The Glass Cannon Podcast - Time For Chaos S2 | E15 – Hidden Lines

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

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It's Friday night and of course it's time for Chaos Season 2 Episode 15 coming at your face right now. I don't have any banter so so I'm just yucking it up. I was preparing for today's session and going over my notes today, which I guess I closed for some reason. But I was looking at, I was like, wow, fuck, I got a lot of notes for this season and we've got six episodes left. Where am I at page-wise?

Because I added a bunch of shit today. 196 page Google doc just for this season. Isn't that insanity? Is that – you don't have to get into the house of sausages, mate. Is that like – is a lot of that copy pasting from like PDFs for like you have their official stuff or is that just all original? That's – no, yes, I wish it was all original. No, it's – I start with copy-pasting and then I kind of rewrite and move shit around and stuff. But I mean, this might be the most

– the largest file for any one particular like season of a project. But I'm looking at like what could be left for this season and as the person behind kind of pulling the strings but also – I have an idea of where it's going to go but I'm also kind of a viewer. I'm kind of an audience as well like trying to see where it's going to go. So basically what I'm trying to say is I'm excited to see how you guys are going to finish this off but I'm kind of blown away at the size of this and also how much you guys have done already. It's pretty crazy considering that Eagles Grange was two episodes and the sidetrack

scenario was four. That's not in the book. Yeah. It's canonical. Anyways, how's everybody doing? You guys having a good week? It's April now. It's middle of April if you're watching this. It's probably middle of April for you. It's constantly raining in New York.

What is it like on the other side of the country? Well, I guess Rob and I can speak to what it's like in the middle of the country, I guess, because I'm back in Denver. It's sunny, cool, and lovely. Yeah, it's nice. Although over the weekend, last weekend, Ross, I don't know if you're – I don't think you were back yet. Remember, I feel like in the last episode, we were like, what's Denver's problem? That natural disaster was. I was like, nothing. We're great. That whole weekend was like a high wind warning. Oh, yeah. Oh, no.

Like thousands of people lost power. It was crazy. It was very gusty and blustery. It sounded like I was on a boat when I was trying to go to sleep. That's wild. Yeah. My friends who were staying in the same building that we're staying in, which is like a 55-story high rise in downtown Denver, said that when the big gusts came in the middle of the night,

it felt like the whole building was going to topple over as it was getting slammed by these intense winds. Apparently, people's deck furniture got blown off their balconies and was just swirling around downtown. All right. Last night, I'm in bed and I hear what I think is a loud sound, but I'm half asleep. I'm like, I'll deal with it later. It was really windy last night. I go out to take my son to school today and we have this set of patio

furniture and one of the chairs, and these are massive fucking chairs, one of them has been blown off of the deck like into our pergola. I'm like, how strong that wind had to be, but why just one? Then I started started thinking I think somebody came into my backyard Yes, through one of my chairs the obvious choice and then I said why what is their motive? What are they got against me or my chair? Why wouldn't the other one blow? Why wouldn't this like I had this like batch of it was like a Christmas Decoration that like fucking Holly or something that was left out and I just keep forgetting to throw it away.

It was laying on top of this bin. That didn't blow anywhere. That weighs less than a pound. This thing has to weigh like 45 pounds. Completely blown off the deck. So was it the wind or do I need to look at my camera? Usually the most simple answer is what it is. Well, Occam's razor.

Sounds like the most simple answer is someone came into your backyard, threw it. With a vendetta. Thank you. I think it's time for some cameras, install some cameras. I have cameras and now I'm going to go back and I'm going to look and see if anything pinked. Check the footage. Obviously a raccoon on steroids.

You guys have bears there? A little bit of a roid rage. I think there. Obviously, a raccoon on steroids. Do you guys have bears there? I think there are bears. There are cougars. Oh my God. Yeah. No, there are, somebody said like, we saw a bobcat in our yard and I haven't seen a bobcat, but there's deer around and raccoons. I do see on my ring camera now and again these two fucking raccoons I think they're brothers and they just love

Terrorizing my trash no one else is trash. I've got cinder blocks that I put on there They've worked out a system to push the cinder blocks off and get it my trash. Anyways, maybe it's those assholes Maybe you just got the good trash, Troy. I do have the good trash. They love dirty baby diapers. Picture them pulling up with a tiny tow truck and hitching it to the deck chair. They're just like driving it through the burgle. Move them out. Yeah. I love this beefy raccoon gang theory. Yeah, right? It just seems like what they would do, they're like, oh, you want to put some cinder blocks in your trash? Well, take that deck chair.

That's part of Incredibles 2 when the raccoon and the baby have a fucking feud. They go at it. Yeah. Anyways. Bear would be able to grab this, but a raccoon's got thumbs, baby. That's why they always want to show you their hands. That's right. Yeah.

Have you ever met a bear in the wild? Yes. You have? Did you run zigzag? What are you supposed to do? Throw a rock at it? I don't know. Well, I've seen them at a great distance.

My family lives in coastal North Carolina. There are black bears, which are some of the smaller, like in terms of bears, pretty small. I've done hikes in places where grizzly bears are. You're supposed to clap at intervals as you take your hike because loud noises are supposed to startle them and get them away even though they could bisect you with just a flick of the wrist. I did at Yosemite, just kind of like take a corner and like, whoa, there's one like right there. It was totally unperturbed just kind of like, waddling through the forest and it just kind of made its way away without paying us any heat at all. Oh man.

But yeah, if it had been threatening in any way, that would have been coitons for years truly. The one time that I ever did any kind of backpacking hike trip, The one time that I ever did any kind of backpacking hike trip, like I just – my buddies and I went on like a five-day fucking – I was out of my element. And day one, we're walking through like a ravine and we just looked down and there's a bear with two cubs. So that's even worse if you get anywhere near them. Then we didn't pace it outright or some fucking blog was like, you can do this in a cinch, it's easy. Then we were like, we're dying. We got to day four and if we were going to make it to our car by nightfall on the next

day, we had to camp at a spot that was not an official spot. It was just where we had to stop. We got to this valley. It was beautiful. It looked like we were in the fucking Middle Earth. We looked out and there's bear shit everywhere. It's just like a minefield and there's nobody else camping there. We had to do the thing where we take the trash and throw it over a tree branch and pull it up. There wasn't even shit to hide it in, like the bear box things. I spent all night like the bare box things. And I spent all night terrified.

Of course, we were on drugs. But I spent all night terrified because we ate all the food. Because we were like, whoa, better eat all this freeze-dried bolognese. And so my tent mate fucking housed, like Ross with a bowl of cereal, destroyed this bag of freeze-dried. And all night, slept like a baby,

but was farting the entire time. And every fart smelled exactly like the meal we just ate. And I, again, drugs, was not sleeping. And I was like, the bear is going to smell this. Bears are going to smell this smell, which smells like a dinner. And every twig snap, every rock pebble fall, I spent the entire night assuming we were dead men.

Just. What a way to go. Catch a laugh, Tony. You fucking. Learned by the smell of Bolognese farts, they were joined shreds. I feel like that story had everything. You know, it had farts, it had bears.

It really did, yeah. It had freeze dried pasta, trash. That'll be a TikTok clip. Yeah, but bear shit's no joke. I went camping for the first time with my wife, then girlfriend, 10, 12 years ago. Remember, we were like, let's walk. Let's walk around the lake. I had a trail map and I thought we could just get right back around and realized a couple hours in, holy shit, we got to go back and it started getting dark and I couldn't,

I didn't know like if we were going to make it out because I couldn't figure out, there was no like trail markers and like you couldn't see them in the dark. Anyways, as I'm walking around, I step in bear shit and it's got to be like a yardstick wide bear shit. We're going to die. Speaking of going to die, let's get into tonight's episode. We're gonna die Speaking of gonna die Let's get into tonight's episode. We've talked about the weather. We've talked about bears It's time to play some Call of Cthulhu

Last week my goodness last week was a bit of a reprieve from our From our Eagles Grange days and our time in Lesser Edale. We're back on track. We're back, not in London, but we're back kind of investigating leads that you've discovered fairly early in this season. One of which is Henson Manufacturing in Dabi. You, it was, I say, I want to say K, it was Margot and Carter that broke into the Pennu Foundation

Some smell a little funky there break into the Pennu Foundation find a secret room That you had to depress the eyes of a sarcophagus opened up a secret room you go downstairs and among the things that you find in there is a receipt for a safe that was built in to this place, Henson Manufacturing. So you're like, well, it's a lead. We'll follow up on it. You go there posing as safe inspectors or like the guys who installed it and you brought your wives.

Really kind of went off the rails. Shocking. Here you say that back to us out loud makes it sound ridiculous. We of course brought our wives and you want to check the safe and it's a very far-fetched story. However, you roll like extreme successes and you meet with the foreman basically. I wanna make sure I'm using the right name here. Frank Marshall.

Frank Marshall, and he doesn't wanna let you in at all, but you convince him to let you in. You come in, he's cleared out all the workers, and you go to check out the safe, and Carter rolls an extreme success. I think you used luck to turn it into extreme to show him how easily you can pick the lock and his demeanor completely changes. He shuts the safe and escorts you out says I need to talk to

my boss this is a thank you thank every time please get the fuck out of here. That's where the episode ended I think. That. That's where we should pick it up. That would have been a good ending, but no. Instead, in classic Mystery Squad fashion, you decide to come back and break in. Of course, the one little hinge to this situation is since you roused Frank Marshall's fears, he's now put at least a third security guard on watch. So now you have at least three guards to contend with, as opposed to the two that you heard about when you first approached Henshin Manufacturing. One other thing I forgot to mention is you followed the workers to

the local pub. And in talking to them got the sense that they're working on a secret government project. That's what they told you. They seem to believe that. And so you've taken that information and you're trying to break in there, see what is going on inside Hanson Manufacturing. You come up to the gate in the middle of the night, Carter goes to roll a locksmith roll, fails it, you push the roll and you fumble Fumbling the push never good never good

By like a point I think it was like at a 48 locksmith that rolled like a 96 or whatever Yeah, it's one thing to fail a push roll. That's bad. Bad things happen, but a fumble on top of that, this is very bad. So what you see is the guy that's walking outside, his flashlight turns towards you and he starts scrambling towards you. And that is where we start today's episode. And in fact, we will start today's episode as a result of this failed push, this fumbled push in initiative

Margo you have the highest dexterity in the situation here What do you do you see Carter? Let's roll for luck. Let's just do it Luck roll, I don't know if it's gonna help you I got asked it. I got fucking luck there. I passed it. I got a hard success. I got rolled three under 11. That sucks. Brutal.

That happened to me last time, I think. You'll look for dessert. Hard success on the luck. So you spent it all and you haven't been able to get any back. 10 luck, baby. 10 luck for Carter. Oh wow. Where was that? I'm 10 luck for Carter. Oh, wow.

Where was that? I'm sitting on 70 luck. Let's fucking. Holy moly. All right, so yeah, I'm gonna throw you right into initiative here because I wanna see how you handle this. I think this guy is coming towards you.

He's got the flashlight. He's running towards this locked gate. And Margo, you have the highest decks in this situation. Is the gate, let me ask this real quick, the fence that this gate is in, is it like a wall or is it like a chain link fence that they can see through? It's a wall and this is a metal gate, so this is the side gate that you guys can see through. So that's the only part you can actually see through. Is me sitting there going like, fumbling around with the thing.

So has he seen anybody else? We don't know. We don't know. It's just coming towards you. There's a blinding light in your eyes. All we know is that he's racing toward us with the speed and aggression of a hungry bear after some tempting bolognaise. Smelling some barbecue sprites. Faber starts clapping. So there is a chance that this person might have seen Carter because there's like a separation in the fence a bit.

Or in the gate you said? Yeah, yeah. It's like a metal gate with a lock on it. I don't want to break anything Troy, but in terms of this initiative rolls and all this stuff, but is it possible for Carter to talk to the squad right now before having not rolled an initiative yet or anything? What do you want to say?

