S1E12 - Devil By His Side - Operation Proxy Decay - Delta Green AP - Dead Letter Bureau

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Agent Ryan and Agent Barone, you are on the edge of the swamp.

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Agent Ryan, you are bleeding out of your leg.

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You feel the warmth surrounding your calf as it rolls down your leg.

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Agent Barone, Del has run off and you're trying to pull Ryan out of the water

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you hear the sharp, distant fire of two shots ringing through the air.

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What do you do?

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okay.

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do we have Ryan up in safe?

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God, I can't.

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Fuck.

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can't leave Ryan.

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Ryan, that's that's not a good sign.

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We got to go.

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Can you walk?

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I can help and then I'll try and try and get you up.

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I'm in so much pain.

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Just go.

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Just go without me.

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Go check on Del.

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Listen, absolutely fucking not.

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we are- this is not a good space.

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You need to come, I'm not gonna leave you also.

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I can't get up.

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Like I'm trying so hard to get up and I am in so much pain.

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Okay, is there like-

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go ahead and roll your con.

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I got 36 which is under 60 so.

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Okay, you push really, really hard and as you're doing it, you start to go lightheaded.

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Can you roll me power?

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Minus 30.

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minus 30 so under 50 is what I'm going for and I got 97.

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So you start to black out a little bit as you're standing up.

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Agent Barone,

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Ryan's gonna need significant help.

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There's no way you're be able to get to Dell quickly if you're dragging Ryan with you at

this point.

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Ryan is pushing 250 pounds.

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So it would be quite the task to even have him lean on you and wobble with you.

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Okay, you need to hang in there.

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Listen, I don't need anything happening to you too.

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Do you have a gun on you?

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In your hands?

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do, yeah.

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And okay, you listen, look at me.

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You need to stay on top of this.

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I will be back as soon as I can.

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You can't get jumped.

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Okay, you need to be self-sufficient.

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Give me three and a half minutes and I'll be back as soon as possible.

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Do your thing, go help Del, I'm good.

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Alright, and you, uh it's still dark right now, correct?

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Okay.

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Yep.

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And Ryan, do you have a flashlight?

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I do.

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Okay, great.

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Cool.

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So you're set.

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I'll kind of patch you in the corner, give you a good strong squeeze, and then sprint off

in the direction of the bullets.

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Good luck.

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you run toward them, you using your flashlight?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah, give me a dex roll.

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Times five.

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decks times five I'm looking for seventy I got a fifty five so crit success hey whoo

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sprint through the swamp like a gazelle.

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You have a mission.

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Your flashlight is perfectly illuminating any sink holes in the swamp.

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You're able to dodge past the sharp sawgrass and you get to the beginning of the boardwalk

and continue.

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And you're running as fast as you can, I'm assuming.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Okay, you are beating feet and you see the outline of a four wheeler in the distance and

your flashlight starts to get closer and closer and you see just a clump on the ground of

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two figures.

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The man looks like he's under a piece of meat.

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Del is laying there splayed out and something's on top of him.

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The machine beside them, the four wheeler is just kind of silent.

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Looks like it's completely suspended.

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Feels like time is stopping as you're approaching this scene.

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uh Yeah, I think you also kind of hear the sound of a muffled growl.

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It sounds almost like a wounded animal, a...

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With like a wet gurgle in there.

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Sputtering.

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And it goes quiet for a few seconds and you hear what sounds maybe more like a pained

moan, like a...

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woman in deep in labor.

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It's kind of like rhythmic heaving.

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beautiful and you get close enough and you see the carcass of the...

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swamp creature, it's like a ruined weight.

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It's flaccid, its flesh is covered in this poorly tanned hide, just laying on him,

squishing him.

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There's a viscous black fluid, not quite blood, not quite bile, that's marinating all over

his wound and seeping into his skin and all over his clothes.

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A mingling of simple red is highlighted throughout it when your flashlight hits the wound

and

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He's still alive, he's still a product, but he's packaged in gore.

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And you hear that breath that he described and a small mechanical rise and fall.

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His processing, his process in his brain is not yet finished, but he is fighting for his

life.

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fuck a fuck a fuck a fuck and I will slow down from a sprint to more like a fast gated

walk with my gun up tracked on the thing on top of them.

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It's not moving at this point in time.

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Okay great.

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ah Son of a bitch.

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I'll get as close as possible literally right next to him and do kind of like a scanning

360 to see if something's coming right for me as well.

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Give me a search role.

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And then Dell, can you give me a luck roll after that?

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Nice.

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Search, we're looking for 54, I got a 29.

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you are scanning around and you don't see anything.

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It's pretty dark, your flashlight cuts across parts of the swamp, you have a limited field

of view and there's nothing coming that you can like track, but you do hear in the

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distance the sound faintly of a dirt bike.

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Oh, okay.

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Fuck the dirt bike for now.

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Dell's the priority.

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As I'm spinning and the shadows are dancing across my field of view, I'm like, okay, okay,

I think we're okay.

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And I'll put my flashlight hands down, have my gun still in my other hand, and see if with

one hand, without sacrificing readiness, I'm gonna see if I can try to grab that gory,

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semi-tanned flesh.

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and pull it off of Dell.

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Yeah, you're able to get it off no problem.

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You're strong enough with your strength.

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Agent Sandusky, what was your luck roll?

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I'm about to roll it or rather flip it.

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I made the executive decision that if you don't tell me to modify it, I'm just doing a

coin from here on out.

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And that looks like a success to me.

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You had enough time before you were attacked to pull a med kit out and it is laying there

conveniently beside your body and you discover it, Agent Barone, as you've pulled this

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disgusting creature off of Del.

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Alright, Lady Luck, hello there, and I set my, do one quick more cursory glance around,

set my gun close, but definitely down.

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I need both hands to help out, and I'll start checking Del out.

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Del, Del, are you okay?

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What the fuck happened?

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Del?

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Dell make a con save or con roll.

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I mean, I think as you are maybe like rolling me about and I get an 89, so it ain't

mattering, but it's like you're kind of like rolling me to the side and all you get is

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like the expel, expellation, exhalation.

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How do you expel something when your breath is forcibly expelled and there's just kind of

like a hushed murmur that comes out.

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It is human, but nothing about it.

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tells you that there is any life behind.

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Okay, alright, hang in there, hang in there.

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I think the first thing I need to do is find any scrap of clean anything and start wiping

down to see what I could see.

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it gushing?

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Where?

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Where is it coming from?

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So I'm going to start into first dating.

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You look at his body quickly, you see the tear around his collar bone and it looks like

the blood is coming out from there.

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And you would have to remove the shirt a little bit.

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The med kit has some clean gauze in it that you can pull out.

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And there are some of your old clothes in these duffel bags as well.

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Okay, so for the wipe down, think it's get whatever clothing out of the way, however that

needs to happen.

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Usually in med kits, if it's a good med kit, you'll have clothes cutting shears in there.

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So maybe not fully remove his stuff.

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And of course I don't have that much time, so at least a snip so I can open and kind of

see.

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I'll use the dirty clothes, whatever cleanest part of the dirty clothes, could be

whatever, to wipe it down.

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and then start, I mean, stuffing gauze in there, man, and looking at ways to get it

secured.

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Yeah, you're able to snip away with the small scissors that came with it that are there

for sutures.

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Yeah, sutures.

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Or sutures, what are they?

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Sutures, yeah, sutures, yeah.

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You're able to use the small scissors there to snip away the shirt and.

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Under it is disgusting.

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Like you see the teeth marks.

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You can see part of his bone is exposed on the collar side.

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His blood is continuing to roll out of his body there.

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And yeah, you do see that black liquid, whatever this creature's blood was, is definitely

co-mingling with what Del has inside of his body.

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Okay, shit.

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Yeah, I think right now it's just stop the blood not continue to get it clean or sanitize

the area.

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I'm going to take some gauze and stuff it down in there and start start putting pressure.

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As I'm well, let's I guess let's see if the the paint like that's not going to tickle by

any means.

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Let's see if the pain rouses him at all when I give a good hefty little press on that bad

boy.

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All right, go ahead and roll your first date at this point.

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since you're, oh, go ahead, sorry.

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no, I was just gonna say I'm looking for 34.

