S1E7 - Cold Piece - Operation Proxy Decay - Delta Green AP - Dead Letter Bureau

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You get in your truck, you know exactly where that dirt path leads and you're able to find

it you head down and it does narrow and get narrower and narrower till you feel like you

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might scratch your truck a little bit with the overhanging trees.

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It's not kept up.

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yeah, the sunlight here.

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feels like it's baking the swamp beside you now that you're getting further into it.

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You can see the black mud everywhere and then the sun is hitting it in spots that the tree

doesn't cover and you see cracked, dried mud.

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It doesn't smell good.

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and you end up on a small little turnaround where you could spin the truck around and then

you do see a foot trail that goes off to the north from there.

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Okay, yeah.

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Circle around, get our day hiking stuff.

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Maybe enough stuff to set up a blind watch site if fancy strikes us.

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take a look for recent recent footprints around and then get to it.

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Do you take any weapons?

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yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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taking everything with us or just something that's like concealable and inconspicuous?

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I got a rifle.

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I got a full on rifle.

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It's probably wrapped up, it could look like camera equipment, right?

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It could look like the long legs of a tripod or something like that, but it's sizable.

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Okay, yeah, think during the daytime, I think I'll probably just take my GP100 tucked away

and just like a uh loose backpack, like whatever my clothes are packed in, like traveling

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type backpack, water bottle and toss it in there, because I don't think we're going too

far.

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Can I look at the ground?

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We know that there's a missing bike.

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I want to see if I could find any of those tracks around here as well to start maybe

mentally mapping like.

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where this person might be coming to and visiting frequently.

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so let's do a few rolls.

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Everybody roll survival for setting out on the trail on foot.

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And you're gonna roll another search for the tracks as well.

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Where do I see server?

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it's on the big list.

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Yeah, I got mine at 37.

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And you said search as well?

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if you're looking for something specific.

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Okay.

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I'm looking for the red bellied hummingbird because I'm genuinely interested in seeing

this bird and I'm kind of killing two birds with one stone while I'm out here.

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Pun intended.

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Yeah, go ahead, agent Brown.

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What's your role?

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16 on my survival and then that searched whenever we happened to get to a 76 so that's not

going to get it.

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76 out of 50.

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Yeah.

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got a critical success with a 22 for search.

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saying.

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right, and what exactly would you be looking for?

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So Dusky.

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I was looking specifically for recent footprints, trying to differentiate groups from

singles, from vehicles, you know, all those things.

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you set out and the trail, like a lot of trails starts off pretty traversable.

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You get about...

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probably half a mile in and it starts to be more squishy and swampy.

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There is a significant like byway through here.

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It's not a game trail.

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It does look like people are passing through and you see footprints.

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with your critical success, they are fairly recent.

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Your guess is within the last week, somebody or potentially a few people have been hiking

in and out of here.

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The boots and the shoes themselves, one of them looks like a pair of Converse, another a

pair of Vans, and another one looks like some generic tennis shoe.

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You don't see any combat boots or anything of that nature, just like looks like casual

footwear, which is also a little strange being that this is a swamp.

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And you're continuing on, none of you.

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are stumbling over yourselves or feeling exhausted at this point with your successful

survival checks.

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So you're taking this hike pretty easy.

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Yeah, you said the feet seem like they went both out and in, so we've got like some repeat

visits from these couple pairs of shoes.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I mean, I guess we just keep on trudging forward.

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How often are we having to make decisions about which way to go, or is it kind of just one

trail into the darkness?

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one trail so far.

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So, yeah.

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Interesting.

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So I know that I rolled real, real bad on that search to find this specific bike that I

was looking for, like those, those moto tracks.

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Is there any other like widely smashed down grass that I could see any larger vehicle or

is this just 100 % walk?

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Yeah, this feels like Walk Path.

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Yeah, you're pushing through and there's large sawgrass that is now covering the side of

the trail.

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The trees clear up and you go through a clearing.

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Sweat starts to bead on your shirt and you can feel the grit of the swamp working its way

into every fold of your skin.

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And yeah, there is just this sense of suffocating humidity still there, but it's one step

after the next.

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one step after the next and you do finally get to a fork.

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The trail on one side is quite mushy to your right, to your left it's drier.

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It looks like the footprints went to the left in the mushy, luckily for you, but the dry

side that's more under the trees looks more pleasant to traverse.

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Do we know how far, like we know there's a ghost town up here.

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We know that there was a, not a coven, but there was, there were people there at some

point in time.

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Do we know how far up this trail that is?

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Is it six miles, 10 miles, or is it like a nature walk distance?

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Yeah, roll your navigate plus, well actually what's your navigation?

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It's like 70, right?

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yeah, 80.

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Yeah, it's.

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you would just know.

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based on the map that you have and getting a sight line on it, your guess is they're

talking about the structure you saw at that river.

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And it's about another three miles from where you are now, if you wanted to hike there.

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if you knew you could probably just walk straight through the swamp to the north and end

up there.

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uh Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure how far we specifically want to go.

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I mean, we're somewhat equipped, but do we want to keep going?

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I don't really have an opinion of which which direction or if we should sit tight for a

minute, don't?

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I mean, getting eyes on something would make me feel better about this whole situation.

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Otherwise, it feels like we're just a little blind and aimless.

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So I guess I'm not fixing to like, you know, get entangled with anything, but I sure would

like to see a bird or something else.

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What time of the day is it?

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Sorry.

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Yeah, you're at about 11 a.m.

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at this point, so.

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we got plenty of time to still explore.

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Yeah, right.

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Yeah, I'm down.

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uh Which way are we going?

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towards the footprints.

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uh

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Alright, one vote for footprints.

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Yeah, I don't know, I don't have a beer on me, but I kinda like the dry side.

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you

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You

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Okay, dry side it is.

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And we'll head up that way.

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Yeah, the shade, once you step into it from being in the sawgrass feels nice, feels like a

brief respite from the baking sun.

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the smell of that swamp starts to hit you.

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It's a mix of death and mud.

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It could be, you know, a carcass, but it also could just be the smell of the swamp.

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Whatever it is, is quite pungent.

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And you're starting to realize how hostile this land is the further you get into it.

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the sunlight here doesn't cleanse anything.

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It's uh not a bright shining beacon.

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It just serves to bake the rot on the ground.

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And it falls on thick and greasy mud all throughout the oaken canopy in front of you.

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and these trees are starting to coil together overhead like sleeping serpents and the air

is still and hot and heavy and you get that sense of decay coming up.

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As you're trekking this trail north, right in front of you, you start to see some

boardwalks and the ground gets a little softer and there are boards scattered in that

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ground sunken down a little bit and

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A small corner takes you around to just a full on swamp scene.

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And there is a dilapidated boardwalk that crosses through this swampy area.

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What do you do?

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Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it hasn't been maintained, but if it, you know, looks like it'll

hold my ass, I'm going on out.

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Yeah, that looks...

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safe as hell.

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yeah, Tell, absolutely safe.

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You know what we're not safe from, though.

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Mosquitoes.

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Is this about time to redo the fashion show from earlier and get swamped up?

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Yeah, yeah.

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You wanna get, uh, mesh hijab?

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I guess it's not a bad idea.

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And she throws her pack down and starts unpacking a bit of it and starts tossing that on.

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I don't hesitate because I love how I look in all my mosquito gear.

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So putting it on as well.

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It's specialty gear, it goes on and it is a little hotter than what you had on before.

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You're putting it over your clothes, but it is not so hot that you are gonna get exhausted

quickly, but it's definitely heating up as you are starting to cross into evening.

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And the boardwalk stretches out and beckons you.

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Alright, uh, Swampy Perrone in the swamp.

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Let's let's go team.

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Del you wanna, you wanna take the front?

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Yeah, that's fine.

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You guys can follow in my footsteps.

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I'll check the ones, the boards before you do.

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love it.

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What's everybody's power score on their character sheet?

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80.

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score of 11 and in 55 percent.

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65.

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Okay, Ryan, can you just roll power for me?

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I've got 69, dude.

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Agent Ryan, as you walk out onto this boardwalk, something begins to change for you and

only for you as far as you can tell looking around.

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It's not a sound that you hear in your ears or something you see.

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It's like a pressure.

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A low static hum seems to vibrate behind your thoughts.

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The air grows heavy, heavier than it already is because of the humidity.

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But there's a sense of attention on you, you feel.

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You get a sudden unshakable feeling that you're being watched, as stereotypical as that

might sound.

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But it's not like a feeling of being watched through a sniper scope or a predator in the

trees.

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You don't feel it from one place.

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It feels like everything's watching you.

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Hey, guys.

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I'm starting to feel a little uneasy.

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I just want to let you know.

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I don't know.

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I'm just feeling like something is kind of weird in this area.

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And you guys, do you guys feel anything?

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Sense anything?

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told you to go easy on breakfast.

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It's gonna be a long day.

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You know, I have to have my daily rations of beans in the morning.

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Yeah, no, I just feel sweat literally running down my back.

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It's a bit warm, but no, I feel pretty good.

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Maybe because I stuck to the liquid bean, but who knows?

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Are you okay?

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What do mean?

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How do you feel?

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I just feel like something is out there.

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Something is kind of watching us or something.

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I don't know.

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Maybe I'm just getting a little overheated, but I just feel a little uneasy going down

this path.

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interrupt your thought but I think Dell as you're bringing this up is just trying to kind

of key in to the surroundings right like how much nature sounds like it is present does it

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feel like this place is alive or like am I getting a lot of senses that just like dead on

dead on dead

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Yeah, you can roll for alertness.

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Yee-haw!

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That's success.

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You take a moment, stop, get your bearings.

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It seems pretty typical for a swamp.

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hear the sound of either crickets or cicadas, some sort of bug.

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Listening intently you hear some sawgrass in the distance waving and cutting against each

other Sightwise it just looks like a boggy swamp the one thing that does stick out a

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little bit is the color deeper into the swamp off to your left almost has a purple hue to

it, it's like a purple green, but it just looks strange

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Just keep your eyes peeled.

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don't know, it's just, I don't know.

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I just have a weird feeling.

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I've never felt this really before, so.

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Yeah, so like I think from the outset Dell didn't give a lot of credence to what you were

saying but like you and Barone going back and forth and he just kind of scans the place

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and it's not like there's anything that really sticks out but it's not like he feels

entirely settled either and so you know as he kind of like comes around from the scan like

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you get a knowing nod that says like he's taking you seriously.

