The Glass Cannon Podcast - Time For Chaos S1 | E16 – And One Was a Soldier

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

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the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Good evening everyone, it's Friday night, it's time for Chaos, but more importantly, it is officially fall here. Is it? In the world. It's fall. It's September. Once you're into September, it's fall. We got Halloween decorations up in my house.

There's pumpkins everywhere. I'm eating cider donuts. It is fall, whether you like it or not. And this leads me right to my question I can tell Nora, you're already going to answer incorrectly. Does anyone here not like fall? Oh, no, I love fall? Oh no, I love fall. Do you?

I love fall. I hate summer so much. Okay, well then we're cool. I feel, no, we got scammed as children. Like summer is cool only cause we had school off. Yeah. And now that I'm an adult and school is not in my life, fuck summer.

Can we all agree that summer is the worst of all seasons? Is there anyone here that's a big summer head? I got no beef with summer in particular. I don't know. I kind of think there's pluses and minuses to both. I don't put, I don't go all in on anything. This is probably a real issue in my life. Henceforth, that doesn't, that's not the right word.

Meaning that I don't commit to anything. This is not, I'm just burying. Dig up, stupid. You're learning a lot about each other. Yeah. I think summer's cool. I think about like, I like wearing summery outfits. I think that's fun.

I feel like summer drinks are a thing. You know, summer, like a summer salad, summer soups, a gazpacho. You like being like constantly. I like pretending. I like pretending that I'm in Vampire Weekend. You know, just like on Cape Cod, like fucking talking about clam bakes and shit, like that's... But I'm not committed to something. Fall, I think has a lot going on for it. Also though, the light starts to go away and I feel like I start getting depressed more.

I think I'm one of those people where the light is tied to my mood. You just got to get one of these lights here. I can't... It's tied to my camera. I thought you were going to hold up anti-depressants. This is what it looks like when I turn it on. I put that on for 30 minutes in the morning and it really does the trick.

You just blast a light in your face? Just blast a light in your face, that's all you gotta do. Like a little tanning bed? No, no, I don't know, maybe it's giving me some color, but I do it every morning and it really, really makes me feel better, especially because I had that like seasonal affective disorder and I used to live, like when I first moved to New York, I lived in a basement apartment that didn't have any light and I was poor and had no money to eat.

So I was just like, this is the worst. But during the fall and winter, I used to get that seasonal affective disorder. But now I just pop this bad boy on. We're good to go. Okay. Maybe I'll leave this on all show. I like fireplace weather. Yes.

Yes. I want to sit in front of a fireplace. I want like to be like I want cozy blankets everywhere. Yep. And yeah. Smoky drinks. Yeah. Sure.

Drinks made in a little smoke box. That also sounds great. Is anybody else here on Rob's weird noncommittal side? I feel like maybe I am. Oh, here we go. Yeah, I knew it. I mean, like, I, summer's fine, but like, like any other season except for, I mean, really just summer and winter at a point you get sick of it because they're like the longest

ones, because the other ones are like transitional, they don't last long enough. But I have seasonal allergies like every season and fall and spring are pretty bad. So, but I do like the cool down. I like that it gets darker. I don't like light that much, too much sometimes. So you wouldn't like one of these? No. When I worked in a big office. Stop showing off Troy with your lights. When I worked in a big office building in the financial district, people at our desks

like had those and I thought they were really weird, but like whatever works. I used to be those people as well, but 30 minutes a day keeps the sads away. For people who are just listening, just so you know, it looks like Troy is turning on a desk lamp. Yeah. And bragging about it. He's just under lighting his face like a member of the Midnight Society

about to tell a spooky story. But they're like advertised like these like sun replacement lights, yeah. That looks like an iPad. It looks like a tablet. Yeah, it does, right? It's like an iPad size. I think you're iPad. It looks like a tablet. It does, right? It's like an iPad size. I think you're right.

It wasn't that you weren't making a lot of money. You weren't eating good food. You were in a basement apartment that was like maybe shitty. It was definitely the light you were missing. You know, it's made a big difference. I've only had this since Christmas, but it's fantastic. Listen, my hardest thing is like, I don't know what I like more, fall or winter,

because I like them so much more than anything else. Because I love fall, football, leaf changing, birthday, all the great stuff that comes with that, but I love winter because nothing brings me more joy than Christmas. But also nothing brings me more sadness than the day after Christmas. This is the thing. Until the following Christmas. And then maybe this you more sadness than the day after Christmas. This is the thing.

Until the following Christmas. And then maybe this is my take is like, I feel like we only love the beginnings of seasons. It's like when the transition happens, it's like, ah, yes, the leaves, the fall, the pumpkin spice is back in stores. Hurrah. The first snow? The first snow cut to a month in into spring when it's rainy, two months into summer when the sun is actively trying to kill you, several months into winter when you're knee deep in slush. When you go to work and when you come home from work, it is dark both times.

It's like, yeah, it becomes burdensome. You got to find joy where you can though, I suppose. Does that make us fickle? Are we fickle? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. It's okay. Yeah, I guess so. Perhaps nothing is so delightful as anticipating the season which is to come. It sounds like the weather is fickle.

Mm-hmm. That's true. That's deep. I just Googled what fickle means. I didn't really, I was like, what the? It's changed. We just used a word you didn't know in a sentence. That's how you learn.

That's right. Seems to me that the weather is fickle. This fickle, changeable ass weather. Nobody said anything. And make up its mind. It will soon enough. We will have made it up its mind for it. Exactly.

Enjoy these seasons while we got them. Cause pretty soon. While they exist. Yeah. This is the content our fans subscribe to. This is, you know. This is talking about. What, season of effective disorder talk

and casual doom saying? Colin, what's your favorite season? Let's go to the phone lines real quick. Yeah, pumpkin pie rules, Autumn's great. It always interests me because I don't understand anyone that enjoys summer more than another season. It's fine to be like, I had a great summer. Hey, I like going to the beach. Sure. I don't like walking out of my house after showering and immediately being soaked. I've talked about this ad nauseum. I hate it.

So anyone that likes summer more than fall or winter is just like, it's like an alien to me. I don't understand that. So nothing brings me more joy than like this week of the year, right now, right now. All right, this is my favorite. It's not fall. Fall is the 22nd.

If I'm having a pumpkin spice latte, it is fall. Go ahead. But technically, it's not fall. So I'm going to say. It's been over 100 degrees all week here. I was going to talk to anybody on the West Coast who's incinerating right now. It's been almost 110 yesterday.

You guys got to get out of that West Coast nonsense. It's brutally hot. The post-apocalyptic motorcycle gangs are forming. We're hoarding gasoline. It's all happening over here. Well, if it's happening there, it's certainly happening here at Time for Chaos because last week's episode was one of my favorite episodes we've done across the network. I could not stop thinking about that episode for days after we finish recording it.

And the only real downside is how disappointing this episode is going to be in comparison. See? My dice rolls will probably be disappointing. Well, we'll see. I'm really interested to see where it goes tonight. And it'd be great if my camera would stop being an asshole, too. It's disagreeing with your weather tape. It's the ghost of autumn.

Fuck. Hey, you know what? Let's see the map of Juju House real quick. I have been sitting on this map for weeks now. And every time you went to Juju House, I considered bringing it out. But it's one of those things, once you bring a map out, the players start to go,

oh, time to get ready to kill something. And I just didn't want to throw it all out there because there's plenty of maps in this adventure. There's no combat whatsoever. But I didn't want to lead you along too much, but I am glad that we were finally able to bring it out last week as you guys began to explore in earnest

what the hell is going on at the Juju House. So let's talk about last week. You, God, it was so fun. You basically were split up because Vaughn was chasing down who he thinks to be Makanga Madari, some mysterious figure that is somehow connected to Juju House, leaves Juju House and walks maybe to his residence somewhere, closer to the East Side. Vaughn follows him there, loses him

in whatever room he goes into, and then is accosted by four policemen of the 14th precinct, presumably under Dobson. You were able to get out of that, what did I say, Dobson, Robeson. Whatever the fuck his name is, Robeson, I don't know. God, they're working for focus on the family. It's Robeson.

And you were able to get out of that with some sweet talk. Do they know who you are? Are they just trying to scare you? Or are you just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Either way, you get out of there unscathed. You go over to the building because you see your dear friend from back in the day. A man who we think is no longer part of this world beckoning you towards the building.

You go into the building, you can't see your friend anymore, but you do see the names of all the people that live in the building. You see a Madari, so you break in. Meanwhile, back at Juju House, Carter, Ferruz, and Margot are breaking in and entering as

well and you sneak downstairs. Carter stays upstairs to look at the journal, sees a strange monthly or weekly payment to WR14, I believe, goes to the back room and finds a knife similar to the knife that killed Jackson Elias and another headband-type mask, but instead of a piece of red felt hanging down from it, has a mummified human tongue hanging from it. Faeruz and Margo, meanwhile, go downstairs. They're looking around. There's this big circular hole in the floor or something.

Looks like it's covered by a big stone and there's a curtain in the back. You go to move the curtain aside and it's full of stuff back there. There's like claws hanging on the wall and a robe and books and a weird chronometer on the wall. There's also four zombie like creatures. Four looks like former residents of the area.

Their entrails leaking out of them and just a deadness in their eyes. And they come after you. You scream for Carter. Carter comes down to help. Meanwhile back at Madari's, perhaps his apartment, Vaughn breaks in, finds a small little box with some horrific monster on the cover

and inside three vials of a liquid that seems to be almost alive in its movements as the light catches it. Von also shares a moment with his old dear friend. Is that person there? Is it all part of Von's deteriorating sanity? Who knows? You've dispatched of these creatures. Vaughn has exited Makanga Madari's apartment. We'll pick up back at Juju House. Carter and Margo and Feyarrouz are down there,

I imagine just like, trying to catch your breath from this attack. Um, what do you want to do here? You've obviously snuck in at a time when, uh, no one is around, but you don't know how long you have before someone is around. What is your plan of action here? No one is around. But you don't know how long you have before someone is around.

What is your plan of action here? I think we should see what this hold on the ground is. Do you know, I thought it was the safe bet to open the curtain. And now I'm afraid of the hole in the ground. But immediately after these guys fall, when we got down here, Margo took a photo of the room. I want to take a photo of the room again.

