Mayday Plays - 🕳️The Dead Drop | "IL: A Volume of Secret Faces, Part 2" | Episode 4

Episode Date: October 27, 2023

We complete our walkthrough of this hefty scenario covering The Samigina residence, Encounter Group, and the Trivelino Mall Ambush. Want more Dead Drop? The Patreon edition contains over 25 minutes of unreleased discussion covering A Volume of Secret Faces, part 2. You can get more by going to patreon.com/maydayrp , where any level gets you access to the unedited episodes and our discord. Make sure to leave your comments and questions in the chat below or message us directly on X (Twitter) @surgettrpg and @suddenlyvince We've got merch! https://ko-fi.com/maydayrp (t-shirts and stickers) We started as a podcast! Listen to us @: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mayday-plays/id1537347277 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vdTgXoqpSpMssSP9Vka3Z?si=73ec867215744a01 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mayday-roleplay Here are some of our other socials; Twitter: https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/ Website: https://maydayroleplay.com/ Thanks for your support! Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/maydayroleplay

Hey, everyone. My name is Sergio and I am the handler for May Day's Delta Green campaign doomed to repeat. With me, as always, is the original owner of the Trevelyno Mall, Black Project Games Vince. Hey, buddy. Hey, man, good to be here and glad to have everyone at home tuning in. Hey, as always, if you enjoy what we're doing here, please make sure to like and subscribe or just leave a positive review on YouTube, on social media, wherever you happen to listen and watch us. However, if you want access to all the exclusive content, we're cooking up behind the scenes here, extended episodes to works. Join our Patreon, or as little as $2 a month is going to get you access to all of these extended episodes as well as our Discord. So you've gotten your invitation to the encounter group, but have no mask or cloak of truth.

Well, we've got you covered because you have found the Dead Drop, a guide to running impossible landscapes. Well, Vince, we are back covering the last half of volume of secret faces. A scenario so large, we had to break it in half to fully digest it. Last time we started at the beginning with Operation India Moon, we covered Dr. Barbus's residence, and then we explored the Dorchester House and where it leads to on the other side. So today, we're going to cover all the other crazy things that your agents can get up to, including exploring Esther Samajina's residence, attending the encounter group,

learning about Ophelia Cetree, and finally surviving the Tribolino Mall ambush. Surviving, right. As with all past walkthroughs, we are about to get into spoilers for volume of secret faces. So, if you are a player in an Impossible Landscapes campaign, you need to make like Henry Samagina and take a long, cold bath. I'll let the innuendo do its work. These puns are amazing. Incredible work, my friend.

Oh, thank you. So, Vince, what aspect of volume of Seeker faces should we discuss first? Well, you know, we dug into the real meat and potatoes of this scenario last go-round. So we can talk about definitely some of the areas that maybe your players, depending on what rabbit hole they decided to go down, and what white rabbit they decided to chase. Let's start off with Nurse Sam and Gina's residence. Now, this was one that my players didn't necessarily have an opportunity to explore.

They didn't really look into her too much, because the book makes it explicit that she's friendly, she's helpful, and so it might take a little bit for your players to become suspicious of her and follow her or look into her any further. Because as it stands, there's really no means. to sink your teeth into, to really warrant looking into her further. But if you decide to play her up quirky, like some of the other less reputable employees of Dorchester House, you might be able to pull that threat a little bit and get your players in there.

I think that's a good suggestion because, like you said, yeah, she's hard to immediately see that there's a problem. In fact, some of our patrons and commenters have made mention of this where they specifically had to kind of poke the players with Samagina and her residents to get them to look into her. Yeah, you know, play up the surreal aspect. You know, if somebody decides to make a human role, or even if you decide to take the player with the highest human and say, as helpful as she is, as friendly as she is, there's something almost forced about it.

There's something almost unnatural about it. Just a little throwaway comment to maybe get those hackles raised a little bit and maybe have them pry a little bit deeper. And of course, there is something very strange about Esther Samagina. She has a secret, secret about her family. This is, uh, Nurse Samagena is definitely a phenomenal, cautionary tale about what can happen when the corruption of the King and Yellow spreads beyond the individual to those closest to them. Yeah, even more so than Dr. Barbus. More so than Dr. Barbus almost, yeah, because Barbus is the only one affected.

