The Glass Cannon Podcast - Time For Chaos S2 | E6 – Hearts and Clubs

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

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You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Good evening everybody, it's Friday night and it's time for Chaos. Do you guys like documentaries? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, definitely. I'm a docu-series. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah.

Sure. But have I got one for you. Oh, here we go. Love a hot rec. Maybe you've seen it one for you. Oh, here we go. Love a hot rack. Maybe you've seen it. Maybe you haven't. Maybe you've only heard tell of the curious case of Natalia Grace.

Have you heard about this? Yes, I have. All right. So I just finished season two. I won't tell you if there's going to be a season three or not, but it is fantastic. It's great. I eat this shit up and it's so done just to keep you watching every single episode. There's 12 episodes altogether. They're about an hour long and it's about – without spoiling anything, this family adopted a little girl from the

Ukraine who had dwarfism. Over the course of, again, I don't want to spoil anything, over the course of a certain amount of time, they believe her to be an adult posing as a dwarf and go through this process to try and re-age her to an adult and let her fend for herself. But then there's all these other allegations of abuse and know she actually was a child and you've got to see it. It is so imminently watchable. I highly recommend.

The dad is so unhinged. The dad is so off the wall. It's on Max or HBO or whatever they call it now. It's on Max, or HBO, or whatever they call it now. It's great. I mean, it's just like you watch it and there's so many people you hate and there's so many people you're just waiting for them to get their comeuppance. And then the whole time, until a certain point, but even then, you're just constantly trying to figure out who's in the wrong and what the real story is.

And to me, that's a mark of a great doc. You guys have any other, any other recs? Specifically in the docu-series genre? Yeah, something you've watched lately that's really well, what's the one that's really popular right now? That's like the cult and she's not narrow at all. Next is it? They found her like zombified.

The cult of mother god. The one where she drank so much silver. Yeah, that part was interesting. But like, that one got a lot of hype and it was good, but it got so much hype that when I watched it, I was like, well, they never explained how they took her eyeballs out. I feel like we're missing a lot of this introductory description. It's a deep analysis of the mummification process. Yeah. Like the intro scene was like, this is a mummification process. Yeah. The intro scene was like, this is a mummified person in a room and then it goes backwards

to like this is how the cult started and this is her background and then it just ends and never explains how they mummified her. I was interested in that. What channel is this on and what is it called? I'm ending this call to go watch it. I think it's on Hulu. I think it's called Love Has Won. Oh, wait, is that on Netflix. I think it's on Lulu. I think it's called Love Has Won. Oh, wait, is that on Netflix? I think it's on Netflix.

I think it's on Netflix. Yeah, I think it's a Netflix one. Netflix. The cult of mother God. Yeah. Love Has Won. The cult of mother God. And that's an odd sort of cultic group because a lot of it was conducted only on the internet, but there was a tiny cadre of people around her. Yeah. And their dynamic was just kind of this mutually destructive toxic cycle. There was another one that I watched right before that. I don't remember the name of it. Maybe someone else has watched it that it's another cult one, but this one was better

in my opinion. They were like, it was all about twin flames. Oh yes, the twin flames. I saw that one. That one. I miss this. I watch every cult one. That one went- Escaping twin this. I watch every cut one.

That one went. Escaping Twin Flames. You thought you knew what it was halfway through and then it just like. Got to write this down. Flips upside down. You're like, they did what to people? I love a cult docuseries. Oh yeah.

I mean, have any of you seen the one on the cult One Taste? No. One Taste. How have I not seen these? Is that a boy band? Of course Ross knows the really obscure these? Is that a boy band? Of course Ross knows the really obscure. It sounds like a boy band, doesn't it?

It was started as a relatively innocent yoga thing, but it – It always is. We're treading now into risque territory, so viewer beware. The first result says One Taste tastes the orgasm cult. Yes it was it was devoted to people unlocking the potential of their orgasms and like people having like orgasms that last for hours and But believe it or not. I'm sorry. Is that not normal? To ascended humans like Rob, this is a, it's very, he's not writing the ways of climax,

but the one taste people will teach you how to reach Rob's level. But yeah, believe it or not, there was some shady stuff going on. Shocking. Get right out of here. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Good cult doc is great because you watch it happening and you're like, they're going to

end up in a cult. Just you watch. I don't think I've done one since the Jinx. That's the last big one that I'm behind. Wow. You are very behind. That's the one that kind of reignited the love of cult stuff. I was like, it's never getting better than this.

I'm out. Or docu's rather. Another classic. They're coming to take me away. That's the orgasm people. You're sharing our secrets. One taste is coming to take me to the orgasm bunker. Oh, the promo clip that we're going to air for this episode. Yeah. I mean, you all seen the staircase?

Staircase. great. I love that one. Classic. That is fantastic. And man, I wish we could just talk about it. I'm curious, do you think he did it? And they made a live action version of it with Colin Firth, right, as the guy? Oh, that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I've heard of it.

Yeah. Is it allowed on YouTube or whatever for us to do a live watch and like comment as we're watching? Because that would be fun. I just don't know if it's legal. Some videos are allowed, some aren't. Like I think if it's on Amazon Prime, you can do it on Twitch because they have a partnership. But I don't know, I mentioned there's different rules for YouTube.

If it falls under YouTube's peer view, you might be able to. What about the keepers? If you want to get real dark. Oh, I've seen that one too. Catholic church kind of dark. Oh yes, yes. Yeah. Nope, nope. No thanks. Oh, it's on Netflix. Yeah.

Yep. Really, really upsetting. No, okay. We've been talking about a lot of dark stuff, but in order to cleanse our palette, perhaps, you want to talk obscure, relatively obscure, on criterion or whatever, look up the documentaries of Les Blank. These are the best documentaries I've ever seen. They're basically about hyperfixations on something really small and innocent. There's one called Garlic as Good as Ten Mothers, which is a documentary all about people who love garlic a lot. There's one called Gap Good as 10 Mothers, which is a documentary all about people who love garlic a lot. There's one called Gap-Toothed Woman,

which is all about the beauty of having a gap between your two front teeth. There's some one called Yum Yum Yum, which is all about Cajun cooking. And there's a whole bunch of music ones. Are they shorts? They're about 20 minutes long each, but they were all, most of them were shot in the 70s

and they're just great like little time capsules And they're really endearing and uh and and sweet Well, that sounds good, but no murder and sex no murder Some of some of the music ones are a little a little raunchy Yeah, I mean you just google like best cult docs ever and I mean there's just five of them you've seen and five of you haven't and makes you just want to, what makes it so watchable? I think it's because like you don't want to be in a cult, right? Let's just assume that no one in this group wants to be in a cult.

However, you kind of want to attend a meeting just to see these people up close and be like, be kind of courted. Do you know what I mean? To kind of see what it's like, like how, what happens where it's just like, is it, you think it's a need for like belonging, a need for connection and it's just that that's provided to you. And then it's like, it's all of a sudden you're branding your friend, like how it takes years to get to that point. But yeah,

we live in a chaotic world where people are very atomized and lonely and having a system that provides for you a totalizing way of seeing the world and a community that's going to be like, Hey, you're amazing. You're the best. And a set of rules that tell you that you're succeeding within this very constrained of rules that tell you that you're succeeding within this very constrained little community. I think everybody's susceptible. Yeah, because you could see the Manson family, right? These were runaways and strays, and it was like, come here, we'll be the family that you don't have. But then you've got Nixxiom

and stuff where there were highly educated people in these things. They were doctors. Or like Heaven's Gate. So many of those people were like academics and scientists and yeah. There's always like a level of vulnerability involved. Like no matter like, I guess their background or like their education, it's like if they're at a point in their life where like they just got into a car accident

and it totally like messed up their life or shook them up. And now they're in this vulnerable spot where someone can swoop in and be like, I've got all the answers. And it's your twin flame. Yeah. Or whatever. I'm watching that tonight.

And only we can tell you who it is. Did you guys ever get into How To with John Wilson, also on Max? No. That is amazing. Because every single episode, he ends up finding some group of weirdos that have found their own little niche group. I mean, it's not like every episode, but I feel like he finds like the scaffolding union

or he finds the guys who want to like, like who got circumcised but are trying to reverse circumcision themselves or something. Or the avatar that he finds people that are like so an avatar they know how to speak Navi. Right. Who want to like on Tandora. Or like the people who love vacuums. Like he just always ends up inserting himself in these amazing niche groups.

This is a spoiler so feel free to skip ahead but in the very last episode one of my favorites of these is he finds a group of people that are into cryogenic freezing. All of them have signed onto this company to have their bodies frozen to be thawed out in the future when Utopia has risen. But it just looks like a convention, like a sales convention. They've got brochures and stuff. He goes and sees some of the tanks, some of which are shaped like coffins, but some of

which are shaped like hat boxes. He's like, so are these just, are these just, yes, the heads. Those are just the heads. And, but my favorite part is there's an entertainer at the convention who sings a parody song of Please Please Me. The Beatles Please Please Me has Please Freeze Me. Please freeze me. Oh yeah. And I'll freeze you. Please, please, please. It's amazing. I'm kind of into that. Listen, you get thrown in a box. You're just going to rot.

You get burned. You're not coming back from that. You get frozen. There's a chance. There's a chance. But what else could you do with that money? Well, that's the thing. The cost makes it a little trickier.

Yeah. But everlasting life? That's is a little trick. Yeah. But everlasting. That's a feature of me's problem. Right. Maybe you'd invest in the company and you get like a freebie or you can bring a friend. I think that's what they actually do. It's all about cheating death, you know, as it's in human nature. And you know, who else did that? The Egyptians, pharaohs, pyramids, etc. That's why you get paid the big bucks.

