The Glass Cannon Podcast - Time For Chaos S3 | E1 – Batter My Heart

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

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You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's Friday night and it's time for chaos. They said it couldn't be done. Who is this they? The government, probably. They said we couldn't do it live and in person. It'd be too expensive. Well profit and revenue be damned.

We don't need health insurance for our employees anymore because some things are more important than your health. That's bringing people together to play Call of Cthulhu live and in person. Look who we got. We got Ross Bryant in studio. Oh my God. The dream is alive. Let's do it.

Norah Ibrahim in the house. What game are we playing dream is alive. Let's do it. Nor Abraham in the house. What game are we playing? She just showed up five minutes ago. We got Rob Kirkovich. Do you prefer Robert? No. No, just Rob. Just only my parents.

What about Robbie? Rob? Robbie is more of my hip hop name. How about Bob Kirk? Bobby Kirk? No. No, that's the worst. And we got an empty chair.

Yes. Sadly, in order to afford flying all three of them out and putting them up in a hotel room, we couldn't pay, Kate. Don't put this on us. So, yeah. Also, I like you make it sound like we're in one hotel room. Yeah. We're there sleeping stacked like cordwood, like the three stooges, our little nightcaps going on where we- It's a California- Three large drawers like Simon. We're there sleeping stacked like cordwood, like the three stooges, our little nightcaps going up. It's a California...

...three large drawers like Simon. Three large drawers. No, I got you a California king with a sofa sleeper. I'm sure you guys are figuring it out. No. So it just seems crazy now. We've talked about it enough behind the scenes and now we're here and we're starting in case not here, but the reality is in order to do something like this of this magnitude to get the LA folks and Denver folks out here, we have to

record a lot in a row and Kate has a full-time job. So I had to make yet another very difficult decision and have her killed because I just couldn't tell her no. You mean her character, right? Right. Anyways, Kate is, she's not with us now, but she is here in spirit. And you know, depending on what I do to her character, there's a very good chance we could see Kate again, maybe playing another character, maybe playing an old NPC. But for right now, you know, just like a real gaming group, we're going to move on without her. But I didn't want to change this setup. So, I was like, we got to get somebody in here. So, I actually did. This is a true story. I reached out to some heavy

hitters in the industry. Big names. And they all politely declined. I have text proofs. You wouldn't believe who I asked. Joe Manginella? I'm not going to say, but names like that. I'll break my heart. Names like that. OK? I really did.

I made some connections. I asked. They all very politely said no. So I was like, how do I find someone who doesn't have any of that talent, who doesn't have any of that drawing power, but who is salaried and available. And so I got Joe O'Brien everybody. Joe! Get over here you son of a bitch! Smiling Joe!

Holy moly! How can I make this side of the table more Irish? You need more Irish on this side of the table. And unlike Kate, I work for free. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, and I don't demand a large. You have the same number of tattoos. Yes.

Highly concentrated. The tattoo ratio has dropped considerably on the show, which is a problem that needs to be addressed. You should get a tattoo of Kate. You know where you failed in getting the big names names is that you can't lead by sending nudes and then asking if they'll be on the show. And I learned that the hard way. Yeah.

But... And some lawsuits. Hopefully they deleted them. Now, what's nice about having you here is you've listened to every single episode multiple times and you know this campaign better than us. Well, you know, Troy, in order to get more method and really get into the experience of this story and this narrative, which from what I hear is the best thing the Glass Can Network's ever done, I wanted to make sure I had a character

that didn't know anything about the story or the mystery or the inside or knowledge that all these characters earned. So yeah, I didn't listen to anything. Great. Good. You did, though, produce, you sat in as a producer for the season one finale. Oh, that's right.

I forgot about that. Yeah, I know these characters. I know some of their stuff. What are you like, I think he fell asleep during it or something. It was not enough, yeah. Yeah. But I can't believe we're here in person,

nor you were just saying before we went live that – not live, but you know what I mean. Yeah, we're live by the way. That we only play in like shows and live shows in front of people. Yeah. Never get to just play in person. Never. Yeah.

I mean just to sit around the table with you guys. It's – I feel so lucky and yeah. It's going to spoil you. You won't want to go back to other groups. with you guys. I feel so lucky. And yeah. It's going to spoil you. You won't want to go back to our other groups. Yeah. To our other groups. That recorded this room.

I didn't realize Joe was coming out, because I didn't hear the cacophony of audience members screaming. Screaming is there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah, we talked about this last season. I think I said it live, not live,

but during an episode, I was like, man, it'd be great if we could do this in person. But logistics-wise, it's crazy, as you can imagine, because three of you guys live in other places. But once I had that bug in my head, I was like, can we do it? Can we do it? Can we do it? We are very thankful that Chaosium is sponsoring this season yet again. They have upped the ante to help us produce this and it's just Chaosium. So I was like, okay, well, we still can't afford it, but sometimes things are more important. And I think that doing this in person is going to elevate an already wonderful show to the next level and hopefully get

more eyeballs on a show that I know we're all really proud of and you know a little downgrade over here but what he lacks in little take you know what I mean like you get everybody in person and then I do feel very bad for Kate this is real shitty I'd rather not talk about it anymore. No, I'm so mad. I'm really upset. It's fine. We'll be fine. We're doing fine.

I'm just hoping that you two have the same crackling will they, won't they energy. I don't want to just say that, but I have plans. Over the past. I think in order to help fund the show, each of our characters should start an OnlyFans account. Where we have to do content as characters. Because OnlyFans, you don't have to be like gross on OnlyFans account. Hmm. Where we have to do content as characters. Because OnlyFans, you don't have to be gross on OnlyFans,

I heard. You could just make coffee or something. You heard? Yeah, coffee. You heard? Just from the other people that go on and look at it. Or if that's not the case, we can blaze our own trail on OnlyFans and not do smut.

OK, I like it. It's not the worst idea. I've got a lot of them. Middling ideas filled with a brim. Ross, your thoughts. I don't know if I'm prepared to go down the well of ancillary content to what we're creating. I'm just super happy to be removing ourselves even more

off of these screens and into the real world, see each other in real life just so you can feel me like a steel knife, as MF Deere famously says. I have been quoted in other internet concerns as being a fan of theater of the mind and games. And that's true. And I really, I think the best way to enter the imaginary-ium, so to speak, is in a setting like this around a circular table,

making a ritual space with your pals and entering the paracosm together. Yeah, I'm freaking stoked. Let's do this. I can't believe we got you because when we started this show, you didn't have a million fans on Instagram. Now- I still very much don't. I think you should check it out. But I couldn't believe you were available. You've really

shot skyrocketed to the stars. God bless. I certainly have more Instagram followers than I ever have had. Which is, yeah, God bless. But man, it is such a delight. And this just so happened, just so happened for sheer dumb luck to coincide with a week that I have nothing going on. And my God, what a joy to fly across the country so that we can go across the sea in our minds together. And then I can get the full force

of the LaValley intensity just blasting at me like a fire. I'm just like two feet away. Well, that's the other that's the other reason I'm really excited to be here. I when Troy asked me, I was like, oh my God, like what an incredible opportunity because I hear that he's nice in this game. And I want to see this like in person. It's it's very little nicer, but you might bring out the worst. That's true.

I could say apologize in advance. Yeah, this could blow up in our face. I think in Call of Cthulhu terms, we may have been handled with kid gloves up until now. Because it's shocking that we're alive. It's shocking that we're alive, but it's due to our roles, man. Yes, also true. Our roles during combat have been insane.

So I don't think it's for lack of Troy Troy. Yes, it's true. But if I start being mean to Nora, So I don't think it's for lack of Troy Try. Yes, that's true. But if I start being mean to Nora, five Eps in, it's your end. You're going to have a corrupting influence. Stupid idea, Nora! You hit the nail on the head though, Ross. Obviously, COVID changed everything.

A lot more people started gaming because you could game with anybody anywhere. That's where I met you. That's where I met you. That's where we reconnected. But there's nothing like doing it in person. And so I'm excited to see where this goes. I hope you're excited as well. So stay tuned and we'll be right back after this break to start the long awaited season three of Time chaos in person. No frills delivers get groceries delivered to your door from no frills with PC Express. shop online and get $15 in PC optimum

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Hot. We're back! Hope you enjoyed that break. I wanna thank once again our sponsor for this season and last season. They are such a wonderful partner, Chaosium. They make the best role playing game in the world. And I don't, I've probably shown this on screen a little bit, but this is Masks of Nier Alathotep.

It is two books. And for the first time since we're playing in person in this box set, someone just died backstage by the way. I couldn't believe how big it was. Hit their head. Oh my God, what a campaign. Smashed their head. They're bleeding out.

This is how large it is. For the first time, I can use the physical handouts. I got a whole thing that's about this thick of just handouts. So that'll be very exciting as well. Are there any ones from the last two seasons you want to give us now? You know, if I had not sat in... The way it works in New York is like you can't... It's impossible to park because they got opposite side street parking. So I was going to come here at 8 a.m., get all my handouts, do all like a teacher setting up for class.

And I just had to sit in my car for an hour with my laptop waiting for the street sweeper to go by so that I could come in. So I did not do that. But graciously, Michael, who we've talked about ad nauseam over the past few seasons, my backstage help, he is here providing backstage help and he set up everything. He did some cutting of some handouts. So in case you guys get to any handouts today, I have all of that. What the hell? Where do we even begin? I have an idea. After season one, season one finale, five, six hours long, season two finale, five, six hours long. Season two finale, five, six hours long.

The amount of work and prep that goes into that. The last thing I want to think about after that's done is next season. But in both instances, I either text or emailed you guys and said, so what's next? And so I did that at the end of season two and you all immediately decided Shanghai. You wanted to take the slow boat to China. And I was very surprised. Yeah. And then we didn't hear back from you for four months.

Yeah, no, at least. Been like a year and a half. It was like Sopranos level breaks between seasons. You guys chose to go to Shanghai. Maybe I'm spoiling too much, but we're going to get into it anyways. Very, very interesting. And so, I think this is going to be the best season ever. There I said it. The best season ever. If you know, you know. This has the potential to be really exciting. Shanghai is the best? Shanghai is just pretty bucket amazing.

For you, who limited Kala Cthulhu experience but intense Delta Green experience, this is a great place to jump in. I'm very excited. Now, you're playing Margot? No. Okay. Margot was a character that was on the show, Joe. Yes, yes. I do know that much. Kate. Yes, was the character that was on the show, Joe. Yes, yes. Okay.

I do know that much. Kate. Samus, you know? Yes, I am familiar with Kate. She would have been where you are right now. You can reach out and touch her. Well, this is very exciting. I think the best way to start, because I may not even know where to begin, is just with

a recap. Yeah, do it. Overwritten recap. I'm actually relying on, because I may not even know where to begin, is just with a recap. Would that very overwritten recap? I'm actually relying on this because I did not do enough. It's very important. Well, you know who did a lot of work. Oh, no. Show it. Let's talk about this. Putting us all to shame.

I rewatched every single episode and took notes again because let's be honest, my notes, I could barely read them for the show. If we're going to be totally honest, couldn't find them in the first place. I was like, well, shit. I went and rewatched every single episode, took two notebooks, two whole notebooks full of notes, episode by episode. It's insane. I did not have a conspiracy theory board because TSA would not

let me have that, you know, through travel. But I did make some loose ends notes. I did an inventory list. I'm fucking ready. I walked in, you guys were already here. And I mean, you were like Charlie Day in It's Always Sunny. You were just pacing around like, and then we met Robert Houston and the lawyer gave us heroin. What is going on? Hi, Nora. Yeah, that's intense. So you know this probably better than I do in terms of the nitty gritty of what you've actually

discovered. She wrote down every role. I saw that in the margins. Well, because there has been so many times where we're like, but did I succeed on that? And now I can be like, da da da da da da. Every. Yes. Roll.

Did you get like a 4.0 GPA in college and high school? I did. That type of note taking like. That's twisted. There's no way. Fae Roos is very close to my heart for many reasons. Amazing. Yeah, that's one of them.

