Episode 2 - Tied together

The mysterious place which we slept and ate at with Elvish and Mumsford, didn't make any sense to me. Closed doors that didn't lead to our rooms led to brick walls, so we were trapped and forced to sleep for an undetermined time until our hosts decided we were ready to move on.

When we all awoke, Elvish led us to a room to be armed and rationed, he pulled Kit aside and asked her to stay behind for a few days. Then Elvish informed the rest of us that the door on the opposite side of the room, would lead us just three days off from Bartertown. As we walked out the door the entire place vanished behind us and we were in the middle of a mountain range. So we headed towards town to the Green Griffin.

Chen was clearly a master of many things, and Sprohgsarpe, his apprentice, gladly accepted us once we mentioned Elvish's name. Elvish and Kit were in the corner waiting for us, so Chen led us behind a hidden wall in the back, and down a winding staircase to our quarters.

"You need your rest for your training."

That night I dreamt about the day of my death. But this time it was different, I remembered the taste of regret and closed the inner doors myself to the kaer first, instead of my last stand outside. This time, the horror rushed me inside the entrance and in a valiant effort, I remembered how I had failed before, I sensed that this time was different and rectified my mistake of my death, defeating the horror like a hero in an legendary epic. The realization occurred to me, as the steam rose from his lifeless body, that I had defeated him in my newly acquired elven form. I now understood why it had been written down in history that the mighty Keebler Elf was actually an elf. They had brought back the legend of Keebler, which now, had masterly defeated a horror as both a male and an elf in a backwards, paradoxical kind of way.

When I awoke and rose for breakfast, Kaylee asked me if I had a strange dream last night. When I agreed that I had and it had felt right, and very much real, she agreed. The room grew quiet and the rest of the party piped up that they too, had the very same feeling about the dream. When we asked Elvish about it he grew rather worried, looked over at Mumsford who to my surprise had been sitting there the entire time. After mumbling incoherently for few seconds, he stood up and in a grandiose gesture he lifted his arms as if tying all the lose threads in the room together. He then sat down and mumbled about a peanut butter sandwich.

"Yesh, well, Mumsford said that it won't happen again, as you are all now tied to these pendants of the present." How do you get that from peanut butter sandwich???

~Keebler~