August 5

**Location**: A---

**New Characters**:

* Mariette
* Journey/Destination

**Notable items/knowledge :**

* We are back in time
* Desmond is Journey's father
* Journey has a twin sister, Destiantion
* Desmond's patron hates the Dawnfather
* Tooey has been here before

**Notes**:

The gang splits up, Gen, Dircc, and Bea question the people. Gen talks to the old dwarves at the table, Darvus. The town is in a period of recovery since the Incident. No one has able to enter or leave the town in the past nine months. The church got ugly and fell into disrepair, the old couple tells Gen to go visit the Alchemist, she'll be able to say more than they can. Gen starts twerking on them after discovering alcohol is free.

Dircc and Bea talk to a pair of orcs, Jarvis and Jaren. "What be your name?" "You guessed it." They start to play 10 questions with a surprise at the end. The orcs fear the return of their fallen brethren , Dircc shows them his whip and starts flirting. The orcs recognize Tooey, she has been here before. They also warn us to not talk about the Incident from nine months ago. The surprise was "your room or ours?" and Dircc heads up to the bedroom with them. Bea collects Gen.

Champ and Tooey explore the town while this is happening and find the town sign, only the "A" is readable, the rest is scratched out. We still don't know what town we're in. The town is surrounded by a thick fog, and walking into it only leads them back into town, this is abjuration magic. Everyone meets up (not Dircc, he's busy doing "taxes"). Dircc tied up Jarvis and Jaren, whipped them a little, and cast sleep on them. "Dircc are you a virgin?" "I genuinely don't know what that means." We head off to see the Alchemist.

On the way there, we spot a whole bunch of unmarked graves and Dircc goes to kick one before we stop him. "I didn't think I'd get four more children" we don't know what this means. We arrive at the alchemy tower and knock. A small gnome boy opens the door and introduces himself as Wario - yes that Wario. After he formally invites us in, we ask him to tell us what the fuck is happening. He doesn't understand because he's an actual child, but we confirm we are in the Tal'Dorei of the past (the first king had taken the throne recently). Bea gives him a cute lil duck toy that waddles and quacks. His mistress is the alchemist, and Wario shows us the tile challenge under the carpet that reveals the stairs up to the tower.

We climb up the stairs and find a heavily pregnant elven woman laying bed and asks us if Wario is okay. Champ tells her he's pooping. The alchemist produces a laxative potion for us to give Wario, Champ pockets it instead. We learn her name is Mariette and she guessed we're from the future because she was the one who brought us here.

The church was a temple to the Dawnfather before its destruction in the battle nine months ago. Mariette came to this town for the large deposits of residuum. Desmond came to town and broke promises, ended up working for a darker power. He's also the father to her children. The mist around the town is to protect her from him in case he returns with his attacks, the Dawnfather and his patron don't get along, but it will lift when she gives birth. We asked if she had a dream about giving birth to kittens, "Talk about a mean pussy". She gave birth to twins in the time she spent talking to us. She names her kids Journey and Destination (not Dementia which would have been better). She summoned a group of people who had interacted with Desmond in the past, in the hopes that they would help now. "I was hoping you would take care of the problem" "Nuh-uh".

She starts skipping town with Wario and her children, Bea tells her we know Wario in the future, Mariette says Tooey looks familiar. Gen and Tooey get into an argument about saving the town, Bea and Tooey don't believe they have any reason to fight someone else's fight. The zombie apocalypse might be a canon event, everyone is trying to recall history to see if it's' inevitable. Dircc asks Rock about killing someone, we all heard him say that out loud. The barrier is beginning to lift and we can't leave until it's fully lifted. Desmond will be here by then so we have to fight. She fucked us over to not deal with her own zombies. "You'd be surprised what we haven't survived."

Wendy makes a sick Macbeth reference "Screw your courage to the sticking place" and we look out the tower window to see the hoard of zombies creeping up. Mariette starts casting the ritual to skip town and Tooey uses mage hand to steal her children. Dircc counterspells. "Dircc you have to tell us if you imprinted."