Will Pompion

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Will Pompion
Player	KT
Aliases	William Alastair Pumpkin Billy Pumpkin Frederick von Stankovich Mr Brownman Fred Greenman Horace Gusterson Stephen Purpleman Valencio Beigeman
Species	Human
Class	Fiend Warlock of the Chain (Season 1) Wild Magic Sorcerer (Season 2)
Alignment	Will
Gender	Male
Age	35 years
Weapons	Billy Club, Cleanliness
Items	Cloak of the Bat Hat of Disguise
Spells / Abilities	Eldritch Blast, Message, Mage Hand, Light, True Strike (modified), Prestidigitation, Create Bonfire, Charm Person, Comprehend Languages, Detect Thoughts, Invisibility, Fly, Major Image, Dimension Door, Polymorph, Seeming, Creation, Suggestion, Unseen Servant
Familiars	Bernard (Any Common Animal) Frederick (Quasit) Madelyn (Pseudodragon)
Home	Tivoli
Firstappearance	1: This is Nowhere Near the Staggering Unicorn

Will Pompion was the socialite conman and crime boss of Tivoli, who was spirited away to join a nameless party of adventurers. He is known for his private nature, dislike of being touched, his dapper clothing and compulsive cleanliness.

Description

Appearance

35 years old, 6 foot tall and weighing 165 pounds, Will was average build, not athletic, but he could handle himself. He was described as "scrappy". He was smart in appearance, and obsessed with cleanliness and being well dressed. He had brown eyes, a mustache, though the rest of his face is clean-shaven, and dark hair combed back. After his experience with the Swirly Man in episode 1 his hair had a shock of white at his right temple.

• 320: Me Did Not Write That: KT: "Will has a bag, but then he has a system of pouches in his pockets, right here. And he takes a couple of them that he would know to be worth about... [...] It's just coins in pouches. It's multiple pouches because he has them split up so that he can do this kind of shit."
• 334: Grind the Poopdeck!: KT: "Put [Batthwack as a mouse] in my breast pocket. My vest breast pocket, so it's under my coat."

Personality and alignment

Will is True Neutral, but outwardly he mainly showed an interest in all things pertaining to Will and Will alone. Secretly he was loving and extremely devoted to his family and he often looked out for anyone who had lacked a privileged upbringing, especially kids. At one point when Will was asked how important what they were doing was, he said "Like, saving the world important. Not that I want to do that, but other people might." KT then cryptically revealed, "Will doesn't care about saving the world, he cares about saving something in particular."

• 311: The Head Sack: Rosco: "There is no light [at the end of the tunnel]. Faith is unsustainable. And we are just gonna keep on going and going until we die." KT: "Oh my god. Will just walks across the room and into the tunnel. You hit a nerve with Will. His face falls and he's just like, yeah, all right. [...] That's how Will's life was! Everything you just said, it hits Will at the core."
• 317: 1,000 Mugs of Twig Tea on the Wall: Bernard: "You always did like mustard."
• 320: Me Did Not Write That: Rosco: "Too bad, I shoulda told [Will], killing people is very normal." KT: "He thinks so too."
• 332: Who Is Manure Again?: KT (when the party arrive in Trent and are thinking about faking Batthwack's death): "As background, Will is used to having control over any kind of thing like this that he would pull."
• 333: Less Than Kind: Will: "This is the way my brain works, Batthwack. It's not as simple as yours. You're like, 'Oh, my wife's there. Let's go see my wife.' And I'm like, 'What if your wife is a fucking monster that looks like your wife.' You know what I'm saying? That's the kind of shit that I deal with. Conspiracies and actual murder and things like spies and assassins. That's the shit I handle a lot."
• 337: The First Time Batthwack EVER Got It: Will: "I will threaten him as I usually would do. [...] That's what I can do. I'm used to serving... I've done this before, okay? Listen, I don't serve under kings, but I've served under somebody before. I can convince this asshole to stick to the plan."
• 347: A Retroactive Terminal Illness: KT (when Raphina accidentally kills a bystander): "The bigger picture is all that matters, says Will in his head. That's all that matters. We need to convince everyone that Batthwack is dead, that this is real, and that Juliette Rusher needs to know that, 'Oh, that's not somebody we need to mess with,' so we can get to fucking Gully's End and kill the sliver. That's all that matters. That is what all Will thinks. So he does not give a shit. Actually, no, he cares for Raphina, because he knows Raphina is now that's all she's gonna be focused on. That's awful for her. But I still have a job to do. And that is not out of character, because that's my whole life. So that happens. And I burst out of the stall that I fell into, as a giant crab."

Well Dressed

• 29: This is a Kids' Store!: "Will gets super excited when he sees a barbershop."

Hometown Pride

• 328: The 78 Exotic Grasses of Beartoggle: Will: "I picture Gully's End as just the worst, weird, dry, cave system." Bernard: "That's how you've described all of Six Rivers except for Tivoli to me at one point."

Religion

At some point prior to his being transported to Barovia, Will had created a patron god for Tivoli called Zol Berdia, the God of Forgiveness. but it's unclear who knew about this at the time.

• 315: Willanetics: Will: "It's the patron god of Tivoli... I might have a financial investment... It's a successful venture. Okay? Nothing wrong with making money as long as people are being forgiven for all the things they do."
• 320: Me Did Not Write That: Will: "I have business investments in certain churches. I don't think that's a terrible thing."

Abilities and traits

Languages

Common (entirely), Infernal (fairly well). Small bits and pieces of Elvish, Goblin and Orcish. He can understand Draconic after some interactions in Chilchirah's cave, though he doesn't know why.

Weapons

Will carries a billy club, but he mostly uses this as a light-source by casting Light on it. Being a sorcerer, he prefers to fight from a distance, often using his Eldritch Blast, and is rarely in the front line of any battle. He will usually be found on the periphery looking for a way to either escape or diffuse or leverage the fight in some other way.

• 29: This is a Kids' Store!: Will: "I have a billy club, myself"
• 343: An Abandoned Outhouse in the Middle of Town: Will: "I usually use spells to manipulate the situation. Less attacks, more manipulation. I'm sure I could illusion my way into looking like I'm getting beat up."
• 347: A Retroactive Terminal Illness: KT: "I grab some citizen preferably a child or a woman, [...] without my knife or whatever. I have a small, I know I have a small knife. I've never talked about it, but it is in my thing. [...] I have nail clippers. I know that I have a knife. Small knife. Look, there it is."

Spells / Abilities

Will started out his Barovian adventure as a warlock, chained to his patron, the Swirly Man who gifted him his magical abilities via a locket. After defeating Madam Eva, Will found he could still cast magic, though it felt different; he had greater reserves to draw on, but they drained him, so instead of it being something external that had been granted to him, it was now coming from his own body. Never-the-less, he had had to teach himself how to use his magic, and often didn't feel like a natural spell-caster.