I think he only saw me just like hide. I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously, I feel like Margo wants to run and hide, but then thinking about like leaving one of you out there would suck. Like what's the point of one of us hides if we can't? Are we all up there, or is it just Margo and Carter? The way I envisioned it, and you can talk me out of it,

is that you're all huddling around Carter. Yeah, I thought we were all there. Yeah, I think we were all in a little squirrely. Maybe I could just get him to chase me, and then you guys can go in. This is a distraction. I figured it out. Do I see anything around?

Because it's a smooth wall. Is there anything around that we can just run quickly to and hide behind? I mean if we split the gate, then he might not be able to see pressing ourselves against the wall. Or we choose violence. We choose violence. Either way I can distract him. Yeah, we take out the shotguns.

That sounds crazy. Well hey, we're not first in the initiative order. Go ahead. Maybe it's it's panic mode here You see that like everything was like a controlled situation you walk up there and he starts picking all of a sudden the light is Streaming through the gate and you know, the jig is about to be up. So in this moment, what does Margo do? Yeah, naturally she I think she looks around to be like, is there anywhere for us to run to right now? Yeah, you could cross the street, you could run down the end of the wall. You know, if he comes unlocking the gate, you know,

everyone else is going to be there, you could just bolt down the street and around the corner, you could cross the street, hide behind a mailbox. Yeah, there's plenty of places to run. And how fast do I think everyone else's initiative is? You know, I can't remember all of your initiatives. Cause I think- We just met, so. I feel like she, I know, right?

I feel like she turns and is like, down stairs, stairs, someone go across the streets, split up, go across the streets, I'm gonna run down the side of the wall. And like, she's like running away as she's saying that. Everyone split up, go run. Boof. All right, so you just bolt like along the wall?

Yeah, I'm gonna run like down the wall and try to like go around it. Staying in the shadows. All right. With my gun out, right with my gun out I have my gun out you have your gun actually no no I don't okay because I say you can pull your shotgun out and start running or run and then when you get to your destination arm yourself what do you want yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna

wait on because like if they find me with the shotgun out they might be like oh my god we're gonna murder her. I'm just taking a nightly walk with my shotgun. Find a little lady without a gun, seemingly it might be better, so no gun yet. Great. I wish I could just tell you what's going on behind the scenes here,

but suffice it to say, the guy that's running at you has the next highest decks. And what he's going to do is he runs up to the fence and as you see this flashlight come into view, he sees you, Carter. He sees your half face. Now, whether he puts together that he saw you earlier today or not, we'll leave it to my imagination at this point. But what he's going to do is attempt a combat maneuver

to grab your arm between the grates in the fence to like reach through and try and grab your arm. So your option is to do your own maneuver, dodge or fight back. Yeah, I'm gonna fight back. You're gonna fight back? Okay. And how, explain to me how you're gonna fight back.

You're gonna punch him, stab him, pistol him? He's reaching through? He's reaching through to try and grab your wrist. Okay, and how, explain to me how you're gonna fight back. You're gonna punch him, stab him, pistol whiff him. He's reaching through? He's reaching through to try and grab your wrist. So I wanna grab his arm and go, and bring it down. Oh, yeah. On the bar.

All right, so you give me a bra roll, I give you a bra roll. Highest success inflicts damage. If I succeed and you fail, then you gotta take damage. I got a hard success. And I got a regular success. All right, so he reaches through and you just like slip him,

grab his arm and smash down with it. Yeah. All right, go, and smash down with it. Yeah. All right, go ahead and give me some damage. Your damage is gonna be 1d3 plus your damage bonus. We'll see. Oh, God. This has been a while on the brawl. Yeah, I don't even know what your db is. I cannot believe this succeeded.

I think all of you have one, except for me. db is 1d4. Your damage bonus is 1d4. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, so it's a d3 for the damage plus a d4. Mm-hmm. That's a 1 on that plus 2, 3 damage. 3 points of damage, and he's just like AHHHHH THEY SUMMONED AT THE GATE, THEY SUMMONED AT THE GATE! And he's just like, ah! They summoned at the gate! They summoned at the gate!

And now it is Desmond's turn with his 61 dexterity. Ah. Oh no, you have a 60 dexterity, but I have it listed as a 61 for my own reasons. All right, this guy's got his arms still, Carter still has him. Oh yeah, smashed him right down. Smashed him right down.

His arm is bent horribly, and he's trying to scream and get attention. Well I don't like that. I'd like to silence him so I think I'll I'm gonna reach in and I'm gonna come around Carter's shoulder clap my hand over his mouth and try to silence him. Okay so you want to try and like grab him and put your hand around his mouth like maybe like hold pull him into the fence so that he can't get away as well. That's right. I'm pulling him even closer like almost like knocking his head against the bars. Easy there Polly. If you don't move don't shout and and no one will get hurt no more. Alright and he'll just attempt to sock you as you do that so you roll a brawl, brawl

and I'll roll a brawl. Brawl on brawl, here we go. And I failed. I also failed. Okay alright so he just keeps yelling, he tries to hit you and misses, you're both like fumbling at the gate, you're and grab a little slap fight and he keeps yelling get out here get out here it's slippery little bastard you guys at that moment hear a noise coming from one of the buildings like a door opening up and

now it's Feruza's turn sorry my internet cop for a second so there's uh What happened with? Desmond real quick. I said Desmond tried to go get rest guy Well, I I reached in to try to silence the fellow who's uh had his arm snapped by Carter Work I know I'm struggling with him here short answer I know I'm struggling with him here short answer We're flailing and slapping around at each other But he's still yelling and a door is just open inside someone has heard him and heard the commotion And then how far away are they coming around the side because maybe I can go take the other guy out

Well, there there's a locked gate so you can't get through. Oh, so there's no, we don't know where the, okay. Yeah, you hear somewhere on the premises, you heard a door open, and you would assume someone rushing towards you. Okay, but it's, so the door opened on the other side of the gate. It's not like a building behind us. It's not on the compound. Yeah, no.

It's a building within the compound. Got it, okay. I'm going to take, like, I wanna take the butt of my knife and just kinda whack him on top of the head, maybe, maybe knock him out. Okay, so a little A little blunt force damage. All right Do I get any sort of advantage since he's like already kind of taken hits on the brawl or or no?

No, not not yet not yet. Until something like drastically changes, you wouldn't get the bonus die. However, his attempt to fight back will take a penalty die because this is the second time he's doing it this round. I got a success with two points of damage. All right, so I rolled a four, which would be an extreme success,

and a 9d4 Which is a failure so you succeeded? Go ahead and give me so what is your knife damage? It says 1d4 plus 2 plus damage bonus, but I guess on roll 20 it calculates it for you Okay, but you're not using the sharp end so tell me what the damage is and I'll just kind of work it out. It says two damage. Two damage alright so great. Alright so you hit him on the head you know it doesn't really do that maybe you just kind of graze him like right behind the ear. He's taking some damage but this poor sap is just he's still standing and still yelling and now he's got blood coming out of his forehead. Let's see who's turn it is now. It is Carter's turn. So Carter you grab this guy while you're in your attempt to fight back, slammed his arm. Desmond tries to grab him, Faerûz comes over, it's like, it's a very clumsy fight right

now and you can see since you're up in front in the distance that there is another figure running towards you. Uh, okay. It might be time to go. But we're here. Cardinal will be like, get your fucking hands out of the way! And I want to reach through and grab, like, interlace my hands behind his head and smash him into the bars. Okay, so you want a straight up combat maneuver like brawl to like grab him and BOOM! And really inflict some serious damage here.

Alright, he will feebly attempt to fight back and will have no chance of doing so. In fact, all you need to do is succeed and you'll do damage. Okay, I need to figure out how to get back to the important part of this. Skills. Great. It's what I thought it was. Okay. I don't like that face. Oh no. Wow. It's quite the... Oh, no. Oh, wow. It's quite the... For those of you listening at home,

Rob has fallen into a swoon. Okay, that's a lot. A 99, and what is your brawl skill? It's 77, so it's high. All right, so it's not a fumble, but it's definitely a failure. Good God. This fucking gate is cursed. This is my third 90s rule

70 luck I Can't spend it on a thing you rain. Oh, that's right. Oh wait, even if I could that's a lot. I don't know. Yeah, all right Here's the thing, you know Michael in the chat. I always mess this up. I'm not supposed to take a penalty die You're supposed to get a bonus die when you attack So basically I've already because I'm outnumbered by the opposition. I'm at a disadvantage So once the characters either fought back or dodged in the present combat round all Subsequent melee attacks on them are made with one bonus die. So You should have got a bonus die

Me correct. Yes, so you have another basically keep your chance I got a rolling something or I can roll something nine something nine. Yeah, watch this shit. They were you hit 39, baby 39 It's a regular nice. All right, so regular Michael. Well, thank you. I need your Venmo All right, so give me the damage. Okay, so this is... This is going to be your Brawl damage, which I think is 1d3 plus your DB. Okay. Fuck, it's fun.

This dude is getting... oh, five. Five points of damage. All right, so you grab his head, boom, slam it against the gate, and he just crumbles to the ground. Just shut up, shut up! As he crumbles it down, another light is rushing towards you guys. Okay, I want to just try something. Okay. Is it an action? We can just keep letting them come up like a video game cheat.

Just slowly build a pile of them down. But he was yelling. I realized there's maybe a flash. You tell me if the guard that's approaching is in a position where he could clearly see what's going on, then what I'm in the process of suggesting here is ridiculous and I will retract it even before I say it. But if it's the kind of thing where like, he's only heard what's going on, what would Desmond presume from his vantage point? Well, Desmond would presume from his vantage point that this guy is about to run up and see his bloody unconscious in front of the gate. Okay, but nobody hasn't seen it quite yet.

Yeah, I don't think, it's hard to know whether or not he saw the altercation. Okay. All he heard was, no man, it's always trying to break in. Question, did another round of initiative start? Or another round? Because I didn't go. You did go at the beginning of the round. But everyone else is going twice now.

Nope, it does, but Roz is just sort of weighing in here. Oh, now we go. If you have something, please. I thought Carter already went. No, I only did my fight back thing. I think I'm last in the order of my deck. Yeah, you are last in the order. I don't want to snake you, Kate, if you've got a few things

you want to do. No, I just thought that I was skipped, and I was like, wait, is shabby. Yeah, you are last in the order. Yeah, I don't wanna snake you, Kate, if you guys got something you wanna do. No, I just thought that I was skipped, and I was like, wait, I have an idea. Yeah, no, sorry. I was just answering Ross's question here. But Desmond, you have a chance to think about this, because we do go to the top of round two, and it is Margo's turn. Margo, you ran, and they all stayed there,

and just, you can see them. Bones cracking and yelling. just you can see them. I hear like, bones cracking and yelling. So I guess I guess I ran like all the way down the wall to the corner. Do I see like the entrance of the place? If you ran to the front of the building, there is another gate that's that's locked and closed. And that was closed even when you guys came up during the day. That's for cars and horse-drawn carts to get into. You could try and lockpick your way into that and come around the other side. Yeah, because I'm thinking, if they're unintentionally distracting everyone to be running that way,

it's like, should I just take a chance with my probably poor lockpicking skills or whatever? Or you could hop, try and climb the wall. Yeah, or climb the wall. Yeah, or like climb the wall this Let me see well all the sudden this thing's just got crazy Let's go exactly like how we planned Mike you know to take your shotgun and blow the lock off, but that's gonna be loud My climb is 30 times better than my locksmith All right, and you've got some luck.

Um, you guys always can push the roll. Um, all right, so this is very interesting. They're all fumbling with one guy. They've taken one of the guards out. Another one is running. You know there's at least a third one out there. You come around, you see they haven't followed you. You wanna hop the wall?