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Yeah, you can roll it plus 10, so.

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plus 10 so I'm looking for 44.

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25 okay.

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All right, you push down on it, he groans in pain.

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Does not.

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come awake from it, but you see that he's still responsive to whatever you're doing.

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And you're able to put some pressure on it and hopefully stave off the bleeding.

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The med pack has some super glue you think you might be able to use.

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There's also a lot of gauze that you could shove in there and large bandages and a wrap.

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So you could wrap it if you wanted.

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And your first aid will cover whatever you decide to do with the wound.

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great yeah sounds good I think is is getting pressure on that one I think a collarbone is

such a weird place it would probably have yeah no absolutely not so get as much in there

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get some pressure on it yeah and then kind of go you know a little bit cross body a little

bit over one show a little bit cross body and just kind of do what I can and then move on

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to the next and then get that kind of locked up and then move on to the next and just not

doing a

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phenomenal job of doing good enough to at least he's not bleeding out here and maybe I

have some time.

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Dell give me a power times five roll.

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1985 that's not looking good

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Okay, you feel touch on you.

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It's not a kind touch, it's a frantic touch as you're being wrapped up.

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You don't know what the touch is.

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You're coming in and out of consciousness and there is a scene splayed before you.

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as you fall deeper and deeper into your subconscious, you remember your wedding day with

Abigail.

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You remember the touch of her hand.

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There's nothing else but you and her almost on a blank canvas.

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And you just remember the words at the end of your vows, till death do us part, ringing in

your head over and over and over again.

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Yeah, I think the echo of that echoes through many aspects of life, right?

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Even to the hands that are touching me now, right?

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The idea of were we really done is the question that comes to mind, right?

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Like through all those transgressions within the marriage, throughout the choices in life,

throughout the risky maneuvers that ended us here, like is this

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really what we were supposed to end on.

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You're left wondering, you have no conscious thought or ability to speak your thoughts

aloud, but that is what is repeating over and over again as you're being patched up.

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Agent Barone, you get him fairly cleaned up.

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He is not coming to though.

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He is a wet sack.

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Like you maybe even try to lift him one or two times and see if he'll wiggle.

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He's just a breathing slice of meat at this point for you.

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Okay, so he's a slight man, a tiny baby boy, right?

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Okay, okay.

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And talk to me about this boardwalk.

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You know, it could be kind of a skinny boardwalk, you know, barely three feet across, or

it could be a double pass boardwalk, which would be like 10 something.

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Which one is it?

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This is skinny.

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Fuck, I was hoping you gonna say the other Nick.

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uh Okay, okay, okay, okay.

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Oh god, what do we do?

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Roll your alertness.

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Yeah, looking for 81, so pretty good chances.

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And it is a 36.

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Yeah, you hear some sawgrass part behind you, the reeds at the top slapped together, and

you also hear a few squishy footsteps.

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Okay, whatever I'm doing is stopping.

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am reaching down to my right knee where that that gun is sitting, grabbing that flashlight

and spinning in that direction with the gun up ready to shoot.

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All right so he emerges from the reeds not so much walking as he is flowing because your

flashlight is illuminating his top half his small frame is taut with a gaunt energy.

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Mud clung to him it seems like less dirt and more like a second skin.

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He stands with a peculiar asymmetrical cant, like lean off to the side.

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and it seems like he's anchored by some unknown root system to the earth being pulled

askew.

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His skin held a pale strangeness.

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It's not greenish or anything like the swamp preachers.

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It's just a sickness, but his eyes, as your flashlights reflect in them, have an intensely

alive color to them.

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They're bright.

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They're metabolic.

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They have a fire and

226

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He walks forward toward you, his hands up like this, and he says, excuse me, your friend

will not survive this.

227

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Yeah, neither the fuck will you unless you tell me who you are.

228

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My name is Dr.

229

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Garris.

230

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Oh.

231

00:15:05,529 --> 00:15:08,069

Uh, okay, I...

232

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Um, you said he...

233

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Is he, literally bound to the ground via other things, or is that just beautiful

descriptions?

234

00:15:16,505 --> 00:15:17,506

It's just a description.

235

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He is walking towards you.

236

00:15:19,197 --> 00:15:26,291

It looks like he might have some sort of scoliosis of the spine, something like that.

237

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It just makes his gait strange, right?

238

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And he's kind of walking towards you with his hands up.

239

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He has no weapon that you can see, right?

240

00:15:36,937 --> 00:15:40,100

He's like, what you're doing will not help him.

241

00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:43,222

You're just pushing the inevitable around.

242

00:15:44,133 --> 00:15:48,239

yeah, no shit, absolutely, I'm not a doctor, my guy, in any capacity whatsoever.

243

00:15:48,239 --> 00:15:51,833

It sounds like you can choose to help me or my friend will die.

244

00:15:51,833 --> 00:15:53,749

Which is it?

245

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I heard the shots and I decided to come out here and see what it was and it looks like the

trauma he endured is exposed.

246

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And you're not...

247

00:16:04,746 --> 00:16:08,059

you've stopped the bleeding but it's not the bleeding that I worry about.

248

00:16:08,059 --> 00:16:11,056

I am worrying about literally everything right here.

249

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I am fully open to a little bit of help if you want to come over here.

250

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I'm willing to put a little trust in something.

251

00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,824

Okay, well, we can't do it with what we have out here.

252

00:16:21,824 --> 00:16:28,231

In another ten minutes or even less, I worry about the cellular cascade that will be

irreversible for him.

253

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I do not want him to come apart in front of us.

254

00:16:30,373 --> 00:16:36,678

If you help me get him on your vehicle, I can show you where my cabin is and I have some

things that might help.

255

00:16:36,678 --> 00:16:37,919

It's not far.

256

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yes.

257

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Mm-hmm.

258

00:16:39,712 --> 00:16:40,514

Yeah, for sure.

259

00:16:40,514 --> 00:16:42,075

This isn't the only one.

260

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There's one other person with us.

261

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Let's get him taken care of first.

262

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And then I'll sling the gun around and start moving to try and put him on the back of one

ATV.

263

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Are both ATVs like close to each other?

264

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I assume they're probably like, you know, two or three paces.

265

00:16:56,658 --> 00:16:57,685

Okay, great.

266

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Yeah.

267

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Help, help!

268

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Yeah, he grabs for the legs and he is under his breath talking as he's looking at him.

269

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He's like, oh, I the stabilizers.

270

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Looks like some coagulants.

271

00:17:10,351 --> 00:17:12,413

Okay, I don't have any IV.

272

00:17:12,413 --> 00:17:18,778

As he's looking him over and he helps you lift and put him on the four wheeler.

273

00:17:19,233 --> 00:17:22,426

Did you see anything on your way over?

274

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Anything at all?

275

00:17:23,380 --> 00:17:25,420

No, I have not seen anything.

276

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and you have not been jumped or attacked and I like look them up and down you look fine I

need five minutes do we have five minutes

277

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Of course, yes.

278

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Alright, I look him dead in the face, like, I'm trusting you.

279

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And then I turn and sprint towards Ryan.

280

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Yeah, he he tries to sleep wait, what I my bike is parked at the old church.

281

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Have you seen it?

282

00:17:47,262 --> 00:17:49,578

Um, no, I've seen your tracks.

283

00:17:49,578 --> 00:17:52,839

We did not see the bike when we were at the church, right?

284

00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:55,081

He was, he's asking if you've seen the church.

285

00:17:55,081 --> 00:17:55,724

the church.

286

00:17:55,724 --> 00:17:58,466

yeah, we stumbled through there once upon a time.

287

00:17:58,466 --> 00:18:04,525

If you putting this much trust in me, let me drive him to there and then meet me there

with your friend.

288

00:18:04,525 --> 00:18:08,738

You know that is a lot of trust.

289

00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,843

This is a matter of logistics, he cannot make it much further.

290

00:18:11,843 --> 00:18:13,766

I'm offering you...

291

00:18:13,766 --> 00:18:16,495

the only variable that doesn't end in his death.

292

00:18:16,656 --> 00:18:18,288

Your friend will dissolve.

293

00:18:18,288 --> 00:18:24,601

He told you we got 10 minutes before the cellular cascade starts and you're like, can I

have five?