But with Nurse Samigina, we've got her husband. Philip and her son Henry, age 16. You can easily enough find the Sam and Gina family home through Google, standard social media checks. But when you get there, you quickly learn that nurse Sam and Gina has been compromised by the yellow sign, the king in yellow. She brought that infection home and actually gave her son a sketch of the yellow sign, which is how the corruption began to spread.

Yeah. He was probably inspired by that to start working on. his own version of the place sticking in yellow. Absolutely, yeah. What's funny is, so say the players decide to do some research on Nurse Samagena first and foremost, the first thing you're going to discover is that Samagina is the name of another demon from the Arsgaotia, a great marquee of hell reigning over 30 legions of demons. So clue number one that maybe things aren't exactly as they should be.

Yeah, by this point the players should be looking up every single name they come across and referencing that book. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Maybe once the players have enough suspicions, they decide to break in, what do they find inside? Right, yeah. So one of the first clues that they'll actually find in the, like, either I believe the family room, the dining room,

or the kitchen, one of the main areas of the home, they find a flyer for something called the encounter group, which we'll get into later on in this discussion. But this could lead to something else. In fact, they don't just, find one flyer. They find printouts and magazine clippings fashioned into a flyer for the encounter group, several photocopies at a FedEx office received for 250 copies. It specifically states that the encounter group meets on Tuesdays at a small nearby church and promises that

individuals can find the answer to life's questions in a no judgment group environment. There is a drawing of the yellow sign on it. So that's another potential infection vector for your players if they haven't already seen it, which at this point, I mean, I'm sure they have or who knows, maybe you're drawing it out as the handler and this could be the first time they see it up entirely to you. There is, yeah, the King Comes is written on it. It's a creepy clue. It's a creepy clue and we'll get into that later though. There is a laundry shoot. So with this laundry shoot, the players can look down it. They'll see somebody at the bottom but can't quite make out the features. They could shout down. They could try to communicate. But of course,

they don't receive a response. The surreal part kicks in is that later on when the players end up at Hotel Brottle bin, they could encounter the opposite end of this laundry shoot and everything that they were shouting down back then they can hear now at the

bottom. Yeah, this is a good moment to either write down what they said or to record it even with your phone or something like that. It does say that the players can hear the sound of distant machines humming. And so when the person yells from down below, they can't really make out what they're saying,

which kind of justifies the whole interaction. Yep. And it attracts. Right. And then also I like that if they kind of examine the laundry shoe, they realize it's very poorly or very rudimentally placed into the wall. It's really not real at all. If they expect it further, it's just a dead end. Right.

Yep. It's a great little, again, all these little seeds kind of tying back to different parts of the campaign. It's really just, it's a lot of fun to mess with the player's perception of things. There is the master bedroom in which you can find clothes laid out for both Henry and his father. And then, of course, we find the wall mirror. The master bath mirror seems normal, but of course covered in a complex series of strange lines drawn in fingerprint grease. It is the yellow sign. And it has essentially turned this into a portal to elsewhere.

And if the player's designed to go in, it is essentially a pitch black space. It's like swimming in water. It's a void. And they will find the body of Philip Samagina, who has disappeared inside this mirror. And there's even a cool little illustration of it there in the book for maximum effect. This is a really creepy sequence because, like, they will see pinpoints of light. in the distance, which are other mirrors. They can swim in that direction,

try to exit through those mirrors. Where they end up is up to the handler. You've got a man swimming just nonchalantly in the distance. Now, he's described as a man wearing a white suit, so you could infer that he is the encyclopedia salesman. Exactly, yep. Just something about that image just creeps me the hell out. Just like, you're swimming in this void,

just on the verge of insanity. And all of a sudden, you just see this dude. just fucking breaststroking, you know, in a white suit. Crazy. And then you've got, of course, various junk. Now, the way to get into the mirror is a little interesting because it suggests that the players kind of follow the yellow sign in its, you know, shape. And every time they do that, the finger kind of falls deeper and deeper into the mirror.

I wonder if every agent would think to do something like that. you might want to be lenient and say if they touch the mirror, if they interact with, I'm not exactly sure how else they could do that, but you might have to think outside the box to get them, if you want them to go through that mirror,

to see what's on the other side. Absolutely. Like, if it were me, I'd say at this point, if your agents haven't learned not to touch strange things, and they just decide to put their hands on it, then yeah, then have them just their hand go through when they touch that cold arm on the other side. Have you ever seen the film Under the Skin with Scully Johansson? It reminds me of that scene and under the skin where the man finds himself kind of floating in this void.

