S1E11 - Hurt A Long Time - Operation Proxy Decay - Delta Green AP - Dead Letter Bureau

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Okay, what's for dinner, guys?

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Are you guys bringing in takeout?

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Are you gonna go somewhere?

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Barone is starving.

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So what are we eating?

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What are our options in this hellhole?

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Yeah, I'll tell you what, uh there were definitely a couple.

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There was a place with all of its lights on, there was a place with like half of its

lights burned out, there was a place with pretty much no lights, and there's fast food.

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I'll tell you what, Ryan, I think I got to choose last time.

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Do you wanna choose what we're eating tonight for dinner?

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How about the place with all the lights on?

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You know, that rings so fucking true and I could eat a horse.

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So yeah, let's get to it and I'll grab the keys and start walking towards the truck.

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Great, you take the brain with you or are you leaving it in the hotel room?

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We are not leaving that brain anywhere.

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Well, I guess Del has it, so.

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No, I think you took specific charge of it because of the call with Butterfield, I assume.

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I think so, unless you're the only one who knew that it was of like, don't let it out of

your site status, right?

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Fair.

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Yeah.

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So knowing that we are going to go out to the wilderness this time, I think she has her

her pack act like packed her M4s in the back of the truck.

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Everything's ready.

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I think before we go out into the public and she does have her backpack on still, I think

she's going to take the brain out and she's going to look at down be like, so like I said,

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I don't think I'm compromised, but I would rather oh

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you know, somebody with all seven heads on their shoulders to uh maybe hang on to this and

I'll hand the brain over to you,

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How many did you count?

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Yeah, I'll take it and I'll just kind of like tuck it into the side of my coat for now,

know, swaddle it up in there until we have a slightly more permanent solution.

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Um, you have a backpack, right?

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I'm sure there's something.

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Cool, great, awesome.

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And then, yeah, now we'll make our way to the car.

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So I don't have the brain anymore.

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Who knows, Dell's got it.

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You get behind the driver's seat and you take off toward the diner that you ate at

earlier.

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You get in there, same menu, order some dinner.

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Barone, what are you ordering specifically?

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Alright, let's see we have fish and chips and country fried steak and steak fried chicken,

country fried chicken, fried chicken, um let's go for chicken and then I'll order country

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fried steak, fried chicken and half a pizza no two three pizza slices I'm getting the

works

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Okay, okay.

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Great.

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The waitress comes out, she's still friendly as ever, calls y'all honey and darlin' along

the way.

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You get your food, everybody has their food in front of them, you're eating barone.

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You start with maybe the chicken, right?

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So you cut it with the knife and put the fork in your mouth and you take a bite of the

chicken.

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The chicken itself,

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Whatever, it's not great.

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But the feeling of the fork on your tongue makes you salivate.

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You start to almost drool a little bit once that fork touches your tongue.

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You find yourself, you know how when you have like a...

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a sore tooth or like if you have ever got your wisdom teeth taken out, you can't stop

putting your tongue in the spot where it was or you can't stop pushing on the part of your

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mouth that is sore.

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It feels like that as you lick this fork.

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It's hard to take it out.

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Interesting.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I think I'll, try and maybe not make that known per se, um, that I have a sudden

infatuation with metal in my mouth.

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Um, but stick to the foods that require, forks entering, entering my mouth.

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So all of the, like, yeah, all of the chicken stuff goes first.

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I ignore the pizza altogether.

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as I'm

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Scarfing this on down.

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Am I getting less hungry or just more uncomfortable?

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You don't feel satiated, but you feel very full.

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Like your body is fed, but there's some like yearning for you that's missing by this meal.

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And the fork is, it feels, you wanna swallow it, but you don't, so.

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Huh, interesting.

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Okay, man, I forgot to even wash my hands.

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I'm gonna get up and go to the bathroom to wash my hands.

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Dell across the way, has it at all been like when a politician is in the back of a press

briefing and they're blitzed out of their mind on cocaine and he's just like, like rubbing

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his tongue all over the fork and he's just like, play it cool, bro, play it cool.

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He's not at that, or excuse me, Barone is not at that point.

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she, it seems normal.

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She's eating a lot.

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She ordered a lot of food.

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You're maybe assuming how that she's super hungry.

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You also saw her go down to the vending machine and get like.

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13 candy bars and five bags of chips and some Slim Jims.

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And this meal itself is big, but she slows down.

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She doesn't eat the whole thing.

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It's just the amount of things that she's eating is maybe weird, but Barone is also pretty

ripped and yeah.

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Hey man, it's bulk season for Barone, okay?

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Yeah, I'm probably not judging.

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okay in the bathroom after I wash my hands I'm gonna take one of the quarters from my

pocket and I'm gonna put it in my mouth and Then I'm go back to the table

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Yeah, you, without even thinking about it, you just swallow it.

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What no shit All right Hmm, that's gonna have to come up later one way or another

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Barone thinking to herself has never...

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she's like thinking about how that thing could pass through and do some damage or not.

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I think she turns around, goes into stall and relieves the pressure, if you will, of

everything that she ate into the toilet to get that quarter back up.

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Yeah, roll con and you want to fail.

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I want to fail.

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Well that's okay because no, my con is 75.

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We passed by one, we got a 74.

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Oh man, yeah, it's hard to get it up.

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It's staying down.

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have an iron stomach, I believe, right?

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it's definitely not coming up without significant effort.

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Alright, well I guess if you're that stubborn and you want to stay in there, so be it.

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hm, fine.

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And she washes her hands again and goes and rejoins the table.

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Why not a half dollar?

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Shit, man, I would have started with a dime.

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Yeah man, should have just started with the fucking fork itself, right?

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Agent Ryan, I'm curious, having your parade rained on earlier, how are you presenting at

this dinner?

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I'm pretty quiet.

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I am not eating beans, surprisingly.

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I opted to order a burger.

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And I'm not super hungry, so I'm just kind of taking small bites and not really

interacting much with everybody else.

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Great.

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Del, what are you doing for dinner?

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uh

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Uh, yeah.

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I kinda imagine this place has a very eclectic menu where they're like, yeah, we could do

that.

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And so there's like, prime rib on there that they cooked like last Thursday.

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But Dell thinks it's like a pretty fancy establishment on account of they have prime rib.

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But it comes out like gray and lukewarm, but he doesn't really know any better on account

of...

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Prime rib is just like what they have in the movies.

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It goes down okay.

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Yeah, you get a prime rib.

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It's the best prime rib you've ever had.

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um Yeah, so yeah, it's delicious.

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Brian looks pretty dour over there.

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Barone is eating a lot.

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Barone takes off to the bathroom and then comes back.

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And are you planning at dinner or are you just gonna set out and start going for it?

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No, I think a little plan trying to get Ryan looped into the Barone's idea of the little

heist to steal the ATVs.

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Let's try and build a little bit momentum on something that's like small potatoes and

easy, you know?

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But it'll make us feel cool.

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Yeah, all right.

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So on my thoughts early.

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Oh, no, wait, no.

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Yeah.

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I'll have a banana split as well, please.

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Thank you.

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so what I was saying before, what we could do is, um, we know that, um, the Ranger station

is, empty, here after the sun goes down and she peaks outside, it's dark outside.

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So we should be good to go.

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I have these keys.

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There's three of us, one person to drive the truck, two people to drive each of the ATVs.

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We could either.

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go back to, well I guess we kind of have to go back the way that we did before and just

take the ATVs, we could double up on one of them and maybe you know head out to the site

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where the chanting was coming from.

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How's that sound?

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I love that idea.

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Let's do it.

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Yeah, fine by me.

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I mean, it seems like maybe it'd be good to have a little walkie-talkie and visibility

situation set up.

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We'd probably be posted up there for a little while.

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Maybe we just have some agreed upon protocols, what might call us to action versus

observation only.

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But yeah, I'm curious to see what Night 2 might hold.

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Yeah, I think the name of the game is gonna be Stay Together.

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I mean, we've seen enough of those horror movies where if you split the party, obviously

you die, and I know I don't want to be alone right now, or pretty much ever again.

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So maybe we don't split the party, stay pretty close, and find a vantage point once we

park the ATVs near the swamp, I guess.

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Yeah, yeah, deal.

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Say, when it comes to that algae, if dawn were to rise and there were no nefarious

creatures around and we had our way with that swamp, what occurs to you that you might do

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with that algae, that being out there?

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Hmm.

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I think in war if somebody retreats they have obviously had it in their mind that they

have lost and the will to fight has been taken out of them.

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This creature did attack me but it did also retreat as it was defeated.

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Del I'm not going to go out my way to kill things that don't necessarily need to be killed

but at the same time this is mission number one.

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If we need to hunt that down and that is our primary goal here.

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You're gonna have to lead the way, but I can follow.

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Well, I mean that fish creature...

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I mean...

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I don't know, maybe it's mighty in its own right, but it seems more like an underling,

like subservient.

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I'm not so concerned with that as I am...

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whatever's bringing them to that place.

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That algae, this network, the connection, like...

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It seems like something we can't rightly leave behind intact as it is, you know?

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If there were some way to...

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disrupt this hive, this algae, this connection.

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I don't know.

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I'm looking for ideas.

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Explosives.

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Who knows what.

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Yeah, I mean, Ryan, tell, do we have any of that?

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We got a couple bricks, but I don't know what kind of area we're talking about when we

really get down to it.

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How about our pilot friend?

