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Episode Date: May 29, 2025

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the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Good evening everybody, it's Friday night, TikTok, TikTok, ding! It's time for Chaos. I have a question I want to throw out to the team. It's very important. When you were a kid, child, and you played Monopoly, when you landed on a property, if you didn't buy it or couldn't afford to buy it or didn't want to buy it, what happened? Did you just, it was the other person's turn or did you play by the rules? I would usually cause a distraction and steal some money in order to buy it.

What are the rules? Wait. That doesn't surprise me. Yeah. Kate is asking what are the rules. Also, doesn't surprise me because I learned this recently. I was probably just reeling from having won first prize in a beauty contest. It's only 10 bucks, man. You can't even buy a Mediterranean with that southern boy pageants. Yes

My mother entered me in little southern boy pageants Pageant boy, yes Rob what would you do? You know, I believe I yeah I would pass and then wait for my mother to buy it, and then start talking mad shit for the entire game. I'm about to blow your minds. Hit me. Because you were all playing the wrong way.

As was I. Slap some Lavelly knowledge on us. Let me show you how it's done. You land on a property, right? If you land on it, you have first choice to buy. If you don't buy, it immediately goes to an auction. That's fun. Never played. That's how the game this is how you can actually end the game because you're your kid you like

play for two hours. All right, let's just leave the pieces right now. We'll finish later. No, every time you land on a property, it goes to auction and like if it's just two of you, you can auction and get it for a lower price or you can auction up over the price if there's multiple people playing like that can go to anybody, but by a couple turns around the board, pretty much all the properties are gone. Wow. That changes everything.

The monopoly fell under mousetrap for me where it was like after a certain time, like you never finished the game. Yeah. You had to do the fucking Rube Goldberg thing. It took so long. I never ever, I never owned a mousetrap, but I never was at someone's house who had mousetrap where they had every piece.

Exactly. Always in a state of disrepair that made it impossible to play. You never came to my house. I was very protective of my pieces. They all were in individual plastic bags. Mousetrap had a short shelf life. Troy. Yes.

I would like to read a prepared statement. Um, a lot. Great. October is here. Spooky season is upon us. And I, for one, take pre-show bant as Troy Lavelle insists upon calling it seriously. There was a time many, many weeks ago when we were asked to provide Troy with a list of five horror movies.

The time of horrors and tricks and treats has now come. Here are five horror movies for Troy LaValley to watch when he has the time. Wow. I'm going to put them in the chat so I can remember them later. Great. Number one, Hellraiser. As I mentioned, this is a and and sick and creepy movie featuring some super pervy centibytes to the spirit if when you want cool euro vibes and blood

the color of bright red Sherman Williams paint and also rad kills that take place in a ballet school number three the deepest cut on my list the Mexican satanic car movie Alucarda, which is a nunsploitation movie from Mexico from the 70s about a young novice nun who is seduced by the devil. Very, very, very cool. And I think an influence on Guillermo del Toro. Number four, The Descent, the most recent one on my list, which is a movie all about

how horrible it is to be stuck down in a very tight cramped cave and then the monsters show up Clusterphobia plus creepy beasts. The descent is very good number five hard to pare it down to just five But got to go with one of my faves and a classic a certified classic the Texas Chainsaw Massacre A movie that I always thought was probably gonna be gross grimy and gory But is actually a very cool piece of bootray 70 cinema That is high quality as a piece of cinema itself and not as gory as you think Runners up to the list include Jacob's Ladder kill list Mandy basket case and in the mouth of madness Wow

Time to do the show I have a spoiler Troy will never watch Texas Chainsaw Master. I know that for a fact. That's never gonna happen. Do you know, honestly, just looking at that list, I'd say Hellraiser would be the one I would watch first because that's equal, probably as known as Texas Chainsaw. But I would watch that. I like a dated movie.

And I'd like to see the first one. I wanna see like the early one. I don't mind if the cinema's a little choppy. They were defining a genre. It goes so much crazier than you ever think. But it's not gory crazy. It's like, what? It's really intense.

It's like 10 minutes of, oh, everything's fine. And then another like 70 of just, everything's horrible all the time. I can't breathe. There's some, it's like some weird inbred family, right? That has a bunch of maniacs in that. I guess I gotta watch it. Then you can go nuts and watch the second one,

which is a cocaine roller coaster. Yeah. A cocaine roller coaster. Those were a lot of 80s movies. It's a cocaine roller coaster. If you were, if you were, if you watch Sexist Names from Massacre and what you were thinking was like,

what this is missing is the metallic nerve feeling of amphetamine high. Sex of Chainsaw Massacre 2 will do it for you. Why is everyone screaming all the dialogue all the time? Why is it all neon? Cause it's the 80s and it's cocaine. Kate, are you in on this? I think I'm in the wrong chat.

I feel inspired. I really want to, I was never a big Halloween fan until I had kids. Now I'm back into it. And then the day after Halloween, I start celebrating Christmas. So this could, I feel like this could get me in the zone. My wife's not going to watch these. So I got to wait until she goes to bed, but I'm in, I'm in. I will try.

Well, I'm Jason Stratzow-Vasquez, by yourself is gonna be a wonderful experience. Gnarly. I don't like being scared. All right, am I gonna find Alucarda on fucking Netflix? How am I gonna get? No. I don't know, but I'm very interested in that one.

I feel like I need to get a bootleg. You gotta reach out and see a guy. Oh man, it's really cool. Only Ross. Full card. Ross is the only person that I know in my life that I would hear the term non-sploitation and be like, yeah, sure. Of course. Non-sploitation.

It makes sense. It's right. Yeah, it's a Speario. You can just put the soundtrack on in the background for whatever you do. What is that? Is that Dario Argento? Dario Argento. Yeah. Uh-huh. But yeah, soundtrack alone by the amazing Germano Italian prog band Goblin.

Yeah. Rad as hell. Amazing. Thank you for doing that. Well, I'm excited about these now, and you guys should be excited to play Monopoly the correct way for once in your damn lives. Hey, did you know that Monopoly... This is anecdotal. Not anecdotal, because somewhere in here is a fact.

I just might not have a right. Banton out, man. We're doing everything this week. We're banton. Monopoly apparently was, I feel like it's a Netflix show within the creation of Monopoly, because I think it was invented by a school teacher to show kids how bad big business can be. And then she was fucked over by a big business that then copied it and made it and made money off of it.

And she was just, and she got, I don't think she got a penny. She got monopolied. She got full on, what's his name? Jasper J. Jameson or whatever. Who's the name of the fucking Monopoly man? He has a name. Rich Uncle Pennybags, believe it's his name. I think that's right.

You know, Candyland was created for children with polio. Why? Yeah, I don't know, I read this the other day. Why specifically? I don't know, do you go colorblind when you're polio? I don't know, but there was like the original, the original Candyland had like a kid with a leg brace and shit,

so it was a very representative game at the time. But unless I was just reading a tweet that was just like, I'm going to get LaValley. Candyland was made from polio. So I read that the other day while I was playing polio. Cause you know, your phones, I never believe this. They listen to you when you talk. You talk about Candyland and all of a sudden there it is.

Candyland. The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott while she was recovering from polio in San Diego. Polio! It was made and tested by the children in the same wards in the hospital, and the children suggested that she submit the game to the Milton Bradley Company.

And she did. And they sold all her money. And polio's back! So let's start playing Candyland. I don't know if you guys knew this about Apples to Apples. It was invented by Satan. Anyway, we'd like to thank all of our sponsors in this TTRPG community.

Milton Bradley, the Parker Brothers, and we gotta give a big hand to the guy downstairs. Mr. Manningstar himself. Two apples. Oh man, I wanna see, I wanna know what the second and third best non-sploitation film is. They didn't show that in Catholic school. They're not going to show tonight's episode in Catholic

school either because I think it's going to get a little crazy. More than the orgy than we had last episode. I'm doubling down. If you give me another crazy sex stream that I have to take notes about. Folks, if you want to hear a blood orgy described by an NPR host. I hope your husband finds that journal one day while you're on vacation or like a bachelor party. What is going on? There's a heart in here? I'm so small.

Bison? Bison. As Rob said, I think it was off air. That was the most PG way I could explain all of the various copulations. Fornicating, and they were fornicating, and there was knives. Just the most unsexy words that you could have used. How do you say, Eastie Ellie? I don't want one of you guys throwing up the X card because I took it too far.

Because trust me, I can take it too far. But once I get to know where everybody's boundaries are, then I'll be sure to push them. Not unlike the boundaries that were pushed in the famous non-sploitation film, Alucarda. Last week, you murder hobos found your way down to Juju house after Margot and Feyreuse narrowly escaped what could have been a situation but really was just a kindly old man wanting to buy your creepy mask and you said no you teased the poor old man you left and Carter and Vaughn were running from the Lafayette Theatre to try and intercept you a failed luck roll later.

They didn't see you. So you all met back at the Waldorf. You met at the Waldorf and you found out that Millie Adams came through that you could meet with Hilton Adams the next day. You said, you know what, let's see if Carter can set up a meeting with Bradley Gray, Erica Carlyle's lawyer on Thursday because we've got a busy Wednesday. But you know what? There's still a couple hours left in the day.

Let's go break into Juju House. So you get up there and you're stopped in your tracks because you see a bunch of people going down this alley and disappearing into the building, a building that you know, Mar favor is it's not that large Certain point you see almost a dozen people go in there And you don't know how many people might already be in there and how many more are coming so you say okay? Let's fun down to act like a drunk or trying to get into this speakeasy the meaty hand

Bouncer Not gonna happen take a hike buddy you leave The meaty hand, uh, bouncer. Not gonna happen. Take a hike, buddy. You leave. Your only recourse now is to break into the abandoned pawn shop next door, sneak around to the back so you could crack the door and see what the hell's going on. More people going in.

Eventually around 1.30 or so, the guy guarding the door goes in as well. Silence. Margo stumbles drunkenly, loudly outside of this door. Crash bang boom. Walks over. Listen. Here's a sound, as if out of her own nightmares, a low throbbing hum that actually ends up sounding like several voices overlapping.

Are they singing? Are they moaning? Are they wailing? You don't know. Throbbing hum that actually ends up sounding like several voices overlapping. Are they singing? Are they moaning? Are they wailing? You don't know. It's weird. You sneak back in. Carter's turn.

