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EP. 6 Revelations
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Ting Ting Ting WHAT WAS THAT NOISE!!!!! Who are you and why did you trip Sam!!!!! We will get to the bottom of this nonsese!
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Introduction and Mental Health Disclaimer
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Here on Let's Play Pretend, we want to take mental health very seriously.
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and is there because they want to help you 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
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Please, take care of yourselves.
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That way we can all take care of
Meet the Cast with Jordan Derringer
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each other.
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Let's play pretend!
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Let's play pretend!
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Let's Play Pretend.
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I am Jordan Derringer.
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I am your DMG, I'm handler, keeper and host.
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And my God, I'm getting good at that.
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Woo.
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And let me introduce our cast today.
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What are you going to comment on that every single time?
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I'm just proud of myself, thank you.
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Now, it's not your turn, okay?
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Let me introduce our cast.
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First off, we have Melanie Derringer.
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The fuck I'm supposed to go last?
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Well, you're going first today, toots.
Character Fun Facts and Previous Events Recap
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I don't like change.
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You can thank Nick for this, by the way.
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Why?
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Don't like it.
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Hi, Melanie.
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I play Samantha Williams, and I guess I'm supposed to spit off a fun fact about Samantha and she has allergies like me.
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Is she allergic to horses like you?
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She's allergic to everything like me because I'm allergic to fucking everything.
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That is extremely disappointing.
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But you know what else is really disappointing is having your father and your brother both be these weird, grinning, monster-looking things.
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Isn't that right, Matt?
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Check.
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Hey, what's up?
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I'm Matt, and I play Arthur Gooseberg.
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And Arthur's fun fact that I'm assuming some of these are probably going to come into play or whatever, because God likes to be an asshole.
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What?
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What?
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He is classically trained in scuba diving.
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Not where I thought you were going to go with that.
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All right, cool.
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Did you guys know that in a normal pack of cigarettes, there are 20 cigarettes?
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And unfortunately, Ryan is down to 15.
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We have Breck Black.
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Hello, I play Ryan.
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I'm upset about cigarettes and Ryan's fun fact is that he secretly loves romcoms.
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I just obsessed with them.
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OK, I love that.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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I actually really enjoy that as well.
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And finally, we have Mr. If you let me go first, I'm going to throw the whole cast on their heads.
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So of course he went last, Mr. Nick Barnett.
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Hi, I'm Ned.
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Your Ned?
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I thought you were Nick.
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Your character's Ned.
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No, I'm here.
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Alright.
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That being said, last time you guys got to Arthur's house.
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Arthur was looking for some things that he thought might be able to help in this situation.
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Upon finding a couple things in his room, I don't know if it was quite what he was looking for, but he found what he could get his hands on on top of a baseball bat, of all things, that he attached to his kunai to make kind of like a
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Almost like a climber's pick.
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That was pretty cool.
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You guys, being Ned and Arthur, walked out of Arthur's room and noticed that Arthur's older brother, Carl, was in his room sitting on his bed, smiling really creepy at his TV, holding a video game controller while the TV was just flashing static.
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Arthur tried to get his attention.
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Ned called outside to where Ryan and Samantha were, and...
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You guys came in upon seeing that nothing was happening to
Monstrous Revelations and Magical Challenges
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get his attention.
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Samantha took the for all intents and purposes tire iron that she was holding and smashed the TV, which then really pissed off Carl.
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Not enough to hurt you guys, but enough to kick you guys out of his room and to close and lock the door behind you.
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Samantha pushed something in front of the door to keep Carl in there.
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And you guys headed downstairs.
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You went into the garage because Arthur knows that his father has rolls of duct tape, which he found five of, which was pretty awesome.
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Ned hung back to search for some things.
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I will not discuss what he found.
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Came out, saw you guys, and...
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You hear from the shadows after Ned realizes that somebody's in the room with you guys that...
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Somebody does not like their tools being touched.
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Arthur Ned in a fit of panic grabs the bat from Arthur, throws it across the room at the shadowy figure, impales the kunai into Arthur's father's eye.
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He steps out of the shadow and is having, he has the same big grin, same wide eye now, because you know, there's a kunai in the other one and it does not seem to have affected him at all.
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And that is where we are now.
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Before any of you can make a move, I need you all to roll me a power roll at a negative 50.
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Oh, fun.
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Negative 50?
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A power roll at a negative 50?
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Yes.
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So do I have to get all zeros to win this?
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Is your power less than 50?
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My power is 50.
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Then you automatically fail.
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Okay.
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I'm going to roll anyway.
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65 on a 30.
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24 out of 50.
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Y'all, this podcast is already haunted because I went over to my character sheet and all of my text was upside down.
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That's weird.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Hold on.
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I got to find my power.
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So Arthur automatically failed, which is fitting.
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Ned failed.
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I need Ryan and Samantha.
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Yeah.
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Where is?
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Oh, I found it.
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I found it.
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I found it.
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It was a 32 on a 25.
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I failed.
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I'll just say that.
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You failed math?
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I failed math.
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Let's be real.
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Do you think that I would put a role in here, Nick, if I specifically wanted you to fail?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I would.
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Yeah.
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100%.
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So a 98 would be a fail.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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You failed.
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That's almost a crit fail, actually.
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Okay.
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God damn it, that's hilarious.
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Yes, yes, Melanie, a 98 is a fail.
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Okay, sounds good.
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Before any of you can move, you are frozen in place.
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You cannot move a muscle.
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As Arthur's dad walks another step out of the shadow and goes, Oh, Carl, Darlene, we have company.
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It's a rom-com.
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So I'm guessing you were all facing.
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Did we give your dad a name?
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You can now.
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I'm guessing you were all facing Frank.
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Frank and Darlene.
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That sounds like a good.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We're going to go with Frank.
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I'm guessing you were all facing him after he came out of the shadows.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You guys do not see Darlene at all, but from upstairs, because it's happening loud enough that you would be able to hear it, you hear thumping against wood, almost as if Carl's trying to get out of his room.
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Sucker.
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You hear thump, thump, thump.
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Silence.
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Like we don't hear anything clattering to the ground?
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Nope.
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Okay.
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And then the next second you hear glass shatter.
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Uh oh.
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And you hear footsteps.
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Above the garage.
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Can we get the fuck out of here?
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No, you guys are frozen in place right now.
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Fucking.
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Yeah, but like, come on, dad.
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What the hell?
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And then you hear a thump.
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outside of the garage right next to the side door that Samantha so nicely unlocked earlier.
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And you hear that side door open.
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And Carl is standing there.
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Ned, I'm not even going to make you roll for this because your back is to the door into the house.
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And you were the last one in, so you're the closest.
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You can feel a presence behind you.
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And you know, without even having to turn around and look, that Darlene is right behind you.
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As you guys are staring in horror, Frank moves into position to block your way out of the main garage door.
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Are we able to like talk or are we just frozen in place?
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You can talk.
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You guys can talk.
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You just can't move.
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So all three of your exits are blocked.
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All three of our exits are blocked.
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We are currently
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held stuck in place.
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Well, guys, this was a nice podcast while it lasted.
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Thanks for listening.
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See you next season.
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I guess I'll have to roll another nerd.
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um can uh since this is my garage like do i i guess i'm a good question i'm trying to ask here is where's the garage door opener is it like an old one where it's on a wall is it like a handheld thing is there something like we could i want to try to open the garage somehow
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So the garage door openers, you would have like each of your parents would have one in the car and then there would be one for all intents and purposes behind Ned to the left.
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It would be on the wall next to the door leading into the house because your house has a it's a house with a connected garage, not a separated garage.
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So it's one of those, you know, you pull into the garage, get out of the car, hit the clothes on the way in and forget about it.
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So those would be your options for a garage door opener.
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I'll try to reason with my father.
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Dad, help us.
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What are you doing?
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Why?
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You have magic powers.
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And why didn't you tell me you had magic powers?
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He just smiles blankly at you as he stops moving and finally sets himself into place.
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Arthur, I don't think that's your dad anymore.
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Shut up.
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He could be there still.
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Arthur, look at his face.
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I don't want it.
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It's fucked up.
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Everybody roll me alertness.
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And a plus 20.
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52 out of 49 for alertness.
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96 out of 65.
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Oh, no.
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89 out of a modified 21 or 41.
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43 on an 81.
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Why is that a bad thing?
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I'm worried.
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Ryan, you are the only one that sees this.
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From where you're standing and where you're frozen, you can see Carl.
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you can see the way he's standing.
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He's standing... The best way to describe this is his legs are almost making like an A-frame.
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So he's standing not with his feet directly together, but kind of spread apart.
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You hear the slightest as something rolls into the garage between his legs.
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In the briefest of seconds that you see this roll in, you see it is a cylindrical canister that is black with blue on it.
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Uh, Ryan has played enough video games to close his eyes.
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As you do,
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everybody else is momentarily blinded as the flash grenade goes off.
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Thanks for the warning, Ryan.
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That was so nice.
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You think I had time?
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As you are blinded, you are all freed from your hold.
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I run straight through Darlene.
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You can't see shit.
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Yeah, but you said I could feel her like breathing down my neck.
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Do you know how disorienting a flash grenade is?
