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Andy (playing Una): Who the hell?

Hamish (playing Thaddeus): Is this Fee?

Tati (playing Seraph): Aw, did he turn bad again?

DM: A dragonborn lich bursts into the room.

Andy: Ohhh! This bitch!

Marijn (playing Godric): I ask, "Who are you again?"

DM: She pauses mid-charge. "Larissa Firespit? You came to my dungeon?"

Andy: *grins* I say, "Not ringing a bell."

DM: *pouts* You always mock my villains.

Tati: I ask, "Can we take this outside?"

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Hamish (playing Thaddeus): Oh yes. You have my attention.

DM: Your footman 15-C announces a Mr Ostorin to see you.

Marijn (playing Godric): Who?

DM: He's a servant of another noble house. He-

Tati (playing Seraph): Wait, we're not done with the intervening week. We need to resolve Larissa's phylactery before we go any further.

Seraph (siren sorcerer): *blushes furiously*

Godric (fairy warlock): Oh hi Alwel! You can just walk in, you know!

Kjell (half-elf barbarian): *glares* No, he can knock.

DM: He shrugs and says, "You're nobles, and I'm-" he sighs -"technically a noble-"

Thaddeus (khajiit paladin): Not of this plane.

DM: "No. But it's the proper thing to do."

Tati (playing Seraph): I say, "Sorry to be cryptic. We have a question about your past-"

M (playing Kjell): "Were your whole family horribly murdered by a djinn?"

Tati: *glares*

DM: Maria takes a moment.

Adam (playing Billie): "We have a bottled djinn in our possession, and it claims to have killed a noble family called Cleaves a long time ago."

DM: She pulls out a chair and doesn't quite collapse into it, but sits heavily. She looks at Billie. "How did you come by this object?"

M: "The God and the God."

DM: She almost rolls her eyes. "Of course."

Tati: "I'm sorry."

M: "Was it your family?"

DM: "What does this djinn look like?"

Andy (playing Una): "Big and blue. Their name is Hammelat."

DM: She breathes out. "Hammelat. Yes, my entire family was murdered by this djinn. Including me, after a fashion. May I have the lamp?"

Tati: I ask, "If you're going to kill the djinn, would you like help?"

DM: She says, "I don't need help."

Tati: "I didn't ask if you needed help."

Andy: I say loudly, "It's not the djinn's fault, it's a slave."

M: "Killing it won't help."

Adam: "Can we circle back to how you died but you're still alive?"

DM: She looks coolly at Billie. "No, we're not going to circle back to that at this time." Then she looks sadly at Una and Kjell. "Maybe you're right. I've been running from or toward this for so long, but revenge so rarely brings any kind of closure. It wasn't the djinn's fault."

Andy: "Who called out the hit on your family?"

DM: "House Damalan, a bloodline that ended a long, long time ago."

Hamish (playing Thaddeus): "At your hand?"

DM: She ignores that.

Andy: "Why did they want your family dead? What was the feud?"

DM: She becomes sad again. "Land disputes, I think. It's hard to remember. I was very young at the time."

Hamish: "Define young."

DM: "Perhaps ten."

Hamish: "Oh. And you somehow survived death??"

Adam: "How old are you really??"

M: Don't ask a woman that!!

Hamish: History check on the last record of House Damalan.

DM: You have never seen any record of them.

M (playing Kjell): Definitely wouldn't have guessed from the name.

DM: He was created to fight in a war in another country, but he decided he was a pacifist so he deserted and ran away to Persia.

Tati (playing Seraph): I support him.

DM: You have two maids. Sarissa is a razorclaw shifter who's been working odd jobs around Suda for years. Vamellia, a half-elf, is a skilled seamstress.

M: (simultaneously) Finally, we can get rid of Una.

Marijn (playing Godric): (simultaneously) Una can have an apprentice!

Andy (playing Una): ...

M (playing Kjell): *face in hands* Nooo. I knew it.

Tati (playing Seraph): *silly voice* "Hello Kjell. Ready your pole."

M: *groans* Nooo.

DM: With the way the bracket has fallen, Kjell, the only way you can face him is in the final.

Adam (playing Billie): Thaddeus, let's throw it.

Hamish (playing Thaddeus): Agreed. It would be worth it to make Kjell face Frogcheeks.