So go watch that for inspiration for this moment. There you go. Exactly. Yep. Yeah, so I wouldn't exactly make them trace the sign every time. The way I would treat it is the portal is already active and if they touch it, they begin to go through. All of this leads to the conclusion of the Samajian. house, which is that it gets set on fire. How do we get there? Yes.

Yeah. So essentially, if the players encounter Esther at any point in time, it's, the house is going up. She's going to light the house on fire, presuming that she's been caught. And is this something where if the agents approach her about something, if they start asking her about anything threatening or to do with the king in yellow, does she attack? Yeah. So if she's confronted with, as the text says, word for word, if she's confront.

with evidence of her madness. She lights the Linseed oil, painted walls on fire, and rushes the agent with the highest corruption rating. She'll try to pin them, and she'll be screaming, the last king has come. Nice, nice. Looks like Philip and Henry will inevitably head in that direction as well. The place lights up, but there is a vision. There is something that the players can see in this fire. There is, yep, the king in yellow himself with the implication.

There is a chart for fire effects. You know, the agent can, you know, for example, on the first to second turn, each agent must make a dodge or athletics rule or take one damage. Then the stairs are cut off. Then they have to do a search rule due to the smoke to find their way out. And as they look up, they see a figure at the top of the stairs near the bedroom in the middle of this inferno with a golden robe and unaffected by the flames. they gain, of course, corruption.

And then, of course, at the end there, they better be on their way out because they're going to start taking damage, like legit damage as they burn alive. I also think that if players end up somewhere in the house that they weren't expecting, maybe they were hoping they were upstairs or they were in the kitchen,

but they're somewhere else. I still think these turns can apply. The King and Yellow is just standing in the threshold of the front door instead of, you know, the top of the stairs, things like that. Yeah, that could be, and that could be a great little, again, another little surreal horror moment where the agents come back together after escaping. They talk about what they've seen and they all realize they saw this manifestation at different parts of the house at the same time.

Oh, interesting. Samagena, inevitably, if you continue exploring, leads to the encounter group, which I think is a great little moment. Let's talk about it. Yeah, let's talk about it, definitely. So Encounter Group is It's one of those things And we'll get to it if you know As we talk about and get to What do we do if we have a TPK?

What do we do if we lose everybody in the team? But so that's as one possible function for this But with Encounter Group It is you know They'll find it in a the basement of a church You'll find it at a VFW hall Veterans of Foreign Wars a school always going to be after hours

and they will need the cloaks and they will need the masks in order to get access in fact and those are offered if they go without the cloak and masks though I believe they do they do correct yeah there's somebody there that identifies themselves as the the person acting as the phantom

for the evening and if the agent asks who the phantom is they say you know like they're supposed to The funny thing about this one is that if they look at this box that's on the table, they will see this Cyrillic writing. And if anybody actually reads or understands Russian, they'll see it's for a Stalingrad Tractor Factory 3, which is going to come up again when they find themselves in Kerkosa, because they are forced into and through a tractor factory at a certain point. Oh, interesting. I did like the kind of historical accuracy that it was supposed to be the most difficult or most intense battle.

The fiercest battle of Stalingrad in World War II was fought at that tractor factory. That's cool. Yeah. And we'll see when we get to Carcosa how this perpetual battle is ongoing and seems to encompass multiple timelines. It's wild. So walk us through what happens in the meeting. I think the first step is they all enter the... room, everyone's wearing masks, and then there's a gong sound that brings everybody to the center.

I assume there's like a circle of chairs or something like that. Yeah, exactly. A circle of chairs in this room, the gong sounds, everybody takes their seats. Nothing further happens until everyone sits down, and then they go through their script. You know, say the things we cannot say elsewhere. Truth leads us. Find ourselves and know ourselves. Truth makes us.

Become the rulers. It does. Yeah. Become the rulers of our own lives. Truth frees us. Say what you will. Oh, man. That's good shit.

Gong sounds again, lights go out. Of course, the agents will be startled because the lights are suddenly out and it's completely dark. But I do find this shuffle pretty hilarious. There's something just about you're in this strange room. The lights go out. And when your eyes adjust,

you can see everybody like shuffling around, like playing musical chairs, basically. it's a funny image. Right, yeah. And I wonder if the intent is to, you know, putting myself into, you know, the place of these masked figures. Maybe it's just to further enhance the anonymity, right? Like, they're not even in their original seats now. They're just intermingled.

