconds. One moment, Gregor.

It's honestly, I feel that the three of you could get so much done if you didn't have this goblin accompanying you everywhere. You know, that's an idea. Just one moment, Grego. Were they originally called Mr. Witch and Mr. Light? or was the Carnival originally called Wishlight? It seems like a terrible coincidence. I do not know their original names, but I do know that Mr. Witch and Mr. Light are Monocas.

They are names that they use now, that they are the owners of the colony. That sounds about right. But their previous names, I'm sorry, are unknown to me. What if we got one of the Pagawatch or the Weather Vane and we just destroyed it? The Carnival felt like disappeared or whatever. I imagine the natural conclusion would be that we would have destroyed the Faye crossing

that would allow us to save Zubilna. Or would we have released the Arch Faye from her pact? She has to run one, and they're pactually obligated to run the other, but the other no longer exists. You just wanted to say Paxual. That's pretty good. I've been trying to work out of the Pax-unplug jokes about it. You are so smart. Yeah.

What are we in plug? Oh, Mr. Lato have to tell you. Grigo, you may have one charade. All right. One charade. Okay, two words, sounds like, oh, no, sounds like. Ear, ear, two. Ear, too.

Your crash. Hashtack. Murder. Murder. Murder. War. War. War.

War. War. Key. Key turn. War. turn. Worky. Is it a key? Oh, lost.

A lot. Warlock. Unlock. Warlock. You're both warlocks. Warlock. They're both warlocks. They're both warlocks.

Happy. Sad. Mr. Wich. Bored. Mr. Witch is also a warlock? Oh. Is it possible that Mr. Witch or Mr. Light are warlocks with some patron of their own, perhaps? That could be the nature of their pact.

I am unsure. Oh. What's a good point? Well, he's the thing. Do you know where the Shadowfell Carlin? Very good, Grieker. Who ever throws around? Because my patron, the good Baron,

that's where he lives, is the Shadowfell. Maybe I could ask him about it, but I've heard about this. And he might be familiar with the other car. That's what I mean. Does it, like, go around the Shadowfell? Or is it sort of like this one where it goes to the material plane,

but it acts as a crossing, sort of like mirror style, you know? I'm unsure. I'm only invested in the Witchlight Carnival because of Zabylna. I'm not... I'm not studied on the two carnivals, especially the shadow fell.

I simply have collected information from drunken witch-light hands as I've been able to. Those wish-light hands do throw hands sometimes. And they're quite talkative if you get them in the right mood. All right. They drink and they know things.

Oh. Before we enter Planet Town, I have one more question. That's what you always say. Then you have like 50 more questions. Well, I like to ask questions. It's how we learn. It's how we acknowledge. We have only talked about one of the two things I wanted to address.

So yes, please, let's continue. We have all the time in the world. What do you know about the original kind owner of which? Nothing. Excuse me. I had a lot of cake earlier. Do you, you don't know what? You said kind.

You said, uh... Yes, I'm reiterating what was told to me. Okay. so just hand to talk. There are some at the carnival that remember working it when she was the owner.

Would you know? Do you? No, no, no. You, well before. Well before your time. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Boulder. Okay, what was the second thing that you wanted to talk about before we planned it? Was that it? We're done talking about the pact. Yeah. Well, I think

something else I should ask. still in sleeping uh contract the opposite of war peace together treaty what what crowned

goblin tobia crown crown crown king the monarch bishop oh my top my hat the baron top hat

what about the baron she's no about the baron what oh a deal a deal with the baron oh we need to find out well she says she doesn't know if he's a warlock or not. You're asking what Mr.

Witch's patron would be. Why to do? Why to do? You can make him, so can you shut him up again if we need it? All right, you have like 10 minutes. Oh, I'll bet, I'll bet that they made a pact with the archfay and she is their patron and they're like,

oh, we just tricked you. They made a Faustian bargain with the archfay and if you asked the Baron if he isn't the Shadowfell that maybe he knows what her deal is and what her name is and maybe he knows he's

seen the carnival and maybe he'll know if he's their patron. She's their patron. What the fuck are you talking about? The kindly arts fan. Who got stuck with a bum carnival deal? You think the The Shadow Man? The Shadow Man

and the Shadowfell would know of the Shadowfell Carnival. She's here right now! What I will say is I did hear that she is unable to leave the Shatufel do to the carnival, and that she would like her's back. So it is possible they're running from her, but I don't imagine that she is their patron. The blunt thickens. Maybe that's the nature of the pack they made is to run, to be ever hidden from her.

It is possible that the time is near. they specifically said that they stay in business. They stay in business. Not that the carnival continues to run, but that they stay in business, which makes me wonder if the time is near that they're supposed to trade back and they've made,

the only thing I can think is that they've made this pact to not have to return to the Shadowville. And so these hags are going to keep them running this carnival here. And there's just a better lot than their pre-existing arrangement. Wait, do you know what happened to the Zibirna? We don't. That's the entire point of getting into Prismet.

Got disappeared by which the hourglass coven. Isn't Jabirn a powerful archfay herself? Maybe they're like, oh, we are the exterminators of powerful. else for you got a problem we'll get rid of her do something it's just good marketing yeah

what's the other thing you want to talk about the other thing I want to talk about is you've seen the signs about the children that have gone missing Burley lost his brother Hurley they specifically said we let the hourglass covenant take what it

wants and in return we stay in business. I think what they want is people and they are using the carnival as a way to procure people. And so basically if someone screws up and breaks one of

the rules, they just snatch them up and maybe they just... Have you seen the creatures that take the little pig girl? Oh yeah, we did. We said we... The strange frog zombie creature.

I think he saw the other two. I saw all of them. And he just told us about it. We have only seen the cell pig. Two were muscular. Two was wearing masks. One was like, oh, I'm going to go, I'm going to be

confectioning or deceptioning. And the other one was like, I'm going to put on a play about discard at night. And the other one was like, I'm a little frog guy. The little gross and he was small and green and he wouldn't shut up and he

annoying looking eyes, ooh. Big shot teeth. I believe that each one of them is in some way tied to one of the specific hags. I believe that they are minions. They do the work for the hags

in the witchlight carnival in a place that they will not go because they are currently up to something in Prismere. I believe this witchlight coven is responsible for whatever's happened to Zabalna. And that scares me.

What? Can you please shut him up again? What did he say? What did he say? You said it's our... Hour of these correct. Fuck! He literally neglected.

It's an easy mistake. That'll be following down again. Anyways, this... The hour. So here's the deal. Do you happen to have an idea of what if we just find those three, you know, people stealing and just kill them? There are more where they came from. You have two choices here, really.

You can steal one of the items and force Mr. Wirt and Mr. Light to give you the information that will lead you into Prism here. I like that out of you. Or if you're smart enough and I don't think you are, you can. find the entrance yourself. No. Uncover the secrets to getting in yourself. We don't have time for that. And do it without causing a stink.

No, not a chance. No, no. Yes, so I think you're going to need to steal. I feel like we could probably go on another ride and I might have been cracked and if we give it a shot. No, no, no, look. You're just trying to ruin the fun. We want to steal.

Yeah, Frost. And don't you want to steal? You can use your mind to steal without making better. A little. There we go. Oh, you want to steal two? Is that right? Yeah? Think of Hootsie. Oh, I guess you don't know who Hootsie is.

Who is Hootsie? Oh, Hootsie is his adopted an owl bear daughter. Basically like a pet, you know. The memory of someone he cares about very much has been removed from him. It's essentially extremely tragic. We're trying to avoid the topic. Well, unfortunately, I'm going to have to pry a little further. what happened to this companion?