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Maybe we could do a flyover now that we know where it's located and see what we can see

from up above.

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Yeah, I'm not opposed.

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His window of waiting may have closed, not a problem to give him a try.

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Yeah, alright, yeah, sure, let's circle back.

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I can tell you right now though, I'm not heading into that swamp unprepared.

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mean, this time we're mosquitonet top to bottom with a big old gun in my hand.

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Like, in the nighttime, I'm not worried about coming across anybody and being passed as

hikers.

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Like, I'm coming for him.

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Yeah, no, I think that's sound.

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Okay, see, it just keeps ticking on my brain that we need to have a plan for whatever this

amalgamation is in the middle of this network.

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If it's not today, that's fine, but keep it in your minds if you please.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I say we get to next steps when we get to next steps.

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Step one, get the check.

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Somebody's going to have to pay that.

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Step two, fetch the ATVs.

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Step three, go to the swamp and hope for a chanting circle to give us next directions.

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I think if we don't get that step three, then we figure it out from there.

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Yeah, alright.

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Yeah, I'll walk on up to pay the check and the woman's like nursing a hand cramp as she is

writing out the itemized receipt for the bureau.

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Perfect.

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You get the check, she gives you very gracious goodbyes.

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You get in the car and are kitted up and ready and drive out to Boggy Depot State Park.

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It is after nightfall and you know the Ranger station closes by then.

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So you just roll in and straight there.

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Yeah, I think so.

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uh Barone, yeah, with Barone driving, knowing that the Ranger station is closed, I think

we go right on in.

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I mean, I think we maybe stealth it a little bit.

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And when we get close to the station, we turn the lights off and roll the truck in.

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then, yeah, I mean, let's start from there.

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Let's turn the lights off and roll the truck in uh once we get close to the station

itself.

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Yeah, you're able to flip the lights off.

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There's no gate or anything.

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Doesn't get enough traffic to warrant that.

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And you roll up to the station, you see the ATVs there, the lights are off, there's no

truck parked out there.

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Okay, great.

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I'll assume Dell's back in the back and I'll open the little slidey window.

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Alright, have either of you two driven an ATV before?

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not in there I've already jumped out to the side to go and make sure the computer monitor

is off inside.

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Definitely a no on the ATV driving from me.

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Alright Ryan, I'll tell you what, you take the wheel here, Dell and I, clearly he's a man

of stature so he's for sure done this before.

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I'll scoot out of the driver's seat, grab the keys and start walking towards the ATVs.

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Dell in the office, you see that everything is shut down and it's quiet.

224

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Okay, yeah.

225

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Just for future reference, is there a window that looks in to get a view of the computer?

226

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Okay, I think that's all I was interested in, is just a quick peek.

227

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Then I'll go and find Barone near the ATVs.

228

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Cool, great.

229

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I'll have put the keys in one, started it up for you, left it in neutral slash park,

whatever, switch to the other one and start that up so you could hop on and we could go

230

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with as little hesitation as possible.

231

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We don't wanna be here longer than we have to.

232

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So you guys drive to that original trailhead or?

233

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Yeah, I think so.

234

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think since, you know, she is very much about route planning and knowing where stuff is

and being able to draw a map in her mind, you know, resonates back to her time driving

235

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convoys and knowing the area and having a scout session done, if you will.

236

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That's the point of entry.

237

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We know where we're going.

238

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We know where the hostiles were.

239

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I think that's, that's our point of entry.

240

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Great, you get up there, it gets to the point where the truck can go no further.

241

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So Agent Ryan, you have to stop the truck and you're waiting to get out on the trail.

242

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Which ATV is Agent Ryan jumping on?

243

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I'll jump in with Agent Barone.

244

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Yeah, figures.

245

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hop right on.

246

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um Don't forget your bag or anything else you need as well.

247

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And you'll see she has her backpack on her back with her uh M4 strapped to it.

248

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I'm ready to go.

249

00:16:54,768 --> 00:16:55,888

Great.

250

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Both of you roll me a drive as you're getting out into the swamp.

251

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Sure.

252

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No, 80 fail.

253

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Oh no.

254

00:17:05,945 --> 00:17:08,145

Alright, I'm looking for a 70.

255

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I get a 32 success.

256

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Great.

257

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You don't.

258

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crash or anything Dell, it just takes you a little longer.

259

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Barone, you start out going first.

260

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It seems like Dell's having some trouble keeping it on the trail and following you.

261

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You're going probably a little faster than usual.

262

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So maybe you slow it down a little bit to let him catch up, but you're starting to lose a

little time to get out there.

263

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It's not clear if time is important right now, but you're starting to get to the point

where the boardwalk

264

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is do you drive on the boardwalk?

265

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Hmm, let's see.

266

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Yeah, probably ATVs are I don't know 300 400 pounds which is roughly two grown people in

this boardwalk is Supposed to be able to support much more than that.

267

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So I think yeah, we drive right over the boardwalk

268

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Great.

269

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Starts again, rattling in your heads as you're flying over this boardwalk and you get to

the sawgrass.

270

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Are you just pushing through it?

271

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Yeah, we...

272

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well, okay, let's see.

273

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When you say we get to the Sawgrass, so off of the boardwalk, there's kind of a dirt trail

for a while and then it splits in the two directions.

274

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And there's like a swampy, moggy area.

275

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Is that where...

276

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that direction, is that where the crash was and where I got assaulted and where we're

heading?

277

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Or...

278

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Yeah, so you yeah, so on the boardwalk you can see in the distance the algae area of the

swamp right off to your left and to get there it's pretty watery next to the boardwalk

279

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with the ATV you'd have to go through the sawgrass and circle around to where you walked

to it before you were assaulted.

280

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Does that make sense?

281

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to say yes?

282

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Sure.

283

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I think that the ATVs, we know there's a clear dry walking path from the boardwalk to the

town and then there's the Moggy Swampy area.

284

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I think we don't want to push our luck with ATVs.

285

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We know that this is going to get us to the town and beyond and a quick escape.

286

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I think we leave them on the trail.

287

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Nobody's going to come across them.

288

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So I'm going to pull up and park and say, all right guys, I think it's probably a foot

from here on in.

289

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well I was gonna take a thread out of my like sewing patch kit, very thin, nothing to it,

and I will tie it tree to tree so that if we were walking back and we couldn't see as

290

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we've stashed them off to the side like under the underbrush or whatever, like we will be

notified that we are at the place where they are.

291

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brilliant.

292

00:19:47,842 --> 00:19:50,926

Great, you're able to mark it, no problem.

293

00:19:50,926 --> 00:19:54,820

Dell, you have a night vision scope that is not attached to your rifle.

294

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You can attach it or you can use it.

295

00:19:56,733 --> 00:20:02,600

Agent Ryan, you have the night vision goggles and Barone, you also have a set of goggles.

296

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I do?

297

00:20:03,308 --> 00:20:04,621

Okay great.

298

00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:06,985

Yeah, I forgot about that entirely, yeah.

299

00:20:06,985 --> 00:20:09,248

Alright, goggles on I guess.

300

00:20:09,982 --> 00:20:12,766

Yeah, I'll take the minute to equip mine.

301

00:20:12,766 --> 00:20:17,982

All right, so where are you trying to set up the, quote, ambush or stake out point?

302

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think I want to be able to have eyes on as many places of interest in the swamp as

possible.

303

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Like decidedly the place, the origin of the footprints and the chanting circle, any sort

of impact point.

304

00:20:31,203 --> 00:20:36,625

Like, you know, maybe this is 30 feet up in a tree and we make a rope nest for...

305

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little canopy for the night.

306

00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,453

There are plenty of trees that are still pretty low hanging.

307

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So you wouldn't get 20 feet up in one, but you could get a good 10, 15 if you wanted.

308

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They're small.

309

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If it helps, yeah.

310

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Yeah, you get to the area where the sawgrass was and you assume the ritual happened where

you found a lot of the footsteps or excuse me, the footprints and the place where you saw

311

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the trail of something being drug earlier.

312

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and you can set up and hide in the sawgrass or you can walk into the swamp a little bit

and get into the tree.

313

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There's not a vantage point that can see through the sawgrass where the ritual likely was

because the trees are a little further from that point, but you can go in there if you

314

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like.

315

00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:33,180

How exposed would Dale feel being perched up there to other outside observers in the

swamp?

316

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Like if he went into the tree to get that vantage point.

317

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How exposed would he be?

318

00:21:40,707 --> 00:21:43,743

you're closer to any flying object that comes over.

319

00:21:43,743 --> 00:21:44,868

That's what comes to mind.

320

00:21:44,868 --> 00:21:50,220

Okay, but not especially to like line of sight people on the ground.

321

00:21:50,689 --> 00:21:54,427

you feel like if they weren't looking, they wouldn't see you up there.

322

00:21:54,992 --> 00:21:57,142

Alright, then I'm gonna go for it.

323

00:21:57,633 --> 00:22:01,853

Great, give me an athletics or decks, whatever's higher.

324

00:22:03,051 --> 00:22:05,411

Yeah, let's try Dex.

325

00:22:05,611 --> 00:22:07,366

Yeah, 47 out of 75.

326

00:22:07,366 --> 00:22:11,363

All right, get up the tree with your pack, have your rifle out.

327

00:22:11,363 --> 00:22:12,968

Agent Brome, what were you gonna say?

