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That's the idea. 😆

I'm playing a Fey Bloodline Sorcerer/Underground Chemist Rogue/Arcane Trickster who took the Trickster Path. (That's a whole lot of Trickster, huh?)

Mihaly just stands there shaking his head as Mandy follows Aleah, Bogdan, and Bogdan's mother. "So... at this point, what are the odds that we'll actually get to converse with that family again without them frantically making the Sign of The Cross at us?"

It happens. As for me, I've had trouble tearing myself away from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

Mihaly sends Dijon, who Mihaly thinks was clearly hoping to avoid attention, an apologetic glance.

Mihaly nods at Mandy. "Good thought. He doesn't think there's any other nuglubs around: I already asked about that. And if he saw any monsters that weren't nuglubs, I assume he'd have mentioned that. But he might have seen something else of interest." Mihaly waits for the mother and child to finish hugging. While he waits, he looks between the reunited pair and the skeleton, hoping that Bogdan won't see Dijon and freak out again... and winces when he sees Atma drawing attention to him.

From the last line of the post, I think Ice agrees.

There's a joke early on where a Jewish villager asks his rabbi if there's a proper blessing for the anti-Semitic czar. The rabbi says "may God bless and keep the czar... far away from us."

Mihaly has no idea what a "taig" is, but judging by the way Ian said it, he's pretty sure Ian wasn't supposed to say it. He nods, a little hesitantly. "Thanks." And Mihaly's brain finally catches up to the phrase "praying to the Pope." "We should probably bring the kid back to his parents now. May God bless and keep you," Mihaly says to Ian, idly wondering if either Priela or Ian has seen Fiddler on the Roof. He turns to Bogdan and catches him up to speed.

"Good points. Especially from the... uh... talking gun." Mihaly shakes his head in bemusement. "I guess if today's the day Bogdan learns to fact check everything the adults say, so be it. He was going to have to learn that in a couple of years anyway, if he wanted to be an effective citizen. After all, he's only got about a decade before he's old enough to vote... I think. That's eighteen here, right? I know it is in Hungary." "Well, I'm wandering away from the real point again. Let's just get Bogdan somewhere safe."

Mihaly nods. "Right," he says in English. Mihaly tells Bogdan that they're taking him to meet some of the other people working for the Church, and that the person who told them to do so said there's someone there Bogdan would want to see. He notes that they weren't more specific than that, but that it sounds to him like they're referring to one of Bogdan's parents. "Hey, so, I should probably tell you all now: Bogdan doesn't seem to know much of what's going on. I told him we were looking for a living human being, and trying to talk him into stopping, rather than putting him back in the ground and hoping he stays there this time. It seemed like the least horrible thing I could tell him that would get him to take this situation as seriously as he needs to take it. And apparently it's more than his parents told him." "Uh... maybe we should try to arrange for nobody to use the main target's name in front of the kid, if we want that minor deception to stick long-term?"

Can we all hear the radio, or just Priela? (Also, my last post assumes Mihaly could hear Priela speaking into it; was that accurate?)

"Fae creature, not a demon," Mihaly calls over to Priela in English.

Mihaly hesitates for almost a whole second, torn between wanting to shield Bogdan from the worst of it and wanting to make sure he stays careful. He admits that yes, Bogdan's parents are scared of the man for a reason, and that Bogdan going into the basement every time there's a sound outside is probably a good idea. But he also does his best to assure Bogdan that the Church will find the man and persuade him to repent soon. When Bogdan admits that he's lost, Mihaly sighs and admits that okay, that's bad news. But they have radios that they can call the Church with for help, and he's sure they'll help get Bogdan back home. When Priela's radio goes off, Mihaly calls over in English: "Yeah, we're going to have to call this in. Bogdan here says he's lost. That's not a good situation even under ideal circumstances."

It's cool. I think I've got enough to work with for my next post, so I'll get on that.