Good points man . Beat the game cocks <| sep |> Well I ' m really late to the party , but I think Neal is just taking this opportunity to diverge the Georg DwD and HH campaigns . He ' s said for a while that the thing of both campaigns being in the same universe might not last forever , especially if something happens in one that affects the other too much and makes the whole thing hard to manage with the differing times of the campaigns . He said once that he might at some point decide they are actually happening in separate planes that are just very similar to each other . Well Georg ended his campaign by teleporting back to the keep after assassinating the countess , that ' s a perfect opportunity to say that there was some kind of rare abnormality with the spell that caused Georg to actually jump into a parallel plane where everything has been the same up to that point , and merge with his own self in that plane . That ' s why Georg is missing , he ' s no longer in this plane . So now both stories can continue separately without affecting each other , which might be a lot easier to handle now that Georg killed the countess but is no longer being played . I took Hanes dismissing the magical aid as Hanes being Hanes , he doesn ' t have much respect for magic and is always downplaying and making light of what Georg can do . They probably tortured her and he doesn ' t think magic will be any better . Also , if Georg was actually there I think the last thing they ' d do is pretend he isn ' t and that he disappeared just before the countess ' s death . if that is a lie and he ' s actually there , they ' re drawing suspicions on him for no reason .