328

00:22:13,774 --> 00:22:26,821

I was just gonna say yeah, Barone's gonna help Dell up and be like, hell you, help him up

and then take out her M4 at the ready, sitting at the base of the tree, I assume next to

329

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Agent Ryan.

330

00:22:29,064 --> 00:22:33,697

Is the ground like a trail, like a dirt trail at this spot?

331

00:22:34,072 --> 00:22:43,868

You've passed through the trail and have gone into the sawgrass and then passed the

sawgrass to the forest, but you can stay in the sawgrass, you can even stay back at the

332

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trail.

333

00:22:44,259 --> 00:22:46,081

It's all near each other.

334

00:22:46,312 --> 00:22:47,182

OK.

335

00:22:47,182 --> 00:22:57,788

Yeah, I was thinking I would be on the dirt trail near the sawgrass, just kind of like

making a triangle with our bodies to get kind of full coverage.

336

00:22:58,009 --> 00:23:02,961

Also using my night goggles and ready with my gun as well.

337

00:23:04,024 --> 00:23:04,425

Love it.

338

00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:11,769

Once Barone settles in, she'll kind of uh hunker down next to the tree and look over at

Ryan and give a little like okay sign.

339

00:23:11,769 --> 00:23:12,820

Ryan does nothing.

340

00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:13,980

Ryan flips you off.

341

00:23:13,980 --> 00:23:14,900

No, I'm just kidding.

342

00:23:15,085 --> 00:23:20,127

No, I just yeah, I see that and I just give a little head nod.

343

00:23:21,511 --> 00:23:21,862

Great.

344

00:23:21,862 --> 00:23:24,345

So everybody roll me luck, or excuse me.

345

00:23:24,345 --> 00:23:25,987

Del, roll me alertness.

346

00:23:25,987 --> 00:23:27,629

Agent Barone, roll me luck.

347

00:23:27,629 --> 00:23:29,822

And then Agent Ryan, roll me alertness.

348

00:23:29,822 --> 00:23:32,022

Yeah, 002, that'll do.

349

00:23:32,707 --> 00:23:33,588

Jesus.

350

00:23:33,588 --> 00:23:34,740

What'd you get, Agent Ryan?

351

00:23:34,740 --> 00:23:36,629

I got fail 82.

352

00:23:36,985 --> 00:23:37,337

Okay.

353

00:23:37,337 --> 00:23:38,133

Wrong.

354

00:23:38,133 --> 00:23:40,173

Barone rolled a 46 silver.

355

00:23:40,173 --> 00:23:42,813

Luck is just 50-50, right?

356

00:23:43,273 --> 00:23:45,653

So success, 46 of 50.

357

00:23:46,690 --> 00:23:58,764

Great, you're sitting there, Agent Barone, looking around and you're just starting to get

settled in and you notice that the swamp is very quiet.

358

00:23:58,764 --> 00:24:02,087

There aren't the insects.

359

00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:05,366

there's not a lot of other things happening.

360

00:24:05,366 --> 00:24:12,598

You would think that you could hear even the ghost town from there if anything was going

on there, but it's quiet there as well.

361

00:24:15,155 --> 00:24:29,728

Dell from the tree, you are scanning around and through your scope, through the canopy

behind you, not towards the sawgrass, you catch, it almost looks like a hand against a

362

00:24:29,728 --> 00:24:37,664

tree trunk about 10 meters behind you, right behind where Agent Barone is posted up

against the tree.

363

00:24:37,664 --> 00:24:44,576

Okay, is the hand like in the process of retracting itself or is it just hanging out?

364

00:24:44,576 --> 00:24:45,619

just there.

365

00:24:46,815 --> 00:24:50,124

Okay, is Barone looking at me?

366

00:24:50,124 --> 00:24:56,379

Could I give a little two finger wave to get attention real quick?

367

00:24:57,177 --> 00:24:59,638

or maybe a red-bellied woodpecker whistle.

368

00:25:00,073 --> 00:25:02,458

Yeah, wanna, inaudible would be preferable.

369

00:25:02,458 --> 00:25:03,823

Sorry, what did you say?

370

00:25:05,621 --> 00:25:10,122

I just said with the luck roll, Barone was actually looking up at you.

371

00:25:10,252 --> 00:25:10,592

Got it.

372

00:25:10,592 --> 00:25:11,434

Yeah, okay.

373

00:25:11,434 --> 00:25:12,376

Then I will...

374

00:25:12,376 --> 00:25:14,519

We've got like some commands down.

375

00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:25,850

I'll give two completely fake nonsense commands and then the third one is like a

get-a-load-of behind you, you know, with like a degree of specificity and hopefully you

376

00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:27,723

can see what I'm seeing.

377

00:25:28,667 --> 00:25:31,550

Barone looks at you and mouths, what the fuck?

378

00:25:32,092 --> 00:25:37,810

And then catches the third signal and then spins on her heel with the M4 aimed in the

right direction.

379

00:25:38,430 --> 00:25:47,337

Yeah, you look behind you and pass the tree that you were up against.

380

00:25:47,337 --> 00:25:52,343

In the night vision, there's some flicker to it based on the ambient light and...

381

00:25:52,853 --> 00:26:02,219

you just thought you at first think it's just another one of those junkie kids passed out

against a tree, like had too many beers or went on too much of a bender.

382

00:26:02,219 --> 00:26:08,773

And you first clock the limp bizkit $3 bill y'all hoodie.

383

00:26:08,773 --> 00:26:12,736

And the kid has a hat laying on his shoulder.

384

00:26:12,736 --> 00:26:15,978

But the fabric is stained with red.

385

00:26:15,978 --> 00:26:19,123

So maybe he's not passed out and

386

00:26:19,123 --> 00:26:25,418

As you scan down his body, there's nothing below his waist other than entrails hanging out

of it.

387

00:26:25,418 --> 00:26:26,998

There are no legs there.

388

00:26:26,998 --> 00:26:30,841

The face, now that you notice it, is slack-jawed.

389

00:26:30,841 --> 00:26:35,285

His acne is even white at this point.

390

00:26:35,285 --> 00:26:36,205

There are...

391

00:26:36,306 --> 00:26:47,575

It looks to be tear marks all over his midsection where you can see his skin and you see a

filthy converse off to the side with blood all over it.

392

00:26:49,332 --> 00:26:50,176

What do do?

393

00:26:51,266 --> 00:26:53,437

Ah shit, we got him killed.

394

00:26:53,437 --> 00:26:54,983

Um...

395

00:26:55,147 --> 00:26:56,159

Okay.

396

00:26:58,188 --> 00:27:00,872

This doesn't look to have happened just now.

397

00:27:00,872 --> 00:27:04,102

This looks to be something that was old.

398

00:27:06,016 --> 00:27:07,593

It seems earlier.

399

00:27:07,593 --> 00:27:09,211

Yeah, it's hard to tell.

400

00:27:09,211 --> 00:27:09,642

earlier.

401

00:27:09,642 --> 00:27:12,774

Yeah, for sure.

402

00:27:12,774 --> 00:27:20,958

Okay, Barone's gonna look up to Del and do like the sign for like eyes and like on

herself.

403

00:27:21,338 --> 00:27:25,442

And then she's gonna start springing that trap.

404

00:27:25,763 --> 00:27:27,033

Let's see what we got here.

405

00:27:27,033 --> 00:27:30,685

And I'm gonna stay low and...

406

00:27:30,986 --> 00:27:34,527

Let's say like crouch walk in that direction

407

00:27:35,701 --> 00:27:39,642

You walk over slowly, go ahead and give me a stealth roll.

408

00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:43,406

impact grenade in teeth.

409

00:27:43,705 --> 00:27:45,265

Yeah right.

410

00:27:45,785 --> 00:27:48,205

Okay stealth we're looking for a 30.

411

00:27:48,965 --> 00:27:49,725

No.

412

00:27:49,725 --> 00:27:50,705

Oh my god.

413

00:27:50,705 --> 00:27:51,805

It's a 77.

414

00:27:51,805 --> 00:27:53,545

That's a crit fail.

415

00:27:53,685 --> 00:28:04,538

Okay, you walk and you get close to the body and there is a god-awful smell coming from

it.

416

00:28:04,538 --> 00:28:08,852

It smells like the swamp water mixed with a coppery rot.

417

00:28:08,852 --> 00:28:12,034

You are in a slaughterhouse suddenly.

418

00:28:12,034 --> 00:28:15,917

It just is an overwhelming stench of death.

419

00:28:15,958 --> 00:28:25,338

and you get a little lightheaded and you fall down for a brief second, blackout on the

ground and hit the ground.

420

00:28:25,718 --> 00:28:30,958

Agent Dell, UC Barone's form just kind of slapped against the ground.

421

00:28:30,958 --> 00:28:32,078

What do you do?

422

00:28:33,961 --> 00:28:34,611

yeah.

423

00:28:34,611 --> 00:28:47,969

mean, I am leaping 10 feet out of the tree into the muck, pulling my boots the two and a

half feet out of the mud hole that I just created and trudging my way over as fast as I

424

00:28:47,969 --> 00:28:49,129

possibly can.

425

00:28:49,682 --> 00:28:50,994

You run over to Brone.

426

00:28:50,994 --> 00:28:53,796

She's on the ground just waking up, blinking.

427

00:28:54,458 --> 00:28:59,423

Agent Ryan, can you roll alertness once again for me?

428

00:28:59,913 --> 00:29:01,238

Yes.

429

00:29:01,334 --> 00:29:07,054

I got a 65 fail out of 45.