He goes out, picks the lock, just as he does. The possibly red and blue lights if they existed. Probably didn't. Starts shining down this alleyway. But you take a peek inside really quickly there's no one there. Maybe that sound that Margo heard sounds a little bit louder but still distant. No one there. You shut the door you dive back in, cops are coming down, flashlights, you guys are like we gotta

get out of here. You bolt out the front just as they peek in the abandoned pawn shop. Carter goes and gets wasted. The rest of you head back to the Waldorf, wake up bright and early because you gotta catch a train to Austin-ing. You take the train to Austin-ing, you go to Sing Sing Prison, those same two jerk cops.

See that your name is on the list, they let you in. You meet the sub warden, George Brunton, who takes you to Hilton Adams, tells you you have 30 minutes. And Hilton Adams kind of confirms all of your suspicions that something is going on at Juju House. And the one thing that he caught was this guy, big guy, muscular, late 30s, early 40s, leaving there one day.

He trailed him and nobody wanted to give him any information about this guy. In fact, warned him, don't even worry about it. Found out the guy's name was Mukanga Madari. Like the next day, he ends up getting arrested. He says the cops are dirty, Robeson's dirty, maybe Robeson's behind it, maybe a studio house, maybe it's both, maybe it's neither.

But in his estimation, he got in too deep. And he was framed for the eighth murder. The one other thing that was important is that, and I don't think this had come up in your investigation so far, is there were eight murders, now nine with Jackson Elias. More will come, he says, if the real killers aren't found. But there were even more disappearances. Not everyone that was abducted or disappeared, their body showed up.

What is going on? Let's do our weekly luck roll, because you are going to need it. Oh, boy. I swear to God, if I don't get any luck, I'm gonna quit. God damn it. Today is the day to be lucky. I'm using different dice.

No luck. I rolled a three. Ugh. That would be a great roll if it was any other roll. If it was not a luck roll. I rolled a 93. Hey, there you go. Sometimes it's good to be bad.

Give yourself a D Tizzle worth of luck back. What do you know? Eight whole points. Eight points of luck. Those will not last the next 45 minutes. Gulp. Kate, you look like you nailed it. I got a two.

A two under what is now 24 to look less last time that was that was hard to fail or hard to succeed and you did I'm proud of you Rob, how do you do buddy? All right, so looks like Vaughn the least sane among you Is at least lucky Riding high was 68 points of luck is at least lucky. Riding high with 68 points of luck. Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga will soon sizzle in innocent man's soul. What are you guys thinking about?

What are you going to do? It's about noon 30. Well, when is the next new moon? Did we establish that? I'd love to know that. The dark of the moon. Yes, that was another thing that Hilton Adams said. It seemed like the disappearances all happened to the dark of the moon. Now he paused it because, well,

there's no light. What a great time to kidnap someone. That's what I always say. But maybe there's another reason. Any of you trained in astrology? Is that even a skill in the ballpark of astrology? If that was a thing, I would have trained for it. Would I be able to use an occult roll? Yeah. Ooh, yeah. Everyone knows that anyone who believes in astrology is a cultist.

So go ahead and give me an occult roll. I'm going to try to roll. I rolled a 46 over 45, so I'm and give me an occult. I'm gonna try to roll I Rolled a 46 over 45. So I'm gonna spend a look point a look All right, maybe this is your jam you just you're way into astrology and way into the phases of the moon Which is not too crazy to think as a someone who studied cryptology. You know that today is the 21st, Wednesday the 21st. This month, January, the 24th and the 25th are when the moon is going to be dark. So if Wednesday's the 21st, Thursday the 22nd, Saturday and Sunday, night.

I really wish there was a way we could set a trap. Like, have one of us kidnapped on purpose? Yeah, unfortunately, there's nothing that... We don't know anything that connects or made the folks that disappeared enticing targets, except for their location described a sort of like perimeter around the Juju house, right? Right. What was the name?

Did we get a name of the, it was like an importer, exporter company that Makunga worked for? Emerson Imports. Emerson Imports. Yeah. We could snoop around the docks and see if they have any sort of other shipment come in or how often they do. Yep, and we should go talk to old shithead. The cop. The tenant pool. So you've got Lieutenant Shithead, Emerson Imports. What else? Any other dangling clues out there that you're interested in?

Any danglers. Well, I think we're going to miss his lunch break. Oh, Fat Mables. Well, Mables was the speakeasy where he learned the identity of the Wukong of Midari, right? Right. Right. Yep, he followed him outside of Juju House all the way to Fat Mabel's, a coffee house that turns into a speakeasy at night.

Maybe we get any sort of info on Madari from there. Or you'd be met with the same pushback that Hilton was? If we know that that was what made them targets, then following in his footsteps would not necessarily make us targets for capture, but targets for moida. Right. Like he found the identity of Mekongo through that place. Ah, so yeah, if we go snooping around there, it's not gonna be good for us.

I mean part of me wants to break into Juju House during the day when it's less active. I do too, let's go on a lunch break. We'll have to go tomorrow because it's lunchtime and we're on the train. Oh right, well we can't go today. Yeah without spending significant time sort of watching the comings and goings, the only Oh right, well we can't go today. Yeah. Yeah, without spending significant time sort of watching the comings and goings, the only thing you know now is a lunch break. Now there may be other times, but you just, you don't have that information yet because

you're the only time you've cased the joint was between midnight and say 2am. Should we split up then? Like two people go to the docks and two people hang around the Juju house? Sure. Sure. Okay, I like this plan. Cause I love when you guys split up. Okay. So do you jump out of Grand Central Station

and just say, where's the plan to meet back up? Waldorf at eight? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. In the evening.

All right. You were on the 1230 train. So you roll into Grand Central Station around 130. We're going to try to go back to Juju House today, right now? Yeah. We're gonna try to go back to Juju House today, right now? Yeah, Kate was suggesting that two of you go stake it out. Perhaps go back into the pawn shop if you want. And then two of you go check out the docks. Who's going where?

Good question. I don't know where I want to go more. It's a team up. My only thing about going back to Juju House I don't know where I want to go more. It's a team up. My only thing about going back to Juju house is I don't really know what we're gonna, if we're thinking it's gonna be past lunch when he would be gone, I don't really know what we're expecting to happen

that will be more exciting than. Well to see if there's like another time that he usually leaves. If it's, find out, yeah, A, if there's like another time that he usually leaves. If it's... find out, yeah, A, if there's a time that he leaves. B, if we can get in, then... We sneak into their meeting place. Like, what's in the back room? Like, if he leaves while we're there casing it, maybe we can try to sneak in.

If he doesn't leave, we're just chilling. Right. Yeah. Right, okay. Well, I'm sure we can have some interesting character developing conversations. That's all about. Who is a good case the joint place and who's a good lurker at the docks? Lurker at the docks.

Lurker, lurker. I could go either way. I've seen the secondcks. Look at, look at. I could go either way. I've seen the second season of The Wire, so I don't know much about the docks. It's a great season. It's so good. I don't know. I'm decently stealthy.

It seems like the Goyles should maybe not go to Juju House because he could recognize them. Good point. Perhaps it's a... I shall show the boys go. Jack and Jill's at the party. Maybe the ladies at the dock would be a little disarming. Perhaps.

Dock workers. But we don't exactly look like dock workers either. Yeah, but they'll catcall you to oblivion and then you can use that to your advantage, I'm sure. Oh, I'm sure that's gonna go over swimmingly. Yeah, that sounds great. Or fake mustaches. Disguised kits. Full Miss Piggy and the mistake that happened.

We are but simple dock workers looking for our warehouse. Oh, I'm so strong. Maybe just like, what's the goal of staking out Emerson Imports? We want to find what exactly. Well, there's a shipment that comes in that goes to Juju House. If we could see who the worker is that brings it there, see precisely what is being brought, or quiz someone about what it is.

Steal it. Yes. And also, Steal it. Yes. And also people that we interview keep referring to Africa, which is a mighty big place. I'd love to know like specifically, Where? Especially since everything points to this cult of the bloody tongue.

Right. Being of Kenyan origin, if that's where it's coming from. Yeah, I feel like for the docks, it's staking it, just getting a lay of the dock land. And then if it becomes a thing, trying to like if we identify a shipment that like looks like it's going to the juju house, however, that would be trying to take a peek of what it is or something. Maybe you could even pretend to like, pick up, pick it up.

I'll look there. I mean, do you guys think, I know I've beat this drum a couple of times, but do you think we should go to a pool? Because some cops were sniffing around last night. Maybe something happened to the cops that were sniffing around. Is Poole the one we can trust? It's Robson. Poole's the one we can trust. He even was like, don't go to Robson. Yeah. Right, right.

Yeah, maybe. He doesn't think Robson's on the level. Maybe if we go to him, we can get like an okay clearance to look at shipments from them. Maybe we could take ropes into the docks. Or not ropes in pools. He didn't seem super into any sort of deputizing us in an official capacity, but we can always just do whatever we want. We can encourage him to get a search warrant for Juju House. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Either way, it might be good to have a cop on your side. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay, let's go to pool first then, I think. All right, so Carter and Vaughn are going to go stakeout Juju House while- No, no, no. Oh, okay. Yeah, fine. Carter and Vaughn are going to go stake out Juju House while Margot and Fay Ruse head over to Lieutenant Poole's precinct to chat with him before heading to the west side to check out Emerson Imports.

I like it. Sounds good to me. Alright, then let's pick up exterior shot of the precinct not too far away from the Chelsea Hotel. We see Margot and Feyreuse round the corner of 7th Ave. And before they head into the precinct, they can't help but look in the distance and see the Chelsea Hotel looming. Flashes of Jackson's dead eyes, flashes of that symbol etched on his forehead, flashes of those guys with those weird headbands

with red felt straps coming down, climbing out the window, jumping, running away, getting into a car, taking off. Go into the precinct. You ask for Lieutenant Poole. Poole comes out with a coffee and sees you. And they're like, Lieutenant Poole. He's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Come on in, ladies. Brings you over to his desk, not even in an interrogation room. What's, what's going on? Does this look like a private place to talk? Like how many people are wandering around? There's a couple cops buzzing around.

They're not like right on top of them. There's no one sitting nearby. But he just pulls up two chairs. What's happening? Is there a place we can speak more privately? Yeah, yeah, sure. All right, come on. And then he takes you back into

one of the interrogation rooms and lets you sit wherever you want. And then he kind of leans against the wall so you don't feel like you're actually being interrogated What? What's going on? Did you find something out? We did we went to go visit the prison yesterday to go see Meet with Mr. Hilton is it Avery? Adams you met with Adams can I ask how you were able to arrange that meeting?