294

00:18:24,763 --> 00:18:28,520

Yeah, yeah, okay, you know, you got me there Jordan.

295

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You got me.

296

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I look him straight in the face and I'm like if he dies you die and I turn and run

297

00:18:36,465 --> 00:18:42,412

You run back along the boardwalk and Agent Sundusky, you're on the back of this

four-wheeler.

298

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You feel a hand holding you down as it slowly makes its way through the swamp, trying to

keep you from rocking.

299

00:18:51,442 --> 00:18:52,964

It seems like a caring hand.

300

00:18:52,964 --> 00:18:56,928

It is quite gruff and strong on your midsection.

301

00:18:57,172 --> 00:18:59,394

but you still are not able to rouse.

302

00:18:59,394 --> 00:19:04,938

And Agent Brone, as you're running, you do hear the four-wheeler start and you hear it

going in the direction of the ghost town.

303

00:19:04,938 --> 00:19:06,760

Some ease for you maybe.

304

00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:11,854

you get to the place where Ryan is and Ryan is not there.

305

00:19:11,854 --> 00:19:15,461

And I just yelled for him.

306

00:19:15,461 --> 00:19:20,905

Yeah, go ahead and give me a search or a survival.

307

00:19:20,905 --> 00:19:24,610

doesn't answer, I'm going to do some tracking.

308

00:19:24,610 --> 00:19:25,923

Let's do search.

309

00:19:25,923 --> 00:19:26,964

Search is a little bit better.

310

00:19:26,964 --> 00:19:28,409

We're looking for 54.

311

00:19:28,409 --> 00:19:31,101

I'm so glad that we learned our lesson from last time.

312

00:19:31,101 --> 00:19:34,983

We were like, man We had the most problems we've ever had because we split the party.

313

00:19:34,983 --> 00:19:41,817

Let's never do that again And then here we are Split more ways than we thought possible

314

00:19:42,025 --> 00:19:43,645

Yeah, but it was forced on us.

315

00:19:43,645 --> 00:19:45,905

wasn't a choice, which is kind of the cool part.

316

00:19:45,905 --> 00:19:47,325

I'm into that.

317

00:19:47,325 --> 00:19:49,945

We were looking for 54 and we got a 40.

318

00:19:50,025 --> 00:19:51,405

So that's success.

319

00:19:51,559 --> 00:20:04,596

You see that it looks like at some point Ryan stood up and waded into part of the water

based on the tracks, but beyond that, they are, it's unrecoverable.

320

00:20:04,596 --> 00:20:08,157

the tracks disappear under the messy swamp.

321

00:20:08,157 --> 00:20:14,965

um You could start doing canvassing and stuff, but you're going to lose all the time you

have.

322

00:20:14,965 --> 00:20:16,379

you have a choice in front of you.

323

00:20:16,379 --> 00:20:19,196

Do you find Ryan or do you save Del's life?

324

00:20:19,209 --> 00:20:25,548

okay, so does it look like Ryan walked into the water or was pulled into the water by

something?

325

00:20:25,548 --> 00:20:27,798

Based on your search role, looks like he walked.

326

00:20:27,798 --> 00:20:30,498

Why the fuck would he go anywhere?

327

00:20:30,498 --> 00:20:40,417

I will slowly back away from the water, shake my head, look at the ground, look up again,

and then head back towards the ATV.

328

00:20:40,417 --> 00:20:49,273

you get back to the ATVs, you see the tracks that Karis took and you are able to follow

them, follow them.

329

00:20:49,273 --> 00:20:53,715

You see the tracks that Karis took and you are able to follow them.

330

00:20:54,090 --> 00:20:58,857

I swear to God if Ryan went to send that fucking letter, I'm gonna lose it.

331

00:20:58,857 --> 00:21:02,102

Okay, yeah, we jump on the ATV.

332

00:21:02,102 --> 00:21:05,669

We, I, Barone, has split personality now apparently.

333

00:21:05,669 --> 00:21:09,785

Barone jumps on the ATV and heads off in the direction of the tracks.

334

00:21:09,785 --> 00:21:22,066

love the mental image of a dutiful USPS person trudging through like knee deep in the muck

with like never rain nor snow nor sleep nor like just like go into the mailbox.

335

00:21:22,066 --> 00:21:22,609

you say?

336

00:21:22,609 --> 00:21:24,414

I'm here for a jab.

337

00:21:24,414 --> 00:21:24,992

Thank you.

338

00:21:24,992 --> 00:21:28,997

You are following Karas's tracks and you get to the church.

339

00:21:28,997 --> 00:21:32,040

He waves you down with the ATV.

340

00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,221

He's still on it.

341

00:21:33,221 --> 00:21:37,236

Del's form is still on the back and he says, hurry, come.

342

00:21:37,236 --> 00:21:39,549

Do you want me to take this one or do you want to switch?

343

00:21:39,549 --> 00:21:43,973

Well, I mean, there's no switching for some reason.

344

00:21:43,973 --> 00:21:47,497

Our other teammate seemed to have made himself a ghost somehow.

345

00:21:47,497 --> 00:21:50,941

So it's just us and I look a bit downtrodden.

346

00:21:50,941 --> 00:21:57,426

I'm free to help and then I'll turn off the ATV, pop off and start helping move down.

347

00:21:57,789 --> 00:22:05,558

Yeah, as you're doing that, you hear him muttering under his breath and he's, the damned

verdant path, damn them all.

348

00:22:05,558 --> 00:22:11,876

And he's helping you move and you get geared up and he says, all right, you follow me.

349

00:22:11,876 --> 00:22:14,069

I won't take it as fast as I usually do.

350

00:22:14,069 --> 00:22:16,082

Make sure your friend is held tight.

351

00:22:16,082 --> 00:22:25,768

Okay, sorry, I m My misunderstanding I thought we had gotten to the church already not we

just met um So we are at the church

352

00:22:25,768 --> 00:22:29,307

you back to the cabin, like his house, basically.

353

00:22:29,307 --> 00:22:32,743

going into the church, which is what I thought he meant to do.

354

00:22:32,743 --> 00:22:35,227

uh yeah, no, I'll stay close.

355

00:22:35,227 --> 00:22:38,129

And I rev that bad boy back up, ready to go.

356

00:22:38,129 --> 00:22:39,968

Okay, yeah, give me a drive roll.

357

00:22:40,479 --> 00:22:41,339

Drive roll.

358

00:22:41,339 --> 00:22:42,870

Yes, it's happening.

359

00:22:42,870 --> 00:22:44,790

All right, drive 70.

360

00:22:44,790 --> 00:22:46,110

We're looking for 70.

361

00:22:46,330 --> 00:22:48,170

We got a 35.

362

00:22:48,286 --> 00:22:48,798

Beautiful.

363

00:22:48,798 --> 00:22:52,803

He takes off through the darkness in the swamp.

364

00:22:52,803 --> 00:23:01,854

His headlights illuminate a world that seems like it's far away from you, but you see that

same world as you pass the same spots.

365

00:23:01,854 --> 00:23:05,819

There is a disassociative feeling.

366

00:23:06,068 --> 00:23:16,682

as you're going through here, you love driving ATVs, but you are in such a dire situation

that you feel your mind separating from your body.

367

00:23:16,682 --> 00:23:21,615

You can almost watch yourself driving through this swamp from the air.

368

00:23:21,615 --> 00:23:24,376

And it feels very surreal.

369

00:23:24,376 --> 00:23:25,997

Can you roll me a San?

370

00:23:26,317 --> 00:23:27,298

Yeah, definitely.

371

00:23:27,298 --> 00:23:31,129

We are currently at 48.

372

00:23:31,129 --> 00:23:33,540

I rolled a 54.

373

00:23:33,540 --> 00:23:34,391

Yep, 54.

374

00:23:34,391 --> 00:23:36,533

Okay, sorry, you're good.

375

00:23:36,533 --> 00:23:42,817

a fail, no, okay.

376

00:23:42,817 --> 00:23:49,031

take one San loss from helplessness as you feel completely lost in this situation.

377

00:23:49,031 --> 00:23:50,513

You're with your mark.