Now that all this has happened and a photo behind the curtain, just because I feel like we're too scatterbrained to really look at anything closely right now. Can we do a spot hidden while we're here? Sure. Let's do it. Anything closely right now? Oh, can we do a spot hidden while we're here? Sure Just a general sort of spot hidden on the room. Yep 22 under

80 I believe Yeah, like I said, I don't see anything right now. I'm a little overwhelmed. Yeah, me neither. Rolled a 400 over 25. I might be rolling too many dice. Yeah, the main chamber itself is surprisingly barren with the exception of this winch mechanism connected to the stone slab covering the floor.

The only thing that looks to be of interest beyond that in this first room are the symbols all over the place that none of you recognize at all. If you remember, the symbols were getting stranger and stranger and more incomprehensible. Right. I'll tell you what's freaking Carter out right now is seeing these former zombies, intestines out, carving on the forehead, right? I mean, that's exactly what they did to Jackson, right? Like, I think Carter quickly, I know it was the heat of battle, we probably would have learned this earlier,

but just wants to double check these bodies and make sure one of them is not Jackson. And and make sure one of them is not Jackson. And the other thing that's, the other thing that, now I'm in character. See, there's a clear difference when I'm speaking. The other thing that's fucking freaking me out right now, guys, is we've got, this is evidence. We've got evidence, right? This guy, how do we know that what's his name,

Hilton Adams is not going to fry this morning. Okay, but at the same time, we are now doubly implicated in this. We just killed all these people. How are we going to explain to the police that we're zombies? Or whatever? Yeah, that's a problem. Remove this stone slab. Perhaps best case scenario, We hide the bodies in there and get out of here Okay, well here's the thing so what if in this slab, and I don't know you know the world's kind of topsy-turvy right now What if this inside this hole is these things they were gonna put these guys in there? Well, if it's like a sacrificial

Whatever then we're gonna piss something off. We have a chance right now to maybe get out of here and maybe save that dude's life. I know Vaughn was super pumped about that. I'm sure he's doing just fine right now. Listen, we kind of come, we didn't come this far just to overlook a very important part of what's inside this room.

That's true, that's true. I would just hate to look down there and then be eaten. And then I'm dead, more importantly. But then also Hilton Adams is dead because we were unable to, you know, help him out. I don't know. Freaking out. Could we even go to the precinct right now? We could go to, I mean, we could go to what's his name? I mean, yes, right now, yeah.

Wait, okay, immediately, let's think immediately. Right now, if you are afraid of somebody eating you, the best way to know is to throw one of the bodies in there. Mm-hmm. I don't really follow, but I'm also a pushover. Because if somebody starts eating something, if something starts eating one of them, then we know to get the hell out of here.

Also, I think we should make, I agree we should make sure we've seen everything in this room. I mean, we think that we have everything that we need to exonerate this man, but maybe we don't. We're also part of a crime scene. But here's the thing, these people could be people that were taken weeks ago, months ago,

and we have alibis, we weren't here, I wasn't here. You know, none of us were in town until however many days ago. So if they identify these bodies and they're like, oh, that's so and so, they disappeared at this part of Harlem on this date, then it's not us, we found them. Yeah, but now they're dead because of us.

Well, I think they were already, I mean, I don't know if they were really alive at this point when we met them. They seemed a little discombobulated, intestinally speaking. I think we should just take a quick look behind the curtain here and see, is there anything else that could be useful evidence

We can take and then open right the hole. Okay, let's open the thing. We'll give a peeky peek I don't think we should throw the bodies in there I think the bodies are gonna exonerate us more than not. I will take a picture of each one Just in case they destroy evidence when we leave or something like that So we need to get our story straight. They were dead when we got here. I would assume so. I don't think many people are living with that kind of... That's going to be hard to explain to people that they're zombies. They're not going to believe us but we were down here

and we found them like this. We acted in self-defense. Yeah. No we didn't act at all. We found them like this. We acted in self defense. Yeah. No, we did not do it. We found them like this. You found four people. You'd be your word against theirs. Those were my uncles and aunts. They were down there having dinner. Who's talking to us right now?

Is that my conscience? Just letting you know that like, this could look really bad. Oh yeah, they were zombies, right? The zombie things are gonna fly. But I'm looking at us and it's like, this could look really bad. Oh yeah, they were zombies, right? The zombie things I can apply. But I'm looking at us and it's like, Faeruz was punching one of the zombies. You probably have blood at least all over your arm.

Not maybe your clothes. You shot them and. I can't believe Carter, I can't believe I'm saying this. But it's like, but also these bodies being here could actually provide closure. Again, I want to throw up in my mouth. Could provide closure for the families that have been just wracked with despair since these people left. So let's check any curtains that are left.

Let's winch that winch, and then give a Peaky, and then I say we book it. Yes, yes. and then clean up before we talk to anybody we should definitely clean up because I am a mess all right so you want to check out the little alcove where the creatures were that attacked you all right there's there's a lot going on in here where the room that you're in now when the battle battle took place, is relatively empty. It seems like everything is stored back here in this alcove. Things that sort of jump out at you, you see a long feathered robe of shimmering colors hanging on a peg near the the rear part of the room and

also like a long set of like claws like Freddy Krueger type claws and situated above them is a modern looking chronometer hanging on the wall. Are you all in there just kind of looking around at whatnot? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Pushing over Feyruz's spot hidden, one thing jumps out at you. You see a mask peeking out of something covered in Leatherhide. It seems like everything in here is covered in Leatherhide.

There's a mask. There's a, you find this burnished copper bowl that's etched with unrecognizable runes and sigils. You see a scepter, looks like a cash box that's locked. You find a book. And you also find a mask similar to the one that Carter found upstairs, that headband that looks just like the ones that the guys were wearing that killed Jackson. But it's a little nicer than the one that was in Silas's quarters, but it too has a mummified human tongue, and bothae'ruz and Margot see that and it provokes a sanity roll. It's just this real human tongue hanging from off the headband.

Oh, one of those? Yeah. Here we go. Carter's good with it. Yup. Oh, oh. Okay, I got a 96 over 90. I get to lose some.

Oh, only one point. One point of sanity, which is also what I believe Carter lost. So seeing that shakes you. How do you think that manifests, that sort of loss, that little break? I think she was able to keep it together through all of that killing of, re-killing of dead zombies and just the last little bit left she sees this like dead tongue with the

headband and it's just a bit too much. Maybe it's bringing her back to Peru where they saw crazier stuff and she's just really scared to open the hole in the floor. Okay, so Margo, if you look over at her, seems like lost for a second, but she shakes out of it. And yeah, those are the things that kind of jump out at you when looking in here. There's also on the the wall beside the alcove, there are two long stout poles coming out from the wall and dangling from the poles are like leather thongs that are made into small loops.

And then next to that on the floor where Faeru's jump behind are some crates and a crowbar. And the crates all say Emerson Imports. Let's get some photos of those. Yes. Those to them. We photographed this whole horrifying thing with the thongs and the whatnots. Oh yeah. I get every angle.

Do you see this box here? That's a locked box. Do you think you could open it? Yes, I do And then if if Carter is going to check that box I want to check that book Okay Locked I'm guessing the little lock box. Yeah Yeah, you can give me a locksmith roll on the lock box. All right Ladies, I know it's impressive during that fight, but you haven't seen anything yet as I

As I roll oh Hmm Well that's impressive that I wanted 48 over 43 now. Here's the thing Troy. We didn't do a luck Roll for the session yet. We didn't we didn't The result of that may influence this. Right, all right, let's do that luck roll and see if you gain any luck.

Just remember where you're at. Remember this is what you wanna fail and then you'll get one D10. Oh no, wait, no, I succeeded, nevermind. I failed. And I only get three points but whatever okay hey three points is better than none I failed also and got three points any nothing three failed and failing failed and failing yeah what about Carter of

course I succeeded so I'm not gonna spend I only have 21 luck I'm not gonna spend the five I think I need to do this. So how big is the lock box? Can I just take it? Yeah, you could. You could push the roll. Oh, that's an interesting, I forgot about that. Move. Yeah, I haven't tried that yet.

Let's do that. Okay. Push it. Okay. Push it real good. Push it real good. What the fuck am I doing? Oh, he's pushing. Okay. Push it. Real good. Push it real good. What the fuck am I doing? Oh, locksmith.

Yeah. Da da da da da da. Nope. I got a fucking 99. Kill me right now. Salt and pepper are not in effect. Nope. And what is your score?

This is Spinderella's domain. Yeah. A 43. All right, so that's a fumble. That's not only a failed push scroll, that's also a fumble. Yeah. So what I'll say is you go to Jimmy this lock open

and the metal that's sort of containing whatever is inside of it is very flimsy it's more of like what you'd use to build an old septic tank which I don't know if you realize this like old septic tanks you can just like fold up and put in a drawer that's how flimsy that is so this you made that basically you crush the box and you hear things inside just go crunch I'm sure that was just I'm sure this is a miniature septic tank It's just a miniature septic. This is probably fine

I wouldn't this part you know what the more I look at this the more I realize this is not very valuable So I'm gonna go ahead and put that right back on their shelf And up there, I don't think they'll put that right back on their shelf. And up there. I don't think they'll notice that. Crunch that box. Meanwhile, Faeruz goes over and looks at the book. Go to look at the book and,

let me see. It's in English it looks like, which me see. It's in English, it looks like, which is good. And it's important so that you recognize that the title is Africa's Dark Sex. Yes. Ah, yes! Totally pocket it. Africa's Dark Sex by Nigel Blackwell.

Finally. Looks like it was printed in 1920. I'm wondering, did you mention seeing the mask there? Cause if you did, I feel like- Oh, I totally talk out like this is- Love to look at that. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah.

I don't hold anything back from any of you. Look at that. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I don't hold anything back from any of you. All right, so Margot steps past, goes over to this mask. It's very, very, very strange looking. It appears similar in some ways

to some of the masks that you saw upstairs. Very obviously African in its vibe. It's a carved wooden African looking mask, but it has like four hideous faces like perched above a thick corded neck with like a basket-like corded neck with like a basket like Collar made out of reed feathers and fabric So basically it's the type of mass that you would like put over your head Like you'd put the bass portion over the mat basket portion over your head it appears and the fate these four faces are on top It's very unnerving. So it's huge Yeah, it's huge.