Yeah. Insane. Well, I'll do my best. They call it Cthulhu, they said. You'll have fun Suddenly the madness are you OCD crabbed script of the character such to invade real life Well, we've made another big change this season We have moved off of that old virtual tabletop and we've moved over to foundry virtual tabletop We use it for our main show. I use it for everything now. And Michael,

yet again, golf applause for Michael. He did all of the heavy lifting in terms of translating this game and the millions of handouts and the millions of NPCs over to Foundry. So we'll be having some fun with that. It looks cool. It looks really neat. It does. Yeah. It's pretty sweet. In terms of like taking notes and stuff, you'll learn as you go. Like now, if you want to type notes, you could have a Google Doc or an open Gmail email to yourself like some people do, or you could make notes within here.

You can create your own journal. All the handouts are there. Then I got physical handouts as well. Let's talk recap. I mean, there's no way I could cover everything that we've done, but I'm going to do my best. This will be important for you. And I know you hate recaps, but you might wanna-

Remember everything. You might wanna remember everything. You might wanna take notes. Our story began in 1921 in Peru, where our investigators, Faeruz Gibran, Von Villiers, Carter Tillinghast, and Margot Sauer met not only each other for the first time, Villiers, Carter Tillinghast, and Margo Sauer

met not only each other for the first time, but they met a man named Jackson Elias. They all came to Peru to join an expedition to an ancient pyramid. To an ancient pyramid. Maybe they were seeking fame and fortune. Maybe they were running away from their old lives. Maybe they were called by inexplicable forces they didn't even know about. No matter the reason, the harrowing experiences they faced in Peru

brought these men and women together in a special bond. Thus, it was not strange of them at all to drop what they were doing and head to New York City four years later, when in 1925, they received a telegram from their good friend, their old good friend, Jackson Elias, asking them to come to New York to form an investigative team

because he had new information concerning the Carlyle expedition. I have that telegram here, but I can't find it right now. Anyways, it's really cool. It's a piece of paper. What is the Carlisle expedition? And this is where you're gonna really wanna listen.

It began with a 24-year-old millionaire playboy named Robert Carlisle, the black sheep of his family, who decided to fund an archeological expedition to to Egypt which departed New York in 1919. The principal members of the expedition were Sir Aubrey Penhew, age 54, British, titled, wealthy, and a noted Egyptologist. Hypatia Masters, age 27, a beautiful society girl and photographer, and a linguist as well. Jack Brass Brady, age 36, a mercenary soldier, former Marine, weapons expert, Carlyle's confidant and bodyguard,

and Dr. Robert Houston, aged 52, a fashionable psychoanalyst and interpreter of dreams. The expedition members left New York and sailed to London to consult with Sir Aubrey Penhew on matters concerning ancient Egypt. They then traveled from London to Egypt to begin their excavations where something was allegedly discovered but not reported about. From Egypt, they then traveled to Mombasa, Kenya, where they went inland at a certain point and vanished.

In March 1920, a local tribesman told authorities in Nairobi they saw a party of Caucasians near a Kenyan peak known as the Mountain of the Black Wind. Upon hearing about the missing expedition, Erika Carlisle, Roger's sister, traveled to Africa and hired a search party, and after ten weeks of searching, they found the remains of the expedition. The corpses were remarkably preserved, although what little was left of them appeared to have been torn to shreds. Very, very strange. Blame was quickly pinned on the local tribesmen who were put on trial, found guilty, and then hanged. The expedition members were declared dead, and the incident was forgotten.

What could Jackson Elias need an investigative team for regarding this infamous Carlisle expedition? Oh man, I'm not used to this volume whiplash. It's unreal. I was taking it in stride. It's giving me more's taking it in stride. It's more nervous than a show. The story is less rattling than whether or not I'm about to get my skull scraped by Troy's

lawyer. Keep it going. Yeah, I'm sitting over here like the Maxill Tapes guy. I'm sweating. What does Jackson Elias know about the Carlisle expedition? Well you show up at his hotel room. You show up to the Chelsea Hotel, right here in New York. Let's all visit it tomorrow night.

We can go together. We could do that, because we're in New York. Uh-huh, OnlyFans. You walk in. Filming, but not OnlyFans. Am I the only one thinking outside the box? I'm warming up to it, man. Everything is content.

We gotta do this, baby. Everything is content. Content is key. Only if it's 1920s smut. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Showing some ankle. Is that an ankle? Well, yeah, we have to shoot this on eight millimeters. Yeah.

Yeah, cheap, very cheap. You walk in, nobody answers the door. You walk in on Jax and Elias's murder as men wearing strange tongue headdresses jump out of the fire escape into the night. As you begin to investigate the murder of Jackson Elias, you learn that after leaving Peru, he eventually ended up in Nairobi, Kenya,

looking into a cult known as the Cult of the Bloody Tongue. From Kenya, he went to Shanghai, China, then a brief stop in Hong Kong before heading to Cairo, Egypt, then to London before returning back to New York. Somewhere along the way, a few things appeared to have happened to Elias. One, he uncovered some knowledge that the stories of the Carlisle expedition's demise may not be true, and he became obsessed with finding out the real truth. His sanity slowly began to erode, and he caught the attention of the cult he was looking into,

who eventually took his life in New York. You follow a horrific trail of evidence that leads to an epic showdown at an African antiquities shop in Harlem called the Juju House, with the cult of the bloody tongue, where the cult leader, dozens of cultists, and a bunch of New York City cops were all murdered.

Some of them at your hands. That's the episode that you produced. Ah, yes. You remember it well. You remember well. Every line. So you begin to backtrack through Jackson's last whereabouts, and you head to London

to look into Sir Aubrey Penhew's foundation, where you meet Sir Aubrey's replacement, a man named Edward Gavigan. He remembers meeting with Jackson Elias, but doesn't provide you with much information. You think Gavigan might be holding something back and hiding something, so, as all good investigators do, you break into the foundation at night and you discover a hidden room where, among other strange Egyptian artifacts, you find paperwork detailing certain items being shipped from a local warehouse in London to Shanghai, as well as crates full of sanity threatening statues meant for a Ho-Fang import-export also in Shanghai. Another

lead takes you to a place called Empire Spices, where you meet Zahra Shafik, a beautiful Egyptian spice dealer, who Scott and I had their eye on after a string of Egyptian nationals were murdered in London. She came up clean from the inspector, and you found her quite pleasant. Seemed cool. What was your spice shop called that you were lying about?

Spice It Up. Spice It Up. We're like, we're looking for spices for this shop. What's it called? Spice It Up. That episode sent me into like a tailspin, because I feel like that following episode I was like, what are we even fucking doing? Is this fun at all for anybody watching?

Then it became very fun. At some point you followed up on some newspaper articles Jackson was interested in. You knew he had a connection to this man named Mickey Mahoney had a old rag called the Scoop. And you started looking to these articles he was interested in. It led you to a haunted artist

under mind control from a lizard person whose art may have acted as gateways to other worlds, a werewolf sighting in the English countryside that ended up being the daughter of a ruling family who was suffering an unfortunate centuries-old curse that turned her into a ghoul. You had no choice but to kill her before she unwittingly killed more innocents in this small village. You found a manufacturing plant, mentioned in Gavigan's notes, where odd mechanical parts were being built using blueprints by someone named the Pale Viper.

You also found several shipping labels for a shipping company in Australia. You then burned that building down, with all the parts inside, including three security guards who were killed as well. They burned. Well, they were knocked out, so they didn't know they were dying.

That's right. God. They died later. They burned to death. They tried to kill us. Oh, oh, okay. I've been watching Joe's face this whole time. There we go.

That's a lot. I mean. This will only take another 20 minutes. We are some murder. I wasn't expecting. Yes. You see that coming. Well, they put them in an outhouse,

be like, oh, the fire won't spread, and it spread and it killed. It was hilarious. It was the one time where like, let's not be murder hobos, and we were in fact. And the wind blew a certain way. It was also like a fight where, I think they were armed with like butter knives

and nearly killed us. It was like something where we were fighting through the gate, like it went to hell at a hand basket immediately. He made every single locksmith mullet he ever made. All we gotta do is break in. Failed this, fumbled, and it was so loud, the guards came and they're fighting through the gate.

They're fighting through the fence. Yeah. It was sloppy and awful. And this was, sorry, once again, in London? Yes. Outside of London. No, it was outside of London. No, it was outside.

Just outside, yeah. Yeah, within last season. After having his sanity whittled away to almost nothing after the events of Peru, New York, and the horrors of London, one of your own, von Villiers, decides to visit his family's home. Eaglesgrange, an estate in the English countryside, he arrives to find that his domineering mother has turned Eaglesgrange into a bed and breakfast, full of interesting characters, including

a medium, who while doing a seance with you to contact, perhaps the ghost of Jackson Elias, is possessed by the elder god Nyarlathotep and erupts into a ball of flame. Vaughn, realizing his mental state, at this point would only put the group into further danger decides to stay behind and convalesce in Eagle's Grange.

So you recruit an Irish firebrand named Desmond Mahoney to join the mystery squad. Nice. An Irishman in here? Oh yeah, I like it. And that was Vicky Mahoney's nephew? Nephew. Yes, Vicky Mahoney of the Scoop. Real fun character. One day you decide, you know what, something is not sitting well with you about Edward Gavigan and Zara Shafik, so you tail them, and as you do, you find them meeting up together at an art exhibit where they discuss you, the investigators,

with the shipments as well. Something about interfering with the shipments, Friends of Jackson Elias. Maybe they know more than they're letting on while out shopping Carter is taken by a couple of men and brought to an Egyptian nightclub Which gave you like plus one armor it did oh yeah I want to return to the shopping you were out shopping I wanted to what exactly look I think has Rob

Kierkevich looked in the rule book for once and was like, wait, if I got a leather jacket, I got armor. So you were literally going to buy a leather jacket. Yes. He survived thus far with no weapons. And no armor. I had a knife once.

Once, one time. Yes, thick London leather. Yep. But you're out shopping and you get basically kidnapped. These guys throw you in a car and you're taken to this nightclub that your associates had visited earlier, the Blue Pyramid Club, an Egyptian nightclub, where Zara Shafik reveals that Edward Gavigan is a very dangerous man, that he is not only behind these Egyptian murders, but he is the leader of a cult known as

the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. She is involved as well, but she got involved because she moved here from Egypt and just wanted to feel closer to her homeland. But Gavigan has turned this into a whole other can of penises. It's not in my notes. He must be stopped. You writing all of this down, Joe?

No. Can of penises. That's in our down, Joe? No. Can of peanuts. That's in our item, the can of peanuts. Yes. Plus one can of peanuts. It's your inventory. One, two, three, four. You throw it on the ground, it just

explodes into a bomb of penises. They do 1D4. It's always shocking. Impaling day. Someone gives you a can of peanuts. Like trying to run on them. Whoa! On an extreme success, it does 1D4.

Every April 1st, someone gives me a can of peanuts and then I open it and once again I'm shocked. Christmas warning, you run to your stock and just hoping upon hope is a can of peanuts. Is it like a peanut brittle? Yeah, it was the prankster. The prankster snakes. That's fun. You have that for your OnlyFans page. We're generating content, baby.

This is good stuff. This is all great. She believes this guy, this murderer cult leader, he should be stopped. And she says there is a major riot happening outside of London at an estate he owns called the Measor House. I'm going to help you take him down. Here's how it all goes. Here's the sign.

Look out for the sign. So you head to Mieser House. You disguise yourself as cultists, I believe, and await the sign from Shafik, but things get crazy very quickly. Can I ask you a question? Please. I want to picture this properly. Yeah.

How do you disguise yourself as cultists? We found – Did literally like dark robes and boots – No, we literally found the robes that they use on the third floor. So you're hooded, cloaked. Yes. Which is much better than our previous disguises which were like bad wigs. Oh yeah, we were wearing wigs and stuff for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. And when you infiltrated the Cult of the Bloody Tongue at Juju House, there was no sneaking in because they were all naked and cavorting and it was a monster. It was a whole thing.