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Yeah, no worries.

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How about Dell takes the front?

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Ryan, could go in the middle and I'll be on back here and I'll watch out a little bit.

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Sounds good to me.

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you push forward, is there a specific thing you're looking for as you're doing this or

keeping an eye on?

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Like what's the passive business you're doing as you're walking?

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I think I'm scanning the brush, right?

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I'm just looking for anything that looks like it might have eyes looking at us.

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I'm looking for something, I mean, vague to say something of note, right?

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But something that doesn't look like ambient swamp.

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If there is a structure, a creature, a sign of life, an animal that has been killed, other

people walking about the place.

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I don't know.

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Great.

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Agent Barone, what are you looking for, if anything?

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so I think as we came into this place or came into this whole area, the thought was like,

that's a pretty good place for a trap.

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So I think Barone's not knowing what could be here, what could or could not be here.

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Mainly that's what her eyes and thoughts are on.

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Agent Barone, you roll me alertness.

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Agent Ryan, give me a natural and then Agent Sendusky, you will give me search.

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We're looking at 75 out of 80 success.

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18 out of 20 success.

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Fail 89.

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Okay, make sure you mark it.

227

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Do gotta try though, right?

228

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you're walking.

229

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The sweat is definitely pouring down your bodies after a few steps in this gear.

230

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You leave the boardwalk and you step into some sawgrass.

231

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If you hadn't had your gear on, would have probably thin cuts on your arms, but the heat's

constant, it's a leaden weight.

232

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sweat beads on you soaking your underclothes.

233

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Each of you watch the person in front of you and it looks like you're looking at them

through a almost like a suffocating wave of grass pushing in and out.

234

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You lose track of them easily but you're close enough to where you don't get lost in the

muck.

235

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And yeah, you put your feet where where Dell's put his feet and march on forward.

236

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Agent Barone, as you're looking around, you're looking for an ambush or some sort of

threat in here.

237

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You don't get that sense as you're scanning.

238

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When you're walking through the sawgrass, though, you do start to see some very aged

containers.

239

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Some of them look like old tin from like canned fish and they're often sprinkled around

like there's been people who have sat here and ate before and they're all metal.

240

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Well, uh, she'll squat down and grab one of these.

241

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I mean, they did say that there was squatters and drug users out here, but it's, I don't

know, I don't think just anybody litters and I'll pick it up and turn it over my hand, see

242

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if I could maybe figure out what exactly it was, maybe where it came from.

243

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Yeah, it came from Tacoma, Washington, and it looks like it was an old tin of salmon, but

the date on it is 1936.

244

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Huh, a little older than I thought.

245

00:16:47,261 --> 00:16:48,643

Hey, Del, look at this.

246

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And I'll hand it over.

247

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Yeah, I mean, that's a very peculiar thing to be finding in the middle of nowhere.

248

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mean...

249

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If I was squatting, I'd squat near something is all I'm saying.

250

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Yeah, dope.

251

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Yeah, good point.

252

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Barone will stand up and kind of take a look around.

253

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I know before there was discolored brush.

254

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we see if we see anything that looks, know, smashed more down, smashed down more than

normal or a space that's not growing grass where it kind of should type thing.

255

00:17:19,821 --> 00:17:21,513

Mm Yeah, you stand up.

256

00:17:21,513 --> 00:17:32,048

The sawgrass is quite tall, but you can push it forward and see about 15 feet, 15 to 30

feet, I would say, at a time if you pull it apart and look at your survival.

257

00:17:32,048 --> 00:17:36,139

Uh, fail 81 under 30 or 81 over 30.

258

00:17:36,139 --> 00:17:40,011

yet nothing is peaking your interest as you scan around.

259

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Agent Sundusky, with your search, you find some more footprints and go ahead and roll

survival to see, however you would investigate the footprints, describe it and then I'll

260

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see if there's a roll.

261

00:17:53,665 --> 00:18:00,879

Well, I guess given the age of the fish tin, I'm very curious about the timing of all of

these things.

262

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If it seems like these are all the same event and the same people, it feels like it's an

old fish tin that was a long time ago with an old boot print that was made a long time

263

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ago.

264

00:18:11,165 --> 00:18:13,927

I'm trying to figure out how many timelines we have.

265

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So I think survival and understanding how the preservation of that print is appearing.

266

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with the timeline of everything else sounds okay to me.

267

00:18:22,938 --> 00:18:27,366

Okay, yeah, survival is good for the footprint specifically.

268

00:18:27,626 --> 00:18:28,546

Great.

269

00:18:28,546 --> 00:18:30,706

Yeah, 46, that's success.

270

00:18:31,322 --> 00:18:37,390

You peer down into the footprint and it's pretty deep because it's a swampy area.

271

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So that means it's probably new.

272

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Like you're assuming that the swamp would eat up any footprint that's been here for a long

time, but it seems barefoot.

273

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bare human foot and of a typical human size.

274

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about a size nine from your estimate.

275

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just one set heading in a particular direction towards anything in particular.

276

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It's chaotic.

277

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It almost looks like footprints that you would see at a dance or a battle.

278

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Your guess is as good as mine on it.

279

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They're all over the place.

280

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And as you're looking even further and following them, you see ones of other sizes.

281

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You can estimate there's probably about five to six different ones.

282

00:19:16,824 --> 00:19:20,947

Hey, I think we stumbled onto a trail of something.

283

00:19:21,708 --> 00:19:26,023

Might've wished we hadn't, but what do you make of all this?

284

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I'm kind of standing further behind, just letting them kind of scope everything out.

285

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And then I start to move a little closer and take a look.

286

00:19:34,852 --> 00:19:45,290

again, I'm feeling kind of uneasy about this, but mostly because I can't imagine walking

barefoot on this ground and how that must feel.

287

00:19:45,290 --> 00:19:49,973

And I'm wondering why somebody would make that choice.

288

00:19:50,077 --> 00:19:51,928

You could keep your socks on if you want.

289

00:19:51,928 --> 00:19:53,392

nothing cute.

290

00:19:53,988 --> 00:19:56,300

Yeah, no, it's just another level of protection for your feet.

291

00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:57,831

That's no, that's fine.

292

00:19:57,831 --> 00:20:01,253

Wet, human, soaked socks.

293

00:20:02,174 --> 00:20:11,340

Well, it, it seems like if there's a bunch of people who were here, they had to come from

and or go somewhere else.

294

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So I say we pick a direction we're out here for.

295

00:20:15,293 --> 00:20:17,767

And she looks at her watch, at least another few hours.

296

00:20:17,767 --> 00:20:21,029

Let's just pick, pick one and, and

297

00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:23,274

chase it down, guess.

298

00:20:23,859 --> 00:20:27,572

Can we look and see if we could find the directions that they came from?

299

00:20:27,730 --> 00:20:39,525

Yeah, between your earlier survival roles, you're able to pick up and you see that the

footprints kind of do a big U back towards that swamp that you just crossed the boardwalk

300

00:20:39,525 --> 00:20:40,455

through.

301

00:20:41,116 --> 00:20:49,780

you get to the watery part of the swamp that looks in the distance like it has that weird

purple hue to it.

302

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and the footprints stop at the edge of the swamp.

303

00:20:53,288 --> 00:20:56,410

Alright, well, kind of weird, but there's no...

304

00:20:56,410 --> 00:20:59,892

I don't know, I guess I'll be brave enough to head out there.

305

00:20:59,892 --> 00:21:06,025

uh Del, do you wanna just watch me make sure I don't get pulled under and drown anyhow?

306

00:21:06,134 --> 00:21:10,220

I mean, I'll tie a rope around you, but I am just curious for clarification.

307

00:21:10,220 --> 00:21:13,996

Like, I imagine you're kinda like, and out there a little bit to get a little closer.

308

00:21:13,996 --> 00:21:22,258

I'm curious about the direction of these footprints going into and out of what seems like

just the muck.

309

00:21:22,258 --> 00:21:34,030

Yeah, you look at the footprints and there is a strong line of where the roots of the

sawgrass keep the mud together and where this watery part of the swamp begins.

310

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And you see the footprints go up into that and almost in a strange, I guess, unified way,

they line up along the bank and then just disappear into the swamp.

311

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Yeah, I'm not getting any closer.

312

00:21:48,292 --> 00:21:52,377

If you trust this rope and you trust me, giddy up.

313

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Yeah, sure.

314

00:21:53,478 --> 00:21:57,002

No, could team bonding right off the top here, huh?

315

00:21:57,002 --> 00:22:08,924

Yeah, this is like a truss fall but with rope so Sure, and she Ties it around her waist

throws the other end to tell gives a little wink and starts waiting out as deep as she

316

00:22:08,924 --> 00:22:14,549

could go without Splashing water into her boots to get those wet wet socks

317

00:22:15,050 --> 00:22:21,850

Dell puts a bow and anchor around a tree, kind of, you know, bends vaguely this way, but

it's strong enough.

318

00:22:22,771 --> 00:22:33,006

So as you're waiting out there, go ahead and give me your dexterity times five or

athletics, if whatever one's higher.

319

00:22:33,006 --> 00:22:35,146

That's for sure going to be dexterity.

320

00:22:35,146 --> 00:22:37,786

So dexterity times 5, I'm looking for a 70.

321

00:22:38,066 --> 00:22:39,666

We got a 31.

322

00:22:39,666 --> 00:22:40,268

Success.

323

00:22:40,268 --> 00:22:42,550

you start to get to the point where...

324

00:22:42,650 --> 00:22:50,156

it's gonna come up over the lip of the boots and you're having to exert yourself quite a

bit just to lift your leg out of the mud.

325

00:22:50,156 --> 00:22:57,323

But the water is starting to not clear up, but get more, get less muddy as you're pushing

out there.

326

00:22:57,323 --> 00:23:07,233

And there's more what looks like, I don't know if they call it seaweed in a swamp, but

seaweed for lack of better term, that starts wrapping around your legs as you push through

327

00:23:07,233 --> 00:23:07,493

it.

328

00:23:07,493 --> 00:23:08,813

You're about,

329

00:23:08,886 --> 00:23:15,211

30 feet from this area that seems different with the purple fungus.