I think I wanna try to jump the wall. Okay. And like, if the size down Somehow get them in I don't know. I'm not thinking that far into the right. I'm gonna jump the wall. Sure All right, give me a I try to think into the future look what happened Give me a climb check and hey if you succeed on this you get to check that climb box you get to check that climb box. Oh, it was actually already there. I thought it was.

Oh, shit. All right. So that's a fail. I've got 20. I rolled a 56 and I've got 31 luck. So if my math is correct, I'm going to need to try to push this because I can't spend luck to make it a pass. Right.

All right. I could be wrong. I think you've failed every pushed roll since we started this game. I think you're wrong. That sounds wrong. Just put that out there. Now, this is very dangerous. You've got a 20 climb.

I have a 20. I have a one lock pick. Yeah. 20 climb is tricky, and you can't use luck on a push. I know and I can't use luck now because it's not gonna make it a success. So I feel like she's trying to climb the wall and she's like, I don't know, slipping.

It's like not a regular rock climbing wall. There's nothing to grab onto. So maybe she takes a beat and tries to find somewhere to stick her feet into, keeping three appendages attached at all time. Like, whatever and tries to. She's gonna parkour up the. Tries to push the climb roll. Push that roll.

No, that's what it is. All right. I don't know if it's a fumble though. What did you roll? 83. No, it has to be 96 to 100 if it's under 50. However, you did fail a push roll. So what happens is you jump up and you start to get halfway

up the wall, and you slip, you fall, and you twist your ankle. So you take one point of damage. And also, anything you do now with movement is, until you have chance to heal, is going to require a penalty die. So you've got a twisted ankle and one point of damage. Like movement isn't like maybe trying to run away. Trying to climb again. Or yeah, anything that will kind of deal with it as it comes. But

yeah, you've got it. Your ankle is fucked up. So it's more like a role playing thing. Rolls her ankle and it's like, fuck, don't shit. Maybe if you're in the distance, a German. Sure, Margo's fine. German, and he's like, ma, schreiber. I was rooting for you. That was going to be cool. Yeah. All right, so that's your turn.

At that point, Carter and Desmond and Ferruz, you're still at the gate there. You look, and you see the door to the workshop fly open. a third guy comes out and he's like looking around the flashlight is going left and right and that's all that happens. Desmond, another guy is running towards you but he's not at the gate yet. He's about halfway between that shed, the large shed that was the building that was emanating a lot of heat and the gate where you guys are at Man, okay

So I think yeah, so last thing I saw this Carter like king now this guy's like slumps like yes Look down the the street see see Margo like topple off the wall and crack record. What is he doing? I was like, dammit. And then see this light coming towards us. I was, well, before this other door opened, I was gonna try to throw this guy off, be like, nothing's going on.

I think that would be a real stretch at this point. We're just delivering a pizza. Uh-huh. Hahaha. Um... Golly. Whew. Three guards. And we have the sense that three might be all there is.

Um... Um... Um, one room in the yard you saw when you guys were scoping out from the building across the street You saw one flashlight moving around one big building another flashlight like bouncing off the walls of another big building So, you know, there's at least three and now all three that you know of have made themselves known You also know there's information in there. You just get the sense why have a safe like that. What is in that safe? um you may not have a better chance in this but There are people bearing down on you and a gate kind of separates both you and the enemy it's very very Precarious situation here. All right. I mean, I think there's a I

Will I will maybe lean over to my new compatriots and be like, I think you can find a way to get in if I hold him here. Oh yeah, of course. I take, then I, if you let him go, I will pinion this guy against the gate with my hands around and then shout to the flashlight coming towards us, Easy there copper! I got his fella's neck in my hand. You come one step closer. It's curtains for this lad.

Wow. Wow. Didn't think I'd have to role play here. All right, so it is this next guy's turn. So he just kind of like comes up, the lights getting larger, larger, larger, and brighter, and he sees you and he's like, I don't want to do your accident.

Hold on, what's the point? I said one step closer. Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down. Listen, nobody needs to get hurt here. Wait a minute. Aren't you the, the inspectors that were here earlier? Yes, of course, I recognize his face anywhere at Poinsettia. What have you done? What's going on here? Oh shit, they made us.

And those are your wives! Yeah, that's my wife. You bring them everywhere with you, don't you? Even to your heists. What's going on here? You're not the one asking the questions here, boy. Where the ones not just asking questions, but making orders. You just put that flashlight down or whatever weapons else you got and you know this fella's out for it You think I'm fucking joking he's Irish man you better watch out temper and all Sir a state of his arm unless you like that to be the state of his other one in his neck as well

You best do what I say Says you don't have the guts You don't have the guts to do it. You don't know who you're playing with, boyo. You just set it down nice and easy. You think I won't? You think after what I've seen, there's nothing I won't do. And I'm going to try to convince him of this, not with intimidate, Troy, if you'll allow me, but with my arts and crafts skill of acting.

Yeah! The journalist profession requires that you take acting arts and crafts. Oh my God, that's actually kind of brilliant. I love it. Oh my god. All right. I spent five years in a slammer. I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Carter's like, wait, what? I've broken off bigger men than you, boyo.

You think I can't snap each and every one of his fingers? I'll send him on the cripple. If you don't, set it down nice and easy, and maybe you'll unlock this gate while you're at it. Okay, he's got a knife out. Give me your acting room. The role of a lifetime. Wait, what? You have luck? Okay, it's a failure, but I got luck, baby.

I got luck. The luck of the Irish. Here we go. Here we go. Yeah, so let me just quickly do the math. Wow. The role of a lifetime. Okay, I spend the luck to make it a regular success.

All right. Wow. Okay. I spend the luck to make it a regular success. All right. Wow. Okay. So he he's got his knife at the ready flashlight in the other hand. And he drops the knife. Say, all right. So now that can be reasonable.

What does that mean to you? What does...I'm sorry, what does what mean to you? Being reasonable. What does that mean to you? We've got a bit of a situation here now, don't we? Yes, I'm afraid we do. Seems that we've got a bit of a standoff here. So why don't you just come right up here to the gate.

Nice and easy now. He takes a couple steps forward in the darkness. The light getting brighter on you, spilling out onto the street. And I may be eyeing my friends nearby, hoping that they can maybe pounce on this fellow, if they have, unless he's made them as well. Yeah he sees sees like Carter there. He's already talked shit to me yeah.

Might see Ferus but he certainly doesn't see Margo. Does the guard I'm holding what does he have on him in the way of accoutrement? Like I'm it's not a policeman it's not like I mean in a perfect world this guy's got like. No it looks like he has like a like a club like a billy club kind of thing tied to his belt buckle like swinging from his belt buckle and he's got a knife but he's not coming he's still keeping a bit of a distance between you and him and he wants to know like what what's the plan here we've got one of my men. But I'm safe back here. I've seen you. I know you're up to something.

I yelled at my man over there, who's on his way. You'll be in big trouble. So what's the plan? What's the endgame here? We have to finish our inspections, sir. I don't think you're safe, inspectors. You wouldn't threaten to kill one of my men if you were you are trespassing What do you want We just want in we want to look about the place

Now that seems reasonable. Don't you think? We're not looking a rifle nothing We want to look about the place. Now that seems reasonable, don't you think? We're not looking to rifle nothing. We're just looking to have a little walk around, eh? Then everybody goes home safe and sound and in one piece. Unless you want to play the hero. It's not gonna happen. My job is to keep people out. So why don't you drop that man there?

Seems to me that your job just had a little bit of a contingency now. Seems to me that keeping people out extends so far as the safety of your personnel, don't it? The guy behind him is like, what's going on up there, Charlie? It's all fine, don't it? Guy behind him is like, What's going on up there, Charlie? It's all fine, isn't it? Looking to see here? I'm not sure yet.

Seems we've got some trouble. Listen, I don't know what it is you're after, but you're not coming in here. Now you let my man go, or you kill him. There is a locked gate that separates me from you. You're not getting in. Are we in, so are we still in like an initiative situation or everything just kind of break out? Please, if other people want to weigh in, uh...

It's kind of free for me, you know, but, um, you know, we would go to, uh, the other guy. The other guy comes up, and the guy puts his hands up and holds, okay? And so now you've got two of these guards flashing, and the other guy's like, Hey! What's going on here? Hey! What happened to... Whatever the guy's name is, who's down on the ground. What's happening here? And the guy explains. We've got a bit of a standoff. They've threatened to kill... Jim. They're the ones that were here inspecting earlier, but they're no inspectors.

They're trying to get in here. You don't know that! He's like, should I go call Mr. Marshall? No one's calling anybody. That is a f- Unless you want Jim to see the sun come up. Fae Rose, you got that gun. I know. When he says like, that's a, it's like, oh, you know, is that a threat?

She like holds out her gun and she said, well, that's a promise. It's like, oh, you know, is that a threat? She like holds out her gun and she said, well, that's a promise. They, back up, back up, back up and then run towards the building. And now it's Faeruz's turn.

And now it's Fae Ruse's turn. Okay, so we still have this luck. We still got hapless Jim. We still got hapless Jim. Well, Jim is, I think, subdued probably by- I think he's knocked out. Yeah. Does he have keys? Yeah, does he have keys?

Ooh, I'm not even gonna have you do a lock roll. Of course he has keys on them. Great. A lock roll, oh. Reach into his pocket and one hand on his neck, I pass the keys back to you. It's probably not gonna open, I think that lock's broken, that's why I couldn't pick it. It's a fake lock.

Yes, that's probably what it is. And actually, as Faerûs will attempt to unlock this gate. Alright, so just give me a luck roll to see how fast you find the key. Okay, who's who? Would that be me? Faerûs, just because I know her luck. Me? Oh no, you're making me roll. You know I'm like, god damn it, you know I have a low luck. Just wanna see how long it takes. I only have one key that says fail.

I mean you need to give me time to look back over there. All right, well that was a failure. I rolled a 36 versus my 11. So what am I fumbling about still? No, I'm gonna say you can unlock the gate, but that's your turn. Okay, that's all I got this time. All right, so you find the key, unlock the gate, that's your turn gate, but that's your turn. Okay. That's what I got. All right.

So you find the key, unlock the gate. That's your turn. Now it's your turn, Carter. The gate is unlocked. Jim is unconscious and the two guys are running back towards the building. Is there a... And you didn't see guns on them unless they have them in their jackets. I want to look around and see if there's telephone lines to cut so they can't call.

If they're running back to call Mr. Marshall. Interesting. There are telephone poles. You saw them earlier. I'm not going to have your role spot hidden. They run directly to that main building, the one that you walked through that had the office and the safe. Yeah. I want to fucking snap them. They must go up the pole.

I don't have to like climb the pole, right? There's like a line that goes up the pole. Aaron Ross Yeah, this is interesting. Let me quickly look up 1920s telephone wiring and how it works. Ryan Segrist It's all just hands with strings attached. It's like a box, a fuse box. No, it's a cool enough idea that I want you to be able to accomplish it, but I want to and how it works. It's all just cans with strings attached. It's like a box, a fuse box. No, it's a cool enough idea

that I want you to be able to accomplish it, but I want to make sure it's a little bit difficult. So you stay on the- That's a counterintuitive sentence, sir. Staying on the perimeter of the building rather than rushing in, you find a telephone pole and you want to try and sever these wires. Yeah.

Now, I imagine the difficulty here is like even knowing what you're cutting and not like electrocuting yourself. So you give me what you think a relevant skill here is. I'm gonna, it doesn't have to be climb. It's just a skill here to like know what to cut. Electrical repair or whatever the, I'm trying to think of all the random... Yeah, mechanical repairs... I mean I feel like...

Look, I've burgled in the past. Yeah, you've cut your share of telephone wires. Let me see, I'm gonna look at the skills too. Yeah, I mean all the ones that make sense are shitty. History. The history of mechanical repair doesn't really make sense. Electrical repair is also... Yeah it could be that it's just not a good role in which case I'll just have you roll a luck roll to see if you can pull it off. Okay, yeah, whatever you want. If there's nothing else that you can, that we can come up with, then let's just see a luck roll to see if it actually works.