Anyways here. They were busy getting busy. They were busy a monster. It was a whole thing. Anyways, here... Yeah, they were busy getting busy. They were busy getting busy. It was a sex orgy. And Troy also one time had to, in detail, describe a vision of a death orgy or something on a pyramid. Remember that? Yes. And he just very... It was hilarious to watch him try to not get canceled in real time. As he spent five minutes describing there was animal sex as well, and there was people were killing each other while having like, they are fornicating on a pyramid.

Just very technical. Like you were reading it and it was very. But these themes keep coming up. Like there is the sex and death is all tied into these cults. They are doing it while stabbing each other. It's very very intense Anyways, oh, yeah things get very crazy very quickly You find these prisoners in the basement of Miser house one of which is inspector Barrington from Scotland yard Who you've been communicating with but now he looks like he's been in prison for weeks

Even though you just saw him a couple days ago looking fine, immediately you realize, oh fuck, at some point, someone must have transformed into Barrington to check up on you or perhaps lead you astray. So now you start worrying like no one can be trusted. There might be fucking shapeshifters out here. You head to the ritual, you hide among these cavorting cultists and watch in horror as it's like a new initiation ceremony. And they are like beaten with ceremonial clubs. Some of them are like

lightly tapped and other guys are like, oh, Jackson getting smashed. And some of them die and the rest are rewarded by making it into the cult. Then the prisoners are brought out one by one and tied to these pillars where Gavagan and the others beat the life out of them with clubs until Gavagan turns his club around with a spike sticking out of it and buries it into the heart of one of the prisoners. He raises his hands to the sky and cries out, that's your signal let's make a move but oh, two winged creatures from another dimension appear

and begin tearing apart the prisoners and the cultists alike. Amid the chaos, you run in and kill Gavagan, but then Shafik turns on you and uses her magic to nearly annihilate you, however, you injure her severely. Somebody hit her with a shot. You were on the ground and shot her. I was on the ground and shot her three times and then previously she got shot by Margo once, I believe.

Yeah, did Margo get shot? Did she also made a leather armor out of her own skin or something? Yes, because she had- Did she armor up? Yes, she cast some spell on herself that she grew this extra skin that was absorbing the damage,

but you lit her up. It's a good thing you did because she clearly had some magical powers, had been bullshitting you all along, wanted you to eliminate Gavigan so that she could take over the cult but now it's just craziness. You realize like as she runs there's no way you're going to catch up with her without possibly sacrificing yourself. So she gets away. In our epilogue we see Zara Shafik returning to London in an alleyway and she shapeshifts into a middle-class Londoner before blending back into society. Now your characters don't know that she has this ability but as players you know that she's still at large. Vaughn

meanwhile is picked up at Eagle's Grange by his fiance slash beard, Fae Ruse. Fae Ruse? Yeah, oh, yeah, you left that part out, but yes, we are engaged. It was rocking. Top of the sea. How did that happen? What did you do? Vaughn proposed marriage to her on the sea voyage from New York to London.

So that they could both get But you're marrying up. Out of anxiety for- Oh yeah, oh yes. Barry's is married up. Out of anxiety for meeting the family without a fiance as he's been away from home for quite some time. Wow.

Changes her credit rate. But they're not- You're getting married, right? You're still engaged. We are not yet married. Yeah, not yet married. We're re-left it, yeah. But they both sort of needed something

out of that relationship. Yeah. Got it. And they do care about each other. Yes. Yeah, yeah. This is a marriage, an engagement of mutual affection and also convenience. It has not been consummated.

However, between each season, there should be a new proposal, I think. You've set a tradition that someone else has to get engaged. Maybe there was gonna be. I really fouled up the mood. This is not going well so far. I'm done here. This is nice. You pick, Feyruz picks Vaughn up at Eagle's Grange and we see as they drive off they're being followed by Feyruz's father. A very harsh man who is linked to a secret society that both Feyruz's father, a very harsh man who is linked to a secret society that both Feyruz and Margot are members of.

Yeah, no, that's a whole other thing. That honestly, we don't really even know a lot about that. Wait, so where are you from? Are you American? Yes. Well, Feyruz is Egyptian, but had moved to America very, very young. And she's a post-grad student at Miskatonic where her father is a professor.

Okay. She is studying. So did this Epilexy happen in America? No. No. So your father was in London? Yes, because somebody called her to ask for her dad for her hand in marriage all proper, unbeknownst to Feruze.

So Feruze does not know. Nobody knows that he's- Yeah, earlier in the season, he let slip that they're in London and that he calls them like the middle of the night and the dad's like, who is this? Vaughn couldn't resist paying homage to tradition. Yeah.

But also forgot to say his name when he called. Her father also showed up at the at Erica Carlisle's Fancy ball in season one in season one with us. He's been mysterious We'd are around like yeah some floozy He is a professor at Miskatonic University, but but oh, but there was also a dream Sequence that happened right there was like a flashback where it was like Feyruz's mother giving birth To a daughter and came out of like a complete haze and he was standing there like 30 years prior or whatever It was and he's like you have a boy and a girl or something like oh, yeah, you forgot the oh, yes

You found your estranged brother that you didn't even know existed in London. Feyruz's mother died mysteriously estranged brother that you didn't even know existed in London. Ares's mother died mysteriously. Oh my god. And she has this... There's layers to this onion. Yeah, she has this diary of hers, it's the only thing she has of hers, where she progressively goes mad by the end.

And her death is very mysterious, her dad doesn't want to ever talk about it. So she's trying to put the pieces together of her mother's life. She finds a name, Emil L. written in the thing. We find out that he was a soldier stationed in near Cairo and they had had an affair, and the brother is the affair baby. Yeah.

Yeah. What is he a professor of? Well, that never came up, but let's say history. Okay, but that's never come up. Spanish. Yeah. This that's never come up. Spanish. Yeah. New media. Ferruzz is...

New media. It's like for photographs. Slides. Yeah, I mean, I literally, this whole episode could be recapped, but I still wouldn't touch base on all the sort of little nitty gritty. But you've took stuff that was in your original character creation, little backstory stuff that you roll on the tables of Call of Cthulhu. And it's become as much a part of the narrative as anything else. So let's start with the development phase. This is good. Well,

this is a softball softball season opener here before we get into a development phase. So you get to enjoy this because you don't get shit during the development phase. You got to earn it. As is tradition though, we start with a luck roll to recover some luck. So you roll against your luck score and if you fail, you can get 1D10 luck back. And we use the optional rule where you can spend luck to change your roles. The luck role that you're doing now is against your current luck. Yeah. That's right. By failing, we have to roll over it.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a currency you want to spend because then you have a better chance of recovering it. I failed at succeeding in improving my luck and then rolled a one on my detail. Oh no. Now here's the other thing. You have two characters who get to roll this luck roll. Oh. Yes, and we texted a little about this, but I'm curious to see how this is gonna go.

We shall see. I thought about not bringing in Joe and just having Ross move around the table for two hours. I thought this was- To split screen him? Yeah. We can do it. We have enough cameras here.

What were you going to say? It seems crazy to me, purely mechanically, that you have to go this long before you make these improvement rolls. What does the game say? Does it say after a scenario or after a session? Normally, it's during development phase. Now last season, you did two sidetracked scenarios that had individual development phases. I think I let you improve your skills during those development phase. Now, last season, you did two sidetracked scenarios that had individual development phases. I think I let you improve your skills during those development

phases. Yeah. I mean, but the thing was it was weighted where the first side quest was within like episode three, four, and like that. So, we did that. And then the second one was like halfway through the season. Yeah. Does it say it in the masks thing? Like... Yeah. It'll say it like after...

At the end of the thing. No, I could... I didn't know if it was a general like... At the end of things. No, I could. I didn't know if it was a general like, every session you do this. No, I wish. Yeah, because that would be. No, that would be. They want you as squishy as possible.

They wanna draw that out. Well, I'm just trying to think. You're talking about these winged creatures and stuff like that. I'm just like. We didn't even fight them. How are you surviving this? Well, so, there's a lot of running.

Tell them what happened in the Waldorf Astoria. There's a lot of running that happened. A dragon crashed through what happened in the Waldorf Astoria. There's a lot of running that happened. A dragon crashed through their window in the Waldorf Astoria. I remember that. I was there for that. We ran from that, too. I do remember that, yes.

Yeah, I mean, now that you've survived as long as you have, and you're starting to read tomes and unlocking, you know, losing sanity, unlocking Cthulhu mythos, I think Feroz has the ability to create a zombie. You've learned your first spell. Yes. Don't you have a scepter? I do have a scepter that we took that...

Desmond has the two scepters from Gavagan that he... Oh, he's got those, the hammer and the sickle. Yeah. Desmond has the two scepters from Gavagan. You're talking about the scepter that was taken from Mkonga Madara at the end of season one. Isn't that the thing that creates corpses or creates zombies? No, no, no. That scepter, we don't know. It has some sort of weird power to it. We've got a lot of shit and we don't know what any of it does.

But we found it was an actual written scepter. Michael's so good, he's already typing because I was going to have to ask, what does that scepter do again? Story-wise, we don't know what happens, but it has something. Well, yeah, they've faced an abomination in Peru, several abominations. Several. I think a skeleton rose up. That's where it really began Vaughan's descent into madness where he thinks death is...

What is your situation? You've basically- Death is not the end. Yeah. The Catholic thing came up. Yes. Oh yeah, a lot of Catholic stuff. Vaughn is retreated in-

You'll love this. Yes. You'll love this Catholic shit. Vaughn is a veteran of the First World War who lost his faith in the trenches. And the experience in Peru and especially seeing the dead wake triggered I think something just in his childhood memory in the way that resurrection is evoked and spoken of. He has now gone full bore into Catholicism. Cool. So he's deep in his catechism and is seeing the ways in which these evil forces

that they're contending with are perverting in these grotesque and blasphemous parodies of the holy mysteries of the church and that there are beautiful resurrections but they are creating these horrid resurrections. If such a thing is possible, if death is not the end, if the veil is thin, could he perhaps be reunited with people that he has lost? We've now seen on two separate occasions Vaughn having these long conversations and moments with people that we only realize after the fact are no longer alive. Yes. I am. Yep.

It's a gift you see. I'm giving a gift. Yeah. Okay. Seize dead people. Alright, so we did our luck rolls. Now you also gained some sanity back or possibly lose some sanity based on how you did in London. And for you

Ross, I want you to give these to both characters. Because you earned it. For in London. And for you, Ross, I want you to give these to both characters because you earned it. For neutralizing Edward Gavigan, you each get 1d6 sanity points. All right. That's a five, baby. Nice, Rob. Clutch. Clutch City.

Watch out, watch out. He's going to be like, for doing this other thing really well, you lose sanity. Like one of our side quests, we fucking saved this girl's life and he's like, you lose sanity because- What? Yeah, or if you read a book that has like a lot of the mythos in there, like you'll gain knowledge of what you're doing. Yeah, your Cthulhu mythos score goes up, but your sanity permanently goes down. I only gained one sanity, but mine was pretty up top to begin with.

Farsanity is insane. It started with 94. I'm at an 81 now and an 82. Farrish Ron is the best of us. Von Villiers sanity is after he just bumped it up. Oh wait, no, it's currently after he bumped it up, it's now 28. Oh boy. A gentleman's 28. But you were always, it's now 28. Oh, boy. The gentleman's 28.

Vaughn started with you were rocking. I think that's probably what- I was unlucky in my sanity rolling earlier and I think that influence might take on how the war had affected this guy. That's the beauty of this game, Joe. You've always been kind of teetering on. On the brain. 28 is the highest it's been in a long time. Now let's see, you broke up the cult. I'm going to say you probably, it's hard to say whether or not you eliminated it.

But getting rid of Gavigan is going to at least take them time to recover. Give yourself another D4. Oh, wow. For luck or for sanity? For sanity. Another D4. All right, let's go.

Come on, please. OK, three for that. What is your total right now? I'm at 67 right now. Oh, what the? OK. I thought I was going to come into this the most sane person. I think Margot had the highest.

