The Glass Cannon Podcast - Time For Chaos S2 | E19 – Island Time

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

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You are welcome to the Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, it's Friday night and it's time for chaos. I only get to say that one, not two, one more time and then season finale and it's going to be another three years before we come back. Now, I want it to be a shorter time before we come back because I do want to finish this someday and I plan on retiring in a year and a half. So we need to wrap this up. No, I'm so excited. I'm like tripping over my own thoughts because I have so much information stocked in here in preparation for these final two episodes of the season.

There's too much in here. There's no way I'm going to be able to get it all out. But usually I come into these things and I am just, like all my recordings, I'm just like, God, not because I don't want to do it, but because I have like a perfectionist. When you do improv, perfectionism and improv don't always go together. And so if you have that sort of, oh, those OCD tendencies or you want everything to be ah, you kind of have to let that go and just hope for the best.

And I think that this series, unlike anything we do on the network, has really opened my eyes to what one can do with this game. I played so much Pathfinder over the years and with RPGs in general, I played so much Pathfinder over the years and at its best, we get to kind of the heart of what we're doing here on Time for Chaos. What has transpired as this show has sort of taken flight, as it's grown wings and taken flight as it's grown wings and taken flight. I really think that there is stuff happening between the five of us that is really, really special.

And so I go into these final two episodes very, very excited. And as I mentioned before, excited because I'm curious, how is this story going to end? There's a book, like all RPGs, there's a book. But like there's so many different ways this could go. And I really, at all times, I want you to feel like you're the ones driving the story. You're the ones making these decisions that lead to the outcomes, good or bad, though they may be. And I think that over the next at least four hours, but going on last year's season finale,

could be more, could be more. Over the next four plus hours, I am just, I'm both an active participant and an excited audience member to see how this all goes down. When I began prep for season two and I knew you guys, I asked you guys at the end of last season's like, all right, so where do you think you're going to go next? You got these clues, this clue, and you guys were like, it seems like we should just follow in Jackson's footsteps and go to England. I was like, great, England.

I just let that sit in my brain for a while. Then when I began my prep in earnest for this season and started looking over the notes for England and what goes down, I was like, okay, I think this can fill a whole season, but maybe not, maybe they'll, really, there's so many things you could have done. You don't go to Lesser Edale, all of a sudden, it's three episodes, three and a half episodes that don't happen.

I'm sure we would have stumbled in something else. Eagles Grange, Eagles Grange was two and a half episodes. I mean, that's a quarter of the season. That's why I wanted to go to England, let's be honest. It had nothing to do with the mystery. I was like, let's get Vaughan home. Yeah. Arguably some of the most memorable moments from the season slash series came out of the

events of those two things. As that started to transpire, once you got to Lesser Edel, once you decided you wanted to go to Eagles Grange, I kind of had the end in my crosshairs. I could kind of see it, but I've avoided prepping it. I've avoided sort of rereading the last portions of this section out of fear, out of true fear because it's so wildly open-ended and there's so many different ways you can go and it's so beautifully written, you want to do justice to the story. But today, I was like, okay, there's two episodes left.

I'm going to prep from the back forward. I'm going to prep from next week's episode to this week's episode because I need to know every possible way it could go before I even tackle how we start today. And so I started, you know that feeling when you put something off fucking forever and you know it could be a call to somebody or anything and then you do it and you immediately feel great and you're like, why did I do this all the time? Why am I always putting things on? I feel like I'm in my own box.

Well that's the zone that I'm in today. That's why during my very verbose opening today I'm excited because as unprepared as I feel, I feel overwhelmingly ready to play pretend with you guys. And I just want to see where you guys are at mentally with everything that's happened thus far in the season going into these final two episodes. Just I'm mainly asking you questions. I don't have to talk. Well, first off, Troy, I just want to say that I feel you that I understand the urge to control everything. But I think it's how much fun I personally have had in this is a testament to how flexible you've been as a GM

and how you've made little choices that we've made so important, whether or not they were in the book. But everything is grounded in the world of the book as expressed through your imagination. But the way it kind of alchemizes with the combination of all our imaginations working together and communicating together, it created this thing that's more than the sum of its parts. And God bless you for allowing us to just kind of like, go to the house of one of the characters that's not in any way related,

like book wise to the story at large, but has like deepened everything and made the journey so much more rich and interesting to me. I feel like investigating stuff as investigation games can always make me feel a little dumb where I'm like, I know there's probably something really obvious that I'm missing. The person watching this at home was like, oh my God, why didn't you do such and such? I really have to try to suppress that and just roll. I'm so tantalized by all these little threads that are dangling the mystery that's just out of focus. Where we left things last time, making this little tenuous pact with the notable Zar Shafik. I'm like, who knows if this is the

right choice, but it seems like the choice that they'd make and it seems like the way to go to launch ourselves into the end game of England. Into the great wide open. It's kind of crazy that you're almost, you probably passed 60 hours into this campaign, right? 40, excuse me, almost 80 hours, right? Am I doing the math? Yeah, 40 hours in the first season. You're almost 80 hours, probably over because we had some long ones into this campaign. And As much as you know, there's so much that you don't know. I like to believe that like any good story, we finished this season with way more answers than season one. I think, but I don't know.

Kate, you're in the GCP. You go on tour with us. We play a lot of Pathfinder together. How does this experience differ from what we do in the other shows? Oh my God. It's so different. The way that our cast is, our characters are. I mean, we rolled these characters on air during session zero. We didn't really prep them beforehand or really talk about how they'd interact beforehand. And they just like have this deep story together. And that's so cool. And then I mean, the one thing that's really different

about this game versus all the other games I've played is that even though there are like chunky parts to it rules wise, especially with combat, it's still like really fun to listen to and to play story-wise. It's still such a narrative way to just do everything. I feel like I'm in a movie the whole time and I'm seeing it happen versus being super stressed about numbers. But as far as the end game here,

dude, I just show up. I'm not going to pretend I don't take notes. Everyone knows I take notes. And like I watch the premieres and it helps me remember things. But honestly, I show up and I'm like, who knows what's gonna happen? Because like if I prepare or like if I try to like guess like I'm always wrong, like this game is so like wild and head spinny. So you mentioned how like we rolled these characters on air without knowing too, too much. Go back to those original sheets. Gunther's in there.

Faerus' dad is in there. Oberon is in there. All this stuff. We both rolled like, oh, I guess we might as well be in the same order or something. Oh. Right. We've really taken the ball and run with that. That's so cool.

These were just little things you came up with and like, let's see what happens to see all this sort of come to fruition even now, you know, 20, 39 episodes into the series is cool. Rob, what are you thinking? I've just – I mean, I've said this before. You know, this is one of the more unique performance experiences of my life. I'm very grateful for that, for you guys just making it feel something different.

I'm also fucking terrified. I love these characters so much. All you assholes, you guys are all in like polycules with all these other characters that you play on different shows. You're fucking neck mouth witches and fucking vampires and smoke detectives or whatever the fuck. I don't know. Like, so for, I just have Carter. Like that's all I have.

Like I'm in a monogamous relationship with Carter. And so, but he's obviously not the only person in the show that I love, old Bill, obviously. Old Bill. Always, no, but all you guys, right? Always in the cards. I think about Vaughn all the goddamn time. So I'm not a, you know, I'm not a pro like you guys are at

with sort of like churning through characters and stuff. Like, you know, I really do see this as a narrative, as a story that we're all telling together. And so I've become super attached to everybody. I know it's part of the game. I know it's not called Cthulhu and there's people that are fucking ground to dust. I think that's good. I guess ultimately it raises the stakes. It makes us careful with what we're doing. Hopefully not to the point of boring anybody. But yeah, I mean, I think it's just the stakes feel so high for a game with dice. And it's been so fun. It's great. Now, Nora, I imagine it must be cool for you because you – when you created this character that

was like studying Egyptology and like there's obviously – I feel like there's shades of you in there. You brought some of your culture into that. Now you're deep into the investigation and having this – someone who's a student of Egyptology and cryptology and whatnot and being able to speak Arabic and have all those things be like wildly connected to the narrative. How, like that must be cool.

It is. I think like I, this would probably be the first character that has a lot of my personality in there. As far as like the obsession over like needing to know everything is a very big part of me to the point where like I will deep dive the shit out of like anything that comes up that I might be interested in except Tartaria. Fuck that. I'm just gonna put that on the record.

It's too late. Yeah, fuck that. I'm just gonna put that on the record. Yeah, I love that... The thing that I love about Call of Cthulhu is that they are based in a pseudo, like this is like historical fiction, basically, with monsters. But they tend to be... There's so much potential that I think has come out in this game of making these like very real characters that we're playing in a campaign long enough that we get to get rounded characters rather than just have like the throwaway Cthulhu because you're going to die in an episode or two kind of vibe. So this has been so nice seeing these things that we put in all of our backstories that we never, like I never thought would be part of the story

itself really get entangled weirdly into the plots. And yeah, it's just, please don't kill us. I really don't wanna, I don't wanna, like I said before, if my character dies, please resurrect me as a zombie. I wanna play it out as zombie fairies. As you wish. I mean, Call of Cthulhu, we say this a lot, is like, as is. It is a game, you're regular people. So they die all the time, whether you're doing a one shot or a campaign.

But Master Neanderthal Tap is a notorious meat grinder that somehow all of you have survived almost 80 hours into. And that is not normal. And so it's going to be real hard when, when, not if, the shit hits the fan. Because we love these characters. But I mean, man, if something happens, be it before the end of the season, next season, it's going to just set things in motion. You need to start thinking about like, and I was going to text this to you today, but

I want to put the idea in your head now. You need to start thinking of like, what is your season two epilogue if you live or if you don't? What does that look like? And then be ready to change it and adapt it based on everything you're going to learn over the next four plus hours. But start putting that in your head because I really want, you know, when we get to the epilogue for the season, I want to get into where you think your character's mind is or does after the events of this season.

Whether they're alive or they're dead, their story should still continue in some way. I will say that Vaughn's departure, I'm glad it was a nonviolent one. Yes. And Ross's, just your ability to bring in Desmond, such already like what feels like a full fledged character already, definitely has taken some pressure off. Because for the longest time, it's like, I've got these backup ideas, I hate them all. But then, so it's just, and that's added to the stress of everything. But then seeing Desmond come in, we sort of need that first like band-aid rip, you know what I mean? That first sort of like, oh, okay, okay, we're going to be, we can keep going. It'll be fine.

We can still have fun. Yeah, we can still come up with great characters, even if it doesn't involve these original. Yeah, we've created this totally sadomasochistic situation where we're in this game that is infamously loyal to the characters and we've stuck around so long that now we're just so attached. Despite doing some really reckless shit, like all the arson and the just murder hoboing, just murder hoboing. Like it's just. It's really wild. We tried to be like reserved once

and three people wound up dead. Like it's. Well just imagine if like, if one of us had died when like the rip in space time opened up over Larkin and that thing, what if that monkey lizard had crushed one of us, right? Like within the first like four episodes, that would Peruvian. Within the first four episodes. That would have changed everything because we would have been like, oh, okay.

I guess that's how this game rolls. Then who knows what decisions that would have changed going forward too. Maybe we would have been even more reckless. Maybe we wouldn't have cared so much. Because of a combination of just some dumb luck rolls that we sort of squeaked by a couple different times. Now it's just changed the way that we probably are looking at all decisions going forward and it's just compounding upon itself. It's hard. Remember that the old adage, this will be very helpful for you in the next two episodes. It's like drive your character like a stolen car Remember who said that like you're that think of it that way and you'll you'll really get a kick out of this

We got a lot of show to get to and I I'm gonna start with a very quick recap So it's not to waste too much time. I want to get into some play But we start last week with the aftermath of you being attacked by some thing in the fog this like at first it feels like the fog is just Entering your nostrils your mouth trying to suffocate you but then once you shine the light on it. Not only do you You push it back, but you also see that it's some sort of nebulous Otherworldly being and it shrinks away in the light and you yet again just barely survive.

You go up to Desmond's flat. Place has been ransacked. Everything you stole, blueprints, little mechanical nonsense that you found at Henson Manufacturing is gone. You have been found. They know where you are and maybe they're trying to kill you or at least the fog monster is so you Sleep it off. You have a few drinks and then you've performed some first aid

You wake up the next morning and try to make a plan. You're like, you know what? let's go down to the scoop and call inspector Barrington let him know what we know and You know see if he has any more information just kind of trade stories. See where you go outside. Inspector Barrington is waiting outside for you. He says that he had some of his men follow you after you left after the first time you met and lost your trail for a while, but just found you.

And it's basically reiterating what he said to you during your first meeting. Don't be a cowboy. Leave this to the professionals. But he's also interested in the information you have. You talk about body parts, human remains inside of a building down at Limehouse Docks. Maybe that will be enough evidence if Barrington goes and investigates that to be able to really win Scotland Yard's side in this dangerous situation. Then from there, some of you need more intense medical help and so you go to a hospital and

you get some hit points back to do the best that you can. Then everybody goes their separate ways. And it's during this time that in these little individual vignettes, shit goes down. Margot is buying wigs and disguises now that, you know, you've burned down a warehouse just outside of London. You killed a female ghoul in Leicester Edale.

Go straight to Hollywood to win costume. The Black Pharaoh is after you. If Inspector Barrington can find you outside of your house, who else can find you? Let's get some disguises. Then you hear a familiar voice. Your old pal Gunter, former teacher, former lover, is in England? What at first seems like a innocuous, Our teacher, former lover, is in England? What at first seems like an innocuous, oh, I'm funny seeing you here conversation turns

into something more sinister. He warns you about what your job is, what your duty is within the order, how important Feyrouz is to them, to us, and that you have been tasked with following her perhaps all the way back to Peru. Is this part of your initiation rite? Is this part of your passion? She talks about getting, you want to get to the next level, do your job, keep her out of harm's way and you're fucking up. It's a warning from this person that was so close to you, starts making you think when he came and visited you in the hospital, was he within the order then? Did he get recruited afterwards?

How long has he been a part of this? How much does he know? Leaves you reeling. Fae Rue's goes to try and track down possibly her mother's former lover and finds out that that man passed seven or so years ago and all that's left is his son. And the son is like scared to talk to you. Well, you find out that he was born in Cairo and his mother, he always thought that his

mother like passed away shortly after he was born. But when his father's mind started to go before he passed away, he started saying things that he didn't say when his mind was altogether mentioning that his mother was taken and da-da-da-da-da. So the father passes away, starts looking through his father's things, goes to Cairo, there's no records of him or his mother, and you find out that his mother is your mother. And just like your father has kept so much from you about her, the same thing happened to this man. And he went looking into it to try and find out who she was.

