Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Chapter Three: Open the Door | Sagas of Sundry: Madness

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

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Ah, like the Beatles song. Something like that. Abigail, why don't you arrive next? You decided to come, I guess, then. Oh, you guys know each other? Say that. Yeah, you could say that. I did say that. Selena, why don't she come in next? Hey, hello. You seem really nice and everything. I'm not here for the party, really.

Oh, I'm Fenley, just for future reference, if you need to, like, yell at me or something. Selina. Amit Markham? You step up. Oh, hi. Hi! Is this cool? I mean, I found this in my hall. Absolutely, you're in the right place. Man, I have never seen a flyer work so well. Right? I'm so impressed. Let me know if you want to bounce. I give this like 15 more minutes before my tolerance starts to go. They start walking towards the door when suddenly you hear the

as the door kicks open and you see the landlords come straight up. Who did it? Whoa, whoa. Who did that? Somebody screwed with the walls. You pulls a gun out. It's a six-shooter revolver. Did anybody do anything? Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey. I did. What did you do? There was a ticking. There was a ticking noise. It was a ticking? What was the ticking? I sketched it. I have a... You show him the bulb. He starts to calm down. He puts the gun down every like there might still be time. And he runs and he storms down the hallway.

So as you all make your way down to the second floor of the building, you see the landlord leaning against one of the rails. He starts to roll back as the final thing he says to the skies above. Keep it on as he tumbles backwards off of the banister. And you watch as he spirals down. Holy shit.

A loud crunch. Oh my god. And then you hear a knock at the door. Fenley, as you open the door. door you see several police officers standing in front of you. Sir, we've heard that there's a disturbance. Yes, there's been a disturbance. Hello everyone. Welcome to madness. So when we left you, Fenley came down to go and answer the front door. Did anybody go with him? I went down to the bottom to try and...

You went down to the body. Maybe look at the body before being stopped. As you came down to look at the body, splayed out before you, you noticed something. As he fell, something braced his fall. One of the many side stands that exist in the mailroom in which people have been putting junk mail on for years and years and years and years. Something fell out of it.

A box. Do you want it? Yes. Then make a pull. Damn it. As you look over, this man's broken. Over this man's broken body, you have to come to some kind of conclusion. This man was killed.

He was murdered right in front of you. And at this point, you're not even too sure how. He was holding his head. Blood was trickling down his face. But you also heard gunshots. Very distinct gunshots from what you thought was a pistol. Which is no longer there, by the way. Here.

You've earned it, Miss Abigail. I quickly put it under my shirt before the cops open the door. Sir, may we please come inside? We had a report that there was gunshots coming from this building. Yes, there's been a horrible accident. An accident? Yes, come inside, please.

All right, you watch as you open the door as the police officers start to come in. You can see there seem to be two and from what appears to be a sergeant. Now, the three of you that are sitting up top on the second floor, What's going on with you? I'm gonna hang back.

Yeah, I need to be out of sight. Myself's a little scarce? I was trying to spot the gun, but it's... The gun's gone. Gone. Instead, Emmett, you see something else. The steel crowbar lies next to where the landlord was before he toppled and fell down into the area.

It's covered in blood. Maybe this was the thing that. that hit him. Do you wanna take it? I won't make you make a pull for it. No. It lies there. Sir, oh, God.

All right, everyone, close those doors. Make sure no one comes inside. All right, son, tell me what happened. This is the landlord of the building, and we were on the roof, and we were having a party, and we heard gunshots from the second floor, and we came down to see what had happened, And he was there, he was bleeding.

All right, all right. On the second floor. I understand. I hear it. We need to look for the gun. Thompson, Erickson, go upstairs, see if you can find out where the gun is. Did you, where did you hear gunshots at?

We were upstairs on the roof when we heard it from below. How long has this man been the landlord of this building? I just moved in. I don't know. Abigail, how long has he been to the landlord? Miss, can I have you come over here, step away from the body, please. Um, I'm sorry.

I just get really uncomfortable. It's a side of blood. I would like to be by my best friend, if you don't mind. All right, you two stay. No, I don't. I need you to stay a separate. We can't rule anybody out at this stage. So I need you both to stay calm and tell me what happened.