330

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And that's about when you would feel like, if I take another step, the water's gonna get

into my boots.

331

00:23:20,794 --> 00:23:21,446

What do do?

332

00:23:21,446 --> 00:23:25,852

uh Do we have any binoculars over there by chance?

333

00:23:26,789 --> 00:23:28,005

Yeah, you have some.

334

00:23:28,302 --> 00:23:31,053

Okay.

335

00:23:31,053 --> 00:23:35,317

I think at this exact moment, I probably don't quite want to go very much further.

336

00:23:35,317 --> 00:23:38,219

So let's go ahead and take binoculars out and see if I could.

337

00:23:38,219 --> 00:23:46,052

Obviously that doesn't give me the right angles per se, but at least I could get a little

bit zoomed in and see if I could see something that way before taking a deeper step.

338

00:23:46,274 --> 00:23:49,864

Yeah, rule your search plus 30.

339

00:23:50,216 --> 00:23:51,008

Sure.

340

00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,016

Plus 30.

341

00:23:53,108 --> 00:23:54,906

We got 48.

342

00:23:54,906 --> 00:24:00,090

All right, you pull out your binoculars and are scanning that area.

343

00:24:00,430 --> 00:24:04,773

The purple nature of it does seem like it is fungal.

344

00:24:04,773 --> 00:24:09,248

There's a strange cluster of fungus in that area.

345

00:24:09,388 --> 00:24:18,592

There are branches that go into it and you can see some of the purple fungus going up the

branch and almost like

346

00:24:18,592 --> 00:24:23,388

overtaking the moss, like the moss itself takes on the color and then stops at some point.

347

00:24:23,388 --> 00:24:36,407

And as you're past that, you catch out of focus a glimpse of, it looks like a small oval

shape just sink into the water quickly.

348

00:24:36,925 --> 00:24:42,247

Ooh, all right, time to go, Dell, I'm coming back, Dell.

349

00:24:42,247 --> 00:24:53,203

And I'll pack my binoculars away in my bag really quick and start shuffling backwards, or

at least sideways, try not to lose track of what was over in that direction, but

350

00:24:53,203 --> 00:24:55,434

definitely making my way back.

351

00:24:55,646 --> 00:24:59,246

Yeah, go ahead and roll your SAN to see if you can do that.

352

00:25:00,733 --> 00:25:01,606

Your sanity.

353

00:25:01,606 --> 00:25:04,387

Looking for 55, I got 26.

354

00:25:04,556 --> 00:25:12,907

All right, you still lose one sand just from seeing it and you are able to trudge back

through your hearts racing.

355

00:25:12,907 --> 00:25:18,484

The adrenaline helps you get there faster and you make it back without a hitch to the

shore

356

00:25:18,765 --> 00:25:23,833

I assume it took some effort for sure, so she's like, okay, uh so definitely creepy for

sure.

357

00:25:23,833 --> 00:25:25,615

There's something here in the water.

358

00:25:25,615 --> 00:25:31,697

There's something, I'm not sure what, didn't see too much, but there's something here,

guys.

359

00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:33,094

What did it look like?

360

00:25:33,577 --> 00:25:42,577

I don't know, I mean, if it was like the, it could have been like the top of a dome or

something, like a sink down in the water.

361

00:25:42,577 --> 00:25:49,917

I didn't see any shapes more than that, but it's a little freaky if you're expecting

nothing, you do definitely see something.

362

00:25:50,761 --> 00:25:55,805

dome, like the size of like a human or what what size are we talking about here?

363

00:25:55,805 --> 00:25:59,270

Rango, or Agent Baron, roll your intelligence.

364

00:26:00,052 --> 00:26:01,123

Times five.

365

00:26:01,995 --> 00:26:06,955

So, looking for 65, we got a 0, 0 and a 6.

366

00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:09,135

Is that 6 %?

367

00:26:09,135 --> 00:26:12,572

Yeah, it's quality roll.

368

00:26:13,595 --> 00:26:14,295

So you

369

00:26:14,295 --> 00:26:16,674

that exact line for you a time before.

370

00:26:16,674 --> 00:26:18,103

It was exactly like that.

371

00:26:18,103 --> 00:26:19,887

I think I was zero zero six.

372

00:26:19,887 --> 00:26:21,189

That's just a six.

373

00:26:21,189 --> 00:26:22,493

Yeah.

374

00:26:23,026 --> 00:26:26,491

Agent Barone, you wave them off.

375

00:26:26,491 --> 00:26:30,626

Say, just give me a second and you start to put it together in your head.

376

00:26:30,626 --> 00:26:32,459

You start to piece together what you saw.

377

00:26:32,459 --> 00:26:35,319

Uh, it was, it was 100 % humanoid.

378

00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:43,699

It was very much like a, like a, uh, uh, uh, lizard meets human type thing.

379

00:26:43,699 --> 00:26:47,159

I'm not sure there were eyes, but they're, they looked kind of dark.

380

00:26:47,159 --> 00:26:52,679

I couldn't have sworn that if they were eyes or not at first, thinking about it, I think

so.

381

00:26:52,679 --> 00:26:53,199

Yeah.

382

00:26:53,199 --> 00:26:54,510

I, something.

383

00:26:54,510 --> 00:27:00,376

You had any brushes with something you didn't think came from Earth before, Agent Brome?

384

00:27:00,376 --> 00:27:10,340

Yes, I mean nothing that I've seen but I've definitely been in places and heard things

that were out of step with the norm for sure, yeah.

385

00:27:10,340 --> 00:27:16,909

Yeah, I just checking on a count of it does shake you up the first time you see it

something proper.

386

00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,547

I ain't got no idea if I seen what you seen, but uh we all seen something like that.

387

00:27:22,547 --> 00:27:25,112

I'm glad you're in the fold.

388

00:27:25,112 --> 00:27:29,863

I'll tell you what though when I get a piece of paper and a pencil, I'll try to draw it

out a little bit.

389

00:27:29,863 --> 00:27:35,216

I'm not the best, but I mean any log of anything is kind of worth something.

390

00:27:35,216 --> 00:27:44,821

Also, I know in the original email that the biologist Kuras definitely mentioned an

interest in fungus and

391

00:27:45,299 --> 00:27:55,217

fungal goings on and it's it's creeping up there guys there's there's some fungus in that

water look like it was making it up the plant so is that there's some crossover there for

392

00:27:55,217 --> 00:27:56,058

sure

393

00:27:56,527 --> 00:28:02,200

None of us are biologists ourselves or have backgrounds in any of that.

394

00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,935

I'm trying to think like, it worth it to within, well, I guess I'd look down at my boots.

395

00:28:07,935 --> 00:28:15,040

On my boots, is there any residue that kind of matches what was splashed up against the

grass over there?

396

00:28:15,361 --> 00:28:16,562

Yeah, real luck.

397

00:28:16,816 --> 00:28:17,907

Cool, yeah.

398

00:28:17,907 --> 00:28:19,267

There's no way that's gonna make it.

399

00:28:19,267 --> 00:28:20,699

There's a 95 for ya.

400

00:28:20,699 --> 00:28:21,810

Mm-hmm.

401

00:28:22,152 --> 00:28:22,612

Yeah.

402

00:28:22,612 --> 00:28:26,817

Well, you don't know what's lucky and what's unlucky in this situation.

403

00:28:26,817 --> 00:28:28,239

yeah.

404

00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:31,954

You see your boots are covered in fungus and stuff.

405

00:28:31,954 --> 00:28:40,994

You could absolutely, if you had something, a container, a water bottle or something, you

could uh pull some of it off and keep it.

406

00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:43,251

Spare binocular lens maybe?

407

00:28:43,251 --> 00:28:47,627

Use it like a microscope slide?

408

00:28:47,627 --> 00:28:58,991

I'll grab my binoculars and then go ahead and take the lens cap off one of them and scoop

some of the goo into one of the lens caps and seal it back on the binoculars because that

409

00:28:58,991 --> 00:29:00,211

was a great idea.

410

00:29:00,211 --> 00:29:09,457

So um at least we have a sample and then I'll wrap like a towel around it or something so

it can't goo out and stick it back in my bag safely.

411

00:29:09,785 --> 00:29:21,134

As we start getting out of there, also, like, she would like to inconspicuously palm her

pistol um if she can, because she is little creeped, little creeped out.

412

00:29:21,750 --> 00:29:28,111

Curious, does our night vision goggles have any infrared technology on them?

413

00:29:29,091 --> 00:29:31,665

Yeah, just strict night vision, not a predator.

414

00:29:34,509 --> 00:29:34,932

That hurts.

415

00:29:34,932 --> 00:29:36,833

Butterfield doesn't love us enough.

416

00:29:36,833 --> 00:29:44,622

Can I put on my night vision goggles and kind of stick my head into the water and try to

see what I can see?

417

00:29:44,751 --> 00:29:45,347

You

418

00:29:45,347 --> 00:29:46,478

mean, hell yeah.

419

00:29:46,478 --> 00:29:49,187

Go ahead and roll a search minus 40.

420

00:29:49,573 --> 00:29:50,605

Okay.

421

00:29:50,605 --> 00:29:53,614

you to learn that mud is not the same as night.

422

00:29:55,846 --> 00:29:57,808

You never know what's under there.

423

00:29:59,632 --> 00:30:00,874

OK, search minus 20.

424

00:30:00,874 --> 00:30:05,369

Well, my search is only 22, so.

425

00:30:05,369 --> 00:30:09,236

Okay, if you get a critical success by rolling a one, then you can succeed.

426

00:30:09,248 --> 00:30:10,800

Weirder things have happened.

427

00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,952

So you're saying there's a chance.

428

00:30:12,952 --> 00:30:13,464

All right.

429

00:30:13,464 --> 00:30:14,117

No.

430

00:30:14,117 --> 00:30:14,957

All right.

431

00:30:14,957 --> 00:30:17,300

Yeah, you stick your face in the water.

432

00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:18,760

Well, what did you roll?

433

00:30:20,121 --> 00:30:21,562

Okay.

434

00:30:21,562 --> 00:30:26,485

And it's pretty gross in there and it's really thick, especially over here.

435

00:30:26,485 --> 00:30:33,189

Maybe if you trekked in as much as Agent Barone did, but from here it's uh pretty icky.

