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Last Things Last - Basics for How to Play Delta Green

Published on: 9th December, 2025

In this episode of Dead Letter Bureau, the hosts introduce Delta Green and guide new players through gameplay mechanics. The narrative unfolds as players explore a dark and mysterious world filled with moral dilemmas and unexpected twists. The story follows two characters, Barone and Emmett, as they navigate a series of investigations, uncovering secrets and facing challenges. The atmosphere is thick with tension, and the players must work together to solve the mysteries that lie ahead. As they navigate through the horrors of the past, they grapple with their sanity and the moral implications of their actions.

Cast and Crew

Nick Sayers... Handler, and Editor

Zach... Agent Emmet

Ryan... Agent Barone

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Transcript
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Welcome to Dead Letter Bureau.

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If you're a regular listener, you'll notice that we're doing things a little differently

today.

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it's your first time here, then you've picked a perfect jumping in point.

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Today's episode is kind of an orientation.

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We get a lot of questions about Delta Green.

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How do I start playing?

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uh

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what are the rules?

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And this is gonna be our answer to some of those questions.

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So we're gonna introduce you to the game and hopefully show you some impossible choices in

front of these agents and explore the rules as we're doing it.

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We'll be doing this by running a special session designed to teach the core rules.

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It's the intro session, last things last.

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To help me out, I have two guests at the table.

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First, our veteran player, Ryan, welcome.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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My name is Ryan Murphy.

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I will be playing Morgan Barone, uh a mechanic who's infatuated with death metal.

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That you will.

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And joining us for the first time is a completely new player who's coming in fresh.

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He's never played a game, never seen a character sheet before the one I just sent him.

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Welcome to the conspiracy.

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Thank you.

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I'm Zach Lemus.

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I'll be playing Emmett Flint, a firefighter who likes starting and finishing fires

equally.

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Beautiful.

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ah

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Yeah, happy to be here.

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uh Played a couple other RPGs, but never Delta Green.

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Excited to jump in.

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Yeah, and so on that note, everything is done with, almost everything is done with a D100

dice.

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So you can do that two different ways.

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You have a percentile dice, which usually has two digits on it, and you have a D10, right?

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So you roll your percentile and your D10, and then you get a number.

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And you're typically trying to roll under a target in this game.

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Now,

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If you don't have a percentile dice, try to get two D10s of different colors and say, this

one is my 10s and this one is my one, right?

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And then you can roll that way as well.

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Now you're looking for multiples of 11 for criticals and that's critical success or

failure.

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Any critical success is under your target number.

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Any critical failure is above your target.

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100s are always fails, critical failures, and then 1s are always critical successes.

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Make sense?

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Let's do it.

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we're stateside.

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It's been a few weeks since the incident at the convoy.

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I think you're trying to forget, Agent Barone.

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You're at a hole in the wall bar at dusk, the kind of place where the whiskey's cheap and

the regrets are free.

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You are looking around the bar.

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Can you roll alertness for me?

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Sure, can do.

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So alertness, alertness is pretty good.

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I'm looking for 80.

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I got 86, starting off with a failure.

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And so with an alertness of 80, a lot of times we don't even have somebody roll, right?

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Because it is so alert.

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But since you're drinking and it's a dark bar, I went ahead and had you roll anyway and

you did fail.

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So you don't see anything at first.

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But as time goes by, you see him across the room, nursing a drink.

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It's a face you can't quite place at first.

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And it makes the back of your neck prickle a little bit.

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You know him from some.

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Alright Barone, this is why you're here.

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You got this big girl stand up straight and I walk over and pull the stool out next to him

with it with the loud screech and sit down.

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He looks up and smiles at you and puts a hand out and says his name's K.

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Uh, yeah, Kay, nice to meet you again, I guess.

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I shake his hand decently tight, trying to look more confident than I am feeling.

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Yeah, go ahead and roll persuasion on that.

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Okay, sure.

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Persuasion.

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I just have my bass of 20 and I got a 90.

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he sees through that.

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He sees the nerves, the goosebumps on your arms after recognizing him are still present

and you sit there and you're shaking a little bit.

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uh He tries to give you a disarming smile.

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I'm not sure it works.

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And he leans towards you uncomfortably close and just says, I'm here to reach you in.

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read me into what?

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You don't have anywhere to be tonight, right?

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Oh no, yeah, no, this was it.

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This is all I got.

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Yeah, he reaches down into a small satchel beside him and pulls out a stack of $100 bills

and in plain sight in this bar just sets it in front of you.

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ah Can I see the bills like already?

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Yeah.

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Oh Jesus Christ!

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I zip it and pull it off.

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I'm like, what?

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You can't...

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You just...

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Just a flashy boy, aren't you?

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Just sticking that right out there, huh?

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It's, I guess, a way to grease the wheels a little bit to ensure that you're with us

tonight.

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Yeah, mean, consider them greased.

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How much is this?

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You'll get to count it later.

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All right, yeah, sure.

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I zip it up and it's like a duffel bag, I assume.

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It's just a stack of $100 bills.

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That's it.

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So yeah.

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I'll stick it in my jacket trying to look around and make sure nobody sees me.

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Yeah.

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Go ahead and roll alertness again.

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Sure, Alerna still good, 80.

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I got a 27.

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with that alertness role, you notice in the corner in a booth, a man sitting alone, a

large man, and he's been looking over to you and Kay nervously.

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Hey, uh, do we know this guy over here?

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And I kinda put my head over my shoulder.

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Yeah, he just raises his hand and flicks his finger three times and emit.

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From the corner, you know that that's your signal to join him.

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You've been patiently waiting and curiously waiting as well for this conversation.

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Yeah, I slowly stand up, leaving my barely sipped beer on the table and make my way over,

trying to appear just a little more hunched over.

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I know I'm a big guy that I draw a lot of attention to be at bars.

