You can 't go home again.....but what if you can? I mean EVERYONE says you can't, but....what if they're wrong? People change, places change, you can't step in the same river twice, sure, we've heard it all, but what if...what if not me I'm different? In fact, I'm actually positive you CAN go home again and it's fine. Why doesn't everyone just go home again? Idiots.
Summary[]
Bellow is given a note to meet his mysterious guide into the gelatinous cube the following morning. Realizing the need to pass the time, they go to one of the few surviving bars around Brian Doyle Falls; Timmy’s Outskirts Sports Bar. The party enjoys some beer while they adapt to the new Frederick, who has become far more cheerful and sociable. Stirfry learns that he has developed pinkeye, presumably from letting his eye roll around out of its socket. The group spends the night drinking and enjoying themselves before they retire to a sepia tone house nearby. Bellow tries to use his magic to heal Stirfry’s pinkeye, but it has strangely little effect. They collapse in the living room together.
The group awakens to being smothered by living beach towels. They pull their way out before the towels are sucked back into the couch like they were never there. Their guide, Nicotine Tones, seems unsurprised as he arrives to lead them on. They are joined by a half-elf bard Wendy Wallpaper and Pelvis Futures, a tragedy fetisihist they had met the night before. Nicotine lays out some ground rules, which end up eliminating Pelvis from the trip.
Nicotine leads them through secret passages in the house, finding themselves dissuaded by vacation-themed threats while Bellow's cleric magic either fails or burns him to use. This concerns Nicotine but they press on before falling into a void. Each of them are tempted by a personal offer made by an angelic bird person, but they all decline. They land in a strange parody of Brian Doyle Falls, transformed into a cartoonish beach city of a world watched over by a sunglasses-wearing anthropomorphic sun and colossal flamingos. Nicotine warns to never touch the sand, which Wendy ignores. She is instantly turned into a sand sculpture, and Nicotine soon steps on a crack in the wooden walkway. He suffers horribly as he transforms into a sunburnt, warped shape of his former self that introduces itself to the party as Naughty Nico.