I mean, he's been the landlord for ever since I've been here. I've been here for about a year and a half. And he's always been here and he's just the sweetest old man. And how many floors are in this building? Uh, I don't know. Did you see the assailant? No, we were, like I said, we were on the roof, and we heard gunshots, and we came down. Hmm. All right.

It's okay. Erickson, did you find a gun? You watch as the two plurotroll officers come up to the second floor using the stairs and see you three, as they kind of look at you suspiciously. No, sir, we didn't find a gun, but there seems to be a crows. bar up here and they crems up as he picks up the piece and looks at it and then unceremoniously drops it back to the floor again and you watches the two patrolmen or the one patrolman that's upstairs rallies all three of you together and he begins putting you all into a lineup against the wall Selena you see something as you're walking down the steps something gleaming from the body of the landlord Make a poll.

What are you feeling right now? There's you meant to go upstairs just to get away and feel safe. And now this is happening. What's going on in your brain? I am nervous. I don't even as a rule like normal people, cops, especially are not copacetic. The policeman looks at you.

What are you talking to? I'm sorry. I'm really, really nervous. Well, there has been a murder. I've never seen a dead body before, so you understand. I'm sorry you have to go through that, but you do get used to it. Oh, I know.

The policeman's words seem to ring dead and hollow on your ears as he doesn't seem to put a lot of emphasis into the words. And yet, there is some comfort in knowing that this won't be the first or last dead body that you've seen. But you do see a pair of keys sitting out along the side of his coat, just hanging there along his crumpled, fallen form.

I drop some of the bracelets that I have been fidgeting with, and was I go to pick them up, I swipe the keys. All right, I'm going to need each one of you to give a statement on what happened. You know, it might be easier if I take each one of you aside. So none of you have a chance to collaborate stories. There's nothing to collaborate. I think I'll be the one to determine if there's anything to corroborate or not. Thank you.

You. It's not a big deal. You guys were, you know, we're all chilling. Uh-huh. Not a big deal. Do you know the landlord's name? I don't. I don't.

That's weird. That's odd. How would you not know the landlord's name of someone's building you've been into this entire time? Why I just moved in here? I don't even know my neighbor's name's. That's why we were getting together on the roof. Just to find out. You're very chill.

I am very chill. There's nothing to be concerned about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just telling the truth. No wonder you're not very successful. You're not very good at acting. What? The fact did you just say?

You're not very good at acting. If you have something to hide, you should probably just tell the truth. Nobody has anything to hide. Does anyone know this man's? name. Yeah. It's a, what was it, like, Habibi, something? Mr. Abibi, that's the best you've got, Abibi. I think that's his last name, Habibi. Do you know where the man lives? Do you know which room he's in? And he pulls out a pen and takes out a pad of paper ready to write down the location. Do any of you know where this landlord

lives? Which room he's in? All landlords have some kind of building. His master office is right around the corner. All right. You watch as he makes a note ever so lightly. Miss, I'd like to talk with you next. Come with me. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. Good luck.

Thanks, bitch. Miss, what was your name? I'm Abigail. Abigail. Abigail Persimmon. Abigail Persimmon. Yes. And you said you knew this landlord?

Yes. I mean, I knew him as well as anyone. as well as anyone knows their landlord. Okay. How did you know him? Did you interview to be here? I did. I mean, he was my landlord. Are you okay?

You seem really upset. Hard day. All right, miss, I'm gonna have to check you for weapons. Can I have you lift your hands up, please? I mean, that's really- Miss, I'm gonna need you to lift your hands up, please. You watch as he takes his hands. and he starts getting into areas around you

and starts poking and prodding into places. Okay, I'm really uncomfortable. What is this? It's just a flask. Have you been drinking? I mean, it was a party. We were just hanging on the roof. You said this as an accident?

I'm sorry, look, that's... Are you sure that he wasn't shoved over? We didn't see anything. I swear we were on the roof with everybody else. How do I know that you aren't hiding something that I'm not aware of. I would tell you, if I was hiding anything. I swear, we heard the gunshots and we went down to the roof

and we were with everybody else. I was with them. They were with me. Sit back down. Okay. Sit back down. Sit, take your drink and sit back down. Now you can tell, as each one of you

have been kind of watching this scene pan out between Abigail and the police sergeant, being very rough, being very unethical with her. There's this anxiety. building up as each one of the police officers begin to look around ever so slightly. They look towards Salida next, and the sergeant comes back, loops around and goes, Miss, I'd like your statement next. Okay.

