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Human throats cannot sing some songs, melodies that require the snapping of bone and the reshaping of the soul to articulate truly. We find ourselves at the intersection of medicine and monstrosity, where a dying man seeks a cure in the geometry of the unnatural.

To survive the swamp is to accept its infection. A pact has been offered in the static. A hollow jar waiting to be filled, a tapestry demanding one final, terrible thread. The lines between the healer, the patient, and the disease have dissolved. What remains is only the hunger for a heavy metal communion and the terrifying realization that the only way out of the labyrinth of the flesh is to shed it entirely.

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As I turn around in that thick ponytail braid, flipping to my back as I turn, and I'm

like, so doctor, um you were mentioning the symbiote for the lack of better word, that's.

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Now inside him needs to be fed.

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as a caregiver for a short period and maybe an educator, once we get out of here, can you

tell me a little more about, um, about what he needs, when, why, anything.

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Well, I haven't seen an infection from the swamp things.

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I think the verdant path, folks.

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And so I'm not quite sure, but it's definitely a different strain from what I have.

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m But some heavy metals here and there when he's hungry should...

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Okay, there probably will be no cure, but I'm hoping that the sodium I put in his system

kills most of it But my guess is it was a little late for that usually have about 48 hours

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from what I've seen but His case is more severe he'll just need to eat metal like I would

Recommend

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Mercury in small doses and taking lead and grinding it down and putting it into capsules.

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There are uh plenty of strategies to give him a long life, but just know, m depending on

who you are and who your connections are, he will be haunted.

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We are, for lack of a better term, special in a way that scares.

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lot of the powers that be out there.

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What do mean, uh, hunted?

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Hunted by the powers that be, if you will, but like, not a police officer.

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Is it the Boogeyman?

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Who?

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Who?

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Well, I couldn't help myself and I had to know which boogeymen you are.

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So I dug through your duffel out on the ATV and saw your weaponry.

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um My guess is you know exactly what type of boogeymen I'm talking about.

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oh I bring that to you with no offense or judgment.

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um There are...

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various unnatural things out in the swamp that attract people of your kind, my kind, those

who study, those who kill.

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um And it seems like you're the killing type.

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If you weren't here for me and you were here for them, what were you going to do to them?

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Well, story about that.

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I don't truly know.

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Your uh shot in the dark at me being the killy type is half true, I suppose.

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uh I kill when I need to, but realistically, if I don't have to, I'm just here for the

ride and the education a bit.

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um So it sounds like, and pardon me for not being, you

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forthwith with this information I...

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walking into this place I didn't know if you would pull a gun out and shoot me right in

the head anyways it seems like you and I have come to some type of balance and nobody's

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necessarily after the other person and we're both here uh learning like uh I mentioned

but...

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Right, um so you being the studying type, uh what exactly are you studying out here?

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Well, there are creatures who are attracted to areas like this.

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That swamp is, I guess, soaked in mercury, and it attracts types of beings, and I think

they at one point were here and left their cultures in the swamp, and it's been infected.

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with them before any of us were alive.

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That's why I'm here, is to study those cultures, because my infection, while not m from

the swamp, was some years ago at a previous employer.

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And I just spent some time searching and searching around areas that were heavy in copper,

lead, and mercury.

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when I finally found this area and the...

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I hate to call them creatures, but they are creatures at this point, but the people who

live in the swamp.

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Yes, yes, the burden path.

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They were a cult at one point.

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m And I just decided to study and figure out what was infecting me and...

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That's when I found balance with it by studying the cultures in the area and trying to

balance them with what was in me.

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And I found a balance between those cultures and the lead that I take.

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Alright, so information seeking through and through.

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As you know, I am part of the Boogeyman.

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uh At least one of them.

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It sounds like this information that you're gleaning and pushing and pulling for.

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uh You're not hesitant about sharing.

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Why is that?

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Well, um, I...

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I knew who I was employed with and I knew that I would be burned if anything like this

happened.

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I guess you can call me old and a little disillusioned and cynical about that whole

process, but my end is near and I guess I don't care anymore.

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Is there a timeline on, and she turns around and looks at Dell, on Dell as well.

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Oh, no, no, my end is near by choice.

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can hopefully live a long life when he glances over.

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um That's his name, Del.

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Okay, thank you.

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I was wondering who I was treating, but I didn't want to invade his privacy.

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No, no, no, I am choosing my end as I see fit.

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um But my timeline has been extended.

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for lack of a better term.

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Not by my choice, though.

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What?

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Well that's ominous.

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What do you mean by that?

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Uh, well, I was working with another...

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It's hard to call him a researcher, but he's gone dark on me.

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He was getting data from me and trying to find some...

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Well, I guess um something I was missing um for my end.

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missing for your end so you need help to bring your story to a close?

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I was looking for it.

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And is this, why I guess is the reason.

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Question.

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My end is a tapestry or a puzzle and I've only got one piece of that tapestry in this

swamp and I believe he was close to the other.

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Alright, well, I guess information is a give and take type bit, isn't it?

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And I'll take my gloves off and tuck them in my pocket and I'll walk up right in front of

them and put my hand out for a handshake.

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And I'll be like, my name is uh Morgan Barone, agent Morgan Barone, and I put my hand out

for a handshake.

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Yeah, he shakes your hand back, his touch is cold, and you get a better look at the tinge

of his skin.

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It does have a jaundice-type yellow with purplish veins under it.

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Alright, well there's a bit of information and then I'll pull up a chair and flip it

around backwards and sit on it with my legs coolly draping over the top, er, not legs, my

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elbows coolly crossed and draping over the, yeah, just kick them up, fuck it, let's, hey,

we're best friends now, whatever.

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This is uh fine.

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um

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god he as you as you do that he says well, I

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I have a sneaking suspicion that those creatures weren't who you're here for.

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I believe you are actually here.

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And you know me.

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Or by name at least.

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Are you here for me?

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Honestly, yes, pretty much.

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ah I would be lying if I said I wasn't relieved that this didn't turn into another

bloodbath and we could actually just sit here and talk like, like people.

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I may be decidedly uneducated on a number of things and you're willing to share what is in

your head there.

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So I am all ears.

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I don't have much more to share about my story.

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I've told you what I can, em but your story ends here, but there's a way you can walk away

from this without extinguishing my flame.

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Hmm, that's a good question.

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We were told our mission is to take care of the problem.

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Bring him to our side.

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those were pretty much our two options handed down by our handler, correct?

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Okay, okay.

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Del is still decidedly unconscious.

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Can Del hear me talking right now?

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Still, give a willpower roll, or sorry, a pow times five.

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That's got to be close.

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How to have 565, yeah.

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All right, you can hear through the veils of your comatose reality, this conversation, the

revealing of his unnatural, um I guess, his unnatural.

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bent towards the world.

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Feels a little disgusting as you hear it.

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It's a little perverted, but you get the sense that he has saved your life, so it doesn't

cause you too much anxiety.

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uh I think that in this comatose state, like while the words are coming through, it's

almost like in a dream where you can incorporate some of the features around you, right?

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And so I was um in a long past memory where I was going through a drive-through to get a

double cheeseburger for my dog in the passenger seat and all of a sudden,

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you know, after the attendant had just taken my money, she starts speaking to me um about

these extra planetary goings-ons.

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And it doesn't make sense, but it does make sense as we are just standing there and her

microphone is kind of like, you know, cascading static about the Dr.

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Pepper that's being ordered behind us.

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And it's very surreal, but I am starting to be able to kind of piece together what is of

that world and of this world.

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Beautiful, love it.

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Yeah, you are hearing the dialogue through that medium and sitting in a forever long drive

through just hearing their voices through the PA system.

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Let's go back to Agent Ryan.

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No, okay, great.

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Agent Ryan, this swamp creature has lifted in front of you and has said hello to you.

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Do you respond or do you just stand in awe?

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stand off for a moment and then I say hi?

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Yeah, the croaky voice feels like it's recalibrating.

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It hums a little bit.

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like,

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strange, um no affect to it at all, and starts to stabilize through that humming.

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It says, you sang the song.

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oh

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What do you need?

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I need to know what you are.

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Yeah, it pauses.