Through his wife. Really? Okay. Did you did you learn anything from him about what put him there in the first place? Well, it seemed that he, like us, they tracked him. And I think that they had framed him for these murders on purpose. Did he mention Robson? Only that, oh, was it Hilton that said that he didn't trust him?

Or, yeah. He's of the opinion that he's not to be trusted. He's maybe involved, I don't know if he is involved or not, but it seems like whatever it is, he's very close to it in a way that's not going to do us any favors. I don't mean to be rude here, but do you have any new information?

I've kind of felt as if Robson was at least on the take here, if not directly involved. You know, do you have any hard evidence that would lead you to believe that either Robeson is the one that's doing this stuff, which I really don't think is the case or someone else? I don't know if there's any clear evidence about Robson's involvement, but there was a mention of a Magonga Midari. Magonga Midari, okay. That name doesn't... I don't recognize that. What is it? How is he tied up in this? He said once he learned of his name, of this person who he saw coming and going from the Juju house That was when he was framed in the eighth murder

He also mentioned that the Juju house might have something to do with it might know something Okay, he takes out a pen and paper and he's like, sorry, what is it? The Juju house? The Juju house. Okay. And where is that? Is that up in Harlem? Yes. I tell him where it is. What kind of place is this? It's a place that sells curiosities, mostly for African descent, but seems to be a collector of all things. A cult leaning?

Okay. And Madari works at this place as the owner or? Seems to be coming and going from that place quite often. Okay. Now, why is this place important? Well, we think that it might be tied to this African death cult. He puts his notebook down. Okay. And why do you think that? Well, there's been...

They do receive regular shipments from the... Emerson? Emerson imports. There seem to be people going missing around the new moon each time and all within a certain vicinity and she kind of like pulls out this map and just kind of draws a big circle of where

Okay Okay It all seems to lead back to this juju house. I hear what you're saying. Unfortunately, this is all kind of circumstantial right now. I need, like, hard evidence that would connect this Midari or juju house to what's going on here. Because I can't go traipse it up there with ropes and seize me. He's going to kick me right back down to Chelsea.

Do you think there's a way that you could accompany us on at least part of these stakeouts? I can't, I can't do it. It's, I run the risk of getting suspended or losing my badge, and then I'm no help to anybody. But if you can find something, find something hard and bring it to me, I can bring it up to the top. Right now, if I bring this up to the top, and they go and investigate, and Robeson's people have all things tied up, where I'm not going to be able to make any headway, I look like an idiot and nothing's gonna go anywhere but if you can bring me something hard I think I can get people behind us.

Do you know anything about that pawn shop across from the juju house? Do you know why or how long it's been boarded up? I mean it's the first time we've been hearing about about Juju houses, a pawn shop next door nearby. Yes, it just seems odd that authorities would be would give any sort of damn about anyone being around that area. I can look into it and see if anything comes up. If you were able to find out if Robson was among the police officers that went there last night. All right, so there were police officers

that went to the pawn shop near Juju House? Yes. And how do you know this? No, you know what? Listen, I would like for you to not get mad, but we might have done our little... No, no, no, no, no. You know what? We went there. It's better if I don't know, but while I can't go up there. I can definitely look into this. I can find out if police were dispatched and possibly even from where. Look into the pawn shop and what was the name of this importer? Emerson?

Emerson Imports? Yes. Emerson. And they're supplying stuff to the store? Yes. Okay. I mean, that in and of itself isn't that damning, you know, depending on what's inside of what they're sending up there.

These crates and whatnot. Let me see. Emerson Imports, okay. Anything else? Also, why would a place that closes at 5 p.m. have secret meetings in which a bodyguard at the door is necessary at all. At all hours of the night. That's not that uncommon, especially up in Harlem. Now, if we were all doing our job, we'd shut them all down,

but all those places are paying off the right cops to get that done. So that's not that strange in and of itself. Now, if there's something going on there that isn't, you know, bootleg liquor, well now that would be something I would want to know about. But you two, and your friends, need to be careful. If this is all true and Adams was set up, he was set up because he was poking his nose where he shouldn't, and your friend was poking his nose where he shouldn't and he ended up dead. Adams is gonna be dead soon too so be careful I'm grateful for your help but well just know that if somebody comes up missing or murdered three days from now you did it no

oh sorry terrible cop three days from now. You did it. No. Oh, sorry. Terrible cop. What evidence do you want? I mean, obviously not hearsay like I've heard this or I saw this. You need perhaps photographic evidence? Photographic evidence would be

everything. Sick. It has to be physical hard evidence. You got photographs. you got anything. Anything I can hold on to. This is catch 22 of like, in order to get this evidence, we need to put ourselves in great danger. And I feel like we can just assume we're taking the steps that the last two people who were murdered took? Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Maybe I'm just getting tired of this case. I shouldn't be putting innocent people like you in harm's way.

He folds up his notebook and just kind of throws it on the table. You're right. Just forget about this. These leads are very helpful, but maybe you should just stop here and call it a day. It's very sad that you've lost a friend. There's no reason to lose anybody else. You're right. It's better to be safe than sorry. I'll look into this. Obviously I know how to contact you guys if I find something I can keep you abreast, but stay out of this. There's no reason. I don't want this on my conscience if one of you ends up like your friend or poor Mr. Adams. I'm here for you if

there's anything you you discover along the way, but please just Maybe let it go You know what you are right, you know what we should do sour Yes of this and I was thinking the same thing have a little Girls trip go shopping right and Have a little girls trip. Just go shopping. Right. For perfume. All right. Fine.

I wanted to hear about all your lady things. Yes. Go shopping. Have fun. Yes. Let's not worry our pretty little brains about such matters. Exactly. I didn't want to say it.

We should be worrying about finding husbands. Our friend died, but who cares? Right. Finally we can speak openly with each other. Yep. All right, you two and he slaps you both in the ass on the way out. Get out of here, you...

I just got a phone call from Peru on my phone and now I'm kind of freaking out. Stop. No, I'm serious. Weird things happen when you start playing this game. Doors start shutting behind you. Phone call from Peru. It's Mendoza.

Mendoza. Don't even say that. As you get slapped on the ass from Lieutenant Poole on your way out of the interrogation room, we cut to Vaughn and Carter. Gonna skip past the rolls and just get you back inside the pawn shop. Unless you had another plan of action.

Just wanna keep things moving. And peeking through the crack in the door where we were secreted last time, do we see, is the posted hours up and is our friend Silas to see in their tending shop. Let's see if you got it around 1 30 you would have got up to Harlem probably between 2 15 to 30 if you peek there and you really look closely at that angle it looks like the store is open and then after standing there for 15 minutes and watching, you see a customer come in.

Then a couple minutes later, leave. And you just start watching. Are both of you watching like Three Stooges style, like one head over the other or like Carter's just kind of like bored it's kind of walking around singing singing just looking at it like cuz the shard of glass I was picked up last night as the door I pried open, successfully. You're standing there and you're watching. Another customer comes, stays in there for a couple of minutes, leaves.

Vanya, really, eyeing everyone. And then a smartly dressed white man in his mid-twenties comes up. The other customers are black. This one jumps out at you give me a spot hidden that's good I really 24 under 75 I said that's a hard success you, under his suit jacket, a bulge right under his breast area that you are pretty sure he's carrying a gun. Sort of thing a detective might be armed with, perhaps.

What? What are you talking about? What did you see? What? Tillinghast. Perhaps. What? What are you talking about? What do you see? Quiet. What? Tillinghast. I'm not mistaken.

I think either our friend Robeson or one of his agents has just entered the Ju-Ju house. Oh shit. Okay. All right. What are we? Well, we can't do anything. We're just going to sit here, right? I mean, I don't...

Guy's in there for about five minutes tops, maybe not even, and as you're watching Vaughn, you see him come out and he's got a stuffed envelope, like a white envelope that he's sliding into his jacket pocket. He straightens his jacket, walks out of the alley. Someone's getting paid off it seems. Okay, alright. That's uh... that seems like something. Yes. If only we had Sower's... Bloody camera here. God damn it.

I mean we could roll it. This guy's what? How old is this guy? Seventy-something? We could just roll in and start, you know, threatening. Are you sure you want to threaten and smash up the shop of a gentleman who's just paid off the police? If, um, it's maybe down on us. Rather move a little... A little more clandestine. He would say. Vaughn, hey, what's it like being British? I suppose it is.

It feels weird. Well, I suppose it's not weird to me. I've thought many times that you must rather be American. Oh, no, that's normal as shit. British, though. That's so cool. I mean, you guys are just so much cooler. You ever think about that?

Yeah, I suppose it's a more drafty, moist climb. But perhaps that lends itself to the level of sang-froid that we possess. But you guys are funnier. I feel like the music's better. Your dress cooler. Your pants are so much slimmer. You needn't flatter, sir. You Americans have many unbeatable qualities yourselves. Yeah, we're pretty great. Sorry, sometimes I get, what's the word? Chitty-chitty.

Quite all right. I suppose one must do something to pass the time. Yeah, alright. But you're not mistaken, I want into that place. Alright. He hasn't seen us, we can just walk in and be customers. I suppose we could do such a thing. Yeah. As you're watching... I have a night.

Perhaps we can get the proprietor to divulge that he knows our suspicion. Perhaps we can get the proprietor to confirm our suspicion, this gentleman that we just saw was in fact Robeson. If I was to say something like, Oh, yes, wasn't that Robeson that I just saw was in fact Robeson. If I was to say something like, oh, yes, wasn't that Robeson that I just saw leaving? If he could perk up and say that he knows the man, then we'd have a confirmation that that's precisely who we're dealing with. On the other hand, it could just be someone in his employ. Yeah, yeah. I like it. Let's wing it.

Always good to go in without a plan. Let's do it um Yes, you're gonna zip out and go in yeah, sure, okay All right, so you sneak out of the pawn shop We leave the door ajar so you can get back in if you need to and you walk And you walk towards the juju house. The doors are right next to each other. Yeah. So we walk in and immediately Carter's like, I don't know, Stevie, I just don't know if that was him.

No, I'm telling you, I'm acquainted with many of the officials of this fair city. I tell you that that was, I believe, a detective by the name of Robson. I don't know. Carter starts looking at this as one. Look at this. These rugs are great. You see the same man that Margot and Feru saw, this almost skeletal, old, wizened old, skinny, skinny guy, very little tufts of hair, wearing this traditional garb, missing most of his teeth and he kind of perks up and says, hello, welcome to Juju house, may I help you with something? Oh, just perusing your wares, old man. Thank you very much. I'm telling

you that I, in my travels, I've made the acquaintance of many officials of this city. I do believe that is the gentleman in question. Well, Stevie, I just don't know how we would find out if that was actually Lieutenant Robeson of the NYPD. And then just kind of looks so bad. Do you happen to know, old man, can you confirm what I'm telli- I'm sorry, what? Oh, the gentleman, perhaps he came in here.

