diff --git a/UI/config/rpc.js b/UI/config/rpc.js
index 707e231..f7eb7ca 100644
--- a/UI/config/rpc.js
+++ b/UI/config/rpc.js
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 // @flow
 import RPCClient from '../rpc'
 
-export default (new RPCClient({ forceDev: false })).rpc
+const client = new RPCClient({ forceDev: false })
+
+export default client.rpc
+export const withCookies = (ctx: any) => {
+  if (ctx.req != null) {
+    return client.withCookies(ctx.req.headers.cookie)
+  } else {
+    return client.rpc
+  }
+}
diff --git a/UI/pages/testrpc.js b/UI/pages/testrpc.js
index 5f26e5a..3e8f12d 100644
--- a/UI/pages/testrpc.js
+++ b/UI/pages/testrpc.js
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 import * as React from 'react'
-import RPC from '../config/rpc'
+import RPC, { withCookies } from '../config/rpc'
 
 export default class TestRPC extends React.Component {
   static async getInitialProps (ctx) {
+    const user = await withCookies(ctx).getCurrentUser()
+    console.log(user)
     return {
-      // hello: await RPC.hello('world')
+      user
     }
   }
 
-  componentDidMount () {
+  async componentDidMount () {
     window.$RPC = RPC
   }
 
@@ -19,6 +21,11 @@ export default class TestRPC extends React.Component {
   }
 
   render () {
-    return <div>hello, { this.props.hello }</div>
+    if (this.props.user == null) {
+      return <div>hello stranger OwO</div>
+    }
+
+    const { username, avatar, discriminator } = this.props.user
+    return <div>hello, {username}#{discriminator} <img src={avatar} width={50} height={50} /></div>
   }
 }
diff --git a/UI/rpc/index.js b/UI/rpc/index.js
index 65db79f..efbda09 100644
--- a/UI/rpc/index.js
+++ b/UI/rpc/index.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export default class RPCClient {
   baseUrl: string
   firstKnownHash: string
   recentHash: string
+  cookieHeader: string
 
   rpc: {
     [fn: string]: (...args: any[]) => Promise<mixed> | string
@@ -52,6 +53,11 @@ export default class RPCClient {
     }
   }
 
+  withCookies = (h: string) => {
+    this.cookieHeader = h
+    return this.rpc
+  }
+
   async updateCalls () {
     // this is for development only. doing in prod is probably dumb.
     const rsp = await superagent.get(this.baseUrl)
@@ -78,7 +84,11 @@ export default class RPCClient {
 
   async call (fn: string, ...args: any[]): mixed {
     const req: RPCRequest = { fn, args }
-    const rsp = await superagent.post(this.baseUrl).send(req).ok(() => true)
+    const rq = superagent.post(this.baseUrl)
+    if (this.cookieHeader != null) {
+      rq.cookies = this.cookieHeader
+    }
+    const rsp = await rq.send(req).ok(() => true)
     const body: RPCResponse = rsp.body
     if (body.error === true) {
       throw RPCError.fromResponse(body, rsp.status)
diff --git a/rpc/index.js b/rpc/index.js
index ae52b9e..1dbc315 100644
--- a/rpc/index.js
+++ b/rpc/index.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export default class RPCServer {
     this.mapHash = fnv.hash(Object.keys(this.rpcMap)).str()
 
     // call map for the client.
-    this.rpcCalls = Object.keys(this.rpcMap).map(fn => ({ name: this.rpcMap[fn].name, args: this.rpcMap[fn].length - 1 }))
+    this.rpcCalls = Object.keys(this.rpcMap).map(fn => ({ name: this.rpcMap[fn].name, args: 0 }))
   }
 
   hookRoutes (router: betterRouter) {
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ export default class RPCServer {
 
     // if call.length (which is the solid args list)
     // is longer than args, we have too little to call the function.
-    if (args.length < call.length) {
-      return this.rpcError(ctx, null, new RPCError(`RPC call ${fn}() with ${args.length} arguments does not exist.`, 400))
-    }
+    // if (args.length < call.length) {
+    //   return this.rpcError(ctx, null, new RPCError(`RPC call ${fn}() with ${args.length} arguments does not exist.`, 400))
+    // }
 
     try {
       const response = await call(ctx, ...args)
diff --git a/rpc/user.js b/rpc/user.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11d644b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpc/user.js
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// @flow
+import { type AppContext } from '../Roleypoly'
+import { type Context } from 'koa'
+// import { type Guild } from 'discord.js'
+
+export default ($: AppContext) => ({
+  getCurrentUser (ctx: Context) {
+    const { userId } = ctx.session
+    return $.discord.getUserPartial(ctx.session.userId)
+  }
+})