This session was played on 2025-11-01. Instead of the adventures of the usual party, it followed four Onirian characters (Margaret Nguyen, Arthur Moore, Spamton G. Spamton and Abyss) who investigated a haunted house in search of paranormal contraband.

Far away from the usual plotline, deep into the Onirian Time Branch, Spamton G. Spamton is given a mission by his benefactor on the phone: to make a team to go to the country house of known spanish occultish Arturo de la Vara, and retrieve a box full of glass bones that seem to be supernaturally significant.

Spamtom does some sketchy publicity that ends with him recruiting time- (and probably timeline-) displaced Doctor Arthur Moore, amateur ghost hunter Margaret (Maggie) Nguyen, and broke college student Abyss, taking them to the Cortijo de la Vara on Halloween night, 2025.

The car ride ends being utterly hilarious, with the absurd clash of characters, and the very anachronistic Arthur.

First obstacle is, of course, the main door of the complex; a huge thing made of solid wood and steel, covered in police tape. Arthur mentions trying to lockpick it, but Maggie goes directly into kicking it unsuccessfully, while Spamtom just climbs on a tree, gets in and unlocks the door just as Maggie kicks it in one last time, resulting in both ending hit and on the floor.

In the outer courtyard of the complex, they investigate three cars: two luxury things belonging to Arturo de la Vara, and a much smaller, older and dirtier thing that belonged to one Amina Benjelloun.

From there, they split up Scooby Doo-style, and Spamtom and Abyss end up in the kitchen area, where Spamtom decides to steal the silverware and Abyss to get himself some very good yogurt from the fridge. They talk and it becomes quite clear that Abyss thinks he's there playing some kind of alternate reality game or treasure hunt.

On the other side, Maggie and Arthur examine a sitting room full of pretty unsettling catholic paraphernalia and try to make heads or tails of it; they deduce that many of the things might be the property of Arturo's wife Maria, who *was* quite the catholic zealot.

When interacting with an old, expensive-looking and very used bible, Maggie starts witnesses what was probably the ghost of the deceased Maria de la Vara, and she follows it out of the sitting room and towards the complex's swimming pool, where both fall… into what is possibly the Mediterranean sea, with Maggie reliving the experiences of someone trying to cross from Africa to Europe in a raft, and almost drowning.

Maggie is saved from drowning by Abyss, who jumps into the pool to help her and they both end totally drenched and miserable, so the party starts searching for something to dry themselves. They find a dryer in a laundry room, and Maggie decides to put her clothes in and wrap herself in a big blanket, but Abyss can't bear to do it due to a bout of dysphoria, which prompts Maggie to try to explain the very recent vocab to the old doctor.

Spamton leaves the others while they shoot the breeze and meets a short man in formal clothing, including a bowler hat and an umbrella who greets him, and they exchange words. The man reveals that he's here for the glass bones too, and that they will have to make it into a “friendly competition” and “to the victor go the spoils”.

Overwhelmed by the conversation Abyss walks deeper into the house and finds the bedrooms, but his attitude attracts yet another ghost, this time the very neurodivergent and abused daughter of the house Marta, and Abyss starts channeling her, their personalities and experiences overlapping.

At the same time, Spamton follows Bowler-Hatted Man into the bedrooms too, quite furious, and his own mood provides a path for Arturo de la Vara himself to overlay on him. As Spamton and Abyss meet, they start quarreling, with the ghosts becoming more and more prevalent. Maggie and Arthur come to find Spamton shouting at “Marta” to get to her room so he can deal with her later and deal with her cursing friend now, later they notice the possession.

Finally Spamton manages to get a head clear enough to actually put together what is going on, alongside with some knowledge from Arturo de la Vara, and he runs to Arturo's office where he finds a glass bone in a silver dish that has taken an angry dark red color, and he dunks it into a jar of some kind of cold transparent liquid, forcing the possession to cease for now.

Free from the possession Abyss ends sobbing on the hallway. Maggie tries to offer some comfort, but Abyss can only ask her to please “break character”.

Spamton starts gathering the glass bones, and the Bowler-Hatted man enters the office and congratulates him. Then sits on a chair and tells him a story about how these bones are the remnants of forgotten memories, leached of meaning, substance, and color, and brought from somewhere in the deeper reaches of the Great Dream.

And then everyone hears two cars coming in, and things start getting complicated.

Eight gangsters armed with lead pipes and other such stuff break into the complex and find Maggie, Arthur, and Abyss; all of whom fail quite spectacularly to hide. The men start making menacing overtures and then Arthur takes his fucking sword out of his cane, to the amazement and horror of everyone else.