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So I try to slink over to the bar top and slide in next to Kay, uh kind of doing the

little

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Leading forward, trying to look past K and then leaning back and trying to get a read on

Barone here.

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ah But still a little nervous.

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Don't say it.

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Don't say anything.

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Yeah, so there are some special roles to kind of gauge somebody.

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It's called human intelligence or human.

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Can you give me a role of human to see what you can glean about Burone?

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Doesn't seem like we'll be able to glean BUNCE much.

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I only got 10 % here.

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So let's see.

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That is a 2.

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So actually I can read her quite well.

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You know, I've experienced people like Barone in my past.

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And I just look her up and down and I act like I know her whole life story already.

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as you look at Barone, you see somebody, it's like a flash to the past.

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You see yourself sitting in that chair.

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You see yourself sitting with Kay wondering what the fuck is going on?

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Why is this person talking to me?

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And you also saw the stack of cash go her way.

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um You think about the stack of cash in your coat pocket right now, and it feels like you

have a kinship immediately with this one.

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I lean back and reach a hand over and say, Emmett Flynn, nice to meet you.

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I expect you to be my new partner.

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Is that it?

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K laughs.

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Yeah, but maybe so.

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Take his hand, shake it.

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Does the finger thing work on you every time?

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Uh, Kate just said, wait for my signal.

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And I, you know, I've never seen him act and move so much with a whole flake of the wrist

and a snap.

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So I figured that was it.

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Yeah, he's a pithy guy, that's for sure, and I look over at K.

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Don't worry, the cash isn't a bribe.

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It's for gas, hotel rooms, whatever you might need if things don't go your way.

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Considerate your new expense account and you get to keep whatever's left over, obviously.

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um Well, you guys ready to jump in?

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Yeah, why not now?

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Yeah, let's go.

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All right, a few weeks ago, somebody had a bad day at the office.

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His name was Clyde and Clyde doesn't live too far from here.

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He lives in an apartment.

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Our buddy Clyde used to be active with us for a few years, but Clyde had a massive heart

attack and we need some help cleaning up after Clyde.

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I'm sorry, you need help cleaning up after a heart attack or removing bodies?

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That's a good question.

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his body has already been taken care of.

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I believe it was found by a neighbor, but in a day or two, I'm not quite sure his children

are gonna come looking through his stuff.

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So you are hiring us to just clean his house.

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We could hire some maids if you need.

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Yeah, in a sense, I guess so.

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But I need you to look for anything out of the ordinary.

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Any files he might have had, any objects that seem strange to you or give you a strange

feeling.

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That's what you're cleaning up.

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And if we do find any of these files, what should we do with them?

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Keep them and in three days, meet me right back here, about now.

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I mean, works for me, we could always get rid of them.

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And he pulls out a lighter and flicks it, sparks a light, lets it sit there for a couple

seconds as he looks at it and pulls out a cigarette and lights it.

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Give me you a knowing look.

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Yeah, the lighting the cigarette illuminates your face.

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Barone, this is the first good look you've gotten at Emmett Flint.

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um Looks like a, how would you describe yourself?

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uh You can tell that growing up, Emmett was probably just a tall string bean.

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He's really now grown into his body, getting into the uh firefighting to help quell some

of his darker urges.

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If he's been working at it, he wants to make sure that he can not only save people, but

also make a quick getaway if he caused a little more damage than he expected to.

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ah So he has now more of a chiseled jaw, long face, real angular looking in the cigarette

light.

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As you look at her she looks down and looks at you and realize you're both kind of wearing

the same colored shirt and she's like, nice shirt.

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Yeah, thanks.

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You know, got it from my old high school and kind of faded down now and just trying to fit

into this bar.

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I can't wear my actual suit walking around these days.

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Yeah, your actual suit?

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you know, fire retardant, has some bright yellow reflective material, you know, kind of

draws a lot of attention.

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Right, got you, the fire guy.

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Yeah, yeah, okay, now that makes sense, and she points at you lighter.

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my old uh, my old nickname fire guy?

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f- Well, it's extremely literal and straightforward, apparently.

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I really grew into my name.

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uh Agent K looks between you two, again shakes his head and says, I have a lot of high

hopes for the two of you, um so don't disappoint me.

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And gets up, sets down a $20 bill on the table and starts to leave.

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Alright fire guy.

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that $20 bills, is that another, is that also part of our payment?

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And like looking at you, I could like reach for it and then the bartender quickly snatches

it away.

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Yeah, no, big boy, we have a stack of our own.

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Let's get going.

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when you see the bartender lift up the $20 bill, there is a piece of paper under it that

just sits there.

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Bartender doesn't concern themselves with the piece of paper.

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Okay, now I think that probably is for you.

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Not the tip?

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Oh, okay.

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And I grab the piece of paper, unfold it, and I scooch one seat over, be sitting next to

it around, and yeah, we take a look at it together.

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There is a scrawled address that, and below it says Clyde Bauman.

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Is this address in town here?

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Are we taking a trip somewhere?

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Where do we got to go?

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In town?

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Well that makes it easy.

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All right, ah I guess I'll get the cab.

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Let's go.

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And then I'll turn around and start heading for the door.

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Yeah, you get out, the street is lit with the neon light of the bar,

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The bar's name is The Long Face.

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You look up at the long face and think why the long face about this guy sitting next to

you, but don't verbalize that.

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And you're hailing a cab it sounds like.

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Yep, I'll stick my hand up and wave a Hailin cap down

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it takes about 15 minutes for one to pass you.

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You're on the fringe of the city and you get into the cab with Emmett and start driving to

this address.

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so you are both in the cab on your way to this apartment.

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um Any conversation between you two?

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So how did you meet Kay?

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How do you find yourself in this situation?

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Uh, well, our moms are best friends and we used to hang out when we were 11 or 12 and then

we grew up and grew distant for a while.

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No, man, I fucking...