Latterly, when he does cast magic it has a swirly, smokey micro-glitter / mica-style shimmer.

Following an encounter with the Warping Scorpion, Will has found he is able to teleport short distances.

List of Spells/Abilities:

• Charm Person
• Comprehend Languages
• Create Bonfire
• Creation
• Detect Thoughts
• Dimension Door
• Eldritch Blast
• Fly
• Invisibility
• Light
• Mage Hand
• Major Image
• Message
• Polymorph
• Prestidigitation
• Seeming
• Suggestion
• True Strike (modified)
• Unseen Servant
• Vicious Mockery

• 324: Hippopollinators: KT: "I've described Dimension Door before as it's like a literal door. [...] It's not like my old Dimension Door when I was a warlock. Now I'm a sorcerer, and it's some other power that I genuinely don't know why Will's a sorcerer, by the way. [...] It's a door and it actually it has an image on it. And my description in the past has been of a moment that Will has metaphorically or potentially literally opened a door for himself, is the image carved onto this door."
• 333: Less Than Kind: "[Will's] used to ducking and weaving through crowds. You haven't had to do it a lot since you became more "influential" in Tivoli; the crowds usually part for you pretty well, but as a child, Oliver Twisting your way through the streets of Tivoli, that was a skill that you worked on and were quite adept at. You can slip easily through, you spot the gaps, you know how to duck and turn. Then all of a sudden, you guys, Will is suddenly in front of you."

Con Artist

• 2: You Fool of a Pumpkin!: "It seems like a con [...] that's his whole life [...] they're gonna accuse us of kidnapping people we're gonna get totally screwed by law enforcement [...] because he has a history, he could be set up for some kind of execution or something"
• 343: An Abandoned Outhouse in the Middle of Town: KT: "Will wants to read this guy as hard as he's ever read anyone in his whole freaking, con artist's life. [...] Will loves to read people."
• 344: The Peaks Are What They Seem: Will: "I am not used to executing plans in an area that I am completely unfamiliar with."
• 348: Poppin' a Crabbie: KT: "This is literally the kind of stuff that they [Will's organisation?] have done before. You know, [Will] has done this kind of thing before. Big... fake... confidence tricks kinda things, like where you got to act and you got to think on your feet because unexpected things happen."

Theatre Nerd

• 342: Self-Flatulation: Will (when Rosco describes a magician's illusion in which their assistant escapes through the false floor of a box and is replaced by something else): "I know this trick, Rosco!" KT: "Will says, excitedly." / "The way that Rosco has been talking in this session is so 'Show Business', which is like all what Will is about too." Eric: "Will's the greatest showman."
• 343: An Abandoned Outhouse in the Middle of Town: KT (when Rosco is teaching Battwack how to stage fight): "You see a change in his face. At first he is looking at Rosco very like, 'Okay you weirdo guy,' but then there's absolutely a curiosity there. And this is because before he had magic powers, this kind of shit... [...] He remembers [the circus trick box Rosco mentioned earlier] and he's actually curious about this. And he absolutely lets you put his hands wherever, put your hands, whatever... So he can learn how this stage goes. He's into it."
• 345: They Were At Lemon's Leap!: KT: "Every time Rosco talks about his circus stuff, Will is in his head, 'Yes, I completely get this, because it is what I do too, just not in the same way.'"

Master of Disguise

Will rarely appears in his true form. Even if undisguised, he will make cosmetic improvements to his appearance. However, when he really wants to blend in, or disappear from those that might recognise him, he'll adopt a completely different look using his Seeming or Disguise Self spells. These alter-egos sometimes have their own names, for example, Mr Brownman, Fred Greenman and Horace Gusterson. The cast have even suggested further identities: Stephen Purpleman and Valencio Beigeman.

• 334: Grind the Poopdeck! KT (describing Valencio Beigeman): "I'm thinking like a muslin. [...] If I'm going to be Valencio Beigeman, [...] I was just wearing drab-ish, but I was trying to wear a little bit of colour because everyone else is wearing a little bit of colour. So I had a necklace on or something, that had clay beads that were different colours. A hippie vibe, I think. That's Valencio Beigeman. He's not wearing a suit. Sandals. Clay beads. Birkenstocks! That's Valencio Beigeman. So that's what I looked like. [...] And I come up with the name Valencio Beigeman."
• 335: I Draw the Line at Beating up Funeral Participants: KT: "Before I go out, could I change myself into Valencio Beigeman? I don't want to look like Will." Eric: "Just draped in muslin." [...] KT: "Birkentocks, yes!" Eric: "Multi-coloured beads." KT: "Maybe I have earrings. [...] It's a pop of colour. I'm a Valencio Beigeman from Beigetown. But I still understand what the customs are around here. People wear colour." / KT: "And then I turned into Muslin Beigeman." Eric: "Muslin Beigeman. That' a better name. That's a better name!" KT: "I haven't actually said my name yet, so I can still be Muslin Beigeman."
• 339: The High-Cs: Sheemie incorrectly identifies a stranger in the crowd as Will in disguise, but despite that, does a very decent job at describing what Will is good at: "He's that guy that looks nondescript. The guy that your eyes skip over. [...] You see how he keeps a radius from any other living being around him. [...] He's like looking at everybody like they're literal garbage. Like he wouldn't want to even step on them with his shoes. Also look at the shoes. They're still fancy. They look like really good shoes. Even though they're not his real shoes, they're completely different."

Home

Will is from the city of Tivoli in the Bufflin Region of Six Rivers. He widely proclaims it to be the "greatest city in the world" to anyone who will listen. He is constantly frustrated and perplexed that more people are not in the process of relocating there from whichever hopeless backwater town they are currently living in.

Treasure

Will has a satchel full of important documents, occasionally forged; quills, ink and other important and useful items. He also carries a punching dagger with magical properties that he can use to summon his brother Curtis.

• 325: I Can Always Hear Raphina: "You also always have +1 because of your stone."

Relationships

• 333: Less Than Kind: Will (to Batthwack): "I understand how important your wife and kid are to you, probably. Not that I am married or anything. I get it that people can be important, and you want to just go and do something about it, but you can't always do that because it makes you end up doing the wrong things and bad shit happens."

Allies

Will will temporarily ally with anyone who will advance his own interests, although is suspicious of everyone. He is currently travelling, reluctantly, with the band of adventurers he met in Barovia.

Enemies

Though they're not enemies as such, Will has a complex relationship with Batthwack who takes a very dim view of Will's nefarious background. The two regularly rub each up the wrong way and rarely see eye to eye on most matters.

Will Pompion Facts!

To be compiled into the article at some point...