Yeah, it's pretty big. Okay. And this is before Julie Taymor did The Lion King. Well before. Okay, so maybe origin story for Julie Taymor. Or it's like, I feel like there's a Wicker Man scene where he's got like one of these things on. Yeah, it's like this basket with this shit on top.

It's pretty intense. You like pull down the leather covering and you really never see anything like it. The top part looks similar to the mask you've seen upstairs but it's much more ornate. I mean, this all looks very ceremonial. If you look, we've got a mask, we've got this bowl and septon.

I mean, it's a modern looking chronometer above everything. What's is it, can we tell what it's tracking or what time it is on there, if that's the thing it does? Yeah, so you go and look at it and. Does this track the full moon? It doesn't match anything else in the room. That's the first thing that jumps out at you. Everything else, like you were just saying, is very tribal in nature.

The scepter, the mask, obviously the book, everything. And then there's this very modern looking chronometer on the wall. Give me an intelligence roll, the three of you in there. Intelligence. Geez, I'm just I'm still messed up. I got a 93 over 70. I got a 16 under 80. I got a 31 under 80.

All right, so. It's an extreme. Extreme right. So. So extreme. Extreme and hard. So both of both Carter and Fayrouz notice that it's it's not reading the correct time. However, a step further

because it's very difficult to read. It doesn't look like a normal clock, but you can kind of deduce. OK, wait, this isn't what time it is now. However, Faerus, you also notice that it's, it seems to be tracking Greenwich Mean Time, some four hours ahead of New York time. That's strange.

Carter, do you see this? I see a portion of that. Some of what you think I think why they tracking Greenwich time That's uh, you know what Vaughn would know England time maybe Vaughn is a part of this No, I trusted that motherfucker. Oh, you know you're right. Sorry, I'm still on edge. All right.

I'm still very curious as to know what's this circular closed off thing. Should I aim my gun at it as you open it? I just want to point out again, I feel like we're playing, and gambling is a term you're playing with your house money right now. And I feel like we're playing, and gambling is a term, you're playing with your house money right now.

And I feel like we got all this evidence. We got this shit. Look at this mask. Look at this thong. We can get out of here. We can maybe save this man's life. We've got a ledger. We can blow this whole thing up.

People won't get killed anymore. There's a Dark of the Moons coming up. Someone else is going gonna get taken. I think we should just nuke it from orbit, you know what I mean? How are we going to nuke it if we need this? We don't even know what we're looking at. What's gonna be down there? Okay, alright, okay.

Fae-Fae Ruse is like, the academic that she is, is like hell bent on needing to know what this is. Yeah, I don't think Margo wants to look, but she knows we're not leaving until we do. Okay, I'm gonna go, I'm just gonna stand by the door. Not for any reason other than I've got a pee. And I would rather be the first to the bathroom when we decide to leave.

So you guys go ahead and start. I'm gonna be right over here. I draw my gun just in case. You'll be right here. Is this a one person job? Well, let's say you walk over to it. Who's the one that's going to try and lift it up? Let me look at my strength is I could I could do it.

Okay. It's going to be a two hand thing. So like whoever is lifting it can't have a con drawn. Okay. And what is your strength Faeruz? 75. 75. 75, all right, so you go to pull it down and it doesn't move at all.

Yes. In Call of Cthulhu terms, that means you need to start adding more bodies to it to try and combine your strengths. All right. And you could find out that you don't have enough strength. Okay. Perhaps, Mago, you keep your gun drawn

and caught a worst case scenario, you pee in this hole. If I had a dime. Okay, okay. I'm just saying if a tentacle comes out of here. Be a good man and help me remove this. Well, when you put it like that, would you question my manhood? All right, fine.

Here I come to this thing. Muttering. What is your strength, Carter? It's a 70. 70, and what is yours? I'm sorry, Faeruz, what's yours? 75. 70, 75, okay, so combined 145.

Okay. Give me a role, Fae Ruse, a strength role. She really wants you to fail this. Ha ha. 17. She's determined. So, Fae Ruse and Carter, two hands on this. What if Carter's just going like,

ah, I can't, it's just not really helping. I'm not everything, ah. Two hands on this thing are trying to push it down. And Margot, you're just standing there with your gun out. Yeah. Making sure there's no problems. And you start pushing and you're really, really giving it. And all of a sudden, the stone begins to lift.

And then we come back to the streets of New York. You fucker. Moonlight, beautiful crescent moon cutting through the clouds. Where is Vaughn at at this point? Now he walked across town, you know, maybe only, I think I said 15, 20 minutes away from your rendezvous point at the pawn shop outside of the Juju house. Is it your plan to go back there? Where are you at?

Vaughn is extremely shaken after what he's experienced and has this box tucked in his jacket and is moving very... going from shadow to shadow, looking around tentatively trying to see if there is any police activity on the street and listening for sirens jumping at every sound. And if he sees that moon over the tops of the buildings, it only drives home how soon the new moon is coming. And yeah, he's making his way back to his comrades who he left. So yeah, he's headed back to the pawn shop. Headed back to the pawn shop. You're walking around kind of on edge. You hear a bunch of trash cans fall over and see a cat like scurry off chasing a mouse.

Scoots on through and continues on his way. You're walking along... and... you get back in the direction of... where the Juju house is. And... as you're approaching the alley give me a spot hidden. Oh my lord. Alright that's uh I've rolled very well. That's a three

under 75. Three under 75, Council, I believe that's what we call extreme. That's an extreme success? Okay. His eyes are almost bulging out of his head. Of course, he's trying to pick up every sound and movement and see if Madari or the proprietor of Juju House are moving around or the police that he encountered. Like, down the edge of the alleyway, a figure at the door of Juju House, who appears to be slowly closing the door and then, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, running down the alleyway. Like dum, running down the alleyway. Like awkwardly running down the alleyway back to the street. Towards me then? Towards your direction. Now you're still far enough away

where you're able to observe this, but it's running like basically towards you. Okay. Interesting. I would like to conceal myself as much as possible and try to let him pass so that I can see who it is and pass unnoticed Okay you

conceal yourself and You see the figure get closer and closer and closer and it's the old man Silas and Akwane and he just looks one way looks the other, and like, crosses the street to go over in the direction of Central Park. He looks like he's on a mission. Okay.

He's gonna get help. Yeah. Times of the essence. Okay. Times of the essence. Okay, as soon as the coast is clear, I run to the door of the Juju house and try to open it. You run to the door of the Juju house and you try to open the door and it's locked. Shit, we locked it. Yeah.

Well, you saw him closing it. Oh, that's true. So he's inside. He was in there. And of course, I guess I might peep through the slats of the pawn shop just to make sure that everyone's not there. And if they're not there, then I make the assumption that they, based on that, I that I assume I think what has happened

that he is aware of their presence. All right. I kick the door down. Kick the door down. give me a strength roll. Oh, okay. I'm gonna spend a couple of those new found points of luck to get that down to a regular old success. I rolled an 81 over 75. 81 over 75. All right, so you- So six points. You, what do you, do elbow or or foot you said kick the door down right? I'm still still clutching the box. So I sort of back you could watch me back up across the alley

and then sort of like lunge forward and with my foot kind of put my weight against the knob and the and the and the bolt and like just try to crush it open. Okay, so you hit it with such force that your foot basically goes through a part of the door. And you don't knock it completely off its hinges, but there's enough of a hole there that you feel like you could keep going at it if you wanted to get it open. Great. I do open. Great.

I do so. Okay. Give me, this seems pedantic, but give me one more strength check. That's a success. Yeah. A 59 under 75. So you come up to the alley,

you see someone quietly closing the door, locks it obviously, and then just bolts, presumably to get help. You just come up and boom, kind of knocks it up, and then boom, the door bursts open. And we cut back to downstairs, where the stone slab is coming up. The stone slab is coming up.

Margot standing there with her gun in her hand. Still shook from seeing that mummified human tongue, Carter almost against his will, helping Feroz scratch her curiosity. You lift it up and it really takes all your strength and it comes up and it kind of to kind of stops at a certain point. Like you can keep pushing up so that you don't have to keep exerting force.

And you see underneath what looks like a few dozen people. At first that's what it looks like and they're all like like mouths open but then you realize when you look that it isn't a few dozen people. It's like one pulsating mass that has all these faces coming out of it. Everybody roll a sanity check. Close it, close it, close it, close it.

I actually quit the game. Oh, hell yeah. I'm just gonna roll a kid. A pleasure. Rob lost the sanity check. Goodbye. 47 under 78. 47 under 78, success.

87 under my new 89. Oh my God. I'm trying to keep us together. Sorry, there's a rock. I got a 16 under 54. Holy shit. All right, so everybody roll one D4. All right.

As I'm still shouting, close it, close it, close it, close it. I got a three. I got a two. I got a three. That's your sanity damage for succeeding. We gained that, right? No, you don't lose that. Now, how many of you lost today, Carter?

Just one from the tongue? From this session? From this day. Oh, the day, yeah, just one from the tongue, three from the pulsating face of pizza. Okay. You just see all these faces, and as you're like, close it, close it, close it, they all begin weeping

and shrieking just like, ah! Ah! Oh my God. And Von, you hear that from downstairs. And also, close it, close it! Before you close it, I take a picture. Before you close it, I snap real quick because I didn't lose sanity, so I do it.

All right, that I like that. I'm not closing it, let's just go. All right, whatever. Tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk. Everybody roll another sanity check for this horrible sound, and Vaughn, it starts to pierce your ears as well. It is a sound from another place and time.

Ah! I like maybe even like drop to my knees and I'm like pulling up the carpet above the trap door and is it open? Uh yes it unlocked. In fact the carpet is pushed away because Carter came. Yeah I never closed it when I ran down there. I fling it open and uh and I guess like that sound just amplifies as I open the door. All the faces crying. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. And I guess like that sound just amplifies as I open the door like oh All the faces crying oh god. Oh god What did everybody get on their sanity roll 38 under 86 Wow a

26 under 76 Yeah, I failed that shit. No No, I assume that my friends... I'm not gonna point fingers, Nora. What is your fault? I assumed that's my friends there. Up there Vaughn is like in one hand collecting the box and in the other shakily taking a pistol out of his belt and just like, oh God, oh God.