I thought he came out of the courtyard as we were walking by. A local police official, unless I'm very much mistaken. Oh, I do not know. I, one of my customers. Yes. If he was, then. Perhaps I, I do not know for sure. Troy, the layout of this shop, I know it's small, are there like shell, like can you

get kind of like, is there a way to not be seen by the front desk? Do you know what I mean? Are there like shells within bookcases and stuff like that where you can kind of get lost in the back of the store or is it all sort of... Right when you walk in, there are a couple, there's a small case to your right, two small like square cases ahead of you, a little bit larger of a case up against the wall on the left, and then the right side of the room, there's a long case and then another long case

that's parallel that he's standing behind. And then behind him is where that curtain is. So there's like a bunch of little aisles. But he can see everything. He can pretty much see everything because they're all low. And then there's shelving all around the walls. And do we see anything,

I know these are questions that kind of Feruza and Fraglansal went through. It's good to be reminded. But he's got a key around his neck, and do we see any doors leading into this space? Yeah, so they probably told you that you notice he had a key around his neck. And the only other means of egress from the room is this curtain behind his counter. Carter just kind of like saunters past Vaughn and is like, keep him talking.

You know, I'm in from out of town, and I must confess, I have rather weakness for antiquities of this type, and indicating something on the fore wall, it's like, what can you tell me about this strange little fellow here? And then while he's doing that, Carter's goal is to sort of like really peek around and snoop around like is one of these bookcases like a hidden door or is like a trap door on the floor? Like where the fuck did all these people go

when they came in here? Okay, so you're drawing his attention one way while Carter goes the other way. You see him talking to Yvonne, but also like he keeps looking back at Carter and smiling, his toothless grin. He's like, this is a piece from Tanzania. It is known as the Tanzanian devil charm. It is often worn on the neck, but there are some people that attach it to their clothing

to wear as a decoration on their shirts as well. Do you like it? I confess that I do. I'm rather from an aesthetic point of view, not so much for any sort of warding qualities that it may have. And so, like, I guess our goal here is to get this guy distracted so that Carter can maybe peek behind this curtain. Yeah, or just try and find if there's any, like you said, you were looking for secret compartments and stuff as well.

Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be really hard to distract him to get behind that curtain because he's standing behind a case in front of the curtain. Unless you drill him to the other end of the store. That was my goal by going to the far side. Is there anything like on the high shelf that I would have to be like in the annoying way, like, can I have the one on the high shelf that I would have to be like in the in the annoying way like Can I have the one in the top shelf that you'd have to like bring a stepladder over to or something?

Yeah, for sure. So if you pull him like to the South Western portion of the room to point at something he almost for a moment looks exasperated You're going to be a terrible beast, but from this vantage point I can't quite tell how it appears. I have a feeling it would look amazing on my mental piece, but I'd love to take a closer look if you'd be so kind. Go ahead. This is going to be, give me a credit rating roll to see if it's clear that you are a big

spender. Yeah, baby. I rolled my, I don't know if y'all know. You are a big spender. Yeah, baby. I rolled, I don't know if y'all know, Vaughn's credit rating is mad high. I rolled a, let's see here. I'm gonna spend one point of luck to make it a hard success. A hard success, okay.

And so he looks, he's a little wary to leave the space because Carter is just very off-putting from the mask and his general demeanor. I mean, is there anything I can do to charm him to not be so worried? Well, luckily, a hard success is enough for him to know that he's got a chance at a sale here. And he's like, ah, yes, but of course, hold on, let me get my ladder and he brings a little step ladder.

And I'm really trying to turn on the credit rating charm, so to speak. It's like, mother always despises this sort of thing, but what can I say? I have a weakness for things from around the globe. She insists on decorating Eagle's Grange in trappings and heraldry of ages gone by, but I tell her it's a great big world out there. Below your nose with a hundred dollar bill. Yeah, like, really show off some cufflinks or... Yes, no, of course. Let me reach for any climbs that...

And he's pointing, he's like, this one? No, no, no, boy. Just to the... I'm a good man. Just to the left. Yes, that's the one. Ah, this one. As I'm playing, I know where, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, oh, a two. A two? What? An extreme success. Yep. Okay. Wow.

With an extreme success, I'm gonna say that you can roll a spot hidden, both behind the counter and take a peek into the back room. Whoa. Guys, don't get too excited. This spot hidden's not great. I believe in you. One eye. Whoa. Guys, don't get too excited. The spot hidden's not great. Again. I believe in you. One eye. You do have luck.

I rolled a 28, my spot hidden's a 25. I'm gonna spend three. Get it down there, baby, yeah. Yes, did I say left? I did mean right. It's that one, right? Ah, he smiles kinda like. I'm sorry, is that just out of reach? Oh, I did mean right. It's that one. Right? Ah, he smiles, kind of. I'm sorry, is that just out of reach?

Oh, I'm a beast. You must think me a terrible bore. Just let me know. Is it this one right here? Yes, the one. Now, I'm sorry. You're pointing at the one that you're saying I said it was. Yeah, just one moment, please. And you, meanwhile, Carter began looking and you take a peek behind the curtain, like maybe you're, I imagine you sidle up to it and he's so distracted and upset at the game that Vaughn's playing, uh, that you're able to push

the curtain back and look and you see a room that is almost identical to in size to the one you're in that has like a small little kitchenette, a mat on the floor, a bed. There's some clothing lying about. It looks like a like a suit, like not a nice suit,

but a suit that you'd wear out much different than the outfit that he's wearing. And another little door that is a jar that looks like it leads to a bathroom. With your successful spot hidden, that you used your luck to hit, you also look down and you see,

there is this like dip in the rug behind the counter. That just seems a little weird. Like it's a dip with a slight U-shaped like impression sticking out from the dip. Yeah. Is there a way to just kind of nudge it with my foot? You'd have to go behind the counter right now. You're kind of standing at the edge of the counter. Okay.

But you did roll an extreme success if you want to try and like kick the rug out of place. I do. Okay. You kick the rug out of place Really sticking your neck out here and Sure enough you see a trap door Right behind the counter. Is there a key? Is it like a padlock or something on it? There is a place in which to insert a key. And we said the key's around his neck, right?

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and we come back to Margo and Feyreuse. Cop told you let it go. And you're on the docks. Yeah, we're like on the docks with mustaches and binoculars. Just laying on our bellies. And flowery dresses. Look at all these heavy boxes. We're like, yes, girly things. Long flowery dresses and mustaches. Yes. Awesome. All right, so you go down to the docks.

To the docks. All right, so you are able to get the information you need to find out where Emerson Imports is. It's in a long, narrow building right along the Hudson River, just beyond Hell's Kitchen. And you see there are, you're looking through your binoculars, and there are loading docks at both ends of the building.

So the building runs parallel to the river, and there's a loading dock at one end, and a loading dock at the other. You're watching and you see workers coming in and out and a boat taking off like right when you arrived. Depending on how long you stay there maybe another boat will arrive. Do we see the names of the boats? Uh yeah give me a spot hidden for that first boat.

names of the boats? Uh, yeah. Give me a spot hidden for that first boat. Okay. Let me try. 32 under 62. Almost a hard flight. 32 under 62. Okay, that first boat, it looked like it was, like some Japanese name.

And what about the second one? Second one hasn't come yet. I'll let you know if while you're watching another one will come. How close do you get? Are you able to, are you looking inside or are you just kind of casing the exterior for now? I would think, and talk with me on

this so I also get your opinion, I would think, and talk with me on this so I also get your opinion, I would think that we would spend some time outside just getting the ins and outs, seeing if they're like how many people are on shift, how often boats are coming in and out. Also, is this like a warehouse situation where like they're loading and unloading, but is there like a warehouse where all of these things are stored for a certain amount of time? That sort of situation before

going in. Right. OK. So you're watching. That boat took off. I'd say about an hour and a half later. During that time, you see,

like a bunch of big guys will come out every once in a while and load crates onto a truck. And the truck takes off. And then like 20 minutes later, more guys will come out, load crates onto a truck. While you're watching, you do notice that all the crates say the name of the importer. It says Emerson Imports on them.

They're all identical crates. They load them on a truck. Truck takes off, so you're watching that. But an hour and a half of watching that over and over again, another boat comes in. When it does, as the boat arrives, you see several of these heavies standing there waiting, helping the boat, grabbing ropes and shit to tie it to the dock. And then a foreman comes out. Looks like a foreman. He's an older guy, maybe in his 50s, just kind of barking orders and telling people what to do.

And that boat is there for at least an hour unloading and loading. Can we get a look at where that or the name of the ship or where it's from? Yeah, give me another spot hidden. That is a 72 under 80. 72 under 80. 72 under 80. It looks to be,

it looks to be, what languages do you speak? That's always great. Let me see, I think Arabic, English, I think that's it. Arabic and English? Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, you don't recognize this language.

It might be maybe Greek, but you're not 100% sure. And so it doesn't, you can't, you can't read it, but it's certainly not African. It's English alphabets, but just in a language I'm not familiar with. Yeah. But you also see like... Greek has extra characters. Yeah. Little flourishes. Some flourishes and stuff.

So yeah. And again, depending on how long you wait, that boat will eventually take off. Besides the foreman, how many men are we looking at as a crew? A dozen, maybe. Now you're sitting there watching, you see a car pull up, somebody go in and the foreman comes out, shakes the person's hand, walk him inside. 15 minutes later, that person leaves.

What does the car look like? It was a white Cadillac. I am assuming Margo's snapping photos. Not from this distance, honestly. Shoot. Okay. Or marking down whatever we can see. Just make it model-ish. And honestly and honestly like none of this is like evidence of anything no I'd like to get into that warehouse or if a

boat comes that has a name that we recognize from our notes like one of the pictures like the name of the boat in the picture that's like H-A, maybe R, like if we see that. Oh yeah, that was one of the early things you saw where it looked like there were buildings in the background that didn't look like it was. Photograph, yacht and boats. Yeah, there it is. How many entrances to this warehouse?

Looks like there's one entrance on the north side, one entrance on the south side that you can see, and then you can obviously get in from the docks. I wonder, I wonder if we can sneak in and get, I mean, like it'd be great to find these boxes and look in them, but if we sneak into the Foreman's room, if that's where the stuff is held and get, like, the manifests or whatever. Yes, and see where they're coming from, what's on those ships, who they're being sent from.