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a really sketchy situation on a convoy in the middle of nowhere.

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I assume it's probably the same for you.

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Yeah, not the convoy part, but he did, you know, he actually did pull me out of a fire one

time.

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I don't know how he knew about this.

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I don't know if he's the one who started it, but I was called to a house fire.

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And he seemed to have quite an interest in what survived, what didn't, especially what

didn't survive.

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And he grabbed me right then and there.

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metaphorically grabbing me, not physically grabbing me.

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Well, I mean, I don't know about that.

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You did just say that he pulled you out of the fire.

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I don't think he metaphorically pulled you out of the fire, did he?

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A little column A, a little column B, you know, I have things handled, you know, but I'm

glad he was there.

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Yeah, I'm sure you did, big guy.

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have a masculinity of the titan

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So, uh, are you a music person in incapacity?

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you know, some good classic rock, top 50, a little bit of everything, you know.

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What about you?

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Oh man, all sorts of shit.

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All the heavier stuff usually slaps, like...

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Let's see.

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Gorn fatuation.

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Oh shit, malice and knives is pretty good.

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uh Bleeding out from a throat wound is probably up there.

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Intestine copulation is pretty solid.

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you fucking can't do anything without violence.

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Violence absolutely slaps.

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Are we still talking about music here or are a kink?

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Little column A, little column B.

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can't.

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Touche.

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Touche indeed.

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Yeah, no, that was all music, my guy.

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I gotta look him up.

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I mean, watch your search history with that.

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Yeah, you're a Alta Vista web browser.

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um Would be betraying you at this point.

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Yeah, you're starting to get there.

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The cab pulls up.

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You see the place, you know the place.

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I'm sure you do because you've driven past it a hundred times in your life, maybe a

thousand.

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It's just one of those apartment buildings built in the sixties, blocky and drab.

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Looks like it was designed a man who, or excuse me, looks like it was designed by a man

who hated shapes and color.

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Maybe people too.

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It's kind of slumped.

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in a declining working class neighborhood.

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And it's a place where the American dream came to cough up a little bit and sputter and

then eventually die.

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And there's a small office at the bottom floor and it looks like it's two stories.

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Entering in the front, you walking around, what's your approach?

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Yeah.

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Did we have a apartment number on the address or just this building?

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201.

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Yeah, we, I say we just walk in like we own place, head on up, you know, like we're guests

of Clyde.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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think going and acting like we're supposed to be here is the best way to look unnoticed.

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You open the door, it's a glass door and you get to a second door with some stairs behind

it.

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Off to your right, there is a aging woman sitting with her feet up reading a book and she

kind of looks up at you as you go to that second door and proceed up the stairs.

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And you get to the door, it is locked.

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Uh, H.

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McBaron, do you have any way to get in here?

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I, you know, don't want to make too much noise just yet.

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We could definitely break this door down, but I want to defer to you first.

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I sadly, I think these doors usually don't do as much as people want them to.

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You could sometimes slip a credit card in there and get it right open.

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And I will get a credit card out and try exactly that.

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Yeah, and so there is no credit card skill for opening a door, right?

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So in these instances, I would have you look at your character sheet and look at your main

statistics.

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This is strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, power, and charisma.

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And then I would make you do a score times five role based on what I think is the best one

to use, right?

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So in this instance, dexterity is probably the best.

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So give me a

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Dex times five roll.

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Sounds good.

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My base deck score is 14 times 5 would be 70.

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And here we go.

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I got a 5005.

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Aced it.

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All right, you slip the credit card in, you feel the telltale wiggle of the door starting

to wiggle open and the uh bolt just slides back as your credit card goes through and then

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the door swings a jar slightly.

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right I think this is our way in.

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I'm glad that worked.

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That was just yeah tell me about it.

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I was just guessing man that fucking absolutely and I'll inch it open just a little bit

and I'll listen first.

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I'm not expecting anybody to be here but it doesn't it doesn't hurt to double check so

listen first and then if I don't hear anything I'll open slowly

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With your alertness of 80, there doesn't seem to be anything in there.

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You do hear back down the stairs, some rustling.

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It seems like the lady who is down there is moving around a little bit.

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you know, sorry.

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As the door opens and you're listening, it's not any sight that hits you, it's the smell.

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It's like a ghost of a million cigarettes.

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wafting into your face.

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In fact, you probably almost cough a little bit with how stale and uh nasty that is and

you can even see in just a little bit through the crack you're listening that there's a

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patina of like white and yellow cigarette smoke in the walls.

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Tina Filth.

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That's another great band name.

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Yeah, there you go.

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Alright, yeah, I'll open quickly and make quick work of getting inside.

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Come on.

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I slip in, quietly close the door behind me and uh, uh, Verona, I was going to say we

should close all the blinds, but I think we do need to crack a window here.

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This is for working in here for the next hour or two.

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This ain't gonna fly.

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yeah, no, I'm down with that.

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I thought you'd be kind of right at home, but uh, yeah, I guess let's open one.

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I mean, I'll walk over and go to window and crack it open.

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get the lights at least.

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Yeah, reach around for a light switch, try to get the lay of the land, know, try to

understand kind of the layout first before we start digging into a search.

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you find the light switch no problem.

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The apartment is Spartan and grim.

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There's a worn out couch that faces an archaic squat television tube and it kind of is

just staring back at you like a hunched over pagan dead TV God.

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There's a coffee table with the last remnants of life stalled out on it.

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You see unfinished crossword puzzle, a book with a bookmark.

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right in the middle of it and some old issues of Reader's Digest.

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And next to that is a box of powdered donuts that look like they're probably crumbly and

dry now.

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And from that living room, if you could call it a living room, uh you see a kitchen.

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And the kitchen is more like a morgue.

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It's pretty bare looking around.

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There are a few cans and pans left out.

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The refrigerator humming is the only splash of life you get in this apartment and it's

when you open it if you open it the light would probably not work.