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Yep.
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I didn't say I was running smart.
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I said I was running.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Um...
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Let's just play this out.
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Okay, you wanna try and run through Darlene.
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You are currently under the effect of a flash grenade.
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You hear a high-pitched screeching in your ear and you are blinded.
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So what I want you to do is I want you to roll me contested, we'll say contested unarmed combat.
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I am going to give you a negative 15 each for each one of those ailments.
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So you're gonna be rolling at a negative 30.
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Okay, that's still passable.
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13 on a modified 20.
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13 on a modified 20.
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That is fantastic.
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I also modified Darlene's to be a negative 20.
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She rolled a 48 on a modified 50.
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Oh, nuts.
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Fuck.
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So basically you turn around and even though she is also affected by this flash grenade, you run straight into her and back into the garage on your ass.
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You are now prone.
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Damn it.
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Yes.
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Everybody else, remove your headphones.
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It's not going to take too long because this is just you were smart enough to close your eyes when the flash grenade came in because you saw it.
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So you're going to see something before everyone else does.
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This is going to resolve very quickly for you.
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So as you see the rest of your friends and the people that were holding you in place through their mind holes,
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all flailing under this flash grenade trying to cover their eyes rub at their ears whatever they're doing this is the first time that you see the smiles almost fade but not quite fake so they still have pretty big grins on their faces but like it almost looks strained to have them on but the interesting thing that you see
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is Carl flies face first into the garage and you see a woman in a suit with long straight black hair.
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make direct eye contact with you and it looks like she's trying to say something to you you can't tell because you covered your eyes not your ears so there is still the ringing from the flash grenade yes but it looks like she's trying to say something to you and like she's urgently trying to like wave you on like come on come on come on and that is what you see
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Ryan sees this and then just kind of glances everyone else and sees Ned on the floor and decides to run over and try to grab him and just start dragging him, not even pick him up.
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You're just trying to drag him from the floor?
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Yes.
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Okay, perfect.
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Let me go ahead and get everyone else back in.
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Ned, you turn to run away.
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You bounce off Darlene.
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Your ass hits the ground.
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The next second, you feel someone or something grab the back of your shirt and start just dragging you out of the garage or dragging you across the garage.
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You still cannot see.
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You still cannot hear.
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So you are just at the mercy of whatever is grabbing you.
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Do we hear Ned?
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You guys still have the ringing in your ears from the flash grenade.
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I'm at a loss.
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That's what to do.
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Since it's my garage, I kind of like have vague knowledge of remembering how to get to the walls.
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Can I like scurry with my hands out to try to smack the garage door opener to get us, let us all get out of here.
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You can try.
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Just remember that Darlene is over there and you would be going further in instead of trying to make your way out.
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Why?
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Why are you saying her name like that?
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Because that's the way that Matt's told me that it was pronounced last time that there was an extra E in Darlene.
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So I've been saying Darlene.
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Darlene.
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My mother's name is Darlene.
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It has an extra E. You're using an unneeded F.
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Every time you say that, Arthur, I just imagine the little green alien guys from Toy Story.
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Darlene!
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The claw.
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You know what?
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That is what his voice reminds me of.
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Thank you.
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We are eternally grateful.
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I know I'm at Scurry.
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That's good.
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I'll be eternally grateful.
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All right, so you want to try to get in further to open the garage.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Since you are still affected by the flash grenade, I need you to... Do you have anything in search?
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My search is a base 20.
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Well, I can't really have you do a negative 30 on that, can I?
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I need a 10.
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Do you have anything in navigate?
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No.
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Man, you're screwed.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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I guess give me a Dexterity at negative 30, just to make sure you don't trip on anything on your way over since you can't see.
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At negative 30?
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Yeah, at negative 30.
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Mama Darlene didn't raise though, bitch.
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39 out of 50.
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At a negative 30, you were at 50?
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Yeah, my dexterity is 80.
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Oh, okay.
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You get over to the wall and you are able to hit the button.
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I just yell, RUN!
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You don't know if it opened.
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I'm assuming.
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I know I remember the feeling of hitting the garage door.
00:19:54
Speaker
I know I'm still under the effect of a flashbang, but I'm also running on adrenaline, so I'm making rash decisions.
00:20:03
Speaker
Samantha.
00:20:04
Speaker
Yes.
00:20:05
Speaker
As you are affected by this flash grenade with the blindness and the deafness, all of a sudden you feel an arm go around your shoulders and start pulling you across the garage.
00:20:15
Speaker
Samantha is going to freak out and pull against it.
00:20:22
Speaker
Pull against it.
00:20:23
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:23
Speaker
Excellent.
00:20:25
Speaker
Give me a... Hmm.
00:20:27
Speaker
This thing isn't going to have any negatives, so that sucks.
00:20:32
Speaker
Give me an unarmed combat at negative 30.
00:20:39
Speaker
Can I affect this roll at all?
00:20:43
Speaker
You can.
00:20:44
Speaker
Yes, you can.
00:20:46
Speaker
As I see Samantha fighting it, I'm going to kind of shoot a foot out and kick out one of her legs.
Survival Strategies and Trust Issues
00:20:53
Speaker
One of my legs?
00:20:55
Speaker
Yes.
00:20:56
Speaker
Excellent.
00:20:57
Speaker
So give me an unarmed combat at negative 40 now instead of negative 30.
00:21:00
Speaker
I have a 63 out of 50 regardless.
00:21:03
Speaker
So cool.
00:21:04
Speaker
So now you are not only being pulled across the garage, you are now being dragged across the garage.
00:21:12
Speaker
She's not going willingly.
00:21:13
Speaker
She is kicking and screaming and doing her best to get to get loose.
00:21:18
Speaker
Next thing you feel.
00:21:19
Speaker
Do I know that it was Ryan who tripped me or just I still can't see anything?
00:21:22
Speaker
No, you were just tripped.
00:21:24
Speaker
Next thing you know, there is a hand over your mouth.
00:21:27
Speaker
Well, she's still struggling, at least.
00:21:31
Speaker
Arthur.
00:21:33
Speaker
As you hit the garage button and yell run, you begin to run in the direction that you believe the garage door is in and you run straight into a person, arms wide open.
00:21:45
Speaker
And as you run into the person, the arms close around you, like underneath your arms.
00:21:51
Speaker
So they're around your back and just picks you up and starts carrying you across the garage.
00:21:57
Speaker
Can I wiggle out?
00:21:58
Speaker
You can try, but you're also going to be rolling at a negative 30.
00:22:02
Speaker
What would I be rolling on?
00:22:04
Speaker
Let's see.
00:22:04
Speaker
For this one, it's not really a combat that you're trying to do.
00:22:08
Speaker
You're just trying to wiggle out.
00:22:09
Speaker
I will give you... Would you say this is a dexterous activity?
00:22:16
Speaker
You know, I was thinking dex, but now that you say that, I don't want to give you dex.
00:22:21
Speaker
I just I'm just wondering because I mean, wiggling is not really strength.
00:22:25
Speaker
It's more like like contortion, more of a dexterity.
00:22:31
Speaker
I'm not trying to push you towards my literally best stat.
00:22:36
Speaker
Yeah, sure you're not.
00:22:38
Speaker
No, actually, I'm going to make you roll me athletics.
00:22:40
Speaker
Do I see this happen?
00:22:42
Speaker
So at negative 30 at a negative 30.
00:22:44
Speaker
Yes.
00:22:44
Speaker
I don't fail.
00:22:46
Speaker
And no, you do not because you're busy doing what you are currently doing.
00:22:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:51
Speaker
You can't be in three places at once.
00:22:54
Speaker
I failed.
00:22:55
Speaker
Is this what you want to fucking hear?
00:22:57
Speaker
It's exactly what I want to hear.
00:22:58
Speaker
All three of you, as you are feeling yourselves dragged across the garage, all of a sudden feel fresh air.
00:23:05
Speaker
And as your vision and hearing start to come back, you see Samantha that you are being dragged away by a woman in a suit that has long, straight black hair.
00:23:21
Speaker
You said I could see?
00:23:23
Speaker
You are starting to be able to see, and that's the first thing you see.
00:23:26
Speaker
And as she's the one with her hand around your mouth and is kind of giving you the...
00:23:31
Speaker
one finger over her mouth like the shh be quiet you are being carried away arthur by a man in a very rugged ripped up police uniform and he's also kind of doing the same thing he's like shut up dude just shut up just you know we're sitting here trying to save you and uh you're kind of making this hard on us what ned you are being dragged away by ryan
00:24:02
Speaker
Okay, I'm sorry, but the way you said that.
00:24:07
Speaker
Ryan, I think I'm gonna owe you one, man.
00:24:08
Speaker
I think I'm gonna owe you one.
00:24:11
Speaker
You owe me a lot.
00:24:12
Speaker
Just remember that.
00:24:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:24:15
Speaker
Now, shut up.
00:24:16
Speaker
As you guys make your way out into the forest, because all these neighborhoods have forests around, you guys make your way out into the forest and you see the two people that helped you are kind of laying low.
00:24:28
Speaker
They're kind of giving you the same thing, like hands down, like, be quiet, be quiet, just hide for a second.