378

00:23:50,513 --> 00:23:54,516

Del is potentially dying and Agent Ryan is gone.

379

00:23:54,516 --> 00:23:56,809

What can you even control in this situation?

380

00:23:56,809 --> 00:23:59,433

Agent Ryan, you're laying in the swamp.

381

00:23:59,433 --> 00:24:09,506

Agent Barone has just run off to help Del, your old friend, your confidant, the one who

has saved your life on many occasions.

382

00:24:09,506 --> 00:24:10,257

What do you do?

383

00:24:10,257 --> 00:24:15,577

I quickly jump into action and run to the nearest post box.

384

00:24:15,577 --> 00:24:16,528

No, I'm just kidding.

385

00:24:16,528 --> 00:24:18,088

Just kidding.

386

00:24:19,829 --> 00:24:27,569

No, I am in pain, but I kind of over exaggerated a little bit what kind of pain I was in.

387

00:24:27,569 --> 00:24:29,569

And I can stand.

388

00:24:29,689 --> 00:24:31,389

So I do.

389

00:24:31,389 --> 00:24:34,825

And I wade into the water.

390

00:24:34,825 --> 00:24:45,476

and make my kind of like do a you and go down the shore a little bit and make my way back

to some sand and the beach.

391

00:24:45,476 --> 00:24:47,076

go ahead.

392

00:24:47,274 --> 00:24:49,916

Yeah, you're pushing through the swampy area.

393

00:24:49,916 --> 00:24:57,145

You find a clearing in the swamp that is mostly made of mud and a little bit of sand and

clay.

394

00:24:57,145 --> 00:25:03,833

It is surrounded by reeds, but it takes you a good 15 minutes to get that far out there.

395

00:25:03,924 --> 00:25:06,185

Yeah.

396

00:25:06,846 --> 00:25:17,959

I pull out a piece of paper from my coat pocket and I have written down some notes that I

found in Arthur Finch's notes of some symbols.

397

00:25:17,959 --> 00:25:26,136

And I quickly find a stick and start to surround myself in these symbols by drawing them

in the sand around me.

398

00:25:26,136 --> 00:25:30,369

These symbols have no geometric consistency.

399

00:25:30,369 --> 00:25:39,276

It's like a script that was given to an insane person by the most intelligent being beyond

our understanding.

400

00:25:39,276 --> 00:25:50,565

You have no way to read these symbols as you scroll them around, but there is a sense of

comfort and clarity as you are starting to.

401

00:25:50,703 --> 00:26:03,180

scribe these non-geometric strange symbols in the mud, you start to get into a rhythm of

it and as you're doing it the symbols activate that chant in your mind that you were

402

00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:10,378

hearing in the swamp and you can hear it echoing through your subconscious coming into

your conscious thought.

403

00:26:10,378 --> 00:26:11,009

uh

404

00:26:11,009 --> 00:26:13,296

You are all done scratching the symbols, what do do?

405

00:26:13,296 --> 00:26:41,079

Shimbol shakali shilapakali hata kivama yakni shito nanapesa lalusa falaya shilapikani

hata kili chocho pa yakni yakoli yakni shimbol shakali shilapakali

406

00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:51,590

Ha-ta-ki-vam-ah-ha-kni-chi-to-na-na-pa-sa-la-lu-sa-fa-la-ya-shi-la-pa-kani-ya.

407

00:26:51,602 --> 00:26:53,250

you start to chant.

408

00:26:53,250 --> 00:26:55,743

Can you roll me your D10?

409

00:26:55,743 --> 00:26:56,543

One.

410

00:26:57,035 --> 00:26:58,016

my God.

411

00:26:58,016 --> 00:27:13,511

You start to chant and your intelligence and familiarity with Finch's symbols that he got

from his star traveler, his space angel are so powerful and accurate that you only chant

412

00:27:13,511 --> 00:27:17,739

for a minute until you start to feel an energy.

413

00:27:17,739 --> 00:27:28,695

touch the air around you and you feel your stomach sink as you realize you have succeeded

in the chant in a very, very quick amount of time.

414

00:27:28,695 --> 00:27:30,048

How much willpower do you have?

415

00:27:30,048 --> 00:27:32,508

That's power, yes?

416

00:27:33,388 --> 00:27:37,562

Oh, I have current 12.

417

00:27:37,615 --> 00:27:52,033

Okay, to continue and finish the last bit of the chant as you're feeling that energy you

think it could consume you, you are going to have to burn nine willpower to finish.

418

00:27:52,033 --> 00:27:53,105

Do you do it?

419

00:27:53,105 --> 00:27:55,362

Yes, I do.

420

00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:57,793

You surrender everything.

421

00:27:57,793 --> 00:28:06,121

You use your mind, a spear of focus and open yourself up entirely as this chant has gone

on.

422

00:28:06,121 --> 00:28:14,679

And the symbols beside you seemingly ignite, not in fire, but they have a strange purplish

glow to them.

423

00:28:14,679 --> 00:28:17,281

And the night is silent already.

424

00:28:17,281 --> 00:28:20,544

The chattering of the insects and frogs have long ceased.

425

00:28:20,544 --> 00:28:25,207

And from the blackness above you, you see three lights descending.

426

00:28:25,207 --> 00:28:33,351

They were not lights that a human would know, but shapes of a geometry that has no place

in this world.

427

00:28:33,518 --> 00:28:39,790

They fell from the heavens without any sound and they weren't in haste either.

428

00:28:39,790 --> 00:28:50,136

It was slow as they descended and they bled this strange purple fire onto the dark water

and it reflected off the trees and oaks around you.

429

00:28:50,136 --> 00:28:53,074

The color looked like a deep and ancient bruise.

430

00:28:53,074 --> 00:29:01,745

One of the shapes left the other two and drifted over the water toward the place where you

are sitting on the shore.

431

00:29:01,907 --> 00:29:06,265

Is this similar to what we saw that night when we were keeping watch?

432

00:29:07,149 --> 00:29:07,715

No.

433

00:29:07,715 --> 00:29:08,314

OK.

434

00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:09,296

completely different.

435

00:29:09,296 --> 00:29:10,196

yeah.

436

00:29:10,957 --> 00:29:14,381

And so the shape that left the others has made no sound.

437

00:29:14,381 --> 00:29:25,271

There's only a black seam in the world where a little bit of purple light bleeds through

and the wound, the violet wound starts to pulse almost like a heart.

438

00:29:25,271 --> 00:29:26,932

And then it came.

439

00:29:27,014 --> 00:29:36,675

It didn't walk, but it was born out of the humid air, a thing of pink meat and shell and

wings that didn't even beat with a sound.

440

00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:38,557

And the head came through.

441

00:29:38,557 --> 00:29:46,402

It looked like a knot of feelers and it pulled one claw into your world, almost like it

was being birthed.

442

00:29:46,402 --> 00:29:52,908

and slipped all the way through and that purple light disappeared while the other two

remained behind it.

443

00:29:52,908 --> 00:29:56,772

In front of you, it's hard to describe.

444

00:29:56,772 --> 00:30:04,397

It was a wet chrysalis, a peeled muscle, a dark glistening shell, a thing born into...

445

00:30:04,470 --> 00:30:08,893

world in a disgusting, maybe even satanic way.

446

00:30:08,893 --> 00:30:18,451

Its body was a promise of two distinct horrors, the hard, unfeeling carapace, a deep sea

insect almost, and then a soft world.

447

00:30:18,451 --> 00:30:25,061

It has like a pink and purple tinge to it that's been like a body turned inside out.

448

00:30:25,061 --> 00:30:29,634

And where the shell meets the flesh, there's no clean seam,

449

00:30:29,634 --> 00:30:33,397

only a raw and weeping line that looks like a badly stitched wound.

450

00:30:33,397 --> 00:30:37,220

And it wore those two insides on its front and back.

451

00:30:37,220 --> 00:30:47,809

And on the back, there were two membranous wings veined with dark, almost black blood and

a sticky fluid felt like it was covering the entire thing.

452

00:30:47,809 --> 00:30:50,625

You look into the face, you think of this thing.

453

00:30:50,625 --> 00:30:54,506

and its head looks like a crown of pale, thinking meat.

