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You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Good evening everybody, it's Friday night, I'm Troy LaValley and it's time for Chaos! Folks, I have known Norrie Brehm for a few years now. We have become pretty close friends, I'd say, even though we live 3,000 miles apart. We play a lot of games together. We occasionally hang out outside of shows and we talk very quickly. You are way into tarot cards. I don't think I knew this about you. Tell me about your interest in tarot cards.

How did this come to be? Do you have them read for you? Do you read them? This is a very complicated answer because I've never... I had a tarot card. I got my first tarot card deck when I was like maybe in middle school and I got kind of scared of it and put it down for years because every time I would go pick this up, it would be warm. And then I'm like, you know, no.

Let's go. I never touched one for a while. And then I started playing, they only came up again as I was playing like Curse of Strahd campaigns because I had a Taroka deck. started playing, they only came up again as I was playing like Curse of Strahd campaigns because I had a Taroka deck. And we did this campaign Black Dice Society and my character was in College of the Spirits, I was a College of the Spirits bard slash warlock. And so I got a Taroka deck and every single time for 60 episodes and then like several

spin-offs of like one shots, they were never wrong. And so it's kind of gotten me into again, kind of like, I'm not very knowledgeable. Like I'll do like a, like a very simplified version every once in a while. But yeah, it's kind of freaky. I did one for our episode one and sent the email out to everybody and it was kind of freaky. So, yeah. And then I really, and I only like, I haven't even really looked through this deck fully

yet, but I do have a Call of Cthulhu themed Tarot deck. So yeah, this has been, this is a new adventure for season two of Time for Chaos. I have three questions. One, you said that they're never wrong. So when you get a tarot reading or when you do a tarot reading, you're pretty much guided towards like a sort of, not like a premonition or like a this is what's going to happen to you and then it happens? That's my first question.

So for each, for that specific, for like a Tarotkadek, they have like a very specific thing that has been directly tied to the outcome of what's happened in our story. Sometimes right away, sometimes way down the line, it's happened. And then like our DM has had to remind, will remind the audience like,

so remember when Nora pulled that deck and I said this, I was, and I could always see like on his face, like the reaction of like, because it was, that was, like he knew, we didn't know. And I, it was, it was just always like weird and creepy. And, but also a bit of me think it was kind of fun. Talk to me about what you read for the first episode because you emailed us this all afterwards. Right.

Let me find. It seemed like it was quite prescient. Yeah, you pulled it before we started, but then you didn't tell us. Yeah. I pulled it and I was like, hey, I just forgot to mention it during, but if I find, here we go. So every time you pull, so it has this little guide where it'll say, it'll tell you what, it'll tell you what the thing means, but it'll also give you a little like kind of Lovecraftian blurb on what it is.

So like the Lovecraftian blurb is like the general, like what you're looking at in the card. But the meaning, I pulled the four of swords and it said for the, as for the, the interpretation of it said, things to consider. The four of swords is a message to take time out of your day and rest. In order to take time for yourself, it is important to retreat to a place where you find serenity. This allows your mind to heal and refresh. This is a place where you can contemplate your morality and life choices. It is... Thanks, Saja. It is meditative. It's a meditative time when you can get in touch with your center

and contemplate your values and goals. Just like Wilcox, and so it's the character Wilcox that was on the card. Taking time to rest could mean a difference between madness and sanity. Take time to retreat in solitude and reflect. And all of last episode was us regaining sanity points and seeing how it is that we rested and contemplated our next choice moving on. It's wild. And the four of swords, this four of you perhaps, the swords of the dark trying to stop whatever's going on here. I mean that is crazy. So my final question is, I think you need to do another reading, but not tell us.

Like do it right now while I ask them some questions, but I don't wanna know because if I know, it's gonna influence how I run the game. And I wanna know if we're gonna hit this. So you do this while I ask, have you guys, Kate, Rob, Ross, have you ever had like got into fortune reading or having your tarot read I Would read the horoscope in the newspaper when I was a kid. Yeah, I was a big horoscope guy. Yeah, that was that's about it

You never walked by a fortune teller and Dollars tell me everything about me. Who am I gonna marry? No, I don't want to know too much about my own future. Pardon me. See, I'm reading Nora's expression and I'm very curious to see what's in store for us. I'll tell you what the card is because you won't know what the interpretation is

just upon seeing it. So I'll read what the card is and then maybe next episode we could start with the interpretation. Oh my God, absolutely. Okay, so I pulled the Sun card, but it's upside down. Ooh, fruity Sun. I'm gonna throw up.

That is insane. Now again, I don't know what this means right now. This is a new deck to me entirely, so we'll revisit what this means later. There was a sun situation in the last episode. There was the vision of the sun cracking out. That's right. I forgot. Tentacles coming through the eclipse sun.

Oh my God, oh my God, you're right. I forgot. That's right. A sun shining darkness as if it were a sun reversed. I hate it, I hate it. I don't, I'm already creeped out. Kate, I know your way into horoscopes. Did you ever get any fortune read?

Horoscopes are fun in like an introspective way. I've never gotten like, I gotten, living in Woodstock, I have so many palm readers or juju, whatever people who wanna read whatever about me. And I always mean to go and do, I wanna do one of the Polaroids where they do the auras. I think that's cool, but I haven't done it. And also with Tarot, before we knew what card was

pulled last time, I always thought of it as like you see the card and you see like what it means and you kind of interpret it. Like maybe you kind of lead yourself to being like, yes, this makes sense. Like I thought it was like how I look at horoscopes where it's like introspective a bit but like, that description was exactly what we did. That's wild.

Yeah, Wilcox is from the Call of Cthulhu. He's a character in the Call of Cthulhu story. And the only reason I know that we were just talking about the Chaosium puts out the Dr. Seuss versions of HB Clubcraft classics. And in the Call of Cthulhu one that I got from Brian Holland, they mentioned Wilcox and go into the whole story. Pretty wild. Ross, I could see you sitting down to some beach tarot reader along the Venice boardwalk.

Yes, yes. Just shambling in with my cruiser bike kicked jauntily outside. I'm fascinated by all that stuff, but I haven't indulged. When I was a kid, I got a book on palmistry and tried to learn how to do it so I could read my friends' palms, which was fun. Yeah, but I'm interested in just the way that those all feed the Imaginarium and how much of divination is you. Is it creating, incepting a symbolic framework into your mind that then you begin to read into your experience or onto the past? Or who knows, maybe you're bringing, maybe it is truly interpreting future events. But yeah, palmistry, tarot, astrology, and my favorite kind, the haruspex or haruspice, which is the reading of the future by looking at the entrails of sacrificed animals.

Of course. Like they used to do in ancient Rome. How was I just going to say tarot? Oh, I'll say one thing. Yeah. I did get into it once. My wife got a book. I'm looking it up now. It's like there's a Madame Clairvoyant. She's like, I think she writes horoscopes for, let's see, maybe New York Magazine.

She wrote a book and each chapter is like dedicated to each sign of the zodiac. And I've always been like, what the fuck? It doesn't fucking matter when you were born. Your personality doesn't dictate about the stars. Go fuck yourself. But I read the Leo chapter, and I was like shook. I was like shook. I was just like, the whole time I was like, no.

It was just like, everything it was saying was like the dark side and the light side, like everything about being that specific. Then I read What About My Kid and I was even more horrified. Honestly, Rob, that is such a Leo thing to say. Exactly. It won't stop.

Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, I always see there are people that are way into this and then the other side is just, ah, that's Hocum. But the more you play these games these sort of Eldritch horror games you'd be surprised at how many strange occurrences happen obviously we have a another show that that deals with Lovecraftian horror and the stuff that happens like during the show doors closing phones ringing and You know the weirder the more you like sort of tap into this even in a fun imaginative way And the more you tap into this, even in a fun, imaginative way, it almost as if we're opening a door to something else.

So I'll be interested to see what this son has to say about this episode. Last week, we jumped back in. We are playing the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign, greatest campaign ever written. Big shout out to our sponsor this season, Chaosium, the publisher of Call of Cthulhu, my favorite role playing game. I haven't played it in so long. Got to play a couple special games throughout the year

and I always say I wish I could play it every week and now I can again. So we caught up with our investigators after probably the craziest day of their life after they infiltrated the Juju house at the end of the New York part of our story and took down, I guess you could say successfully defeated the cult of the bloody tongue, but the body count was crazy and the sort of reverberations and how it affected the lives of so many people will continue on long past your time as you

move on from New York. We caught up with our heroes to see how those events affected them and we checked in with, I'm just looking at my notes here, we checked in with Von Villiers who was seeking therapy by going to confession. After perhaps seeing the atrocities of war and losing his faith, his experiences in Peru and New York have kind of thrust him right back into strong faith, but a perverted faith that is constantly being challenged by his dwindling sanity. He speaks to a priest talking about trying to discern whether or not these demons he sees are real and the priest rather than being like, no, it's just a figment of imagination, just sort of cemented like, oh, they're real and it's your fault.

You need to do something about this. Catholics. In a very Catholic way. We see Carter at Myrtle's funeral just sort of peaking like Bill Murray in Rushmore, like smoking, cigarette dangling from his mouth. Miss Piggy and Muppets take Manhattan. Just got rid of the shades out of them. Yeah.

And perhaps a figure, maybe a member of this mob that is looking for him pulling up and almost catching him, but Carter, I think you nat one on a D100 to stealth out of there. Then we see Faerûs sort of pouring over these tomes, got all of these dangerous tomes in the basement of the Juju house and kind of lost and looking for some sort of relief perhaps in the arms of a one-night lover. We catch up again with Carter trying to visit Margot at her bedside. Margot had suffered these horrible wounds and then went to the initiation at the order and then realized, oh, I need to get to a hospital.

Check yourself into a hospital. Puts on the mask, sees crazy visions. order and then realized, oh, I need to get to a hospital. Check yourself into a hospital. Puts on the mask, sees crazy visions. Vaughn is staying vigil by her bedside and Carter comes to visit and sees Vaughn there and he goes in and she's sleeping. And just as they're sort of starting to talk, Gunter comes in. This was a former art teacher of Margot's that turned lover. And as Margot became more wrapped up in the world of Jackson Elias, their relationship sort of seems like it's kind of cooled off.