00:24:34
Speaker
A few minutes pass.
00:24:37
Speaker
It's still dark, but there doesn't seem to be any movement of people coming after you.
00:24:44
Speaker
And they finally turn around and look at you.
00:24:47
Speaker
And the guy goes, oh boy, you guys got yourselves into a little bit of a scrap with the Grinners, huh?
00:24:57
Speaker
Oh man, you know, I ain't never seen you as here before.
00:25:03
Speaker
Who are you?
00:25:05
Speaker
Um, the better question is, who are you?
00:25:10
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:25:11
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair.
00:25:12
Speaker
That's fair.
00:25:13
Speaker
Um, my name's Lance.
00:25:16
Speaker
Lance McClain.
00:25:17
Speaker
This here's my wife, Charlotte.
00:25:20
Speaker
And, uh, to be fair, we don't really know how we got here either.
00:25:24
Speaker
We, uh,
00:25:26
Speaker
We had we had some shit go down and yeah, all of a sudden we end up in this place.
00:25:32
Speaker
We've been here for a long time and you guys are like the first real people we've seen.
00:25:38
Speaker
Even though you kids were really happy to seize you.
00:25:41
Speaker
You've been here a long time.
00:25:44
Speaker
So there's like no escape from this.
00:25:47
Speaker
So the woman that Lance pointed to kind of folds her arms and
00:25:55
Speaker
She looks at y'all and she goes, yeah, you kind of lose time after you've been here for so long, but it's been a while.
00:26:04
Speaker
And as you guys can tell, this is not where I'm sure you came from.
00:26:09
Speaker
Where the hell are we?
00:26:11
Speaker
I wish I could tell you that.
00:26:13
Speaker
How did you guys get here?
00:26:16
Speaker
You see, it's a really funny story.
00:26:18
Speaker
So...
00:26:22
Speaker
Like I said, we had some real shit go down.
00:26:27
Speaker
Very descriptive.
00:26:28
Speaker
Thank you.
00:26:31
Speaker
Needless to say, well, I guess not needless to say.
00:26:36
Speaker
Charlotte, is this what it's like talking to real people again?
00:26:38
Speaker
It's just been two of us for so long.
00:26:39
Speaker
It's it's hard to remember what this is like.
00:26:43
Speaker
And Charlotte steps forward and speaks up and she goes, we were in a house that was haunted and some freaky shit happened.
00:26:52
Speaker
And that made Lance decide that he wanted to not be a reporter and become a police officer.
00:26:58
Speaker
We were investigating something and there was this is going to sound dumb.
00:27:04
Speaker
I know it was almost as if the air right in front of us was ripped.
00:27:10
Speaker
And a hand came through and pulled us into whatever this place is.
00:27:16
Speaker
So nobody tried to talk to the dead for you guys.
00:27:20
Speaker
Great.
00:27:22
Speaker
But you guys are dressed kind of funny, aren't you?
00:27:25
Speaker
Like, Charlotte, that guy dressed funny, right?
00:27:28
Speaker
That story wasn't funny.
00:27:32
Speaker
She looks at you guys and she goes, yeah, you know what?
00:27:35
Speaker
You are dressed kind of funny.
00:27:38
Speaker
What year is it?
00:27:41
Speaker
Our God didn't want to specify a specific time.
00:27:44
Speaker
He said he wanted to have it be in any timeline.
00:27:48
Speaker
So like, really, we're lucidly living in a timeline that we don't even know.
00:27:54
Speaker
Yeah, what Arthur said.
00:27:56
Speaker
Sometime after 2000.
00:27:57
Speaker
No.
00:27:57
Speaker
2000?
00:28:00
Speaker
Where are you from?
00:28:04
Speaker
You guys see Charlotte and Lance exchange a look, and Lance looks back at you guys and he goes...
00:28:12
Speaker
We, uh, we're from shortly after the Great War.
00:28:16
Speaker
Which Great War?
00:28:18
Speaker
We've had so many.
00:28:19
Speaker
Excuse me, what?
00:28:21
Speaker
There was only one Great War.
00:28:23
Speaker
Well, that answered my second question.
00:28:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:27
Speaker
You guys are in for something.
00:28:29
Speaker
Keep tabs on this Albert Einstein guy.
00:28:31
Speaker
He's going to be worth something.
00:28:33
Speaker
Have we really been in here that long, Charlie?
00:28:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:37
Speaker
And you see her kind of not say anything, but like her shoulders just kind of slump.
00:28:43
Speaker
Well, on the good side, you're still alive.
00:28:47
Speaker
So there's that.
00:28:49
Speaker
Yeah, but wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:28:52
Speaker
You're telling me that you've been stuck in here since somewhere in the 1900s.
00:28:57
Speaker
1920s to be exact.
00:28:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:03
Speaker
And you still haven't gotten out?
00:29:06
Speaker
Sweetheart, not only have we not gotten out, we haven't aged.
00:29:10
Speaker
We are the same age as we were the day we stepped in through that.
00:29:13
Speaker
Well, dragged in through that portal thing.
Realm Mysteries and Insights
00:29:16
Speaker
You see Samantha kind of like bite her lip and start like messing with her finger a little bit in like an anxiety type way.
00:29:29
Speaker
Ryan immediately pops open his cigarettes and light ones up.
00:29:32
Speaker
That sounds about right.
00:29:34
Speaker
Just needing the stress relief.
00:29:35
Speaker
I'm going to go over to Arthur real quick.
00:29:39
Speaker
Arthur, is this like that anime you had me watch, Hack or whatever?
00:29:46
Speaker
Is this one of them isekai things?
00:29:50
Speaker
Sadly, this is real.
00:29:53
Speaker
Well, no dip, Sherlock.
00:29:54
Speaker
I know it's real.
00:29:56
Speaker
I think I figured that out by now.
00:29:58
Speaker
What I'm saying is I don't think they've been in here for 80 or 90 years.
00:30:04
Speaker
What do you mean?
00:30:06
Speaker
I don't I don't know, man.
00:30:09
Speaker
Just oh, God, we got to.
00:30:12
Speaker
I think this time and this place is getting to you, man.
00:30:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:19
Speaker
Not the baseball bat in your dad's eye.
00:30:21
Speaker
I don't want to talk about that.
00:30:24
Speaker
I didn't want to do it.
00:30:26
Speaker
I don't want to think about that right now.
00:30:29
Speaker
Well, that's too bad.
00:30:31
Speaker
Charlotte comes over and puts her hand on your shoulder, Arthur, and she goes, if it's any consolation to you, the Grinners are not people.
00:30:42
Speaker
What are they?
00:30:43
Speaker
That's just what we've come to call them because you saw how they were.
00:30:47
Speaker
They are, for all intents and purposes, they're a monster.
00:30:52
Speaker
And they are able to look at you.
00:30:56
Speaker
This is going to sound so stupid.
00:30:58
Speaker
What my wife is trying to say is they can look at you and they can replicate things in your brain.
00:31:07
Speaker
Things that you hold very close to you.
00:31:10
Speaker
They can make themselves look like that to to kind of disarm you.
00:31:16
Speaker
So they were never my parents, my dad and my brother.
00:31:20
Speaker
The ones that we just saved you from?
00:31:22
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:31:24
Speaker
That ain't your family, kid.
00:31:26
Speaker
Hours and years of therapy.
00:31:30
Speaker
I dodged a bullet there.
00:31:33
Speaker
I think we're all going to need a little bit of therapy after this.
00:31:37
Speaker
If we ever get out.
00:31:39
Speaker
That's you know what, Samantha, that's a good point.
00:31:42
Speaker
Everybody give me a sanity roll.
00:31:44
Speaker
God damn it.
00:31:45
Speaker
I should have kept my mouth shut.
00:31:51
Speaker
That's a 37 out of 71.
00:31:51
Speaker
49 on 71.
00:31:51
Speaker
That is an 80 on a 65.
00:31:54
Speaker
You got a 12 out of a 48.
00:32:06
Speaker
Okay, so everyone that passed will lose zero.
00:32:09
Speaker
Ryan, you will only lose one.
00:32:11
Speaker
So they look at you guys and they ask you, so what brought you guys here?
00:32:20
Speaker
A very depressed person, lost a family member, and decided that it'd be a good idea on All Hallows' Eve to try to talk to the dead using a ritual.
00:32:30
Speaker
A ritual?
00:32:31
Speaker
Yeah, your usual thing.
00:32:32
Speaker
Where would they have found the sources for a ritual?
00:32:36
Speaker
Uh, there's this really interesting thing in the year, you know, 2000, whatever, called the Internet that gives you access to everything.
00:32:47
Speaker
She found it on there.
00:32:49
Speaker
Is it is it like a master key?
00:32:51
Speaker
Like you can go in the building and unlock all the doors to get to whatever you want to?
00:32:56
Speaker
Theoretically.
00:32:56
Speaker
Huh.
00:32:59
Speaker
I need to get me one of these Internet things.
00:33:01
Speaker
That sounds pretty rad.
00:33:02
Speaker
You just need a computer.
00:33:05
Speaker
What's a computer?
00:33:07
Speaker
Oy vey.
00:33:09
Speaker
We'll explain the timelines later.