Why was she taken after she gave birth to him? And where was she taken to? Is she still alive, you both wonder. He tried to follow and people told him cut it Then we go to Carter tillinghast Carter comes out of a sweet leather shop with a cool jacket that will prevent one point of damage It'd be amazing if we get to the end of the season and you're just dangling by one hit point all because of the leather jacket you come out of the store looking sweet in your new duds and your half face and we see

a car pull up with a bunch of burly looking dudes and they're pretty polite and they make you an offer you can't refuse. Please get in the car. You get in the car and you are driven off. Desmond, meanwhile, is going to go stake out the Blue Pyramid Club as he's staking it out sees this car Pull up sees you get out brought into the Blue Pyramid Club upstairs Desmond hops the fence goes up the fire escape Watches as you are brought into this room relieved of your weapons and have a face-to-face with Zara Shafik who explains to you

Gavigan is a monster. He's the one behind all of this. He has taken his interest in my culture and turned it into a cult, and there are people's lives at stake. There is going to be a grand right at his estate in the country. Misr House, I know I'm butchering the Arabic pronunciation of that, but she gives you directions, she tells you what goes down, and at a certain point you say well let's get all our cards on the table. Des, come on in here. Desmond comes

in and she speaks to both of you. You eventually reconvene, now wondering if you can trust Zara Shafik or not, get back to the house. At one point, Carter says to Carter, if you need help deciding, there are things that I can do for you beyond just ending this threat. My time that I've spent with these horrible people have given me abilities. I may not be proud of them but I can restore your face. And we end last week's episode with all of you going to sleep back into Desmond's, back in Desmond's apartment downloading to each other all this new

info. Carter gets up in the night to pee looks in the mirror sees his whole face This week I want to kick things off with C and I don't know if you guys sleep you guys have radiohead. They're be like radiohead. Oh, yeah people is radiohead not cool anymore I don't know why not but that's why everybody like radiohead? Oh yeah. Is radiohead not cool anymore? I don't know. Probably not, but that's why I like them I guess. Yeah, I mean they were a big deal for me for a while.

And if you like radiohead, imagine we hear that opening riff of the national anthem. I wish we just had the rights to it so we could play it. I'm sure it's cheap. I'll just put it in there and not monetize the video. I don't know how it works, but feel free to like re-listen to this with that playing. But it's just, you hear that opening with like, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. And as that's playing, we just see different scenes of London, famous sites, buildings

that some of you may have visited this season. Back to the British Empire exhibition, all that shit, the scoop. But when the lyrics kick in, the scene changes. It's like, everyone, everyone around here. That's my best Thom Yorke. And as we hear that, we see a shower head turn on, water spraying down, and then eventually turns off.

And the curtain opens up and an older man steps out. And he's got beer belly belly but he looks pretty happy. He walks over to the sink and begins to shave very, very slowly, very deliberately. Everyone is so near, just hold it on. Horns coming, brr brr brr, brr brr brr brr. And now we see outside of a dry cleaner somewhere in London presumably where a young woman with darkish skin is smiling as she picks up a garment bag from these cleaners now she's inside her apartment and she lays

down the garment bag and slowly unzips it to reveal a beautiful dress everyone has got the fear cut back to to the man. He's cleanly shaven now. He's got his perfectly ironed clothes laying out on the bed and he pulls his pants on one leg at a time. We watch as he just gently pulls on each leg. He uses a shoehorn to slide his feet into these beautiful loafers and he starts to button up his shirt Tom York's yelling. The music starts as crazy, cut back to the woman she gently lifts the strap of her dress over her exposed shoulder and reaches around to zip herself up. We

follow her manicured hand, her manicured nails as they almost essentially pull the zipper up to completion and by now we're at that part of the song where it's just like craziness, all the horns are coming in, Thom Yorke is screaming, the original beat is in there somewhere, but if you've never heard the song, it's just chaos. Nwaaah, nwaaah, nwaaah, nwaaah.

Atonal nonsense, but still beautiful at the same time. And we just cut back and forth between the two of them and watch as this man pulls out a necklace with an inverted ankh on it. It's hanging from the end of it and he's so careful with it. And he just like puts it on very slowly in this like very deliberate manner that belies the intensity of the music back to the woman and she's doing the exact same thing reverently placing it around her neck. Her lips may be silently mouthing some prayer, and the man just takes the necklace, slips it into his shirt,

buttons up over it, ties a neat cravat around it, and then it goes to the woman. She slides the ankh into her cleavage before wrapping herself in a shawl to conceal it, and the music just reaches a crescendo and then ends. In the darkness of that moment, we hear Zara Shafik's voice once more. She says, the lives of the innocent are at stake. Only with careful movements can we hope to make things right Lights come up and we're back in the You know penthouse of the Blue Pyramid Club and she's standing there talking to Desmond and Carter She continues she says

the grand right She continues, she says, the Grand Rite begins at midnight, but people will begin gathering long before then just outside, just north of Mesa House at the Stelae. The hours leading to midnight will be the best time for you to infiltrate your way into the estate, but you must be careful in your approach. You may look about, Mace or House, all you want, but do not arouse suspicion, draw attention to yourself, or do anything that will raise awareness to Gavigan or his acolytes. All will be lost if he senses that something is amiss. At midnight, the festivities begin. This ceremony, this rite is meant to be an initiation of new members.

It's all so foolish. It's chanting prayers. I'll play my part, though I feel debased by it. During all of this, it will be a very clear moment when Gavigan will reach his arms up and cry to the heavens. If you think you'll miss that, when he does this, others will begin joining in his cries. They have been instructed to to do so and to lose control of their bodies at this point. It's an inhuman, despicable display. Each of them try to one-up themselves in front of their leader.

They believe that the ancient gods are entering their bodies. All of these religions are the same. They babble in tongues. Even the elders will join in so as not to upstage Gavagan. Then, and only then, will we have a moment to strike. You must wait for that moment to make your way towards the Grand Rite, to make your way towards the Stele. I will be there by Gavagan's side, ready to assist you, and I will have instructed those

loyal to me, the Sisters, to be ready as well. I'm here, by Gavagan's side, ready to assist you, and I will have instructed those loyal to me, the sisters, to be ready as well. Make your way to us, and together we can root out this evil if we work quickly at this exact moment when the crowd is most distracted. We can stop the next stage of the proceedings where the prisoners are sacrificed. You will be saving their lives. As for Gavigan, if you wish to capture him, my sisters and I will aid you in this. However, with a man of Gavigan's power, these people are rarely held for long.

I worry that even turning him over to the authorities could see him released within the week. This man is pure evil, yet powerful. While I will never consent in the murder of innocents, knowing what this man has done not only to my people, but to countless other people who had nothing to do with anything, who have merely stood in his way while he sits on his piles of money forever raping my culture with his exploits in his inherited foundation. I would suggest that the best course of action is to remove him permanently from this world. But I leave

that to you. If you do not feel comfortable with that, I will willingly strike that blow for all he has done to me. You need only say the word. Then we fade out and we come back to Carter in the bathroom, just looking at himself. Uh, yeah, I mean, sort of gingerly touch the side that sort of seems to reconstruct itself. You touch and the minute your hand touches your skin, reality comes back and you're back touching a hole. For that one moment, you're taken back to the before times. Just I guess I would imagine that he kind of like had put the mask on when he got up to pee just in case anybody woke up because he's always so self-conscious about it. So, you know, suddenly it kind of like,

it's like this, you know, firm texture again. And, uh, he's just to shake it out, splash some water on his face. Goddamn. Just get back to his corner of the couch and probably takes him a while to go back to sleep. But gets enough sleep to get a hit point back. Right, right. I was going to say, unfortunately, that incident prevents you from getting a hit. Yeah, everybody gets a hit point back. I lost my train of thought here in terms of the timing, but I believe this was Saturday. So now it is Sunday. Yeah, that was Valentine's Day.

So now we go into day 11, Sunday, February 15th, 1925, day 11 in England. Zara Shafik has told you on Tuesday evening, the night of the full moon, this is all going down. You got a couple of days. evening when I have the full moon. This is all going down. You got a couple days. You tell me what you want to do and be aware like if you want to research, you want to go tie up some loose ends here and there, you tell me we can do that. If you're just like, you know what?

We just want to rest and get a hit point back a day and flash forward to that, we can do that too. It's totally up to you guys. Let's roll some luck. Just because we have the opportunity. Thank God for you, huh? Right, right, right, right, right. Where would this luck be without you? Metagame Kyrkovich.

There we go. That's the failure we're looking for. That's the failure we're looking for. Finally. Everyone around. That's gonna be in my head for the rest of the day, even though I didn't actually hear it. If you just close your eyes,

you would feel like Tom York was in the room with you. Evoked, yeah. Johnny Greenwood was wailing on that. There he is, he was there. He's at the switchboard or whatever, putting a little ring modulator. How do we do, anybody get some luck here? here I did I got six points of luck back thank you guys I got five points. Whoa. Wow. Yeah

The yeah, the elder gods have smiled upon you this day. They know I know you're gonna need it Talk to me it's morning me you can gonna need it. Talk to me. It's morning, you can role play it or you can just talk out of character. You guys wake up. Maybe Carter's still a little shook from seeing if she really could do that, what that would feel like, what that would look like. What would that mean to your interest in Margot, your interest in everything? I would imagine there's not a small amount of hangovers going on given how hard

I just went ahead and just like I've voted nothing rolled constitution, and I succeeded so I think Desmond's doing fine Ross are you constantly doing secret roles during our game sessions? Direct you into what's going on. Just to see. This just tells me how Desmond Mahoney metabolizes his whiskey. He's doing fine, fresh as a day, is it? Don't need that much, don't even need that much sleep. Hope with the sun. And they're in a hotel, not in his apartment,

because they got to evade. Oh, that's right, I'm sorry, I said Desmond's apartment. Maybe he peeks through the window at the foggy morning. And of course, Desmond is a journalist, so I feel like he wants to do some more research. He doesn't just want to let the time fly by. But he's maybe like to learn more about Miser House, the history of Gavigan's dealings with Egyptology, anything about Gavigan, Henyhu Foundation, the Miser House property, this stele that they keep talking about. Is this a standing stone just like on the property? Like is there an obelisk there on the island? Yeah, I mean that's what she made it sound like.

But surely with your reputation as a journalist here in London, combined with the Fairuze's awesome library use, you should be able to find a place to dig into both Little History of Gavigan, Little History of the Penhew, as well as the history of the city. is awesome library use, you should be able to find a place to dig into both little history of Gavigan, little history of the Pentu, as well as maybe some records on Miser House. Did you guys do any recon on any research on Gavigan? I don't know if you did or not before you just rolled into Pentu. I think we- Then you were like, let's come back and break in.

Yeah, we didn't. I don't think we did. I think most of the information we got about him, we sort of like absorbed ambiently from the Pentium Foundation itself. Oh, they got this collection here. They got this seemingly locked door there. They got this sarcophagus secret passage around this corner. So yeah, he wants to specifically look up Gavin and stuff.

So yeah, if, if, yeah, let's dig for it. You've got an eye for this sort of thing, Mr. Braun. Are you quite all right? Your eyes are rather bloodshot. You know, I like your con idea. I'm going to, I'm going to do that. Check it out. Just to see what a hard success.

Fresh as a daisy. I'm up. You never felt better. See what a hard success. Fresh as a daisy. I'm up. Never felt better. Whatever it is that's going on, I'm ready to figure out what the fuck we're about to walk into. I mean, it's probably energizing for her to like,

after all this time of not knowing, even though there's more questions that have been brought up, it's like, that was a fucking breakthrough Right so much info. So yeah, I think she maybe yeah, she's riding that high on Finally some things are being pieced together Does she know sleep sleeping next to a trainer? Margo did leave out some info. We were all reconvening. So yeah, she would not. Yeah. So she's all cranky pants because of it. Well, where do you where would you like to start?

Do we start with a house? Do we start with Gavigan himself? Perhaps if you look at the house itself might give us a clue as to what's been in the Gavigan family that it has the name Misser House tells me that the builders of it were making themselves a little shrine to all things Egyptian. Yes I think we know what the theme is. Yes. Walking into this place. Mr. Garvagun is nothing if not on theme. Let's see. It's a luxor of tasteful Egyptian references. Yeah, I think Carter's pumped to...

I mean, we got ourselves, guys, we got ourselves an old-fashioned heist again. Yeah! Last time. We want to break in again? Well, I'm just saying, last time we fucked it up. I fucked it up. That's fine. I'll say it. I didn't get that gate.

But the plan was sound, and that was exciting. And I feel like, in my experience, again, the more info we can get on a place before we're about to infiltrate it, however we decide to do that,'s it's always helpful this is the only time I like opening the book it's trying to find the blueprints of the place of the history of the of the building of the place we could maybe find some way to get in yeah if we can go to a Hall of Records or something and look up the history of the property of Mr. House and yeah architectural plans details for our history buffs both in the game right now we're watching. There are three good locations in addition to the Hall of Records.

Something to think about is the British Museum on Grand, Great Russell Street. Houses all manner of priceless artifacts from across the world including the Rosetta Stone. This museum is also home to the British Library and although only the library's reading room is open to the public, investigators who perhaps demonstrate their scholarly credentials or journalist credentials may be able to get a free reader's pass allowing them to request a specific book which could then be brought to their seat. So it's a lot of like, can I get this one book? It might be hard.

You just want to look through stacks. There's also the London Library in St. James Square. This is a subscription library that I imagine Desmond has a subscription to unless you'd like to roleplay you signing up for a membership. If you bring three friends, it's a half a pound each. I have to bring my identification and a utility bill. It just shows you the depth of this campaign. I'm just going to read straight from here.

It says it includes a complete back catalog of the Times newspaper as well as comprehensive religion, occult, travel, biography sections, all right up your alley. Foreign visitors may be able to apply for a short-term membership at a slightly reduced cost. Well, that's lovely to hear. Maybe, I would go to any of these places, but if there's a biographical books that might give us a sense of the Gavigan family or social registers that would tell us more about him and the house, that seems like a place to go.