And Gunter, hearing of Margot in the hospital, rushed to her bedside and said, I want to take you away. I want to take you to an artist retreat. Get back to your roots. It's pretty clear that he's also saying, let's get us back together and get you away from whatever you're doing right now that has landed you in the hospital. And you know it seems like Margot is pretty content to stay on the case. We see her at the artist retreat just painting a vision of someone wearing that horrible mask. And then we end on Vaughn getting up, leaving the confessional and just seeing black ooze

come out of the grates where the priest was. Now we're going to get into it. We talked about where we're going next and we're going to London. You have a few leads that have led you to choosing England as the next logical stop. You know that London is the last city that Jackson Elias visited before he returned to New York in a strange mindset and was murdered almost immediately. But let's go over a little bit of housekeeping. You know I talked last week at the beginning of last episode, oh we're gonna do this kind of a therapy session and then this spending time with your backstory connection,

and then we just started role-playing and as usual something beautiful happened. So I'm not gonna get too much into the tiki-taka of it. Everybody roll a d6 and give that to yourself in sanity. That's for last week's role-play. No sanity roll necessary. No d3. just roll a D6 and let the elder gods decide what you get back. And may all your sixes be natural. Heck yeah. And then after you are either happy or sad at that role,

or content, go ahead and give yourself a luck improvement roll. Once again, you're going to roll, you're trying to roll over your luck score, trying to fail at your luck score essentially. And if you do roll a D10 and add it to your current luck. Does luck reset at all outside of this? Because I'm looking at mine, I just realized my luck is three. Your luck is three. No, luck does not reset does not reset like it is a yeah your luck you're basically you

need to but you know what's good about that is you're gonna always fail this roll yeah so you're gonna get that d10 so you're you're gonna build back your luck right now or if luck is a spectrum you're on this end and you may be on that end for a while and then all of a sudden your your luck may come around I think there are things in the game like we did last week where you regain those and you may be on that end for a while and then all of a sudden your luck may come around. I think there are things in the game like we did last week where you regain those sanity points where you can, there's certain things you can tick to get luck back in the sort of development phases, but overall it's just like a per session thing and you'll probably

succeed on these checks now for every session, getting a D10 back every time. We're adding a D10 roll to our luck? Yeah, so you roll a D100, if you roll over your current luck score, then you get to add a D10 to your luck. Cool, all right. If you roll under your luck, you're lucky enough. That's what Mighty Nyarlithotep has decided.

My hip points, I'm still under half my hip points because I rolled bad in the hospital and I'm starting to not stay in the hospital. Yes. This was actually on my little checklist here. So you are still suffering from a major wound. So pretty much, I think we could say if you spent a weekend at the retreat and you're going to kind of take it easy on the boat ride you can do another con roll to see if you get that hit point back and you

probably will. But I would say right now it's really just role-playing wise you are you've left the hospital probably a little earlier than you should. Think about what that means. Did you want to check in and see if there was any spark there with Gunter anymore? Are you just throwing caution to the wind and getting on this boat to England or whatnot? But you are injured and you really should be getting serious care. So we'll deal with the mechanics later. Are we able to do first aid during the boat ride?

Yes, first aid. I don't think well, yeah, actually first aid you can in combat you can deal with major wounds Well, we'll worry about the mechanics of that when we get onto the boat because the boat is gonna be it takes you like a Week, I think on anywhere from like five to nine days, depending on the weather, to get from New York to the station that will eventually get you to London. You'll actually have some options that I'll talk about, but on the boat, yeah, I think you, long story short, you're going to recover from this, but right now, role playing wise, you're not in good shape. And Vaughn, where you're suffering, still suffering from indefinite and temporary insanity,

the good thing about boat trips is that doctors would prescribe these boat trips as like a way to cure everything that ails you, you know. It's like a floating sanitary. It's good for the illness, yes. And so as long as the boat trip is uneventful You will be cured of your indefinite insanity but um Even though I've received a fair amount of sanity back. I'm still indefinitely insane You're still kind of you're much better than you were when you were trying to throw Carter into the Chacota pit. No

Yeah, you are still have that underlying insanity Good to know. But yeah, you are still have that underlying insanity. Good to know. That will, by the time you reach London, you'll be a new man, as long as a dragon doesn't attack the ship. What could go wrong? Okay, the dragon with three zombies on its back. Then it's probably going to be a setback for you.

No Love, Crafty and Horrors live in the ocean, right? No, no, that's not how it's done. What could go wrong? All right, so let's talk about the leads that you do have. You found a business card in Jackson Elias' apartment, if you remember, for the director of the Penhew Foundation, someone named Edward Gavigan. And the Penhew Foundation is located in London. Sir Aubrey Penhew, of course, was the main man behind the foundation before he joined

the Carlisle Expedition and went off and died or disappeared. Obviously Jackson would have had some interest into looking into Sir Aubrey. That's probably why he has this card. So that's one lead that you have. And then I mentioned last week that you'd want to check in with Jonah Kensington and Carlton Ramsey to, you know, see if they know anything of what Jackson was doing in London now that you've

decided that's where you're going to go. So I'm just gonna, in the interest of poppin and lockin, just kind of, I want to get you to Jonah Kensington and Carlton Ramsey to talk to them, unless there was any other business that you wanted to do before the four of you met up for your appointment with Jonah and Carlton. And Noah's fine.

My only question was, did we, I feel like at the end of season one, did we get like a sitcom style apartment together? Well, it seems like you went to Massachusetts and as did They ruse and then Margo was in the hospital. So Vaughn Do you think you were did you just check into a different room at the Waldorf? Maybe we moved to a different hotel after your incidentals were charged through the roof for the giant hole in the wall Yes after your incidentals were charged through the roof or the giant hole in the wall. Yes, maybe I got a room to let in Manhattan somewhere that we can all use as a, as an

office and a flop house. All right. So like when you guys are trickling back into New York or coming down from upstate after you're out, it kind of works out perfect that you all just said, let's take a couple days. And then Margo's like, I gotta do something, goes to the initiation, he's like, I need to go to the hospital.

Vaughn finds out, goes there. Like it all has a very, it very logically works out. But now you're back in New York, you reach out to Vaughn, and your guys are starting to make plans to do this. So we don't need to play out all of that. I think it's fair to say that you contacted Jonah and Carlton or they contacted you. So let's get you into their office and Jonah and Carlton are there. Once again, Jonah is the publisher of Prospero House.

He was Jackson Elias' main publisher and very close friend. Carlton Ramsey is the lawyer who is handling the will and estate of a Jackson Elias's main publisher and very close friend Colton Ramsey is the lawyer Who is handling the the will and estate of a Jackson Elias when he came back from London? He changed his old will to basically give his fortune Everything in his life to you guys to continue you know investigating the Carlisle expedition and so the two of them are there and Jonah If I can remember everyone's voices, I think

he had a very New York, New York-y type voice. He's like, you know, I've been thinking a lot about everything ever since you had mentioned that you're going to go to London, go across the pond. And you know, I know you were close with Jackson. He was just that type of guy. He made everybody feel like they were your best. He was your best friend. But you know, having heard everything you told me about what happened and thinking about

everything you probably didn't tell me with regards to what happened up in Harlem. You know, I just want you to know you don't have you to know, you don't have to do this. You don't have to do this. Jackson was a rare breed. He was a man. He got caught up in things and it led to what it led to. But if he's wrong about all this stuff, or worse, if he's right, it just seems like you could be walking in his footsteps all the way to the grave.

And Colton is like, yes, I can understand you wanting to, you know, sort of complete his dying wish, but I... We fear for your safety. We will support you in any way you want, but I agree with Jonah. The choice is yours. Well, I mean, I think we've had a few days here. You guys don't know the things that we've seen, man, stuff. We're gonna spare you the details, but just know we appreciate it. But I think now more than ever, we need to keep Jackson's dream alive. The train has left the station.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. The boat's about to leave the dock. That's true. The boat is leaving the harbor. No turning back at this point. Yes, Mr. Elias was terribly kind to us, both in Peru to maintain his friendship with all of us, and we'd be doing a disservice to his mission and his memory if we were to leave his work undone. We've trod too far. There is no going back now.

This is not so much a matter of duty, this is now a calling. From which we must not turn. I understand, I understand. I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I- Anyways, you had asked about what he was doing in London. He was pretty wrapped up in his research over the last year that we spoke. As we all know now, hindsight being what it is, he was in way over his head. He had been sending me letters from all over, updating me on his studies into the Carlisle expedition. updating me on his studies into the Carlisle expedition, but With regards to London in particular he arrived there in late November of last year Just gives you an idea. I'd say it's probably beginning of February now. We can work out the ticky-tack of oh, it's February 3rd 3 o'clock

It's beginning first week of February right now Yeah, so he arrived in there in late November of last year. And December 16th was when he sent me a frantic telegram letting me know he was heading back to New York. He boarded a freighter named the Fallow Rope headed for New York and then he reached out to you on January 3rd, I think, and he got back here on January 13th and two days later was the incident at the Chelsea Hotel. When he got back, before, you know, you obviously saw him, we talked a little bit, but he was all over the place, like I said, when we were going over his papers.

And I pretty much told you everything that I remembered when first we spoke, but now that I know that you're going to England, I started thinking about the specifics of what he told me when he went there, looking through my notes. And there were two things in particular that came to mind. He had mentioned that he had spent some time talking to an editor of a local paper called The Scoop, a guy by the name of Mickey Mahoney out in London. It sounds like he was pretty helpful. I have the address here, and he hands you a piece of paper. I would suggest probably starting by chatting with him because Jackson spoke pretty highly

of him, said he was helpful and eager. I get the sense the scoop is sort of a sensationalist rag. So Jackson and this guy must have hit it off, but Jackson seemed to like him. He also mentioned speaking to an Inspector Barrington of Scotland Yard. But he never said why. When Jackson may be going to gotten to trouble. I don't know if the Scotland Yard would have been after him, but you know, he was poking his nose around everywhere.

So don't worry. We're great with cops. Good, good, good. How are you with the British cops? I imagine we'll be fine. We got Vaughn to translate. Plus, they've got those cute little nipple hats. And they don't even have guns, right?

They just have little sticks, little British sticks. Johnny's, I think they call them, something like that. Vaughn, you're not. Plus, they're not even supposed to react to you. Oh, wait, no, those are the, uh. Those are the guys with the fur hats. Those are the gods. That's the royal guard.

That's the royal guard. I'll have time to acclimatize my wait, no, those are the... Those are the guys with the fur hat. Those are the gods. That's the royal god. That's the royal god. I'll have time to acclimatize my American cousins here to the customs of the British Constabulary in the interim. So much to say that to get to, not to get the other side of Tillinghouse face caved in by a constable's truncheon. But we'll do our best. If this Inspector Barrington was a friend of Elias, then we'll meet up with him.