Up. Just tell the truth. You don't need to say me. Unless we say, the quicker we can get done with this, all right? But what if something happened to him? What if it'll happen to us? Something definitely happened. There's something happened to him.

He's dead. He's not. He happened to him. Funny. I'm sorry. I'm a nervous laffer. Did you have anything against the landlord? No.

I've been here. Do you know any person who might have been an enemy of his? There was one person he evicted very uncerethmonously. He uh. And who was that? Rachel Evans. Rachel Evans, he looks through. No.

makes... Three years ago. Three years ago. She nailed something into the walls, and he tossed her out on the street right then and there when he found out, and tossed all her stuff out with her. Hmm. Miss, are you sure you're not carrying the gun or you know where it is?

No. What about that crow bar? I didn't even see it when we came down. I'm hearing a lot of people who have a lot of no idea what's going on right now, And I feel like somebody knows what happened here. But since you're all being so quiet about it all, I think the best that we can hope for right now is to have all of you stay in this house

while we get homicide over here to do something about the body as well as take photos. But I don't want any of you leaving. Erickson, come out here and stay in front of the door. Don't let anybody out. Selina Sukiyama, it's a very unique name. Thank you. I feel like I've heard that before.

Do you hang out in Little Tokyo? Jokester, huh? No, not particularly. Well, I've got a joke for you. And you watch the website, a pair of handcuffs. Put out your hands. She was with us. I'm sorry.

Wait a second. You're not under arrest, but I don't want you going anywhere, and I saw what you did. I don't know what you picked up, and I don't know what you picked up, and I'm sorry. I can't see around it, but you got sneaky fingers. Put your hands out. Holy shit. You watch as he whips out the cuffs and places them into your hands, clicks them, and holds

them tightly before snickering to himself. Have a nice day, everybody. Wait, what do we do? What do we do with the body? As he walks out the door, homicide will be here in a while to come check on it. And here will be watching it. In the meantime, none of you touch it. You don't do anything unnoticed.

You can't just handcuff somebody, man. I can do what I want. I'm the law. And he walks out the door. This is fucking bullshit. You watch as the police officer, the patrolman sits there. He seems to be leaning his foot on another and is simply leaning on the front grate of the door.

Just watching all five of you and the body right there. Are we being charged with anything? Watches the patrol bin, flicks out a cigarette, pops it, lights it, starts smoking. Should you be doing that around a live crime scene? Do whatever I want. I don't know what you're all hiding, but none of us had anything to do with this.

Sure, buddy. Sure. Does he have eyes on every single one of us? He glances over to you. He's more sure like making sure that no one leaves, more or less. He's more sure making that no one's going out through this door. Out door.

Yeah. Then I'm gonna go get the crowbar. All right. You go upstairs and you find the crowbar. Why don't we all like go upstairs for a second? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I need to get away from this. Hey, Finley. Yeah. Can you spare a page in that notebook? Oh, sure. Just write something down for me. Oh, okay. Yeah. Um, keep it on.

Keep it on? Now Abigail, as you hear the words keep it on, exiting your mouth, you look at Finley's face, face and you start to see something as he's writing down the words keep it on you can feel as these words echo outside of your mouth and you start to feel something pursing into your brain something penetrating something seems to be encroaching itself into your head you're looking at him as he's writing these words down and you start to see his face

It's starting to sag. It's starting to drip. And you look and see that parts of the skin are starting to fall off as blood and gore and bone start to expose himself. His face is melting. His face is falling apart. Make a pull. Make a pull. Look at him as he is writing these words.

Keep it on. And you see his face just starting to fall slack off of his. bones as his eyeballs begin to pierce out through his cheek bones and you can see his jaw become exposed as his rigid white teeth begin to purse it but his jaw is moving through the same words and you hear it keep it on keep it on keep it on keep it on keep it on keep it on and you can see the skin is dripping off of his jaw line and you shake your head and you look back at him and Fenley's face is fine. There's nothing wrong. He's perfectly okay and something blew into you for a second and he writes

the words down. You okay? Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, 100%. I'm great. No, you're a bad actor. You saw something. What the fuck is wrong with you? I just asked what it, what does it mean? You want to know something? You want to know something about being a good actor or a bad actor? I just made sure the cop didn't fucking find this. What is that? I have to nice and distracted, so. That was very good. Yeah, here you go.