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Do we know what you are?

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Brian Dwyer, this is you.

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Yes, that's me.

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We know it is you.

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And you want to know us.

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Yes.

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Will you help us?

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What does that mean?

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What does that entail?

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There was a time when you helped us before, but your help was insufficient.

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Will you help us again?

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I will help you.

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It opens another slit in reality and one of the tendrils comes out and pulls out a empty

brain jar much like the one you saw before and it hovers in front of it.

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the swamp creature croaks a little bit.

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Would you, oh shit, you can hear that?

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Okay.

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Yeah, it's just a dude just like going.

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I could hear it too, but I wasn't sure because I can't hear like my...

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It's probably both of us to be honest.

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It's probably mostly me though, right?

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Great, all the time.

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just gonna look and see what it is real quick.

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Yeah, sure, we could give it a sec.

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We have like these older neighbors that he'll like basically just blow everything from his

yard into the road and leave it.

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Just, yeah.

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And it's like, that's just gonna blow into my yard.

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Yeah.

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have no trees in our yard yet we have all these tree leaves.

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Yeah, I think it's Don, though.

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Yeah, that guy.

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Yeah, it's definitely Don.

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He's a character for sure.

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Yeah, sorry guys.

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think he stopped.

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No.

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He's like riving it up right now.

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He's like, nyeh nyeh nyeh.

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mouth right now too.

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That's a power move before 10am my time on a Saturday.

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Cigar.

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mowed, oh, the cigar, yeah, for sure.

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He'll be like walking down the street doing like calisthenics, but he has like a giant

cigar like hanging out of his mouth.

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I know, he's classic.

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He's awesome.

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He's lived in this house for like 30 years or something.

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He like knows this neighborhood real well.

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It's funny.

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Okay.

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Nope.

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Oh, doll.

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can't hear it anymore.

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it just started back up.

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My bad.

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Yeah, I really wanted to know what the brain jar ask was.

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Fucking Dawn.

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Excuse me, Dawn.

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um We're in a pivotal moment in our podcast.

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An alien is handing me a brain jar.

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Do you mind just turning off the leaf blower for a minute?

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You could just make a canon pivot and send Ryan to go collect Dawn's

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Yeah, it's a good brain probably.

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He's still going at it.

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turn down my gain and then get really close.

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Yeah, is there no way to like, I don't know, cut the background noise and editing?

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You can, it's just if I'm talking over something like that, like while I talk, it'll

definitely be there.

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So can you still hear it with my game down a lot?

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ah Can you mute yourself, Christina?

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Yeah, yeah

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talk.

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Yo yo yo yo, I am talking.

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Can you hear me or am I too quiet?

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no, you're perfect.

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Nick, can you mute yourself and Christina?

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We'll try you now.

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Hello?

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I think that's good.

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I think we're good.

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I think he actually stopped too, so right on cue.

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Yeah, I'll keep it down for now.

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This wriggling creature has pulled out what you know as the brain jar and set it right in

front of you.

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It is floating in the air and the swamp creature, sorry, Christina, can you mute yourself?

217

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I can hear myself.

218

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There you go.

219

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Brain Jar sits there in front of you, an invitation almost.

220

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The swamp creature starts to jiggle, almost like in excitement, and its mouth opens and it

says, to help, you must come with us.

221

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To come with us and survive the pressure of our world.

222

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This will be your new vessel.

223

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You can take some time to think about it, but you, this is a big choice in front of you.

224

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m

225

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I'm thinking a lot about.

226

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you know, what I would be leaving behind, obviously.

227

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um I've never been super fond of my physical being in this world.

228

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um So leaving, you know, that part behind while unimaginable, I don't have a super huge

attachment to it.

229

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I am...

230

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considering, I mean, my sanity has gotten to the point, I think, where I am more likely to

accept this new existence rather than.

231

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you know, except and accepting all of the consequences of the people in my world,

including Barone and Dahl and what this might do to the mission, but also, you know, the

232

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bonds that I have back home thinking and weighing these things.

233

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You're asking me to put my brain in this thing?

234

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You cannot put your own brain in this thing.

235

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I will remove your brain, open the cylinder and put it in there.

236

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Brian cannot do this by yourself.

237

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Okay.

238

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um

239

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I'm gonna need a minute.

240

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Think about this.

241

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Ryan needs a minute to think about this.

242

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Ryan, your time is very different from ours.

243

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A minute is 60 seconds.

244

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Okay, I mean, it's a figure of speech.

245

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I may need a few 60 seconds.

246

00:20:20,833 --> 00:20:23,648

Ryan Dwyer is not being precise.

247

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We do not understand.

248

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Can Ryan Dwyer please be precise?

249

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Brian Dwyer needs a...

250

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Some time, I don't know what the precise amount of time is to think about whether I would

like for you to put my brain into this vessel.

251

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Ryan Dwyer needs an imprecise amount of time to think about this.

252

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Ryan Dwyer, you know the song and the words, your words to bring us.

253

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Yes, I will think about this and uh sing out the words when I have an answer for you.

254

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Ryan Dwyer does not make us wait too long.

255

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We see.

256

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but we are confused why you called us at this time.

257

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Where would you be taking me in this new vessel of yours?

258

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to where we call home.

259

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Home is where a person on earth lives, correct?

260

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This would be the place where you could say, we live.

261

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And would this become my new home?

262

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Ryan Dwyer would exist and he spins the empty vessel around here in this home, in our

home.

263

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Ryan Dwyer would not enter this home here again.

264

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Okay.

265

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um

266

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What if I say no?

267

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You brought us here.

268

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You sung to us.

269

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We require something from you for coming.

270

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Ryan Dwyer does not have to return home with us, but we need to bring something home with

us.

271

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Okay, and a different brain.

272

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This is a human biological term brain.

273

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Yes.

274

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The human exists in this piece of the biology.

275

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We require the human part of the biology that the human exists in.

276

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Yes.

277

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Okay, I will think about it and...

278

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Ryan Dwyer's thoughts exist where Ryan Dwyer exists.

279

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Thinking about it is an uncertain statement.

280

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We require certainty or we take you now.

281

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Oh, I will give you uh the human biology that you seek one way or another.

282

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This is certainty and we required certainty.

283

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are satisfied with this certainty.

284

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But if Ryan Dwyer does not give us the certainty we require, Ryan Dwyer is our certainty.

285

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Does this make sense to you?

286

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Uh-huh, yep, locked and loaded.

287

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I mean, yes, it makes sense.

288

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Do you require anything else of us while we are here?

289

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How much time do you require for me to give you this delivery?

290

00:23:44,764 --> 00:23:52,182

Ryan Dwyer has a limited amount of time inside of his brain.

291

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when your time is up is when your time is up.

292

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But we require this in a term which you would call soon.

293

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Can you be more precise, wise one?

294

00:24:09,434 --> 00:24:15,461

Give me units of measurement to be precise with.

295

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Time is not something.

296

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The human equivalent of 24 hours is desired.

297

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Rindwire, please define what 24 hours means.

298

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One full day in human time.

299

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One full Earth spin in our universe.

300

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Great.

301

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We will watch your Earth's trajectory to understand more what you mean.

302

00:24:48,343 --> 00:24:53,948

Please, please, please, please.

303

00:24:55,790 --> 00:25:09,482

Okay, we require three of those spins before we come to take the certainty of rind wire.

304

00:25:09,714 --> 00:25:14,220

Okay, uh okay, thank you for giving me extra time.

305

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You sung the song.

306

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Yes.

307

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If that is all you require of us, that is all we require of you.

308

00:25:22,188 --> 00:25:22,962

oh

309

00:25:22,962 --> 00:25:33,337

Do I need to return to this location to sing the song, or uh can I sing this song from

anywhere on my planet?

310

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Your planet was once mined, almost dry, by us.

311

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Your metals are not sufficient to draw us, but in some places they are.

312

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This, what you call area of your planet, is sufficient.

313

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Okeydokey.

314

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Understood.

315

00:25:51,906 --> 00:25:56,080

I don't believe I require anything else from you at this time.

316

00:25:56,831 --> 00:26:06,040

The swamp creature goes slack in front of you and slops to the ground, uh completely dead.