436

00:30:33,577 --> 00:30:36,637

For some reason, I don't have a problem sticking my face in the water.

437

00:30:36,637 --> 00:30:40,277

But walking into the water, I have a problem with.

438

00:30:40,317 --> 00:30:43,277

I'm like, yeah, no, I'm good.

439

00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:55,314

Yeah, seeing you just like, trudge dutifully to the edge and shove your face in, there's

just kind of like a bewilderment and you're like, you pop back up, you got clear off the

440

00:30:55,314 --> 00:30:56,955

goggles, just like, nothing there.

441

00:30:56,955 --> 00:30:59,588

It's just like, wait, what the fuck?

442

00:30:59,588 --> 00:31:04,851

Like, so unlike you, but I want a go-getter attitude.

443

00:31:06,197 --> 00:31:09,123

I mean, I'm a wise person, but I'm not very smart.

444

00:31:09,123 --> 00:31:10,003

So

445

00:31:11,552 --> 00:31:13,207

Yeah, you're good with computers.

446

00:31:15,562 --> 00:31:16,313

Yeah.

447

00:31:16,313 --> 00:31:18,732

Well, I think we're all losing our fucking minds.

448

00:31:18,732 --> 00:31:19,559

Hahaha.

449

00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:21,964

Yeah, and so you wanted to triangulate.

450

00:31:21,964 --> 00:31:27,522

that mean you're gonna continue to head to the landmark of the river or are just heading

directly back?

451

00:31:27,522 --> 00:31:30,815

Well, I don't know if there's a sturdy tree that looks climbable.

452

00:31:30,815 --> 00:31:39,605

We could get up and try and just like, you know, figure out like trigonometry of the sun

or some other peak nearby.

453

00:31:39,605 --> 00:31:40,786

Oklahoma doesn't have peaks.

454

00:31:40,786 --> 00:31:41,947

Who am I kidding?

455

00:31:41,947 --> 00:31:42,868

I don't know.

456

00:31:42,868 --> 00:31:44,899

Some sort of landmark I could see.

457

00:31:45,740 --> 00:31:55,478

pretty flat, as far as looking at the map and your expert navigator with Agent Baron, you

know that the river is probably about 30 minutes march north still, if you didn't wanna

458

00:31:55,478 --> 00:31:56,099

turn back.

459

00:31:56,099 --> 00:31:59,584

Listen, Del, I don't care where we go as long as it's away from here, my guy.

460

00:32:00,412 --> 00:32:03,735

But okay, I mean, that's a guarantee.

461

00:32:03,735 --> 00:32:05,917

Any which way will get us away from here.

462

00:32:05,917 --> 00:32:17,829

It's just a matter of if you wanna be confident you will be safe and sound come nightfall,

or if you feel like traipsing a little further, who knows what we might get stuck in.

463

00:32:17,829 --> 00:32:24,165

No man, I'm a brave independent woman who's super brave and stuff so we could for sure

press on.

464

00:32:25,031 --> 00:32:26,342

independent too.

465

00:32:26,756 --> 00:32:28,668

Yep, all by herself.

466

00:32:28,668 --> 00:32:30,812

All right, back into the sawgrass it sounds like.

467

00:32:30,812 --> 00:32:33,106

Yeah, I think we're pressing forward.

468

00:32:33,106 --> 00:32:42,107

Again, Expert Navigator may be helping us plot out our way back so that it's relatively

easy to Hansel and Gretel if we need to.

469

00:32:42,992 --> 00:32:43,813

Yeah, great.

470

00:32:43,813 --> 00:32:45,466

think that's a great idea.

471

00:32:45,466 --> 00:32:57,102

I'll very much be taking special care to look at landmarks and keep those in a mental

picture in my head so we could have a nice exit strategy.

472

00:32:57,678 --> 00:33:01,651

Yeah, I imagine you're marking up the map when you're walking.

473

00:33:01,651 --> 00:33:05,154

It is slow going, so you have time to do it as you march forward.

474

00:33:05,154 --> 00:33:18,457

And you start to hear water up in the distance about 20 minutes later, a small, the sound

of a small brook, maybe, a little bit of peace in this oppressive atmosphere.

475

00:33:18,651 --> 00:33:31,789

And as you get to this small creek, it shouldn't even be called a river, like you could

hop over this thing in the distance past it, you see the makings of a triangle on the top

476

00:33:31,789 --> 00:33:35,832

of a building, almost like a church steeple could be some other type of building.

477

00:33:35,832 --> 00:33:40,725

But that's what it reminds you of is a church steeple looks dilapidated from even from

here.

478

00:33:40,725 --> 00:33:42,039

But you look like you.

479

00:33:42,039 --> 00:33:45,098

are on the precipice of this ghost town.

480

00:33:45,098 --> 00:33:47,015

And what time of day is it about right now?

481

00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:49,566

You're looking at about 3 p.m.

482

00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,265

So still plenty of of daylight.

483

00:33:52,265 --> 00:34:01,676

Yeah, I I think keeping our distance and maybe like finding a radius to walk around and

see if we could find a sight line.

484

00:34:01,676 --> 00:34:08,284

Maybe just to get a little bit more visibility into what's over there before we get any

closer.

485

00:34:08,284 --> 00:34:13,322

Yeah, so everybody will roll stealth if that's the case.

486

00:34:13,322 --> 00:34:18,809

And you can roll alertness to see what you pick up as you're walking around.

487

00:34:19,250 --> 00:34:19,480

Okay.

488

00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,837

And I think, yeah, pace is absolutely not the concern.

489

00:34:23,837 --> 00:34:29,823

I think we'd sacrifice even more pace for like to be able to use binoculars steadily or

something like that.

490

00:34:29,907 --> 00:34:30,209

Okay.

491

00:34:30,209 --> 00:34:31,979

ah

492

00:34:32,447 --> 00:34:33,256

Oh man.

493

00:34:33,256 --> 00:34:34,576

I fucking rolled a 2.

494

00:34:34,576 --> 00:34:37,196

Couldn't I just save that for a time I needed it?

495

00:34:41,077 --> 00:34:42,250

I got it.

496

00:34:42,250 --> 00:34:44,847

I got both stealth and alertness.

497

00:34:44,847 --> 00:34:50,667

My stealth was 60 in this scenario and I got a 68 so I failed on my stealth

498

00:34:51,002 --> 00:34:56,685

you're still not sure what to make of what you saw earlier and aren't totally in the

moment.

499

00:34:56,685 --> 00:35:06,884

So maybe you're plunge, plunking around in the swamp water a little bit more, But as you

break from that oppressive tangle of the swamp,

500

00:35:06,888 --> 00:35:13,772

A trail opens up and you see some alleyways, a long road into a ghost town with your

binoculars.

501

00:35:13,772 --> 00:35:21,718

You see that there's a single sad road that goes through it and the carcasses of old

buildings, they're worn down to the bone.

502

00:35:21,718 --> 00:35:29,891

There's sad porches that are slumped over roofs that look like they're sagging in black

windows, boarded up windows.

503

00:35:29,891 --> 00:35:37,037

The board up windows almost look like they're vacantly staring at you from this ghost town

as you look down into it.

504

00:35:37,037 --> 00:35:41,160

There's a large ancient tree that forced its way into the middle of the road.

505

00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,322

They probably built a town around this thing.

506

00:35:43,322 --> 00:35:45,765

But this place is fairly silent.

507

00:35:45,765 --> 00:35:50,078

There's some dripping water here and there and...

508

00:35:50,078 --> 00:35:56,693

with that alertness you hear the crackling of a campfire somewhere in there as well.

509

00:35:56,693 --> 00:36:08,947

I'm probably walking up to the first building on my right and just kind of seeing if

there's cracks in the boarded up windows that I can peek through or kind of listening at

510

00:36:08,947 --> 00:36:10,410

the doors and stuff.

511

00:36:10,410 --> 00:36:18,880

Yeah, as you start to enter the town, you get to some of the buildings and it's as

expected when you look into them.

512

00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,252

There's vines growing around.

513

00:36:21,252 --> 00:36:25,387

These are slowly being overtaken by the nature around them.

514

00:36:25,387 --> 00:36:34,666

There's a musty smell to them, a quite natural smell at least, but there's nothing out of

the ordinary other than that.

515

00:36:34,666 --> 00:36:38,968

Does this look like fish 10 age?

516

00:36:39,865 --> 00:36:40,666

Yes.

517

00:36:42,897 --> 00:36:48,022

Um, Dell, did you, did you go up to, um, up to the building with Ryan?

518

00:36:48,597 --> 00:36:51,424

I guess if you was hanging back, I was in between.

519

00:36:51,424 --> 00:36:52,985

I say don't split the party.

520

00:36:52,985 --> 00:36:57,418

Let's just go ahead if we're going in and we went this far in let's just go for it.

521

00:36:57,418 --> 00:37:02,301

Let's go ahead and yeah sneak on up to that there town.

522

00:37:03,116 --> 00:37:13,313

Yeah, I guess I'll finally admit to myself that this is a gun and not some sort of vaguely

concealed walking stick and we'll get in kind of, you know, combat ready position.

523

00:37:13,313 --> 00:37:13,901

Yeah.

524

00:37:13,901 --> 00:37:14,592

Love it.

525

00:37:14,592 --> 00:37:19,937

Yeah, as soon as we start getting like towards that building, we could get to where you

could see the roadway.

526

00:37:19,937 --> 00:37:28,768

I would like to I know that at that the Forest Rangers station, there were tracks of a

dirt bike that zoomed off somewhere.

527

00:37:28,768 --> 00:37:36,464

I would like to look down that road and see if there were any, you know, dirt tracks or

pressings or anything of dirt bike wheels.

528

00:37:37,077 --> 00:37:45,829

Also, if there are four-wheelers that align with the Rangers for any reason, we don't know

who is or isn't involved in anything.

529

00:37:46,426 --> 00:37:47,349

Yeah, absolutely.

530

00:37:47,349 --> 00:37:52,800

Since you're so acquainted to vehicles and tracks, you do find the tracks.

531

00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:53,963

No roll needed.

532

00:37:53,963 --> 00:37:56,967

You do see the dirt bike tracks at least.

533

00:37:57,923 --> 00:37:58,804

okay.

534

00:37:58,804 --> 00:38:03,172

Hey, hey guys, yeah, so the tracks that leave the station, they're over here too.