Because like if I was outside of my house right now and I was like, I'm gonna cut my power, I wouldn't have any fucking idea what to cut without killing myself. Right, right. So just to be clear, because I feel like they're separate things. I'm not looking to cut the power, though that's cool. Right, you're looking to cut the telephone. Just the line so they can't call out for help. That's your, you know, where I can't think of a relevant role, that's your classic luck roll here.

Alright. Uh, hard success, 35 under 70. Alright, so you see the, what you would assume is the telephone pole wires leading directly into the building, and you see the the what you would assume is the telephone pole wires leading directly into the building and you snip them No, I pull out one of these brand new night. I bought all these knives Come on Betsy, I was only gonna electrocute you on a fumble anyways, right? So Carter runs out there We come to the top around three Margo. It's your turn Margo I don't even know how much you know what's going on

over here, but if you ran around, I guess, I don't know, you tell me what you wanna do and I'll tell you if it sounds crazy. Seems like maybe Desmond saw me fall, so I got maybe to like the corner. And maybe I heard the commotion of yelling. I think you could have easily heard the metal gate opening. And then, I don't know, maybe I look over and I see Carter like,

are you climbing a telephone pole? I don't think so. I hope not. What is he up to now? Oh Carter. Oh that's Carter again. Realizing that I can't lockpick. I have no skill in that at all. And I just tried to climb and I failed. So it was either like, blow off my shotgun over here

to try to distract them, but they, I can't see them, I don't know what they're doing. But I see my friends like opening the door and figuring stuff out and they're not worried or being maimed. So I'm gonna limp back towards them. I'm gonna be like, is it fine to come back? What's happening?

All right, so you come back, you see a guy laying on the ground, the gate has swung open, and Carter's over by the telephone pulled down the street like fucking around with wires. A-Roo has her gun out. I tried to climb and I fell. It's fine, though. I just walk it off. Are we going inside? You also see guys running towards the building. Should we chase them?

See that's a good idea. I will run Pelmel after those guards. I'll try to limp as fast as I can, I guess, at this point. With my shotgun out. All right, so Margo and Desmond's intention is to pursue. One of these guards will get to go before Desmond. So basically, Margo, you start limping your way in, and the guy who came out of the second building. Instead of chasing them, I'm gonna go in,

are they going into the workshop where the save is? Yeah. Oh, okay, yeah, that's where I wanna I want to go okay all right so you start limply following the guy who is kind of in the back who's closer to the building he runs into the workshop and now it's Desmond's turn Desmond you just bolting for the workshop yes I'm okay I'm in pursuit of those guys I want to try to get to them before they can lock a door behind them I said Desmond you just sprint across the yard and I would say that between you and

the workshop is this other guard. So you don't want to run past him. You have the initiative to try and tackle him to do whatever you want to him. Well I got one guy's run inside, one's outside. I got that truncheon from the from the guy that we subdued so I'm like rushing up from behind Raising that club to sock him before Okay, I love this give yourself a Medicine

Roll combat here. Yeah, go get do a bra roll. Give yourself a bonus die. He's not even watching you He's running towards the building. You're coming up from behind and just trying to- Just looked up the club stats. Here we go. Um... Yeah, he's male. He's just a... Oh! But I can roll my tens because I got that sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet hard I don't believe it's oh no my extreme so that's a hard success and you hit him with a run shit all right so give me the damage on that okay so the night a club small nightstick that the base damage is um 1d6 plus damage bonus, so here that comes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 44, 45, 45, 46, 47, 48, 48, 49, 50, 50, 51, 52, 53, 53, 54, 54, 55, 55, 55, 56, 56, 57, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58 he's just like, oh, oh, fuck.

You smash this guy in the back of the head, you pull the club back and it's just got like viscera and blood dripping on it. Oh no. Clump of hair. Clump of hair. Damn. Gray matter.

Do I have to roll Sanity for that? No, it's all happening so fast, maybe this will hit you later. I'm charged up, no, I'm'm charged up Margot sees us and is like And now it's his turn and so he gets to his feet and he just tries to like lash out with his knife at you So do you want to attempt to dodge this knife or do you want to fight back with the club? Amazing I love it. I love it knife or do you want to fight back with the club? Oh amazing. I love it. I love it.

Love this all happening. I'm absolutely, I'm absolutely, I think we're getting a taste, this fight is sort of revealing to me more about the character of Desmond Mahoney. And he's, I'm not playing into stereotypes but it turns out he's rather hot blooded and he's got a bit of a temper. So yeah, when that knife comes out he's like like, I don't think so, boyo. And he goes to parry the blade and try to knock it out of his hand, so he's fighting back.

All right, so is that what you want to do, combat maneuver, to knock the knife out of his hand? Or do you want to try and fight back, hit him with the club? Fight back. Hit him with the club, okay. All right, so you roll your brawl, I'll roll mine. Here we go. All right, I have a regular success.

I too have a regular success. All right, and since I was the attacker, I do damage. So he slices out and kind of like, I imagine it's one of these like, from the beat it video, just like slices through, cuts you open in the chest, just like the beat it video. And the guy's stomach opens upaded video when the guys stomach opens it that's the directors cut and you're going to take okay shouldn't be too much damage but it will be damage 1d6 I rolled a 1 on a 1d6

plus my damage bonus which for this guy is a d4. So you'll take a total of four points of damage. Okay. So he slices open your stomach. That's not great. Not great. We are in it now. This is a legit melee and it is Feroza's turn. Other than this guy, like who's, is there anybody else, did they just run off? One guy ran into the building and one guy is in a fisticuffs with your new buddy Desmond. Gonna run into the building and try to chase this other guy down.

So just run past him and be like, you got this one, you got this Desmond? Desmond seems like he's got it under control. All right, I love it. He just got slashed with a knife. All right, so Fa-Faeroos, you run into the building with a gun drawn. It's dark.

There are no windows. Pitch black, little moonlight coming in from behind you. You saw this guy run in here. You can't see him. What do you do? I would like to stealth and like hide. Even if it's like up against a wall, just to like not make any more noise. Just like to like assist.

What's going on here? You come in if this guy can see you you're just a silhouette you know with the the moonlight behind you your first instinct is to try and hide. I failed. Okay. Now, you just feel, I would say, yeah, tell me what you want to do. Yeah, what do you think you do? I would say like I would just drop so at least he can't, if I'm like silhouetted, at least he wouldn't be able to.

Yeah, so ideally you want to like slide in and stay up But your pushed roll is to really just hit the ground because you think to yourself this guy's watching. Yeah. All right I'm gonna give me that stealth roll Failed worse. I didn't fumble thankfully But I was almost there. I know so I failed I know what the result of the pushed role is it is now Carter's turn really picture this scene now you've got Margot's just like limping her way into the yard

Vaughn is in a club knife battle in the middle of this thing nobody's making it out unscathed in this one. So the guy ran into the building, Faerus hits the deck and is alone in there with a guy that has a knife in a club. Carter, what do you do? I want to take out this guy that's engaged with Desmond, especially since I feel like he's on the way into the building anyway.

Yeah. And you do see Desmond, like, clutching his stomach. Yeah, that's not a great image. Blood coming out of his fingers. So yeah, Carter wants to come up. Did this guy that he's, who's got his knife drawn, does he also have a club, like, hanging off his thing? He does have a club hanging off his pants. So I'd love to, like, run up.

I'd probably, like, as I'm running, I, like, run past Margo, because she's limping or whatever. And I just see her like, what the fuck happened to you? And then keep going. And then I'd love to run up and like swipe the club off the guy and then fucking bash him on the back of the head. The old swipe club bash head? Alright, he's going to attempt to fight back with his knife.

As all enemies do. Give me your bra roll. Now wait, is this an outnumbered situation? And it was the second time he's fighting back? He has not fought back this round. His round that he attacked, in this round, he did the attack. This is his first fight back,

so he doesn't have to, you don't get your bonus roll. Fine, whatever. Let me roll this brawl. It's a regular success. I rolled an extreme success. So you come up, it was a tricky maneuver and you're trying to like fiddle with the club on his belt. I say you get it and you go to swing but as the extra time that it took you to try and relieve him of His weapon he just guts you he sticks the knife. He's fucking right in Man these guys aren't even like mythos creatures. This is fucking

derps You take five points of damage. Oh Wait, that's an impaling weapon damage oh wait that's an impaling weapon so did he roll like an extreme oh my god I think it's max damage is the last max damage bonus which would be because of the extreme success because of an extreme set max plus max DB just me just like the fight back yeah if with an extreme success on an impaling weapon That would be a total of ten points of damage Man, how many hit points does Carter have?

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Conditions apply. I thought we'd already be back in London. We're not even through the, like like we're barely through the game. We're not being geniuses. We just got in. It's amazing. What the hell? I was saying we fought a werewolf. We fought a werewolf like two days ago and now one guy with a knife is gonna take us out. Oh BD. The indignity. We took a break and one of the reasons, two reasons I want to take a break. One, that was a great cliffy and then two I just want to check this because When you get an extreme success on an impaling weapon which can be I believe guns are impaling weapons and knives points

Pointed weapons you do max damage plus max damage bonus But Michael very very wisely went to page 103 of the keeper handbook greater damage that's good called greater damage is inflicted if the attacker gains an extreme level of success in their attack this only occurs if the attack is made on a character's turn in the Dex order not when fighting back so instead of taking ten points of damage, which I believe you only have 10 hit points. So yeah, I was wrong when I said 11 Michael had already bumped up the one I thought I had missed. So I was at 10 exactly. That was a roll away from possible perma death.

You know, when you go to zero, you roll to see if you stay alive. And if you fail that check you die. And instead you take five of damage Yeah, which while being half of your current total is not half of your full total if I had rolled a point more You would have fallen to the ground and possibly gone unconscious. Just keep Venmo-ing Michael Saving my life This is insanity. I mean What you guys have been through and now these thugs are gonna be the ones that- This fucking flesh pit, ghoul fight, like what the f- Yeah, these guys- these guys ain't even ghoul tainted.

Lizard kings? Like what? This guy's got a butter knife! Fuck outta here. What the hell? What are they- what are they trying to protect? Why are they so vicious? I don't give a shit anymore. No, we just want to get out of here. No, they need to die. We need to kill them.

We need to use their insides as a... We need to do some sort of ceremony. This is what we get because every other time we've just chosen violence right away and everybody in chat is like, oh my God, you would never do that in Call of Cthulhu because you'd go down so fast. And the one time, the one time we're like trying to like not, this is what happens.

We tried to stealth. I'm going to choose violence every single fucking time now. Folks, we tried. We tried our best. We tried. We saw it. I blame myself. I blame myself.

We escalated it too fast. I feel like my fumble on the push has carried through everything that we've done. From this... Every roll has basically been tainted. Well, don't worry. Feyreuse is inside and she's really stealthy. That worked out... Oh, no. Yeah. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Alright, so Carter just gets stabbed.

Yeah. Aargh! We're both stabbed. So Margot has a twisted ankle and An anvil is about to fall on my god. Okay All right, it is the top of round four and it is Margo's turn as Margo is hobbling from the back I mean it just I love the other way the way that the failure on that pushed roll

is now carried over into the drama of the scene. You're like, you see these two dudes grappling with one guy and they're both bleeding from their stomachs. I'm seeing this happen because I think that as she's approaching, she's like, Desmond obviously has this. He just manhandled already

like one of the guards and then like Carter's on his way they I'm gonna run past and like into the building with faerus but then she sees this guy fighting back and stabbing both of them. Jackie Chan. So as she's running up instead of running past she's gonna try to help. She's gonna flip her shotgun around and try to butt his head. Okay. With a nice.