In the office, Spamton panics and decides to run away with the crate of glass bones, to the disappointment of Bowler-Hatted Man who takes one of the bones and walks outside to meet the rest of the party.

Outside, Arthur dispatches two of the gangsters with his sword to the amazement and horror of the rest. Maggie and Abyss try to get in on the action too, but they are not fighters and are quickly dispatched. The gangsters threaten Arthur with hurting the young ones, but this does not deter the doctor, who instead insists that if they touch even one hair on their heads, he will bring retribution upon them.

And then Bowler-Hatted Man calmly walks in and starts talking, which somehow makes everyone stop and listen to him, slowly relaxing as he spins some kind of story about an old god. Arthur and Maggie are the first ones to actually notice that this is not a mere story but some kind of invocation ritual and the glass bone in the man's hand is becoming pitch black, and they panic.

Maggie attempts to punch Bowler-Hatted Man on the face, but he stops her hand with his umbrella. Arthur manages to drive his sword through the man's throat, but it doesn't stop him or even make him bleed. Spamton says “fuck it” and just unleashes a barrage of attacks on the man.

And the man stands there as the smoke clears up and finishes his story and his invocation, bringing some kind of winged shadow monster.

And so they run like hell. Despite his waterlogged clothes, Abyss is the first one to reach the car, but Maggie (who is still wrapped in a blanket) and Arthur (who is getting in on years) don't manage to run fast enough to be out before the thing is on them.

But Maggie manages to actually identify the creature (a manifestation of oblivion) and knows that it is always hungry for yummy dreamstuff, so she channels the ghost of the very dead Maria de la Vara, abusive catholic mother, and lets the creature have at it. This gives them enough time to reach the car and run away.

So in the end they manage to come out with their lives intact and the money that Arthur managed to negotiate as a pre-payment from Spamton.

And Spamton flies off in the night with a crate of blackened glass bones, which clearly won't be a problem for him.

• Margaret Nguyen
• Arthur Moore
• Spamton G. Spamton
• Abyss
• Bowler-Hatted Man
• Arturo de la Vara
• Maria de la Vara
• Marta de la Vara
• Amina Benjelloun

• Arthur: Oh, great. I hope there won't be any creepy books of secret occult knowledge there.
• Maggie: Ohh, this is gonna be amazing.

• Arthur: Now, where is the cigarette holder?
• Maggie: Fuck you mean cigarette holder? Haven't had those in years, I think.
• Abyss: If you're smoking, I'm out; I am not in the mood for another shower.
• Spamton: Next stop turn straight.

• Arthur: More important, where is the shift gear again?
• Abyss: Alright, blind guy; my turn.

• Spamton: Just press the [w key].
• Arthur: Where can I find this key?

• Maggie: You dress like a guy from 1890s New York or something.
• Arthur: 1920, my good dame.

• Maggie: Spamton, I need to know: how is Tenna, and who is the Knight?
• Spamton says nothing as eyeglasses turn static.

• Maggie: Hey, bitches and bros and nonbinary hoes, keep on the lookout for a ghost.
• Abyss: Sib, ghosts ain't real.
• Maggie: Yes they fucking are! I've seen them.

• Maggie: You ever been to Philly?
• Arthur: I have been, it is a lovely city.
• Maggie: Fuckin' amazing. Born and raised in the good ol' Gayborhood, y'know?
• Arthur: There was a great speakeasy on the Main Street; delightful.

• Spamton: Stop [yapping], I found the [entrance to Hell].

• Maggie: Anyhow, any of you know how to lockpick?
• Arthur: I have some experience.
• Abyss: Tried it once; the lockpicking instructor failed to pick the lock with the same tools after I touched it.

• Arthur is getting out some stuff for lockpicking, but Maggie just gets in there and starts kicking at the door.
• And then Spamton just jumps from the tree, goes in, removes the bar locking the door and opens it.
• Unaware, Maggie gives one last kick that causes the door to hit Spamton on the nose and ends with her falling on her ass.

• Arthur: Funny, back in my days women were not often allowed to drive; glad this is no longer the case.

• Maggie: Let's split up gang!
• Arthur: Ah, an Al Capone jest.
• Abyss: What was that, Scooby Doo or some other boring shit?

• Abyss: (Grabbing a whole jar of very expensive greek yoghourt from a fridge) Okay, now where the fuck are the spoons?
• Spamton: Focus on the mission
• Abyss: No one can focus on an empty stomach; I haven't eaten since i got on my flight.
• Spamton: (handing a spoon to Abyss) ………

• Arthur: Could you check the chimney, in my background check of the place I found out that the owner liked occult stuff, and its not my first time investigating that kind of people, they usually get a secret passage somewhere.

