Okie dokie. Picking up outside of Baba Yaga's hut, Marcus thinks about what he needs for the pie. Flour for the crust. Where can he get that? Right, the giant mortar and pestle that Babs uses to fly. Well, it just so happens that you can also use a mortar and pestle to grind things like bones. Bones make a fine flour for pie crust.
He's got none of the other ingredients though so it's off to do more damage around Mordavia. First stop: the Leshy. Marcus gets the last riddles out of the way, and the next time he visits the Leshy he'll actually be able to resolve that subplot. Yeah.
Then it's back to the lake to see the Rusalka. She's not quite sure why Piotyr wants her saved, but hey, an evil lake spirit isn't likely to understand the reasoning of a Paladin ghost. But she seems game. So it's off to the cemetery to discover her real name: Elyssa. And her old boyfriend was Janos. He's a bit of a douchebag. We'll meet him later.
Marcus runs back to tell her her real name, and she says that indeed Janos was a real douchebag. Marcus wasn't around to white knight then but he sure is now, and Elyssa needs a white knight. She even gives Marcus a piece of her hair so he can complete the ritual he learned from the gyspies.
Which he'll do after dark, and while he's down in this neck of the woods he might as well head into the swamp after one of the last rituals. A while later, slogging through mud and dead people, he reaches the Mad Monk's tomb and sees two Chernovy wizards guarding it. They are some ugly motherfuckers. A little Marcus magic later and they're sucking swamp and he's taking the ritual and going home.
Until he dies.
Well, fuck.