Though I dare say we've had our problems with the Coppers here in the States. Aaron Ross Powell Yeah, it's unclear what their relationship was. He just mentioned that that was one of the stops that he made. I'm sure he was looking into something there But Mahoney he did say was was a good guy and an Irishman. I believe so. Yeah Irishman So I'll have to do that accent I'm sure he's pumped to be living in London. Yeah Well London's it's it's a weird place right, as you'll hear about when you arrive in a

flavor text. But do you guys need some English to English dictionaries? These could come in handy. Cockney rhyming slang book would be great. Fun fact, I'm not British at all. This is the only reason why I have this accent is because of my boarding school. Made us talk like this. Transatlantic. Mr. Brown has been finished in the most elegant fashion imaginable.

So I think we'll be able to move in in the most reputable of company and also to slum it with the writers of The Scoop. with the writers of the Scoop. Good, good, Carlton says, you know, I obviously I'm handling the money and whatever you need, you know, within reason, I have for this leg of the expedition, I would assume just in tracing everything that Jackson was up to, I can't imagine that your journey is going to end in London.

So I'm not gonna give you everything, but if you run into a situation where you need more, you just reach out and I'll wire it over to you. I'm sure I can get there within a couple of days. We have contacts there. Even though I'm gonna be over here or we're gonna be over here, whatever you need, if you're in this for Jackson, we're in this for Jackson.

We may be telling you don't do it because we fear for your safety, but we're in it just as much as you are. We're just not feet on the ground. But whatever you need, you reach out to us and we'll take care of it. Cool. You're ever so just spare you. I know you're probably too embarrassed to ask. What this means, this trip to England, is that there will be additional chapters that

can be added to Carter Tillich, the adventures of Carter Tillich, Haston Pals, as you know, the pulp novel I've been working on for days now. Right, you're still working on that, huh? Oh, still working on it, and it's just getting bigger, which I think is going to help sales, you know, because people can use it for any number of... You can hammer in a nail with it, you can read it and be thrilled by it, titillated by it, you can also, you know, just any number of other large heavy uses that you need or set your mug of coffee on it Yep, yeah, we use it to proper door open in there in the summer

Yeah, mr. Tilly has I gotta say when you first said you were gonna write a memoir. I just was humoring you but Knowing what little I know of what has gone on so far since Jackson's death, I think that what you would be writing would be something of interest to many people. So you keep at it and we'll talk when you're done. Carter goes like, slack-jawed. Like he's actually completely caught off guard. Oh my god. Okay, yeah. Yeah, okay, great. Tillinghurst, I believe it's one time the working title of your of your work was with the adventures of Carter tillinghouse and his unhelpful acquaintances Promoted to power. Yeah, I think we're in the PAL zone now

the PAL zone All right any anything else we can be of service to before you go? Otherwise, just reach out. We're here. And if there's anything you need, appointments or connections to people back home, consider us your home base here, not only in New York, but in the United States. Yes. Well, if there is trouble, we'll reach out to you. But until such time, let's keep things mum. It is comforting to me to know that there is a brotherhood of help that extends across the Atlantic,

even to find its tendrils there in London. But rest assured, Mr. Kensington, there is a brotherhood of unknown size and quality lurking in every corner of the globe. We have but seen one of its appendages, but there, its ranks are legion, legion legion yeah okay all right fun Margo gets really shifty eyed Margo's looking at him like huh shifty eyed Fears just hands him a flask thank you tonic for my nerves we're in tip-top

shape as you can see let's get right to the job. Yes, let's get going. And Margo stands up and limps towards the door. Leaking. You guys walk out and leave them. And Carlton just looks at Jonah. It's like, he sounds like Jackson did at the end. I know. I'm worried about them getting hurt. Jackson did at the end. I know.

I'm worried about them getting hurt. I'm also worried about them with him. Meaning Vaughn. Let me figure out that scene. We just hear sloshing water. We see the ocean. No buildings anywhere in the distance, just wide open ocean as far as the eye can see. And we pull back from there and the four of ways to get to London.

Obviously international air travel wasn't available for most of the 1920s, so an ocean voyage is really the only way. A lot of history nerds are people who really get way into the nitty-gritty of how everything actually worked. May be interested to know that the leading operators are the White Star Line to Southampton or the Cunard Line to Liverpool, both offering first, second, and third class accommodation, depending on each of your funds,

or you can continue to mooch off of Port Vaughan and have first class accommodations across the board. The crossing takes around four to nine days, like I said, depending on the weather, and you'll set sail from New York, and you can decide if you want to take the White Star Line to Southampton or the Cunard Line to Liverpool. Either way, you can catch a train from either of those stations into London,

and the train from both Southampton and Liverpool is about a half day's travel from there. So you're looking at anywhere from five to ten days ish to get into London. That's shorter than I thought. Right? As I was reading, I was like, huh. You know, before I chose to do this, I looked at Horror on the Orient Express, which is the other one of these seminal fucking masterpieces and it is I mean it is all what I just said like the whole thing is like let's talk about what a first-class cabin looks like 20 pages

Dark travel Dorks like Fucking China for you You want to know what the wallpaper was like? Oh, we know you freaks. I think that's Ron is fucking mustache for I Think they're doing a full-on like updated version of it coming out soon And they just came out chaos in with a board game version of it as well Which I would be way into a I ever had time to do anything. But do you guys have any preference? Do you want to go to Liverpool or Southampton?

I don't know the difference. I literally do not know the difference either. Let me ask you, has anyone been to London or spent significant time in London? I'll start. I haven't, nor do I have any interest. Oh, as a real person. Cause I was gonna say, maybe Margot stopped there, but Caitlin has never been as a real person

I know nothing about London nothing. I shouldn't say I wouldn't want to go. I think I'd want to check it I want to go I just haven't gone. I've only been for like three days on On a you know multi trip But that not outside of London. I want to buy some clothes there I feel like like like London's made for the tall thin man. Amen to that. One day Rob and I will go there and get Savile Road up. Yeah exactly. The tall thin man. Ross have you spent any time in London? A little little bit like I took a trip there just a couple of really short trips there but I I feel like I may have brought up on this show before like Years and years ago. I had I worked on a cruise ship and it and for a period of that time It poured it out of Southampton

Okay, ah, oh, that's what we got it. You gotta go Southampton because you can add a little flavor We're not going to Liverpool. Ha ha ha. We can avoid Liverpool. But then we don't get to hear- Might get our throats cut and our pockets picked by stevedores under the wharf. We don't get to hear Troy's Liverpool accent though.

Oh yeah, oh don't worry, there'll be time enough for that. Spoiler alert, all my British accents are going to sound the same. No! And terrible. Let's talk about firearms. I don't want to get way into the weeds with this. They have seven pages on how I could deal with this. I don't care. But I will say, you can't just bring guns into another country and be like,

is this cool? Can I have all of these? The sawed-off shotgun? Is this right? This is why I love America. Right? Bring us your tired, your why I love America. Like, right? Bring us your tired, your poor, your guns. But- Do you not have a gun? Here!

Oddly enough, you don't need a permit for a shotgun, cause it's considered a hunting weapon. So your options are, and again, I'm not gonna get into the weeds with this. They give you a lot of like, bad them roller, check to hide their gun. Whatever you wanna do, We'll figure it out later But like you can either try to sneak your guns in

fast talk to a customs agent which might be tricky and may lead you into trouble or Use the fact that you know a local like Vaughn who may be able to acquire guns for you once you get there Because even getting a permit as an outsider once you get into London to then get a gun would take a while so just think about that let me know what you want to do and we'll move on but honestly Marco if you wanted to you could have your shot off shotgun and that's all I want I'm hunting boar in the streets shotgun for quail season. It's a quail season in early March. Tiny quail. Exploding.

It shoots multiple at the same time. Because you need a scatter shot to kill seven quail at once. It's good to know that the excuse for, I need it for hunting, still existed back then too. It was a simpler time. You never know when seven wild boars are just going to show up. You don't wanna not have a shotgun. That's all I'll say.

When there's a zoo explosion. You guys are on this boat. I don't wanna presume, but I imagine, especially with Carter Tillinghouse in the group, you're still mooching off of Vaughn to get the best in class? Or are you like, let's just be frugal and do third class? No, what?

I feel like Vaughn's a little preoccupied at the moment, so maybe if Vaughn doesn't mind, I certainly would not. We might as well live. You want to be, yeah. We don't know when we're gonna die. You want me to fucking go third class for five to 10 days? Yes, I suppose you're right. Perhaps the comforts of the flesh might service in good stead

since we're going into a time of uncertainty and privation. It's for our sanity. And Margo needs a comfortable place to rest. Yes, Margo is her. And given the events that have befallen the White Star line over the past 30 or so years, perhaps a first-class cabin is preferable to steerage. What just happened?

Have you heard of the Titanic? Oh. Oh. That was that line? Yes, I believe. I'm not mistaken. Although there's a theory that there was another Titanic. Wait, was it the White Star one? I think so. Did it already happen? Yes, I believe. I'm not mistaken. Although there's a theory that there was another Titanic. Wait, was it the White Star Line?

I think so. Did it already happen? Yeah, yeah, right? That's the teens. Oh. Isn't it? Yeah. Oh my God, you're right, Ross.

But there's no way it's ever going to sink again. Something tells me it happened in 1912. That's right, yes, yes, yes. The loss of the Titanic 1912 the white star line Yeah, so there maybe you got a discount on the first class like they're trying to get business The unsinkable white star line All right, so you guys are are luxurying it up And as well you should you know when you when you think you're gonna die at any moment

You might as well live like there's no tomorrow Because there may not be You guys have been all around in the past let's say it's been a week and a half Ish since you are you know since juju house now you're all together heading to England, and this is the first time You're you're back together as a group What what is everyone, what was sort of the hubbub? Is it a little weird? Is anyone talking about it? I think you got a sense of the way that Vaughn may be popping out with it there in the lawyer's

office. He's doing his best to keep a lid on it. And that salty air is really making you feel a little bit more in the driver's seat, even after a couple days of sea. Carter's just like, I'm gonna fucking puke. I never been on a boat before. I know it sounds weird because I'm from Gloucester.

But just never had the... never felt like... Voddy, I ain't Dramamine. What was that, Tillinghouse? I tell you, if you want to orient yourself, there's nothing that'll get you get your internal gyroscope oriented like a glass of gin. Okay, great. Yeah, just rub it behind my ears. Faeruz will actually try rubbing it but oh no I didn't know if that was like an actual remedy. I mean at this point put it under my nose too. I think Faeruz at this point is just like so has a thing where like you face so much trauma that like real life seems weird

and so she was very happy to get back into this, you know, mystery that we're trying to solve because the real world just doesn't seem like she's even living in it. Yes. You got the sense in that bar scene, like there's really nothing for you in that world anymore. Yeah. You're just kind of sleepwalking through normal life. I think, I think Margo is she's got like painkillers left over from the hospital

and is a bit loopy while on the boat between relaxing and just like sauntering around when she can, maybe sketching. And honestly, probably in good spirits during the downtime. Would like early 1920s be around the time when they would be prescribing heroin for- I don't know if it's like opiates or something. I mean, I'm sure like didn't they put cocaine in everything?

