S2E7 - Munitions - Damnatio Memoriae - Delta Green Podcast - Dead Letter Bureau

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That's right Terry, we are hearing now that the suspect of the shooting at 15th and Darvis

has been killed in a shootout with the police.

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We're going to Wallace live at the scene.

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That's right Jim, the flashing lights of SPD cruisers are casting a heavy shadow over

downtown Seattle tonight.

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All following a localized mass shooting that left the community in a state of absolute

shock.

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Seattle Police Department has confirmed that the individual responsible for the unprovoked

violence was shot and killed by the responding officers just moments after they arrived on

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scene, bringing this swift but lethal chaos to an end.

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While forensics teams and investigators have established a wide perimeter across several

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blocks.

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Details remain scarce regarding the suspect's identity, or what could have possibly driven

them to carry out such a devastating assault in a high-traffic area.

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Witnesses describe the terrifying scene where a perpetrator moved with a chilling,

singular focus before being intercepted by law enforcement.

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I'll go off.

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Let's do the...

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Let's do the bodies first.

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Again, just have my friends' kit and I would be looking at all the usuals, ah looking at

their hands, looking for struggle, things like that.

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Even before that, the two of you go into a medical tent.

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The bodies have been carried outside and are on portable gurneys.

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A woman is setting up a sort of a forensic analysis off to the side.

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She's got a portable cart, laptop, all the tools needed.

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Before you guys launch in, you gonna say anything to it?

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Since I don't have an accent, I will look at her and say, hey, ma'am, we're from the FBI.

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I don't know if they called on ahead, but we're here to assist.

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I'm a forensic specialist and here as a medical professional.

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And we just wanted to see what we could come up with and help with the investigation.

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We were in the area.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Dr.

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Tess Brower, I'm the coroner.

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I was just about to get started, actually, if you'd like to give me a hand.

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Very, very strange things so far.

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If you'll take a look here, you can see that the em decapitation was done very cleanly, as

though with uh a very sharp blade.

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And what you are looking at is three nude decapitated bodies.

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with cloth covering their genitalia.

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I think I would like a sand check from both of you for violence.

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You would, you monster.

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98, that's bad.

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Yeah, that's not great.

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39 under, so...

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That's gonna be a 1 for success and a d6 for failure.

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Okay.

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I mean still just one.

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Have you encountered a violently decapitated body?

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Miles has not, no.

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Yeah, he would be looking at this, know, tears would probably be coming to his eyes, just

like the emotionality or like seeing somebody that looks like cattle, basically, very

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dehumanizing, and he would, you know, be trying to fight back a little bit of tears and

trying to keep a professional in front of the doctor.

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Yeah, have either of you seen a violent death before this, do you think?

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Yeah, I think there was somebody who had fallen overboard and had gotten chewed up by a

propeller.

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so there was a, you know, big, big gash through the midsection that, you know, looks

really reminiscent to this, but it's just kind of like just at a different, a different

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angle is all.

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I think this maybe really brings up that memory for you.

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How much sand did you lose?

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Nice.

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That could have been much worse.

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Yeah.

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Very cleanly cut.

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if you take a look at this one, there's a wound oh on...

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This man's back shoulder, and she sort of rolls him forward, and there's this strange

circular hole through the dermis epidermis, the subcutaneous fat layer down to the

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musculature.

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um Thanks.

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And it's a very clean, very strange cut.

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uh could imagine...

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sort of cut occurring in an industrial accident if skin gets caught in a hydraulic piece

of machinery.

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uh But this is the sort of cut you get with an extreme amount of either force or very

careful work with a knife.

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Not an extreme amount of force, a lot of crushing pressure.

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Well don't worry, I think I've spent a lot of question asking about this in a deja vu.

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Golly.

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ah You see uh on the cart next to her, she's got some photographs printed out, including a

photograph of the wound with an evidence sticker on it.

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Yeah, for sure.

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You can.

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um It should still be in the chat, but I can drop it in again if you like.

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so, okay, gotcha, nevermind.

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Yep, that's it.

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Yeah.

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No, I remember, so.

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saying again for forgetfulness

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Yeah, yeah.

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Okay.

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It's very strange.

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Any...

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Any...

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So obviously the decapitation killed them.

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Any...

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You know, why would this wound be here, I guess, from your estimation?

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Okay.

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Yeah, same.

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Can she or I determine if that was a post-mortem wound?

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Yeah, absolutely give me forensics.

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40 I got an 82 and nothing will save that oh actually I'll uh

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You're really quiet right now, Jordan, I don't know.

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Oh, yes, am I?

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I'm sorry about that.

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Is this any better?

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Okay.

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Yeah, luck would change my 82 to a 28, which is under my 40.

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So I'll do that.

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absolutely pass.

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um yeah, no, this does not look like a post-mortem injury.

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Um, you can tell from the way the vessels are constricted around the wound that they...

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I don't actually know how you tell with forensics, but something about it.

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You know, I don't know either, but I would speculate that if they died and then the blood

coagulated and you cut the head off, like all the major like vessels of the neck would be

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like have jelly blood in them.

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Yeah.

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As opposed to the blood.

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running out.

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Yes.

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So you can tell that both wounds occurred when the victim was alive.

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Okay, so do you mind if I run over these bodies with my Fring6 kit and look for any

compounds or anything like that?

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Unless you already have.

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By all means.

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No, I was about to do a talk screen.

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um I can do that while you uh run the main checks if you like.

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Great.

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I have a 60, do want me to roll it or?

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No, I think you've taken classes on this.

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um Yeah, you're not finding anything special, but I'd like a human from you.

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Yeah.

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47 over my base of 10.

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Oh, unfortunate.

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Hey Magpie, you got human?

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yeah, I got some of that.

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rolling it for me?

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I'd love to do Check that box, Miles.

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Yeah, 33, critical success under...

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success.

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Yeah.

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So maybe it's because you're not you're you're helping.

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You're not doing the forensics examination.

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You're you're holding stuff and just but but you can tell that Dr.

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Brower is like either she's having an off day or she is very scatterbrained.

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uh She is struggling to perform.

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uh

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What you understand to be is a fairly simple talk screen.

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um She keeps on looking for things that she's already set down and like, it sort of

reminds you of like um a loss of faculties due to a lack of sleep.

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Yeah, just operating in a bit of fog or haze.

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Yeah.

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just really like, occasionally just long pauses as she like, figures out what the next

step is kind of thing.

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Yeah.

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I think I'll try to find a kind moment to uh step in and offer, like, you know, does she

need an extra hand?

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You know, if she fumbles with something, I'll just, you know, step in and pick it up off

the ground or something like that.

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you know, try and ask if there's a reason why she.

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She seems really embarrassed but uh thankful for the help.

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Yeah, no, yeah, I don't know what's going on.

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Maybe I need more coffee, but like, I think this is getting to me.

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um I'm just not feeling, I'm not on my A game today.

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I'm really sorry you had to see that.

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But I'd love an extra set of hands running this screen.

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Yay.

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I'll absolutely chip in, but I am gonna run down the hall and get her a cup of coffee

first because some things can wait.

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uh...

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that no i can't um

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know, gloves.

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Scrubbed up and all.

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Yeah, but afterwards that would be great.

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Thank you so much.

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ah Yeah, and you perform.

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Are you performing an autopsy, Miles, or are you doing a forensics like sweet?

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Forensic sweep just looking for compounds basically.

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I will say, em you know, I look at Magpie and like, we didn't ask this before, but where

the fuck are the heads?

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Do they know?

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think that's probably-

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Do not.

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You're good.

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You are a role for seeing the bodies.

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But I love uh that question.

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Yeah, and I'll turn to the doctor and say like, yeah, and so heads were not found.

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You guys didn't come across those yet.

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Nope, found him yet.

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um We've got teams sweeping nearby beaches.

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We've searched the house pretty thoroughly, but uh you know, feel free to take another

crack at it.

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um

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Yeah, okay, now I'll just stick to looking at the body here and then, yeah.

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If I'm not finding anything else, I'll just take my time with it.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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nothing unusual coming up.

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The talk screen comes back um pretty well clear on all three of them.

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uh One of them, the uh middle man who...

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Did you catch their names?

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Yeah, is this Ethan right here?

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I'll point at the middle one.

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It is.

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Can you give me a power check real quick?

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Sure.

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uh 29 under 70.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Yeah, it's Ethan.

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Ethan had a little bit of cocaine in his bloodstream.

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Just a little bit.

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Like, not enough.

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Findable.

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not either not a lot or not reason.

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Okay, all right, I'll radio that in real quick to Mole and Morrison.

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saying like, hey, we got one of the people here that have a little bit of cocaine in them,

but it's not a lot, so.

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and we're...

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similar drug panel run on the people that were not quite detained in the house.

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No, we haven't asked them.

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We have not asked them to take a drug test yet.

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uh Tower, excuse me, Sheriff Tower thought that uh it might make them uncooperative to

ask.

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But we can.

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uh We would have to ask for it voluntarily.

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Otherwise, we would have to arrest them to uh mandate one.

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Okay.

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Well, I think now that we're in circulation here, we could broach that subject with them

as I'm sure we'll be speaking to them today if needed, but I appreciate your offer.

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Okay, thank you very much.

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Yeah, thanks for your help.

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This went a lot faster than it would have.

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um I'm gonna be out here.

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I've got to perform the autopsy, so um I'll let you know if I find anything unexpected.

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um

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Yeah, thank you very much.

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Appreciate it.

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It's always nice to work with another professional and I will exit the tent.

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Yeah, I think the only other thing that I was trying to glean about the actual bodies

themselves is if there was anything unusual or to be noted about the wound itself.

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If it was reasonable to determine that this was just a bladed weapon or if there's

anything peculiar about it.

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Um, I'll let you roll Forensics or Medicine.

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roll that.

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Medicine seems cool so I'll do that.

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30 flat yeah

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Yeah, you know, without getting out a microscope and taking tissue samples, uh which you

have not done yet, but you could, this looks like a sharp clean cut.

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No obvious tearing.

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uh The interesting part for you is that the uh vertebrae is...

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you look closer and there is a nub of bone down where the bottom part of the...

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vertebrae would have been.

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And it's sliced.

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It's not broken and it is not pulled out, which would be indicative of a tearing or a

smashing sort of action.

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Whatever this was, uh cut through bone, but didn't break it.

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And as far as like actual implements that would be capable of that, is that something

that's simply like a, yeah, like a, I don't know, like a CMC machine, water cutter, kind

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of a thing, is an, would an actual blade

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not.

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A water jet cutter would demolish the entire area.

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Is there something realistic that would be capable of for sure?

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You can cut bone with a sharp heavy implement.

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So a sharpen of axe would do this.

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It would have to be extremely sharp.

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You'd expect a lot more trauma in that area than what you're seeing.

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uh But a bladed instrument would be the way to do this.

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uh Things like water jet cutters, plasma cutters, wire cutters, those are all intended for

extremely hard materials like steel, tungsten, titanium.

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On soft materials like human tissue, the tissue explodes.

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Today I learned and I can always do it.

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Thanks for zooming in for me.

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You're welcome.

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That's what you get from your medicine check.

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But was that useful?

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Yeah, I think so.

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I just wanted to understand if we really knew what we think was, you know, dealing with...

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Something heavy and something sharp.

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Exactly.

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Not something energized in like a mechanical fashion.

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Look for circular cookie cutter,

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The heads were not there, that correct?

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Yeah, they don't have the heads yet.

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we're, you know, she did say we could assist in looking for them.

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I don't think we're going to be able to find them at this point.

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Unless they're in that safe.

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that's my first thought.

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Alright, Morrison and Mull, you wanted to start the interviews.

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With whom would you like to start?

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Well Morrison, what do you think we've you know, we're gonna save a Rob for the rest of us

em Hayden's got the easiest in with the meth charge if we want to go hard on the other

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hand Frasier seems like she called this in so we could maybe use that as our in there too

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I was thinking probably call Frazier.

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She seems like the most willing to cooperate and then kind of go up from there

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Yeah, okay.

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Did we get a sense of where Frazier was?

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Was she off by herself or do we know?

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She's up by herself.

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She's on the first floor.

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The tower told you where everyone was.

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Yeah, I think you did.

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Yeah, think then we make our way towards Frasier.

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Okay.

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You enter the house and it is a sort of mishmash of decor.

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uh There is a lot of like Hindu spiritualism stuff going on, a lot of decorations, uh

artifacts, a lot of uh religious iconography and uh statues and paintings, but there's

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also uh very modernist furniture.

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that sort of sleek chrome style that got popular in the late 80s, early 90s.

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there's also like a considerable number of plain old like American antiques, like shaker

furniture and woven rugs.

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Like there's a nice grandfather clock.

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It's all not, it does not cohere.

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This is not a well-decorated home.

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Hmm.

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Okay.

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Does it look expensive?

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Yeah, And then is there anything up that's got like a rob or any of these other people in

the in them like pictures or anything?

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oh Yeah

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There are a ton, not a ton, there's six or seven photographs on the wall of, you don't

know that it's a rav, but there is the same man uh with a beard.

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smiling with his arms around uh different groups of people.

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So it's a different group of people in every photograph with the same bearded man wearing,

you know, like a tunic, white linen tunic with like striped edges down the front.

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It's the same tunic in all the photos.

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Does he appear to be in like the same place like the house they're in in most of those or

they across different?

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Yeah, they're all taken in what appears to be a room with glass windows, uh sort of prayer

cushions on the floor, and uh a small raised dais up at the top with another prayer

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cushion on it.

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And they're all standing on the raised dais.

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think it's Deus.

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okay.

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And then we saw Jacqueline and Anthony, so I at least know what their faces are from

social media.

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Do I recognize any of their faces in the pictures?

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We are not in

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Got it, okay.

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right, think.

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Mole clocks that, clocks the expensive stuff.

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And is like, huh, expensive taste, huh?

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I wonder how he's paying for all this.

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And then he ribs Morrison real quick.

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Damn, I was thinking the same thing, buddy.

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Yeah, we're always on the same page, aren't we, Morrison?

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Yeah, and then we have a fight.

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This is how Mul acts without megalomania.

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Yeah, is.

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The therapy did you good, buddy.

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You seem different.

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Yeah, yeah that therapy man.

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It really taught me something about myself.

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I took my kids out fishing.

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Isn't that crazy?

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Yeah.

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Hadn't done that in almost a decade.

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Well, if you ever want to show them how to shoot, you know someone who can teach them.

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Or ski.

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I may take you up on that as we're like walking past this bloody crime scene.

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Speaking of which, you walk past the photos in...

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You walk past the room in the photos.

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um It is a bloody crime scene.

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looks like a living room converted into a meditation room, prayer room, something.

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There are uh kneeling cushions.

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There's the dais.

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This is the room with the tarp on it outside.

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The reason there's a tarp on it outside is because the floor windows

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walls and ceilings are all splashed with blood.

326

: 00:20:51

Oh, it's just true blood everywhere.

327

: 00:20:54

Okay.

328

: 00:20:55

Um, do I get a sense of like this is more blood than could come from three bodies?

329

: 00:21:02

my medicine is...

330

: 00:21:05

zero.

331

: 00:21:06

My first date is seventy.

332

: 00:21:08

I'll let you roll first aid with a minus 20.

333

: 00:21:10

Okay.

334

: 00:21:11

Nope, it's 83.

335

: 00:21:13

That's a fail.

336

: 00:21:14

You know, in those first aid courses they never taught you really how much blood is in a

human body and what that looks like on the floor.

337

: 00:21:21

I'm pretty sure it's like 52 pints, right?

338

: 00:21:24

Does that sound right?

339

: 00:21:25

52 pints?

340

: 00:21:29

Yeah.

341

: 00:21:30

No, it's not.

342

: 00:21:34

That's like enough blood for three people or more, I think.

343

: 00:21:37

I don't do conversions.

344

: 00:21:38

You know I don't do math, Jimmy.

345

: 00:21:39

Yeah.

346

: 00:21:39

Why would you bring up math in front of everyone?

347

: 00:21:41

One weakness.

348

: 00:21:43

Is it 52 pints of blood?

349

: 00:21:45

I just made that so much blood

350

: 00:21:49

Yes, I don't have eight to twelve is apparently normal That's what I'm unit to use Yeah,

52 pints is something like five times the amount of blood a person should be

351

: 00:22:04

A week?

352

: 00:22:05

sick do you get if you have too much blood?

353

: 00:22:09

You usually get blood clots and die.

354

: 00:22:11

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

355

: 00:22:13

Yeah, you don't want extra blood.

356

: 00:22:16

You guys walk past this room.

357

: 00:22:19

I don't know if you want to wait to investigate it until you have the rest of your team,

but it is uh Morrison and Magpie on their way to go talk to uh Jacqueline Frazier.

358

: 00:22:34

Here's my thought.

359

: 00:22:35

Do we normally when we do these, since we've done a couple of these, right?

360

: 00:22:40

You did, but it's Morrison and Mole.

