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Ep. 16 Tooth Collector
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Let's play pretend!
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Let's play pretend!
Host and Cast Introduction
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Hello, everybody.
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My name is Jordan Derringer.
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I am your DM, your GM, your keeper and handler and host.
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And I am here with Mr. Nick Barnett.
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Ned Dolaran.
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Now, fun fact about Ned this week.
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His three favorite bands are the Arctic Monkeys, the Fratellis, and some indie artists that he found named Emily.
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Just Emily.
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Well, she has a last name.
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It's Emily Axford.
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She writes a whole bunch of this goofy music about like a wastelanded world.
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It's really cool.
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Okay.
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All right.
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I like that.
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I have stumbled upon that indie artist myself.
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She's very good.
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I also have with me Mr. Breck Black.
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Hi, I will be playing Ryan Winchester.
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And I had a fun fact about Ryan, but I cannot seem to fucking find it as I have done, I think, once before.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, this isn't your first time forgetting where you placed your fun fact.
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I am very disorganized.
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Fun fact, Breck has a hard time finding his fun facts.
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Exactly.
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Well, if you think about it by the time we get to the end of the intro, feel free to throw it in there.
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I also have with me Mr. Matt Check.
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Hello, playing Arthur.
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And fun fact about Arthur is the only pizza he enjoys.
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is blue cheese and pineapple pizza.
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Get the fuck out.
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That sounds absolutely disgusting.
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Oh, it's delectable.
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Okay, so we're going to kill Arthur because he's not allowed in this group anymore.
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Hey, man, pass me a slice.
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And as you heard...
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Oh my god.
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Apparently we're getting rid of Ned too.
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And as you already heard her voice, I have with me Mrs. Melanie Derringer.
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Hello, I play Samantha Williams and I don't really have a fun fact about Samantha because I was dealing with other shit today that I just completely forgot to come up with one.
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So.
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Okay.
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Breck, did you think of your fun fact?
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I did not, unfortunately.
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OK, so we have two fun facts, two not fun facts.
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Excellent.
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How is your guys' week?
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I have one.
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I have one.
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All right.
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Well, fuck me then.
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Go ahead.
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Yeah, fuck you.
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Samantha secretly has a tattoo.
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Of what?
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I don't know yet, but she secretly has a tattoo.
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I haven't decided what it is, but it's there.
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Fozzie Bear.
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She was underage getting a tattoo.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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How'd she manage that one?
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Don't worry about it.
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No, I need to know.
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Don't worry about it.
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She have a fake ID.
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Ashley might have one, too.
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You don't know.
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Yeah, fake ID, fake ID.
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And I would know if Ashley has one.
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No, I just made this up.
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You don't get to decide that because that's her best friend.
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She's my character.
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I don't care.
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It's your initials, isn't it?
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It's your initials and Chris's initials.
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Nope.
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God damn it.
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Slender man.
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I didn't get to open it earlier, so I had to do it at some point.
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How could we have new sound effects?
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Just the one for now.
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Perfect.
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So how was your guys' week?
Episode Recap and Setup
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We're going to start off this episode with a little bit of small talk.
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I'm ready.
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That was great small talk.
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All right.
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Who's ready for a recap?
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Yes, please.
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Please.
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Because you don't get one.
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Fuck!
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Well, that was anticlimactic.
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We are at the start of a new arc.
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So basically what you guys need to remember is you had Elise with you guys.
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And as soon as she touched the tooth, she disappeared, sent a burst of bright light.
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And when the light faded, you guys were standing back encrypted crafts.
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It was just the four of you, Chris and Ashley were not there.
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All of your weapons and everything that you got from the movie theater are gone.
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Except for the tooth and the map.
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Those are the only two things you still have.
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So at this point, the scene starts and you guys are all kind of shielding your eyes against the bright light.
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And...
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The bright light begins to fade.
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I'm going to roll a d4.
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Landed on one, which means Ned.
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You are the first to kind of recover from the bright light, and you open your eyes, and you see that you guys are standing in front of the Bigfoot mirror again.
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You are inside of Cryptid Crafts.
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You are still in this realm.
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You're still in the bad realm.
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You see in the mirror that there are still the signs.
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The... Wanted posters?
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Yeah, yes, the missing person signs.
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Yeah, my brain just went, yeah, for a second there, so I had to figure it out.
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Yeah, the missing person signs are still there.
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At this point, you do not see Frank.
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He's not there.
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On the other side of the mirror, it looks like it's nighttime now.
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It looks like the shop is closed.
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You see not all the lights in the store are on, just like the... You know how when a store is closed, it has like one or two emergency lights on?
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Those two are like the only ones that you see that are on right now.
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And you can't tell in the real world how much time has passed.
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At this point...
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because one of our lovely players hit a breaking point last time.
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I need Melanie and Nick and Breck to take off your headphones.
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I need to have a conversation with Matt.
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Mr. Matt.
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I'm freaking out.
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Okay, so...
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I did a breaking point with Breck once already, and I kind of liked the way we did it, and I kind of didn't.
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So I'm thinking about doing yours a little bit differently.
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Okay.
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With Breck, what I did was I pulled up a list of phobias, and I had him roll 3d100, and he got to pick out of those three.
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But story-wise... He had choice.
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He did have choice, but story-wise...
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You know, that could not work.
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Yeah, I get that.
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Say you just watched a friend get his head crushed, and then all of a sudden you get, like, the Lassophobia and the fear of clowns and the fear of bright lights.
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And the head coming off of phobia.
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Yeah, none of those are really going to go with what just happened.
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So what I want you to do is, and I can give you a brief rundown of what happened in the movie theater arc if you need me to.
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I want you to think back to the movie theater arc and think of what really freaked Arthur out the most.
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Honestly, it's so sad now I think about it.
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But the defender that we were trying to kill scared the shit out of Arthur.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So how would you put that into like a fear?
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Um... You could do like a... I guess giants?
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Like giant humanoids?
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Yeah, I was gonna say like a megalophobia almost.
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Is that what it's called?
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Well, megalophobia is fear of just big things.
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But we could kind of tweak it to be... Honestly, that kind of works considering what he's been going through.
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Yeah.
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Everything's been kind of big.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I was going to say, but that would... You could alter it if you want to be fear of, like, humanoids, because, say, you know, you guys... Yeah, I could do that.
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If you guys come across, like, the water tower again, you're going to have, like, a crippling fear, and any time you see that, you're going to instantly have to roll fight, flight, or faint.
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Right.
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I guess, like, humanoids that are all fucked up, like, humanoid-esque, like, terrors...
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I guess I don't really know exactly what that would be considered.
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Okay, so any
Communication Challenges and Character Development
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kind of monster that's humanoid.
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So, like, even if you find, like, another inside-out man or something like that?
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I'm just trying to think back and, like, yeah, everything I've been running into has just been, like, humanoids that have had a little bit of something wrong with them.
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The only thing that you haven't that has not been humanoid has been the giant spiders.
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Yeah.
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Honestly, we kind of kicked those spiders' asses.
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Yeah, you did.
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Arthur was not that scared of that.
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No, the worst part for Arthur was walking face first into the web.
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Yeah.
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I guess it was like a Frankenstein therapy because that's what I kind of pictured.
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What's it called?
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The defender, the thing that was actually defending us.
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Mm-hmm.
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Let's see.
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Let me Google real quick and see if I can find something.
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It's going to be clicky clacky.
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Give me a sec.
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No worries.
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I'm going to top this.
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Fear of abnormal human... humanoids.
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Auto...
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I mean, that is what we've been running into, right?
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Yes, or we could do dysmorphobia.
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Dysmorphophobia.
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Dysmorphophobia is a broad term that encompasses multiple specific fears.
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Some people are afraid of becoming disformed or disfigured, while others fear those who have a disfiguration condition.
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Dysmorphophobia?
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, because like those smiley fuckers and...
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While the other humanoid-esque creatures we've been dealing with have had some weird stuff growing up their faces and shit.
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Right.
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Dysmorphobia works.
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Water, like my drowning clowns, and dysmorphobia are my fear.
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Okay.
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Or is that a phobia, right?
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Or this would be a fear?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, this is going to be a phobia.
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So yeah, you could put it under fears or whatever.
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Okay, yeah.
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Dysmorphophobia is what you're looking at.
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I think that makes sense.
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Cool.
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I like it.
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Give me a sec.
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I'll get everybody back in.
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I bet Scott Fish would fucking like it.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, I'm going to have fun with this.
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Because depending on how disfigured demon Chris is going to be, that's going to give you an even bigger crippling fear of him too.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I like it.
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All right, let me get everyone else back in.
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So that is what you see, Ned.
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And as you all kind of, the effect of the bright light wears off on you guys, you all see the same thing.
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You were back in cryptic crafts through the mirror.
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It looks like it's nighttime.
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You still see the wanted posters.
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So you still see that you're back in or you're still in the same room and all your weapons that you got at the movie theater are gone.
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Yeah.
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Sad.
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I don't feel safe anymore without my makeshift weapons.
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Also my gun.
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Would you like a rock bat back?
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I kind of feel like I might be safer.
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Oh, that's actually still around?
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Yeah.
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I'm still holding it.
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What happened?
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Did anybody see anything through that bright light?
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I don't know how the fuck we even got here.
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Are we not going to talk about the elephant in the room about where the fuck Chris, Ashley, and Elise went?
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I mean, yeah, we could talk about that.
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But there's also, if you think about it, there's like a million elephants in this goddamn room.
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If you think so, like, let's tackle that first one.
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Um, no, I think we should talk about where the hell the rest of our friends went.
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That's what I'm saying.
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We should tackle that one first.
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Ned's going to take out his phone and look at the time real quick, and he's going to try and mark that down or just remember what time it is that we're all here.
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You take out your phone and you look at the time and your phone, like up at the time, it's there.
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There's no time.
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The time, all the numbers are just kind of cycling through numbers like randomly.
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Guys, we can't even keep track of what time it is.
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Samantha pulls out her phone and goes to try to text Chris and Ashley.
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Like, puts herself in a little group chat with the two of them.
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Just trying to text them and ask where they're at or if they're safe.
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Okay.
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Are you going to check your previous texts with Ashley first or are you just going to go straight into a new group chat?
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Just straight into a new group chat unless there's a notification?
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There wouldn't be a notification, no.
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But before you guys got to Crypticrafts earlier, you were trying to text Ashley.
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No, just going to a new group chat with the three of us, trying to text either one of them.
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Okay.
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What are you going to say?
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Where are you?
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Are you safe?