Oh, so she got snatched up by the sow pig and whisked away, and she was supposed to hold that pumpkin that he's holding. Yeah, nothing else. He doesn't know why it's holding. Yeah. And so anyway, it's sort of like how I got to tell, you know, everybody that I love unicorn.

She had to care of that pumpkin. That was her deal. You have to water my crown. It's wilting. Oh, well, do you have any water? There's a cup of tea. Uh, what? It's decal.

It's decath. Oh, well. Robb needs full calf, huh? What were you attempting to convey, Grico? Even, even quiet, he's distracting, isn't he? Kett? Oh, Torback. Homeless man?

Uh, carry. Robber. Stealing. Stealing, theft, thievery. Robber, man. Robber man. Robber man. Man, burglar man.

Cat burglar. Cat burglar. Cat burglar. Oh, making a gentleman for charades. Got you the worst. You got me. You got me there. I'm a burglar.

I'm a burglar. I'm a burglar. Yeah. A cat burglar. Oh, that's good. Well, it seems to me that we're most likely to steal to take either item. If we raise the mood of this carnival as much as possible, and attempt to do it when they are least suspecting it,

if one of us is crowned king especially. Should we attempt to do it before then and get kicked out potentially and then miss out on our opportunity to solve the entrance to the Faywild? Or should we do our very best to make merry? I say we'll go for the king. Get the witch-like king, maybe even Grinco. Or the monarch. Or the monarch. Either one, really. Hourglass king, I believe.

Hourglass king. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there you go. Grico whittles up like a replacement pocket watch. Cremiss slips out of it. Oh, you can get a slide of hand. Yeah, yeah, Indiana Jones style. I bring the chain.

We just same weight. We do the old, you know, do the old swapparoo. Scooby-Doop. Scooby-Doop. With Scooby-Doo. Yeah. You know, maybe we can do the old,

I can like sort of vanish into the shadows, you know. And maybe I take that and you use your mind to take the pocket watch. I'll slip the fake pocket watch in. And then we reveal our hand and say... Once we're free and clear of them, we reveal that we have it. But we gotta be honest because I can't willingly tell a lie. Well, so maybe you just can't get near him.

Maybe Frosty does mine stuff and takes the watch. Well, I mean, well, I said is if we're gonna just be upfront about it, I'm gonna be like, hey, we stole your shit. and maybe I won't say anything else about all the stuff we just learned. Well, after the fact, but if you get up near him and he's like, hey, what are you doing? And you're like, ah, I'm robbing you. We've plenty of time. We've plenty of time to discuss these details, but we have limited time with Kettlestein.

Kettle, I have a question. Ket. Yes. We've been asked to capture you. Yes. And bring you to justice. I know. Do you know what the nature of this justice would look like?

I don't think it would be pretty. No. I don't also want to have no answers if somebody like Mr. Witch or Mr. Light came to us and said, why haven't you caught him yet? Why haven't you caught kettle screaming yet? We need to have a plan for

why either you've stopped or why you've evaded us. I'm not going to stop. I'm going to continue to cause chaos. And you just have not caught me. No one else has. Are they going to be surprised that you are unable to do it? Oh, then we get that fans our alibi. Just keep doing your thing.

So we just... Go ahead, what? You gotta stay away because you got away grimmy. Did you see Kato stay? Oh, wow, I don't know. Yes, we did. We had a whole conversation. I'll just...

I know how to actually shut the fuck up when I need to, all right? Good. I'm glad I don't have a curse. It doesn't have me to know, huh? Me too. Be where we are not. Be where we are not. I know where you've been. Yes?

So I will be where you've been and not where you have left to go. So you'll go everywhere, except for perhaps the Hall of Illusions. It was quite boring. No, I cannot go there as I've stolen the voice of the mine. And I quite like it. Oh, you'll. I mean, it suits you, strangely. Thank you.

I would like you to give him back eventually. He needs it. Kenneth doesn't have cut in those horns. He's got kind of pretty orange. Yeah, how else is he going to? There's a whole romance that you're interrupting. It's bringing the whole mood of the carnival. Well, I guess that makes sense.

Can you steal Thacko's voice? What do you know about Paco? Yeah, what do you know? Is it true a peanut allergy? We're on a street to eat a peanut allergy. Yes, he does have a peanut allergy. I saw his face swell up once because he accidentally snibbed some nut dust. What if you steal his voice?

That's pretty man. They don't just kill him because we hear these bad news. I could be persuaded to give Candlefoot back his voice. Oh, cool. Oh, well. Thacker is a good suggestion. I do think. He tries to get in with Mr. Witch and Mr. Lange.

It doesn't work, but he tries. Is he a bad customer? I feel. I don't know him well enough. Where does he hang out? Around the wagon. He likes to taunt Burley. And as much as Burley does not seem to like me,

I do think that we are kindred spirits. in a way and that's not a bad idea. I want you to roll a persuasion check for me, please. Oh, I can do it. I would say at advantage. Oh, you're gonna do it? Oh, I don't care. I thought you were talking, oh, me?

No, I was talking to Frost because Frost is the one that suggested giving the voice back. I was that's not particularly persuasive. Well, I was one that suggested Thaco, so. So, I mean, like, I would say one of the two of you can do it at advantage. Oh, wow, this is very persuasion. Look at you.

Thank God. I'm so good. Out of curiosity. 13.16 would have been a fine. Yeah, that would have been. Acceptable quality. He's going to hit like 27. Thank you, Mikey. 19. 19.

19. Cattle steam looks at you and well, it would bolster your rep, your not repertoire, your reputation, especially with Mr. Witch and Mr. Lime. if the carnival's mood were raised at your own hand

and bringing the lovers back together could do just that. And while you're doing that, I can steal another voice. I'm not speaking to you until then, so it gives me time to procure the voice until next we meet. Here are some peanut butter M&Ms,

and if you just wait for him to laugh, you just toss one in there. Lovely, and she'll take them and put them in her pack. What's an M&M? I don't like that parallel. Oh, you got him when he went to Hershey Park. What a great. The caper of a one-pound chocolate bars.

Oh, what a good time that was. Way better than scrub garden. That's what I want to run this world apart. I hate one flag. Did you say shrub garden? That's really funny. Is it a bush garden? I said scrub garden.

You said scrub garden. You did. Oh, I thought you said shrub garden. I thought you said shrub garden. That's what I heard. I'm messing up my words tonight, too. I'm in big trouble. I mean, I don't have a brain, so.

She looks between both of you, and she nods. Well, I guess that's it then. I, this will be the last we speak until Thaco has come to an end. Why don't we have to kill him? I'm not going to kill him. I'm simply going to steal his voice. Yeah. Well, I guess, let me just add.

Let's say you steal his voice and then we kill him. Are you going to lose the voice? So is it sort of finest keepers? I'm not sure. Interesting. It's quite a conundrum. But that's something for us to worry about in the future. And she reaches into her pocket and she pulls out what looks to be a corn husk doll

with a thorny stem tied around its neck. And it is clear upon looking at this that it is a husk doll that is a husk doll that is made in the visage of Canalfut the Mime and she hands it to you. Take that to Candlefoot, remove the thorny vine from around its neck and his voice will be released back to him. And if we had asked,

what should we say as far as how it found this? That you almost caught me in a crowd of people, but I was able to slip through your grasp. however you were able to snatch this from my person before I got away Well, when are you will have to handle that? It's my pleasure. It's very appropriate given how thorny candlefoot is

All right, well, stay safe Another slip of the tongue. Yes. Is that it? Are we good? I hope that's it. All right. Okay, we're a plan? We've got such a plan Oh, we're going to win. It was something meeting you. Good luck.