361

: 00:22:42

It's okay.

362

: 00:22:43

It's easy to forget me.

363

: 00:22:44

ah I think we probably have like a planned out, like I'm not good at that, right?

364

: 00:22:50

And I kind of feel like Mole's just gonna walk past it quite honestly.

365

: 00:22:53

I don't know if Morrison feels the same way.

366

: 00:22:56

uh

367

: 00:22:56

What I was thinking, probably because I don't really have like forensics or anything like

that, is I just want to make sure stuff's not getting messed with.

368

: 00:23:03

ah And I would like a record of that.

369

: 00:23:05

So probably as we're walking through, I take the burner that Madison gave me and I'm just

like snapping pictures of like everything around real quick.

370

: 00:23:12

Yeah, for sure.

371

: 00:23:13

Are you texting those to Madison?

372

: 00:23:15

yeah, guess I could.

373

: 00:23:17

I probably wouldn't like at first because I'm not even necessarily like these aren't like

good like intentional frame like crime scene photos I'm trying to surreptitiously as we're

374

: 00:23:27

walking through just like snap everything indiscriminately for reference later.

375

: 00:23:33

Yeah.

376

: 00:23:33

Yeah, I think mole's just- mole's just scanning to see if anybody's fucking with stuff and

as long as he sees nobody fucking with stuff he's just gonna- speak.

377

: 00:23:41

in there.

378

: 00:23:41

In fact, it is police taped off the doorway.

379

: 00:23:45

You would have to duck the tape to get in.

380

: 00:23:48

Morrison, you realize at this point, uh Madison has not called you or texted you any

information on any of the involved parties.

381

: 00:23:57

it's been...

382

: 00:23:59

How long has it been?

383

: 00:24:01

You guys met at eight and it's early afternoon now.

384

: 00:24:04

Yeah, so it's probably been like six, seven hours.

385

: 00:24:09

Yeah, I probably could just text her like any updates on the, you know, involved parties.

386

: 00:24:16

Sure, didn't expect one.

387

: 00:24:17

But we'll put that on the burner.

388

: 00:24:20

Yeah, are you guys going to talk to Jacqueline?

389

: 00:24:23

Yeah, I Jacqueline first.

390

: 00:24:24

I think B-line to Jacqueline.

391

: 00:24:26

There is a cop there standing outside a first floor bedroom door.

392

: 00:24:34

Hey, you the FBI guys?

393

: 00:24:36

yeah, Agent Mole.

394

: 00:24:37

Agent Morrison.

395

: 00:24:38

Hey, yeah, great to meet you.

396

: 00:24:40

I'm Officer uh Hickey.

397

: 00:24:43

nice oh

398

: 00:24:48

that's a good Irish name.

399

: 00:24:51

You

400

: 00:24:51

You

401

: 00:24:53

Ken Vouch

402

: 00:24:55

ah Well officer we were hoping to talk to this Jacqueline lady ah We wanted you know,

we're we're not trying to take over but we talked to Sheriff Tower and he said that he

403

: 00:25:05

could use some help

404

: 00:25:06

absolutely.

405

: 00:25:07

Go on in.

406

: 00:25:08

em She's uh been cooperative, but she is way out of it, whatever they were doing in there.

407

: 00:25:16

really?

408

: 00:25:18

Yeah, really, I...

409

: 00:25:19

yeah, been there.

410

: 00:25:21

Um, do you think- Oh, it's just metaphor.

411

: 00:25:24

Do you think- do think have any wounds or anything?

412

: 00:25:27

Not that she...

413

: 00:25:28

Not that I saw, not that she complained of.

414

: 00:25:31

Okay, okay.

415

: 00:25:32

Okay, well, if it's okay with you, Agent Morris and I are gonna kinda take a good cop, bad

cop approach to this and see if we can get any information from Jacqueline.

416

: 00:25:42

Isn't that right, Morrison?

417

: 00:25:43

And then I rib him.

418

: 00:25:44

um

419

: 00:25:45

Mm-hmm.

420

: 00:25:46

Yeah, go on.

421

: 00:25:48

You want me

422

: 00:25:50

You want me to stay here or...

423

: 00:25:51

uh

424

: 00:25:51

If you could give us just like a little bit of privacy, that'd be really helpful for us.

425

: 00:25:55

For sure.

426

: 00:25:56

Do you need any, I know you probably got your own stuff, but do need like recording

equipment?

427

: 00:26:00

Are you taking statements?

428

: 00:26:02

Yeah, can record on my, I've got my agency phone here, records, I can send it right back

to our field office, so we're good.

429

: 00:26:11

Awesome

430

: 00:26:12

Cool.

431

: 00:26:13

And then we step into the room.

432

: 00:26:14

Excellent.

433

: 00:26:15

Yeah, there is a middle aged woman in here.

434

: 00:26:21

Mid fifties, maybe em short black hair going gray.

435

: 00:26:27

uh She has spots of dried blood on her neck and upper arm and lower arms, where it seems

as though she didn't quite manage to scrub it all away.

436

: 00:26:42

um

437

: 00:26:44

She is staring.

438

: 00:26:46

She's sitting on the edge of a bed staring blankly at the floor.

439

: 00:26:50

She looks up.

440

: 00:26:51

Are you Miss Frazier?

441

: 00:26:53

I am.

442

: 00:26:54

ah Can you give us a little information on what happened here?

443

: 00:26:58

I'm Agent Morrison.

444

: 00:26:59

This is Agent Mole, my partner.

445

: 00:27:01

We're just here trying to gather some info and figure out what happened.

446

: 00:27:04

Yeah, for sure.

447

: 00:27:06

um I can tell you, you're not gonna believe me.

448

: 00:27:09

None of the other cops believe me.

449

: 00:27:11

Give us a shot.

450

: 00:27:12

Hey, we've got a little bit more of an open mind here in the agency.

451

: 00:27:16

Okay, well, are you recording this?

452

: 00:27:20

would say yeah, but just in my pocket.

453

: 00:27:23

I don't necessarily know.

454

: 00:27:24

no, no, you don't have to like put a mic in her face

455

: 00:27:27

probably what I would do is like video and then stick it in my pocket with the like, okay,

so let's like video and audio

456

: 00:27:33

That's a good call.

457

: 00:27:34

I like that a lot.

458

: 00:27:35

um Are you broadcasting this to Miles and Magpie?

459

: 00:27:39

Hmm is there a way for me to do it probably not I mean I they could like hear us talking

yes yes yeah unlike the comms but I wouldn't be like streaming the phone signal to their

460

: 00:27:51

cell phone

461

: 00:27:51

mean, are you keeping your...

462

: 00:27:53

Oh, yeah, com's

463

: 00:27:55

Yeah, I think so, because I

464

: 00:27:57

mean, you could just put it on Facebook Live and then we could all tune in.

465

: 00:28:01

Yeah.

466

: 00:28:02

Just spread whatever contagion that's-

467

: 00:28:05

A wild thing to-

468

: 00:28:07

It could be pretty fun though.

469

: 00:28:09

uh Alright.

470

: 00:28:12

So, I am here for the mindfulness meditation retreat that um Pujari Arav offers and it's

been really great.

471

: 00:28:25

All the classes have been going really well.

472

: 00:28:28

Yeah, I'm here for um Pujari Arav's mindfulness and meditation class.

473

: 00:28:34

um It's been great so far.

474

: 00:28:37

It's been really great.

475

: 00:28:38

It's been...

476

: 00:28:38

um

477

: 00:28:40

I feel a lot calmer than I was going in.

478

: 00:28:43

I really feel a lot more centered.

479

: 00:28:45

um This COVID-19 thing has been really hard for me and I was feeling um a lot better.

480

: 00:28:55

I'm not anymore, but yesterday was supposed to be the last day of the class.

481

: 00:29:03

um was the capstone class, actually, where we put together

482

: 00:29:08

everything that we learned through all the all the all the two weeks and and put it all

together in a sort of a uh culmination of our practices and I was sitting in the

483

: 00:29:24

meditation room I was sitting next to the window I was and she's got her eyes closed while

she's trying to remember exactly what happened I was going through the the the

484

: 00:29:37

The forms that Pujariya Arav teaches, there's a series of shapes em that you imagine

changing from one to the next that go along with the mantra that you breathe in and

485

: 00:29:53

breathe out.

486

: 00:29:54

And we were going through the forms and we were all chanting the mantra and we got to the

end.

487

: 00:30:02

And I remember there was a, there's this weird

488

: 00:30:07

like sucking, slurping noise.

489

: 00:30:10

And something wet and hot hit my face and I opened my eyes and they were dead.

490

: 00:30:19

And I didn't and I couldn't think I started to scream but I don't really remember a whole

lot after that but I called 911 and they asked me to stay here while they talked to

491

: 00:30:32

everybody and it's been really

492

: 00:30:35

That's where we are.

493

: 00:30:38

Okay.

494

: 00:30:38

ah Where were you sitting in the room relative to the people who were injured?

495

: 00:30:44

Um, Tony was sitting next to me.

496

: 00:30:47

um Ethan was sitting next to Tony, uh, and then it was, uh, Anthony and then I, well, I, I

think it was, then it was Anthony, uh, and then Eleanor, but they might've been switched.

497

: 00:31:03

I don't remember, but, I remember that Ethan liked to sit in the middle.

498

: 00:31:08

And dad had you done this chant before was this the with this capstone the first time you

were doing it?

499

: 00:31:14

We learned it in pieces.

500

: 00:31:18

It's kind of long.

501

: 00:31:19

So we learned the pieces, we learned the first verse, and then we learned the second

verse, and then we the third verse, and then we learned the first form, and then we

502

: 00:31:27

learned the second form, and then we learned the third form.

503

: 00:31:30

It all comes together and it's very centering.

504

: 00:31:36

Yeah.

505

: 00:31:36

Okay.

506

: 00:31:38

And you said you've been here for like two weeks, something like that?

507

: 00:31:41

Yeah, the students stay in the bedrooms on the first floor.

508

: 00:31:45

ah

509

: 00:31:48

How'd you hear about this course?

510

: 00:31:51

um I saw a review of it online.

511

: 00:31:54

um It's inexpensive, but it's got really great reviews.

512

: 00:31:58

And yesterday was the first day that you'd done all four, you said four forms and four

parts of the mantra all together.

513

: 00:32:06

Three and three.

514

: 00:32:08

Okay.

515

: 00:32:09

Did he have those written down for you guys to look at or practice or how did he just

teach you them?

516

: 00:32:15

He's yeah, he's he's got him written down.

517

: 00:32:17

Do you do you need to know him?

518

: 00:32:20

you want?

519

: 00:32:21

I don't need to hear him right now, that may be something we can discuss here.

520

: 00:32:24

We may need your help with that.

521

: 00:32:25

em

522

: 00:32:27

Can you spell them?

523

: 00:32:29

Uhhhh...

524

: 00:32:30

again?

525

: 00:32:31

No, can I pull out a notebook and say can you write them down in reverse order?

526

: 00:32:35

Uhhh, I don't think I can.

527

: 00:32:37

Okay, it's alright.

528

: 00:32:39

And the forms, you said you imagined changing shape?

529

: 00:32:42

Yeah.

530

: 00:32:43

I guess maybe I could write it down in reverse order if I start at the end and write it

backwards.

531

: 00:32:49

Yeah, it's just right the last part.

532

: 00:32:51

Specifically, I want to get her to do this in a way that it's jumbled.

533

: 00:32:54

So if it's some spell, it's not going to actually work or maybe just have her write like

two parts of it.

534

: 00:33:00

You're like, do the second first and the third second.

535

: 00:33:05

She starts writing some shit and is like, is actually really hard.

536

: 00:33:11

I can read it out loud to you if you want and you don't have to say it if you want to

write it down.

537

: 00:33:19

No, I can't be we can figure that out later.

538

: 00:33:22

I appreciate that but

539

: 00:33:24

Yeah, yeah.

540

: 00:33:26

Alright.

541

: 00:33:26

So what was the goal, I guess, of this?

542

: 00:33:29

What was gonna happen at the end of this?

543

: 00:33:32

Were you gonna be more well?

544

: 00:33:35

you know, you're going through this ritual.

545

: 00:33:37

What was supposed to happen?

546

: 00:33:38

No, it's a mantra.

547

: 00:33:39

You chant it and you empty your mind.

548

: 00:33:42

It's supposed to let you take yourself away from your current concerns and the current

worldly problems that you face.

549

: 00:33:50

And when you finish, it's meditation.

550

: 00:33:53

Have you ever done, have you never done meditation?

551

: 00:33:56

think he just scoffs very quietly.

552

: 00:33:59

He's like, no, uh.

553

: 00:34:01

There isn't a goal.

554

: 00:34:03

You're emptying your mind so that when you come back to yourself, you're more centered,

you're more calm, you're more able to deal with everyday life.

555

: 00:34:16

Click run with your brain through a washing machine.

556

: 00:34:18

Clear out all the stuff.

557

: 00:34:20

Yeah, I use booze for that, but I appreciate what you're saying.

558

: 00:34:23

So, but this is a top stone, you're saying, to this?

559

: 00:34:27

Like, this was gonna be your final go-through with all this, or...?

560

: 00:34:31

Mm.

561

: 00:34:32

Okay.

562

: 00:34:33

And you didn't know anybody who had taken this before, you just purely review's online.

563

: 00:34:37

Yeah.

564

: 00:34:38

It was so cheap that I felt like if it sucked I could just leave.

565

: 00:34:42

That's actually.

566

: 00:34:45

Okay.

567

: 00:34:46

Did Mr.

568

: 00:34:46

Arav indicate if he'd ever done these specific, you know, mantras and shapes before?

569

: 00:34:51

Yeah, he was, I mean, he was teaching us out of like an old book that he seemed very

familiar with.

570

: 00:34:59

Do you know where he kept that old book?

571

: 00:35:01

Yeah.

572

: 00:35:01

I know I would have thought he kept it in the prayer room, but now that I think about it,

there's nowhere to really keep a book.

573

: 00:35:08

Maybe in his bedroom, in his office.

574

: 00:35:11

Sorry, I don't.

575

: 00:35:13

Hey, it's alright.

576

: 00:35:13

It's okay.

577

: 00:35:14

We have to ask, as a matter of procedure, were there any substances, uh legal or illegal,

involved in any of this?

578

: 00:35:23

Okay.

579

: 00:35:24

Did you witness anyone else using any kind of substances?

580

: 00:35:28

No.

581

: 00:35:28

Okay.

582

: 00:35:29

Did you know he has a safe?

583

: 00:35:30

Have you ever seen him access the safe?

584

: 00:35:33

No.

585

: 00:35:33

No, I mean you're in a nice house.

586

: 00:35:36

I'm not surprised.

587

: 00:35:37

He's got a say.

588

: 00:35:39

Be nice money

589

: 00:35:41

You're an accountant, right?

590

: 00:35:42

Did it strike you as weird that he charges so little but has such a nice place?

591

: 00:35:47

It seems eccentric, but he's really good at what he does and maybe he's doing it as an act

of service.

592

: 00:35:58

person.

593

: 00:35:58

a fucking face Sam is making.

594

: 00:36:01

Wow.

595

: 00:36:02

I've never seen a more incredulous skeptical look.

596

: 00:36:08

Such fucking scorn.

597

: 00:36:10

Yeah, pure sport.

598

: 00:36:11

that and Morrison are both probably thinking the same thing, but Morrison's like, hmm, and

Mull's like, that's bullshit.

599

: 00:36:16

Yeah, think Mole is not able to hold in that.

600

: 00:36:20

that.

601

: 00:36:20

ah okay, well, Jackie, if you don't mind me calling you that, um, we need to talk to some

of the other people who are here.

602

: 00:36:28

Um, is it okay?

603

: 00:36:30

Are you okay staying here right now while we figure out kind of where everybody else is

and what's going on?

604

: 00:36:36

I don't want anything else to happen.

605

: 00:36:38

I know you've seen a lot.

606

: 00:36:40

Okay.

607

: 00:36:41

Uh, then I think Mole probably just pieces out quite honestly.

608

: 00:36:44

walks out.

609

: 00:36:44

Thank you, ma'am.

610

: 00:36:46

we step out of the room and we're kind of out at earshot of the police officer, I'd say on

the comps, magpie, miles, did you catch all that?

611

: 00:36:53

Any thoughts, advice for the next round?

612

: 00:36:56

I would try to see if he was teaching them this chant.

613

: 00:37:04

Like they had to have had something to read off of.

614

: 00:37:07

Like there's got to be some sort of paper element to this already that doesn't require

somebody to write it down.

615

: 00:37:13

I would try to find something like that.

616

: 00:37:15

Yeah.

617

: 00:37:16

Yeah, she did say that he taught it to them in three parts.

618

: 00:37:21

I'm wondering if he taught them each part separately verbally and then if that was the

trigger, it was just them saying it all together at the end.

619

: 00:37:30

Yeah.

620

: 00:37:31

And if they were all saying it together, why are there survivors, right?