Like, no. It was that, what was that show on Showtime with Clive Owen as the like, the Nick? The century, yeah, the Nick. Did you watch the Nick? The Nick was great. Little bit.

Medical horror. Yeah, his medical horror. It was great. I think it only lasted a season or two, but he was like an addict as well, and it was right around the time when they started prescribing heroin. Oh, they definitely had like laudanum and all that shit. This stuff is great. I mean, that was happening before.

I feel like that was in like Bram Stoker's Dracula. They were just fucking shooting up, pumping you full of... Feyruz, or rather Nuri, you asked asked can we do anything to try and help Margo Margo is in a rest if your first class You're in a restful situation a restful place which would give you a bonus die You can thanks to Michael behind the scenes here says you can make a medicine check and if you succeed Then Margo will get another bonus die So just like you had in the hospital, you basically would be replicating the conditions of the hospital if you succeed on a Medicine check and then Kate you would roll

With two bonus die to try and so Fae'ruz would go to Margo Fae'ruz has her like flask in her hand She sees Margo taking a bunch of pills. Cheers Cheers need something to wash this down with. Oh, here you go. Then she'll hand her the flask to wash down her pills. Because, um, 1920s. So, okay, so one of us has to do a medicine check? Yeah, no, I'll do one.

Like, because I'm going over. Mind-shitting. How are you, um, how are you holding up? Oh, I still have this annoying limp. What exactly, I mean, we all, everything was happening so fast, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to visit you at the hospital. What exactly, may I look?

Oh, yes. I don't quite remember what happened in the last episode where like, was I like, impaled? I think you got stale. Yeah, I think you got something in the gut or something. That's what I was thinking I was remembering. Yeah, so it's a big wound that is, you know, that is healed But there's all this, you know, a lot of scar tissue and just red and it's it's not like oozing but you're here It's enough So that's like it started to heal but you haven't recovered yet and those and I know that it's like because I just went through it

after stretch But I just want to lay down on it. Well, we might just have to unwrap this and maybe just clean off the wound and redress it. Let me find a fainting couch. I'm gonna puke more. I mean, we don't really have any medical supplies, but I'll, and the ship's rocky, so, but I'll do my best.

I say as Nora has 50 points. So we're, we're looking 50 50 here on now. We're going to succeed here, but, um, extreme success. Extreme success. She's got some medical training. On row 20. Yeah, I like that. Ooh, this is nice.

Ooh, you guys don't have to do these roles, but they are kind of fun to see, especially the functionality of 020. All right, so 7 out of 10 extreme success. Yeah, you're gonna get two bonus die, and I would think you're gonna pass this, so. Children's constitution. So force them to her vodka on to this. Ooh, that stings.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's okay, it's only gonna sting for a little bit. I fully trust you So you're gonna do a con check. Yeah, if you get an extreme success Automatic if you get a regular success you heal one hit point, which is enough to remove your major runes So I think you're pretty much fine. And she gets the bonus die because Nora two bonus die One for the first class accommodations. You're like on a nice little couch and then another one. Listen to me.

Okay, my constitution is 55. I rolled an 85. Oh no. A 65 and a 55. Oh wow. Wait, so I think you made it. My con is 55. And your con is 55.

So that is a regular success. Woo. And you gain one hit point back. Oh my god. There's this like small part of my brain that says you have to go under it for this particular role, but I think you're fine. And you get that hit point back. So you're still not at full.

You just get one hit point. However, because you're, what's your total hit points? 12. 12. So now that you're at six, which is your halfway point, you've recovered from your major wound. So you're still down six hit points, but I will say over the course of,

between now and London, you'll be back at full. All of you, if you had taken any hit point damage, but it's when you have that major wound, you don't recover in a normal rate like everybody else. If you're used to playing D&D, it's a whole different ball game. You're like, I just want potion. No, here it's like, wait eight days

and you'll get half of your hit points back. Yeah. I'm impressed that you have 12 hit points. That's a... Yeah. What's your max there, Ross? No, why? Vaughn was wounded in the war,

so it's taken down his somewhat. He's nine. A gentleman's nine. Nine max? Nine max. Oh, shit. Dang. He's a fragile creature at the moment. Oh, fragile Vaughn.

Yes. Yeah, he's maybe like wrapping himself up in blankets, like near the Promenade deck reading Revelations of Divine love or something. And also he's maybe snooping around to see if he can get a glimpse at life as a god. Oh, the book. Sorry. That's the book.

Right. That's a book. Yeah. That's one of the books we got. Carter wants to see if there's a, is there an improv troupe on this book? Is there entertainment? The entertainment. I want to see some musical's a is there an improv troupe on this Entertainment musical improv maybe some games One I worked on

You go to the spinnaker lounge New choice and I want to see it now there's there are nightly performances by a jazz band. Oh gross The wrong kind of improv. I mean, it's pretty nice. If you're in first class and you get the entry to these things, it's a nice little party. Again, it's just like the trappings of normalcy. If you spend any time at these parties, though, you just keep getting flashes to that Erika Carlisle party. And you just like all those socialites and just how weird it was and you knowing what you knew and wondering what she knew and being in Carlisle's library

trying to unlock like what led him to do all this. Yes. And father. Father there, canoodling with a a young lady like we're at the party But we're like the goth kids in the corner who are yes Yeah, not far. This is what he wants He's kind of yeah bopping away listening and

But but still clearly distracted and occasionally and you notice that he's nervous maybe in a way you haven't Clocked him this doesn't clocked him. This doesn't look like insanity. It's more like... He's just kind of looking around at all these other English people who are returning home. He's around more English folks than he's been around for a while. Van, you're being weird., like more weird than normal. Frau Leinsauer, you... Doesn't it stir something in you, returning, as it were, to the...

not to the continent precisely, but to the arms of Europa? I mean, if we were going to Germany, maybe I'd feel different, but I know that's not where we're going. Yes. I've been away a great long time. I, when I returned back to the, back to Aiglesgrange, my family estate, don't you know, I was rather squested. I've not really participated in the social life of the scene for quite some time. What do you miss the most about home? I'm afraid it may be things I'll never get back.

But I miss the way the sun comes through the orchards on Heedgill's Grange in springtime, the murmurs of the brooks and streams, the jolly little fields, the stiles leading into cow pastures and the uncultivated earth. I don't feel particularly at home in the smoky environs of London, but I confess that perhaps I'm a bit, I've been to the edge seeing Mother again, if there's no doubt she'll insist upon seeing me. You are going to bring us to your estate. We are invited.

Well, well, well, of course, but I don't know if our mission allows for a joint by train up to Oxfordshire. I sense a bit of tension there when you mentioned her though. Do you not have a good relationship with your mother? Oh, no, the best, the best. I think, well, perhaps you and I, Mr. Braun both know how complicated parents can be. Very well. Very well indeed.

And he stares at you for a long time. Would you care to dance? Would you catch dance? You know, I would. And in in Feruza's mind, I think in this setting and the things that she's been dealing with, she wouldn't normally have said yes, had it been anybody else. But there's something comforting about Vaughan's slight madness because the chaos of this entire situation, because it is something that we have, so the four of us have, so uniquely and intimately bonded over. and intimately bonded over. This oddly is comforting.

And so this, in its chaos and madness, is exactly the remedy that she needs for the moment. It's kind of like, well, at least I'm not Vaughn. On my craziest day, I'm not fun. Get over here, you crazy bastard. So, we'll go out there on the dance floor and feel the slight rocking of the seas. We take a turn about the floor. Like the twirling of it and getting the slight dizziness of it is taking her away from the

things that she's been feeling. Yes. Carter rolls up to Margo's like, they got a fucking waterslide upstairs. That sounds like a dream. I wish I could go. Did you go on it? I'm thinking about it. I need to get, you know, I've got my swimsuit. I've got too much. Yeah, I've got my swimsuit It's the ones that you know goes down to my knees, but up to my shoulders Let's go know when you go down. You want to go right now? I'm fucking drunk. Let's go

Midnight chocolate buffets. If Faeruz and Vaan are left sort of alone at the table for a little bit, Vaan looks particularly nervous, like kind of like smoking more rapidly than normal. She'll take it out of his hand just because he's fidgeting so much. She'll take like a long drag off of it just to like slow him down and hands it back. Jon, what is it? You have a very steady hand, Mr. Jon. I've seen you in a pinch many times. Not only strong in body, but I dare say strong in spirit. You've kept a level head, whether where others have failed. It's been challenging.

Yes, I don't. I don't doubt. I don't know what reserves of strength you draw upon, but you bear it well. You're. I dare say it must be strange, the pressures that your father puts on you. It's... I mean, you were right in that it is an extremely complicated relationship. Yes. It's... there are so many questions left unanswered and I know, I know he has sent me here for something much deeper than what we've recently discovered and I just want to know how he ties into all of this, you know?

Yes, of course. Mysteries within mysteries, wheels within wheels. And so it is good, don't you think, finding, finding succor and security, comfort where one can, where one can find it, given that the world is so much more complicated than it was when the veils of childhood were pulled from our eyes. The veils of childhood were pulled from our eyes. I have to say, from the beginning of our journey together, I'm not the same person that I was. I can't, how is it that you could see

the things that we have seen? No, you and I, we know that they're real. Yes, we understand. And Carter and Marga, we all, we know that it is real. And it is, and how is it that, I just feel like we're walking through this world where everybody else is enjoying themselves and can carefree.

It's how, it feels like we're walking through this world where everybody else is enjoying themselves and can carefree. It's how... it feels like walking through a dream. How is it that you can just carry on? Mr. Bran, your strength and a lack of mind never cease to amaze. You're describing precisely how I felt upon returning from the war. So I was walking through a dream that everyone else had found the capacity to wake, but I was still somehow asleep with no way of communicating to them what nightmares I had beheld. And now even more so, now even more so, but you understand. There is a great comfort in that, and I think you also understand what duty is. Duty to an institution of learning.

Duty to a family. And the expectations that one must bear. The burdens that one must bear. And how... There are those, yes. And how much of a comfort it is when there is, there can be one who understands you, who could bear some moiety of that burden. I... I will come out with it, Mr. Brown. When I left for Nepal and parts unknown, the circuit that brought me to Peru, my family

expected me to return with a treasure of a sort that I did not return with, and they're certainly expecting me to return with it this time. So much to say that I believe I'm speaking to one who understands me. I'm afraid nerves have robbed me of the ability to speak, so I will be blunt. Mr. Braun, would you consider ever fulfilling the duties that your father has put you to and that my mother expects of me? And have you given every thought to the subject of matrimony? Oh, to be honest, to be betrothed to, that it would have to be not due to status and due to fulfilling some sort of need of expectations from my family. I always thought that if I did, it would be because I just couldn't bear to be away from them.