If you want it to split up, depending on like covering more ground, there's also the central news agency in Ledgate Circus, which carries back issues for most of the UK's newspapers as well as a number of foreign newspapers. So it sounds just, it sounds like British Museum might be too much work. You're trying to find a lot of information in a short amount of time, but you could either split up between London Library and Central News or just do one one day one the next you've got time. Would Desmond be able to like call in to his uncle and be like, hey, could you check the news agency for for us? Like just to kill a couple of...

Sure. Yeah, absolutely. Hello! We're gonna roleplay. Who is it? Who's on the other line? Making a bastard at you, Matthew. Um hello Is it pose on the other line making a bastard, it's your nephew you son of a bitch. How are you? That's my mother you're talking about And your sister if I may be so bold where I have been wondering why you haven't come by Haven't seen you I stopped by your house. There's nobody there Don't stop everything all right Desmond don't go by old boy, unless you want to walk into a death trap.

I'm on the verge of a great crack in this case, Mickey. I'm on the precipice. I'm on the precipice. We're about to blow this thing wide, wide open. The Skavagan character is concealing more than you could possibly imagine. I need you to put one of the flat feet or one of your gumshoes out there open as Galvagan characters conceal in more than you could possibly imagine. I need you to put one of the flat feet or one of your gum shoes out there on the intern's desk on some research, go down to the news agency, tell me everything you can find out about Macer House and Galvagan what runs the Penhew Foundation. Go down to Central News Agency, I suppose I can do that, but I feel like you're in a bit of trouble.

There was an investigator that came around here looking for you. Who? Ah, let me see here. I wrote it down. A corporal? Yes, someone from Scotland Yard. I didn't tell him where you lived or anything, but he seemed rather concerned. Fella names Barrington by any chance? No, no, no, it's uh... Where is it? I have it written down here.

You hear like paper shuffling. Let's see... Marshall! Inspector Marshall from Scotland Yard came down to the Scoop asking if they knew about the whereabouts of the people you're traveling with. Elias's friends. I played dumb,

but he seemed genuinely concerned. To be honest I didn't get the sense that your companions were in trouble with Scotland Yard but something wasn't right. You should give him a call if you think it's right. Names Inspector Marshall at Scotland Yard. I leave a number for me there. Yes, do you have a pen? Got one right here. All right, it's Q, six, nine, four, three, another Q, and then this string of sounds. That's how we did it in London back in the day.

Did you get all that? Got a lot. Now, just breaking out of this for a moment, we've been told that Marshall is the inspector who was investigating the Egyptian murders who disappeared, yes? I thought Marshall was the name of the guy that was the- Munson, sorry. Yes. Oddly, very close name.

Was it Marshall the name of the boss at Henson Manufacturing? Frank Marshall was the name of the boss at Henson Manufacturing. So it could be an odd coincidence. It could be something fishy. They're pretending to be cops to find out where we live. I'm instantly suspicious of that. Okay, yeah, Munson was the other guy. Marshall is of course the fellow from the...

Gregory Munson was the... By the way, that was even in my fucking notes. Well done. Wow. It's all up here. Bottle cap. Well done. Wow. Welcome. All right, what that's got to know that there's someone looking after us for our own safety. But here, put one of them boys on the intern's desk on his research and tell me everything that you can get on this Gavigan character. Right, Edward Gavigan,

Central News Agency. All right, I like, I have a lunch with a young lady and then I'll head over there and do my best. Desmond- Well, well, well, who's that now? You're, you're going to courtin'. Oh, don't be worrying about what your uncle's up to. Just, uh, lonely, that's all. But after my date, I will head to the Central news agency. Desmond, please, take care of

yourself. This fella that they were running with, Elias, what happened to him? It's bad business. Don't want anything to happen to my favourite nephew. Don't worry. Nothing ventured, nothing gained there, uncle. No risk, no reward. And the reward's gonna be great once this story breaks in the scoop. And you, you take care of yourself. Bring back an auntie for me. Oh, you. And he hangs up. Okay great, so I mean suddenly like this martial character is coming after us. It's one of our Gavigan's factotums is out here pounding the pavement trying to find us.

Well that might have, I mean maybe that happened, maybe that's what led to your place getting ransacked very well could be right Do we know the timeline of it all when he showed up versus when I? Mean if it's if it's a days ago, then yeah, yeah, yes, we'd follow we've only spent one night in the hotel, right? That's right. Yeah now we're in a we're in a hoed in a random hotel that we have not disclosed the location of. And we and Marshall gave a number. Oh, tricky, tricky. Set a trap. What if we set a trap?

Call them as your uncle. That voice can't be hard to replicate. But call him up, say, oh, so I'm hanging out by this dark dim alley. And then we are hiding in that alley. And then we fucking blackjack him upside the head. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, pause. This is getting increasingly complicated.

I don't know if I was just listening too much to the accents and not listening to what you were saying. Who is this person that is looking for us? Do we know who they are? We don't know for sure. Another inspector from Scotland Yard is what? A Scotland Yard inspector apparently called Mickey Mahoney to ask about our whereabouts. Get in line, Inspector. Right. But the theory, Kate, is that maybe because this Inspector in quotes last name is also the same last name as a guy we know is a bad guy. Yeah. Maybe that this is the person that's been tailing us. Besides that and the Penhew stuff, Margo was thinking back to like those first four like scoop things we got and one of them now makes a little bit more sense because it was the it almost had me

one and it had to do with a Glasgow resident Alan McGann had an encounter with a fog that tried to kill him and I know that we like teamed up with Zara but she told Carter that like she can like fix his face I don't know Carter told that to us this is mean metagaming but like I'm still not convinced that she didn't maybe try to do the fogger isn't evil so like I think it'd be cool to try to reach out to this guy if we can, just to see who he is. The same people might have seemed to try to kill him too. So, maybe more info?

Alan McCann. Alan McCann. Sure, yeah, that's a great idea. Do we, let's see. That's in Scotland. Yeah, and well, yeah, can I maybe retroactively include this in the Because we have a story about it in the scoop. This is probably the result of maybe some interviewing with this character Alan McCann. All right, I say whatever I can find

Yeah, I mean, give me some contact information out of Mick. Mickey wrote it. He wrote the article. Yes. Oh That's right. I did write it. McGann. I'd avoid getting in touch with this fella, do you? I'm sure I have him in my roll index. I'll look for that as well. And when we talk, I'll give you his number. Great. Flip through that, why don't you? Call me back so I can learn more about Alan McGahn's dealings with strange

occurrences meteorological. Yes. All right. I will. Oh, here's my date. Best of luck to you. Just a tiny boy. Oh, come on. He's been too lonely. Oh, yes. He's just a lonely old man.

Uh, yeah. So, a lot of options. Great. Still want to go researching. Yes. Is it? Yeah. Let's do that. Okay.

All right. So you asked your uncle to do a little research for you on Gavigan and perhaps find a contact info for this Alan McGann who consequently was also attacked by living fog and then meanwhile you're going to head as a group to the London Library. All right so you get there let's just jump right in and get some library use rolls for those of you who are good at such things. What if we're not? I'm okay at it so I'll try. If you're not good at it take a stab. I actually have already passed one this season. As long as you can read. Fail. And remember if you pass, check that box. Oh, shit. Check that box.

I actually failed. Oh, I got real close. Oh, no. And I somehow succeeded. Maybe constitution-wise you aren't hungover, but your brain isn't fully on yet. Yeah, the brain fog's still there. And whereas Desmond, whiskey sort of works like in a spinach Popeye sort of relationship with his rackets.

Man, you ever watch the old, old, old Popeye? I had an old VHS of it that was just one of the four I had. They are fantastic. Like he never moves his mouth and just just the voiceover actor that was doing it would say so many funny things like, huh, what's wrong? What's wrong with that? That's what someone's settling about the Roger Altman, right?

Didn't he do the live action one with Robin Williams? With the, yeah. Where like, Rob Williams is clearly done, did not say half the shit that he said on set. He's doing it in ADR. Like, how did I have that? It's like, I get what they were doing, but it made it real uncomfortable.

It's really weird, yeah. It looks like an old movie. Yeah. Didn't Shelley DeVaughn play a... Perfect casting. Olive oil, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Thank you. Um, okay. So we got only one success. That's right. Yeah, we only need one. One regular success. All right, that's gonna really, the way I'm interpreting this, now that all hands are off the chess piece,

is that's time. If only one of you succeeds, it's really one of you is kind of driving the ship here, finding the stuff where the rest of you are stymied looking for information. So. I could try to persuade an employee to help us. Or we could push a role.

So you could push a role. You could push a library use. What else you gotta do today? Let's see if I could try to push that role, but what would I do in order to be better at looking shit? It's hard to figure out the push roles when it comes to a book. Your library skills a lot better, right?

I mean, ish. It's a 53. OK. Because I don't want to try to push, because if you fail a push, maybe it would take longer. But yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to push with a 20.

Yeah. You do have one success. So we have one success. All right. Let's stick with that. We'll let the fates roll with that. All right. So the Lucid Desmond Mahoney goes into the stacks

and finds the real book. It's not that Faeruz is hungover, it's that she's still drunk. That's her it is. That's why she feels great. That's why I feel great. Ready to conquer anything. So weird, I had 50 drinks last night

and I feel fine today. We just drive by car home. All right, so public records looking about the Penu Foundation showed that the foundation was established in 1890 by Sir Aubrey Penu, renowned Egyptologist. As director of the foundation, Sir Aubrey oversaw and funded a number of expeditions to Egypt. Nothing new there. You know that Sir Aubrey was a, you know, at that time

to take you down the track about Sir Aubry. See if you find any more information there. He was a leading figure in the Carlisle expedition of 1919. So now we're looking at, this was what, 29 years after the founding of the foundation and was among those murdered in Kenya. Currently, Edward Gavigan is the foundation's director. The foundation seems, everything you read about it seems above board. They issue grants to scholars undertaking the study of Egyptian history and antiquities. Its work also includes negotiating permits with the Egyptian authorities, assisting with planning expeditions, travel itineraries, the hiring of local labor. The foundation's building in London, the one that some of you are very familiar with, serves

to house Egyptian artifacts recovered from the sands of time, as well as acting as a repository of information concerning Egyptian history and the numerous expeditions undertaken in Northeastern Africa. Roughly 20 digs in Egypt have been supported by the foundation, with 10 of these happening since Sir Aubrey's untimely death. So 10 happened before, 10 have happened since under Gavigan's purview. Unfortunately, and this is something I think you learned, many of the, you see this again,

many of the digs have been overshadowed by tragedy while in Egypt. A number of people, you now know 20 in all, it seems like as you start collecting all this information, have died and a few of them were suicides But the rest appear to have been murdered by locals, which is not unlike How the stories go with what happened to the Carlisle? Expedition they went in the territory. They weren't supposed to and maybe a local tribe murdered them They were certainly tried and executed for that Currently the foundation has one dig underway near Cairo led by Dr. Henry Clive, which was

excavating on the Giza Plateau. Right. And we have a, there was a telegram found by, written by a Dr. H Clive that we found saying all right all as planned work a pace at my Siri my Serenis my Serenis thank you for your assistance most helpful so this this this Clive character is doing Gavigan's bidding on the Giza Plateau or within this other dig site called Mysorenes. Thank you for your assistance. Most helpful was your assistance.

Is Gavigan just doing, is Gavigan, now you have to, the one thing we have to consider is maybe Gavigan is totally on the up and up, although you overheard him talking in the exhibition, we've got to take care of this. Maybe you're just standing in the way of something obsequious. Zar Shafik, I need you to believe that's not the case. But let's assume he's dirty. Is he also doing things in Egypt that are totally above board, either to keep up the appearances of the Penny Foundation or because maybe he's really interested in Egyptology?

Or is everything he's involved in dirty, which would make Henry Clive an accomplice as well. Just yet again, a name to think about. Now, did you look up Mycerinus? We never did, no. But I mean, seeing Clive there kind of like, drops the pin in Desmond's brain, and is now like maybe like, what's this Clive looking into exactly?

Yeah, Mycerinus, I believe, was- I'm in in a library so I could maybe look it up in a book on Egypt Yeah, it is My serenis was a pharaoh in the fourth dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom He is known more commonly as men caray or men Cara And What would make him important that would sort of jump out to you? Fourth century pharaoh. That's not one of the fellows that's buried in those pyramids.

Isn't that like Cheops and kephron and all his pyramid is in Giza so they're excavating his burial place but he had nothing you know you don't you don't see anything untoward about that particularly well interesting all right so so that's that's pretty much You don't see anything untoward about that. Often particularly. Well, interesting. Alright, so that's pretty much like just enlarging the scope of what we already knew. But Gavigan seems- Crosses and T's, there we go.

Based on this information, exactly as he appears to the public, a interested supporter of Egyptology and historical exploration. Now continuing on in your research about Mizar House or the area surrounding it as well, Walton on the nays as it's called. You start digging into that. The hours are passing since you're doing all the heavy lifting. You already know because thankfully, Feroz speaks Arabic that Mr. means Egypt. You discover after a few hours of research, the land and mansion were formerly owned by an enthusiastic Egyptologist and occultist named Neville Lloyd Price. It's rumored that Lloyd Price went broke and was forced to sell the property and the

land on which it stood. So you start looking into Nevaloid Price a little bit. And you find these periodicals saying that apparently Nevaloid Price has not been seen for nine years and has effectively disappeared from London society. There are a lot of rumors in tabloids such as The Scoop that he took to the bottle when he lost everything. You find a book on historical houses, like really digging into more like maybe this place has been around for a while, called Green's Estates of England and you see this little snippet of information.

It says there is a mansion house named Longview, it's mentioned in this little snippet, situated on the Nez in Essex, which is where Zara Shafik said Meser House is. The passage states that it was built in the 16th century during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. One notable thing about it is it has a secret room off of the great hall used to hide Catholic priests during Elizabeth's notorious religious purges. So if this is the same house because you don't see anything else connecting Longview to Miser House.

There's no direct connection there but this mansion seems to be in the same area. So maybe there's a connection there. Or even if it was built at the same time, maybe we would have this same like hidden priest room. Yeah, perhaps there'd be even in the Smither House if it's a different spot. Similarly, a hidden spot for recusants. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a hidden room at this point, every place we go to. Even Zara said that place is full of secrets.