Yes. And where. So I think while we're looking at everything else, I feel like we're also mainly focusing on when, how can we find a window to get into the building, like a window of time that seems safe. Yeah, to sneak in. Okay. One thing you noticed is that whenever a boat arrives, that arrival time seems to

bring everybody to the docks out of the warehouse. Even the foreman is the one directing. So if you wait long enough and another boat comes, that could be an opportunity to try and sneak inside. From like the opposite entrance. Yeah, we just saw where they all came out of. So maybe if we get in position, yep, wait for another boat to come.

Let's do it. Great. I brought a deck of cards in case we get bored. So eventually that boat leaves. You wait another hour and a half. So now we're overlapping into the time that it's probably getting to be the end of the day and you might be even worried if another boat is going to show up today is it a

nine-to-five type situation luckily after two hours of waiting another boat comes up. All the guys come out. Foreman comes up. You two race towards the other entrance into the building. How are you getting in? You gonna stealth? You gonna just sneak in and use this diversion and hope that no one else is around? What do you think? Well, I'm guessing this is a large warehouse so it's pretty big. So I would, me personally, I'm guessing this is a large warehouse, so it's pretty big so I would me personally I would just run just to get in there as fast as I can because they probably with all the hubbub going on Probably won't be able to hear us anyway plus fake mustaches

Also, there you go. Are you guys both under the same trench coat? We found a third person on the way. To be our third man in the trench coat. So you just, you see that boat coming in, you time it, time it, time it. And you hustle towards that entrance. You get to the door, it's open. You slip inside. And this warehouse is just one gigantic room.

The ceiling's about 50-60 feet tall and it's just stacks and stacks and stacks, four cliffs everywhere and just crates upon crates of all sizes, small to the confidant elephant, all emblazoned with the logo for emission imports. for emission imports. On the far end, like what would be the east side of the room, there is a staircase leading up to what looks like an office that can oversee the entire warehouse. Give me a spot here. All right.

I rolled a 22 under 80. Two under 62. Here we go. Streaming hard. You feel 100% confident that there is no one in that office right now. Let's do it. Take some photos of any documents that we can find. Yep.

Let's go straight for the documents. All right. You go straight up that staircase into the office and you get up there, you're able to look out at the windows and you see all the dock workers grabbing the ropes from the giant boat coming in, helping them put it to dock. I don't know, boat terms. Boat words. Boat, boat, boaty boat stuff.

And again, that foreman directing things, I don't know, boat terms. Boat words. Boat, boat, boaty boat stuff. And again, that foreman directing things, he just kind of turns back to look at the office and maybe you'd have to duck down real quick. And then you peek up and you see he's busy again. But for how long? What do you want to do in this office? There's no computer, There's just file cabinets. If there's file cabinets, I want to look for Juju House to see if there's any or under

Silas's name to see if there's any records of what's come into his shop. Okay. So first case is like A through F and then G through J. And so you go all the way to the back and you find a folder for Juju House. Inside the folder is a just a list of numbers that probably don't make any sense to you and then just a list upon lists of items that are as bland as can possibly be. So for example that mask that you saw when he was like whoo that might have some really cool name it would just say brown mask and so the list is nondescript like that of things things. But you do notice that every thing is being sent from the same place.

It appears very quickly that this guy Emerson who owns Emerson Imports, looks like his name is Arthur Emerson, he is the US agent for Mombasa exporter named Ajah Singh. And everything that comes in to Emerson Imports from Mombasa, from this exporter named Ajah Singh goes directly to Juju House. Well, here's the lead. So like lay the files out, take a picture. Is there anything in here about Aja Singh?

If you look under S for Aja Singh, nothing. You look under A, nothing. A, nothing. All right, well we can start here. Are there, is there any sort of like serial number, things that these boxes are in the warehouse, stowed away in some sort of order that maybe we can take a peek if we know where to look? It is, I think if you took these papers, if you wanted to steal these papers, for example,

and then spend some time with them, you might be able to figure out a system that you could cross reference, but the warehouse is so massive. With the time that you think that you have here, it would be hard to be like, ah, row 12, box three, and just go down there like you're at Costco. This would be a little more difficult

because they have their own system. Okay. Can we like see or deduce like when the next shipment for them is coming in? Yeah, give me a library use. Okay, and I'm wondering... And either of you can do that. Sure. I'm also wondering at the same time that this is happening if one of us can go run outside

and see where this boat's coming from. Rolling rocks, 13 under 30. That's a hard success for library use. Oh yeah. 13 under 30. What was the question? I did not succeed. I don't remember.

Can we deduce from like these notes or like is it written down like when the next shipment for Juju House is coming in? Ah, when the next shipment for juju house is coming? Ah, when the next shipment for juju house is coming in. All right, so 13 out of 30 hard success Yeah, you quickly look and you find a list of Past shipments and it seems like they always come in on the first or the second of the month. So February 1st or February 2nd would be the next delivery. You see the last delivery was signed for on January 2nd and it was sent to Juju House Care of Silas Nkwane. Well that means we've got another shipment coming in in a week. In about a week, yeah.

In about a week, yeah. Is there anything about Makanga Madari in here? Look, under M, covers both his first and last name, and you do not see a file from Makanga Madari. Quick look of the notes, directly related to Juju House and Haja Singh and all this stuff. No mention of Makanga Madari. Everything is being sent to care of Silas Nkwane. For shits and giggles, give me one more spot hidden. Okay. As you're just like really taking in the whole room.

Is there anything we're missing here? I rolled a 12 under 80. You guys. I'm too hyper-focused on other stuff. I got a 71 over 62. Yeah, you're in the zone looking at all these papers. Is 12 extreme or hard?

I believe it is extreme. That's extreme. Yeah, that's extreme. Yeah, it's been under 20. I don't know why I go to extremes. Great Billy Joel song. Are there great Billy Joel songs? Darling, I don't know why I go to... That great Billy Joel song. Are there great Billy Joel songs? Darling, I don't know why I go to,

that should be the theme, that's the new theme song for Time for Chaos. Please, no. You notice a business card lying on Arthur Emerson's desk for Jackson Elias. Ah. Author. Dead guy.

Do you see this? Curly guy. Curly. Deceased. It's printed on the card too. What the hell? Why is this on his desk right now? I take a picture. It must have been that Mr. Elias

has met this person before. I feel like my wheels are turning too fast right now to be able to make sense of this, but it's just um... Take a photo of it. Click takes a photo. Why was he here? Um, was he here before and just didn't think to mention this place? All right, get these boxes out of here, guys. Come on, get them up where they need to go. We've got to go. Let's go, let's go. Back in the trench coat.

Back in the coats. Boat jargon, boat jargon. Bad warehouse shipping jargon as well. Ducks and moors. Casting off ship jargon. Crates and such, stubborn import, let's go. And you guys fucking bolt out of there.

Booking it. With a little information. Feel like I just have more questions. I know. We follow your feet as they scurry out of Emerson Imports. And your feet turn into the feet of Carter Tillinghast, who has slyly moved the rug behind the counter at Juju House while Vaughn is distracting.

The two hours that have passed of them waiting for the boat to show up has been two hours that are passed of them waiting for the boat to show us No my left it may this may not be totally simultaneously What is what do you guys what do you guys want to do here you found us information Do you call it a day here? What do you do? I obviously want to cover it back up cuz Carter never leaves the trace What do you do? Well, I obviously want to cover it back up because Carter never leaves a trace.

Okay. Rule number one. I think that's easy enough to do that. I'm rolling over that extreme success on the stealth that you are just like, you're in the pocket right now. Just looking back there. Yes, yes, my good man. That's the one you've grasped.

Ah, thank you, he's sweating. I'm very old. This is a beautiful piece. Would you like it wrapped? Yes, of course. If you could be so good as to wrap that up. All right. Lovely little operation you've got, yeah.

Thank you. Any watch? Carter's pretty sure, I mean, there's a trap door. It's clearly not gonna open. He backs off to get pretty sure, I mean, there's a trap door that's clearly not going to open. He backs off to get away from, you know, back around the counter. Yeah, he has to kind of sidle past you to get back behind the counter and gives you an eye as he does so. This is just all fantastic stuff, I gotta say.

I'm no connoisseur, but some of this stuff... Man, what culture. Yes, pay no attention to my valet. We're just in town for a very brief while. No, I'm his butler. Hmm. Tomato to martyr, as you might say. Master Stevie.

Thank you. Thank you. That's very nice of both of you. As a connoisseur myself, I'm curious if, now I know that establishments like this get your wares from somewhere and of course overseas. I'm just curious if for an aficionado, as I said, only in time for but a few months really, when might I come in and pay a call on you again to get first dibs on your next shipment? Ah, well, we get new shipments in at the beginning of each month. I usually am able to restock within the week. So, were you to come back in first week of February, towards the end of the week, I should have some things, some new pieces, as it were. It is very kind of you to come and purchase my goods. May I ask you, are not from here? What brings you to New York?

What brings you to New York? Oh, it's only, um, I wish I could have a better answer than to say it's for, uh, business, of course. I'm in finance, you see, finance, and, uh, just, um, meeting up with some acquaintances of mine who work on your Wall Street, impregnable and august institution that it is and shall never fail. Ah, yes, and your butler, your valet. Valet. Valet, yes.

It's my body man, there's a dog's body in general fact total for anything that I, anything I require. Um, I'm curious, now this little artifact you've given me is a very, very choice indeed, and shall find pride of place in my home, I assure you. But I do have rather a weakness for our arms and armor. Do you have any weapons here? Weapons? Anything we sell here is mostly ceremonial in nature.

The blades have been dulled to protect the customers. I suppose you could... Yes, but anything you keep behind the counter, so to speak, away from the sticky fingers or those who might be a little too tempted? It would be useless in my arthritic hands, as you can see. It would do me no good I have heard that some of my customers have taken for example that spearhead it would not even a dull the flesh of an infant but you could sharpen it and it could be used to kill any baby

Hardiest baby, you should beat off any man An infant but if you sharpened it, you could skewer three or four of them. I want them for ornamental purposes merely. I don't wish to cause harm to any babes or to beat off anyone in particular. So I dwell. It's your sphere. Just curious, you understand, if you had anything back that's for perhaps a more rarefied taste. I will be honest, it is if I have too much of that stuff in my place, it tends to reinforce the stereotypes of my people,

as if we are just savages who use Blade to conquer our foes. We are much more than that, as you can see from my collection of curios. Yes, indeed. And you've been very kind to show me around. So I'll just pay for this object, and I will really actually purchase it. Okay. And you get the money. He reaches under the desk and he pulls out a ledger. He slaps the ledger on top of the counter. It shatters.

