You Can't Go Home Again

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## *Check Please!* Episode(s)

### Released

19 Aug 2022 (Twitch)
22 Aug 2022 (YouTube)
27 Aug 2022 (Podcast)

## Key Details

### Location(s)

Hartenshen
Palayana

## Players

### Cast

Keni as R'issen
Xeno as Vera
Grem as Lovette
Screwy as Petravian
Foaly as Kurla

## NPCs

### Recurring

Bahren
Samaral

### Background

Kolus
Shay

## Links

### Podcast

Apple Podcasts
 Amazon Music
 Spotify

*Check Please!*

"**You Can't Go Home Again**" is the 24th episode of the second season of *Check Please!* Campaign One. It premiered on the Check Republic's Twitch channel on August 19th, 2022, as the fourteenth and final pre-recorded episode to air after the show's switch to a livestream format in November 2021. It was released on YouTube on August 22nd. It is the last release of the Gap Episodes.

## Summary

Bidding farewell to General Theiner and the Lightningblades, Fortune's Favor returns to Hartenshen to meet with Siva and to receive their reward from the government of Vil for their heroism at Fort Hawke. The Party members then begin their journey west towards the Protean Empire, but unexpectedly find themselves in the small village of Palayana in Coudray – a place where Kurla and Vera both encounter unexpected faces from their dark pasts.

## Key Points

### Plot & Lore

* Fortune's Favor is directed by Bahren Aftzel to find Dercillos in the citry of Icomius, in order to cross the Isthmus of Golgothia from Obeddore into Occidore.

### Character

#### Vera

* Vera promises to introduce Bahren to Melifera at some point in the future, now that the deity has been returned to a physical body.
* Vera apologizes to Bahren, explaining the circumstances of their last encounter and blaming herself for them.
* Vera confides in Kurla that she is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people, an act which she deeply regrets (but only since finding her sense of morality changed by magical circumstances).

#### Petravian

* Petravian shares the five-sided symbol he noticed burn-scarred into Vera's shoulder with the rest of the group, none of whom are able to identify it.
* Petravian mentions an adventurer whose language Ris wished to learn, referring to Jiro.
* Petravian explains (to Ris) Sol's request that he start a religion for the godling.

#### R'issen

* Ris is delighted to learn that Bahren sees them as a kind of Fel.
* Ris mentions being unable to distinguish between High Elves and Wood Elves.

#### Kurla

* Kurla's mother and father, Samaral and Duru, are identified by name for the first time, as is their village, Palayana. Samaral later appears in person.
* Kurla learns that the people of their village, their mother included, no longer blame them for the death of their sister (or at the very least have "forgiven" them).
* It is revealed that Kurla's father Duru killed the previous Leader of the village in a fit of rage, then left in search of Kurla.
* Kurla begins to reconcile with their mother, and resolves to seek out their father.

## Running Gags & Callbacks

* Once again, R'issen/reason comes up.
* The God Who Talks lives up to his name once again.

## Memorable Quotes

* "Are we still staying for dinner?" – R'issen, pragmatic as ever.
* "Vera, you don't have to come inside if you don't want to." – Petravian, master of the unintentional double entendre.
* "Do you know something I don't?" "Not anymore. I mean, no." – Petravian and Lovette, as the latter's prior knowledge of Bahren grows increasingly clear.
* "There's nothing there but crazed militarist racists." "Sounds about right." – Bahren and Vera on the Protean Empire, with Petravian sitting right there.
* "I am an eternal optimist, dammit!" "I feel like for your sake you should be more of a realist, but, you know, good luck with that." – Petravian and Ris.
* "They do this, like, every time." – Vera, growing tired of the R'issen/reason wordplay.
* "It's... not really polite to talk about someone's tail." "But I want to know what it looks like!" - Bahren and Ris, discussing Fel.
* "I fucked up and people died, all right?! Everyone I knew died!" – Vera, on their backstory.
* "Your stories are... interesting, Petravian. I'm really not sure how to take them, at all." – Bahren, a little confused by Petravian's foot-in-mouth disease.
* "If they try to kill you inside of a building, please come outside." – Archie, offering emotional support and physical backup.
* "If you need the place burned down, just make sure it's the right people." – Vera, offering support to Kurla.
* "Ris is just watching you like a hawk, trying to figure out if they're Disintegrating someone today." – Keni, witnessing Kurla and Samaral reunite.
* "I feel like the two complement each other: Eden wants everything to flourish, and Melifera wants everything to–" "Burn?" "No! Melifera wants everything to be–" "On fire?" – Petravian, with out-of-character interjections from Xeno and Foaly.
* "You need to listen *here*. Your heart, in case that wasn't obvious, not your armor." – R'issen, educating Petravian.

## Trivia & Notes

* Other titles considered for this episode included "Familial Faces" and "Heart and Home".
* The map of Coudray is revealed for the first time.