• 1: This is Nowhere Near the Staggering Unicorn: Will is in his villa in Tivoli, enjoying a glass of wine and a cut of veal. He has a butler / It is implied that Will runs a criminal organisation in Tivoli. Thugs force Will to meet "a very well-dressed, middle-aged, bearded man. He's got some grey around his temples. 6' tall. He looks like he knows how to handle himself". The bearded man says "I have just arrived in Tivoli and I see it's a town ripe with profitable opportunities. As I know you are fully aware, my associates and I have decided to pluck some of these ripe fruits before they spoil on the vine as it were." [...] "I'll just be blunt. I will be taking over all of your operations here in Tivoli. I have found that setting up an operation is tedious and rarely worth my time. Taking over someone else's operation is far preferable. I will allow you to leave town in one of two ways: Tonight you walk out of my house and keep walking until Tivoli is just a memory for you, or two, I will kill you and have my men kill everyone you're associated with in town, and all your bodies will feed the crows on some hillside nearby. Choice is yours." / "This is not exactly the easiest decision. I've [Will's] been doing this for years. Tivoli's my town! This is my town." / Will meets the Swirly Man: "That figure of swirling fog is very near you now, and it looks at you and says, 'So Billy Pumpkin... Look where you found yourself, thinking you're so strong and powerful, yet here you are almost being killed by men who can't even spell their own names.'" / "Let's just say you're in a situation right now where if I just let things play out, you're going to die. But I like you. And so I have the power to help you out of these situations. In fact, if you want, I could kill all of these idiots for you right now and I could even give you power to protect yourself as well in the future. Is that something that would interest you?" / "If you want me to help you, which I'm willing to do, you're gonna have to help me a little bit as well. You know, I'm just like you Billy. I don't do anything for free." [...] "Just occasionally, I'll need you to do a favour for me. And if you take the deal, you will do the favour. I am not to be disobeyed." / "I [Swirly Man] just occasionally might need you to, you know, maybe move a package from one place to another, or maybe, you know, kill somebody. You know what that's like, Billy. You've done it before. Right?" / The Swirly Man gives him a locket / Will investigates the locket later; "I know that it looks like it's my sister's broken locket" / "It looks like it's been damaged in some kind of way. You can feel that when you hold it, there's power in it. It feels like when you hold the locket you know what to do, but you don't know how it's happening."
• 2: You Fool of a Pumpkin!: "Bernard, my brother right under me, which would have been weird because that would not be something that would be in my sister's locket" / "As you are looking in the locket, there is definitely a change that comes over you. People can see the emotion; all of a sudden you're looking at a sibling" / "You know what powers you have, but you don't know how you know them [...] it's innate knowledge that you never had to learn" / Describing Eldritch Blast: "Black and purple, inky, swirly, smokey blast."
• 3: Armpit Music: "He's not very experienced in the ways of things... Adventuring." / Will considering whether to unwrap the bundle of baby swaddling: "Will has been around a lot of death. And babies, children. He is sad." / Will uncomfortable being possessed by Thorn who is crying: "Can he be searching for his humanity and his experience with..." "Will has siblings." "Yes, he does. He has. And he has had small siblings." / Wondering how to get himself out of the current situation: "He's a selfish person, so he's going to be like, 'What do I need to do right now?'"
• 4: Close Encounters of the Durst Kind: "You have a pretty diverse background in aristocratic families in Tivoli." / "Will will go along -- he's still snapping his fingers and figuring out how Prestidigitation works. [...] Kind of practices things that he's discovering that he can do" / Will snubs the secret room for his first desk encounter: "Will would probably actually be more attracted to the desk and kind of go through the desk" [...] Looking through the papers: "He didn't know how to run his business. I could have done it better." / On ignoring the treasure: "He's not a poor man. He's not an adventurer. He doesn't know what's in chests." / His interest in the demon summoning books: "Will doesn't really know or understand what has happened to him [...] he wants to go and read some things." / On not wanting to steal valuables from the Durst House: "he's being kind of dumb. Especially since somebody is apparently taking over his business or whatever. But he's not used to that right now, anymore. He's not used to that kind of life. So he's not going to take stuff." / Will has the "Dark One's Blessing" Warlock feature / Having killed the grick... "that will make him feel a lot more confident in himself" [...] "he's just relaxing and cleaning himself"
• 5: Nobody Hits Ghostie in the Corner!: While resting after the fight with the ghouls, Thorn "comes up and he rests his head on your shoulder" KT: "I think a little part of my heart just melts a little bit. [...] I had SO MANY little brothers!" Eric: "Had." KT: "Shut up. I have one still." Eric: "He's not so little anymore."
• 6: Sacred Flaming is Exhausting: Will collects the crystal ball her knocked off the pedestal: "It's a very well made little crystal ball thing [...] When you look into it, you actually notice that there's a little light inside of it. That appears to like, go out. Like if you you're holding it and you kind of turn your body and it'll come on and then go out and come on and go out depending on which way you're facing." / After the fight with the shadows, Mydhryn looks weak. KT: "as a crime boss, you can't look like you're a weakling if something happens. You have to pretend that you're fine. So yeah, you can't show weakness." / "he's clean because he can clean himself" (with prestidigitation)
• 7: Mist-ical Visions: Part 1: Description of Will as a street urchin in Tivoli: "you have a satchel that is full of newspapers. And you have regular clothes on. They're a little bit patch-worn and dirty and beat up." / "This place it is the town square. This is where you used to, as a child, sell newspapers." / Describing the people seen in the town square "Lots of people. You know these people. In fact, you've seen them grow older. You've known all these people, they all live in town. [...] At best you could be called acquaintances. I know your name, I know what you do, but I'm not close friends with you. You don't know my family, I don't know your family." / "There's different restaurants, door fronts, but you've never had the money to go into any of these places [...] see the outside and see what the rich people do." / "your house is like probably a good half-an-hour walk away" / "bumped by a gentleman [...] his pocket watch falls out of his pocket and starts dangling from its chain right in front of you. And it is a beautiful pocket watch. It's one of those ones that was handcrafted in a place like Neverwinter [...] You look at it and know it is probably worth 3-500 gold pieces. It is amazing, amazing piece of work. It's etched. It's beautiful." / "You are remembering, this is the moment that you first committed a crime. This is the first thing you would have ever done that would have been beyond the up and up." / "this guy never even sees it being gone. Just right off of his cloak. And now it is in your hands." / Grady on Will: "He's impressed by that. This kid knows something. You don't normally see someone who seems so naturally talented at the art of thieving" / "Would you like him to call you Billy at that age? Would he automatically go to this is probably your name? [...] If you call him Billy, Billy will say, 'Will!'" / Description of adult Will from some time when he was "slightly younger" than in episode 1: "he looks slightly different after his experience with the Swirly Man. [...] He is 34. He's about 6'1. Not a very large guy but not a skinny man. Average. He's not an athletic guy. You can tell he could handle himself. He's scrappy. [...] He has a moustache. He has dark hair and brown eyes. At this point in his life he wears suits. He wears a nice tweed jacket, he has a collar and not a tie from the modern world but whatever would be the equivalent of that. Not an ascot. [...] He has dark eyes. I think he's fairly handsome. His hair is always combed back and neat. He is overall neat. Well groomed. He has the moustache, but the rest of his face is shaved and he is kind of like slick looking." / Will's brothers: "You have been called to your brother's house." "Curtis?" "Not Curtis. Bernard." / "[Will] can just reject it and say, 'Come see me, bro. You're my younger brother. I shouldn't have come see you.'" "[Will] loves his brother. He might be a jerk. But he loves him. He would go." / "Bernard's house isn't all that far away from you. It's odd because he's not that far away from you guys, but you don't see each other all that often." / Speaking to Bernard about Madelyn's assault: "I'm in a really delicate situation right now. I've almost got I've almost got things under a semblance of control that I'm almost in the position that I want to be." / Will to Bernard: "Everything I do I do for everybody in this family. And if I can get to the point where I have more control and more of a position, I'm going to be able to protect everybody." Bernard: "When are you going to have enough Will?" Will: "When I don't have to wonder who's done this to my sister." Bernard: "You will only be happy when you have total control over everything?" Will: "Total control means that nobody can hurt you, or Madelyn or Curtis... not that anyone's going to hurt Curtis anytime soon. No one will ever hurt mom, no one will ever hurt any of us. No one will hurt Vera. When I am where I want to be, no one will ever be able to touch any of you." / "[Bernard] knows that big brother [Will] has never been good with these intuitions, has never been good with emotions and all that kind of stuff." / The Swirly Man approaches Will: "He/she, whatever it is, in the alley beckons you closer and goes 'William... William Pumpkin. How's things going?' You can tell he's in delight by the fact that you are in this distress."
