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Where the hell did Chris come from? Why would he kill his own sister? Come see if we can find some answers.
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Introduction and Content Warning
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Host and Cast Introduction
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Let's play pretend Let's play pretend
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Let's Play Pretend.
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My name is Jordan Derringer, and I am your DMGM keeper, handler, and host, and I did it right for once.
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Oh, my God.
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Before I fuck anything else up, I'm going to hand it over to Nick Barnett.
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My girlfriend is dead because her dead brother twisted her head, and my name is Ned.
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And Breck Black.
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Ned, I don't think now is the time to rhyme.
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I think now is the time to run like a hell.
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And what's your character's name?
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I am Ryan.
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I'm still learning.
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And Matt Check.
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Now it's time for action.
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And did you move, says Arthur.
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And my lovely wife, Melanie Derringer.
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That was the longest 15 fucking seconds of my entire goddamn life.
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Plus, my best friend is dead, so I don't know what to do here.
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I think it was closer to 2025, but whatever.
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It was so fucking long.
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I'm playing Samantha.
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I think we figured out our intro.
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All right.
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So last time on Let's Play Pretend.
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Sorry, I had to do it.
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You're so fucking weird tonight.
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I am.
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I don't know why.
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I'm sorry, guys.
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I'm sorry.
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He did more than just a bump at work.
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I can tell you why he's feeling like this, because the motherfucker was so excited that he had brats for dinner.
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I was so excited.
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We had brats tonight, and I was really jonesing for some brats, and they were really...
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They were bacon cheddar brats.
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Are you saying you have a brat high right now?
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Apparently it was brats and Arby's curly fries.
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Well, I'm hungry again.
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Melanie, no more brats before recording.
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Yeah, clearly.
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Anyways, they weren't even beer brats.
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That's the thing.
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They were just brats.
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Let's continue.
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Okay.
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Let's play pretend.
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Let's start for the eighth time.
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Maybe we I mean, we only were all here 45 minutes ago.
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Welcome to the intro.
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Yeah, that's just what we're doing.
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We're just doing nothing but intro.
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So that's what this fucking with your microphone.
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Me?
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No, Jordan.
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Yeah, that was me that time.
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I was like, how am I doing?
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My cord was caught between my leg and the desk.
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Okay.
Ashley Seeks Closure Through a Ritual
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So last time you guys found Ashley in the treehouse and you saw that she was all excited because she found out how she could contact her dead brother.
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And you guys were able to talk her down and just basically talk her off the edge.
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And upon doing that, you guys went to the mall, had a bite to eat.
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Talked a little bit about things.
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She said if she was able to figure out how to do it correctly, that it was something she was still interested in doing because she needed closure.
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You guys were able to...
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talk her out of it.
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Like her and Samantha had a, had a heart to heart and Samantha finally just said, fuck it.
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Let's do it.
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If this is what you need, we're here for you.
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Let's do this.
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She assured you guys, Hey, it's not going to happen now.
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I want to make sure this is done right.
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I know Arthur knows about this kind of stuff, so I will recruit him.
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We will, we'll do this the right way.
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A couple months pass.
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You guys are back in school.
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Things seem to be going great.
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You all attended Chris's funeral.
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It was as beautiful as a funeral could be.
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His service was well respected, well taken care of.
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You guys were back in school.
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Everything seemed to be going well.
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On Halloween Day at school, you got a message.
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from Ashley telling you to come by the treehouse after work, or after work.
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Yay, being an adult, that's all that's on my brain anymore.
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You were told to come to the treehouse after school because she had to talk to you all.
The Ritual Goes Awry
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The second you all walked into the treehouse, she cast a spell from wherever it is she's getting spells from that pushed you all up against the wall.
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Upon doing that, she told you, I'm sorry, this is Halloween.
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The veil between the living and the dead is the thinnest here, so if we're going to do this, this is the one chance I have and I need you here.
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She proceeds to cut her hand and squeeze some blood into this bowl that you guys could not see the contents of.
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Squeeze some blood into this bowl, light a match, and ignite it.
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What happened next was you saw a tear in reality as two ghostly hands came out of this tear and pulled it open, struggled to pull it open, but finally got it open and Chris emerged and it seemed like everything went fine until all of a sudden it didn't.
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Next thing you see, you cannot see Chris's thumbs anymore because they are lodged through Ashley's eyes.
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At this point, you guys were released from whatever was holding you against the wall, but you were too stunned to really move.
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And the next moment, you heard a sickening crack as her body was still facing Chris, but her head was facing you guys.
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And that's where we're starting right now.
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At this moment, I had Ned and I had Ryan.
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Well, I had all of you roll sanity.
Confrontation with Chris's Ghost
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But Ned and Ryan both failed to the highest extent.
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Both lost five sanity, which brought you to the fight, flight, or faint.
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And you both rolled fight.
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So before that can resolve, there's one thing that you see.
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Everything seems to be happening in slow motion at this moment.
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You see...
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When he came through the portal, Chris looked as you remembered him.
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He looked obviously not dead, but he looked like he was doing well.
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He looked fine.
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Ashley's body falls backwards in slow motion.
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Like, this is all happening in slow motion for you guys.
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Her body falls backwards onto the table.
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You see the bowl fly through the air as her back hits the table.
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Her arms outspread.
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Her head would be...
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Like, as if you were looking up, but instead it's as if she's looking down because her head is backwards at this moment.
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And as her body falls, Chris's appearance changes.
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You see the same person.
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You still see Chris, but you know how he died now.
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All over the front of his chest, you see tears in his clothes, you see bullet holes, you see claw marks, you see he is absolutely covered in blood.
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And his face looks absolutely normal, except for the fact that there is a gaping hole where his right eye should be, and blood all down his cheek.
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And he makes eye contact with you, Ned, and he grins.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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And Ned's going to charge.
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Not thinking, not punching.
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I'm just running up and I'm trying to throw my arm out and clotheslining straight into this thing.
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You want to try to attack him.
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So go ahead and roll me an unarmed combat, but do it at a negative 20.
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Negative 20.
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Okay.
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I rolled an ought two on a modified 30.
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Okay.
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So you swing.
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You said you're trying to clothesline him or you're trying to punch him?
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I'm just arm out, just trying to run in and knock him over.
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Okay.
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So you run up and you have your arm out like you're trying to just basically tabletop him.
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And you connect.
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You do connect.
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Oh,
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And now I want you to roll me a power.
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Power.
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Okay.
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67 on an 80.
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67.
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Wow.
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Your power's an 80?
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Yes, sir.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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He stands his ground.
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You do not knock him over, but you do notice that he does stumble back as he pushes you to the side.
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This isn't real.
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You're not real.
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You're dead.
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And as you hit the ground, he looks down at you again and grins and he goes, Oh, I'm real.
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I'm as real as any of you standing here right now.
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But let
Discovering the Disturbing Ritual List
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me tell you one thing.
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No, no, no.
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Wake up, wake up, wake up.
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I'm just going to start hitting my head.
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I'm just going to start bashing into the side of my own head, trying to wake myself up.
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This is a nightmare.
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As I see Ned doing that, Arthur grabs his kunai he got from his animes and runs at him screaming, Get away from my friends, you demon!
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I'm also going to attack him.
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Okay, with a kunai.
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That is... I can't have you all unarmed on that.
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It's a 1d4 minus 2.
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Roll me a melee weapons attack.
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You got it.
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First roll the knight for me.
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Oh my god.
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Was that too loud?
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No, it's perfect.
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I love it.
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Nine out of 30.
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Okay.
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I also want you to roll me a power.
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15 out of 50.
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Okay.
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So you swing, you connect, same kind of thing.
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It doesn't seem like it really does damage.
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It seems to stagger a little bit more, but he also.
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Can I have stabbed him in the eye?
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In the eye or in the hole?
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The other eye, the regular eye.
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So that way he's blind.
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So normally I would have you do that as like a cold shot kind of thing, which I would give you a decrease on.
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I'll let it go this time.