All right, so it'd be a brawl roll. Don't roll your shotgun roll. You can fucking blow this dude away at this point. I hear it's just not fair. It's just like, put a gun in his mouth. It's probably too loud. Yeah, it's probably too loud. Kate wants to do that.

I don't think Margo wants to do that All right, so give me a brawl check here He is going to attempt to fight back now it is now wait out now, right? He can turn you're gonna get a bonus die That's really meant for the present combat round even though we're starting a new combat round. I'm still gonna give it to you because there's just there's just a lot going on here so it's like you get you get the bonus die. Otherwise you'd be like some superhuman guard. Three of you on one. No that's a fail. Did you roll the bonus die? Oh no I

didn't roll the bonus die. Oh that done. Oh, that's a pass! It's a regular success. 35 under 41. Okay, okay. All right, so give me... It wouldn't be the damage on the shotgun, obviously. So give me 1d3 plus your damage bonus if you have any. I do not have damage bonus.

So I guess... Too wee. Slight. Like, 1, 2 is one, two, three is two. Yeah. I'm already confusing myself. Oh, I rolled a six, so it's a three. All right. So three points of damage.

Aim for the dent in his head. Yeah. Does it knock him out? No. Fuck. Come on. Should have killed him. The strongest one is the one that the three of you are grappling with.

Really? Yes. And now we go into the workshop. Oh no. As you're laying on the floor, you just hear just like a ring tone. Because he tried to call. So creepy. But would you hear?

I don't know. That's how I want to do it. All right, okay. All right, okay. It's on fire right now. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. They'd be a switchboard player. A switchboard, yeah.

They didn't have ringtones in the 1980s. How lovely. And you're laying on the ground. And you hear like... Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shh, shh.

Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shhh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh choke hold on the ground so he like jumps on top of you. And the penalty for your failed push is he gets a bonus die to try to do so. Now you can dodge, like roll out of the way before he jumps on you, or you can attempt to fight back. But keep in mind, he's gonna get a bonus die, he's got a good chance of grabbing you. I'm gonna shoot at him, I got my gun in my hand.

I'm choosing violence, I'm done with at him. I got my gun in my hand. I'm choosing violence I'm done with the whole like let's zip ties were not invented yet I'm going to shoot him Let me just check to make sure I feel like you can't fight back with a gun, but I could be wrong It's more like you hit him with a gun Not with that attitude I just want to make sure today Let me just make absolutely sure here's this is very very hairy where you guys are and I'm also stalling see Michael Michael earn your Venmo you alone in that like building

oh clash in the shadowy. Yeah we're looking for the right. Yeah. I'm gonna I'm gonna lean that way just to make sure but you can still fight back. You just can't shoot your gun at him. Okay, you are turning the initiative. Okay. You can try and like pistol whip as he's trying to put his arms on you. What's my brawl and what's my dad? Yeah, I'm brawling. What did you what was that thing that you just said that I could do? As he's trying to get you, trying to smack him in

the mouth with the butt end of your pistol. I will, yeah, sure. Let's do that. Because my brawl is like double my dodge. That's why I always fight back. Fighting every time. Give me that brawl. I mean you now see though the the danger in fighting back Let me switch back to Okay, I have rolled my dice And I once again I failed I With a bonus die Have I failed. Wow. I, with a bonus die, have also failed. Oh, sick!

So he goes to like lunge at you and he hits the ground. Now you're both on the ground. It's Desmond's turn. Desmond, you, Carter, and Margo, Hobbly McGee, are standing next to this guy who has taken damage but also damaged you and Carter. You've got your hands covered in blood where you've been holding your sides. You now see Carter is just like, ah, same exact spot but on the other side. You fucking bastard.

And I'll, I mean, nah, it's personal. Yeah. I'm going to smash him. I'm going to smash him. Smash him. Okay, give yourself a bonus die. Great, let's see how I do. And I failed the fight back. That's a 34 under 55.

34 under 55, I failed the fight back. Give me the damage on the club, which is 1d3 plus one. Oh, it's 1d3 plus one? Excuse me, 1d3 plus 1? Excuse me 1d6 plus db. Alright, here we go. Alright that's a five another five points of damage. Come on. And he like tries to tries to swing out at you with the knife again to like give you another cut right where your cut is, but he overextends himself and turns his back to you. And you clobber him over the head and he goes down.

Is he quivering? Is one of his legs just going? Yeah, he's down on the ground, he's out. Let's take five minutes to talk about how permanently damaged this person is. He's twitching, he's twitching. Step on his wrist and take that knife and um, yeah. Prick. Just another tool of management.

And I'll metagame with you for a second. You have taken him below zero so you murdered him. He is dead. Whereas the other guy at the good Maybe is unconscious this guy is dead. We're gonna have to go to teardrop tattoo First time you ever plug somebody what are you talking about? No, you can't be. It can't be dead. It was him or me.

Sure. So time to talk about this now. And I'm gonna try to shake this feeling off as I rush toward the door of the workshop and try to follow where Faehruus has led. Faehruus, it is your turn. You are laying on the ground, got the gun in your hand. He's laying on the ground.

It's a little bit of a skirmish. You've got your gun. What do you do? I'm shooting him. I'm going to stand. I'm shooting him. Point blank, just to make it awful for you, give yourself a penalty die because it's dark.

That's uncomfortable. That's just rude. It's just rude. I just have to up the stakes here. This is so brutal. What are you talking about? Let me see I'm doing my firing in the dark Well Wait firearm. Why is that? No, no, no, no, this can't be right Don't have a ten and firearms. No, I don't have a 10 in firearms, do you? No, I don't have a 10 in firearms. What did I just?

Well, it's just a handgun. Oh, I did the wrong thing. Yeah, I did the wrong thing. Here we go. Here it is, hard success. There we go. Oh, ba-boom! All right, give me that damage.

You're both laying on the ground. As you're running towards the building, Desmond, Walt Carter and Margo behind, all of you hear this boom sound and like lights up in there. Shit! So it is a 1d6. Two points. Two points. Two points.

Damage. Boom. Stark. I hit him in the kneecap. It's now Carter's turn. Carter, boom! You hear the guy that stabbed you laying on the ground. Was Faeruz just shot?

That's gotta be Faeruz's gun. I know that gun blast anywhere. What if he took the gun from her? Yeah? Yeah, I'll start running you are positive Faeruz is dead Yeah, I'm gonna run I'm gonna run in I Don't know how much in there. It's it's pitch dark. You see two bodies on the ground You want to just fire one of them now roll a die and see who you hit? So hold on. I like where you're going with this.

So I'm just ramping up the tension? I would like to club on the one who's clearly a man. Is that possible? Yeah, yeah I think so. He's on the ground? Give a moment for your eyes to adjust and club the man. My eye. Club him in the knee that I shot.

It's dark. I'm gonna Bring the club down on this dude. Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna say that you can see. 31 under 77, I got a heart. 31 under 77. Now I'm gonna fight back. 31 under 77. Now I'm gonna fight back. Can I, wait, so should I decide whether or not

to spend luck to guarantee an extreme on this fucking thing? No, it's okay, I failed. You're good. Okay. All right, so give me the club damage, D6 plus your damage bonus. You need a big one here. How seven points do ya? Seven points, it is pretty darn good.

Wow. Just boom, hit this guy. What the fuck? This is for your friend? Oh, you don't know. You don't know what you're doing. You don't know what you're doing. It's Desmond's turn.

No, excuse me. Top of the next round. It's Margo's turn. It's a five rounder. Oh my god. Yeah, so she face butted the guy with the gun's turn. It's a five rounder. Oh my God. Yeah, so she face butted the guy with the gun and now he's dead because of Desmond

and here's the boom go off. Doesn't have time to think about this dead guy. Heard a gun go off in the building. No, it's not in there. Runs into the building. Okay. Runs into the building. You see Carter standing over a guy. It's very dark. You can see it looks like Feroz is laying on the building. Okay. Runs into the building. You see Carter standing over a guy.

It's very dark. You can see it looks like Faeruz is laying on the ground. Faeruz has a gun. Carter's standing over the body of this guy. He's like, you don't know what you're doing. You don't know what you're doing. What do you do? I go up to him with my gun

and I pointed at his stomach point blank. And I'm like, open the safe. Open the safe. I don't have the safe. Oh, open the safe. I don't have the key. You're done, all your friends, they're dead. They're not my friends, I don't have the key. They're co-workers, who cares? They're dead, open the safe.

No, I like how he's making a point to say they're not his friends. He just wants you to know. Those aren't my friends. I mean they're work friends, it's not exactly the same. I don't agree with their politics. Mr. Marshall has the key. Mr. Marshall has the key. Where's the Marshall?

Mr. Marshall, he's at home. I tried to call him but the phone's not working. Zen, you're useless. Is what you're saying? You're useless. He doesn't need you. You don't know what you're up against. I don't think you know what you're saying you're useless. He doesn't need you. You don't know what you're up against. I don't think you know what you're up against. She whacks him in the head with the shotgun.

I'm not going to shotgun it. Alright, just give me a bra roll for posterity's sake. I just got my nails done so it's hard to grab the dice. Success! Success! Success! And you just BOOM! Give me the damage to see if you kill him or knock him out.

I'm not going to fight back. It was a D3? You said to... Yeah, because you don't have any DB. That would be two points. Okay. BOOM! You knock him unconscious.

He's still breathing. And he is out. Tie him up, just in case. Desmond comes running in. Rest of you tie him up. What do you want to do here? You're out of combat. I think we gotta take, let's just take all three bodies

and put tie them together and put them in the shed. Yes. Are you guys okay? No! You were stabbed. I just, I just slashed me. I got it. Um, Mr. Telenastir, I think got pierced.

Oh yeah. The good news is he got me right where the monster got me, so it's just... It's gonna be one scar. Oh, how did we do so poorly in that? I don't know I'm so mad so bad after everything we've seen I can't believe those fucking guys. They're the kill me things went sideways Very quickly. I feel like while we're while we're doing this. Maybe just I want to try first aid on one of you That's the worst off That was gonna be a question too as if I could for, oh wait, we already talked about

if you could first aid yourself, right? You can't? Yeah, you can. You can. We allowed it last time. So because up to two of you can roll and if one of you succeeds, you get the point back. Okay. And you got to do it within an hour of being injured.

So yeah, you can cure leg wounds here and someone may want to do it on Vaughn as well. Yeah, I'll... Desmond, Desmond. Yeah, I'll... He's the first aid on damage. He's the first aid on damage. Son of a pickle. It's too soon.

All right, I go up to Carter, I'm like, gosh damn it, it's the same spot again, and I'm trying to help you. It's the same spot, but did you hear about how the guy tried to call but then he couldn't? So in a way... Oh yes, that's what's super, right? I did that. That's while you were... Were you jumping over the fence? What was going what's super right. I did that. That's while you were,

you jumping over the fence? What was going on? I tried, I don't know, I'm not very good at jumping. You did something really cool though, that was cool. I appreciate that, thank you. Okay. Ooh, success, 20.

Under, it's like 30 something for my. I got 18 under 38. Nice. All right, so you get a hit point back, staunch the wound. Well, all that's happening, I will bring in the fellows from outside And just did you need a pile? um

No, you know Not as bad off as I don't be humble. It's a point to point if we were talking Numerically well if you if you think you can do something, and I'll lift up my shirt and you can see I'm slashed across the stomach. Ugh! As she's like, trying to apply pressure. When she's like, where did you go to acting school?

That was phenomenal. Part of the production company. Oh. Doing the roses and running bluffs and the like is all part of the course working for the scoop. I've done a few workshops. Drop ins. Don't you be humble.