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What the hell is happening?
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That's pretty much it.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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As you know with a group text, you don't get a notification if it goes through or not, but you do not get a notification that it didn't.
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Ryan is going to move towards the windows at the front and just kind of look down the street both ways, see if he sees anything.
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I'm going to come with you.
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I wanted to kind of see how much time has really passed.
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Maybe it's not been long.
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Well, in this realm, don't forget that it's always dark and the sky is always like a deep red.
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As of right now, there's nothing out in front of cryptid crafts that you guys didn't see the first time you were here.
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And did we explore all of cryptid crafts last time?
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For the most part, yeah, you guys basically took a long rest here.
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You found some weapons, you found some provisions.
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Like, you guys spent a pretty good amount of time here, so I was assuming that you did, unless there was something specific that you'd like to ask about.
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I just wondered if, since it's my parents' shop, if I knew of, like, a secret door or a secret room or something.
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Secret tunnel!
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Uh, roll me a 50-50.
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50-50 for all the night, y'all.
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58.
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68.
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No secret tunnels or anything.
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There's a door up front and a door that leads to the back alley.
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Shit.
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I'm gonna check my phone.
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Okay.
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How much battery do I have left?
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I don't know.
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How much battery do you have left?
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Has it changed since last time?
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Nope.
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Okay.
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So 84 then.
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Okay.
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Do we have any data?
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I mean, you're able to send like texts and stuff.
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We're able to send calls?
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Samantha has tried and every time it has gone straight to voicemail.
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What if we tried an emergency number?
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Like 911?
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Yeah.
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You can go ahead and try.
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Call the cops.
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I said everyone.
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What good is that gonna do?
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I mean, what options do we fucking have?
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I mean, I guess you could try it, but I don't see what calling the cops in this strange ass world is gonna do.
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It's not like they can stop the water tower from walking around.
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Shit, man, maybe they got a psychic on hand.
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Can I call Ryan?
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Samantha just rolls her eyes.
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Are you saying TV is lying to me?
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Yeah, you can try and call Ryan.
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I'm just going to call Ryan while they're talking about this.
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I just call his phone.
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Speaker
Okay.
00:19:53
Speaker
Are you putting it like on speakerphone or you're holding it up to your ear?
00:19:57
Speaker
Holding it up to my ear.
00:19:59
Speaker
Okay.
00:19:59
Speaker
Go straight to voicemail.
00:20:01
Speaker
Quick question.
00:20:02
Speaker
Quick answer.
00:20:06
Speaker
Nick, did you say anything before you did this or did you just call Ryan?
00:20:10
Speaker
I just called Ryan.
00:20:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:14
Speaker
Hey, Ryan, you got your phone on?
00:20:17
Speaker
No, it's basically dead.
00:20:19
Speaker
I didn't want it to die all the way.
00:20:21
Speaker
Oh, goddammit.
00:20:22
Speaker
I hurry up and end the call, and I call Arthur.
Strategic Planning and Ryan's Backstory
00:20:26
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:32
Speaker
That's an ought three.
00:20:34
Speaker
Arthur, your phone starts stirring.
00:20:39
Speaker
I figured it out.
00:20:39
Speaker
Yeah, wow.
00:20:42
Speaker
Man, the one time you answer your phone is when I'm standing right next to you.
00:20:47
Speaker
I gotta be consistent.
00:20:48
Speaker
Goddammit, click.
00:20:52
Speaker
Rude.
00:20:52
Speaker
Didn't even say goodbye.
00:20:56
Speaker
He's standing right in front of you.
00:20:58
Speaker
Still rude.
00:21:00
Speaker
Well, now we know that we can call people.
00:21:03
Speaker
That is interesting.
00:21:04
Speaker
Okay, but why is it when I called Ashley, it went straight to voicemail, but when you called Arthur, it rang?
00:21:10
Speaker
Your phone must have been off.
00:21:13
Speaker
But she was texting me.
00:21:15
Speaker
Airplane mode.
00:21:18
Speaker
Arthur, stop giving her the benefit of the doubt.
00:21:21
Speaker
Something is off the end.
00:21:22
Speaker
I'm just giving plausible answers.
00:21:24
Speaker
No, you're not.
00:21:27
Speaker
Airplane boat's a thing I get followed you can do.
00:21:32
Speaker
Do you not know that?
00:21:35
Speaker
Sam kind of just rolls her eyes and walks away from them and tries calling Chris.
00:21:41
Speaker
You already know what I'm going to say.
00:21:42
Speaker
Do I need to say it?
00:21:43
Speaker
It's a voicemail.
00:21:43
Speaker
Got it.
00:21:44
Speaker
Fuck.
00:21:45
Speaker
Fuck.
00:21:48
Speaker
Do you see what I mean?
00:21:50
Speaker
I just tried to call Chris and it went to voicemail, but you called Arthur and it went, and it fucking rang.
00:21:54
Speaker
Something is off.
00:21:56
Speaker
Right, but we should take the little wins that we are able to find.
00:21:59
Speaker
We do know that it can work, right?
00:22:02
Speaker
We should take the little wins that we are able to find.
00:22:05
Speaker
Well, that actually makes it even worse if you think about it.
00:22:10
Speaker
Because if we can call, then there is definitely a reason that's not just this dimension.
00:22:16
Speaker
You're not wrong.
00:22:19
Speaker
Hey, guys.
00:22:20
Speaker
Where are we going?
00:22:22
Speaker
Do you mind if we go in the back room?
00:22:24
Speaker
Because I really don't want to attract the attention of Negacris because I can't guarantee this building is protected like the last one was.
00:22:31
Speaker
So I don't feel like facing him again.
00:22:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:36
Speaker
We should get in the back and check the map.
00:22:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:39
Speaker
Sam pulls her hand up to her neck and she's like, yeah, I agree.
00:22:44
Speaker
Sam?
00:22:45
Speaker
You all right?
00:22:47
Speaker
No.
00:22:47
Speaker
No.
00:22:48
Speaker
No, we got a little too close for comfort last time.
00:22:51
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I understand.
00:22:54
Speaker
I think it's a good idea, though, getting away from the windows.
00:22:59
Speaker
Come on, Ryan, I can give you one of these charging cables.
00:23:02
Speaker
You can charge your phone up a bit, because I have an idea now.
00:23:05
Speaker
Oh, thank God.
00:23:06
Speaker
Before we leave, what were the two things that fell out of the portal?
00:23:11
Speaker
It was the teeth and the tooth and what?
00:23:15
Speaker
The map.
00:23:16
Speaker
The tooth and the map are the only two things from the movie theater that you guys still have in your possession.
00:23:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:24
Speaker
Hey, God.
00:23:26
Speaker
Hey, what?
00:23:27
Speaker
Who has the tooth?
00:23:29
Speaker
I don't know.
00:23:31
Speaker
You, you creepy collector.
00:23:33
Speaker
No, none of you have the tooth.
00:23:35
Speaker
I do now.
00:23:37
Speaker
Yeah, the tooth just kind of hit the ground with you guys when you showed up in cryptic graphs because Elise was the last one to touch it.
00:23:47
Speaker
That's right.
00:23:48
Speaker
Ryan is definitely... Ryan is going to put a hand on Arthur's shoulder and hold his hand off for me.
00:23:55
Speaker
Like, no offense, bud, but I don't think you should hold on to that.
00:24:02
Speaker
Oh, suddenly you like collecting teeth now.
00:24:05
Speaker
Wait, you collect teeth?
00:24:09
Speaker
We need to get to the back office, guys.
00:24:12
Speaker
It's not safe to be back in.
00:24:14
Speaker
Sam sidesteps away from Arthur real hard.
00:24:17
Speaker
He can show us his dad's tooth collection.
00:24:21
Speaker
It's what shows that you're a man.
00:24:24
Speaker
It's when you inherit the tooth collection, okay?
00:24:26
Speaker
Sure.
00:24:27
Speaker
Let's get in the back.
00:24:29
Speaker
I go to the back and I start pulling out a charging cable for Ryan.
00:24:34
Speaker
Ryan is definitely going to plug in his phone.
00:24:38
Speaker
Sorry, I was doing something to make noise.
00:24:39
Speaker
Breck, go ahead and roll me a D100.
00:24:41
Speaker
D100.
00:24:41
Speaker
72.
00:24:41
Speaker
Okay, your phone's up to 72% before the brick that he gave you died out.
00:24:59
Speaker
Perfect.
00:25:01
Speaker
That's good.
00:25:02
Speaker
So the 100% brick is now at zero?
00:25:08
Speaker
No.
00:25:09
Speaker
I'm going to be nice.
00:25:10
Speaker
The one that I originally said was at 8%.
00:25:11
Speaker
I gave it the... See, Ryan was at 9%.
00:25:16
Speaker
He got up to 72%, so that one had 63%.
00:25:18
Speaker
That one is dead.
00:25:20
Speaker
You still have the 100%.
00:25:22
Speaker
I'm feeling generous today.
00:25:24
Speaker
You sure are, and I'm not going to argue with it.
00:25:27
Speaker
But it does terrify me.
00:25:30
Speaker
Are there any outlets or anything?
00:25:33
Speaker
Is there any way we could like try and plug the dead one into the wall?
00:25:37
Speaker
I mean, it's a store.
00:25:38
Speaker
Yeah, there's going to be outlets.
00:25:40
Speaker
I'm going to.
00:25:41
Speaker
You guys are in like the back office area, so.
00:25:45
Speaker
I'm going to try plugging it into a wall and seeing if I can charge it up.
00:25:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:25:51
Speaker
You plug it into the wall, because you did grab a brick too, right?
00:25:55
Speaker
I believe.
00:25:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:56
Speaker
Yep.
00:25:56
Speaker
You let me find that because I crit succeeded when I was in the house.
00:26:00
Speaker
Yeah, you're right.
00:26:01
Speaker
You're right.
00:26:03
Speaker
You plug it in.
00:26:03
Speaker
And the light on the front begins to flash.
00:26:11
Speaker
Oh, thank God.
00:26:11
Speaker
We still got electricity.
00:26:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:14
Speaker
So if our phones work and we can still get a hold of each other,
00:26:20
Speaker
Ned just gets a realization and he kind of like walks up to Arthur and puts, I'm going to put my hand on your shoulder, Arthur.
00:26:30
Speaker
Do I feel the forget me not on his shoulder?
00:26:34
Speaker
Arthur, does he feel the forget me not on your shoulder?
00:26:36
Speaker
You do.
00:26:40
Speaker
Carrots and hummus.