535

00:38:03,172 --> 00:38:08,952

So whatever's here is whatever left the station, which means could be our guy.

536

00:38:08,952 --> 00:38:13,141

Yeah, I mean that's the hottest lead on Karos we've had so far, it?

537

00:38:13,141 --> 00:38:15,481

Would he just be out here putting around in the daylight though?

538

00:38:15,481 --> 00:38:15,975

I don't.

539

00:38:15,975 --> 00:38:20,550

I wouldn't know, I just mean I think we, you know.

540

00:38:21,412 --> 00:38:25,537

This feels like this trail has his stink on it is all I'm

541

00:38:25,714 --> 00:38:28,594

Will you guys hear that crackling fire sound?

542

00:38:28,994 --> 00:38:32,034

Maybe there's something to that.

543

00:38:32,034 --> 00:38:33,962

Maybe we should go scope it out.

544

00:38:34,303 --> 00:38:38,740

Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to get closer.

545

00:38:38,740 --> 00:38:43,627

You both, I'm just like kind of looking at your mud covered visages.

546

00:38:43,627 --> 00:38:46,731

You seem a little out of your element.

547

00:38:46,731 --> 00:38:48,134

I'll report back.

548

00:38:48,134 --> 00:38:49,603

what I can see of the fire.

549

00:38:50,521 --> 00:38:54,823

Yeah, your earlier stealth role will carry you through.

550

00:38:55,083 --> 00:39:01,838

You sneak up, I'm assuming under the eaves of these porches and the dilapidated buildings.

551

00:39:01,838 --> 00:39:06,260

as you round a corner in this smallish ghost town.

552

00:39:06,398 --> 00:39:16,413

You see the beginnings of a fire and a woman with seemingly blonde hair hunched over it,

trying to stoke it and get it started.

553

00:39:16,413 --> 00:39:22,427

Behind her is a building and there looks to be three figures in there.

554

00:39:22,427 --> 00:39:26,310

And you hear some laughter from in that building as well.

555

00:39:26,310 --> 00:39:28,170

And she doesn't notice you.

556

00:39:28,170 --> 00:39:30,251

She's continuing with the fire.

557

00:39:30,269 --> 00:39:32,325

anything you're looking for in this scene.

558

00:39:32,784 --> 00:39:45,856

state of these people, how long it seems like they've been clean, or how long they've been

living out here, if there are signs of sedentary transience, or if it seems like they're

559

00:39:45,865 --> 00:39:46,771

new.

560

00:39:47,580 --> 00:39:51,180

Yeah, go ahead and roll human intelligence or humant.

561

00:39:51,463 --> 00:39:55,277

Oh, my human is gonna be so good by the end of this.

562

00:39:55,277 --> 00:39:59,002

I have increased 50 % already.

563

00:39:59,002 --> 00:40:02,085

Just by misreading waitresses and shit.

564

00:40:02,085 --> 00:40:03,607

Yeah, fail again.

565

00:40:03,607 --> 00:40:05,078

Feed me, Seymour.

566

00:40:05,213 --> 00:40:09,007

Yeah, you can get a bead on the people in the house.

567

00:40:09,007 --> 00:40:17,655

They are absolutely high on some sort of stimulant is your guess based on how much they're

laughing and fooling around.

568

00:40:17,655 --> 00:40:19,587

The woman though, it's hard to say.

569

00:40:19,587 --> 00:40:20,938

She's managing a fire.

570

00:40:20,938 --> 00:40:27,765

So I think your gut says probably not super high unless she's vibing out and is about to

jump on that fucking thing.

571

00:40:27,765 --> 00:40:29,145

But that's the...

572

00:40:29,312 --> 00:40:31,761

your first glance, what your first glance gives you.

573

00:40:31,761 --> 00:40:33,456

Does she look like caked in dirt?

574

00:40:33,456 --> 00:40:34,239

Like her hair?

575

00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:34,961

It's blonde?

576

00:40:34,961 --> 00:40:37,648

Is it like, unsalvageably messy?

577

00:40:38,242 --> 00:40:39,516

No, absolutely not.

578

00:40:39,516 --> 00:40:45,074

And you notice that she's wearing some very filthy Converse shoes as well.

579

00:40:45,287 --> 00:40:51,666

Okay, so the feeling is like maybe she's a day tripper out here as well.

580

00:40:51,666 --> 00:40:58,135

I'll return back to the group and just let them know nobody's out here laying traps,

laying in wait.

581

00:40:58,135 --> 00:41:01,860

They're just out here trying to be left alone it seems.

582

00:41:02,357 --> 00:41:08,830

Yeah, you turn and as you're turning you look, there's a fork in the town at this point.

583

00:41:08,830 --> 00:41:15,653

On one side you have the lady with the fire, the other side you see a small path, almost a

dirt track.

584

00:41:15,653 --> 00:41:20,856

And there it is at the end of it, the weary angles of a church.

585

00:41:20,856 --> 00:41:27,530

It looks boarded up and a little more untouched than the other buildings, less decayed.

586

00:41:27,710 --> 00:41:37,897

The steeple reaches up its bone white faded point is pointing towards heaven and it's

probably looked this way for a long time.

587

00:41:38,198 --> 00:41:43,300

The windows and doors are nailed over with raw and weathered planks.

588

00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:47,502

It's like a crude final act of quarantining or something.

589

00:41:47,827 --> 00:41:55,472

Someone has tried to scrawl something meaningless of their own scripture on the boards in

spray paint, but it's unfinished.

590

00:41:55,472 --> 00:41:58,935

Kind of an insult to the solemn decay of the entire place.

591

00:41:58,935 --> 00:42:00,657

But you notice something else.

592

00:42:00,657 --> 00:42:02,759

The boards are unbroken.

593

00:42:02,979 --> 00:42:07,302

No one stripped them off to enter the church.

594

00:42:07,302 --> 00:42:12,296

Looks like the junkies and what other ghosts haunt this place have left it alone.

595

00:42:12,296 --> 00:42:16,658

Who do you know to play by unspoken rules out here?

596

00:42:16,826 --> 00:42:18,907

I wouldn't think anything is sacred.

597

00:42:18,907 --> 00:42:22,616

um Did Del rejoin us kind of back where we were then?

598

00:42:22,690 --> 00:42:24,857

That was just what he saw on his way back.

599

00:42:25,167 --> 00:42:26,239

Got you, got you.

600

00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,622

Sorry, are you talking about the church?

601

00:42:28,622 --> 00:42:31,125

uh I haven't really peeked my head out.

602

00:42:31,125 --> 00:42:32,605

What's going on?

603

00:42:32,605 --> 00:42:41,167

Yeah, well, I mean, most of this place seems like it's been pilfered through and rifled

through to no end time and time again.

604

00:42:41,328 --> 00:42:52,664

But, that church over there we done seen on our way in, it seems like maybe there's a

reverence that everyone seems to be able to give to it universally.

605

00:42:52,664 --> 00:42:57,156

When was the last time you saw that many strangers agree on anything?

606

00:42:57,156 --> 00:42:58,621

Yeah, I mean, not really ever.

607

00:42:58,621 --> 00:42:59,916

That's kind of weird.

608

00:42:59,916 --> 00:43:01,530

What's going on with the fire?

609

00:43:02,238 --> 00:43:03,500

It's just some woman.

610

00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:09,285

She seems to be new in town, as far as I can tell.

611

00:43:09,425 --> 00:43:11,507

I didn't really get a good read on her.

612

00:43:11,507 --> 00:43:14,150

There's a few more individuals down the way.

613

00:43:14,150 --> 00:43:19,195

They seem to be having a good time on their own and I'd incline to let them keep doing

that.

614

00:43:19,195 --> 00:43:25,631

But yeah, like I said, are people out there but they don't seem to be looking for anybody

much less us.

615

00:43:25,631 --> 00:43:36,154

Alright, well I guess that's a bit reassuring, especially if they're actually humanoid

people and not green, slimy swamp people, guess.

616

00:43:36,154 --> 00:43:40,616

I guess I was expecting more and she'll holster her sidearm.

617

00:43:40,817 --> 00:43:44,619

Well, do we go check out the church and see why nothing's broken?

618

00:43:44,619 --> 00:43:47,860

Or do you want to go talk to the people?

619

00:43:47,860 --> 00:43:51,737

Were they worth talking to or did you think we should stick away from them?

620

00:43:51,837 --> 00:43:52,608

They may be.

621

00:43:52,608 --> 00:44:04,815

Look, I'm a nervous type and if secrecy has been maintained and it can be maintained and

there's more courses of action to proceed with while it is maintained, that's generally

622

00:44:04,815 --> 00:44:06,496

going to be my inclination.

623

00:44:06,496 --> 00:44:12,659

But if you'd like to announce our presence and go talk to them, I don't think they're the

harm.

624

00:44:12,659 --> 00:44:13,450

That's for sure.

625

00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:14,803

Uh, Ryan, what about you?

626

00:44:14,803 --> 00:44:27,364

I mean, I think that we walk in like we're out here exploring and go towards the church

and see what we can find, but not necessarily be too careful about how stealthy we are.

627

00:44:27,364 --> 00:44:33,974

Alright, so still nix the people, but head for the church and not necessarily be sneaky

about it.

628

00:44:33,974 --> 00:44:43,670

Dell respects your decision, but you do see that he is not as confident pursuing it as he

might normally.

629

00:44:43,670 --> 00:44:54,045

He will walk with you, but there is a nervousness to his gait and he is probably trailing

12, 14 feet behind you with nervous sweeping glances from side to side.

630

00:44:54,045 --> 00:44:55,538

you

631

00:44:55,846 --> 00:44:56,566

You okay, doll?

632

00:44:56,566 --> 00:44:57,660

What's going on?

633

00:44:57,660 --> 00:45:02,022

Yeah, I mean, there's just an awful lot of windows out here.

634

00:45:02,024 --> 00:45:04,221

We don't have enough eyes to keep eyes on.

635

00:45:04,221 --> 00:45:04,965

you

636

00:45:04,965 --> 00:45:06,107

that's fair.

637

00:45:06,107 --> 00:45:07,938

Keep your eyes especially peeled.

638

00:45:07,938 --> 00:45:11,731

I'm gonna try and see what we can see with this church.