Of which. We ended last week on a rather abrupt cliffhanger, but I just thought it tied in really well to where the beginning of the episode started and I was like, get out. Why don't you get that cliffy run? And where do we start? Where do we start from last week? I got to look at my Michael notes, because there's just so much going on. I hope you guys have several journals

with handwritten or in crayon with everything that's going on. We start off last week's app. We're going to get into cults in a second. We're talking about cults. I mean, cults are a huge part of Kala Kathulu, because there are people who truly believe that there are these these elder gods, these outer gods, these beings that transcend humanity, that predate humanity, transcend time and

space, and that they are coming and if you just pray to them that they you'll be saved while everybody else is wiped out. The difference is in this game those beings really do exist and so you dealt with this in New York You dealt with the the cult of the bloody tongue and now at the end of last episode you hear about this other cult But I'm getting ahead of myself the episode begins with Margo and Feyreuse in the Waldorf in London Well Carter and Vaughn are in snoozeville Hearing a sound coming to the living room, seeing a being sitting in a high back chair, approaching said being with a lamp and remote control,

I can't remember what Marco had. And all of a sudden the room gets like shifted around and you are in an Egyptian temple perhaps. And this being is still sitting in a high back chair, but at the top of a dais. And it is a being that is composed of pure blackness, except for the gold clothing, robes, and headdress that it wears. You're in this temple, and you watch. It reaches out its arm to you, and you're

like trying to withstand against whatever power it's exercising. But Margo looks down and her clothing is starting to rip and she is starting to change into some sort of being. It's got purple skin, leathery purple skin, wings or something start to burst out of her back and Faeruz just watches in stunned silence. Carter and Vaughn, you come out, you don't see any of this. You just see Faeruz with her eyes in the back of her head Floating slightly off the ground and Margo just like silently ripping at her skin and her clothes

You shake them out of it and find out what they see That's the morning of day two in England When you when you really get into how much time we spent it's like oh my god When you really get into how much time we spent, it's like, oh my God. It was only yesterday we were chopping up a lizard lady. Just the day before you were chopping up a lizard lady and bringing a stranger to an asylum. So, that's the morning of day two, the sort of overnight of day two into day three. So, you wake up on day three and you have a meeting.

You have a meeting with Edward Gavigan, the director of the Penn U Foundation. But before then, you try to make a call back to Scotland Yard to set up a meeting with Inspector Barrington. This is someone that not only Jackson Elias spoke with but also you see that Elias was interested in these Egyptian murders that Barrington was involved with because it was one of the articles that Jackson had pulled when he was hanging out with old Mickey Mahoney at the Scoop. So you get there early on purpose to the Pan U Foundation because you want to look in the library.

You're like, there's a great library here. We should probably check it out. Mr. Thomas Kinnery, Gevagan's personal assistant, greets you and is like, you're early. Oh, you want to lose the library? Sure. Go ahead. While doing so, you feel, I think it's, Faeruz gets the sense that there could be really important information here. Maybe information that connects to the vision that you saw in that, I want to say dream, but it felt all too real. It actually felt more real than any dream you've ever had.

So as you're looking, I think it's Vaughn, you fumble a roll and you rip one of the books, the curators come in and like look in horror at you. You go in and you meet Gavigan. Gavigan there's this moment where he like notices his safe is open. He's like, I'm sorry, can't ever be too careful. He closes it and you begin talking to him. Meanwhile, Carter and Feruze fake having to go to the bathroom. They're on the same peace cycle because you want to get back in that library.

You feel like you need more time. You talk to Gavigan. He explains that he did meet with Jackson Elias, that Jackson was just interested in knowing more about the Carlisle expedition and what pen you had to do with that. And you know, Gavigan kind of tells you what you already knew about the investigation, explains a little more about like what happened in Kenya, that they were just like taking a break and they went too far and then got killed. You try to press a little bit further and you get the sense that maybe Gavigan isn't

being completely forthcoming about not only information, but maybe these artifacts that came back, whether or not they're actually here or in Egypt, if they're available to be seen. He's being a little weird about it. You press, you press, you press. He's like, you know what? Let's, we'll make a, we'll make an appointment sometime once I have that stuff available. But you just get the sense that like for whatever reason, he may not be telling you everything.

Maybe it's not none of your business,. Either way, you're curious investigators. You want to know. Meanwhile, Feyrouz finally finds something in the library, a note from a page that looked like pages were ripped out of it from a book called Proceedings on the Antiquities Service of Lower Egypt, a page that mentions a black pharaoh. That's odd. You just had a dream that maybe there was a black pharaoh. That's odd, you just had a dream that maybe there was a black pharaoh. You discuss the Egyptian village of Saqqara that is mentioned in the passage and you sort

of make plans to come back and stake this place out at night and find out like what's going on here, what are the comings and goings? Speaking of comings and goings, as you leave, as you are politely escorted out, you notice a truck drive around to the back. See, the place seems pretty secure. Some shady looking dudes in the truck. You follow around kind of nonchalantly. You see on there, the truck, it says Ferris and Sons. You go to the back of the building and you see that a crate is being loaded onto that truck. Feyrouz notices one of the guys might be Egyptian, starts flirting with him a little bit. Once he finds out that you're engaged, he blows you off and goes back to the truck,

and you guys just keep walking. Then you head to Scotland Yard. You meet with Inspector Barrington, who expresses his sadness over the loss of your friend, and says, yes, I met with him. He was very interested in these Egyptian murders. And we end the episode by him saying that Jackson believed that the murders were being done by a cult

called the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. That's where we end this ep. I want to start with Rob Rob. What do you think? For our audio audience Rob Was fed up with this adventure no Yeah before we dig in Because I could just jump right back into inspector Barrington Sort of roleplay here you guys have any thoughts questions anything you want to discuss if not, we can start doing funny voices

I feel like To me, it's still kind of all over the place, but we're slowly getting to like we've at least had like three Repeating the black Pharaoh the black Pharaoh. So I'm like, oh, something's gonna, we're gonna figure something out like now or ish. I don't know. I feel like there's three things I wanna explore and that if we're gonna break into that, back into that Institute,

one is what was being shipped like that we saw being brought in. What's behind that red door has been mentioned a few times and now I'm curious. And three, what's in the safe? What's in the safe? What's in the safe? But now we're dealing with two mentioned cults here. Yeah. The Bloody Tongue and Cult of the Pharaoh, and how are they interconnected? And part of me is also, as soon as I see a box with the Ferris and Sons box truck, I'd

love to see about them as well. But also thinking back to Juju House and how they were receiving shipments from overseas. Are these are these all these places connected through lines of of the supply chain? I wonder. Rob we were just kind of going back and forth before we jump back into the inspector Barrington talk to try to get a feel on like where your head is at. What really interests you? What sort of jumping out at you right now, things you want, leads you want to pursue? Breaking into that place.

I mean, that's just, it's where Carter's most comfortable, baby. I was gonna say, I feel like your character would shine. It's been a while since we peed on stuff. Oh yeah, breaking. But the most pressing question that I've also, it's now bothering me is what freaking phone number did we put on our business cards? We keep moving around.

Right. What's the contact info? Is it just Jonah Kensington? Is everything directed back to Jonah? Oh, that's smart. That's wise. That would be the way I... Also it's a way to not give away where we're currently sleeping in case anybody tries to murder us. Waldorf, room 416. Come visit anytime. Here's our sleep schedule. Do not send dragons. Thank you. Come sit in our high-backed chair. Yeah.

Yeah, I think the hardest thing with especially a campaign like this is like there is a lot of information and it's thrown out there in a way that some of it is significant, some of it is insignificant, and some of it is you think it's one thing and over time you're going to find out it's something else. And also I think there's this impetus because we come from D&D Pathfinder worlds, like, now we know who the enemy is, let's get him! When, like, you can't, you're regular human beings, you can't do that because you could get killed.

So you have to make sure you have enough evidence so you feel really certain, not only that, like, so and so and so and so and so and so, something's not right with them, but like, you know exactly, or you, I guess you's not right with them, but like you know exactly or you I guess you can't really know exactly but you feel very confident that like I think we know like what's going on here We need to now act because if you act too soon Sometimes you can just like walk right into your death. So it's really really tricky How I will I will say over the last two episodes you've taken in so much information That it'll be interesting

to see how it blossoms today. So I'm going to pick right back up with Barrington. Barrington, you're talking to him about, so you met with Jackson Elias. He's like, yeah, I talked with him briefly. He was very interested in these Egyptian murders. He believed they were ritual killings conducted by an Egyptian death cult known as the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. And he'll continue to say, frankly, I was pretty desperate then and I am still desperate

now for leads. So I followed up. That's part of the reason why I took a meeting with you once you said that you were friends with Elias. One of the things that I regretted is not having more time to talk to him. Anyways, I got in touch with the Penhew Foundation. This is a local organization here in London

with connections to Egypt. I wanted to see if they could corroborate any of Elias's information. Are you familiar with the Foundation? Yes. We've had the pleasure, yes. The pleasure. You've visited the Pena Foundation. Yes. We've even had a meeting with Mr. Gavigan in his mysteriously unnamed factotum only earlier today. Yeah, just came from there.

Really? Well, I met with Mr. Edward Gavigan as well, and I spoke to him about my suspicions, and he confirmed that a society calling themselves the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh had once existed long ago in ancient Egypt, but that there was no modern day equivalent. It died out hundreds of years ago. So it was at that time during my conversation with Mr. Gavigan that I discovered that Mr. Elias had been in contact with Mr. Gavigan that I discovered that Mr. Elias had been in contact with Mr. Gavigan again as well. I mentioned to him that I spoke with this young man and he had

given me this information. So I asked Mr. Gavigan about that meeting and he remarked that he believed that Mr. Elias was a sensation-sinking profiteer and unlikely to be a reliable source of information. Now I didn't get that impression when Mr. Elias and I spoke, however he did seem pained by something throughout our entire conversation. I did not see him as a man that was out for any sort of personal gain. He seemed troubled but he did seem to know things that during the course of my investigation, I've sort of matched up with some of his theories. It's so interesting that you say that because at our meeting at the Penhew Foundation,

we weren't able to get much information at all, especially regarding any call to the Black Pharaoh. Yes, and these besmirchments on the character of Mr. Lias were certainly not breathed to us, his confidants. And I can say, knowing the man personally, I found him to be a remarkably self-abnegating character, not given at all to self-aggrandizement. Where am I? I believe Mr. Gavigan knows more than he's telling.

When we were in New York, the cult that, as I say, we encountered there, who's committing a series of ritual murders also in that locale, there were connections, uniting them. Are there any... I understand that you constables are probably not in the habit of giving details of open cases to members of the public, but given that we are intimately acquainted with the details of a rhyming case, so to speak, is there anything that connects the victims of the mystery that you're currently unraveling? You can see he's a little hesitant. Like he's kinda looking down his papers and shuffling through them a little bit

and kinda leaning back. I feel like maybe, what is your jam here? Honestly, the way you're role playing is very charming. I don't know how your charm skill is. I'm gonna try to riff this charm style. Yeah, if it was Carter, I'd say roll a fast talk, but I mean, you're charming him. Carter doesn't have great fast talk, just so you know.