Hacker. Internet shit. Where did this come from? You do things, right? That's what it is. No, tell me, you apparently know a whole lot, don't you, Selena? Yeah.

I run Black Cat operations. You sell hats? What? That's... Um... Yes, I hack. Take bits of money where they're not gonna be noticed. I expose crimes.

I expose your fellow landmates, flatmates. Does there a word for people who all live in the same? Tenants. Tenants. Fucking know it all was right again. So what's in the box? This is like right up your alley, right?

How did you know? Been around a little bit, seeing a few quick peeks and door slams when you think you're not being watched. Let's just say that. Not the only one who's got eyes around here, Salina. But I mean, after calling me out, being nervous around the cops and seeing you being very similar, kind of nervous around the cops. I mean, that's something that people tend to recognize

each other. So, kind of started doing the math. But it's cool, because we all have secrets, and I guess we're all bad actors. Hey, can I change the subject for a minute? Please. Yeah, sure. I think these are cops.

What? They question some of us, not all of us. Yeah. They cuffed her for no reason. They're not acting like cops. If they're not cops, then who are they? It's all very suspicious. It doesn't add up logically.

I mean, you think Mr. What's his name? Erickson over here, whatever the shit is fake cop-ass name is. I think he's gonna notice if we look around a little bit. There was also this, okay, you know how Mr. the landlord. God, I never knew his real name. I'm kind of feeling a little guilty about that now, now that he's dead. I thought it was a baby. A baby?

Maybe I'm around. Okay. You guys know how he was like super particular about the walls. Yeah. Did he ever give you guys the black door speech as well? Like there's this like door that you don't open here to a stairwell? No, but I've seen it because I look at the architecture and so I... Oh, right.

You do that. You're one of those people. I mean, he's dead now. So what's stopping us from opening the store? Jude. Something's in there, man. You need to make a pull for it. Something's there.

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Oh, I got the box open. Oh, shit. What is it? We should probably get you uncuffed. Not right now, just... I like how much is going on here all at the same time. Jude, are you okay? Jude, whatever you were feeling for that moment

when that door was mentioned, seemed... seems to have passed and at least at least you're clear-headed enough to have a smoke for it. These guys, if I'm wrong, if they're cops, we're fine, right? If they're cops... We'll just go home. If I'm right. They're not cops. What are we waiting for them to come back to do? What if we call the police and confirm that they sent officers over?

Right? The station would know. No. We can't call the police. Can we? What? Why not? Everyone's got secrets. Yeah, where's yours? Where's your slip? Why is there one for all of us except for you?

I didn't look in the box. Where is it? Are you palming it in your hand? Yeah, fine secrets. Time for secrets. They're all out about everyone now. I guess all of us have them. Abigail, this is great. Selina has no note. And yet everybody else does, and it's out. Who are you?

Do you wanna take it from her? If you want to make a pull for it. I'm gonna try and take from her, yeah. Take it. I violently go up and start aggressively searching Selena. Hey, come on. I don't fucking trust her. Why does, why are you helping him?

Have you been fucking monitoring this on the whole time? You a cop? Are you a fucking cow? You're with these people, aren't you? No. Why is she cuffed? I don't know. The fake police officers, maybe.

What is going on? Abigail just. I don't know. I mean, we're stuck here together. I mean, if you're gonna tell us, now's the time. Now, there's guys coming back possibly to kill us right now. What do we need to do here? Okay, it's fine.

I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you. All right, you don't have to pull it. If she's gonna give it to you willingly, you don't have to make the pull. Listen, we don't have to read these. There's a lot of personal information on them. There's a lot settling in here at the moment.

As each one of you are up. Institutionalized. Oh, come on. It's fine. We all need therapy. What? I don't remember it. I don't know when it was.

Runs. Just tell that. Just tell that. Make a pull, Selina. There's a lot happening right now. And you're fighting this. this urge to either get them out, they know what's going on. You handed them the slip, Selena.

