The Glass Cannon Podcast - Time For Chaos S2 | E5 – Night Terrors

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

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and one can be prescription sunglasses. Hey, the sun won't wait. Visit Specsavers.ca for details. Conditions apply. You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Bye! Good evening everybody! It's Friday night and it's time for Chaos. Let me ask you guys, are you guys, any of you procrastinators? I have been a procrastinator my entire life and I've gotten better.

Age has made me slightly better but there's some things that you just, you can't, you can't stop procrastinating about it. One is like if I have to make a phone call to do something, I will procrastinate to the last possible second. And sometimes, even if it costs me money, I just don't make the phone call because I don't want to be on the phone with anyone. Like I've got this call I've got to make

and I have until January 27th. It's kind of important. And I just, every day I'm like, ah, tomorrow. I don't want to make this call and I don't know what it is. So I guess it's a two ah, tomorrow. I don't want to make this call. And I don't know what it is. So I guess the two part question, you don't have to be a procrastinator. Do you just hate talking on the phone? First, procrastinators. I can't talk on the phone. It's just, it's, I hate it. I would rather do anything else than talk on the phone. But that is the one part of procrastination that is dragged into my old

age. Rob, you're a procrastinator? Oh, yeah. Although recently, my wife's therapist diagnosed me, which is always great. Over drinks. Yeah, just no, just like having heard about me. I guess she even prefaced it with like. You were diagnosed in absentia?

Yes. I heard therapist. I mean, she even said, I don't usually do this, but- After reading your husband's bio in this playbill. After hearing about this asshole you're married to, she thinks I have ADHD, which when I heard that, suddenly a lot of things clicked into place. Like all the Tumblers in a lock just went,

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It doesn't seem like in our nature to be procrastinators, but are you? When you first said that, I was like, no, I have so many to-do lists. You should see my personal notebook. I've got projects. I have my own Kanban board. But yeah, I have this thing I do where every beginning of the year, I'm like, I need to go to all my doctor's appointments because I haven't got in a while. And I schedule them all. And it's like a very stressful experience that takes four minutes. But I procrastinate on

it. And then I'm also currently procrastinating on finishing house stuff. So I guess I do do that. But funny thing, my therapist also did a similar thing to my husband. Oh, okay. Not to you. Which is funny. Interesting. Also ADHD or just like.

Yes, ADHD. Oh really? Oh, hell yeah, I'm gonna talk. Do you, what about the phone, Kate? Do you like talking on the phone to people? No, no. And it's awful because my next door neighbor, whom I have adopted.

Is it a child? Is it a child living alone? No, it's a man who has, a lot of his family either, it's sad, died or like lives in Pennsylvania. And he was really close with the woman who lived in my house before. So we have fulfilled that role, but he does not know how to use technology.

I had to make him an email address. I don't think he'll ever watch this. But he does not know how to text. He only calls. And every time he calls, it's just, please don't. I'd have to move or burn down my house with me in it rather than have to take any phone calls.

But you're a saint. Nora, I feel like you're just on the ball or is that just the vibe you give? Phone calls aside, procrastinator? That is indeed just the vibe because as somebody who has known they've had ADHD for a long time now, not as a child, like as an adult, I've discovered this. Everything, like literally every aspect of my life is till the very last moment, like in a, I'll spend all this time having anxiety over the things that I know I must do that are piling on. And then I'll have like a brief spurt of like, of intense focus on the project and I'll get everything knocked out and I'll have like a brief spurt of like, of intense focus on the project and I'll get everything knocked out and I'll be like super hyper fixated on something and

then it's back to procrastination. It's so brutal. Also, fuck phone calls. I hate phone calls. Yeah. I've always hated phone calls and it seems like as time progresses, it'll just get worse because the more time goes on, the more and more it's animated. Not animated, automated. For me, not being able to speak to a human being when it would take two seconds for me to just explain it and get it taken care of, I'm getting, my blood boiling is just thinking about it.

Phone calls seem very old fashioned. I would rather do anything in the world than have to get a problem solved via phone call. Yeah. It's the modern age. Nobody wants to sit on the phone and do things. But unfortunately, I think what's happened, especially after COVID, is we forgot how to talk to each other. And so the phone was our only lifeline, but even then we were like, can I just go back to being in my pajamas and drinking at 11 in the morning?

Why, it's funny because I remember in high school, you'd call your buddy and chit chat for a while. On the football phone from Sports Illustrated. Oh yeah, you got the football phone, got the one that looks like a lips kissing. I didn't have that. I remember it. Garfield. Any combination? Yeah, you got the football phone, you got the one that looks like a good lips kissing. I didn't know that. Classic. Remember it. Garfield.

Any combination? It's totally transparent one where you see all the circuitry. Yeah, that one I had. Yeah, I lusted after that one. Yeah. Just walk around your room. Maybe it's talking without seeing someone. We're so used to being on video calls and stuff now because I talk to my friends on

the phone still, but it's through video chat all the time. I couldn't imagine talking to them on the phone still, but it's through like video chat all the time. I couldn't imagine talking to them on the, on the telephone. I freak out. There's no context to like how they're receiving all this information. Like are they rolling their eyeballs? Are they? It's just, it's very old fashioned.

Ross, are you a procrastinator who hates phone calls as well? I'm sorry that we've, I wish I could be out of step with the group, but we are a united front of procrastinators. Yes, absolutely. Have like near panic attacks of anxiety, putting off stuff until the last minute and then totally like going hard, entering the scene from the last five minutes of 2001

to get it done. Then, yeah, if I don't, I need to manufacture all kinds of structures in order to make it happen. But phones, once I'm actually on the call, it doesn't really bother me. But I'm totally become one of those people where if my phone rings, my initial reaction is like, ugh. Like I don't. It's never good. Yeah, but I'm totally become one of those people where if my phone rings, my initial reaction is like, ugh. It's never good. Yeah.

Why? And just like, oh my God, if there's a problem that needs solving and I'm on the phone with someone who's like, please state your name, Ross. I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Can you please state your name? I'm just like, mm. Yeah, I'm the person that's like, speak to a representative. Speak to a representative.

I will say, when I do finally, and it's only with customer service people, I become the most charming, confident person I've ever been in my life. Maybe it's because it's on the phone and they can't see me or something like that, but I'm like, hey, how's your day going? I don't give a fuck and really open up. Probably why I need to find my own therapist. You're practicing a new you with a stranger you'll never talk to. I don't know how shitty I am.

Starting from scratch. I have not been diagnosed nor has someone else diagnosed me with ADHD without meeting me. But who knows, man. I'll talk to my wife's therapist. We'll see if we can get that. If you could describe me to her so she could describe me to him, let me know. I was like, well, why don't you just go talk to the therapist?

Absolutely not. I hate phone. No, not on the phone. Yeah, no, no. Maybe it's just something that attracts people to this game or something else. But it seems like a lot of people, adults who play these games are like either self-diagnosed ADHD or have been diagnosed later in life as ADHD. It's just like more and more people, this is happening.

I also wonder if it's the garbage we've eaten for the past 30 years that has somehow changed our brain chemistry. Definitely not. Because why do we all of a sudden all have ADHD? It's pretty crazy. It could be the McDonald's. The way we learn the amount of screens that we're surrounded with, the amount of distracting things

that are pulling our brains in every direction. I think of the way that like people were educated and like, like at the time that this game is set and you hear about just how capacious people's memories were that like if you went to, if you got an English degree in like 1900, then you could just peel off like reams of, of, of texts that you'd committed to memory. And before that even, I don't know, I'm not, I'm like, I'm reading a, I'm reading a book right now called the Calavalla, which is this a Finnish saga. And it's supposed Calavalla, which is this Finnish saga.

It's supposed to be like all these Finnish folk tales that were passed by oral tradition for centuries before anyone wrote them down. There are all these Finnish scalds who could just speak and sing for hours stuff that they had heard. An entire culture was transmitted only by memory. I feel like now we, I had many phone numbers in my head pre-iPhone. I was just thinking about that. I don't know anyone's phone number.

I remember song lyrics. I remember being song lyrics, like having so many song lyrics memorized from listening to them and now I'm just like, I can't, I know. Every mortal combat fatality. I think it also contributes to the patience that you have for social niceties and where maybe the new normal and I don't know what we do and what we don't like talking on the phone and all of that. Yeah, I guess this is what's normal and we're just have to, our parents can't understand it. Where are the normal ones?

Where are the normal ones? Not you! As a side note, do you guys know the story about the Garfield phones that have washed up on the shores of a French beach for the past 30 years? No. All right, so I won't get into it now, but it's just a little fun thing to check out.

I think they recently solved why, but there's a French beach that for the past three decades, Garfield phones have been washing up on the shore. Like Garfield phones from the 1980s and not like a couple, like hundreds, and they just keep washing up on the shore. And I think someone, they recently figured out why, but it was like a 30 plus year mystery as to why these Garfield phones. It was a lost shipping container. Yeah. It's just crazy. I think someone, they recently figured out why, but it was like a 30 plus year mystery as to why these Garfield phones. It was a lost shipping container.

Yeah, it's just crazy. So people are like, all these old Garfield phones. Anyway, sadly, there are no Garfield phones in England. There are only apparitions and horrible things and sanity loss. Before I get into a recap, because I always forget, let's do a luck a luck roll here Let's see if you get any luck cuz you're gonna need every bit of it

You know, it's funny as you're doing your luck well Remember you've got to fail on this luck roll and if you fail give yourself a d10 back as a as I was we finished last Week's app I Was like, oh man, that was a departure from the first three apps Which is kind of felt like a roller coaster. Last app, we were kind of like all over the place. A lot of like, Oh, please come back tomorrow.

You made your appointment. And it may have seemed like, did we do we accomplish anything? And then, you know, Michael back behind the scenes here sends a recap of the episode. I'm reading through it. I'm like, this is one of those EPs, last week was one of those EPs where you'll, I think you'll appreciate it even more in about 10 EPs. There was so many little things that you touched upon,

so many little things that came out that may mean nothing now, that hopefully, unlike a phone number, will linger in your memory for the next few weeks. But we began last week in Miles Shipley's apartment. You were investigating one of the leads that Jackson Elias seemed to be interested in during his visit to the Scoop,

little National Enquirer type magazine here, newspaper in London. So you go, it's like this artist who's tapped into another world, he's producing this amazing art and people are buying it. Famous people are buying it. It's this big deal. What is Jackson interested in this?