• 8: Mist-ical Visions: Part 2: KT speaks about how Will's appearance changed after his experiences with the Swirly Man: "It was my original character concept, and then I liked the idea that it changed because he went through this deal with a demon or whatever it is... I want him to look more haggard, like he's actually been through something... like, ageing. Physically now he has a grey shock of hair at his right temple, and his hair, which he always made sure to keep it very neat and oiled and combed down, and because he's always wearing his nice suit and everything, but now it looks like it got electrified. His bangs are kind of standing up; it's more tussled than it had looked before. It looks like he slept on it weird or something." Kevin: "I imagined Edgar Allan Poe after a bender." KT: "Yeah" / Will spots his reflection in the window: "[Will's] definitely going to start nervously pulling at his hair, trying to put it back." It won't stay down though, "Without anything he definitely won't be able to do anything, and I think even if he had something, it just will never completely behave again."
• 9: People Hang Out With Monsters?: Will investigates the orb he picked up in ep6: "[Will] could pull out that orb thing that [he] got. Because you said that it flickered a light, depending on which direction I was facing?" Kevin: "It's just kind of blank. It's not anything right now." / Will starts to freak out a little bit while the group approach the chanting voices: "Obviously everything here is out of Will's domain" / Will discovering there's water in the ritual chamber of the Durst house: "he's so bummed because his shoes are so nice; they're gonna get so ruined." / When the ghost cultists chant 'One must die!' Will is worried about what his companions might do: "[Will's] backing away from her, because he's not a trusting person"
• 10: The Gross Pile of Gross: "One of my spells that I have is Hellish Rebuke. [...] [Will] grabs it and [his] hand chars it, it's black wherever [he's] touching it, and then from within it's molten-like cracks and it's so hot that it bursts into flames." / KT wonders how to roleplay Will trying to escape from the grasp of Lorghoth: "So it's plausible for my character to think that he might break away, because he's not like the strongest guy or anything." / On witnessing the ghost kids waving farewell as the Durst house crumbles: "Will is upset. I actually think Will is a little bit upset about that"
• 11: New Friends, or BIFF! SPLAT! GUANO!: Talking back to Strahd / sarcasm: "[Strahd:] 'You're not going anywhere soon. As much as you might want to. You wouldn't want to be rude, would you?' [Will says:] 'Rude? I'm never rude! I am the most... I am so polite. Hey... Love this town! Best town I've ever seen. It is amazing! [...] It's perfect. I've never been in a town like this one. It's amazing. And these rats?! Look at them! They're... also amazing. Just great.' [Strahd:] 'You've got a mouth on you, don't you?'" / KT wondering if Will would know what a dire wolf is: "Would that be something that someone like [Will], like a city person, would know what that is?" / Nick reassures Goran that it doesn't matter if he forgets their names: "I know I don't always get it on the first try. Will here, I think is more of a people person. I'm guessing he'll probably know your name pretty well."
• 12: GILFs, Get Your Tongues Ready!: Speaking of Will's innate sense of direction in a town, Eric: "You know streets pretty well. It's kind of your bag." / On Will's sense of distrust: "He would stay in the back and keep his eye on, especially, the newcomers." Later on, at the tavern: "Will would probably pick a seat somewhere in the corner so he could look at everyone. He's not trusting anyone. He's never trusting anyone, especially he doesn't know where he is." / KT describes Will again: "Will is a human. He's a man. He's about 30- I think 34 Something like that. Kind of average build. He has dark hair, except for a shock of white hair, I think it's his right temple. His hair kind of stands up in weird ways that won't be tamed, looks like he was in an electrical storm. He wears very nice clothes. He wears a suit with a high collar and an old-school tie/cravat thing. Shiny shoes, the kind of shoes that you would never wear as an adventurer. He has a moustache, a nice full moustache. But he looks haggard and tired and like he hasn't slept in a while. He looks very out of place, doesn't look like an adventurer, doesn't look like he should be fighting this crazy guy in the street" / "He's not drinking his wine because he doesn't really drink. At least he doesn't drink around other people." / The baron of cleaning: "He looks down on himself, annoyedly points at [Lank] and cleans more of him, like another squeegee move, just cleans him in annoyance."
• 13: My Necro-Sense is Tingling: KT cryptically hints at Will's nefarious background: "Will's seen a lot of dead people in his life for multiple reasons" / Will asks the Swirly Man about the quasit he had summoned. Swirly: "Aren't you happy? You're reunited after [Frederick] died! Because of you!" Will: "No, no!" Swirly: "So now you get to meet him again." Will: "No!" Swirly: "You get to feel your regret even more strongly." / The Swirly Man alludes to Will's backstory: "You know what Will? You have a special talent for taking things that suck and making them your own." / Swirly Man explains why Will is in Barovia: "I've chosen you. Everything I say to you is a compliment. My presence here is a compliment to you. [...] I'll fill you in a little bit on why I've got you here. There's no sense in being so mysterious about everything. Basically, why I want you here, this place is unique, Barovia, I think you could agree. And Strahd, who you've met by now, this is his. But he didn't get it all on his own. He had some help. There's some dark forces that gave him the power he needed to make this his own. But you know what? I want this place, and you're going to help me get it." Will: "You can't get it yourself." Swirly: "No, I can't. But you can. [...] Your destiny now is to take Strahd's place. [...] This is the favour I'm asking you. [...] I want that for you. And trust me, I think you'll see. You just got here. You haven't even seen the scope of what this place is and what it means. You have sought out wealth, power, and you'll find that here in Barovia. You will find that and more." / The Swirly Man explains how it was him that brought Will to Barovia: "Strahd thinks he brought you here but I sent you a down the right path."
• 14: The Attempted Pike Poke: "He's going to cast Scorching Ray" / After the Swirly Man says he could summon his dead siblings, KT refers to them as familiars, though Will doesn't think in those terms: "Will's like... familiar... He doesn't even know that word. Thing." / Referring to the narcotic effects of the dream pastries, Will makes a reference to his own knowledge and experience of drugs, saying "Those dream pastries remind me of something that they have in my town, you know. I miss my town so much."
• 15: The Truth of His Salvation: Frustrated with Donavich, Will attempts to intimidate the priest. KT: "[Will]'s going to use his crime boss voice. [...] He has a way of intimidating, if he wants to be intimidating." / Will finds some boots in a chest in the Barovia Village church's undercroft: "You also see what looks like a really, really nice pair of boots, leather boots." Will: "I might need some boots since my shoes are not for adventuring." [...] Eric: "Very, very, very nice boots. They are in perfect condition. They don't seem old or worn or anything like that. They seem brand new." Will: "Are they a size 11? Because that is my shoe size." Eric (describing the leather): "There's designs carved into it, like leather working basically. [...] There's some etching that looks like, spirally kind of designs, and almost wings or feathers, that kind of thing, suggestive of that. [...] That goes all around the bottom edge, above the soul. And they're a dark, dark brown." [...] Will: "He always has nice shoes and he might need shoes, so I think he'll definitely take the boots." / KT on whether Will would steal the church donation money: "Will might be a criminal, but he's never stolen money from a church."