You've done so good at covering your tracks into this point. You've done nothing, but you just handed them the paper, Selena. You gave up as Abigail was aggressively trying to pull you in searching your pocket, and you gave. What is this? Is this sweet?

She doesn't understand. Somebody in place. You've been doing this for so long. Why did you give up now? He's real. Is it real? Is it real? Do I real?

What would he think? What would he think? Maybe I can trust these people. You can trust us. You can trust them. All it takes to make it go away, Selena, is one brick. You just need to pull a block from the tower and they will shut up. There's so much that you haven't learned yet.

And yet here it is standing on the precipice. Oh. No. The voices have quieted, Salina. have quieted Selena. You're able to talk to them without disturbance, and yet you do feel like these are people you can trust. This is maybe the one circumstances which letting this slip of paper go is okay. It's okay. I'll show you yours if you show me mine. Wait, I'll show you mine. I'm under a lot of stress right now. Yeah, I got it. It's fine. Um. Here. Yeah, I, I don't, I know. I already know.

Violent tendencies. Um. Sorry about that. It's okay. I... Also, why do they all say RP project with numbers on the fucking back? That's fucked up.

That's some fucked up shit right, nigger. I'm number one. Number three. I'm number two. Number four. All right. Well, there is one place that you'll find answers at, and I think it will be in the landlord's room.

landlord's room. Amit, you seem to have maybe an unorthodox method of entry. Shall we apply it to good use? Yeah. All right. Then off to the landlord's room. Come with me. All right, let's head on in. Now as you climb up the four stories leading to what you know as the landlord's apartment, because each one of you have been there at least at one stage, you come across his door. What would you like to do? Oh. I brought a key. I have a bunch of keys too.

What? Like actual keys. We don't have tough. We're not up to us. Whoa, whoa, what? What? Instead of making noise, we should use the keys. That doesn't seem to be a keyhole, so. Clock's ticking in men with guns are coming back. Stay back.

Ooh! Emmett, as you walk into the landlord's apartment, you can smell the musty air as cigarette smoke seems to permeate the walls, the carpet, every single area. And you can see the old furniture laid about as a bunch of exotic-looking materials stand around you. At least for the moment, all seems quiet. No one seems to be coming up the stairs, and you don't seem to be hearing anything in particular. What's that smell? Smells like sadness.

zone, old cigarettes. Wait a minute, this is all of us. This is all of us. There's Tom's Diner, there's the institution. All of the highlighted items. Holy shit. That's your boyfriend. This is my ex-ex boyfriend.

That's the house I grew up in. That one's Malibu. That one's yours. Jordan. Holy fucking shit. Who's Jordan? Jordan's... Jordan.

I'm sorry, man. I'm so sorry, man. Hey, do we remember that there were dates on those pieces of paper? August 21st, September 4th. August 28th. August 14th. Proposed build site? I'm gonna go get those papers.

I have. I have. You can... killed Jordan. He died because of me. That's a little different than I killed him. Look at the picture. Did you jump? It seems like it was an accident. That's not you killing somebody. I fuck, because I didn't tell anybody.

It's just like I killed him. Everyone has secrets. Don't you get it? He should have had like, you know, people that knew. People should have celebrated his life. People should have been there. you know I didn't say a fucking word you made a mistake you didn't kill somebody and it's not too late we can get through this and you can fix that Guys we don't have all day Selena come look at this look at these There's discs. What are these? There's four of them. Is there another one in this room? Keep the machine on That's what Abigail told me to write down. What was this?

This is the piece of of the wall that I took off. This had that lamp in it. Why did he keep it? 924. No, I tried all the keys on there. Every single key on here? Yeah.

815. All 7,000 of them. Yeah. There's clippings about earthquakes in Los Angeles. Do the earthquakes line up with the epicenter, with each of the locations? Can you bring it over here? There's 1.

There's A. Grab them. Uh, look. Uh, look, that that and this. August 14th. What the fuck does that mean? August 21st. Oh, there, the 21st on the left.

Put the ring up into the, does it line up with the three? Post, Bill, say there's, holy shit. Oh, it's magnetic. Oh, oh, who the fuck is this guy? August 28th. August, September.

Okay. Hey, hang on, the 28th. Oh! Did something fall? It's a key, key, key, key, key. Is it to the lock on the chest? I can try it. It fits.