430

00:29:07,290 --> 00:29:14,813

Okay, you are staring across, you see Barone take a fall and you're focused on that.

431

00:29:14,813 --> 00:29:23,496

Before you know it, out of the water, a figure starts bolting towards the shore, towards

where Del and Barone are.

432

00:29:23,496 --> 00:29:32,538

You don't get a chance to get off a shot, but you see it and it briefly turns around and

you see a large gash.

433

00:29:32,538 --> 00:29:34,150

where it was stabbed recently.

434

00:29:34,150 --> 00:29:41,119

And the face is a distorted parody of a human from that distance to the night vision.

435

00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:43,561

And it has a...

436

00:29:45,701 --> 00:29:54,557

deja vu effect on you when it turns and looks at you, there's a grin on its face that you

swear you recognize.

437

00:29:54,589 --> 00:29:58,557

Where do do I know where I recognize it from?

438

00:29:59,629 --> 00:30:01,147

Not in this moment.

439

00:30:03,897 --> 00:30:04,768

Dell.

440

00:30:05,251 --> 00:30:05,852

go ahead.

441

00:30:05,852 --> 00:30:06,888

Sorry, Agent Ryan.

442

00:30:06,888 --> 00:30:07,990

No, go ahead.

443

00:30:07,990 --> 00:30:08,889

Go ahead.

444

00:30:08,889 --> 00:30:19,020

Yeah, this thing is charging up now after it's looked back and seen agent Ryan Dell, can

you roll me a dodge as this thing dives for your back to gouge it?

445

00:30:19,042 --> 00:30:23,307

yeah absolutely 50 flat is plenty hell yeah

446

00:30:23,326 --> 00:30:36,007

Great, so you hear this thing squishing out of the swamp, you are half expecting this trap

and you roll to the side and throw this thing off of you as it makes contact and it lands

447

00:30:36,007 --> 00:30:37,237

on the ground.

448

00:30:38,238 --> 00:30:39,519

It is your turn.

449

00:30:41,086 --> 00:30:55,005

Yeah, the three point landing, the third point is the barrel of my gun, which I put a

thumb into to squeeze the plug of Pete out that is now entrapped in there.

450

00:30:55,005 --> 00:31:06,172

And then I am just going to put it on full auto and bring it up blasting so that there's

12 shots in the muck before it gets to the feet of this creature.

451

00:31:06,585 --> 00:31:08,180

Yeah, give me the firearms roll.

452

00:31:08,180 --> 00:31:12,193

You will hit this creature, but we just wanna look for crit fails.

453

00:31:12,193 --> 00:31:13,075

uh

454

00:31:13,384 --> 00:31:16,297

All right, not today, just to 10.

455

00:31:16,592 --> 00:31:18,391

Beautiful, gimme lethality.

456

00:31:20,755 --> 00:31:23,615

Beautiful words, beautiful words.

457

00:31:24,135 --> 00:31:26,095

55 for 10 total.

458

00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:37,120

All right, your rifle careens up this creature and it's midsectioned and it just hits it

one shell after another.

459

00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:45,207

And one of them hits it straight in the jaw, tears off its jaw, the back of its head

explodes and it flops on the ground beside you.

460

00:31:45,607 --> 00:31:47,768

Agent Barone, you were looking through night vision.

461

00:31:47,768 --> 00:31:51,210

The muzzle flash has temporarily blinded you.

462

00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:52,781

Agent Ryan, yeah.

463

00:31:52,781 --> 00:31:55,833

Agent Ryan also, it's very bright as it's gone off.

464

00:31:55,833 --> 00:32:00,696

You almost like put your hand in front of your like face, but then hit your goggles a

little bit.

465

00:32:00,696 --> 00:32:04,658

And there is another one coming straight at you.

466

00:32:04,742 --> 00:32:06,978

Agent Ryan, but it is your turn.

467

00:32:06,978 --> 00:32:12,410

What are you doing as this thing is lifting itself from the swamp right at your feet?

468

00:32:12,410 --> 00:32:15,030

Definitely taking a shot with my gun.

469

00:32:15,208 --> 00:32:20,068

All right, roll your firearms and at this range you have a plus 20.

470

00:32:20,252 --> 00:32:23,872

Okay, thank God, because it's not very high to begin with.

471

00:32:24,852 --> 00:32:29,672

Oh my God, just failed at 44 out of 40.

472

00:32:29,972 --> 00:32:31,828

Oh, that's a crit fail too.

473

00:32:31,828 --> 00:32:35,030

Yeah, yeah.

474

00:32:35,030 --> 00:32:36,531

You are startled.

475

00:32:36,531 --> 00:32:48,781

The muzzle flash has added a strange artifacting to your eyes as you look down and you

point down and shoot and realize that you had the safety on.

476

00:32:48,781 --> 00:32:52,503

You will have to take your next turn getting the safety off.

477

00:32:52,503 --> 00:32:58,522

um Agent Barone, you are on the ground.

478

00:32:58,522 --> 00:33:05,601

this dead thing next to you blinking out the artifacts in your eyes as the night vision

has blinded you.

479

00:33:05,601 --> 00:33:06,744

What are you doing?

480

00:33:07,411 --> 00:33:18,643

can't well how well how well can i see at this point am i like hey you don't you kind of

don't have a turn ish or can i see well enough to do something

481

00:33:20,106 --> 00:33:29,778

you would probably have to use your turn to get up and survey because you are laying on

the ground looking up at Dell as he has just blasted this thing.

482

00:33:31,273 --> 00:33:35,269

Um, yeah, I think, the, next thought is, okay, the, trap is sprung.

483

00:33:35,269 --> 00:33:36,601

Maybe they're not the only one.

484

00:33:36,601 --> 00:33:37,912

I think that's exactly what I do.

485

00:33:37,912 --> 00:33:46,540

I'm going to use my turn to get up, get back to back with Dell, and pull the rifle up to

the ready and do, do a quick scan around the area if I could please.

486

00:33:46,540 --> 00:33:56,336

Yep, as you're scanning, you clock something coming out of the water at Agent Ryan's feet,

and then you see the gun, or you see him pull out his gun and fiddle with it.

487

00:33:56,336 --> 00:33:57,818

You're not sure what's happening over there.

488

00:33:57,818 --> 00:33:59,339

It's a little far away.

489

00:33:59,641 --> 00:34:01,873

Okay, but I don't have time to take a shot yet, correct?

490

00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:10,191

Okay, as I'm seeing it, I'm at least gonna uh reach behind me and tap Del's shoulder and

point in the direction of Ryan.

491

00:34:11,690 --> 00:34:12,031

Great.

492

00:34:12,031 --> 00:34:18,979

Agent Ryan, roll your dodge as this thing reaches up to grab your leg and yank you into

the swamp.

493

00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,799

Kiddoke, I got an 82.

494

00:34:24,359 --> 00:34:26,424

I'm just killing it over here.

495

00:34:26,424 --> 00:34:39,172

You feel the claws wrap around your calf and just yank at you and you slip down and your

ass hits the dirt path and it starts yanking you towards the water the claws are starting

496

00:34:39,172 --> 00:34:44,077

to dig into the muscle of your, or muscle through your pants.

497

00:34:44,077 --> 00:34:45,838

Delsin Dusky, it is your turn.

498

00:34:47,361 --> 00:34:53,989

Uh, yeah, help me with the distance of Ryan to creature, creature to water.

499

00:34:55,300 --> 00:35:03,859

So they, the creature is holding Ryan and you are about 20 meters from there.

500

00:35:04,305 --> 00:35:09,293

and the creature submerged still just moving towards the water.

501

00:35:09,710 --> 00:35:14,243

It is moving towards the water and fully out of it right now.

502

00:35:14,243 --> 00:35:21,347

It stood up out of the swamp as if it were like a crocodile in weight laying there and has

stood up to get pole Ryan in.

503

00:35:21,347 --> 00:35:23,588

It's bent over, but yeah.

504

00:35:23,618 --> 00:35:31,165

Yeah, it seems like both of these folks have not like maybe been in an active combat

situation with night vision involved.

505

00:35:31,165 --> 00:35:42,213

But Dell, kind of like you would see a journeyman welder, like hold the welding torch in

one hand and use his mask or his shield and kind of like check back and forth, right?

506

00:35:42,213 --> 00:35:43,273

Not really wearing it.

507

00:35:43,273 --> 00:35:50,386

He's going to use the night vision scope until he fires and there's just like a single

shot where he pulls it away from his vision.

508

00:35:50,386 --> 00:35:55,406

and he uses the muzzle flash to like, you know, plug the gap while it's away.

509

00:35:55,446 --> 00:36:00,426

And he's just gonna fire a few single shots as he charges straight towards Ryan's

position.

510

00:36:01,246 --> 00:36:03,326

Firearms coming at ya.

511

00:36:03,406 --> 00:36:10,434

That's an 82, which is exactly what my new firearm score is, god damn.

512

00:36:10,434 --> 00:36:11,888

Whoa.

513

00:36:11,888 --> 00:36:12,819

Damn.

514

00:36:13,133 --> 00:36:14,614

get it doll.

515

00:36:15,207 --> 00:36:16,420

Boom.

516

00:36:16,763 --> 00:36:18,543

Lethality, baby.

517

00:36:19,463 --> 00:36:20,783

An 8 and a 3.

518

00:36:20,783 --> 00:36:22,203

11 points.

