Ezme also might not have a smell because, unlike the rest of you, she does not have a shadow cord at all, according to this post.... She's just been following everyone else's cords. @vagueGM is probably right that she may need to do something different to escape. Or maybe someone could do something to free her once they are back in the waking world....
I'm totally down with Roald trying to extract the cords to free the souls to leave. @Airshark, when you say you'll let faith decide which character gets freed, do you mean "chance"?
Maybe the Staff is in a way connected to the body?
Another small Shadow cord which we didn't notice before because of the other cords?
Just writing out loud...
....if you can find Albert's body-cord then you could maybe use staff as a capstan/pulley/lever/belay-device to drag it back?
What do you think of this idea, @Airshark? Right now, Roald has the staff. Perhaps he could us it to somehow bring back Albert's body?
Can we twist the cord round the staff. Like, just roll it up as we go. That way the body doesn't get any slack and we will eventually find it.
Then, I suppose we have to connect the staff to the body to reverse the ' curse'.
Ok. Let's wait for Albeart to pull the coach and then we can escape from the Dreamworld.
We could get the Albert into the coach and let the bear go berserk and pull us away from the circus.
If Lille is sacrificing the trip-shot staff-memory as a throw-away distraction (not sure if she loses the staff as well?) [ref] then, with Albeart's 10+ coach-pull [ref] you can get away from the crowd.
You are welcome to flavour it with great balls of fire (poi) and staff dragging and such, but assume you get away and can find Albert's runaway body when you are ready to deal with it.
She switched the memory to a rock and threw the rock. Still have the staff.
The poi balls were just to have a "local" item for defense/offense. Something that can interact with the crowd without using more memories or making us fainter. Not an important detail if we can just get away.