317

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And the slit opens up again and this thing slides back into it, almost like a reverse

birth.

318

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And it closes, but the purple light remains as it flies to the other two that are floating

behind it.

319

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And they both...

320

00:26:25,054 --> 00:26:38,573

start to rise to the sky like some perverted angels going back to heaven and you are

laying there at this point on the ground.

321

00:26:39,394 --> 00:26:42,295

Go ahead and roll your sand for me again.

322

00:26:45,252 --> 00:26:49,036

I don't know how I cannot sever something.

323

00:26:49,036 --> 00:26:53,126

63 is the number we're looking at and I got 41.

324

00:26:53,126 --> 00:27:03,954

Okay, you still lose one from the unnatural and tell us what do you do from here?

325

00:27:04,047 --> 00:27:05,732

Uh, shit, my pants.

326

00:27:05,732 --> 00:27:07,469

Um...

327

00:27:07,469 --> 00:27:14,449

sit there and weigh the gravity of the situation for a bit.

328

00:27:14,849 --> 00:27:22,249

I realize this is quite a conundrum that I have ahead of me.

329

00:27:22,949 --> 00:27:31,789

There is a brain of some sort that I need to get into this jar in three days time, whether

that be mine or somebody else's.

330

00:27:31,789 --> 00:27:36,280

I also

331

00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,543

can't just run around town advertising this.

332

00:27:41,824 --> 00:27:48,850

And I slip the jar into my fanny pack.

333

00:27:49,090 --> 00:27:54,800

And I start to walk back towards the shore.

334

00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,818

I mean, I'm at the shore, but even further back to the path.

335

00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:01,399

And.

336

00:28:02,936 --> 00:28:08,035

just kind of start wandering a little aimlessly back towards that boardwalk area.

337

00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:09,471

um

338

00:28:09,471 --> 00:28:15,218

just kind of trying to get a grasp on what the fuck I'm gonna do.

339

00:28:15,926 --> 00:28:31,951

Yeah, as you're thinking these thoughts and reflecting on this unnatural experience, you

have very little willpower left to push on, but you do see um some very defined ATV tracks

340

00:28:31,951 --> 00:28:36,373

um by the boardwalk exit.

341

00:28:37,094 --> 00:28:40,615

Yeah, so we cut back to you in the cabin.

342

00:28:40,615 --> 00:28:47,698

You are sitting there with your arms on a stool engaging with, you know, seemingly your

mark.

343

00:28:47,698 --> 00:28:53,001

um Any other questions for him as he seems a little open?

344

00:28:53,731 --> 00:28:54,471

So many.

345

00:28:54,471 --> 00:28:56,172

Yeah, absolutely so many.

346

00:28:56,172 --> 00:28:59,334

uh Karas.

347

00:28:59,334 --> 00:29:10,960

So, as you know, uh the Boogeyman has ways of sorting situations and they send people like

me and Del here, really with a task to do one of two things.

348

00:29:11,801 --> 00:29:17,724

Get them to turncoat and help us and be an asset or silence them.

349

00:29:18,084 --> 00:29:20,175

I may be a bit...

350

00:29:20,413 --> 00:29:36,538

empathetic for this job but at the same time it sounds like you are attempting to silence

yourself I think we might be able to bend those rules a little bit and not report exactly

351

00:29:36,538 --> 00:29:47,761

how the silencing happened and I um would be open to brokering a deal I have questions and

information that I would love

352

00:29:47,805 --> 00:29:59,714

to collect and hear from you and in trade for that, I think I would be open to helping you

find your end.

353

00:30:00,015 --> 00:30:03,577

Did I misunderstand anything that you've said?

354

00:30:04,361 --> 00:30:07,507

oh No, did not misunderstand anything.

355

00:30:07,507 --> 00:30:10,901

um I'm willing to work with you.

356

00:30:10,901 --> 00:30:13,550

I just don't think you have what I need.

357

00:30:13,550 --> 00:30:18,394

Okay, yeah, great no, uh Let's let's start there.

358

00:30:18,455 --> 00:30:21,938

What what do you need you you mentioned that um?

359

00:30:22,239 --> 00:30:24,781

Somebody was was looking for that.

360

00:30:24,781 --> 00:30:32,108

uh I assume your contact was Finch just laying it all out there What was Finch searching

for for you?

361

00:30:32,108 --> 00:30:32,559

Yes.

362

00:30:32,559 --> 00:30:32,819

Yeah.

363

00:30:32,819 --> 00:30:34,010

Yes, yeah

364

00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,117

Okay, so...

365

00:30:36,117 --> 00:30:38,479

Did you silence Arthur?

366

00:30:38,479 --> 00:30:39,531

that's a good question.

367

00:30:39,531 --> 00:30:44,580

I didn't, and I kind of knew what happened there as an Asian.

368

00:30:44,580 --> 00:30:48,094

I guess I would have been informed by that, correct?

369

00:30:48,094 --> 00:30:52,698

Harcell exclusively protested the silencing of Arthur Finch.

370

00:30:52,698 --> 00:30:56,932

If Arthur Finch was silenced, it was not by our hand.

371

00:30:57,745 --> 00:30:59,565

I'm gonna say exactly that.

372

00:30:59,805 --> 00:31:05,185

If Arthur Finch was silenced, it was not by our hands.

373

00:31:05,185 --> 00:31:06,325

No.

374

00:31:07,299 --> 00:31:11,081

Okay, I will have to trust you on that.

375

00:31:11,081 --> 00:31:12,171

He was a good friend.

376

00:31:12,171 --> 00:31:16,762

We met at a conference and exchanged information, but he had...

377

00:31:18,339 --> 00:31:24,355

He had information for me that he was never able to send on.

378

00:31:24,355 --> 00:31:32,907

was some symbols that I needed to complete my work.

379

00:31:33,247 --> 00:31:35,243

and I never received those symbols.

380

00:31:35,243 --> 00:31:35,738

uh

381

00:31:35,738 --> 00:31:36,299

Symbols?

382

00:31:36,299 --> 00:31:41,926

Okay, you're talking like, uh, runes to complete a ritual.

383

00:31:41,926 --> 00:31:43,618

Do you...

384

00:31:43,618 --> 00:31:48,475

Are you not able to die without some sort of ritual?

385

00:31:48,475 --> 00:31:51,766

I have been preparing my vessel to exit it.

386

00:31:54,827 --> 00:32:05,531

Again, I apologize for not being as forthcoming as I could be, but I also noticed you have

one of these vessels in your duffel.

387

00:32:07,152 --> 00:32:10,904

I am preparing myself for that vessel.

388

00:32:10,904 --> 00:32:24,119

Okay, uh you are getting to one of the very next things that I would like help with and I

go ahead and go to my backpack that I had set kind of down by Dell that has been on my

389

00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:33,013

back um and I go ahead and take the vessel out and carefully place it on an empty

countertop.

390

00:32:33,333 --> 00:32:34,463

Yeah, great.

391

00:32:34,463 --> 00:32:40,956

So step number two of this trust fall, if you will, is what?

392

00:32:41,076 --> 00:32:41,899

Is this...

393

00:32:41,899 --> 00:32:43,283

this is the vessel?

394

00:32:43,283 --> 00:32:46,696

uh In form?

395

00:32:46,696 --> 00:32:48,520

Yeah, tell me.

396

00:32:49,087 --> 00:32:50,651

Where did you find it?

397

00:32:50,651 --> 00:32:55,813

So you remember that church that we met at um to meet up with ATVs.

398

00:32:55,953 --> 00:32:56,824

It was in there.

399

00:32:56,824 --> 00:33:02,976

The uh church itself was strange and uh a lot seemed to revolve around it.

400

00:33:02,976 --> 00:33:08,399

uh The curiosity bit the shit out of the cat on that one and we went right in.

401

00:33:08,399 --> 00:33:14,181

uh I was drawn to the floorboards and this was buried uh underneath the floorboards.

402

00:33:14,301 --> 00:33:17,082

Did I ship off the...

403

00:33:17,082 --> 00:33:18,963

um

404

00:33:19,371 --> 00:33:25,080

rolls of paper that had all the stuff on it or did I just take pictures and send the

pictures?