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You do hit him in the eye, but you notice that it doesn't really seem to do anything to him.
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And she's definitely dead.
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She's definitely dead.
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And as your kunai makes contact, he also pushes you to the ground.
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that was a falling noise just for uh uh ryan you also uh rolled to fight correct yes okay so how do you want to resolve that
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Ryan, seeing them run in and not being able to do very much, kind of panics because he's planning on making a run for it.
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Grabs one of the chairs from the table and just swings it with everything he has at this thing's face.
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And just screams.
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Just, ah!
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Just no words, no nothing.
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Okay.
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I will also have you roll melee weapons and power.
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Give me both those numbers.
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That is a 06 on a 50 for the melee weapons.
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Okay.
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And that is, oh, a 75 on a 75 for power.
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Okay, so you do succeed.
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If it meets, it beats.
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Same as D&D.
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So if you hit your number, you do succeed.
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So he is going to take the chair to the face.
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And as the chair collides with him, it shatters.
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Like, it's like you took the chair and you just hit it against a concrete wall.
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It just breaks.
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And he kind of pushes you backwards so that way you hit the table where Ashley's body is at.
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Can I...
Revealing Ritual Components and Growing Fear
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Since he's like a demon and my character Arthur is like a super nerd in the occult, can I like roll to like look around to see if whatever Ashley had on the ground might be something that can blind him or poison a demon?
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You can, yeah, you can look around.
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Roll me a search.
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25 out of 20.
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You don't see anything that you think in any of your research would help.
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Now, before any of the rest of you have a chance to do anything else, Chris takes his hands and claps them together.
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And in that moment, another shockwave goes off.
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All the candles that were lit disperse.
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Like, they all go out.
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And he's standing there and kind of chuckles to himself.
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And he goes, Right now, I don't have time to play around with you guys.
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I have other things to take care of.
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But do me a favor and thank my sister for this wonderful opportunity.
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And with that, he disappears.
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Okay, is anybody else picturing Billy from Stranger Things?
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Because that's all I'm fucking picturing right now.
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Right.
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When he's possessed.
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Yeah.
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That wasn't my initial thought on Chris.
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Billy with a shotgun blast in his head.
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Blam!
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So at this point, the candles are out.
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It is dark in the treehouse.
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But you guys are alone.
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It would be at this point.
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Samantha has been in complete shock this entire time.
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And the second they were let go from the wall, she kind of just slumped down to her knees.
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Her eyes have not left Ashley's body since all of this happened.
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She is going to since she is on her knees and still in shock, she crawls over to Ashley and kind of just cradles her.
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And she's just sobbing at this point.
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I'm going to make one quick addendum to what you just said.
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Okay.
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The lights are out.
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So you did take your eyes off of Ashley for a moment.
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Fucking hate you.
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When you crawl over to the table to cradle her, her body's gone.
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So Samantha's literally just sitting there sobbing currently.
00:17:21
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unable to like even talk or move she's just we're all in the dark 100 complete shock yes you're all in the dark right now I'll pull up my lighter and light my lighter I have no idea what was just said because three people talked at once lighter I has one same Ryan is trying to scramble for one of the candles that was on the table that he's currently backed up against
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I'm not even going to make you roll for that.
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She had like 30 candles on the table for this ritual, so it's not going to be hard for you to find it.
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For you to find one to light it.
00:18:02
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Arthur sees Samantha freaking out in the corner and goes over and says, It's okay.
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We're going to fight this motherfucker and we're going to excise this demon.
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She...
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as Arthur comes over to her and he's close enough, she kind of just like throws herself at him and just starts crying into his shoulder.
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He just starts comforting her.
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Like, we're gonna kill the demon!
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And just like, he realizes this is probably the one time you shouldn't keep going on about demons.
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And he just stops talking.
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I want you all to roll me one more sanity after fighting with Chris.
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Is that the bottom?
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No, that's a luck.
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80 on a 74.
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Okay.
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Sanity is at the top under statistical data.
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Sanity points is the third one down.
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Hit points, willpower, sanity.
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Shit.
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88 out of 46.
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Okay.
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Mine's gone down.
00:19:18
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You said under statistics?
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Yeah, or it's like hit points, well power.
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Oh, I found it.
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It's under derived attributes.
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I said statistical data.
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It's the black bar on the left.
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I got a 48 out of 67.
00:19:34
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Okay, so Samantha and Ryan, you will not lose any...
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sanity uh ned and arthur each lose one who has the highest uh alertness i guess i was looking for a listen but there isn't a listen on this like there is on call of cthulhu but yeah who has the highest alertness i think it might be i got a 60 not me 62 not me you have a 62 yeah and ryan you said you have a 60 yeah
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Okay.
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Samantha, roll me an alertness.
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47 out of 60.
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Okay.
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You hear from somewhere in the distance something that sounds like metal groaning.
00:20:30
Speaker
Oh, what does metal groaning sound like?
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It's like metal bending, but bending like it's making a sound like it doesn't want to bend.
00:20:40
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metal screech yeah okay can i tell from where it's coming from yes it is coming from the direction of the town water tower okay um
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I almost said Ashley.
00:21:01
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Samantha pushes herself off of Arthur's shoulder and kind of wipes her tears away.
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And she sits there for a second, listening closely to the sound.
00:21:14
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Does anyone else hear that?
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As you say that, you hear a thud.
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As if something just collided with the ground.
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She jumps a little bit.
00:21:25
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Ryan's going to move to one of the windows and try to look out, see if he can see anything.
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Arthur's going to fumble around and try to find a book that Ashley was using.
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Maybe he can use his occult skills to find out how to reverse summon this demon.
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Okay.
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Let me resolve Arthur first.
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Arthur, roll me a search.
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God, I hope I rolled good.
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No.
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76 out of 20.
00:22:02
Speaker
My glasses.
00:22:05
Speaker
Hmm.
00:22:07
Speaker
I'm going to let you roll one more time.
00:22:08
Speaker
Roll me in a cult.
00:22:10
Speaker
All right.
00:22:14
Speaker
That would be six out of 52.
00:22:18
Speaker
OK.
00:22:21
Speaker
Y'all ready for this?
00:22:26
Speaker
I need everybody except for Matt to remove your headphones.
00:22:36
Speaker
So as you find this book, you find in her handwriting a list.
00:22:42
Speaker
And I will text this list to you so that way you have it as well.
00:22:45
Speaker
Oh, thank God.
00:22:46
Speaker
But the list consists of... It says, list for ritual.
00:22:52
Speaker
You need... A dog heart.
00:22:56
Speaker
A horse liver.
00:22:58
Speaker
A finger of a father.
00:23:02
Speaker
A cat's femur bone ground to dust.
00:23:06
Speaker
hair of a deceased loved one, and fresh blood.
00:23:10
Speaker
Oh, there was a lot more to this ritual than she let on.
00:23:18
Speaker
And that's everything that you will need.
00:23:20
Speaker
And you get the idea that... Well, we'll come back to that.
00:23:27
Speaker
I'll come back to that with you.
00:23:28
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:31
Speaker
So as of right now, I'm going to put to everybody else.
00:23:37
Speaker
Could you send me the list before we go back so I can.
00:23:39
Speaker
Yeah, I will here in just a second.
00:23:44
Speaker
Select.
00:23:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:46
Speaker
So Arthur is off looking for his for what he's looking for.
00:23:52
Speaker
Ryan, you said you wanted to look off towards the water tower to see if you could see what was making the noise.
00:23:58
Speaker
Correct?
00:23:58
Speaker
Yes.
00:23:59
Speaker
Yes.
00:24:01
Speaker
I'm not even going to make you roll for this one.
00:24:03
Speaker
Isn't that weird?
00:24:04
Speaker
We're playing a, we're playing an RPG and I'm not going to make you roll.
00:24:07
Speaker
You look out the window of the tree house and you see a very dark shape in the distance that is over the trees moving.
00:24:22
Speaker
Uh, guys, I think we have a problem.
00:24:28
Speaker
You hear the groaning of the metal again and another slam.