00:33:12
Speaker
But yeah, our friend, she found this ritual on the Internet to talk to her dead brother and her dead brother came.
00:33:22
Speaker
He talked to her.
00:33:23
Speaker
All right.
00:33:23
Speaker
And then he killed her.
00:33:25
Speaker
And somehow we ended up here.
00:33:27
Speaker
Family drama, huh?
00:33:28
Speaker
I thought my family was bad.
00:33:31
Speaker
Not that I don't enjoy the whole getting to know each other stage, but are we fucking safe here right now?
00:33:39
Speaker
Well, Charlie kind of looks around and she goes, for the time being, yes.
00:33:45
Speaker
For the time being?
00:33:48
Speaker
Oh, sweetheart, the the Grinners are not even a drop in the bucket for what is out here.
00:33:56
Speaker
Well, we got to get somewhere safe.
00:33:59
Speaker
I don't feel safe.
00:34:02
Speaker
Samantha, before we try and find somewhere safe, pulls out her phone and pulls up a picture of Ashley and shows them.
00:34:13
Speaker
What the fuck is that thing?
00:34:16
Speaker
This is this is a cell phone, but I'll tell you about it later.
00:34:20
Speaker
Have you seen this girl?
00:34:22
Speaker
Do you see that, Charlie?
00:34:23
Speaker
It's like a picture with a light behind it.
00:34:25
Speaker
That's crazy.
00:34:27
Speaker
And you see Charlotte just kind of rubbing the bridge of her nose and looks at the picture and she goes, no, that person does not seem familiar to us.
00:34:37
Speaker
She just turns off the screen and puts it back in her pocket.
00:34:41
Speaker
Hey, Arthur.
00:34:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:45
Speaker
You still got that journal you picked up?
00:34:47
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:34:49
Speaker
I hand them over to Ashley's journal.
00:34:53
Speaker
And Ryan's just going to start flipping through it, hoping to find something about what she did.
00:34:58
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:59
Speaker
What are you hoping to find out of this?
00:35:03
Speaker
He's mostly looking for like an ingredients list, hoping to find like what she was trying to do with the ritual and maybe some notes on it to see if he can't figure out basically anything at all at this point.
00:35:17
Speaker
So Arthur was able to find an ingredients list.
00:35:24
Speaker
He did give you guys that so you can ask him for that information again.
00:35:29
Speaker
But basically on the last page on the ingredients, like the ingredients that she has written down, she just says combine all together.
00:35:40
Speaker
Final ingredient, fresh blood light on fire.
00:35:43
Speaker
Is there anything on the like two pages previous or three or anything?
00:35:49
Speaker
Or is it just normal like journal stuff?
00:35:52
Speaker
I wouldn't even say it's normal journal stuff.
00:35:54
Speaker
It's more like just sketches.
00:35:57
Speaker
Just choose a doodler.
00:35:59
Speaker
So the doodles just kind of end and then it's suddenly this list.
00:36:02
Speaker
Give me, I guess, search.
00:36:05
Speaker
OK.
00:36:10
Speaker
Nope, that's a 93 on a 40.
00:36:12
Speaker
Okay, that's all I needed.
00:36:15
Speaker
So he's just kind of flipped through a couple more pages and then hand it back to Arthur and just be like, all right.
00:36:21
Speaker
So the only link we have back to our world currently is the treehouse.
00:36:27
Speaker
So it's on the bar, right?
00:36:28
Speaker
And he kind of looks at everyone else.
00:36:30
Speaker
That was the only thing that didn't age.
00:36:33
Speaker
Wait, the treehouse?
00:36:34
Speaker
What?
00:36:35
Speaker
You're not talking about that weird one out in the woods that looks like it was just built, are you?
Journey to the Safe House and Cliffhanger Ending
00:36:42
Speaker
Yeah, I would be the one you've seen.
00:36:46
Speaker
You guys came from that thing.
00:36:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:50
Speaker
And you made it here in one piece.
00:36:52
Speaker
Is there an what?
00:36:55
Speaker
Did you have amnesia?
00:36:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:58
Speaker
I'm assuming you're talking about the giant metal thing walking around.
00:37:01
Speaker
Oh, no, you're talking the water tower.
00:37:03
Speaker
That thing protects that area.
00:37:05
Speaker
I'm talking about everything else.
00:37:08
Speaker
Huh?
00:37:10
Speaker
Well, well, how about you just don't tell us about all that?
00:37:13
Speaker
I think we've been through enough today.
00:37:15
Speaker
You got a safe place you can get us to.
00:37:17
Speaker
I mean, we do have a safe house.
00:37:21
Speaker
That's as safe as it could be.
00:37:23
Speaker
And the time being.
00:37:26
Speaker
You children are more than welcome to join us.
00:37:29
Speaker
We got to go somewhere, y'all.
00:37:30
Speaker
We can't just stay out here.
00:37:32
Speaker
Yeah, I agree.
00:37:34
Speaker
Let's get to your safe house.
00:37:37
Speaker
Hope you guys are ready for a fight, though.
00:37:39
Speaker
It's all the way across town at the movie theater.
00:37:41
Speaker
That doesn't feel fucking safe.
00:37:44
Speaker
The movie theater is one of the safest places in town.
00:37:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:47
Speaker
Just realizing my bat is currently lodged in my not dad's eye.
00:37:54
Speaker
along with your kunai.
00:37:57
Speaker
I am weaponless.
00:37:59
Speaker
Ryan is going to hold out his sledgehammer.
00:38:03
Speaker
I am not strong to have that weapon.
00:38:06
Speaker
Also here, you take this, just take this, and I hand him my little pocket knife.
00:38:11
Speaker
I feel safer.
00:38:12
Speaker
That'll make you feel better.
00:38:13
Speaker
All right.
00:38:17
Speaker
I feel safer.
00:38:19
Speaker
Lance reaches into his pocket, and this is the first time that you notice, like, the uniform that he's wearing has not just a police uniform, but it looks like it's been through hell and back first off.
00:38:35
Speaker
But it doesn't look to be the era of what he said.
00:38:41
Speaker
It almost looks as if he has been replacing it as he's needed to.
00:38:47
Speaker
So it looks more like from our era?
00:38:52
Speaker
Bits and pieces of it.
00:38:54
Speaker
Bits and pieces of it still look like it's from the 20s, but it looks like very hodgepodge.
00:38:59
Speaker
So it's kind of like scavenging and patching throughout the years.
00:39:05
Speaker
Exactly.
00:39:07
Speaker
But he reaches into his pocket and he pulls out a key.
00:39:10
Speaker
And he looks at you guys and he goes, so...
00:39:14
Speaker
Which one of y'all's is the most responsible?
00:39:18
Speaker
I guess I've got a backpack.
00:39:21
Speaker
It is not him.
00:39:23
Speaker
He looks back at Charlotte and he goes, and kid does have a backpack.
00:39:27
Speaker
Sam.
00:39:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:30
Speaker
You I can't handle this right now.
00:39:35
Speaker
Sam just holds out her hand.
00:39:37
Speaker
Charlotte looks back at Lance and goes, I think I agree with the kids on this one.
00:39:42
Speaker
She does seem to be the one with the head on and shoulders.
00:39:46
Speaker
He goes, I suit yourself.
00:39:48
Speaker
And he tosses the key over to you.
00:39:50
Speaker
Do I have to make a roll to catch it or do I can I just catch it?
00:39:54
Speaker
No, you can just catch it.
00:39:55
Speaker
OK, Charlotte looks at you guys and she goes, that is the key to the safe house.
00:40:00
Speaker
We have things we have to take care of before we will be back.
00:40:03
Speaker
Is that the only key to your fucking safe house?
00:40:09
Speaker
Charlotte grins and looks at you and goes, do you think I would give you guys that we just met the only key to our safe house?
00:40:17
Speaker
I just had to make sure you weren't really dumb.
00:40:22
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:40:23
Speaker
And it's okay, because if you guys don't make it, we'll just get the key back anyway.
00:40:27
Speaker
Oh, dark.
00:40:28
Speaker
We're children.
00:40:31
Speaker
Sam looks at Charlotte and asks her, do you have a chain of some sort that I could put the key on that I could just wear around my neck so I don't lose it?
00:40:44
Speaker
Charlotte kind of looks...
00:40:48
Speaker
Which one of you has the messenger bag?
00:40:50
Speaker
I do.
00:40:51
Speaker
Roll me a search.
00:40:55
Speaker
I can do that.
00:40:58
Speaker
Nope.
00:40:59
Speaker
89 on a I don't know what it is.
00:41:01
Speaker
All you know is a fail.
00:41:06
Speaker
Samantha, roll me a search while you're looking over Ned's shoulder to see if there's anything in this backpack.
00:41:13
Speaker
I didn't get that right.
00:41:18
Speaker
Assert.
00:41:19
Speaker
Oh, fuck.
00:41:23
Speaker
Oh, my God, I got a five.
00:41:26
Speaker
OK, there's a lanyard in the messenger bag.
00:41:28
Speaker
You can use that.
00:41:29
Speaker
She just reaches her hand and grabs it and she looks at Ned like, really?
00:41:34
Speaker
It's right in front of your eyes.