405

00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:27,194

you ship them off.

406

00:33:27,414 --> 00:33:29,008

I did ship them off.

407

00:33:29,091 --> 00:33:29,552

Okay.

408

00:33:29,552 --> 00:33:31,036

Ah, shit.

409

00:33:32,083 --> 00:33:33,167

Now I wish I had everything.

410

00:33:33,167 --> 00:33:44,417

well, so in our first op, I put in a request for us to get a Polaroid instead of a camera

that would have to be developed.

411

00:33:44,417 --> 00:33:49,421

Is there any chance that we Polaroid did some of the Torah script?

412

00:33:49,534 --> 00:33:50,355

Sure.

413

00:33:50,552 --> 00:33:53,334

Okay, great, awesome.

414

00:33:53,334 --> 00:33:56,877

we, lo and behold, can't tell the future, right?

415

00:33:56,877 --> 00:34:04,904

uh We sent that off for informational process, we sent off a Torah for informational

prophecy that came with this.

416

00:34:04,904 --> 00:34:06,436

I don't have that now.

417

00:34:06,436 --> 00:34:15,964

I wish I was any more help, but we do have these and I'll take the Polaroids out and kind

of show them what was accompanying this.

418

00:34:15,964 --> 00:34:18,916

It was with it under the church floor, so.

419

00:34:19,445 --> 00:34:20,928

It was all packaged together.

420

00:34:20,928 --> 00:34:22,249

I don't...

421

00:34:22,809 --> 00:34:23,650

he looks at it.

422

00:34:23,650 --> 00:34:27,854

um Yes, I am not quite sure what it says.

423

00:34:27,854 --> 00:34:31,807

I've never encountered this um script before.

424

00:34:31,807 --> 00:34:41,425

I have sifted through that church, but it, Well, the nature of it was very disturbing to

me, so I didn't spend too long there.

425

00:34:42,127 --> 00:34:46,100

I guess I should be more blunt in my scientific endeavors.

426

00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:48,351

That's what my colleagues have always said.

427

00:34:49,836 --> 00:34:53,748

But, uh sorry I cannot read this for you.

428

00:34:54,574 --> 00:34:56,218

But the vessel.

429

00:34:56,218 --> 00:34:59,252

I was more just trying to provide information more than anything else.

430

00:34:59,252 --> 00:35:01,194

But yeah, yeah, back to the vessel.

431

00:35:02,432 --> 00:35:03,924

We believe that, um...

432

00:35:03,924 --> 00:35:17,084

Well, I think that this vessel will, with my preparation and the metals I've consumed,

will be the right place for me in the future.

433

00:35:17,084 --> 00:35:17,344

What?

434

00:35:17,344 --> 00:35:18,765

Um...

435

00:35:19,066 --> 00:35:21,067

The right place, okay.

436

00:35:21,568 --> 00:35:22,888

Is this place...

437

00:35:23,149 --> 00:35:26,882

I mean, I just assumed it was some sort of death pact.

438

00:35:26,882 --> 00:35:27,812

Does...

439

00:35:28,753 --> 00:35:30,094

you want to become a...

440

00:35:30,094 --> 00:35:32,456

a uh brain in...

441

00:35:32,977 --> 00:35:33,677

one of these?

442

00:35:33,677 --> 00:35:37,359

And do you want to be, and I point out that the brain...

443

00:35:37,380 --> 00:35:38,341

did like...

444

00:35:38,341 --> 00:35:40,903

like swapped with that one?

445

00:35:40,903 --> 00:35:41,543

Who is that?

446

00:35:41,543 --> 00:35:42,575

Do you know who that is?

447

00:35:42,575 --> 00:35:55,370

don't, but I encountered some writings earlier in the century um about this specific one,

which is what drew me here originally.

448

00:35:56,411 --> 00:36:11,797

And those writings express that this verdant path, or what became the verdant path, um

once the settlers moved in, they found this and they

449

00:36:12,579 --> 00:36:15,190

believe began to worship it at some point.

450

00:36:15,491 --> 00:36:21,194

The details are foggy, but it was enough to get me exploring here.

451

00:36:21,374 --> 00:36:22,415

Do...

452

00:36:23,876 --> 00:36:31,572

I do not know what becomes of me in this other than I will transcend this painful

existence I have in this body.

453

00:36:31,572 --> 00:36:34,294

and be freed from it.

454

00:36:34,294 --> 00:36:45,862

And whether that brings some sort of conscious death or unconscious death, I welcome it

because ah I want to transcend this experience.

455

00:36:46,603 --> 00:36:51,405

You look at his face as he's explaining this.

456

00:36:52,527 --> 00:37:00,272

You've clocked him as very rational and deliberate in his help of Del.

457

00:37:00,725 --> 00:37:05,214

This is also rational and deliberate, but in a very insane way.

458

00:37:05,214 --> 00:37:10,634

Like this man, now that you're listening to him, he must be insane.

459

00:37:10,634 --> 00:37:11,141

Yeah.

460

00:37:11,141 --> 00:37:16,023

Yeah, I think, um, clearly he is insane.

461

00:37:16,023 --> 00:37:26,908

think right now, uh measuring his sanity and judging that is not like I need what he knows

and I need to get it from him.

462

00:37:26,908 --> 00:37:33,390

And I think, you know, flowing with the current of his sanity in this point in time, fine,

great.

463

00:37:33,390 --> 00:37:34,651

Let's do it.

464

00:37:35,551 --> 00:37:40,373

And in, in thinking that he's like, okay.

465

00:37:40,503 --> 00:37:42,615

or she's like, uh, okay.

466

00:37:42,615 --> 00:37:55,383

That's a lot, well above my understanding, but I think, I'm willing to step out on that

ledge.

467

00:37:56,064 --> 00:38:06,231

and, um, you know, consider this a gentle woman's pact of I will help you if you can help

me just a little bit more.

468

00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:09,583

One thing that's been bugging us and me specifically.

469

00:38:10,053 --> 00:38:20,232

You mentioned in your email um that Arthur was uh holding a scalpel that belongs to

surgeon that he cannot see.

470

00:38:20,835 --> 00:38:22,128

What did you mean by that?

471

00:38:22,128 --> 00:38:28,313

He was involved with uh little green men, as I call them, puppets.

472

00:38:30,255 --> 00:38:39,543

They seem intelligent on the surface, but they go inactive from time to time and they

hibernate, which was always curious to us.

473

00:38:40,584 --> 00:38:49,692

The more I started to study them and understand them, the more I felt that there was a

puppeteer behind them.

474

00:38:50,098 --> 00:38:56,331

The brains were strangely structured and, well, give me a second.

475

00:38:57,032 --> 00:39:07,758

He goes to his desk and starts digging through a small stack of organized papers and he

hands it to you.

476

00:39:07,758 --> 00:39:14,942

If you're looking for something for your superiors, um bring them this.

477

00:39:15,683 --> 00:39:18,164

And he gives you a document.

478

00:39:19,432 --> 00:39:32,755

the document is titled Genomic Analysis Addendum 7b Comparative Genomic Analysis Homo

sapien baseline to EBE type 1 slash gray.

479

00:39:32,755 --> 00:39:41,138

um As you're reading this document, the conclusion reads that

480

00:39:41,536 --> 00:39:51,733

There is a prevailing hypothesis now that the grays represent a discrete extraterrestrial

species and that hypothesis is flawed.

481

00:39:51,733 --> 00:40:03,821

uh All evidence suggests that these were built by some sort of servitor race manufactured

using terrestrial human DNA as clay.

482

00:40:03,901 --> 00:40:07,875

And there are two DNA sequences that are slightly different below.

483

00:40:07,875 --> 00:40:08,876

You see...

484

00:40:09,016 --> 00:40:22,107

I can see this as, as you're reading, can tell it's setting in, but we believe that those

creatures, much like the ones in the swamp, are us.

485

00:40:22,849 --> 00:40:35,831

Changed and created for a purpose beyond our understanding, but I believe that this jar

comes from our, comes from their puppeteers.

486

00:40:35,831 --> 00:40:38,131

Okay, alright, so it's...

487

00:40:38,392 --> 00:40:39,572

They're not...