• 16: How's the Sentence Happening?: In the fake sponsor for this episode, Will is named "Will A. Pompion" / KT: "Will is a pickpocket" / KT describes Will's thought process around wanting to give away the old hag's dream pastries: "Will comes from a background of poverty, even though he is wealthy, you know. Whatever. Will comes from a background of poverty. And there are plenty of poor people in his town that he manipulates and stuff, so he's not like... [...] and he's familiar with drug stuff. [...] He's like, these people are addicted to something. They're trying to get their fix. They were in debt. I'm familiar with that kind of stuff." / KT gives some more clues as to what Will got up to in Tivoli: "Will thinks back to the situation where the lady was yelling at them and he's like, I've seen this before, where someone's like, 'Pay me a whole...' you know, and then beats them up. Whether it's a bookie, or whether it's, you know... whatever. All that stuff, Will is very familiar with it." / Will thinking how best to use their stolen pastries to hurt the old lady by handing them out for free: "I'm a businessman." / And later, going into the square to give away the pastries: "I've actually done this kind of thing before, so it's going to be actually weirdly natural. I'm going to have a weirdly good way of setting up shop, as it were. [...] I just know that he would be good at it, but I think that if other people were watching, it would be a little odd. I think it would be a little weirdly natural how he goes into the centre, if there's people milling around, or like walking, doing their errands and stuff, he sets the sack on the ground for a second, and just kind of belts out, 'Anybody like dream pies here?!' you know just starts on a little sales pitch." / Eldritch Blast. Eric: "What color's your Eldritch Blasty stuff, would you say? It's like purple, smokey. Is that right?" KT: "Yeah, purple and smoky."
• 17: Village of Bologna: Will (on the subject of his "deal" with Swirly): "What is the deal? We have to, you know, like, deals have to have definite...” Swirly Man: "I saved your life. And now you'll do whatever I ask." / Warlock. Will: "[Will]'s trying to calculate in his head what he can do with magic, compared to angry mob back when he was just regular human, non-Warlock guy compared to now, where he has Warlock powers." / Bernard discusses Goran: "He could be lying to you. You never really know. I know you're kind of the lying guy, Will. Sometimes. Remember, some people can lie to you too." Will: "I assume that people are not being truthful, I think, in general." / Will's germophobia and teetotalism. Eric (when the Vistani offers them all a drink): "Like a flagon, like a wineskin." KT: "Oh, like that we would all share." Eric: "Will pulls out his Purell." KT: "No, it's just that he doesn't drink." / Madam Eva's description: "William Pumpkin, man of devotion and greed warring within you."
• 18: It HAS Been Real!: Will: "Was that swirly cloud of horrible crap, that is somehow tied to me, telling the truth when he told me what he plans for me to do in this world?" Madam Eva: "Yes." / Bernard tells Will what he asked Madam Eva: "I asked if I would be able to protect you." Will: "Well, I mean, you're a cat. Do you have any cat power?" Bernard: "I don't think that I need to just be a cat. We'll have to figure that out." Will: "You asked if you could protect me??" KT: "Will is actually [...] He's walking along with a tremble in his lip." Eric: "You sort of feel this emotion well up and you feel the locket get a little warm. [...] All of a sudden, Bernard is not a cat anymore. He's an iguana." / Meeting Batthwack: "Greetings. I'm Batthwack Medrach. And the good among you have nothing to fear." Will: "Uh oh." KT: "Will ducks behind whoever is available." / Goran: "Batthwack, was it? How do you feel about weird demon spirits?" (He points at Will) Alex: "Weird, he's probably ok. Evil? No." [...] Alex: "I think I'm just gonna turn and stare at Will for a moment."
• 19: Does Anybody Have A Tent?: Will's not an outdoors person: "I don't think Will has literally ever camped in his life. He's a city boy and has lived a life of luxury for the past few years." / Eric: "You [Will] concentrate really hard. And you're getting a sense of what's going on in your brain and in your locket and everything. And then suddenly [Bernard] starts flicking through different creatures. So he was a spider, then he turns into a weasel. Then he turns into a bat, starts flapping. And then he turns into a bear. And then he turns into a cat. And then he turns into a bullfrog. And then he turns into an iguana. And then he turns into a rattlesnake. And he turns into a rat. And then he turns into a raven. And then he turns into a spider. And then he turns into a weasel. And then he turns into a bat. Yeah, but now you can pick any of those. [...] He also turned at one point into a St. Bernard." [...] KT: "[Will] would be like flicking through the TV channels and he would go back to the dog and be like, 'St. Bernard! St. Bernard!!' And he freaks out because that's what he used to call Bernard sometimes to tease him." Abby: "Because his name is Bernard." KT: "And he's a saint. He's the good guy of the family." [...] Eric: "He's a big St. Bernard too. BIG St. Bernard." [...] KT: "Will's happy for the first time in days." [...] Then talking about setting a watch, KT: "Will would volunteer actually for the first time in his life with this party. [...] Right now he's in between like delirium of thinking he's in a dream world and... right now he's like, 'Dude, my brother's the dog. I used to call him that.' So that's really funny. And I'm gonna sit here and look at my dog brother and then probably change him into a bat or something more useful, but I'm just gonna look at him for a while." / Will explores the boots he found in the Barovia church: "I've had boots in my bag that I haven't changed into because Will's composed, but now he's been walking in his nice, shiny, city shoes... [...] And his feet are probably all like blistered and effed up, but he's like sitting there and having to change" Eric: "After you've got them on for a little while they almost meld to your feet. [...] You're just feeling how they feel on you, maybe walking around a little bit, you feel a spring in your step. You test it out a little bit. You feel very light on your feet and try to jump a little bit and you jump really far, like three times as far as you feel like you normally could. [...] They are called the 'Boots of Striding and Springing'"
• 20: Take That, Bette Midler!: Will: "I'm freaking confident right now. This lady ran away from me and I'm a cocky jackass, when I am back in my regular town." / Will casts Shocking Grasp
• 21: Eric, Do You Hate Us?: At the windmill, KT justifies Will's choice to destroy the oven: "Will, if he was doing like, thinking of the way that his business shit worked. Messing people's stuff up. That's how you get back at them, and he's like, this is their business. If I destroy their business, then that will also help." / Will casts Chromatic Orb with fire damage / When Will is hurt, he runs to use a healing potion, inside rather than asking Raphina the healer for help: "That's Will. He doesn't rely on anybody." / The hag instead casts a spell in which she insults Will to inflict psychic damage: "Your pride in your boots is strong. And any any words against your outfit certainly affect you strongly." / "I guess [Will] would take care of himself and probably heal himself."
• 22: Aren't We a Little Old to Be Put in Child Pies?: Will casts Light on the stairs.
• 23: Ireena, Can You Give Us a Hand?: KT (on the subject of Will helping, or not): "I think I implied that Will doesn't help, just makes his bear help." / "Everybody is level five now" / KT (the subject of Will destroying the windmill): "He's done this before, but with regular instruments of... not like, you know, like..." Eric: "Your thugs. Standing in the middle of a room and pointing at things and having them..."
• 24: What Is the Airspeed Velocity of a Barrel-Laden Raven?: KT (discussing whether Will would go inside the stone circle): "He doesn't want to look like he's a coward. [...] because this is Will, he has to look tough. He's gonna step in." / Raphina: "Will, I think you're a wonderful person, but you are very stingy." Will: "Okay. I'll accept that really horrible asssessment." Eric: "As long as somebody's assuming something incorrectly about, you're fine with it?" KT: "I'm fine with it." / Batthwack (as the group discuss what to do with Galdar): "So Will, you're the spokesman of the group I guess?" Will: "Oh, if you want me to be? I mean, with this type, I might be good."
• 26: Deer Eggs and a Bowl of Tabasco Sauce: Will uses Prestidigitation to "make a pretty passable Tabasco sauce out of your hot beet soup that you can lay along your eggs." / Will: "I'll pay for everyone's eggs." KT: "Will is in a better mood because he had a nice room. A good sleep." Abby: "Raphina gives him a big hug." KT: "He gets so uncomfortable about that."