519

00:36:23,382 --> 00:36:28,873

Yeah, you shoot and it hits this creature right in the head.

520

00:36:28,873 --> 00:36:34,471

Black goo flies all over your face, Agent Ryan, as this thing is.

521

00:36:34,471 --> 00:36:37,033

Seemingly exploded right in front of you to you.

522

00:36:37,033 --> 00:36:48,684

It's like the entire world as it was right on you you just see a split and some flesh fly

up in the air and are blinded as your night-vision goggles are covered in its blood and

523

00:36:48,684 --> 00:36:52,307

You feel its grip slacken on your body

524

00:36:54,099 --> 00:36:56,807

Thank God, because that was really painful.

525

00:36:58,349 --> 00:37:00,043

Yeah, I think Dell keeps on running.

526

00:37:00,043 --> 00:37:01,786

He's just like, don't touch my man.

527

00:37:01,786 --> 00:37:04,703

And he like gives a, like a flying drop kick.

528

00:37:04,703 --> 00:37:07,459

Cause like, it's still kind of stuck into you, right?

529

00:37:07,459 --> 00:37:09,973

Not entirely clear that it's dead dead.

530

00:37:11,090 --> 00:37:14,874

Yeah, you kick it fully off of Agent Ryan's body.

531

00:37:14,874 --> 00:37:17,360

It is undoubtedly dead though.

532

00:37:19,658 --> 00:37:22,141

You hear Barone, you're still alive, huh?

533

00:37:22,141 --> 00:37:24,733

And she fires two shots into the ground next to the thing.

534

00:37:24,733 --> 00:37:25,823

I got him.

535

00:37:25,823 --> 00:37:26,564

Don't worry.

536

00:37:26,564 --> 00:37:29,765

It's I got him also too, Del.

537

00:37:29,885 --> 00:37:35,000

And then I'll uh kind of run over and be like, holy shit, is there more?

538

00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:35,380

I don't.

539

00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:39,862

And then she's going to spin around to see if any more are coming at him.

540

00:37:40,213 --> 00:37:42,091

Yeah, Dell turns towards the water too.

541

00:37:42,091 --> 00:37:46,384

They'd be brave motherfuckers as we ch-ch-ch the rifle.

542

00:37:46,384 --> 00:37:48,429

They be brave, tell they be brave.

543

00:37:49,208 --> 00:37:52,044

Agent Barone, roll your alertness.

544

00:37:54,011 --> 00:37:54,952

sure.

545

00:37:55,392 --> 00:37:57,932

Alert, we are pretty good at that.

546

00:37:57,932 --> 00:38:02,832

We're looking for 81 and a roll of 56, success.

547

00:38:03,610 --> 00:38:09,168

In the distance, you see one of their heads watching from the water.

548

00:38:09,168 --> 00:38:10,005

What do do?

549

00:38:10,005 --> 00:38:11,988

Oh, fuck, guys, there...

550

00:38:11,988 --> 00:38:13,611

That wasn't a joke, there are more.

551

00:38:13,611 --> 00:38:14,081

Over here.

552

00:38:14,081 --> 00:38:19,080

And I'll, you know, shake my muzzle in the direction.

553

00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,944

But I saw exactly where it was, correct?

554

00:38:22,036 --> 00:38:23,882

Yeah, you can fire if you want.

555

00:38:25,317 --> 00:38:26,296

Absolutely.

556

00:38:26,296 --> 00:38:29,967

I whisper under my breath, pop pop, and pull the trigger.

557

00:38:30,730 --> 00:38:31,963

me that firearms.

558

00:38:31,963 --> 00:38:34,563

So we needed a 53.

559

00:38:35,243 --> 00:38:37,363

We got an 81.

560

00:38:37,363 --> 00:38:39,063

So that is a fail.

561

00:38:39,323 --> 00:38:40,524

It's a tough shot.

562

00:38:40,524 --> 00:38:42,587

You know, it's just a little oval in the ground.

563

00:38:42,587 --> 00:38:50,656

You shoot and it goes over its head a little bit, hits the swamp, causes a big splash and

the thing dips under the water.

564

00:38:51,978 --> 00:38:53,459

What's everybody doing?

565

00:38:53,654 --> 00:38:55,273

shit, I tried man.

566

00:38:55,273 --> 00:38:57,240

I just he's over there

567

00:38:58,410 --> 00:39:01,185

Honestly, I'm kind of just having fun at this point.

568

00:39:01,185 --> 00:39:06,976

I don't know how many of these vermin there are, but something tells me we might not even

be making a dent.

569

00:39:06,976 --> 00:39:11,450

Well, we do have a direction to make a dent, if you will.

570

00:39:11,552 --> 00:39:13,776

Ryan, how are you, are you okay?

571

00:39:13,776 --> 00:39:18,985

Yeah, and I'm just scooting back on my butt because my leg is pretty fucked up.

572

00:39:18,985 --> 00:39:23,661

But I can see what you're seeing, and I try to take a shot as well.

573

00:39:25,577 --> 00:39:26,655

Yeah, shoot.

574

00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:27,596

Roll it.

575

00:39:28,747 --> 00:39:30,662

got that safety figured out.

576

00:39:30,662 --> 00:39:33,151

yeah, do I still need to the safety off?

577

00:39:33,184 --> 00:39:38,206

You're out of turn order, but yeah, you have enough time to turn the safety off and shoot

at where it was.

578

00:39:39,359 --> 00:39:42,751

my god, I got exactly 20, which is what I needed.

579

00:39:43,253 --> 00:39:52,041

All right, you shoot and it hits the exact spot where you think it was or is, but nothing

happens as it hits the swamp where it disappeared into.

580

00:39:52,041 --> 00:39:56,000

I have also seen that Mythbusters and know that water actually does stop bullets.

581

00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,503

Okay, okay.

582

00:39:58,546 --> 00:39:59,286

Yeah.

583

00:39:59,286 --> 00:40:02,166

And Agent Ryan, can you roll me intelligence times five?

584

00:40:03,454 --> 00:40:04,503

Yes.

585

00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:08,575

43 out of 80.

586

00:40:09,589 --> 00:40:17,338

Yeah, you absolutely remember that when you were looking at the footprints, there were six

or seven sets.

587

00:40:17,530 --> 00:40:19,629

You mean back on ritual night?

588

00:40:19,732 --> 00:40:21,275

Back on ritual night, yep.

589

00:40:21,275 --> 00:40:24,697

Yeah, there's probably definitely three or four more out there, guys.

590

00:40:24,697 --> 00:40:36,235

Alright, mean, springing the trap was definitely my plan there to get the upper hand, but

I think now that's sprung, we're heading into territory that's not our own, and they

591

00:40:36,235 --> 00:40:37,926

probably have the advantage.

592

00:40:39,682 --> 00:40:48,542

Yeah, I mean, I'm more than willing to hear out your proposals of how we advance from

here, but it does not seem like a straightforward proposition.

593

00:40:50,246 --> 00:40:51,439

No, definitely not.

594

00:40:51,439 --> 00:40:54,315

And he disappeared into the water, correct?

595

00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:57,149

Yeah, it dipped under the water right after you took your shot.

596

00:40:57,149 --> 00:40:59,893

And then Agent Ryan was like, pop!

597

00:40:59,893 --> 00:41:01,995

And just hit the water where it was.

598

00:41:03,688 --> 00:41:04,132

Hmm.

599

00:41:04,132 --> 00:41:15,174

Yeah, I mean, I don't think I don't think Barone has any willpower in her to dive back

into that water at night time after what happened last time in the middle of the day.

600

00:41:16,958 --> 00:41:18,097

I am.

601

00:41:20,096 --> 00:41:25,811

I'm gonna take a Limp Bizkit body and try and float it out there.

602

00:41:25,811 --> 00:41:40,129

Alright a bit morbid, but sure I'll give him a helping hand And I'll grab the dirty

converse and roll it over my hands and be like well Dell Ryan I think they got Cheryl as

603

00:41:40,129 --> 00:41:42,240

well just So everybody knows

604

00:41:43,509 --> 00:41:49,034

Agent Barone, as you're going for the body and helping Del, can you roll your sanity?

605

00:41:50,584 --> 00:41:54,448

absolutely I can ah

606

00:41:54,448 --> 00:41:56,295

rigor mortis biscuit.

607

00:41:57,473 --> 00:41:58,496

God.

608

00:41:58,496 --> 00:41:59,171

my god.

609

00:41:59,171 --> 00:42:00,338

uh

610

00:42:00,338 --> 00:42:01,978

Uh, I failed.

611

00:42:01,978 --> 00:42:04,878

Yeah, my current's 49, I got 76.

612

00:42:04,913 --> 00:42:08,863

Okay, give me a d4 for sand loss.

613

00:42:08,863 --> 00:42:11,483

Roll low two right in the middle.

614

00:42:11,511 --> 00:42:14,372

Okay, are you projecting that or are you just gonna take it?

615

00:42:15,868 --> 00:42:18,136

two, two.

616

00:42:18,136 --> 00:42:18,908

Let's project it.

617

00:42:18,908 --> 00:42:21,146

I haven't had a chance to project recently.

618

00:42:21,146 --> 00:42:22,169

Let's do that.

619

00:42:22,169 --> 00:42:24,753

which bond do you want to project it on of your bonds?

620

00:42:24,753 --> 00:42:26,024

Yeah, sure.

621

00:42:26,024 --> 00:42:28,626

Let's see.