639

00:45:12,051 --> 00:45:19,278

I'll try and give the people that we knew that were there kind of a wider berth and not

necessarily be as loud as possible.

640

00:45:19,278 --> 00:45:22,121

But not being too terribly sneaky as well.

641

00:45:22,121 --> 00:45:24,913

And kind of make my way over to the church.

642

00:45:25,470 --> 00:45:32,539

Yeah, you walk up this dusty, muddy-in-places road and you take the fork towards the

church.

643

00:45:32,539 --> 00:45:37,676

You hear a female voice shout out behind you and say, hey, who are y'all?

644

00:45:37,676 --> 00:45:38,618

Hey, hey there.

645

00:45:38,618 --> 00:45:42,548

Yeah, we're just tourists for the day, kinda sort of.

646

00:45:42,548 --> 00:45:47,115

I mean, we're here actually looking at the bird life.

647

00:45:47,136 --> 00:45:48,209

You guys bird people?

648

00:45:48,209 --> 00:45:52,644

She starts to walk over, starts knocking some dust off of her clothes.

649

00:45:52,644 --> 00:46:06,185

She looks firmly middle class in how she's dressed and has a small jacket on and her hair

is slightly parted and she's attractive for lack of a better way to describe her and she

650

00:46:06,185 --> 00:46:11,199

smiles at you and she says, birdwatchers, huh?

651

00:46:11,199 --> 00:46:12,851

No, I can't say that I am.

652

00:46:12,851 --> 00:46:15,958

But what brings you all the way out here to this ghost town?

653

00:46:16,653 --> 00:46:19,007

Oh, we're looking for red-bellied woodpeckers.

654

00:46:19,007 --> 00:46:26,154

It's a rare bird that's out this time of the year in this area, and we're making a

documentary about them.

655

00:46:26,776 --> 00:46:28,238

This is an interesting place.

656

00:46:28,238 --> 00:46:32,083

We didn't expect to stumble across a ghost town.

657

00:46:32,083 --> 00:46:33,496

What do you know about this place?

658

00:46:33,496 --> 00:46:36,359

I guess not a lot, but I know that it's...

659

00:46:36,359 --> 00:46:39,541

She points to the house where there are people high.

660

00:46:39,541 --> 00:46:42,344

It's where a lot of people come out and party, I guess.

661

00:46:42,344 --> 00:46:51,239

But yeah, uh it was a little commune out here for years until they all just left at some

point.

662

00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:58,825

There's conspiratorial things out there about them disappearing in the thin air, but you

know, I don't really believe in any of that.

663

00:46:58,825 --> 00:47:00,676

But you're looking for birds out here.

664

00:47:00,676 --> 00:47:03,067

That is so interesting.

665

00:47:04,007 --> 00:47:08,794

Yeah, I'm surprised that there's not more people out this time of the year doing the same

thing.

666

00:47:08,794 --> 00:47:10,876

Yeah, just really surprised by that.

667

00:47:10,876 --> 00:47:13,309

So, so, well, OK, so are you local?

668

00:47:13,309 --> 00:47:14,480

How do you know about this?

669

00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,493

The story about this ghost town?

670

00:47:16,493 --> 00:47:19,273

Yeah, I mean everybody knows it around here.

671

00:47:19,273 --> 00:47:22,017

I think anybody who's grown up here knows about it.

672

00:47:22,017 --> 00:47:30,003

Used to be a reservation and then I guess they relocated the Indians from here somewhere

else.

673

00:47:30,003 --> 00:47:35,637

And then it became a town, I don't know when, must have been like the 1910s or something.

674

00:47:35,637 --> 00:47:38,008

yeah, it was a...

675

00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:48,010

thriving town until the railroad got built and diverted most of traffic from the area and

then it I guess slowly became more of a a commune and now it's a ghost town

676

00:47:48,612 --> 00:47:51,208

Hmm, very interesting.

677

00:47:51,208 --> 00:47:57,211

Yeah, we were on the lookout for this bird, but we were gonna go check out this church

over here real quick.

678

00:47:57,211 --> 00:47:58,810

Go ahead and roll your human intelligence.

679

00:47:58,810 --> 00:48:09,297

was wondering if I could too, on account of the way she greeted us was a little too akin

to the way we were greeted in that diner.

680

00:48:09,297 --> 00:48:12,345

I just don't have a good feeling about the friendliness.

681

00:48:12,468 --> 00:48:12,852

Mm-hmm.

682

00:48:12,852 --> 00:48:13,597

Yeah.

683

00:48:13,597 --> 00:48:17,555

failed mine 54 out of only 14.

684

00:48:18,087 --> 00:48:20,071

Okay.

685

00:48:20,071 --> 00:48:22,055

What's apparent is she's nervous.

686

00:48:22,055 --> 00:48:25,001

Beyond that, you can't pick up anything else from her demeanor.

687

00:48:25,001 --> 00:48:26,924

She does look a little nervous.

688

00:48:27,055 --> 00:48:31,135

Did she react in any way when I said we were going to go check the church out?

689

00:48:31,385 --> 00:48:32,308

She did.

690

00:48:32,308 --> 00:48:35,395

She just had a little twitch in her face.

691

00:48:35,668 --> 00:48:45,251

Also when she pointed over and when she was like, people like to party here and she

pointed over to the building could we still see the three figures in the building?

692

00:48:45,511 --> 00:48:47,262

Yeah, absolutely.

693

00:48:47,979 --> 00:48:48,655

Yeah.

694

00:48:48,655 --> 00:48:49,595

Yeah.

695

00:48:50,396 --> 00:48:56,101

Yeah, you see one of them is in like a Limp Bizkit, $3 Bill Yall hoodie.

696

00:48:56,101 --> 00:49:00,053

There's another one who has like large Janko pants with like a wallet chain.

697

00:49:00,053 --> 00:49:02,386

He's like laid sprawled out on the ground.

698

00:49:02,386 --> 00:49:03,827

And the third one is hard.

699

00:49:03,827 --> 00:49:11,432

there is uh just refuse and there's like snacks out there and you look by the fire where

she was set up.

700

00:49:11,432 --> 00:49:15,766

It looks like she has like a small cooler with some food in it as well.

701

00:49:15,766 --> 00:49:25,680

yeah, you look a little nervous and this church here looks like nobody's messed with it,

which everything else here is dilapidated and kind of falling apart and a bit tagged up

702

00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,794

and the church looks fine.

703

00:49:29,076 --> 00:49:30,217

Is that...

704

00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:31,559

What's deal with the church?

705

00:49:32,132 --> 00:49:36,675

I guess before I said I don't necessarily believe in this, but we've heard it's haunted.

706

00:49:36,675 --> 00:49:40,568

Anybody who's ever tried to go in there has come back with bad stories.

707

00:49:40,568 --> 00:49:44,581

I don't know any first-hand or second-hand or even third-hand for that matter, but...

708

00:49:44,581 --> 00:49:45,761

Doesn't look like...

709

00:49:45,761 --> 00:49:50,536

If anybody else isn't messing with it, then I don't know why I should, so...

710

00:49:50,839 --> 00:49:53,156

Yeah, leave it well enough alone, I suppose.

711

00:49:53,156 --> 00:49:57,168

I know you didn't really know, but what type of bad stories would you say?

712

00:49:57,168 --> 00:50:02,783

Just people going in or trying to get in and disappearing or going in there and not coming

out.

713

00:50:02,783 --> 00:50:08,427

And she points up to the roof and you see a sagging hole in the top of it.

714

00:50:08,427 --> 00:50:14,172

I've heard somebody climb up there and miraculously fall down and break all their bones

and their body.

715

00:50:14,172 --> 00:50:15,992

Just, I guess, urban legends.

716

00:50:15,992 --> 00:50:18,673

But again, I've never known anybody or...

717

00:50:19,889 --> 00:50:23,194

I don't know anybody who knows anybody who's ever actually experienced it.

718

00:50:23,194 --> 00:50:25,296

Alright, well I mean, that's fair.

719

00:50:25,296 --> 00:50:28,960

It might be exactly what we said and leave well enough alone.

720

00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,563

Maybe we'll give that church a wide berth.

721

00:50:31,563 --> 00:50:40,591

Strange though, I would assume nobody really stays out here too terribly long, it looks

like people at least try and travel through here somewhat, and she points over to the

722

00:50:40,591 --> 00:50:41,271

tracks.

723

00:50:41,271 --> 00:50:43,414

Where are those from, do you know?

724

00:50:43,414 --> 00:50:45,268

Do you have any persuade?

725

00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,653

I think that's probably pretty low.

726

00:50:47,653 --> 00:50:48,595

Let me see.

727

00:50:48,595 --> 00:50:49,642

Persuade 20.

728

00:50:49,642 --> 00:50:50,649

So I have some.

729

00:50:50,649 --> 00:50:51,574

It exists.

730

00:50:51,574 --> 00:50:55,851

That or your, sorry, that or your charisma, whatever one is higher.

731

00:50:55,851 --> 00:50:56,943

for sure gonna be Charisma.

732

00:50:56,943 --> 00:50:58,194

Charisma at 45.

733

00:50:58,194 --> 00:51:00,263

We got 84.

734

00:51:00,263 --> 00:51:02,955

Okay, yeah.

735

00:51:02,955 --> 00:51:04,917

No, can't say I know much.

736

00:51:04,917 --> 00:51:12,133

I do see the tracks and I've heard the dirt bike around here, but I'm not totally sure who

it belongs to.

737

00:51:12,133 --> 00:51:16,661

okay, so it's not like, you know, do some drugs, ride the dirt bike around type thing.

738

00:51:16,661 --> 00:51:19,066

Like it's somebody else that you don't know.

739

00:51:19,066 --> 00:51:24,981

Yeah, yeah, it's not one of my boys, but it's, we've definitely heard it buzzing around

the swamp.

740

00:51:24,981 --> 00:51:34,668

wild, yeah those things get super loud and uh scare birds off quite a bit and she looks

over at Ryan like, eh, I dunno, yeah?

741

00:51:35,671 --> 00:51:39,485

Yeah, mean, yeah, especially the red-bellied woodpecker.

742

00:51:39,485 --> 00:51:41,101

They're very sensitive to sound.

743

00:51:41,101 --> 00:51:44,001

guess that's why y'all were so quiet coming up here.