I totally get the logic behind it. It's just a funny image. It is a funny image. Like, like, the lights go out and just everybody's like. Yep, one guy's crouched. Army crawling on the floor. It's crazy. I read here that if you want to try to track one person,

I guess if the agents assume that somebody in particular might be somewhat of importance, they have to make that alertness role at minus 20%. If they succeed in my mind, I kind of imagine it like the person who they're tracking is actually kind of looking at them in the darkness. And almost as if they want you to catch them, they then start moving only once they know you're looking at them and then they move to another spot or something. I like that.

I like that a lot. And maybe when they do speak up in the confession section, it's the voice of someone they know, they knew, maybe somebody who's no longer with us to make it extra chilling and compelling. Oh, yeah, true. Well, that's where we get to the confessions, where everybody kind of stands up and says something.

Do you have favorite confessions of all of these listed? These are all so freaking good. They're just, it is hard. to pick one. Like, well, eating glass. I noticed the crack in the bowl after I made the soup, but I ate the soup anyway. Near the end, I fell a small piece of glass in my mouth

and I chewed it. I swallowed it. Nothing happened. The bowl is gone now. I broke it all up and ate it. I'm getting stronger, I think. Just fucking what? Like, what?

Oh, the phone one. Phones eat words. The more you talk into a phone, the less words you have before you die. It eats those words. It spits them out, digested somewhere else. I never speak in the telephones. My words are my own.

Fucking great. I love that stuff. And all of this leads us to what you just mentioned a moment ago, which is you could put in some of the familiar voices of people they've interacted with before. Maybe Dr. Barbus, who makes mention of the great work that he's working on. Dr. Dallin could be there. But you could also bring somebody from the night floors, one of the folks that were living there.

And like you said, maybe one of the dead agents. I'd to really screw with them, throw a bond in there. Like, especially if it's one that the agents have made eye contact with, that's their bond. And if you really, really want to screw with them, it's actually their bond, as opposed to when they tear off a mask and it's somebody else. Yep, absolutely. That'd be a what-the-fuck moment. Now, the agents can have an opportunity to share their own experiences with the group. They'll actually gain sanity and corruption for each visit. 1D4 sanity.

And as this is a, this is a gristmill for sanity, it might be a good opportunity for them. And, yeah, once they leave, everybody departs one at a time. A hand touches the attendee on the shoulder from someone outside the light, they stand and leave.

And the agents are always going to be the last ones. And of course, if they try to take control the situation, draw their guns, that doesn't end well. And they'll find the building empty. No cars, no nothing. Yeah, definitely.

It's definitely creepy, but not necessarily plot driving moment. Right. You know, it's a great moment overall. Another thing that I think is really cool about the countergroup is that it's a good way to get new agents into the campaign. There's a whole opt-in moment here in case of total party kill that goes into how you can bring other agents into the story because they're connected to the encounter group.

You know, if everybody dies, all of a sudden, these new agents are in the middle, of this encounter group meeting. And, you know, the agents entered to Dorchester house by night they were never seen in. Do you imagine that this is another outlaws group? I would say so. Yeah, I mean, you could go program. The implication always from the start of this campaign is that the outlaws are the only ones who have maintained the knowledge of the King and Yellow, the Yellow Sign, all of that, which is why static protocols still very much in effect. But you could ostensibly, bring in a program group or you could play up the surreal nature of this

and this was the group assigned to work it all along and you know the agents that died and or disappeared were the ones they were sent to find and just kind of keep it going and so if you did lose everybody in a session before I could see a great opening

to the next session is the encounter group it just starts where the characters go to this strange experience and then after the event they meet up or they are all still there and they communicate with each other and then the story continues. Absolutely. Yeah. And what's more likely is obviously as you lose agents here and there, you know, pick a point in the campaign to have them just show up and it was like they never even left.