• Spamton: Abyss, we are on very important mission, its for our freedom. Are you not tired of your limited vision? Do you still want to listen those assholes all around telling you what to do? Take off your glasses, open to the darkness. That's the first step into the abyss. OR YOU CAN TRY OUR [ HYPERLINK BLOCKED ] (glasses go to pink yellow).
• Abyss: Whar. If you could speak in less code, that would be cool. Also, how do you make your glasses do that? That's cool.

• Maggie: How did I get out in the fucking ocean, Goddamm it? Where is everyone!?

• Abyss: Am I the only one who is doing the scavenger hunt, and y'all are just characters?

• Spamton: Why is no one listening to [your number 1 rated employer]? I should have taken the [emerald mother] instead!!!

• Spamton: Fine. Fine! FINE!! I will just [go to the middle door] [all alone in the dark friday night].

• Maggie: Uh… yea, Arthur? Don't keep pushing; pretty sure it's dysphoria or something. Gender Dysphoria…
• Abyss: Gender is bullshit. Don't buy into it.
• Maggie: Big gender is making us have to pay a subscription.

• Bowler-Hatted Man: Why, hello there, good sir. May I have your name?
• Spamton: Hello, I'm [your number 1 rated real estate agent]]!!! Pretty place you got here, what the #$!@ happened here!?!?!?
• Bowler-Hatted Man: Why, of course you are; and I am a conossieur of the ailments of the human psyche. As for the happenings here, I'm led to believe that this is your usual family tragedy, seen through the lens of fractured glasses.

• Arthur: (tipping his hat) Hello, fellow gentleman, what an interesting night it is.
• Bowler-Hatted Man: (tipping his hat) Why, hello, my good sir. You here for a spot of finagling not-entirely-legally-acquired goods too?

• Spamton: Yeah, this session is taking kind of a Bizarre route, doesnt it?

• Bowler-Hatted Man: I see; we might found ourselves at odds in this matter then, unless you are entirely uninterested in the glass bones?
• Spamton: Did just you mention our [one way ticket to heaven]?

• Maggie: About not knowing shit… I could try explaining if you want. Ghost hunter extraordinarie Maggie!
• Abyss: In character, or what?
• Spamton: What's those words your [friend] is using?!

• Bowler-Hatted Man: Somewhere, very deep into the darker reaches of the great dream, there's a place where every memory ends. Where everything that ever was known is forgotten.
• Bowler-Hatted Man: It can take many shapes for many people, but one of them is an endless desert with sands made of pulverized glass.
• Bowler-Hatted Man: When something is forgotten, it falls there, and it is leached of meaning, or substance, and of color, until the only thing that remains is barely visible bone.
• Bowler-Hatted Man: Then, that is also lost, and they break becoming more glass dust where new memories are dumped to be forgotten.
• Bowler-Hatted Man: But you, see, nature abhors a vacuum, so the bones are hungry for meaning. They will take anything around them. As much anything as they can.
• Spamton is still packing the bones.

• Maggie: D—don't hurt us—we don't have anything. We're just a couple tourists from North America.
• Arthur looks at them in the eye, and unsheathes the sword inside his cane.
• Maggie: How the fuck.
• Gangster: Is that a fucking sword on a cane? Holy shit grandpa is hardcore.

• Maggie: Spamton! Help! Turn into Neo or something, you little puppet! Or Gaster'll come for you, I don't fucking know!
• Bowler-Hatted Man: I'm afraid that one has already made a choice, young Miss. For freedom is not freedom if you are not free to be a monster and a coward.

• Bowler-Hatted Man: It is the hammer that smashes your chains.
• Bowler-Hatted Man: It is the fire that burns the veils over your eyes.
• Bowler-Hatted Man: It is the sword that cuts through every lie you ever told yourself.

• Maggie: Maria! I choose you! (feeds the ghost to the manifestation of oblivion and runs)

Rose played Abyss!

Bowler-Hatted Man has the very unnerving thing when he asks for people's names as if he was fae. Characters did not react to it, but mostly because they caught on that fact and shut up very hard when they noticed.

Which interestingly resulted in no one getting his name. Which is funny because players in the old campaigns where he appeared didn't learn his name until a lot later, if at all.

The situation where Abyss and Spamton were possessed by Marta and Arturo de la Vara was apparently confusing enough that Arthur's player needed to call for a timeout to get it explained to her.

Arthur thinks that some spanish gangsters from the 2020s are weaksauce. His sword cane has been used to cut up Klan members after all.

We're still not sure if Abyss will ever become Aware and pierce the Veil.

The glass bones that Spamtom is carrying at the end are literally loaded with every conceptual negative feeling that results in freedom by chain-breaking so that might end being interesting.