00:26:41
Speaker
Carrots and hummus.
00:26:45
Speaker
Oh yeah, carrots and hummus.
00:26:47
Speaker
Well, if you remember that, I guess we're still pretty good on that one.
00:26:50
Speaker
But that's weird that those came with too.
00:26:52
Speaker
Because I made those when we were in the theater.
00:26:58
Speaker
We're not talking to you, Tom.
00:26:59
Speaker
That is strange.
00:27:00
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, quiet you up there.
00:27:04
Speaker
I am confirming that those also came along.
00:27:07
Speaker
That motherfucker is trying to kill us this whole time.
00:27:10
Speaker
He's trying to talk like he's just part of the group.
00:27:16
Speaker
It's like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
00:27:17
Speaker
I'm just looking.
00:27:18
Speaker
I'm parting the clouds to look down at you guys.
00:27:24
Speaker
So I would suggest that no matter what, we always leave our phones on.
00:27:30
Speaker
If we get separated and we need to get a hold of each other, if something can mimic us, I have a feeling it ain't going to be able to mimic our cell phone.
00:27:40
Speaker
Who's rolling what?
00:27:42
Speaker
Yeah, who's rolling sounds I have to cut out of the edit.
00:27:45
Speaker
That would be God.
00:27:46
Speaker
You don't have to cut that out of the edit.
00:27:53
Speaker
If I'm rolling dice, it's for story purposes, my dude.
00:27:56
Speaker
Oh, God bless it.
00:27:58
Speaker
But, look, at least we know that our phones work, and we can get a hold of each other.
00:28:03
Speaker
If we want to try everybody round-robin style to make sure it works, we can do that, but...
00:28:08
Speaker
They're not going to be able to mimic a device if they can just mimic what we look like or sound like or anything like that.
00:28:14
Speaker
But we don't know that for sure.
00:28:17
Speaker
I had an idea.
00:28:18
Speaker
It's something.
00:28:19
Speaker
It's better than nothing.
00:28:20
Speaker
And it's something that maybe we can make sure that we are who we say we are.
00:28:25
Speaker
And to be fair, we still have the forget-me-nots and our passcode.
00:28:28
Speaker
So even if the phones don't work, we still have other ways.
00:28:32
Speaker
True.
00:28:34
Speaker
But where the hell are we going to go?
00:28:37
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:38
Speaker
Arthur, do you still have the book from the movie theater that had all the different cryptid creature fucking things in it?
00:28:48
Speaker
I believe I do.
00:28:49
Speaker
That was a book that Arthur got at his house.
00:28:53
Speaker
Yeah, this is mine.
00:28:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:57
Speaker
Yeah, that was before you guys made it to Cryptid Craft.
00:28:59
Speaker
So yes, he does still have that.
00:29:02
Speaker
So Arthur, I have a question.
00:29:03
Speaker
Is there any way you can look through that and try to match a tooth to a creature maybe?
00:29:08
Speaker
I could try.
00:29:08
Speaker
Because that Inside Out man was in there, so maybe we can get a beat on Negachris because he seems like the biggest threat and the most, I don't know, powerful.
00:29:22
Speaker
I mean, let me try to take out the book and start going through the pages thinking like, what would it be under?
00:29:31
Speaker
What would I roll for?
00:29:34
Speaker
I'm assuming I'd roll for this, a cult.
00:29:37
Speaker
Oh, no, I'm not going to make you roll for it.
00:29:38
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:29:39
Speaker
Sweet.
00:29:40
Speaker
I'm going to roll for it.
00:29:41
Speaker
Oh, fuck.
00:29:44
Speaker
Way worse.
00:29:45
Speaker
Oh, and I rolled a nat 20 on a 20-sided die.
00:29:50
Speaker
As you're flipping through the book, you see 20 different creatures that this tooth might belong to.
00:29:54
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:29:59
Speaker
Write that down.
00:30:01
Speaker
Well, good news and 20 bad news is there's 20 creatures that apparently match this tooth type.
00:30:14
Speaker
Does any of them take over appearances?
00:30:17
Speaker
That's a good secondary question.
00:30:20
Speaker
Let me fucking check.
00:30:22
Speaker
Who is currently holding the map?
00:30:26
Speaker
I took it, but it's like right next to me, so I'm not using it.
00:30:29
Speaker
Okay, so as you're going through your book, Sam goes over and grabs the map and starts looking at it.
00:30:36
Speaker
I'm going to be with you looking at the map because I want to see where the nest is or whatever.
00:30:44
Speaker
Quick question though, Jordan.
00:30:46
Speaker
You don't have cryptic crafts on here, so where is that in relevance to everything else?
00:30:51
Speaker
Oh yeah, that's one I forgot to put on there.
00:30:53
Speaker
Cryptic crafts is...
00:30:58
Speaker
Not far from Arthur's house.
00:31:02
Speaker
So like where you see it says Southern Cemetery.
00:31:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:07
Speaker
If you look to the right of that, there's like a little tiny triangle made out of the streets.
00:31:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:13
Speaker
That's about where you guys ran into the spiders.
00:31:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:17
Speaker
So it's like right around the end of the word Southern.
00:31:21
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:23
Speaker
I can't keep throwing words in this map or else it's going to get so cluttered.
00:31:26
Speaker
You're not going to be able to tell what's where.
00:31:27
Speaker
That's fine.
00:31:28
Speaker
I appreciate that.
00:31:30
Speaker
We're in relevance to where we are at.
00:31:33
Speaker
I'm going to handle two things here real quick.
00:31:36
Speaker
Arthur, as you go through the book again, you were able to narrow the search down to seven.
00:31:44
Speaker
Seven different creatures that match it to tooth type and can change shape.
00:31:49
Speaker
Ned and Samantha.
00:31:54
Speaker
Roll me an alertness.
00:31:56
Speaker
Both of you.
00:31:57
Speaker
Oh boy.
00:31:59
Speaker
Where'd my other... There it is.
00:32:00
Speaker
25 on a 28.
00:32:04
Speaker
Eesh.
00:32:04
Speaker
Hold on.
00:32:04
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:32:05
Speaker
That's still good.
00:32:07
Speaker
51 out of 68.
00:32:09
Speaker
You both notice that the word theater is gone.
00:32:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:24
Speaker
What?
00:32:27
Speaker
Yep.
00:32:28
Speaker
I mean, that's good.
00:32:29
Speaker
I don't want to go back there anyways.
00:32:34
Speaker
That's... That's still weird.
00:32:38
Speaker
What the hell?
00:32:40
Speaker
Okay, but it looks like if we need to get any of these other places, we have to go through the nest.
00:32:46
Speaker
Yeah?
00:32:47
Speaker
I mean...
00:32:50
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know.
00:32:51
Speaker
I'm at a loss.
00:32:53
Speaker
This is the one moment where I'm actually feeling safe for a second.
00:32:56
Speaker
I will say you can take the long way and go around the nest.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yeah, but how long would that take?
00:33:04
Speaker
So the nest, I know it looks like it takes up a big spot on the map.
00:33:09
Speaker
But if you see, you see that big yellow road out on the right side of town and then that big orange road that goes up the middle.
00:33:15
Speaker
Uh-huh.
00:33:16
Speaker
It's about a three block radius around there.
00:33:18
Speaker
That's the center of town.
00:33:19
Speaker
That's where the nest is.
00:33:22
Speaker
So the words take up more than the actual nest does.
00:33:24
Speaker
The nest is like basically right at that crossroads.
00:33:27
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:29
Speaker
Like I said, Gainsborough is not a big town.
00:33:31
Speaker
It's a population of about 25,000.
00:33:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:32
Speaker
So it's not going to take us days to get places.
00:33:37
Speaker
No, no.
00:33:38
Speaker
Take you a couple hours to walk from north to south.
00:33:41
Speaker
Like if you wanted to go from the junkyard to the Crestview Cemetery at the bottom...
00:33:47
Speaker
It would take you two, two and a half hours if you were walking that orange road.
00:33:55
Speaker
A little bit longer if you were going the long way.
00:33:57
Speaker
But that's north of the map to south of the map, you know?
00:34:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:01
Speaker
I'm just trying to figure out where we should go next.
00:34:06
Speaker
Yeah, I'm a little lost from that as well.
00:34:09
Speaker
I feel naked without our guns.
00:34:12
Speaker
Well, I'm not going back to the movie theater.
00:34:16
Speaker
Why don't we have a goddamn sheriff's department?
00:34:20
Speaker
No, you do.
00:34:20
Speaker
It just wasn't one of the relevant things that Lance put on there.
00:34:26
Speaker
Fuck.
00:34:26
Speaker
Maybe the police station's got a gun like if I... So all the things that are written, like the Crestview Cemetery, Southern Cemetery, Greenmount, the lake, the reservoir, these are all things that he wrote down on there?
00:34:41
Speaker
Correct.
00:34:42
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:43
Speaker
Well...
00:34:46
Speaker
I don't know, Sam.
00:34:46
Speaker
He finds... Apparently, if he had took the time to write these things down, they must have meant something to them.
00:34:53
Speaker
Um... I will say not necessarily.
00:34:56
Speaker
He could have just written them down because that's what the sign there when he was there said, and he's using it as a landmark.
00:35:03
Speaker
I don't know about you, but I don't feel like going to any cemeteries anytime soon.
00:35:07
Speaker
I feel like that would just give Negacris more power.
00:35:15
Speaker
But we should probably either at least try and find Lance and Charlie or, I don't know, maybe head to the school.
00:35:23
Speaker
Maybe we can find something there that could help us get home.
00:35:27
Speaker
The best we knew of Lance and Charlie was they went to the nest.
00:35:33
Speaker
Right.
00:35:34
Speaker
But maybe they're on their way back.
00:35:37
Speaker
So we go to the nest.
00:35:38
Speaker
So we start heading towards the nest and hope for the best.
00:35:42
Speaker
Or, like I said, we could go around the nest and head towards the school.
00:35:49
Speaker
I will say this.
00:35:50
Speaker
The only one of your houses that you guys went to before going to Cryptid Crafts and the movie theater was Arthur's house.
00:35:58
Speaker
You have not been to Sam's house and Ed's house or Ryan's house.
00:36:02
Speaker
That's true.
00:36:02
Speaker
We could go to one of our houses.
00:36:05
Speaker
I was going to say, not trying to point you in a specific direction.
00:36:07
Speaker
I'm just saying that's also someplace that you haven't checked.