Did you do your way out of set? What? There was a lot you missed. Manner speaking. And I did succeed on that first aid roll. You really have to. Great. The point is to focus on exactly where the person has been in what I like to call the

moment before. Once you have that sort of in your mind, it sort of carries you through. If you have a sense of your objective and your characters want, never mind. Did I get a point back? Yes, you did. Yeah. Hooray. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. And uh, did I get a point back? Yes you did. Hooray. Yep, faeroos.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Mr. Brock. She stitched up your washboard abs. Oh yeah, he's uh, he's young and virile, he's super cut. And um, Carter's just sort of right, trying to fix his posture. We all just suck it in a little too much. Stand up a little straighter. It's like 20, isn't he 20 something? Yeah, I'm 23 I think?

That's how I was at 23 of course. Nobody likes you. Yeah. Script. Wiery, wiry. And um, I'm gonna immediately go over to one of those work benches that we kind of sneak peeked at during the day when we walked through and just throw the tarp off.

So wait, sorry, just because we're blazing. Did you say you pulled the two people inside? Yes. You pulled them into the workshop area. But I guess we wanted to do shed. Well, it doesn't matter. I mean, as long as they're just out of, the only thing is if we think somebody else is in this building is gonna stumble upon them versus right putting them in this shed

Where no one yeah Margo and Faeru saw a little shed thought it'd be a good hiding place if they wanted to But it was also giving off some sort of a heat the shadow is it there's another larger building Which I also referred to as a shed that's giving us a meat, but you guys are in the workshop This is great great great initiative des. Let's Maybe let's get these guys into the shed. Very well. I hope this exertion doesn't bother for the wound, but it's fine. It's fine. And I'll will tug them in there and stash them behind the closed doors of the shed. And Desmond's head is spinning, seeing just how limp the person who he clubbed is. That's, I mean, it was him or me, right? It was him or me.

Oh yeah, yeah. Look, and you'll get used to this the more you hang out with us. Should we, I don't wanna belabor anything. Should we tie these people together just in case the two living people wake up? With some cord or something. I don't know what's around.

Do you tie them to the dead body? Yes. Losing around. Exactly what we do. Grotesque, and yeah, we do that. So if all that's been done, may I? I didn't mean to. No, no, no, no.

Let's get to the, glad we know all that's taken care of. Can we look at the workbench? Yes. Yeah, so you want to pull up the tarps. Well, as it is, there are no tarps. Oh. The workbench is fully exposed. It's dark in here. Do you want to try and light it up or you want to just use your flashlights? Yeah, now we have extras now thanks to the guards. So yes, we'll use flashlights. All right, so you use your flashlights and you start looking around the table.

There's an office off to the side and Mr. Marshall's office, you'd assume there's the big safe in the back, but you're looking at the table, which was conspicuously covered after you tricked Mr. Marshall into letting you examine this large safe. There are lots of tools laying about. There are some chemicals like resins, acids, and you can smell that sort of acrid smell coming from the chemicals on like a cupboard near the the workbenches. But on the tables themselves it's just like scraps of whatever they were working on. It seems like nothing on the tables that has been left out overnight is of imports just a real mishmash of some some files some metal scraps some resin wood shavings like it's just a hodgepodge you start

thinking like all right well whatever they were working on, they must have put somewhere else. Put it away somewhere. Yeah. Um, Mr. Tilling asked. Oh. You picked a lock of that monster safe earlier today. I did, thank you. Uh-huh.

You think you can do the honors again? Do it again, do it again. The car's standing a little straighter now than Margo could potentially witness this. I heard this was really cool. It was pretty cool. I've been mostly cool today except for the time where I fucked up so bad we almost died. Yeah, I mean, I'd love to try to do this safe again, Troy. I don't know if since I've already cracked at once if I got some kind of a...

I'm going to give you a bonus die. Yeah, you did crack it once already. You know the mechanism. And you also know it's a really hard roll. So I'm gonna give you the bonus die. See what happens. You do have luck. Yes. I walk up to it. I'm like, hello again, sweetie. Let's talk. And I start working on it. Okay, that's not gonna work. Let me do the bonus. It was a 47, under 48. That's your best.

That's my best. If you're telling me I gotta hit extreme a second time, then I'll spend the luck and do it. Okay. I'm gonna look at a high luck. How much luck is that? 40 something. I gotta get to, I gotta, extreme is nine.

What do we say? Nine, nine would be 45, but 10 is too much, so nine. So I don't have to spend. Oh, God. Do it. You've got like 70 something. You've got 70. Yeah, yeah. 39. Wait. Oh, fuck.

I'm all fucked up. It's worth it. All right. So you're gonna spend it. You have it. I have it. I'll calculate it on my own because I can't do math, especially when anyone's watching me. Okay. You open up this enormous walk-in safe. And There are a bunch of like components in there.

Do you have any sort of mechanical or engineering skill or any of you to make heads or tails of it? I'll give it a whirl. I don't, I mean, I got 10. Yeah, I'm curious like what your background skills are. Some mechanical and electrical repair. I don't see engineering on here. Engineering, physics, science. Oh, science.

Basically skills that are relevant. And I'm not even saying you need to roll them, but just to know like if you can make even basic heads or tails of this. Science, engineering, physics, or mechanical repair. I think that's a no for Margo. I only got 10 points in. Yeah, I'll try mechanical repair again.

Just for the fuck of it. Okay, to try and make heads or tails of it. What's a fumble? If you have under 50, 96 to 100 is a fumble. Yeah, I fumbled my science, whatever, my mechanical repair. I don't understand how anything works! Well, what I'll say is like, maybe you pick up one of the components to look at it and you drop it and it breaks Okay, cool Like cuts me for a hit point. I was gonna lose my mind. You lose ten hit points. And this is a component that's in the safe Yeah, one of these components he kind of like or maybe if you don't pick it up because I don't want to drive your character You as you're steering at these things. I think Carter would pick it up for sure You or you brush up against it it falls falls, and a piece of it falls out.

You're like, I think I broke it. Maybe if we don't know what's this is about. Can we just try? Even if we have a low, can we just like, fuck it? Yeah, that's what I just did. The only problem is I fumbled. I'll just try. All right, I'm going to try.

Before we fumble again, intentionally. Oh, you did? Yes. I had a nine. She got it! She got a nine. Nine under 10. On roll 20, it rollsie nine under ten on mechanical repair

All right, so none of you have any engineering background So at first look all of these devices or components don't look like anything special to you First look, all of these devices or components don't look like anything special to you. Feroze, I don't know, where do you think you get this skill? Was your dad a gear head? From her background in cryptology, her whole brain is finding how the puzzle pieces fit. Okay. So even if she doesn't have the vocabulary to explain what it is, in mechanical terms, her brain kind of understands how this rudimentary, as a puzzle piece, would fit into this situation.

All right, here's how I'm going to rock this out. You look at this stuff, it doesn't make any sense to you. However, in your background, in studying and studying, you know, stuff that's recovered from archaeological digs or whatnot, I like to think that maybe you have an eye for the age of things. You could see like, well, that's Sumerian from blah, blah, blah BC and that one. You could just eyeball and you know that that's a thousand years older than that one you just kind of have a sense of that. Well in looking at these devices and components or that don't seem to

connect at all or whatever they are the one thing that jumps out at you is that it looks like a mix of very new parts and then very old parts. Like the sort of, everything falls into one of two categories. Something that looks like outlandishly new and weird, and then something that looks almost ancient and rudimentary in its design. And she explains this is like, hear me out. And these older, the older pieces.

I'm gonna say it's not old like, oh, that's dusty old. It just looks like something that was made. Yeah. So it was like something that was made recently, but to look and resemble something that has an old style. Right. And then the other stuff is like so dizzyingly weird. It looks like New I guess much much newer in comparison Miss our do you have your camera on you? I was going to say if I don't know if we're going to try to take any of this back And at least if you shine your flashlights at it

I could take a picture so we can study it later or bring it to someone like a turn expert So yeah, if you guys all shine your flashlights, she'll take a photo of it, for sure. Yeah, maybe if you know somebody that is well versed in this, you could go and get their opinion. Maybe a couple of them that look particularly odd, we like take a closer photo of. I think we can also take them.

We're taking them. There's no covering up our tracks here. Are they legible? Are they like hand handholdable? I mean Desmond flew off from the fucking handle and killed a guy. All of them would be hard, but you certainly could pocket a bunch of them

or throw some in a sack. There's sacks of grain out in the workshop. You could dump that and just start loading up sacks. Yeah, let's fuck it. Let's do it. Grab a few. We already shot people. we might as well. We've already murdered people and tied the dead body

to the living body. Yeah, so we'll take, so in this, and the safe is just full of all these like, odd, misshapen mechanical components. Like shelves, it's a walk-in thing, and every part of the shelf is full of these little components. And looking at that and once we've got our pictures, I would like to go to Marshall's

desk and sort of paperwork and correspondence. And into the office. It'd be great if we could find some blueprints or whatever. Yeah, because Frasier's just like, well, what do you suppose? You don't know. What do you suppose these do that they're so important that they'd be locked up in the safe? Is this what they're fabricating here? It doesn't make any sense to me.

This looks like madness. Yeah, you're looking at it like some of the older pieces don't even look like mechanical pieces. They look like fossilized rocks, but they were clearly fabricated next to like doohickeys that are so strange. Does it look like they were trying to attempt to recreate? Like they kept trying to recreate the same thing over and over again? No, they're all different.

They're definitely all different. Some of them are like there's multiple versions of each one. But yeah, no, it's very deliberate, but very, very strange. Walk me back, Troy. When we first entered in the daytime, wasn't there something like it seemed like they were covering up the manufacturing of something? Yeah. So you put it two and two together, it seems like maybe they're working on these things

and they were in mid-work when they brought you in to check out the safe. So they covered up what they were working on because he didn't want you guys to see it and then probably uncovered it. At the end of the day, they put the stuff in the safe and went home. I wonder what this is that they're recreating or trying to create. There must be something in. There must be something. Yeah, it's a rifle through his shit. Yes, a rifle through his shit. I don't see how this could be the military contract that they're talking about.

This is very peculiar. The fact that these are based on ancient designs, like you say, that does sound like your friend at the Penhew Foundation and why the connection exists. I think that's what the workers were told was that it was government. It has to be a lie. Unless the government is in some way involved. And what do we see in the desk? Yeah.

All right. So you head into the office and you start looking around. You see a couple more of those shipping labels for the Randolph Shipping Company, Port Darwin, Northern Torrey, Northern Territory, Dominion of Australia, like ready to go labels. You see blueprints, stacks of blueprints of dizzyingly complicated schematics, many of which, as you shine flashlights on them, are annotated in like a tiny, in tiny spidery handwriting that's almost impossible to read. Some of them have these strange, maybe borderline occult sigils drawn in the margins of the

blueprints. And any sort of free space on the blueprints, you'll see these symbols, which don't seem to bear any relation to the schematic themself. And, good. Do they bear resemblance to any of the things we've seen before?

Like in the... When you look at them, they don't, nothing rings a bell. Do they bear resemblance to any of the things we've seen before? When you look at them, they don't ring. Nothing rings a bell. Maybe that's something you saw a lot in the walls of the pyramid in Peru, but nothing jumps out at you. Like, I know what that is. Maybe you're having a little PTSD at the same time. Have I seen that symbol?

Maybe I've read that in Africa's Dark Sex but yeah nothing jumps out at you it's just very eerie why is that on the margins of these blueprints you also see that they are what's the word I'm looking for here? They are All the blueprints are signed by the pale viper What what? It's like whoever whoever drew the tiny hand writing notes and maybe drew these symbols as well He's like escort Each blueprint is sailed. Signed the Pale Viper.

Someone calling themselves the Pale Viper. That's pretty awesome. That's pretty metal. I like that. It is. You also see a note on the desk that is dated last week. The note says, the first crate has been received. I have a truck coming this week to deliver it to Chowdary's warehouse down at the Limehouse docks.

Send the second crate directly to Limehouse. The Ivory Wind will take it from there. Signed EG. G. Edward Gavigan? Edward Gavigan. Is he the Ivory Wind? The first crate has been received. I think I've heard the boat. Ivory Wind sounds like a ship to me.