No. He puts it down on the counter and he opens it up and he's like, all right, takes the money from you. And it's expensive. It's like, I don't know what would be crazy expensive he opens it up and he's like, all right takes the money from you and it's expensive It's like I don't know what would be crazy expensive both states like $75. That's probably like good Talk you down somewhere. It's a king's ransom What is this big big thick ledger and he flips over the pages and just records? cash takes the cash and Wraps it up nicely in some newspaper and then sticks

it in a paperback and says, thank you, I hope it brings you as much joy as it did me. Is there any way to quickly glance at any other names in that ledger? Right, yeah, I want to spot hidden and see if there's any, if there's a name or anything interesting in there. Yeah, you can try spot hidden. I mean, it's a big ass ledger. It's something you'd really wanna, if you wanna dig into it, you need to get your hands on it. Yeah, I guess it would have to be on the page

it was open to. Yeah, like he was flipping through it so fast, I don't think even an extreme success would give you any information. It's upside down and written in small handwriting. Okay. No, thank you. There's the address of the killer.

No, it's not that. You really gotta break into this place, man. Jonathan Cthulhu. Wait a minute, this goes all the way to the top. Um. Um. Uh. Jonathan Cthulhu?

He's untouchable. Yeah, it's just another thing, not unlike the key on his neck. What if I didn't pass a spot hidden hard? Yeah, good. Did you do a hard spot hidden? I rolled a 26 under 75. Well, this is what I'll tell you.

That looked like it contained a lot of information. A lot more stuff was written in there that could be like his lifetime sales. Right. There's a lot of stuff in there. Now it might be the, you don't know obviously what happened over at Emerson Imports, but it could be the reverse list, the receiving list,

as well as who knows what else. Yes. Very well, all right. Does Sleight of Hand work on things hanging around people's necks? Probably not, right? That would not work. It could. I mean, right? That would not work. It could.

I mean, Sleight of Hand does, it sounds like an all-encompassing skill for magicians, but I mean, it could work. The trouble with that is if it fails, and if it fumbles. If it fails, it could just be a fail. You gotta swipe it, but if it fumbles, or if you push it and fail,

that's when bad things could happen, but it's certainly not crazy Might be a hard success Guys let's try it. Oh my god. Well. He's what's he gonna do he's 70 Tell all his friends to come beat us up. I can murder us. He doesn't know who we are. I guess not Vaughn you didn't give him his real name, right? Because otherwise you'd be going against, I've established you as Stefy. I'm Stefy.

My valet and I are on a first name basis. A Garretarian, and all that, you know. He notices you didn't. Brotherhood of man. A Crimson Specter is haunting Europe, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. So maybe while he's leaning over, like you know, just I don't know what, I don't know how to just pull something off. He's leaning over to right in the ledger and the key like dangles. I under 66.

Regular success. That's regular. Now if you're saying to me, sir, that I need to do more, I'm willing to blow some luck here. Do it. Do it. Do it. I say that a hard success would, you'd be able to pull this off with no complications. Okay, so I need to get- The only one being how long until he figures out it's gone. Right.

Right. All right. So let's see, I rolled 61, what did I say, 61? 61 under 66. Yeah, 61 under 66. So I would need to get it down To 33 right for hard Larry Bird That's right. All right, Pete even though he's still alive His face though has gone full it's just made of pillows You can barely see his eyes. It's got cauliflower face. It's cauliflower face. It's just like a series of throw pillows.

That are put on a baggy suit. I love him. So you've got to spend like, what, 28? I can't do the math that quickly. I can't do the math either, so I was stalling with the pillow talk. 28. 28, thank you. 28, yep.

And obviously 43 minus 28 would be When I'm not at work, it's 50 through 15. Yeah, okay Dean All right, so you got 15 luck left, but what a great use of it because you are able to explain Yeah, yeah, so what you do so he He leans over and suddenly this is ridiculous Carter sees like the con man matrix right, so you see like sees all the different vectors till I get in and like Comes over here but kind of distracts like does something over here Oh, he you know what he does he like he accidentally drops something like he he he slides something off the counter

He accidentally drops something, like he slides something off the counter. So it kind of like, and then a little how you do on the back, a little how you do on the front, and doesn't replace it. I feel like an extreme success would be the Indiana Jones. Like I put a different key on it, right? Or something that weighs exactly the same amount as that key. But yeah, you create this diversion. He looks and you just deftly remove the key. Okay, cool.

This has been a successful trip for all four of you so far. Well, Stevie, we should really get going. Yes, I think you've upset our friend and knocked enough things onto his floor. I'm so sorry, sir. I'm sure, yeah, that was just. No onto his floor. I'm so sorry, sir. I'm sure... Yeah, that was just...

No, that was a stern reprimand from me. Stevie's gonna give me the belt. He jests, of course, or does he? I don't. Well, we'll be on our way. Or does he? He's just gonna beat me off. Oh my god.

Is it good going. He just smiles and says, please come again. Oh, we might. And you leave. Do you go back to just like, see ya, goodbye, enjoy, thank you for the store. And then go right back into the pot shop. No, why would we go into the pot shop?

Like, I can't explain to you how close these doors are. I know, I know. All right, great seeing you you heading back to our apartment. We nailed it, I stole his key. Yes, I saw you perform that little maneuver. Amazing. I didn't think you'd get away from it. My heart leapt out of my chest.

Heart is back, baby. I'm feeling it. What else can we steal? My god. Did you see anything while I had the man just turned about? Oh, bro. Hold on. Just wait. I'll just wait. I'll tell everybody when we're all together.

Together, together. Together, together, together. Together, together, together. Together, together, together. Together, together, together. Together, together, together. Together, together, together. Together, together, together.

And we leave there and we go back to the Waldorf and now it's nighttime. It's eight o'clock at night. You have a meeting tomorrow. You got a message when you arrive. Ramsey has set up a meeting with Erica Carlisle's lawyer, Bradley Gray. The meeting is at 10 a.m. sharp at his office. We really need to stop scheduling meetings during prime hangover time.

Yes, bloody hell. Anyway, guys, we're in the store, right? Vaughn is just barraging this man. Is that a verb? Yeah. He's just burying him under niceties. He's getting him to pick something left to the right. I kick a rug at the same time,

discover crap motherfucking door in that place. That's where it's happening. That's where it's all going down. And not only that, ladies, I don't want to blow your minds. I got the key. The key on his neck? That's right. They really shoves you and go shut up.

You're full of lame, Kalein. No. You did? Shut up. Shut up. Yes, do not underestimate the deft and dexterous fingers of Carter Tillinghast. Right, exactly. I'm not going to go where I was going to go.

Yes, I've got this key, and should we make a copy? I don't really know. I feel like it's already gone. It's not like I'm going to go and like put it back around his neck. Ugh. We could, if it was, if it was a surreptitiously left and perhaps he wouldn't believe it was stolen. Ah, good point. All right.

We're going to make Kanye this. Put the place under God. Yeah. Maybe we can ask the bell boy who I've been talking with a lot lately about the fire department knows I've got. Uh, it's New York City, all those noises work. Yeah, so anyway, what'd you guys find? What happened with all your adventures?

Oh yes, we also found out he gets a shipment at the beginning of every month. We found out the same thing. We found out the same thing after rolling lots of rolls. And there was a dude who took a payout. Yes, and we believe it may have been Robeson himself. He is definitely paying off the local authorities. Well, we found out the specific exporter of these goods that are coming in to the Dutu House.

Come from a place called Aja Singh Exporters. Okay, alright. a company called Azure Sing Exporters. Okay, alright. We also found out what you found out through many roles. The shipments come on the first or the second. But right before we left, we saw on Zafformin's desk Jackson Elias' business card. Elias had preceded us at this, um, Emerson Imports. But I don't recall him ever mentioning it in any of his notes that we've, like, found or been given so far.

Well, his room got raided. Who knows what all the pertinent stuff might have gotten taken, and if, you know, a lot of the letters that we have is before he came back, so. I'm both troubled and encouraged that we seem to be walking in his footsteps. Yeah. And that we are apparently on the right trail, but it is a trail that leads rather bloody ends. Still don't know why Jackson,

why he had Jackson Elias' business card. Yes. I mean, did he go ask questions and then leave his card with the foreman, but then why would it be out on his desk and just open for so long? We could also maybe ask, what's his name? Jonah? Who's the closer one that would have kind of Jackson's notes and stuff?

Ramsey probably. Well, Jonah had all those letters. And Jonah kind of knew his whereabouts a little bit better. But he's sharing all that with Carter, with Carlton Ramsey. I can't remember. So I don't know, we could maybe corroborate something there too, if he... Carlton. There was so much to say.

Carlton's, yeah. I want, as much as I want to speak to this lawyer fellow and get to know more about the Carlisles, to be on the brink of gaining ingress into that secret chamber at the Juju house has me positively salivating. I mean, does anyone really want to sleep tonight? Have we been getting any sleep regardless? Not me. So why start now? Oh, you want to go back to Juju? I don't know. I've been to Juju house so many goddamn times. I know. It would suck to go all the way up there and have there be another party.

We can't get in. We should wait until the shipment comes in perhaps. Will there be more people there though? Unloading, opening crates and stuff. And don't forget the Dark of the Moon is this weekend. If that has any relation to anything that's Saturday and Sunday night. That was the night that he felt like most people were disappearing. We could do the thing that you guys were talking about

earlier today, which was wait for the lunch break. And then go in. It seems that it seems oddly that the least amount of personnel are around the Juju house during the light of day. But here's what I think. I think that we need to go as soon as possible because he's going to notice that the key is gone Yes

So you're saying middle of the night Yes time may be of the essence because either he replaces that key or Or he's expecting we have to go but he's while he still hasn't but he's sweet. Remember, I looked behind that curtain. He sleeps there. Then someone's going to be terribly, terribly quiet. That's real quiet. That's a curtain. I don't think that's a soundproof curtain. We don't know that he sleeps there only that there's bed

there. It's very takes his mistress. It's where he takes his mistress. Booty calls. I got the stink of a mistress bed. I... Yeah, you got some... I don't want to say anything. I want to see what you guys do.

Don't you know? It's so hard to be a keeper. I just want to say something. I just want to say something. Bears of things you can do. I. Don't you know? It's so hard to keep track. I just want to be like, there's some things you can do. Think out loud, Troy. No, but I like seeing. I like seeing.

