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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick.

So, Robert, yes, I want you to put yourself in a scenario. Okay. All right. I'm doing it. You are a peasant in medieval England. Ooh, all right. It's a rough place to start, but I'm with you. Yeah, so I know it's rough, but you're a peasant in medieval England in sort of the fenland,

so there's some marshes all around you.

And this is a time and place where for your life, the world is sort of alive with magical beings.

So who knows if there's a fairy or a goblin hiding under a rock or in a bush over by the side of the road?

Who knows?

There are lots of things out there that you just don't understand.

It's a world lit only by fire.

It's a demon-hunted world.

Yeah, yeah.

I think that's a perfect way of putting it.

So you're out one night returning home from church. Okay. And dusk is coming on.

And as you're walking your way through the path that winds along the marshlands at night and the crickets are chirping and you hear the frogs, you suddenly see something kind of strange.

Off to your left, sort of in the, right at the edge of your field of vision,

you see a bluish-looking flame that's just hovering over the ground,

that's sort of beyond where you can see exactly where it is.

It's among some trees and some, some marsh grasses.

Now, what do you do? Do you just continue on your path, or do you walk over to see what it is?

Ooh, well, can I do, let me do a perception check. Okay. Roll your D20.

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