00:41:35
Speaker
Hey, don't grab my charger.
00:41:37
Speaker
Oh, you found a lanyard.
00:41:38
Speaker
OK, wait.
00:41:40
Speaker
What did you just say?
00:41:42
Speaker
I found some charging cables before I came out in the garage.
00:41:45
Speaker
That's what I was looking for.
00:41:47
Speaker
Ned, roll me a 50 50.
00:41:50
Speaker
Rolling.
00:41:51
Speaker
As he's doing that, Sam puts the key on the lanyard and then puts a lanyard around her neck.
00:41:56
Speaker
I got a 22.
00:41:59
Speaker
You crit succeeded?
00:42:00
Speaker
I guess 22.
00:42:02
Speaker
OK.
00:42:03
Speaker
While you were rummaging through the drawers, you managed to find one cable for each.
00:42:10
Speaker
For this universe is equivalent of an iPhone and an Android.
00:42:14
Speaker
Arthur, why the hell you guys got Android cables?
00:42:17
Speaker
My dad was a hoarder.
00:42:21
Speaker
And Arthur has an Android.
00:42:24
Speaker
So anyways, yeah, we will.
00:42:28
Speaker
We'll catch up with you guys back at the at the safe house.
00:42:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah, I hope so.
00:42:34
Speaker
You're not going to come with us.
00:42:35
Speaker
I just don't understand.
00:42:37
Speaker
We have things that we have to see done before we can head back there.
00:42:41
Speaker
So ominous strangers.
00:42:44
Speaker
I mean, you said it, you strangers.
00:42:46
Speaker
I mean, first off, your children, we're not going to drag you into a dangerous situation.
00:42:51
Speaker
Second off, you strangers, you don't need to worry about our baggage.
00:42:54
Speaker
Arthur, don't look a gift horse at the mouth.
00:42:57
Speaker
Let's just be thankful they gave us a key to a safe place.
00:43:00
Speaker
They're not horses.
00:43:01
Speaker
They're people.
00:43:03
Speaker
What is wrong with you guys?
00:43:04
Speaker
Samantha does the whole facepalm.
00:43:08
Speaker
I trust them about as much as I can trust the Grinners, as they call them, that we were just dealing with.
00:43:15
Speaker
But you know what?
00:43:16
Speaker
If the trust is the same either way, then we might as well at least try it and see.
00:43:20
Speaker
I told you over and over again that wasn't your brother or your dad.
00:43:23
Speaker
You didn't buy into that.
00:43:25
Speaker
You know what?
00:43:26
Speaker
You're right.
00:43:27
Speaker
You're right.
00:43:28
Speaker
Let's let's just get the fuck out of here.
00:43:31
Speaker
There we go.
00:43:31
Speaker
I like that.
00:43:33
Speaker
Hey, quick question.
00:43:34
Speaker
How many things are between us and the movie theater?
00:43:37
Speaker
Just a rough guess.
00:43:39
Speaker
Since we don't have a map yet.
00:43:40
Speaker
God damn it.
00:43:46
Speaker
I learned.
00:43:48
Speaker
Are you like, doorbell, like doorbell things in this now?
00:43:52
Speaker
Because you can't hear it, right?
00:43:55
Speaker
So are you asking like how many landmarks are between you guys or are you asking Lance and Charlotte like how many different kind of monsters you may come across?
00:44:09
Speaker
Yes, because we would know the town pretty well, having lived there our whole lives.
00:44:14
Speaker
That's fair.
00:44:15
Speaker
But he also wants to ask them, like, because they said it's going to be a fight.
00:44:19
Speaker
He wants to have like an idea of what's going to happen because we're not exactly equipped.
00:44:26
Speaker
You are correct.
00:44:27
Speaker
You're not exactly equipped.
00:44:28
Speaker
You know, we are children after all.
00:44:30
Speaker
So Lance looks at you guys and he goes, well, so, yeah, keep your heads down and stay away from the nest is all I can say.
00:44:39
Speaker
And you guys should make it there.
00:44:40
Speaker
No problem.
00:44:41
Speaker
Next.
00:44:41
Speaker
Hey, wait, please don't just assume we know.
00:44:45
Speaker
Describe.
00:44:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:46
Speaker
What the hell is the nest?
00:44:49
Speaker
Oh, right.
00:44:50
Speaker
See, this is what I was talking about, Charlie.
00:44:52
Speaker
Like, not... Yeah, okay.
00:44:54
Speaker
All right.
00:44:56
Speaker
You know what?
00:44:56
Speaker
You take this one.
00:44:58
Speaker
So, the nest.
00:45:01
Speaker
It is in the center of town.
00:45:03
Speaker
And... For all intents and purposes, just stay away from the center of town.
00:45:08
Speaker
It is very dangerous.
00:45:10
Speaker
Basically, anything that your mind can come up with is there.
00:45:15
Speaker
And none of it is friendly.
00:45:17
Speaker
That's some pretty horrific news to just slip at us before you fucking ran away from a gaggle of children to the center of town.
00:45:30
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:45:32
Speaker
Before we split ways, where are y'all from?
00:45:35
Speaker
We're from Boston.
00:45:38
Speaker
So how did you make it all the way to Ohio?
00:45:42
Speaker
See, I told you, I knew we were somewhere in the Midwest, Charlie.
00:45:46
Speaker
This place just screams Midwest.
00:45:48
Speaker
To answer your question, we're not sure how we made it here.
00:45:53
Speaker
We were grabbed through the portal, and this is just where we were brought.
00:46:00
Speaker
Into this town?
00:46:02
Speaker
Yes.
00:46:04
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:46:05
Speaker
You you don't know.
00:46:09
Speaker
There's so much you don't know.
00:46:10
Speaker
We don't know.
00:46:11
Speaker
We have been here for what, four hours total.
00:46:14
Speaker
We ain't been here very long.
00:46:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:17
Speaker
What else do we need to fucking know before we go to your safe house, man?
00:46:22
Speaker
Treat us like we're five.
00:46:24
Speaker
This might be hard for you to hear.
00:46:27
Speaker
No, we can hear pretty well, even after that flashback.
00:46:32
Speaker
God damn it.
00:46:37
Speaker
Thank you, thank you.
00:46:40
Speaker
I had to get a drink after that one.
00:46:42
Speaker
Where you guys are currently, this town, you say you live here, correct?
00:46:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:52
Speaker
So in this world, dimension, universe, I don't know what to call it.
00:47:01
Speaker
We can't call it the upside down.
00:47:03
Speaker
That's trademarked.
00:47:04
Speaker
Yeah, same with the other where.
00:47:07
Speaker
I wasn't going to call it upside down.
00:47:09
Speaker
Why would I call this place upside down?
00:47:10
Speaker
We're not upside down.
00:47:13
Speaker
What about the screams upside down?
00:47:15
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:47:16
Speaker
You don't have you don't have streaming services, do you?
00:47:19
Speaker
Charlie, do you think that these kids kind of lost their marbles before they were they were pulled in here?
00:47:25
Speaker
Did we just get like a gaggle of kids from an insane asylum or something?
00:47:30
Speaker
No, it's just been 80 plus years.
00:47:32
Speaker
So things have, you know, changed a bit.
00:47:36
Speaker
It's been a while.
00:47:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:39
Speaker
All right.
00:47:40
Speaker
I guess.
00:47:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:41
Speaker
I'm making it a point.
00:47:43
Speaker
Me personally, Melanie, to come up with the name for this realm.
00:47:46
Speaker
So I'll have a name by the next time we record.
00:47:51
Speaker
Just whatever you guys are going to call it.
00:47:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:54
Speaker
OK.
00:47:55
Speaker
I mean, I that's up to you for not me.
00:47:58
Speaker
A downside up.
00:48:00
Speaker
The downside up.
00:48:03
Speaker
I'm partial to the fucking.
00:48:05
Speaker
The fucking fucking.
00:48:10
Speaker
That sounds provocative.
00:48:14
Speaker
If that's provocative to you, I don't want to see your Internet history.
00:48:18
Speaker
That sounds so bad.
00:48:20
Speaker
Stay away from Arthur's computer.
00:48:23
Speaker
I don't think your computer's here.
00:48:25
Speaker
We ain't in Kansas anymore, sweetheart.
00:48:27
Speaker
You're not from Kansas, Ned.
00:48:29
Speaker
We're from Ohio.
00:48:31
Speaker
You ain't never seen The Wizard of Oz?
00:48:33
Speaker
from Ohio.
00:48:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:36
Speaker
Ohio doesn't allow us to advise.
00:48:38
Speaker
It's one of our laws.
00:48:41
Speaker
I look over to Ryan and then I kind of like side eye Arthur and Sam.
00:48:49
Speaker
Ryan just shrugs.
00:48:51
Speaker
I don't know, man.
00:48:53
Speaker
Oh, man.
00:48:53
Speaker
All right.
00:48:56
Speaker
Fuck it.
00:48:56
Speaker
Who wants to go to my house?
00:48:57
Speaker
It sounds dangerous no matter what we do.
00:49:01
Speaker
So this whole time, Lance and Charlotte have just been kind of looking at each other, watching the chaos ensue.
00:49:07
Speaker
And Charlotte goes, I haven't even told you the bad part yet.