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• 283: One Does Not Simply Walk Into BoarDoor: On Will's newfound ability to teleport by stamping his foot: Eric: "[Will] Misty Stepped past the turtle and now are in front of it." KT: "Is it actually Misty Step?" Eric: <shrugs> "I don't know, it's called whatever you want it to be" / Will casts Eyebite for the first time. Will's eye become purple sparkly voids and shadows come out from behind him, going up to the target and grappling it, as if putting it in a sleeper hold so that it falls asleep. The shadows are shaped like various sized goons, humanoids, big strong muscular.
• 284: Tusk Me In the Dick: KT explains Will's motivation during Rosco's stint as a boar: "[Will]'s trying to gain control of the situation. Will is all about control. He is all about trying to ... that's why he's going crazy in this new world. He's trying to gain control over the situation." / KT gives us more insight into Will's motivations as he flicks through the pages of the gnomish book despite Batthwack's warnings: "[Will] needs to know this information. As somebody who constantly needs to know and have the upper hand on people."
• 288: Gimme a Break, Like My Foot: Raphina and Rosco look for a suitable place to talk at the Nitty Gritty Saloon: "You know that Will has a high threshold for what he considers to be private." / Raphina describes Will's character: "I think it is a wonderful reflection of your beautiful nature that you have an instinct to be so over protective of the children that we come across. And I love that about you. DON'T TALK! You might remember that I used to be able to see what you were feeling. And while I can't do that anymore, I have not forgotten the way you feel about your family. And just because you aren't actually a father to somebody doesn't mean that you haven't been a father to so many people in your family and a care-taker and more than a brother. And I know that you are very worried about somebody else hurting a child in your care."
• 289: I Have No Glaaaaaaaands: Rosco to Batthwack: "Although Will can come off as kind of ornery and critical at times, in fact, he might very well have just as good intentions as you do around protecting people, protecting Sheemie" / KT describes Will without any of his magical cosmetic improvements: "My hair is definitely way more messy than I was making it, I look way more haggard, I'm very pale and thin and tired looking. [...] What I imagine Will does with his spell is that he never lets anyone see what he actually looks like, which is... he's not somebody who's an adventurer. He's not happy to be here. And he's completely been stressed out for like three weeks, so he's not looking great." / KT (when Eric joked that Batthwack was going to reveal he was Will's father): "I killed the wrong dad."
• 290: Between "Gaping" and Other Things: The subject of whether Will smoked or not was discussed. Alex: "When Will Pompion does smoke, does he use Mage Hand to smoke?" KT: "Gosh, I imagine... I don't know if he would have smoked at all." Eric: "Has Will smoked since this game started?" KT: "Probably not. If anything, he's taken worse care of himself on this trip. Not that smoking is self care, but to him it was... it was drugs! It's not just smoking. Drug stuff." Eric: "Smoking heroine." / KT describes Will's Mage Hand spell: "It looks like he is moving his hand, like he's moving puppet strings. [...] It's almost like there's strings that are coming from my hand, but not all the way to the object." / Will shows how much he cares about Bernard when the crown lands on him and disappears: "Will gets down, uncharacteristically, kneels down on the ground."
• 291: Two or Three Minutes Per Minute: KT: "I haven't gotten the chance to look at what the hell is going on with my leg." Eric: "You look at your leg. And yeah, that chunk of your ankle is not visible." / Will is a proud sartorialist. KT: "No, I think that [Will] just isn't wearing his jacket. He isn't wearing his tie thing. He's just wearing his shirt, a vest, pants. And his shoes! But he's like, really sad. He has a lot of nice stuff. He's gonna have to leave it behind, I guess!?" / Adam: "I liked how frustrated Will sounded when he was like 'I don't control this town!'" Eric: "Yet!" KT: "That's the whole thing, he's so used to control at this point. He's having a midlife crisis."
• 292: Is Condom a Condiment?: Will realises that drinking a Potion of Water Breathing might not give Rosco the ability permanently: "Oh, wow, that's how potions work. I'm not really a potion guy."
• 293: Fins, Gills, Angles, Scales, Eyes, Fins, Dorsal Pieces and Teeth: Will's relationship with Raphina: "Raphina, I think you're the oddball. I hope you don't take offence to that. You are my best friend. I said that, I said that before. You're, you know, up there." / Will casts Major Image during his impression of Raphina / Will's key has a symbol which is interpreted as "oddball" and he uses this to open the "crank" door.
• 294: Come In Yoisful: The group discuss how to tackle the dragon. KT: "Will will never want to walk into a fight" / Rosco: "Will, you're good at words. Why don't you go over there and wake up that dragon?" / Will thinking in terms of his own survival. KT: "As Will is hearing this stuff about bad luck Rosco, Will is thinking 'You know what, at worst comes to worse, I can use Rosco to get away from the dragon."
• 296: Stilled By the Majestic Boringness: "So Will is definitely always going to prefer to talk rather than fight."
• 297: I Would Use the Word "Rubbing": Will uses his "Misty Step" ability: "I am going to stomp my foot and hope that that takes me away. I'm going to think about the Warping Scorpion and be like, 'All of these gods are bullshit, but help me out Warping Scorpion!'" [...] Eric: "Will turns and stomps, or stomps/turns. Erm, I don't know. [...] You flamenco your way somewhere. So yeah, you turn and try to stomp as far away as you can, and you find yourself five feet further away from the dragon." / Will uses the metamagic "Twinned Spell" option on his Eldritch Blast to fire off six bolts in one go. KT: "If you're close enough to him when it happens, the air around you feels like there's just a little too much caffeine and you'd almost get a buzz."