Preparing for the worst. And what was your sanity roll going? My sanity roll? Oh no, just from hearing it? Yeah. You didn't see it, but you take, you have to check your sanity from the wailing sounds. All right, I rolled a 39 over 36.

Oh! Margo and Faeruz take one point of sanity damage. Carter and Vaughn roll one D6. That's fine, I'm gonna roll a one. I don't think I'm sure. I rolled a four. I rolled a four. I rolled a three. Okay.

So, Carter, that's four plus how many? Four plus, uh, three. Plus one. Eight. And what was your, is that more than one fifth of your? I started with, I started this session with 54. 54, okay, so I think you're okay. Carter's okay.

Couple more points and you're going to be in trouble. Yeah. Are you able to unlatch this thing and drop it before something horrible happens? Let's get into Dex initiative here. Margo, you, what is your normal Dex? Um, 80. And you have a gun drawn.

You're the only one with a gun. I think I might have put it down because I took a picture. So I need to pick it up again. Can we just run? Yes, I'm just trying to see how fast you are. Vaughn, what is your dex? 40. And were you going down there with a gun?

I think yes, that was the idea. Okay, and then Carter, what's your dex? 40. 40 and Faerûs. 55. 55. Okay. 55. Okay. So, you're all standing there and Vaughn comes flying down the stairs, woodchips all over his feet. Unhand them you blackheads! As like, I'm like through the through the door and then I see you there guts

strewn all over the floor from these zombones yeah I mean you come down there and you see four dead bodies just like entrails all over the floor and you see your friends and then you look over and you see this mass of faces Mass of faces. Just, whoa! Dear God. And that provokes a sanity roll from you. Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's.

When the sanity comes in this game, it's just, we can't laugh. That's gonna be a failure. 79 over 33. I need you to roll 2d4. 2d4? Mmhmm. Okay. Oh, because we all passed, so we only did 1d4.

Oh man. 1d4 and a pass. Oh brother. Fail. 6. 6. Roll a 4 to 2. That is enough for a break. So, where it's more than five in one shot, give me, I think this is going to be the intelligence

roll. I'm so like all over the place right now because I didn't know it was going to happen. Let me see here. I believe this is the one where you need to roll. Like you need to fail it. One fifth, a five plus from one source make an intelligence roll. Oh God, guys, the chat.

Look at the chat. This is the one. No, don't read it. Yeah, I don't need to roll. I think this amount of sanity loss I just... Did you go past one fifth in a day? Because basically if it's five from one source, that's when you roll according to my cheat sheet here.

Yes, I did because I just lost six and I'd lost three up there. My one fifth of my sanity at the start of this session was seven. I just lost. All right, so you went past... Nine, or ten. So you basically took plus five from one source, which would normally be temporarily insane, but over a fifth in a day you go indefinitely insane. Oh dear god.

Here's what I think. What is your phobia again? That you think the dead are going to rise? That's what it was. What's happening? Yeah. Basically. And you look down there.

Not so much a phobia as a mania. Mania, that's right, a mania. You look down there when you come in and you hear this sound and you hear this crying and you look down and you see all of these soldiers that you went to war with. all of these soldiers that you went to war with. And you know for a fact, you watched every single one of them die. It's like 30 plus faces and they're all standing there and they're singing this like religious hymn. So the crying that you were hearing upstairs,

you think to yourself, that's not crying, it's, it's my friends and they're singing like, morning is broken. Oh, I sing a song of the saints of God, faithful and brave and true, who lived and loved

and toiled and died for the Lord they loved and knew. This scene, like we're all freaked out. This thing is screaming and Vaughn comes running in with his gun drum but then starts singing with it. Yep. And they're just going, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh go. Vaughn is, he is mentally lost right now. So he is going to need help being pulled out of here

because he is just standing there singing with his friends. It now goes to Margo's turn. And after that it's Faeru's. So if you guys want to do some sort of combination to help your friend here, just talk me through what's happening. I think after, I think we, I mean, we need to cover this thing back up. 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, Vaughn's arms over Help and Carry. She starts trying to sing along with him, even though she doesn't know this song at all. And one was a soldier and one was a priest and one was slain by a fierce wild beast. They were all

of them saints of God, and I mean God willing to be one too. Vaughn, shut up! I feel like as I'm turning him around. Margo, you're there too as well. Are you just helping or are you running? willing to be one too. Shut up! I'm like turning him around. Margo, you're there too as well. Are you just helping or are you running? Yeah, I definitely like to help Vaan. I'm on the other side trying to coax him through the door. Once we get through the door, shut that door. Wait, but I'm still in there. Cardi, you're the last one.

Once he, all of us. So I imagine Faeruz and Margo are Vaughn and trying to pull him away. What do you do? Me? Yeah. I like run up and I'm just like shoving everybody out the door. Okay. And do you shut the door behind you?

Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Talk to me about it. I'm like, this is like when you clog a toilet in a coffee shop. You don't tell anybody. You just fucking go. You pack up your laptop and you get tell anybody, you just fucking go.

You pack up your laptop and you get out of there. Let's go. Karja, I really don't think we should have left that open. I- They'll deal with it, just like the coffee shop. Why are you shutting the door to the choir, Sturtlinghast? Can't you hear them?

I can, you know what? I heard that there's a concert going on at Carnegie Hall. We gotta get there. They're gonna be singing all the songs. This is just, we don't wanna interrupt the rehearsal. One was a doctor and one was a queen. One was a shepherdess on the green. There all of them saints of God and I mean God will.

This little stairway is just thin enough to fit one person. So you're all like struggling on this stairway to get up Are you covering your tracks at all? You just know fuck out of there All right You get out there the door is busted down from Fonz kicking and you're just dragging him up the alley as he continues to sing The song is now reverberating on the wall Maybe you see lights go on in some of the apartment buildings because he's getting louder out there. And maybe people are coming to the curtain and looking down to see what's

going on. And there's police sirens in the distance. And you just pull him away into the night. Oh, they live not only in ages past, there are hundreds of thousands still. I make a point to be like, she's drunk. And like, as I also wail along, incoherently singing and trail off as we as we take a word from our sponsor, I need a 25 minute break. The saints of God are just folk like me and I mean to be one too.

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That's heroforge.com. Use code GCP, 5% off all color printed physical minis. Well that got out of hand quickly. What the hell do you do now? Vaughn is indefinitely insane. All of you have experienced some sanity damage. I didn't really check in with Margo and Feroz, but you both lost a couple of points as well. How did that sort of land on you in the moment, Margo? I think, yeah, she's been keeping it together mostly this

whole time. And it's just the stuff is eating away at her. And she, she like, can't look away from what's going on, and doesn't want to believe it, but like totally does now. And the sanity loss is like representing that or it's like maybe the slippery slope that she's just starting to slide down. What about you, Feyruz? Feyruz as she like touches the book as she's like moving things as her hands are touching these items and in the hands are touching these items and in the intensity of the moment she gets these like flashbacks of being in Peru but then it goes to these like flashbacks of being initiated into this secret society and then like the those sorts of initiation rituals and then walking in on something maybe that she shouldn't have seen.

And that goes back to where she is. Von, what are you at now for total sanity? What a cool question. Let's see. What a cool question. Thirty... Oh, do you... Does chat have it? I'm sorry.

I wasn't doing my maths. I'm at 27, Troy. A gentleman's 27. I just got to 27. A gentleman's 27. Yeah, 2d4, I think that might be the largest single roll we've had in the game for Street of Sanity. It's the largest blow.

Yeah, I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27.

I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27. I mean, you were teetering for 27.'ve had in the game for some straight up sanity. Yeah, I mean, you were teetering for so long, but in the time between Peru and now, you've spent time to try and work on this. You've regained some sanity. Yes, yes. Quite, quite, quite sober, quite sane. But and I saw a dang ghost earlier too. I saw the beloved, the beloved Oberon. But the whole regiment, all the dead shake off their clay

and stride fiver-breast into the New Jerusalem. Vaughn, man, we don't have time for this, all right? We went through a fucking hell of a night just back there, and you come in, you know, whatever you were doing, you show up, and you don't know which way is up or down. Come on! Hey, Tari, what happened to you? You were doing you show up, and you don't know which way is up or down come on Hearing New Jerusalem is like up up up up up up Maybe we just maybe we just get you some rest. You're pressing off fae ruse now

Dammit What happened to you when you were gone? What happened you remember? Yes, I remember completely clearly, Freyline. I saw what I believe, Eucharist. And I take out the box. Um... On the night before our Redeemer faced suffering and death, he took the cup of wine. And when he had given thanks, he gave it to his disciples, saying, Take this and drink. This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness

of sins. And he draws out the vial, which is dancing in his hand. Oh, no, I drank earlier. As often as you should drink it, do this in remembrance of me. While you're talking, she's cupping it gently, trying to guide it back into the box. Ferus is looking around to Margo.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. And he is all ye creatures here below. Let's get back to the hotels. Ferus is looking at Margo and Carter, being like, this is all so very Christiany, There's only creatures here below. Let's get back to the hotel. Let's get back to the suite. Iris is looking at Marco and Carter being like, this is all so very Christiany. I'm not very familiar, but this doesn't sound very good. Yeah, it's not.

It's Catholic. It's all horrible. Let's go back to the hotel. Let's get them up there. Maybe we can call a doctor. Maybe they can give them something,. You know, a little something knock him out We can't be walking around the streets with with Carter. Don't you have something you can give him? It's some sort of narcotic is that what we're saying

It's cool, it's cool man, we're not I have to tell you if I'm a cop and I'm not. I don't, you're not gonna narc on me, are you favorite? I mean, I can do a luck roll to see if Carter keeps a couple little, uh. Sedatives? Little pills around. Little, uh. Sure, yeah, do a luck roll, see if you happen to have some.