Yes, of course. You are a better person than I. But- Miss Shebron, you must think me a terrible coward. No, no, no, no, listen. Come on. I understand the situation that you're in and I can't fully understand. I just know that it is a very... It must be very difficult on you. And I'm trying, I can't say that I fully understand,

but you have my deepest empathy of being forced to live in a manner that doesn't bring you any joy. bring you any joy. And so, if it does help with any sort of familial tension, I can say to you as your friend that I would help you in any way that you need. But I want you to understand, Thorn, that these things that we are facing are so far beyond the normal pressures of life. These things that we've seen that can't be explained

outside of the four of us. The things that we're uncovering, it's not just a danger to us, but at some point it's a danger to all of us, to this whole world. And I've seen you struggling. I have. But you need to, whatever thing that gives you strength, whatever thing that gives you I've seen you struggling. I have. But you need to, whatever thing that gives you strength, whatever thing that gives you hope, I need you to dig down and find that within you,

because you need to be strong enough to fight this, because if we can't, then what hope is there for this whole world? And what hope is there for this whole world? Your words are a great comfort to me, Mr. Braun. Would that I had the reserves of strength that you seem to possess and bear so gracefully. I...

I am attempting to draw strength from faith and yet I am not the first to contend with with the silence of the Almighty when the legions of darkness appear so articulate. But you, um... I get some strength from you, from Freilandsaur, God, even from Tillinghast. And I will be strong for you. And consider my offer. are... I know that I cannot be the man that you need or that you desire, but I will never judge you for any fulfillment that you would need to seek elsewhere. And I know that you would... I hope that you would not judge me for the same.

I would never. me for the same. But my there are certain duties that one must bear. You understand? I've said my piece and said too much. Give it consideration and he will kind of stand up and I you've been you've been more patient than I would be under similar circumstances. Take a huge drink of whatever was sitting on the table and walk away. Okay. Just leaving Ferris there dumbfounded as Margo and Carter come stumbling back. Strenched from the pool.

Strenched from the pool. Oh my goodness, Carter, I thought that was so fun. Wasn't that great? Oh man. What's going on? He just looks at Ferris. What's up, sour puss? Yeah.

Nothing, just a lot to consider. Where did Von go? He needed to step out for some fresh air. Where were you? We were at the water slide. So they have a water slide. Have you heard of this? It's a slide. I've never heard of any such thing. Yeah, you go through, you scream, you land in the pool. It's wonderful. Like from a children's playground. It's water. Yeah, there was, there was like a line, there was like a sign, and it had a line that said, you must be this high. And we were well over, well, Margo just barely.

But we got right in there. Yeah, yeah, Margo just watched. I was splashing around. Ah, so funny. I'm not much of a swimmer, but... Sounds like you two had much more fun than any of these people. She's like looking and dancing around, not Vaughn,

but like she's just looking at everybody else, just kind of, you know, people watching, that everybody just trying to draw attention to themselves and wanting to be seen. These people, they never think about death. So how could you truly have fun if you don't think about death often? Then I'll pout. All the time.

Yeah. I have, in the short time that we've been away from each other, have missed you so much. Bring it in, guys, the car is all soggy. I'm like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. The three of you hug, and we just cut to Va Vaughn who has maybe walked outside to get some fresh air. It's freezing.

It's cold. You're alone on the side of the ship just looking up at the moon. The only thing you see on the horizon and maybe in the distance you hear the band striking up an instrumental version of me and my shadow. And you look back to the moon. It's just this group of dark clouds seems to go in front of it and blotted out for a moment. We'll be back right after this break. Pardon the interruption here, Nace.

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And that was a network first. Do I hear wedding bells? You mean the water slide, right? The water slide. The first water slide in network history. And also really good scene with Ross and Nora. Yeah, that's fine But yeah, all right. So this I mean man this boat ride a lot of people probably like and you're in London Nope, we just raised the stakes

Let's talk a little bit about London again. I don't want to bore people too much with the history But you know if you're into this Either as a listener or as a player. I think it may But you know if you're into this either as a listener or as a player, I think it may Be helpful to kind of set the scene of what London is like in 1920s I was never a big history guy just wasn't my jam. I liked math but I think it's important to Not important, but it could be helpful for generations Leading up to this point London and and its suburbs comprise the greatest city known to man.

Approximately seven and a half million people live in the greater London area as of the time of you arriving. Not only the largest, London is also the wealthiest city in the world. It wouldn't be until much later that New York would overtake the sprawling city on the Thames. At the time of our story, London is the queen of civilization and of course the heart of the British Empire. However, it's right around this time that the cracks are beginning to show.

As they write so eloquently in the book, a dark scar lies beneath the fields of England. The Great War claimed a generation with most families losing at least two of their number in the conflict. For many of the aristocracy, heirs have been lost. Servants no longer serve and the power once guaranteed by bloodline is being usurped by nouveau riche industrialists. Behind the facade of the roaring 20s, the British class system right around the time, right like exactly at this time, is slowly bleeding to death.

There are labor strikes all over the place. People want more pay. They want better conditions. This never happened before World War I. And those going about London streets are likely to see picket lines all over the place. Modernization is starting to grip London, but the overall economic position of England is not so good. There was a bit of a boom at the end of the Great War,

but by 1920, the economy has slumped, and industries like coal, which used to be the thing, are in steep decline. Unemployment rose when servicemen returning from the front couldn't get hired, couldn't find any jobs, which only added to the general rise of joblessness that wouldn't dissipate until the onset of the Second World War.

Everywhere you're going to go about London, signs of unemployment and poverty are noticeable everywhere and the jobless are seen wandering London streets, if not looking for jobs, agitating for political change. It is a city in the midst of discombobulation and that is where you find yourselves when you arrive in Southampton and take a train to London. Nine days it takes you. It was a bit of a weather, a bit of a weather situation on the back end of your trip, but nine days later you are in London. You have a lot of options for accommodation.

There are cheap hotels in the slums where you can sidle up next to criminals and low lives but also keep a low profile. That's something you want to do. There are B&Bs just outside of London proper in the more suburban and rural areas of the English countryside, maybe on the way to Eagles Grange. And then there are grand hotels like the Ritz, the Savoy, Claridge's and Brown's, and another Waldorf, oddly enough,

all of which are located in central London, along with some less glamorous options like the Cavendish, Groves-Nicot, and the Langham. So be thinking about where you wanna stay. And the last thing I'll say is, you know, 1920s London is known for the London Fog, the Peculiar, as they call it, because of the coal fires and factory pollution

in this age of industrialization. Also called the P-supers, the fogs were so dense and unpredictable that people would often find navigation almost impossible. The fog would be in various colors. It's not just like gray fog. Sometimes it would be yellow, brown, green fog, and you can feel it on your skin. It's damp. It's cloying everywhere you go.

We'll say it's that greenish-gray fog that you find yourselves in as your train splits the fog and arrives in London Station. Got a few leads. It's midday. You want to find a hotel. You want to hit the ground running. You want to get a bite to eat. What do you want to do? Wow. So we want to start with Mickey probably, right? Do we want to do that immediately or I feel like we should go to the top first yeah yeah what time of day is it? Midday? Around about noon? Yeah midday I'd say probably noon noon 30. Do we want to figure out where our lodgings are before we start or do we want to go right for looking for the scoop?

She says to her fiance. She's decided? I don't know. I guess I could drop off my shotgun at wherever we stay. She just comes out of the train with it on her shoulder. Greetings Londoners! Vaughn has a huge trunk that is like maybe kind of, they've wrestled onto a cab or something. Yes, I suppose we should find a lodging. Jesus, Vodokitsi, shit, what is this?

This is some how did the Baskervilles kind of crap? Yeah, well, yes, I told you I didn't so much care for the environs of London. This is part of the reason sort of atmospheric miasma that blows up from time to time. My god. Damn. Although, it does smack of home. It gets a lungful of green fog. Yeah, let's, where are we going to hole up?

Yes, rule Britannia and all that. Where's, let's see. Well, we have been living rather high on the hog, as you Americans say. So keep it going, you say? We should not, yes, what am I saying? I wouldn't be God dead at Grosvenor's. To the Ritz! To the Ritz! Well, okay.

Let me show you a map of London while you guys are discussing here. I mean, they got a, where did we stay all before? I've added it to your sidebar there and then I've blown it up, but it shows you kind of where everything is and they've even included where the scoop is, number 13 on the list. Holy smoke. We should probably go with at least ask questions or at least be suspicious. Homie.

Just the handouts in this game. Right? These letters are, I mean, it's, I feel like my tone is reading complaining, but it's like, it's only because like our window is so tight for these recordings and I would just want to pour over these for hours. I got to do it in my own time. This map has a key with like 45 bullet points on it. In the smallest font, like, oh, there we go.

Okay, I expanded it. You don't know where South Wark Bridge is? What does all of this mean? Yeah, there's a lot going on here. And you know, this is really to give you a sense of London, not to be like, hey, there's an encounter in all 45 of those just to give you the lay of the land and obviously mini quests

these are all 45 mini quests like Skyrim you don't have to do all of them but you you know it just masks is known for its handouts I mean honestly the box that comes with book one book two and then a thing that's just as thick with all of the handouts from here. And this map is beautiful, but this is London at the time of your arrival here. And yeah, you're thinking the Ritz, huh? Yeah, okay. All the things on here, I don't know if they're Ritz's listed.

Or the Waldorf, we've got a good connection with them until the walls are ripped out by giant talons. You probably have the club card you get like this guy. Right, right, I suppose that's a fallback. We've gotten used to it. Well, the advantage of going to a higher end place is that as long as we're spending the money, nobody really pays too much attention to what you're doing. Yes.

If we are staying at very meager accommodations, we may have a little more anonymity, but do we really? Because we might stick out even more and then face the dangers of possibly being, having things stolen. Yes. So. And end to being, being observed. That is, um, one must, must always be on one's guard. Remember that Elias was on the trail of something here. Right.

And, um, even though the soup is in the air, there are eyes everywhere. Right, so a rich place, right? Yes. The soup is in the air, but her eye is everywhere. Right, so a rich place, right? Yes. Yes, let's do, so again. I'm looking at a map here, the Ritz, by the way, is just north of Buckingham Palace, which is number 39. I don't know if it has to be that nuts. I'm suddenly concerned about Mons like Baker.

