<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">"The Comedian"<br/>
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Toby turned to answer Carla's (<a class="username" data-user-id="2453" data-username="@Zulma" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/2453/">@Zulma</a>) question, "Some place I'd never would have thought was real, at least until a few weeks ago..., but that's another long story for another time."  Then, he said, "Also, I was in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, on April first, twenty-twenty."<br/>
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Toby took a dry swallow and continued for the others (<a class="username" data-user-id="5865" data-username="@Josey" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/5865/">@Josey</a>)(<a class="username" data-user-id="6169" data-username="@Purplefairydust" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6169/">@Purplefairydust</a>) that had just arrived to hear, "I read a lot of science-fiction and fantasy as a kid, as well as some hard-core folklore.  I'm imagining that everyone stepped through some unassuming portal before they were transported to the Cathedral.  For me, it was a circle of toadstools or mushrooms.  Science explains the circles as a result of a central mushroom growing the dropping spores and then dying.  The fungi' nutrients are used up in the middle, so the new mushrooms grow in a circle pattern, the second generation can't get nutrients from the middle so when they drop spores, only the dropped spores on the outside of the ring will grow.  That's how science explains a ring of mushrooms."  After another dry swallow, he continued, "Another explanation is Faeries.  Mushroom rings are also called, 'faerie rings' and the Fae use them to travel to the human Earth and back here, to Faerie."<br/>
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He wondered if maybe the others thought he'd lost his marbles.  "But before anyone breathes a sigh of relief, don't think about sanitized 'fairy tales', instead think about grim and grisly faerie tales.  By that yardstick, don't assume that all faerie creatures want to be friends with humans.  You might be looked at as someone to send off with odd directions to be gotten rid of, or as potential slaves or as food.  They're supposed to be a very trade oriented or karmic like society in that if you do them a good turn or give them a gift, then they owe you.  If you receive a service or a gift from them, then you owe them.  Try never to accept a gift or service that you can't easily repay and gather as many favors as you safely can.  Also, if the legends are true, they can't tell you a direct lie, but they can mislead.  For instance, they might tell a woman who didn't know she was pregnant that she had a parasite growing inside her and not mention that she'd give birth to a baby.  A normal person would cringe at the word, 'parasite' but likely have many different thoughts at the words, 'unborn baby'."<br/>
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Toby pulled his handkerchief from his jacket pocket and wiped his forehead.  Then he said, "Of course, I could be totally wrong about where we are and who lives here."</span></span></span>