Good luck to you. Stay out of danger. Until we meet again. Until we meet again. I hope you are successful. I will be watching from the wings at the grounding of the witch light. Yes, because I'm McGenku.

It's kind of sad that you can't fly. Well, it was lovely meeting you. You have a nice night now. And you watch as she turns off as the door and If I was a bird push, then I'm walking down. And I couldn't, oh. God, that's so rude. Oh, I'm just feeling sad now all of a sudden.

Oh, no, no, no, no. We've got the perfect solution, Grico, to raising the mood. Oh. For what could raise the mood greater than a wedding? Everyone likes a wedding until the pigeons explode from too much rice. I mean, every comedy does end with the wedding. What is wrong with you? Well, Augustine, do your parents ever call you and go,

how did we make you? Pretty much every morning. And why? I'm like, I've explained this to you before. What have we done? Clown College. What did you expect? Why do you exist? We're spending six weeks and clown collage. Get the fuck away from us.

What a one kind of bull? The fucking juggle! Well, I guess the plan is to get one of us to be the Witch-Lark Monarch. So we need to enjoy more merriment. I love it. Well, we got the rest of Pixie Kingdom. Oh, let's enjoy the rest of Pixie Kingdom. Hey, Jelly Bean Starfish, Jelly Bean,

Jelly Bean Starfish, jelly bean starfish. Oh yeah, I'm Jeline Starfish. I'm Jonah. What's your name? Dimple. Dimple. Yeah. Dimple with the Dumple. Dimple. Me. And cotton candy. I imagine canonically Gideon has a little notebook. He's like really tiny. And he pulls that, he pulls that like tiny spectacle. Yeah. Getting actually secretly journals every night. Today I was the cake check.

I ate so much cake. Life is good. You're on your stomach and your feet are kicking up with my idea. Ross is a pussy. A cat who couldn't eat as much cake as me. Nothing else of import occurred. Yes, it seems to me that we really need to enjoy this carnival to its maximum. That means that we can go count the feathers.

Perhaps even go back to the snails. racing. No, no, no, no. We ought to do that. We don't have to do it twice. Oh, and that's where Torbeck met his end. Oh, he died?

I thought that he was captured. I think they brought him to the farm. It's unclear what happened to him, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Every time you guys say farm, you mean murder, so I can only assume that Torbeck is dead. No, we mean manslaughter, and then clearing up the bottom. You know, a dimple implies the existence of one large

or smaller dim plings. Oh. What about like a bigger, just like a dim. Oh, a dim. Damn. I like that. I like bags in there.

Oh, a dim. Damn. Damn. Let's go. I actually, I knew a bloke. Back in the swamp who called himself a dim.

There was always a red candle in his window. Oh, my God. More very nice hats, though. I mean, you know, it's quite nice. I'm glad you mentioned this. Are they more like masks? That conversation with kettle steam was very long,

so I'm hoping to take a dim if we can find a restroom. You watch as a Kett leaves, clearly offended by Gricka's comments about flying, and shuts the door behind you. You imagine you could stay in this room as long as you need to. it's nice and cozy in here. There is tea available on the counter. There's a small little, there's a small little ice chest off to the side where you imagine that there are confections. Each of these houses is set up for places for a little bit of privacy and a little bit of relaxation

in the wildness that is the Witchlight Carnival. I'll let you go the ice chest and see if I find some ice. There is ice in there. But there are also otter pops. There are these adorable little of frozen otter-shaped popsicles that are flavored in many different flavors. There's melon, lime, there's birthday cake that's filled with sprinkles on the inside. And each of the otters has cute little mustaches or monocles or adorable little features on them.

Some of them are holding little clams. Guys, you never guess what I just found. What are you for, Gideon? Delicious and cute frozen treats. How delicious and how cute. Take a look at this! Oh! Fuck, get them on those!

Get them on them! Oh, do they have a cherries berries on a lot? They do have a cherry's berries on. They always got two clams. Frosty, I know you're a birthday cake, man. Why don't you just take that? I have a nice tea here. Get my fuck out like that.

No, it was my Earl Grey tea. But you do notice, you do notice that there is a lavender, Earl Grey Otter Pop. It's a very dapper otter. with a top hat on and a monocle holding a cane that's topped with the clam. You seem like an earl gray lavender. I don't accept this.

It seems acceptable. I'd like to put some ice on top of my head and then produce flame and melt it. Oh. Perfect. You're easily able to do it. Nice. Oh, look at this one. It's like a rocket order, the red, red, white, and blue one.

He has sunglasses and a machine gun. And a cheeseburger. Mmm. That one's cheeseburger. It's cheeseburger flavored. Oh, yummy! Flavored like Tony Sachery. A little pickle.

You look down and you see that right next to the mango one covered in chili, that there is next to it a one that looks like it's frozen gumbo. Oh, my God. One for you. This is fucking brilliant. Do you death roll when you do that? That otter had a son. skull mask on its face and it was holding a cane, a set of dice, and was wearing a top hat as well.

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Oh, he even says, oh, it's five o'clock somewhere. Let's drink. Let's drink tequila. It's an a.m. It's actually tequila flavor. And there's a worm inside. That's why I got it.

You're going to get a cake. No, it's pinkie-colored. No, that's the margarita one. Oh, yes, the margarita one has the worm inside and also is covered in lime and salt. Oh. And then the other one is the pinia collada. Yeah. She's like a wasted, like a wasted cougar order.

She's got some mangoes. Yeah, she's got some. Oh, why don't we get drunk and hold hands because we're auditors? If we want to improve the mood of this carnival, I do propose we find and distribute the tequila. There's no tequila here. You don't think so? If we unleashed a tequila

at this place burns to the ground. No, there's a tequila otter pop. Is there enough for everyone? It's dying this night. Be careful with the power you're dealing with from the thing. Oh, fuck. I gotta say, my favorite thing about this is

I just randomly make up otter pops for this ice chest. And I throw out a couple and then y'all just run with it. Now they're a million otter pops. This one's made out of pork. It's the otter otter pop. Oh, the spaghetti and meat bones one.

It's spelled otter, O-D-E-R, otter pop. Clam chowder one. Oh, it's just a normal. This is a normal honor? It's a real hyper-realistic honor. Like hyper-realistic. Anyways, we should probably go. We should blow that stuff.

Okay. So who's good? We all got to. enjoy a nice time so the mute it's so good that Mr. Lord is like, I'm gonna use whoever vain and frosty, you can be my monarch. No, I don't think it's a matter of us enjoying a good time. It's a matter of everyone. If we enjoy a good time, everyone will have a nice time.

We have to make sure that everyone's having a good time. So we have fun, not at the expense of other people. That's right. I know that's kind of our thing. That's right. But we need another? Can you behave? We got like, oh God, we really have like three hours left? Yeah, we do.

That'll only take 24 in-game hours. Okay, I think about three games, three hours of game time. I mean, we've only been here, four hours. We've got like twice as much time left over. We'll finish the carnival episode 48. Hey! I'm going to leave. I'm just going to leave.

And then we'll play the campaign. Okay, I kick the door open. And then the prelude is over. Pixie Kingdom, we're here, we brought tequila artists. The moment you... Tiffany! The moment you open the door.

