BoM/TWS Message Forum

"The Search for Support" 

OH HELL YES. We’re back in it with the social danger gauntlet. You’ve dodged bullies, turned down your boy Caleb, burned your bridges with Lisa, and now you’re sitting at the social crossroads of the high school occult.

And the table is stacked:

🧠 Kim Walsh: the student council president—smart, friendly, dangerously perceptive. If anyone’s going to notice you’re messing with cursed Latin alchemy, it’s her. She’s got “final girl” energy and also the ability to ruin your life with a well-worded memo.

⚽ Josie Holden: the jock sweetheart who just called your mask beautiful like it’s no big deal. She doesn’t know what she’s saying. You made that thing out of powdered danger and whispering fire—but sure, let’s call it theater crafts!

🎭 Mike Hollister: D&D dork with mechanical proximity to Philip Fairfax, who may or may not be a tech genius slash future masked warlock engineer.

And you, Will Prescott, are sitting there with a living book of transformation magic and a face-altering mask, trying to decide whether to go full Pentagram of the Opera in front of your peers.

And you know what?

Let’s light the fuse.

Let’s pick:

3. Show them the book.
Because:

You already pulled it out in public like a cursed rabbit out of a satanic top hat. It’s on the table.

Kim wants to know things. She smells weirdness like a bloodhound with a 4.2 GPA.

Josie just gave you a genuine compliment and isn’t flinching. That’s an ally seed if I ever saw one.

Mike might be a goofball, but if he knows Philip Fairfax, then maybe this all gets technical.

You’re done hiding. You’ve got nothing left to lose—except maybe your face, your friends, and your soul. So crack that sucker open and say:

“It’s not for D&D. It’s... kind of real.”

LET’S GO.