Yeah. Well, that's all very interesting. It's still more suspicious that every... Seems that everywhere that the Pennyhu Foundation touches, as benign as their mission seems, death seemed madness and slippage seemed to follow them wherever they go. People taken to the bottle, people cracking up and people being killed, people disappearing. Do you think this Price fellow was murdered in one of these rituals, whether he does

or didn't just fall off the earth with the bottle? Mr. Braun, it's easy now. We've had our experiences with these strange characters and even stranger fogs to let our imaginations run wild. But it wouldn't be the first wealthy sort to lose it all and lose his mind. lose it all and loses mine. Under capitalism, one's assets are one's very identity. So to lose them is to lose all sense of self. We live in an oppressive culture where one cannot have leisure time without feeling guilty. Feeling as though that they are not apportioning their some of their labor to the acquisition of capital. Sure, sure. Just so you know, whenever we sort of thoughtfully nod after something doesn't mean we're all thinking about capitalism.

That's what sometimes I am. Sure. So we all crosses our minds. Well, sometimes I am. Sure. So lots. I mean, we all crosses our minds. A little bit about the area more around Miser House. You wanted to know about the Stelae or anything like that. See if you learned anything a little more about Walton on the Nez during the Victorian

era. Walton on the Nez rapidly grew in size and population as city dwellers discovered the delights of the seaside as it is up against the water there. It's a fine beach, bracing air, perfect for bathing. It's become a bit of a holiday destination, boasting one of the longest piers in the country. And there are several B&Bs there, should you decide to head out early or try to set up a nearby camp because it is about three or four hours drive outside of London, same amount of time on a train. Yes, good for the humors.

Yes, good for the humors. There is a monument there known as the Ney's Tower. It was built in 1720 and it acted as a navigation aid for shipping heading to Harwich up the coast. The locals simply refer to it as the Landmark. It seems like it's unused at the moment and it's on private land. All around the area there, outside of the tourist area are farmlands, but there's no mention of Miser House and it's hard to know if this tower is – it doesn't sound like

the tower is the stelae that she was talking about, the sort of obelisk. But I guess it's possible until getting to the area, it's hard to know and it's unclear from the maps because there's no map leading directly to Miser House, just directions. And with that, I think that's all. That's a ton. Do you think that the library in the British Museum would have any useful information? I wouldn't know what to even look for if there was, since we don't know what artifacts may be hidden in this house. I suppose it might be looking through their records could tell you what artifacts and bits of Egyptology that the museum occasionally took on loan from the... from the Penhew Foundation or from Garvigan himself but...

I don't know what that would get us... Unless... whatever it is that you saw in those bottom secret rooms of the Penhew Foundation would be mentioned in there. would be mentioned in there. But again, I don't know. That would be, I suppose if, if Dylan Astor Sauer could recognize the description of a piece. Well, Margot, you took a picture, didn't you?

Didn't you take a picture when we were down there? Yeah, I did take a picture. Maybe we can, I got my photos developed and maybe we can see if we can cross-reference with the photos because otherwise I wouldn't, I wouldn't know, I mean maybe, maybe Margot would know how to like look up what a picture is without knowing the name with her art background. Or it could be a docent or librarian there having seen the photograph could tell you what's... This thing is the photograph is like kind of a crypt with these art pieces in them. So I don't think we should show. Or maybe I can crumpets.

Well, you're worried they're gonna wonder where we took the photo? You never know. You never know who's going to turn on you. You still seem on edge. What is good? I feel like ever since last night, you came in all fire and brimstone. This morning, you've been very quiet.

Yes, and from what I understand, wigsigs don't usually in disguises don't usually do that to a person Yeah, usually it's the other way around you're like. Hey look at me. I look different Listen, we've we've we've been through a lot. You almost died from fog. Yeah, a lot has happened. Um, a Lot is about to happen We're teamed up with Zahra suddenly. I feel like we can't trust anyone. And... That is true.

I suppose we don't want to go around showing photographs to random employees, which we don't even know if they are part of this hair maid club or not. I suppose anybody with an interest in ancient Egypt is now possibly a member of this peculiar organization that Miss Shafik has told us of. And any one of your family... Carter just looks over at like a little kid with a book about Egypt and is like... And any one of your family...

He feels for Egypt. Yeah, yeah. Just doing the eyeball. Any one of your family or friends also can be someone who has been watching you invading in the shadows the whole time. Turn against you at any moment. You just never know. Listen, Masaur, it hasn't had the time to start mistrusting each other. I've only been with you for a few days and we've already had our backs against the wall more than a few times. I didn't take fog to the throat for nothing.

Margo, did you take photos of a bunch of things in that secret room? Or was it like, because there were paintings, there was a statue, There were two crates. Carter started to look at one and was like, no thanks. And then you looked at another one. You pulled out a small bat-like creature. I thought I looked at both. Because there was the one wearing the sort of like the rice paddy hat. Yeah, but with the tentacles and shit coming out of it. It's like a woman.

And then I thought there was the bat thing. Yeah. Did Margo, I'm trying to remember what you took pictures of. And you know, we could retcon this too. I think it was probably one of those things where you're like, Margo takes a bunch of pictures. Yeah, I think that's what the case was as well. Because like, I never remember to say like, I take a picture of this.

And it's just like, I don't know. Do you have those photos on you? I feel like I you say it um? Yeah, I don't think she would leave them in the hotel seeing as when we were just staying with Desmond that got ransacked even though No one knows where we are Presumably I will just go to this is fun Go over to the VTT, and you'll see this is the picture. She took of the little The little bat like creature that Carter pulled out of the smaller crate. Nice.

Ooh. Oh, wait a minute. Huh. Simone, describe that to our audio listeners. It's like a bat wings, but the body is like an octopus and it's got like human legs. Yeah, it's got like the head of an octopus with like tentacles, but like the wings of

a bat and it's like legs are all like crossed and like this, but I don't know. It's like a, it's like a, it's like a tentacle bat squid. Out of character. Is that not fucking the man? It's very peculiar. Not him? That's the namesake, man. It's the big guy.

I think this is the first time if you've got it on you that Desmond would have seen this. Yeah, fabulous. Lots of freaky photos. Lots of peculiar little thing. Shows them with you. This one was being sent to Australia, personal to Mr. Randolph. But now you've seen labels being switched and flipped around. So you don't know what's what.

But it had that same Randolph shipping company. Oh, Randolph shippingipping Company Mr. Randolph Port Downward Northern Territory Dominion of Australia. I went to a medical oddity museum once they had some poor unfortunates preserved in formaldehyde looks rather like something I seen there bobbing around. The homunculus. Well it ain't right I'll tell you that. Don't look like no Egyptian thing either, I see.

No Anubis or Osiris that I recognize from my layman's understanding of this sort of thing. Was this what Carter saw that made him roll sanity? That was the other thing. I believe you rolled sanity on both of them or one of them, I can't remember. The other one was like in a larger crate and you couldn't, it was like a, almost like a life-size statue of a sort of woman with a hat with tentacles coming out of it. And if I remember it correctly, you were like, I'm just gonna put the lid back on.

And then you opened up the smaller thing and when you pulled this thing out, you rolled a sanity check and failed. And the only reason that- One of them I felt cold. I remember that. Looking back at Michael behind the scenes, his amazing notes, and I believe that's the case.

And the other statue, the tall wooden crate, the woman statue or whatever it was, that one was being sent to Ho-Fang Import Export, 15 Khao Yang Street, Shanghai, China. Attention, Honorable Ho-Fang import export 15 Khao Yang Street, Shanghai, China. Attention, Honorable Ho-Fang. Yeah, Michael wrote, he avoids a sanity roll by being careful. So you close that. But then when you pry open the small wooden crate sent going out to Australia,

that's when you rolled and failed the sanity roll from this, just looking at and holding this. And then I'm looking back at my notes from when Margot looked at the art, and I'm pretty sure I must've like tried to at least roll, like can I roll an art roll? I'm like, can I identify when these were made? And all I have in here is that like, I could tell they looked really old, very unsettling. Yeah, if you have those images now,

you could show them to Feyrouz and maybe Feyrouz could do some, you know, roll a check to help you. Or I would even say you could reroll that check now to see if combined with any research you're doing in the library to try and date those images. And once again, there were four paintings that really jumped out. One was a dark winged thing that was seemingly both leprous and scaly. One was a winged, hulking beast with dragon-like tail and a fang-ringed jaw. One was a group of prowling human-semen beings whose eyes were too big for their disfigured faces.

And then the other one was many red-orange colored bursts of colors of light that are gathering around a tall dark humanoid who appeared to be on fire. So she shows you photos of these and especially the one with the dragon. She's like, oh, so remember this time also that I almost turned into a dragon? This reminds me of this one. Yeah. Oh with the dragon. She's like, oh, so remember this time also that I almost turned into a dragon? This reminds me of this one. Yeah. Oh, the memories. Do you think that was also summoned upon us

like the fog was? The dragon and the black pharaoh vision? Oh, I thought you meant the actual. I was thinking back to the hotel room in New York. That's right. You were visited upon by some giant winged creature. It looks a little different from this particular one. Actually, Margo, it is more reminiscent of that dream that you had in the Waldorf where you saw the black pharaoh and you and

faerus were turning into these scaly creatures. Any of you guys have any archaeology that would be like really the best way? Yeah it's not high but I can try it out. I have ten so I might as well try. If you succeed, check it. Might even get closer. Whoa. I rolled a critical success. I rolled a one. Holy shit. I rolled a four.

This is... You rolled a one under 21. One under 21. I rolled a four under 10. Wow, all right, check those boxes. That's amazing. Okay, Wow. All right.

So you're looking at these and Margo, you've had the benefit of having thought about these, maybe spent some time on the side researching and you know that they are either Egyptian or Proto-Sumerian, most dating back to the 22nd Dynasty. That's like circa 943 to 730 before the Common Era. This is a time known as the Middle Intermediate Period. However, I'm gonna give you guys extreme success here and I'm gonna give you some more information here and I'm gonna give you some more information that little figure if you want to date that statuette that goes back to the

third dynasty like 2650 to 2575 BC in the old kingdom. This is like, you know, before before at all. Which well that's big because we have a lot of things so far connected to like the third dynasty, don't we? I feel like I keep seeing third dynasty in my notes. I feel like there was something in Peru that was third dynasty related, now that you mention it. Maybe it was the mask.

Little figure, third dynasty. It's gonna be 45 minutes to look through those. Yeah, I know, right? I'll be back. So here we have these artifacts that are not being presented in a museum, that are not being kept. They're being kept by Gavgen. The Black Pharaoh ruled during the third dynasty.

That's what it was. Ah, there you are. So we have these artifacts in the time of the black pharaoh that are being hoarded, essentially. Now, Mycerinus, to give you just sort of maybe there's a connection, maybe there isn't, was born in 2532 BC and died in 2504 BC. So there's a little time overlap there with the, at least with the statue. And just to be clear, this is the statue that's faces like obscured by a mass of tentacles

that Carter did not really dig into. But you can tell just from a little bit of information that one goes back to the third dynasty, whereas the other one is from the 22nd dynasty. But all before the common era. So you're telling me that the statue that Tilling has that you saw, is that the one that's being shipped? They were both being shipped. One was going to Shanghai and one was going to Australia. So here where we have this… The bigger statue I think was going to Australia. So here, where we have this...

The bigger statue, I think, was going to Shanghai. We have a British museum dedicated to Egyptology, but yet these artifacts that are from this specific era being shipped to these, secretly being shipped to these other areas. There's a global network of enthusiasts for this black pharaoh, it seems. And if Garthagen is the monster that Meshaphik makes him out to be, and he's also using handsome manufacturing

to make things of this era, of this type, and ship them to these places as well. What would be the points of making fake artifacts and shipping them? It could be that he's fabricating things similar to items and structures that he's seen in his research. Yeah, we saw those plans, we saw those schematics. We didn't understand what the hell was going on back when we actually owned them. But what if they're not meant to be replicas? What if they're meant to be constructed into something that we just don't

understand? Exactly. Well, I'm hungry. Well, I'm hungry. Been here for a while, yeah. You want to head back and check in with old Mickey? Yeah, let's see if I've got any clarity on what's going on with Mr. McGahn, who seems to have experienced a rather similar fog problem to ourselves. I mean, it also wouldn't hurt when you get him back on the horn.

It's probably not the easiest thing in the world, but it'd be interesting if we could track down this Neville Lord Price, the guy that lived at this house before. I suppose so. I really want to know some tips and tricks on how to get in there. We could at least... Remember, he disappeared from society. I suppose so. I really want to know some tips and tricks on how to get in there. We could at least, perhaps find a next of kin. Not to add to all of this, but do you think that the British Museum's library would have any other information on this Black Pharaoh or anything else in this era? Certainly. I mean, I've not to suggest splitting up,

but if some of us want to cover the museum beat, I could check in with my uncle if he's back from his date, that is, to see if I've got any more information on the gun and if I can talk to him about his misfortunes. What an old person move to, I have a lunch date. Yeah. Yeah. his misfortunes. What an old person move to have a lunch date. Love to help you out but I have a meeting. I feel good for him, he's been alone for so long. I'd be willing to check out that other library under the guise of research for my university. If anybody would like to join me.

Okay. You've got the access to the photography that they may be able to identify. Yes, that's why I would like to go. All right, Margot. Strange. That's weird. Usually it doesn't work like that. Usually we pair up the other way, but that's fine. Sure there's nothing about that. Let's see if we can get ourselves to a public telephone. Great. All right. I would love some fish and chips.

We haven't gotten that since I've been here yet. I want to get some of that fucking fried fish in a newspaper. Let's get a fish. Let's get a fish, some chips, smashed peas. Some chippies? All that. Yeah. And a fish. Let's get a fish some chips smashed peas some chippies. Yeah, no pint Oh, that's really where I'm going with this Alright so the plan is who's going to the payphone Carter and I Carter

Okay, and then the ladies are staying back to look and see if they learn more about the Black Pharaoh The British Museum, you're gonna go to a different place, right? Oh, you're going to a different place. Okay, great. Yeah All right, so it's been a long day here in the London library But you want to go to another museum see if you can find out about the Black Pharaoh Meanwhile, we see Desmond and Carter zip over to a phone you call Mickey Mahoney. Hello How was it? Any luck? Any luck Mickey, you old bastard? Who is this? That's your nephew you prick. Oh Desmond I didn't recognise your voice.