I do shallow shots, girl. In my fucking werewolf costume that I'm still wearing. I'm dressed as the beloved cartoon mascot Flewbrun. Are you gonna let me DM, Michael? Food room. We can't try to shut the phone up.

Please let me cast suggestion at will and bring all these for those. I am about to start. I'm about to add that to your message. I'm saying all about it. That's your message. That's brilliant. I don't even remember what I was saying anymore. You know, you can talk, Mike.

I don't know what to say. No, we're going out in the Piccy Kingdom. What do we see? I'm following Greek. Everyone's coming around to the Keel pops. No, they're not coming through the otter pops. What you see is that you. are now surrounded by a bunch of giggling pixies. All of them wearing sashes around their,

around their necks that say, um, bride's pixie. Um, one of them, one of them says pixie bride. Um, and then on the back, it says, pixie dust. It's a rush. Um, and they're clearly, they're all drinking from champagne and giggling as they swarm around you. And you, you hear a couple of them. There are 12 of them in total, as they all swarm around you. I'm assuming that one of them is extremely drunk because she thought that she would be able to get married before the one that's actually good. Can you please let me DM here?

I'm just assuming. Is it okay for me to- I'm looking out for the drunk one, that's Frost? Is it okay for me to DM tonight, fellas? It's cool, you know? You know? I'm trying. I know that we're now mutual DMs in this campaign,

but would it be cool if I maybe did it for a while? We're all DMs here. Except for rich. Except for rich. That's the fuck God. You don't DM. I wouldn't say shit. So you see this. A carpe DM, everybody.

I was to see you guys get the stream started. Okay, okay, okay. We've done it once, and it only froze a little. Yeah, all right? We may have had to end. In 2018. Yeah, we may have had to end early because we couldn't figure out how to get it restarted.

and then after 45 minutes, we turned it back on to literally nobody, but we did it. If this is what I see. Is there one that thought she was getting married first? Yes, what you see as you walk out is 12 pixies as they begin to swarm you. One of them you see towards the back is crying.

Another pixie has their arm around her, and it's hard to hear what's being said as they're all chittering about you. You do see, actually you're only 11, because your bride is clearly off to the side with what appears to be a very boisterous and chubby pixie mom who is talking to her and helping her plan her wedding.

You find yourself oddly more aroused by the pixie mom than your bride to be. That's not all. If I know Mikey. And Grico. I mean, Grico. Give it a game, Mickey. Give it a game.

Gonna be fine. All you have to do is wait. Just a few decades. We're going to stop watch. Like mother like daughter. So. And they immediately begin to Oh my God.

Oh my God. I'm so excited to you. I'm so excited. We can't believe that you're coming to the family. We're all family here at Vixie Kingdom. You know, this is so great. You are such a cute couple. I mean, it must not be easy being green.

I would have walked out. In the scene setting, I would have walked out. No, I would walk down the thing and see all. Immediately fly towards you and put a sash around you that says pixie groom. It's quite easy to be green. I wrote a song about it. We have let everyone know what is happening here. Invitations have gone out.

Mr. Witch and Mr. Light have already received this and have accepted. We're going to do the wedding right before the crowning of the Witchlight Monarch. It's going to be amazing. And you hear towards the back, I just, I'm so much cuter than GMS. Look at me. And if Jimmy had just not, you know, I don't know what's not going to do me right now. It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay, Rachel.

It's gonna be okay, Rachel. Have an otterpop. Is that what Franz is doing? No, no. I'm being up. Derek is canonically in the witch like carnival. The bearded glasses, man. I'm in Bickneyed Gang.

It's fine, you want to get married? I mean, are you asking for real? And like you should say no, but do you want to? Yeah. Look at my green pants. These green pants look like a bachelor's and you hear that as this random half-elven male walks away with a pixie in his hands.

Goodbye Rachel. That was a very strange man indeed. You see his pants? You see those great? Really old and terrible. Yeah. Who is stupid? Who wears grates?

Who wears grates? Who wears grays to a cargies to a car from him? I'm probably dried it on high. Brigo, you're all right. You look, you look lime. The pop shots for the Bachelorette's party. So, we did come over to ask you a question. You can say no, but please don't.

Oh, is he being green? My name is Vixie and I am the Pixie wanna. I can't wait for you to meet Neil. I've already said Neil his invitation. Oh, of course you did. We just knew you were gonna want in here as your press. Faye while I'll get in the Paris, Goblin College. You cut to some random bedroom and Neil's just like,

What's happening? I need it. I need it. Hey, can we... I'm a little old to be there. I can't wait to show Grick to Pico my new Magic the Gathering Day

I sense of a disturbance I'm not fucking kidding Neil's making a pair in this goddamn sense You know we already said Neil his invitation and he was quick to accept to be ascending

so we have a magically created a way for him to get here he'll be here within like the next probably 15 to 20 minutes or so however In the meantime, we really hope that you don't mind doing us a huge favor. We know you're the groom and all. But we heard you was also drag queens, and we really want to see a drag show.

Yeah. I don't know who told you that, but... We have invited everyone, and Mr. Witch and Mr. Light said they would come and watch. That we could even put it on in the big top. Oh! I just came in for the wedding. Fine. I can't wait

to till my brother my identical twin brother King Smebulok gets married. When I got the invitation I was like What are you talking about, Quico? You're getting married.

Oh no. Can you move the tracker down one? The happiness trackers as the pixies start getting sad? No, no, no. No, no. My twin brother is a king. He's very wealthy.

He's royalty? Do you think he would be part of the drag show instead of you? Yeah, no. I think the one you were talking to, he always, he's a prankster. It's like, it's kind of like me old self. Like I always say, oh man, King Smebulok. He would go by Grico. He was really kind of a mean-spirited prankster who's kind of like a brand-neged brawomen.

They immediately start like talking amongst themselves and you hear the word, you hear them saying, does he really think that we can't see that the, that he has clearly made this pact with Bixie? I mean, this is ridiculous, right? He's trying to pretend like he's not the person. Doesn't he know that there's a magical aura and glow when you make some kind of a fay pact with someone and that you can't just lie your way out of it?

This is ridiculous. Do you think we should tell it? Do you think he's cheating on a? Do you really think he has a king brother? Man, that would be really interesting. My identical twin brother, King Smebulak has much wealth and tracks of land and a whole small council

complete with Master of Corn. Yeah, so that's amazing. You still have to marry Bixie. But do you think that you could bring your king brother and in and he could do the drag show instead of you? Because I'm sure she'd like to meet him before the wedding. You hear a little bit of chatter. Do you think that she knows he's got a king brother?

Why would she pick him over the king? Maybe we shouldn't let him meet the king brother. Should I follow him instead? I can't wait. Oh, I was just joking, gosh. I'm always known for joking around. Right? Bricko, if you need to...

Oh, joking. I'm known for joking around. Play rock arena if you need to escape. But what you're going to? Oh, what are you doing? What the fuck are you doing? No, we have to keep everyone happy. It's important that we all...

You start to see that they're starting to look really sad as you avoid answering their question. As the tracker starts to go down one. No, no, no. No. No. No. No.

No. No. Smabia lock is going to come in in a second. I actually just got, I just got a message. Twin powers. Mm-hmm. Twin powers. Oh, yeah, that tracks.

That's the thing. Yeah. He just got to the car. He just got in. He's feeling real jet lag. And he's trying to be a bus kill and not enjoyed. Oh, no. No.

