TALIESIN: I know your name now! LAURA and TALIESIN: (laugh) LAURA: What is your name? TALIESIN: Oh, my name is Molly to my friends, and we're friends, now, aren't we?
Pleasure. LAURA: Molly. Look at this guy. TALIESIN: Mollymauk. Molly for short. This is Yasha, she's a charm. ASHLEY: Hello. MARISHA: Yasha. Yasha. TALIESIN: Now. Would anyone like a fortune read? LAURA: I would love one. TALIESIN: Do you have coin? LAURA: Yes. How much do you want? TALIESIN: Two copper. LAURA: Two copper, okay, I just got some copper. Here you go. MATT: Mark down your two copper. (laughs) TALIESIN: I am taking this in. All right. (sighs) I'm going to try and do this. LAURA: Oh my gosh, really? MATT: So, as he pulls out a small set of cards and begins to shuffle them, go ahead and roll an insight check. ASHLEY: (deadpan) He's really quite good, you all should line up and get your fortunes told. (laughter) TALIESIN: Let's do a 16 there navigate to this website. MATT: Okay, so you get a brief conversation here, you get a pretty solid read: the excitability, the eagerness, and the exuberant interest in just getting in your face that this person wants-- any fortune you tell will probably suffice. Go ahead and roll a sleight-of-hand check as well. SAM: Look at this fucking game! (laughter) TALIESIN: Also 16. MATT: Yeah. And you feel pretty confident that her eyes are locked onto your eyes at the moment and not the deck, as you set up a proper reading. And the cards are shuffled, set, you place them before you, and you may give your fortune. SAM: I'm going to just keep my eyes open for any tricks of the hand, sleight-of-hand-y-type tricks. MATT: Make a perception check. SAM: Okay. Perception. 14. MATT: 14. All right. Everything seems pretty above-board. TALIESIN: Your first card, the Silver Dragon. This is good. You're pure, you're virtue, you are a worthwhile and wonderful human being, obviously, or creature of some repute. LAURA: That's what everyone always tells me. TALIESIN: It's true. And heading towards the Anvil. LAURA: What is that? TALIESIN: That is a destiny forged. ASHLEY: (deadpan) Ohh. TALIESIN: There is something bright and adventurous in your future. LAURA: Wow! You know, we did just defeat a really big snake? So maybe there's even bigger things coming up, you know? TALIESIN: Can I make another roll? MATT: Sure. SAM: Ashley confirmed worst hype-man ever. (laughter) TALIESIN: 19. MATT: Yeah, easy enough. Even with discerning eyes at the table, you are at the top of your game. TALIESIN: The Serpent card appears. Of course you did. LAURA: (gasps) Oh my gosh! Look at that! How did you even do that? TALIESIN: That's all the cards. I'm simply a vessel for higher powers. LIAM: While everybody's watching this shit happen, may I cast Detect Magic? MATT: You may. You lean back and subtly begin a brief muttering of an incantation, your fingers wash through the air, a faint silver gleam across your fingertips. Nothing magical shows up in the immediate vicinity. LAURA: Will you ask the cards if I'm going to find him? TALIESIN: If you're going to find her? LAURA: Him. TALIESIN: Give me a little bit more. Who's this 'him' that you're looking for? LAURA: I'm looking for my dad. TALIESIN: 14. MATT: You fumble for a second, but the card still finds its way through without issue. TALIESIN: Pushing through, pushing through. The Eye card pulls up. You've already found the clue you're looking for. You just don't know what it is yet. LAURA: Really? TALIESIN: Apparently. Well, it's what the cards are saying. It's right in front of you. LAURA: Wow. Does it say how long ago I found it? Because that's-- TALIESIN: Sadly, I don't have that sort of specifics. That's much more expensive. LAURA: That's going to take a lot of thinking. TALIESIN: Well, you find us at the show, you'll find my tent and I'd be happy to give you a more complicated reading. LAURA: I can't wait! It's going to be so much fun. TALIESIN: So much fun. MATT: Yasha, at this point, the barmaid, Adelaine, comes up and hands you the ordered ale. ASHLEY: Thank you, my lady. MATT: "On the house." TALIESIN: On the house! ASHLEY: That's very kind of you. MARISHA: Do you perform in the circus, too? ASHLEY: No. I do not. I just-- I put it up. MARISHA: Oh, cool. TRAVIS: The tent. LAURA: It's a big tent. It would take a lot of work. ASHLEY: I put up the stage, I move things around. I'm very strong. But I don't do anything in the show. TALIESIN: Some of our acts are a little complicated, with performers who are not of the traditional variety. Can make some of the locals get a little shifty, if you know what I mean, and it's good to have a few people around who are capable of keeping issues contained. MARISHA: Is that why it says 'No admittance to the elderly'? You don't want to deal with those riley elderly. Or the ill, yeah. Why no elderly, though? Ill kind of makes sense, but elderly? TALIESIN: We cannot be held responsible for anything that may happen to someone who is ill or infirm. It is such an exciting, impressive show. ASHLEY: We've had people die watching it. Yeah. It's just that exciting. Just from excitement. TRAVIS: Did they die in the show, or from watching it? ASHLEY: Yeah, just like heart attack. Just from getting so excited, I guess. MARISHA: We gotta get so wasted. LAURA: When is it? How long is it? When is it? MATT: It is actually the day of Grissen, and your first show is today. TALIESIN: First show is tonight. LAURA: Well, we have plans tonight! MARISHA: Yay! LAURA: Do you stinky people want to come with us? SAN: I-- Caleb, we don't have any plans tonight. I guess we could go along. I wouldn't mind seeing it. MARISHA: It'll be fun! TALIESIN: Or you could stay here and buy beer for the people who do see the shows, and you can hear all about it and pay more. LIAM: Yeah, we can go. LAURA: It's going to be so much fun. SAM: Yeah, yeah, it sounds like a good night. Yeah. LAURA: Look at all these friends we're making here. This is a good city. SAM: Yeah, it is. MARISHA: Yeah, yeah. TALIESIN: You are all the most charming people I've met in-- yes. I finish my beer. (sighs) Well, we'd better be getting on. ASHLEY: Yep, nice to meet you all. You're so, uh, wonderful. TALIESIN: Charm. Pure charm. See you tonight! MATT: And as they leave you, Yasha just downs her entire ale, slams it on the table, and they both walk out, passing a couple more flyers at off tables, and then exit out to the rest of the day's sun beyond your sight. MARISHA: She was awesome. TRAVIS: She didn't say much. MARISHA: That's why I liked her. LAURA: She was really, really cool. Did you see that cool thing she had going on with her chin? That's interesting. I wish I would have thought of something like that. MARISHA: Yeah, I mean, you could maybe do something like that in time. Just wait until maybe-- LAURA: So she doesn't know I copied. I can't do it tonight. MARISHA: No, no. LAURA: Wow. Cool. What do you guys want to do now? (laughter) TRAVIS: Was he using magic? LAURA: I don't know. MARISHA: Are you-- you're superstitious. Yeah? LAURA: No. MARISHA: Okay. LAURA: No, I'm not superstitious at all. MARISHA: You-- sure. LAURA: Why? MARISHA: I mean, what he was working in was-- he was doing a little like-- he-- he's a smart guy. He's a smart guy. LAURA: By the way, did you open your Christmas present from me? TALIESIN: No, not yet, no. LAURA: You should go open it! Yes! Go grab the bag! TALIESIN: On the break. On the break, I'll grab it. SAM: Hey, Matt. Dungeon master. They're wearing what they described.
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