Margot was like a 90. 90 luck. How do you do that? You just rolled that? Well, your power, it's all based on your original power. Yeah, but I think it was a roll. It was just like during character. Nadi 18. It was, yeah, I think during our initial character.

By eliminating Gavagan and not eliminating Zara Shafik, you basically put her in a position where she could either take over the Brotherhood or do other things. So I'm going to interpret that lose 1d2 sanity. Okay. Could have made that worse, but that's me without knowing exactly what her machinations are at this point, you will lose 1D2. Alas.

Now, part of the development situation, you can do a lot of different things. And we did this between seasons last time to get yourself in a better mental state for the rest of the journey. Now that you have some downtime because we'll talk about like how long do you want to stay in London? How long? You can institutionalize yourself, spend some time in a sanitarium and you then would roll a d100 And if you roll a 1 to 50 you get 1d3 sanity back if you roll a 51 to 95

No progress a 96 to 100 you lose 1d6 sanity The best case scenario is plus 3 the best case scenario is plus 3 they want you to go crazy Now you can get private care, which is something that Vaughn certainly, we're going to talk about your time at Eagle's Grange. I think you have the means and the ability to get private care. I'm sure your mother could call a local doctor to come in and give you around the clock care. You roll a D100, a one to 95 equals 1D3 sanity. 96 to 100, you lose 1D6. So please, I I'm gonna say you got private care while you're in Eagle scratch. Okay. Hey fancy Psychologist or psychoanalyst maybe comes by at my mother's behest I'm getting that sweet three

Get your get your 1d3 sanity back for your private. So you can still just get one. Oh, good Lord. D3. It's just so bad. I'm like, why can't it be a D6? Okay. I rolled a three, so.

Two. Two. Two. Hey. It ain't nothing. It ain't nothing. Now, that's what you did at Eagle's Grinch. Now you've got to think about what are your characters doing before you get on this boat

to China. You can go to an institution if you feel like, you know what, I need a break here and I'm going to adjust the calendar based on your decisions. You can seek private care. Maybe someone would loan you the money. You can also do self-help, which would be a little scene that will play out. I think all of you should take advantage of this, you twice over, to have the chance to gain back 1D6 sanity.

You could fail and lose a sanity. However, if these scenes that we play together involve one of your key connections, be it a person or an object from your backstory, you get a bonus die on that roll. I'm going to get a chance at 1D6. However, before we get into the nitty-gritty, also the sea voyage, if you go unmolested,

you're going to get 1D3 sanity. I mean, I can only hope. Just for that salt air. However, before we get into the nitty-gritty of that stuff, I'm going to start with something that Kate sent me. Oh. What? Now, one of the benefits,

maybe the only benefit of having Joe here, is that we can get- We can have a feel. Very unwelcome. Sweet. Thanks, everyone. This is what we call hazing. Give him a wedgie.

You piece of shit. We can eat you piece of shit. We can't eat pieces of shit. We can get some sweet music. And so I think this deserves what kind of music? What's the mood of this? A little kind of nice. Maybe a little nice. Get some Bee Gees?

Starts out nice. Yeah. Do some Bee Gees. Googling, kind of nice type beat. Rock lobster. That's an appropriate joke. That's a sanity one. Let's see use the PGs. Googling, kind of nice type beat. Rock lobster. That's inappropriate, Joe. That's insanity, Lola.

Down, down. All right, so yeah, she sent me this the other day. I think she cc'd Rob, and Rob was like, I can't look. So I've taken it and ran with it a little bit. We had all those epilogues to end the season, and now we come up on Carter, sitting apparently alone at a table in a dimly lit restaurant, presumably in London. He seems, maybe you see him on edge, fussing. Your shirt sleeves, collar of your jacket, checking. Your reflection on the back of the spoon.

Of course you still have a mask covering half of your face because you were kicked in the face by a- A horse. A horse. That left entire chunk of your face missing. What does your mask look like? It's plain white. It's like, yeah, you ever see Boardwalk Empire?

The guy's got a face that's supposed to be... It was often used for World War I veterans, where they would craft half a face to cover up a wound or whatever. But is it painted now by Margo? I don't know. Let's find out. Show me who I am. That's where we ended last season. That line.

I mean, you should watch back. Looking at your reflection, and in the reflection of that spoon, you see someone walking up to your table. You get up, walk around, pull the chair out, and Marco sits down. I imagine, as always, things are a bit awkward at first, but by the end of the dinner, a couple of wine glasses, deep, the mood's lively, and you're laughing and talking, and we're just kind of seeing this from different angles. Sometimes voyeuristic, other times just in close and intimate.

The mood is lively, you're having a good time, and at the end of the night, you see Carter walking her back to her hotel room door, and without missing a beat, Margot grabs your face with both of her hands and gives you a kiss good night. Half mask, half real lips, and then goes into her hotel room. Now we see them out at a cafe, sitting at a table by the front window, and next to the door you read a newspaper or something and Margo is just sketching the other patrons. And as she's sketching behind you both, someone else enters the cafe and you notice Margot stiffen ever so slightly and her eyes

sort of follow the trail of this man as he walks up to the counter and places an order. Margot, you notice she stops sketching and kind of buries her head in a notebook. But say that it's noticeable enough that you're concerned, but for some reason you don't press, we'll say. And now we move forward in time again and you're at another dimly lit bar drinking pisco sours together, reminiscing about the old days, perhaps not talking about the days to come. Cartier eyes are half open and we see that your mask has been engraved and painted. The lines are bold and flat and expressive and follow the contours of your face.

expressive and follow the contours of your face. Margot's leaning on the bar, admiring her most recent work. And she looks at you with playful eyes and nods towards the door of the restaurant. They down the rest of their drinks. Carter takes her hand and they leave. Now they're outside of her hotel room yet again. She kisses you again. Only now she opens the door and pulls you in. Carter, you- Uh huh, keep going. You wake up, close up on your face. Sun is streaming in through the window. Do you sleep with your mask on?

It depends on how drunk I was the night before, I guess. I feel like the mask is off in more ways than one. As you wake up, maybe you instinctually feel around for it. And as you feel around, you realize the bed is empty. And where, presumably someone else was, is a golden mask and a note. I have this note on Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Do you want me to read it? Or do you want to read it? You can. Have it right here. Beautiful note.

I think you should read it in case we get the chance to have somebody else read it. Ah, okay. Okay. I'll read it and then I'll share it with all of you. It says, right away you notice Margot's handwriting. My sweet and honorable Carter Tillinghast, I can't do this to you. I can't drag you into this any further than I already have. They are always watching. They know about you. And they know I have not been doing what they asked of me. In all caps. And they are coming. Your fate is intertwined with the order. And it's all my fault. All of your fates are.

In caps again. Immediately you're like reminiscent of reading Jackson's letters when he seemed like he was slipping. Margo has always had very strong sanity, but she is shaken and you can see it in her script. It's too late for Faerûs, but you, Vaughn and Desmond can still change your fates and be spared. I wish I could explain more but it would put all of you in even more danger. Just know that we are not

the only ones seeking answers or awakening things long dead. You must take the mask as leverage with the order in case you need it. I hope for your sake, you don't need it. Always your sour puss, Margo. Looks like she drew a heart with characters that would not exist where there were no computers. Just an anatomically correct heart. Okay. It's an an anatomically correct heart.

Sassual heart. Watercolors. Heart of the Puss. Ah, there's a postscript. Right. All in caps. Beware of the order of the forgotten elders. What once was forgotten shall be known again. This is really how I anticipated starting this whole season. It's just mildly crying.

That's awful. Okay, I think Carter's going to need some private care. Oh, Kirkovich is going to need it too. Yeah, Carter's not, I mean, obviously this whole warning thing is, give me a second, this warning thing is intense, but you know, the Margo thing just leaving is, that's I think affecting him a little bit more. I'm sure his brain will piece together the warnings, but I think he's just trying to process that she's gone. So... And you really have to pee. And yeah, Carter is like, oh shit, right, I forgot my bladder. Yeah, so, so how long, how far out are we from the events of the end of season two at this point?

Like how long have we been kind of hanging around London and enjoying each other? The events at Miser House happened thanks to Michael, and I'm sure Nora has this in her notes. February 17th, I believe, Tuesday, February 17th, 1925. I might be off by a day or so, but I believe, Tuesday, February 17th, 1925. I might be off by a day or so, but I believe that's what it is. So now, my work is done.

How long do you wanna stay in London? Well, before we go any further, can we do? Oh, yes! All right, so when did we do this the first time? You did this? Sometime during season one. We're about to do real mad about did a few times forgot about it So here's and we did it for the season finale of season. Yes. I just off the

Whatever because I think I had a Cthulhu tarot deck, but now I'm doing it with the regular one. I Started doing a one card poll. I would shuffle it, have somebody say stop, cut or no cut. And the card would always every single time have specifically to do with what came in that episode. My God. And I don't reveal the meaning of it till afterwards. So there's no like meta gaming, trying to fit it into a narrative. But we're going to now I asked in the beginning before we started this, I was like, hey, Troy, and the group text, I was like, hey, is this okay?

Do we still want to do this? Because I want it to be all or nothing. I don't want to forget it and just want to do it. He's like, yeah, okay. So I packed it. I can't believe you got that witchcraft past TSA. They're looking for any reason these days. It was not in my carry-on. So and I joked earlier for the audience and said,

I'm going to take the death card out of this so that we live forever, but I'm still in there. So who would like to do the honors of telling me when to stop shuffling? Joe, the new guy. What about the new guys? Yeah, Joe. New guys?

Neophyte. Some cultish shit, man. What would you say now? I'm sorry, I can't see you. What about the new guys? Yeah, Joe. New guys? Neophyte. Some cultish shit, man. What would you please say now? I can't see you, so you're doing it? I'm shuffling. Okay. Just tell me when to stop shuffling. Okay.

Stop. Do you want me to pull from the very top or do you want me to cut the deck? Cut the deck. Oh boy. Strength. This happened to be a card that fell out while I was shuffling. It usually is the card that I would go for.

The card wanted to come out. The card wanted to come out. What? Earlier, I don't know if you caught it, but it fell out and I put it back in and you just pulled it out again. So we have the strength card. Wow. Just got chill.

Which makes, I don't want to medicate, but it would make sense because this is our recovery phase. Regaining strength? You're regaining strength? You're regaining strength. Question mark. Be for yourself. So, here we go.

Off to a good start. Oh, so it's just one card. It's not a per-character thing. One card. No, no, no. One card just for the general vibe of the episode. Love it. Okay.

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Guess who had the strongest stream? Find out next week. Folks, we are deep into it now. I said right before we came back, I think now I feel like we can do this. We're getting a little more comfortable, getting a little more loose in the stooge. I'm gonna use some more. Loose in the stooge. Loose in the stooge. I could use some more.

Loose in the stooge. Loose in the stooge. There are pills you can take. Have loose stooges? Also, in addition to being on the same peace cycle, we will be in the same stooge cycle. Same stooge cycle. You have your own private restroom basically. You suffer from weak streams and loose students.

There's the title of the app, weak streams and loose students. Joe, I hope to get to you at some point, but this is informative. No rush at all. I'm having a great time. Watch the masters at work here. Yeah, for real. These three. I think, man, after that, I feel like Kate is here, which is nice. I'm glad that she did that. I feel like the best, thinking of this in terms of like this is a TV show. The thing is, as sad as it is, is Kate's not here. That's exactly what would happen in

a show on TV. Will they or won't they, gone. So it is tragic, but I feel like we need to check back in with the two of you, whether that is you tell me, you guys really drive the ship here, no pun intended. Are we picking up in the car leaving Eagle's Grange? Is it weeks later, months? Probably not months later, you're going to stop the end of the world. But where are we at? You guys, I'm not here. Yeah.