622

00:42:29,968 --> 00:42:30,788

Oh, okay.

623

00:42:30,788 --> 00:42:35,513

Yeah, let's project it on uh Jackie, my uh rival shop mechanic.

624

00:42:35,513 --> 00:42:40,338

She was always the person that pushed her to get better at her skill.

625

00:42:40,338 --> 00:42:48,074

And out here, she's definitely feeling like she's losing that friendly rivalry as she is

not getting anything right out here.

626

00:42:48,227 --> 00:42:50,740

Yeah, it's been a tough go at it.

627

00:42:50,740 --> 00:42:54,865

Go ahead and roll that D4 again to see how much you can actually project.

628

00:42:55,250 --> 00:42:55,522

Sure.

629

00:42:55,522 --> 00:42:57,168

We got a one.

630

00:42:57,168 --> 00:42:58,125

I got a one.

631

00:42:58,125 --> 00:43:03,075

so you lose one willpower and one from that bond, but you only take one sanity loss.

632

00:43:03,308 --> 00:43:03,760

sure.

633

00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,715

you're able to get the body out onto the swamp and throw it out there.

634

00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:11,939

Any special description for that or are you just throwing it out there?

635

00:43:11,981 --> 00:43:19,638

I mean it hardly qualifies as chum, but I am effectively trying to chum the waters, right?

636

00:43:19,638 --> 00:43:28,826

Trying to see if we can encourage anything that to come to the surface to disturb it to

give us a window to fire even just briefly.

637

00:43:30,959 --> 00:43:32,445

Okay, you throw it out there.

638

00:43:32,445 --> 00:43:33,273

Give me one second.

639

00:43:33,273 --> 00:43:33,867

I'll go ahead, sir.

640

00:43:33,867 --> 00:43:44,347

and so like we might get like a long stick or something like that so that we could prod it

at intervals and make it look like it is moving through deeper into the swamp, at least

641

00:43:44,347 --> 00:43:45,958

just a little bit, right?

642

00:43:47,685 --> 00:43:48,607

Beautiful.

643

00:43:50,123 --> 00:43:51,025

Yeah, for sure.

644

00:43:51,025 --> 00:43:54,608

As, Dell is doing that, I think everybody's on high red alert.

645

00:43:54,608 --> 00:44:02,034

So I think, Barone is, you know, in a, um, single knee down position waiting for her shot.

646

00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,669

Agent Ryan, are you aiming at the area as well?

647

00:44:06,259 --> 00:44:07,779

I am, yeah.

648

00:44:07,799 --> 00:44:13,619

Pretty not stuttery, because I'm in a lot of pain, there nonetheless.

649

00:44:13,853 --> 00:44:14,474

all right.

650

00:44:14,474 --> 00:44:18,558

So each of you are gonna add 20 % if anything pops out.

651

00:44:20,355 --> 00:44:22,115

see if anything pops out.

652

00:44:24,261 --> 00:44:37,518

This corpse starts to sink a little bit and like a crocodile turning prey over, you see a

arm and then a backside pull this thing over and roll on top of it.

653

00:44:37,518 --> 00:44:40,991

So its back is now above the water.

654

00:44:42,133 --> 00:44:43,784

Agent Brone, you can take your shot.

655

00:44:43,784 --> 00:44:45,935

Agent Ryan, you can take your shot as well.

656

00:44:46,007 --> 00:44:54,327

absolutely here we go 53 hmm I failed with a 79

657

00:44:55,959 --> 00:44:58,192

Is that with 20 % plus?

658

00:44:58,711 --> 00:45:01,831

Oh, um, yep, yep.

659

00:45:01,831 --> 00:45:04,831

So it'd be 73 and I failed with a 79.

660

00:45:04,856 --> 00:45:05,776

Pop pop.

661

00:45:07,704 --> 00:45:12,489

two shots off, both of you miss and it goes under the water quickly.

662

00:45:12,489 --> 00:45:14,946

Well, it's not likely to fall for that again.

663

00:45:15,403 --> 00:45:17,543

No, yeah, probably not.

664

00:45:17,961 --> 00:45:20,215

Right, well, options as you see them.

665

00:45:20,215 --> 00:45:23,919

I don't know how much more effectiveness we have on the combat front.

666

00:45:23,919 --> 00:45:31,247

If we care to stick around for ritual chances, I think they're slim, but we's already out

here.

667

00:45:31,247 --> 00:45:33,580

What else do you see in our cards?

668

00:45:33,580 --> 00:45:35,142

Hmm.

669

00:45:35,142 --> 00:45:36,722

yeah.

670

00:45:36,722 --> 00:45:40,144

Taking a look back around.

671

00:45:40,145 --> 00:45:51,693

So before when we waded out to the semi-clear area, I could look down and I could see,

like a, not an orb, but like an egg-shaped thing in the water, correct?

672

00:45:53,216 --> 00:45:55,179

No, it was a head, right?

673

00:45:55,179 --> 00:45:57,093

The head came out of the water, basically.

674

00:45:57,093 --> 00:45:57,528

Yep.

675

00:45:57,528 --> 00:45:58,378

I'm misremembering.

676

00:45:58,378 --> 00:45:58,748

was the head.

677

00:45:58,748 --> 00:46:00,409

That was the first time we were here.

678

00:46:00,409 --> 00:46:05,724

Not even the second time when we saw something crash, but there was, there was a path

before that.

679

00:46:05,724 --> 00:46:12,127

We saw something where something was pulled from the water and drug in a direction and it

had pushed the grass down.

680

00:46:12,788 --> 00:46:15,529

Which way was, which way was that?

681

00:46:15,980 --> 00:46:22,232

you would just keep walking deeper into the swamp pass where you found that kid's body.

682

00:46:23,510 --> 00:46:26,273

Okay, yeah, I mean, you're right.

683

00:46:26,273 --> 00:46:35,634

don't, Delvin, I'm sorry, I botched that too, but the only other lead I could think of is

when we were here before, there was that path where something was drugged kind of back

684

00:46:35,634 --> 00:46:39,869

that way, and I point in the direction of where it looked like something was drugged

before.

685

00:46:39,869 --> 00:46:42,702

That's all I got, because I'm not going in that water.

686

00:46:43,084 --> 00:46:45,985

Well, shoot, mean, we's already here if we want to go take a look.

687

00:46:45,985 --> 00:46:47,668

I'm curious just like you.

688

00:46:48,150 --> 00:46:48,857

Yeah, let's.

689

00:46:48,857 --> 00:46:51,103

Ryan, uh how's your leg?

690

00:46:51,221 --> 00:46:52,741

Not very good.

691

00:46:52,741 --> 00:46:56,441

Yeah, is there a way for me to know like how badly I am injured?

692

00:46:56,599 --> 00:46:57,915

Yeah, roll a d6.

693

00:46:59,008 --> 00:46:59,992

I love

694

00:47:01,823 --> 00:47:02,558

sick.

695

00:47:02,558 --> 00:47:03,427

Five.

696

00:47:05,123 --> 00:47:06,779

You can barely stand on it.

697

00:47:06,779 --> 00:47:07,554

no.

698

00:47:07,554 --> 00:47:08,455

Well.

699

00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:10,471

Who knows?

700

00:47:10,892 --> 00:47:16,095

Okay, well I'm probably not uh walking very far from where I'm at then.

701

00:47:18,469 --> 00:47:28,660

Yeah, I think maybe I will go back to the ATVs and fetch up a couple of tent poles I

imagine we packed at least one tent in our bag in case we had to spend the night out here

702

00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:36,499

and I'll fix up like you know with duct tape like something that will Splint your your leg

to at least make it a little more bearable to walk

703

00:47:36,757 --> 00:47:41,063

Okay, the ATVs are about a 10 minute walk and a seven minute jog from there.

704

00:47:42,802 --> 00:47:45,431

At the ATV, can you roll your alertness?

705

00:47:45,431 --> 00:47:46,513

Oh, sure.

706

00:47:48,696 --> 00:47:52,022

44 critical success.

707

00:47:53,401 --> 00:47:54,223

Nice.

708

00:47:54,223 --> 00:48:08,612

start wrapping, I know, I know, man, you start creating this makeshift leg splint and you

catch out of your peripheral vision something low to the ground, stocking up to flank you.

709

00:48:09,132 --> 00:48:11,513

You have first action, what do you do?

710

00:48:11,755 --> 00:48:27,402

yeah, I continue as though I had not noticed with like my path undisturbed and then I am

simply going to, it's off to my right, I will roll off to my left and do a quarter turn

711

00:48:27,402 --> 00:48:29,843

and fire, as I do a little back tumble.

712

00:48:30,432 --> 00:48:31,285

Great.

713

00:48:31,594 --> 00:48:32,517

Roll it.

714

00:48:33,283 --> 00:48:38,163

Firearms, 28 is plenty low enough.

715

00:48:38,263 --> 00:48:42,303

Lethality says a 1 and a 7, 8 points of damage.

716

00:48:42,422 --> 00:48:53,214

Okay, you fly backward, the recoil pushes you back even further as you're firing and the

three shots hit it.

717

00:48:53,214 --> 00:48:56,857

It is still coming and now it is running fast for you.

718

00:48:56,857 --> 00:49:01,941

It dives for you, roll your dodge, minus 20, cause you're on the ground.

719

00:49:02,169 --> 00:49:05,328

Yeah, no, the minus 20 does me in.