Yeah, persuade to whatever you feel more comfortable with, I'd be fine with either one. You know, he's already made it clear that like he's desperate for help in this situation, so I think there's a chance you could persuade or charm him to be a little more forthcoming. I will charm him. It's interesting that Vaughn has a pretty decent charm him to be a little more forthcoming. I will charm him It's interesting that that Vaughn has a pretty decent charm score But a pretty bad persuade score which tells me something about like he's maybe less able to like get you to do something through Through reason and logic and more able to get you to do something through the force of his personality I think we all know people like that. Yeah

So I'm gonna go ahead and roll that charm roll that charm roll that charm. Oh No, that's a fumble. I really 100 what oh no what what I? Rolled a one hundred over fifty five I mean because you have a 55 a 99 wouldn't have been a fumble only I'm going to go straight to the Tower of London Hanged can you push a fumble can you push a fumble? Oh? Always do this. I don't yeah, I feel like it was defeat the point Like you can't

Sure, just vomit all over the desk. Oh dear. Here's what I'll say. That's a fumble. So it doesn't mean that you're going to fail here because the rest of you are still in the room. But I think that he really bristles at that. First maybe I already said he's leaning back and looking at the papers and he's like, no, no, no, I cannot share the notes

of an ongoing investigation with people who I don't even know. Perhaps my conversation with Mr. Elias that led to his early demise, so no, it's for your safety as well as the sort of respect that I have for the job here, so I'm sorry. I cannot share with you this very cool information that I have for the job here. So I'm sorry, I cannot share with you this very cool information that I have written

on my group chat. If we were to come back. That would break the case wide open. If we were to come back with useful information for you, could we have a quid pro quo situation? Would that change your mind? What do you deem as useful information? Well, that depends on what we find out isn't it?

But also at the same time time is of the essence for us and you said yourself you wish that you were able to tell Jackson Moore and help Moore and that's we're following in his footsteps right now. Here's what I'll say. In terms of the actual murders and the details of those grisly crime scenes, I don't feel comfortable sharing the information at this time. I will tell you some other things. There is a – That's capital of you. See that there's some charm left in you.

Whoa! He falls out of his chair. Whoa! Whoa! His cigarette lights, his curtain on fire. So sorry. God damn, damnation. There is a club in Soho called the Blue Pyramid Club. This is a club that is often frequented by both resident and visiting Egyptian businessmen.

Many of the victims frequented that club, so I looked into it. In fact, I had the place placed under surveillance, but unfortunately, I was unable to learn anything before my men were pulled away to attend to other police work. I also interviewed a number of people here in London with connections to Egypt. The vast majority had very little to offer, although a spice dealer by the name of Zara Shafik interested me. She runs a little spice shop here in town called Empire Spices, also in Soho. Shafik had worked with the Penny Foundation, I learned from Gavigan.

When I spoke with her, she also recognized recognized the name the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh but during the course of the interview She she also said that it no longer existed Corroborating what mr. Gavigan had said however as I spoke to her more something just gave me the impression that there was much She was not saying, not unlike your impression of Mr. Gavigan, although I did not feel that when I spoke to Mr. Gavigan. So I had her tailed for a few days, which confirmed very little. She went to the Blue Pyramid Club, like most of the Egyptian nationals here, but very little else. I must have misread the situation.

However, I'm glad I followed up. Anyhow, that is all I really feel comfortable sharing at this time, and while I am grateful for any information you can provide, I should warn you, I don't know what it is you are really up to here, and I will say that excessive zeal could put you in the firing line of the murderer or murderers I'm after. We don't need any foreigners acting like cowboys in our town.

Let's leave this to the professionals, yes? Should you find information, you can call me or visit, as it were, set up an appointment, as you did here, and Scotland Yard will deal with it. Should you get in too deep, whatever is going on here, you may very well end up like your friend, Mr. Elias. We've heard this before from cops. The world over, and we'll totally listen to exactly what you just told us. Very good.

Respect my authority How long does it take to become I mean could we fill out an application and maybe get that rushed through just immediately become constables You know what I mean get a little those little penis hats, sir. This is an inherited position Your father had to have been a Sir, this is an inherited position. Your father had to have been a... Been a cop. The only way. The only way you can be a policeman here at Scotland Yard.

My great-great-grandfather started this institution. All police ranks surpass father to son by right of prima genita. Is that not how they do it in America? Very well. Well, you've given us some great leads. Yes, sorry about your chair, old man. Hope I didn't come off as too ingratiating

as he tries to shake his hand and dips his cuff in the ink. Blasted fool. Totally sorry. It's quite all right. I appreciate you coming in. If you do have information, I would appreciate a call. But do not get too far in. This is not a threat. This is a warning. We don't appreciate that nonsense here, Jolly Old England. Well, there'll be no nonsense, so you can count on that. But while we're on the topic of threats, Mr. Barrington, in New York, we found members of the constabulary who were eminently helpful to our cause. But we also found other aspects of the constabulary that were riven through

with the blackest corruption. So look to your own organization as well. These cultists have their habit of paying off the right authorities. And if you've found your way stonewalled at any time, don't neglect to look in your own backyard. Despite your pathetic ability to charm me, I appreciate that advice. If Mr. Elias and you are on to something that this cult actually does exist, then yes, even though an institution like Scotten Yard is in tip-top shape, it doesn't mean that their tendrils couldn't have dug in here. I will

take that advice to heart. If there's nothing else. I'm wondering, so when we were in New York, parts of the cult that we were looking into, one aspect that stood out was that they were getting strange shipments. And I'm wondering with customs and all of that. What kind of shipments? People? Antiquities? Crack?

Do we ever find out what was in the shipments? Pop open the boxes. We're getting close to Mon Calamari territory here, Troy. Please keep going. I thought you said Vaan Calamari. Oh, that's not Vaan Calamari. I'm wondering if... I know that it's the Pentium Foundation, they're going to have artifacts

be delivered all the time, but I'm wondering if there's a connection there, if there's any customs forms that you can take a look at? There is some sort of connection between the Penhew Foundation and whatever's going on here. I did not get that sense in the least. And I will say without saying too much that I have done my own investigation into that, as comfortable as I felt digging in and saw no connection whatsoever. Mr. Gavigan is an upstanding member of society and even his predecessor who got tied up in

that whole fiasco over there had a completely unblemished record. So I would say you're most likely barking up the wrong hill, thinking there's any sort of connection there. Is there anything interesting that you know about Ferris and Sons? Ferris and Sons, you write it down. What is that, a business here, a local business?

I think so, it was a van, the company that was delivering a crate to. I think so. It was a van the company that was delivering a Crate to the Pentium Foundation when we were waiting for our car to come here. We saw them Whereas in sense, you know, it's a little out of place for the house. Oh, I was out of place Just the drivers didn't seem the caliber of professional, I guess. What, you said that they looked suspicious, but like, it did have the vibe check. Yeah, these are the vibes. Listen, Berington, I hope you understand. We've done what you might call profiling. Well, as I said, the Penhew Foundation is not a target for me, so I wouldn't be concerned with this, but I'm happy to take any lead you have here.

Suspicious men, perhaps delivering or taking something away. You actually saw them taking a crate away. Not delivering. I will certainly look into it. There's no such thing as a bad lead here, but Anyways, Ferris and sons all right Look into that If there's nothing else

You have my card and you said yours is still being printed. Yes Yes, I believe I'm I'll be able to pick it up today Wonderful well in the meantime, I don't see why I would need to reach you, but you said you were staying at the Waldorf in an off scene, between episodes you mentioned that to me. So I will contact you there if need be. I don't know why I would need to contact you.

It's just crazy. So pretty useful, you'll see. In a pinch? Anyways, be sure to visit the Scotland Yard gift store on your way out. There are many collectibles and Maybe you would like to give a donation to the Constable benevolent association I could get one of those Clubs you guys have oh those are fine. Yes, give them to your boys, and they'll beat the shit out of the speeding ticket. Oh, those are fun. Yes. Give them to your boys

and they'll beat the shit out of each other. But no bruises. All right, have a wonderful day doing whatever you're going to do that isn't suspicious. Cheerio? Cheerio, yes. Frosted Flake. And you leave Scotland Yard.

Now... So new information is stupid. That fumble was brutal. Brutal. I hate having all these juicy paragraphs. I can't give it to you. You can go back without the ding dong. We'll break in there, find us notes.

If anything, though, you do get the sense, you are inquiring specifically about the murders. Like, is there any sort of connecting motif? Why are they called the Adjition Murders? Is it just because they were all, it's just something else and you did catch a little, yeah, there is something, but I can't share that information with you.

So maybe if you do come back with some more information, it might be something he'd be more open to. But he also has warned you to be careful. If you just come back dragging crazy people in dead bodies, like, say guilty party, you could end up in jail. There wasn't like a small little threat in there. Not only like, be careful you might get killed, but like, we don't mess around here in England. This is in New York. I don't know how you do things in New York. I mean, you do things in New York City, but this is London.

Now the plan for tonight here, it's Friday night, it's Friday night, you're in London, hit the clubs. Now you guys want to stake out the Penhew Foundation? What time do you want to arrive? Do you want to arrive as like, you know the business hours are like, I think it was like eight to six, the Egyptian collection was noon to 4. Do you want to get there as there's like a change in shift or something or do you want

to like wait till the cover of night and watch? And what else do you want to do? You also have this Ferris and Sons lead to look into if that's something you want to do. But you don't have to do everything in one day. Right now it's five o'clock, not even five o'clock. There's no way you were talking to him for an hour. 4.45. Even if we stake out by the Penhew Foundation

and if we don't go in, maybe we can still find out something like a little nugget that we can go back to him with. Being like, see, they're involved're involved. And then he can tell us more information. If not break in, I'd love to break in. Yeah. Yeah. This year. Style. I don't know. I mean, this Blue Pyramid Club. It is Friday night. Yeah, the Pyramid Club. Assuming that they're not like a private club.

We don't know yet because we haven't been there. And also that Zara Shafik person who has a... sells spices, which, you know, we're in England. We're gonna need to spice our food a little bit. So we can make up some spices and maybe get some information. I would imagine that place is probably... if that's a business and it's five. True, we don't know.

They might be, we can check them out. Yeah, we could probably save that for tomorrow maybe. But maybe at least see where this blue pyramid club is. Yes. I'm updating your thing over here. You can now see a picture of Edward Gavigan. Let's see. Oh Let's see. Oh shifty Eddie Hmm, and then I'll also put James James Barrington. It's like John Waters without the mustache. Yeah

There's the mustache. There's the mustache. Oh, there's the mustache. And there's the mustache. It's better to change fountain, yes. There's the mustache. Right. You know, the voice does match the face. It does. Yes, it does. No, no, no. All right, so you tell me.

You drive the ship. Okay. Straight into the ground. Yes, into the rock. So do we want to try to see where this club is and potentially also get sidetracked? Or we could divide and conquer. Maybe a couple of people go to the club,

a couple of people stake out. Split the party. That's fun. It is fun. You know, when someone dies from it, then you know we should do that less. And is fun. Yeah. When someone dies from it, then you know, we should do that less. And someone will. But this is the only way you're gonna learn. I'm not saying this is the way it'll happen. It might.