00:36:11
Speaker
So as of right now, the things you guys are discussing is trying to find the police station, trying to find the schools, going to one of your houses, or trying to go back in the general direction of the movie theater to see if you can find Lance and Charlie, because that is where they said after the nest that they were heading.
00:36:33
Speaker
It's the movie theater, but that's so unsafe.
00:36:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:38
Speaker
But maybe one of everyone's houses, like maybe my house was all messed up.
00:36:43
Speaker
But you know how the tree house was perfectly in pristine condition?
00:36:49
Speaker
Maybe some of your guys' houses are.
00:36:52
Speaker
We could go try my house first.
00:36:54
Speaker
Your house is the farthest.
00:36:58
Speaker
Ryan, don't you live here?
00:36:59
Speaker
Ryan, you live right down the road from here, right?
00:37:03
Speaker
I mean, yeah, but do we have to go there?
00:37:05
Speaker
You were the first person to see anything that looked normal outside of the treehouse, man.
00:37:12
Speaker
We're right by your house.
00:37:13
Speaker
I don't think that would be a bad spot to start.
00:37:17
Speaker
I guess.
00:37:18
Speaker
I guess that's kind of close.
00:37:21
Speaker
Ryan, I know you don't want to go back home, man, but it's the closest thing to here.
00:37:26
Speaker
And honestly, this place, it seems like this wouldn't be a bad little hidey hole.
00:37:33
Speaker
Yeah, but we can't stay in here forever.
00:37:37
Speaker
No, but it's a place we can come back to, a hidey hole, something that we can leave, and then we can always come back, and we'll know if something changes.
00:37:45
Speaker
Once we get there, we can make a real plan.
00:37:47
Speaker
Like, we'll light up everything we know about this place.
00:37:51
Speaker
What's real?
00:37:51
Speaker
What's fucked in?
00:37:52
Speaker
What's, like, consistent?
00:37:55
Speaker
What isn't?
00:37:56
Speaker
Like, our treehouse...
00:37:58
Speaker
is the same as it is in our world, but I just don't feel safe in this shot.
00:38:04
Speaker
I feel like maybe Ryan's could definitely be a buck here.
00:38:10
Speaker
I'm fine with that.
00:38:10
Speaker
We can go to Ryan's house, but at some point I would like to go to mine to maybe see if my mom and our horses are still there.
00:38:21
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:38:22
Speaker
His house is just closer.
00:38:25
Speaker
yeah we can we can head that way that's that's fine all right let's pack up anything that we might need that we didn't grab last time let's get going yeah i take a final scan on the room see if there's maybe like some rations we forgot to grab maybe like a thing of matches or something we forgot to grab
00:38:46
Speaker
So you guys really didn't go through much of your rations in the movie theater because the movie theater had rations.
00:38:54
Speaker
So you guys are still good on that.
00:38:58
Speaker
I mean, I'm sure you could find lighters or matches or whatever you want there for a fire starting, yeah?
00:39:06
Speaker
I have a question, God.
00:39:08
Speaker
Yeah, what's up?
00:39:11
Speaker
The cryptid crafts have a landline.
00:39:23
Speaker
do you like my way of problem solving yes did you just odds and evens yourself what yeah wow wow i i had a feeling i did odds yes evens nose and i rolled a six
00:39:41
Speaker
I had a feeling when you went silent, you were like, ah, shit, what do I do?
00:39:45
Speaker
Dice.
00:39:47
Speaker
No plan, use dice.
00:39:48
Speaker
That is exactly what happened.
00:39:50
Speaker
How many matches did I find?
00:39:54
Speaker
You can find a full book of matches.
00:39:56
Speaker
Nice.
00:39:56
Speaker
All right.
00:39:58
Speaker
Everybody ready?
00:40:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:40:00
Speaker
So we're heading to Ryan's house.
00:40:03
Speaker
A wahoo!
00:40:07
Speaker
All right.
00:40:08
Speaker
And Ryan, you are about...
00:40:11
Speaker
According to the map, about three, four blocks away.
00:40:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:15
Speaker
You guys can cover that distance without any issues.
00:40:18
Speaker
We should try to run it south away.
00:40:20
Speaker
Did you guys hear that thump?
00:40:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:24
Speaker
You stupid fucking cat.
00:40:28
Speaker
That's not what I expected to hear.
00:40:30
Speaker
He walked under my desk and I went to pet him and he turned around and went face first into the leg of the desk.
00:40:37
Speaker
Oh, Blaze.
00:40:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:42
Speaker
Anyway.
00:40:44
Speaker
So yeah, you guys are able to make it to Ryan's house without running into anything.
00:40:49
Speaker
Look old and decrepit.
00:40:51
Speaker
Oh yeah, of course it does.
00:40:54
Speaker
Ryan, does it look old and decrepit?
00:40:58
Speaker
God, does it look old and decrepit?
00:41:01
Speaker
I just said yes.
00:41:03
Speaker
Well, that's because Ned asked.
00:41:07
Speaker
Ryan didn't ask yet.
00:41:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:41:09
Speaker
Yes, yes it does.
00:41:11
Speaker
Okay, but he is specialized, so it wasn't wrong for us to ask.
00:41:16
Speaker
No, you're right.
00:41:16
Speaker
You're right.
00:41:17
Speaker
I was thinking like, Ned just asked.
00:41:19
Speaker
Yeah, it's old and decrepit.
00:41:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:22
Speaker
I didn't even think about the Ryan thing.
00:41:23
Speaker
Did we establish a cryptic cryptic cryptic craft to start with a C and a CC or is it KK?
00:41:31
Speaker
KK.
00:41:32
Speaker
Of course it is.
00:41:34
Speaker
Crypt is not spelled with a K.
00:41:36
Speaker
Neither is crafts, Matt.
00:41:39
Speaker
This is all messed up.
00:41:41
Speaker
It is if it's the bad American cheese.
00:41:43
Speaker
Hey, you want to know what really solidified that decision for me?
00:41:50
Speaker
That it got asked?
00:41:52
Speaker
No, the fact that I looked down and I'm currently right now in this moment wearing a Mortal Kombat shirt.
00:42:03
Speaker
All right, everybody got some sort of weapon or something on you?
00:42:06
Speaker
I mean... I mean, I still have my tire iron and my... Actually, I have a baseball bat in my catalog of weapons that I realized just now as I'm looking at it.
00:42:17
Speaker
So apparently Sam has had a baseball bat this entire time and didn't realize it.
00:42:21
Speaker
Yes, she has.
00:42:23
Speaker
You have my rock bat.
00:42:25
Speaker
I got the rock bat, yes.
00:42:28
Speaker
No, Sam had a baseball bat as one of her starting weapons.
00:42:32
Speaker
I was just saying, I was counting that as a weapon.
00:42:36
Speaker
No, we have.
00:42:38
Speaker
All right.
00:42:39
Speaker
Ted, like, I don't mean to be rude, but can I scavenge your home for weapons?
00:42:49
Speaker
I mean, if anything's still useful, sure.
00:42:51
Speaker
I don't give a shit.
00:42:53
Speaker
Just don't touch anything in my room.
00:42:57
Speaker
Fuck, I should probably check my room.
00:42:59
Speaker
I'm going to go touch on all the things.
00:43:01
Speaker
All right, so you guys walk up to Ryan's front door.
00:43:06
Speaker
You guys, have you guys ever been to Ryan's?
00:43:11
Speaker
I know you guys have all been friends, but has Ryan ever invited you guys over to his house, or has he just always shown up to what you guys are doing?
00:43:20
Speaker
He would have shown up to what everyone else was doing, for sure.
00:43:23
Speaker
So this is new for all of you.
00:43:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:28
Speaker
Okay.
00:43:30
Speaker
I'm going to do this nifty little thing where I have the imaginary reins in my hands and I'm going to pass them off to Breck so he can describe what you guys see in Ryan's house.
Exploration of Ryan's Family and Home
00:43:47
Speaker
So as we get closer to Ryan's house, the other houses kind of start becoming less and less and they start getting bigger and bigger.
00:43:55
Speaker
until we come to a long gravel driveway with very rusted and broken gates that look like they would have been very nice had they not been aged.
00:44:04
Speaker
And we all walk up to a, it looks like it's trying to be a mansion, but isn't quite that big, with a nice set of wide double doors for the front doors.
00:44:19
Speaker
Damn, right?
00:44:20
Speaker
And he just sighs as he says that and says, yeah.
00:44:26
Speaker
Yeah, whatever.
00:44:28
Speaker
Whatever?
00:44:29
Speaker
Like, you live the high life here.
00:44:35
Speaker
I, yeah, if you want to be fake and plastic and never actually, you know, tell people what you think, sure, but it's not great.
00:44:42
Speaker
Yeah, but like, what do your parents do?
00:44:45
Speaker
Yeah, like money-wise.
00:44:49
Speaker
Uh, well, Dad did a couple of nice stock trades that made him some money, and Mom likes to drink her days away, so, you know, typical parents.
00:45:01
Speaker
Right.
00:45:03
Speaker
Don't let the house fool you.
00:45:05
Speaker
They try really hard to see more than they are.
00:45:08
Speaker
They're assholes.
00:45:10
Speaker
Well, aren't most the rich?
00:45:12
Speaker
Ha ha.
00:45:14
Speaker
I mean, you're not wrong.
00:45:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:16
Speaker
Let's, let's just, uh, let's get inside.
00:45:17
Speaker
I don't like being outside.
00:45:19
Speaker
And, uh, Ryan is going to try to open the front doors.
00:45:22
Speaker
All right.
00:45:23
Speaker
You know what happens when you try and open the front doors?
00:45:27
Speaker
What?
00:45:28
Speaker
They open.
00:45:30
Speaker
Yay.
00:45:31
Speaker
That's it.
00:45:33
Speaker
So you guys are able to walk right in because your parents are definitely the kind of people that are like, uh,
00:45:41
Speaker
We have a gate.
00:45:42
Speaker
We don't need to lock the doors.
00:45:45
Speaker
Well, now it makes sense how the hell you had that really nice old car.
00:45:49
Speaker
Hey, excuse me.
00:45:52
Speaker
I found that and fixed it up myself.
00:45:53
Speaker
My parents didn't do nothing with that.
00:45:56
Speaker
Don't take away my accomplishments.
00:45:57
Speaker
Those are mine.
00:45:58
Speaker
All right, birthday money.
00:46:05
Speaker
Ned, I will stab you.
00:46:08
Speaker
I'm just making light of a situation, man.
00:46:10
Speaker
Come on.
00:46:12
Speaker
How many fancy knives do you own?
00:46:16
Speaker
None.