I think that depends on, I think that would depend on how much you wanna play your sanity recovery or do we wanna just jump to it? Right. I think that, yeah, Vaughn is hanging by a thread, folks. He's suffered a lot. And even after what we've just done, he's gotten back his bearings, but he's nowhere near where he was. But he really, really wants

to engage in the great work of the – he rolls his eyes a little less each time he says it, mystery squad. He takes great comfort in being around the people who've been through these experiences with him. Gosh. Maybe he wants to – especially since home is now its own form of stress. That just being in what was his boyhood home, he now has to step out to go to the lavatory and bump into a real estate agent from the suburbs. It's just like, my God. I think he might suggest going out into the country, perhaps to a seaside holiday, maybe just for a week. To rest, to recuperate and maybe seek some aid and to get that foundation on firmer ground again, before he feels confident returning to the breach.

I like that, especially since we have had so many clues of us being followed throughout this whole. So I think if we were having, we do have several books that have not been read yet. I think Feru's would love a little privacy to dig into those books a little more. Might want to keep those away from Vaughn to even stare at them. Would drive him mad. How are you faring, darling? Not so good? Okay, I'm going to keep reading this. Just taking the ad, darling. Just taking the ad. Yeah. So, gosh, yeah. Yeah. Gosh, yeah. Imagine just a slightly off version of a seaside romantic vacation,

like a fine hotel by the shore, hilly crops of seaside mountain. It's April, so it's not as though you're out taking a dip. Well, you're still in February at this point. Oh, yeah. So it's wintry. So it's the sort of a severe beauty of the coast. Lot of shawl collars. Yeah. You're getting great rates though because you did visit the beach during the winter. You got to go in the off season.

Stay in a nice place. So yeah, like high collar up against the wind just staring out into the sea and imagining what awaits out there and trying to take comfort in the steady lapping of the element. Just lighting one cigarette with another as he does so while perhaps Feyruz is like, kick back with a good read. Yeah. I love how this is like, oh, it's such a romantic vacation spot so I could read in private. Just a good summer book like the Pinnaconic Manuscripts. Pinnaconic Manuscripts. Found in human skin.

Yeah. And one skin that we don't unidentify. All right. One of them, not leather, it's some sort of unidentifiable skin. You have collected several tomes. You have been reading the necotic manuscripts. You completed your initial reading of it. Michael made this amazing document for me that shows all the tomes you've discovered and where you are at in the reading.

The way it works with tomes is when you begin – once you finish an initial reading, which sometimes will require a reading role, other times like this is written in English, I don't think I made you roll it, you lost sanity initially and your Cthulhu mythos rating went up. When you complete a reading, you lose more sanity, your mythos things goes up again and you have a chance of learning spells. You are not there yet with the necotic manuscripts as it is a major tome that you think will take you into the fall to finish.

However, you did finish a full study of Africa's dark sex. It's impossible to say. Yes. SEC. Africa's dark sex. Africa's dark sex. Sex. Yes. SEC. Africa's dark sect. Africa's dark sect. Sects. Sects.

Sects. You lost some sanity. You gained some Cthulhu mytho skill and you learned the spell create simba. Yes, that's right. Which is a zombie-like person that was what's-his-name's wife was turned into one. Millie Adams. Millie Adams. You learned a spell. I did.

Haven't used it. Haven't used it. But I did make specific requests previously that if Faeruz dies, I want her resurrected as a Simba. Yes. Okay. And they all were like, okay. We'll do that.

You got it. As you wish. Margo completed a reading of Amongst the Stones, also an English tome. She lost sanity and gained Cthulhu mythos skill, but did not learn any spells. There are three other tomes that you have in your possession that you have not begun to dig into from our notes. Selection de livre d'ivons in French. You have life as a god in English, which someone began perusing, I believe, but has not finished an initial

study of. And then one that sent both Ferruz and Nora into a tailspin. Song of the Djinn, which also, and that is in Arabic, which Feroze speaks. Yes. But you were a little shy about that one. Are there any of these that you'd like to begin reading? Definitely. But I thought that there were three Arabic books, but that was the only, we only got to read, quickly read one of the titles. It's possible. I'd have to look back at my notes to see if you found other tomes that

were actually important and looking cool. If that's like the only important one, that's fine. But I know that we picked up three, but we were running out on time because the ritual is about to start or soon was starting. Yeah. I think in my, I'll look to make sure, but I think that was the one that was relevant. It's a question of whose notes I trust more, having seen what she's done. Snores. Having seen what she's seen.

So is that something that you'd want to begin reading? Because if you do, could be good, could be bad. You know the risks now. I do know the risks. But man, there's great power as well. My sanity is freaking high. So let's get rid of some sanity points. Nice.

Let's start with Songs of the Djinn. All right, starting Song of the Djinn. I'll make that in my notes. I'll let you know when you've finished your initial reading of it and if you're still alive. Does anybody want to read Life as a God? I hear it's good. Good reviews on Amazon.

I mean, I don't plan on reading all of these, but I will start with that one. Okay. And then there is the one that's written in French. I don't know if any of you speak French. No. I think Yvonne probably has a schoolboy French, but it's not on the sheet, you know? Although, yeah, Life as a God was on Reese Witherspoon's book club, right? Well, think about it. You can at any point say, yeah, I'm going to start reading that and I'll let you know when you begin to suffer penalties slash gain powers. I just imagine you in like a nice, like we're in a little cottage, like puffing smoke.

I know the fire place is on. Roaring fire in the grate. And while you're like stooped over these tomes, I'm out like tramping through the, just the heath, letting the wind like whip through the hair, like coming through like a little churchyard, like just walking through the gravestones, like entering a little country church, just looking at all the scroll on the wall, maybe some paintings on the altarpiece, just silent meditation of all this stuff as you're back there reading and maybe if I squint against the slate gray sky there, I can see off in the distance just the pinprick of the fire burning in the window where you're reading,

reading. Just maybe over in my head, I think we've established that Vaughn is a John Donne head. Just looking through stained glass and trying desperately not to smoke in church. This isn't the place to do it in this empty little church house. Just thinking to himself, reason, your viceroy and me should defend, but as captive and proves weak and untrue. Yet dearly I to you, imprison me. For I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me." Speaking of course of God and maybe out of the corner of his eye, seeing someone in a pew and turning around and there's no one there. You got to have to get used to this shit.

This happens all the time. Buckle up. You're in the shit now. I just mean specifically with Ross. You're going to have to deal with Ross. Just the general Rossiness. Coming at you with both barrels. I mean it in the best possible way.

Shock on a Ross to the face. I like this. I imagine, Fay Rouse, you have sort of drip fed him information about Miser House while also being cautious and respectful to his mental state. How much have you told him and when are you going to let him in on sort of the plan moving forward seeing if he's even able to push forward? I would say this Carter Margo stuff is happening back in London while you're doing this so you don't even know that. Does it seem that he's regained a little bit to, or I guess... I'm sure that you know that I've kept some colorful details, let's say, from our exploits while you were gone, but I... I know that you can certainly handle such information, but...

how... how are you? I mean, does one ever know? There is certainly something salutary about the atmosphere here, I find. Far away from the smoke of London. Far away from Mother. Much is done with the place. But, yes, I am greatly soothed.

In fact, Miss Giblon, I am greatly soothed. And yet there is a part of me that knows, as I look out over the sea. There are other forces at work in this world, over those waves. I want to recover. I want you to trust me. And I want to be ready. I don't want to languish in idleness. As much as I know I may need it. You're going to have to tell me at some point what went on in there.

It's certainly not a matter of trust. You know that. Yes. We can all trust one another. I know that you would never leave me, that none of us would ever leave us. Never. That's the one thing that would never, ever, ever happen. But... God, if something wrecked this dynamic, I don't know what I'd do. I don't think I could go on a single day. And then if some fucking redhead guy got inserted right in the middle. Some Irishman?

There's already one Irishman in our little band, apparently, though I've yet to meet the chap. Oh my god, if there were two, it's strange. This is how they work, you know. I wonder if this second one's a communist as well. There's always two. If the other one says comrade, I am going to run. I know you trust me. I know you trust me or you would not be here.

Especially after all I've done. You are assigned to me, Fair Rose, of the presence of mercy in this fallen world, as are you all. Mercy, the abiding love that we are capable of, even in the teeth of such darkness as we have both seen. But to keep me in darkness within this cloud of unknowing will not arm me for what is to come. When you deem it ready, feel free to tell me. Until such time, dear, labor over your books in peace. I will not disturb you. I could never keep this from you, even if I tried. You know that we all need you, Yvonne.

We all need you. I don't think there's... I can't imagine us ever finding heads or tails of any of this without all of us together. I suppose it is the sin of pride in me that rather needs to be needed. We all need to be needed. But if we are to continue in this course, knowing what we all have suffered, having seen how Mr. Elias suffered, if we are to launch our vessel and our little argosy out upon those waves, then I think we all must make some peace that that boat may never return from the distant

shore unto which it goes. And as much as I know I cannot set down this work, what gives me pause is knowing that that you have made vulnerable in this effort. God knows I shouldn't fear for you. You're the strongest and doubtiest of all of us. I could not choose another life. Nor could I. Other than this.

Nor could I. And I feel as though for the first time, a sense of peace in this place. We have had eyes on us everywhere. The Order has had eyes on me everywhere. I have been feeling as though there is an eye upon me for a great, great while. Every now and again on my walks here, I have the keenest sense that there are steps behind me. That some automobile is secreting itself in the heather just beyond my vision. You don't think they could have followed us here, do you? I don't know. I wouldn't put it past anyone.

I've lived for so long thus far under the assumption that somebody is watching us at all times. Then perhaps we shall continue under that assumption as nowadays what in youth I would have deemed paranoia now seems wisdom. So I'll continue to keep my vigil over your little academe here. But yes, I feel as though I'm getting better. Feel as though I'm getting better. I feel as though I'm getting better. Well then let me tell you how some of these things that we found out so far might connect. Yes, what?

And she proceeds to catch him up on everything. I love this. I think if you haven't done so already it would make sense at this point for your characters to be key backstory connections for each other. You are intertwined in this arrangement that means so many things and so I'm going to say that this time you're spending here on a little pre-honeymoon is enough for you to roll sanity and if you succeed you're going to get a d6 back. You get a bonus die for this so roll your 10s twice. If you succeed you get a d6 back. If you do fail you will lose one sanity.

And this works unlike the other improvements in that I want to succeed this. This is what you want. Yeah, you want to succeed this roll. This is what we want to succeed. Calling this self-help. And I rolled a 98. Balls! Oh wait, she's got the bonus die,

so you get to roll the nine. Oh, I got the bonus die. So I rolled a 98, and I want eight. So I rolled the hundreds, oh, the tens? Tens, yeah. Tens, so it's still a 90 something. No, no, no, re I roll the hundreds of the tens? Tens, yeah. So it's still a 90 something? No, no, no, reroll the nine. 68, so that passes.

Oh, you pass, all right, so you get 1d6 back and you? I rolled an 82 on my first roll. I'm trying to get under it, 32. God, it's so hard to get it back. Dude, once you start losing it. Oh, agonizingly close, 42. Oh, gross. Oh, gross.

All right, so you're catching him up on this. And you know what? You didn't lose any. That might be a win. So I get one point back, is that right or no? No, you get none, but you don't lose any. And you? I regained five points.

The rich get richer. Yeah. You need always the way. Just have like 100 sanity? Oh no, you spent some on that tome, right? Yeah, well you know, with the tome, the one tome that you finished, like your sanity threshold permanently goes down,

so she could never get to 100 or something like that. And that happened the first season. Yeah, she's still reading. The necotic manuscripts at the beach Well, it is an English book so I feel like you're in an appropriate location just made out of skin All right. So while this is happening Carter, where do we pick up with you? Are we are we still in this hotel room? We're holding the mask. Are you out getting a Frappuccino? I think, I mean, this is huge, this whole thing. I mean, Carter spent a good amount of time

realizing that he had feelings for Margot, somebody who has not had feelings for many people, obviously the whole mystery squad, but then the sort of romantic thing, he had never really been in a full-bore emotional relationship even if he didn't know if it was reciprocated or not. He invested a lot of his heart into this situation. And then there was this night of, it's going, it's happening, yay!