720

00:49:05,328 --> 00:49:16,216

Okay, roll a D6 as this thing runs and dives on you with a death wish and rakes your

shoulder down to your chest.

721

00:49:17,711 --> 00:49:19,467

one man I hope it was worth

722

00:49:20,268 --> 00:49:22,574

Yeah, so you take one damage.

723

00:49:22,574 --> 00:49:24,317

It's a little bit of a scratch.

724

00:49:24,317 --> 00:49:25,620

It feels deep though.

725

00:49:25,620 --> 00:49:26,962

You start to bleed.

726

00:49:26,962 --> 00:49:28,363

It is back to you.

727

00:49:30,553 --> 00:49:34,181

I mean, it was my favorite shirt after all.

728

00:49:34,424 --> 00:49:35,946

Yeah, I think...

729

00:49:37,543 --> 00:49:53,064

I think I have a combat knife on the end of my gun that will kind of like swivel out

almost like a bayonet that affixes into place and I'm gonna do one of those and just like

730

00:49:53,064 --> 00:49:55,196

charge this thing right in the sternum.

731

00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,236

Yeah, it's laying on top of you.

732

00:49:58,236 --> 00:50:02,104

You just have to reposition to stab it in the side of the sternum.

733

00:50:04,011 --> 00:50:04,658

And it's gonna.

734

00:50:04,658 --> 00:50:08,381

as a majestic looking but we're gonna try it all the same

735

00:50:08,381 --> 00:50:10,253

you're fumbling on the ground with it.

736

00:50:11,352 --> 00:50:11,880

That's right.

737

00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,395

Is this a melee weapon?

738

00:50:13,565 --> 00:50:15,056

Yep, melee weapon.

739

00:50:15,918 --> 00:50:23,529

Okay, yeah, let's try no 59 just a little too high.

740

00:50:23,529 --> 00:50:33,429

All right, the maneuver is too high and goes over its back and it cuts it a little bit,

but does not find purchase.

741

00:50:33,809 --> 00:50:35,389

It comes back at you.

742

00:50:35,389 --> 00:50:42,009

It opens its mouth and tries to come down to bite at your neck.

743

00:50:42,429 --> 00:50:43,600

Roll a dodge.

744

00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:44,991

note 84.

745

00:50:45,004 --> 00:50:51,831

Okay, it digs its mouth into your collarbone, just missing your neck.

746

00:50:51,831 --> 00:50:53,553

It starts to rip out a chunk.

747

00:50:53,553 --> 00:50:55,954

Give me another D6 of damage.

748

00:50:57,856 --> 00:50:58,782

6.

749

00:50:58,981 --> 00:51:00,797

Hey, what's your HP at?

750

00:51:02,248 --> 00:51:03,037

CX.

751

00:51:03,138 --> 00:51:03,997

Okay.

752

00:51:05,699 --> 00:51:09,693

Okay, you are very, very injured.

753

00:51:09,693 --> 00:51:11,840

You have one more action before you pass out.

754

00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:12,861

What do you do?

755

00:51:14,310 --> 00:51:16,421

Yeah, I mean, it's just like up on me, right?

756

00:51:16,421 --> 00:51:25,946

So I had gone for a stab, gun interposed between us, it grapples onto me, like thrust up

towards my chin.

757

00:51:25,946 --> 00:51:32,709

I'm going to draw it down to get it underneath its rib cage and I'm gonna brat-brat right

up through its spinal column.

758

00:51:33,661 --> 00:51:34,233

Fire it.

759

00:51:34,233 --> 00:51:35,853

No whammies, baby.

760

00:51:35,853 --> 00:51:38,733

That's an 83.

761

00:51:39,193 --> 00:51:41,573

Which is...

762

00:51:41,573 --> 00:51:43,113

Yeah!

763

00:51:43,473 --> 00:51:44,561

Yes, I do.

764

00:51:44,561 --> 00:51:45,213

All right.

765

00:51:45,213 --> 00:51:49,417

It tries to claw at you, but it's dark and misses.

766

00:51:49,417 --> 00:51:53,700

Give me a contest to see if you can stay awake.

767

00:51:54,380 --> 00:51:56,900

That's 20-0 and I needed a 55.

768

00:51:56,900 --> 00:51:57,523

We all right.

769

00:51:57,523 --> 00:52:01,069

Okay, you're able to stay awake.

770

00:52:01,450 --> 00:52:04,317

You cannot shoot your firearm.

771

00:52:04,317 --> 00:52:06,420

What can you, what are you going to do?

772

00:52:07,786 --> 00:52:12,012

Yeah, there is a knife in my boot at all times.

773

00:52:12,012 --> 00:52:19,179

And it's coming out and like all of, I guess all of these maneuvers have looked relatively

practiced, right?

774

00:52:19,179 --> 00:52:23,102

As though it's like, what is the best thing to do in this situation?

775

00:52:23,102 --> 00:52:29,156

Allow me with as much surgical precision and practiced hand, carry that out.

776

00:52:29,156 --> 00:52:39,856

When this knife comes out, there is a wild flailing like somebody who, you know, has no

skill with this thing at all.

777

00:52:39,856 --> 00:52:44,836

It is like pure primal instinct stabbing.

778

00:52:45,196 --> 00:52:47,076

And it seems good enough with a 30.

779

00:52:47,076 --> 00:52:48,196

That'll hit.

780

00:52:49,669 --> 00:52:54,352

It critically failed its dodge, so you're able to stab it where?

781

00:52:55,717 --> 00:52:56,718

It's on my neck.

782

00:52:56,718 --> 00:52:59,214

We're kind of like dogpiling on each other.

783

00:52:59,214 --> 00:53:06,549

It's this like very futile rush to see who can snuff the other one out the fastest.

784

00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:10,837

All right, give me a D6 for damage.

785

00:53:11,543 --> 00:53:11,868

Yeah.

786

00:53:11,868 --> 00:53:12,701

Three.

787

00:53:13,051 --> 00:53:26,000

All right, you are able to, you don't even know if it's you or its own flailing that does

it, but you able to hack through half of its neck just by chopping frantically and you

788

00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:35,147

feel its head start to split off and go ajar as its wound starts bleeding all over your

chest and you pass out.

789

00:53:35,323 --> 00:53:37,164

with this thing on top of you.

790

00:53:37,164 --> 00:53:43,044

Agent Ryan and Agent Barone, you hear a few gunshots and a shout in the distance

791

00:53:53,990 --> 00:54:08,421

Del, as you are fading in this godforsaken swamp, you look up to the sky and see the

pinpricks of starlight far in the galaxy, staring down at you, uncaring, but those lights

792

00:54:08,421 --> 00:54:11,983

start to remind you of a place.

793

00:54:12,547 --> 00:54:15,690

A place in the past before you were sober.

794

00:54:15,912 --> 00:54:21,555

The place was called the Cherry Pit, kind of bar that smelled of secrets and spilled beer.

795

00:54:21,555 --> 00:54:28,419

It was Tuesday, which meant the silence was almost as thick as a cigarette smoke hanging

in the air.

796

00:54:28,539 --> 00:54:30,901

Just a few patrons sitting around the bar.

797

00:54:30,901 --> 00:54:33,192

You were there, nursing a bourbon.

798

00:54:33,192 --> 00:54:36,524

It was mostly ice at this point and water.

799

00:54:36,966 --> 00:54:44,041

watching motes of dust dance in a single beam of light coming off of a KUR sign in the

window.

800

00:54:44,903 --> 00:54:53,449

You were halfway through your third drink, which meant you were starting to feel the edges

of your own private darkness start to soften.

801

00:54:54,390 --> 00:54:58,753

Just then, the door opened and the night got a whole lot heavier.

802

00:54:59,054 --> 00:55:06,460

Three of them walked in, big men who seemed to take up more space than their bodies

required, noisy, brutish.

803

00:55:06,652 --> 00:55:07,993

They even smelled.

804

00:55:08,454 --> 00:55:10,736

They wore leather vests over their flannel shirts.

805

00:55:10,736 --> 00:55:14,579

Their faces were roadmaps of bad decisions.

806

00:55:15,221 --> 00:55:19,185

But it was the ink on their neck that told you the real story.

807

00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:22,368

Jagged, ugly SS lightning bolts.

808

00:55:22,368 --> 00:55:26,331

The kind of tattoos that were a statement of intent.

809

00:55:28,114 --> 00:55:29,937

How would you look at these guys as they came in?

810

00:55:29,937 --> 00:55:32,232

I would do my best not to.

811

00:55:32,232 --> 00:55:33,748

Not on account of...

812

00:55:35,967 --> 00:55:37,369

I abide it.

813

00:55:37,831 --> 00:55:47,852

It's just, I've seen them roll through and usually just best to clear the way till they

get out of your space.

814

00:55:47,852 --> 00:55:52,656

Yeah, they moved in heavy bovine almost.

815

00:55:52,656 --> 00:55:54,238

Men of certainty.

816

00:55:54,238 --> 00:55:58,881

Looked like they've never lost a fist fight and they didn't plan on losing one tonight.

817

00:55:58,881 --> 00:56:00,162

Then you saw the waitress,

818

00:56:00,162 --> 00:56:00,923

Abigail.

819

00:56:00,923 --> 00:56:10,760

She moved through the gloom of the cherry pit like she owned it, the palm all dangling

from the corner of her mouth, smoke curling up past her eyes like she had seen too many

820

00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,110

closing times.