Ampules of totally legal narcotics. Something to calm him down. I mean, my luck is 21, so. Nope, that's a 97. You only have speed. Just make it worse. Have you tried meth? You're staying at the Waldorf.

It's his, the hotel's under his name. You're pretty far away. It's not like you can walk from 137th Street. Wait, sorry, time out,out Troy was that a fumble Do you fumble on luck rolls? I don't think so Yeah So You know I imagine you've got to stuff him into a

After that I think they have cabs. I can't remember from the forward of the book. So you're able to shove him in. Maybe he even takes you two cabs, because after a little while of Vaughn's antics, the first guy kicks you out, get out of my car, and you pay him off, and you have to call another one. You finally get back, and now it's like the sun's coming up as you reach the Waldorf Astoria. You have a meeting with Bradley Gray,

Erica Carlisle's lawyer, at like 10.30 in the morning and it's quarter to five. I love it. And Vaughn is in rough shape and you know, this isn't something that a sleep is going to just wash away. I mean, I'm sure he'll be a little bit clearer head in the morning. But in terms of game terms, any sanity break now causes an episode. Once you're indefinitely insane.

As we're trying to head into a safe into our rooms, at any moment where we're seen publicly, Faeruz will absolutely act super drunk along with just to counteract whatever is happening with Thawne at the time, just to make it seem like we were just out having a good time. Nothing to see here. The bellman is just looking at you kind of. I even hand him a flask, shove my flask from my pocket into his chest as like the revolving door rope, like as we're pushing Vaughn and ourselves into the revolving door. This is the Waldorf Astoria, madam.

Please act with some decorum. It's our little secret, my friend. It's our little secret. As I shove my flask into his chest. Please, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In the hands of the man. Amen. Amen.

Amen. I mean, you got the droning down of the Catholic song. The guy at the front desk is looking at you oddly as well as you go into the elevator and the door closes. You go up to Vaughn's room. What is the plan here? What do you even do? What do you do?

So much information and so much what the hell is going on. You just start smacking Vaughn around. Get a hold of yourself. Just taking all frustrations out on Vaughn's face. What's happened to you? Like fully grab his face. What has happened to you? What has happened?

It's proof. Proof this happened to me. Faith without works is dead, but faith, we rely on that which we have not seen, but I have seen it. You all saw it. The dead have risen. And when I hear the dead have risen, I'm brought back. I have like a little flashback PTSD moment to that when we were in the little tunnels in Peru when he said those same things. Oh no.

Perhaps this time now is at hand. His ways are inscrutable, but perhaps now, perhaps now, the gates open. All those who were taken from us will rise again, as last night they were. And I shall hold him in my arms once more. And no one can stop it. Not you. Not those blaggards from the 14th precinct who molested me last night. No one. No one. 14th precinct who molested me last night. No one, no one. All right, all right, all right, all right. Margo pats you down a bit and tries to take your gun.

And as she's doing that stealthily, I'm just like, you know what you need, my old friend? You need some sleep. We have a big meeting in the morning tomorrow and we can't go about a business when we're... Let me help you. Just tuck in and I'm taking off his shoes and getting a space for him to rest. Maybe bring some water over.

Carter grabs the phone to phone the front desk. He does whatever he's got to do to get phone the front desk. And he like, you know, does whatever he's gotta do to get to the front desk. Hello, this is Von Villiers calling up in room, something, something. And I was just wondering if you could be a good sport and send a doctor up right now. I'm feeling a little bit gassy if you don't know what I mean.

You could have sent a doctor up right now. Yes, if you could just send anyone from the medical profession up. I feel a spot of a fever coming on, if you don't mind. Thank you. Cheerio! I know what's wrong with him. Excuse me, sir. Sir.

You have happy calls back. Sir, there are no doctors available at the moment. It's 4.45 in the morning. This is the Waldorf Astoria, is it not? This is ridiculous. There's no, well, how would I procure a medical profession? You could check yourself into an emergency room. That sounds wonderful.

OK, thank you for the advice, if I can hang up. If Vaughn is watching all this and maybe Fyrus just hears a murmur, but that's that's that's terribly odd. If I'm there, then who am I? No, no important meeting, in five hours, and we're all stressed, and we're tired, and bloody, and brain broken, and what are we going to do?

I think- Nothing, three shots of whiskey and a good night's sleep won't fix. We can't sleep! Oh, you can sleep fine. I bet you have great dreams all the time Margot. You and your German dreams You and your German dreams. She's kind of sighs and oh gosh trying to figure out what to do. Alright guys listen Now we're sharing German dreams And our hearts will beat as one In love Now you're saying it is one And our hearts will beat as one. Bring the love.

Now you see it is one. We're gonna get kicked off of TikTok. Oh no, TikTok, of Twitch. Oh yeah. Sorry, sorry. A parody, parody, parody. Guys, Carter's grabbing the reins here. That's what he says. Third person. Carter's grabbing the reins.

Alright, now listen. Yeah, we got an important meeting. Should we take it? Maybe. I don't know. That's not really rings. All right, now listen. Yeah, we got an important meeting. Should we take it? Maybe, I don't know. That's not really a priority for me right now. Right now, it's about shushing up old crazy face over here and it's about calling the goddamn cops. I can't believe I'm saying this, yet again, seems to be a theme.

We need to call and get a hold of, what's his name? Poole. We gotta call Poole. Okay, so when we call him, what do we show him as the evidence? It's coming here. We'll figure out, we're gonna get him to come here. We need to get the photos developed.

Oh yeah, how long is that take? Oh, red and nice. Go get those photos developed. So second of all, we don't say the C word around here. Yes, so funny, so funny. I was just thinking about how delightful a droll it will be if you fail, Tillinghast. And then when Mr. Adams is electrocuted, and then the poor blighter who throws the switch,

the look on his face, when Adams removes the shackles and walks alive away from old Sparky, for death has been banished from the earth It's gonna be pretty crazy to be in the room when it happens. Yeah, it's gonna be nuts guys seriously Does no one have any pills? Giving the doorman my flask yeah I'm sure now that you're back there with all your stuff. You could find some sedatives to come all right all right here Vaughn, take this. These are happy pills, okay?

This is the mini-Eucharist. The pill of Christ. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Okay, all right. And now, perhaps, I'm so... Lost the player, apologizes for all his interjections, and then Vaughn is just kind of going slack in there. There we go. Chester drawers. This is a little bit better. Okay, all right now listen.

We'll probably asleep not in the office. We gotta, I'm sure we gotta call him whenever you know 7, 8. When do cops start working? I mean what? Hey, how do, think about this. But what is our evidence? I cannot go get these photos developed some what do you need? What do you need? What are all the little juices you need? Well, they have we found dead bodies. I need an itemized list of the chemicals needed to develop photography in 1925. Go. Listen, it's not that simple.

We will not be able to get the photos developed right now unless I can maybe call my contacts and see if I know anyone in the city who maybe has a dark room in their, in their, is their home. Can I roll a luck roll for that? Yeah, to see if you know someone in the city. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, we don't even necessarily need the photos. We've got the ledger. We've got I mean, we can just tell them to go check it out. No, that's not enough. But well, you have the legend, but we all have photos of the crates from from the shipping house we have. Disemboweled bodies. Yeah, we took pictures at the at the shipping place too.

But yeah, so, I think Margot knows artists in the city, but she's not sure if anyone would have a dark room in their apartment or studio, private. I mean, can't we make a dark room in the bathroom? Yes, but we need to go shopping and get chemicals and then set it up and then replace the light bulb with the red lights and then, you know, we have to develop the film first and then you have to project it and then, um, you have to get paper. While you don't know anybody, you could certainly like, that's what you could do today. You could skip that meeting and go find a dark room that you could rent by the hour.

If she doesn't know someone, she might do that on her own while somebody else does other stuff. I'll go to the meeting. I feel great. Let me see if I know a friend who has their own spot, because I feel like it'd be awkward trying to, like, develop photos like this in a public setting. Yeah, you're an artist. You might have some artist friends. And maybe Vaughn could come out of his stupor for just a second

and be like, and if you're going to a chemist, perhaps they could also tell you the composition of this. As he plops down the box and like, opens it up. Great idea! Oh right, those fucking things. Oh god, I forgot about the dancing vials. Dancing vials? Oh, these are the vials I found in Matari's apartment, Ms. Chabron.

You needn't worry. Oberon showed me precisely where they were. Oh. Of course, yes, Oberon. This asshole's out there meeting people up and hanging out, Oberon. Shh, cut out the time. And you see the box that these vials are in

has this horrific monster on it, with a giant-like tentacle coming out where a face should be. Yeah, that looks familiar. Yes. I think, right? Bloody tongue and whatever. Fae Rusell will just get this,

one of the towels from the room's bathroom and just, like, make a cold compress and it's, shh, no, Vaughn, you just lay down, you've had a long day. We can take care of this. Ever so kindly, she brought it. Carter wants to take that box of vials and just, like, hide it. Just get it away from Vaughn. Like maybe it goes in one of the other, in the bedrooms, in the wardrobe, underneath some clothes. Just tuck that thing away.

We'll deal with that. Can I have Vaughn's, I take Vaughn's hand in mine and just as he's laying down and just starts humming this lullaby to try to lull him to sleep. he's laying down and just starts humming this lullaby to try to lull him to sleep. As Margo is trying to call and as, you know, in the midst of the chaos. I don't know anyone in the city

with their own dark room. That's okay. You definitely can get access to one. I mean, they're gonna be pretty private, but yeah, I can understand the concern with these particular murder scene photos. Here's what I can do. And monsters.

I can try to find a public darkroom I could rent out for a couple hours, and hopefully it's just only me and Zair, or it's private, and this is what I can do today. I can get these photos developed as fast as I can. It should only take me a couple hours to figure this out. Let's go over your sort of dangling things out there. You know, you've done a lot,

but there are still some things that maybe you haven't explored. Maybe you're like, eh, not that interested. Obviously you want to meet with this lawyer to see if you can set up an appointment with Erica Gray, or Erica Carlisle. His name's Bradley Gray. Do you know what?

We wanted to meet with Erica maybe for more information about the expedition, but for the book that we now have. Exactly. Right? Yes. I don't know if it was necessary to get it from her so much as to get her involvement, I guess. Her access to her files and papers. I don't know if it was necessary to get it from her so much as to get her involvement, I guess.