00:46:17
Speaker
My parents don't exactly let me get whatever I want.
00:46:21
Speaker
We don't see eye to eye.
00:46:24
Speaker
Shit, that's not going to help us.
00:46:28
Speaker
Oh, I'm sure there's tons of shit in the house.
00:46:29
Speaker
I just don't spend a whole lot of time here.
00:46:33
Speaker
Well, lead the way.
00:46:33
Speaker
We ain't been here before.
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah, where's your garage?
00:46:38
Speaker
Yeah, so when you guys walk into the house, what do they see?
00:46:42
Speaker
So they would see an entryway that is trying very hard to seem like an old-fashioned parlor, but is just the entryway to a house.
00:46:51
Speaker
It's got like little sitting couches, mirrors placed everywhere, what looks to be flowers at some point.
00:46:59
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:01
Speaker
And Ryan just points down the hallway in front of him and says, well, kitchen and living room are back that way.
00:47:07
Speaker
And points to the left to a door and goes, that way is the sitting room.
00:47:12
Speaker
And he does air quotes.
00:47:13
Speaker
It's just a, you know, just a room they put a couch in.
00:47:17
Speaker
Stairs are towards the living room to get upstairs.
00:47:21
Speaker
Garage is in the back.
00:47:24
Speaker
Give me a 50-50, Ryan.
00:47:31
Speaker
79.
00:47:31
Speaker
79.
00:47:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:35
Speaker
Ryan hates this place, right?
00:47:37
Speaker
Yeah, he's not a fan.
00:47:39
Speaker
Good.
00:47:39
Speaker
Okay, so the stairs, instead of just being normal stairs, they're the really douchey ones that do like a half turn up to a balcony.
00:47:49
Speaker
Yeah, Ryan just looks up at that and goes, oh, God, there's a reason I liked it at the junkyard.
00:47:57
Speaker
It's so much nicer than this.
00:48:01
Speaker
Nicer than your house?
00:48:04
Speaker
I mean, yeah, because it's, you know, mine.
00:48:08
Speaker
And I own it, kind of, sort of.
00:48:10
Speaker
Not really.
00:48:12
Speaker
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:48:13
Speaker
Yeah, we're going to have to dig into that one, man.
00:48:16
Speaker
I don't actually own it.
00:48:18
Speaker
Nobody's used it in forever, so I just say I own it.
00:48:21
Speaker
Nobody disputes me on it.
00:48:24
Speaker
We're learning a lot of your lore real fast.
00:48:29
Speaker
Let's take it one step at a time.
00:48:33
Speaker
Okay, come on guys.
00:48:34
Speaker
Like, is this really the weirdest thing we've seen in the past, I don't know, a couple hours?
00:48:38
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:39
Speaker
A little bit.
00:48:42
Speaker
Actually, it might be.
00:48:45
Speaker
We have known you for years, man.
00:48:47
Speaker
And we never once knew that this is where you come from.
00:48:52
Speaker
Ashley getting her head turned fucking backwards just hit second on the list.
00:49:01
Speaker
Ryan just sighs and goes, oh, God, this is going to you guys realize I have a sister, right?
00:49:07
Speaker
No.
00:49:08
Speaker
No.
00:49:09
Speaker
What?
00:49:11
Speaker
Right.
00:49:12
Speaker
Right.
00:49:13
Speaker
Don't talk about her.
00:49:14
Speaker
I remember now.
00:49:15
Speaker
Anyways, kitchen's over there.
00:49:16
Speaker
I'm going upstairs to my room and he just starts going upstairs.
00:49:20
Speaker
Follow.
00:49:20
Speaker
Follow.
00:49:24
Speaker
Sam does not follow.
00:49:25
Speaker
Sam goes to the kitchen.
00:49:28
Speaker
Saw that coming.
00:49:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:31
Speaker
Well, I just had to see who I was going to resolve first.
00:49:34
Speaker
I know.
00:49:34
Speaker
I was just waiting for the dice roll.
00:49:36
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:38
Speaker
Gentlemen, take your headsets off, please.
00:49:42
Speaker
Oh, fine.
00:49:43
Speaker
Good luck.
00:49:44
Speaker
Don't die.
00:49:44
Speaker
Thanks.
00:49:52
Speaker
So you see Ryan kind of just, yeah, look around whatever you want and just walks off to his room and Ned and Arthur, without missing a beat, follow after him.
00:50:04
Speaker
Like, no, we got to see more of this shit.
00:50:08
Speaker
Samantha kind of hangs back.
00:50:12
Speaker
What is Samantha doing?
00:50:14
Speaker
She wants to explore the house a little more because, you know, it's fancy.
00:50:20
Speaker
But she heads towards the kitchen area.
00:50:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:50:26
Speaker
Mainly to, like, start rummaging through drawers and stuff like that to see if she can find any knives or any kitchen knives she can give one to each boy or whatever.
00:50:39
Speaker
All right.
00:50:41
Speaker
So you're just kind of rummaging through...
00:50:44
Speaker
Where's Samantha's head right now?
00:50:46
Speaker
She's not really... She's kind of like mindlessly searching for things.
00:50:53
Speaker
But she is more or less wondering where the hell Chris and Ashley went.
00:51:00
Speaker
Why they didn't show up at Cryptocrafts with them.
00:51:02
Speaker
And she's kind of thinking it's the fact that they're actually dead.
00:51:08
Speaker
And that she's just interacting with their spirits.
00:51:10
Speaker
So she's kind of distracted with that thought.
00:51:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:16
Speaker
And so you're distracted on that and you had mentioned something while you were still at Crypt and Crabs.
00:51:22
Speaker
It's putting a lot of faith in a pregnant brain.
00:51:24
Speaker
I don't remember.
00:51:27
Speaker
You were also thinking about your home.
00:51:31
Speaker
Yes.
00:51:32
Speaker
What is it that Samantha's thinking about her house?
00:51:35
Speaker
She's just hoping that
00:51:40
Speaker
Like, thinking at bike at her house, I know she wanted to make sure her mom and her horses were okay, but it's mainly the fact that Anubis isn't in this world with her.
00:51:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:52
Speaker
Because she's afraid of what she'll find.
00:51:54
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:57
Speaker
But that is something that she wants to find out, right?
00:51:59
Speaker
Yes.
00:52:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:52:03
Speaker
To go on what you find in the kitchen, yeah, I mean, it's a fancy house.
00:52:07
Speaker
They probably have like seven different knife blocks.
00:52:09
Speaker
You'll be able to find knives.
00:52:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:52:11
Speaker
But don't forget that you guys did pick up the pocket knives from Cryptid Crafts as well.
00:52:16
Speaker
Oh, right.
00:52:17
Speaker
I forgot about that.
00:52:19
Speaker
So you each have pocket knives with your names on them.
00:52:22
Speaker
I'm going to be 100% honest with you.
00:52:23
Speaker
You're looking through this house.
00:52:25
Speaker
It's just a fancy house.
00:52:26
Speaker
Everything in it looks expensive cheap.
00:52:31
Speaker
Expense-a-cheap?
00:52:33
Speaker
Expense-a-cheap.
00:52:34
Speaker
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
00:52:37
Speaker
It looks like shit, but it looks like shit that they paid a lot of money for.
00:52:42
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:52:43
Speaker
Like, it looks like cheaply made stuff that's expensive just for the sake of being expensive.
00:52:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:52:50
Speaker
So you're not really finding anything that... Things look like they're going to break faster than they're going to protect you.
00:52:59
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:00
Speaker
Well, she doesn't pick anything up then.
00:53:03
Speaker
In that case, she's kind of just wandering and exploring the house.
Ryan's Emotional Discovery
00:53:08
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:09
Speaker
Perfect.
00:53:16
Speaker
Well, welcome back, boys.
00:53:17
Speaker
Hello.
00:53:21
Speaker
Hello.
00:53:23
Speaker
I'm going to hijack the scene now.
00:53:25
Speaker
Do it.
00:53:27
Speaker
Oh, I'm going to do it.
00:53:28
Speaker
Gross.
00:53:31
Speaker
So, Ryan, you tell everybody, yeah, you know, explore, take what you want, I really don't care.
00:53:38
Speaker
You head off towards your room.
00:53:40
Speaker
Ned and Arthur, not wanting to miss the chance of getting an even deeper dive into what exactly makes Ryan tick since we're learning all this new shit about him, follow after you like some lost puppies.
00:53:54
Speaker
You do kind of notice that Samantha hangs back and instead veers off into the kitchen.
00:54:02
Speaker
what are you guys doing?
00:54:03
Speaker
I'm kind of like scanning around the halls.
00:54:07
Speaker
So I'm like, wow, this is a nice fucking hallway.
00:54:13
Speaker
Don't be fooled.
00:54:13
Speaker
None of the paintings are real.
00:54:16
Speaker
And a lot of this stuff was not made of what it actually looks like.
00:54:19
Speaker
So don't, don't be fooled.
00:54:21
Speaker
It's funny that you say that.
00:54:25
Speaker
Oh no.
00:54:25
Speaker
Because I described what Melanie saw in the kitchen as expensive cheap.
00:54:33
Speaker
Yeah, that is perfectly what it is.
00:54:36
Speaker
And she goes, expensive cheap?
00:54:38
Speaker
What do you mean?
00:54:38
Speaker
And I was like, it looks like it's very cheaply made and it's expensive just for the sake of being expensive.
00:54:46
Speaker
Exactly.
00:54:47
Speaker
It's SkyMall.
00:54:50
Speaker
I am glad we were on the same page there.
00:54:52
Speaker
Okay, go ahead.
00:54:52
Speaker
Continue.
00:54:56
Speaker
Yeah, Ryan goes up to a plain looking door on the second floor on the right, opens it up to find his room, which is pretty bare.
00:55:08
Speaker
It's got a large bed, queen sized wardrobe next to it, a full desk and doors to what looks to be a closet.
00:55:19
Speaker
And he just makes a beeline for the closet.
00:55:24
Speaker
Oh, I ain't missing this.
00:55:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:55:26
Speaker
What's in your closet, bro?
00:55:31
Speaker
What's in your closet, bro?
00:55:35
Speaker
He would open it up to see a couple of outfits, pants, shirts, other stuff on hangers.
00:55:43
Speaker
The stuff towards the back would be pretty fancy, but looks like it's never been worn, and I'm assuming everything is also super aged.
00:55:53
Speaker
Your clothes are fine.
00:55:57
Speaker
Ryan is going to pause and grab one of his jackets off the hangers take with him.