621

: 00:37:35

Yeah, it's

622

: 00:37:37

Yeah, maybe we can see if uh Anthony felt that the other three got any special attention

or something different with like how they were treating how, Arav was treating them.

623

: 00:37:49

Yeah.

624

: 00:37:49

And then we should look for that book if we can.

625

: 00:37:52

Yeah, with the bodies, did you notice anything that seemed similar among the three?

626

: 00:37:56

Yeah, I mean, they don't have heads.

627

: 00:37:59

There's also a circle cut out of the back of them.

628

: 00:38:06

Just one.

629

: 00:38:07

Just Just one.

630

: 00:38:07

The middle one, I believe.

631

: 00:38:09

think that one was no...

632

: 00:38:11

or Ethan Davis is my guess, had a circle cut out.

633

: 00:38:15

So maybe that's something you could bring up in the next interview if they remember

anything about the event.

634

: 00:38:20

And we're almost done here, so we're going to head up soon.

635

: 00:38:25

anything I should look for on the way in.

636

: 00:38:27

Yeah, we walked past what they called the prayer room.

637

: 00:38:30

It was a bit, I want to say to the right, after we walked in the back door.

638

: 00:38:34

Yeah, check that out.

639

: 00:38:35

That's where everything went down.

640

: 00:38:37

There's a lot of blood in there.

641

: 00:38:38

Okay.

642

: 00:38:40

We might want to all meet up and look at it together at some point, but it's definitely

big.

643

: 00:38:44

All right.

644

: 00:38:45

And keep an eye out for that book.

645

: 00:38:46

If we can find that anywhere, that could be helpful too.

646

: 00:38:52

Liam, you there?

647

: 00:38:53

How you doing?

648

: 00:38:55

Okay.

649

: 00:38:55

Do you have any input, feedback, comments?

650

: 00:39:01

concerns.

651

: 00:39:03

How are we doing?

652

: 00:39:05

We're all looking for a promotion himself.

653

: 00:39:08

this all seems fine.

654

: 00:39:09

I think that you are probably safe from whatever this is.

655

: 00:39:15

If you ask, what's her name?

656

: 00:39:18

Either Jacqueline or Hayden to tell you the words or tell you those, uh, the shapes they

have to imagine, but not both.

657

: 00:39:27

Yeah, I wondered about that.

658

: 00:39:29

Yeah, I kinda wondered if it's like a, gotta put it all together kinda thing.

659

: 00:39:34

I-I'm-I-that's what I would assume.

660

: 00:39:36

I would not.

661

: 00:39:37

You could ask Jacqueline for the words and ask Hayden for the shapes.

662

: 00:39:41

Yeah, I thinking about that.

663

: 00:39:45

I wouldn't ask one of them for both if I were you.

664

: 00:39:47

Alright.

665

: 00:39:48

Is it a trap?

666

: 00:39:51

I know.

667

: 00:39:52

Yeah, I- no.

668

: 00:39:54

What was I gonna say?

669

: 00:39:55

I just bust open the door and say, Jacqueline, what are the shapes?

670

: 00:39:58

I don't do that.

671

: 00:39:59

Tell me the shapes now.

672

: 00:40:00

All right.

673

: 00:40:01

Do we want to circle back and ask her that now?

674

: 00:40:03

Let's go ahead.

675

: 00:40:03

would seriously want to yeah we're down here we may as well so do we

676

: 00:40:08

just like Kramer back in the door and say, Jackie.

677

: 00:40:10

Yeah, do a Columbo.

678

: 00:40:13

One more.

679

: 00:40:14

One more question.

680

: 00:40:15

uh Yeah, I guess we do probably um open up the door again after that discussion and just

be like ah Jackie could you just show us those shapes that you were talking about would

681

: 00:40:28

that be something you could do?

682

: 00:40:30

yeah, sure.

683

: 00:40:30

Um, do you have a piece of paper I could borrow?

684

: 00:40:34

yeah.

685

: 00:40:34

Neat.

686

: 00:40:35

Ribs Morrison.

687

: 00:40:36

And she gets out a piece of paper and starts drawing on it.

688

: 00:40:42

And while she's drawing, she's talking.

689

: 00:40:45

these first couple of shapes, they're in the first third.

690

: 00:40:48

em You have to imagine them transitioning from one to the other.

691

: 00:40:54

It lines up with...

692

: 00:40:55

em

693

: 00:40:56

I cover, uh, I cover mole's eyes.

694

: 00:40:59

I don't want them to see the shapes.

695

: 00:41:00

Like, hey bud, look elsewhere, just to be safe.

696

: 00:41:06

Instead of looking super weird about this, Mul just look away?

697

: 00:41:10

Yeah, think we, yeah, I think actually instead of you covering my eyes, uh you like elbow

me back and I just kind of start staring up at the ceiling so that in case one of us

698

: 00:41:21

starts doing something weird.

699

: 00:41:23

Yeah, so she's drawing shapes, uh basic uh platonic ideals, ah then dividing them with

vertical and horizontal lines.

700

: 00:41:33

uh It looks a lot like sacred geometry sort of stuff.

701

: 00:41:37

Circles, triangles, triangles become stars, stars become hexagons, octagons, decagons.

702

: 00:41:46

And it's a progressional sort of thing.

703

: 00:41:49

She's talking through the whole thing about this.

704

: 00:41:52

This transition happens on, uh, alpha.

705

: 00:41:56

This transition happens on grows, but that sort of thing.

706

: 00:42:01

this happens in the second verse.

707

: 00:42:03

Um, this happens in the third.

708

: 00:42:07

I did this wrong.

709

: 00:42:09

It's okay, tell us exactly how you did it.

710

: 00:42:11

Yeah, we want to know the right way in the wrong way as he's staring up at the ceiling.

711

: 00:42:16

Yeah, I know what and she stops and she goes rigid and Her eyes sort of rolled back.

712

: 00:42:26

Do either of you have medicine?

713

: 00:42:27

You've got first aid, right?

714

: 00:42:29

This looks like she's about to go into a seizure um and right before she uh begins to

topple forward her head uh begins caving in Like there's a black hole at the center of her

715

: 00:42:45

brain

716

: 00:42:46

What?

717

: 00:42:47

Soon her entire skull collapses in on itself in a matter of half a second like a dying

star spraying the entire room with blood.

718

: 00:42:58

I'd like a sand check for both of you.

719

: 00:43:01

Hey, I'm looking up at the ceiling.

720

: 00:43:02

Oh, that is...

721

: 00:43:04

68 under 71.

722

: 00:43:07

Jesus Christ, okay.

723

: 00:43:09

That's a 54 and a 40.

724

: 00:43:11

Okay, I'd like one from a success, I'd like a D6 for a failure.

725

: 00:43:15

Five.

726

: 00:43:17

Where the center of presumably five?

727

: 00:43:21

Yep.

728

: 00:43:22

That's no good.

729

: 00:43:22

It's not good.

730

: 00:43:23

It's not good at all, actually.

731

: 00:43:26

How do you feel about fighting, flighting, and freezing?

732

: 00:43:29

Well, you know what?

733

: 00:43:31

We're gonna put a pause on that.

734

: 00:43:33

Okay.

735

: 00:43:33

You're gonna fight, flight, or freeze in just a second.

736

: 00:43:36

Sounds good.

737

: 00:43:37

Because where the center, probably the center of mass of her brain was, there is a small

pinprick of a hole in the air, in space.

738

: 00:43:50

And through that pinprick of a hole,

739

: 00:43:54

become a flurry of thin, wriggling tentacles thrashing outwards into the space, blindly

like horsehair worms in water.

740

: 00:44:08

And they whip and grab and wrap around the two of you, and we are in dexterity order.

741

: 00:44:16

Oh, god.

742

: 00:44:18

So would you like to fight, flight, or freeze?

743

: 00:44:22

I think mole is probably fight, then flight, then freeze.

744

: 00:44:26

think freeze is the antithesis of mole.

745

: 00:44:29

Sounds good.

746

: 00:44:29

1, 2, and 3 is fight.

747

: 00:44:30

4 and 5 is flight.

748

: 00:44:32

And 6 is freeze.

749

: 00:44:34

Probably don't want to roll a freeze right this second.

750

: 00:44:37

well, I rolled the freeze.

751

: 00:44:39

Alright, give me a D4 will ya?

752

: 00:44:41

Yeah.

753

: 00:44:43

Okay.

754

: 00:44:44

Two.

755

: 00:44:47

Jimmy, we fucked this up.

756

: 00:44:48

Yep, that's alright.

757

: 00:44:50

Uh, can...

758

: 00:44:51

let me see.

759

: 00:44:52

Jimmy, you've got...

760

: 00:44:53

or Morrison has a 15, Magpie has a 17, Mull has a 12, and Miles has a 7.

761

: 00:45:00

It's going...

762

: 00:45:01

the order is going to be Magpie, Jimmy, the tentacles, Mull, and Miles.

763

: 00:45:08

Magpie, over the comms, you hear a sickening, crunching, sort of slurping noise.

764

: 00:45:15

Like somebody drinking the last bits of a milkshake.

765

: 00:45:19

while chewing on a carrot.

766

: 00:45:21

What's up?

767

: 00:45:22

ah

768

: 00:45:23

Where are we in relation to this actual happening?

769

: 00:45:28

you are in a medical tent outside wrapping up a not an autopsy but a forensic

investigation.

770

: 00:45:36

Okay.

771

: 00:45:37

And about your...

772

: 00:45:40

And about how much frantic running would it take to get us in the fray, or are we just on

comms for this, do we think?

773

: 00:45:47

Well, you could get inside the house no problem.

774

: 00:45:50

You could get up to the second floor.

775

: 00:45:52

You could start kicking in doors.

776

: 00:45:55

You got six seconds to get somewhere.

777

: 00:45:58

But do you know where?

778

: 00:45:59

Yeah, I mean, I think I am running inside the house and then I am listening for that sound

in real life compared to my ear.

779

: 00:46:08

Totally.

780

: 00:46:09

Okay.

781

: 00:46:09

I love it.

782

: 00:46:10

Give me alertness.

783

: 00:46:11

Sure, I do like that.

784

: 00:46:13

yeah, 25.

785

: 00:46:15

25?

786

: 00:46:15

Yeah, you hear that noise and a sort of whistling of moving air.

787

: 00:46:22

um It's down this hallway.

788

: 00:46:25

You think it's one of these doors.

789

: 00:46:27

I assume, Morrison and Mull, you shut the door.

790

: 00:46:30

Mm-hmm.

791

: 00:46:31

Yeah.

792

: 00:46:32

Yeah.

793

: 00:46:32

But it's on this floor, it's nearby.

794

: 00:46:35

Morrison, what up?

795

: 00:46:38

gosh, how do I fight off tentacle worms from like a pinpoint black hole that are grabbing

myself?

796

: 00:46:44

I ask myself that every day.

797

: 00:46:47

Is there any kind of cutting implement nearby?

798

: 00:46:51

Probably not.

799

: 00:46:52

Okay.

800

: 00:46:54

I mean, you have a knife.

801

: 00:46:56

Sure.

802

: 00:46:57

If you want, like, flip, a fold out.

803

: 00:46:59

or like in your first aid kit.

804

: 00:47:01

I mean I thought about that, but I specifically mention it so yeah, I mean

805

: 00:47:05

an outdoorsy guy, you have a knife.

806

: 00:47:07

Okay, fair enough.

807

: 00:47:09

Yeah, I probably like grab that and just start like hacking to try and like separate these

things from my

808

: 00:47:16

Give me a melee weapons.

809

: 00:47:19

That is the...

810

: 00:47:21

on a 50.

811

: 00:47:22

That's pretty good.

812

: 00:47:22

Yeah.

813

: 00:47:23

Yeah, they are going to fight back.

814

: 00:47:28

No, they're not actually.

815

: 00:47:29

Never mind.

816

: 00:47:30

okay.

817

: 00:47:31

I should do that.

818

: 00:47:31

Roll damage.

819

: 00:47:33

It's a D4 plus.

820

: 00:47:35

What's your strength?

821

: 00:47:37

Uhhhhmmm...

822

: 00:47:38

70 or 14.

823

: 00:47:39

I don't know what the bonus is.

824

: 00:47:41

gonna say it's a default plus one.

825

: 00:47:43

There are damage bonuses.

826

: 00:47:45

I don't remember how to do them ever.

827

: 00:47:47

It's only on melee weapons and it's only for strength and I never and it's in one like

shitty...

828

: 00:47:57

table yeah yeah

829

: 00:48:01

Three?

830

: 00:48:02

Okay.

831

: 00:48:03

Okay.

832

: 00:48:04

actually, and I'm sorry to do this, could I have Jimmy and Malco another sand check for

the tentacles?

833

: 00:48:14

Jimmy, mean Morrison.

834

: 00:48:15

uh

835

: 00:48:16

problem.

836

: 00:48:16

under now uh 70.

837

: 00:48:19

Hell yeah, seven on a 34.

838

: 00:48:23

That is a one sand loss for each of you.

839

: 00:48:26

Big success, Mo.

840

: 00:48:28

Yeah.

841

: 00:48:29

Yes.

842

: 00:48:30

Okay.

843

: 00:48:32

ah It is the feelers, the tentacles turn.

844

: 00:48:38

They are...

845

: 00:48:40

Two things are gonna happen.

846

: 00:48:41

First is the hole begins to widen as thicker and thicker tendrils begin to push through.

847

: 00:48:51

And there's something odd about the thicker tendrils.

848

: 00:48:56

They are...

849

: 00:48:58

filamentitious, or almost...

850

: 00:49:01

They remind you of those lattice funguses.

851

: 00:49:05

They appear to be full of openings and holes that lead not quite through, but the holes

sort of shift and open and close and shut and reform and disappear across the entirety of

852

: 00:49:23

these larger tentacles.

853

: 00:49:25

And they're going to attack both of you at the same time.

854

: 00:49:31

I'm going to roll twice.

855

: 00:49:35

Morrison, this is going to be a 42, which is going to be a hit.

856

: 00:49:40

Would you like to fight back or dodge?

857

: 00:49:42

You will lose your next attack turn.

858

: 00:49:47

And then for Moe, I've got a 67, which is a miss, so you do not have to...

859

: 00:49:55

you don't get to fight back, you're frozen.

860

: 00:49:58

Well, one of the larger tentacles sort of wraps around your left leg and begins winding

itself up towards your torso, towards your waist, sliding upwards.

861

: 00:50:13

Mall's just catatonic, I think.

862

: 00:50:15

He's just like muttering to himself.

863

: 00:50:16

I think he's muttering to He's like, Paulson 494, Paulson 494, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola.

864

: 00:50:22

Just thinking about all those items he bought, he stole from people.

865

: 00:50:27

That's his mantra.

866

: 00:50:29

It is Mul's turn.

867

: 00:50:31

Mul chance.

868

: 00:50:33

uh It is Miles's turn.

869

: 00:50:36

Yeah, Miles is listening on the radio and he is like, guys, guys realizes that they're

broadcasting and they can't hear him.

870

: 00:50:46

Looks up and see Magpie's already gone and is just chasing after Magpie as fast as he can.

871

: 00:50:53

Just trying to catch up and be right on his heels, basically.

872

: 00:50:57

Yeah, okay.

873

: 00:50:59

You can do that, no problem.

874

: 00:51:00

um If you give me an alertness, knowing that Magpie has honed in on the first floor, maybe

you can figure out what door this noise is coming from.

875

: 00:51:09

Yeah.

876

: 00:51:10

Yeah, 37 over a 23.

877

: 00:51:12

Yeah, that's going to be the second door on the left, you're pretty sure.

878

: 00:51:17

You call it out?

879

: 00:51:18

uh

880

: 00:51:19

no, he's scared, so he's just running, so.

881

: 00:51:22

Okay.

882

: 00:51:23

I mentioned to Magpie who goes next.

883

: 00:51:28

Okay, get fucked.

884

: 00:51:31

You're up Magpie.

885

: 00:51:34

Oh, that is a good question.

886

: 00:51:37

I'm so sorry.

887

: 00:51:38

I forgot.

888

: 00:51:39

He has a dex of 10, so he acts before Miles.

889

: 00:51:45

He dashes out into the hallway and is following Magpie's lead.

890

: 00:51:50

Yeah, yeah, just figured he's probably just dashing too.

891

: 00:51:53

Um, he has a gun out.

892

: 00:51:55

He has drawn his weapon.

893

: 00:51:57

Yeah, I think I'm gonna do the same, just given what I'm hearing.

894

: 00:52:03

It doesn't sound altogether good.

895

: 00:52:05

em Is there a thrashing and a crashing that is more prominent now than before?

896

: 00:52:13

I think everyone in the bedroom is staying awful quiet and is just doing this in, it

sounds like, dead silence.

897

: 00:52:23

Am I correct?