Sorry, sorry had a couple of whiskies at lunch with a fine young lady. I'll tell ya. Well best of luck to you. Hope you're acting like the perfect gentleman you all sought. I am. Always good to hear from you. But goodbye my nephew. No no no no no. I'm not bringing our conversation to a close yet. Oh, sorry thought that was the end of it Mickey old boy

What's happening you put anybody on them on the McGahn case that I that I? Suggested and we got yes Yes, I had had someone track down his phone number to got his number right here You got a pen and he does the phone number bed again seven to phone number, we've has never been busier. I've got a Google Doc the size of a boa constrictor. Oh, what? Gavigan, Gavigan. What was it? Was it John Gavigan you wanted me to look up?

I've got some information here on a John Gavigan, no? No, no, not that one. Uh, what was it? Edward? That's the one. Edward with a T or with a W? I have notes on both of them. No, not in Etward Gavigan No, not in Edward Gavigan. I see. Edward Gavigan, head of the Penhu.

All right, where the fuck? Ah yes, here it is. What the fuck are you guys talking about? All right. All right, I, sir. Yes. Take some wine, doc. Well, here's the thing.

Here's the thing about Edward Gavigan with the W. If there's anything going on with him, he's quite good, because all the society columns mention very little of him, and he seems to be a man of means, which makes it all the more strange. If he's sitting on that type of fortune, whether he inherited it from Sir Aubrey Penhew when the Foundation went to him, or if he was a self-made man, it seems strange that he wouldn't show up in the society columns. But there is an occasional note concerning his work in the Penhew Foundation which just described him over and over again as a wealthy and learned scholar of ancient Egypt and the right-hand man of Sir Abu Penu of obviously. He's no longer around

but I mean I tell you I scoured. I had a couple of people look and then sent sent I myself went over to the news agency there and then dug through and I've got some connections there they let me see some things that most people wanted to have access to this man is squeaky clean so I don't know what it is you're up to Desmond but if you've got this Edward Gavigan in your sights, I would be very careful. Because if he's dirty, he's very good. Well, trust me, on the acme of care there, Mechie. And those that seem the cleanest often have the most dirt to conceal. Sorry, I wasn't listening. Were you still talking to me? Yep, I was. well anyways my nephew it's so good to talk to you I don't let him hang

up but ask about this Neville Lord Price guy anything run the wire this Neville Price levels Lloyd Price price price price Price. Oh, I've heard that name before. Previous owner of Mr House up in Walton on the Neys. I don't know anything about a Mr House, but Mr Price, Neville Price, that does seem to ring a bell. I think that he was a rich man. I'm looking for my files here. I can't find anything on him in a moment, but I believe he was a wealthy to-do guy that fell on hard times

I think he was into Egyptology He collected things and such spent all his fortune on that is what what I remember and then Sold his home and took to the bottle and was never seen again. We did a little story on him That's the only reason I I know something but Yeah, don't See wrap it up in your... What you got going on there? Oh, just connected, I think.

We got nothing on an extra kin for him. Right, I'd have to dig in more. I'm surprised I knew as much as I did, but... It's only a two hour show. Right, right, right-o. Well, I'll see what I can turn up. Thanks for all that, Mickey. No, you're welcome. I have good luck with everything you do. I can't wait to see this story you're going to write when it's all over and you definitely survive.

It'll make the scoop. It'll make it. It's going to put the scoop on the map. I can see it now. Sir Mickey Mahoney. Don't count it out there, Uncle, it could happen. And maybe you'll have a blushing bride by your side by that time. Good luck on your second date. Hope it's worth coming. If only. I'd just like a little comfort in my bed if you know what I'm saying. Don't need a wife, just need a warm situation. Alright, thanks. Was that too much to talk to my nephew about?

I'm very alone, I'm very tired and alone. Far be it from me to tell a journalist that he's indulging a little T. M. I. Spent the whole day chasing down information for my nephew. I need a woman in my life. Who's gonna go? Alright, you don't need to tell me things like that. Ta. Click. What that old pervert had to say. That old rascal. Well Mickey the old prevert there he is. Sort of backed up what we'd already come to.

Yeah, Garvigan. Clean as a whistle. As far as the public is concerned. But this is only because the bourgeois class takes care of its own Yeah, what else do you say? Um, I got Megan's telephone number Oh great And when it comes to when it comes to the previous owner of Mesa house

lost in the way Turned to the bottle after losing his money paying too much for his Egyptology habit. Nothing in the way of a connection to Gavin other than that's the fellow what took control of the house after. What? Suspicious, no? Yeah.

So shall we see if we can, and he just picks the receiver back up again, put a tail on Mr. McGahn and ask him how the weather is up in Scotland. Operator. Foggy. Q five, six, two, three, H six, nine. Gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, And then we cut back to this new library with Just picture this we just come in on they ruse and Margo sitting a long table several books piled up

Margo maybe from time to time just looking up at fairies Can't even can't even look her in the eyes Can't even look her in the eyes. You're doing some deep diving into the black pharaoh. Give me a library roll. Oh boy. Library use roll. Don't fail me now. Come on.

Fuck. Oh my god, I rolled a one. Under 32. Holy shit, both of you rolled. Wow. Okay. Damn, bro. My god, I rolled a one Under 30 should both of you roll Wow, okay Except I failed this library's you failed it, but you didn't fumble. I Failed yeah, I did not fumble like I suppose I could try to push but you got a one so One's good. Yeah, and we saved those pushes because of the bad

Yeah, stuff that happens, but an extreme success is gonna help and also make sure you get out of there before it gets too dark out. Quite a Sunday here. I'm surprised the libraries are even open but... Not chick-fil-a. Oh wait, they work. Go back. Sorry, the retcon Pharaoh all the while. I imagine as you're looking over these tomes, collecting information, you're flashing back to that moment you shared, that shared dream, shared reverie where a figure made of onyx, like a black pharaoh seemed to summon and control you and maybe do something that turned you into like these scaly winged creatures.

You do see that there was a ruler of Egypt known as Nefren-Kah, who went by the Black Pharaoh, who reigned in ancient Egypt during the Third Dynasty. Good notes there, Margo slash Cade. His reign was good. It was good rain. But what's most interesting about him is that he had a lot of outlandish beliefs, so much so that you start reading about this Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh, this cult that sort of came up long after his reign, it seems like, this group of people that were, maybe saw what he was really into and tapped into that aspect of the Black Pharaoh.

Now, you don't see a lot of information on the cult, like what they actually do, but you do get this feeling that it's more than a social club. And then you see this one little thing that sort of jumps out at you. And maybe you push the book over to Faerûs and point at this thing you learned. I don't know. I don't want to play your character. I can't read Faerûs. What does this say? I got a one I can't read.

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But who crushes an Irish one. Who crushes an Irish one. So you call the number that Mickey gave you and someone picks up and says, Govan District. Excuse me? Govan District Asylum. How can I help you? Yes, I'm a journalist for a newspaper situated down in London. I was hoping I could speak to someone there by the name of Alan McGahn.

Mr McGahn is a resident here. Resident? Yes, it's not something we normally allow. What is this in regards to? Following up on a story, just getting some more closure about exactly what it is that happened to Mr. McGahn. Is he capable of speaking to me on the phone? I promise it is just to dot some eyes and cross some T's so that my editor will be satisfied that we've got the whole story.

I sincerely doubt it but I can patch you through to the doctor in care in charge of him. Dr. Brown. I'd be I'd be much obliged to thank you for that. All right. Hold please. Everyone. Everyone. A music version of Radiohead. Hello, Dr. Brown speaking. This is Dr. Brown. Who am I speaking to? Yes. Hello. My name is Victor Bayside. I'm a reporter for the scoop here in London.

I'm sorry, Mr. Bayside. It's hard to hear you this car the cars where you're standing. Yes I'm afraid I'm calling you from from a public phone. My time is rather short. It's curious if I could Follow up with you about a story that we were working on about peculiarities up there in Scotland I'm about an inmate of your facility there by the name of Alan McGahn a patient of yours. I understand Yes, Mr. McGahn has been a patient of yours, I understand. Yes, Mr. Mcgahn has been a patient of mine for some time. Maybe I can be of help. You know, something's a private doctor-patient privilege, but I'm happy to help in any way I can.

Certainly, but I was given to understand that Mr. Mcgahn has been, as he said, accosted by something in a fog? Am I, do I have that correct? That's the way the tabloids would have it, but something certainly happened to Mr. McGann on that night. Sadly, now he's incurably insane.

He was delivered to us by the Glasgow police on the night of this incident that you are referring to. They picked him up wandering the streets in a frantic manner. There was another murder that evening actually nearby. One of Mr. McGann's colleagues actually. You say colleagues You say colleagues, forgive me, just making sure I know. What line of work was Mr. McGann in? Mr. McGann was a pretty prominent art dealer. I see.

Yes. Anyhow, perhaps his colleague and he were out together that evening. That much is unclear unclear but his colleague was found dead and he was found mad and wandering the streets at first the Glasgow police assumed that he was drunk and picked him up for disorderly but they soon realized that he was mentally unsound as time went on and he didn't sober up as it were. Do you have the name of the company of his art dealing companion who met such an unfortunate end? I'd have to look

that up. They had a business here in Glasgow buying and selling art. I've done extensive interviews with Mr. McGann to try and, you know, help him piece together the old parts of his life. He... He... He was working on some sort of deal at the time, which is the sad thing. It seems like he was very upset about something that happened in his dealings. He didn't get the price that he was hoping for and had to settle for a lower price or

something, some foundation in London that he was dealing with. And I guess there was a bit of a situation between he and the buyer. So he was upset about that. That will come up from time to time. Perhaps that Rao triggered his mental instability or led him to have these visions of something attacking him in the night. Yet at the same time his colleague was found dead. So it's unfortunate but the police have closed the case on this. There's no suspects. Unfortunately. And of course this is just on a fact-checking capacity

But the foundation now, I know of course it was the Pennu Foundation, but I'm just want to check That's right. That's right. Check the spelling on that P-E-N-H-E-W Interesting interesting. I'm curious. I'm just to shore up another detail Is the project five shanty? Telling us Telling us shore up another D-type. Is deposit five shanties in the house? Dillinghast, Dillinghast. What is that?

Cargis is eating the remnants of fish out of a newspaper. What? Give us five pence in there, mister. What was it, Pageview? Yeah, sure. Lakeview? Is this a, what is this? Is this a shilling?

I don't even know what I'm holding. It's a shilling. I can't put all this in the clean paper. Is this a pound note? Can you cram this in? No, you can't put the pound in. I'll put five P in if I can. Ah, are you there Mr. Patriot? Still here, yes.

Was one of his, the artists on display there, just of course checking um on the various artists shipley shipley doesn't doesn't ring a bell no I I could look through my old psychiatric journals to see if I noticed that. But strange. What was the sort of art that Mr. McGahn and his colleague were dealing? Modern, surreal, classic? Egyptian art. He was fascinated with Egypt. And so he was heavily inspired by the old dynasties. It's very sad, he seemed like a brilliant man for all intents and purposes, and there's still glimpses of that in the conversations that we will have from time to time.

But then he will go one minute, seeming like maybe he's regained his senses to just screaming the same two words over and over again. Burning hair. Something about that night, that's all he remembers. Burning hair. Say it over and over again. We're talking just like you and I are talking now. Thinking perhaps that I'm breaking through to him.

And he'll just scream or mumble or whisper, burning hair. It's very sad. Yes, yes. Yes, I'm just finishing up. I'm sorry Mr. Lakeview, but I do have to go. I have several, several patients to attend to. I understand you've already given me so much and I've been so generous with your time, Mr. Brown, Dr. Brown. Thank you, yes. I gave up the title of Mr. When I got my doctorate. No, that's okay sir.

Pay homage to your years of study. Yes. Well, best to you and all there. First, do no harm. Goodbye. Bye. A student of Hippocrates. Hey, I was wondering, why do you...

He's like, like, suckers, like, licking his finger. My god, your face is covered in... You've got malt vinegar all over your mask, Tilly. Why do you think people drive on the wrong side of the road here? I'm just watching the traffic. It's just making a goddamn sense. Why do I... why indeed? Because these folks have clinging desperately to the past and to tradition. They're so desperately clinging to the one side of the cart path. Oh, mhm.

Anyway, what did you find out? What's going on? McGahn was an art dealer. And you won't guess what was the type that he was dealing. And with whom. The Penhew Foundation. Egyptian with whom? Penhew Foundation. Egyptian art to the Penhew Foundation. Got into a little bit of a haggle with an artifact it seems. And when he didn't get the price he was looking for, guess what come out of the fog? Fog monster.

Was that right? That's right. Okay, alright. Yeah, yeah. This poor man is raving in asylum up there. And the great news about this is it's confirmation in my Judge of Character of Zara Shafik, because if this guy had an argument with Gavigan and a fog monster showed up, then when Gavigan says he's going to deal with something, he's the one that sends a fog monster. That's right.

After hearing what um, Mr. McGahn's life is like at the moment, I'd say we got off rather easy with our dealings with him. Yeah. Man, there was a time when in the shadier worlds, when if you had a problem with someone, you just send some like, you know, burly dude to just rough somebody up. This guy's sending fucking fog monsters. What happened to goons? Yeah, every day goons. What happened to a classic goon?

Your muscle, you know, your palooks. Busted down Palooka. Poor quality henchmen these days. It's... We need a better class of criminal. Okay. I mean, we're on the... We have to be our own henchmen. Well, you have been my henchmen.

I meant to tell you that. This whole time, you've been our henchmen. It's a ward. Henchmen ward, the same thing really depending on what the activity is at the time. Yeah that shores up something in my mind about Gathage and Penhew. Yeah. Exactly what forces were dealing with here. Hey what do you think about what Zarsh said about you know taking them out, killing him.

If what she says is true, and this Garthagan character has been the cause of tens of murders, Tens of murders. People simply disposed of. There is callous disregard for human life to build himself up in this deranged fantasy. It's not enough for him to be a greater than petty bourgeois captain of industry and philanthropist and robber bearing of oppressed cultures. But he asked to style himself as the Black Pharaoh Reborn. If one were to take him out, as far as I see it, it'd be no more than revolutionary action. That's my ward. Yeah, I say we fucking stomp on his throat.

Great, I just wanted to make sure. From there we'll cut to Fae'ruz and Margot walking at dusk. Not dusk, what at dusk. Not dusk, what is dusk? In the morning? Or is that when it's evening? No, dusk is in the evening. No, dusk is dawn, it's in the morning. Dusk is 8.33?