00:56:01
Speaker
One of the non-fancy ones.
00:56:04
Speaker
And then he's going to go in the back and find a small duffel bag and unzip it.
00:56:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:12
Speaker
Pull out a black tactical vest and a set of dog tags.
00:56:18
Speaker
And just kind of stare at him for a second and be like, you know...
00:56:21
Speaker
I'm really glad you left me this.
00:56:23
Speaker
And he puts on the vest.
00:56:25
Speaker
There's nothing on it.
00:56:26
Speaker
It's literally just the vest.
00:56:29
Speaker
It's not even like armored or anything.
00:56:31
Speaker
So it's just like you could like it's got more pockets for like ammo and that kind of stuff.
00:56:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's got like all the pockets like it was an actual like military vest, but it doesn't have any of the like bulletproof plating or anything in it.
00:56:44
Speaker
Doesn't have any of the Kevlar or anything.
00:56:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:47
Speaker
Yep, just lots of pockets and like loops and stuff to hold things.
00:56:52
Speaker
And he slips the dog tags over his head.
00:56:55
Speaker
He's like, all right, that's pretty much all I wanted.
00:56:58
Speaker
So feel free to take what you want, guys.
00:57:01
Speaker
Whose vest was this?
00:57:03
Speaker
This would have been his uncle's, who was killed in combat a number of years ago.
00:57:12
Speaker
How close were you to your uncle?
00:57:15
Speaker
Uh, very.
00:57:16
Speaker
It was the reason that Ryan knows how to handle firearms and stuff.
00:57:23
Speaker
I want you to give me a luck check.
00:57:25
Speaker
Not a 50-50, an actual luck check.
00:57:28
Speaker
Oh.
00:57:32
Speaker
I mean, I already passed that, but I'm going to look.
00:57:34
Speaker
Anyways, that is a nat 6 on a 97.
00:57:37
Speaker
Oh my god, I forgot your luck was that high.
00:57:41
Speaker
That works because I wanted this to actually happen, but, you know, gotta leave some stuff up to Dice Christ.
00:57:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:48
Speaker
As you are putting on the vest, you notice something that you've never noticed before.
00:57:58
Speaker
Inside the vest, in one of the pockets, you feel a piece of paper.
00:58:07
Speaker
Ryan kind of just pats the pocket for a second and then slowly pulls it out.
00:58:12
Speaker
There is an envelope on the inside.
00:58:14
Speaker
He just kind of stares at it for a second and then just very gently and slowly opens it.
00:58:24
Speaker
Inside the envelope, there are two pieces of paper.
00:58:27
Speaker
One of them looks like a handwritten letter by an adult.
00:58:34
Speaker
The other one
00:58:37
Speaker
is a piece of paper, like a piece of notebook paper, and it looks like it is written by a child in Korean.
00:58:49
Speaker
And the one that is written by a child says basically along the lines of, what's your uncle's name?
00:59:01
Speaker
I have it, give me one moment.
00:59:04
Speaker
Uh, there it is.
00:59:06
Speaker
Uh, Richard Bradley.
00:59:07
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Okay.
00:59:10
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And I would say he, he was kind of the cool uncle, right?
00:59:15
Speaker
Uh, yeah, for sure.
00:59:16
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Called him uncle Richie.
00:59:18
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Yep.
00:59:21
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So at the top of the piece of paper, it says, dear uncle Richie, I know that you're off saving the world like a superhero.
00:59:33
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But I miss you, and I just wanted you to know that I love you and can't wait to see you again.
00:59:40
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Kick the bad guy's butts.
00:59:42
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Love, Ryan.
00:59:44
Speaker
And it's written like a six-year-old, so half the words are misspelled and everything, but you can see that that letter meant a lot to him, because it's still inside that vest.
00:59:58
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And the other piece of paper you see is...
01:00:04
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One that Uncle Richie was writing back to Ryan.
01:00:11
Speaker
And you've never noticed this before.
01:00:13
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And you open up the letter very gingerly and read it.
01:00:19
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And at the top, it says, hey, superstar, because that was his nickname for you, was a little superstar.
01:00:27
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It says, hey, superstar.
01:00:29
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I am over here trying to make the world a better place for you, and you know nothing's going to take me down.
01:00:40
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I will be home as soon as I can, and we'll go out and have ourselves a day when I do.
01:00:49
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So you keep writing these letters, and I will keep being a superhero for you, little man.
01:00:54
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Love you to the moon and back, Uncle Richie.
01:00:58
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And you see it's something that he was writing to send to you and just never really got the chance to mail it to you before he was KIA.
01:01:14
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You would see Ryan kind of staring at the notebook paper and chuckle into himself before folding it up and putting it in a pocket.
01:01:21
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And as he reads the other letter, you see a couple of tears start to drip down his face.
01:01:28
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before he slowly folds the letter, puts it back in the envelope, and puts it in the same pocket.
01:01:35
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And I will say that is something that you weren't too secretive about, so that is something that Arthur and Ned can pick up on if they want to.
01:01:44
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Yeah, he wouldn't have hid that.
01:01:45
Speaker
He was too focused on the letter.
01:01:48
Speaker
I'm going to kind of...
01:01:50
Speaker
nudge Arthur and just kind of point over to Ryan and I'm going to walk up behind Ryan and put my hand on his shoulder.
01:02:00
Speaker
Like, Hey man, I think, uh, I think I'll go ahead and lay off the rich boy jokes for a minute.
01:02:08
Speaker
Uh, I think Arthur and I, we're going to go check out your mom and dad's room right across the hall.
01:02:13
Speaker
Right?
01:02:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:16
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:18
Speaker
Arthur just kind of quietly starts walking out.
01:02:22
Speaker
Yeah, so we're just going to walk over there real quick and we'll see you in a minute, right?
01:02:28
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:29
Speaker
Yeah, I'll be over in a minute.
01:02:30
Speaker
And don't worry about the jokes.
01:02:32
Speaker
Like, you know I can take it.
01:02:35
Speaker
Yeah, I don't mean I got to be an asshole all the time.
01:02:37
Speaker
And I'm just going to kind of double pat him on the shoulder and walk out the door and head over to his parents' bedroom.
01:02:44
Speaker
Okay.
01:02:45
Speaker
Okay.
01:02:47
Speaker
Ryan, is there anything else you want to do in this time, or do you want to take your headset off so they can resolve their stuff?
01:02:55
Speaker
No, I think I'm good.
01:02:57
Speaker
That was about it.
01:02:58
Speaker
Okay.
01:02:59
Speaker
So basically, Ryan just kind of takes a minute to himself before coming over.
01:03:05
Speaker
Yep.
01:03:06
Speaker
Okay.
01:03:07
Speaker
You know what?
01:03:08
Speaker
I'm not even going to make you take your headset off.
01:03:10
Speaker
So... Ooh.
01:03:13
Speaker
Yay.
01:03:13
Speaker
Yay.
01:03:14
Speaker
Because I'm sure you're just going to try to collect yourself for a second.
01:03:18
Speaker
You're not going to be gone very long.
01:03:21
Speaker
Right?
01:03:23
Speaker
Actually, he would take a minute to himself, and then he would actually go back downstairs to find Samantha.
01:03:29
Speaker
Oh, okay.
01:03:30
Speaker
Well, in that case, take your headset off.
01:03:32
Speaker
Bye.
01:03:33
Speaker
Bye.
01:03:36
Speaker
Okay, so.
01:03:38
Speaker
Ned and Arthur.
01:03:43
Speaker
Yes.
01:03:45
Speaker
You guys see that Ryan found that piece of paper and you were kind of looking at it over his shoulder.
01:03:52
Speaker
So you kind of got the gist of what was going on.
01:03:56
Speaker
You saw it hit him a little bit.
01:03:58
Speaker
Tears started to roll.
01:03:59
Speaker
You guys decided, you know what?
01:04:01
Speaker
We're just going to go over here.
01:04:03
Speaker
So what do you guys do?
01:04:08
Speaker
Well, Arthur, you think we're going to find anything good in there?
01:04:13
Speaker
I just kind of wanted to get out of there to let him have his own moment.
01:04:17
Speaker
I think once he's ready, we should probably just head downstairs.
01:04:24
Speaker
I'm thinking maybe go in the garage.
01:04:26
Speaker
The garage probably got some items we can use to defend ourselves.
01:04:32
Speaker
I mean, I hope so.
01:04:34
Speaker
I don't even know if Ryan will know what's in there.
01:04:36
Speaker
It seems like he doesn't spend any time here.
01:04:39
Speaker
I mean, shit.
01:04:40
Speaker
From what I've seen, there's probably at least one fucking sharp object in there.
01:04:46
Speaker
Yeah.
01:04:47
Speaker
All the random shit they bought.
01:04:49
Speaker
Yeah, right.
01:04:50
Speaker
Well, let's, I at least want to poke my head into their bedroom real quick.
01:04:55
Speaker
I just want to take a look and see maybe his, maybe his dad's got like a gun or something underneath the bed or on the side table.
01:05:02
Speaker
Go ahead.
01:05:02
Speaker
I'll wait in the hall.
01:05:03
Speaker
All right.
01:05:04
Speaker
I'm just going to open the door and poke my head in and take a look around.
01:05:10
Speaker
Just looks like a... A bedroom.
01:05:14
Speaker
Got a king-size bed.
01:05:15
Speaker
I mean, it's a rich people's bedroom, so... It looks fancy, but it doesn't look like you're gonna really find anything of use in there.
01:05:25
Speaker
Alright.
01:05:29
Speaker
No bedside table or anything like that?
01:05:32
Speaker
It's got the bedside tables, his and her lamp kind of thing.
01:05:35
Speaker
You see...
01:05:40
Speaker
They each got medication on their side tables, like stuff to help them sleep, that kind of stuff.
01:05:46
Speaker
Nothing, nothing that, like I said, nothing that you would think would actually help you in this scenario.
01:05:54
Speaker
All right.
01:05:55
Speaker
I'm just going to go ahead and shut the door then.
01:05:57
Speaker
All right, Arthur, I think you might have been right.
01:06:00
Speaker
I didn't really see anything there.
01:06:02
Speaker
Let's get back downstairs.
01:06:03
Speaker
Make sure Sam's all right.
01:06:06
Speaker
Right.
01:06:07
Speaker
Okay.
01:06:08
Speaker
Okay.
01:06:10
Speaker
So you guys head downstairs and funny enough, that's where Ryan was going to.
01:06:17
Speaker
So I will get everybody back.
01:06:21
Speaker
All right.