454

00:30:54,506 --> 00:31:00,929

It's like a beautiful but also obscene looking flower that pulses with soft and internal

light.

455

00:31:00,929 --> 00:31:10,073

It wasn't a solid mass, it just looked like a knot of thick cerebral tendrils wrapped

around and coiled almost like snakes that have become lovers.

456

00:31:10,073 --> 00:31:12,914

And it started to writhe slowly.

457

00:31:13,486 --> 00:31:21,595

and it unspooled many of its appendages that had no symmetry to them and it floated in

front of you.

458

00:31:21,595 --> 00:31:32,742

This is a new gospel of flesh, a body that looked like both a tomb and something that came

from a womb and it was just born in front of you and it feels hungry.

459

00:31:32,742 --> 00:31:36,880

Thank you because I, my brain cannot comprehend.

460

00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:43,975

yeah Nick pops into mid-journey and he's like disgusting gore trash enter like oh okay

yeah

461

00:31:43,975 --> 00:31:47,090

Disgusting, but also beautiful.

462

00:31:47,090 --> 00:31:48,843

It floats in front of you.

463

00:31:48,843 --> 00:31:55,133

You hear an insect like buzz coming from inside of your mind as your brain starts to

shake.

464

00:31:55,133 --> 00:31:58,219

Go ahead and roll me your pow times five.

465

00:31:58,219 --> 00:32:00,353

And then also we'll need a sanity roll.

466

00:32:00,353 --> 00:32:03,113

Okay, I'm looking for 80 for pow.

467

00:32:03,273 --> 00:32:05,573

I've got 11.

468

00:32:05,973 --> 00:32:07,253

Ah ha ha.

469

00:32:08,153 --> 00:32:10,173

And I'm sorry, sanity.

470

00:32:10,633 --> 00:32:12,833

Looking for 64.

471

00:32:13,293 --> 00:32:15,613

And I got 18.

472

00:32:15,911 --> 00:32:24,480

Okay, you still lose one San from the unnatural at seeing this and you're able to maintain

power or maintain consciousness through your willpower.

473

00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:33,379

And the buzzing crescendos, it feels like it's trying to communicate with you, but you

have no means of communication with this thing.

474

00:32:33,379 --> 00:32:36,499

And just as you're doing that, can you also roll the alertness?

475

00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:43,751

Yes, I am looking for 45 and I got 42.

476

00:32:43,751 --> 00:32:44,445

OK, great.

477

00:32:44,445 --> 00:32:46,855

From the side, you see.

478

00:32:46,949 --> 00:32:52,967

a swamp creature emerging from the grass coming almost in worship.

479

00:32:52,967 --> 00:32:58,723

It is supplicated as it crawls forward with its arms above its head.

480

00:32:58,723 --> 00:33:02,150

It is in a has a deep reverence for this thing.

481

00:33:02,150 --> 00:33:10,254

It is drooling from the mouth and humming that same chant you just got done enunciating

under its breath.

482

00:33:10,330 --> 00:33:16,733

as it marches forward toward it and doesn't even pay you any mind.

483

00:33:16,733 --> 00:33:22,618

It is singularly focused on this fleshy disgusting carapace in front of you.

484

00:33:22,618 --> 00:33:23,210

What do do?

485

00:33:23,210 --> 00:33:26,541

Um, hmm, what do I do?

486

00:33:26,541 --> 00:33:38,472

I think I am absolutely horrified and terrified, but also extremely curious, too.

487

00:33:38,472 --> 00:33:50,683

I'm almost just like the swamp creature, like in awe and worshiping this thing, but also

everything in my bones is telling me to revolt and run away from this thing.

488

00:33:50,683 --> 00:33:54,595

Um, but it's almost like I'm, I'm paralyzed in its presence.

489

00:33:54,595 --> 00:34:00,177

Like I can't, I have no more free will to do what my body is telling me to do.

490

00:34:00,177 --> 00:34:10,738

I'm just going off of like the worship part of it and wanting to stay and see this thing

through whatever this thing may be.

491

00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:17,175

So I kind of just like stand almost in like a brother ship with this swamp creature.

492

00:34:17,175 --> 00:34:19,498

you feel the reverence.

493

00:34:19,498 --> 00:34:27,427

Maybe you see this swamp creature as it's supplicated, you subconsciously start

supplicating yourself a little bit as well.

494

00:34:27,427 --> 00:34:32,574

You get a little lower in front of this thing and the swamp creature gets closer.

495

00:34:32,574 --> 00:34:34,906

The thing in front of you,

496

00:34:35,341 --> 00:34:37,435

barely even acknowledges it.

497

00:34:37,435 --> 00:34:44,664

is singularly focused on you, but as the swamp creature gets very close to it, almost

within touch,

498

00:34:44,841 --> 00:34:46,202

It doesn't simply attack.

499

00:34:46,202 --> 00:34:50,323

It's almost like a violent intimate surgery.

500

00:34:50,323 --> 00:35:01,729

With a sound like the snapping of wet celery, you see a claw plunge into the creature's

back and lift it off of the ground, not to kill, but to unmake it.

501

00:35:01,729 --> 00:35:11,954

And it finds the spine as if it was its lover being able to run its fingers down its back

and it splits it at the spine.

502

00:35:12,597 --> 00:35:19,893

and a single, ecstatic twist in the thing's neck to pelvis and it arches its back.

503

00:35:19,893 --> 00:35:30,783

It screams a little whisper and the creature's back is parted into a curtain of flesh,

revealing glistening, pearlescent bone and vertebrae.

504

00:35:30,783 --> 00:35:43,032

And with no pause from the writhing, a cerebral knot from this space creature's head, a

single thick tendril detaches itself and slips into the back of the head of the swamp

505

00:35:43,032 --> 00:35:43,885

creature.

506

00:35:43,885 --> 00:35:51,610

the swamp creature freezes for an instant, but then starts pulsating almost like a

marionette with a life of its own.

507

00:35:52,171 --> 00:35:57,550

it seems like the tendril has found something in this thing's brain and has communed with

it.

508

00:35:57,550 --> 00:36:05,204

a moment later, you hear from its mouth a almost serpentine croaking hello.

509

00:36:05,204 --> 00:36:08,663

and we will cut to our other friends.

510

00:36:09,117 --> 00:36:10,780

Impeccable timing.

511

00:36:10,943 --> 00:36:13,455

Okay.

512

00:36:13,455 --> 00:36:16,594

gospel of flesh, that's a fuckin' line right there.

513

00:36:17,114 --> 00:36:20,403

am so glad I'm not there and I'm just with Del bleeding out on a table.

514

00:36:20,403 --> 00:36:21,536

Much preferred.

515

00:36:21,536 --> 00:36:22,218

Yeah.

516

00:36:22,218 --> 00:36:24,673

I enjoy my simple life, dying.

517

00:36:24,673 --> 00:36:27,286

You're following the four wheeler in front of you.

518

00:36:27,286 --> 00:36:32,409

Karas is taking it slow and suddenly the trail ends.

519

00:36:32,409 --> 00:36:35,349

There's no grand arrival, no sense of destination.

520

00:36:35,349 --> 00:36:42,919

The swamp simply gives up and is no longer around you and the ground feels solid and you

find your, ahead, yeah.

521

00:36:42,919 --> 00:36:48,139

way, so sorry, along the way, knowing that there's no way to leave breadcrumbs.

522

00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:57,139

Is there any way I could like every once in a while do kind of a hard swerve to leave like

a divot to form some type of path like, hey man, I don't know where Ryan is.

523

00:36:57,139 --> 00:36:58,839

I don't know what Ryan's doing.

524

00:36:58,839 --> 00:37:07,019

If we can't tell Ryan where we're going, if I could leave like some way that's apparent to

somebody who doesn't have tracking skills, like, oh, very clearly, like something went

525

00:37:07,019 --> 00:37:08,119

this way.

526

00:37:08,419 --> 00:37:09,279

Awesome.

527

00:37:09,419 --> 00:37:10,231

That's right.

528

00:37:10,231 --> 00:37:13,311

your earlier drive roll, that's no problem too.

529

00:37:13,460 --> 00:37:24,460

every once in a while you do have a little swerve, you even maybe downshift and then flip

some mud up to almost create like a little tire hole and spray some of the mud around as

530

00:37:24,460 --> 00:37:25,320

well.