Yeah, it's almost dusk. In the frisking dusk light? In the frisking, we catch Margot's hair in the frisking dusk light as they walk side by side, presumably to meet back up with Carter and Desmond. What are you guys talking about? That's frisking what? It's of words what? Oh no, have we met up with the with the fellas yet? No you're just walking., we're just walking. The two of you, yeah. All right. You see, it's just the two of you, little awkward convo.

So, hmm. So, there's a sculptor, the Black Pharaoh. The Pharaoh believes in some, has outlanched beliefs in this outer god. And for some reason, Gaffigan, the Penhew Foundation, and all of these peripheral organizations, the Pyramid Club, etc.,

are fixated on these artifacts from this era. Manufacturing some mechanical pieces, what might be mechanical pieces being shipped elsewhere around the world. How does this tie into Peru, into all of these other things that we've seen. I think this is the most simple answer to me, is these people are obsessed with this god and they're trying to bring it back. I don't know how, but it seems like

they're trying to build something and summon it. If that's what they're trying to summon, then what the hell have they been su- like what are these fog monsters, that creature that we saw in the hotel in New York, let alone the dreams and hallucinations we've had? What are these other things that have to do with? What is the end goal here? Uh, destruction of the world. I don't know.

I don't, I don't think that these people have rational, uh, ends goals. I think we're thinking about it the wrong way maybe. Or maybe we don't have the capacity to understand. I feel like we're so close, but every time that we learn something new, I feel as though part of me goes straight to the beginning of what are we doing? Yeah, I mean, if you ask Carter, we're trying to save the world. If you ask URI, I feel like it's knowledge that we seek and who knows what Desmond wants, something about capitalism and Zaman probably, and maybe he thinks Nyarlathotep is Zaman. Hmm. It's just... From the things that we've seen,

with that mask, with the dreams. All of it's been horrific. What part of this seems enjoyable to these people if they're having these... Why is it that some people are having horrific experiences like Shipley, and others can be seeking out this knowledge and not unless, and then like you see Figaroos' eyes widen, unless they're somehow worthy of this whole thing. Well, why would they be?

I think that everyone ends up like a Shipley eventually, perhaps the power that these people get is temporary. But as far as what we're doing, I mean, I don't know about you, but at least for me, it sort of feels like a lid was opened on the box that we cannot put the lid back onto. And I don't know what's at the bottom of the box. Or how far down it goes.

I don't know, but I want to know. Don't you want to know? Yeah, I want to know, Monica? Uh, yeah, I want to know. But I think we should be careful. Right. I think you should be careful. With your... I think you're right, we are worthy.

But... I don't want to get it out of hand. Well, it's too late for that. I mean, we've burned several buildings down. Yes. That's a trail of destruction behind us, haven't we? We'll have to stop doing that at some point. Several murders. One murder, several accidental deaths. Keep forgetting we've killed people. I hope the boys found something. Isn't it funny how you can be entangled in such a chase for knowledge that you absolutely forget that we have killed

people. We have destroyed lives. Maybe one day we'll become some monsters, am I right? Right? Kind of trick. Us? No. No? No. No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. It just kind of awkwardly trails off. As they go, no, no, no, we'll fade out of there. I love that image of the box. How deep does it go? What's in there? You want to know but like you get lost in

there. All right. Let's get you all back to the hotel. Again, just filling each other in on the information you have. Let's get you to bed and wake up on Monday, one day before the full moon. Get another hit point back. Yes. Is everybody a full, near full? No. Close. Will you get to full by the full moon, Carter?

Or do we have to maybe try another hospital visit? I don't think we can do that anymore. Oh. We can still do a first date though. Can we? Did they do extra? Oh no, you can't because that has a time limit. That has to happen within like 60 minutes or something.

Right, right. Yeah, I mean it's kind of, you're nine out of 12 so you'll be, if nothing else changes, a 10 out of 12 going into. Yeah, and then I'm going to get a second leather jacket. I could smack you for like a half a hit point, perform some first aid and maybe get some more. Uh-huh. You could also, if you so choose, stay in bed all day Monday and do nothing.

And I would consider getting at least two hit points. Whoa. Oh my God. Oh my God. Karcher, are you going to stay in bed all day? All the morning? You've been in bed all morning. We have things to do.

I know, but you know, I didn't say I was not getting up. I'm just thinking about not getting up. It's no time for girl rotting. You rot in bed. Just a blanket like wrapped around his head. I just feel gross. But I think, unfortunately, it was, is it Monday? It's Monday, yeah.

I fast forwarded you, if there was something else you really wanted to do Sunday, we can't. I just figured. I'm just wondering if we- The research took a long time. If we need to get up there early. I'd suggest that we, well, I'll just put it out there that now that we know that there are such handsome bee and bees in the vicinity, could we go up to Walton on Mays a day early, get the lay aland, but lay low so as not to attract attention with the handy disguises so wisely procured by Massar. And then if we can, while they're at the Stele as Shafik suggested, we sneak into Miser House,

secrete ourselves, and burst out at the appointed time. Do we think that this is going to be a catered event? Do you think we could just dress up as caterers? That may be the sort of thing that we could find out when we get to the town. Yeah, I mean, or they're hiring a local catering company. Yeah, or they're hiring, or maybe a DJ. You know, we could be- Ferris and Sons catering? Wait a minute.

I thought you were insinuating whether we should eat beforehand because there are only going to be like, advertisers served in this thing. Well, that's, I mean, that goes without saying. Well, you have to be on a full stomach going into these situations. But if we can either find out if we can dress up as the help or just get matching robes.

I'm sure there's going to be robes. There's always fucking robes at these things. People wearing robes, hoods. That could be another way to disguise ourselves getting into this situation. Starting to have a locker room. Yes. sort of a room. Yes. Meshafik sort of elided that,

how the point from go to the house to pop out when he begins to chant. She sort of skipped over some of the details. I feel as though, yeah, there should have been a little more instructions than she could have at least provided us into knowledge of where the locker rooms with said robes are.

Is it a group that we could move among incognito or should we be well and truly hidden? Yeah, the one thing she said is that like, you know, before the hours leading up to this, they're all going to be at the site. You should have, you know, an easy run of things, but you got to be careful. Don't fuck things up. And then they come back to the house to do the final ritual. Right, right.

No, the way she described it all happens outside at the stelae. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. They gather at the house. So they won't be at the house during the thing and that's when we have time to like snoop around if we want. That is what Zara seemed to intimate.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm dumb. Just so unclear. They're gathering, they're going to the house for the ritual. At some point they leave to go to the stele. That's where the ritual that she's describing takes place. Yeah, she said at midnight the grand rite begins. They do not return to the house for the ritual.

It's out there. Right. So we could enter the house while the ritual is happening, but we're also being told to be present at the ritual. At midnight. Yeah. So in terms of timeline, Grand Rite begins, and this is again what Zara told you. Let's assume that this is true.

Grand Rite begins at midnight. People start gathering earlier in the evening. That's when like maybe going to Miser House isn't the best idea. People are getting there, getting settled. You don't really know why the house is important. It's just that's where it takes place. That's where they gather, I should say. At a certain point, they all go outside, hours before the actual event.

That's where the cocktail party is. And that's when it's a good time to sneak into Miser House. And then you just want to make sure by midnight, you're there to wait for the signal of Gavigan screaming and everybody you know speaking in tongues. Old testament shit. So it could be that we could though it's not conclusively enough to lean on entirely but if there is a cloak and mask situation at this particular event and that's the sort of thing that could be procured inside the house while they yeah fetch themselves up to the obelisk or fucking like magical weapons and more armor yes

certainly perhaps there'll be a magic wand in a in a mace of ice and fire but um you're talking like magic wands don't exist, as... Like, someone didn't point one at one of our friends and just completely dominate their mind. You lot have taught me that I should have a mind that's significantly more open than it was. Yeah, let's open that fucker up. Come on. Keep it wide open, like a box! This is just coming to me now. If we had like a box that fucker up. Come on. Keep it wide open like a box. This is just coming to me now. What if we had like a box that had no bottom? That's your mind. Let me take you to a map here so you guys can see the map of from London to the Nez.

So you'll see if you zoom in there you should be able to see there's London. There's a railway leading to the Nez. Like I said, three, four hours. It's that town of Harwich that you read about. Walton on the Nez, Colchester. So everything underneath the red letters, the Nez, that's farmland. Actually, everything surrounding that area is farmland. But based on the directions Zara Shafiq gave you, there's like a little peninsula

somewhere close to where the Walton on the Nez is, where the tower is. And that's on that peninsula is where Messerhauts sits. All right. Well, shall we go down to the nays and set ourselves up as tourists on holiday? I wonder what there's to see there. It's nothing but rolling hills of sheep. Yeah. Probably some sea mist, you know, good for the skin. It would be good for your health there, Carter. Yeah, that's another hit point.

Good for the lungs. After the respiratory event that we've all experienced, some sea air may do us good. For the humors, as you say. Isn't the guy that survived the ghoul attack, didn't he go to his brother to the sea? Oh yeah, he was right. It's proven. So there's a precedent there. Science.

All right. Great. Anything you want to do in London before you leave or are we just hopping on a train and heading out a day early? I mean, I think we're taking all of our important items. Right? Yes. Strapping up.

Yeah. Put your shotgun in her pocketbook. Disguises. Disguises. Funny mustache. Still have no gum my coat and hat. Take all of your information. You take all of your gear.

You take everything you know and you hop on the train heading to the Nez. And you know, 20 minutes after the train goes, different points in time, all of you look back and watch the city of London recede to the background. You are immersed in the countryside. It is lush. It's daytime. Still dark and foggy because it's London, but you're, the further you go outside there's the air, any air coming through the windows of the train does seem slightly fresher.

Albeit still gray outside. And after a few hours... I think during this time too Carter falls asleep and not even knowing it he puts his head on Margo's shoulder. He falls asleep to the point of just like... Oh. Okay. Zerzer.

If you look across the cabin Desmond has his little trillie on. He's kind of glancing up at this tableau with him drooling on Margo's shoulder and goes back to his little book that he's reading, which is still with that question, like, are you willing to do what it takes? As he's reading, like, Royal Terrace, the terraced by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, deceitful, secretive. We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."

So he's reading editorials by Karl Marx there in the... Yes, I shall not make excuses. He fingers the club in his coat. So he's still got the trenchant from that guy at the handsome manufacturing. Is there anything we can do about the snoring? Do you put something in his nose and he'll stop? I think the mask creates a resonating chamber where it amplifies the... Makes him drool, also. The half-'ve ruben what he smells like fried fish I know in vinegar Yeah, it was yesterday. It just lingers.

Really should give the mask a rinse every now and then. So you travel through the North Sea, marsh and gloom until you pull into a station. What is it? The... Yeah. You could take a car from here to B&B. You could ask a local. They recommend the Marine. Oh, go to the Marine Inn. It's very nice. No tourists around this time of year, so there should be plenty of vacancy. That sounds right up our alley. We're not looking for a lot of crying eyes. I feel like we have to be careful if there's some sort of exodus of people coming to this ceremony.

If we're talking 50-60 people, they're going to be staying somewhere. ceremony for talking 50 60 people they're gonna be staying somewhere and We don't always want to be having our wigs and our disguises on right and be careful who we divulge any information to I mean how convincing of these wigs are we talking like lace front wigs here? What is this just look like polyester plopped on your head? You know, it's my best. I'm asking you.

I don't have Von Villiers money anymore. We do have to make do with what we have. Lace front. This one's a rainbow Afro. Did you hear this guy? Lace front. Ungrateful. Yeah, I imagine as you get off the train or even while you're on the train, you're watching everybody and just wondering is someone following you?

Anytime you make eye contact with someone and they look away, are they with Gaffigan? Are they with Jafique? Are they with Henson Manufacturing people? Are they with The Order? There are so many people Keeping tabs on you. They would Scotland yard Watching you get off the train same feeling just surrounded by people You almost feel safer like if someone was gonna do something to you. It's better to be around people

Hail a cab to the Marine Hotel In keeper is a plump old woman. Oh, don't get many tourists here in the off season. Are you seeking a room? Yes, two rooms if they are available. Oh, yes, couple of couples. Lovely. Well, it's a shame you're coming in the winter and not the spring and summer. That's the busy season.

The sea front is a bustling cavalcade of bright colors, milling, promenaders and bathers. Of course now it's just gray and wet and empty, but plenty of rooms and discounted prices. Not used to having people here. All right, I have a couple of lovely suites. Who are the, what are the rooms here? Who's married to who? Are we doing this bit? Are we?

Yes, a great hotel has this bit. Or are we doing me? Who they all want to be. Am I looking over to Margo and Carter and be like, are we doing this? Or what are we doing?, or are we doing this? It's less married, it's more co-eds, or it's the opposite of co-eds.

Oh, my dear, I was young once. I co-ed with many a gentleman before I was married. Wow, well then, all right. My husband's dead, I still get out there from time to time and co-ed. Just had a lunch date today. Just had a lunch date today. Yes, just had a lunch date today. The number of my uncle, I think, in my two-

My name's Bob. Anyhow, here in this- Desmond would just be like, all right, you and me telling Ast, and he just takes the key. Uh-huh, yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Oh, well, who am I to judge? It's 1925.

Oh. Not 1920. I did not know people were so progressive in their lives. I dabbled, I dabbled in my day. For my husband of course. And after he passed. I might get around. I don't know. I enjoy your rooms. We haven't had a lot of guests, I haven would have anyone to talk about by sexual escapades with

Enjoy the room. No, I'm we have to stay in the parlor all evening chatting with you Oh, I could tell you a story that would make your curly hair go straight I'm I hang down here for a while pretty interesting Sure Is there a brochure with the local sites? How far are we from the monument? The monument, I'm sorry. What is that? The, how do you call the, the landmark? The Nain's Tower.

The Nain's Tower? Oh, the Noward Tower. Yes. Um oh not too far. You could walk there. It would be a bit of a walk. It's closer to the shore. But um if you took a vehicle there, it's a short walk from the road and she gives you directions. That's lovely. And my friends and I are sort of boffins for for old um old mansers and the like. Um are we rather close to... You buff old men, what did you say? Excuse me? No.

Sorry, I'm a hud of hearing. Yes, rather buffens for old architecture. Ah, yes, manses. Yes, Longview, is that in the neighborhood? Longview? Longview. Great Hall of some renown, I hear. Great Hall, Longview? Longview. Great hall of some renown, I hear. Great hall? Longview? No, no.