You go there, he's got a sweet little, kindly old lady lets you in while the lady is clearly a lizard person. You find out and you kill this creature which you now know was named Sathasa. And Miles is left alive and he's begging for his life and he explains to you that Sathasa like came to him in the guise of a man at a bar and like said I'll show you how to be a great painter and then revealed himself to Miles and and basically used powers and drugs to dominate Miles and to kind of show him a world before human history.

A world that most people walking around don't even know exists. A world that may not exist, except in the minds of the people who have seen beyond the Great Tapestry. In exchange for that, Miles just had to bring people off the street for Sathasa to feast on every once in a while. Pretty fair trade. So the street worker's body you found in the basement that was dismembered was just like a week long meal that Sathasa was working on. You see there's a lock door in the attic and you get the key and you open the door and

there is a painting in there and Miles tells you, oh it's not done yet. You shouldn't even look at it, it's not done yet. It's going to be my great work and Sathasa commanded me to draw it. It's called the serpentpent's Altar. And as you look at it, you start to feel sick to your stomach and you start to feel, some of you, that you're being pulled into this swampy scene with serpents and you hear this buzzing sound. Break out of there.

At the end of the day, you're like, should we kill this guy or we can't bring him to the cops? We don't want to like, we've been in London for six hours. What do we do? So you just drop him off at a asylum, local asylum run by nuns and they take him in. That was on Wednesday, your first day in England on day two, Thursday, February 5th, 1925. You take a visit to the Pennu Foundation. It was in I think Jonah Kensington gave you a card or maybe you found it in Jackson's apartment I'm not sure where you got it, but you found a card for the Penn you foundation with a mr. Edward Gavigan

Like director of the foundation on it So you need to follow up on that lead and you also know that sir Aubrey Penn you who was one of the members of the Carla Expedition was the former Director and and the creator of this foundation so go there, you meet with a man named Thomas Kinry, a man who you're having trouble remembering his name, and you request an audience with Edward Gavigan. You drop the names of Erica Carlisle, you drop the names of Jackson Elias, and he says, well, Mr. Gavigan's free tomorrow, 2 p.m. You can come by on Friday, You can have an appointment with him and you

decide to check out the Egyptian collections. You explore the Egyptian exhibit upstairs. You know, nothing really jumps out at you. You do notice someone taking an artifact away and bringing it to a locked room. You question one of the security guards there and they're like, Oh, visiting scholars from time to time can have supervised like one-on-one time it's one of these some of these artifacts but it's all done behind closed doors that kind of is interesting to you you wonder well what is that guy so interested in maybe it's just a scholar maybe it's nothing meanwhile Faeruus sort of solicits Vaughan's help to try and track down the name of a

British soldier who was stationed in Egypt. This is a soldier that may have had an affair with Pharaoh's mother. Then you head over to the London Library to gather some information and you discover some more things about the Peinyu Foundation. You learn more about Sir Aubrey Peiny, who oversaw and funded all these expeditions to Egypt, how he was there in the Karl expedition and was murdered. You kind of all knew this. Edward Gavigan became the director afterwards.

You learn about the goals of the Penu Foundation grants, assistance with planning expeditions, and you find out that they have probably had several expeditions as of late, and 20 people have died as a part of those expeditions, which, you know, it's probably dangerous work. That's not crazy, but as you read further, you realize that the deaths were almost all murders or suicides. So that kind of raises a red flag.

And then Vaughn, on the way back, steps away and buys an engagement ring for Faere ruse. And then you call Scotland Yard to try and set up an appointment with Inspector Barrington, another one of your leads, you don't get through. And so you're like, all right, well, tomorrow we got an appointment with Edward Gavigan, maybe we'll just swing by Scotland Yard. London is your oyster. In the meantime, you go to sleep in the Waldorf. And that is where we pick up today. Anybody make any improvements on their luck? Yeah, so ridiculous.

I got 10 baby. Oh, wow. Yep. Fantastic. I have an eight luck right now. And I'm like, this is the day. I rolled it too So no, I don't get any luck today Wow All right, so let's see here You guys are at the Waldorf do any good pictures of like the Waldorf in London

I know we had pictures of the Waldorf in New York. Oh, there's one a little bit different from the Waldorf in New York, but that's give you a little visual representation of what we're looking at here cool. So anyways you You go down to sleep for the night after a fun first day usually first day you relax Maybe go get some groceries for the trip, but no, you guys decided to go have a combat with strangers. But you lay down, go to sleep, and it's not long before Margot and Feyreuse, you awake to hear this faint buzzing sound, reminiscent of the sound you heard when you looked at that painting in Miles Shipley's Attic, the painting that was locked behind a door.

And when you viewed that painting, as I said, I think you succeeded on your power rolls. There were sanity rolls, there were power rolls. But either way, you just felt sick to your stomach and you felt like you were being pulled into the painting, like the painting was calling to you in some way. This serpent's altar, this swampy area with all of these serpents and unidentifiable flora and fauna with a single stone altar in the middle. So you hear that sound again, the nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn again then and you follow it into the common area of your suite where you see a high-backed chair with a lone tall figure sitting in it. What do you do?

Faerus grabs the nearest like lamp sitting on a, sitting on a stand or a table, slowly approaching behind. I think Margo at first is like blinking, like is this really happening? And then sees you grab a lamp and a, grabs the telephone. Okay. Grab a lamp and a telephone and you start

Creeping towards this figure and as you approach there's this moment where You get the sensation like the world is turning around like over and around on itself like Like a gyroscope again this feeling of queasiness envelops you and suddenly you find that both of you are now on the other side of the room or the room has turned and you've remained in place. It's a very disorienting feeling, but then the room itself has changed. No longer are you in has changed. No longer are you in the hotel common room, but you look around and find yourselves in a vast temple of some sort. The only remnant of the hotel that you notice

is in front of you there are several steps leading up to a dais where that tall high back chair sits. And sitting atop this throne is a figure that at first looks like they're all dressed in black except for a gold like headdress crown and gold inlaid decorative robes, but then you realize that the figure isn't garbed in black but embodies Blackness it is not like it's its skin is black like an african-american man But you get the sense that you're staring at at something or someone that is made of pure ebony a being Whose color can best be described Not so much as black but like the absence of color and you're just in shock

Staring at this it's like your brain the best your brain can do it It feels feeble in the presence of this being is just call it black, but it's so much more. And you can't tell if the inscrutable visage of the figure is staring at you or not. You can't even make out a face. You do, however, watch as it slowly lifts up its hand and reaches out towards both of you. Make a power roll.

Okay. This can only be good. Come on roll 20. Don't screw me. What was I saying? Power? Don't screw me now. Yeah give me a sweet little power roll. An extreme success for Feyruz.

Oh really? I got a 78 under 85. So regular. A regular success. Okay. All right. Here's what I'll say. Faeruz, you look over at Margo and Margo is like, Margo, you feel yourself shaking and

Margo you look down, your skin starts to feel hot and you feel your clothing start to rip. And you look down, you see the clothing you're wearing is like ripping because your flesh is expanding outward and it's sort of tearing at the fabric of your clothing until it rips open. You don't have any time to fuss about being exposed because you look down and you see your skin is changing. It's taking on this like purple, almost bruised coloring,

but the texture is changing as well. And Faeruz, you're just watching this. It's like a texture almost reminiscent of the serpents you saw in the painting, but also, and it's great that this is happening to you, like it kinda reminds you of when you were on the balcony in the Waldorf, New York, and that giant winged creature came flying at you, crashing through the glass.

It's that same sort of texture. And you also feel like your neck is getting longer. And Faeruz, you see this transformation happening. And then there's this like white hot pain in your scapular region and, Feroz, you see like two swollen mounds on her back burst open with like leather and bone just erupting from her shoulders. And Margot, you cry out in pain and it feels like you're gargling acid in your throat.

Carter and Vaughn, give me a listen roll. What the fuck? Oh my God. What if I don't want to? I would try to do a gargle scream for you, but I don't know if I can do that on camera. Am I able to do something here in this situation, or am I just like frozen?

What is your, what do you feel like doing in this situation as you see this happening? Because the transformation it takes, it's faster than the way I'm describing. It's just Feel like I would maybe try to do that like jump tackle protect All right, so you go to move towards her and it's that feeling like You're right like a dream feeling like you're running towards something and it keeps getting farther away And it keeps getting farther away to the point where

not only does Margo look far away, but that figure on the dais looks far away as well. And as you're trying to run towards it, you're like running further and further back, you see the figure step off the dais and begin walking towards Margo. Vaughn and Carter, what did you get on your listen roll? I failed 60 over 30.

I got a regular success. All right, so Vaughn, you're just off in dreamland. Ah, me, me, me, me. If anybody needs sleep, it's old Vaughn. He's used to hearing screams in his sleep. But Carter will say that you awake to not only a sound but a feeling, like almost like an earthquake like there's tremors you wake up and you look down And if you feel like the bed is shaking

But then you think and I've had this sensation before I'm like is the world shaking right now Or is it just my am I too caffeinated like you're not sure? But you hear a sound coming the other from the other room that sounds like a rumble but like almost like a Laugh as well. I could never do it the way it's in my head, but it's kind of like this And it's coming from the common area you look over at Vaughn and Vaughn is peacefully sleeping Do we are we in twin beds or we sharing one you're in a you're in a king had to tell You have two beds in there, or you're like on a divan and like I love Lucy style yeah Bert Nerny

C and V above your beds yeah C and V above your beds. Yeah. Oh, what the fuck? Va- Va- I throw a pillow at Vaughn. That wakes you up. No, you couldn't possibly- What a god-seem-tilly ass. Something's going on, we got a- something's going on in the living room!