744

00:51:44,436 --> 00:51:48,055

Yeah, you got to tread lightly to get a good view of one.

745

00:51:48,055 --> 00:51:55,864

um I'm gonna look at the church, like as Barone is saying that, you know, maybe we'll just

leave it alone.

746

00:51:55,864 --> 00:52:08,348

And I'm gonna focus on the black space between the front wall and the back wall that I

can't see, and I am just going to think that I am going to burn it to the ground.

747

00:52:08,348 --> 00:52:10,573

Yeah, roll your power

748

00:52:17,796 --> 00:52:22,925

You feel nothing at the intrusive thought you're forcing upon the church.

749

00:52:22,925 --> 00:52:24,027

Nothing comes back.

750

00:52:24,027 --> 00:52:25,770

It doesn't seem sinister at all.

751

00:52:25,770 --> 00:52:30,777

There's a good chance that this is just who do, right?

752

00:52:31,335 --> 00:52:33,288

people fall off roofs all the time

753

00:52:33,288 --> 00:52:35,240

Well, my name's Cheryl.

754

00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:36,722

If you need anything, over here.

755

00:52:36,722 --> 00:52:39,266

I do have some snacks to bring them in for my boy.

756

00:52:39,266 --> 00:52:41,169

But I'll just be over here.

757

00:52:41,169 --> 00:52:42,001

Be careful.

758

00:52:42,001 --> 00:52:43,207

Your boy?

759

00:52:43,384 --> 00:52:45,287

Yeah, yeah, that's my son in there.

760

00:52:45,287 --> 00:52:48,103

She points to the one in the Limp Bizkit hoodie.

761

00:52:48,103 --> 00:52:51,570

sorry, I thought you meant like your boys, like your posse.

762

00:52:51,570 --> 00:52:53,452

My name's Morgan, by the way.

763

00:52:53,452 --> 00:52:54,193

It's nice to meet you.

764

00:52:54,193 --> 00:52:57,607

And she'll reach out her hand for a nice handshake.

765

00:52:57,728 --> 00:53:00,892

Yeah, you get a good strong handshake back.

766

00:53:00,892 --> 00:53:03,734

Yeah, that's my son, unfortunately.

767

00:53:03,734 --> 00:53:07,138

I come out here and try to take care of him when he's doing this.

768

00:53:07,138 --> 00:53:14,425

Picked up some nasty habits along the way and figured mother's gonna be a mother and help

him out no matter where he's at in life.

769

00:53:16,974 --> 00:53:24,291

This is certainly a place to find oneself in life, but I guess a pudding pack makes

everything a little better.

770

00:53:24,291 --> 00:53:25,523

putting that is a good idea.

771

00:53:25,523 --> 00:53:28,349

He did like putting a lot, so I should do that next time.

772

00:53:28,349 --> 00:53:30,489

Well, nice to meet you.

773

00:53:31,169 --> 00:53:40,209

Again, if you see anything that could look like a red-bellied woodpecker, just let us know

and we'll come running with our cameras.

774

00:53:40,309 --> 00:53:42,869

In the meantime, we're gonna go explore a little bit.

775

00:53:43,579 --> 00:53:46,563

Of course, and I won't make your business my business.

776

00:53:46,563 --> 00:53:49,485

I really hope that you don't make our business your business.

777

00:53:49,485 --> 00:53:53,108

I would hate for him to get into the trouble with the law again.

778

00:53:53,108 --> 00:53:56,049

So have your way about the place.

779

00:53:56,049 --> 00:54:00,131

I don't really care what y'all get up to as long as you don't care what we get up to.

780

00:54:01,068 --> 00:54:11,442

I think your business is your own, especially if you're just trying to make do and support

your family and be there in difficult times anyways.

781

00:54:11,442 --> 00:54:17,661

And she'll kind of nod her head a little bit and start walking up towards where the

track's lead, I guess.

782

00:54:18,059 --> 00:54:18,510

Yeah.

783

00:54:18,510 --> 00:54:25,737

She thanks you and walks slowly back to the camp, sits down by the log, starts throwing

more on the fire, getting ready for the nighttime.

784

00:54:25,737 --> 00:54:29,139

And you're looking at the track specifically, Agent Barone.

785

00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:31,763

Del, you're going up to the church.

786

00:54:31,763 --> 00:54:33,034

Agent Ryan, what are you doing?

787

00:54:33,034 --> 00:54:36,820

Well, I am going to go towards the church.

788

00:54:36,820 --> 00:54:38,143

My interest is piqued.

789

00:54:38,143 --> 00:54:45,072

And I want to take a peek and see if I can see anything.

790

00:54:45,072 --> 00:54:49,659

Without going inside the church, I'm just going to kind of walk around and see what I see.

791

00:54:49,659 --> 00:54:55,823

Yeah, you see it is old, it has been sun worn and the elements have gotten to it.

792

00:54:55,823 --> 00:54:57,943

It's not completely untouched.

793

00:54:58,725 --> 00:55:01,787

the areas that are boarded up haven't been pried open.

794

00:55:01,787 --> 00:55:05,360

Your guess is the only way people have ever gotten in is that hole in the roof.

795

00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:15,262

and you get around back and you see a small dilapidated stairway up to a door that sits up

a little higher.

796

00:55:15,262 --> 00:55:26,454

And that door is also boarded up, but it looks like it has less oomph to the boarding and

there's not as many nails and there are fewer boards on that door.

797

00:55:27,382 --> 00:55:30,950

And walking up these stairs, does that get me closer to the roof?

798

00:55:30,950 --> 00:55:33,174

I'm imagining.

799

00:55:33,616 --> 00:55:37,149

Not closer to the roof, but it gets you closer to that door.

800

00:55:37,149 --> 00:55:40,711

You would have to climb the side of the building to get to the roof.

801

00:55:40,711 --> 00:55:43,633

It's not a, I mean, this isn't a massive church.

802

00:55:43,633 --> 00:55:47,736

it's, the roof is probably a good 11 feet up.

803

00:55:47,736 --> 00:55:50,018

Like you could boost somebody up there.

804

00:55:50,029 --> 00:55:50,930

OK.

805

00:55:51,572 --> 00:55:58,024

So the church looks like it hasn't really been touched, but the windows are boarded up and

there's a giant hole in the ceiling?

806

00:55:59,307 --> 00:56:00,088

OK.

807

00:56:00,514 --> 00:56:03,532

By untouched, no one's pried the boards off of it.

808

00:56:03,532 --> 00:56:04,672

Oh, I see.

809

00:56:04,672 --> 00:56:05,272

OK.

810

00:56:05,272 --> 00:56:19,172

I'm going to walk up the stairs and scope out the door, see if I can peel some of it back

or how easy it might be to open it.

811

00:56:19,929 --> 00:56:21,421

I'm investigating it.

812

00:56:21,421 --> 00:56:22,660

What's up with this door?

813

00:56:22,660 --> 00:56:26,864

If we wanted to open it, how easy would it be to open it, et cetera?

814

00:56:28,186 --> 00:56:29,477

Forensics.

815

00:56:30,473 --> 00:56:32,555

36 out of 64.

816

00:56:32,555 --> 00:56:34,175

Great.

817

00:56:34,175 --> 00:56:46,159

You look at it and you think that if you pry two of the boards off of the door that are

attached to the hinge, you could probably push the door in and squeeze in with most of the

818

00:56:46,159 --> 00:56:47,851

other boards intact.

819

00:56:48,733 --> 00:56:51,293

I'm like, hey guys, check this out.

820

00:56:52,113 --> 00:56:57,833

And I'm showing them, know, I think it would be pretty easy to rip these off.

821

00:56:57,833 --> 00:56:58,650

What do you think?

822

00:56:58,650 --> 00:57:02,988

That's exact kind of thing we should be notin', notin' and doin' nothin' right now.

823

00:57:03,246 --> 00:57:04,965

Mm, mm, okay.

824

00:57:04,965 --> 00:57:05,400

oh

825

00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:06,537

So not going in.

826

00:57:06,537 --> 00:57:07,618

Well, I'm not.

827

00:57:08,458 --> 00:57:18,919

I mean, I have the desire to go in, but if everybody else is like too creeped out by it,

I'm definitely like more hesitant about it.

828

00:57:18,919 --> 00:57:26,770

out by it so much as I am creeped out by your change of pace today.

829

00:57:26,770 --> 00:57:28,101

Like what's gotten into you?

830

00:57:28,101 --> 00:57:29,903

Do I need to be worried?

831

00:57:31,087 --> 00:57:31,987

Not worried.

832

00:57:31,987 --> 00:57:38,039

I am just really curious about what's going on in this church.

833

00:57:38,039 --> 00:57:41,876

I am looking for an experience here, Del.

834

00:57:41,876 --> 00:57:47,848

I don't say anything in response to that, but I don't like the words I just heard either.

835

00:57:47,848 --> 00:57:51,823

can I try and check in on my friend a little here?

836

00:57:51,823 --> 00:57:55,988

you can talk to your friend as much as you want in game, or you can roll a human.

837

00:57:55,988 --> 00:58:02,230

I mean that is what I'm going for on account of this just doesn't seem like Ryan.

838

00:58:02,230 --> 00:58:03,606

It was painfully close.

839

00:58:03,606 --> 00:58:04,935

Yeah, it's...

840

00:58:04,935 --> 00:58:14,094

Your guess at this point is that Ryan has a new lease on this profession after your last

operation.

841

00:58:14,094 --> 00:58:22,412

The proximity to the unnatural, the proximity to almost getting his head blown off has

done something strange to him is what you're thinking.

842

00:58:22,412 --> 00:58:28,178

You have seen a lot of violence in your time and it executed a lot of violence as well.

843

00:58:28,718 --> 00:58:36,862

So it's hard for you to remember a time when you had that transition from kind of a normal

person into, there's some crazy shit that can happen.

844

00:58:36,862 --> 00:58:43,601

So you can't really empathize necessarily, but you can understand that something has

shifted in Ryan.

845

00:58:43,601 --> 00:58:51,217

I mean, look, I am deeply proud if the ability to shed that meekness is natural.

846

00:58:51,217 --> 00:59:00,620

There is just a twinge that like it doesn't entirely feel as though it is and that maybe

it's been co-opted.

847

00:59:01,341 --> 00:59:03,041

But I'm just...