And now it's not happening, and in fact this person you care about above all others is gone. So he's drunk. I think, in a pub. He's got the letter. Some sad royalty free music is playing. Background. And I was pissed like, Carter's watching me.

I can't do my own thing. And yeah, I think these guys are gone. I don't know if Carter really knows what's going on with Vaughn, right? I mean, I'm sure Feyreuse is like, I'm going to go check out on Vaughn. I'm sure we'll correspond in the next however many days or whatever. So I don't know what's going on over here. With them gone, you've only got Desmond really around. Where is that jackass? Did you invite him out to drink or are you wallowing?

I'm wallowing I think. Nothing against Desmond. I think he's just... We'll get to him. Yeah, but this is this is emotionally pretty heavy. This is heavy Doc. So I think he's got to look into some sort of his version of whatever you would call self-cares as well. Yeah, what do you think that looks like? Is it professional help? Is it just, is it drinking? Does he really lean into that?

If we can call it that, I would- Well, self-medication. Yeah, I don't know if that helps me mechanically. You still have that heroin you bought in season one There was a heroin score side quest In the in the in the That was set several years before all this other shit. I was like yeah five years ago So unless he's keeping it as a keepsake heroin. I don't think Yeah, five years ago. So unless he's keeping it as a keepsake heroin. I don't think he's got it around It's of emergency break harder if you had it on the if he if he had it when he went back to Massachusetts

He fucking sold it Or thought about giving it a myrtle Rest in peace. Yeah, all right P Mertz Ex-wife all right, so you think you're you're to see you're spending this time Drinking I think so. Yeah, I mean. He's definitely off Kiltor a bit, I think. And now I will say, spoiler, I'm sure if he finds out

that Vaughn is rejoining us, it's going to be very uplifting to him, because he obviously has a lot invested in that relationship as well. But we're not there yet. So I think for now there's some just some straight wallowing. Yeah. I like it. It's unconventional, but it makes sense. And you have a chance at recovering sanity. Yeah. And it's kind of perfect because we all know that that sanity is temporary. Yeah, yeah. Ultimately. Yeah. But

this would work. So let's see if it works. Give me a, yeah. Ultimately. But this would work. So let's see if it works. Give me a sanity roll. What is the ballpark ages? Is everybody like in their 30s? It sounds early 30s. Late 20s. Late 20s, early 30s.

Early 30s. He's early 40s. Oh. I was like, I'll just do it around where I'm at. And then I read in the books, if you're over 40, you become a derelict. Like you're a body sc become a derelict like here Like Jesus Christ

Okay, so I want to succeed this Right. Yeah standard sense. Nope Okay You lose one cent. I didn't create I didn't fumble. That's so what it is It's it makes sense. Okay. Just one. So it- but you're- you're drinking and it's- it's not really- It's not working.

Not really doing the trick. Shocker. What is going on with Desmond? Desmond sort of got pulled into this. You know, he had his own stuff going on. I- I- You know, you- you- you had a brush with death in this cult scene. In fact, it wasn't until we re-looked at the dice we thought you were dead. But yeah, you were saved and now you're in this whether you want to be or not. Right.

I think the last, if memory serves, the last thing we really saw Desmond do was being thrown out of a meeting of young Marxists because he is bringing the brutal truth of the nature of the forces of capital are combined with strange spiritual forces and we must contend against them in solidarity. They think he's a madman and they've thrown him out. And then we saw him sort of caressing the sceptres. Oh yeah. That's right. But he is, after all, a reporter. So I think he might be like trying to recover by working and learning more about the sceptres

and learning more about any other clues or texts that he has in his possession. Okay. Yelasha, Sam's body washed up on the shore in the epilogue, so maybe rewriting. That's right. She was a cocktail waitress at the Blue Pyramid Club. Yeah. And her boyfriend was taken and she was like, there's a call and you're like, shut up, stupid.

No, that's not what happened. But then she would disappear and you see her body. Also Inspector Munson's, we found his wallet there so we could assume. Yes. So there's lots of shit tied to the articles and the people that we're missing that are now kind of accounted for.

What's your library use skill, Desmond? Great question. Oh wow, Desmond's is actually pretty low. Although he ticked a box on it, his library use is 20. Oh yeah, let's do some box ticking here. Anything you've ticked, roll against, and if you fail, you get a D10 back, added to that skill. That's lovely. I'm going to do that right now.

And these are things that you, skills that you use successfully without a bonus die should have been ticked since the last development phase. So with that awesome improvement I just made to my library use role now that Desmond is is a keen hand and the stacks at Coalition and filing and and rifling his skill has gone from a paltry 20 to a manly and robust 21 Read one extra sentence He's... He's slightly more literal. He'll tap out.

Yeah. He's like, oh! Jesus! For shits and gigs, give me your library use roll score. Holy crow, I'm within three points of it. Can I spend luck? Absolutely. Yeah, done.

That's our first luck of the season. And the last. On a library use. All right, so I imagine you are looking through tomes in the library, just trying to find out any information on these scepters, what they could be. And eventually, it's late at night, put down one more book and you're flipping through another one and you see a page that – The old me would never have been able to do this.

Thanks to my improvement, I can burn the midnight oil. I'm a changed man. You see this page and it draws your attention because you see an image of two sceptres crossed in front of each other that looks almost identical to identical to the sectors you know you have in your dingy little apartment. And you read the blurb associated with it and it seems like these are sectors that they believed you could use to gain magical powers when crossed as well as absorb Magic that was directed against you So the power comes from crossing them you can gain the ability to

Cast spells according to legend stuff that you would have read before me like this Fairytale I like it's a shit real you saw Gavigan read before and be like, this fairy tale. Now you're like, is this shit real? You saw Gavagan call these beings. Did he use the sceptres to call these winged creatures in? Is that something now you could do, if you understood how to use that magic? And then the ability to hold them together

to block magics that have been directed against you. But maybe it's just the stuff of legend. Fascinating. Will you two have ripped abs? Yes. Yes. He was cut. Yeah.

Shredded. And yes, that is particularly enticing and the bloodshot eyes of Desmoune Mahoney peruse these pages and just think back to his room and those scepters and the way that they felt in his hands when he raised them aloft. And in his mind is like the banner of the international,

blood red. And instead of a hammer and sickle, it is the crossed scepters of ancient Egypt. I love that. And then go ahead and give yourself a sanity roll to see if he regains sanity from using the library for self help. Oh, I also, yeah.

Yeah, all right. I also looked at a copy of you're a fucking badass in like whatever. Game. Failed. Yeah. So you lose one sanity. Don't get that in there.

So brutal. So brutal. It's a great game. So fun to play when you can. I think. It's a fun game we enjoy. I think in the interest of keeping things poppin, you know, you let me know if you want to take time to seek private care or institutional care or just see a doctor, talk

to somebody so that you can regain sanity. I think you should all take advantage of it. I'd like to take every opportunity I can for Vaughn. Ferris just does push-ups. Yeah. Yeah, you know that like what you will face ahead, there's no reason to believe it's not going to be just as harrowing for your mind.

So you want them to be right. So think about what you want to do. And we don't have to play all that out, because I want to keep things popping. And at a certain point, we have you meeting up to head to Shanghai. I think there's got to be this moment, though, where we see you explain. So Vaughn and Fay Rouse contact you to meet up, and you guys meet at a cafe, and you're

expecting Margaret to be there, and you guys guys come in and Carter is sitting there alone Yeah Carter doesn't look great Got the stubble that you can imagine is also underneath the hidden part of his face Not very well, you know I think Carter you try to keep himself a little bit dandy to a certain extent to put on the airs that he used to Do but he doesn't look he looks pretty To put on the heirs that he used to do, but he doesn't look he looks pretty Gassed but it's 10 in the morning, and he has a pisco sour sitting there. Yep. There's a couple empty glasses next to it But you guys walk through and I think he sees Vaughn

first and suddenly The kind of like haze clears from his eyes a little bit. He's like Double V? Oh my god. Are you- Are you here? Yeah, Vaughn's still in his country tweeds. Oh! Welcome to the bar!

God, you have to meet all the guys! And he's- Carter starts looking around, cause now he's probably a regular at this one place. That's Shanty Joe and there's British Tom. They're all British I guess. It's uh, telling us old man, telling us old boy. It is so good to see you. Do you know what I mean? Hey Ruz, m'lady. He like, kisses her hand. Oh, oh, oh.

Guys, shit has happened Yeah, so I can see as you know indulging a little bit of the hair of the dog old man Well, you might have noticed I'm by myself Yes, I had noticed aside from a shanty gym and who? And British Mike as well Yeah They're all British. I air English you? You tell me, Vaughn. Fuck it. Anyway-

Careful who you- I don't want to make any assumptions about anyone- Yeah, I know, you never know. So listen, Margo will not be joining us for the rest of our journey. Well, one can't always hold the Bohemian saw to a typical schedule. No doubt her schedule is rather chaotic. Keeping late hours, painting and whatnot. Yes, and it seems chaotic enough that she has abandoned me.

Us. She's abandoned the group. She's left me this fucking letter. You're mentioned in it. I'll take that. Take a read. It's a real uplifting piece of literature. Hope your library skills high enough.

I've added the note. Says, I've added the note to your- Thank you. I won't, we've already heard it. No, read it again slowly. Oh shit. I won't we've already heard it. No read it again slowly. Oh Shit Anyway, they're coming and she's gone. So whoever they are. I don't know this whole order situation Sauapus

I She were around when I dropped that pretty great joke I thought yes I I just didn't know it had been adopted by miss our I didn't know either last little twist of the knife there Didn't know she liked it. Yes, she did. Yes, sir Fräulein saw was never one for rather Intimate turns of phrase. I have that's what makes the note so special. Yes, well I can see um you two Have truly have a things have heightened a little bit before you were gone. Yes now they've cratered

But Vaughn I gotta tell you man It's so good to see you. Yes, um. Do you know what I mean? Like I feel like this is helping me. He's really close. Are you? Yeah, I was like, he's just getting closer and closer. Kind of shoves feiroos out of the way for a second. Oh, oh, excuse me, okay.

I gotta tell you a couple of things. I've missed you. Are you with us? Are you back? Oh yes, I'm back old man. Yes, very much so. Oh god. Oh, Tilly.

Oh, Tilly, yes. I'm in a push. And yes, very much so. Oh, god. Tilly. Tilly Hats. Tilly Hats. And yes, Fawn is English, so he reaches out in the most intimate way he can, a gentle. Yeah, and then Carter just like folds right into your chest. There he is. Do you see the mask kind of shift up a bit as it presses against your tweed?

God, Tilly Hats, my god, man. Pull yourself together. Pull yourself together. Pull yourself together. I'm just about to say, you read when you came in rather close. That's estimable work someone has done on your math. It is truly lovely. Isn't that cool? Have that with me for the rest of my life.

Just a little token of her. I got you right here, Vaughn. I got her on my face. Faeruz will figure out where you fit into the whole situation. Oh, great. Thank you. Depending on how you decide to break my heart too. So, what's the plan? Telling Hassled Man if I find reading between the lines and all of them of this little, uh,

Dear Jonathan that you've been given, Seems to me that she's only doing this to... Unless she's very much lying, which never seemed to me to be her strong suit. She's doing this for protection of you. I get it, I know. Something's dogging her heels. This they, if she speaks of, are coming. She didn't mention Gunter, did she?

That f- no. No, she didn't mention anything about him. So that, um, you're right. She's just looking out for me. And I guess I should take that as a sign that she still feels. Yes, yes. Dilling Hasten takes your hand. Yes, she's she is not here bodily, but within within these lines is proof of her deep affection for you. Yes, it is. It is a unique and palpable suffering to love someone who is not present.

But through the door of suffering, one finds grace. I'm not going to church. I'm not going to church. I won't force. Wherever this is. I just want to let you know, but I do appreciate it, Vaan. Just nobody abandoned me again. You're having this lovely moment and I go, too late for Faerûs, too late for Faerûs, what does that mean? Too late for Faerûs. Yes, I'm talking about that.