00:49:13
Speaker
You're really slow trickling this information while we're just standing here in a fucking dangerous area.
00:49:21
Speaker
Can we start at the top of the pyramid?
00:49:23
Speaker
We don't need a slow build.
00:49:24
Speaker
Like, give us the worst of it.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:26
Speaker
Why are you taking so long to tell us everything?
00:49:29
Speaker
Because I try to talk to you guys and then you go off on your own conversations.
00:49:33
Speaker
We're children.
00:49:35
Speaker
We're children, ma'am.
00:49:37
Speaker
Which is why I don't know if you can handle this information.
00:49:39
Speaker
All I'm going to say, don't go too far to the outskirts of town.
00:49:44
Speaker
Okay, hold on.
00:49:45
Speaker
Stop.
00:49:47
Speaker
First of all, you told us not to go into the center of town because there's a nest.
00:49:51
Speaker
Second of all, you told us not to go to the outskirts of town.
00:49:54
Speaker
What are we supposed to do?
00:49:56
Speaker
Where are we supposed to go?
00:49:57
Speaker
Stay safe everywhere else.
00:50:00
Speaker
But that's you just told us to go to two places that we apparently can't go.
00:50:05
Speaker
So what do we do?
00:50:06
Speaker
So stay in here with our thumbs up our butts.
00:50:08
Speaker
Sam was getting very agitated.
00:50:12
Speaker
Why can't you leave?
00:50:13
Speaker
You've been here for however long.
00:50:15
Speaker
Maybe we don't really know.
00:50:16
Speaker
But why haven't you left the town?
00:50:20
Speaker
We can't leave the town.
00:50:22
Speaker
If you get to the outskirts of town, you will see that.
00:50:29
Speaker
Look up in the sky for me.
00:50:30
Speaker
Do you notice how it seems like it's nighttime, but the sky has a red tint to it?
00:50:37
Speaker
That doesn't go away.
00:50:41
Speaker
That is all day, every day.
00:50:42
Speaker
Day, night does not matter.
00:50:44
Speaker
The sky does not change.
00:50:46
Speaker
If you want to see what that looks like, go ahead and go to the outskirts of town because you will see that this town, she uses air quotations, that we are in is nothing but a floating rock over whatever the fuck that is.
00:51:06
Speaker
That's very pertinent information you just told us.
00:51:11
Speaker
Yeah, and if you're worried about scaring us, we started this night off with watching our best friend get her head twisted around sideways.
00:51:17
Speaker
So I think we've kind of, you know, gone over the hill of being freaked out.
00:51:23
Speaker
Yeah, there's no way it's going to get crazier than that.
00:51:27
Speaker
Let me tell you, kids, that's that's the tip of the iceberg.
00:51:32
Speaker
Well, the good news is we know Ashley is somewhere in town.
00:51:36
Speaker
Bad news is that she's probably in one of the 700 places that's a no-no zone that they haven't fucking told us yet.
00:51:43
Speaker
I'm going to glare at them.
00:51:45
Speaker
No-no zone.
00:51:46
Speaker
That's a good way to put it.
00:51:47
Speaker
But...
00:51:49
Speaker
No, the center of town is the nest and the outskirts of town is literally you cannot leave.
00:51:58
Speaker
So the outskirts really isn't a no-no zone, so to say.
00:52:01
Speaker
It's, hey, watch your steps so you don't fall into the abyss of whatever the fuck this red all around us is.
00:52:08
Speaker
I mean, I don't know what your qualification of a no-no zone, but that sounds like a pretty big no-no zone.
00:52:15
Speaker
Man, I'm not kidding.
00:52:16
Speaker
Your internet history has to suck.
00:52:18
Speaker
Hey, so what about eat?
00:52:21
Speaker
You got food?
00:52:23
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:25
Speaker
There's plenty of popcorn at the movie theater, right?
00:52:29
Speaker
No, we got some food at the safe house.
00:52:31
Speaker
Yeah, go ahead and help yourself.
00:52:33
Speaker
I vote that we head towards the safe house.
00:52:37
Speaker
Get some rest.
00:52:38
Speaker
Maybe gather our bearings a little bit and then we can go...
00:52:43
Speaker
know, let's try and find Ashley or something.
00:52:47
Speaker
But we need to get out of the open.
00:52:50
Speaker
I feel like we've been talking for like 45 minutes in the open.
00:52:57
Speaker
It does kind of feel that way, huh?
00:52:59
Speaker
It's crazy how it how time moves in this this realm, the thing that we're in, huh?
00:53:04
Speaker
Yeah, this realm.
00:53:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:07
Speaker
Not the real world.
00:53:08
Speaker
Cool.
00:53:11
Speaker
So anyway, yeah, we like I said earlier, we got a we got stuff we got to do.
00:53:16
Speaker
We're going to we're going to get on out of here.
00:53:18
Speaker
Great.
00:53:18
Speaker
We'll help you.
00:53:19
Speaker
And I'm sorry, it starts walking.
00:53:23
Speaker
Well, Arthur.
00:53:25
Speaker
We're not going to come with it.
00:53:28
Speaker
Help them.
00:53:29
Speaker
No, Arthur, we're going to go our own separate ways.
00:53:32
Speaker
They said they had other stuff to do.
00:53:33
Speaker
We have to find Ashley.
00:53:35
Speaker
They're veterans of this land.
00:53:36
Speaker
Do you think they would tell us a few more things?
00:53:39
Speaker
That's fine.
00:53:40
Speaker
And he looks over and he's like, huh?
00:53:42
Speaker
I'm going to look at both of them.
00:53:44
Speaker
Look, no offense to either of y'all, but I don't think you can blame me.
00:53:47
Speaker
I don't trust a single thing you've said so far.
00:53:50
Speaker
I just don't think that what you told us can be any worse than the things we've already seen.
00:53:54
Speaker
Samantha, or not Samantha.
00:53:58
Speaker
Charlotte crosses her arms, looks at you and she goes...
00:54:04
Speaker
Well, kid, if we're that untrustworthy, I could just take you back to the garage with those things.
00:54:09
Speaker
Ned, please stop making them angry.
00:54:11
Speaker
We just got... I'm trying to tell Arthur that don't put your faith in the first thing that you see.
00:54:18
Speaker
I'm not saying that I won't trust you at some point.
00:54:20
Speaker
I'm just saying, look around.
00:54:22
Speaker
This is all sorts of new to us.
00:54:24
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:24
Speaker
So I don't trust anything except for y'all that I know are y'all.
00:54:29
Speaker
Ned, think about it.
00:54:32
Speaker
So far, we've seen a giant walking water tower.
00:54:36
Speaker
You're making my point.
00:54:37
Speaker
We've seen some demons type things take over or mimic Arthur's family there.
00:54:44
Speaker
And more so have talked in weird ass voices.
00:54:47
Speaker
These are the first two normal people we have seen.
00:54:50
Speaker
I, I personally, I trust them.
00:54:54
Speaker
I don't think they would have saved us if they were people to not trust.
00:55:00
Speaker
That's fine.
00:55:01
Speaker
Like I said, I trust them as much as I trust anything else in this realm right now until otherwise happens.
00:55:07
Speaker
Sam kind of just throws her hands up in the air and kind of like a defeated way and then folds your arms.
00:55:16
Speaker
Ryan walks over, bats the other show and is like, that's OK.
00:55:19
Speaker
Well, we'll get them to come around eventually or we'll knock them out and drag them with us.
00:55:23
Speaker
Both are possible options.
00:55:26
Speaker
I mean, if you don't trust us, we could just take our key back.
00:55:30
Speaker
Sam, you guys can find safety in your own place.
00:55:32
Speaker
Sam gives Lance the dirtiest look.
00:55:36
Speaker
Hey, like we're just trying to help you.
00:55:38
Speaker
You guys are the ones that are being hostile right now.
00:55:40
Speaker
So like a fight me, bitch.
00:55:42
Speaker
You're not getting this key back.
00:55:46
Speaker
I've seen the interaction after kind of walks over.
00:55:48
Speaker
It's like pushing Sam back.
00:55:51
Speaker
OK, OK, maybe you guys should go do your weird ass different world errands.
00:55:59
Speaker
You see, Ned, that since you spoke up against Lance and Charlotte, Charlotte's eyes have kind of been narrowed at you.
00:56:08
Speaker
I don't understand how this is getting misconstrued.
00:56:12
Speaker
I'm not saying I dislike anybody.
00:56:14
Speaker
I'm not saying anything bad.
00:56:15
Speaker
I'm telling you, look around, guys.
00:56:18
Speaker
We've been here for a couple hours.
00:56:19
Speaker
They say they've been here for years and years, as far as they can tell.
00:56:23
Speaker
I don't trust anything in this world.
00:56:25
Speaker
I don't think that's coming across as hostile.
00:56:27
Speaker
If it is, I'm sorry.
00:56:29
Speaker
That's not my intention.
00:56:31
Speaker
But let me ask you a question, kid.
00:56:33
Speaker
Yeah?
00:56:34
Speaker
You say that the only people that you trust are the people that you know.
00:56:38
Speaker
For right now, yeah.
