Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 4 | Lose Your Illusion

**Morning Frost** (0:02)
Welcome to Legends of Avantris. Greetings, I'm Morning Frost, and you're listening to Once Upon a Witchlight.
Here's what happened last time.

**Grant O'Brien** (0:13)
Fairy cake eating contest will begin in two minutes shop. The goal is simple. Eat as many cupcakes as you can within 60 seconds.
There can only be one winner.

**Morning Frost** (0:28)
It's mind over cupcake, idiom.

**Gideon** (0:29)
I only have one question for you. What do you want to get to eat after this?

**Grant O'Brien** (0:34)
Pixie comes over to you and lifts your arm into the air.
They have someone come over and paint your pictures. They take it over to the cupboard of cupcake chads, and they put your face up there.

**Northwind** (0:47)
There's nothing Mr. Light likes more than to see his smiling faces. The carnival's happy, he's happy, so.
Looks like you've done the carnival a service, friends. Well, I'm really not supposed to talk about this, but.

**Cremie** (1:01)
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, continue, continue.

**Northwind** (1:02)
The carnival can't run without Mr. Witch's pocket watch. I hope he never loses that thing.

**Griggo** (1:08)
Did we just encounter random NPC dialogue?

**Northwind** (1:15)
Mr. Witch and Mr. Light aren't the carnival's original owners, you know?

**SPEAKER_8** (1:19)
I don't know, man.

**Northwind** (1:20)
Do you want to ride on the dragonflies?
I heard this weird whispering come from the bushes over there. No one else seemed to hear whatever.

**Grant O'Brien** (1:30)
Sticking to those leaves appears to be four or five black feathers. These are feathers clearly of a kenku.

**Northwind** (1:37)
Yeah, there's been a kenku terrorizing the Witchlight carnival for quite a while now. Terrorizing? Mr. Witch and Mr. Light would be really interested to find out about this.

**Grant O'Brien** (2:01)
You all stand within the portion of the carnival that you've just experienced most recently. You are near the dragon flight rides, and you have just rescued the dwarf that had been almost carried away by one of these rogue dragonflies. And in the course of all of this, Kremme notices some movement, and he is told by Northwind that something strange had happened off to the side. And with quick movement, he blasts his eldritch blasts into part of the underbrush. And you all go to investigate to find that there are three feathers that clearly belong to a kenku.
It is at this moment that Northwind informs you that the carnival has been plagued by a rogue kenku for a while, a kenku that has been sowing distrust and causing havoc and attempting to lower the overall mood of the carnival.

**Northwind** (3:06)
He looks at you all and, yeah, man, he's just kind of a buzzkill, you know?

**SPEAKER_9** (3:12)
I mean, what kind of buzz is all right?

**Cremie** (3:17)
Is he killing?

**SPEAKER_10** (3:18)
I mean, is he like, hurting the bottom line?

**Northwind** (3:21)
No, like he's got one.

**Cremie** (3:25)
I mean, you're saying this Kenku's causing trouble, and I'm trying to ask what kind of trouble he's causing.

**Griggo** (3:29)
Are you suggesting that the Kenku is politically motivated?

**Mike** (3:33)
Well, I don't know. I mean, they're like, do I know anything about the Feywild, actually?

**Grant O'Brien** (3:37)
I would say probably not.

**Cremie** (3:39)
Never mind.

**SPEAKER_13** (3:42)
Oh, you was gonna say you love the unicorns?

**SPEAKER_14** (3:44)
Oh yeah, I love unicorns.

**Morning Frost** (3:48)
Yes, I'm curious about Kremme's question as well, is what is the nature of the buzzkilling that he is doing?

**Northwind** (3:56)
Well, nobody really knows much about the Kenku if I'm being quite honest with you. And like, I'm not supposed to say this, but he's like really frustrating Mr. Witch and Mr. Light. So, you know, people are trying to find them, but no luck so far.

**Morning Frost** (4:14)
Well, it's the mischief that we just experienced something that was likely.

**Northwind** (4:17)
Oh yeah, if you found Kenku feathers over there, that is totally signs that the Kenku like messed with their dragonflies.

**Morning Frost** (4:25)
Well, he could have killed that dwarf. That's.

**Northwind** (4:28)
Yeah, that would have really lowered the mood.

**SPEAKER_13** (4:31)
Oh, he could have killed a dragonfly, even worse.

**Northwind** (4:35)
Seriously.

**Griggo** (4:36)
Oh, those poor beautiful creatures.

**Northwind** (4:41)
I mean, it's not nearly as, I mean, I shouldn't say this, but it's not nearly as bad as what happened over at the Hall of Illusions, that poor mime. Oh, worse than death.

**SPEAKER_13** (4:55)
Oh, he got punched so hard that he kept pulling a rope that wasn't really there until he died.

**Gideon** (5:03)
Does he persistently haunt anybody at the Hall of Illusions? Is that what happened to him?