Don't worry about that part. No, I'm afraid I simply must worry about that part. Precisely what does she mean? I've been attempting to maintain a rather genteel tact, but I think the time has come for you to tell us everything you know about this order. Okay, well, shh shh. He's looking around.

Sloppy Joe might hear us. Sloppy Joe? Yes, we're- Sloppy Joe might hear us. Yes, yes, of course. We wouldn't want to molest the ears of Sloppy Joe and Deety Moore and Willsh Bradd

in the court. No, a British man is not an Englishman. You really got to be careful. Right, that's what I forgot about your hole. I got for Scott, this Irish chap. You know Scott over there? Some sloppy joes on the inside. Okay, well let's go. We can go back to my room.

It's in decent enough shape. We can talk all about this shit. I should take a coffee. I will have a gin though. A gin to go. Yes, an early morning gin never hurts at all. It's a, it's hum... Gin daiquirines?

It's not that I was drinking before 10, that was the problem is I was drinking so much before 10. It's cause you were drinking alone before. Now that we're here, we'll be fine. Yes, Tillinghouse, it's all a matter of degree. Now that we're here, drink as much as you want. Anyway, come on back to my room, which I'm sure we can upgrade now that you're back.

What was that? Nothing. We'll worry about that later. To my huddle! And so I'm going to my shitty room I've been staying in. Till he has masks spins toward the camera. Oh, we need that now. Do do do do do do. All right, so I think we can move things forward here a little bit.

Oh, you're doing great, by the way. Way to hang in. Amazing. This is the most fun I've had in a long time. Good sport. Tonight's episode of Time for Charis is filmed before a live studio show. The loose dude Joe. Sloppy Joe. You're formulating a plan here. We've got to get Desmond involved. So do you call Desmond for this meeting and get everybody together to figure out what yeah

Oh, you got to meet this other guy. We've been hanging away. Oh good. Yes. Let's definitely have us in the same room If anyone can pull this off, yes, right. So here we are in your flop house. Yep door opens Three of you are there the knock at the, you open the door and Desmond is there. Desmond Mahoney, meet Vaughn Villiers. That's God telling us. Just smell like it's spent the night in the gin mill. Yeah, I'll let you. I got a note. It's a whole thing. I'll fill you in later, Des. Anyway, you guys love each other. One's English and one's Irish. It's gonna be great.

Yeah, everyone stands up. He's like, Oh yes, you must be the fellow that everyone's been telling me about. I hear that you've appointed yourself with a great facility in heroism. Villiers. Is that the name? Pleasure to meet you, old boy. Mahoney just kind of silently takes his hand and is like, yeah, let's withhold pleasure until we get down to business. I trust you didn't gather us all here to have a little social call around the tea cozy. I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been doing some research.

My library skill is absolutely......un-e-c-t-i-l-e-r-y. He kinda just like, shoulders past Vaughn, who's obviously like... Classic Irish. See what I mean? I got made fun of last season for making all the Irish jokes. But when an English guy does it, it's fine. He maybe doesn't say that, but just kind of under his, you just see his like, his social graces are put out. And Desmond, I think, just kind of plops down next to you and it's like, yes, we are

contending with a global power, dealing with forces that we are on the verge of being able to take hold of. There is a crimson specter hunting Europe, but there is a dark and eldritch specter hunting the entire globe. I think we've seen where they're trying to ship things back and forth, cross over to Shanghai. But of course, they've obviously got contacts in Africa, Australia as well. That's right. Should we compare notes?

Yes, let's. And here's what you know. You have great notes. I want to give you the nitty gritty of what would be leading you from London to Shanghai. You know, for a start, Jackson Elias visited Shanghai in 1924 and wired Jonah Kensington while there, suggesting that Shanghai has some relevance to the case, the case being the missing Carlyle expedition. to the case, the case being the missing Carlisle expedition. Jonah Kensington, Jackson's publisher and close friend

let you look at Elias' notes he sent when he was in Nairobi. I have said note right here. And there's a bunch, there's like eight sets of notes. And one in particular that you've already read. Set seven is another single sheet. Elias ran into quote, nails Nelson at the Victoria bar in Nairobi. Nelson had been a mercenary for the Italians on the Somali-Abyssinian border

and had escaped into Kenya after double crossing his employers. Nelson claimed to have seen Jack Brady alive in Hong Kong. Remember this now, yeah. years. Nelson claimed to have seen Jack Brady alive in Hong Kong less than two years before Elias was in Kenya and long after the Kenyan court declared that Brady and the rest of the expedition were dead. Brady was friendly, though guarded and taciturn. Nelson didn't press the conversation. This report only strengthened Elias's belief that the principal members of the expedition might still live Way to put it right at the Teases me there once more. Mr. Mahoney is our theme

this this blasphemous resurrection the The dead seem to have taken on a habit of kicking out of their sepulchres and walking abroad again. You don't suppose that this Brady character could have perhaps faked his demise along with the rest of them? Well, we know for sure that he did, because in addition to that, we had additional corroborating evidence when we went down into that torture chamber of the Miser House.

Do you remember that unfinished letter? We close up on the letter that I have right here. Oh shit! Put it where we can't reach it. You found an unfinished letter from Edward Gavigan to the Pale Viper. The Pale Viper, by the way, his script and his name was all over the blueprints he founded, hence in manufacturing. And it says, for

the attention, Pale Viper, Elias has been dealt with by our friends in New York. Now we must turn to our other problem, namely Jack Brady. I understand that he may be in Shanghai and ask if you would direct your resources to hunting him down. It is stupefying that this troubling man has evaded us for so long. He may become an obstacle to our great plan. If you wish, I will, and it kind of cuts off.

Gavigan writing to the Pale Viper to take care of Jack Brady in Shanghai. Does that mean the Pale Viper is in Shanghai? The Pale Viper should travel there? Seems like Jack Brady may be alive and maybe in Shanghai. Of course you also saw the name Ho-Fang and Ho-Fang Import-Export in several of Gavigan's notes both at the Pennu Foundation and at Measar House and at that warehouse at the Limehouse Docks. You didn't burn that one down but there were cr House and at that warehouse at the Lime House docks. You didn't burn that one down, but there were crates and everything that were being put on a boat.

And lastly, very early on in our story, in Elias' hotel room, you found a grainy photograph of a yacht. It said, like, DA were the letters that's named something DA. You couldn't see the rest of the name because it was blocked by an Asian, like a Chinese junk ship. And so you think, okay, that might have some connection to Shanghai as well. And you have all of these photos. I'll take it a step further.

And I'll say that you've decided that this is where you're going to go next. And you reached out to Jonah Kensington to begin planning so that he could wire the funds to you. And Jonah mentioned to you in a response telegram, this may not be important, but Jackson, when he came back to New York in his travels, left a matchbook with me. It's a matchbook for a bar in Shanghai called the Stumbling Tiger.

It's maybe of interest, maybe not, but it seems like a place Jackson at least dropped in on. The stumbling tiger bar in Shanghai. Carter's like, so yeah, I think we'll, sorry, I still feel ill. I think what we need to do is we go to Shanghai pretty easy From England and then we we try to track down this nails Nelson guy Maybe he knows where if he's see there still if I'm not mistaken was Nelson not not still in Africa. I Thought he's the one who saw him in Shanghai

He was taciturn in Shanghai wasn't heels Nelson had mentioned that he saw him in Shanghai. Oh, but then Nels Nelson went to Africa. Yes, I believe that that's where... Sorry, I'm drunk. You know what your problem is? It's a lot. You're not smoking while drinking at the same time. That's a good point. That's your mistake.

Yes, old man, the alcohol warms the blood and tobacco opens up the capillaries and lets it all flow. Science. Got it. Okay, now it's coming back to me. So we just go to fucking Shanghai. We find this Jack Brady guy who's been trying to conceal the fact that he's still alive. Possibly locate the dock, the import export. We'll do that and then we're going to crack this case wide open.

We're going to save the world. I'm struck once more by Rhynes. Rhynes. I remember on the freighter to New York, excited to see Mr. Elias once more coming through the door, only to see him rent a thunder by those beastly men tearing down the fire escape. I should not like to walk into a similar tableau in Shanghai.

Well, we got to save jackbrady's life. We know they wanna kill him. Like, he's our only link to find out what's going on. I mean, that is, if he is running away from them, we're not sure if he is a friend or a foe at this point. Yes, it's unclear to me if he was at one time a collaborator of this pale viper, so, however he styles himself.

But if Gavigan was ordered to kill him. Oh, well, yes. Then he's a friend of ours. Yes. Even if he was an ally of theirs, but times it seems that now he's on the outs with them. So we have to find them before they do. That's right.

We've already seen that this lot as in the most loyal to each other. A Shafik gave us the runaround trying to make a little power grab of her own within their little brotherhood. She left out the most important details of us heading there. Led us to our almost to our slaughter. Yes, this is the nature of the powerful. They, because they are indoctrinated into the system of capital, see every interaction as zero sum, and they have to climb upon each other, even to the death, to get out on top. Whereas our power on the underclass is our solidarity.

Oh, for sure. Say, Ruz turns to Vaughn and she's like, he does this a lot. Yeah, you guys will actually get along on the way you guys both go off on a bunch of bullshit. Vaughn is just like staring at him like, cutting his eyes over to you. I do have one question. Are Vaughn, are you and Desmond coming with us? Because I'm going to have to prepare for that.

That seems complicated. It seems complicated. It seems complicated, Mr. Telenas, because the labour of this organisation that is just beginning to resolve itself to all of us is not confined to Shanghai, not confined to here but stretches its dark hand over the entire world. I feel as though someone should learn more about the machinations. Someone who's of a keen intellect, a skillful acumen at investigation, and a nearly superhuman prowess in the library. I don't know if I can go, that's the problem.

Oh, you. Got it. Um, Vaughn maybe pipes up and is like, Yes, I- I- I guess I quite agree, Mr. Mahoney. I had the pleasure of meeting your, um, rather colorful uncle. Uh, I-I believe that is the relation that leads your path to the intersection with our own. But I started this little, um, adventure with, um, the squad, if I may be so bold. You may. Limited liability corporation. I should very much like I should very much like to see this Mr. Brady. I would not like another person who has set himself

opposed to these forces to be slain by these beastly men, while we languished in idleness. If we are going to Shanghai, then I shall accompany you. If that's the case, Mr. Velliers, then perhaps I can stay behind and assist you, or gather information that may be of use to you when you return or when we meet again. Dez, you've been an amazing intern. In fact, I'll go so far as to say, hold on, don't get all Irish hot-headed. See your hair's already on fire. All heads blowing up.

You've been an amazing intern, and dare I say, you are a full-fledged member of the Mystery Squad. I apologize if I ever made you feel like you were living in this beautiful man's shadow. Morning, Edvaughn. You're a hell of a kid, you got a great heart, and you're an indelible member of the Mystery Squad. And if I had a little badge to put on a little sash,

I'd put it all around your big fat Irish head. Rest comfortably on your chest, and you can display it to everyone that you talk to. He's still a bit drunk, is he? Oh yeah, to be honest, he's always like this. Not the drunk part, but similar. I take it from you, Mr. Tillonast. Indeed, we've all of us been through a lot.

I've seen things I never thought anyone could see and survive. Yeah, sorry about that. We sort of introduced you to the whole veil, I guess. Don't apologize, you introduced me to the truth. And now it's our bounden duty to raise up against it. I am not your intern. No you're not. We are comrades in the struggle. Exactly, plus somebody has to write

about our glorious endeavors. Yes. Well I was doing that already as you know, I still have the book. Oh, well you. It's gonna be a pretty sad chapter that I gotta put in here. Also, maybe while you're at it, Des, just find out where Margo is. That'd be great.

No big deal. Oh yes, I was wondering where she was. I may be speaking out of turn, but I sort of thought between us there was a little, uh... Am I reading that? I'll fucking kill you! You're a fucking intern, and you'll always be an intern. Calm down, have a cigarette. Okay, you're right.

