It's a fantasy role-playing game.

DM: You are Pike Trickfoot, a gnome cleric . You are the member of the famous group of adventurers. Previously, Just then, Tary's force bubble expires, and Ogden goes plummeting over the cliff. Vax dives after him and catches him.
DM: "I don't care about the money, that's what they wanted. Honestly, I just used this as an excuse to get to see you again. It would have been fine if no one had found out anything. We would have been heroes. We would have had no reason to not be friends again. We would have saved you, as far as you know, from a terrible curse, and maybe that would have-- maybe then I would have been a hero to you. But I'm nothing. I'm a caretaker to a swindler and move around too much to make any real friends, so that's just my lot in life, I guess."
Player: It doesn't have to be.
DM: "That's all I know."
Player: But you're very smart. I think there's more for you in this life than you know.
DM: You can see now, she's just tears now, at this point.
Player: I'm going to walk over to Johann and Astra.
DM: Okay. Yeah, they've let the invisibility down at this point. They're both just entangled. "Oh! There's some sort of misunderstanding here. We were under the impression that there was a terrible curse."
Player: "Money?"
DM: "No! No! We-- Look. Look! Okay. Look, we have been following--"