Well, I'm basically terrified of everything. Do you guys want to split, or do you want to just hop over and case one and then go break into another? I just want to note that I have my shotgun. I do have my gun as well. Do we split based on our weapons? I'm sure they allow weapons into the Blue Pyramid Club. Right. Yeah, I'd also maybe like to give Ferris and Sons just a phone call, just to see what their, who answers what they say their line is.

Oh God. Yeah, what do you? Basically every decision, my palms just start sweating at this point. Great. Let's. Carter, do you want to stake out the Pentium Foundation? Yes.

With you, yes. OK. Oh, maybe the engaged couple then will go check out. Call Ferris and Sons and check out the, you guys haven't had an engagement party, maybe the night at the Blue Pyramid Club? Hey, there you go. Sure. A little dinner and dancing?

Yeah, and as a, yeah, okay, let's do it. Yeah, sounds good. Alright. Cool. Great. Oh shit. I love it. All right, so Margo and Carter, are you just heading straight over there now?

Or do you wanna wait until night-night? I think we wait a little. Okay. You're the experienced fun. Yeah, right. Yeah, so I think what we do is we wait until it's dark because here's the thing, when it's dark, it's harder to see.

And that's a key part, I'm told, of breaking into places where you don't belong. Have you never organised you? No I have, I mean, just as recently as the Department of Motor Vehicles in its nation form. That's not so bad of a thought. Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a pro at this. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was talking down or anything.

Yeah, I think we wanna do that. Maybe we get a drink, should we get a drink? Okay. Get a drink, cause you'll need a full bladder if you're going to urinate on things. The Faerus, that was a one-time thing. Until our calling card comes through, then that's our calling card, I suppose.

Probably wait for the sun to go down, get a drink. Yeah, just build up some courage All right Great All right, I will get back to you on Ferris and Suns and You'll say that you guys all Here's what I'm gonna say is like, you gotta find out a little information

to try and track down Ferris and Sons. I don't know if there's just like a phone book available, but I'm gonna, I'll let you know when you have that information so you can contact them. By the time you got that information, it's after business hours, so you call and there's no answer. So you guys go out to dinner and then you go your separate ways to the Blue Pyramid Club to the Pennu Foundation. So let's take you to outside the Pennu Foundation.

Margo and Carter arrived via cab. And what are we thinking? You're just kind of going to lay low on the opposite side of the street. Did you get there a few blocks away and you're going to walk up talking to people? Few blocks away. Oh yeah. Kind of have some distance. It's nighttime now I'm guessing blocks away. Oh, yeah. Kind of have some distance.

It's nighttime now, I'm guessing. It's nighttime now, yeah. It's not a very busy thoroughfare, so it's pretty easy to skulk up to the building close by to be able to watch. And you see that all the lights are off in the two-floor building. And you've got a pretty good lay of the land, so you know where the entrance is.

Obviously, there's a back fence. You look up at the windows that would look in on the Egyptian collection, all dark. Almost 35 minutes into watching, you see a light kind of like pass across windows on the second floor. Like a flashlight or a torch, I should say. Kind of looks like a torch, yeah, a flashlight. And then maybe 10 minutes later, you see on the first floor, like right near the front door, lights kind of flash through, looks like a flashlight again. And that's it. Okay.

How long do you keep watching? Like another, are you doing like a couple hours of just watching? Do we? Yeah. Like like do we see that repeat? Does it seem like that person is on like a routine? If you wait, another hour passes and systematically you see the lights on the second floor. Looks like a, looks like a single flashlight. Uh huh. And then again.

And right around. Well, no, that's all I'm going to say. That's fair. All right, Margo, what we got here is your standard single security guard. He's doing what we got here is your standard single security guard. Mm-hmm. He's doing what we call making the rounds. Mm-hmm. Just checking to make sure there's no funny business going on inside of there.

Ooh, um, she goes into her bag and she takes out a pair for pantyhose. She goes, I've got this. Put it over our faces, Maya, like opaque black. Oh, I want this. Put this over our faces, my opaque black. Put it over our face. That's so we don't get recognized? Yeah. Okay, yeah. Right?

This is what you do? Well, yeah. I mean, in the cat burglar world, it's more of a tight knit cap. No, I have lots of a it's more of a tight knit cap Yes, okay She rips it in half and gives you one of the legs. Thank you for that Yeah, we can put these on when we get when we get closer. We gotta figure out a way to get in And it looks like we've got a bit of a schedule here that we can see

I'm wondering if maybe, Troy, so the whole back of the building where we saw the truck pull in, that's all like the same complex, right? It's like that loading dock is... If you go around to the back and look through now, you don't see any truck back there. It's just an iron fence. And the iron fence goes all the way around, but there's a gate opening here and a gate opening in the front that was open when you guys came in. That's how you got to the front door. Right.

But you look through and you see the loading dock and there's a door that leads directly in. You also see stairs off to the east that look like they go down, like to perhaps a basement or something. Okay. All right. I think our best bet is to try to sneak in through the back here. Okay. That's my... So what's on this gate? Is there like a padlock kind of situation? Yeah, it looks pretty heavily padlocked. And also you think like if you try to unlock it you you you might be

able to get through but you would want to probably relock it so you don't draw attention yeah you could either scale or try to crack this padlock but it looks pretty heavy duty I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try to do this path. Okay. Give me a locksmith roll. Yes, I will Wait, so we do. Do we do luck? Did it didn't know didn't yes to a luck a little luck upgrade hopefully for some of you And finally my day has come You want to succeed this right you? You want to get under? Ideally under would be good, yeah.

I think. Ideally. But per the rules, yes. Wait. No, no. You want to fail this one, you want to get over it. I thought you meant the low. Okay, yeah, yeah.

I was like, wait a second. Yeah, fail is good. So, Faeruz, you're good. You failed. And I roll a D10. Oh, you needed this, Faeruz. I did. I spent a lot of blasts on this. Oh, man needed this, Fae'ruis. I did. I spent a lot of last episode.

Oh man, I'm back in the... I've been not being able to gain, even though I only have single digits the last few episodes. Whoa. And I got a 10. Oh, nice. All right, you needed that. Yeah. Nice.

Eight for me. Great. I got seven. Give me a locksmith roll. I plan on it. Here we go. Oh, this isn't as good. I plan on it. Here we go. Oh, this isn't as good as I thought it was. Oh, 46 under 48.

Yeah. Motherfucker. 46 under 48. Alright, so in the world of locksmithing, you like, you hear like one of those little drums pop up, so you're like halfway there. Give me a follow up roll. This is the type of thing that if you really fuck up,

it'll be unpickable. You're like halfway there, steady hand. Margo, I got the first, just so you know, I just want to walk you through the drama that's playing out right now. I got one, yeah, I got one portion of this. I'm gonna do it again, okay? Okay.

Here we go. Jesus Christ. I got a 62 over 48. I'm gonna spend luck. Spend luck and you unlock the gate. Great, okay, so that's 14, right? Yes, okay. You spend luck and you unlock the gate. Great. Okay. So that's 14. Right?

Yes. Okay. My math sucks. There's so much math. So much simple math. All right. That was almost, yeah, that was almost the luck that I gained the last two sessions. Great.

But you've got that and you don't have to worry about climbing and falling and hurting yourself. You get through. Now walk me through what you do here and be specific. You've got that and you don't have to worry about climbing and falling and hurting yourself. You get through. Now, walk me through what you do here and be specific. You've got a lock. You've got a big fucking lock in your hand and the chain just ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch- crack open the gate, sneak through, and try to close it and put the lock back on. I pulled a penny hose over my head. All right, let's do this. Let's go to a map. I have a map of the Penny Foundation. Oh, shit. Okay. You guys see that? Yep. All right, so I'm going to put little Carter, little Margot at the back. That's just a little Carter and Margot. You are in the back now.

I've basically revealed here everything that you've seen of the venue foundation. So you've seen this back area. This is where the car was. Faerz really is the one that saw it, but you have a collective view of it. You've seen the hallway that leads up to Kinnery's waiting area and Gavigan's office, which are on the eastern portion of the thing. I said that the stairs leading down below the building were to the east. They're actually to the west. So there is a staircase as well that leads down presumably under the building. And then the other two rooms in the south of the building here are the restrooms, the

men's room on the right. Trevor Burrus Familiar. Aaron Powell We're in the left, you found those. And then to your left is the second floor and the entire Egyptian collection has been revealed. And then all those other little doors looked like areas that you weren't allowed to go into, study areas, perhaps where people were researching and whatnot.

You came up the staircase to the north, which is mirrored on the first floor there. So this is mainly just to kind of show me what you want to do. Which, Troy, which of these doors was that red door that led to the... I'm pinging it right here. It is the door just to the north of Kinnery's office or the waiting area. Fantastic. So we're on that side of the building already. Yep. And so there's the loading dock, which is right next to that staircase leading down.

And then there's a door that is like the back door that leads directly into the hallway. And the red door is right there. And then also the staircase leading up to the Egyptian collection. Okay. Was the library we were in in the Egyptian collection upstairs? The library did not reveal that. Ha ha. Way to point out the one room I forgot. That is right across the hall so I'll reveal that as well kind right across the hall. So I'll reveal that as well. Kind of across the hall from Mr. Kiddreday's office. It's a library there.

On the western portion. The west side of the hallway. There's all sorts of the little rooms as well. A lot going on. Big building. What do you do? What do you think? There's a safe.

There's a red door. Oh, the safe, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's one more thing. Well, I'd like to clarify my previous statement about this padlock. I don't wanna lock it. I just realized in case we have to bail and get out of here, it would suck to have padlocked ourselves

into this giant courtyard. So I wanna hook it and make it look as close to being closed Okay, while still able to just rip it open if we need to sure for sure You basically you're not leaving it wide open with the chain right? Yeah, if you're just walking by they're not gonna be like oh shit Some fuck with that lock Keep it okay great So yeah, and I think if there's a way to stick to the shadows along this wall here, the wall closest to us, to the west.

Okay. Kind of play the Pink Panther theme song if you could. Ba dum, ba dum. There you go. Ba dum, ba dum, ba dum, ba dum. All right, all right, Margo, follow me here. Stick to the shadows. I guess I'm gonna put your pantyhose on my head

Going along and then like as we're kind of walking along. I'm just like so What was the deal with that guy that came to visit you at the hospital? a week ago Gunter Gunter yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's his situation? Right now? You're right, you know, we don't have to talk about it now. It's fine.

Should we be talking out in the court? Just when I'm at my most comfortable is when I'm about to break into a place. We had dinner. Okay. Right before this. It's a sort of a place. I'm sorry, how? We had dinner. Okay. Break before this. It's a sort of a long distance thing going on, huh? He was my teacher. Yeah.

Okay, we don't have to talk. He's my friend. That's great. Just friends, great. Here we go, there's a door here. Okay, so should we, I don't know, should we go downstairs here or? Well, there's the red door.