• 298: AS YOU FIIIIISH: The Baron of Cleaning: "This substance is extremely viscous. And some would say impossible to remove. But we all know that we are in the presence of the Baron of Cleaning." / Will uses moustache scissors to remove the last glob of explosive mucus from Raphina's pigtail: "Apparatus for my moustache that I purchased. Clippers, little scissors. I have a comb and scissors."
• 299: Like a Zen Rake: The Anglerfish speaking to Will (apologising for not giving very satisfying answers): "That's not very satisfying. You don't have much faith in me. At least you have more faith in me than you do in you, man. But that's kind of sad too."
• 300: Clearly Not, Based on This 2-Hour Conversation: Anglerfish (when Will asks about his invisible ankle): "Oh, you got stung by the Warping Scorpion? [...] You can't like see your ankle, right? It's, like, it's not gonna, like, get worse than what it is. And like, you could probably, like, do some weird, like, warping shit. It's not gonna, like, kill you or hurt you. Does it hurt?" Will: "No." Anglerfish: "Okay, like, I mean, I could probably put it back the way it was. You want me to? [...] You got stung by the Warping Scorpion, man, like, he's, like, a scorpion that can warp, man, and he, like, stings shit, because he's still a scorpion. Like, you probably, like, scared him. [...] I don't know, maybe he was, like, going somewhere. Didn't know you were there and got surprised and stung you, maybe it was just fucking around. Maybe you had a bad day. I don't know. But, like, you're fine. Like, it's... you're good. Like, it probably hurt when it happened, right?" Will: "Yes..." Anglerfish: "But, like, you're good now. Like, the wound is fine. So, like, you've got, like, some Warping Scorpion juice in you or whatever." Will: "What does that mean?" Anglerfish: "It means, like, you can't see your ankle and you can fucking probably do some warping shit." / Will: "How is Zol Berdia here?" Anglerfish: "Man, like, Zol Berdia's real dude." Will: "No, he isn't." Anglerfish: "Yeah he is." Will: "How? How is he real? I made him up." [...] Anglerfish: "Belief is fucking power, dude. [...] You made people believe in Zol Berdia, man. Zol Berdia is real." Will: "Well, that isn't great, I don't think." Anglerfish: "Why, man? I like the idea of forgiveness." / Will: "Can you tell me why I have magical powers?" [...] Anglerfish: "It's clear, like, right, so you know how, like, you were, like, 'Oh, I don't have magic', right? And then you, like, did, but it was from, like, this bad thing or whatever, right? So, like, that wasn't what you have now, right? It's different. So, like, you having that, sort of unlocked this thing in you man, like, that you've always had. You've probably felt it sometimes. Like, you have, like, a magic to you that's, like, part of you. [...] It's genetics, man, like..." Will: "Oh, no... What?!" Anglerfish: "Yeah, it came from your dad, dude." Will: "WHAT?! [...] No." Anglerfish: "Yeah." Will: "No. How? What are you talking about?" Anglerfish: "Like, it's, like, your blood from your dad, like..." Will: "Great." Anglerfish: "Your ancestral, like, heritage or whatever." Will: "No." Anglerfish: "Yeah." Will: "What do you mean? What are you talking about?" Anglerfish: "It's, like, ancient magic's in your dad's family. And you got it. [...] It's big fucking news, man. You might have suspected though, right?" Will: "No. I didn't. I don't think that guy gave me anything... ever... anything positive. You know what? I hate this news." / The Anglerfish gives Will the ability to detect if anyone is stealing from him: "No one can ever steal from you." Will: "No one?!" Anglerfish: "I mean, they can, but you'll know."
• 303: This Is Going to Feel Very Unhelpful: Great Aunt Tootie: "It was someone's birthday recently, wasn't it?" [...] Raphina: "In the last three weeks?" Tootie: "Yes." Will: "I put my hand on her hand." Tootie: "Yes. It was your birthday." Bootie: "Raphina, what did you get him?!" Batthwack: "It's Will's birthday?" [..]. Will: "Yes. Nobody talk about... I don't..." Tootie: "It's important dearie. Birthdays, these are days of power." Will: "Well, it's past so it's past." Tootie: "It's not truly past if it wasn't truly celebrated. All of you will need to do something about that. If you have any chance of doing what needs to be done." / Will (talking about his contract with Batthwack, if Batthwack were to throw him in the sea): "If that happens [...] I get his necklace. Not that I know what I'm gonna do with it but I get his necklace thing."
• 306: We’ll Put a Candle in a Fish: Eric: "Will is a very big fan of street food."
• 309: I'm Wearing My Cinderblock Pants: Bernard (to Will): "I know you're a cat person. How are your cats, by the way?" Will: "I don't know. Don't bring that up, please. Probably starved to death or don't exist."
• 313: Raphina is Zippin' Around This Pit: Will (on the awful music and strobe lighting): "This is like every club in Tivoli. Just kidding. It's not as bad. But this is how I feel, often, when I'm in them."
• 320: Me Did Not Write That: KT: "Is this a circus trick? I [Will] am also from the show business-ish kind of capacity/area/realm. So I want to know is this is just a funny weird fucking trick."
• 322: Liar's Dice: Rosco: "Has anybody else played Liar's Dice besides me?" Eric: "Will definitely knows it." Sheemie: "I've played a few times." / KT: "Will lives in gambling town. This is his whole life and just because I don't know this shit, doesn't mean he's not a shark."
• 327: Q-U-E-U-E-F: "Will doesn't know a lot of animals. He's not big animal guy. He doesn't give a shit. And so, animals he knows are one's you can eat, or ones that's in a city."