Access to her files and papers. She's got something from her brother. Right. No, we have the book. She had other information related to the expedition and stuff too. Here's the thing, I didn't bring my notes downstairs because I feel like I didn't bring them downstairs last session and we rolled really well. So now I don't want to ever look at them again, which might be a problem.

Yeah, but having duplicates of those pictures would be great because you could then give them to Schozenberg too to publish if the pool thing doesn't pan out. Noted. I'll make multiple prints. Oh, God. Yeah, what else? Noted, I'll make multiple prints. Oh, God, yeah, what else? Maybe don't look at them directly. Is there a way to not look at them?

Oh yeah, I'm trying to see them. You keep getting sanity breaks. Well, we've seen them once. Do we get some sort of desensitization? Yeah, you do, you know, there's some things that like every time you're exposed to it, but normally it's like the first time you're exposed to it, is when you have to, you know, roll sanity and then you get desensitized to it and then if a long time passes before you see it again, you get, you have to roll again.

But basically, yeah, you could look at those when they're done. You've also, you do have this book You've got that you can look through if you so choose There was that flyer for the cult of darkness maybe something that Jackson went to or was interested in going to that Jackson went to or was interested in going to.

Yeah, so talk me through this morning. Some of you aren't gonna get a lot of sleep. Whoever's gonna go to the Bradley Gray meeting, if you go to sleep now, you're gonna get about two and a half hours, because I imagine this is not going to be restful sleep. We could do a tri or a quad split. I don't know what, I don't really know what's going on with the indefinite insanity. Will Vaughn ever be able to do anything again, or is he just shitting himself to the bone?

If I wake up, am I... Does somebody need to keep an eye on him? He's just on edge. After this pill, he'll wake up and be, you know, he'll seem just fine. Okay. But any other sanity damage will cause another break. Another break, got it. One point of sanity damage.

So some of these, you take one point even on success and that would be enough to trigger an episode. So we've got Bradley Gray, we've got pictures, I think we know who's doing that. And I mean, we could do the lecture guy. Maybe that could be Fae Rue's because she knows him or might know him from Miscatonic. Pardon me. Or I realize Vaughn's not in this conversation, but like- Pretend we're talking about Vaughn as if we're thinking of his thoughts. Yeah, Ross is. Let's go.

But Ross is. I don't know. Like, the- and getting- pardon me is like, if you could get the cops into Juju house Yeah, we got to get that as soon as possible because they know that we were in there We left a lot of traces of wreckage So we don't want to give them a chance to clean up around there before the authorities can roll up So that's already there because if we heard sirens when we left and the door was knocked in, knocked down Yeah, we need to hit up. If they called cops it would be their cops. Yeah, we got to hit up Poole directly because he knew about Robeson and you guys went back to him a second time and talked to him. Yeah, at least give him a call. Yeah.

So that's four things. We could try giving Poole a call right now. Explain what happened. Yeah, it's five, what is it, five in the morning? Maybe not tell him that we killed him. Yeah, 530 maybe. Yeah. We need to, yeah, we gotta get face to face. All right then.

Okay, so if you call the precinct now before you go to bed and ask for Lieutenant Poole. They say, uh, hold on. Uh, Poole's not gonna be in until around, uh, 10 or so. Maybe 11 in the morning. Cool. Can I take a message? Uh, yeah. I guess I'm on the phone now.

Uh, just, uh, tell, tell him Just tell them that Margot and Feyrouz want to talk to them. They were by before. This is their valet. Gonson. All right, I'll leave the message. Oh, Walden for Storia rooms. OK, got it. Oh great. I Think I nailed that guess

Boom goes the dynamite Okay, I think I can get these developed before he gets into work. It should only take me a few hours, so All right, as soon as you're done, maybe we can both go over and have a chat with Detective Cool. Yes, is there anything else we want to bring? Any other evidence? Should we bring the box?

Oh, here's the ledger. Take the ledger. Oh, I have a book and we'll take that ledger. Did you take like the headband or anything? Oh, you know what? I forgot, I got this thing in my pocket. It's a human tongue. Oh my God. Oh my God. Carter, forgot. I got this thing in my pocket. It's the human tongue

Drops it by accident steps on it has Margo sees it and has like a moment because she lost sanity when she saw it And she's just like uh From I got dust out of that Blowing on it This thing okay that blowing on it. This thing. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. So guys are gonna get a little bit of sleep

and then early in the morning, Margaret's gonna get up and go try, you know, places aren't gonna open till 9 a.m. If you've got to rent a spot. So let's say you head to a place, you want to be there for nine to start doing that. Sometime after 10, you could head to the precinct to try and meet with Poole unless he calls you back. At 1030, I believe it's 1030, you have a meeting with Bradley Gray on the Upper East Side. Gray and what was the name of that?

I have 10 a.m. in my notes. Oh, you have 10 a.m.? Okay. Dunstan Whittleby and Gray at West 57th Street. Oh, it's actually in Hell's Kitchen. So Dunstan Whittleby and Gray, 10 a.m. So yeah, no one's getting a lot of sleep. Vaughn, are you gonna sleep this off or are you just gonna wake up with everybody else

and start your day? And if so, who are you going with? Just that depends on what people want. Who's going to meet Bradley Gray, I should say? And who's going to see Poole? Well, according to the phone call, I guess Margo and I are going to go see. I'm sorry. I only did that because you guys had gone to him the second time. So I figured it was like a rapport.

So shall Carter and I go to the. Go to the law firm. But Nora, if you don't, if you would rather do. Oh, no, totally fine. I absolutely love that. Like you made that decision and I'm like, yeah, I guess that's what we're doing. Okay, I'll ask you this Troy mechanically just because I'm not altogether certain. Yeah.

You mentioned sleeping off. Is there an amount of sleep that I could get that would reduce the... I say we don't find out and just go. If not then... Yeah, no, it's really all flavor at this point. Great, so in that case... You're just gonna be off- Just do your thing, Ross. I think, yeah, when you wake up,

Vaughn's already awake, just standing, rigid, smoking. Oh. Came into my room. Mm-hmm. You good, Vaughn? Of course, old man. Never better. All right, great, let's, I just gotta shave real quick.

It shouldn't take long. Carter goes to shave and fucks up so many times that he has like, just tiny little tissue papers all over the visible side of his face. Cause he's so fucked up. So shaky. Alright, let's go! Faeruz, are you heading to So shaky All right, let's go Faeruz are you heading to develop these photos? Are you gonna hang back and call Miskatonic? Well, that's an interesting question who would I be calling at Miskatonic that might be interested or helpful or useful this Australian lecturer.

Okay, I'll hang back and call and just tell Margo I'll meet up with her in case she needs anything. Okay. All right, where do we begin? We'll start with Margo arriving at the place, pointing a spot, goes in, dark room, flips the lights, just red lights. I mean, I don't know what they looked like back then. So listen, when you are developing your film,

you go into a pitch black room in order to take it out of your camera and you're fumbling around in the dark, not being able to see and you're trying to spool it into this thing, get it in there and then you can turn the lights on and then start adding chemicals at different times and temperatures so but the it starts out pitch black oh i love that by yourself we just see you like fumbling around like obviously it's pitch black but we can see um and we're just slowly moving in behind you as you're fumbling at your camera.

Almost like there's another presence in the room. We hear the face wall. She's struggling to line up the film with the spool a little bit more than she usually does because she really wants to get that light back on. She's had a rough night, obviously. Finally get it out and you get to work. And I don't know the process other than what I've seen on TV and I'm sure it's changed a lot from how they did it in 1925. But talk me through this. What is this? What does this process

look like to you? So a lot of the developing process I feel like it's just muscle memory, knowing to do this for X amount of time at this temperature with this chemical. So she's got a bit of time before I feel like the more interactive printing part of it to just like, it's to think about what just happened, whether she wants to or not, until she gets the printing phase of it. So yeah, she's just adding chemicals to the container that the spool is in, agitating it mindlessly, just staring out, stirring, agitating for 14 minutes.

Exactly. Oh, the timer went off. Okay. Empties it, rinses it a few times. The next chemical agitates, spaces out. Luckily there's a timer every time so she doesn't do it for too long or mess up. But yeah, after it's all done, she can take it out, unravel it and like maybe hold it up to the light for the first time and just look at the negatives. Okay. And how long does that process take? Um, I don't know about the 1920s. Three days. Let's say 30 minutes. Okay. Um, Michael...

It's a one-hour photo situation. It's one of her... Michael, if you can let me know in the... in our side chat here, is it... it's Thursday morning now, right? So I believe it's Thursday. And the dark of the moon is Saturday and Sunday.

At Thursday, January 22nd. Thank you, Michael. You have no other standing appointments for the rest of the week, but you do know that whatever the importance of the dark of the moon is, that is two days away. So you're developing and you start to look at the negatives and you hold them up to the red line. Who knows how they did it back then. You're looking and you see people coming in on a juju house. You see the dead bodies and I mean they're just mangled. It's hard to even tell that there was they were

monsters because they look they tell that they were monsters because they look like they were brutally slaughtered, when in fact you were just defending yourself with your new sawed-off shotgun. Then you see the room with all the things in it, the robe hanging on the wall, the spiked hand, Carter's smushing that lock box full of who knows what. You got me on camera?

Burn that one. Then you see this image that you don't remember and it's so strange because you're staring at it and you're like like what the hell is that? And then you realize it looks like that mask that you were staring at But something about it, it doesn't jar with your memory of it Maybe the fact that it's a negative is Confusing me and maybe when I print it maybe that's what she's thinking like oh this must be more familiar maybe once I print it. Yeah so then we move on to that phase of the printing and all these pictures start to come out and you see

this other one now the multi-faced monstrosity that was in the pit. But then you find that one with the mask and I imagine we see it like slowly come into vision and it's you standing there with this basket mask over your head, just screaming. I think she, as soon as it becomes apparent, like the image starts to fully be there and she sees what it is, she just like jumps back from the tray, stops agitating it. It probably continues to develop and it burns out a little bit.

