October 14

**Location**: Alabastra, TACOSE HQ 2 (the bottom of a ravine in an undisclosed geographic location)

**New Characters**:

**Notable items/knowledge :**

* Journey's Backstory (finally)
* Destination uses any pronouns! They like shapeshifting so they/them is most common.
* Desmond's name is Q'taar'ius (but who knows what his REAL name is?)

**Notes**:

Dircc manages to rescue Tooey from the graveyard dirt. Gen's unconscious again. Champ stabs a zombie with the ceremonial dagger and it gets Thanos-ed. Zombies break into the Tavern. Jarvis slices off all the right arms of the zombies. Bea dimension doors Champ for a sick aerial attack on the zombies and Dircc gets the HDYWTDT. As a reward for not stealing babies or running away and actually fighting, the villagers give the party 5k gold. Tooey only gets 900, since Dircc takes the 100 he was owed from a previous shopping trip. Tooey reads the scroll Champ picked up, which is written in Celestial. It's essentially a 'Holy to Unholy' spell, and the dagger was specifically tied to this ritual, so it's essentially just a knife now.

Uh oh, Desmond is on his way. A portal appears and the party enters it (after some brief confusion about whether Desmond is appearing out of the portal or whether they are supposed to go through it). Matt's favorite water is piss, Sami suggests mixing hers and his together. Champ hears a voice in his head: " you've made a deal with the Devil, little one."

Tooey begins to remember parts of her backstory as everyone exits the portal, and the party is back with Obie, who is very distressed but relieved to see them. He couldn't figure out what was wrong with the portal and thought they were gone forever. Gen gives him a hug for trying. Obie gives everyone a crash course in the history of Exandria, including the Calamity and the Betrayer Gods (including The Devil Lord aka Lord of the Nine Hells). The group debates whether it's worth it to time travel and kill baby Desmond. Bea has access to a robot army? Wario can potentially fix the robots, that's science. Dircc doesn't think he's going to die. A plan and a pre-plan are discussed and Cindy makes a portal back to talk to Journey. We level up. Sublime.

Dircc hugs Greg. Champ knows about fuck. Nat 20 on Greg knowing Destination: he says he recalls meeting a circus performer back in the Dwendalian Empire by that name (an acrobat), but it might just be a stage name. They were a duo with the names Journey and Destination - coincidence??

Journey knows we finally went to the past and comes clean. She suggested Yen find us, since she, Destination, and Wario grew up knowing about us. Journey hasn't seen her sibling since a younger age, potentially recruited to the dark side. Is Mariette alive? Who's to say. They grew up on the run, and she's met her dad. At 10 years old their hometown was wiped off the face of the earth, the citizens decided to worship a Betrayer God and it went as well as you'd expect. Mariette created a distraction while her kids escaped and the Betrayer God crushed the town. The three kids escaped and Wario (as the oldest among them) took care of them for a while. Time isn't working on them? Journey is like 300+ at this point. "Green don't grinkle." She's spent her life being chased by her father's people and hadn't seen any of her family in at least 100 years (until we ran into Wario). Journey asks Dircc if he remembers the dream he witnessed - that was the day she lost Destination. They were being chased through a guildhall in Vasselheim; Wario was able to lead them to a secret passage behind a tapestry but Des couldn't fit and stayed behind to provide a distraction. Journey fled with Wario but they decided to split up to lessen chances of being tracked, and 50 years later we ran into Wario doing necromancy. What happened in those 50 years?? Destination might be being coerced, can be saved? The twins are both half orc/half elf but by default look a bit more orc-y, and Des likes to shapeshift.

Wisp finished research with Yen at the library in Xhorhas and are now actively looking for Wario. Rock reminds Dircc that he promised to do a favor in Westruun. The circus is in Rexentruum. The path forward is unclear and the plan didn't cover this. Bea uses the Bartender Network, so to Hupperdook (closest circle to Rexentruum), then to Westruun for Dircc to visit frends, then Xhorhas to meet up with allies??

Tooey needs to 'feed'. "Well that's suspicious". Dircc talks to Journey, flirting? Said he was scared for her, and she says she's always thought of him as her first protector. Tooey apologizes for trying to steal Journey as a baby. "I have a child myself". Dircc hearts Journey. Dircc imprinted. Dircc denies everything.