And I start putting on my pants over what I imagine is one a onesie underwear Throws off the covers revealing impeccable silk pajamas It hops out of bed was like and Am I also hearing this yeah now that you're awake you not only hear it, but you feel it as well this rumbling I don't know if you've ever experienced an earthquake in London during your time there in England But the world feels like it's shaking almost imperceptibly What do you guys do rush into the living room? Yeah, let's go. Okay, so you guys rush into the living room and you see

Fairu's sort of like she looks taller than she's ever looked. And she's standing, uh, straight and her eyes are open, but there are no pupils there. It's just pure white. And, uh, if you come around, you notice that it almost looks like she is floating off the ground, just... Meanwhile, you look over at Margo and Margo is just like tearing at her clothing and her mouth is wide open screaming in terror, but no sound is coming out. It's like the Edward Monk painting.

You don't see any of the temple. You don't see any sort of transformation. That is what you see. What do you do? And there's no other person in the room? No other person is an empty high back chair. Was the chair there before? It was. Yes. It was very nice. You've got a very nice room. Yeah, there's a couple so high back chair.

He requested the chair. Oh, shit. It's got four legs on him. the chairs. Holy shit, it's got four legs on him? Um, Vaughn will, I mean, uh, sees, I mean, beholds this tableau and, uh, I mean, this is right out of like the worst kind of satanic nightmare. And, um, he's going to go to one, I guess, go to Fer Feroz and see if he can pull her back down to Earth. Okay, yeah.

And just snap out of this. I don't know what your heights are. Maybe they're similar. But like right now, she's above you and you do see that she is floating off the ground. So almost like a balloon that's just like going up. You grab it before it goes too high and you place her down on the ground, but she's still like locked in some sort of trance state. Mr. Braun, Mr. Braun, wake up.

And I'm seeing if I can almost like get her into a reclining position. It's almost like I'm seeing trying to help someone who's seizing or having some sort of rictus overtake them. Okay, you you bring her like over to the to the couch and her body begins to like melt into your hands a little bit. And as you get her to the couch, you see her starting to come to that that same moment, you feel what feels like a hot poker in your side just like someone poking you just like marking you or something is like so much so that you buckle to the ground yeah take any damage but she seems to be safe and you turn and there's nothing there I know yeah I'm like gaping in the direction that this, that it felt like I was stabbed. There's nothing there. Nothing there.

Carter, you rushed to Margo or you're just standing there staring at her as she's just... Yeah, I rushed to Margo, but after I kind of see what happened with Vaughn and the hot poker or whatever, he's feeling the metaphorical metaphorical poking. Uh, I would love to grab like a, do we have like a, I mean it's the wall of her story. Is there a jug of water? Um, yeah, I think there would probably be a, maybe a basin or a glass leftover, maybe a glass of gin when the ice is melted and there's some water in there. Yeah. Oh, okay, great. Margo, baby, wake up. And then I throw the contents of it into her face. You throw the contents of the melted gin

and ice cubes into her face. And it hits you, Margot, and you come to, and collapse to the floor. And Carter, you see this- Carter looks inside the glass like, what the fuck was in this? You see this, Vaughn, and maybe you notice a second later, Margo's laying on the ground now wet and there is smoke coming off the area or the water hit her.

Whoa, OK. I mean, if it looks as though Feroz is settled and pupils and irises have returned to the whites of her eyes, perhaps. I mean, the rosary is coming out and he's fully kind of like brandishing it into the room. And just almost to claiming you have no you have no power here. Jesus, please not now man. Come on. Keep it together. I'm assuming Ferris is still out kind of like out. I would say you're coming to but it's that it's kind of it doesn't feel like you're coming out of a dream everything feels very very real but you don't you don't know how you got there so you're like what you're very disoriented.

St. Michael Archangel and Warrior of God. Jesus. Margo, where's Margo? Is Margo still out? Margo, you're starting to come to as well, and you just see like a thin haze rising from your body. Do I feel hot? You still feel a burning in your mouth,

sort of akin to acid reflux. And the, yeah, you're, the water on you, it feels like someone threw, not burning hot water, but hot water on you, or pissed on you. Did somebody piss on Margo? That's what it feels like, it just feels like warm. We haven't done that since the DMV. Feels like warm water.

Okay, so is she visibly like like the the the little like steam that's coming off of her. She's like visibly like hot. So it yeah like you don't feel like you're burning. It looks like you threw acid on her but she's coming to and just disoriented but she doesn't seem to be physically harmed okay maybe Carter grabs a like a throw pillow and like takes the the case off of it so it's just got the pillowcase and like tries to grab Margo and I want to start dragging her into the bathroom okay her she was like tearing at her clothes

they're not off but they're like torn. I'm so sorry. Yeah, I'm not seeing anything. What's happening? What would you throw on me? As you're dragging her. Yeah. Great. I might get like a decanter of something and pouring a glass, turning on electric lights, walking over to Feroz and was like, here, sit, sit. Collect yourself, Miss Shebron.

There was something, someone, some entity, I don't know. Had no control, had no control over what we were seeing, what was happening, why I couldn't... I tried to run and save Margo, I couldn't even... I couldn't get to her, Bronn, I couldn't get to her. It's quite all right, it's quite all right. Sit, relax, calm, calm your nerves. I'm beginning to have a deeper understanding, Miss Shabranov, of the forces with which we are contending. You feel them, don't you?

From the moment we arrived here, there have been eyes on us. Yes. I perpetually feel as though I'm being watched. And the instruments, and acolytes of the evil one are legion, and many, they take on many forms. We are some of the unhappy few who have seen them manifest, but, and this means that we are

all the more susceptible to them. But I believe that this means that that we are all the more susceptible to them But what I believe that this means that we are that we are perhaps endowed with the power to do combat with them How? How have you seen you've seen what these things are? We don't even know We don't even know what they're capable of Vaughn Vaughn I've seen things we've all seen things that we have no idea We've no idea how powerful they are and they have this power over us, how?

How is it possible that we have any chance to defeat anything like this? What did you see? A little help, anybody wanna, my lower back is shot, man. I'm just trying to get her into the bathroom and just cool her down. Hold that thought. What the fuck are you guys talking about?

I don't feel hot. I don't feel hot. Fairey's knocked back one of the drinks. Yes, she'll sell. Is she burning underneath the pillowcase? No, like if you pull her over to the bathroom and you lean her up against the tub, I don't know if you're planning to just put cold water.

I was gonna throw the cold shower on her. Yeah, she feels warm to the touch she doesn't feel hot but she's telling you like I'm not hot I'm not hurt okay all right then then this was all stupid Are you quite all right? Sorry. Yeah, we could, sorry. Here you go, Marth. Frown line, go ahead and stand up here.

Where's Fae'ruz? I don't know, they're having a big chat right now in the living room. Let's go. Resting, resting, I think. We're both there. There's a temple. There's a man in the chair. Is the chair gone? No, the chair is there. I mean, you think back to that, what you saw, that vision, and the chair was the same height

and everything, but it definitely appeared more like a throne. Wow. Yeah, there was a figure in the chair and it reached out and I started turning into something? I think? I don't know. What, like, just your personality was changing or just a full on, you're talking about some sort of physical metamorphosci? No was expanding and then it felt like there was acid in my

throat oh my god and I felt like I was growing wings or something. I don't know. Okay, all right, all right. Yeah, let's get back into the living room here. Jesus. Margo and Faeruz give me a sanity check. Oh boy. Faeruz, it seemed so real what you were watching.

It didn't seem like a dream. And even where you're standing now, even though you're not in that temple anymore, like it just, it feels like you never moved, that everything that happened was real. Why is, I got another extreme success. I don't feel like I, I don't feel like I could snap out

or something like that so easily. But yeah. Well maybe extreme success still loses you points. I also got an eight. So an extreme. Jesus. Wow. You guys are just desensitized this.

Just lose one sanity point for that. It could have been a lot worse And maybe it's just because you're still overwhelmed by the experience for it to actually Kind of shake your psyche. This might be something that reverberates later But it is hard to sort of brush away. It's like oh, it's just a dream, you know We all have dreams that you wake up. Oh god, and you God, and you're like, oh thank God that was a dream. As you don't lose sanity, this felt much, much different. It's good couldn't we? We saw the same thing.

Maybe it was just a really weird dreams that we both had and we were sleepwalking and I don't know, I feel fine now. How do you explain it other than it wasn't... How do you explain anything that we've seen? Can we just do a Mystery Squad promise here, guys? Can we just promise to never, ever look inside an interdimensional painting again? But my god-telling us, that's right, you...

You and I turned away. You both looked into that cursed place. I mean, it's gotta be connected, right? I can't make any promises with that. Jesus Christ. Okay. How are we supposed to... How are we supposed to ever uncover any of these mysteries that we've come across if we look away? I mean, you can't blame us for looking.

It's easy. You just look at the ground. Wherever we go, just don't make eye contact with anybody anymore. Then what are we doing here? For not here? Go... What is's it say? Go big or go home? Go home.

Okay, that is the parlance of our times. Don't go home, please don't go home. I'm not going. Did you hear flies? Yes, that's what originally I think woke me up. And that temple, Troy, was that something that we had seen in any of the other paintings? Like were we in any of these landscapes? Nothing specific that you saw, but thinking back to, in fact, what you experienced just that day in the Egyptian collection a lot

of the stuff you saw in that collection those those motifs very were this was very evocative of some of the stuff that you saw there and as someone I mean what do you you study all this stuff right like this is right in your wheelhouse it just it seemed very Egyptian in nature but at the same time, otherworldly. I haven't seen anything. Haven't seen anything like this before. Carteau von, and then like, Faerus like frantically looks and like just looks through, opens up her bag and like finds this thing of eyeliner and just starts like on the ground drawing the thing that

she saw or like tries to. I'm not I'm not I'm not the artist I this is but this is this is I know this is not exactly but this is this is what I saw and I have never seen. This looks rather like a... I mean, having looked at those Egyptological artifacts at Penhew the other day, I mean, this looks rather like the rendering of some sort of pharaoh. Do you think he'll know what this is, or do you think that this is... Or do you think that this is? So what you guys showed up you just saw you just saw like a pyramid what else was there Well, they came into the room steps cuz we had a buzzing And this is he was sitting in this chair he who?