They're like, hey, I thought you were supposed to meet here. You know, like they never died to begin with. And there's a litany. When you're dealing with a scenario this surreal, there's a litany of ways you can bring new characters back in. You can come up with a million different interesting ways. This actually relates to one of the listener questions that we received from one of our patrons named Bimblewart. They mentioned, how would you go about handling the lethality in impossible landscapes, given the story, seems to want the agents who begin the story to find their way to the end. So it's kind of what we're talking about here, where maybe you bring them in later in the encounter group or maybe some other surreal way. Yeah, I wouldn't be afraid to pull punches.

especially if it's about making sure the agents themselves reaching the end of the road, maybe also reshape how you look at it. Maybe it's not so much as we need the agents to reach the end of the road and reach the end. We need the players to reach the end because it is very much an experience for the players themselves. If you've lost other agents, like for instance,

I had one die, well, I had two die in this very scenario in a volume of secret faces during the escape. from Dorchester house. I had them take the place of to, to the agents who had been sent to looking to Dr. Barbus, Agent Vega and Agent Venus. So those were the replacements. But then later on, in like a mat made of skin,

I had another agent decide to get shot in the face by a shotgun and got one hit killed. And I just had that agent show up at the Hotel Brottle bin. Like nothing had ever happened. They did take a sanity hit, though. Like they remembered dying. They remembered being shot. They remembered the sensation.

of their head death blossoming open, and now all of a sudden they're in the middle of the hotel brawl, been waiting for the rest of their team to show up. Gotcha. So, I mean, you could even bring back the same agent just dead. Just dead, yeah. As a, the book talks about repeaters, and these are, you could bring back the agent as a repeater, as someone who has been so corrupted and influenced by the King in Yellow,

that they are no longer entirely human, and they are doomed to wander Karkosa forever. And it could be one of those things where at the end, they just don't leave. Once you've reached the palace, the king and yellow, the court of the king of yellow, they just stay. I think you've just presented a bunch of really great ways that meld with the surreal nature of the campaign. So don't shy away from the lethality. It's just, it's why we come to the Delta Green table. Listen, when you've got a campaign and a game in general that suspends reality as liberally as this does,

you don't have to worry about it making sense. In fact, the less it makes sense, the better off you probably are. So, yeah, go out and make your surrealist masterpiece. Yes, yes. We've talked about all the kind of major other side locations you can go to in this scenario, but then there is the Trevolino Mall

and the inevitable ambush that happens there. Where do we begin with that? All right, so yeah, with this particular section of volume of secret faces. If the players decide to reach back out to Delta Green through their case officer, through another, whatever avenue of communication you've left open as their handler,

they got to play their cards right because if they imply that they now have knowledge of the King in Yellow, if they imply that they're working on behalf of Dr. Barbus and they've accepted an operation from them, basically if they've given Delta Green any reason to suspect they have been compromised, Delta Green is going to set up a meeting for them

at the Trevalino Mall near by for a debriefing. And this is where they will be ambushed and executed if they're not careful. Because again, kind of like we talked about earlier in this episode, the outlaws are the only faction

of Delta Green that seems to have retained any sort of institutional knowledge of the King and Yellow and the corruption that it spreads. And so the static protocol is still the name of the game with dealing with these things and any incursions. There are some tidbits in here about what to do if the players decide to research them all.

If they decide to research its ownership, they could reach out to the owner who's listed as Eva Lundeene, who has connections back to the overall history of the King and Yellow. Yeah, her father was the original owner of the McAllister building. Correct, yep. And so all of these little kind of threads all beginning to tie and connect together. But yeah, they could find information, the Golden Boy, They can find information on the golden boy in the burglaries where the security guard

encountered this this small child-sized golden figure and then inevitably killed themselves. Yeah, Charles Brandis is the security guard. Who kept insisting that there was a boy running around the store, but no matter how much they search,

the police search, they cannot find this golden boy. But he shows up again. Oh, yeah. Yeah. In fact, Brandis' suicide note says, he followed me home tonight. That's all it says. That's not creepy at all. I can almost see if your players are asking for connections to the campaign or something.

It might be fun to give them this connection. Maybe they were one of the police or one of the investigators on the Golden Boy. Hey. I'm always thinking of ways of how you insert all of this random stuff into the site of the players. This might be an avenue. Now, they could stake out them all. Like always, there's always options. for staking it out. They'll see

agents show up with automatic weapons and they'll see a golden child kind of making the rounds. Hang out with them, yeah. Just hanging out. That no one seems to acknowledge. I do like the element here where it says if they attempt to make a

if they attempt to get closer to the van that is currently parked there, they have to make both a stealth and a luck roll and then there are results where if they fail one, succeed on the other, succeed on both or fail on both. I don't see that too often, and I like that idea of combining

two skills and having different results accordingly. And of course, if they are compromised, they are taken into custody and brought into the mall. Inside the mall itself, what's crazy is that if they go inside ahead of time and they get up to the

