Episode 18: Bathroom's Haunted

**Episode 18: Bathroom's Haunted** (C1E18) is the eighteenth episode of the first campaign of The Table is Yours: A Role-playing Adventure Show. The Faded Fates have a few issues in their new digs...

## Synopsis

### Confrontation

Shae’s words, “what does the name Adelaide mean to you?” hang in the air as One processes them in the courtyard of the Pale White Castle Keep. She tells Shae she doesn’t deserve that information, to which Shae reveals that she had already spoken with Adelaide. One lets out an exasperated sigh and looks away for a moment before locking eyes with Shae once again. She asks why any of the Faded Fates should trust Shae when none of them know anything about her, and, what they do know about her, is that she lies and steals. Shae gives her a look, and One asks how she lost 10,000 gold pieces to Teeter’s of all places. One explains that she wants to trust Shae, and she wants Shae to trust the party, but how can they trust her? One pleads for Shae to just tell her one thing about herself, for example: how did she speak to Adelaide? One notes Adelaide has been dead for a long time. Shae asks how she died, and One explains that she was killed by her mother, publicly hanged, and she couldn’t do anything to save her. One starts to continue but sees a vision of Chartreuse giving her a look suggesting she is being played by Shae.

One snaps out of her rant and cuts back to her original question to Shae. Shae vanishes into the shadows and whispers in One’s ear that she sees ghosts everywhere. One acts unimpressed. Shae asks if One has any desire to fix the issue of a god being bonded to Orathia. One doesn’t. Shae asks who released the god, and One says that Orathia did it herself. Shae sighs and says if that’s the case, what can she help One with? One simply tells her to give the group the money they’re owed. At this point, Terrance is exasperated and asks if they’re done fighting. They both shrug, and Shae declares that at least she got information out of One. One announces that she will only be a source of information to her because she sure as fuck isn’t her friend and storms out of the courtyard. Shae fades into the shadows shortly after, leaving Terrance to himself.

### Isa is Angry

While this drama unfolds in the courtyard, Isa and Codex are in the bathhouse discussing their finances. Codex asks Isa if she can borrow some money to get some decorations for her room, and Isa immediately says yes. Isa reaches into her bag and pulls some money as textbooks fall to the floor. Codex asks if she is actually triple-majoring like she said at the auction. Isa tells her that she isn’t, but she still studies to keep up appearances. The two continue to make casual conversation until Isa suddenly sees a vision behind Codex; it’s her dead partner, only he looks almost zombie-like. She stops in her tracks and tries to shake it off. He disappears for two seconds until his raspy, dead voice rings clear in her ear, hissing her name, “ISAAA”. She grabs her towel, darts out of the bathhouse, and is followed quickly by Codex. Isa runs to her room for safety, and she explains to Codex that someone she loves very much died at the Providence massacre and now she is being haunted. Isa is uncharacteristically and visibly shaken by this. Codex tries to calm her down, but the voice is in Isa’s head again, hissing “ISABELLA BALLADOR”. Isa looks more than panicked now and tells Codex they need to leave, but as she turns to leave, she blacks out and falls to the ground.

Isa is transported to a desolate mountain valley, and in the distance she can see a red canyon. The sky swirls with blacks and reds. A tall, humanoid silhouette stands before her. It crackles like static and shifts in grays and blacks; its eyes glow white. It calls to her, “do you feel that in you?”. Isa feels her heart rate increase as the pounding in her chest gets louder and louder. “Someone was taken from you, feel your anger, Isabella”, the mesmerizing voice says. The rage rises up in Isa, and she tries to push it down but can feel it slowly escaping. She starts thinking about revenge as images of Vorano, then Balthazar, and finally Terrance appear before her. She starts to get angrier but tells the silhouette she isn’t mad with Terrance because he didn’t mean to hurt people. The image of Terrance speaks up and says that he is going to keep making the serums, and he doesn’t care if a few people die since it’s in the name of science. Isa closes her eyes and says she knows that isn’t true. She tells Terrance his serums killed someone she loves, and he may not have meant to but he killed so many people. The voice in Isa’s head tells her to do something about her anger, to really feel it. Behind Terrance, more forms appear: her parents, Bynona, and Guy. Her parents tell her she is a blessing, Bynona says that she isn’t really a good follower, and Guy asks, “did you forget about me?”. This greatly upsets her, and answers that she didn’t, that she can’t. She starts to fuel her anger towards Terrance, the most familiar face to blame, and when she opens her eyes in the vision, he is right in front of her. All he says is, “oops”. Isa reflexively swings her axe through Terrance, and all of the other images fade away as she falls to her knees. The silhouette chuckles and says, “good, I can help you”. It reaches out a hand to help her up, and as she takes it, the figure shifts to look identical to Isa. It squeezes her hand and says to her: “find my diamond and release me”.

Immediately after Isa passes out, Codex drags her body to the courtyard. Everyone gathers quickly, even Wash who heard the commotion from his room. Codex frantically tries to explain that they had ghosts in the house and Isa could see them and then she passed out. Terrance rushes over to Isa and pats her face as he tries to wake her up, but ultimately it’s One who does the trick with a non-magical substance. As her eyes open, and she sees the person she had just killed in her vision, Isa shoves Terrance off of her with hate in her eyes. Terrance falls backwards and scrambles towards the group. Isa pushes down her anger as best as she can and tells the group that her partner died in the graduation massacres. And she tells them what Cazamir told her: Balthazar is using the deceased from the tragedy to form an undead army. The party sits in stunned silence as Isa, who is still barely covered in a towel, catches her breath, until there is a knock at the door. Codex gets it and sees Cazamir on their doorstep. He wants to brief everyone on their next mission, but Codex says that it is a bad time and leads him into the kitchen, past the commotion in the courtyard. He sees it and asks why Isa doesn’t want to see him. Codex tells him that sometimes, with girls, they’re hard to read. She also asks if she can borrow Cower for Isa, but Cazamir is confused by this. He shrugs it off and says he will just tell Codex the mission: The Faded Fates are to go to the Wilds and hunt a beast.