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But on the fridge as you're walking around you see a child's drawing with a stick figure

it says grandpa on it without the D and it's signed by a little girl named Cassie it looks

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like and there are two gold stars on the bottom of that.

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It's the only

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splash of color in this gray place anyway.

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Hey bro, did Casey win Clyde passed?

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long ago was?

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Well, I think it was recent.

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I think it was within the last couple days.

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perfect, then I go and pick up a couple of donuts and start munching.

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That is absolutely fetid.

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Does it taste like the room smells?

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Yeah.

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You know, everything just kind of tastes the same at this point.

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You know, it's already in my nose.

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It's trying to get some powdered up there as well.

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know, anything helps right now.

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I guess get some sustenance in when you can man, it's...

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yep, alright.

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So when searching for something, we will have both of you roll a search, right?

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And with enough time in any location, you will succeed a search.

361

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The only reason I'm having you roll is to see how much time it takes.

362

:

Does that make sense?

363

:

Yeah, sounds good.

364

:

Yeah, give me a search role.

365

:

So find search on your character sheet, roll it and see if you get under it.

366

:

Be.

367

:

Both of you, you're first though.

368

:

Let's see here, my search, 40%, not too bad.

369

:

Let's see what we have, and that would be a 96.

370

:

I'm still just up in my face with donuts.

371

:

I've moved over to the kitchen, opened up the fridge.

372

:

Take a couple more sniffs, make sure nothing smells too bad, and start rooting around in

there instead.

373

:

Yeah, it's pretty Spartan.

374

:

There's no milk or anything, but there's no rotten food yet.

375

:

There wasn't anything in there that could go rotten.

376

:

It's just mostly condiments.

377

:

Agent Barone, go ahead and hit me with that search too.

378

:

Yeah, sure.

379

:

I'm looking for a 50.

380

:

I got uh a 53, barely.

381

:

Okay, you know, we can fail by degrees, so it's gonna take you a little bit longer.

382

:

One thing you do notice as you're rooting around, since your nose isn't in the fridge,

Barone, you can smell just a strange smell from down the hall.

383

:

And like, if you were to follow it, it would lead you to the bathroom.

384

:

Yeah, mean, absolutely any lead looking for anything a bathroom wouldn't be the first

place I think to start.

385

:

But if some's leading me there.

386

:

Yeah, you get there and the room is in a disturbed state.

387

:

The towel rack is busted off the wall.

388

:

The shower door is cracked.

389

:

It looks like a new crack.

390

:

There is little shards of ceramic in the toothbrush holder.

391

:

And it looks like some of the ceramic has been swept into a corner.

392

:

And it looks like there was some clumsy thing happening in here.

393

:

And yeah, the smell.

394

:

kind of says maybe this was the place he died.

395

:

Hey hey fire guy, did uh...

396

:

They said that he died by a heart attack, right?

397

:

Yeah, heart attack and what he was brought out of here a few days ago.

398

:

You find something?

399

:

Well, I mean, I don't know.

400

:

I don't know of many people who have a heart attack into the shower, into the mirror, into

the spread glass and ceramic all over the place.

401

:

And I'll start looking a little closer at the bits and shards and try to piece together

what happened in here.

402

:

Yeah, give me a forensic role and if you are doing the same, you can give me a role as

well.

403

:

Yeah, as Varun asked me about it, I come over and see the scene in this bathroom.

404

:

I like, boy, all right.

405

:

Maybe this is his death rose, but this looks a little more forceful than someone just

kinda slipping over and falling into the tub or something.

406

:

yeah.

407

:

Weird.

408

:

I have forensics of zero, so I'm going to be rolling anyways.

409

:

And I rolled a 65, a failure, obviously.

410

:

So what would happen if you have a zero?

411

:

What would you need to actually succeed or you just can't succeed?

412

:

A what?

413

:

A one?

414

:

I have forensics of 60.

415

:

Actually, I've seen some scenes of destruction before and caused some of my own.

416

:

And we have a 43 out of 60.

417

:

Yeah, you look around and at first it is pretty intense.

418

:

Like the scene does look like a lot of destruction, but you can kind of imagine it in your

head.

419

:

Him getting up off the toilet, something happening, his heart attack hitting.

420

:

It looks like maybe he smashed his head into the shower door based on where the crack is

and then fell down and some part of him hit.

421

:

the ceramic sink and cracked and knocked over the toothbrush holder and then it looks like

whoever got the body out of here swept some of the ceramic in the corner.

422

:

They didn't bother doing too much cleaning.

423

:

So it still kind of looks to me that this was his death rose and not someone actually

throwing him around.

424

:

Yep, absolutely.

425

:

Well, doesn't really seem like flat foul played.

426

:

Based on the amount of damage here, it doesn't look nice.

427

:

I wouldn't have wanted to have seen this, but you know, hard attack still seems like it's

on the menu.

428

:

Interesting.

429

:

All right.

430

:

mean, I've seen, I mean, I'm an ER head right now.

431

:

I'm digging deep in that show, but I guess I assumed when everybody had a heart attack,

they just kind of passed away safely in bed, not while they're taking a dump and smash

432

:

their head into the porcelain.

433

:

That's a sight, huh?

434

:

down the hall, you see the one bedroom apartment door open.

435

:

You can see that it is a bedroom.

436

:

It's dark in there.

437

:

What are you guys doing next?

438

:

uh Yeah, it doesn't seem like there's anything else in here.

439

:

Check out the bedroom.

440

:

Did he look like he had an office set up in the living room or is just his lazy boy chair

in front of the TV?

441

:

Yeah, just this Lazy Boy chair, you do notice if you're back in the living room, you do

notice that there is a key ring uh by the chair on the wall behind it that has some keys

442

:

on it.

443

:

Yeah.

444

:

Does it look like it's just his apartment key or something more than that?