They days He was sitting in this chair. He? Who? They? It's... They? Is a very long tall figure. And it was this chair, but it looks like a more ornate... The room turned into a throne. Everything was spinning at first. Everything was spinning at first and... Do you remember Shipley's paintings? Not the one you two gazed at, but the ones he had on display. The grove where that bizarre orgy was taking place.

And right next to that, one of a... A crowned, dark pharaoh, as it were, lording over some sort of blasphemous geezer. Oh boy. Oh boy! Getting a little crazy, guys. Getting a little crazy guys. Okay, uh, I Guess we can bring this up to them you guys can describe sort of what you saw or Maybe we act like it's a painting that you saw or something like that. Maybe we can get some

Insight on it that way when we go to the pen you I don't know We certainly can't we can't go in there and Insinuate that we we actually this and they'd lock us away. No, no, no. You're talking about you saw it in a book or something. Well, they'll put us in the asylum there with Shipley. Also, the figure had a void for skin. Like skin, but no... Oh, I definitely want to avoid its skin. I want to avoid all of him. Looking into the abyss, basically. Oh, okay. That's comforting.

Fuck. The ancient her and the Israelites escaped from Egypt. The neighboring deities of the region. Back then, this sort of thought would have made me laugh at so much hokum. The old gods. Amun-Ra, Moloch, Dagon. But perhaps it wasn't... mere superstition. Perhaps these... these were diabolic forces of old. Vested with Luciferian power to loose their blasphemies upon the world. And you've seen them. Have fun.

Okay, why don't we all just try to get some shut-eye? Or just hang out and play part cheesy. I don't know. Just something to take our minds off of what's going on here. A distraction, yeah, would be nice. I don't think I can, I don't think I'm ready to fall asleep quite yet. Yes, I shan't be sleeping much now. All right, I'm making drinks. Capital idea. Yes.

You know, Carter goes to the wet bar, just pulls out four glasses, starts. I was looking and it's very possible you could play Bar Cheesey. It debuted in 1874. I somehow knew that. That's why I said it. It's like one of the only times I've been right about a timeline. It's the only board game. All right, so you're going to have some drinks.

I imagine at some point maybe your nerves are calmed from some of the sauce enough so that you can either retire back to your room or lay on the couch or just kind of maybe some of your nodding off as you're talking there in and out of sleep. Either way, the next day none of you feel particularly rested. Although Vaughn did. Vaughn is probably the only one that got REM sleep. None of you feel particularly rested and you have an appointment at 2pm at the Penn U Foundation. You also wanted to check up on Inspector Barrington. You tried calling yesterday and he had left for the day so you could call again and then You know is this lots of other things you can do

So what what is sort of your pre 2 p.m. Plans? After breakfast Unless you like to roleplay all of breakfast yeah Blood sausage what the hell is this? Blood sausage? What the hell is this thing? Oh, that is a specialty here at the Waldorf. Yeah, you've got, you know, probably, it's probably later in the morning because you didn't go to bed until late.

So you've got a few hours. At the Penhew Foundation, there was a library, wasn't there? There was, yes. There was a library right down the hallway to the left of that main hallway. You saw some people in there studying quietly. I mean if it's possible to go early, I'm intrigued by looking, grabbing some Egyptology books and sort of like seeing if I can find references to the figure that Saur and Gibran describe and that Theroux rendered with her eyeliner.

Yeah, maybe, why don't we call, before we, let's head over there early to check that out. Maybe we give a phone call or a little ring a ding to this Barrington chap see yes Alright so give a you give a ring over to Scotland Yard you have the number you call again Yes, hello Scotland Yard Hi, hello Why do they call it Scotland Yard? We're in England. I'm not sure Okay Well goodbye Why do they call it Scotland yard? We're in England. I'm not sure Okay

Goodbye Quarters to make another yes hello, and then suddenly Carter's like um one second It was like puts his hand over the first he was like what the fuck are we calling them for? Are we offering our services what's gonna hurry up he's he's on hold again is it just about like the mysteries like the barrington that is a lead that you have from Jonah Kensington. You know that Jackson allegedly met with Inspector Barrington, so. All right, there we go, boom, got it.

Yeah, follow up on Jackson's. Hi, yes, I was wondering if I could speak to Inspector Barrington, please. Yes, and may I ask what this is in regards to? Yes, Jackson Elias, thank you. All right, hold please. And, hold me a second. This is Barrington.

Oh, hello sir. My name is Carter Tillinghast. I'm an associate, or rather was an associate of one Jackson Elias. Yes, Mr. Elias. What is this in regards to? Well, I don't know if you've heard, but Jackson met with an untimely fate recently.

I have heard, yes. Across the old pond where I'm from. Myself and my associates were wondering if we could come speak to you and just try to gain a little bit more insight into what he was looking into while he was here. We're sort of trying to carry on his work as it were. Yes, I suppose that I could arrange that today. Would you perhaps come at, what time is it now? We have a move set at 4pm. 4pm today? Would that work? I think... I think that... Guys, 4pm's fine, right? Because even if we're at the pen here...

Yeah, sorry, I'm talking to my various secretaries. Yes, I think we can... we can make that happen. Can you say we? Can I have the names of the people that will be in attendance? Oh yes, Vaughn Villiers of your esteemed countryside here. One Fae Rhuus Gebron. Right. And Margo... what was it? Sour. Sour, Jesus Christ. Sour, I'm so nervous right now.

All right, very well. And yes, Carter Tillinghast, the leader. I will see you at 4pm at Scotland Yard. I trust you know the way? Yeah, of course. I've like the back of my hand at this place. Do we? Just get the address. Very address very good. Goodbye. Goodbye We'll just Google it Which gives me a great idea

Margo, I'm sorry I blanked on your name. I just you know when I talk to law enforcement I still get the shakes Another thing to remember is one of the articles you read in the scoop shakes a little. Another thing to remember is one of the articles you read in the scoop also mentioned Barrington. He was investigating the those murders. So the Egyptian, the potentially Egyptian related ones.

So you've got, you know, Jackson met with him and then there was also so it's a good lead to follow up on. So you got a 2 p.m. and a 4 p.m. Are you guys renting a car while you're here you're just taking cabs everywhere we have horses I double-decker buses yeah for now cabs I think so I don't know wheels on the wrong side what the fuck all right so let's uh let's cab on over to the Penn new foundation it's your first appointment of the day you all feel like kind of

hungover whether you drink a lot or not you just feel off from that experience you haven't been here but for 48 hours less than and it just you see if you're having that feeling of being back in New York, where like you're looking over your shoulder at every turn, it's just very unsettled. But you get to the Pena Foundation, and Mr. Kennery, Thomas Kennery, greet you at the door again, and he's like, oh wonderful welcome back right this way

mr. Gavigan will be with you momentarily now do you wait you do say you want to show up early yeah okay so let me say you're early and that the doorman calls for mr. Kennedy oh your appointment is until 2 p.m. I wish I could get you in earlier but mr. Gavigan is very particular about his appointments, and he is not available at the moment. I'm sorry, sir. Have we met? Yes, we met yesterday. Mr. Thomas Killery. Right. Carter Tillinghast.

Oh my gosh, yeah. Wow. How'd you know that? Very good, Mr. Gavigan, but we're hoping that we might peruse your esteemed foundation's collection once more, in particular the library. The library? I suppose that would be all right. How much time do we have here? We've got about a half an hour. Yes, that would be fine.

Charles, they'll be in the library and I will come and get them we can't just let anybody walk in there but you're welcome to please let me escort you and thank you you're ever so kind mr. it's not it's very memorable it brings you up to the door and it's like yes please make yourself comfortable. Just if you remove any books, put them back right where you got them, if you don't mind. And I'll come and fetch you in 30 minutes or so. Fantastic.

And as he walks out, he kind of bumps into one of the roaming security guards and he says, oh, okay. into a one of the roaming security guards and he says oh smiles at him and the guard just kind of looks in at all of you and then walks on. And Vaughn is looking for any book that has something with a title like the dark Pharaoh Egyptian cultic lore Egypt in demonia this sort of thing All right, I imagine all of you have various library use Scores some better than others. So let's let's just get right into some rolling here

with some library use. Now, like any skill check, you could push it if you're not happy with your result. You could spend luck to better it. But if you do push it, just what are you actually doing different? Now I look on this side of the library. Is it enough?

Now I put my glasses on. I'm gonna crush this library use. Watch this shit. Yep, I got an 11 under 20. Yeah. Amazing, I'm glad somebody succeeded. Yeah, no, I hard failed on that. I could use some of my luck to try to like,

if we need a certain, you know, we need some additional resources to look, find what we're looking for. Um, I failed pretty badly, but I feel like Vaughn, this was kind of like Vaughn's like whole, this is his little theory that he's cooking. So I feel like he wants, really wants to go for it. So I might push this role. Um, and let's say I'm dragging books off the shelves. I'm making a big

unruly stack in the center on a table. Yeah, I think I found something. Really making a hash of things. I think I got something over here. Hauling, yeah, hauling concordances off the wall trying to like find, find something useful. Sincata, I'm sure you found something the wall, trying to find something useful. Sincata, I'm sure you found something, but I don't know. No, look at this.

What did you find? I don't think he found anything. See, I got an 11 under 20, guys. I think I did. That's great, I failed again. I failed the pushed roll. Okay. Oh my goodness.

I'll spend some luck just to kind of help out in the I got something. Search. Okay, what did you find? What did you find? What is it? No, no, no. Faeruz wants to push her fucking library.

I didn't do it yet. I didn't do it yet. Yeah, here's what I'll tell you. You're looking around. Carter rolled. You rolled a success, right? There are a lot of books in here and they solely concern things Egyptian. So in sort of the meta of the game here, just succeeding on a single role may not be enough.

However, you start looking and you're like, huh, okay, I think I'm starting to get a handle on how this library is organized. Because it's not like fiction and nonfiction and business, you know, there's there's a it has its own system. And so you're starting to get a handle on that. But you know, again, working on the meta of just a regular success, you're like, it would take days to try and find specific information that I'm looking for. So you guys do with that information, whatever you like.