01:06:26
Speaker
So Samantha, you are looking around in the kitchen.
01:06:30
Speaker
Your brain is elsewhere and you hear movement from upstairs.
01:06:37
Speaker
What kind of movement?
01:06:39
Speaker
walking, you hear footsteps.
01:06:43
Speaker
And after a minute, you hear two sets of footsteps come down the stairs and then shortly followed by a third set of footsteps as Ned and Arthur come down the stairs, very, very closely followed by Ryan.
01:06:58
Speaker
And you see that Ryan is now wearing a tactical vest and
01:07:08
Speaker
And has a set of dog tags on.
01:07:12
Speaker
And he almost has this look of pride on his face.
01:07:16
Speaker
And Ned and Arthur just look like Ned and Arthur.
01:07:18
Speaker
Bland as fuck.
01:07:22
Speaker
That's us.
01:07:24
Speaker
Da da da da da.
01:07:26
Speaker
Looking sharp.
01:07:27
Speaker
Looking sharp.
01:07:30
Speaker
What's with the vest?
01:07:33
Speaker
It's for my uncle.
01:07:35
Speaker
I felt it could be useful considering everything going on.
01:07:39
Speaker
Okay.
01:07:41
Speaker
Did you find anything?
01:07:42
Speaker
I didn't find anything, no.
01:07:45
Speaker
Your house is very nice, but your parents bought cheap shit.
01:07:49
Speaker
Yeah, sounds like dumb.
01:07:53
Speaker
That's what the upstairs hallway looked like, too.
01:07:57
Speaker
What about you guys?
01:07:58
Speaker
Do you find anything useful up there aside from Ryan's new digs?
01:08:03
Speaker
Some sleeping pills on his parents' nightstands, but other than that, didn't look like a whole lot of anything.
01:08:09
Speaker
Some tacky pictures on the wall, but that's about it.
01:08:13
Speaker
Yep, they basically found the same shit you found.
01:08:16
Speaker
Great.
01:08:20
Speaker
You know, shit.
01:08:21
Speaker
Well, I mean, we can still check through Garage, but no guarantee anything's actually in working order.
01:08:30
Speaker
Well, it's worth a shot.
01:08:33
Speaker
But I mean, hey, at least there wasn't anything here trying to, you know, impersonate my parents or kill us.
01:08:38
Speaker
Yeah, there's still one more fucking room.
01:08:43
Speaker
I mean, Arthur's right.
01:08:45
Speaker
There is still one more fucking room.
01:08:49
Speaker
Well, garage then?
01:08:51
Speaker
Yeah, Brian is going to lead him out the back doors towards the garage, which is not attached to the house.
01:08:59
Speaker
The garage is not attached to the house, okay?
01:09:02
Speaker
Oh, it's like its own shed.
01:09:05
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:07
Speaker
So you guys head out to the garage.
01:09:13
Speaker
So far you have seen nothing out of the ordinary, really.
01:09:19
Speaker
He's just going to head for the side door on the garage and just try to open it.
01:09:23
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:27
Speaker
You go to open it and it opens right up.
01:09:30
Speaker
Is there anything in there or is it dark?
01:09:34
Speaker
It is dark.
01:09:36
Speaker
Ryan is going to pull out his flashlight he got from Crypto Crafts and flick it on and take a step inside.
01:09:42
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:45
Speaker
As you step inside, you see your parents' cars.
01:09:51
Speaker
Obviously not your car, because we know what happened to your car.
01:09:56
Speaker
Still mad you broke my car.
01:10:02
Speaker
You see your parents' cars.
01:10:05
Speaker
It's a rich people's garage.
01:10:08
Speaker
It's, you know, your parents are the kind of people, if something breaks, they pay someone to fix it.
01:10:17
Speaker
So you're not going to find, like, any tools or anything.
01:10:20
Speaker
Or if you find tools, they're going to be, like, the really cheap ones.
01:10:25
Speaker
The garage is more of, like, a showcase.
01:10:28
Speaker
Your dad has, like, some pin-up posters up there.
01:10:32
Speaker
It's more, we park our cars here, but our cars are really fancy.
01:10:37
Speaker
Like, they've never seen rain, they've never seen snow.
01:10:41
Speaker
They're in pristine condition.
01:10:43
Speaker
It's a showcase.
01:10:46
Speaker
Any golf clubs?
01:10:48
Speaker
No golf clubs.
01:10:51
Speaker
Does anybody else find it eerily quiet here?
01:10:57
Speaker
Yeah.
01:10:58
Speaker
Why the hell was my house full of demons?
01:11:01
Speaker
I mean, to be fair, your house always had someone there.
01:11:06
Speaker
Actually, now that you say that, I got a question.
01:11:10
Speaker
How much time do you think we've spent at that movie theater?
01:11:13
Speaker
Like, not here, but like, you know, before.
01:11:18
Speaker
Like, our characters?
01:11:20
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:22
Speaker
Like, you mean like in the real world?
01:11:23
Speaker
Like, how many times have you guys gone to see movies and like that kind of thing?
01:11:27
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:29
Speaker
Okay, that's up to you guys to decide, not me.
01:11:33
Speaker
Probably not very often.
01:11:34
Speaker
I just got my driver's license, so I wasn't able to make it up there all the time.
01:11:39
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, you and I probably grew up differently, but if I ever asked my mom, like, hey, can I go to the theater with some people?
01:11:51
Speaker
I would find some way to get a lift, whether that was with her, with friends or whatever.
01:11:56
Speaker
I like to spend my money on
Safety and Travel Considerations
01:11:58
Speaker
other things.
01:11:58
Speaker
I don't think I was much of a theater goer.
01:12:01
Speaker
Okay.
01:12:02
Speaker
Brian would have dragged Ned to see a couple of horror movies every once in a while, so.
01:12:08
Speaker
That's why I knew right where the bathroom was.
01:12:13
Speaker
I mean, I would say Sam visited the theater a lot with Ashley.
01:12:20
Speaker
Whether you were actually looking for a movie or just trying to scope out boys.
01:12:23
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
01:12:26
Speaker
See, I know how it works.
01:12:27
Speaker
You did say Chris worked there at one point, so.
01:12:30
Speaker
Exactly.
01:12:30
Speaker
You are correct.
01:12:32
Speaker
Arthur would go see it for his kaiju films.
01:12:36
Speaker
Kaiju films, any alien movies.
01:12:40
Speaker
I get the feeling that Ryan and Ned more have like a brother relationship.
01:12:47
Speaker
I feel like Ryan looks at Ned as the brother that he wanted, not the sister that he fucking has.
01:12:53
Speaker
I mean, Ryan would feel that way.
01:12:55
Speaker
I don't know if Ned would.
01:12:57
Speaker
Ned looks down at Ryan.
01:13:00
Speaker
Just gives him a smile.
01:13:03
Speaker
I'm totally.
01:13:03
Speaker
That's just an observation that I've had, like the way Ryan's always ready to, all right, Ned, let's go.
01:13:11
Speaker
Yep, yep, yep.
01:13:13
Speaker
I like it.
01:13:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:13:16
Speaker
So all the places that have been like not aged and weird have all been the places we've all kind of hang out.
01:13:23
Speaker
Treehouse, Cryptic Crafts for Arthur, the movie theater.
01:13:27
Speaker
How much you want to bet all the places we've spent a lot of time at are different.
01:13:31
Speaker
What are you getting at?
01:13:34
Speaker
Oh, nuts.
01:13:36
Speaker
Like, all the places we were at a lot, just in general, tend to be the places that are not, you know, just decrepit and aged.
01:13:45
Speaker
Like, I don't spend any time here, any gestures to the house and stuff, and everything's just decrepit, aged, and there's nothing going on here.
01:13:55
Speaker
And yet, when we went to Arthur's house, there's fucking grinners in there.
01:13:59
Speaker
The movie theater was all brand new.
01:14:02
Speaker
The treehouse was brand new.
01:14:04
Speaker
Like, bet you anything if we go to the junkyard, there'll be something.
01:14:09
Speaker
Although I'm not really willing to go that far out of town right now.
01:14:12
Speaker
Then we should go to my place.
01:14:14
Speaker
Because I know we spent a lot of time there.
01:14:18
Speaker
Yeah.
01:14:19
Speaker
And I'm wondering, and Ryan holds up the tooth, I'm wondering if we're going to find more stuff like this.
01:14:26
Speaker
Something that might lead us back to our world, hopefully.
01:14:30
Speaker
Roll me a d6.
01:14:31
Speaker
Ryan.
01:14:33
Speaker
That's a one.
01:14:38
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:14:39
Speaker
Roll me a second one.
01:14:42
Speaker
Ew.
01:14:44
Speaker
I mean, you could just say it happens.
01:14:46
Speaker
That's a six.
01:14:48
Speaker
Okay, negate the one.
01:14:49
Speaker
Gain six sanity.
01:14:51
Speaker
Gain six sanity.
01:14:53
Speaker
So you said these cars, although aged, look like they were taken care of in just an immaculate way.
01:15:00
Speaker
Yes.
01:15:01
Speaker
Are there keys in either of the cars?
01:15:06
Speaker
Hey, Ryan, your parents don't really take their cars out and do much, do they?
01:15:12
Speaker
Not really.
01:15:13
Speaker
I mean, they took them to events and stuff to show off, but that's about it.
01:15:18
Speaker
Think they'd still turn over?
01:15:21
Speaker
I...
01:15:23
Speaker
Maybe.
01:15:24
Speaker
I mean, we don't know how much time has aged these fucking magic shit.
01:15:29
Speaker
Alien.
01:15:30
Speaker
I don't know.
01:15:30
Speaker
Aliens.
01:15:33
Speaker
Aliens.
01:15:35
Speaker
Aliens.
01:15:36
Speaker
Oh, we peaked him.
01:15:39
Speaker
Where would the keys be, man?
01:15:42
Speaker
I mean, usually they're kept in a cabinet across the garage.
01:15:47
Speaker
It's got them all in there, all labeled.
01:15:49
Speaker
Well, I mean, it's worth looking at.
01:15:51
Speaker
We could make it over to Sam's house a hell of a lot quicker if one of these cars will turn over.
01:15:55
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, that'd be a lot of shit with no one else on the road.
01:15:59
Speaker
Like, that'd draw basically anything around towards us.
01:16:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
01:16:06
Speaker
I mean, I'm willing to try it.
01:16:07
Speaker
I'm just, you know, putting it out there.
01:16:10
Speaker
Well, do you have anything that we could, like, cover the muffler with?