848

00:59:03,630 --> 00:59:08,236

natural towards the unnatural, still very awkward towards uh anything else.

849

00:59:08,236 --> 00:59:09,955

So you pull the boards off.

850

00:59:10,942 --> 00:59:20,047

I'm just kind of looking dull, giving them a side eye, and maintaining contact as I rip

the first board off, yes.

851

00:59:20,401 --> 00:59:23,724

Yeah, I acknowledge you.

852

00:59:23,724 --> 00:59:26,436

You're a fucking adult.

853

00:59:26,436 --> 00:59:35,723

I am scanning like the baseboards and the siding for, you said there's not like obvious

graffiti, but I'm looking for something that looks like an intentional marking, maybe

854

00:59:35,723 --> 00:59:40,877

something small, something that is intended to send a message that only some people would

find.

855

00:59:41,112 --> 00:59:43,325

Hmm, okay.

856

00:59:43,325 --> 00:59:44,947

We'll stay at the door first.

857

00:59:44,947 --> 00:59:53,723

You pull the first board out and there's a second one that's attached to the jam as well

that you would probably need to grab doing the second one too.

858

00:59:53,723 --> 00:59:59,914

Yep, still maintaining side eye contact with Dell as I ripped the second one off as well.

859

00:59:59,982 --> 01:00:02,124

you yank it out, no problem.

860

01:00:02,124 --> 01:00:04,955

These nails have been sitting in this wood for a long time.

861

01:00:04,955 --> 01:00:09,188

They've been dried out, so they just kinda, just needed a pull to get off of there.

862

01:00:09,188 --> 01:00:13,471

And you are able to push the door in now a little bit.

863

01:00:14,394 --> 01:00:18,232

Okay, I'm gonna do that and kinda see what I can see.

864

01:00:19,026 --> 01:00:20,638

Yeah, you're immediately decapitated.

865

01:00:20,638 --> 01:00:29,687

No, you push it open, there's a screech that echoes through the church inside and comes

back to you.

866

01:00:29,888 --> 01:00:32,730

And it's the screech of the door.

867

01:00:32,871 --> 01:00:37,556

And you see shafts of sunlight coming in from the hole in the roof.

868

01:00:37,556 --> 01:00:41,119

You see some broken down benches.

869

01:00:41,232 --> 01:00:44,956

In the distance out of the corner, you see an altar and

870

01:00:44,956 --> 01:01:01,236

On the ground, there is that some black mildew that has infected the floorboards and it

looks like it creeps up to where the altar is and it gets thicker up the stairs from that

871

01:01:01,236 --> 01:01:01,756

vantage point.

872

01:01:01,756 --> 01:01:04,636

That's all you see at this point.

873

01:01:04,676 --> 01:01:06,627

Dell, go ahead and roll a search.

874

01:01:06,627 --> 01:01:07,914

Me on the outside?

875

01:01:07,914 --> 01:01:08,661

Yep.

876

01:01:12,297 --> 01:01:16,824

Yeah, there's, what you do find is an easy way to get on the roof.

877

01:01:16,824 --> 01:01:27,567

You see a broken sideboard that is pulled out adjacent and then it goes up to a lip of a

window and you could probably scale up onto the top of the roof if you wanted to.

878

01:01:27,567 --> 01:01:29,186

Agent Brown, what are you doing?

879

01:01:29,186 --> 01:01:29,777

Yeah, great.

880

01:01:29,777 --> 01:01:36,355

I would like to generally just see what direction the dirt bike trail is going off into.

881

01:01:36,355 --> 01:01:46,035

Because if we know, they're at the station and it's going off in one direction and from

over here it's going off kind of towards the same direction, we could find generally where

882

01:01:46,035 --> 01:01:50,219

we should be looking for the terminus of that trail.

883

01:01:50,672 --> 01:01:54,781

Or like where we should be searching for something that is outside of this settlement.

884

01:01:54,781 --> 01:01:56,513

So that's kind what I'm looking for

885

01:01:56,752 --> 01:02:00,879

Yeah, the Dirt Brake Trail unquestionably goes northeast.

886

01:02:00,879 --> 01:02:05,650

And you see the edge of town and it looks like it goes past the edge of town.

887

01:02:05,650 --> 01:02:15,348

Sorry, so past the edge of town of of this town not of the main town that we came from

gotcha gotcha Okay, great.

888

01:02:15,348 --> 01:02:24,815

I think I'll just kind of Take note of the general direction it's heading in and knowing

that the other trail is heading off in X direction also We kind of have a general area to

889

01:02:24,815 --> 01:02:31,526

like for further search and I think by that point she probably hasn't really been been

thinking about too much and turns around to

890

01:02:31,526 --> 01:02:34,928

to where everybody else is and it's like, shit, Ryan Dell.

891

01:02:34,928 --> 01:02:37,743

And she'll book her way back to, the church.

892

01:02:37,743 --> 01:02:46,333

Cause I assume when she turns around, she sees an open door minus one human and she'll

head back in a back to her party as quick as possible.

893

01:02:46,820 --> 01:02:48,542

Yeah, you walk past Del.

894

01:02:48,542 --> 01:02:57,291

Del looks like a paranoid dad looking at the side of this church, of like sizing it up and

looking at little damaged spots.

895

01:02:57,291 --> 01:03:02,356

And then you see the door, a jar and Ryan slipping into the church.

896

01:03:02,563 --> 01:03:02,893

Sure.

897

01:03:02,893 --> 01:03:05,005

Del, how could you let him go in alone?

898

01:03:05,026 --> 01:03:05,706

god.

899

01:03:05,706 --> 01:03:08,911

And she starts slipping in right behind him.

900

01:03:08,911 --> 01:03:11,032

You notice the same thing.

901

01:03:11,032 --> 01:03:19,097

As you step in, there is fungus and rot in the boards that leads up to this altar at the

top.

902

01:03:19,097 --> 01:03:22,788

The stench of rotten mildew hits you almost like a physical blow.

903

01:03:22,788 --> 01:03:30,642

It's just not a smell that you are typically confronted with this level of decay.

904

01:03:30,642 --> 01:03:34,005

it smells like it tastes, you would think, right?

905

01:03:34,005 --> 01:03:45,797

It is a heavy, tinny, almost metallic feeling in your mouth and your mouths both start to

water as you come in, as that metallic sensation hits them.

906

01:03:45,808 --> 01:03:51,217

Is this something we would have come accro- does it- alright, does it feel natural or not

natural?

907

01:03:51,217 --> 01:03:56,975

Like, does it feel more like tear gas or does it feel like musty old dank smell?

908

01:03:56,975 --> 01:03:59,673

Go ahead and roll.

909

01:04:00,525 --> 01:04:02,034

Do you have any unnatural?

910

01:04:02,034 --> 01:04:03,397

Unnatural.

911

01:04:03,397 --> 01:04:04,945

do not know.

912

01:04:04,956 --> 01:04:08,010

I have nine or ten.

913

01:04:08,162 --> 01:04:09,897

Yeah, not you.

914

01:04:09,897 --> 01:04:15,101

Agent Barone, power times five.

915

01:04:15,101 --> 01:04:18,603

Looking for a 55, I got a 400, so 40.

916

01:04:18,603 --> 01:04:19,603

All right.

917

01:04:20,243 --> 01:04:20,855

Yeah.

918

01:04:20,855 --> 01:04:27,557

As you come in there, first you start to feel that mouthwatering sensation.

919

01:04:27,557 --> 01:04:32,959

There's almost a hit of MDMA as well as you go in there.

920

01:04:32,959 --> 01:04:39,223

There's like this ecstatic, joyful, physical feeling that just erupts in your chest.

921

01:04:39,223 --> 01:04:40,484

It's a chorus.

922

01:04:40,484 --> 01:04:41,369

You feel...

923

01:04:41,369 --> 01:04:44,109

unadulterated faith for some reason.

924

01:04:44,109 --> 01:04:46,951

Like you are in awe as you walk in here.

925

01:04:46,951 --> 01:04:49,231

Maybe it's the sunlight coming through the roof.

926

01:04:49,231 --> 01:04:54,414

Maybe it's something else, but there's something at work here inside of you.

927

01:04:54,414 --> 01:05:06,559

There's a love almost, and you look at the ground and see this fungus stretching up toward

the altar and you find yourself just kind of wandering up towards the altar.

928

01:05:06,566 --> 01:05:08,642

without even thinking about it.

929

01:05:08,642 --> 01:05:10,988

And the taste in your mouth feels perfectly natural.

930

01:05:10,988 --> 01:05:13,874

feels, in fact, feels beloved.

931

01:05:14,734 --> 01:05:15,539

Hmm.

932

01:05:15,541 --> 01:05:15,993

Okay.

933

01:05:15,993 --> 01:05:22,358

When you say the fungus is stretching up towards the altar, do you mean literally or

figuratively?

934

01:05:22,698 --> 01:05:27,845

I mean, figuratively, it is embedded in the floorboards and it just gets darker and

darker.

935

01:05:27,845 --> 01:05:34,686

And as you're walking up there, I'm assuming you're following these sensations or you can

also recess them if you want.

936

01:05:34,686 --> 01:05:38,299

I think I'll follow them for a second.

937

01:05:38,299 --> 01:05:41,763

Yeah, let's start taking a look at the altar.

938

01:05:41,763 --> 01:05:49,142

And as I walk up there, I'm like, man, Ryan, you feel that this place is, there's

something about it, that's for sure.

939

01:05:49,323 --> 01:05:53,168

And then I'll make my way kind of towards the altar.

940

01:05:53,168 --> 01:06:00,163

you step past the podium that's in front of the altar in between the podium and the altar.

941

01:06:00,163 --> 01:06:01,624

There's nothing up here.

942

01:06:01,624 --> 01:06:02,385

There's no cross.

943

01:06:02,385 --> 01:06:03,436

There's no candles.

944

01:06:03,436 --> 01:06:13,024

There's small pieces of wood, some old carvings in the wall and some fixtures, but it's

not a current altar of worship.

945

01:06:13,024 --> 01:06:19,424

But in between the podium and that altar, that mold turns into

946

01:06:19,424 --> 01:06:25,310

almost like a swirl in this big black spot just between the two.

947

01:06:25,310 --> 01:06:26,549

Can you roll your sanity?

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