History

He grew up in Tivoli, eventually overthrowing the crime family running it. He ran the town for a while, until a mysterious "Swirly Man" (later discovered to be Madam Eva) forcefully took over in the guise of a rival crime boss. Before he was about to be killed by The Swirly Man's henchmen, his soon to be patron "saved" him and "requested" he go to Barovia to run "errands" for him and was granted him magical abilities to help him do so. He travelled in Barovia with a party of other adventurers, eventually defeating Strahd and then his patron. After defeating his patron he became a wild magic sorcerer, and started making his way back to Tivoli, with Batthwack as his body guard. His full name is William Alastair Pumpkin, but he goes by Will.

• 27: Mist-ical Visions: Part 3: Eric (describing Raphina's vision at the church in Vallaki): "You actually start to see images begin to form and move as you gaze into it. You first catch a glimpse of what looks like a mother and a young child in basically a hovel. A very, very poor dwelling. They're standing next to each other. They're dressed in, definitely not fine clothes, very poor clothes. And then as you watch the boy... they're just standing side by side... And then as you watch, he starts to age and grow a little bit. And as he does, younger children start appearing next to him, one by one. And they each grow in time. There's four more in total, two more boys and then two girls. And as this happens, the surroundings around them actually get kind of worse and worse looking, in terms of how well off they seem to be, or don't seem to be, rather. So basically you see this family grow as their dwelling gets worse and poorer around them. And then everything kind of stops. And then that first boy that you saw, the oldest boy, though still, he's not very old at all, he's still definitely a child, he looks around at his family. He moves for the first time. And then kind of straightens his back. Looks like he maybe gained some resolve. This is all in silence. It's just a pantomime, basically. So he straightens his back and then he just fades away for a moment. And then he reappears. And at this point, he looks a bit older, and very, very tired. But he's carrying a huge armful of food. And he begins handing it out to his family with a genuine smile on his face. They take the food and devour it. And then he disappears and reappears again and this point he's even older. At this point, he's old enough that you can recognise that this is a younger version of who you know as Will. He's recognisable as Will, this time though he's got a black eye. But he has a bag full of clothing, that he also hands out, like the food, to replace what is basically ragged looking threads on them currently. Then he disappears and reappears again, this time you can see the shadow of a very slight moustache. This time he though he has a limp, and his shirt is spattered in blood. But he takes their hands and they kind of walk in place, like it looks like they're walking, but they kind of stay in one place, like they're on a treadmill basically. And the room around them actually kind of slides past and is replaced by, still a smaller apartment, but it's in much better shape. Very much an improvement on where they had been standing before. Will stands back and kind of looks on with a small smile as the family wanders around looking at and touching things with wonder and amazement." / Will has a vision of his family members: "You see the graves of Madelyn and Frederick, back in Tivoli, who shared the same plot. And as before, Bernard's is actually right nearby, as you were able to purchase a nearby plot for him and his family when he was killed. You've visited there a few times. Next to Madelyn's and Frederick's graves though is something new. There are three freshly dug graves. Open pits. And at the foot of each of them stands Curtis, Vera, and your mother Millie. [...] Millie reaches out and shouts 'Will!' surprised and imploringly as if she hasn't seen you in a long time."
• 29: This is a Kids' Store!: Blinsky: "Do you [and Bernard] play games together as children?" Will (relunctantly): "Yeah?" Blinsky: "What games you play?" Will: "We're in the streets. Games, I don't know. Marbles. Things like that. Things you do in the street. When you're poor." KT: "I didn't say that. I wouldn't have said that. I'm too proud to say that."

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• 320: Me Did Not Write That: KT: "Will [...] in the real sense, he has a soft, tiny little heart, like a Grinch heart, it's three sizes too small. But if you roll a natural one, it's going to make his heart feel bad for poor people, because he was poor."
• 324: Hippopollinators: KT: "I've described Dimension Door before [...] it actually it has an image on it. And my description in the past has been of a moment that Will has metaphorically or potentially literally opened a door for himself, is the image carved onto this door. [...] It's a tower-ish situation, made out of stone, tower-ish situation, like a room where you see an opening behind one man..." Eric: "And you're clearly high up." KT: "...who looks kind of beat up and then there's two big bulky guys on both of that guy's side and then there's Curtis and then there's Will. [...] It looks like Will might be in charge of this situation in which this man might look like he's about to be pushed out of a drop. [...] Curtis is closer to the guy, as if he is going to do something to the guy and Will is further away just kind of smiling about the situation."
• 333: Less Than Kind: Will: "Oh, you don't believe a lowly street urchin like myself?"
• 337: The First Time Batthwack EVER Got It: KT: "[Will] knows what a shovel is. He knows what a paddle is. He also lives on a river. We all have to know what paddles are. We all live on rivers, because this is Six Rivers, baby!" Eric: "Yeah but Will doesn't do any of that shit. Boat just goes." KT: "Listen, he was poor. He wasn't always some wealthy dude. He probably had to paddle at some point."
• 342: Self-Flatulation: KT: "In [Will's] youth, you'd just be made fun of for this kind of... for not thinking of this earlier. 'You idiot.'"
• 346: The Death of Batthwack Medrach: "[Will] might be enjoying this a little too much. But it's more because he hasn't gotten respect, in a few weeks, that he's used to getting respect where he's from. And now it's like, 'Oh, I get to make everybody feel the same way that everyone in Tivoli feels about me.'"

Quotes

• First line: [Will's butler enters the room] "Oh, what is it?" Butler: "Sir? Some gentlemen have arrived and wish to speak with you." Will: "I told you not to say anything. I'm resting right now. Recuperating. Come on." (Ep1)
• Strahd: "You're not going anywhere soon. As much as you might want to. You wouldn't want to be rude, would you?" Will: "Rude? I'm never rude! I am the most... I am so polite. Hey... Love this town! Best town I've ever seen. It is amazing! It's perfect. I've never been in a town like this one. It's amazing. And these rats?! Look at them! They're... also amazing. Just great." Strahd: "You've got a mouth on you, don't you?" (Ep11)

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