Though that's also a great nickname. The Ivory Wind and a pale viper. Very much like to see this, Mr. Chowdry. Maybe they're not building anything here, but they're making the parts and then sending it to Australia and, I don't know. Yeah.

Is there anything else in the room? You. Spot hidden or no? You find a, there is a locked drawer, bottom desk drawer. Carter. Huh? Locked, you say. This is hard to open.

It needs help. Yeah, right. So you're so cocky. It's got a 48. It's not even that like. I know. All right, you want me to open this? Yes, can you just get this open, hurry? She's just so used to you like, opening it well, she doesn't even think that it's hard for you to do.

Yeah, no, I get it. After cracking the world's most difficult thing. Yeah, I got a nineteen under forty-eight. Thank you, thank you. Pop it open with ease. I don't even look at it, I just open it for her and walk away. There's a, uh, you open up the drawer and there's a revolver inside with a bunch of cartridges. Oh, combat cartridges.

You needed a... I'll take it. My handgun skill is not great, but I'll take it. It looks expensive. You should practice. Oh, yeah. Does it look expensive? Like, is it like what kind of a gun? Like is it just your, is it like a special gun? Or is it like a? I will tell you the gun.

It's a small handgun. I'll tell you what the exact making model is. Okay. I didn't know if it like was, had like the pan fiber like etchings. Right, yeah. No, it's all handled with the etching. Yeah. Yeah.

There's also a small bottle of Brown liquor. I'm taking that too After tonight we've had yeah, okay There's stills the the factory Right. Yeah, they're the other building. We didn't even look into so so, this building, like where all the tarps had originally been that had covered up the work benches and stuff, there's still equipment in here or is it, we have the sense that most of the stuff is being made in the other building?

No, it seems like everything is being like created here. The other building, you know, the other building. So there are molds? They were talking about molds that they were using to like, the guy when we were talking, somebody let it slip either at the bar. Like, yeah, I'm the mold maker. Yeah.

So are we seeing, are those in this building? Because I want to smash the shit out of them. Yeah, no, there are no molds in this building. So it must be in the identical building. I want to total it, guys. Here's the thing. We're taking these blueprints. I feel like the more we slow down whatever these guys are doing, the better. We're taking these blueprints. I feel like the more we slow down

whatever these guys are doing, the better. They don't have blueprints. They don't know how to put this shit together. Let's take that stuff. Whenever we find anything that makes these things, we destroy them. Like, let's slow this shit down. Do you want to set this on fire too, while we're at it?

It's not a bad idea, but maybe that's too much. You know what? Let's go big or go home. Zara's knows that we were here. We've already attempted, I mean, murdered, theft. How about Austin? We're just a little trifecta. This is wild.

Can you imagine what it's gonna be like at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning? Well, we don't know when, whenever, whenever they're clearly beefed up their security. I think time's still at the essence. Can't let the guard down. I'd love to see what's in that other building. Yeah, let's just get some light sabotage and then steal some of the stuff.

Burn it down. Yeah. Oh yeah. Jesus. Burn it down. All right, so you- Yeah, can we walk across the courtyard to the other building? You slip out of the workshop.

You don't even need the keys because the door is wide open from where the guy came running out. The guy who is now dead. It's actually a dead one that was in this building. You walk inside of the second building, which I did refer to as a shed, not to be confused with the small wooden like gardening shed in the back. It's a big open plan building. There are two large industrial ovens and a furnace sort of like as the star of the room, along with various workbenches, stacks of coal and wood, sacks of sawdust, piles of iron, steel and copper, wooden crates, a water trough, barrels of plaster, all manner

of tools. So the molding of whatnot is done in this room. You do see molds and whatnot. They must be using the furnace to like melt down metals that is then transported over the workshop to be turned into whatever those devices and components were. Do any of the tools look ancient? Like, you know how like one of the things that we found were like a mix? Are there any like weird tools that like would be also

Don't fit into this like what we consider at that time modern all the tools you see are as normal and modern as can be Okay. Yeah, just curious. Is there anything that seemed out of the ordinary? Out of the ordinary or give me a spot hidden, right? Um, You can all roll that. Regular success for me. Hard success. You find more of those labels for the Randolph Shipping Company, but nothing else out of place. You do find a small little note that says, honey, I have to work late tonight, but put the kids to bed and I'll see you

when I come home in the morning. I promise I'm not dying tonight. I love you so much. I'm rolling sanity for that. I want us to renew our vows. Don't show Desmond Slacks, put that away. I know I've been working late nights, and I haven't been the best husband, but I love you.

I love having a whole brain. Now that they've found a cure for my incurable disease, I can't wait to live forever with you. You're scrumpled up. Well, that's not happening. I've got to hurt success to myself and most of you also. I take it like a champ. I feel like this makes sense.

Whatever they're doing here is they're making pieces and shipping them off. And that's where it might end here. So Gavagan is importing or finding these ancient designs, sending them to the moldmakers on the factory floor here, to fabricate ancient relics and parts, but using contemporary manufacturing practices, then shipping them to Australia? Yes, to be made. I mean, it makes sense. You only want to ship small parts if you're going to ship anything. What in God's name is he building down there? I don't know.

Maybe we can get somebody to look at the schematics we found. Take a look at the schematics and maybe a keener eye at these designs. Didn't he say that there was one more shipment going to be loaded onto that cargo ship? That's right. To Chowdhury? Yeah, do we want to break in there too? I was thinking we all just get in a crate and have it delivered. Make sure to dig four holes in the side.

The old Trojan crate? Yeah. Especially since these workmen here, those ones that don't have their skulls caved in could identify the lot of us. Now, do you live in London, Desmond? Is that your home? I work for Scoop, then yeah. Yeah, you probably, you have a flat somewhere in London,

so you would know the Limehouse Docks. They're in London, and it is one of the seediest areas in town. It's a rough, rough area. Saloons, lots of sailors, lots of warehouses. It's not a place for the faint of heart. You've heard plenty of stories have come across the Scoops desk of people getting murdered and washing up on the banks of the Thames and having it all lead back to Limehouse.

Even the cops are just like, what happens in Limehouse stays in Limehouse. Is that where Jack the Ripper was, was Limehouse? You know- Oh no, that was Whitechapel or something like that. Thanks from hell. That's a... Eh... That's a place, um...

A rougher sort... Hangs out there. B. A gin-soaked... Lot, then. I sound great. Peck your pocket soon as look at you. Yeah, that's my kind of people. A gin-soaked lot, then. Sound great. Pack your pockets early so they look at you. Yeah, that's my kind of people.

Okay, here's my only other thought. Opium dens. Besides, uh, trashing some shit right now. Is it worth before we go? Should we try to wake up one of those guys and, like, get some extra intel out of him? You know, the guy that was like, you don't know what you're up against. It's like, well maybe you can tell us what we're up against. I don't think they knew what they were building in here, but they would know maybe who is in charge of all of this.

Mm-hmm. Although I guess we do too, if we know it's a game. Seems as though we can trace it all back to Gavigan. I think we're still assuming that. I don't think we have like a smoking gun here. Well he owns this place apparently. Found the ownership and we got his correspondence sitting on the desk of Mr. Marshall. But he's just making these things and sending it to Australia. We don't know what it is.

It may be that these workers here don't even know the full scope of what they're building. It's the division of labor. That's how the bosses keep you ignorant. Exactly. Yeah, my guess is that if this is all top secret and it needs to be hidden in such a gargantuan safe and security patrolling nonstop, my guess is that the bigger the secret, the less people would know about it. So I highly doubt that common workers would have any idea what this was. It seems that if we want to see the next link in the chain,

you'd either go back to the pen you, to the little spot where you claim that you broke into or we go see this chowdery character and see where the shipments go off on Lion House Docks and maybe see what's in these crates like. Right. I would think they're whatever we just found, right? I mean, if this place, we know this place is a direct line to the docks, but then ship it out to Australia. But at least maybe we'd be able to find out

where exactly in Australia they're being shipped to. Well, we've got the label. Port Durban, yeah. Is that what, did we get the exact location? I left my notebook upstairs, but yes. Port Darwin, yeah. Darwin, that's it. Port Durban. Port Durbin.

Port Durbin. Port Durbin. Sometimes the accent makes things a little... I just think different ways. I just feel like we... You never guess how Siobhan is spelled. I just feel like we are assuming that there is nefarious stuff here going on because of our experience.

But we don't have any hard evidence of exactly what the Penhe Foundation is doing. No. And you still don't have a clear sense, based on what you said, of what this truckload of... Oh, right. ...ex-parts of the people... Yes....what happens to them. I forgot about the people. What happens to them? Which is sued. Oh, that's coming out. And while we have no absolute proof that this is nefarious,

everything that we've come across and encountered in this entire investigation from start to finish has tried to kill us. So, my guess is. Yeah, if it's us, it's nefarious. I just wanted to point something out to you because I know that you may not remember everything, but when Margot and Carter were in that secret room underneath the Penny foundation, you found that receipt for goods and services, including deliveries to Henson manufacturing

Darby for wooden coal iron ingots, copper wiring, and expensive cast iron safe. You found a receipt from Ferris and Sons for the six month hire of a truck and a letter from a Mr. Puneet Chowdhury of Ropemaker Fields Limehouse relating to the warehousing and shipment of sundry antiquities to Shanghai aboard a ship called the Ivory Wind.

Yeah. Oh, right. So Shanghai's connected as well. the ivory went. Yeah. Oh, right. Shanghai is connected as well. So they're shipping it to Australia and China. Well let's burn this fucker down. We might just have to wing it and when everything comes to a head we just shoot and so we get

the answers. I mean it's not like we're taking this to a court of law to begin with. I don't think we have to worry about the ways we got this evidence. So you want to take, are we taking components and blueprints? We're taking blueprints, yeah. And we're smashing. Is there a sledgehammer? Carter just wants to really start going to town.

Yeah, you could really, you know, destroy as much stuff as you want, really leave your mark and then are you going to burn it down? Like douse these buildings in gasoline and light a match and walk out. Is there a chance, hold on, like a Michael Bay film? Is there a way, I don't know if this is just gonna be role-dependent or what, but like, can we comfortably light these buildings up without starting a fire in the entire town? Right, without burning the town down? Yeah, I think it's possible.

It'd be so cool to light it up and then have a scene of us walking away from it slowly with the burning in the background. Well, obviously we're doing that. I just want to make sure that other people won't die because of it. Yeah, I mean, the walls are pretty contained. Yeah, it is definitely going to be a scene, but I don't think you have to worry too, too much about the fire not being contained. Right.

Let's burn it. I don't think we can stay in the town after we burn this place out. That's probably a good call. We should probably... No more spending the night. We've got to get out tonight. We've got to go fast now. This lot have seen us, so there's a chance that they may not be able to go to the authorities

if they truly want to keep it secret. But we've shown our faces to them. So if this is a wide range of conspiracy, then they're getting to know us all the more. Yeah. And we might want to give your uncle a heads up. Is there a way to track phone numbers down? Do you think they could figure out that that number? I guess, did you hand them a written phone number for them to call for that cover story?

I gave them the number in a scoop. Yeah. Okay. Can you track down addresses with phone numbers in the 20s? Is that what you're asking? Let's say no. What address are you trying to link to a phone number? I was worried that they would like, well, what was the number we called? If we know that they were not from the safe company because they came and they killed one of us

And they burnt the whole fucking place down Yeah, I mean you you pretty much have to kill those other two guys. Oh, no wait, whoa, whoa They've seen you so you just gotta like burn them alive in there They've seen it like they're the only ones that know that the two guys that came to inspect the safe are thieves That is true. They did recognize us But but I don't know if there's a way for them to find where we are after this That was why I was asking if you like handed them the phone number or if you just told them to call this number And you were like repeated it and they call I don't think you have to worry about them tracking them.