Perhaps it changed its name some point in the past. No, what kind of building is this? A mansion? A great house built during the reign of Elizabeth I. I don't know much about history or this Longview.

There is a mansion on the island, though. It's more inland. Elizabeth the First. I don't know much about history or this long view. There is a mansion on the island though. It's more inland. It's privately owned. I believe the owner of the home owns much of the farmland around as well. It's wealthy to do. Gentleman, I assume. But I don't know much about that.

Long view? I'm not familiar with the name. I don't know what the place is called. I'm sure it's my own confusion. Thank you, miss. Well, we'll be tramping around this farmland and taking the sea air. Was I helpful at all in answering your questions about the adventure? It would be a very short review, but lovely review. Yes, I'm going to give this interaction-

Can I move the story forward? What did I do? Are you going to ask us for a little... Are you going to ask us for a tip? Are you going to ask us for a tip? No, no, no, you'll pay your bill of fare with tax Is there a customer survey that we can fill out? As a matter of fact, you'll be emailed

after you stay if you could just say that old Shaban at the desk was lovely and didn't at all talk about her sexual proclivities. I appreciate that. I'll leave that part right out. Oh, that was my favorite part.

Yeah. I've made love in every room in this house. Thank you for that. Yes. Sometimes with myself. I'm telling Arstom twice as excited. In fact, five minutes before you came in to be. Shut up with you now.

Just before you came in, I was going to head to room 312. It's been a slow day. Now we'll get back to playing upon games. Which surface in room 212 is Old Shub on? From the depths of ecstasy on. Oh, don't you worry, we have a very competent made surface Conical shaped objects everywhere Enjoy your stay I will enjoy

Every other room in the building We're surrounded by perverts. All right, so you check in to Marine Hotel. She doesn't know about this long view. So, you know, that name maybe has been lost to time because she's an older woman. She would have known if you grew up around here. But she does mention the mansion and that seems to kind of jive with what the directions that Zara Shafik gave you. However, the directions to this tower are pretty far away from that. So that tells Desmond that his theory that Longview was renamed as Miser House, and these are the same places and this secret chamber that we read about is in fact in this building is kind of locking in place and that's precisely where I'd like to go

once once the place has been vacated. Yeah that sounds great now this is an island that we have to get to. We're on it? Yeah it's a peninsula. Let's say there's maps around. I'm sure there's maps of the area, right? And you look, and they're not as detailed as the maps of today. You look and you don't see any islands, per se, but you do see a section of the Nez, Walton-on-the-Nez,'s it's a peninsula where to get onto the

peninsula it's so thin that there has to be like a bridge or something they are connecting it so it's like it's almost an island but it's more of a peninsula okay because I was imagine there might be in a boat well there you could you look at this you like wow if we to, it seems like we could get on a boat and come around that way if you wanted to. That's not an impossible idea because everything else looks like you're going to have to go up a thin road leading straight to there. Now I'm assuming whatever you choose, you'll be approaching with some element of stealth, but yeah, you could use Carter's look at that. You're like

If our goal is to be secretive, then perhaps renting a rowboat of some kind Get ourselves around by the back way is the way to go Otherwise we're creeping across this spitter land and we'll have to pick higher low tide perhaps Should we stick it out today or no? Well, if it all begins, again, it seems like everything that we've got to do is around about the hours leading up to midnight. And it all begins at midnight. A little reconnaissance wouldn't hurt. They're a little bit early, but we'll have to be very, very quiet. I mean, it's February, right?

I'm imagining it's going to be dark on the earlier side. So we'll be able to, if we do want to row up yeah we could do it and have plenty of time to take our time before we get into that house well um I'll talk to old Siobhan about boat rentals if if she can carve time out of her, shall we say busy schedule. So many rooms to make your rounds. Carter's just looking at like the bed posts. Just furrowing his brow. All right, so you're thinking about getting there on foot,

getting there by car or taking a boat for a recon trip today? Oh, today. Oh, I didn't know. I thought you said today. I think we were just talking about like the night of. I think evening of, twilight of. Yeah. Okay.

Great. I mean, we can just fast forward unless there's any other business people want to do accomplish here. Are we in anything like a little village or is it just kind of an inn on this bit of land? Yeah, it's a small little town. You see that most of the businesses are seasonal and so they've been closed. But there is like a general store and a small little restaurant. There's a pub or a restaurant. I'm at the kind of place where we might be able to chat with a local. Um, not to really belabor it, but just get a sense of like, what's the local

opinion on, on the Laird of Miser House. I mean, asking around. It might also draw attention to us. opinion on the Laird of Miser House. I mean, asking around. It might also draw attention to us. Well, I was gonna say necessarily, but we do have these wicks, but the, but also like if there's any like, like servants that work there that would live in the town, you know what I mean? Like there's a way to sort of we were gonna see if we could Sneak in as part of like people who work at the house

But we're not even less that and just more like yeah any bit of extra information we have about yeah Oh the back door is always open or what you know that would be That did so you know Getting into it again Mike am I crazy is my memory? Like, that didn't suck. Although, I'm not getting into it again! Am I crazy? Is my memory wrong that Shafik even said, like, you can't trust the people, the servants, like that it's all...

Oh, I can't remember. I can't remember. Yeah. I believe you thought something kind of was said, yeah. Alright, then maybe we should be careful about that. I think it's safe to assume that if we make landfall on the aisle after that, don't trust anyone. Yeah.

Unless of course we see one of your truckloads coming up from London. If that's the lot, what's going to be sacrificed to that critter you showed me the picture of? Want to roll out to the local pub? Yeah, sure. Yes. You gotta eat. See if they…

Gotta eat. Suck it off of shirts maybe. See what are the local customs? Do they do that here? I am not flirting with anyone today. No flirting with locals. Low profile. Keep it easy. You go to this pub, it's called the Dunwich Inn.

And the name itself is a little creepy. Come inside and there's like two patrons at the bar and a lone bartender and the patrons look at you and they all get like these like weird bulgy eyes and like Wrinkly skin just kind of look at you and go back to their drink The bartender sees the four of you and you think you'd be happy to get some business. He's just like You can sit at the bottle you can see the Charming.

Wait, Troy, sorry. Are you saying that they all have like a crazy... crazy features? Or they just... They look a little weird. They're old, but they... They have like just kind of like their eyes just seem too big for their face. It's just a little creepy. You walk into this weird little country town.

Almost like a painting that we saw with people whose eyes were too big for their fucking faces. Oh, he did see. Oh. You're at this point now where everything also has you on edge. Not written down.

That's a little too suspect. You see the ball, you see the table. That's a little too suspect. You see the ball to the table. Uh, I would say we would probably want to sit anywhere. We could easily overhear a conversation. Yeah, sure. Um, table, but nearby. Also, everyone opened their eyes really big.

Maybe we can blend in. Yeah. You said the table, the guy the table guys eyes walks over stomach is peeking out from underneath a soiled apron what can I guess you kiss he's gonna blue suit whatever the specialty of the house is my man well I'll tell you I have been enamored with these fish and or chips That you've got going on Feel free put them in a newspaper. I recommend the scoop or a plate is fine, too

For for vision juice. Yeah, I'll eat whatever they don't eat sure All right, I did a drink Cold beer any cold beer no no anymore finest your finest warm yeah I'll drink I don't care what is for me is for physically finest lukewarm slow season I this is the slow time of the year. Aye. Where you from? Me. Eh, you. Belfast.

He walks away. So weird. Do you think I'm charmed by this Belfast dude in here? He yells to the kitchen all the good stuff terrible for tonight hey he starts pouring your ales comes over on the table half the ales spills out not safe with that so is over there thank you thank you when I walk over to the silverware, I wanna look at the weird men a little bit. Is there like a psychology role or something?

Role to look at the weird men. Role to deduce like, are you all right? What's the vibe? Yeah. Very Dunwichy. Like would it be psychology? Like I kinda wanna want to just like yeah vibe Yeah vibe give me a vibe roll

Yeah, I think psychology should be renamed to vibe or the vibes listen to what they're saying over here regular success Yeah, I mean they just seem like old salts and Maybe all those years at sea just left them looking weird and they also live in a You know an area that only gets action four months out of the year. They're probably all related to each other It might be some inbreeding. That's probably what's going on If you hear them talking like it's unintelligible, but maybe they're talking about sports. That's what it is.

No. And I say, well, lobster. Yeah, I say, come on. Lobster sports? Lobster sports? And I go, drone, drone, but I'm going to say, go! Go. And yeah, guy comes back over after you finish can I get you any ideas

You have been wonderful, thank you for this What brings you over here? We are tour guide authors four of us right as a We write tour guides for the four of us write a book. We write tour guides for tourists, so we go around sort of lesser known places and just check them out and we do little write-ups and this place...

Fun articles in the logo paper. That's right. And I'll draw pictures. I'll draw the illustrations. She draws, find a, like, what's it called? Spot the differences between two images for the kids, you know, so the kids have something to do. I don't know nothing about that.

Oh, okay. Well, trust me, you guys are gonna get a great review and a great little picture. All right. Might even pick up in the off season. In the off season, what are most of the folk around here do if there's no tourists spied? I mean you clearly you keep a fine house and a and a fine table. Some folks are out fishing or working up at the working up

at the big house. Big house? I would imagine yeah't know what goes on there. It's inland, yeah, the people fish. Can't swim, it's too cold. But we had some people come in the past couple of days, all the usual, coming through. Getting a bite to eat. Think they were heading over there towards that mansion. Don't know what goes on there. Just stay here. Do you think they rent out for events?

What's that? That house. Do you know anything about, do they possibly rent out for events? I'm thinking of possibly having a wedding during the season, the on season, when the weather's nicer. I don't think they do that.

You going there? No, it's but um, our business where we make pamphlets about tours, it has a special section for like spooky things. Is there anything spooky that goes on?

Anything that's a creepy corner, local color. I don't know, nothing but goes on up there, there's a bridge. That's all. You only go there if you're meant to go there. We'll definitely put that in your article, Mr. Ron. Spooky bridge. There's a bridge.

Yeah, there's a bridge. Do they have their own private, do you think they are boatsmen up there? Do they think they have their own little private dock up there that they go to and fro? The sloughs up there, the levees and the dikes make it impossible to get big boats over there. You'd have to have a small boat. And here sort of big boats are not going to get in there because everything's built on a levee. The island's up a little bit, but there's dikes and levees and whatnot. Doing that in the sloughs now, you're going to need a small boat if you want to get over there. Probably a dock or something. But no big boats. No big boats can get over there. Too marshy.

Yes, it's good. And is there a local paper here? Yes. It's the Cold Cheshire Gazette. The what one? Cold Cheshire Gazette. Oh yes. I just wanted to make sure I heard that correctly the first time. Because Fairooz is thinking like, wondering if there is anything weird in the papers or even if there's a point of contact of somebody we could maybe ask the questions.

I'm just spitballing here out of character. Sure. Well, thank you for coming in. I hope you enjoyed the service that I gave you and you enjoyed our fish and chips in ale and please write good things about me in your book pamphlet. Oh, for that we shall. What was your name again so we could write some wonderful things about you? Martinique.

Martinique. Martinique. French. Martinique. Martinique Beauchamp. Not what I expected. I don't understand. Martinique Martinique French Martinique Martinique Beauchamp Not what I expected mr. Beauchamp well leave you a good review things I never would expect I Only hope that you have as a much more passion about your work as the lady what runs the local in about your work as the lady what runs the local inn.

Come on. Troy, I'd like to do just a spot hidden here just to make sure, especially that we were just like, we stand with the old lady at the edge, just to make sure no one's really peeping at us. Yeah, yeah, give me a spotted. Oh, shit. Oh, I got a 23 under 28. Hey look, those guys are so embroiled in their conversation unless someone invisible is in this room.

I feel pretty safe. Okay, great. Thank you for that. Marjaneet Beauchamp goes back to washing glasses with a dirty rag. And you walk over to grab a copy of the Colchester Gazette. Nothing in the headlines. Nothing jumps out at you as... Cult meeting tomorrow!

Cult meeting tomorrow! All invited! Everyone will die! The passcode is... Old ones evoked. Flaming swords available here! The weather forecast calls for fog monsters. You walk out of the Dunwich Dome and you see a bunch of people.

You walk out of the Dunwich Dome and you see a bunch of people. You walk out of the Dunwich Dome and you see a bunch of people. You walk out of the Dunwich Dome and you see a bunch of people. You walk out of the Dunwich Dome and you see a bunch of people. You walk out of the Dunwich Dome and you see a bunch of people. You walk out of the Dunwich Dome and you see a bunch of people. Old ones evoked. Flaming swords available here. The weather forecast calls for fog monsters. You walk out of the Dunwich Inn, it's dark out now, and you're back in that fog, the same fog that was outside Desmond's apartment. Those creepy, bulgy-eyed old men watching you leave the Dunwich Inn. And you can see the sign for the Marine Hotel not too far away. But hold fears. Die hard. Maybe there's a little pep in your step as you get back there.

Pick it up. Pick it up. Get hands on flashlights just in case. That's right. We'll have some good rest. It'll be a late night tomorrow night. Yes, the full moon. Get some good rest. It'll be a late night tomorrow night. It's the full moon.

Get back to the hotel. Thank God. Go to sleep. You wake up Tuesday, February 18th I believe. Point is, it's the night of the full moon. Going back to the beginning of the season when Faeruz and Vaughn went to the Blue Pyramid Club and were handed a note from a waitress there, Yalisha Assem, who said, meet me outside. Said her boyfriend pissed somebody off. They took him.

Every month, car comes, a van loads people up. They go somewhere out into the country. I tried to follow them and I lost them, but I know they're leaving the city. You now assume that they're being taken to Miser House. It's Tuesday morning. Walk me through your day plan. Time block your day for me. Oh, God. First of all, continental breakfast.

Right. If you did say breakfast, I would say breakfast included. Oh, hi. I'm starving. So ravenous continental breakfast. Right. She did say breakfast, though. Mm-hmm. Breakfast included. Oh, hi, I'm starving. So ravenous this morning. Ugh. See, Sir Bokhtavon. I've worked up an appetite.

I was up very late last night. I cannot have enough eggs. It's just the five of you eating breakfast. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'm not sure. We're just like, do we just lay low until the evening? What was that, Cain?