I just not. So I'm going to go fetch him And I might need to I might need to make preparations And talk to the flower Person And talk to the The social media

Yeah You guys get to go do all of the stuff that Bixie doesn't want to do She just writes it down and orders you around And you have to actually deal with it all Because she's bridesilling right now He's going to be doing all the emotional labor Yeah

So But that still doesn't answer our question. Oh, no. We did already invite Mr. Witch and Mr. Light to the drag show, so are you willing to do it? Are you just going to have your brother sub in for you? I'm so busy. I think I'll have King Smebuluk.

My twin brother Smebielock come in and I hope that he's very charming. I hope he doesn't sweep you away. I was like, hey, Smebilog, stop stealing my girls. Wait, God. So I'm sorry, you're saying that this king, this goblin king is, is, he's single? Oh, he's looking for abroad. Oh, my God, did you hear that? He thinks he's looking for. Yeah, he

just got rejected, actually. And his kingdom is certainly not in decline. And, didn't you? No, it's not in the client. There's no war of any trolls, okay? Yeah, and didn't you just lose your job or an idiotous debt? Oh, yeah, but no, I'm kind of fonding myself. Yeah. You know, I'll figure, like, oh, I can do all the cooking and cleaning

while you go work, you know? You know, and I'll stay at home, and you'll say, oh, you know, Then the nice thing is... I'm kind of tardy up a little bit, you know. Once you're married, she'll assume the debt, and we can move her hand and they're helping to pay off for you. You hear all of our burdens. When you're talking about debts and stuff,

we don't even use human money with pixies. Well, you know, I'm a goblin. Actually, I'm in terrible debt to this guy. I mean, it's not a big deal. His name is Remy Goodroo. He's a horribly powerful voodoo man who runs a whole whole thing. Someone who's horribly powerful?

Hundreds of thousands of human gold. Yeah. He's a human, though. Don't worry. He's not anything crazy like that. He's still human. Grico basically doesn't even have control of his soul. I don't even know if you could make this pack on the first place.

That's so cool. I can't wait to tell Bixie about that. She's going to love you even more. Yeah, and so when you work and we share our burdens all about around the house. And I'll look for a job and you'll say, oh, Grego, have you worked on your resume? I'm not your wife. And I'll start walking on it. Then you see that I sit at the table.

He has said that to me many times. You should see him stack dishes in the sink. Dirty dishes all the way up to the ceiling. It's remarkable the balance he can achieve. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm going to be great. Every time I eat cereal, I always use two bowls. Oh, yeah.

And I can't wait when we move in together. I'm going to bring my whole Funko Pop collector. I hope, I mean, we're going to have a house full. them right a whole room in our house for them right I'm gonna go get Shmabula I can't wait for you to force to share our burdens together especially my debt to horrible voodoo man that sounds amazing we're gonna go get ready then we're gonna confirm with mr. witch and mr. light that right before the the uh the witch like carnival or the the crowning of the witch late monarch um celebration that we're gonna go ahead and do the wedding but that before that even you're gonna put on the drag

show because mr. light seemed really excited when we told him frost was participating And that's happening at the end of the night. At the end of the evening. So a drag show, a winning, and then the king of the monarchy? Yeah. Okay. It's going to be a huge event. It's going to be the biggest event. Until then, so I will, so we're going to.

Yeah, yeah, it's going to be the biggest event of the entire witchly carnival for, like, years and years and years. And Mr. Witch and Mr. Light are so excited for it. Oh, yeah. The Pixie Kingdom has never known so much renown. It's just, oh, gosh, I'm getting reclamped. Oh, also, Mom. I am being fake-packed with you, my rat, broad. I'm not deprived.

That's not Vixie. I keep telling you. My name is Vixie. Bixie's over there with her mom. Oh, she's working with a mom. It's so nice. My name's Vixie. Rachel was the drunken pixie that doesn't even go here.

She wearing pink, though? I mean, it's a Wednesday. We wear pink on Wednesdays. That's a pixie name Rachel? Oh, is it like Rachel Lixie? No, her name was Rachel. She's not from around here. Oh.

Oh, that's your mom over there? Yeah, that's Busty. Oh, is Mr. Busty going to be? Is her dad going to walk her down the aisle? No, that didn't end well. Oh, he can't walk. It was weird. He walked out of the house once his legs skews together.

screamed my fucking legs and drowned in a swam. Oh, terrible. You know, that actually happened to me cousin. One of the three wild swamps, yeah. I mean, I was just in a regular swamp, and that happened to my cousin Legsy. They caught him now before his legs infused together. Oh, you know Legsy?

I mean, I did know Legsy. Oh, it must be a different legsy. Our Legsy has legs for days. Oh, no. We hit very short legs. No. Legsie has very big legs. Be a scared.

to drink and eat porridge. Oh no! I'm drowned in the swamp. What are you doing? Oh, I mean, oh, no. We thought he was in the swamp. We thought he was in the swamp. His body was not eaten by any hardro.

None. And... None hydra. With not a feet. Oh, I wonder why they call him of a busty. You really want to why? on a while. She keeps falling over. I mean, she can't

fly it. Her wings are the size of Gideon. She's not. She spins forward. Well, that means that we have until the drag show. Oh, yeah. I'm going to go party with my

gosh night. God's not. Bachelor party. Our job is to get Grico late as frequently as possible. And that all get Schmebielack. Miss the love. said you have access to the special trunk in the costume closet for your drag show. And yeah, it basically will procure whatever your heart desires costume-wise.

It's how he gets his outfit for all of his shows. He doesn't let just anyone use that magical costume trunk. So you're really, really lucky. I wouldn't make sure you have an idea of what you're going to need, though. Oh, yes. I have an idea right away. I'm very excited to get into Mr. Lyle's truck. Uh-oh.

Oh, yeah. How long have you waited to see that? The second she said special trunk, you were like, oh, yeah, me too. Yeah, I'd be the first to speak. Yeah, I'm really one of fours around in Mr. Lodge's special children.

Oh, well, that sounds quite nice, actually. Whatever I dream of. Yeah. What we should do is we should go get Smebberlok and have him participate in the drag show. Oh, Smabulik is going to Love plundering missile specials. Yeah, Shembulag, and the nice thing is,

while we're doing the show, he's got a much better body. He's handsome. Yeah, yeah. You've been letting yourself go. Oh, I mean, have you had that? I mean, I know the rat snacks are for, wait, why do I have rat snacks? The core delicious.

And the oldest of Paul boys, you kind of, you know, you take your shirt off, you look like a melting bowl of lime ice cream. Oh, yeah. A little bit of maybe keel on, I mean. But yeah, we put shmambiolk. Or perhaps a little bit of pepper man. Not shown for the ages.

Contagious diseases. I mean, they're endless. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's been a lot of time with Toolback. It's kind of a goblinoid thing, you know. We're known as disease carriers. There's special pigeons, right? Well, we're known.

There's a special kind of gobbow plague that only gobrenoids can carry. It varies, I think. Yeah, I think it's transmissible. It's so good to know that Bixie is a candy stripe of pixie and that she's capable of really just getting rid of anything. Oh, yeah. So you should tell everything we talked about,

especially my Funko Pop connection. Oh, she's gonna be so excited to hear it. She loves Funko Pop. Oh, yeah, okay. Smeviela has a bigger collection on account of being a king. He is a whole castle of him. Why don't you stop talking?