I don't think we have to worry about them tracking them. We don't have to worry about them fucking seeing us, who cares. You just have to worry about them passing our descriptions of us up their network. Yes. Next time you go to Penhew, if Gavigan is truly connected to this, then he'll know exactly what you are and where you've been. And maybe if we want that, maybe that's good. And Carter, you are very recognizable. I don't know what you're talking about. You guys tell me whatever you want to do.

It's your game. You can you can burn it down. You can let them live. You can leave them there to burn alive. You can ride them out onto the street. We leave them in the shed. We don't burn the shed. We burn the other buildings.

We walk out in slow motion. Okay. Well they did have acid, were there any other flammable materials? Oh yeah, there's plenty of flammable material, you can dump it all over and light a match and walk away. And you just see from like a helicopter view,

the shed and the warehouse just ablaze with the tiny little gardening shed in the back with two living unconscious men tied to a dead body. The perfect crime. Now, you guys are out of there. Do you want to try and catch, I mean, I don't know what the train schedules are. Let's presume that trains, if they don't run all night, you could just go hang out at the train station and grab the first train back to London.

Or do you want to try and get a hotel or do you want to just get the fuck out of here and deal with sleep later? We should go sleep. I feel bad for that painted lady that we were staying with, but let's get out of here. Yeah. All right. So you head back to the Darby train station across town. It's a long walk, but it's probably the best thing to do.

Walk all the way back there. You see the next train isn't coming for like two hours so you're just sitting in this train station. Every time someone walks by just maybe hang your heads low. At one point you see two police officers come into the train station and just kind of looking around. They walk in your direction and they go off in another direction. Then after a couple hours train to London pulls in I stop on the train you get into London at 5 45 a.m. where do you want to go you don't heal because you didn't sleep now you could go check into a hotel

Right now and sleep and start the day later Take the whole day off Let me look at where we are on the calendar here so Thursday it was Thursday February 12th, so now it's the morning of Friday the 13th. Ooh. Friday, February 13th, your ninth day in England. Desmond is back home.

Well, I don't know if you lot got a room at the inn. I've got my flat. It'd be tight sleeping for all four of us, but I'd find a way. Yeah, we can't go back to where we were staying just in case we get tracked. Plus we can't afford it. We should lay low. Yeah, let's go back to your pad. Well, I suppose I can put some blankets on the floor. And yeah. pad. Well, I suppose I can put some blankets on the floor. Yeah. The upside is they have

no way of tracking us. That tracking on whereabouts. I hope so. Let's keep low profile for now. Yeah. And I'll take you to, journalism at the best of times, not the most remunerative career. So you're up to a third floor flat and oh yeah, it's packed with papers. It's just like, and so many and it's just like tons of his own printed zines of like his workers party zines. He's got lots of Marxist pamphlets and books and posters. I just threw up the map of London here. If you can see it on the VTT, St. Pancras station is number three. So I think you're coming to St. Pancras. That's up in the northwest quadrant there. And then you'll see the scoop is oddly enough lucky

number 13. And that's just north of the Thames right in the center of the map. Where do you think you live? Desmond? I don't know enough about like the relative character of London neighborhoods at this time. Buckingham Palace. You live in Buckingham Palace. I don't know much about London the relative character of London neighborhoods at this time. Buckingham Palace. You live in Buckingham Palace. I don't know much about London, but I would say probably in Buckingham Palace. London Bridge. There's a tower there, right?

A London Tower? Tower of London? Seems like a high-rise. Maybe you stay, you think you live near the Scoop or do you like to be a little away from the world? Yeah, let's say I live near the scoop or do you like to have be a little away? Yeah, let's say I live near the scoop. Maybe there's a there's a um, maybe maybe even in a building that adjoins My uncle's place So yeah, maybe nearby there somewhere in the neighborhood of the scoop, okay

That's right in the public records office as well. Right near the public records office and the royal courts of justice Alright so you stay- Is there a brunch place? You say in that general area, I can't think. I don't know what that area is called. But anyways, you live in that area. So you guys will have to take a taxi or something. And you get over there, arriving outside of your building after the sun has come up, say,

10 past seven in the morning. People are starting to get out and head to their factory jobs. The middle class co-mingling with the upper class as you escort everyone to your modest flat. This post is of girls leaning on corvettes on the wall. It's like a college dorm. Are you guys just going to give everybody sheets and have them, like everybody sleep? You must all be exhausted. And some of you are heavily enchained.

Very much so. Yeah. Yeah. I've got, yeah, one bed,, maybe a little couch in a sitting area. I could pull cushions off the bed if somebody wants it. Not much in a way. Not much in a way. A creature comforts here.

This might be a bed set. This might just be a one roomer with a washroom down the hall that's shared by the whole like, Oh, forget it then. The floor. Time's changed. Gosh, damn it. I do.

Do you live here? Yes, I live here. So beautiful. Carter needs a full standing bathtub, wherever he needs it. Where's the bidet at? Do you have a bar? I'm terribly sorry. This isn't the Waldorf Astoria of Versailles. I don't know what you're used to in your travels around the world.

The Waldorf Astoria? You're telling me there's no concierge? I'm afraid you're looking at him, Mr. Brown. Can I get you a cup of tea? That's about all I can offer you. That would be great Mr. Bourne. Can I get you a cup of tea? That's about all I can offer. That would be great, actually. Yeah. I'll put a kettle on.

You're like Sir Deans. He's like opening some tin. Could go for a scone. Oh, that sounds amazing. All right, so you guys just pass out on the floor of this tiny little apartment. I mean, you're so exhausted, as uncomfortable as it is. I would imagine you all pass out pretty quickly, sleep six, seven, eight hours. Now it's closer to the middle of the day.

You wake up in the afternoon of Friday the 13th. Tuesday is the full moon. In what few leads you have left, you know that on the night of the full moon, a truck seems to come to the Blue Pyramid Club, gather up a bunch of people, and drive off into the country. So there's something there. You know that Gavigan is involved with something that's going on here. You know, he's got a secret room, but you still don't really know what's going on.

You know that Inspector Barrington said that, you know, he trailed Zara Shafik from Empire Spices and seemed like she might have been not telling the truth, but she came to clean and he pulled his detail off of her. Margo and Carter met her. She seemed on the up and up. There's something going on here. Is there a brotherhood who's involved? Now you see that there's something going on at the Limehouse docks. The Ivory wind has a shipment.

It's going to, is it going a shipment. Is it going to China? Is it going to Australia? What is this shipment? What is going on? What is your plan for Friday the 13th? I honestly thought you were going to say, see you next week. So I kind of stopped thinking about it. Didn't really have an answer.

It's good. If you give me a plan, then I know what to prep. Yeah, you know, just... What, it's not in that 196 pages? It's there somewhere. Let's go back to Eaglescranes, son of a bitch! But, Carter, we could bring them to the basement of the Pentium Foundation again, or see what else we can get into there. There's more rooms.

We could also track Gavigan down to his place. Yes. And fucking murder him. Just like Shafik seems so clean, you could track her, see what she gets up to in her off hours. Should we split up in track? Because if we're just watching, and we're not going to do anything else.

Uh-huh. We could follow. And if we go multiple places, that's more work for Troy. So that's fun. Just have him prep everything. We don't know who he wants to do. I'm ready. Five apps left after this.

I'm intrigued by the docs. Just seeing that's like the one place we haven't kind of probed. And also trying to get something on Zara Shafik who is too innocent by half. Yeah. Although she might be tied to these people coming on the... Getting on with this.

We should probably start to figure that out because we only have a few days before. Are we going back to the Penhew? Because I'm curious about that, to be honest. Is in back to their secret room, chamber? Yeah, I feel like Faerûs would be helpful down there, but is there anything else we can also get out of that? Besides just repeating.

I don't know. Right. That's what I'm wondering. But the docks I'm very curious about. Because we don't have a lot of time. Yeah. Also, I don't know if it's worth, I keep forgetting that we have two separate license plates

that we've seen. Margo saw one that drove away that was watching us, and I saw the one that drove away from us in, whatchamacallit, from the laughing horse. Right. So I don't know who those people are. They're two different ones. So I don't know.

Go to the London DMV. Well, maybe the Hall of Records. Yeah, the Hall of Rec-something and find out who's watching us. Well, maybe we could have. Because that's really bugging Carter. Not all of us are very sneaky. direct something and find out who's watching us. Because that's really bugging Carter. Not all of us are very sneaky. Maybe someone can tell one person,

another person could tell another person, and then someone can go to the Hall of Records. Well, if you want to put a tail on Miss Shafik, I've not interviewed her. So I'm an unknown quantity as far as she's concerned. Alright, she thinks we're restaurateurs. Right, she's seen us before, hasn't she? So I could follow her. She's seen you guys.

Not you, you were fumbling around over the fence behind her. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right. That's what's unfortunate. And then, I mean, this limp is going away. I'm a little sneaky too. Maybe I can tail Gafgen. You're talking about a classic mystery squad split up? I mean, I'm terrified of- Are we doing a two-way split or a four-way split? I don't know.

Do we want to go to the Hall of Records also? How many birds do we want to murder? I think the Hall of Records might be like a nice daytime. I don't think that should take very long. And also we do know that nobody's trying to kill us there because that's just the Hall of Records, it's not. Unless those records are the eldritch signs of horror. Yeah, I think it makes-

That could be a little pit stop on the way too. Yeah, I think Dez on Shafik is great. Yes, I do like that. Because he's right. And then Hall of Records into... Maybe. Did you say Tail and Gap again? When we split up, you could Desmond off to Shafik, we could do a quick stop at the Hall of Records

and then perhaps both the Penny foundation and the Docs, I feel like should be a nighttime activity. Well, the Docs is whether or not we wanted to actually talk to Chattery and try to figure out anything from him. So that feels... I'm wondering if that's... That could be a daytime. Yeah.

And then maybe reconvene at the Penhew Foundation, perhaps? Or tailing Gavigan too is also... Tailing Gavigan. I do think tailing Gavigan would be important. Also, maybe tailing people during the day is useful. Yeah. Oh, you know, that would be, I mean, if we're tailing somebody, that would be the time to do it.

Otherwise they're at home resting. Check these license plates along with any other information you may want to look up. You've gathered some stuff at the Hall of Records, maybe find somebody who knows something about mechanical repair that you trust to look over those photos. Maybe Desmond has to ask his uncle for some help in that respect. Also, yeah, Faehrys might check to see who that guy in her mom's diary was, if he's listed there. Oh yeah. Amiel, her perhaps perhaps lover was it a meal I believe?

Yeah. And send Desmond over to do some recon on Zara Shafik while you do some daytime recon and tailing Edward Gavigan. You are back in London. Five episodes left. You are back in London. Five episodes left. Tuesday is a full moon. We'll see you next week. How? How? How is this gonna happen?

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I'm Miles Tridle, writer and narrator of The Warning Woods. Each week I write an original scary story and share it with you on The Warning Woods. I've written two novels and nearly 200 short stories spanning the horror genre. If you're into scary stories, you need to check out The Warning Woods. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just search for The Warning Woods and click play at your own risk. Hey folks, we're the hosts of Comic Sans, the podcast about comics for those who are sans knowledge. I'm Yen, a reader, writer, liver, and breather of comic books.

And I'm Nat. I used to know absolutely nothing about comics, but now… So actually, I've got a quiz for you. I still have a lot to learn about comics. Thank you. On Comic Sans, I make Nat read some of my favourite works in the medium, including Saga, Daredevil and The Flintstones.

And Yen talks about what makes that comic special. Sometimes it's a story, sometimes it's… Panelling, gutters, page turns, colorings, lettering, semiotics, juxtaposition— Okay, Professor. Save it for the episodes. You can listen to Comics Fans on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge our first two seasons. That's over 20 episodes on 20 different comics.

And we just launched Season 3. New episodes every two weeks.