Girl Anachronism

The Acquaintances With Weapons experience deja vu in Nocturna.

## Major Plot Points

* Voloth, Vulveeta, Bigsby, Olivia, Fern, Kataro, Karen, Peggy, and Sudsy woke up at the Nocturna Inn. Outside, they found a festival celebrating going outside. Olivia spoke to a drunk man who claimed to know the future. When Fern questioned this, he told her she and everyone else in town would die in a fire.
* Sudsy spoke to a little girl operating the Hello, Gourdgeous vegetable cart. He put a dusting of cocaine on her goods. Bigsby blew the cocaine off, which Vulveeta quickly snorted. She gained greater strength but also became dependent on the substance.
* A crow cawed loudly and flew into the sky.
* Olivia and Bigsby performed a drum circle at the festival where all the townsfolk danced alongside them in celebration.
* When the clock tower struck noon, A wave of blue fire overswept the region, destroying everything and everyone in its path.
* Voloth, Vulveeta, Bigsby, Olivia, Fern, Kataro, Karen, Peggy, and Sudsy woke up at the Nocturna Inn. Bigsby, Sudsy, and Vulveeta woke up as if it were a brand new day. The others understood they all died in a fire and somehow woke up at the beginning of that day again.
* When confronted this time, the drunk man shared he felt a woman named Daedra was responsible for the time loop. He heard rumors she was a former red wizard.
* Voloth investigated Cindy’s Incendiaries to see if anyone made any large purchases recently. Cindy said no one made any unusual orders and sold Voloth two fireball necklaces.
* Sudsy went to the Tap That Drafthouse where he put cocaine in people’s foods. The bartender said he didn’t notice anything unusual happening in the town.
* Kataro monitored the festival but didn’t find any suspicious behavior.
* Outside of town, Vulveeta, Olivia, Fern, Kataro, Karen, and Peggy found Dani wandering around. The group then went to Daedra’s house. Vulveeta attempted to sneak into the chimney but got caught in a fiery glyph. Karen soothed her fiery ass.
* Fern blew a poisonous gas into the hut, which Daedra tried to use her Gust of Wind fan to blow away. Vulveeta shoved her butt into the chimney to prevent the gas from escaping. She and Daedra took poison damage.
* The old woman rushed out of her home. After being confronted by AWW, she wrapped a cloak around herself and disappeared. The blue wave of fire then destroyed everyone and everything again.
* In the next cycle, AWW awoke with only Vulveeta not remembering the previous loop. Once hearing a red wizard was nearby, Vulveeta became very excited at the thought of killing her. Fern told her not to attack until she hooted.
* AWW made their way back to Daedra’s hut and grabbed Dani along the way again. Karen shapeshifted into a bug and snuck into the wizard’s home. She saw her squatting over a warm hearth. Karen stole her invisibility cloak and ran outside. Daedra chased after her. When Karen hooted, Vulveeta and Olivia lept to attack, killing Daedra.
* Fern resurrected her as a High Elf and profusely apologized. After a tense conversation, Daedra believed AWW and confirmed they spoke of dark magic only a red wizard was capable of practicing. She gave them a black pyramid that can find red wizard auras.
* Knowing time was running out, Bigsby asked how they could get the pyramid from her faster without hostilities. Daedra said the group should proclaim, “Carol wants a meeting.” The blue wave overcame everyone and time restarted.
* AWW was able to get to Daedra much faster and retrieve the tracking pyramid without any harm done. Karen even convinced her to give her the cloak.
* The party went west and found the location the pyramid was leading them to. However, it was an empty field. Olivia dispelled magic and discovered a hidden tower as well as a hidden dragon.
* The dragon was Tinder, who was plucked out of time and sent to kill AWW. This battle proved no more successful than the last for the dragon. Voloth slayed her for the second time - much to Vulveeta’s dismay.
* Peggy used Speak with Dead to ask Tinder how they could avoid a fight if they had to go through the loop again. Tinder told her to say, “Vulveeta sucks.”
* The party figured out how to open the tower door, but not before Voloth suffered lightning damage from it. They then answered a statue’s riddle to get to the second floor. There, they leapt/flew over a lava floor to reach the staircase to the final level.
* On the third floor, they found Rahne, a red wizard working on a weapon of ultimate destruction for Emperor Szass Tam. Peggy polymorphed her into a cat. Voloth paralyzed her and shoved her into a potato sack. Dani killed her and that restarted the time loop again.
* In the next loop, Bigsby helped the vegetable dealer mend her cart. Olivia slept with the drunk man and left him tied up in bed. The crow was convinced to leave town with its eggs. Karen still made the trek to Daedra’s house to get her invisibility cloak.
* This time, AWW talked Tinder down and she flew away. She pooped on Vulveeta before leaving.
* In their final confrontation with Rahne, Karen used her new invisibility cloak to sneak by and destroy the red wizard’s magical hourglass. This sent Tinder back to her original time and broke the time loop.
* The energy orb Rahne was experimenting on flared with magical fire. Rahne decided to activate it so she would kill herself and AWW for good. Bigsby used shatter on her equipment, preventing her from killing anyone. When Bigsby suggested they leave her to Sudsy, Rahne slit her own throat.
* Karen took Rhane’s dagger, which was engraved with the word KILLA
* Calypso woke up earlier before everyone else to do her morning swim in the local lake. She rejoined the party after they defeated Rahne, having no idea the time loop happened.