00:24:36
Speaker
From further away, it's not like this is right on you, but you hear this in the distance.
00:24:42
Speaker
I think, and I want you to tell me I'm crazy, especially after what we've seen tonight, but I think the water tower is walking.
Realization of Reality Distortion
00:24:52
Speaker
Walking.
00:24:56
Speaker
Arthur wants to go look and look out the window as well.
00:25:01
Speaker
Can I stop him before he goes there?
00:25:05
Speaker
You guys can roll an opposed check, yeah, if you want to.
00:25:08
Speaker
I absolutely do.
00:25:10
Speaker
Unless Arthur doesn't want to be opposed.
00:25:12
Speaker
Like, if Arthur's just gonna let you stop him, then you can just stop him.
00:25:16
Speaker
Arthur's kind of shooken up by what's going on.
00:25:18
Speaker
If his friend's gonna stop him, he's gonna stop him.
00:25:20
Speaker
Hey, Arthur?
00:25:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:25
Speaker
Look,
00:25:26
Speaker
We ain't talked about this in a long time.
00:25:28
Speaker
Is this real?
00:25:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:31
Speaker
I'll be honest with you, man.
00:25:33
Speaker
I was just kind of like enjoying it because it was like, oh, hey, fantasy and shit.
00:25:37
Speaker
But now that I know it's real, this shit is terrifying.
00:25:43
Speaker
You helped her with this, right?
00:25:46
Speaker
Well, I kind of she did not.
00:25:48
Speaker
She was leaving a lot of details hidden.
00:25:52
Speaker
I have her journal.
00:25:54
Speaker
You have what now?
00:25:56
Speaker
I have her journal.
00:25:58
Speaker
It was on the ground over here.
00:26:01
Speaker
And she definitely was not telling us everything about the ritual.
00:26:09
Speaker
Well, no dip.
00:26:11
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:12
Speaker
It's kind of hindsight now.
00:26:18
Speaker
This list is kind of horrifying.
00:26:19
Speaker
I'm not going to lie.
00:26:22
Speaker
Arthur, um, okay, okay.
00:26:28
Speaker
Listen, okay, Reddit only had so much, I don't know where she got this information.
00:26:36
Speaker
Alright, so I'm gonna ask you for a really weird favor right now.
00:26:38
Speaker
Uh, this ain't real.
00:26:40
Speaker
This is just a real fucked up dream.
00:26:42
Speaker
We ain't really here, uh, uh, look man, can you kick me?
00:26:46
Speaker
Just kick me.
00:26:47
Speaker
Kick, what?
00:26:48
Speaker
Just do it, kick me.
00:26:50
Speaker
And I just kind of spread my legs.
00:26:53
Speaker
Just wake me up, man.
00:26:54
Speaker
I need to wake up.
00:26:55
Speaker
Oh, Jesus.
00:26:56
Speaker
It's not real.
00:26:57
Speaker
It's not real.
00:26:58
Speaker
It's not real.
00:26:59
Speaker
Arthur's just kind of looking around like, guys, I guess.
00:27:04
Speaker
And I just like, I kicked you in the leg.
00:27:06
Speaker
Roll a d4 for damage.
00:27:13
Speaker
I have my d4 ready this time.
00:27:18
Speaker
But I chose a dark D4, so it's kind of hard to see in the dark.
00:27:22
Speaker
One.
00:27:24
Speaker
Alright, you take one damage, Ned, and you don't wake up.
00:27:30
Speaker
Now your shin just fucking hurts.
00:27:32
Speaker
No, no, no, no, this ain't real.
00:27:35
Speaker
Ned, wake up!
00:27:35
Speaker
Is it just Ned and...
00:27:44
Speaker
Arthur talking and Ryan is still looking out the window at the moving water tower.
00:27:50
Speaker
Yes.
00:27:52
Speaker
Ryan was trying to get you all to come look at it and Ned stopped Arthur from doing it.
00:27:59
Speaker
Samantha's going to go over to the window, even though it seemed like Ryan is walking away.
00:28:04
Speaker
But Samantha is going to go look at the window since the sound was...
00:28:10
Speaker
She said that said she was the one who had heard the sound in the first place.
00:28:17
Speaker
I'll do the same for you that I did for Ryan.
00:28:19
Speaker
You don't even have to roll.
00:28:21
Speaker
There is a dark shape that is taller than the trees that is moving along the tree line.
00:28:28
Speaker
Brian is going to walk over to Ned and just kind of grab his face and make him look at me and like, Nigel, worry about if this is real or not later.
00:28:37
Speaker
We need to go.
00:28:38
Speaker
And then he's going to turn to everyone else and be like, we all need to go now.
00:28:44
Speaker
Yeah, there's something out here.
00:28:51
Speaker
I don't know if going outside is the best idea, though.
00:28:55
Speaker
You want to be in a flimsy wooden treehouse when that thing comes this way?
00:28:59
Speaker
Because I'd rather be in a car that can move.
00:29:01
Speaker
Do you want to be out there with that?
00:29:03
Speaker
In a car that can drive around it?
00:29:05
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:07
Speaker
Samantha, since you're still standing at the window, roll me an alertness.
00:29:15
Speaker
That is a 24 out of 62.
00:29:16
Speaker
24 out of 62.
00:29:17
Speaker
As you watch this shape move...
00:29:23
Speaker
It does not look like it's getting any closer at the moment.
00:29:28
Speaker
It looks like it's just moving.
00:29:32
Speaker
I think we have some time to figure out what the hell is going on before that thing comes this way.
00:29:39
Speaker
I don't even think it knows we're here yet.
00:29:42
Speaker
But there's a good chance that if we go outside, something worse than what that is, or I don't even know what that is, gets us.
00:29:51
Speaker
Did you not just see what the hell happened to Ashley, whose body's not even here anymore?
00:29:58
Speaker
We need to get our bearings first.
00:30:02
Speaker
ryan is gonna wheel around and grab arthur's uh front of his shirt and like push him up against a wall and just be like start talking arthur because you know more than us now all right all right all right so ashley got a little extreme she uh she didn't just need fresh blood of
00:30:23
Speaker
She also needed the hair of a deceased loved one.
00:30:27
Speaker
She also... I don't know how she got this, or these next few.
00:30:32
Speaker
A cat's femur grounded to dust.
00:30:38
Speaker
What?
00:30:41
Speaker
Did she have a cat?
00:30:46
Speaker
I think so.
00:30:48
Speaker
I don't remember.
00:30:50
Speaker
Arthura just, like, hands over the list, and you see what else is on there is a dog's heart, a horse's liver, and the finger of a father.
00:31:06
Speaker
I fucking told you she killed her parents.
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah, I'm still coping with that knowledge.
00:31:14
Speaker
You guys have been in contact with her since this happened, and...
00:31:20
Speaker
Her parents have been fine.
00:31:25
Speaker
They're probably fine then, but not now.
00:31:30
Speaker
What other fathers does she know that she could just take a finger of?
00:31:34
Speaker
Doesn't say it has to be a finger of her father.
00:31:39
Speaker
I still think her parents are dead.
00:31:40
Speaker
This is Melanie talking, not Samantha.
00:31:43
Speaker
And Samantha has known Ashley her whole life.
00:31:46
Speaker
Ashley did not have a cat.
00:31:49
Speaker
She's flustered right now.
00:31:50
Speaker
She can't think.
00:31:56
Speaker
Arthur's still kind of mind blown that like this stuff's actually real.
00:32:01
Speaker
So he's just like, Jesus Christ.
00:32:04
Speaker
Hey, Ryan.
00:32:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:06
Speaker
You got any pets?
00:32:10
Speaker
Uh, I believe we have some, uh, purebred dogs and a couple of, uh, show ponies, but, uh, no cats that I can remember.
00:32:20
Speaker
Yeah, well, I don't really know right now.
00:32:23
Speaker
Um, what should we do?
00:32:30
Speaker
I kind of agree with, uh, with, uh,
00:32:34
Speaker
I don't even know.
