The Miss Demeanor Ep. 5

### YouTube VOD

***Miss Demeanor* Episode 5** was streamed on BrettUltimus' Twitch channel on August 29, 2020, and premiered on the World of Io's YouTube channel on September 04, 2020.

## Summary

*Written by u/Sir\_P1zza, edited by u/PalladiumDrake*

As the Miss Demeanor approaches the island, suddenly an eerie string appears behind Alice. A large spectral ball surges through the sky and flies into Alice, after which something separates from him. A young man appears, seemingly translucent. As Alice reaches out to him, his hand goes through him. Alice notices that the person is wearing an academy uniform. The man introduces himself as Tremmer, and he explains how he found a wishing room in his academy. Inside that room was a Djinn to whom he accidentally made a wish, which made him appear here. Alice recognizes this story, for he also messed around with the wishing room. After Tremmer pushes the issue, Alice explains that he wished to be “where he was meant to be'', though he regrets not being more precise with it.

Tremmer continues explaining that he and his friends are currently stuck in the Astral and are looking for a way home. He asks if Alice wants to follow them, but Alice isn’t in a hurry; the pirates have been kind to him. Tremmer believes that the pirate’s life is better anyway, but Alice misses his sea snake familiar. The crew wonders what the string behind Alice is, so Tremmer explains that it’s a leyline, a connection between the Astral and Io that can be seen when a large amount of teleportation magic through different dimensions is used. The Astral itself is a place of magic and power where every spellcaster receives their power from. Tremmer asks the crew about someone called Nigel, but the name is not familiar to the pirates. Tremmer decides to look through his familiar’s eyes; although the connection is fuzzy, his familiar appears to be looking over a sobbing Nigel, half of his body stuck in a necrotic, horrifying flesh abomination. Tremmer tells the crew that familiars have been going missing in the academy and that he might have found the person responsible. Having seen this, Tremmer decides to return to the Astral and says his goodbyes to the pirates, briefly learning Luna’s history in the old academy.

The Miss Demeanor finally arrives at the island, and Captain Armstrong drops anchor. Everyone except Wood Gnome takes a rowboat and sails towards the island. The Lady Luck is beached next to where they arrive, and Layton rushes over towards her. Alice notices that the ship is still enchanted, but Layton himself doesn’t see anything wrong with it. He pulls his blade from the Bag of Holding, its green light still pointing to the south, so the crew follows its direction. On the cliffs that surround the beaches, they find a sign of inhabitants: a wooden ladder overgrown with barnacles. On the top of the cliffs, a path can be found through the jungles. As the crew travels along it, they find it to be filled with traps. They finally arrive at a small village that is filled with lizard people and one dwarf, who are a rare occurrence in Io as about 25% of their population were killed by gnome experimentations many years ago. Although the lizard people appear to be hostile, Layton and the dwarf greet each other, and they all introduce themselves. The dwarf is named Laurence Sidsworth. Together with the lizard people, he’s building a ship. The ship is made with floatwood, a special type of wood on the island that is much lighter than normal wood but still as sturdy. It’s also equipped with a steam engine, so they’re not reliant on the wind anymore. Layton and Armstrong explain their current situation with the Lady Luck. As Layton is describing her, Laurence points behind them to the Lady Luck floating over the jungle behind them, moving southward.

As they look over, a ghostly spectre appears on top of the ship. It feels familiar to the spectre that visits Layton in his sleep. The spectre thanks Layton for fixing the ship and putting the coin inside the sword, but he wishes he’d found more souls. It then starts forming into a person. Layton believes it to be Captain Vahn, but the person denies it. He tells Layton that he does have captain Vahn in stow and that Layton should perhaps reacquaint with him soon. He believes the deal they had is complete, so now he will take the Lady Luck to the land of Krakesque, reclaim the treasure and bring forth everyone to the land of the damned — that is his role as a warlord. The warlord thanks Layton for fixing the ship and giving it to him, but Layton refuses on the basis of the pirate code, so the warlord attacks them.

Seeing a fight brewing, Armstrong and Luna quickly scale up a nearby cliff in an attempt to reach the floating ship. They manage to throw their hooks on the anchor and bind the ship to some trees, slowing the ship down. Meanwhile Layton, Alice and some of the lizard people are fighting on the ground. The warlord sends many of Layton’s former crewmates and Layton’s old captain to fight him, continuing their fight from ten years ago. Trying to defend his friends, Layton grabs his blade. Although it’s been shining with the same green beam of light this whole time, the beam suddenly returns into the blade. It feels warm for a second and then glows with an otherworldly light. He killed many of his crew the last time he wielded the sword, but this time it feels different. As Layton embraces the sword, he learns to heal the wounded by using the souls stored in the sword.

While Layton and Alice are defending themselves, Armstrong, having slowed down the ship, tries to convince the warlord to slow down even further and talk it out. Instead the warlord blinks at Armstrong and Luna and says: “I only need half the ship, the part with the treasure.” The warlord uses his powers to try and break the ship in half, leaving the anchored part here. Then he grabs his blade and faces Armstrong in a duel.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Date is shown on YouTube VOD