I said, I'm not sure. Do we just like lay low until the evening? And then you're thinking boat, you're thinking car, you're thinking walk. I'm thinking rowboat. Yeah. Oh yeah. So I might talk to the mistress of the house. Is there a place around here where we could rent a, what's a rowboat big enough for four?

Oh yes. Jack Spade's, Jack Spade's rowboats. He's still renting them out. I imagine he hasn't closed down. You can always tell. I'll ring up Jack right now. Hold on. I understand. Jack, it's Shemond! Oh, cut it out! You know that I don't do that anymore. Yes, I have some... Jack! Will you stop? I have some guests here. They can probably hear you. Just full on Benny Hill character. Just down to the obsession with sex jokes.

Are you, I know that you normally close down over the holidays. Do you have a group here that's looking to rent a rowboat? Yes. I believe they're trying to infiltrate a cult mansion. Yes. Just a leisurely cult mansion boat ride. What's that? No that oh? All right great. I will I'll send them your way. I bet these ones are very thin

All right, stop it. I'm gonna go Yes, Jackson Yes boat for you Right, okay, Troy does she look all fucking weird and big-eyed He has a boot for you. Great. Let's see. Troy, does she look all fucking weird and big eyed? No, she's a little creepy. I know who she looks like, but I can't describe her. Okay.

She's got like a kind of a paper boy cut, but white hair and just like glasses. And she's not very tall. The target, the woman that was the target? The magic! The big glasses, the target? The MAGIC! With the big glasses, the fashionista. I can't remember who she actually looks like, but it's in my mind's eye.

And she's got like a little...there's nothing about her that says sex hound. But she's good to go. Oh, Jack Spade! So you go over to Jack Spade's, get a boat. The guy's like 28, by the way, and ripped. And he gets you a boat. What are your plans there with the boat? Boatin'.

Rowin'. Boatin', rowin'. You gotta be careful in the winter where the tides leave you in trouble. Where are you taking my boat? Well, you see, under doctor's orders, we've had this dry cough you see, and we were told by our doctor's recommendation that we get some of the sea air. And so what better way than to have a... Get into the sea.

Yeah, get right out there. Straight to the source. Yeah, my cousin has it. They're very sick. Yeah, well, okay. Well, don't get too close. My cousin suffers from the same malady. That's all right. All right. Well, just be careful.

I don't know if you're going to stay close to the shore or not. I wouldn't go too far out. People that go far out, they don't come back. I don't care about you. I care about my boat. No offense. If you're taking it around the coast, just be careful. You know, the levee's there. It's complicated. You know, I would stay close to shore, But you are capable of a boat, no offense. If you're taking it around the coast, just be careful. The levee's there, it's complicated.

I would stay close to shore, but not so close that you're going to get the boat caught on anything. Only make landfall if you see a dark or if it looks safe. Now, are you planning on returning this later today? Are you taking it overnight? We'll probably overnight if you don't mind, come back tomorrow morning. Overnight? All right. You know, there's not many places out here you can stay

besides the Marine. Everything's closed down. We may take it out at sunrise, but yeah, we'll plan on tying it up tonight. But if we're not by business. Just so that we don't have to rush back and bother you. Yeah, we just don't want the pressure to come back. Right.

I understand. All right, well, it's it's strange what being middle of February or not. Just you bundle up You know, we're like jacket you do whatever you want your adults but Here you go. Here's is the oars What's that what is a levy a levy it says is, because of sea level, they have to build it up so that it doesn't get flooded. All right, I'm sure we'll be fine. Most of the, if you're going around there, the levees, you want to get the boat caught and whatnot.

And it's, yeah. Anyways. All right. I'm done being a part of this story. Right. Thank you. Thank you, Jack Spade. Thank you. You've been an integral and a part of this story Spade you've been an important part of all of us. Yes, I made when our tuberculosis clears up

Thinking about the innkeeper Jacked 28 year old Shaped like a nacho chip. Jacked my dillts. Wild town. Not a lot going on in this town. Sometimes Jack just wants to dock at any port that's open. It's hard to find a man in town that's not a bug-eyed mutant. Like dude, Mr. Spade. So you get the boat, you hop in.

Everybody good with the boat? We're not going to make you roll checks, but... What are we going now? Is it time? Is it time? Let's get there. Anything else you want to do today? You want to get some knickknacks, some postcards?

I can't think of anything else to do before we go. Really hoping for a... Was hoping for a cliffy before we had to commit so recently. Anything else you want to do today? You want to get some knickknacks, some postcards? I can't think of anything else to do. Really hoping for a, was hoping for a cliffy before we had to commit. Maybe the cliffy will be rowing. I think we've got, I think it'd be assumed we've got our supplies, our flashlights, our weapons. Oh my neck. All of our disguises, our... Yes.

Disguises, check. Weapons, check. Some extra sandwiches, our guns. There's a hat on Desmond, there's a cascade of blonde hair on his. Navigate, anybody have navigate? Oh. Would be the appropriate skill. I do have a little bit. Oh, I do have navigate, yeah.

Okay, I mean you should all have at least 10% navigate, but did anybody invest anything beyond that? I rolled 32 over 31, so I'm gonna use a luck roll. A luck point. Oh, awesome. So one point of luck. You got somebody that can get you there. Because for me at this point, it's about time.

If you wanna get there a certain hour, you don't really know the area. We've got a regular success. Anybody else roll it? I'll do it just for the hell of it. Yeah, just see. Make sure you mark a success there nor Thank you fail Regular fail

So it's just fair use fair use where did you think where do you think you learned about voting you are? You know, I feel like University has their version of the Yale like Like University has their version of the Yale, like. You know, the mystical crew team. That's why she's so buff and has that high strength. That's why you are so strong. You really truly are every single woman. It's amazing.

It's all in me. It's all in you. So you also, we're just like sitting there in a boat while you're just like crushing. You're like eating sandwiches and smoking and drinking. I brought a picnic basket, guys. Puffing and puffing. I went and caught some hard cheeses and a baguette.

Oh, good. Do you mind? You just want to make favorites? Steady on that, favorites. Stroke, stroke and all that. Okay, so and all that. Okay, so this is interesting. I'm assuming we get there safely and there's no monsters in the water.

That would be great. So following her directions and looking at the maps, you think the only way to really reach this peninsula via the boat is to go up and around the coast and then come back down through this little rivulet that would take you to the island, as it were. And so you take this rowboat with faeroos navigating up the coast and you're looking inland. It's all trees, farmland, and the further up the coast you go the farmland starts to recede and it's just forest. But after, you know,

maybe an hour or so of rowing, you see a tower right on the edge of the coast. This must be the Nez Tower. Maybe it was a lighthouse back in the day, but now there's no light. There's no anything there. It's actually a real historical monument, the Nez Tower, that wasn't used for anything. It like fell out of use and then was used again in world war ii to like

let boats know um where the shore was but you pass that and there are like little inlets that lead inland and you know you need to go inland but they don't seem passable if you'd got any boat bigger than this it would have been impossible so you just follow the map that you have and you go up and when you get to the like northern edge it's like all these small little islands and calling them an island is an exaggeration just small little chunks of land and you don't want to get near those you keep going up and around and And you come down this thin, like, waterway and eventually you see... enough lights that aren't moving that you think there has to be a mansion. There. You wait.

You watch. Give me some spot hidden. Nice. Here we go. Oh, is that? I rolled another one. Oh my critical success. She's overpowered.

I rolled a 16 under 69. So that's hard, I think. I rolled a regular success, but that seems besides the point. Right. It seems silly now, but no, it's good. The cumulative is also degree of success. Extreme is great. Fever is just...

I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme.

I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go with the extreme. I'm going to go besides the point. Right. It seems silly now. But no, it's good. The cumulative is also degree of success. Extreme is great. Favreuse is just – she's navigating. She's seeing. She's still drawing. She's spotting dimes. She's still always – still thinking about jack speed.

Seahawk. Awesome. Seahawk. There's a lot of trees obviously between this edge of the river and the lights that you're seeing, which is good. You need that tree cover. You don't want there to be a wide expanse. However, up ahead you see the trees start to thin out and so you don't think you want

to go too much further without risk of being seen. In fact, as you're squinting and looking, you see Faerûs, like the opposite end. If you had driven up to the house, there was like a dirt track road leading to an iron fence that surrounds the property. But when I say the property, it looks like this is like a thousand acres worth of land with the house sitting in a portion of it and this fence goes all the way around it and there's the road from outside leads up to the fence and there's a little gatehouse but you see four or five people standing at the gate and suddenly like two headlights come up and you see the people like two people go towards either side of the car while the other

two people stand back just watching. This is much further away. I may have given to you on a hard but on extreme I'm gonna give you even more. If you had only a real Vegas SS I wouldn't even let you see the gate but you're looking you seeing this and you see the people come up. Maybe there's some sort of conversation. They're still very far away, but then the car has passed through, and you see the car come up to a bridge. In fact, this river that you're on, if you kept going, it would turn and go right up

to this little bridge. You see this little bridge, and it drives over the bridge and then kind of goes away from you, but in the direction of what you think to be the mansion. I basically just point out everything you said to, so if this entire estate is fenced off, and there's a gate over there that drives, presuming all of these guests will be coming in through,

we don't want to make ourselves known. So is there like a place to like, far enough way to like kind of tie off the boat? Jack Spade will not be happy about it. He is not getting his boat back. You know what? At this point, it's for the greater good. We're saving his life really.

We lie. We'll tie it off here and we'll tell him that much when we return it. Yeah. There's always the chance that there's a storm, you know, the boat could get pulled off because it's not a dock here, but you can do your best to tie it off to something or fashion. Maybe some huge chunk of driftwood. Yeah. Walk me through it because having a getaway.

Or is it light? Is it light? There's four of us. We could kind of probably also carry it up. Put it up on shore. Put it up on shore. Yeah, let's do that. Great, no strength rule necessary.

All of you combine to lift the boat, put it up on shore. Thinking to yourself, well, hope we don't have to get out of here in a hurry. Well, we just end up pushing it back onto the water. It's very heavy. This takes a couple minutes. Get this fucking thing in the river. Get up on land.

To your far left, had you come in through this way, is that gate, those people. To sort of right and ahead, so northwest by my, where I'm sitting, are these lights. You guys just walk through the trees closer and closer. See, I'm laying low. Quietly. There's growth. Yeah, tree to tree. Now let me ask you this.

Knowing what you know of the timeline that Zara outlined, what time do you think it is now? Like what was your hope to get here by this time and approach at what time? Do you have a date? Something like that? I feel like we would see like a group of people leaving and that's when we would go in, right?

Yeah. Okay. All right, so you're getting in on a seven or eight. We want to have a couple hours to be in that house, I think, before we have to. Cause they leave a couple hours before the ceremony starts. Yeah, and if we left right after breakfast,

Yeah. we should have Well, I think we wish waited till it was like, yeah. Yeah, you timed it in such a way. I think seven eight is perfect. The guests are still arriving as it were. Carpools up. And so you guys go through the brush here.

Now let's talk about stealth. Cause I know stealth is gonna be a big part of this. Right. When you do a group stealth roll the worst of you rolls it. If you wanted your best stealth person to scout up ahead that person splits off from the group but then you know you kind of rely on their stealth roll to a certain degree. There'll be times when like everybody will stealth. But right now you assume that no one can see you. You assume that. I think Beirut is the most stealthy or unless Desmond is.

What can't she do? What is everybody's stealth? Mine's 46. Mine's 60. Mine's 40. I got a 61. Oh, for some reason I thought you weren't so- He's a cat burglar. It's because I keep fucking up my rolls.

Yeah, it makes more sense for Carter to be. Okay. All right, so Carter's, even your worst is a 40, so a group luck roll would be Desmond would roll a 40, that's not bad. That's great, you should always put points in stealth. So do you want to skulk ahead, Carter? I'll scout, I'll do a scout because why not set up another fumble to end an episode?

16. You're gonna. That's only poetic. All right, I'm gonna creep through the underbrush. I rolled a two under 61. Woo hoo hoo. Now we are on target. Wow.

Ended on that motherfucker. Another extreme success. All right, so Carter, not only do you move like a cat. Like a jaguar in the forest. That too, that extreme success is going to allow your group to come up with ease behind you because you can sense like this is the best way to go away from prying eyes, away from the noise. You're just like cat burglar senses kick in and you see the grid, you see the matrix.

It's because I see a fancy house. That's what does it. If I see a warehouse, I'm not inspired. Yeah, how many times did you have to break into these places back in the day so you guys all creep closer, but not too close, close enough so that you can take in the scene? Suddenly this mansion comes into clearer view. Probably 17th century mansion, the foundations of which have begun to settle to the boggy

ground of this marshland here. You look at the, I don't know if there are any people into architecture here, but the subtle distortions of the architecture and the wild aspect of its poorly kept grounds lend the entire place this gloomy and foreboding hair like you could just, the menace around it is palpable. You're surprised at how unkempt the grounds are. This is Gavigan's place. Why isn't it more well taken care of? You know he has money.

The grounds are all overgrown. Looks like the lawn hasn't been mowed in years. This growth like going over the car path. The real big bad is Lyme disease. That's right. Like I said, it's about a thousand acres at least if you were to just call it by the eye, you can't see how far the fence goes but look thinking of the map, thinking what you see.

Tall trees, pack the islands, coastlines, very, very dense so it's a great place to self up to. And then this interior is a mix of rough ground interspersed with bogs and marsh. In fact, during your approach from time to, you would hear like the slush squashing sound under your feet of an area that's wetter, more moist than another area. And as you close in on the house, there's just the light coming through from the house.

You can see the fog hanging in the air through the trees. There's a gravel track leading from the bridge right up to Miser House and it looks just like the photograph which I think Margot looked at on Edward Gavigan's desk in the Pennu Foundation. There are several vehicles parked out front, one of which is the one that you saw at the gate pull up. No one in those cars. And you look. And there are lights on in some of the rooms, lights off in others.

Multiple floors. How many floors? Just to give you a full thing here, three floors and there are lights on all the way up until the third floors. You see people milling about in several of the rooms when you wait and you watch. And eventually around, I don't know, 10 or so, there is an exodus. Slow at first, but then more and more people start leaving in any silhouettes you see in the windows or even actual images of people walking by windows without curtains. They all seem to be going in one direction, towards the back of Miser House,

and outside, most likely in the direction of the stelae. And we will see you next week. There we go. There we go. And we will see you next week. There we go. There we go. For one hell of an episode.

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