second floor and they look down, they can see that the fountain is in the shape of the yellow side. When I read that, I wasn't sure if it meant that the fountain was like a 3D object that you could see, but you're saying when you look down on it, you can see the sign. Yep, yeah, those looking at it from the second level can clearly see it is in the shape of the yellow sign. Well, of course, there's a very little chance that they'll get up there

because they might be shot before that happens. Yeah, yeah. So long story short, the at the center of the mall where they're told to show up, it is very much a killbox. The second they all walk in there, they're going to be cut down by four. they will potentially be cut down by four gunmen firing fully automatic weapons from the upper level. And then there's two more gunmen waiting outside. So the intent here is really on Delta Green's part, not necessarily on the handler's part,

is to kill these compromised agents. So they are, once the agents get in there, the kill team is just going to go after them relentlessly, ruthlessly, trying to execute them. And it looks like, according to the map, that every other part of the mall was kind of cordoned off by these kind of metallic construction walls. So the only way in is one way, and then they're kind of trapped in that little center area.

Right, yeah. And this is lethal. I believe the Statted-out NPCs they give for this have high firearms. skills. They've got the attachments on their weapons to give them bonuses to their shooting, and they're on the upper level with clear, unobstructed view down into the atrium itself. So you've got vastly... You're vastly outnumbered, vastly outgunned, and in just a terrible position. What do you envision this scene looking like? Is it simply a bloodbath? Is there any way,

you know, thinking in a tactical way that these players can survive? they got to be smart and it depends on what they show up with if they if they're if they're showing up completely trusting that they're going to be taken care of yeah it's bad news but if you've got paranoid minded players i mean if they've got sidearms i mean give them give them some wiggle room right so but if they're thinking smart and they're thinking tactically reward that like if one player's like i'm going to try to take cover and lay down suppressive fire then great then you're able to put to get two down undercover and hopefully get other agents out and moving. Okay, yeah.

The book does mention that there's a good amount of cover that they can use their advantage. Yeah, the lesson for them must be that you can't even trust Delta Green anymore. You're on your own. That's it. When it comes to all this. Something I liked where corruption actually comes into a useful use is that the golden boy can reappear to one of the agents with the highest corruption and kind of warn them about what's coming. That's right.

Yeah. with that corruption, the Golden Boy will show up and will actually like pantomime shooting from like the upper level and kind of give them a clue, a hint that not all is as it should be. And hopefully at least draw their attention to the second floor. And maybe even then you could give them like listen, all all agents are, as we know, are fallible, are human. And so maybe as they look up there, you know, you have them make an alertness role. and maybe one of the agents scuffs a fallen rock or something. And then, you know, another, just another little clue to indicate, okay, something's not right.

Going along with the listener question, Bill Moore's question about lethality, I mean, look, this is a situation where they could die. It's almost guaranteed that it's going to happen. However, if we want to play with the whole surreal idea aspect, maybe they do all die, and then the next day they wake up in their beds. it doesn't change the fact that Delta Green is still after them. Inexplicably, they somehow got away from the Delta Green kill team. But they're now, I mean, in a way, it almost kind of solidifies even further that they're now more part of Carcosa than our world.

They're effectively dead, but they're still around. You know what would be super fucked up? I just had this. I just had this image pop in my head, like, yeah, they die, but then all of a sudden one of them wakes up, and then they all begin to wake up one after another and they're outside. And they look behind them and it's like they've just

crawled and pulled themselves out of the shallow grave that they've been buried in. Oh, yeah. And they can see that there's bullet holes in their shirt, there's blood, but they're not wounded. And it's just that they were buried, and then they pulled themselves out. Now here they are again.

I think that's an absolutely great way to do it, especially this deep into the campaign. I mean, you could take it a step further and they wake up in the morgue, all of them in body bags. You know what I mean? Something like that. Oh, fucked up. I love it. So you've got to embrace that lethality,

knowing that this is a surreal campaign. You got to use it to your advantage. Absolutely. Embrace the lethality, embrace the surrealness of it all. Wow, Vince, we finally did it. We made it through volume of a seeker faces with our sanity mostly intact. Next time, we will dive into the scenario

like a map made of skin, drawing our agents ever closer to Carcosa. Vince, thanks for walking us through it all. Absolutely, man, of course. And if you went home, one even more secrets revealed about volume of secret faces and impossible landscapes overall,

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