531

00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:31,020

And when you get to this cabin, it's just a simple cabin.

532

00:37:31,020 --> 00:37:32,335

Like you...

533

00:37:32,651 --> 00:37:36,683

Might've seen it in a magazine, a old photograph, right?

534

00:37:36,683 --> 00:37:37,745

The wood is a little faded.

535

00:37:37,745 --> 00:37:41,359

It's a non-committal gray as your headlights hit it.

536

00:37:41,359 --> 00:37:46,343

There's a single stone chimney that rises from the roof, but no smoke is coming out.

537

00:37:46,343 --> 00:37:49,986

It's hard to tell anyone lives here from the outside.

538

00:37:49,986 --> 00:37:51,770

And you stop.

539

00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,323

What do you do at first?

540

00:37:53,323 --> 00:38:00,747

Park the ATV, turn it off and my first concern is to check on Delta to make sure he's made

it through this ride and to be there to help.

541

00:38:00,747 --> 00:38:06,450

My job is mishelper right now, um so I get off and head straight to him.

542

00:38:06,858 --> 00:38:11,199

Yeah, you get off, see him, his chest rising and falling.

543

00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:14,801

It's bated breath, it's not a calm breathing.

544

00:38:14,801 --> 00:38:17,322

You can tell he's still in significant pain.

545

00:38:17,322 --> 00:38:24,684

And as you're pulling him off, the porcelight comes on as Khorras has started to open the

door for you.

546

00:38:24,684 --> 00:38:29,506

And when he opens the door, a small orange cat runs out.

547

00:38:29,643 --> 00:38:40,203

from under, or sorry, a small orange cat runs through the doorway under his legs and jumps

onto a chair that's on the porch and you get Dell up.

548

00:38:40,203 --> 00:38:41,883

Are you going straight in?

549

00:38:42,260 --> 00:38:54,490

hang on tell hang on yeah i mean i'll do a cursory glance around to see if anything stands

out i guess my head cannon for karas's cabin is not a clean perfectly manicured

550

00:38:54,490 --> 00:39:02,919

picturesque area so this is this is interesting i think i'll just take a quick glance but

no i got it we got to get him worked on we time is ticking

551

00:39:03,103 --> 00:39:05,606

you find a couch right inside the door.

552

00:39:05,606 --> 00:39:15,956

You get inside, it smells a little damp, but it's like almost an academic damp, like you

walked into a library in a wet climate.

553

00:39:15,956 --> 00:39:18,123

It's a single room when you first enter.

554

00:39:18,123 --> 00:39:20,240

It has a couch, a small table.

555

00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:26,663

There's a record player and it looks like there's some glasses with melted ice by the

record player.

556

00:39:26,663 --> 00:39:31,746

The turntable has a old jazz album just sitting right next to it.

557

00:39:31,746 --> 00:39:35,838

And you set Dell down and look at him and he's still breathing.

558

00:39:35,838 --> 00:39:37,198

He looks in pain.

559

00:39:37,198 --> 00:39:40,430

His face is a mask of tension.

560

00:39:40,430 --> 00:39:43,662

Like he's holding something back and gritting through it.

561

00:39:43,662 --> 00:39:45,603

Dell, can you give me another con save?

562

00:39:45,603 --> 00:39:48,164

Dell, can you give me a con roll times five?

563

00:39:48,634 --> 00:39:50,237

I can sure try.

564

00:39:50,237 --> 00:39:52,924

Nope, I was 60 looking for a 55.

565

00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:59,866

Okay, Keras comes over and says, well, here, I will get him something for the pain.

566

00:39:59,866 --> 00:40:05,150

We need to take the bandage off so I can see how much he's been infected.

567

00:40:05,150 --> 00:40:07,443

Do you mind doing that while I get something?

568

00:40:07,443 --> 00:40:08,384

He's talking to you, Brun.

569

00:40:08,384 --> 00:40:08,876

Sorry.

570

00:40:08,876 --> 00:40:09,632

Yeah.

571

00:40:09,632 --> 00:40:10,196

sorry.

572

00:40:10,196 --> 00:40:12,552

yeah, yeah, no yes for sure.

573

00:40:12,819 --> 00:40:24,141

Okay, he leaves the front, he goes outside, strangely, you hear him walking away and go

ahead and give me either Dex or First Aid to cut the bandage off.

574

00:40:24,738 --> 00:40:26,178

Dex or first aid?

575

00:40:26,178 --> 00:40:27,918

It's probably, it's going to be dex.

576

00:40:27,918 --> 00:40:29,258

Yeah, my dex is 70.

577

00:40:29,258 --> 00:40:30,849

Looking for under 70.

578

00:40:30,849 --> 00:40:32,909

We got a 72.

579

00:40:32,909 --> 00:40:33,789

We got a 72.

580

00:40:33,789 --> 00:40:34,634

We failed.

581

00:40:34,634 --> 00:40:34,917

a

582

00:40:34,917 --> 00:40:40,928

Yeah, you are cutting through, you don't slip or anything, but it is quite painful to him.

583

00:40:40,928 --> 00:40:51,808

He wriggles under your touch and tries to pull away from it as much as he can, but he's in

a state that he can barely move, so it doesn't get in your way too much.

584

00:40:51,808 --> 00:41:01,688

And you get it off and you see that the wound in the light of the cabin, there is

something spreading from really close to his heart.

585

00:41:02,068 --> 00:41:04,023

There is small,

586

00:41:04,023 --> 00:41:15,503

black and purple tendrils in his veins and his blood isn't gushing out anymore but

whatever he's infected with is taking root.

587

00:41:15,503 --> 00:41:18,429

Alright, so clearly Karas knows what's going on.

588

00:41:18,429 --> 00:41:19,422

Doctor?

589

00:41:19,422 --> 00:41:19,933

Doctor?

590

00:41:19,933 --> 00:41:20,515

Doctor?

591

00:41:20,515 --> 00:41:24,117

He comes in with that strange hunch through the door as fast as he can.

592

00:41:24,117 --> 00:41:27,740

He's not much of a runner and he has a few syringes.

593

00:41:27,740 --> 00:41:33,764

He takes a nondescript bottle, fills it up and he says, it's just morphine.

594

00:41:33,764 --> 00:41:37,642

And he puts it close to the wound and injects him.

595

00:41:37,642 --> 00:41:43,157

Del, you feel nothing but bliss as this has entered your bloodstream.

596

00:41:43,157 --> 00:41:45,409

You don't feel the pain anymore.

597

00:41:45,409 --> 00:41:47,141

You feel Del relax.

598

00:41:47,141 --> 00:41:53,599

And he says, you will need to check his heart rate from time to time because I'm not an

anesthesiologist.

599

00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:55,231

So please keep an eye on him.

600

00:41:55,231 --> 00:41:57,793

And he starts to inspect the wound.

601

00:41:57,793 --> 00:42:00,295

And now I get to use his character sheet.

602

00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:01,180

Alright.

603

00:42:01,180 --> 00:42:02,102

critical success.

604

00:42:02,102 --> 00:42:13,391

He looks at the wound very carefully and in fact he pulls out some glasses from a pocket

in his utility shirt, puts them on and he starts tracing some of the tendrils.

605

00:42:13,391 --> 00:42:23,860

Then he feels where Del's heart is exactly and he looks at you grimly and he says, well, I

was hoping we could stop this but I don't think we can.

606

00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:25,267

I think he's...

607

00:42:25,267 --> 00:42:29,325

gonna die unless we do something a little unorthodox.

608

00:42:29,339 --> 00:42:32,563

I feel like my entire day has been a bit unorthodox.

609

00:42:32,563 --> 00:42:34,777

I'm pretty sure I'm okay with that.

610

00:42:34,777 --> 00:42:36,661

I know you are, but who would he be?

611

00:42:36,661 --> 00:42:37,272

We...

612

00:42:37,272 --> 00:42:38,905

And he steps backwards.

613

00:42:38,905 --> 00:42:41,129

He's like, can you steal yourself for a second?

614

00:42:41,129 --> 00:42:42,630

have something to tell you.

615

00:42:42,703 --> 00:42:43,663

yep.