445

:

Yeah, it looks like there's an apartment key and then you have, there's one key that looks

hefty and like it could be to a padlock.

446

:

And then the third key on it, you just see has a white sticker and it's faded and a big C

on it.

447

:

Alright, I'll grab that key ring and look for something else with a big old Fated C on it.

448

:

I'd say we head into the bedroom.

449

:

yeah bedroom sounds good.

450

:

uh usually in a complex like this if there's not enough room there could be a storage

locker or something down below so let's just take the room number and you know see if

451

:

there's anything like that after the bedroom if we haven't come up with anything

452

:

like the way you think.

453

:

But yeah.

454

:

And then, so then I sashay towards the bedroom.

455

:

You

456

:

Yeah, you get to the bedroom and there's a bed addresser that has some photos.

457

:

It looks like he was married once.

458

:

see.

459

:

two kids in graduation photos with what looks to be Clyde.

460

:

He looks like a man in his 60s in those pictures.

461

:

So depending on how long that was ago, he's might be fairly old or was fairly old when he

died.

462

:

um And yeah, the wife disappears from the pictures later and it's just him and the kids.

463

:

There's no computer in here.

464

:

is not an office.

465

:

It looks like there's some paper on a bed or sorry.

466

:

You look over and next to the bed there are a stack of papers on a nightstand and that's

about it.

467

:

dibs and I run over the paper hopefully uh trying to make myself useful botching so far in

forensics and all these other roles and not doing super great.

468

:

Let's head for that paper.

469

:

Yeah, do you have any bureaucracy?

470

:

bureaucracy.

471

:

I do.

472

:

Yep, sure do.

473

:

All right, give me a bureaucracy role.

474

:

And again, with enough time, you will succeed, but this is just to see how much time it

takes you to do it.

475

:

bureaucracy for the dibs you called and I will if you success I will uh honor that dibs.

476

:

Dale, I'm looking for a 40 and I rolled a 66, a critical failure.

477

:

Yeah, you are flipping through a lot of it.

478

:

There is just life stuff.

479

:

There's bills, there's medical bills.

480

:

There is a registration for a car that's expired.

481

:

And with some time, about another half an hour, uh you come across a title to a cabin that

is about three hours north of here.

482

:

Huh, uh, C for cabin, and I take the paper up and I wave it.

483

:

You know what?

484

:

I think we check the storage and we'll check the cabin.

485

:

I mean, in case these are some pretty sensitive documents, they may be up there, but you

know, you got to look in all the lesser known hiding spots.

486

:

And then I just take the mattress and flip it up,

487

:

Yeah.

488

:

god, yeah, let's go.

489

:

And I push over the nightstand.

490

:

Like, woo, we're in it here.

491

:

Yeah, bud.

492

:

doing it, yes.

493

:

There's just a dead hooker in between the mattress and the, no, no, no.

494

:

no, no.

495

:

No, it's not clean, but there's nothing hidden in there.

496

:

you're looking through, you find a death certificate ah for Marlene.

497

:

It looks to be his wife.

498

:

That's the only other thing you find that kind of piques your interest.

499

:

I'll take note of the name, but I think we should leave that certificate here, or as gives

defined.

500

:

Yeah, 100%.

501

:

They might want it for sure.

502

:

You know, you always hope that you go before your partners.

503

:

Yeah, but that only works 50 % of the time, right?

504

:

I mean, if the chances are anywhere near that easy, I guess so.

505

:

Uh, sure.

506

:

And I, I fold it up and put it back where I found it.

507

:

And as I think about that, I turn around and back up slowly.

508

:

And as a fire guy goes to walk out of the room, I take the thing that I pushed over and

slowly put it back where it was very quietly and respectfully and walk out of the bedroom.

509

:

Beautiful.

510

:

We didn't see any car keys attached to those keys, did we?

511

:

Yeah, you can roll luck to see if you find car keys in the apartment.

512

:

a luck roll is always a 50, 50 shot, right?

513

:

Under 50 is going to be you were lucky, over 50 you were unlucky.

514

:

Unless there's some unnatural thing happening that makes you particularly lucky or

unlucky.

515

:

Go ahead and roll luck for me.

516

:

I got an 83, yet another failure today.

517

:

Yeah, no car keys in the apartment.

518

:

Okay, so speaking of failures in all of these times I'm failing, I assume you get a little

bit better every time you fail something, yes?

519

:

There you go, yeah.

520

:

So in your character sheet, next to each skill, there is a place you can check where you

fail.

521

:

So every failure that comes up, have a chance in your between, or sorry.

522

:

When you fail a skill, you check it off on your character sheet.

523

:

And then between sessions, you have a chance to raise that percentage by rolling D4 on

each of your failures and then adding that to the ah percentage you have.

524

:

So it's incremental growth, but it's growth.

525

:

Awesome, sounds good.

526

:

Well, my sheet looks like tic-tac-toes with no O's and all X's, so let's get going.

527

:

Yeah.

528

:

Well, actually I did want to check out, you said there was a book on his coffee table with

a bookmark in it.

529

:

Could I check out that book?

530

:

You know, see if it has any significance and see what page he's turned to.

531

:

Yeah.

532

:

No, it's the Doubt H-ing.

533

:

Now, it is the um second Dune novel, Dune Messiah.

534

:

It's a shorter than the first, but he's smack dab in the middle of um it.

535

:

looks like just looking at the page that the uh main character Muad'Dib um or Paul has

recently been blinded by something and that's all you glean from it.

536

:

Oh man, Clyde had a great taste in fiction.

537

:

I mean, I just watched the movie the other week and know, Marnie McFly, he was in it,

right?

538

:

And Captain Kirk, I don't know, all those guys, I mean, those computer graphics were

amazing.

539

:

That shield fight they did with the knives and man, have you seen that one?

540

:

Or are you too busy listening to Ice Gouge Shouter, whatever you like here.