Okay. It's okay. It's all definitely Egyptian. Yeah. I'm like, I think I'm getting closer. I'm like restacking books. I'm just, I've got a book on like Egyptian funerary boats. Like, uh, not quite. Wait, I want to know what happened with Vaughn's failed push. Yeah.

Oh, you failed the push. I did sir. Uh, I missed that. Um, so you, what did you do to push again did sir I missed that so you what did you do to push again I should have I was just pulling whole shelves out and stacking them up and like really like look at thumbing through a bunch one after the other all right so you made a bit of a bit of a mess really and I would say at one point you maybe you're trying to put them back and trying to remember where everything goes and one

of the books kind of falls apart in your hand and you're just holding the cover. There's another researcher in the library that just kind of looks up at you, recoils a little bit and then stands up and walks out. Wow. Maybe if you put it back and pretend like nothing happened. Yes, yes. Trey gauche. I mean, why was it here if you touch it in a dish? Why was it even here? Yes, they shouldn't shel here if you touch it in a distance where I was living here?

Yes, they shouldn't shelve books that disintegrate in a chap's hands. That's one there. You put it in a special section. You need to get a handle on your manhands. Yes, yes, yes. And he's pulling up a heap of pages and trying to cram them back in the covers.

Like, no one could tell. All right, so what, okay, so I did, I'm spending my luck. Do I help, do I find anything helpful for us? All right, so you're spending it to go all the way to a hard or an extreme? I can spend one to go straight to hard. That also didn't sound. Zoinks.

So, okay, I will spend, let's see, that was just like a regular, how much would I need to, it's too much to spend for like a hard success. I'll spend one to get down to a heart. We already resolved you. Oh well, how dare you. So, Faeruz, you've got a regular success and it would cost you too much even to spend down to a heart.

Yeah. All right. Well, here's what I want to say, because I want to give you something. You are looking through these books and I mean, this is your wheelhouse. This is what you do back at Miskatonic. You feel like you're back in school again And you know Vaughn this would may have been Vaughn's idea, but you just like get back into it This is research and you start pulling books and you you'll see excerpts

noting like another like passage and you you kind of feel like you're on the track of something you see mentions of like a pharaoh, and you see mentions of like mythical dragon-like creature. And you're like, I am so close to something. And then Mr. Kinrey says, ah, well, I trust you've, what happened to that book there? That's a book.

That's a book. This is like this. Oh my. Just a moment and he leaves and you just hear like, in the dark, he goes upstairs. He comes back in with two men and it's like, yes, accidents happen happen please write this way Car and favorites you just get this feeling like oh if you could just have some more time here if you could just have some more time here Right this way yes

so Please just have a seat and mr. Gaffigan will be with you shortly I have some business I have to attend to and he just sits at like a little desk nearby while you're all standing in front of these waiting room chairs and he's working away. Listen, listen. I'm going to try to see if I could sneak off to the ladies room because I know I'm so close there was something in that book. because I know I'm so close, there was something in that book. You have to sift through a lot of hieroglyphic porn, but I'm sure in there lies the answer. I'm so close.

So just if I say, if I need to excuse myself, I just keep a lookout. I'm going, I'm going to try to get some answers. All right, so you got to be careful because there's those two, those two people just came in. They looked all grumpy about the book. Yes. I know.

You keep a low profile and we'll distract Gavigan and whoever this man is, whatever god name this fella's name. I can also, Faberous, if you want I can go with you and try to distract those guys so you get more time. Oh, if we get right, why don't we? Okay, I'm gonna go. Because, you know, our lady should always go escorted, right? Our lady can't pee alone. That would be uncouth.

Exactly. That'll work, I think. Very well. We'll hold down the fort here. Right. So you're trying to do this before the meeting with Gavigan or during the meeting with Gavigan? Simultaneously. During, yeah. Okay. All right, so...

I will go in and chat. You guys are chatting and Mr. Kennery is just writing away and the door opens and a man comes out. He is slim, superbly dressed, balding hair, but you can see his nails are perfectly manicured, he's clean shaven. He's thin, but he's just very proper, maybe like mid-50s. And he greets all of you and says, yes, good afternoon. I hope you haven't been waiting long. Please join me in my office.

And he puts his hand out to usher you into his office. It's delighted to make your acquaintance. Yes, Gavin. You've been very well tended to by your mysterious factotum here. Mr. Kinnery. Yes. Kinnery.

Mr. Kinnery. Yes. And, uh, as he's, as he's bringing you in and then I've been told by Mr. Kinnery, he shuts the door that, uh, you are from all over. We have a fellow countryman, Mr. Filius and then some Americans and a German. Yes.

Yeah. It's wonderful, wonderful. Spashing, please have a seat anywhere you like. Thank you. There's a few small chairs and two love seats. Everybody roll a spot hidden. Ooh. Ooh.

Ooh. Yeah, all right. Now, I rolled a success. Well, that. Hmm. Now... I rolled a success. That's good. And I failed. But I'll spend five and make that the sixth regular success. Okay. I failed.

Carter and Margot failed. However, Vaughn and Favors, you just kind of notice as you're taking a seat, there's like a other corner your eye you see a Like a very modern looking safe that's built into the floor in one corner of the room and the door on the safe is slightly ajar and as mr. Gavigan swings around to sit at his desk he

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Come for the insightful and hilarious commentary and stay for all of the weird and wild behind the scene stories. Good morning, Night Vale, with new episodes every other Thursday. Get it wherever you get your podcasts. Yes, even there. So you have arrived at the Pennu Foundation for your 2 PM appointment with Edward Gavigan, the director of the Pennu Foundation. He escorts you into his room. After you take a seat, he's starting to go around his desk. He notices he has like a small little safe that's open. He kind of embarrassingly closes it and says, one can never be too careful. And then as he's sitting down, he says, so Mr. Kinnery tells me you're friends of Mr. Elias, yes?

Just so. We're friends with him. Yes, my condolences for your loss. I had just spoken with Mr. Elias, just before the holidays, just once, when he arranged an appointment to discuss the work of the Foundation. He wanted to know more about my predecessor's involvement with the Carlisle expedition. He was very interested in that. Sir Aubrey Penhew. This is where the building gets its name. I'm not sure if you're

familiar with him. Anyhow, Mr. Elias said he was collecting the background research on how the Foundation was supporting the expedition. I was sorry to hear of his passing. He was a rather intense gentleman but otherwise polite and an adequate conversationalist. Adequate? I feel like. It's a peculiar thing to say. She kind of like mutters under like not audibly but like. Yes so what um. Can I make a spot racism roll?

An adequate conversation. It was a weird thing to say, but... It's like, so can I... May I ask what brings you here today to the Penny Foundation? Or to London, as it were, as some of you are visiting or... Yes, we are trying... We are kind of following in his footsteps now, and we heard that he met with you to talk with you about the Karol Isle expedition and Penhew, and that's what we're here to find out what he was talking to you about. So we continue his work and what you told him. So you are researchers and writers yourselves?

Yes. That was. Oh yeah. She looks at Carter. Yes. All of the above, baby. In the company of a very esteemed author indeed. I have a draft, sir. We won't get into it now

But I have a manuscript that it's gonna blow the doors off the industry Well, I'm company mr. Elias not only intellectually but in the field as it were And so we are continuing his labors in the field I'm hoping to fill out the gaps of the larger research that he was conducting field, hoping to fill out the gaps of the larger research that he was conducting. Yes, well, I mean, I was quite pleased to talk with him about the Foundation's role in grant funding and assistance with arranging travel permits and the like. We have a number of expeditions that we fund over in Egypt. That's one of the many things we do here at the Foundation. And anyhow, the meeting with him was quite short and after bidding Mr.

Elias good day, I never heard from him again. Is it intellectual curiosity merely that inspires your Foundation to pursue these Egyptological digs and fund Mr. Penhieu's expedition? Was there anything in particular that your foundation was eager to retrieve from the from the continent? You're talking about Mr. Penhew's involvement with the Carlisle expedition. Condolences, by the way, for him. He bid it, right? I mean, he didn't make it back. Yes, yes. He was my mentor and frankly the greatest living Egyptologist in the world. It's a shame. Well, I heard he was adequate.

No, he was. You heard incorrectly, sir. And it is a shame that he got mixed up in that fool Carlisle's expedition. Were you not on board with the Carlisle expedition? He was a bit of an odd duck. Hmm. It was a bit of an odd duck. Um... Frankly, I wasn't privy to much when it came to there.

I was still working under Sir Aubrey. But apparently this all began when Mr. Carlisle obtained information from an African woman, or so he said, concerned some shadowy time in Egyptian history about which sir Sir Aubrey had been very interested Evidently she believed that this this ancient time there was a sorcerer that seemed to Rule the Nile Valley and Carlisle became intoxicated by these myths as much as he was by her Alas the information obviously proved out to be hoax, and once they got to Egypt, this African woman disappeared with the expedition's ready funds

and the amount of some 3,500 British pounds. We are gentlemen of the world now, are we not? It's shocking, shocking. Man, I gotta piss. Yes. Faeruz, you gotta piss too, right? But if you would excuse us of a pardon the interruption in this delightful conversation.

Yes, I guess, would you accompany me? Yeah, we've been traveling together so long, we're on the same cycle. Ah. You'd see the look of discomfort on Faeruz's face. Like, ah. A pee-pee cycle, of course. You can see the look of discomfort on Faerus's face. A pee-pee cycle, I'm of course so comfortable. You better be about it, Tillinghurst.

One can't go to the facilities without chaperone. Well, I won't take long, but who knows with this woman, you know what I mean? It's quite all right. I don't need your life story. Just head out and take a left, and it is the first door to the right with which you came in. It's fine. And two of you exit and Kinnery just kind of- The rustic charms of the Colonials.