00:32:35
Speaker
I just don't want to be here anymore.
00:32:37
Speaker
This place is terrifying.
00:32:38
Speaker
Samantha turns to look back out the window to see if... I can't remember.
00:32:46
Speaker
Did she ride Anubis here?
00:32:49
Speaker
Or did she drive?
00:32:50
Speaker
You guys came here straight after school.
00:32:53
Speaker
So my assumption was that you all drove.
00:32:57
Speaker
Yes.
00:32:58
Speaker
Okay, Samantha's going to turn to look out the window and see if their cars are still there.
00:33:04
Speaker
Because at this point, she's come together that they are not in the same realm as they were when they first started this.
00:33:14
Speaker
So she's going to look to see if their cars are even, like, here.
00:33:19
Speaker
The cars are indeed there.
00:33:22
Speaker
But from where you're standing up in the treehouse looking down at them...
00:33:27
Speaker
They, under the moonlight, look like they are covered in rust and have, like, overgrown vines over them.
00:33:39
Speaker
They look like they have been parked in that place for 100 years.
00:33:44
Speaker
Guys, I don't think we're driving out of here.
00:33:48
Speaker
Why?
00:33:49
Speaker
What do you mean?
00:33:52
Speaker
The cars are basically totaled.
00:33:56
Speaker
What?
00:33:56
Speaker
We've been here for like five minutes.
00:33:59
Speaker
Come look.
00:33:59
Speaker
They're covered in vines.
00:34:01
Speaker
Oh, my dad's gonna kill me.
00:34:02
Speaker
And they look broken down.
00:34:05
Speaker
Vines.
00:34:06
Speaker
It's been like an hour at most.
00:34:10
Speaker
I go running to my car.
00:34:12
Speaker
I do like the firefighters slide down the ladders.
00:34:16
Speaker
I just put my legs on the side and slide down the ladder and run over to my car.
00:34:19
Speaker
Yeah, my ass you do, not without an athletics check.
00:34:23
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:34:26
Speaker
I thought just saying it might get me there.
00:34:29
Speaker
All right.
00:34:29
Speaker
Athletics.
00:34:32
Speaker
77 on a 30.
00:34:33
Speaker
On a 30?
00:34:35
Speaker
That's a crit fail.
00:34:42
Speaker
Oh, Ned.
00:34:44
Speaker
Sorry, I had to cough because I got so excited.
00:34:46
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say, it's probably on my recording at this point.
00:34:52
Speaker
So you go... Oh, hell, get out of my way.
00:34:54
Speaker
Get out of my way.
00:34:55
Speaker
My dad's gonna kill me.
00:34:58
Speaker
I'm not gonna make you take any damage or anything, so don't worry about that.
00:35:04
Speaker
This is gonna be more crit fail for funny.
00:35:06
Speaker
You go to put your hands and feet on the side of the ladder, and you actually start to slide down.
00:35:13
Speaker
And...
00:35:14
Speaker
This has always worked in the movies and it's so cool.
00:35:17
Speaker
And you look down to see just how fast the ground is coming up at you.
00:35:21
Speaker
But what you don't take into consideration is the fact that right in front of your face is the ladder.
00:35:26
Speaker
So you hit your face on one of the rungs of the ladder and about halfway down, fall the rest of the way to the ground.
00:35:33
Speaker
Oh my God, Ned, are you okay?
00:35:36
Speaker
Ned!
00:35:37
Speaker
Would you define okay for me?
00:35:40
Speaker
Hey, Ned?
00:35:41
Speaker
Are you dead?
00:35:43
Speaker
No, no, I'm Ned.
00:35:47
Speaker
Well, hello everybody and welcome to the mid-roll for the Let's Play Pretend podcast.
Mid-Roll with Cody Beamer
00:35:53
Speaker
Today, we're visited with a very special guest.
00:35:56
Speaker
We have Mr. Cody Beamer.
00:36:00
Speaker
He is the owner of Iron Knight Recordings and he helped us with our theme song.
00:36:05
Speaker
Everybody, let's go ahead and give a good hand for Mr. Cody.
00:36:12
Speaker
Oh, listen to that.
00:36:13
Speaker
He has obviously listened to the show.
00:36:16
Speaker
He knows that that is a thing that our players love to do.
00:36:20
Speaker
Mr. Cody, how are you today?
00:36:23
Speaker
Doing pretty good.
00:36:24
Speaker
Another good day at the studio.
00:36:25
Speaker
Can't argue with that.
00:36:26
Speaker
Oh, I know.
00:36:26
Speaker
I'm so excited.
00:36:27
Speaker
I get to be here with you instead of you in the studio with me.
00:36:31
Speaker
It's an absolute wonderful and pleasurable thing.
00:36:34
Speaker
So go ahead and let us know what are you doing nowadays?
00:36:38
Speaker
What are you working on at the moment?
00:36:40
Speaker
I've got a lot of projects actually.
00:36:42
Speaker
A couple of vocalists coming in from outside that haven't sung in quite a while.
00:36:48
Speaker
So they've gotten excited about a couple of ideas.
00:36:51
Speaker
They've heard some covers that I've done on other songs.
00:36:55
Speaker
It's got them interested enough to get back into doing vocals again, which is really cool to kind of pull somebody back out of what I think is a small retirement, right?
00:37:05
Speaker
Oh, absolutely.
00:37:07
Speaker
That's wonderful.
00:37:08
Speaker
That's absolutely wonderful.
00:37:10
Speaker
So I don't have too much time that I'm able to hang out with you, but we do know that you may be having some voices in the show and that's obviously very appreciated.
00:37:20
Speaker
But beyond that, please tell us where is it we can find your music?
00:37:25
Speaker
Where is it we can find you on the Internet?
00:37:28
Speaker
So right now I've got a YouTube page opened up, Iron Knight Recordings is the name of the studio.
00:37:34
Speaker
So you can go on YouTube, go on YouTube and type in Iron Knight Recordings.
00:37:37
Speaker
You'll find my studio site there.
00:37:40
Speaker
Still working on a couple of bugs with getting some things out onto Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, you know, all the major streaming services.
00:37:49
Speaker
We're trying to make sure we get that stuff out there too, because it's a joy.
00:37:52
Speaker
It's a lot of fun to do this kind of stuff.
00:37:54
Speaker
And everybody that gets that chance to sing again or play again,
00:37:58
Speaker
We want to give it to them.
00:37:59
Speaker
Get it out there.
00:38:00
Speaker
Well, that sounds wonderful, Cody.
00:38:02
Speaker
Thank you so much for joining me today.
00:38:05
Speaker
We're going to go ahead and make sure that we put links down to your stuff down below.
00:38:10
Speaker
That way everybody can find it nice and simple.
00:38:12
Speaker
Thank you so much for being here.
00:38:13
Speaker
Thank you.
00:38:14
Speaker
Appreciate it.
00:38:15
Speaker
Of course.
00:38:15
Speaker
You enjoy that beer now.
00:38:17
Speaker
Bye-bye, and let's get back to the show.
Grappling with Fractured Reality
00:38:26
Speaker
Hey, Ned.
00:38:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:28
Speaker
You still didn't wake up.
00:38:30
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of coming together.
00:38:34
Speaker
Now is not the time for jokes, Ned.
00:38:37
Speaker
Arthur's going to scurry down the ladder and try to help Ned up.
00:38:41
Speaker
Ryan is going to turn around and start searching the entire treehouse to see if he can find anything beyond what Arthur found.
00:38:51
Speaker
Come on, Arthur, let's go to my car real quick.
00:38:53
Speaker
I got something I got to try and get out of there.
00:38:55
Speaker
All right.
00:38:56
Speaker
Are you OK, man?
00:38:58
Speaker
You like fell hard.
00:39:01
Speaker
Yeah, man.
00:39:03
Speaker
I've been hit harder.
00:39:06
Speaker
Like, I don't mean to be rude, but if I wasn't traumatized right now, I probably would have laughed.