And why don't we go? This has been a time. Oh, it has been a time. Oh, it has been a talk. Well, why don't we just do a round of tequila, Oyster pops before we go to celebrate their otopops. Oh, what don't I say? Oyster pot?

I thought there's probably some oysters. Oh, yeah. Tequila. Yeah, yeah, you should continue to spend time in Pixie Kingdom if you want. I'm sorry, but we are going to have to separate your bride from you for a while. Oh, no. My, my, my, my beloved, me, me, me. Bixie.

Bixie. Oh. Oh, well, the good news is, like you're also saying, we have had some planned rendezvous with Rihanna Flog and your... Oh, you talk to Rihata. She's not part of Pixie Kingdom. She works the main corner. No, but no, the idea is that we're going to...

It's Bachelors night. We're going to... Oh, you're going to hire her services. She's going to be a dancing girl? Yeah, we're going to work with... What else would you do on Bachelor's? We're going to smoke cigars. and laughs, if his hole gets

written up and down, I'll thipper-like. That is absolutely distasteful, Frosty. I'm no, this may be a little premature, but Vixie, uh, here's a breadmaker. My name is Vixie? No, no, no, I'm giving,

is it too early to give the gift? Frost is me best man. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, you're my best man. Of course you're my best man. You're my best friend. What about me? He told Neil that he was your best man. He, he, he, he, he, even rented the tucks already.

We'll tell him when he's part of the wedding point. He's at the very end. Oh, he's going to be so disappointed. He said he's never been asked to be anybody's best man. And he just spent everything that he owns. And it wasn't a lot on getting that tux in those shoes for this wedding. He said he's willing to go into debt for his best friend, Grico. We're going to give you the best.

Wait, are you the bride? I'm Vixie. The bride is the same to me. The bride has not been here this entire conversation. Rachel doesn't go here. Oh, she's with Busty? Yeah. With a mom Busty.

Oh, her mom's Busty or her mom's Busty? No, her mom. That's the mother of the bride. Yeah. That's what, that's, yeah. Hold on, I'm going to explain this to you. Yes. Toolbick can be enough.

There are 11 pixies here now that Rachel's gone. This is Minxie, Twixie, Nixie, I'm Vixie. This Grixie, Dixie, Txy. There's Zaxi, Quaxy, Rixie, and Stixie. Pixie. Ain't taxi, sir? Yeah, well, we thought you were going to hire taxi to be your dancing girl, but apparently you want to go with Riata Floresa.

Oh, wasn't it? I think we're going to. Two for the press or one. Oh, no, no. You can't put Rihata and taxi in the same room. Actually. They have a beef going back years. You want to know what Rihata did?

She slept with Taxi's boyfriend. And sure, taxi slept with Rihata's boyfriend first, but that's still, girl, you don't do that. No. No, that's why we're going to keep it. The only pixie, though, I could ever be a drug. to... Are you having a stroke?

Is my beloved Frosty, oh. Reaching my brain, oh, okay. Yeah, I'm going to get, oh, thank you. She saved my mind. As always. Oh, you're all me best man, maybe. Depending on how Neil's sadness and tragedy

will affect the mood of the carnival. The great a good, Frosty. We won't make it through the swamp. The only... That's actually a good point. The only pixie can be attracted to is more beloved Bigsy.

Bigsy. I can see that you've had too many tequila otop, so we're going to go ahead and chalk that up to alcohol. So we are going to procure the services of Laslo Gregorovich. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm named.

Geladrin dancer. Oh, I think that would be much more acceptable than Rihanna, to be honest. My bride is my... A thinner line of vomit convention. I can't wait to be committed. We're going to give the best show, you better see. I've always liked them, sure. Your wedding's going to be great.

And not big enough to cross my head with a fuss. All right. Well, I think we've said enough here because we as the pixies of, as the pixie party for the bride, you have a lot of fun things to do. We've got to hell if it got a dress. It's rest time. And we've got to get ready for the drag show. We've always wanted to see one. And we can't wait to scream really loudly and not tip nearly enough.

So we're going to go ahead and go do that. And in the meantime, We have set aside something special for you guys to enjoy really the last bit of Pixie Kingdom. And that is normally Pine Cone is available for everyone. But Pine Cone, the Pug is now exclusively yours for the next bit of time. Now, the thing is, Pine Cone is a little bit excitable, and he only listens to Pixies. But I'm going to go ahead and escort you so that we make sure pine cone's fine. And you can do pine cone rides.

He's really fast and he likes to have a good time. So you just hop on his back and ride around for a while. Is that the main attraction of pixie kicking me? Yeah, it actually is. There is an excitable pug. And look. Yes. What are you saying?

One character at a time can ride pine cone, an excitable pug that listens only to Pixies. We're very small. So it might be like riding an elephant at the zoo. Yeah. Well, I mean, you saw how big biscuit was. I mean, a pug is like at least eight times bigger than that. And because we knew that one of your wedding party loves unicorns, we put a cute little unicorn horn on Pine Cone and he's just adorable. Did you say unicorn pug?

Yeah, he's a unicorn pug. I love unicorns. Oh, this pictures ain't so bad. I mean, you know, it's kind of nice. For guys' night, battle the party. So yeah, right in the very center, there's a big circular area where Pine Cone runs around. you would normally, would normally do a ticket punch for something like this, but since y'all are getting married, pine cones are in their house. We're not getting married.

Gregor's getting married. Yes, no, I know. Crystal fucking clear, all right. Three of us, we're single eligible black bachelors. How are you? Hi, honey. Hi. So you like unicorns, huh?

I do. She snaps her fingers and has a unicorn horn. All right, fellas. We should go on. And I'm very much, you know, I've just done, we thank you. We'll get all of the stuff that she doesn't want while she's bride zilling. And then I'll finally be able to meet the mother of the bride. We can have a nice cup of coffee with breast milk.

I mean breast milk. I mean breast milk. I mean breast milk. I know, I mean. I mean breast milk. I mean, breast milk. Breast milk, I mean, breast milk. I mean, breast milk.

No, I think he's saying the right thing. I think he's saying exactly what it means. Do you mean heavy cream? Plant Bay, soil and milk is procured from the staffing area. This man of milk now is one of the competition. Have another otter pub? I have another is full of tequila. Oh, God, oh fellas!

Let's go meet Pondon. Thank you, Vickie. And Vixie follows you being probably one of the few people in this area that can actually control Pine Cone. And you make your way towards the center of Pixie Kingdom. You're walking down a pathway that is lined by the gnarled roots of this large tree as it is, As it burst out of the ground and it forms a beautiful path, zigzagging path down towards this, this not small.

It's actually quite huge for you now, but it would be very small for you at your normal size. And it is an enclosed space where inside is this rambunctious pug puppy. And to your normal sizes, it would be a teeny tiny pug puppy. This would be probably the runt of the litter. But in your pixie sizes, this is a large pug. Its eyes can't quite focus properly as they're kind of not fully, they're moving around a little too much.

They're a little more bug-eyed than you're used to. Pine cone is slavering all over the place. A beautiful fawn pug. As it runs in circles chasing its own tail, you can see where its little paws have dug itself a race course inside of this little outcome. and there would normally be a line of people here.

You can see where the line for the ticketing would be, but it is empty. This is now reserved specifically for the groomsmen's party for you to enjoy some pug riding. You can ride all at once, or you can ride one at a time. It's up to you how you would like to do this, but she calls out to Pine Cone

and he runs over and wags his tail and slobbers and sniffs and starts licking at her. is incredibly happy to see her. As she says, all right, Pine Kong, you gotta go ahead and sit down. These are your new friends, okay? You'll be super nice to them, you promise? Pine Cone snorts and yips and barks.