That gives me a great idea. What do you think? Should we talk to the queen? Like, should we get an audience with her and just talk to her about this kind of otherworldly threat that's going on? Maybe we get knighted? Let's just talk about tentacles over tea.

Yeah, no, no, no. Like the BFG that hasn't been written yet. It would be George V, I think, at this time. Oh, right, shit. Well, maybe we talk to his daughter. You can speak to the queen, and that would be a written yet. It would be George V, I think, at this time. Oh, right, shit. Well, maybe he would talk to his daughter. You could speak to the Queen, and that would be a good way of getting into the game.

Like Ted. Tillinghast, this isn't some hillock-bumkin situation, like the swampy little Washington, D.C., where I can just walk up without an appointment and shake Woodrow Wilson's hand. We should probably discuss some sort of backstory reason why we're here. Oh, we just go up to her and we say,

hey, we're colonizers. You like us. Not loyalty. I mean, when we go visit anywhere, when we're going to find information, we can't just say, hey, we saw a bunch of weird shit and now we're looking for information that our dead friend left us. What does our cover-up? Well, I suppose when Jackson himself was moving in these circles, it was to gather information for his writings.

Yeah. To be an author. Perhaps... So we are collective on... Yes. Like, cards are with your book. I can say for my art. Well, we've got Jonah Kensington. We can name drop, you know, we're here.

It's gonna be illustrated by Margot. It's written by me, of course. Fabius is doing his research. Research. And Vaughn's sort of a. Fabrous is doing the research. Research. And Vaughn's sort of a translator. He is our benefactor. Yeah. I'm doing the illustrations for the book.

Yeah, it's gonna be great. All right, I think that could work. It's a good cover, guys. We're already at it. There's a place on the key called Grey's Inn if you don't wanna be like too wild and fancy. And it's nearby where the scoop is, it's number five. Ah, Graze Inn.

So I don't know like what area that is. That's also, nine is the Penhew Foundation, so we're also kind of close to that. Yeah, and then the British Museum is nearby, so like maybe it's a fine middle of the road place. I believe the British Museum is nearby. So like maybe it's a fine middle of the road. I believe Grey's Inn is an actual. I can go see all the artifacts of my people. Grey's Inn isn't so much an inn as it is a neighborhood. It's sort of a.

Well, why would they name it an inn? I could see Margo looking at a map. I found the place. I found the inn. Yes, it's one of the inns of court, you see, Freylandt's hour. I hate this place. Why would you? What about Jack the Ripper? You see around?

Oh, do they have like a tour? My God, I should hope not. I should hope not. Isn't he like a prince or something? Like they do in Hollywood. That's not a theory I've heard. I think he was late 19th century. Yeah, 1880s.

I read from hell, I know what's going on here. I see another. Well, sorry. Are we doing something more location-based? I think the audience wants to see us continue to figure out where we're gonna stay. Only have me be like, I'm sorry, we don't have any rooms left at the cabin. It's perfect.

Certainly not for a journey. Let's go to some upper crusty place that's not too uncomfortable for Vaan, but that seems comfortable for us. I am used to a certain, although I have been living at Ruff for several years after the war, but we've grown so used to the Waldorf, why don't we return to its arms? Yeah. And favorite, mentally check the box like, well, he likes nice places. It could be worse.

Mental checklists of like how to make it work. Like a pros and cons. Pro has money. Pro has money. Cons. Insane. Has tried to kill us several times. Looking at the actual Google map here, it appears that the Waldorf is right around where

like 15 is near the Royal Courts of Justice, 18 like right to the north of the bend there, right to the north of the Waterloo Bridge perhaps. If I'm looking at this correctly, yeah, yeah, that's exactly where it is. If you were to take the Waterloo Bridge, it is on that road. Not too far from the Scoop. Yes, not too far from the scoop yes not too far from the scoop and now currently owned by Hilton all right so great check in and they take you to your room and it's the same exact room number that you had in New

York so you're just like that's eerie oh yes so we have a room for you right now. The guy takes you up, takes a tip, leaves you in this room, and it is beautiful. Styled completely differently, completely different layout, but it does have a balcony. I imagine that's the first thing Margot sees. The balcony. I check for emergency exits. Check the... Just check behind the curtain in the bathroom. No tentacles.

No tentacles, no dead bodies, no masks. I think we're good. Yeah. And then do you want to, after you, you know, do a little unpacking, maybe head over to the scoop? Yeah. Yeah. A little freshen up. Scoop.

A little zhuzh to the hair. A little zhuzh action. This fog is really fucking with Carter's hair. Yeah, I imagine. Everyone's a little frizzy. Droopy. The offices of the Scoop are easily found on the third floor of a shabby building in Fleet Street, not far from Ludgate Circus.

Sweeney Todd style. That's right, yeah. Ludgate circus. Sweeney Todd style. That's right, yeah. I know nothing about London, but yes, I recognize things like that. You get there and you take a lift. Oh! Up to the third floor. Jogging.

And there is a sign and it's just, just says the scoop! And it's kinda like in a, it's not very classy looking. Wow, all caps. The doors, there's all caps, and it's with an exclamation point. The scoop exclamation point. I'm excited for this.

There's nothing classier than a London newspaper. Knock, I'm assuming, and a, a like little thing in the door, like a little window opens and you see this guy's eyes, he's like, how can I help you? Oh, well, I turned to the party. He's like, just listen to that brogue. It could be none other than notorious Irishman Mickey Mahoney. Just listen to that broke. It could be none other than notorious Irishman Mickey Mahoney You're not

Have to ask are you police? Oh far from it now Are you the the spouse of someone that we we wrote a scathing column about you have a lot of those Well, we do we know we write a lot of sensational stories here we get a lot of people that aren't happy with what we write just making sure you're not here looking for trouble not at all we're researchers and such writers working on a book nothing scathing at all just we just wanted to see if you would be able to assist us in the research that we're doing.

Yes, we're representatives of a small imprint called Prospero House. Do I have the pleasure of speaking to the esteemed writer Mickey Mahoney? Mickey Mahoney? Yes, that's me. We are the chief here of the Scoop. Ah, well. I see my reputation as August's publication. Yes, indeed. We are not only...

Oh boy. You just see like, red bouncing in this little window. I'm just inventing a shamrock shape. Oh my god. I say you've read my, you know of my work. Yes, we know of your work somewhat, but more so we know of your friends, for we too are friends of Mr. Jackson Elias. Jackson Elias? Hold on. He shuts the window and then you hear like, unlock, unlock, unlock, unlock.

He opens the door. Please, come in. Kind of looks at Carter. Yeah, that's right. I'm a yank. Wear the mask. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah, sure.

He is, uh, you see him, he's got like, a flop sweat under a t-shirt with suspen- or no, t-shirt, a, uh, like a white button-down shirt with suspenders, just sweaty sweaty armpits. Armpits, he's way overweight. He's got, uh, armpits. He's got, uh, red red hair that's kinda all over the place. And, uh, he's got a cigar in his hand that he kind of puts in his mouth. There's our place Come in sis and he brings you in this tiny little office. It's got like there's there's a couple of guys Just sitting there smoking cigarettes By a typewriter and they just kind of look at you

Maybe they double-take when they see Carter and then they go back to yep. I'm American Maybe they double take when they see Carter and then they go back to. Yep. I'm American. Just like typing away one finger at a time. And he's like, please come, come back into my office here. Have a seat. And he just kind of brushes off a couch that had like food and newspapers on it. Have a seat.

Have a seat. You say you're friends of Jackson Elias. Yes. The wires were a buzz about his passing even all the way over here. I know there are murders all the time in New York

City, but that one was particularly gruesome enough so that it was We saw it. We saw it face first. You saw it? You saw the murder? I don't understand. Oh wait. Oh, this is off the record Just so you know well In your rag, they don't see the murder

We didn't see the murder. No, we saw the aftermath. We were there shortly after Okay, I can assure you normally I would work I would run with a story like this Salacious stories are our bread and butter around here, but Mr. Elias was a kind man when we met and it would be in poor taste. So rest assured, anything you tell me with regards to Jackson Elias at least, if you saw any of the local starlets changing in the bathroom and took some pictures, I'll take those. But as it pertains to Mr. Elias, I won't be writing any stories

about that. Okay, appreciate that. Yes, well. It's the timing of everything that is very curious and suspicious since we do know that he was here very shortly before all of this happened to him. So we're just trying to piece together what he might have learned about, what he was speaking to.

We're just, in addition to, you know, what we're trying to find out, we just would really as friends like some closure on the situation. Can I ask, did they ever find out who did it? It sounded like he was eviscerated and maybe there was something carved on his body somewhere. As we said, Mr. Mahoney, we saw the aftermath. We arrived too late and saw precisely what those blaggards had done to him. Yes, the abominable cruelty that they executed on poor Mr. Elias. Well, perhaps your publication, as he maybe looks at some of

the issues on the wall, traffics in that sort of bloodshed. If it bleeds, it leads and all that. Well, let me assure you, Mr. Mahoney, it bled. He was butchered, sir. And did they catch those responsible for it? Not only they, but we. Oh, God, just horrible. He was such a kind man. Maybe a bit touched, but very sweet, good conversationalist. He was here in London and met with me a few months back. He promised me a story about an evil cult operating right here in the heart of the city. Wait, excuse me.

Did you say operating here in the heart of the city? That's what he said, that's what he said. He was looking for information and wanted to look through some of our back issues, which I had to tell him even though I'm a fan of our work here, it's not exactly all true. But he seemed to be interested in what we had to say, and so I let him have at it. We had some good chats, and yeah, he believed there was a cult operating right here in London,

and hinted that it might have some higher-up connections, but he didn't have any hard proof, or at least he didn't show me any hard proof. Sadly, I never got the story from him. I would love to have it though, if your travel's here, uncover any dark truths. In fact, I'll give you 15 English pounds if you can bring me all the sexy details.

Holy moly! What's four point, what's a pound? It's like $75. Oh shit. We have very good reason to believe that this very cult was the one that was responsible for his death, perhaps as a chapter in our own vicinity. He was murdered by a cult in New York. And that cult-

Oh, we know he was murdered by a- We know he was murdered by a cult, and that cult may be the same cult that he was researching here. We have reason to believe that... That, um... It would have to be, yes. That this organization is not limited in scope to New York, or it seems London, but is rather global. Wow.