00:39:11
Speaker
Man, you handle trauma pretty well, bud.
00:39:16
Speaker
Samantha, are you staying up in the treehouse with Ryan?
00:39:19
Speaker
She is torn on what to do because she doesn't want anybody to split up.
00:39:25
Speaker
So what Samantha... Sh-Shamantha?
00:39:29
Speaker
What Samantha does is... Samantha.
00:39:31
Speaker
Samantha.
00:39:32
Speaker
Samantha.
00:39:33
Speaker
The group.
00:39:34
Speaker
Samantha.
00:39:36
Speaker
It's a Samantha.
00:39:39
Speaker
Dinner with me?
00:39:40
Speaker
I can't cancel that again.
00:39:42
Speaker
Um...
00:39:44
Speaker
Samantha is going to go over to the window to make sure that Ned and Arthur are okay while at least holding a candle so Ryan can see in the treehouse.
00:40:00
Speaker
Okay, so what I'm going to do at this point is roll a d4 and it's going to be an odds or evens.
00:40:11
Speaker
And it's even.
00:40:12
Speaker
It was a two.
00:40:14
Speaker
So what I need right now is I need for Nick and Matt to remove your headphones.
00:40:20
Speaker
Samantha.
00:40:21
Speaker
Samantha.
00:40:25
Speaker
Samantha, you are kind of looking down.
00:40:27
Speaker
You see the two of them are talking next to the cars.
00:40:32
Speaker
And Ryan is rummaging around in the treehouse.
00:40:39
Speaker
Go ahead and roll me a search, Ryan.
00:40:44
Speaker
All right.
00:40:48
Speaker
That is a 10 on a 40.
00:40:52
Speaker
That's a 10 on a 40.
00:40:53
Speaker
So what you do see, aside from childhood memories, pictures, that kind of stuff of the things that you would assume are still there, is you see some of the burned remains of what was in the bowl.
00:41:10
Speaker
When Ashley's body hit the table, the bowl, she landed on the bowl and the bowl flew across the room.
00:41:18
Speaker
So you do see some charred pieces of what was in the bowl.
00:41:24
Speaker
And they do indeed look like they could be a little fleshy.
00:41:30
Speaker
And one thing in particular with the tent that I will say that you find is the finger of the father is
00:41:40
Speaker
That she used.
00:41:43
Speaker
And it still has a wedding band on it.
00:41:47
Speaker
Ryan is going to gently pull the wedding band off.
00:41:51
Speaker
And I'm assuming in this kind of light, I'm not going to be able to see any inscriptions in it.
00:41:56
Speaker
Correct.
00:41:58
Speaker
So he is just going to.
00:42:00
Speaker
What is that?
00:42:01
Speaker
Plus the fact that, you know, it's covered in blood and charred.
00:42:04
Speaker
So it's going to take some work to actually be able to read anything on it.
00:42:11
Speaker
Ryan looks at Samantha and is like, uh, well, Arthur said a finger and this looks like a wedding band.
00:42:20
Speaker
Hopefully it can tell us.
00:42:22
Speaker
She.
00:42:24
Speaker
God, hopefully.
00:42:26
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:26
Speaker
Hopefully it can tell us maybe where the finger came from.
00:42:30
Speaker
It's not much, but it might give us some answers.
00:42:34
Speaker
She kind of sighs and then like,
00:42:38
Speaker
He glances out the window at Ned and Arthur and then slowly walks over to Ryan and holds out her hand.
00:42:48
Speaker
Can I see it real quick?
00:42:51
Speaker
Yeah, here you go.
00:42:52
Speaker
And he hands it over to her.
00:42:55
Speaker
She takes it and with the candle in her hand holds it up to see if she can, with the little bit of light she has, to see if she can see anything on it if she recognizes it.
00:43:10
Speaker
Like I said, it's covered in blood and kind of like soot and that kind of stuff.
00:43:14
Speaker
Like it's very dirty.
00:43:16
Speaker
So what I will allow you to do is to roll me a search.
00:43:23
Speaker
But I'm going to have you roll me a search at a negative 40.
00:43:25
Speaker
Oh, Jesus.
00:43:28
Speaker
So what exactly does that mean?
00:43:30
Speaker
So what's your search score?
00:43:33
Speaker
Do I even really have to roll it?
00:43:35
Speaker
Because my search is only 20%.
00:43:38
Speaker
Um, you didn't put anything into search, huh?
00:43:42
Speaker
I put absolutely nothing into search.
00:43:47
Speaker
I would say I need to know if you fail or crit fail, but crit failing isn't really going to.
00:43:53
Speaker
I'm going to crit fail it no matter what.
00:43:56
Speaker
Well, crit failing isn't really going to affect this rule, so we'll just say no, you don't find anything because how dirty the ring is.
00:44:05
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:07
Speaker
And I will say as far as what you're looking for, that's the only thing of significance that you find.
00:44:14
Speaker
Quick question.
00:44:16
Speaker
When I was looking around and found the bowl, does the treehouse seem older like the cars, like Samantha said?
00:44:23
Speaker
Or does the treehouse seem the same?
00:44:25
Speaker
Treehouse seems the same.
00:44:27
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:30
Speaker
So Samantha's just gonna kind of hold on to the ring for now and just slip it into her pocket.
00:44:36
Speaker
I think we should go join the others and not much else up here that we can find.
00:44:42
Speaker
That's probably a good idea.
00:44:44
Speaker
I don't like all of us being separated anyways.
00:44:48
Speaker
Yeah, and if the cars are out of commission, it's going to be a long walk back to town.
00:44:54
Speaker
If the cars are dilapidated like this, I'm curious to see what the rest of the town looks like.
00:45:00
Speaker
That's something I don't want to think about at the moment.
00:45:06
Speaker
Yeah, you're probably right.
00:45:08
Speaker
So Samantha will at that point go down the ladder to meet up with Ned and Arthur.
00:45:15
Speaker
Ryan is going to snag like a couple candles and take those with as he goes down the ladder.
00:45:20
Speaker
Perfect.
00:45:22
Speaker
All right.
00:45:22
Speaker
What I'm going to have you guys do is remove your headphones and I am going to type here and let Arthur and Ned come back for their scene.
00:45:38
Speaker
Guess who's back?
00:45:40
Speaker
Back again.
00:45:42
Speaker
Are you?
00:45:44
Speaker
Me and Ari are chairing a chair right now.
00:45:47
Speaker
You're chairing a chair?
00:45:49
Speaker
We're chairing a chair.
00:45:51
Speaker
She is a selfish bitch and will steal my shit every time I get up.
00:45:57
Speaker
Chairing a chair is my favorite indie screenplay.
00:46:01
Speaker
It's pretty off record.
00:46:04
Speaker
Arthur, I need you to do me a favor, man.
00:46:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:08
Speaker
So I know you don't normally sit in the front seat of Ryan's vehicle, but can you kind of like get in the front seat of his vehicle real quick?
00:46:14
Speaker
Look in the glove box.
00:46:15
Speaker
There should be like a front seat.
00:46:18
Speaker
Well, you ain't sitting down there, sweetheart.
00:46:20
Speaker
I need you to get into the glove box.
00:46:22
Speaker
He's got a can of spray deodorant in there.
00:46:24
Speaker
Can you grab that out for me?
00:46:26
Speaker
I look at the door.
00:46:27
Speaker
Is it like covered in vines and shit?
00:46:30
Speaker
Yeah, like the vines are going like in and out of the window.
00:46:33
Speaker
Like there is absolutely no way in hell you're getting that door open.
00:46:38
Speaker
Is the glass broken?
00:46:41
Speaker
It is indeed, but the vines are like... You've played Horizon Zero Dawn, right?
00:46:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:50
Speaker
The cars look like the cars in that game do.
00:46:55
Speaker
Like how they are almost not even recognizable.
00:47:00
Speaker
So I kind of get closer towards the car and look towards the glove box and see if I can see any remnant of that.
00:47:12
Speaker
I'm going to make you roll me a search, but only just because of how dark it is outside.