Or is it like a- is there a door to the room that we- like is it a private- Yeah, so like you walked into one room with Kinnery and then you pass through another door to be in Gavigan's office and now you walk back into the room with Kinnery and then you pass through another door to be in Gavigan's office So now you walk back into the room with Kinnery and he kind of looks up from his papers. Is there a problem? Just using the restroom All right, we're on the same cycle Okay, it's just down down the hole to the left the right side of when you came in and he points you that way And the two of you

Walk out Yeah, no, let's stay on you for a second so you you're out in the hallway there, what do you do So Just I just need a few moments. Just just to see if this book that we had has anything in it. Also, do you know that for higher graphics, like the pornography is quite graphic. You wouldn't expect it, but it is. I don't know what that has to do. Okay, yeah, that's good to know.

I'll file that one away. Good to know, I'll file that one away. And if that room is like, looking, are we, are there eyes on us? Trying to head back to that library. Let's give me a group, actually, both of you roll your own individual stealth role. So I was gonna do a group stealth role, but let's do an individual stealth role.

You're just trying to like keep a low profile, just in case. Faberuze, let me show you something about being a little thing I like to call stealthy. You're a con man, right? I got an eight under 61. Wow. Amazing. Okay, and you got a regular success, Faehruz?

I got a regular 58 under 60. Beautiful. All right, so you're walking by, the library is empty, and there's no one in the hallway The doorman you can see is is outside the door and his back is turned to you But you do know there are guards circling and then there are random researchers. So time is of the essence All right. So you you go in there you look up whatever you need to look I'll hang out by the door and I'll stall anybody that's coming in

Thank you, and I'll make my way over door and I'll stall anybody that's coming in. Perfect, thank you. No problem. And I'll make my way over to... You're ducking to the library. Yes. Meanwhile, we cut back to the room with Margot Vaughan and Gavigan and he's continuing. He's like, yeah, so she took the funds. Carlisle counted the lost money as insignificant, but he was deeply affected by the defection of his African lover.

Meanwhile, fearing that the heat and disappointment of Egypt would seriously affect her health, as well as Carlisle's, as they were friends, Hypatia Masters, another member of the expedition, it was she that suggested that the group spend the summer months in the relatively cool Kenyan uplands. They would afford her a wonderful opportunity to use some new lenses to photograph African wildlife. That was one of the many talents that she had. Now, the papers may have had conflicting stories about this, but this is why they went to Kenya in the first place. And of course, once they got there, the group indudiciously entered a dubious territory and alas paid for it with their lives. Wow. This was lots of information. I just couldn't help you. You laughed about what they found out

about the sorcerers. Sounds so silly. Can you tell me more about the sorcerer? Yes, your foundation didn't give any credence to this theory of Carlyle's at all? No, no. But you funded it. Well, we funded it because Carlyle, I think Sir Aubrey took a bit of a shine to Carlyle. And even Sir Aubrey didn't believe in these myths and legends, but he was very interested in that time period. You know, in our studies, we found there were many mentions of the gods and, you know, all these stories that would seem rather ludicrous to our society today. And now some people still believe in those things, but as we do more research,

we get to the truth of the matter. And I think that's what Sir Aubrey was Mainly interested in it was we were happy to sort of take mr. Carlisle's money as it were But his his interest was earnest However, it ended up being sir. Aubrey's downfall aligning himself with that fool Now breaking out of the scene for a moment We've been given to understand based on the papers and things that we've seen that the justice meted out on the locals who were executed for the murder of the Carlisle expedition.

We get the sense that that was a total miscarriage of justice and that these people were blamed for what seems to be a much more mysterious murder, yeah? Yeah, you've got that sense that they needed a Patsy, because Erika Carlisle went over there to try and find out what happened to her brother, even though their relationship was strained, and she wanted answers, and it seems like they got those answers, or enough that they were like,

all right, case closed. And so it was only really Jackson and Elias that was like, they're still alive, or all this other nonsense. You haven't heard anybody else mention it. Right. Mr. Kevgen, I wonder if you've heard any of the strange rumors circulating that members of the expedition have been seen. No, no, I have not heard that.

You've been breathing in too much of the scoop mr. Villiers. Hmm We we have had the pleasure of looking at mr. Mahoney's outfit but um Yeah, it seems as though there some mysteries remain still swirling round the expedition Um, can you tell me any more about precisely what it was that they were searching for? What this lover of Carlisle's was coaxing them to one earth? To be honest, Mr. Villiers, the vast share of the expedition's records were sadly lost in the incident. Sir Aubrey took all of that along with him to work on. I wasn't even privy to most of that. He wanted to bring that with him while matters were still fresh in his mind. I suppose this is what Mr. Elias as well would have loved to get his hands on. Well, wherever Sawberry's

remains are, there is that research. Does the Foundation, did you retrieve anything from what they uncovered? Are there any artifacts or papers from the expedition? The expedition did turn up some interesting artifacts from other periods and they were able to dig up a number of test trenches to help continue Sir Aubrey's systematic study of d'Arche. They also found some secondary sites in the way to the west of the Giza pyramids and some of the artifacts we brought back were loaned to the British Museum, while a few of the lesser pieces came to reside right here

in the Pennu private collection. They're not on display at the moment. They're being curated and readied, but someday they'll take their place in our display upstairs. You should, if you have any time, check out the Egyptian collection. It's quite impressive, it's a subject you're interested in.

We've had the pleasure, Mr. Gavigan, of looking over your public collection, but you're saying the Carlisle artifacts are not on public display. Yes, they're not for the public eye just yet. They're a series of things we do whenever artifacts and whatnot come back from Egypt. They have to go through rigorous testing and whatnot before they are put on display, studied. A very wise policy indeed, and here glancing at the safe. One can never be too careful.

But given that we are interested parties, friends of the estimable Mr. Elias and I myself a personal acquaintance of Miss Erica Carlisle. I was. Personal acquaintance of Miss Erica Carlisle. Personal acquaintance of Miss Erica Carlisle? Oh, I didn't realize this. Did she know Mr. Lies? I don't believe she ever had the pleasure, but all of us, Miss Sower as well, recently attended a Thet at her estate.

That's interesting. Mr. Carlisle's sister is a woman of means as well. I didn't realize you were a high society New Yorker as well, Mr. Vaughan. And all of you attended this FET by Ms. Carlisle. So much to say that given that we are interested parties with close connections to the expedition, I was wondering if we might be able to look at these things that are in the society of yours as a private collection. Well, to be honest, a lot of those items are still being catalogued to be sent into the Egyptian Museum. Even I would not be able to view them. There are some lesser miracles that were brought to England though. If you'd like to see them, I could show you back to the exhibition hall on your way out if we are finished here. You yourself have not even looked at them? No.

But they are on the premises. Yes, they are. But again, it's the temperature. There's a lot that goes into it. terribly gauche for that to happen. Luckily, we have someone who is well noted for their care of rigorous care of artworks and is an artist themselves. Oh, you're an artist, an artist and a researcher. An artist and a researcher. It started out as just trying to get inspiration for my art and then I just fell in love with the subject matter and traveling with these people. So Egyptian art in particular interests you? Yeah.

Fascinating. What about the Carlisle expedition influences your art? Oh, about the Carlisle expedition influences your art? Oh, about the Carlisle expedition? Yes, I'm just trying to make the connection here. I'm not sure if you're familiar with de Broek and oh my god, what's the thing that's happening right now? With art. That the guy, what was his? The art guy?

Oh, my worship is surrealism. Surrealism, oh, and so with abstract expressionism and surrealism and just trying to pull inspiration for making dark subject matter, also in an abstract, expressive way. I wanted to find inspiration where my peers were not pulling it from. And I found that in my travels to Peru. And yeah. Yes.

Peru as well. So much to say that we are parties who will treat artifacts like this with the utmost respect as we are experts in the field. And as a personal friend of Miss Carlyle, seeing as you've relied on generous grants from that family before, a word from us might open those coffers again if you had the mind to call in favor with us. Um, so, perhaps if you had a mind to do us a good turn, we could do one as well. Well, you are persistent, Mr. Villiers. Um, I don't know how long you will be here in London, but there is a chance that some

of those artifacts may be making their way back here as I said the lesser curiosities I can show you on your way out But the other stuff I sadly that it just isn't here right now But when it arrives you'll have to leave me your card and I will I will reach out to you and we I'm sure we could set something up Can I can I roll something to see if he's lying? Yeah, be a psychology check The Margot you can roll it too like skyfall shit. Holy smoke. I got a hard success for under 11 hard Success I got a 50 under

Where is it? Where is it? Where is it 53? All right hard success in a regular success kind of think He's not telling the truth. Mm-hmm. And you don't know, but you don't know the motive why. Yeah. It could be like he just doesn't want outsiders touching those things and he's going to blow you off, assuming that you'll never come back. Or maybe he's trying to hide

something. You're not quite sure, but his sort of charm makes it difficult to navigate what's going on here. But he's definitely not being completely forthcoming with you. Well, it's nice to hear that you have very unique and strict rules regarding your artifacts. When I was in school studying all sorts of things art-wise, we were able to, you know, touch artifacts and get special access to things, much easier than this. So it is nice to see you taking care of such things in a unique way. Yes. I imagine they do things a little bit differently in Germany.

And we cut back to the library with Ferruz. Carter, looking around. Ferruz, you're in the library. You've already done your library use role. You've already kind of figured out the system here. You just need time. So now let's do one of your other like specialty roles that sort of link to your education. What's one what's one that you think really works well here? I can't remember.

Do you have like Egyptology or? I have an occult role I could do maybe. I have cryptology not Egyptology specifically. Egyptology, okay. Whatever you think is best out of library use, occult or cryptology. Let's do an occult role. That's fun. Okay.

God damn it. I failed. Failed. Failed hard, so I can't. While stealthing into this library after lying to P, do you wanna push that rule? I do. Roll. I do, so.