And she's just like, wait, how is this possible? Like in her head. What's happening? She's looking at the negative again, the order of the picture she took, she's like, no, there must be a reason how this can't be me. How did this happen? Yeah. And then we cut. Yeah. We cut from there to Vaughn and Carter, rip and smokes, walking to West 57th Street.

I feel great. I don't 57th Street. I feel great. I don't know about you. I feel awesome. I'll have a couple hours of restless sleep. There's snow, you know, there's still snow all over the ground. Maybe there's even a light flurry out, but at least it's daytime. You don't have that extra added nervousness that comes from walking around at night. And you get to the offices of Dunstan, Woodleby, and Gray.

And you go upstairs to the front desk. Yes, how may I help you? Hello. We're here to meet with Bradley Gray. This is Masters Tellinghast and Villiers. And the woman is just staring at your half face. Oh, madam, I've noticed that you've taken an interest in my half face.

I can assure you, my sweet, I am even more handsome on this side of my face. He tinks the, he tinks the thing. No, I'm sorry, I sweet, I am even more handsome on this side of my face. He tinks the... No, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... I've just... I've never seen anything like that. I'm so sorry. It happens all the time.

It was quite rude of me. No, no, no, please. You... You were here to see Mr. Whittleby or Mr... Who was it again? Mr. Grey. Grey. Grey.

All right, and Tillinghast and... Vilius. Vilius. Yes, I have a ten o'clock here. Please have a seat. I'll check to see if Mr. Gray is ready. I nearly stumbled over my words because I was taken aback by your beauty, madam. Oh, you're too kind.

And then he realizes he's got all these toilet paper bits on his face. She just looks at you like you're a monster. I'm fine. And then she goes back, oh, yes, Mr. Gray, we'll see you right now. She brings you back. It's a small office. This isn't like the New York Times. But it's nice.

And there's three main offices and then a couple of desks for like assistants. And she brings you to the last one at the end, it just says Bradley Gray, partner. And you look inside and sitting behind the desk is a slender, well-dressed man, but almost like foppishly dressed. He's got like a big ask, a fluffy ascot. He's got dark wavy hair that's graying just at the temples. And he's smiling. He's got a very bold white smile and maybe some worry lines around his eyes and mouth, but he looks rather cheerful when compared to some of the other people you've met. And he says, oh, please sit down. Mr. Tillinghast.

That would be me, Carter Tillinghast. Good to meet you, sir. Yes, pleasure. And you would then be Mr. Villiers, yes? Yes, indeed. All right, please. well, sit down. Your associate, he's looking at this paperwork, Mr. Ramsay, tells me you have an interest in speaking with my client, Miss Carlyle.

I'm sure you understand that Miss Carlyle is quite busy. She is a bit of a socialite, humanitarian. She has a lot of interests, as well as just running Miss Carlyle is quite busy. She is a bit of a socialite, humanitarian, she has a lot of interests, as well as just running the Carlyle estate. May I ask what this is in reference to? You may, of course, go ahead. What is this in reference to? Gotcha.

Well, first of all, I want to go ahead and apologize in advance. Mr. Villiers and I had a bit of a night last night, kind of took in the sights of the town. We're tourists, I don't know if you could tell. We got after it last night, so I do apologize if we have a bit of a brain fog right now. Well, it's to be expected. New York is the city that never sleeps. Yes, that's where we've learned that, and among many other things that it does not do. Yes, so listen, this is a bit of a sensitive situation, so I do hope that we have your utmost assurance that this information does not leave these walls apart from getting back to your client. Well, yes, I don't speak to anybody. It's not as if you have

attorney-client privilege, but I don't tell tales after school if that's what you're worried about, Mr. Tillinghast. Right, right. Well, as long as we have the Hippocratic Oath going on. Now listen... It's not out there. What? No, please continue. Yes. We may have received information via various sources pertaining to Erika's brother's expedition.

He bristles a little bit, and maybe even caught him rolling his eyes. Now I know what you're thinking, sir. You're thinking, these two incredibly handsome gentlemen are in here trying to shake me down, trying to get some money, trying to take part in the fame and the fortune and all the headlines the tabloids If you will that did surround this particular expedition

Mr.. Tillinghast I am sure your time is valuable as is mine Absolutely not entire case is closed as far as we understand and I'm sure my client miss Carlisle does not want to Drudge up any bad memories of her deceased brother. Now, what if I... Of course, of course, of course, we understand that you, um, you, uh, have the best interests of your client is. We wish only to perhaps interview her and peruse, if we may, what papers she may have in her effects. For to carry on the work of our departed comrade who was delving into the mysteries surrounding her brother's unfortunate expedition in Africa, that we may shed a greater light on the misfortune that occurred. Mr. Vilius, I do apologize for your loss. You mentioned you had a friend who passed.

I'm sure you can imagine the number of people that have tried to interview my client. Everyone wants to be the one that writes the next book on Roger Carlyle. But this is not something she is interested in. We are not looking for you or anyone to tarnish the Carlyle name, whether that's your intention or not. So I just don't see... Do you think she would be interested to know Lyle name, whether that's your intention or not. So I just don't see. Do you think she would be interested to know that at least one member of that party was spotted alive after the assumed death of the party?

I beg your pardon. We are under great assumptions that no not assumptions because that would imply that I'm making an ass out of yourself and myself that's not what I'm doing here clearly I'm no ass sir I we have it on good authority that at least one member of that party was spotted in Hong Kong. Who? And when? And where did you get this information? Vaughn? These were, this was the research and indeed the life's work of our compatriot that departed

Jackson Elias. Elias? Was he that, wait, Jackson Elias, was he the author that was just found murdered not but a few days ago? Unfortunately, the very same. And this was a friend of yours? Yes, indeed. So you have it from this deceased man's authority that he saw a member of the... which member,

may I ask? Jack Brady, I believe, was the name of the gentleman in question. That lines up with my notes. Yes, well. And so it was the subject of our companions research, that not all the members of the exhibition perished. If that is the case, it complicates the picture formed by the authorities. I understand that. But do you have any proof?

So this I cannot just set up a meeting on hearsay. I will say my interest is ever so slightly piqued. But if you'd like a meeting with Miss Carlile, I'm going to need more than a dead man's assumptions. No offense. Me, meant. Right. I just think that part of it starts to pretend cry. I mean just the way you're

talking about him makes it sound like it's all so trivial, so it's... how dare you belittle the death of our... I meant no offense. I meant no offense at all. I just... I'm sorry, we've ever since this whole mess, Miss Carlyle has been inundated with people wanting to suck at the Carlisle teat. I'm not trying to suck anything right now! Well... What do you see a meeting with Miss Carlisle? Like, what would you do other than tell her this information? Because I could easily pass this information on.

Vaughn? Yes, of course, but the intimacy between Miss Carlisle and her brother, I believe would have would have lend clarity and depth to her recollections, which might be lacking in a message passed ear to ear. And also there's the matter of the papers that she has in her collection. our friend was eager to peruse, and we would be falling short in our duty to his departed soul if we did not seek to take up the mantle of his great work. And we'd be willing to, wiping away the fake tears, and also we'd be willing to sign any sort of NDA or anything that you think would be appropriate in terms of protecting the Carlisle name so that we would, we promised to not go to the press, you could hold us liable, all that whatever jargon.

Oh no, yes, we would certainly want to leave the press out of this. We don't need anything besmirching the Carlisle name. No, no, no. Thank you so much. Give me a persuade or a fast talk here, whatever angle you guys want to go. If anything, I should hope this would provide sucker and comfort to Miss Karla, knowing that there is a possibility

that her brother is among the living. I find it is frequently a comfort to find that what you thought was dead. We got it, Vaughn. We got the whole picture painted. Thank you sir. I'm gonna go ahead and roll persuade here. I rolled a 4265.

He especially the idea that you might take this to the press and blow this up. He doesn't like that. He has to protect the Carlisle name. He's like, well, I suppose I could set up a meeting. I would of course be present for this. I should have you know that's her choice, not mine. But it's only right for me to be there. And should the interview go awry at all, we'll end it. I just have to let you know that that's how these things work. But that doesn't erase the fact that Miss Carlisle is very busy, very busy. She has parties to throw and galas to host and peer at. We are all from money, if you had to say so.

Yes, of course. No doubt. Is she hosting any galas's in the city, any times, you? I don't believe she has any in the city, but I know she has one tomorrow evening at her home, which means I would not be able to secure any type of meeting with her until at least next week, maybe middle of next week, early next week, if you're lucky. But if you leave a number, I can contact Mr. Ramsey and let you know if I'm able to secure a meeting with her. Sure, or if you want to just get us invitations to that party, we can just kind of take five minutes of our time

and have a quick chit chat. This is a $1,000 plate dinner. I don't think it would be something we can just give up free. Is that true Vaughn? That would that be a real problem. What's the exchange rate going these days between dollars and pounds? Yes, I believe I can make that work I'm sure it's for charity. Yes, it is a charity Gail. I can have my man in London wire the money Well I can have my man in London wire the money. Well, I'm sure Miss Carlisle would be very happy to take your money for a very worthy cause. And of course we would be able to bring dates,

I would assume, right? It's $1,000 a head. And now he's looking at you, he's like, there's no way they can afford $4,000. Well, I mean, that's a, mom is like, that is a lot. A hefty sum in 1925, probably too hefty, I just made it up.

If you, if this is something you're interested in pursuing, have your man Ramsey contact me and I'll see what I can do. Yes, of course. Otherwise, a meeting. Next week. Sure, but the party sounds more fun and we could get everyone involved. Yes, well... Maybe play some ragtime? No, no, it's not that type of party at all.

I would love to speak more, but we have a busy day here at my place of work. Whose name I can't have a party at all. I would love to speak more, but we have a busy day here at my place of work whose name I can't remember. Dunstan will be in gray. Of course, we saw the sun. Yes, if you ever get in trouble, don't call us. We work mainly in copyright law. We've seen your advertisements on bus stop benches. Seen your billboards.

All right. I mean, just for the sake of this, spot hidden, is there anything around this office that gives me, oh my gosh, I rolled a six, which I believe is an extreme success. It is, 675. 675, yeah, you know, you don't see anything of interest in this office whatsoever. Glad I used it. Nice.

