Gonna inform Mordred and Lev and Oswald that they got themselves a SPELL while the nun isn't here to be bothered by that.

Whoa.

O.O

He is pretty sure that his reaction SHOULD be "this is bad and wrong and evil" but actually his reaction is WANT.

What does it do?

"Dunno! We should be careful with it. Probably something horrifying. Good to keep track of which things we have, though."

It's okay to learn spells for the sake of having learned something. He's sure he heard that somewhere.

Was it from his dad tho.

This is less true when learning spells rends one's mind maybe.

"Okay, I think I can maybe make something of this if I cross-reference it with some other stuff? But we don't have the stuff on hand, and it'll take a while even when we do."

"I feel like if we're going to make a decision about the spell it should happen when... fewer of us... are running on half a brain."

"Sure, I was thinking I'd just hold onto it until we get back to the plane."

"Speaking of weird occult knowledge, has Dagon come up before? Because I thought it did at Miskatonic but it seemed more innocuous than this."

"I think one of the books talked about it. We should see if we can get our hands on the book he was talking about."

Mordred is incredibly tired. "At Miskatonic there was a club called the - some very grand-sounding adjective - Order of Dagon. My impression at the time was that it was a group of Christians who liked feeling secretive and special, there were a lot of clubs like that, they invited me a few times but I turned them down because I was a strident atheist. Am. A strident atheist. I am, ah, less certain of that impression now."

Lev thinks Mordred is very cute but gods are Definitely Real.

There is a god trying to eat them currently but maybe not one with a capital G. He's unclear how strident atheists think about these things.

Honestly at this point Mordred thinks of himself as an atheist at least half because there's nothing he would worship.

It is not that he doesn't believe there are gods trying to eat them but he isn't going to join any cults about it and he's still doubtful about an almighty omnipotent omnibenevolent force (although at some point he is going to consider the implications of exorcist nuns on that belief. Not right now though. Right now he's compartmentalizing.)

"Guys... I noticed something weird."

"Yeah?"

"Um, so. It's probably nothing. But everyone else who doesn't live in Ethiopia got heatstroke? And I'm weak and frail and I should but I. Didn't. And-- even when they didn't get heatstroke it feels really really hot-- but."

"...does it not feel hot to you?"

"For me it feels like a summer in Savannah."

"That's. probably good on balance?" Mordred tries.

".....I think it's a lot hotter than a summer in Savannah."

"Incredibly ominous don't get me wrong but I'm in favor of you not getting heatstroke."