898

: 00:52:24

I mean there's probably some like grunts and stuff but when it was just a little tentacles

I was like okay if I can just cut these off we're good but and that's why I cut the first

899

: 00:52:33

time but now that there's big tentacles coming out I'm probably gonna start blasting.

900

: 00:52:39

And I'm mumbling to myself about all the deals I've gotten, so.

901

: 00:52:42

Tell you what, Magpie, if you pass another alertness check, you'll know where it is and

have enough time to get in there.

902

: 00:52:48

I want that.

903

: 00:52:51

Yeah, 44, critical success.

904

: 00:52:54

critical success as you hone in on that rushing, whistling noise.

905

: 00:53:01

Which sounds a lot like air moving through a tight passage.

906

: 00:53:06

What do do?

907

: 00:53:07

Air moving through a tight passage?

908

: 00:53:11

okay, sorry, what's the arrangement of doors on the first floor here?

909

: 00:53:17

What am I looking-

910

: 00:53:17

There's a...

911

: 00:53:18

you're running past this meditation room and then there's a row of what appear to be

bedroom doors.

912

: 00:53:24

You hear the noise coming from the second one.

913

: 00:53:28

Okay, it is coming from the second one.

914

: 00:53:29

Yeah, well then I'm throwing open the door.

915

: 00:53:32

No questions asked.

916

: 00:53:34

Alright, give me luck.

917

: 00:53:38

No, 81.

918

: 00:53:40

You run past a cop on the way in.

919

: 00:53:43

It's the cop who was guarding the door.

920

: 00:53:46

Although you can't really know that.

921

: 00:53:48

You rush in.

922

: 00:53:50

Do you kick in the door or do you open it like

923

: 00:53:53

I think I'm still running.

924

: 00:53:54

Yeah, shoulder open with a hand.

925

: 00:53:56

Okay.

926

: 00:53:57

Yeah, you bust through the door and there is just truly madness in this room.

927

: 00:54:06

There's a headless corpse on the floor, the walls are painted in blood, there's thin,

whipping, wriggling tentacles wrapped around Morrison and Mull, and more reaching out for

928

: 00:54:17

the walls, the ceiling, the floor, all from this one little point in the air where it

seems like the air in the room is rushing out through that...

929

: 00:54:29

pinprick making that sort of whistling howling noise and as you're watching you see more

thin and more thick and more medium of these tendrils push their way out sort of widening

930

: 00:54:43

this black speck tearing it as they push through

931

: 00:54:47

Holy.

932

: 00:54:49

Um, okay.

933

: 00:54:50

That looks like a lot.

934

: 00:54:51

don't have.

935

: 00:54:53

Yeah.

936

: 00:54:54

Okay.

937

: 00:54:55

Footnote on that one.

938

: 00:54:56

You're sneaking in.

939

: 00:54:58

Yeah.

940

: 00:54:58

94.

941

: 00:54:59

Nothing doing.

942

: 00:55:00

I'd like a d6, Alfie.

943

: 00:55:03

we're so fuc-

944

: 00:55:04

would oh

945

: 00:55:07

far away is

946

: 00:55:09

Nope.

947

: 00:55:12

Yeah, um, yeah, I mean I'm at 64 now and breaking point is 56.

948

: 00:55:23

I got some room.

949

: 00:55:26

Great, sounds like a plan.

950

: 00:55:28

Yeah, okay.

951

: 00:55:29

I don't have an automatic weapon to do anything with this big mess of tentacles.

952

: 00:55:34

uh priority number one for me is Mr.

953

: 00:55:39

Mole.

954

: 00:55:39

And so I'm going over to him.

955

: 00:55:42

I've got an arm uh around his backside, kind of just under both of his arms, ready to drag

him backwards.

956

: 00:55:50

And I'm going to take my heavy pistol and tung tung tung into the tentacle that's creeping

up his leg.

957

: 00:55:55

Yeah, okay, sure.

958

: 00:55:57

absolutely.

959

: 00:55:59

Roll firearms for me.

960

: 00:56:01

Yes sir.

961

: 00:56:02

Eh...

962

: 00:56:04

try not to critically fail.

963

: 00:56:06

Yeah, it's a 99.

964

: 00:56:11

Are you f***ing me?

965

: 00:56:13

I'm not joking.

966

: 00:56:14

all.

967

: 00:56:16

Sorry, Mo.

968

: 00:56:20

Yeah, yeah, did I mention it's the heavy pistol?

969

: 00:56:24

Oh my god mole has nine hit points oh

970

: 00:56:38

Yeah, yeah, we're okay.

971

: 00:56:40

It's only three.

972

: 00:56:44

The...

973

: 00:56:45

the tendril shifts right at the last second and you put a bullet directly behind Mul's

kneecap.

974

: 00:56:57

You shoulder in the door, run up to Maul, grab him, blow out his kneecap, and start

dragging him while that same knee is held firmly in place by this large tendril.

975

: 00:57:11

Well, I mean you are getting it out of order just a little.

976

: 00:57:13

I started Dragon before I started Blast and I just missed a little bit.

977

: 00:57:19

you

978

: 00:57:23

Pull up his, stupor.

979

: 00:57:26

Yeah, can I be awake now or what?

980

: 00:57:28

Yeah, are you better now, mole?

981

: 00:57:31

Did that-

982

: 00:57:32

shock therapy motherfuckers

983

: 00:57:36

Cool that's hilarious clear.

984

: 00:57:40

Thanks for that em

985

: 00:57:44

Here, shots fired.

986

: 00:57:47

And so does every other cop in the building.

987

: 00:57:49

Yeah, I'm probably doing essentially the same thing that Magpie and Muller are to do,

which is back away and trying to like blast these tentacles.

988

: 00:57:58

Are you trying to break free or do you want to shoot?

989

: 00:58:04

I would also accept straight strength.

990

: 00:58:14

Strength is 70.

991

: 00:58:16

Yeah, 23.

992

: 00:58:17

That passes on any of those.

993

: 00:58:18

Great.

994

: 00:58:18

You fully untangle your- you're not gonna deal damage.

995

: 00:58:21

Um, but you- you rip them.

996

: 00:58:25

They- they're- they're sticking to you.

997

: 00:58:28

And ripping them off hurts.

998

: 00:58:30

You see where those little opening and closing holes have been?

999

: 00:58:35

They're- they're- they're catching your skin as they do so.

: 1000

00:58:42,652 --> 00:58:45,093

No, I wouldn't say suckers.

: 1001

00:58:45,986 --> 00:58:47,596

They just tear my skin.

: 1002

00:58:47,596 --> 00:58:48,787

Magically.

: 1003

00:58:48,889 --> 00:58:53,967

Well, no, it's- it's- if you put something like a- Mm-hmm.

: 1004

00:58:53,967 --> 00:58:56,741

You pressed it on your skin and then-

: 1005

00:58:56,847 --> 00:58:57,731

they're pinching.

: 1006

00:58:57,731 --> 00:58:58,844

Okay, I see.

: 1007

00:58:58,844 --> 00:59:00,228

Yeah, I got it.

: 1008

00:59:00,228 --> 00:59:07,030

They're pressing over you as openings and then closing to nothing.

: 1009

00:59:07,030 --> 00:59:11,150

Hmm, that sounds like I'm gonna get little bit of scars there.

: 1010

00:59:11,150 --> 00:59:12,910

Um, who's up?

: 1011

00:59:12,910 --> 00:59:14,390

It is...

: 1012

00:59:14,390 --> 00:59:16,610

Agent Ian.

: 1013

00:59:16,610 --> 00:59:20,610

Agent Ian makes it onto the scene and rolls San.

: 1014

00:59:21,770 --> 00:59:23,190

I do, yes.

: 1015

00:59:23,210 --> 00:59:24,170

alright, cool.

: 1016

00:59:24,170 --> 00:59:29,230

Agent Liam got a 13, a 60, so that's alright.

: 1017

00:59:29,230 --> 00:59:32,950

He just takes one and he starts blasting.

: 1018

00:59:33,370 --> 00:59:38,210

He got a 94 on a 50, but at least it wasn't a crit.

: 1019

00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:39,148

Thank you.

: 1020

00:59:39,148 --> 00:59:41,353

He doesn't shoot mole in the other knee.

: 1021

00:59:41,353 --> 00:59:43,061

Okay, okay.

: 1022

00:59:43,143 --> 00:59:45,055

walk in and execute mode.

: 1023

00:59:45,055 --> 00:59:45,916

No.

: 1024

00:59:46,769 --> 00:59:47,615

So good.

: 1025

00:59:47,615 --> 00:59:48,389

It's so good.

: 1026

00:59:48,389 --> 00:59:49,284

You're like, I'll help you.

: 1027

00:59:49,284 --> 00:59:50,402

no, fuck, sorry.

: 1028

00:59:50,402 --> 00:59:52,704

This is what I was hired for, remember that.

: 1029

00:59:52,704 --> 00:59:53,981

Yeah

: 1030

00:59:55,106 --> 00:59:57,703

You are not guarding my body at all.

: 1031

00:59:57,890 --> 00:59:59,003

You're guarding his mind.

: 1032

00:59:59,003 --> 01:00:01,257

You got him out of the freeze.

: 1033

01:00:01,860 --> 01:00:03,382

For his benefit.

: 1034

01:00:03,622 --> 01:00:12,188

Uh, the next up is the cop down the hallway who is going to run up next to Agent Liam.

: 1035

01:00:12,188 --> 01:00:24,246

Look inside, roll a San, roll a 70, take three San damage and drop his gun onto the

ground.

: 1036

01:00:24,246 --> 01:00:25,376

He begins to back up.

: 1037

01:00:25,376 --> 01:00:27,850

uh Next is Miles.

: 1038

01:00:27,850 --> 01:00:30,613

I think mole's next if he's awake now.

: 1039

01:00:31,816 --> 01:00:32,627

yeah, guess I am.

: 1040

01:00:32,627 --> 01:00:35,530

Yeah, it's okay.

: 1041

01:00:35,530 --> 01:00:36,964

That's alright.

: 1042

01:00:36,964 --> 01:00:38,947

Question for you, is the...

: 1043

01:00:38,947 --> 01:00:43,774

there's air moving currently, is it pushing out from the hole or sucking into the hole?

: 1044

01:00:44,162 --> 01:00:45,366

How close are you looking?

: 1045

01:00:45,366 --> 01:00:57,835

I mean, as close as I could see, think with Mole, well first off, Mole wakes up and from

this thing and he's like, Paulson494Paul, and then he's like, what the fuck?

: 1046

01:00:57,835 --> 01:01:04,380

And looks down at his leg that's been blown to pieces and kind of stares at like you guys

and then at the hole and is like, fuck.

: 1047

01:01:04,380 --> 01:01:12,445

I think what he wants to know is if he could throw something into the hole, would it like

get sucked into the hole itself or would it get like pushed out?

: 1048

01:01:12,445 --> 01:01:13,474

Do what I mean?

: 1049

01:01:13,474 --> 01:01:15,598

Yeah, give me alertness.

: 1050

01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:16,940

Don't fuck it up.

: 1051

01:01:16,940 --> 01:01:19,270

I fucked it up, 61 on 25.

: 1052

01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:26,872

One, you are sure, you're sure that the air is rushing from the room into the hole.

: 1053

01:01:26,872 --> 01:01:29,033

You can feel it moving on your skin.

: 1054

01:01:29,033 --> 01:01:35,834

The fuck up here is, I think, looking a little too close and looking through the gaps.

: 1055

01:01:37,595 --> 01:01:41,636

Because the hole isn't actually black anymore.

: 1056

01:01:41,636 --> 01:01:45,057

You can see a little ways through it.

: 1057

01:01:45,137 --> 01:01:49,130

And there is something on the other side.

: 1058

01:01:49,130 --> 01:01:53,102

a deep, dim redness further through.

: 1059

01:01:53,102 --> 01:01:55,466

Can he shout out, throw something at the hole?

: 1060

01:01:55,466 --> 01:01:56,587

think that...

: 1061

01:01:57,750 --> 01:01:58,811

I don't know.

: 1062

01:01:58,811 --> 01:02:00,694

Truly he's just like panicked.

: 1063

01:02:00,694 --> 01:02:03,062

Like throw something at the hole, cover it up.

: 1064

01:02:03,062 --> 01:02:05,305

Yeah, he can totally shat that, for sure.

: 1065

01:02:05,305 --> 01:02:06,257

And he does so.

: 1066

01:02:06,257 --> 01:02:08,249

Did anyone bring grenades?

: 1067

01:02:08,249 --> 01:02:09,150

No.

: 1068

01:02:10,673 --> 01:02:11,690

Throw it at the hole.

: 1069

01:02:11,690 --> 01:02:14,515

I could just chuck the laptop into the hole and see if it closes up.

: 1070

01:02:14,515 --> 01:02:16,108

How big is the hole right now?

: 1071

01:02:16,108 --> 01:02:21,750

Right now, ah it's probably about 10 inches in diameter.

: 1072

01:02:21,750 --> 01:02:22,395

Okay.

: 1073

01:02:22,395 --> 01:02:23,783

Is it getting bigger?

: 1074

01:02:23,783 --> 01:02:24,744

Yes.

: 1075

01:02:25,376 --> 01:02:29,146

It gets bigger every time a new tendril pushes through.

: 1076

01:02:29,146 --> 01:02:35,055

It sort of shoves the edge to the- It's prying.

: 1077

01:02:35,055 --> 01:02:37,644

There's a prying action being taken.

: 1078

01:02:37,644 --> 01:02:39,697

Yeah, are you gonna throw your laptop?

: 1079

01:02:39,697 --> 01:02:40,748

Can I throw my laptop?

: 1080

01:02:40,748 --> 01:02:42,707

I would love to throw my laptop at that thing.

: 1081

01:02:42,707 --> 01:02:44,242

yeah, okay.

: 1082

01:02:46,636 --> 01:02:48,750

Can you puncture the battery first?

: 1083

01:02:48,750 --> 01:02:51,235

Fucking 87 on a 60.

: 1084

01:02:51,235 --> 01:03:01,218

I just, I think I tried to throw it but then I like go on my bad knee and I'm like, oh

fuck, and it drops down to the ground.

: 1085

01:03:01,218 --> 01:03:02,584

Yeah, sorry.

: 1086

01:03:02,584 --> 01:03:03,810

What up, Miles?

: 1087

01:03:03,810 --> 01:03:04,970

You're on the scene.

: 1088

01:03:04,970 --> 01:03:09,095

Miles is stopping as he's seen this cop go in there.

: 1089

01:03:09,095 --> 01:03:11,660

It looks like a full room and he's

: 1090

01:03:11,660 --> 01:03:12,600

The cop doesn't go in.

: 1091

01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:17,086

The cop is outside the room looking in, backing up in...

: 1092

01:03:17,086 --> 01:03:18,582

Yeah, horror.

: 1093

01:03:18,582 --> 01:03:23,825

Yeah, and Miles will think like something's going down and there's gunshots.

: 1094

01:03:23,825 --> 01:03:26,002

I need to go find this motherfucker.

: 1095

01:03:26,002 --> 01:03:27,527

I need to go find Arav.

: 1096

01:03:27,527 --> 01:03:33,556

And I remember what room he was in, so I'm just going to take off toward the room he's in

as fast as possible.

: 1097

01:03:33,556 --> 01:03:34,037

Awesome.

: 1098

01:03:34,037 --> 01:03:36,509

Yeah, you're gonna skip this whole thing.

: 1099

01:03:38,192 --> 01:03:39,566

This is looking in at all.

: 1100

01:03:39,566 --> 01:03:40,738

No, absolutely not.

: 1101

01:03:40,738 --> 01:03:42,369

Hell yeah, hell yeah.

: 1102

01:03:42,842 --> 01:03:47,982

When everyone else is reminiscing about this or talking about it at all, you'd be like, I

don't fucking know what to

: 1103

01:03:47,982 --> 01:03:48,944

know what you're talking about.

: 1104

01:03:48,944 --> 01:03:49,665

Yeah.

: 1105

01:03:49,665 --> 01:03:52,669

I don't know if I can get to where he's at in this six seconds.

: 1106

01:03:52,669 --> 01:03:53,176

Yeah, sure.

: 1107

01:03:53,176 --> 01:03:58,061

Okay, you can get upstairs and you've, what's your navigate?

: 1108

01:04:00,511 --> 01:04:01,805

Yeah

: 1109

01:04:03,523 --> 01:04:10,383

I'll let you roll navigate to find the room he was in, having only seen it from the

outside.

: 1110

01:04:10,383 --> 01:04:11,790

What's base 10, 20?

: 1111

01:04:11,790 --> 01:04:13,514

10 and I rolled a 78.

: 1112

01:04:13,514 --> 01:04:15,848

I'm just gonna go up and I'm gonna do it.

: 1113

01:04:15,848 --> 01:04:22,453

Yeah, but I'm gonna shout um if there are other cops up there like where is a Rav?

: 1114

01:04:22,453 --> 01:04:23,470

Grab him.

