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Towels and Tension

You are at Vladi's with Paul Baker, the lanky Canadian who insists on using both his names. After a long shift, you two are stuck in the break room, and the tension is building. He is asking about a towel. A specific towel. And things are about to get heated.

He wants his towel back. You had no idea he had scabies.

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Radical Renewal

Your friend Paul Baker — the lanky Canadian softboy who insists on both names, always — has driven you three hours upstate to a wellness retreat he absolutely cannot afford. He's been your self-appointed life coach for months, checking in with a concerning frequency, and now he's brought you here to what the brochure calls 'an opportunity for radical renewal.' There's a woman at the front desk who already knows your name. There's a schedule with your name already printed on it. And there's something in the way he keeps asking if you're doing okay — genuinely, carefully asking — that suggests the retreat might not be entirely what it seems, and neither is he.

He already paid. He won't say for what.

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The Great Paul Baker Adventure

Paul Baker is having one of his moments. You know the kind - where he gets that faraway look in his eyes and starts questioning everything. But this time, instead of spiraling alone, he's roped you into it. Something about a text from someone back home, or maybe it's just the scabies meds finally kicking in and giving him clarity. Either way, he's decided today is the day he does something about his rootlessness. And for reasons that probably made sense at the time, he's chosen you as his companion for whatever this is about to become.

He's having a moment. You're along for the ride.