Troy, is there a thing in this game called an idea role? Idea role, yeah, it is. Where like, if we're kind of stumped between roles. Like a dungeon earring for like. And you can give us a hint on those? Yeah, I think it's an intelligence role. Oh my shit. Michael, correct me if I'm wrong in the chat.

When you're kind of like, it's not like, why don't you just tell me the answer? It's more like, man, there's so many different things to do. We also have a ton of information. You might even know some things that you just haven't been able to put together yet. So the idea of role-a-ism, I don't like to think of it so much as a cheat,

is so much as like, well, here's something to think about. It's like something your character knows, but you don't. Like, what if you're playing a really smart character and you're not that smart? which is like, well, here's something to think about. It's like something your character knows, but you don't. Like what if you're playing a really smart character and you're not that smart? Right. But they encourage dumb people not to play this game. It says it in the core robot.

Well, you know what? You should have told me that before you asked me to be on this. No, I'm stupid. I'm sorry. I thought I wrote that in the initial email. No dummies. Yeah, I think it's an intelligence check.

Okay. I'm really good at intelligence. I will roll the heck out of that, maybe. Yep, Michael said correct. All right, you want to do it? I'll do it just because we've never done it. I feel like that's reasonable enough. We're all sitting there going, heck yes. We're talking in circles like, we could go tonight tonight we could go with the middle of the day tomorrow We're moving and hiding who's got the intent. Do we all do it? What do we do? Um, I feel like just one of you does it

There we go. Okay, all right My school typing some way to see what what's an extreme success Oh page 199 the keepers the five percent yeah fifth oh no five percent of fifth the idea role shug a gunk a gum oh interesting the goal of an idea role is always to get the investigation back on track I don't think it's off track it's more kind of like you have a smorgasbord of options yeah if this isn't the appropriate use of it, I understand. No, no, I think this is perfect.

If the keeper never mentioned the clue, the difficulty level is regular, requiring the player to roll equal to or less than their investigator's intelligence. The likelihood of winning this role is high. It's hardly fair to expect the player to act on something they know about. If the clue was definitely mentioned but not emphasized, the difficulty of the idea roll is hard. If the clue was made clear by the keeper, or the players discussed it themselves,

the difficulty level of the idea roll is extreme. I mean, there's so many different things out there, but what did you roll, Margu? Margu? Margu. Margu. Margu rolled a 20 under 70. Okay.

That is very close to extreme. Success. Here's what I'll say. Give yourself a moment to kind of look through your handouts and just see is there anything you haven't investigated yet. I'm not saying there is. The second thing I'll say is, one thing you guys had talked about, what you still haven't really done,

is a full on stakeout of the comings and goings of Juju House. You've done a, from like, 1.30 to 4.30 PM, and a what, one in the morning until We got there at midnight. Maybe four in the morning,

midnight to four in the morning. You guys were kicking around the idea of like trying to figure out if there's a more ideal time to go. You know that he takes at least an hour lunch in the middle of the day. Is there another time that might be right? But how much, if anything, has changed

with the theft of the key? I think that's a good answer. Good survey, Seth? Yeah, yeah. Good answer. Great job, Keeber! Great job, Keeber! You're doing a bang up job, pal!

Wow, okay. Just looking, I mean, to say look at your handouts is quite daunting, because there's literally a million of them. You know what's fun? I added some- You're on the dictionary, pick a word. I added some- Off the top, though, I see the flyer for the,

something we never really pursued because we figured it was kind of out of our purview, was this flyer for the professorial discussion of the cult of darkness in Polynesia and the Southwest Pacific by Professor Anthony Cowles, PhD, who is apparently Australian but works at Arkham, which I think is why we didn't pursue it because we'd already missed his lecture. He is a guest lecturer on at Miskatonic University

We never really chased him up a tree. I guess definitely has to be he's Australian right because Troy would have to do an accent Yeah, right. Everyone knows I do a pitch perfect Australia. So we have to talk to him So I guess we could call that guy that's that's that that pops out pitch perfect Australian accent. So we have to talk to him. So I guess we could call that guy. That's that's that that pops out. This is that lecture. If you found that sheet, who gave that to you? Was it Ramsey or Kensington?

I can't remember. Yeah, I think it was gave it to you. It was in in Elias's effects. Right. So you think this is a lecture that Elias was interested in and already went to because it doesn't say like tonight or something, does it?

Right. It says tonight only. Yeah, tonight only. So you assume he already did it, but yeah, maybe that professor's worth trying to get in touch with. You got to go to Boston or call. You also spoke with, you called Harvard, so you could easily call Miskatonic. Right. You called Harvard, so you could easily call Miskatonic. Right. There's also, I was looking through the handouts earlier today, Firas Najjar,

who sent a letter, I think, to Carlisle before Carlisle Expedition left America for London before going to Egypt. And he claimed to be in possession of singular curios, quote unquote, which he believes would be in possession of singular curios quote unquote which he believes would be a great interest to the expedition. And he was kind of like something we never oh yeah the the letter on the top right said Cairo Egypt so I'm assuming that's where the letter came from.

Yeah I mean these letters. I'm imagining maybe they pointed him to. M Warren Bessard. He was writing the car while, yeah. Um, yeah. M. Warren. Oh, the Bessart guy? Bessart's the one that wrote it that said, Faraz Najjar has singular curios, which he believes will be great interest to him.

Well, by the way, I've shown some more photos of you. I show you can see Hilton Adams now, Millie Adams, Rebecca Schozenberg, if I didn't already show you her and Art Mills too. Well, I guess. Oh, and Silas Naquani. I'll show you Silas Naquani. They have bitches for everybody. Oh, yeah, I remember him. Yeah. I mean, it seems like our crew really wants to take action, but it seems like more investigation is maybe of the order to either to be able to both stake out Juju House and to see its full 24 hour schedule and also get in touch with this Miskatonic professor.

I think the stakeout is definitely necessary, but I think we're just running so long like he's gonna notice that that keys gone Yeah, that's the only we got it. We got it goes, but maybe on that stakeout if we find Some sort of small window right if they feed leaves take advantage opportunity knocks The other ticking clock is in addition to the dark of the moon if that's relevant is He'll be relevant Hilton Adams. If that's relevant. Hilton Adams' execution. Also that.

Do we have a date on that, or is it just imminent? No, it's imminent, yeah. We don't know for sure, but any day now. If he isn't exonerated, he will die, and you feel, especially after talking to him, that he's innocent. We can't go to Poole and just be like, we saw this detective guy that we can vaguely describe take money. We gotta find like the murder weapon and bring it to him. Yeah.

So like- It's the wrench. What a library. As much as I detest cooling my heels in that abandoned pawn facility, it seems though that may be the order of the evening. I have a question. Why are we meeting with Erica's lawyer tomorrow and not her? She doesn't want to meet with us? Her demand I suppose.

Okay. Yeah, Ramsey said if you want to even have a chance to talk to Erica, he had to go through with the lawyer. So the lawyer will kind of basically deem if you're worthy of speaking to her. I'm pretty sure I could keep this. Yeah, we'll see. Not too worried about that. Is this your card? Perhaps we can stake out Juju in shifts?

Yes. Okay. We'll shift Juju? Shift action, John? We, shift action, John? Little shift action, John-sky? Yeah. Do you wanna, all right, so it's, what time is it I say this now? It's like six o'clock.

Yeah, it's like, right, it's six in the evening, seven o'clock now, yeah, you actually, you didn't see, when you got there at midnight, there was already a dude out, but it wasn't until around one that, you know, they won 130 is when they shut the door. So who knows? We'll see what we can look at. The window we're speaking about may be right now.

I'm down for a stakeout. Yeah, it's back to Harlem. Back to Harlem. Are we all going to go overnight or are we gonna do shifts? Cause there's also, I mean, if we're going to stay here until we find more things out, someone will have to be here while we're meeting with the lawyer.

That's true. And also, you know, I don't wanna be the guy that's thinking about the audience, but are we going to the juju house too many times? Are we just like smashing, like, we just beating a dead horse? Who cares about the audience? I don't know, I'm just thinking about like,

you know, the entertainment factor. I'm not just some dancing puppets. Well I am. Any angry messages are gonna be sent in DMs to Troy directly so we don't have to worry about it. Yeah, that's true. All the help comes towards me. Why is it funny and mean in this one? I keep thinking that if this was 2022,

what I'd want to do is rent a car and just park it outside the Juju house to keep an eye on it that way. I don't know if that's something that's even available to do. I think it is. That's Google the origin of Hertz. And you're rich.

I've been kind of glossing over how you're even getting up to it. Conspicuous? It may be, but. Yeah, I don't know, I don't have any cards. At least makes for a quick getaway. Oh listen, we just slap a different sticker on it every half a day. I like the idea of us

having a battle car. Yes. Battle car's cool. Well. We need a getaway van. In the interest of haste, and especially in the ticking clock of Silas discovering the key is gone and changing the lock or something. Or just having a spare. It could be something to keep thinking about between this app and the next app.

I think with your credit rating, you would have access to a car if you wanted one or at least could procure a car. It's a bitch to park though. In the city. However, if that's something you want to do, I think that's something we could do. Great. So roll a spot hidden for parking. Just so everyone knows. Oh good. Someone has a license. Can you, are you guys going all four now or what's the plan? Well, here's the, so here's the thing with the shifts. If we go in shifts, I feel like the one, you know,

we just keep giving each other the key just in case. But that would also mean that if for whatever reason it's 6.30 PM, he leaves to go grab a gyro, you know, we're gonna wanna jump in there, but it's just gonna be one person. So I don't know if we pair it off at least, but do we want one person to just sort of like sneak into the trap door where the cult chills out?

We still need one person in case shit happens. Yeah. It should be in two. You can't like leave you alone and then you get like exactly, that's my point. offed. Yeah. And then we don't know what happened to you. Yeah.

I say you hypothetically. Yeah, I don't know why you break, why. Yeah. Yeah, so, all right, so at least pairs. So who wants to go to the lawyer meeting? I wanna go to Juju House. I'll go to the lawyer meeting. I will do either.

lawyer meeting. I will do either. I feel like I don't know what to say to the lawyer. What we're trying to do is to interview Madam Erika Carlisle and get access to her papers. Yeah, I feel like it's clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless. It's like clueless.

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Right. Um, yes, I will, I will... I want to go to the Juju house in case we can get in there and I want to take a picture. Or I can just give my camera to whoever's there. But we can shift it. Like you guys, like if whoever wants to talk to Erica can do Juju House first, you know, like if we're shifting back and forth. Yes.