: 1115

01:04:23,470 --> 01:04:35,071

uh The cops are in the process of like running downstairs um One of them pauses like as

you're going past him is like he's fourth door.

: 1116

01:04:35,071 --> 01:04:35,792

It's his office.

: 1117

01:04:35,792 --> 01:04:36,908

He's in there

: 1118

01:04:36,908 --> 01:04:39,628

Yeah, I'm just gonna get as close to that as I can.

: 1119

01:04:39,839 --> 01:04:42,261

Yeah, you can get to the door.

: 1120

01:04:43,464 --> 01:04:45,605

Okay, Magpie, it's your turn.

: 1121

01:04:45,812 --> 01:04:49,550

Mole was insistent on trying to get something into this hole, right?

: 1122

01:04:49,550 --> 01:04:53,086

What's the tentacles, if we're tug of war on Mr.

: 1123

01:04:53,086 --> 01:04:54,830

Mole, who's winning that?

: 1124

01:04:54,830 --> 01:04:56,221

Does it feel like?

: 1125

01:04:57,122 --> 01:04:59,614

I think you lost last time.

: 1126

01:04:59,614 --> 01:05:01,576

Yeah, yeah, no that does make sense.

: 1127

01:05:01,576 --> 01:05:13,896

Yeah, okay Being like I guess what I'm asking is like does it feel as though I am

contending with a semi truck or m Do I need to try and find a different way to free him?

: 1128

01:05:13,926 --> 01:05:16,230

You can move mull.

: 1129

01:05:16,230 --> 01:05:18,794

These are made...

: 1130

01:05:18,794 --> 01:05:20,217

They're not made of steel.

: 1131

01:05:20,217 --> 01:05:21,559

They're made of...

: 1132

01:05:21,559 --> 01:05:25,466

upon further inspection, you don't know what they're made of, but it's not hard.

: 1133

01:05:25,466 --> 01:05:28,570

They flex, they bend, they twist.

: 1134

01:05:28,588 --> 01:05:29,359

Yeah.

: 1135

01:05:29,359 --> 01:05:30,160

Okay.

: 1136

01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:37,790

I think I'm going to try and pull him through the door and close the door on the tentacle.

: 1137

01:05:38,670 --> 01:05:42,070

We're going to do opposed strength checks.

: 1138

01:05:42,070 --> 01:05:45,130

I've got a 31, which is a success.

: 1139

01:05:45,550 --> 01:05:48,370

Got a 99.

: 1140

01:05:48,370 --> 01:05:49,550

Bye.

: 1141

01:05:51,834 --> 01:05:56,583

What is we are so at fuck I don't know you have different

: 1142

01:05:56,583 --> 01:05:59,971

My strength is a 6- I was looking for an 80.

: 1143

01:05:59,971 --> 01:06:02,858

I oh had a pretty good chance.

: 1144

01:06:03,209 --> 01:06:04,640

Yeah, you did.

: 1145

01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:05,560

my god.

: 1146

01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:11,337

Yeah, those were, that's bad.

: 1147

01:06:11,579 --> 01:06:15,495

What do you think is a good consequence of fucking this up?

: 1148

01:06:15,495 --> 01:06:27,728

I think it is holding on to the leg that is holding on by fibrous tendons and I'm pulling

on that.

: 1149

01:06:27,728 --> 01:06:29,272

like, I think...

: 1150

01:06:29,272 --> 01:06:32,054

is critical clip failure for me is what you're saying.

: 1151

01:06:32,054 --> 01:06:33,547

Yeah, yeah, uh

: 1152

01:06:33,547 --> 01:06:35,626

what the last one was too, my guy.

: 1153

01:06:35,626 --> 01:06:37,228

It's true, whatever.

: 1154

01:06:38,686 --> 01:06:40,522

I'm the tank, it's fine.

: 1155

01:06:40,522 --> 01:06:42,978

You're the tank, yeah I guess now.

: 1156

01:06:43,550 --> 01:06:48,414

I think rather than what do you think damaging mole further?

: 1157

01:06:49,455 --> 01:06:59,730

I Think what might happen is you're pulling you're pulling you're you've got moles arm

like you're doing that thing where you've grabbed him by his wrist and he's grabbed you by

: 1158

01:06:59,730 --> 01:07:06,249

your wrist and you're pulling and he's screaming because the thing has him by the leg and

You slip

: 1159

01:07:07,144 --> 01:07:13,476

And Mull goes flying back, back into the room, back towards this...

: 1160

01:07:13,756 --> 01:07:14,586

the core...

: 1161

01:07:14,586 --> 01:07:31,811

the core of tentacles uh and these ropey, twisty tendrils just wrap around his arms and

around his waist and around his ribs and around his neck and around his mouth and across

: 1162

01:07:31,811 --> 01:07:32,451

his eyes.

: 1163

01:07:32,451 --> 01:07:34,942

What do you think?

: 1164

01:07:34,942 --> 01:07:35,917

Better or worse?

: 1165

01:07:35,917 --> 01:07:38,877

I, Jordan, would just like to say that I'm sorry.

: 1166

01:07:41,648 --> 01:07:43,292

It's totally fine.

: 1167

01:07:43,628 --> 01:07:44,386

Ha ha!

: 1168

01:07:44,386 --> 01:07:46,296

Whoopsie daisies, dude.

: 1169

01:07:46,296 --> 01:07:48,339

whoop, you know, you can't win them all.

: 1170

01:07:48,339 --> 01:07:51,332

Sometimes you just get shot by your partner.

: 1171

01:07:52,131 --> 01:08:00,009

To be fair, I have a good history of like the first time my character needs to do the main

thing that it's there for.

: 1172

01:08:00,009 --> 01:08:02,114

Just everything will go wrong.

: 1173

01:08:02,114 --> 01:08:02,897

So.

: 1174

01:08:04,371 --> 01:08:06,472

We run Hot or Cold, I've noticed.

: 1175

01:08:06,472 --> 01:08:13,994

We'll have full episodes where we just are killing it, and then full episodes where it's

just critical failure after critical failure.

: 1176

01:08:15,215 --> 01:08:19,757

Yeah, no, that sounds great to me, that he is being pulled into this whole thing.

: 1177

01:08:19,757 --> 01:08:22,778

How far does he get into that with a critical failure?

: 1178

01:08:23,106 --> 01:08:24,408

What's Morrison up to?

: 1179

01:08:24,408 --> 01:08:25,884

Well, I had a plan.

: 1180

01:08:28,122 --> 01:08:29,249

What was it?

: 1181

01:08:29,249 --> 01:08:36,103

Well, what I wanted to do is I'm imagining that since mole fucked up throwing his laptop,

it's laying on the floor.

: 1182

01:08:36,103 --> 01:08:37,113

Sure.

: 1183

01:08:37,113 --> 01:08:44,177

I really do want to like pop the like lithium battery out, stab it with my knife and throw

that at the hole.

: 1184

01:08:44,177 --> 01:08:46,007

uh

: 1185

01:08:46,007 --> 01:08:47,664

for sure let you do that.

: 1186

01:08:47,664 --> 01:08:50,830

If you succeed, you're gonna kill Mul.

: 1187

01:08:50,830 --> 01:08:53,050

Okay, yeah, that's...

: 1188

01:08:53,050 --> 01:08:54,630

that was my concern.

: 1189

01:08:55,650 --> 01:08:57,690

That's why I say I had a plan.

: 1190

01:08:58,029 --> 01:08:59,856

That's a pretty good concern.

: 1191

01:09:00,081 --> 01:09:01,398

I'll let you do it.

: 1192

01:09:01,398 --> 01:09:04,245

And no hard feelings, if you kill me.

: 1193

01:09:04,768 --> 01:09:07,115

I said no hard feelings, Jimmy, if you kill me.

: 1194

01:09:07,115 --> 01:09:09,680

Just remember, who your game mom is.

: 1195

01:09:10,216 --> 01:09:11,162

You

: 1196

01:09:11,657 --> 01:09:14,429

We do know who really killed you, but...

: 1197

01:09:16,672 --> 01:09:28,062

Yeah, mean there's something to be said for the last shot fired especially when I could

just pull him away Yeah, I guess that's probably what I do is I I don't know like try to

: 1198

01:09:28,062 --> 01:09:32,796

peel the tentacles off I you know, he's essentially like completely wrapped at this point.

: 1199

01:09:32,796 --> 01:09:37,290

I imagine it's like when people try to just pull Yeah, cut him out.

: 1200

01:09:37,290 --> 01:09:38,230

Yeah

: 1201

01:09:38,274 --> 01:09:41,205

Gimme a uh melee weapons.

: 1202

01:09:41,750 --> 01:09:43,053

Don't fuck it up.

: 1203

01:09:43,260 --> 01:09:44,643

that is a...

: 1204

01:09:44,643 --> 01:09:45,675

That's a pass.

: 1205

01:09:45,675 --> 01:09:46,277

What is my melee?

: 1206

01:09:46,277 --> 01:09:47,270

It's a seven.

: 1207

01:09:47,270 --> 01:09:48,493

What is my melee weapons?

: 1208

01:09:48,493 --> 01:09:49,694

It's pretty good.

: 1209

01:09:49,994 --> 01:09:50,962

50!

: 1210

01:09:50,962 --> 01:09:51,844

Seven will do it?

: 1211

01:09:51,844 --> 01:09:53,027

Okay.

: 1212

01:09:53,027 --> 01:09:54,889

Yeah, roll damage.

: 1213

01:09:55,214 --> 01:09:58,594

That's a fine knife, it's a 1D4?

: 1214

01:09:58,594 --> 01:09:59,894

Yeah, 1D4.

: 1215

01:09:59,894 --> 01:10:00,748

Uh, 2.

: 1216

01:10:00,748 --> 01:10:05,500

Okay, you are able to pull quite a lot of these off of them all.

: 1217

01:10:05,500 --> 01:10:08,601

You're you've got them most of the way clear.

: 1218

01:10:08,601 --> 01:10:12,193

um You notice two odd things.

: 1219

01:10:12,193 --> 01:10:17,925

This is the second time you've uh sort of attacked these with a knife, right?

: 1220

01:10:18,405 --> 01:10:20,746

You haven't actually cut any of them.

: 1221

01:10:20,746 --> 01:10:29,850

They are responding to the knife's edge and moving back as if in pain, but there are no

visible marks.

: 1222

01:10:29,910 --> 01:10:30,860

Hmm.

: 1223

01:10:30,860 --> 01:10:31,688

Hmm.

: 1224

01:10:31,688 --> 01:10:32,549

Okay.

: 1225

01:10:32,738 --> 01:10:34,963

This is an FYI.

: 1226

01:10:35,763 --> 01:10:38,988

Yeah, really wish I had that flamethrower right now.

: 1227

01:10:38,988 --> 01:10:44,124

Should have gotten a legal flamethrower, Should have spent a bond.

: 1228

01:10:44,746 --> 01:10:46,948

Then you could be the one to kill Mul.

: 1229

01:10:46,948 --> 01:10:48,230

Mul, you're-

: 1230

01:10:49,526 --> 01:10:51,127

Okay, here's my question for you.

: 1231

01:10:51,127 --> 01:10:53,768

I have on my sheet that I had a pistol that I hold.

: 1232

01:10:53,768 --> 01:10:55,868

Is that okay for me to have?

: 1233

01:10:56,206 --> 01:10:57,568

I think he's...

: 1234

01:10:58,790 --> 01:10:59,520

Get my gun out.

: 1235

01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:02,131

So yeah, this may be the last time.

: 1236

01:11:02,131 --> 01:11:06,572

So he has, I had targeting, a targeting laser on the pistol.

: 1237

01:11:07,893 --> 01:11:10,234

Okay, because there's just so much shit.

: 1238

01:11:10,381 --> 01:11:13,029

or, okay, I think you can actually.

: 1239

01:11:13,029 --> 01:11:14,561

What's your firearms?

: 1240

01:11:14,641 --> 01:11:16,608

Firearms is 40 %

: 1241

01:11:16,608 --> 01:11:18,827

Okay, roll this with a plus 40.

: 1242

01:11:18,827 --> 01:11:19,127

Okay.

: 1243

01:11:19,127 --> 01:11:19,918

uh

: 1244

01:11:19,918 --> 01:11:20,458

Cool.

: 1245

01:11:20,458 --> 01:11:24,918

That sounds good, because he's just gonna pull it out from his holster and fucking start

firing.

: 1246

01:11:24,918 --> 01:11:26,498

Screaming in pain.

: 1247

01:11:26,998 --> 01:11:28,358

Are you fucking kidding me?

: 1248

01:11:28,358 --> 01:11:31,018

A 78 on weight 80.

: 1249

01:11:31,018 --> 01:11:32,018

That's good.

: 1250

01:11:32,338 --> 01:11:32,398

Yeah.

: 1251

01:11:32,398 --> 01:11:35,278

Oh man.

: 1252

01:11:36,118 --> 01:11:38,358

Okay, so he pulls that out.

: 1253

01:11:38,598 --> 01:11:42,518

of course.

: 1254

01:11:43,397 --> 01:11:45,495

It's got the little like the hand size

: 1255

01:11:45,495 --> 01:11:46,422

Yeah

: 1256

01:11:46,636 --> 01:11:48,357

Daringer, it's a Daringer.

: 1257

01:11:48,357 --> 01:11:49,487

Six.

: 1258

01:11:49,487 --> 01:11:50,068

Six.

: 1259

01:11:50,068 --> 01:11:51,008

Okay.

: 1260

01:11:51,008 --> 01:11:51,688

All righty.

: 1261

01:11:51,688 --> 01:11:56,250

um Yeah.

: 1262

01:11:56,250 --> 01:12:03,349

Every time you're squeezing shots off, you're blasting away and every time you...

: 1263

01:12:03,349 --> 01:12:12,778

Every time you're pretty sure you marked a tentacle, it like rears back, it flinches, it

shakes, it lets go of whatever it was holding.

: 1264

01:12:12,778 --> 01:12:13,784

um

: 1265

01:12:13,784 --> 01:12:16,215

but there's no blood, there's no holes.

: 1266

01:12:16,215 --> 01:12:23,097

Well, there's a lot of holes, but you can't tell if you've made any new ones, um which

isn't, you know, ideal.

: 1267

01:12:23,097 --> 01:12:31,540

uh Next is Agent Liam, ah who is going to uh squeeze the trigger.

: 1268

01:12:31,540 --> 01:12:37,422

He's got a 47, uh which is not enough, unfortunately.

: 1269

01:12:37,646 --> 01:12:40,315

We're a bunch of jackasses right now.

: 1270

01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,686

Totally fucking everything up.

: 1271

01:12:43,694 --> 01:12:52,351

Uh, that cop that was hanging out in the hallway, turns heel, to run and begins to run.

: 1272

01:12:52,351 --> 01:12:53,762

Miles, what are you up to?

: 1273

01:12:53,762 --> 01:12:57,504

Yeah, Miles slams through the door into the office.

: 1274

01:12:57,504 --> 01:13:02,948

He runs up to Arav, pulls out his pistol and just immediately smacks him on the side of

the head with it.

: 1275

01:13:02,948 --> 01:13:08,612

Not like, not like, he's trying to hurt him, but it's like more of an intimidation tactic.

: 1276

01:13:08,612 --> 01:13:09,272

Yeah, sure.

: 1277

01:13:09,272 --> 01:13:10,690

Is this the room the safe is in?

: 1278

01:13:10,690 --> 01:13:14,042

melee weapons.

: 1279

01:13:14,042 --> 01:13:21,996

you hit and deal damage with this, will get a to any persuasion rolls following this up.

: 1280

01:13:22,116 --> 01:13:25,478

You've got a plus 20 to this because he's handcuffed to a chair.

: 1281

01:13:25,486 --> 01:13:26,446

Beautiful.

: 1282

01:13:26,446 --> 01:13:33,086

Okay, so my melee's at 50 and I rolled a 63.

: 1283

01:13:33,286 --> 01:13:35,126

with the, thank God.

: 1284

01:13:35,126 --> 01:13:35,766

Yes.

: 1285

01:13:35,766 --> 01:13:38,926

So you would have been hilarious if you run in there and just like swing wildly.

: 1286

01:13:38,926 --> 01:13:39,986

Miss.

: 1287

01:13:40,472 --> 01:13:41,292

fall.

: 1288

01:13:41,292 --> 01:13:42,614

What's your strength?

: 1289

01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:45,998

Give me a D4 plus one?

: 1290

01:13:45,998 --> 01:13:48,526

Okay, that'll be a three.

: 1291

01:13:48,526 --> 01:13:49,928

Yes, plus one.

: 1292

01:13:49,928 --> 01:13:51,688

Ah, in a second.

: 1293

01:13:51,694 --> 01:13:54,974

13 to 16 plus one 17 to 18 plus two.

: 1294

01:13:56,374 --> 01:13:57,754

I have 16.

: 1295

01:13:58,014 --> 01:14:01,854

So I smack him on the head.

: 1296

01:14:01,854 --> 01:14:03,554

Is the safe in this room?