What is that? What the fuck is that? It's... Do you have any idea why he would have that? I didn't even know about this. I'm sorry I wasn't trying to hide it from you. I just... I'm sorry, I...

It runs in my family. It's not your fault. And I thought I was safe. Hey man, fucking box of secrets. How about it? Oh, this is a mixtape that my ex made me. Fuck, why is that in here? Are you fucking serious?

This is Jordan's bracelet. Real fucking cool, asshole. Who fuck is this guy? It's a fucking picture of me and my fucking father. Why is this happening? Who are we to him? Okay. This isn't when I moved in because look, he has a date for you, Finley.

And that's, isn't that later down the road? These dates are too far apart. He was going to start some sort of fucking experiment or some shit. Why does he have all this shit? Why does he have this? Leverage. It's leverage. To get us to do something.

We also have threat levels on our cards. Is that what the RP number is? Threat level two. No sign of threat. Status clear. No sign of influence. Status clear, no sign of influence. Easily manipulated.

It's because you're gay and you don't want people to know you're gay and you don't want to admit you're gay. I admit it. I'm fine with it. It's other people that have a problem with it. Fuck. I left this behind. I left all of that behind this, what I'm getting away from. There's no connection.

There's no reason that his fucking picture in this moment should be on that wall. There was nobody there. It was just the two of us. There was nobody there. What did he do to you? He beat me. Constantly beat me. He gave me cigarette burns and made it look like I was a junkie, so I couldn't tell anybody. Fuck.

I'm always in his shadow, okay? I can't escape it. What did you find in the box? It's sort of in here from a friend. Diner receipt. Who is your friend? Someone from the neighborhood. She OD a couple of months ago? I miss her. Plan.

There's no plan. Someone in this building killed that fucking guy. And something is fucking going on in here, and the not cops are coming back. Okay. So what are we doing? We have to put it back. We have to put it all back. can pretend that we never came into.

No, I'm not putting this back. This is mine, okay? I don't think we can pretend that didn't happen. So you all have a particular item that is tied directly with who you are, and there is a set. I was getting that. Shit, Salina. Abby. Selina.

Oh, fuck. Look, it spells something. Look. S. W. W. E. P.T. Swept?

Swept. Under the rug? All right. Oh, shit. We're all just crazy people, right? Where was Selena in one of our institutes, right? Just losing her eyes. No, no, it's fine.

No! Don't do that, please. Please don't do that. You're okay. You're okay. I promise you're okay. It's a puzzle. It's not in your family. It's not in your family. Conducted auxiliary? The lines, they connect.

It's just in us. They look like these pipes. Okay. It's just in us. It's not in your family. It's just in you. This one doesn't move. This is the corner.

Go on you're the hacker. You're smarter and all of us. Figure the shit out. Units. Manual hand units. Bypass. Bypass up top. Manual bypass.

Do the, do the. Okay. Are we making a circuit? Like a circuit. It looks like a circuit. Like it connects. It's trying to tell us how how to bypass the electricity, manually.

I think bypass goes on top of there. Or units, meaning apartments? Are units. Manually conducted by hand. For three. As you look, you turn around and notice that the light behind you has just turned on as you conduct the circuit effectively.

On the desk, on the desk. Holy shit. So keep it on. It's an electricity thing, and it's not with the regular electricity, it could. What are these? These aren't light bulbs. What are these?

Conducted by hand. Manual bypass. Give me your hand. Grab his hand. Grab the ball. That ball. Holy shit. Whoa.

The painting opened and inside seems to be several objects. Careful. Paper, some notes, and a decorated amulet. What is it? As long as power consistently flip, consistently flows through the machine the riffs should remain too small for physical encroachment we do not need to depend on the city's power grid fail for the generators below will provide a constant stream however all the mechanisms in the

walls of the building are very sensitive if a fuse were to break you'd have time to fix it but not much they are old and what little remains of our fortune cannot buy replacements you must constantly consider this problem and when the time is right move forward with the repurposed project we discussed even if it means bringing people inside. RP project, that's us. People inside, inside this rift? What?

The building? The ground starts to rumble as you feel something waving, shaking, moving the building is moving ever so lightly and then it stops. The lights flickered. That all happened for you, right? Yes, yeah. Okay, good. Okay.

