#but there's also a lookalike to the party warlock who got captured on our behalf and is being sentenced to death

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

We're like three days out from it at this point, but Nellie got read to filth by the party bard's tarot cards in the last session, which she would have handwaved away as Generic Esoteric Bullshit of the kind that the bard is known for doing, except that the bard then asked to see the locket that Nellie has been wearing since childhood - the UNOPENABLE LOCKET, which she has had people who are stronger/smarter/more magically inclined try to open, all without success - and IT OPENED??? FOR THE BARD?? AND HAD HER FAMILY NAME ETCHED INSIDE??

The bard was totally unphased by this even though she too had no idea why one of her mother's trinkets ended up in the hand of this weirdo gnome, which infuriated Nellie to the point that she basically didn't sleep all night.

So now Nellie's convinced the bard's mom is the secret to helping her Figure Stuff Out and she has all but assigned herself to the bard as her guide/bodyguard for the foreseeable future, all without being asked, and I've been spinning them both at high speeds in my brain because holy SHIT. This DM was not playing when it came to making us give a shit about each other's backstories!!!