488

00:40:39,892 --> 00:40:46,334

They're made of us but not by us, by something bigger that also is tied to this jar.

489

00:40:46,634 --> 00:40:58,297

My head is literally drowning uh in information and I mean, I'm a simple driver in most

capacities.

490

00:40:58,297 --> 00:41:03,419

uh I think that's enough information for now.

491

00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:04,879

uh

492

00:41:05,047 --> 00:41:08,913

Do you have a place where I could rest and digest a bit of this?

493

00:41:08,914 --> 00:41:14,634

Or maybe pull out a chair or something to lay on next to Dell as he recovers a little bit.

494

00:41:14,634 --> 00:41:18,552

And maybe some coffee or whiskey.

495

00:41:18,552 --> 00:41:20,826

Oh, well, I do have some whiskey.

496

00:41:20,826 --> 00:41:23,159

um It's in the kitchenette there.

497

00:41:23,159 --> 00:41:26,795

I will pull out a cot and make it up for you if you want to help yourself.

498

00:41:26,795 --> 00:41:28,569

um

499

00:41:28,569 --> 00:41:31,917

and I will try to get some rest too.

500

00:41:32,641 --> 00:41:33,870

Great, great.

501

00:41:33,870 --> 00:41:42,399

Yes, uh speaking of whiskey and she walks over the kitchen and uh starts helping herself,

man, she's just looking for those glasses.

502

00:41:42,399 --> 00:41:45,292

Would you like a couple fingers as well?

503

00:41:45,986 --> 00:41:55,586

it, uh, yes, sure, but I will have to put some iron in it and I'll have to grab some from

my uh workshop.

504

00:41:55,698 --> 00:41:57,373

Yes, sounds good.

505

00:41:57,373 --> 00:42:00,481

Go for it and I'll reach for the glasses and start...

506

00:42:00,481 --> 00:42:04,172

um Start dishing out that brown.

507

00:42:04,172 --> 00:42:10,280

Agent Sandusky, can you make a con save and a power save times five?

508

00:42:11,896 --> 00:42:15,794

Yeah, but I am surprised that his drink of choice isn't Goldschlager.

509

00:42:15,794 --> 00:42:16,938

Zing.

510

00:42:17,699 --> 00:42:18,739

Alright.

511

00:42:19,817 --> 00:42:22,982

45 on the con, that'll do.

512

00:42:23,897 --> 00:42:25,835

And the other one was a wheel power.

513

00:42:26,101 --> 00:42:27,412

we're rolling in it today.

514

00:42:27,412 --> 00:42:29,659

43 is also going to succeed.

515

00:42:30,309 --> 00:42:34,344

Barone, you are getting your whiskey.

516

00:42:34,344 --> 00:42:42,452

You hear a cough and you hear Sandusky say something.

517

00:42:42,633 --> 00:42:44,406

What do you say, Agent Sandusky?

518

00:42:44,406 --> 00:42:45,828

It's not over.

519

00:42:45,828 --> 00:42:47,346

It can't be over.

520

00:42:47,618 --> 00:42:48,880

Fuck Dell!

521

00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:58,165

And I'll set the whiskey glasses down on the counter, abandon, and sprint over, you know,

the six steps it takes to get across from him.

522

00:42:58,165 --> 00:43:00,037

Holy shit, you're okay!

523

00:43:00,037 --> 00:43:02,080

uh How many fingers am I holding up?

524

00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,111

And I'm like...

525

00:43:03,779 --> 00:43:12,319

Yeah, I think I think I kind of like was backpedaling into like the arm of the couch still

in kind of like fear mode a little bit, right?

526

00:43:12,319 --> 00:43:14,359

My eyes are not focused on anything.

527

00:43:14,359 --> 00:43:17,819

And as you are charging toward me, it is more alarming than anything.

528

00:43:17,819 --> 00:43:28,779

But as you stop it like right there is kind of like a you know, bracing for impact or like

maybe like a southpaw you see coming up to like meet your chin.

529

00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:33,251

But yeah, as you start holding up fingers.

530

00:43:33,251 --> 00:43:38,477

um I'm gonna try and steady myself and bring myself back to reality.

531

00:43:40,881 --> 00:43:43,875

I have no earthly sense of where I am.

532

00:43:43,875 --> 00:43:45,388

We are still on earth, aren't we?

533

00:43:45,388 --> 00:43:47,103

Well yeah, story about that.

534

00:43:47,103 --> 00:43:52,618

We're definitely on Earth and you wouldn't guess it, but I found somebody as well.

535

00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:53,623

Keras is here.

536

00:43:53,623 --> 00:43:59,613

yet and I'm going to uh put my hand in my waistband and start fumbling for a pistol.

537

00:43:59,613 --> 00:44:02,435

Nope, nope, nope, nope, it's okay, it's okay, it's...

538

00:44:02,435 --> 00:44:09,059

Trust me, my guy, if uh it were a danger in this exact moment, it would have been taken

care of.

539

00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:16,946

Believe it or not, I don't know if he's good or bad, but he's definitely hasn't killed us

yet and there's been zero threats.

540

00:44:16,946 --> 00:44:19,227

If anything, he's helped you a little bit.

541

00:44:19,227 --> 00:44:22,149

And she points at your chest wound.

542

00:44:22,743 --> 00:44:30,501

Yeah, I will touch a finger to it and taste it and see if it tastes spoiled or anything.

543

00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:39,260

If it doesn't seem like there is any sort of active infection, maybe I will lower my guard

a little bit.

544

00:44:40,302 --> 00:44:45,927

Trust isn't something I have in spades, but I guess if we come this far...

545

00:44:46,717 --> 00:44:48,580

mean, spare a little, but...

546

00:44:48,677 --> 00:44:49,785

I...

547

00:44:49,785 --> 00:44:51,439

I sure have a story for you.

548

00:44:51,439 --> 00:44:51,729

Hmm.

549

00:44:51,729 --> 00:44:55,977

Uh, yeah, well, give it a minute.

550

00:44:55,977 --> 00:45:00,614

I feel more like a sieve than a bowl these days.

551

00:45:00,614 --> 00:45:04,159

I'm not sure I can contain anything you got to tell me.

552

00:45:04,651 --> 00:45:11,423

Well, I think you should at least try and contain some water and I'll go and fetch him a

glass of water.

553

00:45:11,641 --> 00:45:22,024

as I am taking uh a drink, there is a wince because you can see that there is a slight

dribble where, like, my incisor had pierced through my cheek when I had bit through it.

554

00:45:22,024 --> 00:45:29,404

There is, like, a little pinkish dribble that runs through my beard and down onto my

shirt, but, like, we're mostly okay.

555

00:45:29,404 --> 00:45:39,025

My man, you are not wearing a shirt, but you see that dribble down onto the bandages that

are on your body.

556

00:45:39,166 --> 00:45:48,177

And as you look down at yourself and the size of the bandage and you gonna have to give me

a sanity roll.

557

00:45:48,569 --> 00:45:49,140

Yeah.

558

00:45:49,140 --> 00:45:59,817

45 what's our current what we working with 56 no biggie I expected to see a crater the

fact that it's still like convex feels pretty good

559

00:45:59,817 --> 00:46:16,091

Yeah, you are able to hold it together and you both hear footsteps outside and a hunched

man comes through the front door, which was a jar already holding a few capsules, it looks

560

00:46:16,091 --> 00:46:23,489

like, in his hand and looks over to you, Del, and smiles and we all graced with some luck

today

561

00:46:29,035 --> 00:46:33,679

Agent Ryan, you stand alone in the sudden profound silence of the swamp.

562

00:46:33,679 --> 00:46:38,662

The purple lights fade from the sky, leaving you in the mundane darkness of the night.

563

00:46:38,662 --> 00:46:43,685

The terrible buzzing hymn of the cosmos that filled your mind is gone.

564

00:46:43,946 --> 00:46:50,570

It's quiet and there isn't a bug or a cicada sound.

565

00:46:50,772 --> 00:46:52,175

I'm gracing your ear.

566

00:46:52,175 --> 00:46:55,229

But you may be changed by this.

567

00:46:55,229 --> 00:46:56,532

Can you give me a sand roll?