616

00:42:43,685 --> 00:42:44,729

Okay, we're there.

617

00:42:44,729 --> 00:42:56,182

I was once infected with a similar thing, not as um quite as abstract and dirty as what is

in his body, but I found way to suppress it and manage it.

618

00:42:56,182 --> 00:42:57,905

And he pulls up his shirt,

619

00:42:57,905 --> 00:43:02,388

and you see that his skin is strangely colored.

620

00:43:02,388 --> 00:43:13,629

It's almost like it's bruised with yellows, blues, but it's almost in a spiral Anybody who

is exposed to this will have a craving for different metals.

621

00:43:13,629 --> 00:43:15,605

He will have to live his life.

622

00:43:15,605 --> 00:43:21,522

seeking out and consuming heavy metals to feed what's inside of him.

623

00:43:21,522 --> 00:43:22,414

Interesting.

624

00:43:22,414 --> 00:43:23,777

Um, hmm.

625

00:43:23,777 --> 00:43:29,719

So what is inside of him exactly, specifically him and nobody else?

626

00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:35,942

I don't know why you're here and who you are and why you're so armed, but my guess is you

were looking for something in the swamp.

627

00:43:35,942 --> 00:43:44,687

The cultures, as you might call them there, are extra-dimensional and definitely

extra-planetary, but I think extra-dimensional.

628

00:43:44,687 --> 00:43:52,505

They seem like fungus on first glance, but they're actually a parasitic metal themselves

from a different planet.

629

00:43:52,505 --> 00:43:58,171

As far as I have been able to discover and go ahead and roll your sanity

630

00:43:58,399 --> 00:43:59,279

sanity.

631

00:43:59,279 --> 00:44:03,442

Sure, looking for a 47 now and a 32 success.

632

00:44:03,442 --> 00:44:04,474

Great, you don't lose any.

633

00:44:04,474 --> 00:44:11,321

You're able to hold it together with this information that you've been infected with the

same thing that Del has running through his body.

634

00:44:11,321 --> 00:44:14,624

And he says, metal will feed on other metals.

635

00:44:14,624 --> 00:44:26,654

So you have to feed it just enough for the rest of your life, but it will give you, it'll

give you visions and make you have.

636

00:44:27,125 --> 00:44:32,848

strange, I guess, proclivities throughout your life going forward.

637

00:44:32,848 --> 00:44:45,037

I don't know exactly what this has done to me fully, but I do have to consume lead from

time to time and mercury, but also I hear things in the night mostly.

638

00:44:45,534 --> 00:44:48,397

and he kinda like twitches at the mention of it.

639

00:44:48,397 --> 00:44:49,958

But that's beside the point.

640

00:44:49,958 --> 00:44:53,942

If your friend would want this, you have to make a decision for him.

641

00:44:53,942 --> 00:44:59,258

We can end this quickly or we can, I can try the procedure.

642

00:44:59,258 --> 00:45:00,910

What do you think he would want?

643

00:45:00,910 --> 00:45:02,431

Yeah, sure.

644

00:45:02,811 --> 00:45:03,751

Let me ask him.

645

00:45:03,751 --> 00:45:08,911

Hey, Del, would you rather die or have to eat some metal and do a little bit of acid once

in a while?

646

00:45:08,911 --> 00:45:10,071

Oh, you're good with that?

647

00:45:10,071 --> 00:45:10,891

No, he's fine.

648

00:45:10,891 --> 00:45:11,791

Yeah.

649

00:45:11,791 --> 00:45:12,651

Yes.

650

00:45:12,651 --> 00:45:14,411

Also, let's put a pin in that.

651

00:45:14,511 --> 00:45:18,531

A couple questions since I'm making this decision for him.

652

00:45:18,651 --> 00:45:20,745

But yes, please, please just help him.

653

00:45:20,745 --> 00:45:27,616

Of course, um What's going through your mind as he's collecting what he needs?

654

00:45:27,668 --> 00:45:33,872

I think the first is just a slight wave of, at least there's something in like slight

relief.

655

00:45:33,872 --> 00:45:34,533

Not really.

656

00:45:34,533 --> 00:45:41,777

It's still like angsty AF, like right on the edge, but maybe just at least, hey, it's not

all lost.

657

00:45:41,777 --> 00:45:46,561

There's a path forward and a bit of curiosity without even knowing it or meaning to.

658

00:45:46,561 --> 00:45:52,938

I've learned a bit more about why I will forever swallow quarters and nickels and dimes

and stuff.

659

00:45:52,938 --> 00:45:57,100

Yeah, I think that's probably the gist of where I'm at.

660

00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:00,631

A little bit of curiosity with a little bit of relief and a lot of tension.

661

00:46:00,631 --> 00:46:05,493

He comes back with an armful and a small bag of things.

662

00:46:05,493 --> 00:46:08,874

There's a small scalpel in his hand as well.

663

00:46:08,874 --> 00:46:11,576

And he sets it down by Dell's feet.

664

00:46:11,576 --> 00:46:13,366

And he says, here, can you take this?

665

00:46:13,366 --> 00:46:14,477

And he gives you the scalpel.

666

00:46:14,477 --> 00:46:17,799

When I ask for it, please give it to me quickly and carefully.

667

00:46:17,799 --> 00:46:20,509

And he gets to work on Dell.

668

00:46:20,509 --> 00:46:22,671

He is giving him injections.

669

00:46:22,671 --> 00:46:31,395

You see him pull out what has to be a vial of mercury and he opens Del's throat and sticks

it down with a finger and holds it there.

670

00:46:31,395 --> 00:46:43,049

You hear Del choking a little bit until Del swallows and he pulls out a large supply of

some sort of pill and sets it down and then takes...

671

00:46:43,049 --> 00:46:51,605

bunch of capsules and starts to put them in water or saline something and shake them

really hard together.

672

00:46:51,605 --> 00:46:56,549

And he fills up a syringe with the largest amount you've ever seen in a shot.

673

00:46:56,549 --> 00:47:01,213

Like it is, you know, it's pushing probably 200 milliliters.

674

00:47:01,213 --> 00:47:08,058

And he says, this is going to be quite painful for your friend even with the morphine that

I gave him earlier.

675

00:47:08,441 --> 00:47:09,885

do you mind holding him?

676

00:47:09,885 --> 00:47:10,785

Yeah, sure.

677

00:47:10,785 --> 00:47:24,732

I look around is there a blocks a box of like The gloves the not nitrile is a nitrile

Whatever the the medical yeah that the medical gloves are I don't want to infect more if I

678

00:47:24,732 --> 00:47:27,940

don't have to I think I'm gonna slap this on really quick and then hold them down

679

00:47:27,940 --> 00:47:31,384

Yeah, you have your med kit which has a pair still.

680

00:47:31,384 --> 00:47:41,318

So, and you've splayed that open while you were thinking through things and you put the

gloves on and you're ready and you hold him down maybe by his shoulders or his midsection.

681

00:47:41,318 --> 00:47:44,451

Yeah, prob-probably, probably his shoulders and around.

682

00:47:44,451 --> 00:47:46,782

Ooh, where's the most force gonna come from?

683

00:47:46,782 --> 00:47:47,793

Probably his shoulders.

684

00:47:47,793 --> 00:47:48,364

Yeah.

685

00:47:48,364 --> 00:47:49,214

Hang on there, Del.

686

00:47:49,214 --> 00:47:52,096

It's-it's gonna hurt a bit, but we'll be okay.

687

00:47:52,309 --> 00:47:53,418

Roll your athletics.

688

00:47:53,418 --> 00:47:55,138

Athletics is 30.

689

00:47:55,378 --> 00:47:58,119

We got a 74, so a failure.

690

00:47:58,119 --> 00:48:01,167

Okay, Dell, roll your athletics as well.

691

00:48:01,167 --> 00:48:02,434

That's a success.

692

00:48:02,434 --> 00:48:03,047

Okay.

693

00:48:03,047 --> 00:48:11,570

the needle plunges directly through del sternum into his heart and you see that plunger

going down slowly.

694

00:48:11,570 --> 00:48:13,282

Like he doesn't want to overdo it.

695

00:48:13,282 --> 00:48:18,020

He's pushing this medicine into his heart with.