: 1297

01:14:03,665 --> 01:14:04,557

yeah, there's a wall safe.

: 1298

01:14:04,557 --> 01:14:07,064

You- how much damage did you just deal to this guy?

: 1299

01:14:07,064 --> 01:14:07,766

Three.

: 1300

01:14:07,766 --> 01:14:08,686

Okay.

: 1301

01:14:09,911 --> 01:14:11,273

Pistol weapon.

: 1302

01:14:11,532 --> 01:14:15,180

essentially I say, what the fuck is the combination to that safe?

: 1303

01:14:15,180 --> 01:14:17,518

Roll persuade with a plus 20.

: 1304

01:14:17,518 --> 01:14:18,798

Alright.

: 1305

01:14:18,938 --> 01:14:21,902

95 over 40.

: 1306

01:14:21,902 --> 01:14:24,657

Uh, he is terrified.

: 1307

01:14:24,657 --> 01:14:26,029

Okay.

: 1308

01:14:26,029 --> 01:14:29,384

And just sits there looking at you stunned.

: 1309

01:14:29,458 --> 01:14:39,663

Yeah, you know, that's probably my turn, but to end the turn, I'm going to put the barrel

of the pistol up against his temple and I'm going to wrap my arm around his neck and start

: 1310

01:14:39,663 --> 01:14:40,584

choking him.

: 1311

01:14:40,584 --> 01:14:41,654

Hell yeah.

: 1312

01:14:41,654 --> 01:14:44,837

Okay, let's fucking go.

: 1313

01:14:44,837 --> 01:14:45,539

All right.

: 1314

01:14:45,539 --> 01:14:47,241

Magpie, it's your turn.

: 1315

01:14:47,276 --> 01:14:50,273

You got six seconds in here with me, brother!

: 1316

01:14:50,573 --> 01:14:51,554

You

: 1317

01:14:52,416 --> 01:14:55,888

Love that.

: 1318

01:14:55,908 --> 01:14:57,088

Okay.

: 1319

01:14:57,409 --> 01:15:08,595

I haven't been particularly effective uh thus far, but I think that just calls for a

different tactic.

: 1320

01:15:08,595 --> 01:15:21,080

um I'm still a pretty big lumbering guy, and so I'm going to kind of like gear up for a

bowl rush so that like if Morrison is like

: 1321

01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:32,182

peeling some of these tentacles off to the side, I'm gonna come from like an angle that's

behind him and try and pull them, pull Mo like opposite the direction that Morrison is

: 1322

01:15:32,182 --> 01:15:39,252

pulling as I just kind of like tackle him in his midsection and try to just pull him out

of the mass of tentacles here.

: 1323

01:15:39,252 --> 01:15:40,335

Yeah, okay.

: 1324

01:15:40,335 --> 01:15:41,449

what do you want to roll for that?

: 1325

01:15:41,449 --> 01:15:41,774

Ah!

: 1326

01:15:41,774 --> 01:15:46,234

I think it'd be strength or athletics, but it's up to you.

: 1327

01:15:46,954 --> 01:15:47,839

Strength is better.

: 1328

01:15:47,839 --> 01:15:48,589

I prefer that one.

: 1329

01:15:48,589 --> 01:15:51,661

I would even accept melee, or not melee.

: 1330

01:15:51,782 --> 01:15:55,704

Well, I would accept melee if you're using a knife to do it, but you could also do

unarmed.

: 1331

01:15:55,704 --> 01:15:57,218

Okay, gotcha.

: 1332

01:15:57,218 --> 01:15:59,505

Just whatever's best for I think it's brute force.

: 1333

01:15:59,630 --> 01:16:07,630

Yeah, 77 is a critical success because we're dealing with a here, okay

: 1334

01:16:07,630 --> 01:16:09,154

Hell yeah.

: 1335

01:16:09,154 --> 01:16:10,175

Success

: 1336

01:16:10,531 --> 01:16:13,947

on strength, I'm imagining is like a

: 1337

01:16:13,947 --> 01:16:14,590

check.

: 1338

01:16:14,590 --> 01:16:17,031

I'm coming for you brother!

: 1339

01:16:17,031 --> 01:16:20,238

and just like grabbing him and tackling him out of it.

: 1340

01:16:20,238 --> 01:16:26,043

um You rip him free of the tentacles.

: 1341

01:16:26,043 --> 01:16:28,445

Mul, this is excruciating.

: 1342

01:16:29,527 --> 01:16:36,893

Your clothes are, and your skin is full of holes, but you're not being held anymore.

: 1343

01:16:36,893 --> 01:16:38,104

So that's terrific.

: 1344

01:16:38,104 --> 01:16:40,034

Feels good to be free, free at last.

: 1345

01:16:40,034 --> 01:16:41,204

Feels good.

: 1346

01:16:41,204 --> 01:16:42,670

Morrison, what are you doing?

: 1347

01:16:42,670 --> 01:16:48,226

Um, do I notice any change in the tentacles behavior once Mul and I are both free?

: 1348

01:16:49,613 --> 01:16:50,290

Okay.

: 1349

01:16:50,290 --> 01:16:55,257

they're still sort of questing around the room.

: 1350

01:16:56,961 --> 01:17:00,300

like, yeah, I mentioned like a horsehair worm.

: 1351

01:17:00,300 --> 01:17:06,624

Yeah, so then I would like to do my previous plan of stab the battery and then chuck it

into the hole.

: 1352

01:17:06,624 --> 01:17:08,512

Say goodbye to your laptop, mole.

: 1353

01:17:08,512 --> 01:17:11,008

I think I'm just nodding emphatically.

: 1354

01:17:11,442 --> 01:17:12,674

Go for it.

: 1355

01:17:12,674 --> 01:17:14,642

That's what you want.

: 1356

01:17:14,642 --> 01:17:17,766

I do believe throwing a grenade is straight dex.

: 1357

01:17:17,766 --> 01:17:21,678

I believe throwing a laptop grenade is a dex minus 20.

: 1358

01:17:21,678 --> 01:17:23,818

Okay, that's still a pass.

: 1359

01:17:23,818 --> 01:17:28,218

got 39 and minus 20 would be 55.

: 1360

01:17:28,218 --> 01:17:30,578

So 39 on a modified 55.

: 1361

01:17:30,802 --> 01:17:32,925

I love it.

: 1362

01:17:32,925 --> 01:17:50,844

Yeah, you whip this battery such that it lodges at the sort of hole in space and at the

sort of root of a uh branching, splitting area of the tentacles and nothing happens for

: 1363

01:17:50,844 --> 01:17:53,282

like three seconds.

: 1364

01:17:53,282 --> 01:17:59,817

before the lithium ion battery erupts into gouts of blue and red fire.

: 1365

01:17:59,817 --> 01:18:02,682

Could you please give me a D12?

: 1366

01:18:03,982 --> 01:18:06,188

Oh my god

: 1367

01:18:07,022 --> 01:18:08,713

ah Seven.

: 1368

01:18:08,962 --> 01:18:11,203

Alright, you deal seven damage.

: 1369

01:18:11,203 --> 01:18:12,204

Okay.

: 1370

01:18:12,204 --> 01:18:15,285

It is the tentacles turn.

: 1371

01:18:15,285 --> 01:18:32,042

And as quickly as they came, the tentacles whip back out of the room, leaving nothing

except for a smoldering, smoking, burning laptop, a headless woman, and two men

: 1372

01:18:32,042 --> 01:18:36,114

impersonating federal agents next to a corpse.

: 1373

01:18:36,140 --> 01:18:38,156

Are we still in turn-based mode?

: 1374

01:18:38,156 --> 01:18:41,517

you might want to be, it depends on what you want to do about all these cops.

: 1375

01:18:42,198 --> 01:18:46,721

yeah, Morrison wants to yell, go get that guy, the cop that ran.

: 1376

01:18:46,721 --> 01:18:47,762

Agent Hickey.

: 1377

01:18:47,762 --> 01:18:50,303

Or not agent, Officer Hickey.

: 1378

01:18:51,404 --> 01:18:52,634

Or can I go get him?

: 1379

01:18:52,634 --> 01:18:55,640

I don't know, I assumed I wasn't really in a state to run after him, but...

: 1380

01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,646

Yeah, I'm to figure out what more state is right now.

: 1381

01:18:58,646 --> 01:19:00,450

Not great, you got kneecapped.

: 1382

01:19:00,450 --> 01:19:01,672

Yeah, I did get kneecapped.

: 1383

01:19:01,672 --> 01:19:06,397

ah I guess first thought...

: 1384

01:19:06,429 --> 01:19:06,929

go ahead.

: 1385

01:19:06,929 --> 01:19:07,381

Yeah.

: 1386

01:19:07,381 --> 01:19:11,627

will let you chase down Officer Hickey if you give me a con check.

: 1387

01:19:11,627 --> 01:19:12,441

Me or Mole?

: 1388

01:19:12,441 --> 01:19:13,465

Or both?

: 1389

01:19:13,536 --> 01:19:15,569

Well, you have taken your turn.

: 1390

01:19:15,569 --> 01:19:16,180

Yeah.

: 1391

01:19:16,180 --> 01:19:17,592

Tentacles act after you.

: 1392

01:19:17,592 --> 01:19:18,594

Mull is up.

: 1393

01:19:18,594 --> 01:19:20,637

It is Mull's turn to do stuff.

: 1394

01:19:20,637 --> 01:19:24,288

If you pass a contract, I'll let you run on that leg.

: 1395

01:19:24,288 --> 01:19:24,960

Okay.

: 1396

01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:32,087

Yeah, I think we probably need to get the one person who's seeing what's going on because

he's the only cop so far that actually saw all that shit, right?

: 1397

01:19:32,087 --> 01:19:33,661

everyone else is coming downstairs though.

: 1398

01:19:33,661 --> 01:19:35,086

Well, I guess you don't know.

: 1399

01:19:35,086 --> 01:19:37,926

Yeah, let me, uh, yeah, okay.

: 1400

01:19:37,926 --> 01:19:41,566

Holy fucking shit, a 71 on a 50%, so no.

: 1401

01:19:41,590 --> 01:19:44,494

you start to jog and collapse.

: 1402

01:19:44,494 --> 01:19:47,147

Yeah, I'm just like, oh fuck my knee.

: 1403

01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:49,190

Alright, uh it is...

: 1404

01:19:49,190 --> 01:19:50,633

yeah, okay.

: 1405

01:19:50,633 --> 01:19:52,555

It's Agent Liam's turn.

: 1406

01:19:52,555 --> 01:19:54,146

And, he...

: 1407

01:19:54,146 --> 01:19:54,977

Oops.

: 1408

01:19:54,977 --> 01:19:55,937

Sorry, one sec.

: 1409

01:19:55,937 --> 01:19:57,006

Got my die.

: 1410

01:19:57,006 --> 01:19:59,249

You cannot believe how many failures we had.

: 1411

01:19:59,249 --> 01:20:01,091

That's fucking hilarious.

: 1412

01:20:01,091 --> 01:20:02,873

It's my favorite thing.

: 1413

01:20:02,906 --> 01:20:05,757

It is excellent.

: 1414

01:20:05,757 --> 01:20:06,510

I love it.

: 1415

01:20:06,510 --> 01:20:15,350

Alright, Agent Liam gets a 39 and yeah, uh, rolls a...

: 1416

01:20:15,350 --> 01:20:22,350

rolls a 12 and executes that running cop from 60 feet.

: 1417

01:20:22,350 --> 01:20:26,846

Just shoots him right in the back of the head as he is exiting the building.

: 1418

01:20:26,846 --> 01:20:29,451

I had no idea that's where you guys were going with this.

: 1419

01:20:29,451 --> 01:20:32,056

Yeah.

: 1420

01:20:32,056 --> 01:20:33,679

Hell No, that's not what I meant at all.

: 1421

01:20:33,679 --> 01:20:38,368

I thought we were gonna pull him back and say like, ah tell your buddies this is real.

: 1422

01:20:38,368 --> 01:20:39,549

Oh, fuck.

: 1423

01:20:39,788 --> 01:20:40,644

Oops.

: 1424

01:20:40,644 --> 01:20:42,128

Is that what you wanted?

: 1425

01:20:42,195 --> 01:20:44,223

I'm fucking fine with him killing him.

: 1426

01:20:44,223 --> 01:20:45,734

if you guys don't want to

: 1427

01:20:46,284 --> 01:20:47,876

You said get.

: 1428

01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:51,810

Agent Liam turns to you and says, said get.

: 1429

01:20:52,726 --> 01:20:56,164

What does get mean kill like execute?

: 1430

01:20:56,164 --> 01:20:56,516

uh

: 1431

01:20:56,516 --> 01:20:56,816

Oh...

: 1432

01:20:56,816 --> 01:20:58,261

Okay.

: 1433

01:21:00,590 --> 01:21:02,090

Hold on, hold on.

: 1434

01:21:02,230 --> 01:21:05,030

can retcon that if that's not what you wanted.

: 1435

01:21:05,030 --> 01:21:07,710

I legitimately thought you were trying to kill this dude.

: 1436

01:21:07,710 --> 01:21:10,451

No, no, no, I meant what Nick meant.

: 1437

01:21:11,630 --> 01:21:12,689

funny to-

: 1438

01:21:12,689 --> 01:21:19,466

that's you want to do that's hilarious and it seems uh because

: 1439

01:21:19,774 --> 01:21:22,670

I thought that was the plan and so did Agent Leo.

: 1440

01:21:22,670 --> 01:21:29,998

If we are aghast, just the miscommunication alone and the shock of working with a new

person who's just-

: 1441

01:21:29,998 --> 01:21:31,174

I thought I knew.

: 1442

01:21:32,451 --> 01:21:33,382

Kill him!

: 1443

01:21:33,598 --> 01:21:37,088

Who was totally down to like, yeah, that cop's how it was up.

: 1444

01:21:37,088 --> 01:21:38,434

He's got to

: 1445

01:21:38,603 --> 01:21:41,172

He's treating it like burger with cheese.

: 1446

01:21:41,172 --> 01:21:42,708

I thought you said no cheese, right?

: 1447

01:21:42,708 --> 01:21:43,820

It's just like

: 1448

01:21:46,254 --> 01:21:48,146

That's excellent.

: 1449

01:21:48,864 --> 01:21:58,947

I think mole sees the fire the shot fire off and he in here is the explainer the guy's

head exploding He's like I knew I liked that guy for some reason Just pass the floor.

: 1450

01:21:58,947 --> 01:22:00,177

He's laying on

: 1451

01:22:01,379 --> 01:22:02,303

My

: 1452

01:22:02,620 --> 01:22:09,621

No, I feel like the real world miscommunication manifesting is an in-game miscommunication

is excellent

: 1453

01:22:09,621 --> 01:22:10,312

good.

: 1454

01:22:10,312 --> 01:22:12,437

So good.

: 1455

01:22:12,437 --> 01:22:17,128

I think with all of that happening very quickly, well, are we still in turn-based?

: 1456

01:22:17,128 --> 01:22:19,998

Because I kind of have a plan I want to put out there for you guys.

: 1457

01:22:19,998 --> 01:22:22,092

Miles is about to kill a man.

: 1458

01:22:22,092 --> 01:22:22,603

Yeah.

: 1459

01:22:22,603 --> 01:22:23,243

Yeah.

: 1460

01:22:23,243 --> 01:22:24,053

Yeah.

: 1461

01:22:24,053 --> 01:22:31,630

uh, Arav, I will put a bullet in your head if you do not give me that combination to your

safe.

: 1462

01:22:32,274 --> 01:22:34,572

rolled out persuade get plus twenty

: 1463

01:22:34,572 --> 01:22:37,455

Gave him with the gun to his head and beaten him a little bit.

: 1464

01:22:37,455 --> 01:22:37,698

40.

: 1465

01:22:37,698 --> 01:22:38,926

Yeah, whatever.

: 1466

01:22:38,926 --> 01:22:39,647

You

: 1467

01:22:43,458 --> 01:22:44,318

You didn't need it.

: 1468

01:22:44,318 --> 01:22:44,569

See?

: 1469

01:22:44,569 --> 01:22:47,323

Alright.

: 1470

01:22:47,323 --> 01:22:48,104

Yeah, okay.

: 1471

01:22:48,104 --> 01:22:50,327

I'm- I'm- I'm- Yeah.

: 1472

01:22:50,327 --> 01:22:53,620

Anything you want, Seven seven six eight.

: 1473

01:22:53,624 --> 01:22:54,758

Okay, thank you.

: 1474

01:22:54,758 --> 01:22:59,520

And then I'll run over to the safe, tap it in, and open it.

: 1475

01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:00,791

Okay, yeah.

: 1476

01:23:00,791 --> 01:23:02,950

Uh, there's some stuff inside.

: 1477

01:23:02,950 --> 01:23:09,617

Um, yeah, you find $350 in cash.

: 1478

01:23:09,617 --> 01:23:12,639

You find a handwritten journal.