568

00:46:56,532 --> 00:46:57,509

Yes.

569

00:46:57,509 --> 00:47:00,812

007, look at me, special agent.

570

00:47:00,812 --> 00:47:10,872

All right, you still lose one SAN from this profound experience, especially processing

that this thing potentially wants to put your brain in a jar.

571

00:47:10,872 --> 00:47:18,575

You came out as an investigator, an observer, somebody trying to find something and you

did find something.

572

00:47:18,795 --> 00:47:26,278

And in finding this, you have now made a successful transaction that you will have to pay

your side of eventually.

573

00:47:26,439 --> 00:47:27,799

What do you do next?

574

00:47:27,830 --> 00:47:40,100

I stand up and kind of brush myself off a little bit as much as that can be after like

waiting in like muddy water.

575

00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:51,128

um But more just like kind of gathering my head a little bit like what just happened and

what do I do next?

576

00:47:51,128 --> 00:47:52,449

I think I'm...

577

00:47:52,500 --> 00:48:00,012

just kind of like kicking myself a little bit, but also like I got it, I only have three

days.

578

00:48:00,012 --> 00:48:01,442

gotta get busy here.

579

00:48:01,442 --> 00:48:10,104

And I know that um Dell is in bad shape.

580

00:48:10,104 --> 00:48:18,016

And so I'm like, okay, I need to like go find Dell and Barone and like see what's going on

there.

581

00:48:18,016 --> 00:48:21,897

So I start to make my way back to the path.

582

00:48:22,069 --> 00:48:25,523

to see if I can see them or, yeah.

583

00:48:25,523 --> 00:48:29,965

Go ahead and make a survival check as you're walking back.

584

00:48:29,965 --> 00:48:34,305

Survival, looking for 50, got 13.

585

00:48:35,127 --> 00:48:42,149

You see incredibly well-defined ATV tracks going off towards the town.

586

00:48:42,149 --> 00:48:44,352

You could easily follow them if you wanted to.

587

00:48:44,352 --> 00:48:47,256

Is that the path you're taking for sure?

588

00:48:49,980 --> 00:48:51,794

yeah, I am.

589

00:48:51,794 --> 00:48:53,700

I am taking that path.

590

00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:57,908

So we will cut back to the agents in the cabin.

591

00:48:57,908 --> 00:48:59,250

Dell, you've just woken up.

592

00:48:59,250 --> 00:49:04,309

What are some initial thoughts in this alien place for you?

593

00:49:04,309 --> 00:49:17,866

I mean, I'm looking around to see what kind of things he must keep in jars or like, you

know, if this couch is made of like flayed skin or just generally like what a snake man

594

00:49:17,866 --> 00:49:19,318

would keep in his house.

595

00:49:19,318 --> 00:49:23,271

Yeah, you can give me a quick search if you want.

596

00:49:23,550 --> 00:49:24,720

Do I ever.

597

00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,121

67, that's a real quick search.

598

00:49:27,777 --> 00:49:31,462

Yeah, your vision's a little blurry still.

599

00:49:31,462 --> 00:49:34,767

You're feeling a little dizzy as you sit up.

600

00:49:34,767 --> 00:49:38,431

Things are coming in and out of focus, in fact.

601

00:49:38,432 --> 00:49:44,550

So it just looks like a cozy little cabin with a kitchenette and a small desk and some

bookshelves.

602

00:49:44,550 --> 00:49:53,593

Yeah, I mean, I think maybe like you know when you like fall out of a dream and you are

kind of like startled awake and You are ready to spring into action.

603

00:49:53,593 --> 00:49:57,384

I think there is kind of that kind of like well I need to get my bearings about me.

604

00:49:57,384 --> 00:50:11,417

I need to prepare for danger, but it's Kind of disarming and maybe that's even a little

bit more disorienting right like just not at all what I anticipated falling into So I will

605

00:50:11,417 --> 00:50:13,378

quietly try to Yeah

606

00:50:14,186 --> 00:50:15,378

bring my senses together.

607

00:50:15,378 --> 00:50:19,901

Yeah, give me a power roll times five.

608

00:50:20,294 --> 00:50:21,326

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

609

00:50:21,326 --> 00:50:22,667

Looking for a 65.

610

00:50:22,667 --> 00:50:23,535

We all right.

611

00:50:24,003 --> 00:50:25,423

Okay, yeah.

612

00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:33,708

You pay attention to your body for one second and realize that it would be tough for you

to even stand up at this point and walk.

613

00:50:33,708 --> 00:50:37,670

You are still in quite a bit of pain.

614

00:50:37,830 --> 00:50:47,695

You're not obviously incapacitated anymore, but it is tough to even move and thinking

about standing up even makes you dizzy.

615

00:50:48,043 --> 00:50:57,812

Yeah, I think those initial flinches were already uh regretted as I kind of like am trying

to settle against my best instincts here.

616

00:50:57,812 --> 00:51:07,532

Yeah, Kuros walks straight up to you from outside and puts a hand on your forehead and

then checks your pulse.

617

00:51:07,532 --> 00:51:14,208

Doesn't ask permission just as touching you and he's counting.

618

00:51:14,663 --> 00:51:20,252

I look up at him while he's putting his hand on my head and I just give him a little

tongue flick.

619

00:51:20,252 --> 00:51:32,556

I understand that I may not be popular among whatever organization has sent you, but I did

save your life, so let me continue to keep you alive.

620

00:51:32,556 --> 00:51:35,304

Yeah, I can imagine you think of that as a mercy.

621

00:51:35,304 --> 00:51:36,877

I'm not so sure.

622

00:51:36,879 --> 00:51:40,821

But, um, for now, I do appreciate that.

623

00:51:40,821 --> 00:51:46,761

And I'll tell you what, Del, I would probably say that I'm better with you here than

without.

624

00:51:47,041 --> 00:51:51,701

So welcome back to the land of the living, my friend, and I pat him on the shoulder.

625

00:51:52,368 --> 00:51:53,300

Yeah, great.

626

00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:54,288

Glad I could help.

627

00:51:54,288 --> 00:51:57,191

Well, yeah, sure, yeah, definitely.

628

00:51:57,191 --> 00:52:03,996

Also, um slight update, you're an alien now.

629

00:52:04,249 --> 00:52:08,278

You gotta find a better way to pitch that.

630

00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:11,424

You know, there's not.

631

00:52:11,424 --> 00:52:12,536

There's not a better way.

632

00:52:12,536 --> 00:52:14,810

That's just what you are now.

633

00:52:14,810 --> 00:52:21,201

And I'm sorry, but you could not be here and I had a choice and now you are here and I'm

fine with that choice.

634

00:52:21,201 --> 00:52:21,571

Dr.

635

00:52:21,571 --> 00:52:23,259

Cross, you want to chime in here for a second, please?

636

00:52:23,259 --> 00:52:26,144

When you said you saved me, what exactly did you save?

637

00:52:26,144 --> 00:52:31,688

Well, excuse me, um you're not an alien.

638

00:52:31,688 --> 00:52:37,092

Your friend is probably still in shock too, but you do have a...

639

00:52:37,092 --> 00:52:44,737

We would call it a parasite here, but it's a technically some sort of metal that reacts to

other metals.

640

00:52:44,878 --> 00:52:49,080

And we used it to save your life.

641

00:52:49,481 --> 00:52:53,137

I was hoping that I could kill it with...

642

00:52:53,137 --> 00:52:57,602

some sodium bicarbonate but I'm not so sure that worked.

643

00:52:57,607 --> 00:53:01,786

you've kept it alive instead so now I'm just a host harboring this parasite.

644

00:53:01,786 --> 00:53:02,405

It's...

645

00:53:02,405 --> 00:53:04,602

not actually an alien, so one step better?

646

00:53:04,602 --> 00:53:06,021

Heh, yeah?

647

00:53:06,075 --> 00:53:12,111

Maybe, until it grows up to be a big old fleshy thing that rips out of my chest.

648

00:53:12,692 --> 00:53:12,973

No.

649

00:53:12,973 --> 00:53:14,472

I never thought about that.

650

00:53:14,472 --> 00:53:15,343

Doc?