00:47:16
Speaker
No worries.
00:47:17
Speaker
So go ahead and roll me a search, but I will let you roll me a search with a...
00:47:22
Speaker
Modify it to add 30 to your roll.
00:47:25
Speaker
Arthur, what's taking you so long, man?
00:47:27
Speaker
Come on.
00:47:31
Speaker
26 out of 50.
00:47:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:34
Speaker
You see that the glove box isn't even there anymore.
00:47:39
Speaker
Like, the door to the glove box is just gone.
00:47:43
Speaker
Do I see anything in there?
00:47:45
Speaker
Nope.
00:47:46
Speaker
I look back to Ned, and I'm like, ah...
00:47:49
Speaker
I hope it wasn't important, because there's nothing here, man.
00:47:54
Speaker
God damn it.
00:47:54
Speaker
All right, come on.
00:47:55
Speaker
Let's go check my car real quick.
00:47:56
Speaker
Maybe we'll get lucky.
00:47:58
Speaker
And I'll go search my car.
00:48:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:02
Speaker
I go with.
00:48:05
Speaker
What are you searching for in your car?
00:48:07
Speaker
I'm also trying to find my can of axe that any high school boy would have.
00:48:12
Speaker
Yeah, go ahead and roll search.
00:48:19
Speaker
39 on a 40.
00:48:21
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:24
Speaker
Where in your car did you keep your axe?
00:48:27
Speaker
In the center console.
00:48:29
Speaker
In the center console.
00:48:30
Speaker
So when you go to look at your car, the armrest for the center console is completely gone.
00:48:38
Speaker
And the can of axe is still inside of this one.
00:48:43
Speaker
But it also looks like it has aged.
00:48:46
Speaker
Like, it is...
00:48:48
Speaker
You can barely make out the axe logo through all the rust on the can.
00:48:53
Speaker
I'm going to grab it and I'm going to give it a quick test to see if it sprays.
00:48:59
Speaker
It's so rusted you can't hardly even move the nozzle.
00:49:08
Speaker
As he's trying to get his axe, I'm kind of looking around our surroundings.
00:49:13
Speaker
Because they were saying that they saw some sort of giant creature by the water fountain, so I'm a little on high alert.
00:49:20
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:21
Speaker
From where you are standing on the ground, you cannot see anything above the trees, but you also don't see anything else around you either.
00:49:29
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:32
Speaker
Are these vines like dead or are they still alive?
00:49:35
Speaker
They're very much alive.
00:49:37
Speaker
Is there any sort of dead plant life around?
00:49:42
Speaker
Not that you can see, no.
00:49:43
Speaker
Damn it.
00:49:44
Speaker
Damn it, damn it, damn it.
00:49:47
Speaker
It almost looks like humanity is gone and nature is finally starting to take over.
00:49:53
Speaker
It looks like nature is actually like thriving right now.
00:49:57
Speaker
Is the treehouse pretty dilapidated like the rest of what we're seeing around the cars?
00:50:02
Speaker
funny because the other two asked this exact same question.
00:50:07
Speaker
What a shock.
00:50:07
Speaker
And the treehouse is in the exact state that it was when you went into it.
00:50:14
Speaker
Hmm.
00:50:15
Speaker
And at this moment, you see Samantha and Ryan coming down the ladder.
00:50:25
Speaker
I'm going to start walking over towards them as well while they're coming down.
00:50:28
Speaker
Me too.
00:50:29
Speaker
As I keep looking to the left and right, see if there's anything.
00:50:33
Speaker
I'm a little freaked.
00:50:35
Speaker
Okay.
00:50:36
Speaker
Give me just a second to get them back in.
00:50:41
Speaker
Screen wipe.
00:50:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:48
Speaker
Hello.
00:50:49
Speaker
Okay, Ryan's back.
00:50:51
Speaker
Just waiting on Samantha to come back.
00:50:54
Speaker
Samantha.
00:50:56
Speaker
So Arthur's dead.
00:50:57
Speaker
I got my dick stuck in the tailpipe.
00:50:59
Speaker
A lot happened.
00:51:00
Speaker
It's been an eventful thing.
00:51:04
Speaker
I know, I saw the wavy lines.
00:51:07
Speaker
Alright, give me just a second.
00:51:10
Speaker
Oh my god.
00:51:12
Speaker
Hey, Ryan.
00:51:15
Speaker
Hey, I got a candle for you, I guess.
00:51:18
Speaker
It'll be a long walk back to town.
00:51:19
Speaker
It'll be waxy in like 20 minutes.
00:51:22
Speaker
Alright, I guess I appreciate that.
00:51:27
Speaker
So, I don't know if y'all...
00:51:30
Speaker
Notice this.
00:51:31
Speaker
Turn around.
00:51:32
Speaker
Go ahead and look at the treehouse real quick.
00:51:35
Speaker
It's the only thing inside that's not all sorts of fucked up.
00:51:39
Speaker
We noticed that inside, too.
00:51:42
Speaker
Ryan will turn around.
00:51:44
Speaker
Yeah, like, um, here, this might be the only sane thing I'm gonna do for a little bit here.
00:51:52
Speaker
Ryan, take this from me, and I hand you the rusty can of axe that I pulled out of my car.
00:51:58
Speaker
Oh.
00:52:01
Speaker
Are you trying to tell me something?
00:52:02
Speaker
No.
00:52:05
Speaker
Yeah, you smell bad.
00:52:06
Speaker
No, man, come on.
00:52:09
Speaker
I was about to burn down the treehouse, man.
00:52:12
Speaker
But it's the only thing that ain't changed around here.
00:52:15
Speaker
And until we find something else, I don't think I want to be here.
00:52:23
Speaker
There's something weird about that.
00:52:25
Speaker
Yeah, there's something weird about that because this whole situation ain't all sorts of messed up.
00:52:30
Speaker
Maybe you should go at her house.
00:52:33
Speaker
Arthur, I don't know where I want to go.
00:52:35
Speaker
I'm just going to follow what y'all do.
00:52:37
Speaker
I'm barely holding it together here, and I need your help.
00:52:40
Speaker
Do you want to hold on to my kunai for protection?
00:52:45
Speaker
I don't think you want me to have a blade right now, man.
00:52:47
Speaker
I mean, that's probably a smart idea.
00:52:50
Speaker
I don't think that he should be holding on to anything except for maybe his sanity.
00:52:55
Speaker
Who knows?
00:52:55
Speaker
Maybe insanity keens the reflexes.
00:53:00
Speaker
Ned pats his pocket where he has his grandfather's old whittling knife.
00:53:05
Speaker
I want you all to do me one quick favor.
00:53:08
Speaker
Everybody except for Ryan, take off your headset just for a very quick scene.
00:53:13
Speaker
It'll be less than a minute.
00:53:15
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:16
Speaker
Taking mine off right now.
00:53:18
Speaker
So when... I just want you to know when Ned handed you the can of Axe and said that he was going to burn the treehouse down, but he couldn't because...
00:53:28
Speaker
the treehouse was the only thing that hasn't changed and was talking about how the, you know, the can of ax was it basically he was alluding to it being dilapidated in your eyes.
00:53:42
Speaker
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this can of ax.
00:53:45
Speaker
It looks fine.
00:53:49
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:53:52
Speaker
I was going to text that to you.
00:53:53
Speaker
The cars still look fucked up.
00:53:55
Speaker
But this this one, this can of axe looks like it was brand new off the shelf at the store.
00:54:03
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:06
Speaker
So I was going to text that to you, but then I was like, you know, the listeners probably need to know that, too.
00:54:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:14
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:14
Speaker
You guys can continue the scene now.
00:54:15
Speaker
You're good.
00:54:17
Speaker
All right.
00:54:18
Speaker
Ryan is going to look at the can and look at Ned and just be like, are you sure you don't want to burn it down?
00:54:25
Speaker
This thing feels like it's pretty full.
00:54:27
Speaker
Probably get the whole tree going up.
