#odyssey

"Derva." He whispers her name into her ear. "The Nocker sent us."

The clurichaun girl whirls and tries to deck Symon in the jaw then sees it is NOT one of her captors

And she whispers "Otho sent you? I thought he was useless. " She moves with Symon fast "Sorry about the punch attempt" Whispering

"Can your singing break the spell on the pooka?" He asks quickly.

Even as Dagmar deals with Gutter.

"What do I look like a siren?" The girl asks "Goldy's pretty far gone. I COULD make her pick a fight with me. Clurichaun have that gift..."

Meanwhile... Gutter sniffs "You killed blinky? He was of the faith you can't just..." Sniff sniff and he moves closer to the corpse

Gutter moves to the corpse, "I mean, the church IS one, right?" He takes a bite out of the meat "Wouldn't be the first religion to partake of the flesh of another... I think? Holy Voice Constance will..." Chomp "Like that it's not going to waste"

"How was I supposed to know?"

"BLOOD, fresh, she makes me.. she makes me cook the meat when she lets me have it all... better for the soul I..." Smack chew devour... then his eyes widen "No... wait... why am I always eating cooked food? Why.. why am I eating CABBAGE?"

"holy shit, it's working" Pudge mutters

"Cabbage? Like, you're living on leaves?"

"YEAH, oh and root veggies, which aren't as bad except we don't get to make fries with them. Fries are the superior form of potato, everyone KNOWS that" Gutter snarls "RIGHT?" He looks ready to fight anyone who shows a preference for mashed

"Yeah. When I get home, I'm so getting a burger and fries."

"Damn straight .. home I.."

"I need to get home" He realizes "What the fuck am I DOING here?"

Symon looks disappointed, but shrugs. "She's small. We'll just stick the pooch in a sack if need be. No man left behind, said Pudge." Begrudgingly respectful of the Boggan's resolve.

"Good question. Wanna blow this popsicle stand?"

"No, I wanna kill 'Holy Mother Constance'" he snaps "I could have been here for YEARS. I don't know"

Symon whispers to Derva, "Tell us where to find her."

Derva nods "I know where she is... she thinks I don't but I do. Follow me"

"I don't know how long you've been here. The Dreaming is funny that way. But do you want to risk her re-taking you?"

At that, the redcap's resolve fades a bit "You gotta point. Ain't worth getting brainwashed again. But how do we get out? it's a fucking Ooo buu lette or wahtever"

"Got a thing. The sluagh's frozen right now - can you haul her up with you?"

"Yeah sure, I won't even eat her" he shrugs and..speaks truth

Symon gets directions from Derva. She leads him down a side tunnel and.. there on the wall is a lovely mosiac. Normally his keen sluagh eyes MIGHT find the secret door, but thanks to Derva he doesn't even need that. THe problem? The secret ddoor is childling sized "She must get in some other way, or maybe the basilik crawled through here when it was a pup/cub/thing. It leads to her secret chamber"

She nods. "Okay. The pooka is between here and the tunnel out, so you're going to want to move fast. She could hoo-doo you, too. When you get to the base of the tunnel, you wanna pull the button, and a balloon will pull you up. I would suggest putting as much distance between you and here as you can. Beldame is in the tunnel over, she should be easy enough to carry under your arm. If you drop her in the foggy mirk to the south, that'd probably speak to her nature."

Symon, meanwhile, has slipped out with Derva

A childling sized door is no problem for a sluagh. They can squirm!

The redcap nods "Okay, you guys got the others?"

"Working on it." She nods. "Boggan won't leave until you're all out. She's this way." Leading him to the sluagh.

And he picks her up as directed, nods, and follows the instructions muttering about Cheeseburgers and fries

Symon squirms! he oozes... he gets througgh, and finds himself alone in a chamber

"You want me to try and distract the pooka?"

It is...unusual... there's a bed, of course, but it's not as lush as he expected. Rather, there are mirrors, wall to wall mirrors. Various sshapes and sizes. Clearly more than a few have strong glamour, but some are just normal

"Your funeral" The redcap says

"Think you can get past her without help?"

Mirrors! is there a path to sneak he can avoid the reflections?

Not really, they're everywhere...

and some are whispering

(Dagamr) "I might be able to bullshit through or maybe just move fast enough. I run pretty quick for a cap"

Does he believe it?

Symon creeps in any case, keeping an eye on the ones with the glamour.

(Dagmamr) he believes he runs fast

PUDGE appears to be getting food for the soon to be esapees

but he's accessable

(SYMON) Symon hears "You're real " "You exist" "You matter" coming from some of the mirrors. A few have faces. He doesn't see his target... YET

(Perc plus kenning for Symon)

Grunt, nod. "I believe you. Kick some ass and get the fuck out of here."

That being said - she tails behind him, ready to intervene.