00:56:40
Speaker
Which I'm presuming, presuming which is the four of you.
00:56:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:44
Speaker
Have you had eyes on them the entire time that you've been in this realm?
00:56:47
Speaker
Oh, shit.
00:56:48
Speaker
Have there ever been points where you guys split up?
00:56:52
Speaker
Where you guys were in a dark room and could not see each other?
00:56:56
Speaker
I don't know, a bright light happened where you were not able to keep track on everybody else.
00:57:01
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:57:02
Speaker
Things can happen in this realm that quick.
00:57:07
Speaker
Which is why it's bad that we're all in this open for like an hour and a half, but is it?
00:57:12
Speaker
But the fact of the matter is being out in this open, you can see each other.
00:57:17
Speaker
You know where each other are at.
00:57:22
Speaker
Do you know how many times Lance and I have lost each other and come back to each other because something tried to mimic one of us?
00:57:29
Speaker
No, because he ain't told us.
00:57:30
Speaker
I'm not saying you're not helpful.
00:57:33
Speaker
How do you know that he or you aren't a mimic right now?
00:57:38
Speaker
They look at each other and just kind of grin at each other.
00:57:43
Speaker
We have ways.
00:57:44
Speaker
Arthur, it's probably the same.
00:57:45
Speaker
I don't think anybody could mimic you, bud.
00:57:48
Speaker
The best way to know what you guys need to do, and when it's just the four of you, wait for us to leave.
00:57:57
Speaker
Do not tell us what this is.
00:57:59
Speaker
What you need to do is you need to come up with some sort of code.
00:58:03
Speaker
A code word, a code phrase, maybe a code like handshake.
00:58:08
Speaker
Something that only the four of you know.
00:58:12
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And you need to any time you are separated and are joined back together, you need to use the code.
00:58:23
Speaker
You need to make the code needs to be a thing that only you guys know.
00:58:30
Speaker
All right.
00:58:31
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That makes sense.
00:58:34
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So let me tell you this.
00:58:37
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We are going to be the most trustworthy people that you have met so far anyway.
00:58:42
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You say you've only been here for a couple hours.
00:58:46
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Who knows?
00:58:47
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Maybe you'll find something we haven't.
00:58:50
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As I know to be true.
00:58:53
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Lance and I have been the only two people in this world for the longest amount of time, and we have been trying to find a way out, and it has not been working.
00:59:03
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The fact that we found more people like us, we are overjoyed.
00:59:08
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The fact that you are children is the reason you are not coming with us, because what we are going to do is dangerous.
00:59:15
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We are looking for something in the nest, if you must know.
00:59:20
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The place that we told you to stay away from is where we are going.
00:59:25
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If you want to try your chances, come with us.
00:59:30
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Otherwise, get to the safe house, get some rest, make your plan to find your Ashley from there where you know you're safe, come up with the code, and be smart and survive.
00:59:50
Speaker
I vote we go to the safe house.
00:59:53
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So I agree.
00:59:55
Speaker
Agreed.
00:59:57
Speaker
Agreed.
00:59:58
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But I have one last question.
01:00:00
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You said something about finding something and Ryan is going to pull out his axe can and just be like, does this look aged as everything else does to you guys?
01:00:10
Speaker
What do you aged?
01:00:12
Speaker
What do you mean aged?
01:00:13
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Like rusted, like it's been here a while.
01:00:17
Speaker
Nothing in the city looks rusted.
01:00:19
Speaker
What are you talking about?
01:00:21
Speaker
What?
01:00:22
Speaker
Everybody roll sanity.
01:00:24
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Brian just sighs heavily like, ah, fuck, not another thing.
01:00:28
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Hey, Ryan, we found your people.
01:00:29
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82 out of 48.
01:00:35
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40 out of 71.
01:00:36
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46 out of 73.
01:00:48
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72 on a 64.
01:00:49
Speaker
Okay, so Arthur and Ryan lose one.
01:00:54
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Ned and Samantha lose zero.
01:00:57
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Yeah, none of this town is rusted, as you say.
01:01:02
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I mean, I have no clue what that thing that you're holding is, but it looks as normal as a thing to me.
01:01:08
Speaker
Is that like some kind of fancy future grenade?
01:01:12
Speaker
Uh, kinda.
01:01:13
Speaker
To us?
01:01:14
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:16
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Everything looks to us.
01:01:19
Speaker
Everything looks like it's been here for a very long time, except this can to me and the tree house.
01:01:32
Speaker
Interesting.
01:01:34
Speaker
Yeah, no shit.
01:01:36
Speaker
We need to get them to the cars.
01:01:39
Speaker
I mean, that's kind of out of their way if they're willing.
01:01:43
Speaker
It don't have to be now.
01:01:44
Speaker
We make it to the safe house.
01:01:46
Speaker
We get rested up, get our bellies full.
01:01:50
Speaker
Hopefully you guys show up quickly.
01:01:52
Speaker
But fuck, you mean car, right?
01:01:55
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Because I'm still pissed about it, but we're a car short.
01:02:02
Speaker
I'm just saying we might be able to get some of the fuel out of there or something.
01:02:07
Speaker
If they can get it.
01:02:08
Speaker
Yeah, but then how would that work for us if it's all rusted for us?
01:02:12
Speaker
You know, I like to light shit on fire.
01:02:15
Speaker
You were able to spray the thing.
01:02:16
Speaker
So if you if they can see it, maybe it could help them.
01:02:19
Speaker
And if you guys end up being trustworthy, which I hope so, it's something that might help you.
01:02:26
Speaker
Brian just groans and holds his head at the thought of trying to figure that out and just wishes he had more cigarettes.
01:02:33
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
01:02:33
Speaker
All right.
01:02:34
Speaker
All right.
01:02:34
Speaker
Whatever you say, man, this is this is hurting my brain.
01:02:38
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Ryan, roll me an alertness.
01:02:46
Speaker
That is a 23 on a 61.
01:02:51
Speaker
As you guys are talking, you see Lance put a cigarette in his mouth.
01:02:56
Speaker
What does a cigarette look like?
01:02:58
Speaker
Looks normal.
01:02:58
Speaker
Looks like a cigarette.
01:03:00
Speaker
Ryan just stops.
01:03:03
Speaker
Uh, Lance.
01:03:05
Speaker
What is that?
01:03:08
Speaker
Oh, hey.
01:03:09
Speaker
Yeah, sorry.
01:03:10
Speaker
You guys are kids.
01:03:11
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I probably shouldn't do this in front of you.
01:03:13
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It's a bad habit that I picked up once we, you know, thought we were going to die every time we were alive.
01:03:21
Speaker
In an instant, Ryan is in front of him holding his lapel of his shirt or whatever.
01:03:27
Speaker
It's like, where did you find that?
01:03:30
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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:03:32
Speaker
Hands off, kid.
01:03:34
Speaker
Can't you tell...
01:03:36
Speaker
The shirts are not an easy thing to come by.
01:03:40
Speaker
I only have 14 more.
01:03:41
Speaker
I need to know where more are.
01:03:44
Speaker
You're talking about the smokes.
01:03:46
Speaker
Aren't you a bit young to be doing that?
01:03:51
Speaker
Are you really going to ask me if you've been here for this long and we've been here for a couple hours?
01:03:55
Speaker
Yeah, I guess I guess that's fair.
01:03:58
Speaker
I found cartons and cartons of these things.
01:04:03
Speaker
They're all at the safe house.
01:04:04
Speaker
They're stale as shit.
01:04:07
Speaker
But they're there.
01:04:09
Speaker
They work in a pinch.
01:04:11
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Ryan just like slumps inside.
01:04:14
Speaker
Just oh, oh, thank God.
01:04:17
Speaker
Oh, I mean, yeah, I guess I guess you're you're OK to take it the pack or two.
01:04:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's fine.
01:04:26
Speaker
Thank you.
01:04:26
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Ryan hugs him.
01:04:28
Speaker
Oh, OK.
01:04:30
Speaker
We're doing this.
01:04:32
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OK.
01:04:33
Speaker
He gives you a hug back.
01:04:35
Speaker
OK.
01:04:36
Speaker
I think I think we should get moving.
01:04:38
Speaker
We I'm tired.
01:04:41
Speaker
I've seen way too much today that I just I need to reset my brain.
01:04:46
Speaker
Maybe I'll try and call Ashley or something like that.
01:04:50
Speaker
But I think we should make our way in the safe house.
01:04:54
Speaker
Sounds like a plan.
01:04:57
Speaker
Charlotte speaks up again.
01:04:58
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She says, I will leave this up to you.
01:05:03
Speaker
There is a way to get to the safe house faster, but it might be more dangerous.
01:05:09
Speaker
You can always open a manhole cover and go under the streets.
01:05:17
Speaker
It's very hit or miss what'll be under there, though.
01:05:21
Speaker
So it could be empty or it could be something that could just, you know, eviscerate us instantly.
01:05:26
Speaker
Exactly.
01:05:27
Speaker
Well, it's good to know that, again, when you're about to leave, you gave more information that we would definitely need to know.
01:05:34
Speaker
It's not the way I would recommend going, but that is up to you.
01:05:40
Speaker
When you guys get back, you're going to sit down.