541

:

I mean come on man they're a little too soft for me I wouldn't put that shit in my ears if

I fucking had to.

542

:

that book though that's a that's about where I stopped after that man that whole thing

it's got an acid trip my god.

543

:

Yeah, so you have a Fiorber drive in front of you.

544

:

We're pushing about 10 p.m.

545

:

How are you gonna get up there?

546

:

You took a cab here.

547

:

um What's the tact on getting a car and driving up there?

548

:

Barone.

549

:

Oh shoot.

550

:

Well, we failed at keys in the easy route.

551

:

I don't really want to steal something.

552

:

We have a whole heap of cash.

553

:

ah What does a car rental look like at this time of night?

554

:

nothing would be open.

555

:

So unless you wanted to hoof it to an airport or take a cab to an airport.

556

:

Yeah, absolute waste of time.

557

:

Well, I see you're good with fire, apparently.

558

:

Are you good with theft and other illegal things and felonies?

559

:

I mean, now's a good as time to start, right?

560

:

Yeah, I guess we have a thick parking lot full of metal behind us as well.

561

:

um Actually, yeah, I am decidedly familiar with cars and what makes them tick and run.

562

:

um Usually I wouldn't take something that's not mine if I don't absolutely have to at this

point in time.

563

:

I think we probably have to.

564

:

Let's go back in that parking lot and search for a new vehicle.

565

:

Yeah, go ahead and roll me luck again.

566

:

Both of you can roll this time.

567

:

50, we got a 12.

568

:

Thank God because I got a 56 healthily failing again.

569

:

You can't get better at luck, can you?

570

:

No, okay.

571

:

All right, I was looking for a box for that X, that's for sure.

572

:

know.

573

:

Yeah, uh you look around and you see a pickup truck, a small Chevy love LUV and there is a

window cracked open that you think you could fit your arm through to unlock it.

574

:

uh Yeah, call over, barone, and say, hey, I think we could uh hop into this one.

575

:

And I reach through, don't even need to get on my tippy toes, I'm just big enough to reach

my hand through and find that unlock button.

576

:

It's slipping to the driver's seat.

577

:

yeah, cool, got it.

578

:

As soon as the second it's open, I will ah get supinated and jump right in under there

looking for those wires.

579

:

Yeah, you are so familiar with engines and the electronics on these simple older trucks

that you're able to hotwire it without a roll.

580

:

um And it sparks to life.

581

:

What do you, you guys just hopping in and taking off?

582

:

Yeah, I don't think we should stick around here if we're committing some grand theft auto.

583

:

So yeah, we got the address, the cabin.

584

:

Your estimation, good, sorry.

585

:

is there any paper and like a pen or marker in here?

586

:

Sure, Glove box.

587

:

take a piece of paper and say, borrowing this slash will bring back and then toss it out

the window and drive off.

588

:

All right, done.

589

:

uh Paper lands on the ground and you are on your way north into the woods.

590

:

You don't know the area up here, but the drive is long and sprawling through dark canopies

of forests.

591

:

You see the stars every once in a while peek through them, but it is quite dense and

forested up here.

592

:

Any other conversation as you go or do you wanna just get right to the cabin?

593

:

So have you ever been out to the woods up north here?

594

:

I'm definitely not a city girl and I may have slept under the stars once or twice with a

platoon of people in the middle of fucking nowhere so yes and no-ish I mean I don't think

595

:

I've really been camping around here too terribly often what about yourself?

596

:

Yeah, I like to vacation up here

597

:

Speaking of, and I'll turn on the radio and see if there's anything on.

598

:

Yeah, it is AM radio and you're dealing with middle of the night preachers screaming the

gospel in your face.

599

:

Okay, wrong type of screaming.

600

:

I'll turn that right back off.

601

:

I guess we'll just sit here in silence unless you want to tell me a story.

602

:

Well, about four years ago, and it all started when I was on the job.

603

:

oh

604

:

together, we need to learn when jokes are happening and not and get this, you know, back

and forth going.

605

:

That was that was a ha ha joke.

606

:

We are sitting in silence and I'll roll down the window so it's not completely silent and

keep driving.

607

:

you leave the city behind, it's long ago.

608

:

The road gets, for lack of a better term, mean on the truck.

609

:

It's bouncy, you've pulled off of the main highway.

610

:

ah Your guess is that this place would be pretty dangerous if the weather was poor and

rainy.

611

:

And you keep going down this dirt road with a bunch of potholes.

612

:

And then you see it looks like a bad secret that somebody forgot to bury a cabin.

613

:

It's kind of sad and little one story high box made of wood.

614

:

It's trying to.

615

:

It's trying its best to show you that it's a real home.

616

:

um Your guess is the outside wood is faux.

617

:

It's not even real logs.

618

:

It looks cheap.

619

:

and looks lonely.

620

:

There's a big stone chimney that juts out of the roof.

621

:

It's cold and dead against the gray sky.

622

:

And there are power lines that snake themselves through the trees and come into the cabin.

623

:

Looks like this has power at least, or did at one point.

624

:

um And you pull up, what do you do?

625

:

Sure.

626

:

Did we pass any oh neighbors on the way through and up?

627

:

Is there anybody within, you know, even a mile or two or even three ish?

628

:

Your guess is absolutely not, so.

629

:

Okay, great.

630

:

Yeah, think popping out, would aim the truck to kind of blast and bathe the entire house

in light.

631

:

And I'm going to turn on, if there's fog lights or anything like that, I'm going to assume

this probably doesn't have power unless proven otherwise.

632

:

So I'm going to try and light the place up to maybe make our search a little bit easier

with no neighbors around.

633

:

You I don't think we have to worry about being inconspicuous and pop out of the car and...

634

:

start heading towards the cabin.

635

:

Hey, you got that key?

636

:

Yeah, and I toss it underhand to you.

637

:

And yeah, you go check the door.