There's no pictures of family so maybe you learn a little bit about him he seems to be a single fellow. Confirmed bachelor I see. Confirmed bachelor as it were. And yeah no it looks like business is going pretty well for him. It's possible that E Erica Carlisle is only client and that's all he needs to make his money. But he will contact Ramsey and let you know about the dinner as well as the meeting. Right. Awesome. And is there a fruit plate anywhere on the way out? Do you guys have bananas or just some oranges? I just feel a little depleted from them.

There is not. Okay. Well thank you again for your time. We will not hold the lack of fruit against you. There is a bowl of wax fruit that you find out the hard way is not real. I see, yeah. I don't know, it takes the, does the like the bounce off the elbow, grab it.

It's a stunting fake. Is this a fake orange? From there we go back to the hotel, Walter for Storia. And while Margot is developing those photos, Faeruz is trying to get in touch with this professor. Can we do a cinematic recap of how Margot is fumbling in the dark with her, completely in the dark

with the role of film. And then Margot, and then then Faeruz is sprawling out both the book that she just found and her personal journal and the charcoal rubbings from Peru and all of these notes that she had made sprawled all around the coffee table. If we go back to Margot and she's like mixing up chemicals in the red light. And then back to Feyrouz as she's like, you see her tracing a finger along as she's reading the contents of this new book that she has found that's forbidden.

And then back to Margot as she's hanging up this photos that she's developing. And then back to Feyrouz as she's like dialing a rotary phone with her like red manicured chipped fingernail. And then back to Margot as she's like looking at this photo and seeing herself in it. And then back to Faeruz as it's this David Lynchian zoom in on like the holes of the receiver end of this rotary phone. And that's where we start the scene.

I love this. Right next to you is Africa's Dark Sex, open by Nigel Blackwell, published in 1920. Sexto decimo, 16 pages. They're like pages folded into 16 leaves. It it's a 32 page book. It's a blue pasteboard cover with marble endpapers and blue stained page edges. And maybe as it's open, we just see your eyes catching the inscription that says property of the trustees of Harvard University on the inside cover. It's the one that was an at rights collection. It's the one that... it's the one that was in At-Right's collection. Get through, you ask to speak with Professor Cowles, you get bounced around a little bit, and finally you get a number and a voice picks up. Oh god, I got to do an Australian accent.

Yes! Remind me what the professor's name is. The professor's name is Anthony Dimmesdale Cowles. Anthony, is that on the lucky? Oh, I can't wait. Cowles? Cowles, C-O-W-L-E-S. Okay.

But you hear a young woman's voice pick up. Good eye. Yes, hello, I'd like to speak to Professor Cowles, please. This is a very urgent moment. Who may I assist calling? This is a graduate student from Miskatonic University. We are in the same line of research. My name is Farouz Gibran. Farouz Gibran? Well my father's very busy, he cannot take calls from students right now. Oh, it's your father? Yes, perhaps you can set up an appointment.

Well, as one daughter's, one professor's daughter to another, I can assure you I've been through all of the hoops and bells and whistles. This is actually an emergency, so if you could please put your father on the line right now because this is absolutely urgent to his studies. Well, I don't think anything could be so urgent that he would need to be called away at the moment. I assure you it is. If you set up a meeting with him for office hours, I'm sure you can talk to him in person if it's so important. Aren't you here? You could go meet him right now.

He's over his office as he is not here. But if you tried his office and didn't get him, then I don't know what to tell you. If it's so important, you'll find him. I would like to tell you right now that being in a similar situation as yourself, being a professor's daughter in the chair,

I would like to save you some trouble of being reprimanded later on for your misguided decisions. Why don't you just tell your father right now that I am on the line, no matter what he is doing? All right, click. And she hangs up. No! Wait, she said he was in his office right now, right? Yeah.

Um, so call, call again, call, and you get to his office and it just rings through. And rings through. Fucking Australians, man. You can't trust them. You really can't. Really, all of their vowels just meld into one vowel. I'm just glad I don't have to do that accent again. You nailed it! You did though.

It was a little New Zealand-y. It gets a, I don't know the difference. I don't know it either. Is your father there? No. No. Is your father there? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo A no roll, just like an intelligence roll. An intelligence roll, okay. Yeah, it's gonna be the best step. K-N-O-W, no. I rolled a 45 under 80.

Give me a yes roll. No, you seem to remember tales of this professor coming to Miskatonic. It's kind of a big deal, and even though it's not directly in your department, you know, you're in the know. It's not like you attended one of his lectures per se, but like, you know.

And you know that he brought his daughter along with him. And like every guy at Miskatonic is falling in love with this girl because she came to campus and she walks around just garnering the attention of all the young men at Miskatonic. So you're starting to put two and two together and realize this is this girl that probably thinks she's pretty hot shit. Right. I'm just wondering if I could maybe have my father call in a favor for me.

Oh. Is it time to call dad before you meet up with Margo? Yeah. Okay. How does he talk? His name is Nadim. Nadim. Yes, I imagine. Hello. Hello, Dottur.

I love putting you on the spot like this. Are you calling? Hello, who is this? Baba, it's me. Peruz? Yes. Where are you calling from? Well, I'm in New York right now.

I... New York, it is not safe for a girl your age to be in New York City. Really, it's not safe. You come home this instant. And she just rolls her eyes. You know I'm not gonna do that, Dad. Listen, I've been...

I've been, I've sort of been giving you the ins and just the bare bones details and she has. Did you bring your cat to New York City with you? You know, the city is filled with sea lions. I just can't escape everywhere that you turn and there's the sirens and fire trucks and cats. Yes, I know New York pretty well. But, uh...

Are you okay? Are you safe? Feroz, actually, I'm alright. Are you in love? Are you dating someone? No! No! Can you just listen? I'm actually conducting... You're not getting any younger, Feroz! Your mother and I met a nice man

who is an engineer, and he would like to marry you. But you have to leave New York City. And I said no the last 10 times that you've done this. No, this is a fourth engineer. Yes, but the 10th husband you tried to pawn me off to, and that's, I can assure you, it's not going to work.

So why don't you- I want what you need, my daughter. Well, you know that I have been giving you brief correspondences on my research, and she actually, Faebrews has been giving him details on what's been going on. I feel like I'm a little over my head to be honest. I'm trying to reach this professor who's visited Miskatonic who's based in Australia. I'm sure you've know, perhaps you've know his name. I'm sorry what is his name again? Anthony Dimonddale Cowles, I believe.

Cowles. Professor Cowles based off of us, based in Australia. But I told you about the things in Peru and the person that led us on this expedition has been murdered, as you know, and we've been trying to... He's been murdered? Isn't this the friend you went to meet when you went to New York City? Yes. When was he murdered? Just, what is it, two weeks now? Just like one week ago.

Bubba is just a week ago. One week ago? And I know that it's nefarious and somebody, I know that he knew something. And we found this book that's been tied into what he was looking for in this antiquities shop and in this basement and the, Baba, there was bodies, disemboweled bodies.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, you take after me. Your search for knowledge is insatiable, and I love you for that. But these journeys can be fraught with danger. I do not want you to end up like your friend. Dead bodies, secret basements, books, unmarried women, your age.

This is... I fear for you. This is unlike... This is my life's work, though. This is everything that I've... That I've... All of the secret knowledge, it's all coming to light slowly, but I know that I'm...

All of the secret knowledge, it's all coming to light slowly, but I know that I'm... I feel like I just don't know what direction to step in. But I can't stop now. You wouldn't stop now. You wouldn't want me to stop now. No, but what good is a life's work if there is no life to have? You must always know when to stop, if anything ever happened to you. But there are things, there are things happening

that are dealing with people's insanity. I just, I think about Mama and how, what happened to her and how, the things that she was writing, it all just. Yes, yes, we do not need to think about such things. But I do, how can I live the rest of my life? How can I look at her journal? How could I, then she left so suddenly

and the things that she was saying, it all sounds the same. Do you not think I think of these things too? You never talk about it. You never talk about it. Because it is dangerous to think about. It is dangerous to talk about. It is best to just move on.

And you must do the same. You and I know that we both cannot move on from this. I will call Miss Katonic for you. Thank you. Please be safe. Okay. Thank you, Bubba. And he hangs up.

So at least you know your dad's going to try and take care of this. You know how long it's going to take. So you go meet up with Margo? Yeah. Head over to take a dip in the pool. Tenant pool. You head downstairs to the lobby to meet up with Margo and the person working the front desk sees

you and it's not the same one that saw you come in drunk so he doesn't know you're a scumbag. It's like, excuse me, excuse me, are you staying with Mr. Villiers? Yes. We have a message for him from, can you take his messages or? Absolutely, I can take those messages for you. All right, here.

And he hands you a note and it just says, it's a message from Rebecca Schozenberg. It says, call me urgent. It's a message from Rebecca Schozenberg. It says, call me urgent. Okay, let's call her before going to pool. He doesn't know we're coming, so let's call her first. Maybe upstairs? Margo met you back up there, so you guys could head over to pool together.

Yeah. Margo spent the morning at Columbia University using their labs, but now she's back. And so you guys go back up to the room and you call Rebecca? Yeah. It pats through. Vaughn, is that you? Uh, no, I apologize. It's a friend.

I'm actually staying with Vaughn right now, but he's, he's, um, he's, he's a friend. I'm actually staying with phone right now, but he's sleeping at the moment, but I heard this was urgent, and so I thought I would call in right now just to make sure that everything was all right. We met the other day at the Lafayette Theater. Which one were you? Well, obviously you're not the German one.

Faeruse, Faeruse? Right, yes, Faeruse, not the German one. Thank you for that. I am the German one. We'reus, Faerus? Right. Yes, Faerus, not the German one. Thank you for that. I am the German one. We're like holding the phone together like right next to each other. Hello, the German one.

Hello. Well, listen, I don't want to, I don't want to. I know I said urgent because it may very well be urgent. I don't want to get anybody too nervous. But Milly Adams is missing. I said urgent because it may very well be urgent. I don't want to get anybody too nervous, but Millie Adams is missing.

What? No. And we'll see you next week. Ah! No. Oh no. This is the best game. I didn't think about other characters dying, maybe. You only think about yourself.

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