821

00:56:12,511 --> 00:56:18,215

She was pretty in a way that, eh, your hard life could only show you.

822

00:56:18,215 --> 00:56:27,361

She was a hillbilly princess, a spine made of rebar and a confidence that you hadn't seen

much in your times.

823

00:56:28,196 --> 00:56:30,728

And she said, what can I get you fellas?

824

00:56:30,869 --> 00:56:33,872

Her voice low, gravelly purr.

825

00:56:33,872 --> 00:56:34,953

She didn't look impressed.

826

00:56:34,953 --> 00:56:36,614

She didn't look scared either.

827

00:56:36,955 --> 00:56:43,541

The biggest man, he had a beard of rust and a gut straining the buttons of his shirt.

828

00:56:43,541 --> 00:56:48,907

He grunted and pointed a thick greasy finger at something in the back of the bar.

829

00:56:48,907 --> 00:56:50,738

The other two men walked to the back.

830

00:56:50,738 --> 00:56:54,519

Back there you saw a Native American.

831

00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:55,679

Maybe he was Hispanic.

832

00:56:55,679 --> 00:56:57,580

It was hard to tell in the dark.

833

00:56:57,660 --> 00:57:02,522

You didn't frequent the same bars a lot, so you didn't know any of the regulars.

834

00:57:02,642 --> 00:57:07,605

And two of the men walked up to him and you started hearing a little scuffle in the back.

835

00:57:07,605 --> 00:57:13,399

Yeah, I think I would drink the dregs, my third drink.

836

00:57:13,420 --> 00:57:21,946

I would loudly announce that I was standing up from the bar the way the bottom of that

glass contacted the wood.

837

00:57:21,987 --> 00:57:32,745

And then I'm going to stand up and make an obvious pass towards the restroom swaying in

their direction.

838

00:57:34,385 --> 00:57:42,802

As you get closer, you hear one of the men laughing and grabbing the man by the shirt, and

you hear get the fuck out of here.

839

00:57:43,042 --> 00:57:44,864

And you're stinking up the joint.

840

00:57:44,864 --> 00:57:53,210

Come from the conversation and you get even closer and they throw him past a pool table

and he stumbles toward the door.

841

00:57:53,431 --> 00:57:57,553

He stands up with a semblance of dignity and tries to.

842

00:57:57,878 --> 00:58:06,657

dust his shirt off, then the third man at the bar who he was closer to now grabs him and

pushes him out the exit and then starts laughing.

843

00:58:07,671 --> 00:58:23,623

I'm gonna take four large steps like a track athlete going for a long jump, but the long

jump is going to be with an outstretched Superman arm into the square underside of his jaw

844

00:58:23,623 --> 00:58:35,671

um coming from the backside of him, and I am not waiting until his skull hits the ground

before I am charging towards the second one furthest from the door.

845

00:58:36,751 --> 00:58:46,383

You connect, you hit him in the jaw, you feel a telltale crack of some of his teeth

snapping in his mouth.

846

00:58:46,485 --> 00:58:54,134

There's probably gonna be blood and tooth matter coming out as he slams against the ground

of this dirty bar.

847

00:58:54,389 --> 00:59:02,687

and that second one spins around and gets his arms up and you are in a gridlock with him

as you've jumped onto his chest.

848

00:59:02,687 --> 00:59:10,334

He's a big beast of a man and he's holding you up and you can hear the third already

running to aid his friend.

849

00:59:11,303 --> 00:59:13,114

Yeah, not a lot of time.

850

00:59:13,114 --> 00:59:19,106

Does he have, are we like grappled arms occupied then at that point?

851

00:59:19,106 --> 00:59:38,475

um I think I will um drop my weight down to my heels and I will leap up and skyrocket my

forehead into his nose um with as much spring power as my

852

00:59:39,496 --> 00:59:40,969

legs can offer.

853

00:59:40,969 --> 00:59:47,415

you squat and jump as hard as you can under the weight of his arms.

854

00:59:47,415 --> 00:59:56,703

It hits him in both the chin and the nose and you see his head fly back and blood starting

gushing out of both his mouth and his nose.

855

00:59:56,703 --> 01:00:03,750

um He pulls you in tighter and just spits a glob of bud in your face and starts to squeeze

you.

856

01:00:03,750 --> 01:00:17,509

As he's squeezing you, you feel something slip between your ribs into your side as you're

assuming you were just stabbed by the other man and it twists.

857

01:00:17,509 --> 01:00:23,254

The agony shoots through your body and you black out for a second as this man is squeezing

you.

858

01:00:23,254 --> 01:00:25,455

Any thoughts as this is happening?

859

01:00:27,099 --> 01:00:35,846

Yeah, I think the feeling of unfairness, I think, is maybe what Dell is still wracked

with.

860

01:00:35,846 --> 01:00:38,088

Not for himself, that doesn't really matter.

861

01:00:38,088 --> 01:00:48,267

Just the notion of how someone could live their life walking into a place like this and

just upending it for everyone else all of a sudden.

862

01:00:48,267 --> 01:00:49,665

Like that, that's no way to be.

863

01:00:49,665 --> 01:00:59,415

as you're thinking that, they feel like they could be your last thoughts as you feel the

blade exit and then enter your side a little above where it had before.

864

01:00:59,656 --> 01:01:07,444

And you hear what must be Abigail shouting from behind the bar and coming around.

865

01:01:07,725 --> 01:01:11,199

You find yourself on the ground and...

866

01:01:11,199 --> 01:01:22,960

You see her in between these two men as they're standing over you, one bleeding profusely

out of his face, looking pissed, the other one holding a bloody knife in his hand.

867

01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,323

You can't hear what she's saying.

868

01:01:25,323 --> 01:01:32,369

You just hear the murmur of them talking and some baited shouts from the men at her.

869

01:01:34,517 --> 01:01:36,326

What's on your mind as you're seeing this?

870

01:01:36,326 --> 01:01:41,197

We're in my plan for anyone to come to my rescue.

871

01:01:43,201 --> 01:01:49,911

And as that occurs to me, m maybe that was the plan all along.

872

01:01:50,554 --> 01:01:53,017

Was I gonna leave this place tonight?

873

01:01:53,458 --> 01:01:55,032

Well, now I'm not so sure.

874

01:01:55,032 --> 01:01:57,633

You see her continuing to talk.

875

01:01:57,633 --> 01:01:59,884

Their rage does not look abated.

876

01:01:59,884 --> 01:02:09,039

And then a key moment, she places her hand on the man who has a knife in it on his wrist.

877

01:02:09,039 --> 01:02:12,940

Maybe there's a sudden flash of fear that you feel for her.

878

01:02:13,121 --> 01:02:19,904

But then you see with her hand there, his face calms and he looks down at it.

879

01:02:20,334 --> 01:02:22,568

and he looks to you and then he looks at her.

880

01:02:22,568 --> 01:02:24,872

She's still talking the entire time.

881

01:02:24,872 --> 01:02:33,907

And then her other hand goes to his shoulder and she gets a little closer to him and you

see him completely diffuse in front of you.

882

01:02:33,907 --> 01:02:34,728

m

883

01:02:37,512 --> 01:02:38,898

Yeah, I think...

884

01:02:41,020 --> 01:02:53,689

think it never occurred to me that an altercation could come to an end like that,

especially one that had started as it started.

885

01:02:54,791 --> 01:03:04,157

well, suddenly I'm wondering if maybe I ever had the tool to beat all three of them, or if

I was kind of doomed from the start.

886

01:03:05,199 --> 01:03:07,670

Maybe there's something else out there to know.

887

01:03:10,096 --> 01:03:22,004

You watch as the men start to back off from your body on the ground and the world goes

black.

888

01:03:22,004 --> 01:03:31,753

You don't see anything anymore and you're left to your deep, comatose thoughts for some

time.

889

01:03:31,753 --> 01:03:38,246

God only knows how much longer later uh you wake up in heaven.

890

01:03:38,387 --> 01:03:40,128

It's white all around.

891

01:03:40,328 --> 01:03:44,978

There's a comfy bed under you, something you're not used to sleeping in.

892

01:03:45,518 --> 01:03:49,102

By your side is your hillbilly angel, Abigail.

893

01:03:49,102 --> 01:03:53,026

Somehow she is still protecting you for some reason.

894

01:03:53,415 --> 01:04:02,536

and you look over and she's reading a book, Pride and Prejudice, and she looks up and sees

you coming to.

895

01:04:03,905 --> 01:04:14,187

Yeah, I think I will sputter some of the mostly dried blood out of my throat.

896

01:04:14,187 --> 01:04:18,151

I'll say, oh no, they killed you too.

897

01:04:20,447 --> 01:04:24,109

You see a huge smile erupt across her face.

898

01:04:24,270 --> 01:04:28,914

She stands up and you feel those hands on your chest now.

899

01:04:28,914 --> 01:04:33,757

You understand why that man was diffused in that moment.

900

01:04:35,198 --> 01:04:36,679

It's all ripped away.

901

01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:46,386

You cough blood and black bile spurts out of your mouth as you look at the pinpricks of

stars.

902

01:04:46,741 --> 01:04:51,478

above your head in that God-forsaken swamp and then fully lose consciousness.

903

01:04:51,478 --> 01:04:54,864

This time Abigail will not be coming for you.

904

01:04:54,864 --> 01:04:57,166

She will not be your guardian angel.

905

01:04:57,528 --> 01:04:59,810

You feel completely alone.

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