Everybody take one. Power and electrical bill. An inventory stock supply bill. To protect remaining inventory move all to sub-basement. Okay, so there's some sort of bunker. Yeah, yeah, the guy who lived in my place before me talked about it. A fucking sub-basement in a bunker. So there's some sort of fortune and a generator down there.

And these are crazy puzzle pieces that we're looking at. we're looking at, but it doesn't explain how they got personal information about each of us. And why us? Why the five of us? We're nobody. Selina? That's why. You gotta know something about this.

I don't know. We're connected somehow, and I just know that I'm a medium threat because of my family history. Yeah, and I'm not a threat. What the fuck? I'm not a threat. A lot of threat. So why are you a medium threat? And you're a threat to or something?

What does that mean? And no sense. Rumble, rumble, rumble, as the ground shakes again. You feel something bending, twisting, moving. You can feel as the lights flicker yet again. It's happening for everybody. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. And you watch as sand. Oh, what? Oh, shit. You're all seeing that right. Yes, it's real. We should see. I suggest we get the fuck out of this.

We should leave, right. Yeah. It's the only way out. Oh, get everything we need. Get everything we might need from here. Oh. The sand begins to pour out more, and just as suddenly as it began, it stops. The papers.

I saw the sand earlier. What do you mean? It was already creeping into the edges of my mind, out in the lobby. Who's going to open the door? Jude. She's the only way out. Be careful, okay. As the door opens a white light blasts through, as an arid, bright sun pierces into

all of your visions, and you look out to a landscape of sand dunes and an open blue-purple sky. And every rolling dune seems to get larger and larger as a cascades across barren wasteland of nothing I've been here before what I've been here before when I took the when I took the cylinder out of the wall I was here what and now it is here again what was that about riffs uh... close the door shut it shut it closed it the walls are real okay he's real who I'm real

Finley what'd you see I called a hotline and And it just, there was a weird voice on the other side of the line, okay? And it said, my child, I want to meet you, et cetera, et cetera. I thought it was weird, and so I hung up, and I didn't think about it again. But as soon as I took that cylinder out, I went to that place and it said the same thing. What was the hotline? What did you call? Does that really, do you really?

No. What hotline did you call? I called a gay sex hotline. What does that matter? Doesn't. She just likes knowing people's business. All right. Information is always good, data is always good.

It's not always good. Not like... All right. We can't go out. Finley. What are we gonna do? We gonna stay here? What did you say about an eye?

Does it look like that eye? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was it. But it was in that landscape. This, what is it, a portal or like a doorway? No. Are we crazy?

Are we all crazy? This is fucking crazy. That's what this is. This whole situation is crazy. All this shit is fucking crazy. We can't be going crazy at the same time. I hugged my dead friend. I don't understand what's going on.

I'm normal. I just, I fucking write stories about people. Nothing, I'm normal. It's okay. It's not you. It's the building. What? I think she's right. Weird things happen here.

Buildings are inanimate objects. It can't be the building. I just always thought that maybe I was a little unhinged and crazy, and maybe we are all little... It's because we've all been drawn here for one reason or another. Yeah. We're all fucked up, and like Finley said, we're all nobody's. So we're all just fucked up, just enough to be able to be...

susceptible to this and we're all nobody's enough to where if anything happens to us nobody would care no one would give a fuck I have somebody that cares about me is there somebody that we could call we should call the real police why can't we use the phone it's right there Fenley do you want to pick it up yeah use the sand phone I had bad experience with the phone the first time because can anybody use it you know what you called the hotline you You saw the sand. You make the call.

Fine. This is stupid. OK? It's a phone. I didn't do anything wrong. None of us did. There's someone that's dead. We're in his office.

That dead guy took these fucked up pictures of all of us. So I don't give a shit about the dead guy. Fuck the dead guy. I want to live. I'll pick up the phone. This is stupid. This is stupid. It's a deadline. There's no dial tone. There's nothing in there. There's only...

What is that? There's nothing. It's nothing. There's no... There's no dial tone. Listen, I... I don't know what to do. There is one thing to do. And you all know it. You're having a hard time coming to terms with it. But it's the only way out and it's through that door. We have to go out. So we're going out into nothing? Unless you want to die here?

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