There's the safe and we saw him go through the first floor already, so he might be gone. Okay, yeah, we'd like to, I think Troy, Kate, tell me if you have different thoughts. I feel like we go through this back door, the main back door, timed once we've known that he's sort of with the information we've gathered. I'm only worried if there's an alarm on that door

because it seems like a door door, you know? They have alarms in the 20s. Do they? I mean, not everything needs to be electric. Yeah, no, you're right. The door is tied to a chicken that yells. Yes. That's how it works. It's string on the leg. Yeah, no, you're right. The door is tied to a chicken that yells.

String on the leg. Yeah. Well, why don't we, why don't we, let's try to go through this door that leads down and then maybe we can find our way back up. It's because Troy said there's a door that goes to like the basement. You want to go to the basement? And then we'll come up through the basement. Okay. You made me paranoid about this back door. Let's just do the back door. Basements are creepy. Let's do the back door. We'll do a spot hidden for an alarm or something. I'm sure we'll nail it. All right, so you go to the back door and as you approach the back door you feel Both of you feel like something drip on your head.

Drip, drip, drip, and then you put your hand out and it starts raining. And then we cut to Vaughn and Fae Rue's getting out of a cab in Soho. Vaughn of course holds the umbrella out too. The old umbrella for your fiance to step out. And Vaughn, you, we probably know that the Soho area has long been notorious for its pubs, drunken revelers, illegal brothels.

It's kind of like a seedier area of London. But you take the cab to 12B Meard Street and you see a green grocery shop at ground level and then above the green grocery shop on the second floor, the upper floor of the building, there's a sign for the Blue Pyramid Club. And we'll be back right after this quick break. Something's going to go wrong. Oh boy. But that's so fun when it does.

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But one of the reasons I love this game more so than other games, honestly, it really is my favorite game, even though it's wildly stressful to do a campaign of this size. I do enjoy it and I'm so happy when we finish an app and I'm happy when you guys have fun. One of the things that I really like about it, arguably my favorite thing, is that I come into these sessions with an idea of what you guys are going to do. It very rarely follows that plan. I'm both observer and audience member while also being an active participant. I know the Uber story, but I'm watching it unfold in front of me

and then just trying to do my best to keep up with it. But I think that's what makes it so much... Um, it really strikes a nerve with me more so than other games is that running it, I feel like I never know what's gonna happen next. Whereas other games, you kind of know, like, you're gonna hit the enemy or you're gonna miss the enemy. Here, it really feels cinematic and I don't know

I'm just it was just thinking that as we took a little break like what something I really love about this game that discovery. It stresses me out though because like as an OCD like control freak I like to have everything be a little bit more polished but you kind of the more you try to polish them you get away from the heart of this game. And so all this is saying, I'm gonna miss these characters at the end. God damn it.

You're saying like, like you're about to die or something like. I know, I'm just really gonna push you guys. This is the last episode, TPK. Another point, Michael threw this in, he did some research here during the break on a fumble, you can push the roll so long as you follow the other requirements of a pushed roll. It doesn't say anything about a fumble, so you could have technically pushed that and

then I argued that like, well if you fail a pushed roll, I really bring the hammer down and say, get out of my office, don't you ever come back here again. We're deported. You want to feel that risk of a push. Yes, absolutely. Great. Any poop, let's have you all outside of the Blue Pyramid Club decorated with Egyptian motifs.

And you also see a smaller sign that says Members Only. The surrounding area looks to offer many cheap eating houses and coffee shops. There's a place called the Moorish Cafe. There's the Algerian. Everything looks fashionable and trendy. There are people sitting outside writing in their journals or like maybe to be artists, like drawing. It's kind of like what Soho was post-911 in New York, Soho here, just a little bit more rundown, although with a certain charm to it. You see there's a couple windows in the second level, but only one door at ground level. You see a man standing at the door. He's now like

behind the door so he's covered by the rain and it looks like behind them there's a staircase leading up. What do you do? Well it appears though it's members only. However, it wouldn't hurt to at least see what the requirements of membership are. And perhaps if the place isn't, or the doorman isn't too, in a way, maybe he will at least give us a little bit of the history of the club,

maybe some of its notable members. We're all gonna chat some people up. Yes, maybe for people as devastatingly charming as ourselves, they'll waive the membership obligation. Exactly. We'll just kind of walk over to the doorman, and just give him the full-court press. Excuse me, old man.

The Blue Pyramid Club, Just give them the full-court press. Excuse me, old man. The Blue Pyramid Club, might we dip in? But of course, good evening. May I see your membership cards? Here's the thing. My dargid. My fiancé and I just got engaged. Congratulations. My darling. My fiance and I just got engaged. Congratulations.

Thank you. And while we are here, we... You are very lucky, sir, if I may say so. You needn't tell me, my good man. I'm reminded each and every day. I hope you have many beautiful children. Many beautiful mixed race children. Do you have anything to say? No, I have nothing to say.

Strange man. Well, thank you for your blessings, sir. Yes, sir. As my fiancé was saying about the cards, yes. You are not members? Alas. But how does one gain membership? What is your credit rating again? It's like 90, right?

That is my highest skill. Well, we sent the right person to this place because he takes one look at you and he's like, it's no problem at all, sir. You can just become a member. We just would need to register your names and then have you pay the five pound fee would be ten pounds since there is two of you. Well, certainly let the registration process begin old man. It's very simple and quite painless.

Hold on. And he turns around and he grabs a little book. Yes, so that would be £10. Give him the £10. Yes, Vaughan immediately produces that. And your name, sir? Yes, that's Vaughan Villiers. Vaughan Villiers. Very good. And you, madam.

The future Mrs. Vilius. Yes, I can put that in though. The soon, Ferus Gibran Vilius. Ferus Gibran Vilius. Surely you will not hyphenate your name. We don't do that in the 1920s. Well, one never knows. You're already pushing it with these mixed race children.

Any of you would be stoned for such a suggestion. Well, soaking up the atmosphere of Soho, I'm rather becoming more bohemian by the moment. Who knows what hyphens might invade our names. Actually, fun fact. Sorry, I have to interfere and just say, at that time, even till now, my mom didn't have to change her name. Like they generally keep their name. That makes sense. Sorry, just for, just for.

Thank you for the historical clarification. I like my misogynist bouncer more. Just gotta put that out there. So you are members of the club with your real names written on a piece of paper right there in that little book. We're out of towners though and I think you'd be terribly hard pressed to find exactly where we are. Yes, we're newlyweds on our way to Earth's capital.

Um... Alright, so you see that little book full of lots of names that he writes yours in, closes it up and says, write this way. If you would just proceed up the staircase, there'll be an elevator that will take you to the Blue Pyramid Club. Congratulations on your engagement. May your lives be fruitful. Again, not strange at all.

I don't need to say any of this. Yes, capital. Thanks for the well-wishes, old bean. And I'll sort of wave. I hope that you drink enough tonight to make love with him. Right, right. You hold up a nerve. What a unique character.

But not too much, Mr. Villius, if you know what I mean. Not too much. So invested in our nature. It can affect you. It can affect you in the bedroom, Mr. Villius. This guy's prodding me with his elbow. Vaughn just like grab, takes his elbow and pushes it down. Yes, right.

Right, old chum. Well, thank you so much for taking our registration. Ta and we'll waft up the stairs. You go up the stairs and you enter this club. It is, oh boy, there's a lot going on in here. There are belly dancers kind of like all over the place. It's dark and there's the same motifs that you saw on the sign or decade Decorated throughout the place. There's smoke like a thin haze of smoke covering the entire place There's a long curving bar for a moment. You kind of get taken back to the bar cordana

It's not like that at all But you just you kind of can't see a bar now anymore without going back to that moment Long bar and there's people smoking out of hookahs. Everyone has a cigarette in their hand. The belly dancers have two while they're belly dancing. Just smoke everywhere. You might see as you walk in, there's a guy that's getting a little too intimate with one of the dancers and a couple of security guys come over and squash that right away. They don't rough them up. They just give them a stern talking to. Although other guys you see being just as fresh with another dancer And they're not really getting talked to at all. So there's just like a lot

Going on here and a maitre d comes up and says, oh welcome to the Blue Pyramid Club I do not recognize. Perhaps I've seen you before. He Motions to faerus, but you are new to me, sir. New members, old man. But shows to the vacant table if one's here. But of course, right this way, sir. And there he's ironing you up and down. That credit rating is all over you. It's like-

That drip. Yeah. And because like that drip. And because of that he brings you to a really nice central table that's also quiet and kind of out of the way. It's central in terms of its location for you to see everything but not be seen. And so he sits you down. Yes, a waitress will be with you momentarily. Please enjoy.

Can I light your cigarettes? It is mandatory you smoke. Yes, of course. There you are. Please enjoy. Can I light your cigarettes? It is mandatory you smoke. Yes, of course. There you are. Charmed. Let me get in there. All right. Please enjoy. And the music is like... Rather to push push from the gentleman at the door. If we're trying to keep a low profile and give him a piece of my mind. I don't know how one could possibly keep a low profile in here. Yes. I'll tell you, it's like all the clientele, it's like as far as you could see, everyone is

of some Egyptian or Egyptian adjacent ascent, descent ascent. Egyptian or Egyptian adjacent, assent, dissent, assent. Well, now what? Yeah. So yeah, so we're taking the vibe and the vibe is revelry, party time. We're dancing, we're smoking, we're drinking. Yep. There's a coffee room as well as like the bar area, there's a drawing room, like it's more of a, while you kind of enter into the nightlife-y portion, there are quieter areas

like the coffee room and the drawing room, so it's. I wonder where, but this I suppose is where all the victims were regulars at this club. Oh, do you think that might be correct? I hadn't thought about that before because I wasn't sure what I was expecting upon arrival, but this wasn't it. What do you say we we drunkenly meander about and see if we get over here some conversations? Yes, let's see if we can make some friends. And yeah, if we can kind of take our drinks, get up from our...

Yeah, you get your order drinks from the server and then you decide to walk around maybe up to the bar. You come up to the bar, there's a woman and a man, another couple sitting there. There's a man sitting by himself and then there's a bartender who's kind of getting dressed down by a larger man, kind of a heavyset guy balding on top. And it looks like maybe he's the manager speaking in another language that Faeruz would recognize. And he's saying like, listen, you need to make sure that when their drinks are like low that you're asking that they want another drink. Don't just sit there. You need to make sure that when their drinks are like low that you're asking that they want another drink Don't just sit there. You need to like make sure that you're constantly filling their drinks

You see him dressed down. He pulls out a handkerchief and it's like Wiping at his neck and he's like look you're wasting time right now You got a new new people right here and they will be with you momentarily sir, and he pushes the bartender over to you And he's like, they have drinks. He's like, well, then offer them something else, food. And he's like, are you folks all set? Do you need anything else? No, but I was curious to know what your most popular

cocktail is here. Whatever the most popular cocktail in Egypt is right now I think it's called the Egyptian Kiss That's the special of the day It's just triple sec on ice It's quite nauseating I want to look at that fellow who's sitting alone

What's... He's sitting there and he's just Egyptian fellow. Um, but, uh, he's dressed like any other Brit. Lost in a reverie. Yeah. All right. Um, there's the other couple and they just kind of smile at you. Um, yeah.