And you was too much to spend luck on, right? Too much, yeah, I'm not gonna spend 30 plus points on that one. Keep that economy, keep that luck economy flying now Let's see what what how what would feyreuse do to push this role looking around oh, how about this how about? Carter's just like I don't know how it how visually I can tell you failed a book roll, but Like ah feyreuse Jesus. I thought you were good at this shit Book roll, but it's like ah fair is Jesus. I thought you were good at this shit

Something like rile you up. You know what I mean, so now I roll for feminism Yeah, I don't know if you saw me earlier crush my library Check there, I don't even I can't remember the last time I went to school Maybe she's wanting to not be bested by by and also just really, you know what, she was so thrown off by him thinking that people are on a urination cycle and not a like, a sink instead of a menstrual cycle sink. Maybe she just collects herself, you know, maybe flips through some of her notes that she had taken down to just kind of like re-center her focus on what she's looking for, uh, and then try again.

Okay. I'm fine with that. Okay. Success. Yes. Yeah. Success. You're fumbling about the books and you're just when you thought that you kind of figured it out, you're just like, oh, there's nothing here.

But then you notice a book that has several dog-eared pages and then several pages missing. But there's one page that's like still hanging on just by a, like you could just pull it right out if you wanted to. Like almost like it was meant to be ripped out but it was left behind. Let's go over to the VTT and see what you see. Oh, interesting. Go ahead and give that a read, Nora. Rumors continue to persist regarding the French tourists involved in the incident at Saqqara,

so badly handled by Mr. Howard Carter, the events of which led to his resignation as chief inspector of Lower Egypt earlier this year. It is beyond the scope of this letter to comment on whether or not there is any truth to the tourists having been members of an occult society so beloved by the French in the latter part of the 19th century. However, we can say with certainty that there is not and never has been any corroborated evidence for a so-called black Pharaoh who, sorry, I just lost my place at the worst spot, for a so-called black Pharaoh who ruled during the Third Dynasty. This figure is merely gobbled folk tales used to frighten naughty

children in the same way that we use stories of Black Shock and Black Annas in dear old England. It's a book titled, Proceeding on the Antiquities Service of Lower Egypt. Sticks out at you. And now you said that this is like an easily just like a yoinkable piece of paper. Very yoinkable. All right, then I shall proceed to yoink.

And I kind of like wave it over at Carter and then like pocket it. You see, I brought the best out of you. Put things back. Yes, it's quite, quite inspired me, sadly. You make your way back to the office or do you fake pee? Maybe go fake pee and come back out in case there are eyes on us.

Plus the toilet. Why did I eat? Make a big scene and then come back to the office. You're coming in as just. Carter at the faucet was just like sprinkled his crotch. Make it really believable. When we walk in just like, sorry guys, as you can see, a little bit clumsy.

I'd say I was jet lagged if we didn't take a boat here. He pulls out his pocket watch and he's like, well, I do appreciate your time here, Mr. Villiers, thank you for, you play off to get me one of those cards once you have one. Yes, in a day or two, I'll be, Mr. Villiers, thank you for... You play off to get me one of those cards once you have one. Yes, in a day or two, I'll be right back. Yes, and you can always call and speak to Mr. Kennery,

and we could set something up again. Who? My door is... Not familiar. My door is... The foundation's doors are always open to you, and again, I am sorry to hear about your friend. I feel as if I haven't done much help, but yes, if you'd like to see those other things,

I can show you upstairs. We've had the pleasure. Oh. And that he is indicating the stuff we saw, right? Yeah, like you feel like he's just going to show you what he already saw, you want to see what he's not showing you. We've taken a part from one of your very precious time and Mr. Tillinghouse clearly needs to get cleaned up. So. I'm a mess.

Look at you. You silly American not used to the British bathrooms. Well, it has been a pleasure and Ms. Sauer, you'll have to let me know if you're ever doing an exhibition here. I don't consider myself a man of the arts, as it were, but I do enjoy taking in a gallery from time to time. I enjoy the finer things, so please keep me abreast of your work. Certainly, if it has anything to do with Egypt, perhaps the foundation could get involved. Oh, that would be nice. Yes. Here, she draws out a business card because we don't have Christian ones yet.

Charming. Well, I have some of the business to attend to, but thank you. Good day. Mr. Kidderig will show you up. He's tar, good day. Mr. Kiddering will show you up. He's Taa, you know. And Thomas is like, yes, I'm actually quite busy. The moment's not to be rude, but you know your way. Oh my god, I didn't even see you there. Jesus. Yes.

Thank you, good luck in whatever it is you are up to. When you walk out into the hallway and again there's that like stairway leading up to the gallery and that red, that like lone weird red door. And you just see security guards walking back and forth and the doorman picks up a phone like right near his station and he turns to look at the four of you. It says, ah, right this way. Okay. Yeah.

I suppose we do have an appointment to keep. I don't think they would ever tell us anything else. He seems to not like us at all and was withholding information and it's just frustrating. I feel like all our answers are here but no one is giving us anything. Mr. Gavigan is definitely not saying all he knows. There are artifacts from the Carlyle expedition that they brought back that are not on public display. Certainly not that ramshackle yard sale they've got upstairs. If they have things they're not showing.

As we exit, like when we're outside, I want to be like, I wonder if we can come here tonight and try to break in. I like the cut of your jib. He did have that safe, and he seemed awful nonchalant about all of these people mysteriously dying and not a mention. As though, oh, it wasn't worth his time. And what's up with this red door?

You see, if it wasn't marched by by a failing security person, I'd want to slip in myself. Quite a bit of security for an academic foundation. Yeah, weird. The suspicions truly mount. I say, I'm rather inclined to return under cover of darkness,

but no peeing on anything Tilling has. I can't make any promises. No, no promises there. Although it did, speaking of, things at which I, like, has no eye, but just the peeing excuse to leave, I did find this little possible lead. It said, we are talking about seeing if there was anything

regarding a black pharaoh. It mentions it specifically here. Now, it chalks us off as being rubbish, but it does mention a incident with French tourists, incident at Saqqara, one handled by Mr. Howard Carter. So I don't know if this is something that we could possibly look into for some answers. Yes.

Yes, the black flair-o sounds, uh, familiar. Yeah, it's all too familiar. I should very much like to pay a visit to this Mr. Carter. Do we know where Saqqara is? Is that like a city or is that a building? Saqqara. Do we know? Is it like, yeah, is there something like we could look up by location to see like what news articles that popped up at that time?

I think that I just, I think I'm just going to give it to you because I imagine Feroz would know this. Saqqara is an Egyptian village and there are pyramids there. The Saqqara pyramids, it's sometimes spelled S-A-Q-Q-A-R-A or S-A-K-K-A-R-A. But the Saqqara pyramids are sort of a treasure trove of archaeological wonders. You've certainly heard about that whether you went in depth about it. And they did make mention about a cult society. That's our jam.

It sure is. I love that you rolled in a cult roll and the word cult was in the thing. It's kind of perfect. You guys are walking outside after you're ushered by the doorman. You kind of walk towards the front gate. I'm gonna give you a spot hidden roll. I love a spot hidden roll. I love a spot hidden. So hard.

Let me just make sure. Oh yeah. six under 69 Nice, that's extreme. Yeah, I just wanted to say hard All right six under six nine any other successes yeah under 80 I Did not I got a 19 under 28? Okay, all right, so Ferruz and Carter you notice at the same time as Margo, just this like dark blue truck that's kind of pulling around and like going towards the back of the building.

It just like looked like there were, the guys inside just look kind of shady, like kind of out of place here. And Margo, you notice that there's writing on the truck that says Ferris and Sons, whether that's important or not, you know, Ferris and Sons. And the car, the truck kind of pulls around and it goes towards the back of the building and you can hear it like parking. What really jumped out to you was the the guys inside look they didn't look like the people in this neighborhood.

They sit here and they have all these rules that we can't go see the artifacts but these these men in a blue van are pulling in. Should we give up? Should we just give a little peeky? See what they're little? Stroll? Strange comings and goings. Now that you brought my attention to it, I was distracted by a cloud. Yeah, let's go around the building

and see if we can peek in. Coincidentally, that cloud also looked like a truck. Yes. Stealthily. Ah, wonder is all around you. Quietly. You go around the building, do you want to do a stealthier? No, sure.

Yeah. Let's do a group stealth. Who has the worst stealth? I have 46. It's probably me. I've got 24. Oh yeah. Yeah.

I have 60. All right. Give me your stealth there, Vaughn. All right. Yes, as you'd imagine, a failure, 77 over 24. All right. So you're just kind of like you're on this main street and Vaughn, you go, you're with them.

You're like, there's really no place to hide here, but you do your best to just kind of look around the corner. And what I'll say is from the result of that failed roll, you go up around the corner and you see them like a gate being opened and the van driving into the gate and being closed. Now, I mentioned that there was like a wall that surrounded the premises of the Penhew Foundation. I can't remember what the height of it was, 8, 10 feet or whatever. It certainly could be scalable but you run the risk of drawing even more attention to

yourself. It might not be something you want to do as a group, the four of you, if you even want to look, because at this point, failure could mean you'd be spotted. Right now, you just saw the van pull into a backyard area. All right. Good to know. Maybe we can make friends with Ferris and Son at some point and gets in there. Yes. Or at the very, at least see what we're working with if we're trying to seek in here later. Yes.

So you kind of pop that away in your head and you've got an appointment with Inspector Barrington. Unless there's anything else you want to do here. Maybe you're going to come back and break it later. The mystery is... It's looking that way. The mystery is that way. If there's a... I don't know if there's a... Let's see. Is there any kind of cool skill? Like since it's daytime, it's probably the best time to case it. You know what I mean? Like look

for points of egress or whatever. Yeah. And if you do it, if while you're back you're back there you just like oh, we're just walking around Checking out the neighborhood. You see that there is this the double This gate that leads to the backyard And in fact the gate you can see through the gate portion So if you're gonna do a full circle you see a couple of gentlemen Lingering outside of this van that says Ferris and Sons on it. And let's see here what I want to tell you. Also, I mean, is there like a security guard walking the outside area?