696

00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:30,490

extreme, extreme care and it is making Del wriggle in pain and he breaks loose from you

and knocks the syringe when it's halfway through out.

697

00:48:30,490 --> 00:48:33,152

Karras grabs for it and pulls it.

698

00:48:33,152 --> 00:48:34,572

He's gonna have to make a luck roll.

699

00:48:34,572 --> 00:48:44,781

ah He succeeds and is able to grab the needle and immediately jabs it right back in and

just finishes it really quickly.

700

00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,020

Del make another con.

701

00:48:46,020 --> 00:48:46,766

Roll.

702

00:48:46,766 --> 00:48:47,581

Times five.

703

00:48:47,581 --> 00:48:47,896

Yeah, 20.

704

00:48:47,896 --> 00:48:49,317

That's a success.

705

00:48:49,317 --> 00:48:57,875

All right, Del gasps and you feel that wriggling turn into just a extreme tension as he

bites down.

706

00:48:57,875 --> 00:48:59,717

You see blood coming out of his mouth.

707

00:48:59,717 --> 00:49:06,886

He's biting his cheek or his tongue or something, but it seems like he is now fighting,

but he is still not able to speak.

708

00:49:06,886 --> 00:49:12,531

Karas breathes a sigh of relief and he's like, please give me the scalpel now.

709

00:49:12,941 --> 00:49:14,987

Yeah, so I'm sorry, I thought I had him.

710

00:49:14,987 --> 00:49:18,316

And I'll turn and grab the scalpel and put it right in his hands.

711

00:49:18,742 --> 00:49:27,154

He goes around where the bite is and finds the biggest vein of black and purplish tendrils

going through his skin.

712

00:49:27,154 --> 00:49:32,886

And he makes a long, just a jagged, jagged cut.

713

00:49:32,886 --> 00:49:38,899

and takes some gauze and shoves it on the cut to try to seep it out of him.

714

00:49:38,899 --> 00:49:45,354

It's like, think we can get some of it out and it'll hopefully, what I've given him will

balance his system.

715

00:49:45,354 --> 00:49:52,599

If he only had a small infection, we would just need the injection and he would be cured

from of it, but this is too close to the heart.

716

00:49:52,599 --> 00:49:54,801

I think it's taken root, but we can pray.

717

00:49:54,801 --> 00:49:58,684

And he pushes hard on it and he's holding it there briefly.

718

00:49:58,866 --> 00:49:59,893

deeply.

719

00:49:59,893 --> 00:50:11,254

mean, I don't pray, but I do work hard and I'll grab them the next chunk of gauze and prep

it and set it next to him to swap out as we're pulling out, you know, a bit after bit, or

720

00:50:11,254 --> 00:50:17,019

if he needs to, to dispose of what needs to dispose and make sure everything's around him

that he needs around him.

721

00:50:17,291 --> 00:50:22,435

You clean up a little bit and you try to stay busy, it sounds like, right?

722

00:50:22,435 --> 00:50:26,159

As you're doing, you see the pills that he grabbed and did.

723

00:50:26,159 --> 00:50:31,304

It looks like uh a sodium bicarbonate is what he injected into him.

724

00:50:31,304 --> 00:50:32,646

You mentally note that.

725

00:50:32,646 --> 00:50:37,472

And Dell starts to breathe easy as this pain has subsided.

726

00:50:37,524 --> 00:50:42,143

as you're watching him seep this up and staying busy what's on your mind?

727

00:50:42,143 --> 00:50:46,387

Now I think it's another bit of a wave of relief.

728

00:50:46,387 --> 00:50:51,753

We're through the hard part, but there's definitely a long way to go and we're not out of

danger yet.

729

00:50:51,753 --> 00:50:56,998

I think now is when I start taking catalog of what's around and where we are.

730

00:50:56,998 --> 00:51:04,267

So in my mind, you know, Kuros person was this big dangerous beast of a mad scientist with

731

00:51:04,267 --> 00:51:17,206

Monocles and 13 arms doing experiments and craziness and he's this you know half bent over

Crippled old guy who has now just saved my friend, but I still don't think That he I could

732

00:51:17,206 --> 00:51:19,548

just write him off as friends not foe.

733

00:51:19,548 --> 00:51:32,488

So I think now is is when I start taking note of of everything from the exact color of the

cats to what's around to any weapons that might be nearby to you know his his

734

00:51:32,488 --> 00:51:35,221

combat abilities to anything I can.

735

00:51:35,221 --> 00:51:41,400

Yeah, you go ahead and enroll me search for that and then enjoy it.

736

00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:41,832

Yeah.

737

00:51:41,832 --> 00:51:43,645

We're looking for search 54.

738

00:51:43,645 --> 00:51:45,435

ah

739

00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:48,611

a 37 out of 54, so success.

740

00:51:48,611 --> 00:51:56,629

Great, you look around and there is a study and you can see that it opens up to a small

kitchen in the back of the cabin.

741

00:51:56,629 --> 00:51:59,892

The study is like this little alcove off of the living room.

742

00:51:59,892 --> 00:52:03,925

And the study has just a desk that's clean with a stack of papers.

743

00:52:03,925 --> 00:52:06,458

The bookshelf looks interesting as well.

744

00:52:06,458 --> 00:52:11,403

You don't necessarily see full titles from where you are unless you're kind of pacing

around looking.

745

00:52:11,403 --> 00:52:14,863

And you also see that

746

00:52:14,863 --> 00:52:18,365

There are lines of different types of shoes by the door.

747

00:52:18,365 --> 00:52:24,099

Most of them look a little muddy and there are, there's just one size.

748

00:52:24,099 --> 00:52:26,300

So you know that it might just be him.

749

00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:35,564

The cat is orange and has now come back into the cabin and is sitting in the doorway of

the kitchenette looking at you as you work.

750

00:52:35,564 --> 00:52:40,018

Any specific thing you would try to investigate while Karas is here?

751

00:52:40,018 --> 00:52:50,118

I anything that resembles parts and pieces from the swamp, anything that would reveal why

he's out here, because that's part of the question, right?

752

00:52:50,118 --> 00:52:54,778

Like who is he, why is he an informant, and why is he out here specifically?

753

00:52:54,778 --> 00:52:58,718

And I think that is what I'm looking for.

754

00:52:58,898 --> 00:53:00,649

Where's the doctor right now?

755

00:53:00,649 --> 00:53:05,955

He's with you, sitting by Dell watching him and every once in a while checks his heart

rate.

756

00:53:05,955 --> 00:53:07,956

um

757

00:53:07,956 --> 00:53:08,728

He is.

758

00:53:08,728 --> 00:53:10,882

We're kind of there together in the same space.

759

00:53:10,882 --> 00:53:12,966

Okay.

760

00:53:12,966 --> 00:53:15,748

you could start a conversation with him too as well.

761

00:53:15,748 --> 00:53:23,430

I I definitely will if I don't see anything that kind of checks those boxes, but obviously

I'm not going to try and be too snoopy and out of place.

762

00:53:23,430 --> 00:53:28,356

So make it look more like pacing, but it's secretly a search job.

763

00:53:29,265 --> 00:53:30,765

Well, I'll go ahead.

764

00:53:30,765 --> 00:53:36,644

need to like wear a medical bracelet to give like MRI techs a heads up in the future or

something.

765

00:53:36,644 --> 00:53:41,324

Like how do we get medical attention with foreign metals in us?

766

00:53:41,672 --> 00:53:47,328

I think that you would not go to the doctor anymore.

767

00:53:48,690 --> 00:53:49,730

That's 1000%.

768

00:53:49,730 --> 00:53:53,410

Yeah, you could go in and get your teeth fixed and that's in your eyes.

769

00:53:53,430 --> 00:53:55,050

It's about it.

770

00:53:55,050 --> 00:53:56,970

Literally, yeah.

771

00:53:57,330 --> 00:53:58,290

Yeah.

772

00:53:59,030 --> 00:54:03,064

that's yeah that's what i'm saying get magnetoed

773

00:54:04,331 --> 00:54:05,271

yes.

774

00:54:06,453 --> 00:54:07,513

Yeah.

775

00:54:07,593 --> 00:54:09,479

Yeah.

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