I'll sit down. That's the Scrubs reaction. Like stab him in the chest, then you come back. Yeah, it's like just in my mind. That was a mind screen, I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't know where she is and I don't really know how to find out. She's a really... a cagey crowd. Who I love.

Well, I'll then... I'll, um... I'll do my best to try to find people. It'll be... rather difficult working alone as we found out. We're gonna need more than you lot, more than we, if we're going to take on this brotherhood that's trying to infiltrate every corner of this globe. I'll see if I can find some fellow travellers. Thanks, boss. No bosses.

No bosses. Right. No bosses, no bosses. Right. Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up firm that you put me into contact with. Surely I can send messages through them. There it is. It will take you probably a month to travel by boat from London to Shanghai. So, after we fade out of this scene, we see Vaughn, and Faeruz, and Carter getting on the boat, leaving London, London in the distance. We see Desmond, perhaps back at the library, honing his skills. Honing his skills. Sharpening it to a 22. Like home away from home. We see another boat and we see Margo on it. And Marco is wearing sunglasses and a hat covering her head and sitting there going

somewhere. Maybe we see like through glass, like from afar. It's pretty clear that someone is watching her. And then at some point during your trip you stop at Port Said near the Suez Canal. This would be a point where you could get off and head to Egypt or continue on to Asia. to Asia and several people get on the boat, one of which, what would you say they look like? Oh Joe, you're here. You must talk for the next hour. One of them stepping onto the boat, I think this guy stands out Caucasian gentlemen, tall about six one and stocky kind of big, just kind of a big presence, but dressed rather well, a three piece suit, bow tie, seems to be 40s maybe, maybe mid 40s. See these small

steel-rimmed glasses, tiny little glasses and a bowler hat on struggling with a kind of a rather large suitcase and it's just kind of like you know coming up the ramp bumping into someone in front of me, oh, excuse me, I'm so sorry, and works his way up onto the boat. And yeah, I mean, that's what you see at the moment. Seems a little bit clumsy. Nice. So you all see this, I'm sure you're all watching as you do at each port. New people come on, but this gentleman stands out, seeming like he perhaps is from America or England. And you

look at him and maybe nod and... Look at this shit head. Not helping him. Yeah, he probably, you know, takes you all in for a moment and then just just kind of keeps walking on past. I don't know what it's like on this boat. There's seats or, you know, are they on the outside of the boat, inside of the boat?

Like, what is it? Yeah, there's inside cabins and there's outside as well. You should take your place at a giant oar. And you can share it with... Oh, this is your oar. You can sit by the drum. Yeah. You step on, you guys notice each other,

and maybe there's a little slight nod and a smile. No one's helping him with that terribly large valise. I mean the stewards are falling down on the job. No, let him go Yeah, definitely see the fish out of watery right? This is best entertainment. I've had I mean von Villiers Sanity while somewhat recovered is still quite low. So I think he is like people The sense of the globe that is resolving in his mind, just being in Egypt, he has the palpable sense of like, whatever the hell they made contact with out there, he gazes south into the countryside. As they go, as they're about to go through the canal,

just like who knows they're here who knows There be eyes on me and just watching watching watching the people coming on board and seeing them in turn trying to take the measure of them and Then seeing this the sort of like a clumsy gentleman as you described like yes the stewards falling down their job Seems to throw another and maybe he other English chap on the app. Yeah, maybe he walks toward you, maybe there's a seat open near you, something like that. And he starts to walk kind of like near you, kind of barely glances over the rest of you.

And then if there's a seat next to you, he sort of, like down into the seat next to to you pulls off his baller cap and is like, oh my goodness it is So hot Are you not dying on here? Well, we've been taking the air old man you must remember We have not been struggling like a like a demi-sisyphus of the gangway like yourself with your enormous case. And apologies for not helping. It seems the stewards must be out to luncheon. Ugh!

I'm just trying to find a place for the suitcase. My god, what do you have in there? It seems though you found me to cram the entire library of Alexandria, what remains of it into your enormous case. You're not far off, my case. You're not far off my friend, you're not far off. Top secret I'm afraid, top secret in there. Oh sorry I'm sweating, I must. Marion Wesley Walsh, pleasure. Mr Walsh, Villiers is the name.

Villiers, and you sound English. You've just come from London I assume. Yes we came from London. Please allow me the pleasure of introducing my fiance. Oh, hello. She extends her hand out for him to shake. And he just, it's just like soaked. Like, clammy hand.

Shakes her hand and he's just like. And she's like trying to let go while he won't. And he's like, oh my. Oh my, I'm so sorry. Just trying to, as gracefully as Vaughn can, without drawing attention to taking his pocket square out. I was literally reaching for it. Yeah, exactly. I'm just trying to as gracefully as von kane without drawing attention taking his pocket square Yeah, exactly he goes into like his own suit jacket pulls out a pocket square and he's dabbing his head and he's bald like

Mostly bald and you know, it's just thin Thin shortcut hair around the sides, you know classic kind of male pattern baldness and he's just dabbing the top of his head With a handkerchief and then just like sticks it back into his coat. And yeah, settles in for a moment. Top secret, you say? Oh, yes. No, I'm joking. I'm kidding. I'm on my way back to Shanghai. How far are all of you going?

Oh, that's where we are headed. Yes, indeed. Allow me to introduce another of our number. My estimable friend, Mr. Carter. My friend, Mr. Carter Tillinghast. Damn it. Carter gives him like a... Tillinghast.

Yeah, yeah, Carter's it. And then Carter invents the fist bump Six people see this and are like yeah, just kind of grabs your fist Make a fist and then we bump them together. Oh my god. Oh, that's fun Squire Americans and all fads, you know. Yes. Yeah, killing ass, Esquire. Grabs the fist. That's your service. Yeah, we're going to Shanghai too, bro. Oh, very interesting. What brings you to Shanghai?

Might I understand that you are local there? Somewhat. I wouldn't go so far as to say that. But I am returning. I'm headed back eagerly to Shanghai, where I work. So yes, a bit of a vacation, took care of some business, and now on my way home. Not to pry, Mr. Walsh, but what is the labor that has brought you to Egypt? Yes.

Oh, I just stopped passing through. I wanted to do a little bit of research here while I was on my way, and I do have plenty of time before I must need to return to work, and so I took some time for myself to do a little reading and a little research. Yes, I am an academic, and so I tend to get lost in books. Oh, as am I.

Oh, really? Yes, postgraduate in Miskatonic University. Oh. Cryptography. Massachusetts, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, very impressive, very, very impressive. And you? I'm a professor of theology at St. John's University in Shanghai, so returning there to continue.

I'm on a sabbatical currently. My classes won't start until the fall. Theology? Well, now, now, sir, you have me hooked. Oh, God, oh, no. No, no, it's great. Now we're double the egghead. Are you joking with me?

You find it terribly boring and want to discuss nothing of religion, right? Oh, no, no, no, no. Not so. I find myself swimming in your waters rather often these days. Oh, really? Yes. In what way? Catholicism.

Oh, another Catholic. Well, ah, je it's a pleasure. I am a later convert to the Roman faith, and as I attempt to make my feeble and groving way through the catechism, I find myself rather drawn to some of the old writers in the form, and I find great comfort indeed in prayer and in the contemplation of the union of the Godhead in the communion of saints. Well that is incredible. I step onto this ship and sit down next to a fellow theologian. I love it. Hardly, hardly.

I'm lucky. How long have you been living in Shanghai? Shanghai have been working there for about three years. You must tell us everything there is to know about 1920s Shanghai. Yes, what are we getting into? Oh my. Could you present it in a Google doc? That's a Google doc.

Yes. And yeah, you would know that this is a crazy time in China. Yeah, I mean, he could start to, to you know could start to discuss this yeah it is a rat I mean if you want me to yeah I think it'd be fun because I sent you I said you all a document an eight page document on like what's going on in China but it's it's a pretty crazy time for real yeah I think he surely the the arm of John Bull has spread its imperial arm over there and then for and in and for totally legitimate and wonderful reasons yes oh no my friends don't disabuse me oh no my friend no no no in

fact there is a great deal and has been for 20 years or more great deal of push back that I'm afraid our Imperial friends are not handling so well but those of us in the academic community and try to stay out of politics of all of it and focus on teaching a great deal of our great many Of our students are Chinese after all fewer international students as well But it is important that from a theological perspective we learn and take in all of the different Religions that are out there. There's a lot of them we've found. Yes More than we thought and That's for sure. What do you mean?

I don't know. Only that Mr. What do you mean? Only that Mr. Tillinghouse, like all of us, has a rather ecumenical spirit and sees, of course, the glory of the divine revealed in nature and in the way. And everything, really, in all of creation.

Mm-hmm. Yes. But I hear really, in all of creation. Mm-hmm. Yes. But I hear that a great deal of narcotics are sold in Shrek. Yes, so many. So many narcotics. Oh, great. The criminal gangs are rampant and rising and have so much control, it is frightening. The political situation as more and more communists

begin to increase their, you know, foothold and... Oh, we have a communist buddy! I would have loved this dress! Desmond, poor Desmond, he's throwing you this down. We have a rather red friend ourselves who... Oh, is that true? Yes, who I believe at this point would be informing us all about how this religion that we speak so kindly of is in fact the opium of the masses, whereas I myself believe that the opium of the masses is, ahem, opium.

Yes, I for one agree with you. I'm sure the gentleman of Shanghai would agree. Yes, I do agree with you. I feel that this rise in communism, I find it fascinating from an academic perspective. I'm not sure where I lie on the whole situation, but then again, I'm not in governance, it's not my duty. Well, we've already broken the first rule of gentle conversation and bringing up both religion and politics within moments.

That was quick. Yes. And Carter's trying to go like extra weird frumpy British, just to fit in. Ah! And he's like, mm, yes. Ah! Yes, mm, bro.

Because now I feel like now the time is changing, where it's like, with Desmond and Margo, it's like an extra scrappy person, but now there's a third like egghead, slash like religious, so I feel like Carter's a little feeling out of sorts. But that's what he does, is he can be a cameleon. Yeah.

Oh, religion. Well, yes, if I may say... Politics! Sorry, what? Do you have a place to stay while you are in Shanghai? I'm afraid our little expedition is rather ad hoc at the moment. Yes.

We rarely make plans for, not a prayer I learned in catechism, but when one makes plans, this is when one inspires God to laugh. We often, when arriving at a particular destination, find our accommodations, as it were, on the fly. Oh, and so you are world travelers then as of late yes Interesting well, I could help you if you need if you'd like is there a Waldorf Astoria

In Shanghai well there are similar accommodations that you could stay at yes there are some very nice locations, but I would say focusing on the Concessions would probably be best to start. It is a little more our speed, so to speak. International, plenty of folks that are from England and France and America. Once you are ready and a bit settled, then maybe you could head into the city proper. It is quite different. There are very few English speakers there. I speak a little bit of Shanghais. I've done pretty well with it.

But, and a little bit of Cantonese as well. But it is, it can be difficult to get around. They're not interested in having us there. And that makes a lot of sense to me. Well, they haven't met us yet. Yes, we- Oh, you're going to turn them around, are you? Watch our charm. We have that Yes. We we're going to turn them around. I watch our charm

That way we certainly make an impression we blend in Especially when you yelled politics very loud Which I'm happy to discuss at any time Politics could see the fine contributions of our friend NASA tilling at oh, yes Yes, I begin to believe, Miss Gibron, that we see now the work of divine providence alive in the world as he is brought into our path. One who speaks the local language,

one who can as be as it were a guide as we find good accommodations in the more cosmopolitan set of Shanghai. Indeed, how serendipitous. I also know the best places to eat and drink. So, there you go. Well now, we're getting somewhere. And we got to get on this boat ride and just really get to know each other. Yes. I'm real pals. Half a month I believe it is.

Oh please, please, take our business card. Oh yes, I just had those printed. Mystery squad? That's right. That's fun. Yeah, we're actually in the market for a new intern, so we can get into that as the boat continues its journey. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ru boat continues into the ocean and behind you is somewhere on Africa the mountain of the black wind Egypt Cairo Kenya the exploits of the

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