No, no, there's just the doorman outside and there were a couple of security inside on both floors. But first thing you notice as you're walking by, because you don't want to linger and stare, is that the men are like this. They look to be like Indian or Arab, perhaps, and they're just standing there smoking cigarettes, kind of loitering and then you also notice looks like a big crate is being loaded onto the van or off the van. It's hard to tell. Like there's a crate there if you want to linger a little bit more you'll know which way it's going. But just, you know, like I said, the gentleman driving

the van is what jumped out at you. You know, like I said, the gentleman driving the van is what jumped out at you. I'm wondering, and I'll in character ask for your opinion on this. So possibility that that is an Arab gentleman. And culturally, I mean, we do like to acknowledge each other and just try to have a small talk and when we do see each other out and about. So I could go over there and try to converse with him and just see what he's up to. I don't know how useful that would be and I don't even know if it's a good idea, but there's a slight possibility that it might work. You're probably about 20, 25 feet away from you behind a locked behind a gate.

But you could be like, hey, hey. Yeah, and I'll speak and I'll say and you don't know, I'm just going to do all of this in English, but assume like to the listener, it's all in Arabic. I'll just greet him in Arabic and just say like, hey, how's it going? And he's looking at the van. He hears his mother tongue and he sees you as well. And it's like, he says something to the guy and the guy's like, and he walks over, he's like, hello. Do you work here?

Can we, can the rest of us sort of like shuffle away? Just so she's sort of by herself. Yeah, like a stuntman. Yeah. Oh, no, I don't work here. I just, I don't know why I'm doing it in an accent, in an English accent. Also, I'm just, oh no, I just, I don't work here. I just, I don't know why I'm doing it in an accent, in an English accent.

Oh no, I just, I don't work here. I had an appointment. I was just, but I don't often run into Arabic people very often. So where are you from? I'm Egyptian. Where are you from? I'm from here now. All over, all over. Right now, this is my home.

You are very beautiful. Oh no, I mean, I knew what I was getting into. Oh, boy, now. Thank you, that's very kind. I'm not from here, I live American. I live in America now actually. I can hear it in your accent. You are visiting or? Yeah, just on a little research, little business, but also I'm here

with my fiance, who is, I am meeting with later, right after, but, yeah, no, I was actually just in this. Guy yells and he's like, oh, sorry, they need me. And he just says something, goodbye in Arabic, and he's like, enjoy your vacation. And he goes and he like puts the cigarette out and he's kind of running back and he's like good enjoy your vacation and he goes and he like puts the cigarette out He's kind of running back and he's helping the guys load a crate on to The Ferris and Sons fan. Oh, well if you need a hand like I and I just do this to get a little closer Can I like see what?

It just looks like a pretty heavy crate that needs like four or five guys to help Load on there in, it looks like some of the people, some of the guards or people that work at the foundation are helping load this fan. It's kind of, you know, as you're taking in the scene, casing the joint, this is kind of what you see. And by lingering there and having an opportunity to talk to that guy, you got to actually see which direction it's going so nice I'm gonna go back now my fiance Alright so you you guys go back and like after a couple minutes the gates open up and

the van comes out and just goes. Perhaps we could also pay a call on the storefront of Ferris and Sands. Perhaps you could, yes. We'll say we come up on the exterior of the whole Scotland Yard. So hard to find anything here. I want to ask something Troy. Feel free to like, I know, feel free to decline this. But Egyptians have a very distinct dialect. Okay. Like, specifically, like if they're speaking Arabic and there's like a J sound, if they're going to say it as a soft like, he, I would have to like, would I pick up on it?

So like, do is he Egyptian? Are they? Yes, 100%. Now, the other guy was definitely of Indian descent or like maybe Southeast Asian not not definitely not Egyptian, whereas this guy has been a little coy about it. Definitely Egyptian. Okay. And while I was answering your question, I didn't find what I was looking for. It's only a 138 page Google Doc. As we're walking up, I'm just saying we see the old Scotland Yard building abutted a field by the name of Scotland Yard, hence the name.

So it's more of a, it's the name of the locale of the original building Esti do the found it all right, so old Scotland yard you show up at the New Scotland yarn on the Victoria embankment and You are led inside and brought to inspector Barrington you're like you sit down in a small little office area and moments later a man comes in and he's thin as well. He's got kind of a clipped mustache, weary eyes like he hasn't slept and has a shabby suit on, just a brown suit and he says, please sit down.

May I ask what brings those of you to London who aren't from here? Well, it's quite a tale. We are, like I said on the phone, it's, by the way, Carter Tilly Haste. Killing Haste. Yes. Sometimes I say it with a K. That's from the old country. We are, as I said, friends of Jackson Elias, who we know is here looking into some things. I guess you could call us detectives as well from America. Who rolls his eyes?

Oh, I'm sorry. Is that just a mistrust of the Americans' ability to deduction? Just because you guys have fucking Sherlock Holmes? Well, no, I apologize. I kind of wear my emotions on my face, but I've tried to deal with the New York Police Department in the past. Oh, please. Found them rather, well, they're not run as tightly as we are.

No, tell me, they are just a bunch of fools, if you will. We had our own run-ins with them as well. So Mr. Tillinghast and others, what exactly was your involvement with Mr. Elias? When you mentioned him, it took me aback. I saw news of his murder and I just spoke to him about a month before. Horrible. I made some inquiries with your New York police department, but I wasn't given much information. It was part of a string of murders, perhaps.

What if anything do you know of his murder? Who is he to you? A good friend. Someone that we went on an expedition with to Peru. He takes out a pen and is just kind of like listening and... friend, someone that we went on an expedition with to Peru. And then- He takes out a pen and is just kind of like listening and- You don't have to write any of this down.

This is just more of an anecdote than it is. And it kind of- is this evidence what's going on? Don't mind me. I just- creature of habit. Might be nothing. Might as well be just scribbling. Okay, well, you seem like a good chap We yes, so we went to Peru had some adventures with him there

Unfortunately, we're all in New York at the time of his passing and did because of the aforementioned Ineptitudes of the NYPD had to take matters into our own hands and discovered the involvement of a cult that were guilty of his murder. Kind of sits back in his chair. Tell me more about this cult. Yes, it was called the Cult of the Bloody Ton. And actually upon our arrival here on your shores, we discovered that you guys are having your own little bits of problems. I can see with this

scanning quickly Something going on here with some Murders That have been Is the potentially murders Egyptian related Egyptian murders? Yes. Yes I have been investigating what has come to be known as the Egyptian murders for nearly a year. A year?

Yes. My predecessor on the case, a man by the name of Inspector Gregory Munson, a good inspector, and a dear friend. He disappeared mysteriously during the investigation. It was his before it was mine. Sounds familiar. He's never been found. I assume he got too close to the culprit or culprits and was assassinated.

Thus this case has become rather personal for me. I take my involvement in it very seriously as I have no intention of ending up like Inspector Munson. seriously, as I have no intention of ending up like Inspector Monson. But to be fair, I am kind of at my wits end with it, which is why I took this meeting in the first place. Well, look no further, because we are the Mystery Squad, and our job is to solve mysteries. We have so much in common with... But we know how we came to be in the situation with investigating something and stumbling upon it and I feel like you and I could, we could all help each other.

And where are you from? Oh, I'm, I'm, I'm from Germany. Germany. Shield talk. Okay. And you young lady, did you find the bathroom over? Oh yes, I just, uh... Sorry, I didn't have to pee.

You know, usually we go in groups for cycles. Alright, I've heard that's an American thing, but you travel together and you all pee at the same time. Anyhow, yes, what I was saying to your friends is that, you know, we've been investigating this for a while and I'm kind of at a loss. There have been very little leads and the leads that we have had have all led to dead ends. When you mentioned Mr. Elias on the phone, I jumped at the opportunity because he was

one of the few people I spoke to that seemed to be interested in this as well, so this may lead to nothing, but I was happy to take the call. However, you know, I should warn you, this is not something to take lightly. I don't know if your interest is just in finding out more about what happened to Mr. Elias or in what is happening here in London, but I would tread carefully either way. Oh, we are the carefulest of treaders. Don't get me wrong. I mean, that's part of why we're here is to keep following these threads and to

make sure what happened to Jackson and perhaps to your partner doesn't happen to anyone else. Well, I guess that's what I'm saying. Mr. Tillinghass is like leave the police work to the detectives, leave that to Scotland Yard. Otherwise... Yes, but perhaps if we could share information, it seems to me that if you are hitting a wall with the New York constabulary, which we found to be riven with corruption down to its very

core, we may be able to assist you with what we know with our rather intimate knowledge of the unfortunate death of Mr. Elias and of so many innocent New Yorkers. A little quid pro quo, which makes sense because you guys have the quid as part of your monetary funds, no? Very good, Mr. Tillyhast. Well, let me ask you, what do you know? You mentioned a cult, that this murder was somehow tied up in a cult, if he looks down at his notes, of the Bloody Tom. Perhaps you could tell me what you know, and then I will discuss with you some things that I talked to Mr. Eliza about.

I will. We did actually see them in some of the members in person. I talked to Mr. Elias about it. I will. We did actually see them in some of the members in person. I'm sorry, what? You saw some of these cult members. You saw the murder? You're not talking to some amateurs here. We got into some scraps. Surely you don't mean you saw the murder? We saw upon the body of Mr. Elias, found his murdered body, saw those who took his life escaping.

And what's more, we were able to track them to their very native root and source. Is that so? It seems your papers are as corrupt as your police department. There was no mention of witnesses. It's written off. That's because we're professionals at staying secret. And also because the circumstances around the case, very strange credulity. But I swear to you that what we saw is true. A strange occultic organization that seems African in origin, operating out of New York,

killed Mr. Elias for getting too close to them. And they were kidnapping other people in the city and killing them. We believe they're not just confined to New York, but would have ties to other places around the world. And you said to yourself, there are strange occurrences happening here. Well, this- It's clear that this organization may be global

in its ambitions. Clearly, friends, Mr. Elias, because your theories and research, as it were ever seem to align with what he said. Now mind you I only talked with him briefly but he had come not unlike you inquiring about his murders and it was his belief that they were ritual killings conducted by an Egyptian death cult. What does he call it? There it is. The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. And we'll see you next week. My God.

Troy! We're all coming together. Scaladiar! It's new! Finally gonna get an answer. Oh boy! Fool coming together. Scrawlodyard! It's new! Finally gonna get an answer. Now we can all go to the bathroom at the same time. All of us together. We'll see you next week everybody!

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