All right. Anyone who wants to can be at Jju house by seven o'clock tonight We can all go to start and then Yeah Okay, let's just do that for the sake of moving things along. No one has to be you have no other plans right now It's it might be too late to try and call miss Katana can get this professor on the phone. It might be weird and At any point the people that are gonna go to that meeting can be like, all right, you guys got this and go back to the wall door to get some sleep for your 10 a.m. meeting.

Great. So you head back there. Welcome to Call of Juju House. Call of Juju House. You slide back into your pawn shop, your abandoned pawn shop, and you get to the back door and you peek. Let me get a group luck roll, Kate, if you could give me your luck. I assume you actually- Rob, you might have the worst luck, yeah.

I do, definitely. Are you sure? What's your yeah? I spent like all of it to what is it? It's 15. Okay Jesus So watch me just crush this real quick Okay One die says zero zero. Okay. The other one says one.

That's a 100. You rolled a one? No, is it? All zeros is 100. If you rolled a zero zero and a zero, you have a 100. You rolled a one! You did crush it!

You did it! You did it! Oh my God. Turning ass, you magnificent bastard. It's like turning around and not facing like the basketball hoop and just like chucking it behind you you know I mean, I don't want to move the computer. I almost want no I trust you I trust you of course Especially the way you were like what is this is this a?

Okay, all right, so interesting great critical you get in there you slide that door open with ease Here's what I'm gonna say what happens. You get in there, you slide that door open with ease. Here's what I'm going to say. What happens? You're not there for 10 minutes when you see a man that you don't recognize come down ransom court in all haste. African-American guy, muscular, bald, maybe like a shaved head. And he storms up to the door and bangs on it. You look and you see the door open and it's Silas Nkwane and he brings the man in. You hear that distinctive sound of the door locking afterwards. Everybody give me a listen roll.

Sounds like a- Can we say that we took photos of this? Yeah, can Fräulein Sauer click click click? Yeah, sure. Click click click! Sure, give- you know what, Do you have art photography or art craft? I do have photography. Okay, just give me a roll for that just because it's dark out.

I'm thinking about how good these photographs are with the low light conditions. I wish I never told you I had something to roll for that. It's only because I looked at something else today and they mentioned like, let them make them do an art roll. Is that what they said? Mm-hmm. A two. You guys are ridiculous.

Okay, so you get a very, the picture of, you get Silas and this guy. The silver halides like in the negative in the photo, just like really get all the details. They just sit right in the lines. The photo showing them making out, even though they weren't doing that in the photo just like really get all the details they just sit right in the lines. The photo showing them making out even though they weren't doing that in the. Right, you just dodge the photo real quickly.

Okay. Listen. And then listen rolls, I'm gonna spend five luck to make that a success. Listen. I got a regular success on the listen. I got 18 under 23. I failed.

Okay. Those of you who succeeded here, like yelling, not so much arguing, like one person is, and then like a smaller, and it's not long after that this tall muscular dude with a shaved head comes bounding out. Silas quickly locks the door behind. Silas remains inside the juju house? At the moment, yes.

Now is this the same physical description as Midari? Yeah. It does seem to match that. But we don't know if it's him. His hands were not frying pans. That's right, he does not look like the bouncer. This is a different guy. Bouncer, doorman.

Okay. Guard. Sentry. And he just storms towards the end of Rance of Gordon. Does anyone wanna follow that guy real quick or no? Worth it? That's an interesting idea. If we're all here, that kind of makes sense.

Two of us go. Great, let's two of us put a tail on on this perhaps Midari fellow. Great, who wants to do it? Let's keep a photographer here, unless you really want to follow him. I'm just wondering, would it be useful photography-wise to follow him? Could be. Yeah, I guess both could be. Oh my god, the choices are paralyzing!

What would you prefer? I have no clue. I guess yeah, let's just follow him. We want proof about this juju house, right? In terms of getting Poole to look into this more clearly, I almost feel like we need the photos from where we are Makanga we follow him. We know what his deal is. We can always Now we know where he goes where he haunt where this haunts are hopefully who knows no knowing knowing both tilling has skill at breaking and entering and

Margo's skill at photography, maybe keep them at juju and then a fey ruse and I tail Munga Madora Really wanted to get to you know I'll do it alone. I love that fae ruse has this higher education, but it's like it's always like she got a taste of Me Like all the time. Yeah. Vaughn, you can go solo.

I can go solo. Shall I go solo? I'm fine with that. It might be better stealth wise, honestly. I'll do it alone if that's cool. Okay, we got a solo tale. Okay, just text us if anything goes wrong. You got it.

I'll send you a telegram if anything goes upside down. Okay. So you go back to the wolf. Wolf, oh no. Tell me, oh man, tell me what you're doing here. Are you just like, stealthing? Or are you not even stealthing so much as just keeping a distance?

Just keep a distance. I don't know if stealth even applies here. I just wanna follow him. Stealth is not a great skill for me, but I still wanna follow this guy. Oh no. is not a great skill for me, but I still want to follow this guy. It's a terrible skill for me, actually. Alright, so you follow this guy and he is walking in a bit of a huff. Clearly he's upset over something and the conversation that he had with Silas perhaps escalated it.

And you follow him into the night. The Harlem night. The Harlem night. What are the rest of you doing? I just want to check in with you guys real quick while I try and find something. I might not. We're still watching. Oh, sorry.

No, no, no. I just as soon as we see Silas leaving to make a break. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so you're watching and eventually a couple guys come up to the door and they look surprised. They kind of look surprised and they knock on the door and Silas opens it and says something to them. And they nod and he goes back in and shuts the door. 20 minutes later, another group comes.

They leave. They leave. Oh, they leave. They leave. They don't have access to their special little rooms so they can't hold their little rituals. Another group comes, three guys or so, knock knock. Oh no.

Same thing, they leave. Can you imagine having a secret cult and then losing the key? I lost the key. And then having to like, when your secret cult shows up, be like, I'm sorry man, I lost the key. I lost the key. It's out of my temple room. We can't do our otherworldly, the tones of the unknown.

If this keeps going on and he doesn't leave, do we try to sneak in through where that, we saw that bouncer and do we try that entrance? The bouncer was at the front door, I think. It was just the front door. Oh, I thought it was like a side entrance. Okay, nevermind that. Like as they keep opening the door,

can we like try to stretch our listen? Stretch for years. To like try to hear what they're saying like they're saying some sort of password. Maybe I don't know Yeah, give me a listen role Each individual listen because you're all straining I got the 100 That's a critical fail I go your sense of a critical fail. I go deaf for a second. You're permanently deaf.

I'm going to spend ten luck to succeed on this. I got a regular success. Okay, two regular success, the basic thing you're hearing is Silas is saying stuff and the first group of guys, he's speaking in another language. I don't think any of you speak that language. So he's speaking in another language you don't quite get it. The second group, they look different than the other guys and he speaks to them in English and it's like, we have a problem, not tonight.

Troy, real quick, is there any way, and you can totally say this time has passed or whatever, but in these moments of seeing these guys, you said this door is right next to the door that they're knocking on, right? We can get a glimpse of these guys Yeah, we recognizing Anybody from that night with Jackson those guys that we saw they were like oh and then like jumped out of the fire escape It's an excellent question. It's very dark But obviously every time that store the juju house door open some light comes out and you do see faces

Some of those guys look so crazy familiar, but you don't know if you're just projecting that or not. You're not 100% sure that it's the right guy, but man, there are some similarities. I mean, if you remember, two of those guys looked Kenyan, and then one of the guys just looked like some random white dude. You haven't seen anybody that matched the white guy,

but especially as you hear them speaking another language that very well may be Kenyan, you start to think like, wait, was that one of the guys that jumped out the window? But my God, that happened so fast. Even trying to remember their faces would be tough. That's an excellent question though. There was a white dude that went into the juju house with the gun.

It was the one, the guy came out with the gun and he put the envelope in. You have not seen him either. However, after about... After that second group goes, maybe 15, 20 minutes later, Silas comes out, locks the door behind him, pauses for a moment,

and looks over in the direction of the pawn shop. Cut back to Vaughn. Vaughn is walking along, following this guy. He's walking east. He goes over to Lennox. He takes the turn at 1377th goes over to Lennox He goes down Lennox to 129th Street and then starts walking east. He stops outside of a Shabby like apartment building. It's maybe a four-story apartment building on

129th Street and 2nd Avenue and He goes inside the building. Give me a spot hit. Second. All right. Oh, brutal. All that good luck. I rolled a 97. What's your spot hidden?

75. Okay, good. So you're fine. That's not a fumble. If it was under 50, it would be, So you're fine. That's not a fumble If it was under 50 it would be but you're looking to see like any of the lights come on in the building to figure out Which room he went into? And you don't see anything if anything, maybe he's on the other side of the building or he didn't turn on the lights

So you're just watching trying to figure out Is this where he lives? Is he meeting with someone? I push, I push the spot hidden. What do you do differently? I wanna walk closer, see if I can. Let's go. Like sometimes you can, maybe there's, maybe as I round the building,

you can kind of see in the windows, it's dark now, so you can see the light inside. And maybe one of those windows going up the building, you can maybe see the elevator doors. And I can see if he pops out, maybe. But I have to get closer and become more conspicuous to get that done. All right, here we go.

Oh no, oh no. Remember last time when I rolled a 97? Yeah. Well guys, don't worry because I did roll lower. I rolled a 96. Oh. And what's your stat you're trying to be? 75. Oh, and I don't, I believe you can't use luck on a pushed roll.

Nope. So. So. Nope. So so amazing No, Troy's having fun now. That means something bad's gonna happen Troy smile happy right now. Okay, you're you're looking Okay, you're looking at the building where they go and I'm not just like computers don't exist yet But you're just like trying to take it all in you're in flashbacks to the war Like with your sniper rifle trying to find your target and you can't find you so you move a little closer move a little closer You're still watching for any hint of which room he went into which floor

Maybe you could still see him walking up the steps and as you stand there you hear footsteps behind you And a voice that says like, well, we don't see young men like you walking around Harlem at this time of night all by their self. A lot of bad things happen in Harlem at night time. Isn't very safe to be up here. And you turn and you see four uniformed police officers coming up to you.

And you look at their badges and they all say 14th Precinct. Dirty cops. And we'll see you next week. No. Nice. I thought you were gonna say, see something you like, Costanza? See something you like, Costanza? Oh, great.

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