Well, he never mentioned the name of the cult, nor did he even talk about any of his evolving suspicions. He was keen to browse through our back issues and picked out some stories that caught his eye. If it's helpful to you, you're welcome to look yourself. I remember there were three stories in particular that he was really interested in Maybe I Remember the titles because I wrote them But I don't remember what what they pertained to you're welcome to look through our back issues if I give you the titles you can

you can you're welcome to look through if it could bring some peace to your mind and You can, you're welcome to look through if it could bring some peace to your mind and If it were to lead to a story that I could perhaps publish one day We could do a little quid pro quo here, and I'll leave your friend Jackson out of it I'm not looking to to make any money off of a tragedy, but there might be an opportunity here You know a lot of power in the press. Yes. I'm a writer myself. I understand what you're talking about. You're a writer Well, what have you written? I'm currently- it's in progress.

Uh, it's a novel. Novelist, are ya? Oh, of great magnitude. Wow, good for you. Well, I can see Jackson kept good company. Can I ask ya? I don't mean to pry, but I'm a curious man. What happened to your face? Are you a veteran? I'm a veteran of circumstance one might say. Of we all?

Yes. While I have been in many life-threatening situations, my face was damaged in a more innocuous fashion by what we in America called a horse. Are you saying you were kicked in the face by a horse? I was kicked in the face by a horse. And you lost half your face from it. Just, do you know how strong a horse is, especially at time quarters? All too well.

Yeah. Fae who's standing slightly behind is like, he's lying, it was a sexual accident. It was a sexual accident with a horse. Wait, what am I saying? No, no, no, don't write that. No. It was a horse kicked me in the face.

My unfortunate deceased bride. You want a salacious tale. We don't need to get into it now, Faehruz. No, I'm trying to leverage. We got it. I'm trying to leverage. We need those titles for the stories. We need to trade for some salacious. We don't need to get into my face

and what happened to it. He looks for a pencil on his desk and just starts scribbling something. No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't write it here. No, no, it's just, I just have an idea for something. No, keep it off the record. I'm a QP, hush, hush.

The sort of equine escapade that these two are describing is an epidemic in the States. There's no cap on the great action over here. Listen, we want to know. Half-faced man. Yes. And, might I add, involved was a very eligible

industrialist's daughter. Oh, this is a plot thickens. To sweeten the pot there for you. All right, well, I'll help you any way I can, and in turn, if things work out, maybe you come back and give me the full story, I'll zhuzh it up, and we'll be selling papers, and we'll win!

Okay. Listen, can we just, what are the fucking, what are the three stories? I'm sorry, well, the three stories that he was most interested in, I must have rewrote them from wire or string or copy, I can't remember, to give him that little extra whoosh. Now I don't know if he followed up on any of these stories. Elias, your friend, he seemed rushed and rather desperate every time I met with him, in fact,

increasingly so as he came back to look around. He'd come around here a couple times, looked at these articles, and then just left as quickly as he had come, and went back to New York last I heard, and I never saw him again. But, anyhow, I remember the headlines there. I don't remember what they were about. They were some of my best. What was it? One was a... It almost had me. Wouldn't that make you see that on the front page of the scoop?

What almost had you? You'd buy that fucking paper. Was there like a very cool illustration at the front of it of what almost had them? No, we don't. We sometimes will take photos and we'll try to embellish them a little bit, but we don't have an artist on staff. Time's a little tough here in this school.

We have an amazing artist. You're an artist! Also a photographer. A photographer as well. Well, we always need a photographer. I have some pretty sick photos from New York. Sick photos from New York? You're speaking my language. If you head over and find one of the royals in their underwear I'll give you all right all right no funny it almost had me as one of them what else I don't know it almost had me exclamation point ah was the other one bar police baffled by monstrous murders well what a donation point uh-huh I'd like to end most of my headlines with exclamation points I feel like it really draws the listener in

Really yell at them. Yes, you're cute. You don't end only your headlines, Mr Mahoney, but sure your patterns of speech are punctuated by exclamations as well I haven't talked to another person in weeks I've been waiting your roleplay this since episode one Anyhow, please baffled my monsters murder Far and away this months And the one who's the other one oh this one has two exclamation points ready What was it

Fuck I can't remember slaughter continues wait reward offered Slaughter continues! Wait... Reward offered! That's the mission point. Slaughter continues, reward offered! And I'll be damned if I can remember what they were about. Truth be told,

I probably use those headlines over and over again for other stories. We kind of recycle things from time to time when it's a slow news day. Sometimes I'll just make shit up, that's what the scoop is. It's kind of a... It's a little fun time, sometimes there's a little bit of truth in there, and then sometimes you meet a guy from New York that's tied up with some cult stuff, he's got a friend who's an author who gets

hicked in the face by a horse while he's having sex with her, I mean there's all sorts of crazy stuff that you can write about anyways feel free to Head back into the room with all those things and do some roles and maybe you'll find the stories and you know you you always have A home here at the scoop You bring me some stories. I let you know what I know Great that's great. Thank you. Mr. Mahoney. We never so helpful. Yeah Let's say about old Mickey Mahoney, the most helpful guy in London. All right, I gotta go write a fake story.

Okay. Have fun, just click on it for that shit. Bye. Oh my God. What does this pile look like? It's just like. I mean, it's just back issue, back issue, and they're boxes and they're labeled by month, day,

and year, and so there might be some sort of pattern to how they all work. Sounds like your classic library use rule to try and make fancy tools. Yup, let's try this out. No whammy, no whammy, hard success. Oh, that's yes. Hard success. All right, this would normally take 1d4 plus one hours

to try and find, but with a successful roll, not only that, a hard success, less than an hour, you're able to track down these articles. Maybe since Jackson was digging through them, and not a lot of people are digging through the back issues of the scoop, they're like dog-eared or sticking out from the boxes. They were a little bit easier to find

once you figured out the system. So obviously we were talking about handouts earlier. I'm gonna have handouts of each of these. Let's take a look at what they are. I just love the map up here. Oh man. They really, the hand out, the Call of Cthulhu hand out game is like no other.

Oh, you know, I should also show you, I mentioned earlier the shit you found in, whatchamacallit, in Jackson's hotel room, the Penny foundation card. Did you see that in your little... No, I can't possibly imagine it though. It's a business card you say? It's a business card, I can't find it. But anyways, there's so much shit here, I can't find anything.

Where are my handouts? Or here are my handouts. Okay. Ah, here it is. This is the, that's the business card for Edward Gavigan, the director of the Pennu Foundation. Yes, good good. 35 Tottenham Court Road, London, West First.

We'll be paying a visit to you. All right, so it almost had me. Who wants to give this one a read? Patrick. Okay. Oh, I, okay. Please, Nora. Go for it. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, go for it. Yeah, Faebrews pulls it out

and then Carter rips it out of her hand. Okay. I got this one. It's in English? Great. It almost had me by Mickey Mahoney. Oh, we met that guy. From a correspondent. Glasgow resident. Oh, we met that guy from a correspondent.

Glasgow resident, Glasgow, what the fuck? That's Glasgow. Glasgow. Glasgow. Oh right, yeah, Scotland. Mr. Alan McGann had an unwelcome encounter with a, first of all, guys, why the fuck did you say I fucked a horse? Fucked a horse? You said you fucked a horse.

I didn't say I fucked a horse. I was trying to direct it more towards a debutante I don't know why we even started to bargain I was gonna give it to us for nothing we have to live what you want to be written about that that's what you wanted all right whatever I'm gonna read I didn't know how how much he was on our side or not so much to say tilling has now this Mahoney chap thinks that you're some sort of prevert, so best to keep up the front. Appreciate it. Thanks so much.

Great impression to make in this country. Glasgow resident Mr. Alan McGann had an unwelcome encounter with a monster of darkness while making his way home this last October. On hearing wails and cries, a police officer arrived to find Mr. McGann in distress and removed him to the local station where he was able to give a statement. Quote, it was like, should I do this in a British accent? It was like turning suddenly, knowing something was there only to find, oh wait, he's from Glasgow.

Let's go Scottish. Like turning suddenly, knowing something was there. Not gonna do this. Only to find nothing. A nothing possessing hideous life. The dank smell of the fog was replaced by the foul stench of smoldering hair, which reached out and filled my lungs and made it hard to breathe. I began to choke, it meant to kill me.

I couldn't see it, only feel its terrible fingers filling my mouth and nose. Readers visiting Scotland are advised to be cautious on nighttime rambles in the Glasgow area, and to be on the lookout for invisible monsters down dark alleys. This is not a reputable publication, I feel like. This is the sort of thing that I'd be prone to chalk up to so much stuff and nonsense had we... had we not seen them. Creatures are the blackest pit ourselves. Yeah.

Yes. Here's the other one. Police baffled by monstrous murders. I'll read this one. Well, let me expand this. By monstrous murders. I'll read this one. Yeah, you can read that one. Well, let me expand this. Come on now. All right.

Police battled by monstrous murders! Exclamation point. All caps. Killer beast. Shot but still alive? Question mark. camps. killer beast shot but still alive question mark. Derwent Valley residents shocked last month by two murders at a serious assault on third victim are still without a satisfactory explanation or perpetrator of the dreadful attacks. At the

time, Lesser Edel Far, Lesser Edel is that a location? Yes. Lesser Edel Farmer George a location? Hmm, seems like it. Yes. Lesser Edel farmer George Osgood and resident Lydia Perkins were told to shreds in apparently unrelated murders on consecutive nights. On the third night, Wheelwright Harold Short was nearly killed but managed to drive off as attacker, which he described as a grizzly creature quote unquote. Let me see, according to the Lesser Edel constabulary the rabbit dog was shot and killed on the

night of Mr. Short's attack. The police believe this matter to be closed nevertheless local residents have subsequently claimed to have seen and heard a strange beast lurking about the area. Reportedly, the good folks of Lesser Edel still endure sleepless nights due to the bizarre wearings of the beast on nights of the full moon. Readers of the Scoop are reminded of their esteemed journals, longstanding their esteemed journals' long-standing danger protocols and are advised that the picturesque

claws of Devonshire Peak District have been declared to be a zone of high danger! Exclamation point. Residents of the Midlands are advised to remain indoors at night and to report all mysterious happenings to the police and to the Scoop. Oh, do you live with werewolves now? Some sort of monstrous wolf? Lord. To begin in Glasgow and now to move down to the Midlands, just moving ever closer to... Vaughn, what are the Midlands? Where is Lesser Adel? Well, it's sort of between Manchester and Sheffield.

So things were smack in the middle of England. Okay. Oh, that clears up everything. So we're not in London. It's not in London, is your point. All of these places sounds made up, fantasy, fairy places. They're not made up. They're quite real places like Oxfordshire

and Stoke-on-Trent. Durant Valley, Derbyshire Peak District. Yes. Okay. And then you find the last one. And as you pull it out, another article falls out like it was not in the right place stuffed within it. So you find two things.