00:54:30
Speaker
I tried to push the button down.
00:54:31
Speaker
I couldn't even get nothing to squirt out of there.
00:54:33
Speaker
So I don't know how much is in there.
00:54:35
Speaker
It's all rusted over.
00:54:39
Speaker
Matt, what should we do?
00:54:42
Speaker
In my opinion?
00:54:45
Speaker
Wait.
00:54:46
Speaker
And he holds up his hands.
00:54:47
Speaker
And he turns to Samantha and holds up the axe can and says, Samantha, what does this look like?
00:54:54
Speaker
A can of axe?
00:54:57
Speaker
Does it look normal?
00:54:59
Speaker
Or does it look like the cars?
00:55:01
Speaker
It kind of looks like the cars.
00:55:05
Speaker
Ryan is going to twist the top of it to open it up and spray it into the air.
00:55:11
Speaker
Samantha, like, she doesn't like the smell of axe in the first place, so she kind of covers her nose.
00:55:17
Speaker
What the fuck are you doing?
00:55:20
Speaker
That thing don't work no more.
00:55:23
Speaker
Ryan is going to put a hand on Ned's shoulder and just look at him and be like, Ned, this looks like you just bought it.
00:55:33
Speaker
Man, I don't shop at thrift stores or antique shops.
00:55:36
Speaker
That thing's all rust and covered up, man.
00:55:37
Speaker
Here, look at it.
00:55:38
Speaker
Look, I can't even push the damn thing down.
00:55:41
Speaker
Nigel, it looks brand new.
00:55:45
Speaker
Ryan, what are you getting at?
00:55:47
Speaker
That thing is rusted as hell.
00:55:49
Speaker
You hit your head?
00:55:50
Speaker
Yeah, what's up?
00:55:52
Speaker
I just sprayed it.
00:55:53
Speaker
You all saw that, right?
00:55:55
Speaker
No.
00:55:57
Speaker
It's true.
00:55:58
Speaker
Ned, I want you to give me a... Sanity?
00:56:07
Speaker
No, not yet.
00:56:09
Speaker
No, not yet.
00:56:09
Speaker
Trust me, the sanity's coming, but I want you to give me an alertness check with a plus 20.
00:56:15
Speaker
I might actually be able to pass.
00:56:17
Speaker
Huzzah!
00:56:19
Speaker
Nope, sure don't.
00:56:21
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:56:22
Speaker
It's a 55 on an altered 40.
00:56:27
Speaker
The crit fail doesn't do anything on this roll, so you're fine on that, but yeah, okay.
00:56:34
Speaker
You can keep going with the scene.
00:56:38
Speaker
Ryan is going to back up, pull out a Zippo, and just flamethrower it off to the side.
00:56:45
Speaker
Does anything happen?
00:56:46
Speaker
Do we see this?
00:56:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:49
Speaker
Yeah, you guys see this, and yes, you do produce a flame.
00:56:54
Speaker
And I want everybody else except for Ryan to roll me sanity.
00:56:58
Speaker
76 on a 73.
00:57:02
Speaker
39 on a 45.
00:57:02
Speaker
43 out of a 62.
00:57:09
Speaker
Okay, so both of you that succeeded don't take anything.
00:57:11
Speaker
Ned, you take one.
00:57:14
Speaker
Down to 72.
00:57:17
Speaker
What is your breaking point at?
00:57:18
Speaker
64.
00:57:18
Speaker
Okay, I was going to say, because you've lost a lot of sanity these last two episodes.
00:57:23
Speaker
I have quite a lot.
00:57:25
Speaker
Oh, God, I'm far away from my breaking point.
00:57:28
Speaker
My sanity is super low.
00:57:30
Speaker
Ryan, Ryan.
00:57:34
Speaker
I don't.
00:57:36
Speaker
Give me that.
00:57:36
Speaker
Give me that.
00:57:37
Speaker
And I'm going to try and take it from him.
00:57:39
Speaker
He just hands it over.
00:57:42
Speaker
Does it change?
00:57:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:45
Speaker
Nope.
00:57:45
Speaker
It's still in your eyes.
00:57:47
Speaker
It's still rusted and you can't depress the plunger at all.
00:57:52
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:52
Speaker
All right.
00:57:53
Speaker
Ryan, I'm going to do something real quick and I'm going to push as hard as I can on the plunger.
00:57:58
Speaker
Nothing happens.
00:58:02
Speaker
And Ryan doesn't see anything different either?
00:58:04
Speaker
Nope.
00:58:06
Speaker
In his eyes, it looks like you are just being a little bitch that can't spray a can of Axe.
00:58:16
Speaker
God called you a little bitch.
00:58:18
Speaker
Ryan is just going to gently take it from his hands and just do a tiny little into the air.
00:58:25
Speaker
And I smell it.
00:58:26
Speaker
Give me an alertness check with a plus 20 again.
00:58:30
Speaker
I need that to smell axe?
00:58:31
Speaker
I can smell that 20 feet away.
00:58:32
Speaker
34 on an altered 40.
00:58:37
Speaker
You are able to smell just the slightest hint of the axe.
00:58:44
Speaker
Can somebody else please come over here and look at this?
00:58:49
Speaker
This ain't just me.
00:58:50
Speaker
This can't just be me.
00:58:52
Speaker
Or just you, I don't know.
00:58:55
Speaker
The whole IC is a rusty can, Ned.
00:58:57
Speaker
I don't understand.
00:58:59
Speaker
You saw the blaze door?
00:59:01
Speaker
You saw the fire?
00:59:01
Speaker
Yes, but that doesn't explain why we can see a rusty can and he sees a brand new can.
00:59:09
Speaker
Should we be discussing this in an open field right now, essentially?
00:59:14
Speaker
Shouldn't we get somewhere high?
00:59:15
Speaker
Should we hide somewhere?
00:59:18
Speaker
Actually, I think we should go through the cars, because if I can see something that's not rusted...
00:59:23
Speaker
there might be a chance that maybe you guys can see something that might be useful.
00:59:27
Speaker
Wait, wait, hold on, hold on.
00:59:29
Speaker
You say the cars look normal to you?
00:59:32
Speaker
No, they're rusted to shit.
00:59:33
Speaker
Oh, okay, okay.
00:59:34
Speaker
I misunderstood.
00:59:37
Speaker
But if one of the things that came out of the cars for one person works, something else that works might be nice.
00:59:44
Speaker
All right, let's... Give it a shot.
00:59:49
Speaker
Whatever.
00:59:49
Speaker
I ain't got no plans.
00:59:53
Speaker
Well, if we have to walk back to town, I'd rather do it with something just in case shit goes sideways for the one, two, three, fifth time tonight.
01:00:03
Speaker
Samantha starts, she goes into her car and starts rummaging through it.
01:00:08
Speaker
I'm just going to follow Ryan.
01:00:09
Speaker
He's the one with the magic eyes.
01:00:12
Speaker
Before you start rummaging through your car, Samantha, I want you to roll me alertness.
01:00:23
Speaker
That's a 54 out of 62.
01:00:35
Speaker
You can almost swear, because from this point you can't see it, but you can almost swear that it sounds like the thudding is getting somewhat closer.
01:00:45
Speaker
From the big, big thing?
01:00:47
Speaker
from the big, big thing.
01:00:51
Speaker
Um, you said I can, like, it sounds like it's starting to get closer.
01:00:57
Speaker
Yes.
01:00:58
Speaker
It sounds just slightly different and it sounds like it's getting a little bit louder.
01:01:05
Speaker
Um, I think we should do this quickly and then move on because I'm pretty sure whatever that giant fucking thing was,
01:01:13
Speaker
Is coming this way.
01:01:14
Speaker
So let's be quick.
01:01:15
Speaker
I don't know if the flame.
01:01:17
Speaker
Caught its attention.
01:01:18
Speaker
But we need to get going.
01:01:21
Speaker
Okay.
01:01:21
Speaker
Ryan rushes over to his passenger door.
01:01:26
Speaker
And tries to get in.