638

:

I'll do a little loop around the cabin and see if I can see anything.

639

:

yeah, sounds good.

640

:

Watch out for bears.

641

:

pull out my axe just in case.

642

:

I was not thinking about bears until this very moment.

643

:

Yeah.

644

:

Yeah man, they're man eaters out here for sure.

645

:

Go ahead and roll me a search um as you're looking around the cabin.

646

:

This is for Emmett, sorry.

647

:

Alright, got my search at 40.

648

:

That's a four.

649

:

I'm rolling hot.

650

:

Yeah, you are casing it.

651

:

Maybe you've cased some arson joints before.

652

:

You know what to look for.

653

:

You see a shed further back on by the tree line that looks pretty big and newer built, not

as old as the cabin.

654

:

You also see a outhouse right behind it, not the shed, but right behind the cabin and...

655

:

As you're walking around close to it, you also notice that any plumbing coming out has

been hacksawed off.

656

:

out of the house or out of the outhouse?

657

:

Out of the house.

658

:

Huh.

659

:

And yeah, I think that's a little odd.

660

:

um And I'll go and check like, hey, can I tell if this is recent?

661

:

I don't know why someone would want to remove indoor plumbing from place instead of having

it back on.

662

:

Hit that forensics again.

663

:

Alright, forensics, something good at.

664

:

We got 60 % here.

665

:

Looking at a 48.

666

:

That's a success.

667

:

it and it looks like it's been months, maybe a year.

668

:

There's no PVC, um there's no, yeah, shavings around.

669

:

It looks like it's been hacked off for some time.

670

:

um Yeah, I will try to follow the line of like where it would have gone, see, or if it

just like goes right into the ground and out of sight out of mind.

671

:

um But I'll then check out the outhouse see if that's probably been used more recently

than anything inside.

672

:

Yeah, so in this instance, as you're looking at the outhouse, go ahead and give me a

intelligence times five role just to see what you can glean from it since there's no

673

:

shitter in the back of the cabin skill.

674

:

I think we need to talk to the Delta Green creators then about adding that in.

675

:

Let's see here, Intelligence 10, that would be a 50, and I got a 25.

676

:

That's another success.

677

:

you look in there and I think the big thing is like the plumbing that you saw coming out

of the house being a firefighter, you know that that is drain plumbing.

678

:

So why is there an outhouse with something that is plumbed for a septic tank?

679

:

And it just kind of is curious to you, but we'll hold that thought and cut over to Brun

going into the cabin.

680

:

You just unlock it and go in.

681

:

Go ahead, sir.

682

:

yeah, I think well, ish like there's a time to be a little more aware and that's before

you know something is safe and in Delta green, I assume nothing is safe, Nick.

683

:

So let's let's go ahead and do a little peek through the windows first on our way to the

lock.

684

:

Yeah, you go around and look inside.

685

:

It looks like a very simple cabin.

686

:

Doesn't look lived in as much as his apartment did.

687

:

um But there's no monster in there.

688

:

There's no shadows moving.

689

:

It looks fairly safe.

690

:

No monster yet.

691

:

ah Yeah, and I assume there were no like tracks leading up that seemed, you know, a lot

newer um than ours by any means.

692

:

Well, not newer than ours.

693

:

That'd be crazy.

694

:

Yeah, um with the other forensic role, Emmet would have been able to tell that it looks

like no one's been here in a while.

695

:

Got it.

696

:

Cool, cool, Yeah, sweet.

697

:

Let's go ahead and slide that key in um and make our way inside.

698

:

Yeah, you get inside cozy, right?

699

:

Smells of pine and wood smoke.

700

:

But that's an illusion because this isn't that place.

701

:

You get in there, the door groans open and the silence is thick in there.

702

:

You could choke on it if you could choke on silence and the air stale layered with dust

and ghosts of cold nights.

703

:

This uh is a depression cabin, not a glamping cabin.

704

:

m There are cobwebs that hang in the corners like forgotten Christmas tinsel.

705

:

And the whole thing is furnished from garage sale rejects, probably stuff you found free

on the side of the road.

706

:

um

707

:

It is beaten down and it's just a living room and a small kitchen and then you see a door

to a bedroom.

708

:

All parts of a home, but it doesn't add up to one.

709

:

And it's got a rustic decor that city people might think is charming, but it looks cheap

and sad to you.

710

:

damn Clyde you could have taken care of your things at least a little bit here goes

nothing and i'll try to turn the lights on

711

:

Yeah, go ahead and give me another luck roll.

712

:

67.

713

:

We'll get a roll sometime.

714

:

We'll get a roll sometime.

715

:

That is a healthy failure.

716

:

the flicker for a second and then just go right off.

717

:

Looks like you're using your flashlight.

718

:

Yeah, sounds good.

719

:

And I will do exactly that with light pouring through the windows.

720

:

I'll try to open up the curtains a little bit to try and let some of that light in.

721

:

But yeah, we're using our flashlight here.

722

:

Turn that sucker on and let's just start square by square from exactly where I'm standing.

723

:

look around and it's, there's nothing in this common room.

724

:

um It looks a little strange to be this empty, like he didn't frequent it.

725

:

Why would he have this place if he's not gonna really live in it?

726

:

um But yeah, you're walking around, you get to the kitchenette, I'm assuming.

727

:

And again, there is...

728

:

Dust-filled cabinets, everything is clean except for the dust on it.

729

:

There's no rotten food or anything.

730

:

The fridge is completely empty.

731

:

um It's been a long time and you could get that sense by the fireplace too.

732

:

You would think that you would smell remnants of a fire.

733

:

uh You can if you stick your head right in it, but there's just nothing coming out of

there except for that stale air.

734

:

Yeah, she thinks about it and she's like, yeah, I keep my head out of that one.

735

:

Let's head over to the bedroom.

736

:

Yeah, as you get to the door, we will cut back to Emmett.