01:05:42
Speaker
We're going to have a nice long chat about all the fucked up shit you guys know about, because it seems really important.
01:05:52
Speaker
Oh yeah, totally.
01:05:52
Speaker
I can give you guys a map that I drew up.
01:05:56
Speaker
And you're just mentioning this now?
01:05:59
Speaker
Oh, fantastic.
01:06:00
Speaker
A map would be so useful.
01:06:05
Speaker
That one.
01:06:06
Speaker
Yeah, I said that specifically because I've been trying to see you guys a map since episode zero.
01:06:11
Speaker
I know.
01:06:16
Speaker
I got the reference.
01:06:17
Speaker
Yeah.
01:06:20
Speaker
Yeah, I got a map that I've been kind of, you know, working on ever since we got here.
01:06:26
Speaker
Kind of updating it as I go.
01:06:28
Speaker
Kind of says, you know, this place is safe.
01:06:32
Speaker
This place has, you know, the fangies.
01:06:34
Speaker
This place has all kinds of shit.
01:06:38
Speaker
You're going to explain the fangy part later, right?
01:06:42
Speaker
Oh, don't worry.
01:06:42
Speaker
I'll explain the whole map to you.
01:06:46
Speaker
Great.
01:06:46
Speaker
Don't die.
01:06:48
Speaker
Please help that.
01:06:49
Speaker
Yeah, you too.
01:06:50
Speaker
Although, hey, if I die, that's a whole lot of cigarettes for you, yeah?
01:06:54
Speaker
Yeah, but I can't smoke them if I'm dead because I walked into something I didn't know would kill me.
01:07:00
Speaker
That's fair.
01:07:01
Speaker
That's fair.
01:07:02
Speaker
All right, well, we're heading out.
01:07:05
Speaker
You kids be safe.
01:07:08
Speaker
And we will see you at Safe House.
01:07:13
Speaker
And with that, Lance and Charlotte turn and jog away.
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Cheese balls.
01:08:00
Speaker
Here I come.
01:08:08
Speaker
Ryan is going to wave to them as they're not even looking.
01:08:12
Speaker
And because he has lost a lot of sanity, he's going to say something dumb and she's like, ah, they're not coming back, are they?
01:08:18
Speaker
Speaking of which, how close are you guys to your breaking points?
01:08:22
Speaker
Not even close.
01:08:25
Speaker
Seven away.
01:08:27
Speaker
Three.
01:08:29
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not even close.
01:08:30
Speaker
Perfect.
01:08:33
Speaker
Perfect.
01:08:35
Speaker
Have I even passed a sanity roll?
01:08:39
Speaker
I don't think so.
01:08:40
Speaker
I don't think so either.
01:08:41
Speaker
And the best part is, I think the only reason you're three away is because you got three sanity that time that I was being generous and gave it to you.
01:08:50
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:51
Speaker
Yeah, it seems like I'm really good at rolling everything else.
01:08:53
Speaker
And then when it comes to sanity, it's like, no, no, I have to go crazy.
01:08:59
Speaker
I hope they survive.
01:09:00
Speaker
Oh, I do too, but shit's fucked.
01:09:05
Speaker
I think they've been here for a really long time, so it they'll be fine.
01:09:12
Speaker
Us on the other hand, we need to rest.
01:09:16
Speaker
We got to go quick.
01:09:17
Speaker
Let's go.
01:09:18
Speaker
Do we try and take the sewers?
01:09:23
Speaker
No.
01:09:24
Speaker
Fuck no.
01:09:25
Speaker
I only gamble when I know I'm going to win.
01:09:29
Speaker
I don't think that's gambling anymore at that point.
01:09:31
Speaker
I said we just stick to the streets and try to stay by the walls and try not to go in the center of the town and all the other horrible places.
01:09:41
Speaker
Just not the sewers.
01:09:43
Speaker
Ned, it's called high stakes gambling.
01:09:46
Speaker
And Arthur, you're right.
01:09:47
Speaker
We know this town like the back of our hand.
01:09:49
Speaker
We should be fine.
01:09:50
Speaker
Hey, that's new.
01:09:52
Speaker
Didn't notice that truck before.
01:09:59
Speaker
I got a great password for us.
01:10:01
Speaker
I was going to just come up to you and say, hey, I want carrots.
01:10:06
Speaker
And hummus?
01:10:08
Speaker
Well, I would say carrots.
01:10:09
Speaker
You could say hummus if you want.
01:10:10
Speaker
Wait, so how is this a password?
01:10:13
Speaker
Because only we'll know it.
01:10:14
Speaker
No, I'm nuts.
01:10:15
Speaker
But yeah, what are we looking for as a response to be the correct answer?
01:10:21
Speaker
Let's be fair.
01:10:21
Speaker
If someone says carrots and the other person says hummus, that's not usually something that goes together.
01:10:26
Speaker
That's a pretty good password.
01:10:28
Speaker
Yeah.
01:10:30
Speaker
Okay, but then how do we decide who says carrots and who says hummus?
01:10:34
Speaker
See, these are things that can break down in conversation.
01:10:37
Speaker
One person asks the question, hey, I want carrots.
01:10:40
Speaker
The other person replies, and I want hummus.
01:10:44
Speaker
Okay, I feel like you're hungry right now.
01:10:47
Speaker
I feel like that.
01:10:47
Speaker
But I like the password.
01:10:48
Speaker
That is not a thing I would want to eat, trust me.
01:10:51
Speaker
That's what I want to eat.
01:10:54
Speaker
See?
01:10:55
Speaker
Not Sam.
01:10:56
Speaker
That's what Melanie wants so bad.
01:11:00
Speaker
My bad, my bad.
01:11:00
Speaker
That's what the pain wants.
01:11:04
Speaker
Fucking Pippley.
01:11:06
Speaker
I don't know.
01:11:06
Speaker
Unless somebody else has another idea.
01:11:07
Speaker
I thought a call and answer.
01:11:09
Speaker
That would be a pretty good idea.
01:11:10
Speaker
We can workshop it on the walk to the movie theater.
01:11:13
Speaker
Yeah, let's go.
01:11:15
Speaker
The idea I had was... Oh, he's leaving.
01:11:19
Speaker
Clop, clop, clop, clop, clop.
01:11:21
Speaker
He turns around like, I read that.
01:11:23
Speaker
He walks back.
01:11:24
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:26
Speaker
No, no, we can go.
01:11:27
Speaker
We can go.
01:11:27
Speaker
We can walk and talk.
01:11:28
Speaker
We should probably get out of the open.
01:11:30
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:31
Speaker
You guys were in the open.
01:11:32
Speaker
We're in the open enough.
01:11:35
Speaker
Yeah, bro.
01:11:36
Speaker
In the trees is still in the open.
01:11:38
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:39
Speaker
Fair enough.
01:11:39
Speaker
You want to be like in a building.
01:11:41
Speaker
That's fair.
01:11:41
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:42
Speaker
I specifically said that they took you to the trees.
01:11:47
Speaker
You know, we don't know what's in the tree tops.
01:11:51
Speaker
As you guys make your way into town, I want you all to give me a... God, I hate always calling for alertness, but that's like the system doesn't have a listen check.
01:12:05
Speaker
So yeah, give me an alertness check, all of you.
01:12:07
Speaker
40 out of 29.
01:12:13
Speaker
25 out of 65.
01:12:21
Speaker
So I said that I always roll real well on everything else.
01:12:25
Speaker
And then I roll a 100 on alert alertness.
01:12:29
Speaker
Because why not?
01:12:30
Speaker
No, I rolled an 81.
01:12:35
Speaker
Out of 21.
01:12:35
Speaker
I am so happy Samantha's the only one that got this.
01:12:40
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:12:42
Speaker
Go get it, Loopy.
01:12:44
Speaker
Okay.
01:12:46
Speaker
I'm not going to make you guys take your headsets off or anything.
01:12:50
Speaker
This can be an open scene.
01:12:53
Speaker
Samantha, as you guys walk into town, you hear.
01:12:59
Speaker
From the buildings above you, because they're, you know, you're walking into into town, not the not the center of town, but kind of like the the outskirts.
01:13:09
Speaker
OK.
01:13:10
Speaker
There are some buildings in this town that are, you know, as tall as like five stories.
01:13:16
Speaker
You got some apartment buildings, you got some old folks' homes, you got all that kind of stuff.
01:13:22
Speaker
And you hear something that sounds like thumping.
01:13:27
Speaker
Okay.
01:13:28
Speaker
Like a thumping and a scraping in the buildings above you.
01:13:34
Speaker
Like on the buildings above you.
01:13:38
Speaker
And as you look up, you see staring back at you from about the fourth story of this building is a spider.
01:13:49
Speaker
That is roughly the size of a minivan.
01:13:52
Speaker
What the fuck?
01:13:55
Speaker
No, no, no.
01:13:58
Speaker
And that's where we're going to end the session.
01:14:00
Speaker
No fun.
01:14:03
Speaker
Spiders.
01:14:04
Speaker
Yes.
01:14:07
Speaker
Yeah.
01:14:07
Speaker
Bye, everybody.
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Speaker
Bye.
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Speaker
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01:14:14
Speaker
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01:14:47
Speaker
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