: 1479

01:23:12,639 --> 01:23:19,464

You find a bunch of like receipts, not really receipts, like pawn tags.

: 1480

01:23:19,504 --> 01:23:27,149

And you find a pamphlet, a trifold, but actually a stack of trifold pamphlets.

: 1481

01:23:27,976 --> 01:23:33,731

label titled On the Ascension of the Soul.

: 1482

01:23:33,731 --> 01:23:37,251

What you don't find is an old book.

: 1483

01:23:37,251 --> 01:23:37,931

Okay.

: 1484

01:23:37,931 --> 01:23:48,905

Yeah, I'll grab the journal and one of the pamphlets quickly and I'll say like where the

fuck is the book that the people were talking about and I'll fire a shot over his head

: 1485

01:23:50,008 --> 01:23:50,659

Yeah, okay.

: 1486

01:23:50,659 --> 01:23:58,427

um yeah, I'd say you've you've you've got him freaked the fuck out enough um It's on it's

it.

: 1487

01:23:58,427 --> 01:24:00,780

There's a it's it's in the floor under my bed.

: 1488

01:24:00,780 --> 01:24:06,416

I'm sorry great wait Look, can you can you I've can you let me go?

: 1489

01:24:07,118 --> 01:24:08,074

Okay

: 1490

01:24:08,074 --> 01:24:09,205

and I'm gonna...

: 1491

01:24:09,206 --> 01:24:10,968

Where the fuck is your bedroom?

: 1492

01:24:12,030 --> 01:24:15,030

I'm gonna kill you if you don't tell me where your fucking bedroom is.

: 1493

01:24:15,030 --> 01:24:17,135

I think this exchange is longer than six seconds.

: 1494

01:24:17,135 --> 01:24:25,230

uh

: 1495

01:24:25,230 --> 01:24:31,230

Don't, Mole's first thought, so let me just, is it okay if I just put this out there?

: 1496

01:24:31,710 --> 01:24:36,630

Mole's first thought is that we frame Hickey and say something happened.

: 1497

01:24:36,630 --> 01:24:37,530

That's a great.

: 1498

01:24:37,530 --> 01:24:40,410

And he killed her, shot her in the head.

: 1499

01:24:40,410 --> 01:24:44,050

I don't understand why, we were just trying to interview her.

: 1500

01:24:44,050 --> 01:24:51,542

So why don't, I was thinking we try to frame Hickey to kind of deescalate the situation,

at least get ourselves extricated from this.

: 1501

01:24:51,542 --> 01:24:52,702

Yeah, okay.

: 1502

01:24:52,702 --> 01:25:00,205

Then why don't we move out of dexterity order as Magpie, Mull, and Morrison are surrounded

by cops.

: 1503

01:25:00,205 --> 01:25:15,096

um I'd like a persuade check at a minus 20 to convince these cops that their dead friend

was actually involved in something nefarious that they didn't know about.

: 1504

01:25:15,096 --> 01:25:17,778

I mean, I don't know if the plan is to frame Hickey.

: 1505

01:25:17,778 --> 01:25:21,311

I don't know if you'd allow me to do this, but can I tackle him?

: 1506

01:25:21,946 --> 01:25:24,180

Or no, not Hickey, uh Liam.

: 1507

01:25:24,180 --> 01:25:25,455

wait, we're framing Hickey.

: 1508

01:25:25,455 --> 01:25:27,717

Sorry, we're framing the wrong people.

: 1509

01:25:27,717 --> 01:25:29,390

I thought we were framing Liam.

: 1510

01:25:29,390 --> 01:25:30,264

Oh

: 1511

01:25:30,264 --> 01:25:32,174

don't think Liam would put up with that.

: 1512

01:25:32,174 --> 01:25:35,694

Yeah, I don't- Let's frame the dead man who can't talk back.

: 1513

01:25:35,694 --> 01:25:42,414

Our meeting with him in the future might look very different if we framed him here.

: 1514

01:25:43,630 --> 01:25:44,657

my god, okay.

: 1515

01:25:44,657 --> 01:25:45,899

Do I have luck?

: 1516

01:25:46,946 --> 01:25:47,549

Yes.

: 1517

01:25:47,549 --> 01:25:53,206

You your luck back at the start of the scenario.

: 1518

01:25:54,602 --> 01:25:58,922

minus: 2060

: 1519

01:25:58,922 --> 01:25:59,150

All right.

: 1520

01:25:59,150 --> 01:26:01,231

Okay, you've spent that luck.

: 1521

01:26:01,231 --> 01:26:01,912

Yep.

: 1522

01:26:01,912 --> 01:26:03,582

And that is a success.

: 1523

01:26:03,582 --> 01:26:07,194

The cops, they aren't like on board.

: 1524

01:26:07,194 --> 01:26:07,502

Sure.

: 1525

01:26:07,502 --> 01:26:11,276

But they're not beating the shit out of you for being a cop killer.

: 1526

01:26:11,276 --> 01:26:11,677

Right.

: 1527

01:26:11,677 --> 01:26:14,378

And throwing you in the wagon.

: 1528

01:26:15,579 --> 01:26:19,351

They're like, my God, what the fuck?

: 1529

01:26:19,351 --> 01:26:20,181

What happened?

: 1530

01:26:20,181 --> 01:26:21,614

What's going on?

: 1531

01:26:21,614 --> 01:26:31,120

Well, ah we were just, we were interviewing, he opened the door and he said something to

her, I don't know if he knew her or not, and then he just unloaded.

: 1532

01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:32,861

He shot a shot, her head exploded.

: 1533

01:26:32,861 --> 01:26:34,962

I don't know what the fuck is going on here.

: 1534

01:26:35,083 --> 01:26:40,844

I'm probably gonna need to talk to Sheriff Tower about all this, because this is highly

unprofessional at this point.

: 1535

01:26:40,844 --> 01:26:42,233

Yeah, I'll say.

: 1536

01:26:42,233 --> 01:26:44,940

There's a dead officer.

: 1537

01:26:44,940 --> 01:26:46,510

Yeah, there is.

: 1538

01:26:46,510 --> 01:26:50,698

He killed that woman and then Liam luckily, you know.

: 1539

01:26:51,548 --> 01:26:52,630

my god

: 1540

01:26:52,630 --> 01:26:54,370

Yeah, he took off and...

: 1541

01:26:54,370 --> 01:27:00,072

eh Well, I mean, you could just say he killed a woman so we killed him.

: 1542

01:27:00,072 --> 01:27:01,993

That's pretty straightforward in my book.

: 1543

01:27:01,993 --> 01:27:05,013

Anyways, I need to talk to Sheriff Tower if that's possible.

: 1544

01:27:05,013 --> 01:27:08,674

We need to get this sorted out because I can't.

: 1545

01:27:08,834 --> 01:27:19,977

I think Mole's goal at this point is to go on the offense immediately with everybody, you

know, and then try to draw away um the police from the rest of you guys.

: 1546

01:27:19,977 --> 01:27:22,124

So he wants to go talk to the sheriff.

: 1547

01:27:22,124 --> 01:27:26,277

He maybe will bring Liam with him if you guys want to continue doing something, you know

what mean?

: 1548

01:27:26,277 --> 01:27:33,303

uh But I think that's, and then I think on the way there, he's just like trying at the

best to just get a story.

: 1549

01:27:33,303 --> 01:27:41,239

I think what he's doing actually is with the cop that's taking him, he's saying the story

out loud so that Liam hears it so that everybody knows exactly, you know I mean?

: 1550

01:27:41,239 --> 01:27:43,206

Like he's like saying it, repeating it.

: 1551

01:27:43,206 --> 01:27:46,889

And Liam is, uh, like, fully backing you up on this.

: 1552

01:27:46,889 --> 01:27:47,570

Yeah, right.

: 1553

01:27:47,570 --> 01:27:52,994

Yeah, no, he- he walked in, he executed her point blank with his service pistol.

: 1554

01:27:52,994 --> 01:27:56,777

I don't know what the fuck he was thinking, but I knew what I had to do.

: 1555

01:27:56,777 --> 01:28:00,800

I'm so sorry that one of yours went down like this, but can't have it.

: 1556

01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:05,444

Uh, we smash cut back to Miles.

: 1557

01:28:05,444 --> 01:28:08,130

Upstairs, pistol whipping a rob.

: 1558

01:28:08,130 --> 01:28:10,552

He told me where everything's at, the bedroom.

: 1559

01:28:10,552 --> 01:28:14,215

Or I say, you better tell me where the bedroom is or I'll blow your head off.

: 1560

01:28:14,215 --> 01:28:15,295

Where is it?

: 1561

01:28:16,697 --> 01:28:19,020

I will let you out when I have this book.

: 1562

01:28:19,020 --> 01:28:21,114

Rav is gonna roll human.

: 1563

01:28:21,516 --> 01:28:23,982

Rav will succeed.

: 1564

01:28:23,982 --> 01:28:27,542

Does your body language indicate that you're gonna kill him no matter what?

: 1565

01:28:27,542 --> 01:28:29,589

Miles would never shoot an innocent person.

: 1566

01:28:29,589 --> 01:28:31,415

So he's just trying to scare him.

: 1567

01:28:31,415 --> 01:28:33,258

So it would indicate that.

: 1568

01:28:33,728 --> 01:28:35,621

Okay, it's down the hall on the right.

: 1569

01:28:35,621 --> 01:28:38,760

Please, please, please don't kill me.

: 1570

01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:44,642

I'm going to run straight to the bedroom, start kicking the ground, finding this

floorboard.

: 1571

01:28:44,642 --> 01:28:46,147

there's the least floor work.

: 1572

01:28:46,648 --> 01:28:49,794

He's an innocent person at this point.

: 1573

01:28:49,794 --> 01:28:51,906

Miles doesn't know anything.

: 1574

01:28:51,906 --> 01:28:52,858

I'm just wondering.

: 1575

01:28:52,858 --> 01:28:56,073

I'm just curious what his disposition towards him is.

: 1576

01:28:56,448 --> 01:29:00,144

Miles wouldn't shoot anybody, right?

: 1577

01:29:00,144 --> 01:29:06,072

Unless they were actively trying to kill him, he would definitely not take a shot.

: 1578

01:29:06,198 --> 01:29:07,116

yeah.

: 1579

01:29:07,116 --> 01:29:07,968

Yeah, sure.

: 1580

01:29:07,968 --> 01:29:08,970

I love it.

: 1581

01:29:08,970 --> 01:29:12,344

Yeah, you can find it and you can stomp through the loose floorboard.

: 1582

01:29:12,344 --> 01:29:21,355

Yeah, I do a big stomp, pops up, maybe it flies up in the air and I catch it cool like,

then, hell yeah, reach in, grab a little book.

: 1583

01:29:22,158 --> 01:29:25,465

uh It's leather bound, it's got gold leafed edges.

: 1584

01:29:25,465 --> 01:29:29,964

um It does not have a title on the spine or the cover.

: 1585

01:29:29,964 --> 01:29:32,530

I'm just gonna open it and just take a quick scan.

: 1586

01:29:32,530 --> 01:29:34,644

Cause I still think things are happening downstairs.

: 1587

01:29:34,644 --> 01:29:37,711

I know it's quieter, but I'm to be like, can I stop this in some way?

: 1588

01:29:37,711 --> 01:29:39,155

Like by looking at this.

: 1589

01:29:39,155 --> 01:29:42,337

I mean, are we, where are we at with the calm situation?

: 1590

01:29:42,337 --> 01:29:45,600

Like, can we hear all the stuff that, like, okay.

: 1591

01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:49,698

You guys were dead silent except for probably Mull screaming.

: 1592

01:29:49,698 --> 01:29:50,219

Yeah.

: 1593

01:29:50,219 --> 01:29:50,549

Yeah.

: 1594

01:29:50,549 --> 01:30:01,088

So I think probably once, if I can work this in at some point, whenever mole is like

walking away with the police officers, I want to try to get away and I'll be like, miles

: 1595

01:30:01,088 --> 01:30:02,589

were clear, get the book.

: 1596

01:30:02,589 --> 01:30:04,050

And then I probably look at magpie.

: 1597

01:30:04,050 --> 01:30:09,946

I'm like, I think we need to secure Fajari or Arav if we can.

: 1598

01:30:09,946 --> 01:30:11,166

Yeah.

: 1599

01:30:11,166 --> 01:30:13,088

And we need to get the fuck out of here.

: 1600

01:30:13,088 --> 01:30:13,484

Yeah.

: 1601

01:30:13,484 --> 01:30:15,320

Not gonna interview the last guy.

: 1602

01:30:15,543 --> 01:30:16,663

Not really.

: 1603

01:30:16,845 --> 01:30:19,029

I think everything came from the book.

: 1604

01:30:19,029 --> 01:30:21,453

I mean, maybe we need to, but I don't know.

: 1605

01:30:21,453 --> 01:30:24,216

Do we just walk in the door, pop him in the head and then leave?

: 1606

01:30:24,216 --> 01:30:28,771

Morrison, he's handcuffed to a chair upstairs in the office.

: 1607

01:30:28,771 --> 01:30:31,674

It's the X door to the left.

: 1608

01:30:31,895 --> 01:30:39,384

I got a journal, it looks like, some pamphlets, and a leather-bound book that's unmarked.

: 1609

01:30:39,384 --> 01:30:41,226

I'll head down.

: 1610

01:30:41,342 --> 01:30:56,460

As you are heading down, the door opposite of Arav's office opens up and a kind of skinny

young man, like sort of crouching, he heard all the gunshots, like sticks his head out.

: 1611

01:30:56,460 --> 01:30:59,288

Yeah, I'll just turn around and be like, get back in there, close the door.

: 1612

01:30:59,288 --> 01:31:02,426

This is an active shooting scene.

: 1613

01:31:02,426 --> 01:31:05,543

Miles doesn't know what any of that means, but he's just like...

: 1614

01:31:05,543 --> 01:31:08,935

He crouched down and like shuts the door behind him.

: 1615

01:31:08,935 --> 01:31:13,400

and I'll leave Arav's fate to whoever, you know.

: 1616

01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:13,933

Sure.

: 1617

01:31:13,933 --> 01:31:16,224

Were you going to look at the pamphlet or the book?

: 1618

01:31:16,224 --> 01:31:21,264

I would go downstairs and then yeah, start flipping through it.

: 1619

01:31:21,264 --> 01:31:22,658

Probably the book first.

: 1620

01:31:22,658 --> 01:31:23,703

book first.

: 1621

01:31:23,703 --> 01:31:26,757

The book is entirely unintelligible.

: 1622

01:31:26,757 --> 01:31:28,104

What languages do you have?

: 1623

01:31:28,104 --> 01:31:30,176

I just have Mandarin Chinese, so...

: 1624

01:31:30,176 --> 01:31:32,090

Okay, it is not not this time.

: 1625

01:31:32,090 --> 01:31:33,881

It is not in Mandarin Chinese.

: 1626

01:31:33,881 --> 01:31:35,377

ah

: 1627

01:31:35,377 --> 01:31:37,864

realize that quickly, then move on to the journal.

: 1628

01:31:38,115 --> 01:31:45,003

The journal indicates uh it's a list of uh dates, times, monetary amounts.

: 1629

01:31:45,003 --> 01:31:51,109

uh Looks like uh tracking money and money locations.

: 1630

01:31:51,150 --> 01:32:00,462

Okay, could I quickly use my accounting of 50 to put together a pattern in it or am I just

assuming this is where he gets that extra money to afford a place like.

: 1631

01:32:00,462 --> 01:32:01,290

this.

: 1632

01:32:01,290 --> 01:32:08,674

Looks like he's tracking his own money, possibly through sales and pawn shops and that

sort of thing.

: 1633

01:32:08,674 --> 01:32:10,166

Yes, okay.

: 1634

01:32:10,166 --> 01:32:11,689

I'll tell you that just with your accounting.

: 1635

01:32:11,689 --> 01:32:12,399

ah

: 1636

01:32:12,399 --> 01:32:13,482

Okay, great.

: 1637

01:32:13,482 --> 01:32:14,264

Okay, weird.

: 1638

01:32:14,264 --> 01:32:20,478

ah Nothing in here about nefarious activities and why he would have this book.

: 1639

01:32:20,490 --> 01:32:21,373

No, it's a ledger.

: 1640

01:32:21,373 --> 01:32:24,422

oh

: 1641

01:32:25,513 --> 01:32:26,158

Okay.

: 1642

01:32:26,158 --> 01:32:27,223

It's that thing you like.

: 1643

01:32:27,223 --> 01:32:29,654

If you have more time, you can really go through it.

: 1644

01:32:29,654 --> 01:32:30,558

Yeah.

: 1645

01:32:30,558 --> 01:32:36,317

And then I would open up the pamphlet just thinking like I'll have time later to do this

with the journal.

: 1646

01:32:36,317 --> 01:32:37,108

Yeah.

: 1647

01:32:37,338 --> 01:32:42,221

The uh pamphlet is titled On the Ascendancy of the Soul.