01:16:14
Speaker
I know nothing about cars, but, I mean, you can put a silencer on a gun.
01:16:18
Speaker
Can't you put a silencer on a muffler?
01:16:22
Speaker
What are the chances one of these vehicles is a Tesla?
01:16:25
Speaker
Absolutely zero.
01:16:30
Speaker
Those cost real money.
01:16:35
Speaker
I mean, that's fair.
01:16:36
Speaker
I didn't even think about that, but...
01:16:39
Speaker
You know, if it might turn over, we don't know what's going to happen or how long we're going to be stuck here.
01:16:45
Speaker
I mean, Lance and Charlie, they were here for, what, they said, like, since the 20s?
01:16:49
Speaker
It's been a minute.
01:16:51
Speaker
If one of these cars will turn over, we might need that later.
01:16:55
Speaker
Ned, roll me history.
01:16:57
Speaker
History.
01:16:58
Speaker
I like it, like it, that.
01:16:59
Speaker
I have to wake my mouse up.
01:17:03
Speaker
It's an 82 on a not that high.
01:17:06
Speaker
40.40.
01:17:10
Speaker
One of these times you guys will get this history roll that I want you to get, but not this time.
01:17:17
Speaker
I feel like I almost remembered something.
01:17:19
Speaker
It'll come to me later, but can we just satiate myself real quick?
01:17:24
Speaker
Can we just see if the keys are there and if one of these will turn over just so that we know we got them if we ever need them?
01:17:30
Speaker
It's worth a shot.
01:17:33
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we can try them.
01:17:36
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to save you the trouble of role playing this out.
01:17:39
Speaker
With how decrepit these cars are, there is absolutely zero chance any of the batteries still have a charge.
01:17:46
Speaker
That would have killed my Tesla idea, too.
01:17:52
Speaker
I mean, we're talking these cars are so decrepit that the rubber of the tires is cracked.
01:18:00
Speaker
Well, clearly, we're not getting anywhere with these cars.
01:18:05
Speaker
So why don't we just start heading to my place?
01:18:08
Speaker
See if it's any different.
01:18:09
Speaker
See if we can figure something out.
01:18:13
Speaker
If the horses are still there, we could always take them out instead.
01:18:17
Speaker
They're quieter.
01:18:19
Speaker
It's the only plan we got left.
01:18:20
Speaker
I really hate to break this to you, Sam, but if the cars look like this, I don't think the horses... I don't want to hear it.
01:18:30
Speaker
I want to go check.
01:18:32
Speaker
Yeah, okay.
01:18:33
Speaker
That's fair.
01:18:34
Speaker
All right.
01:18:36
Speaker
Let's go.
01:18:37
Speaker
You guys are heading to Samantha's house and you are... Let me pull up the map here.
01:18:47
Speaker
Which way are you guys going?
01:18:48
Speaker
Are you guys going to go past cryptic crafts or past Arthur's?
01:18:53
Speaker
Are you going to take the woods?
01:18:55
Speaker
Are you going to take roads?
01:18:57
Speaker
What are we thinking?
01:19:00
Speaker
Brian would speak up and be like, I mean, if we can, if you guys think the woods would be more safe, I can definitely navigate us that way.
01:19:06
Speaker
But I mean, it'd take longer than just going up and taking the main road over.
01:19:11
Speaker
Yeah, we might as well just take the main road.
01:19:15
Speaker
But I mean, might be more hidden in the woods.
01:19:19
Speaker
I don't know.
01:19:21
Speaker
Yeah, we don't know what's in the hiding in the woods.
01:19:24
Speaker
We also don't know what's on the main road because it looks like the main road has to go through the nest.
01:19:29
Speaker
Well, okay, what if we hang past cryptid crafts, keep going the road, and then keep taking right?
01:19:39
Speaker
Say more towards, like, the east end of town?
01:19:43
Speaker
Yeah, we won't be near the nest.
01:19:45
Speaker
It'd be, like, the farthest right road.
01:19:49
Speaker
So kind of more back roads.
01:19:51
Speaker
Yeah.
01:19:52
Speaker
That, I mean, Ned, what do you think?
01:19:57
Speaker
I mean, it ain't too far out to the side.
01:20:00
Speaker
I think staying on the main roads would be a better idea.
01:20:02
Speaker
We can actually see where we're going and whatnot.
01:20:05
Speaker
If we're in the woods and it's this dark outside with nothing above us, we ain't going to see nothing in the woods.
01:20:12
Speaker
All right.
01:20:12
Speaker
Let's take the roads then.
01:20:15
Speaker
God damn it.
01:20:21
Speaker
No, you're going to like this one.
01:20:22
Speaker
Okay.
01:20:24
Speaker
You guys have a pretty safe and easy trip.
01:20:28
Speaker
You guys are heading up.
01:20:29
Speaker
You said you're taking like the back roads to that main road out, right?
01:20:33
Speaker
Yeah.
01:20:33
Speaker
Yeah.
01:20:34
Speaker
Okay.
01:20:35
Speaker
So yeah, you guys are walking up just fine.
01:20:40
Speaker
You walk past the, without thinking about it, you walk past where the giant spiders were and they're still dead there.
01:20:49
Speaker
Sam flips him off as he walks by.
01:20:54
Speaker
And yeah, you guys are making it.
01:20:56
Speaker
And you get within about a half mile of Sam's house and the road's gone.
01:21:06
Speaker
What?
01:21:09
Speaker
Like it just stops or it just kind of fades away?
01:21:13
Speaker
It looks like something kind of gouged out the earth where the road is.
01:21:18
Speaker
So you will have to, it's too big to get across, so you'll have to go around it to get to Sam's house.
01:21:29
Speaker
All right.
01:21:30
Speaker
Okay, like how long is it?
01:21:32
Speaker
Like how long and how wide?
01:21:35
Speaker
You're talking probably 40, 50 feet across.
01:21:38
Speaker
It's 20, 30 feet down into the pit.
01:21:43
Speaker
And it's at least across the road.
01:21:45
Speaker
It goes off into the woods on either side.
01:21:47
Speaker
Fucking water tower.
01:21:49
Speaker
Sure as shit.
01:21:52
Speaker
Well, I guess we're going around.
01:21:55
Speaker
I mean... Does that mean we have to go into the woods?
01:21:58
Speaker
Because Sam's house is not in a city area.
01:22:05
Speaker
Oh, I know.
01:22:06
Speaker
Looks like it.
01:22:07
Speaker
Yay.
01:22:08
Speaker
Don't worry.
01:22:09
Speaker
I'll make sure we don't get lost.
01:22:11
Speaker
So it's like the universe is telling us we have to go through the wood.
01:22:16
Speaker
Weird, right?
01:22:18
Speaker
So if you guys look on the map here, you see where it says Sam's house.
01:22:21
Speaker
And then off to the left, there's like a big, long loop.
01:22:27
Speaker
It's in that area across the road that that gouges.
01:22:31
Speaker
So you guys are very close to Sam's house.
01:22:35
Speaker
The gouge is not that whole area, to point that out.
01:22:39
Speaker
That is not the gouge there.
01:22:41
Speaker
It's just, like I said, across the road and a little bit into the woods on either side.
01:22:46
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:49
Speaker
Annoying, but easy to walk around.
01:22:52
Speaker
Backpedaling on Ryan's idea there.
01:22:54
Speaker
I mean, Sam's right.
01:22:55
Speaker
We spent a lot of time out here.
01:22:56
Speaker
We know these parts of the woods pretty good, so let's mostly on the long way around to get to it.
01:23:03
Speaker
We head to my house.
01:23:06
Speaker
As you guys are walking through the woods, I want everyone to roll me an alertness, but I want your alertness to be a base 15.
01:23:16
Speaker
What does that mean?
01:23:19
Speaker
That means you're rolling on a 15.
01:23:20
Speaker
I don't care what your alertness score is, you're rolling on a 15.
01:23:23
Speaker
21 on a 15.
01:23:26
Speaker
49 on a 15.
01:23:32
Speaker
17 out of 15, but I'm going to burn two luck for that.
01:23:36
Speaker
Okay.
01:23:37
Speaker
But that's a 68 out of 15.
01:23:39
Speaker
Oh my god.
01:23:41
Speaker
Wow.
01:23:43
Speaker
Okay.
Unexpected Encounter and Cliffhanger
01:23:45
Speaker
As you guys are walking for a split second, something hits your foot.
01:23:51
Speaker
And just as quickly as it does, it gives away.
01:23:55
Speaker
Ryan is going to look down at his foot.
01:23:59
Speaker
As you look down at your foot, you see the net that was laying on the ground lifts up and catches all four of you.
01:24:08
Speaker
Oh, shit!
01:24:09
Speaker
What the hell?
01:24:13
Speaker
This is just like in Pitch Perfect.
01:24:20
Speaker
And then you hear, coming from the woods, what sounds like hooves and...
01:24:28
Speaker
You guys are able to look off and see a mounted rider riding a horse.
01:24:39
Speaker
And as they step out into the light, Samantha, you recognize Anubis.
01:24:47
Speaker
Who the fuck is on my horse and why?
01:24:49
Speaker
And before you can say anything, you hear...
01:24:56
Speaker
Well, Anubis looks like we caught something in our trap.
01:25:01
Speaker
And the rider is wearing a cowboy hat, wearing a flannel shirt, jeans, looks up, and you guys are looking at an older Samantha.
01:25:15
Speaker
What the fuck?
01:25:18
Speaker
And that's where we're going to end this episode.
01:25:19
Speaker
What the fuck?
01:25:22
Speaker
You're riding Anubis.
01:25:23
Speaker
What the fuck?
01:25:26
Speaker
But I ran the net.
01:25:28
Speaker
It makes no sense.
01:25:31
Speaker
Well played.
01:25:32
Speaker
Oh, I was so happy you guys went to Sam's house.
01:25:38
Speaker
You went and ended.
01:25:41
Speaker
All right.
01:25:41
Speaker
So, yeah, that's going to do it for this episode.
01:25:45
Speaker
Thank you, everybody, for listening.
01:25:47
Speaker
We will see you all in two weeks time.
01:25:50
Speaker
Bye.
01:25:51
Speaker
Bye.
01:25:52
Speaker
See you later.
Closing Remarks and Future Updates
01:25:56
Speaker
Let's Play Pretend is Nick Barnett as Ned Dalaran, 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.
01:26:12
Speaker
Keep up with us to hear firsthand on any fun new developments that may be coming in the future, and we will see you all here in two weeks' time.
01:26:29
Speaker
Ha ha ha!