Happily, as his tail wags. His tail is a full curly cue, as it wags back and forth excitedly as he looks at you. That is the cutest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. The unicorn horn is magically affixed to his forehead. It's difficult to see how his face is so wrinkly. And yet the unicorn horn does not appear to be sitting on top of the wrinkles. It looks like he is a unicorned pug.

The magic's done so well to replicate that image. She's a beaut. There's one cute booch. Oh, my goodness. And they transmogrified them just for me. All right, fellas. Should we all ride together? Let's all ride together.

It's guys. Yes, this all ran together. All right, well, we're going to do something really special quickly, all right? If you could just turn and look away. Okay, I'll let you know. I only just met Pondcone, but if anything happens to him, I'm going to kill everyone in his carnival and then myself. Oh, don't you worry, we would never hurt Pondon.

Okay, Pondon's one of us. I'm going to say you're just some sort of mysterious cloud or ghost or something. No. Oh, okay. And you all turn away, and you hear, you hear the, the yips and happy sounds of a very contented pug. And as you, um, it takes a minute or so before she allows you to turn back around. And you see that pine cone is now dressed in a small, uh, puppy tuxedo, a bow tie affixed under his neck. And over his back, where you'll be seated is, um,

four, it's almost like a saddle, but there are four chairs for each of you and a large dressing banner that says groomsman's party, it's Guy's Night. Oh. Hey, it's Guy, phony. I wonder if it says just a couple of fellas on the other side. Oh, it totally does. Oh, it's a hashtag. It totally does.

If you look around on the other side, it says just a couple of fellas. Don't worry, it's ironic. Oh, it's ironic. Man, I wish Tolbeck could be here. We could have given him plus one for Clemente Arms. I don't think we could. I think she was a late kidnapped her, and she was reclaimed. Tragic love story.

What did you do with Puguk? He's like, I'm going to get on the fucking bug. Yeah, you're already on the... Let's go! Come on, go, go, God! Happy Gazzna! Let's go! Frost is a little hesitant.

Oh, come on, Frusty. Seeing your hesitancy, pine cone. No, but he wants to put on a good show. He wants to be happy. Pine cone notices, because pugs are very emotionally attuned animals. And you see as Hine cone moves its face towards you and begins to nuzzle at you. And he's making his attempt almost at a kitty purr, like seeing that you look like a cat,

he's trying to calm you as he slightly licks at you and nuzzles you with his nose. At his normal scale, I imagine that. You could easily hold him in one hand. And you'd be like, but in this reality, it's like the fucking the scene where the T-Rex comes up to the fucking window during Jurassic car. It's exactly like that. Okay. Yeah, I'm just getting on, Pine Cone. It's fine.

It's fine. It's, uh, oh, I didn't know you were so good with dogs, Frosty. He licks you and you are completely covered in dog spit. If he licks you from toe to head. Oh, he likes you. Slombered all over you. Oh, Lasty. Oh, Lasty, you're special.

Oh, my goodness. That wasn't fake. I do everything that I can to. Actually, I have a Tabaxi feature. I will cat leap up to my chair and just immediately just You do. You do, and in this position, he does not have the neck dexterity to reach you with his tongue any longer, and you are safe. As Vixie looks around and says, all right, well, enjoy you guys night.

And congratulations. Grickle, I can't wait for the wedding. Oh, me too. And she closes the gate. And she says something to Pine Cone in a language that none of you have heard. A language not of the Faye,

but of Pixies themselves. And Pine Cone immediately starts off on a ride. And he runs and runs around the track. I need you all to make dexterity saving throws. Gosh not! Gosh not!

Pinecone, this Almarriage is no Marage. Oh, Dexterity, that'll be an R. Noss 7 for O Grico Grim Grim Grin. 23. I feel very comfortable at a 15. Should I twist and get horribly cursed? I mean, it's just hilarious if you do.

You won the best. It's just hilarious if you do. Oh, that'll be a Noss 20 for Grick-O-Grimgrin. I guess I got a roll with D-100. It'll distract you from the nightmare. Yeah, exactly. I think you'll bet channel points and you were in first, so yeah, well done. That's chap.

54. 54. Is anyone surprised? Hopefully it's nothing terrible. 16. 16? All of you are able to make your saves as Pine Cone runs and runs and runs and runs.

There's really nothing more to this than Pine Cone just running in circles around this track. Yeah! But it is, it's adorable, and it's amazing, and it's cute, and it was worth keeping it in this module one in this game. Oh! Hey, Pixies, isn't as the cutest thing?

Everyone happy? A little pug puppy. And I would say everyone is, especially Cremie. Cremi's joy at this pug, at this unicorn pug, raises the happiness meter by one.

Nice. I'm shooting my glitter fireworks that explode from my cane and then I turn into a sparkly face of a unicorn pug and then shimmer into the night. I'll be... I'll be playing a little tune on my ocarina

and spectral all mirages will be hopping alongside of us to mimic or to mimic the motions of Pine Cone. My eyes will be closed and I'm trying to understand how the mechanics of this beast don't make it immediately fall over for us. There were a few times that Pine Cone nearly trips over his small puppy legs. He's clearly not as, not as lives as he would be as he ages. He is still getting used to existing.

I mean, he's such a small little scamp. And he gets distracted quite often. Where he'll randomly stop and just jerk and turn around the other way and start running the opposite direction. Come on, Bonkone. I know we can do a backflip. He's basically just spinning him playing. He's a pug with the zoomies. Oh, okay.

Backflit, Poncone. I know you can do it. Yeah! And it is now, Grico, that you begin to feel lightheaded as something overcomes you. You begin to,

your mind begins to shift and warp. And you know, I can roll for it, but I'm just going to choose who it's going to be. Where you look over at Frost and it's horrifying

to you because Frost, this person, you have memories of who this person is, but Frost was never born. So as you look at Frost, you, your, basically what it says is, um, one of your friends was never born, although you retain memories of them. So you don't believe this person here is really Frost because Frost was never born. There's just memories that you have. That's what you got.

Good luck. And I will say while you're on the back of this pug, this pug, going very fast. You can communicate and talk about what you're going to do next. Hey, Frost, are you doing okay? I just, uh, I've never been much of a dog person. I'm a can, I'm a can't of man.

He's in the phythian. He's in the phyrieg. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that a boy. You have some nerve, Neil. I'm sorry. Dressing up as me best lad, Frosty. Well, what do you say? Neil isn't here yet. He's probably drowning.

Neil. You are always jealous of my friendship with Frosty. And now you're wearing a costume to look and sound exactly like him, even though you know after his legs few together and he drowned in the swamp. Frost is dead, not never born.

No, that's not reality, Grico. You're saying falsehood. You've come under some... Don't marry anyone else. We won't be able to explain it to the pixies. That's exactly something Frosty would say. Neil, you are so cruel.

You're a real son of a bitch. You know, I always... I always... Neil, I never locked you. You never? No, they put us together. They put us together in the muskrat house. And I'm like, ah, this course seems okay.

I remember you telling me all of this information. I'm Frost right now. No, you should never be Frost. You should be Neo. I know it sucks, Meals. I remember you told me how he only slept on a mattress and he never had any food. He was very malnourished for... Yeah!