: 1648

01:32:42,802 --> 01:32:51,447

It's basically talking about here's how you do meditation, here's how you uh can do astral

projection.

: 1649

01:32:52,309 --> 01:33:00,534

And on the back in very clear print is a mantra that I just sent you.

: 1650

01:33:01,430 --> 01:33:02,370

Great.

: 1651

01:33:02,711 --> 01:33:03,811

Okay.

: 1652

01:33:03,852 --> 01:33:09,355

So I would read this, but I would not read it out loud, but I can read it out loud for the

podcast.

: 1653

01:33:09,536 --> 01:33:11,857

But Miles would not be saying this out loud.

: 1654

01:33:11,857 --> 01:33:12,497

Okay.

: 1655

01:33:12,497 --> 01:33:14,459

Aid Akshah Hy-draad.

: 1656

01:33:14,459 --> 01:33:15,569

Oh shit.

: 1657

01:33:15,569 --> 01:33:16,540

Okay.

: 1658

01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:20,062

Zill Houth Ode.

: 1659

01:33:20,062 --> 01:33:21,263

Completely.

: 1660

01:33:22,864 --> 01:33:24,095

If you want to, sure.

: 1661

01:33:24,095 --> 01:33:24,965

Yeah.

: 1662

01:33:26,510 --> 01:33:56,684

ah It says um

: 1663

01:33:56,684 --> 01:34:18,120

Babylon Manin od Ayadna, Ji'a Manin, Si'a Ne, Zir il Noko, Chordiziz nawan il Noko, Quasb

il choath de nawan va'oen Qures, Od il razd il Yalpur Aoyde.

: 1664

01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:27,058

And he would take a picture of that and send that to Madison quickly um asking for some

sort of translation.

: 1665

01:34:27,058 --> 01:34:38,328

And then he would also open up the title page to whatever the hell the leather bound thing

is and snap a few pictures like within reasonable time, like five pages or so of it

: 1666

01:34:38,448 --> 01:34:40,812

saying, can we get this identified?

: 1667

01:34:40,812 --> 01:34:41,623

Yeah, for sure.

: 1668

01:34:41,623 --> 01:34:43,134

Uh, you can do that.

: 1669

01:34:43,134 --> 01:34:43,865

Okay.

: 1670

01:34:43,865 --> 01:34:49,624

Uh, if you have- Did you send this to everybody or just to Madison?

: 1671

01:34:49,624 --> 01:34:52,357

Just to Madison for now.

: 1672

01:34:52,358 --> 01:34:53,478

then...

: 1673

01:34:54,821 --> 01:34:59,548

Yeah, I would probably send it to Morrison too, just because he usually takes leads on

these things.

: 1674

01:34:59,548 --> 01:35:02,054

Madison and Morrison together in a group thread.

: 1675

01:35:02,054 --> 01:35:03,353

Yeah, that makes sense.

: 1676

01:35:03,353 --> 01:35:06,657

Like, not keep everybody's eyes on stuff that may be not great.

: 1677

01:35:06,657 --> 01:35:07,394

Yeah.

: 1678

01:35:07,394 --> 01:35:17,391

I will say I think Morrison having seen some of the figures and realizing that there's

some connection between figures and words, he's like, I've got some of these figures in my

: 1679

01:35:17,391 --> 01:35:17,702

head.

: 1680

01:35:17,702 --> 01:35:19,022

don't want to pair them up with the word.

: 1681

01:35:19,022 --> 01:35:23,074

And Morrison has in fact seen all the figures.

: 1682

01:35:23,074 --> 01:35:24,295

I didn't realize she finished him.

: 1683

01:35:24,295 --> 01:35:25,016

Okay.

: 1684

01:35:25,016 --> 01:35:25,516

Yeah.

: 1685

01:35:25,516 --> 01:35:28,588

So I am very explicit about like not hearing any words.

: 1686

01:35:28,588 --> 01:35:32,081

And if someone starts to say them, I'm going to smack them in the face.

: 1687

01:35:34,063 --> 01:35:34,523

Okay.

: 1688

01:35:34,523 --> 01:35:38,316

ah That is uh an eight.

: 1689

01:35:38,326 --> 01:35:43,192

Okay, you get a text from Miles, but you don't look at it yet.

: 1690

01:35:43,192 --> 01:35:43,843

Does it?

: 1691

01:35:43,843 --> 01:35:44,845

Yeah, okay.

: 1692

01:35:44,845 --> 01:35:46,898

Yeah, cause he doesn't like put any text in it.

: 1693

01:35:46,898 --> 01:35:47,860

Okay.

: 1694

01:35:47,860 --> 01:35:48,991

Yep.

: 1695

01:35:50,053 --> 01:35:50,927

Okay.

: 1696

01:35:50,927 --> 01:35:53,004

you could ask him over comms what he sent you.

: 1697

01:35:53,004 --> 01:35:58,184

I mean, I think at this point, we really need to get out of here because our cover's not

gonna hold.

: 1698

01:35:58,406 --> 01:35:59,628

Where is everyone at right now?

: 1699

01:35:59,628 --> 01:36:04,738

I think Magpie and I are still down on the first floor and Miles, you just came down.

: 1700

01:36:05,039 --> 01:36:11,790

Uh, it looks like Agent Liam is, maybe headed up to the second floor.

: 1701

01:36:11,790 --> 01:36:18,011

I think Liam was coming with me to talk with Sheriff Tower, wherever he is, about the

murder, right?

: 1702

01:36:18,011 --> 01:36:19,062

Or about the...

: 1703

01:36:19,062 --> 01:36:20,550

If you

: 1704

01:36:21,384 --> 01:36:30,582

If Liam is getting the vibe that things are rapping, he's gonna peel off and uh tie up

loose ends.

: 1705

01:36:30,582 --> 01:36:31,305

Okay.

: 1706

01:36:31,305 --> 01:36:37,565

Yeah, if I see Liam heading upstairs, I'm gonna go with him, because I think we need to

tie up Lucent's too.

: 1707

01:36:37,614 --> 01:36:38,374

Okay.

: 1708

01:36:38,374 --> 01:36:39,554

um

: 1709

01:36:39,554 --> 01:36:41,002

Liam, what are you doing?

: 1710

01:36:42,092 --> 01:36:44,246

I'm gonna clean up witnesses.

: 1711

01:36:45,310 --> 01:36:47,653

Like I find a bedroom.

: 1712

01:36:47,992 --> 01:36:48,793

yeah.

: 1713

01:36:48,793 --> 01:36:54,581

I- I mean, Miles told us that, uh, Arav is in room X down from the left.

: 1714

01:36:54,956 --> 01:36:56,703

Yeah, I'm just looking for a pillow.

: 1715

01:36:56,958 --> 01:36:58,039

Oh, yeah.

: 1716

01:36:58,039 --> 01:36:58,720

Yeah.

: 1717

01:36:58,720 --> 01:36:59,261

Okay.

: 1718

01:36:59,261 --> 01:37:00,381

Let's look.

: 1719

01:37:00,482 --> 01:37:02,043

Magpie, you coming?

: 1720

01:37:02,084 --> 01:37:04,608

Magpie, you wanna go get the boat ready?

: 1721

01:37:04,608 --> 01:37:06,926

Yeah, yeah, I'll absolutely do that.

: 1722

01:37:06,926 --> 01:37:08,266

Alright.

: 1723

01:37:08,834 --> 01:37:12,236

We'd probably say over comms, I'm like, Moll, get ready to break.

: 1724

01:37:12,236 --> 01:37:20,436

Yeah, I think Mole at that point is just like, and I'm gonna have to file a fucking report

on this and I can't fucking believe that and then it's like I'm gonna have to go back to

: 1725

01:37:20,436 --> 01:37:22,357

the boat to get our paperwork.

: 1726

01:37:22,779 --> 01:37:24,720

He's like trying to piece the fuck out.

: 1727

01:37:25,750 --> 01:37:32,488

Yeah, Morrison and Liam go grab pillows from the bedroom nearby.

: 1728

01:37:32,488 --> 01:37:34,828

Liam asks, hey do you know where that kid is?

: 1729

01:37:34,828 --> 01:37:36,129

Miles, which room was the kid in?

: 1730

01:37:36,129 --> 01:37:41,758

The kid that came out and you told him to go back in?

: 1731

01:37:42,525 --> 01:37:43,887

Shit, okay.

: 1732

01:37:43,887 --> 01:37:45,868

It was across from the bedroom.

: 1733

01:37:46,049 --> 01:37:47,842

Can we see where the bedroom is?

: 1734

01:37:47,842 --> 01:37:50,746

Yeah, I'm sorry guys, I didn't see any kid.

: 1735

01:37:50,746 --> 01:37:52,294

Alright, that's fine.

: 1736

01:37:52,846 --> 01:37:54,990

ah Liam just starts opening doors.

: 1737

01:37:54,990 --> 01:38:00,266

Yeah, I was gonna say, I I just look at it I like point to- I take the opposite side of

Liam.

: 1738

01:38:00,616 --> 01:38:03,069

you open the door to the kid.

: 1739

01:38:03,069 --> 01:38:03,299

I do?

: 1740

01:38:03,299 --> 01:38:04,466

He's not a kid.

: 1741

01:38:04,466 --> 01:38:05,711

He is.

: 1742

01:38:05,711 --> 01:38:10,375

Late 20s, maybe early 30s, but he's a kid.

: 1743

01:38:11,257 --> 01:38:12,775

You want the kid or a rough?

: 1744

01:38:12,775 --> 01:38:14,998

I mean, I thought I would go for a five.

: 1745

01:38:14,998 --> 01:38:15,958

Okay.

: 1746

01:38:15,958 --> 01:38:20,422

He tosses you like a uh couch cushion pillow.

: 1747

01:38:21,263 --> 01:38:22,244

All right.

: 1748

01:38:22,384 --> 01:38:23,125

Walks in.

: 1749

01:38:23,125 --> 01:38:26,067

hear him talking to the kid.

: 1750

01:38:26,208 --> 01:38:29,396

And you hear a muppled gunshot.

: 1751

01:38:29,396 --> 01:38:32,289

And I think simultaneously when he breaks, I break.

: 1752

01:38:32,289 --> 01:38:33,991

I don't wait around to listen to what he's doing.

: 1753

01:38:33,991 --> 01:38:42,689

I walk into the room where Arav is, maybe with like my pistol and the pillow behind my

back, and then I literally just hold up to his face, doot doot, like two shots in the

: 1754

01:38:42,689 --> 01:38:46,152

face, and then just turn around and walk out like nothing happened.

: 1755

01:38:47,628 --> 01:38:56,080

Miles would pull out his earpiece after the first shot and just let it hang there um and

quickly try to find mole outside in magpie.

: 1756

01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:57,207

So two things.

: 1757

01:38:57,207 --> 01:39:00,082

First is I need a sand check from everyone.

: 1758

01:39:00,120 --> 01:39:02,148

That's a crit pass, 44.

: 1759

01:39:02,158 --> 01:39:03,798

Okay.

: 1760

01:39:03,965 --> 01:39:04,462

Okay.

: 1761

01:39:04,462 --> 01:39:08,846

32 success, okay, eighty five failure

: 1762

01:39:08,846 --> 01:39:11,393

Alright, you pass it, you take one, you fail, you take a d4.

: 1763

01:39:11,393 --> 01:39:15,805

How you doing over there, Where's your next breaking point?

: 1764

01:39:15,866 --> 01:39:20,108

my god, this puts me at 32, so...

: 1765

01:39:20,108 --> 01:39:21,692

breaking point is...

: 1766

01:39:21,726 --> 01:39:23,150

It should be...

: 1767

01:39:23,150 --> 01:39:23,230

32.

: 1768

01:39:23,230 --> 01:39:25,035

That sounds good.

: 1769

01:39:25,035 --> 01:39:31,170

ah

: 1770

01:39:31,170 --> 01:39:44,188

Yeah, you also hear as you exit that door, ah you see Agent Liam backing up, saying shit

shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.

: 1771

01:39:44,188 --> 01:39:45,198

That kid's not dead.

: 1772

01:39:45,198 --> 01:39:51,402

um I couldn't put a scratch in him.

: 1773

01:39:51,724 --> 01:39:53,144

Well, that's a problem.

: 1774

01:39:53,144 --> 01:39:53,976

Yep.

: 1775

01:39:55,087 --> 01:39:55,694

Yeah.

: 1776

01:39:55,694 --> 01:39:56,936

Can you knock him out?

: 1777

01:39:56,936 --> 01:39:57,777

Can you knock him out?

: 1778

01:39:57,777 --> 01:39:58,918

ah

: 1779

01:39:59,353 --> 01:40:03,001

I can I can try more and give me a hand sure

: 1780

01:40:03,010 --> 01:40:04,430

Can't stick around there.

: 1781

01:40:04,430 --> 01:40:07,341

I mean, that's something unnatural, so...

: 1782

01:40:07,470 --> 01:40:11,131

kid is crouched in the corner, crying.

: 1783

01:40:11,131 --> 01:40:12,952

He's clearly alive.

: 1784

01:40:12,952 --> 01:40:16,033

There's a pillow with a bullet hole through it.

: 1785

01:40:16,654 --> 01:40:19,855

Agent Liam is gonna try and choke him out.

: 1786

01:40:19,855 --> 01:40:21,515

Let's see if that works.

: 1787

01:40:21,515 --> 01:40:23,936

Oh, he's got him in a choke hold.

: 1788

01:40:23,936 --> 01:40:25,377

He's got him in a...

: 1789

01:40:25,437 --> 01:40:29,003

What do call that thing where it presses right on the jugular?

: 1790

01:40:29,003 --> 01:40:32,912

Yeah, cut off their carotid artery, blood flow, no blood flow to the brain.

: 1791

01:40:32,912 --> 01:40:34,736

He's got him in there.

: 1792

01:40:34,839 --> 01:40:36,806

No problem.

: 1793

01:40:36,806 --> 01:40:38,860

ah What are you up to, Morrison?

: 1794

01:40:38,860 --> 01:40:40,844

I'm standing there watching.

: 1795

01:40:40,915 --> 01:40:43,662

Uh, the kid just stands there crying.

: 1796

01:40:45,009 --> 01:40:46,652

Nothing is happening.

: 1797

01:40:48,615 --> 01:40:51,780

like, hey, Liam, come here for a second.

: 1798

01:40:52,078 --> 01:40:55,345

He's looking at you with wild fucking eyes.

: 1799

01:40:55,544 --> 01:40:56,646

Bro, I understand.

: 1800

01:40:56,646 --> 01:41:01,247

drops the Yeah, we need to handle this situation.

: 1801

01:41:01,247 --> 01:41:03,482

Hey kid, we can get you out of here.

: 1802

01:41:03,482 --> 01:41:04,820

Do you want to come with us?

: 1803

01:41:04,820 --> 01:41:06,596

He just sorta looks at you.

: 1804

01:41:06,596 --> 01:41:07,452

Sure-

: 1805

01:41:07,452 --> 01:41:12,622

Okay, you ever been Superman before or is this new?

: 1806

01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:14,528

Oh, this is new.

: 1807

01:41:14,528 --> 01:41:15,039

Hmm.

: 1808

01:41:15,039 --> 01:41:17,302

Did you say those chants right the other day?

: 1809

01:41:17,302 --> 01:41:19,884

The mantra and the shapes and all that?

: 1810

01:41:20,366 --> 01:41:22,409

I think it might have done something to you.

: 1811

01:41:22,409 --> 01:41:25,111

We might be able to help, but you've gotta come with us.

: 1812

01:41:25,553 --> 01:41:26,394

Alright.

: 1813

01:41:26,394 --> 01:41:27,175

I dunno.

: 1814

01:41:27,175 --> 01:41:29,258

And I say over comms like, anyone opposed?

: 1815

01:41:29,258 --> 01:41:30,820

This is fucking weird.

: 1816

01:41:30,820 --> 01:41:33,100

I- ask Liam to do the same thing.

: 1817

01:41:33,100 --> 01:41:34,818

No, I think we need to grab him.

: 1818

01:41:34,818 --> 01:41:35,398

Yeah.

: 1819

01:41:35,398 --> 01:41:37,239

Alright, we can get you out of here.

: 1820

01:41:37,239 --> 01:41:40,241

If the cops get you, they'll lock you in lab somewhere for the rest of your life.

: 1821

01:41:40,241 --> 01:41:41,460

You'll never see the light of day.

: 1822

01:41:41,460 --> 01:41:45,384

We can at least get you moved somewhere so you don't rot in a jail cell.

: 1823

01:41:45,644 --> 01:41:47,946

Do I need to convince him of that or...?

: 1824

01:41:47,946 --> 01:41:48,866

Okay.

: 1825

01:41:48,888 --> 01:41:50,170

This kid is...

: 1826

01:41:50,170 --> 01:41:50,830

Shattered.

: 1827

01:41:50,830 --> 01:41:52,094

is freaked out.

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