Hmm. the other couple and they just kind of smile at you. Should we ask about the Ferris? Was it Ferris Brothers? Drop the name. Yeah. You toss around the word Ferrisison Sons to just people... Oh, Farrison Sons. Yeah. I'm gonna relate. It doesn't ring a bell to anyone. They're like, what? Who'd you see at a drink and have fun and drink triple sec?

Mm-hmm. Okay. Then if that's the case... What about? Think about what you know about this place or what you don't know. It's like you know that there were all these Egyptian murders. You know that most of the victims were members of this club and that obviously everything is tied up.

There's something going on with Egypt because the Carlisle expedition is there. Maybe that's related, maybe it isn't. So now you're here now just kind of taking in the scene and maybe that's part of the adventure but what else are you looking for? What if we pose as academics from America who are, we are new archaeologists and maybe just want to hear about people's adventures? When we get somebody licked up enough, we might see if somebody might know something about these Carlisle expeditions or maybe know any of the stories that have been circulating.

Perhaps even something about the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. And, okay, great. Vaughn will- We can buy that gentleman a round of drinks. So we're posing as Americans, you say? Excuse me, sir. So we're posing as Americans, you say? Just academic. Excuse me, sir. Pardon me.

How are you an American playing a Brit posing as an American? You can't just do your own accent. We're just on here from our break from university. Both of you give me a luck roll here before you engage any of these people in conversation. Promising. Oh no. Not good for me. Oh dear.

67 over 36. I got it. 45 under 55. Okay. All right. So good to know you start talking to someone. They're like, oh, hello. Where are you from?

Are you from around here or from Texas? Tell him, darlin'. I was like, right, right. Well, sir, I'm from Dallas, Texas. I'm an oil man, you see. And when I'm not pumping black gold out of the ground, I'm a collector of antiquities far and wide. I'm looking, I'm curious if you know of any places where I might be able to see some famed

Egyptian artifacts. I've been to the British Museum, but are there any better and more accommodating facilities? Well, surely you've heard of the Pennu Foundation. It is the foremost institution for Egyptology in the world perhaps. When I first came here, I sought out employment there, but they were not hiring at the time. But if it is Egyptian antiquities you are interested in, you must make a stop to the

Pe'inu Foundation. Just don't go after ours or you could get killed. Now, is that a place where we can buy antiquities or look into antiquities for maybe some sort of exchange program for our university? I don't, do they have a gift shop? No, I don't believe anything is for sale there. It is for academic purposes. Yes, you study, you're for research.

Oh, well yeah, but he as old man, has the capital to... Everything has a price. Of course. I have heard this is the American way. It is not so where I come from, and not so here either. So, good luck! Perhaps you can throw money at them they've never seen, and maybe you'd get access that others wouldn't.

But I am just a simple cab driver. Well I'm not only in the market. This membership was gifted to me. Ah. For Christmas. Which I don't even celebrate. I'm not only in the market for simply antiques, but I have a rather rarified taste, you see. I'm more into the esoteric and the uncanny. I do not know what that means. Well, sir, I mean the old kingdom and maybe even older. In my limited research, I've become rather curious about this Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh, what is that? Apparently a brotherhood.

This is another club like the Blue Pyramid and The girl that's sitting with him just like grabs his arm and she's like, oh, come on. What are you talking? Let's get out of here and he's like no I'm making friends The brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. I never heard of such a thing. What what is this? What is this? I know you you have my interest All right What is this? What is this? I know you have my interest. Alright. So, the impression that we're getting then is that this guy sincerely has never heard of this. But, who knows?

You could do a psychology. Yeah, roll some psychology. Yeah. Let's go for it. When in doubt. When in doubt. Roll some bones. Can we both do a test check here? Yeah, because one of you may not pick up on it. You can talk about it later. I got a 98 I

Can spin? What is your psychology? My psychology is low. It's like a 25. So that's all those Egyptian kisses If you're thunder 50 96 to 100 is a is a fumble. All right, so you fumble on your psychology. We'll worry about that in a second. What about Jesus Christ? Oh, Jesus.

Okay. Okay. I am going to spend 12 points of luck to bring it down to a regular success. Okay. He genuinely seems like he has no idea what you're talking about. Although the woman seemed to sort of, the timing of her like, let's get out of here. Maybe you're just being paranoid. That did seem a little weird.

Is she an employee or she's? I know she looks like she's like his date or wife or girlfriend. You don't see a wedding ring. And yeah, so however, Faerûz fumbled, here's what I'll say is like, when he said, the brother of the Black Pharaoh, he was a little loud about that. Now maybe you wanted that to happen or not, but you do feel like, ooh, maybe we should chill.

Yeah. The brotherhood of Black Pharaoh! I've never heard of such a thing! What is this, a group that kills Egyptians? And I guess because it's a fumble, I'll probably just like mutter in Arabic under my breath like, this is fucking useless. Like, why did we even? Like, why are we even like why why are we Texas and then but when I that am I able to when when he

says that really loudly take a look around and see who like really notices that we said that give me a little spot hid yeah that's that's the way success baby all right so you succeed on the spot hidden and you look like, oh shit, did anybody hear that? And you look around and you do notice that one of the belly dancers like is looking and then looks back. She heard that. And, uh, oh, oh, esteemed keeper, I got a hard success on my spot hit oh okay all right

so as he said that you both kind of looked so you notice also that she made once she saw you see her she looked back so she knows that you saw her okay she just keeps dancing um just please keep going. There we go. Get the tassels involved. She's really good at it. And then I will look, Easy there, friend. I know it's loud in here, but you needn't bring your voice

over the din. I shan't know what to do if people come to give you the bum's rush out of here. I'm sorry, I never heard such a thing before. It sounds very exciting. The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh, I like it. No, what is it? Oh, what?

It's another club. Another club? Perhaps my uncle will gift me a membership to that one as well. Is that how you got in here? Yes, yes. My uncle owns the cab company that I work for. He's a rich man. The richest man in all of Egypt. You don't say? Yes. Well,

uh, maybe we shouldn't keep you. My young lady here, she, I have to keep up with her as best I can. We're gonna go. Um. But it was nice meeting you both. Good luck with your brotherhoods and your taxes and your and everything you do. Yes, good luck to you, partner. And, wave them away. Now, a dancer won't be dancing all night. I want to, well, I'll just put it out there that if we see this number coming to a close and they're going to depart to a backstage area, I would like to intercept. Although, I have an idea though. Great. If you don't mind.

Please. We could also try, we could try both, both things. But darling, do you have a roll of singles on you? I'm gonna be the drunk uncle at every Arabic wedding. I so rarely carry small bills. Yeah, and and yeah, perhaps a few pound notes can exchange hands here. Sure. Yeah. And as I grab that all Jane Jetson style. I'm gonna dance my way over and just kind of like make it rain for a little bit. And also kind of like join in and dance and I'll just go ahead you're just gonna walk

you're gonna kind of walk over there with literally gonna walk over and dance dance over to her make it rain continue dancing and as you're like getting close to her she kind of you feel like she feels you coming or sees you coming and she kind of scurries off and before you can intercede the balding guy who was like the manager kind of steps in front of you and is like can I help you with something I don't mean to be rude but I someone has said you are bothering the customers and so I must ask you what you are new here yes you are a new member yes it is best you perhaps keep a low profile especially as you are not

from around here it seems oh I just thought this was a, I mistook the vibe of this place. I thought this was a, I thought this was a proper party, but I see that it's kind of tame. Maybe that's how they do, maybe it's a little subdued over here. It is proper in the sense that we have decorum.

We don't just throw money around and bother the other patrons. So please, and Vaughn, maybe you're catching up at this point. Yes. I was just telling your associate here. Fiance. Oh, Fiance.

To please leave the other customers alone and we do not throw money all over the place. may hand it to the dancers they appreciate those tips but please this is a fine establishment apologies there friend didn't mean to step out of line or cause any hubba we miss read the atmosphere that's on me partner any chance I could make apologies to the lady in question I just a couple people mentioned that you were being bothersome it is fine just maybe go back to your table and in fact I will send a round of drinks over just enjoy the rest of your night. If I'm loud and disruptive, it's only because I am an American man. That is painfully clear.

Enjoy the rest of your evening. And uh, great, so I'll... Well, that didn't work, did it? Well, despite my impeccable imitation of your one of your native sons, I think, yes, that all sort of got cocked up, didn't it? Although I did notice that that, that dancer cast us the eye as soon as the black furrow is mentioned. She did. And I thought I would be able to make my way over and

maybe get a little word But apparently my charm skill is a 15 Perhaps I can do I know It must be some now to this this dancer now. You said she skittered away. She kind of skittered away And this just there's a lot going on in here. So, you know, you bide your time Maybe you'll see her again or maybe you scared her off great Then let's bide our time and keep the low profile as suggested unless Ferris has another idea and if she pops out we can just go to her or

We can Or some other thing okay. You sit down at the table and the server comes over. Can I get you another round? This one is on the house. Is this that popular drink that you spoke of or is this what we ordered in the first place? It's up to you, I'm taking your order right now. Do you want Egyptian kisses?

No, I'm an American fellow, so I'll have a gin fizz, please. Gin fizz and for the lady. I suppose I will have the same. Oh, I suppose I will have the same. All right. Your accents are hideous. Well, you know, just as soon as I got off that boat. It's you know, the accent I Pick up accent so quickly Gin fiz gin fiz. All right coming right up. She leaves and she comes back and she places Two napkins on the table and she puts your drink Ferus on one napkin and then she takes your drink Vaughn and places it on the napkin but then slides the drink over to you with the napkin and she goes Hey you awesome? and she looks down at the napkin

much obliged I look down at the napkin as well. And there's a note on it. We go back to the Panyu Foundation. The rain is picking up and... I can't see shit through this pantyhose right now. The fucking rain is all over this thing. I thought you were a professional. I know, I'm a professional when it's not raining. Do you know what rain looks like on a pantyhose? You're putting wet pantyhose on your pants.