The last semester was disgusting. Yeah, yeah. He never bathed a lot of lice or some sort of bug. I can't remember. What was the bug thing? I can't remember. No, he had, like, he, like, kept bugs. And he was like, oh, he was like, oh, he was like, oh, he was like, oh, he was like, oh, he was like, oh, he was like, oh, God, I got more ticks.

He would go out and go out and the, the, the bushes. And come back, like, oh, Greg, oh, I'll put off my whole of my ticks. Oh man, he made you pull off the tics on the five. Yeah, and then you ate them? Yeah. It was kind of weird. You guys had a really weird and strange relationship with college. Just college stuff.

Yeah. It's just college stuff. It's just guys, man. I can't believe you would, you would, you would pretend to be me best lad, Frosty. Just because you're jealous of him and you want to be my best man. I don't know how that- Neil, you are a monster.

And I love monsters, but you're not the good kind of monster. I'm going to use a twist of dread. And I'm deciding whether I want to change, whether I just want to make one up for you because it'd be more fun if you started to believe that you were Neil. Yeah, I'm going to just make one up for you. As this is happening, as Pine Cone is running around in circles

and the, just the inertia of this, your innate fear of dogs, you start to feel your mind drift too as these fay magic start to warp around you. Maybe you aren't, Frost. Maybe you are Neil. Maybe you hate being Neil so much and you love Grico so much. You wish

that you were this Frost person that Grico always admired. Yeah, you're not you're not Frost anymore. You are Neil. You are Neil. What exactly do I need to say in order to convince you that I am Frost?

So you can talk inside my mind and say, and say what Frosty's favorite meal was. Can't Neil? I can absolutely do that. No, you can't. I can't, too. No, you can't, Neil.

I just, I just, breakfast. Maybe I can. That wasn't in my mind. That was next to my ear very importantly. Only you can hear that. I swear. What did he say? You said breakfast.

You shouted breakfast. Yeah, you shouted breakfast. What? No, I didn't. Neil, this isn't Norse. This isn't funny. Neil.

You have any idea what's going on? Don't let them ruin this for me. I'm tuning them out. Neal. Yeah. I mean, no. Frost? Frost? Ha! I got you.

You've always been a terrible lot of, Neil. Look at all my things in my backpack. I got all sorts of stuff because I'm a cat and I collected. Like, look at this yarn I've got. You can't explain that. Yarn? You really think Frosty, the smartest lad I ever met, would carry a ball of yon around with him just because he's a tiger to backseat, which has some similarity to a house cat. Smart. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard him on entire life, Neil.

Best man and smartest lad? Neil? No. I'm going to tell you something. No. I'm so smart. You don't need to tell me anything. I always thought that your marshal, the scattering deck, sucked. I let you win

What? I let you win when we played Marshall the Scattering You were the one who drew on my Dark Roads didn't you? You were the one who scuffed it I mean no No no no That's fine

I got you I did You just admitted it to it yourself I'm a cat I'm a cat Marshall is scattering a dark road Your dark rose was very cheap and unfair. It's meaning...

I had no other choice, Neal. It was meaningfully important, say, my cross-a- How dare you look me in the eye and say those words. Neil, you cannot be in my wedding party anymore. I invited you out of guilt. Okay? Okay.

Neil. Freshly year was the worst year. Day. We're best friends! And I'm gonna jump off of the... the pug going full speed. You are. A naked distanced, do you do a disadvantage.

Of two threes. Seven. You have got to fail. And you were going to take, let's see, what kind of damage would this do? Because it's not in the book. You know what? It'll be d-8s. You're going to take two D-8s worth of damage. Seven and five.

They don't put what happens if you fail in the book? Yeah. They don't tell you. you what happens is you jump off a pug going 40 miles per hour? Yeah, because they don't assume anyone's going to jump off the bug going 40 miles and a lot. How can they have not seen this come to? You're going to take 12, 14 points of damage. You're going to take 14 points of damage as you jump from the pug. You feel yourself falling through the air as you begin to almost hit the ground. But this pug is so fast that it makes another

lap in that time doesn't see you slams into you and knocks you into the fence you slam your body mangled and broken and then used to run you're bleeding out you're horrified you're scared this is really dark all of the pixies are really busy with the bridesmaids party that they don't even notice you in pain and uh what are the rest of you doing my visible like here Get me you. That's what you get for making fun, making light of the dead. That almost killed. Just give the time.

Keep the time, man. Keep going, pang-go, get going. You know, I always hated playing silver nose with you too. It's real bullshit to play strange employment opportunity. He's so much shorter than the rest of the characters. You can't hit him. What is this joke? Bizarre employment opportunity.

What? It's cheap to blame bizarre employment opportunity. In Silver Nose. You know, you know. No, and just say it. You sat, Neil. Okay. You even look like the last time I saw Frosty.

Oh. A gift. Yeah. Would you come and push brick off, bug? You want to push Grick? go off the bug. I think it was them saving. So what's a shove?

Well, we'll see if he fails and if he doesn't. 11. Oh yeah, you fail. So you feel compelled to go off the bug. Hey, what's it? You are my day? We'll comply. Frankenberry.

I attempt to show off. Griggo off the bug. Well, what do I do? How do I show you? It's an athletics against my athletics or athletics and acrobatics. Is it athletics or acrobatics for shove or does it's just an athletics? I think it's 11. It depends where if you would be able to dodge out of the way in the scenario where we're all in the same pug.

Yeah, you couldn't dodge out of the way. So I'll do athletics, which is a plus one. Derek, can you please confirm this role? That would be a natural twin. It's a twisted dread. Oh! Gotta give it down. Ah, yeah, as you do not have to give a reverse clap.

I have to create a vacuum. Well, you could like just dread me again, but I've got a bit of acrobatics or oh, it's athletics still, which is a plus one. 17. Oh, 11, so. I'm gonna twist the dread mace. Oh.

No, my five, yeah. That means you have to take the lower value. No, I'm kidding. Oh, okay, 25. I win Thanks shit I stand up in the seat Anyway without a war

Oh I'm a new best man after Frosty died Are you going to make a toast? I fire out my knee And with an explosion With a fiery explosion I crack get a Grinco in the jaw And launch him

And launch you clear off the bug Oh what is that a sweet spot A little bit of the saving throat, please, at disadvantage. 12. That is not enough as you fly through the air. You feel yourself falling as once again, Pine Cone makes his way around and slams into you, unable to control his small puppy body enough to dodge you

and flings you directly into frost-smangled. body as he's draped over the eyes. He's driven over the game. Oh, wow. You tone stool him? Doing 16 points of bludging damage.

To me also? No, not to you. Feed me or a banana, will you? And I just sort of play minor illusion and it will be a song playing. Always, I want to be with you and make believe with you. in harmony, harmony.

And I'm just going to basically like just listen to the music and like, always I want to be with you. Small tears will come down my eyes as I'm smiling and just living in the moment. And Grammy is like, nobody and nothing will ruin this moment for me. And I will say with that, that happiness and that joy that you described

is so palpable that even with your two friends bleeding out on a fence, a mere 30 feet from you. I'll put him a feed him a banana. The mood of the carnival does go up. None of the pixies notice this is happening. They're all enjoying themselves. There is a hum in the air about this.

From this moment, there is a countdown. Neil. Greta. Neal. Oh, fuck. I saw bizarre employment opportunities. You do. You fucking see the...

I can't tell you my mouth. You always complained that you never made it to the final four of any of the marshal de scattering tournaments. And you said they were cheap. You got beat by four year olds. You're dick sucked. You're dick sacked. I know. And that is where we'll end the session.

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