Episode 18: Gifts From Friends

**Episode 18: Gifts From Friends** (01x18) - This one is all about presents, gifts, and treasures. Ones you take, ones you give, ones you didn’t expect and the ones you saw coming a mile away. Recovering from how flipping real things got when confronted with real evil The Nearlies then got a BIG Quest dropped on them by the Guildmaster. Locate the most powerful, famous and important adventurers in all the realms, a band of young women who’ve turned famous curses and enchantments into powerful weapons: The Damsels! Seems like kindred spirits to us.

## Cast

### Nearlies

Josh | Xenator Brisbane
Kathy | Lavaleen Crest
Andy | Martin Sirque
Amanda | Gwendylyn Cloot
 Robbie | The Speaker
 Aaron |  Production & Sound

### NPCs

APPEARING
 Von Dark
 MENTIONED
 Izarizal
 Sarah

## Summary

The Nearlies, having survived both their encounter with the Glorious and their subsequent interrogations, reunite with Von Dark, who is recruited to join the group as a potential martyr in replacement of Sarah. The group then leaves the Hall of Heroes, Sarah's ashes in hand, to head towards Izarizal's tree. They are interrupted by a Steward for the Mysterious Benefactor, gift in hand. Unwrapping it reveals a gelatinous blob. Martin touches it, creating a giant, permeant rainbow, and a large number of prismatic shards.

## Synopsis

### Prologue

Nezie Bindleweather, a six year old child, living in the Grimm Wood.  Something has been leaving dead things on her windowsill.  This concerns her mother who had already lost four daughters and was determined not to lose another one, and forced her to take precautions of garlic and silver.  One night Nozie is awoken to a scratching at her window.  She carefully peered out the window and sees an imp trying to get in. Suddenly a cat drops down and kills it, as it had taken a likening to Nozie and had been the one leaving the dead presents.  She quickly gave it a saucer of milk, discovers that the cat is charmed, and gives it a pet.

### Episode

The Nearlies are back in the Lobby in the Hall of Heroes, empty except for them, and sharing their feelings of anger at the Guildmaster and grief at the loss of Sarah.  Xenator asks Alfie the homunculus for a list of potential replacements for Sarah.  Alfie suggests Capt. Von Dark, as he is already in the building.

They follow Alfie’s directions and enter one of the rooms.  Dodderfell is getting the knots brushed out of his fur by Friedl.  The group officially votes to have Dodderfell join the group, and then they approach Von Dark the Toy Soldier and Glenglade.  Von Dark tries to convince the Nearlies that the encounter with the Glorious was actually quite a success, but they are still feeling the loss of Sarah.  He volunteers to join the group as Sarah’s replacement, and Friedl discusses how to teach more people how to do the binding ceremony.  Glenglade and Von Dark then pass out arms and armors from previous Heroes.  After passing out the weapons, he then hands out bottled time, which will speed up the completion of their downtime activities.

They leave the Hall of Heroes and end up in the statue garden back at the Sacred Temple of Inns and Taverns.  ‘Could’ve Been Heroes’ is scrawled in the sky. Xenator recognizes it to mean that their prologue is over.  They are then startled by a little goblin, a steward for the mysterious benefactor.  They open the present it brings, revealing a mass of rainbow tinged quicksilver.  Martin touches it and rockets up in the air and creates a gleaming, permeant, rainbow.  Martin turns into a giant umbrella and Gwen runs around catching the prismatic shards, crafting materials, that the rainbow was dropping. The rainbow is also capable of sending objects to the other end.  Von Dark determines that a possible ending place is Valaquellwa, a desert, or possibly The Obviously Haunted Manor.

### Epilogue

Nezzie has discovered that cats were natural allies against the night kin in the Grimm Wood.  The rest of the town has quickly taken up keeping cats, although the Bindleweathers have the best success.  Nozie Bindleweather, Nezzie’s granddaughter, has continued the cat tradition, keeping seven. Together they go on patrol against the night.

## Notables

Episode 18

 Objects Acquired

 Spells Used

 Metamorph Attempts

## Quotables

Quotes:  Xenator: “Huh, our prologue is over.”

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