I'm sure it's like in the 20s, would this be silk? Is this like, ugh! Look at the roots, I can't breathe! Raining page you know how what rain looks like a panty hose 20s would this be silk is this like All right, so you take the soaking wet panty hose off your face Standing behind this door you're worried there might be an alarm. How do you approach this? I'd like to do a spot hidden for an alarm. Same. Okay.

All right, so you're both looking at are any telltale signs of an alarm? Yep. Do do do do do do. Do do do do do. I don't know if there is one or not. I got a 31 over 28. I will spend three points.

Okay, for success. You don't see any sort of wiring. I mean, this is, you guys are very suited for where you went. One looking affluent and a cat burglar to try and break in here. You've broken into places before now things might be different over here But you have no indication that there is an alarm here, right? However, the door is locked. Okay. Well, that's shit Of course, I mean this is par for the course of

Buildings if I lock every door just locks one door Yeah, well, I mean they're go who knows what they're guarding here. All right. Let's try to Let's try to Jimmy this lock here Okay, give me a locksmith roll your third of the episode And it's a 10 Enter 48 so that's a hard almost an extreme

with ease you pop that open and standing before you is this long hallway you know that Kinnery's office is two doors to the left which leads directly into Gavigan's office uh-huh and then there are several other doors one of which you know is the library and of course right to your direct left is that red door that seemed to jump out at you. Yeah, and we're good. What window did we notice the flashlight in

on the first floor, making it in front of you? As if you're assuming their rounds were happening, it was systematic, like each room was being checked. Oh, each room, okay. Yeah, the light came on. So it would even go go into like the different offices. It would like go all the way through into Gavigan's office. Open up the door.

Check, yeah. Yeah, there were... Yeah, that's what you know. Okay. I'm seeing doors that connect. Is this Gavigan's office? Yeah, that's actually a bookcase like that some things that almost everything looks like a door is a door some are

windows some are a bookcase yeah all right yeah let's go to this red door and hopefully you know we're timing this attempting to time this well with knowing where the light would be roughly right now right trying to figure out where this night watchman if there is only one night watchman, where he is. Yeah. Okay, great. Go through, you give me a listen roll. Okay.

So 76 over 24. I got a 38 under 63. All right. So Carter, you're listening. Really professional. I got a 38 under 63. All right, so Carter you're listening Really professional. I'm a professional listener You hear? Footsteps upstairs. Okay. All right upstairs Maybe just one is upstairs. How do you know that? I? Just am attuned right now. I'm in the zone

So cool. Once I can breathe. It's a whole different story. There's a thing not on my head, okay The red door first or yeah, let's do the red door, okay? Okay, I'm gonna try to open this door. Is it locked It is locked for fuck's sake okay. Okay. That's fine Got some luck left still let's go. I'm gonna locksmith this door. Unless I can charm it. Hey door. Where you from? I haven't seen a red door before.

Fresh. You're not from around here. It's finally. Oh no a seven. Seven. I thought it was a 70. It's a seven under 48 Wait, so is that extreme? That's extreme because seven times five is something that's under 48 Holy shit, okay You unlock the door You unlock the door. I'm inspired right now. I don't know what to say and This is amazing you unlock the door. You unlock the door. I'm inspired right now, I don't know what to say.

And I feel alive. Extra success, this is amazing. You unlock the door, however you go to open it and there's like, you open it a little bit but there's like a bunch of shit behind it. And as you continue to push, it's like loud. Like there's been stuff that's been pushed up against the door. Ffff. And you're worried that if you continue pushing, you're going to draw attention to yourself.

But you can do it. It's just, I'm just trying to explain what the situation is because it's like ffff. Okay, all right, all right. Hoxes or shit? How boxes or shit. How could you put something up against a door that you're coming in and out of? There must be something in there. Unless there's another way into the room. Um, how much more like another push or two to where one of us can fit through it and it it's pretty loud I'd say that you guys could squeeze through with like two more pushes Looking through my she I'm like is there like like a pig grease roll

Just to make it more Specific why it's gonna be from a pig it's gonna. Why is it from a pig? It's going to be a hard success on a pig grease roll. No, you can try and mitigate the situation. But otherwise, it's going to be a stealth roll. If there's something you're doing to mitigate it, tell me and I'll might change the success that's needed. But we're looking like stealth rolls. And that's the way that you push on the door, like pushing from

maybe the bottom instead of where the handle is way that you push on the door like pushing from maybe the bottom instead of where the Handle is so that you have more leverage and make it less squeaky Yeah, it's just there's like crates and boxes piled like high over the door and get out of this room With stuff blocking the door how indeed? Unless those bookcases that I magically remembered are a way or a facade. So maybe let's head into Gavigan's office. But do we leave this door unlocked?

Yes, we just close it. Is that possible, Troy? Just close it, have it stay open? Yeah, if the guards come back from what they know, or I guess they're not coming into this room. No, they're not going're not going in it's locked They're not gonna check. Okay. Okay. Yeah, let's go Let's go. All right. Let's try to go to the Gavings office. All right So I'll move your pawns but you guys can move your pawns if you want first. This door is fucking locked. Yeah, it is unlocked You get into mr. Kennery's office and you make some sort of joke about what was the name of this guy? to the centenaries office. And you make some sort of joke about what was the name of this guy that was in here? Remember when we came out of here

and there was this stranger sitting here? There was another man here? And obviously he's not there. And then there's the door to Gavigan's office. What do you do? We go in. Is it locked? It is unlocked.

Oh, sick. Let's go in. All right, so now you're in Gavigan's office. You were here before speaking with him. You remember there was a safe on the floor. There's also like, it's his fucking desk and everything. So what do you do? Let's check these bookcases.

Yeah. I'm gonna spot hidden this adjoining wall to this room. I wanna try to get into his mind to figure out where he would put the combination for the safe. If I were Gavigan. All right, so give me a spot hidden. Can we both do this please, Scott? Yes.

Because I have a 28. Seven. Seven under 69. Yeah, I the rule and fire. 75. No, I've been rolling like crap and then I get like one good one. Yeah, good because I failed it. Okay. So, you examine the bookcases based on Carter's crazy theory that there must be another way in and maybe it's behind those bookcases that were behind Gavigan's desk.

And there's like three cases in a row. And the middle one like pops open and moves on a hinge. And just behind that is like a small little hallway with another single door. Oh, shit. Oh, another single door. Oh shit. Oh God. Okay, all right. You were right. Oh, I was totally right.

Oh my God, I thought I was wrong. Oh shit, I mean, yeah, no, I knew 100%. Okay, let's go in here. Should we try the safe first or? Yeah, cause now we, yeah, let's do that in case you remember here. In our favor is was very interested in the safe. Yeah, let's check the safe real quick.

Okay, the safe wide open. Is locked. All right, Ferus. I'm not Ferus, shit Margo. Remembering the last time. I need some luck here, okay? Okay, I'm your positive German thoughts, which I'm sure all Germans are full of I don't know how to do that. I'm sorry 45 under 48

You unlock the safe and inside you find a packet of white one pound notes, all with Gavigan's handwritten signature on the reverse. You quickly count them. It's about a hundred pounds. It's about 500 bucks. All drawn by Gavigan from a London bank. And that's all that's in there. It's just cash. Okay. Wait, but you sign it? How does that work? Is it like, they're like little checks? What? I think it's all-

You're saying his signature's on it? Yeah, his handwrittenwritten signature on the verse reverse I'm not wise enough to know how British gotta be like a check kind of Like he's endorsed a one pound note is different than a one one pound. I think they're probably like IOUs Okay, the Bank of England one pound note was a sterling bank note Issued from the Bank of England. Yeah, I just don't know enough about British currency.

I read that section of the chapter once and I was like, ah, it's 500 bucks. Who cares? Bank of Ireland is. The point of this is there's nothing strange about it at all. Okay, right. All right. I can't take this. I can't take any of this either because it's got its fucking signature on it.

Great. There's nothing else in there? It's just money? It's just money it's just money bummer okay that's fine let's just close this up do it spin the dial all right let's go examine the secret room see okay and we got it's kind of I want to make sure we can the the bookcase does it look like If it were to shut there's like a knob or something to open it like I don't trap ourselves in here No, it like just moves on a hinge. There's like a slight little you just got to push it push Yeah, you can pull it back so that you hide yourselves in there. Okay. Yeah. Yeah

I just want to make sure we don't trap ourselves in there Okay So you're like in this tiny little closet and it's pitch dark, but you can see where the door is once you've closed yourself in. Yeah. Gavigan's office on the other side, his desk, is the safe. You slide in here and that door is unopened. I mean unlocked. Obviously it's unopened. Great. Oh, it's tight in here. Yeah, I just don't know if he's just a friend Why did he like come all the way to the United States? Do you know what I mean? Like why would he make the trip? Oh?

He's in love with me Okay, that's what I figured. That's definitely yeah, that's obvious to both of us Yeah, no, okay. Well. It's you know congratulations Okay I gotta go to this door No, okay, well, congratulations. Okay. I gotta go to this door. You go to the door, you open it, and it's very dark inside.

However, there's still, as your eyes adjust to the darkness, you do see that it seems like there's boxes as your eyes adjust to the darkness, you do see that just like this seems like there's boxes piled up some all the way to the ceiling crates in a thin layer of dust over everything. It's actually like the minute you open the door, the movement of the door like kicks up dust. But you can't see shit it is pitch black. Okay. Got a little Zippo here. Ah, yes. Light a little lighter. Okay. You pop some lighters and you can see. It doesn't look like anyone's been in here for some time.

From the dust, that's pretty obvious. You do see the other. Didn't we see people go into the red door the other day? No. No, the door. That door was, you just noted, like, that's where there's a red door. And you can see that the door that you were trying to open,

now there's a bunch of boxes that have been slightly moved. You probably kicked up dust from doing that as well. But everything's blocked. However, in the mess of this room, there's been a very careful pathway made in the boxes so that someone could enter from this secret door and move about. about and they the direction basically the the pathway all goes up to a mummy case for fuck's sake there is a mummy case lying in the sort of north eastern portion of the room it's in pretty condition, lying on its back on the floor. And everything else is just kind of in the way except the pathway has been created to

this mummy case lying on the floor. Alright, so it's clearly traffic goes straight to the mummy case. Yeah. And unlike everything else in the room, the mummy case appears to be free of dust. It's worn. Does it look like it was put in here recently or just that it's maybe being used? You bring the Zippo down to the floor to see if there's like marks of this being dragged in or pulled in.

There's no indication as to when it was brought in. If anything, it just looks like it has been used in some way or handled. Hostie Or like taken care of to not get dusty? Jeff Or taken care of, whereas everything else hasn't been. It almost just looks like it's decorative decorative all right how about how about taking a look at the the types of footprints tracks maybe this isn't what isn't there some skill so like a survival or something there was like track at track it's a track oh yeah can be tracked just to see

if it's like the same set of footprints or is there like mummy footprints? Right. Like one foot's been turned. Seven-toned footprints. Yeah. This is not a great skill for me. I'm not gonna lie.

