Welcome to our Halloween performance of the Castle of Ohtanto by the source players. Imagine the scene if you won't. Somewhere, somewhere in Europe, the book's not, I don't know where it is, alright. But it's somewhere with the castle. There's the castle. You can see it. And in this castle, there's a family. Manfred the father, Conrad the son, hapologta, the wife of Manfred. Isabella and Matilda. You should get used to the women pretty much all looking alike because that's they do. No one can tell the difference, I don't know. It's vague, it's what I'm trying to say is that it's vague. So Conrad, Conrad is waiting for his fiance. Matilda to show up. They're getting married today and he's excited. And then a helmet kills him. He gets crushed by a helmet. Giant helmet. Falls, foul to the sky. No explanation. He's just dead now. Manfred is upset. Manfred is very upset. Manfred honestly seems really weird and upset now. Everyone was worried about this wedding maybe being too early for Conrad, who's kind of the young and sickly and you know, thin you could see him. And he's sickly. Now he's dead. That's weird. Manfred is sad now though because he needed heirs. There's a prophecy about something, something owner of the house, something, something giant. And then Manfred promised Isabella that he would take care of her even though her fiance was dead. She doesn't actually mind all that much. She didn't like Conrad. Why they're getting married. Plot. So he promises to take care of her by marrying her. And then he locks her up in the house to make sure the thing get married. Manfred brings a fire from somewhere in town. He says, hey, yeah, I've got a wedding. I need you to perform for me. He says, okay, that's fun. I'm a fire. This is as deep as his character gets. Manfred says, I'm going to marry Matilda. The fire is not very happy about this. Meanwhile, there's some kid. I think his name's Theodore. No one cares, really. This kid, Theodore, or something is just a kid. He has no defining characteristics in any way. He shows up, Manfred's castle, for no real reason. Manfred immediately assumes that he is responsible for the helmet that killed Conrad. Because he's wizard. Because he looks like a wizard, right? Look at that kid. Just fucking look at him. So they impolite him under the helmet. Because that makes sense to someone. I guess. Meanwhile, a hypolyte, mom, remember? She's fine with all this. It's okay. This isn't a problem at all. No problem. I don't know either. It's weird. Then things get strange. If I can use that word to describe anything now that we've had a giant helmet fall from the sky. Manfred chases Isabella all around the castle. Theodore escapes the helmet and wanders all around the castle. Over the course of this wandering, he meets Isabella and Matilda in turn. They both fall in love with him because no character traits. He's basically a heron protagonist at this point. Manfred does not like him. And it turns out, conveniently, he looks like a portrait of the original owner of the castle of Attonto. Who's not related to Manfred? Because Manfred, I guess, killed him or something. It's not very clear. Meanwhile, Isabella's father shows up wounded from the crusades, I think, carrying an enormous sword. This sword is not at all related to the helmet, right? It's got an inscription on it that says, take me to Attonto, return to sender. Then, that's what they do. Then, Isabella's father dies. Then, Manfred tries to force her to marry him. Because Manfred, that's what he does. The fire kind of doesn't want to do it. But we'll still sort of do it maybe, kind of, who knows. He tries to hide Matilda, that fails. He tries to convince Manfred not to do this, but he he-he-he-he-he fails. And then, basically, there's a lot of run-around in the dark. And then, finally, thankfully, Manfred stabs his daughter in the chest. Because that makes sense. It was dark. Can you tell the difference between the two? I can't. Now that, apparently, can her father... Well, that's the end of the story there. It all really loved her and not Matilda, Bella. But she's the one who's alive. So they get married and spend their entire marriage being sad. This is what the book says. I'm not making this up. Manfred joins a monastery, I guess. And the giant helmet and sword are picked up by the giant giant that has been inhabited in the castle all this time, that anyone really noticing, except the servants, who no one listens to. And off he goes into the sky to ruin someone else's life. This is a really weird book, isn't it? Wow, is it weird? So, from everyone here at Wonder's Windows, happy Halloween!