651

00:53:16,146 --> 00:53:18,551

No, um highly unlikely.

652

00:53:18,551 --> 00:53:23,902

um Again, this is new territory for even me.

653

00:53:23,902 --> 00:53:27,800

you say highly unlikely, your sample size is credible, right?

654

00:53:28,399 --> 00:53:30,750

I sample sizes myself.

655

00:53:31,392 --> 00:53:33,603

you do notice his skin is a strange color.

656

00:53:33,603 --> 00:53:40,959

He lifts his shirt and shows you the jaundice-y purple veins going through his chest.

657

00:53:40,959 --> 00:53:45,312

I've been living with this for some years and I finally found a balance with it.

658

00:53:45,312 --> 00:53:50,385

It has neither tried to consume me or rip from my chest, as you say.

659

00:53:50,746 --> 00:53:55,160

But it does give me strange dreams.

660

00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:06,820

Yeah, I think, um, Dell settles at the notion of him perhaps not being, you know, the

subject of an experiment.

661

00:54:06,820 --> 00:54:07,820

If Dr.

662

00:54:07,820 --> 00:54:19,901

Cross is truly uh under the same affliction, then either he's fully gone and we are

totally fucked, or he is doing as best as he says.

663

00:54:19,901 --> 00:54:23,852

Yeah, I mean, you can roll human intelligence if you want.

664

00:54:23,930 --> 00:54:26,031

I mean, I think that the...

665

00:54:26,031 --> 00:54:36,550

I will, I absolutely will, but I do think that the demonstration and the way that he kind

of like scientifically launched into not trying to like appeal to me as a person, but just

666

00:54:36,550 --> 00:54:39,582

like based on my observations, I blah blah blah, right?

667

00:54:39,582 --> 00:54:44,717

It's like, okay, clearly self-preservation is like backseat to this man.

668

00:54:44,717 --> 00:54:46,109

It was an 11.

669

00:54:46,409 --> 00:54:47,930

That's a critical success.

670

00:54:47,930 --> 00:54:51,891

um Looking for an 18.

671

00:54:52,491 --> 00:54:54,263

your estimation of him is correct.

672

00:54:54,263 --> 00:54:56,154

He is stating the facts.

673

00:54:56,176 --> 00:55:04,826

it doesn't seem like he has any ulterior motive in, you know, describing this parasite or,

you know, he, used it to save your life.

674

00:55:05,528 --> 00:55:12,894

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think that was felt before we studied his micro-expressions and all

that.

675

00:55:12,894 --> 00:55:25,124

yeah, Del now feels like maybe he has intruded on a, put the brakes on a conversation that

was already well on his way.

676

00:55:25,124 --> 00:55:35,502

So as Kharas kind of comes back with a wet compress, he will give him a thanks and hold it

himself while he...

677

00:55:35,692 --> 00:55:38,933

you know, watches the pair get back into it.

678

00:55:38,933 --> 00:55:54,686

And if any of you were exposed to these creatures for any amount of time or injured by

them or inbited any of their blood, um I do have the bicarbonate here if you if you need

679

00:55:54,686 --> 00:55:54,876

it.

680

00:55:54,876 --> 00:55:58,378

um But

681

00:55:58,484 --> 00:56:00,786

Barone puts her hand up slowly.

682

00:56:00,786 --> 00:56:09,945

Um, yeah, how about like a finger into a leg causing a new orifice type thing?

683

00:56:09,945 --> 00:56:11,827

Would that count?

684

00:56:11,827 --> 00:56:15,749

Well, it just depends on your symptoms.

685

00:56:15,749 --> 00:56:19,892

It was quite obvious with him, we saw the veins going through his body.

686

00:56:19,892 --> 00:56:25,955

But have you been craving heavy metals or any metals whatsoever?

687

00:56:26,146 --> 00:56:28,310

No...

688

00:56:28,553 --> 00:56:29,105

Nope.

689

00:56:29,105 --> 00:56:39,578

Okay, well, um then you probably don't need the bicarbonate, but um it can usually stop it

early in the first 24 hours.

690

00:56:39,578 --> 00:56:44,476

know, yeah, no, totally, for good measure, let's just stick it on in there.

691

00:56:44,476 --> 00:56:49,192

And I stick my arm out and start prepping it and cleaning the spot.

692

00:56:49,192 --> 00:56:52,282

We could just, we could just give it good old try.

693

00:56:52,282 --> 00:56:57,295

You get a big wet thwap on the back of your head as that cloth just like wraps around.

694

00:56:57,295 --> 00:57:00,023

You motherfucker, what you been keeping?

695

00:57:00,023 --> 00:57:01,703

Ooh, ooh, ooh.

696

00:57:01,703 --> 00:57:11,723

Well settle down Del, I'm not keeping much except a quarter inside my stomach that I'm

trying to figure out how to pass.

697

00:57:11,723 --> 00:57:21,083

Yeah so maybe I have been craving metals a little bit and a little off-kilter and kind of

strange.

698

00:57:21,083 --> 00:57:22,563

So let's put that shot on in me.

699

00:57:22,563 --> 00:57:24,971

We could just go ahead and do that right?

700

00:57:25,411 --> 00:57:27,273

Yes, you...

701

00:57:27,595 --> 00:57:29,758

it was not as severe as his it looks like.

702

00:57:29,758 --> 00:57:30,980

You're wounded though?

703

00:57:30,980 --> 00:57:32,482

Is the wound okay?

704

00:57:32,723 --> 00:57:35,345

uh Yeah, I think so.

705

00:57:35,345 --> 00:57:44,991

And I'll go ahead and start revealing my leg wound and start unbanning it for this new

super best friend, Doctor, to take a look, I guess.

706

00:57:45,540 --> 00:57:48,556

Okay, he's gonna roll his first aid.

707

00:57:50,553 --> 00:57:51,373

Okay.

708

00:57:52,154 --> 00:57:55,056

It seems, it seems trivial.

709

00:57:55,057 --> 00:58:02,062

I mean, that does quite the scratch, but here we can, here, I'll go make a shot real

quick.

710

00:58:02,062 --> 00:58:15,974

And he takes um the bottle that he had for Dell and uh the same syringe, unfortunately,

and um goes into the kitchenette and starts adding water to it.

711

00:58:15,974 --> 00:58:19,476

And you see him trying to sterilize it as well.

712

00:58:19,476 --> 00:58:20,657

um

713

00:58:20,821 --> 00:58:27,280

anything you want to say or look for under your breath as he's about nine feet from you.

714

00:58:27,374 --> 00:58:31,496

I was giving him the next question, exactly how far he was away.

715

00:58:31,496 --> 00:58:41,463

um So I'll look to Dell and give him that nod of like, hey, we're here, but don't lose the

edge that you have type thing.

716

00:58:41,463 --> 00:58:47,047

um And kind of glance down at my firearm at my side to let him know it's right here.

717

00:58:47,047 --> 00:58:49,708

I'm being careful as well.

718

00:58:49,708 --> 00:58:52,331

And then I'll turn back and watch the doctor as well.

719

00:58:52,331 --> 00:58:54,015

Yeah, it's funny that you would say that.

720

00:58:54,015 --> 00:59:00,402

On account of Dell is now actually more comforted by the doctor's presence than yours on

account of he's been much more forthcoming.

721

00:59:00,402 --> 00:59:03,038

Hey man, girl gotta have her secrets sometimes.

722

00:59:03,038 --> 00:59:04,100

They have prices though.

723

00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:19,974

He creates a uh very small amount of liquid in this syringe, um nothing compared to the

200 plus milliliters that Dell got in the heart and grabs your arm and injects you with it

724

00:59:19,974 --> 00:59:21,214

if you just let him.

725

00:59:22,639 --> 00:59:23,459

yeah, 100%.

726

00:59:23,459 --> 00:59:28,917

I want this quarter infatuation to end immediately if at all possible.

727

00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:30,800

I guess I was kind of...

728

00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:31,532

uh

729

00:59:31,532 --> 00:59:34,498

you know, settled into the thought of like, well, I have a symbiote now as well.

730

00:59:34,498 --> 00:59:39,469

So if there's any way to kind of save it and hopefully not, then I'm gonna take it.