01:01:27
Speaker
Is he even able to like.
01:01:29
Speaker
Open the door or.
01:01:30
Speaker
Does he have to go through the window?
01:01:32
Speaker
You can't even get in through the window.
01:01:34
Speaker
You can see.
01:01:37
Speaker
Inside.
01:01:39
Speaker
It looks like.
01:01:40
Speaker
The entire car has been stripped.
01:01:44
Speaker
The way I explained it for the other two in their scene is it looks like humanity has been gone for a hundred years and that nature is finally reclaiming the land.
Mysterious Text from Ashley
01:01:54
Speaker
You've got vines growing in and out of the car.
01:01:57
Speaker
The windows are shattered.
01:01:58
Speaker
The door that held the glove box is gone.
01:02:03
Speaker
The car is just in shambles.
01:02:10
Speaker
Does this go for everybody's cars or just his?
01:02:13
Speaker
everybody's.
01:02:14
Speaker
So rummaging through them wouldn't do anything?
01:02:20
Speaker
It would be very hard to get into them.
01:02:23
Speaker
Ned was able to get into his to get to the center console.
01:02:26
Speaker
That's just because one of the windows wasn't completely covered in vines.
01:02:31
Speaker
But from the outside, from what you can see, you're not able to find anything in the cars.
01:02:38
Speaker
Ryan, I might need your magic eyes for a second.
01:02:40
Speaker
You want to follow me over to my car real quick?
01:02:43
Speaker
Uh, yeah.
01:02:44
Speaker
Yeah, come here, come here, come here.
01:02:46
Speaker
And I'm gonna put my arm kind of around his shoulder and keep my hand on there.
01:02:51
Speaker
Alright, take a look in my window.
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In that center console where I found this rusty-ass, uh, can of axe.
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Speaker
For you, it's so perfect.
01:03:02
Speaker
Do you see my cigarettes in there?
01:03:05
Speaker
Uh, Ryan will look in.
01:03:09
Speaker
You're worried about your cigarettes, Ned?
01:03:14
Speaker
right now a little bit does ryan see any secrets in the center console from where you're at in the center console or from where you're at you're still outside of the car so you can't see all the way in so you'll have to jimmy your way into the car to see down into the center console um so like the door is shut right the door is shut yes
01:03:39
Speaker
Uh, Ryan is going to turn to Samantha and just be like, Samantha, you said it sounded like it was already getting closer, right?
01:03:45
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:46
Speaker
So let's be quick.
01:03:48
Speaker
Great.
01:03:48
Speaker
Ryan scoops up a rock and just smashes out the window and just using his jacket to make sure he doesn't cut himself, just leans in and starts digging around the center console.
01:03:57
Speaker
Are you kidding me?
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I just told you the thing was getting closer.
01:04:01
Speaker
So it already knows we're over here.
01:04:03
Speaker
Gotta find our stuff and then we'll run.
01:04:07
Speaker
A little late for Stealthia.
01:04:10
Speaker
Ryan, I want you to take one damage.
01:04:13
Speaker
Okay.
01:04:16
Speaker
As you feel something clamp down on your finger.
01:04:20
Speaker
On my finger?
01:04:21
Speaker
What the fuck?
01:04:24
Speaker
Ryan just fucking lets out a shout.
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Speaker
Fucking son of a. And jumps back.
01:04:32
Speaker
Is there something attached to my finger?
01:04:35
Speaker
No, but upon looking at it, it looks like something bit you.
01:04:39
Speaker
Yeah, no shit.
01:04:44
Speaker
I didn't think he was keeping mousetraps in there.
01:04:47
Speaker
I mean, that's fair.
01:04:50
Speaker
So holding his finger, he just turns to Ned and just like, I don't think your cigarettes are in there.
01:04:55
Speaker
Something else is living in there.
01:04:57
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So it's not happy.
01:04:59
Speaker
All right.
01:05:02
Speaker
Whose house is closest?
01:05:08
Speaker
Arthur, you live just down the road, right?
01:05:10
Speaker
I live close, yeah.
01:05:13
Speaker
I need you all to roll me a D100.
01:05:18
Speaker
Just a straight D100.
01:05:18
Speaker
Oh, shit, man.
01:05:20
Speaker
Put anything in medicine either.
01:05:24
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84.
01:05:24
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85.
01:05:25
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Yep.
01:05:25
Speaker
All right, hold on.
01:05:30
Speaker
Get the high rolls out now.
01:05:31
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81.
01:05:32
Speaker
Okay.
01:05:33
Speaker
A not nine.
01:05:35
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:05:37
Speaker
Okay, I need you all to write these numbers down.
01:05:42
Speaker
The ones that you just rolled, I need you to write them down somewhere where you can keep them safe.
01:05:48
Speaker
Hang on.
01:05:49
Speaker
I need my spiral.
01:05:51
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81, 85, 84, 9.
01:05:52
Speaker
Oh, we gotta keep track of all of our notes?
01:05:57
Speaker
You can just keep track of your own number.
01:05:59
Speaker
That's fine.
01:06:00
Speaker
Okay, I'm back.
01:06:01
Speaker
Okay.
01:06:03
Speaker
Aria, do not meow.
01:06:07
Speaker
Those numbers that you just rolled...
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Speaker
is the percentage of battery that your phone still has.
01:06:14
Speaker
Oh no!
01:06:15
Speaker
Oh shit.
01:06:19
Speaker
That being said, I want you all to roll me an alertness check.
01:06:23
Speaker
What the actual fuck?
01:06:27
Speaker
Excuse me.
01:06:30
Speaker
That is a 12 out of 23.
01:06:37
Speaker
I don't want to play anymore.
01:06:41
Speaker
38 out of 62.
01:06:42
Speaker
Okay.
01:06:44
Speaker
33 on a 21.
01:06:47
Speaker
Okay.
01:06:49
Speaker
48 on a 60.
01:06:50
Speaker
Okay, so fitting Ned is the only one not to notice this, but the rest of you, since you're all together, you can stay in for this scene.
01:06:59
Speaker
It's not anything that's... I don't see dip.
01:07:05
Speaker
The rest of you notice that you hear something.
01:07:10
Speaker
And it sounds like a... Ryan will check his phone.
01:07:21
Speaker
Samantha also pulls out her phone.
01:07:23
Speaker
Yeah, Arthur checks his phone.
01:07:26
Speaker
Weren't y'all just talking about the thing gonna see us?
01:07:28
Speaker
Now y'all staring at the light?
01:07:30
Speaker
Ned, pull out your phone.
01:07:32
Speaker
What?
01:07:33
Speaker
Pull out your phone.
01:07:34
Speaker
Did it just buzz?
01:07:37
Speaker
I don't feel nothing.
01:07:38
Speaker
I'll pull my phone out.
01:07:40
Speaker
All of you have a text message from your group text from Ashley.
01:07:45
Speaker
And when you open it, it is a picture of Ashley with a what looks like a stone wall behind her.
01:07:57
Speaker
And she looks fine.
01:07:59
Speaker
And the only words for in this text message say, I don't know where I am.
01:08:07
Speaker
Please help me.
01:08:09
Speaker
And that's where we're going to end the session.
01:08:11
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:08:13
Speaker
Fuck.
01:08:14
Speaker
God damn it.
01:08:17
Speaker
Oh boy.
01:08:19
Speaker
Let's play pretend.
01:08:21
Speaker
Oh boy.
01:08:22
Speaker
Let's play pretend.
01:08:29
Speaker
Let's play pretend.
01:08:53
Speaker
Let's Play Pretend is Nick Barnett as Ned Dolaran, Breck Black as Ryan Winchester, Matt Check as Arthur Gooseberg, Melanie Derringer as Samantha Williams, and me, Jordan Derringer, as your GM, DM, handler, keeper, and host.
01:09:09
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Keep up with us to hear firsthand on any fun new developments that may be coming in the future.
01:09:13
Speaker
There's going to be fun new developments coming in the
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And we will see you all here in two weeks time.