You find the one you were looking for, which is a Slaughter Continues reward offered. And then you find the one you are looking for which is a slaughter continues reward offered and then you find this other one called shocking canvases craze so uh ross why don't you start with slaughter continues reward offered all right yeah uh oh right slaughter continues reward offered Yeah Slaughter continues reward offered an unidentified foreigner was found floating in the Thames last Tuesday the 24th another victim in the so-called Egyptian murders Inspector James Barrington familiar. Hmm of the yard refused to comment when asked by the scoop sources exclusive to the journal state that the victim had been beaten severely and then stabbed through the heart in a manner curiously similar to other murders that have taken place

over the last three years. The connection seems obvious, but New Scotland Yard has yet to confirm that the deaths are connected. Inspector Barrington said his colleagues appear baffled and no closer to catching the heinous perpetrator of these crimes. Londoners cry out, when will our streets be safe? Readers of the scoop are reminded that this esteemed journal has a reward now standing at £24 sterling for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the murderer. Be vigilant. Be vigilant Be Vigilant Egyptian murders. Oh, can I can I roll to see if I know that what that means?

Yeah With a very particular skill you were thinking Well, there was the whole Cairo connection right wasn't it? Yeah, you've heard in your travels in New York that there seemed to be some connection to Cairo, to Egypt. Elias was definitely on the trail of certain... We're lousy with letters from Egypt. I'm just looking at your skills that you have here.

History isn't quite right.. History isn't quite right. Natural world isn't quite right. Like memory? Memory would be like idea, right? Is that just intelligence? Yeah, it'd be like an idea roll. Yeah, and that's straight up intelligence. All right, cool.

Oh, I rolled a hard success on that one. Hard success. Yeah, I rolled a hard success on that one. Hard success. Yeah. I mean, you would imagine there's a significant number of Egyptian nationals living in London at this time. If there's any truth to this story whatsoever, it's sort of alluding to the fact that like they're being killed for some reason. So Egyptian murders, the murders of perhaps Egyptian nationals. The cult of the bloody tongue was picking off people in Harlem back in New York.

Perhaps there's a pattern here as well to their horrible crimes. You don't suppose they're making another one of those things? Oh, the flesh pit thing? I don't know. All of these murders are all very different. I don't remember in New York they were being stabbed through the heart. Yes, or giant wolves and spread out so over such a great distance. What's this here? Oh, is this article? This one's about art and surrealists.

This is your line, Sour. This person sounds like fun. Shocking. I'm not going to read it in a German accent, we'll never get through it. Shocking canvases craze, local artists monstrous scenes mock surrealists, quote unquote. New collectors can buy savage scenes which rival or surpass the worst nightmares of the Great War, but which are far more exotic than that grim business. London artist Mr. Miles Shipley's work is being sought out by collectors who have paid up to £300 for individual paintings. This correspondent has seen a number of the works of artist Miles Shipley and finds them repulsive beyond belief. Maidens ravish, monsters ripping out a man's innards,

shadowy, grotesque landscapes. We're gonna get along so well. And faces grimacing in horror represent only a fraction of Shipley's nightmarish work. Margo might have to date this man. Despite their repellent content, these works are conceived and executed with uncanny, their verisimilitude.

Boom, nailed it. I was like, oh no. Slept duck. Mr. Shipley's imagination is sublime and it is almost as though the artist has worked from photographs, oh my God, of alien, twins of alien places, and it is almost as though the artist has worked from photographs. Oh, my God. Ali twins of alien places, surely never of this earth.

This is crazy. This artist reportedly is in contact with other dimensions in which powerful beings exist, and he merely renders visible his visions. Well, Mr. Shipley is a working class man without formal artistic training who has nonetheless made good where thousands have failed. Art critics say that Shipley provides an English answer to the continental artistic movement of surrealism whose controversial practitioners still have to convince John Bull that the

way in which a thing is painted is more important than what is painted. Uh, nothing has been so true. A tip of the hat to Mr. Shipley for exposing his frauds. This is so funny because literally the first episode I'm like, Margot's getting into surrealism. We have to go see Miles Shipley. Sounds like a fellow traveler of yours, Sal. We have the same process.

Carter's like, sounds like it sucks. I'm going to say I'm with you, Tillinghast. Call me old fashioned, but I think the thing that you paint should look like the thing you're trying to paint. Yeah, give me some, you know, some verisimilitude, am I right? Yes, here, here. But what if this man has seen things that imagine trying to explain to the normal person the things that we have seen in a painting? My God, perhaps they're all too, perhaps it's not surreal at all, but rather figurative

and taken from life. Yeah, all right, we can talk to them. That's fine. Whatever. So, you've got four sort of articles that Jackson may have been interested in. One about a sort of thing hurting like going into people's – what does it say? Reached out and filled my lungs and made it hard to breathe. This like dank smell of the fog was replaced by the foul stench of smoldering hair which reached out and filled my... So some sort of creature...

That's up in Scotland. Up in Scotland, you know, sounds like a ghost story. Right up Jackson's Alley, but far away from here. Then you've got this London artist painting alien landscapes that he should have no business knowing about. You've got the strange creature, the strange creature in the in the countryside. Yes. Less American werewolf in London style. You've got the Egyptian murders investigated by none other than a fellow that we've heard of, Mr. Inspector Barrington of Scotland Yard.

Well, that definitely piques my interest. Yes. I suppose since we're here, we can start local and expand out. Yeah. So, so it looks like in London, we've got the artist and we've got Barrington. And then we can got Barrington. And then we can... and then whatever. There's the Midlands situation and then Scotland.

Yes, I hardly think that having just arrived in London we should take the train up to Glasgow. Good day. We're getting a Troy time to work on the Scottish accent. I see that! Yes, making it a falalis. It's gonna sound oddly like the Mekima Hunter. You see that twinkle in your eye, Saur, you want to see this Shipley chap, don't you?

Oh, we must. We simply must. Did you not read the article that I just read out loud to you? I have to admit it, Peek Minstrous as well. He may be one of us. Yeah, whatever. I mean, he can summon beings. Apparently, don't you want to talk to him?

Well, seeing as how we've seen people summon beings already. This seems to be on par with what we're looking for. on par with what we're looking for. Side note, didn't the first episode, Faerûs came across a spell potentially to do this? I thought it was like to raise the, to be like a zombie lord or something, wasn't it? Well, yeah, it was Chex Notes, hang on. It was a checks, checks notes. Hang on. It was a spell.

Like to raise the dead or something? Yes, but it kind of like turns people into zombies. Oh, oh, right, right, right, right, right. Okay. Yeah. It's kind of like a necromancy situation. Some light necromancy. Some light necromancy. I'm so pumped for Feyrouz to go full like gladrile.

You would make me a crazy beautiful and terrible. Yeah. So it's like mid afternoon now? Yeah, so you've got some options here. I would say now you've probably, you got in at mid afternoon, you checked into the hotel and you were like, we've got time to, it's still early, let's go over to the scoop. You've hung out at the scoop for a little over an hour thanks to Ferruzz's library skills. You could, you know, you could head over to Chelsea just to check in on this artist

You know before nightfall you'd get there before nightfall You could go to him over to Scotland Yard or maybe you'd want to call and see if you could make an appointment with this Inspector Barrington rather than just showing up at Scotland Yard There's also the Pennu Foundation card that you have Glasgow seems like let's just just put that aside for now. Remember the Glasgow thing. And then you've got this countryside situation. But those are all your leads.

But you went from having just a couple of leads to a couple more things. Knowing what Jackson was interested in may unlock something. So what out of all those interests are the most? Is Eagles Grange in the Midlands where's Eagles grade? Yeah It's a it's probably a couple hours. Actually, you're not you tell me right now I'm just saying like two birds one stone, etc. Etc. That's gonna have to happen. You're gonna have to check it I mean my head it's from it's it's in Oxfordshire, but uh, like it's in the Midlands too. Yeah, it's it's it's north

Hand wave it great. Yeah, I's north. Hand wave it. Great. All right. I think Carter's like, listen, in my experience, you want to let the cops know you're around last. Right? You don't want to clue in the cops or something. And then, I mean, as we've all learned, we don't need people tailing us, shaking us down in the middle of the night in Harlem.

I mean, well, they've all ended up dead. Plus, most of them died because of us, but we weren't going to get into that. We didn't do it. No, no, but we, you know, one would say that we roped them into it, et cetera, et cetera. So I say we push, this is my, Carter's opinion is we hold off on Barrington. We hit up either the artist guy. I guess that's the only other London situation we have. Or Penhew.

Or Penhew. I think, yes, I'm of a mind to see this artist, I suppose. And perhaps we can make an appointment to with this inspector tomorrow yes they're prohibition in London right now no right there they're cool they're chill that doesn't stop us anyway no true scarcely softest but no the your temperant societies have not made their inroads felt here thank God all right so you're gonna head over to West London you still got a couple hours before nightfall why not check it out at least you let me

know when you get there Chelsea is in West London River Thames to the south night bridge to the north Belgravia to the east. The metropolitan borough of Chelsea is predominantly a lower middle class and working class area. Further from the river, the area's prosperity rises with the upper middle class centered on Sloan Square, often considered by those living there

to be really part of upmarket night bridge. You get there and like all the houses are on top of each other. They're just like really closely packed with very little space between each house. But there's some shops. It's like almost like a Bohemian air to the area as well, outside of where everyone is living. I imagine you're arriving as people are getting out of work. There's this influx of people getting off of trains and walking to the house. You're walking with these crowds to the house, but eventually they get to where they need to go as you're kind of wandering, looking for this address. And suddenly it gets darker out faster than you had planned.

And that combined with the fog makes it a little tough to see. And you're like, oh shit, is a storm coming? Because it shouldn't be this dark this early. to see and you're like, oh shit, is a storm coming? Because it shouldn't be this dark this early, but you know, you're already here. You might as well at least case the joint, if not knock. And you're looking along these rows of houses and suddenly the fog parts in front of the address to the Shipley residence.

And it is a two-story brick building in desperate need of repair. Every window is barred. You see what looks like a brick wall in the back of the building, maybe. It's like a backyard that is covered by a brick wall. And then just large unkempt trees sort of ominously covering the whole house and all you see beyond them are the barred doors, barred windows rather. When you approach and you feel like all at once, a bunch of curtains on all the neighboring buildings are just being parted ever so slightly to look at you and then quickly close. And we'll see you next week. Oh my God. to look at you and then quickly close.

And we'll see you next week. Oh my god. Chelsea. It all came back to Chelsea. I mean, is it Chelsea in New York? Is it Chelsea in London? You know what I mean? It all connects. That was a great circle. It almost had me! It almost had me. Woo. Man.

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