731

00:59:39,469 --> 00:59:46,779

Yeah, he um quickly removes the needle and puts it back in the kitchenette, walks over.

732

00:59:46,779 --> 00:59:50,926

I am an old man and getting quite tired.

733

00:59:50,926 --> 01:00:01,072

uh And he hands you the aforementioned whiskies and he does put an iron capsule um in his

and pour some in there and swishes it around.

734

01:00:01,072 --> 01:00:02,773

He offers you the same Dell.

735

01:00:02,773 --> 01:00:05,834

He holds up a capsule for you in a glass of whiskey.

736

01:00:05,834 --> 01:00:06,995

Do you take it?

737

01:00:07,730 --> 01:00:18,396

I will take it and swish it, but honestly I have been sucking on one of my back molars

that has like a backwoods filling in it and that's doing the trick right about

738

01:00:18,832 --> 01:00:20,412

All right, beautiful.

739

01:00:21,152 --> 01:00:26,754

He says, do you mind if I ask you a question?

740

01:00:26,754 --> 01:00:28,977

Fire away, not literally.

741

01:00:29,216 --> 01:00:41,408

Your colleague didn't know for sure if Arthur, Arthur Finch I should say, was retired, as

we used to say in the business.

742

01:00:41,408 --> 01:00:45,317

the audio is super choppy for me it's probably my internet though

743

01:00:45,317 --> 01:00:47,502

You were asking if he, if he was retired.

744

01:00:48,253 --> 01:00:51,855

Yeah, he asked Dell if he was retired.

745

01:00:51,855 --> 01:01:00,265

Um, well, to be honest, I didn't get a latest status report, but the state that we

delivered him in, I'm not sure that he was, um

746

01:01:00,265 --> 01:01:03,950

Well, I'm not sure that there was much of a man to return to.

747

01:01:04,672 --> 01:01:14,196

The way that we found him when he was diving down that hole communing with that gray, um

I'm not sure how much of Finch was left.

748

01:01:14,196 --> 01:01:15,184

communing.

749

01:01:15,686 --> 01:01:16,559

Communion.

750

01:01:16,559 --> 01:01:20,189

If that's what he called it, it looked like something wholly different to me.

751

01:01:20,189 --> 01:01:23,628

Did you find any um documents?

752

01:01:23,628 --> 01:01:29,570

Well, sure, he had been performing all manner of experiments, if you care to call it that

way.

753

01:01:29,751 --> 01:01:42,657

It seemed as though uh he had found a way to open a connection, and that pain was a most

helpful tool in uh easing that communication.

754

01:01:42,657 --> 01:01:43,517

Okay.

755

01:01:44,340 --> 01:01:46,503

It doesn't seem like Finch that I knew.

756

01:01:46,503 --> 01:01:48,728

was a kind and gentle man, but...

757

01:01:48,728 --> 01:01:54,193

Who knows what this type of journey can give you along the way.

758

01:01:54,193 --> 01:02:01,919

You slip a couple of bath salts into anybody's drink and you your guess is as as mine.

759

01:02:02,980 --> 01:02:04,041

I don't know.

760

01:02:04,201 --> 01:02:11,317

He seemed like he was pushing himself further and further of his own volition.

761

01:02:11,578 --> 01:02:12,138

I think...

762

01:02:12,138 --> 01:02:12,890

um

763

01:02:12,890 --> 01:02:13,666

I don't know what I-

764

01:02:13,666 --> 01:02:14,936

That's quite alright.

765

01:02:14,936 --> 01:02:18,337

He was a friend and he got an idea in his head.

766

01:02:19,376 --> 01:02:24,719

He thought he found some crash sites in the desert and read some books.

767

01:02:24,879 --> 01:02:26,420

Thought he knew something.

768

01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:29,280

He went looking for saucers and government secrets.

769

01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:34,042

He didn't find any, but he did find the old copper mines.

770

01:02:34,242 --> 01:02:41,504

He found something else down there and I was hoping he would have been able to give that

to me.

771

01:02:42,276 --> 01:02:51,248

the nature of what you were hoping to find was it uh like notes or a blueprint or an

actual artifact of some sort?

772

01:02:51,248 --> 01:02:58,356

uh A second half to a song that I've been keen to learn.

773

01:02:59,828 --> 01:03:01,000

A...

774

01:03:01,228 --> 01:03:02,134

Agent Brown.

775

01:03:02,134 --> 01:03:04,213

that peak your ears at all?

776

01:03:04,213 --> 01:03:18,793

Yeah, no, not necessarily, but just to touch on it lightly, something that happened while

you were out is the doctor here wants to leave this world, if you will, in one way or

777

01:03:18,793 --> 01:03:19,364

another.

778

01:03:19,364 --> 01:03:30,544

I am apt to let that happen to solve our mission in some way in trade for a little bit

more information out of him.

779

01:03:30,845 --> 01:03:36,376

As far as how to finish that off, I have no clue, my guy.

780

01:03:36,376 --> 01:03:40,586

I don't know anything about any songs and she just kind of shrugs a little bit.

781

01:03:40,586 --> 01:03:42,407

And the...

782

01:03:43,008 --> 01:03:49,394

he was cataloguing symbols that he had found in these old copper mines.

783

01:03:50,275 --> 01:03:56,041

Those symbols were the missing piece I was hoping, but it seems they are gone now.

784

01:03:56,041 --> 01:03:57,673

um

785

01:03:57,673 --> 01:04:00,767

Your organization, would they have murdered him?

786

01:04:00,767 --> 01:04:09,560

I wouldn't put it past him if he weren't capable of providing any more intelligence.

787

01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:15,526

Okay, that's what I assumed, but um you never know.

788

01:04:16,756 --> 01:04:17,618

Nor do I.

789

01:04:17,618 --> 01:04:19,923

In fact, I prefer not to.

790

01:04:19,923 --> 01:04:24,213

It doesn't come out so helpful in moments like this, but it helps me sleep.

791

01:04:24,213 --> 01:04:24,690

Okay.

792

01:04:24,690 --> 01:04:29,904

Well, um this was my only question again about Finch.

793

01:04:31,967 --> 01:04:46,191

I be, I'm quite tired, but if there's anything you need to talk with me about, um we can

either talk in the morning or you can talk to me now if you are feeling up to it.

794

01:04:46,191 --> 01:04:58,089

Well, I definitely do have more questions, but and she looks around we're still down one

Dell Ryan when we packed up and started going, Ryan was gone.

795

01:04:58,089 --> 01:05:00,031

I don't know if he's out in the swamp.

796

01:05:00,031 --> 01:05:02,012

I don't know if he's safe.

797

01:05:02,613 --> 01:05:05,905

I got to head back out there tonight before I could get any more sleep.

798

01:05:05,905 --> 01:05:07,416

He can't I can't just leave him.

799

01:05:07,416 --> 01:05:13,281

If there's any of those monsters left, there's it's not it's not good.

800

01:05:13,281 --> 01:05:14,960

His legs wasn't working.

801

01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:16,397

What do you mean he was gone?

802

01:05:16,397 --> 01:05:18,135

He didn't leave on his own, did he?

803

01:05:18,135 --> 01:05:20,878

I truly honestly don't know the answer.

804

01:05:20,878 --> 01:05:28,264

I went back, called his name, I could tell you what, if I was being pulled off into the

swamp and somebody yelled for me, I would yell, the fuck right back.

805

01:05:29,666 --> 01:05:31,572

So either something took him.

806

01:05:31,572 --> 01:05:32,232

Thank you, Del.

807

01:05:32,232 --> 01:05:34,023

Yeah, no, didn't think about that.

808

01:05:34,023 --> 01:05:36,404

I assumed Ryan was alive, alive until dead.

809

01:05:36,404 --> 01:05:40,966

um either way, got to, got to find him.

810

01:05:41,426 --> 01:05:52,131

we're not, Doc, we're not quite done with all the questions we, we have to ask, but I

think we should maybe collect our third party member before we ask anymore.

811

01:05:52,131 --> 01:05:59,859

Um, I guess you guys get some rest and she starts grabbing her bag and, you know, putting

her backpack on, but I gotta, I have to head back out there.