Yeah, that's not gonna, no, that's not even gonna do it. It's not a fumble. I know that. You certainly see footprints in the dust, but it can't determine how many people or if there are other sorts of creatures. But they kind of go back and forth and meander to this sarcophagus and then back to the door.

Well, I think we got all the information we need. We can probably get going. What? No, we must look at the- We're looking at it right now. There it is. We need to go take a closer look. I wanna go up to it carefully slowly and

Look at any markings that are gonna shoot the mummy We've done it before oh Yeah well, okay, I Want to look at the outside of it and see like can I discern anything jump out? You give me a spot hidden? Please at the outside of it and see like, can I discern anything? Anything jump out, you give me a spot hidden. Spot hidden, please. Oh, it's a 90, over 69. So it's too many, too many bits for my luck.

Okay, you can try to push, but obviously, high risk, high risk. I do wanna, yeah, I feel like this is the moment. I want to push it I'm getting maybe overwhelmed with like everything else in the room and with Carter not wanting to do this So I'm distracted and then I just try to shush shush and I try to focus more and just really look at everything I Have the failed push condition in my head Ten oh Wait wait, what did you roll? I have the failed push condition in my hands. Oh, God. 10. Oh! Or wait, wait.

Wait, what did you roll? I fucked this up on episode one of season two. It's a 10 on the 10s and then a face on the singles. What is the face? That's a zero? That's the zero, yeah. All right, that's a 10. That's a 10, not a 100.

Three zeros is a 100. I think I misspoke in the first episode of this season. You rolled a 10, which is at least a hard, if not an extreme 60. Under 69, yeah. That's extreme, baby. Sometimes I have good push failures in my hands, sometimes I don't, I had a real good one.

Here's what you notice. What do you do different though? What do you do different though? What do you do different? It was like I was getting distracted by Carter and maybe everything else in the room. So I just really like, I shush him up and I just really like try to methodically

look at everything and go up and down and try to like see if there's a story. Maybe at first you didn't touch it, you know? And now you're like, you really dig in and you start touching it. Okay. And you start like, what is what is going on here? Do you try to open it?

Am I compelled to want to open it? Well, the spot hidden. Wait, hold on. Slow down here. The spot. Your honor, the spot hidden was just to check if anything was crazy before opening it. Wasn't it? It's up to you.

If you don't wanna open it, if you're just kinda really- I mean, she's probably gonna open it. Let's be honest. Yeah, I feel like I wanted to check the vibe of the sarcophagus first. Check the vibe of the sarcophagus. And when you get to the face of the mummy, right, that's lying there, this image of a mummy, it's like a, you know, almost like a bas-relief, the way it's three-dimensional, you notice that the eyes, like, give a little.

Whereas the rest of the case is completely solid and hard. when you run your hands over the face of the mummy the eyes like have a little give to them and I should be clear this is a sarcophagus so it's like a coffin with like a painted yeah with a month you know like a kind of a farrowy type right right so the painted the painted eyes like have a give to them have a give to them. Have a give to them, like they can be pressed. Like buttons. I feel like I mess with them a little bit since I'm touching it and I'm like pressing gently.

Okay, I think we got the gist of it. The eyes move, I think we can go. No, Carter, I really wanna open the sarcophagus. I feel like Marco's in this space where like she hasn't really lost any max sanity, her power is really big. And she's like, been through some stuff, but I feel like she feels way too overconfident at the same time. Um, Yeah, makes sense.

And I want to open it. You go to open the sarcophagus, and it doesn't budge at all. Woo, yes! You just like, you don't know if you just don't have the strength to move it, like it's just, cause you're helping me. But it just doesn't move at all. It's just pretty locked. It's not opening.

Okay. Is there like, like a puzzle to open it? Something with squishy eyes? It seems like the eyes are the only thing that have any give whatsoever on this structure. Is there anything around that looks like it should be put in there?

Your fingers. My fingers? Mm. Is that what I think? Spot hidden on your hand. You look like a key shaped object or something that fits in the socket of the eye. Yeah, yeah, in the eyes. No, you don't see anything. But you know that you have the ability to depress them.

I slowly depress them more and more and more, slowly. You don't have to go too far before you hear click clink and then you hear this like an electric motor. And the lid of the sarcophagus like slides off on its axis and down and within the chamber is a staircase leading underneath the building and we go back to the blue pyramid class. Thank you ever so much for the drink. Thank you for the drink. Drink. You are most welcome, the woman says, and she leaves. You look down at the napkin, and it says, wait till you hear what this says.

Oh, fuck. It says, meet me down the street under the arches after the Blue Pyramid Club closes. I put that into my rest pocket. Um. It closed at 1am. You remember the sign coming in? It was like 6 to 1am or something. Right. Um... What time is it now, roughly? Uh, it's probably like 12, 15. Great. Um... It's like...

Well, I don't know about you, dear, but I think this might be our last round. Why are you talking like that to me? Just because there are people around, I guess. I'm just trying to get an anal on the axe. Vaughn's just lost in the sauce of his character. He loves this guy. I'm talking like that to you because I'm worried about being overheard. Oh, right, right.

Yum. That woman just sent me a little missive. And I'll slide it across the table to Ferus. Act casual. Opens it up. You see a sign there. How much time do we have? About 45 minutes.

Alright, well I suppose we could wrap this up and not do anything else to draw attention to ourselves. I'm sorry my plan backfired horrendously. Oh no. I think we operated rather well considering the circumstances. There's a rare sort that's impervious to these charms, but it seems to be happening more and more. All right, then. Well, this is what he's promising. What do you want to do afterwards? Do you suppose Tillinghouse and Margo have gotten themselves into?

Well, hopefully they've just stood about the perimeter and noted the goings on inside. I can't imagine they've actually gone in that place. Right, right, right. It would be insane to go into that place. Yes. I'm sure they've made the sensible decision. Yes. We're in the information gathering phase of this little investigation. Right. But this lead here shows great promise.

Seems as though the staff of this place... Did you see the fear in her eyes when that fellow bellowed the name of that brotherhood out? She did look rather uncomfortable. And might I say the date of that gentleman we were speaking to, she, her reaction didn't sit well with me at all. Yes, we're walking into a thicket of cross purposes and we must tread lightly. But yes, we've, suppose we've got some 30 or so minutes to finish our drinks and go down to the arches. Yeah.

And as Faerûs takes a look at her drink and is wondering, like, I hope nobody poisoned this. You drink your cocktail, your gin fizz, washes over your tongue in a delightful ginny way. And you sit there as the music continues thumping. And you look around at everyone with that same feeling you always get. Kind of feel like you're right back in New York when you were in the thick of it there. It's like everyone watching you as well. You're just like, are they watching you because you're a little out of place?

Are they watching you because you've given up your guys a little bit? You're not sure, but all eyes seem to be on you and eventually you leave the club and walk around. It's still raining out. You've got your parasol and you're – are you moving furtively towards there to kind of not draw attention to yourself or you're just like going out for a stroll? I don't want to tail so we may take a circuitous route and watch our backs a little bit. Right.

No reason to be stealthy. You just kind of take – maybe live a little bit earlier so you can get there by one. A little saunter. Take a little saunter around the neighborhood. It's a beautiful rainy night. Why not? And eventually you see this archway she was speaking of and in addition to the moonlight, there's sort of like a shaft of light coming from – I don't know if they had street

lights or gas lamps. It's just like shining down. So you go under there and you wait and a couple of minutes later you see a small slender figure walking towards you and she has long flowing dark hair which is wet. She doesn't have any umbrella or anything but she's not scurrying towards you. She's just kind of walking slowly with her eyes down and then she gets over to you and she says, here, come, come under here and she kind of pulls you just around the arch so that you're now in complete darkness.

She says, come. Come so we won't be seen. They watch. They see. Who are you? Who are you? My name is Yalesha. Yalesha Issam. She's like 19 years old, 18, young, very pretty, but like a deep sadness in her face and in her look. She's like... We are interested parties, Miss Issam. A friend of ours was on the trail of the brotherhood that I believe you heard. Our son. Yes. They killed Badru, my boyfriend. They killed him when he unwittingly threatened one of them for making advances against me.

The club, sometimes the men get a little handsy. And he didn't like that. And I think that is why he was killed. Well, I'm very sorry for your loss. Yes. Our friend has passed away along with a few other people. We are just wondering if there's any connection at all. I'm sure that being what you've been through and if there's anything that you know or have seen or have heard

That We would like to seek some sort of justice for if these things are connected. Yes justice Yes Vengeance as well. They are evil. Pure evil. This Brotherhood. I don't doubt it, Mrs. Hong. The net of the... of Scotland Yard is closing ever so slowly about them. But we have confronted an organization like this before, and we are just beginning to grapple with it here. We are not deputized by the constabulary, but we've been chosen by a higher power

to do combat with it. From any information that you have about the nature of this brotherhood, where they meet, who they are, who their associates are, what their goals are, will be of immense use to us. She's like- Anything that we could unravel at this point. You hear a sound that's like that, that, that, that, that, that, that.

And she looks and she like jumps. She's like, I cannot stay long. It is dangerous for all of us. I tell you, they know, they see they are probably watching us right now. But I will tell you what I know. There is a truck that comes to the club once a month, right around midnight, before we close, and about two dozen or so customers, they climb in to this truck. They are all members of this brotherhood, and they are led by a woman

named Zara Shafik. She is the mastermind behind it all, that I am sure. And she is the one that calls the shots at the club, not Abdul. He is a puppet and lives in fear of her and the wrath of the Brotherhood. One night I snuck out of work early. I had one of the other girls cover for me and I watched this van I watched them to see where they went and I think they drive somewhere out of London at one point I I lost them in the fog the fog seemed to overwhelm me and they disappeared but I'm certain they were heading outside of London that I know And that is all I can say.

Please, vengeance. Is this van marked at all in any way? I do not know. I do not know. I just, I know they come and they take them. I do not remember markings. Please, vengeance for Badru. You must, you must help.

No one else will help. We are all in danger. Is it a regular occurrence when this truck comes? What day of the month? What's a month? The third, uh, the third Tuesday of every month, I believe. I'm not sure, but I must go. Please, please, help me. And she scurries away. Thank you. And she's she scurries away. Thank you

Into the darkness and you're left standing there as the rain falls down and the moon seems to laugh at you Sala Shafik We'll see you next week We'll see I've said it. I've said too much. That's another evil shopkeep. Oh, she's the one that's the quietest. This time we know. This time we know. It's always the evil shopkeep. My goodness gracious. Always split the party.

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