737

:

Emmett, you are outside and looking at this outhouse perplexed as to why he would have an

outhouse with a place plumbed for a septic tank, plumbing that has been cut.

738

:

And you said you were trying to find where those pipes lead.

739

:

Yes, I was just trying to follow the, yeah.

740

:

Yeah, you walk toward that shed, right?

741

:

The one that looks newer than everything else.

742

:

And you start to feel as you're walking the ground divot down, and it looks like it's been

dug out.

743

:

And you see a round em trap door of some sorts with a chain.

744

:

tight between two metal hoops that looked like they were welded onto it and a massive

padlock.

745

:

Take a look at that.

746

:

And so this is like right by the shed or is just kind of in between the shed and the house

and the cabin.

747

:

And yeah, yeah, looking down at that, just thinking to myself, usually the septic tank

isn't locked tight like this.

748

:

Does it look like it would be a septic tank or like maybe it's been repurposed for

something else?

749

:

It looks like a septic tank hatch.

750

:

Usually they're buried.

751

:

Why is this one dug up and why is there a lock on it?

752

:

Right?

753

:

That's what's coming up.

754

:

I do take note of that.

755

:

know that Barone has the keys currently and padlock probably looks like the one that was

on the key that was on the key ring from before.

756

:

I was kind of expecting that to be on the cabin.

757

:

you know, I'm not going to force my way in just yet.

758

:

I'll meet up with Barone, but before I make my way back to the cabin, I do want to take a

look at the shed.

759

:

Hoping that that one's unlocked if there's no, if the padlock's already been accounted

for.

760

:

you get into the shed and before you open it, you smell gasoline.

761

:

Like this is your bread and butter.

762

:

It smells delicious to you.

763

:

It's like making your mouth water in fact.

764

:

And you open the shed and there are brand, look, they look brand new.

765

:

Gas cans just lined up.

766

:

That's it.

767

:

Yeah, it's like those two stink lines, you know, come and pull my nose and I'm almost

floating my way towards the shed, you know, compelled and pulled in there.

768

:

And, yeah, as I swing the door open, I see these gas cans and, ah you know, I feel like

I'm in heaven.

769

:

just start, you know, taking the cans down, you know, creating a little pile by the door

to bring back to the pickup truck.

770

:

you know, as I'm kind of pulling things off the wall and off the shelves, seeing if

there's literally anything else in here, is it just all gas?

771

:

There is a rake, there are a few yard tools, but nothing of note.

772

:

interesting.

773

:

So yeah, I'll just take two jerry cans and make my way back towards the cabin.

774

:

Yeah, is there like gas spilled all over?

775

:

Did it look like someone was maybe trying to clean up or, you know, destroy any traces or

it's just neatly packed up and okay.

776

:

Yeah, you're looking at um almost an OCD level of organization of these gas cans when you

encounter them.

777

:

And your estimation is there's, yeah, exactly.

778

:

There's about 20 gallons or so um that you're picking through.

779

:

Right, yeah, I'll take a couple of jerry cans back towards the entrance to the cabin,

knowing we may actually have to cover our own tracks after this.

780

:

And I pop in and say, know, Barone, do you see anything in there?

781

:

We've got something quite interesting out back, but, you know, let's see if you can find

anything here first before we move on.

782

:

Barone, you get into the bedroom and again, it's not very lived in.

783

:

The bed is made and what are you looking for as you go in there?

784

:

Sure.

785

:

Yeah, nothing in there, fire guy.

786

:

Maybe something over here.

787

:

Hold on one sec.

788

:

What am I looking for over here?

789

:

Well, I think any...

790

:

Now, knowing this guy is decidedly tidy.

791

:

ah Let's see, things that people would not want to be found.

792

:

uh What exactly that is?

793

:

Maybe documents, uh stored data of some capacity, which back then, who knows what that

would be?

794

:

It's not hard drives.

795

:

Well, maybe it is hard drives.

796

:

ah Looking for anything that would, you know, uh collate information in one way or

another.

797

:

Great, so you're just generally searching the room.

798

:

What's your search again?

799

:

My search is pretty ding-dang good.

800

:

It is at 50.

801

:

Yeah, no need to roll.

802

:

Since you have a little bit of time, you look around and under the bed, you see a long and

heavy foot locker.

803

:

And you can tell that it has a padlock on it.

804

:

Okay, great.

805

:

uh Knowing keys going locks, let's go ahead and test it.

806

:

Why not?

807

:

Yeah, it's under the bed, so you're have to rip it out of there.

808

:

Yeah.

809

:

Yeah, you scooch it out, makes a big screeching sound throughout the cabin.

810

:

Emmett, you hear that.

811

:

I'm assuming, are you coming in?

812

:

Are you staying outside with the gas?

813

:

coming in.

814

:

Help search.

815

:

Okay.

816

:

I mean, think Big Girl here can deadlift this up with no problem whatsoever, but I guess

I'll use a hand if it's here.

817

:

Yeah.

818

:

Mostly just supervising you, seeing what you're capable of.

819

:

you're able to get it out.

820

:

um you try and the keys on the deadlock or the deadbolt thing.

821

:

Yeah, yep, sure.

822

:

Might as well.

823

:

We have, we have two keys.

824

:

Let's do it.

825

:

Yeah, it flips open the padlock and you undo the heavy latch, you just open it right up.

826

:

Mm hmm.

827

:

Well, the way you say that, Nick, I opened it up very carefully.

828

:

The carefulest.

829

:

Yeah, great.

830

:

Awesome.

831

:

No, yes.

832

:

I want to see what's inside.

833

:

Let's go.

834

:

Yeah, you flip it open and the first thing you notice is there is a cut piece of paper

taped to the lid just saying,

835

:

To whom it may concern, if you're reading this uh note, there you go, that's word, I can

assume I have died or become incapacitated before I had the courage to complete my final

836

:

mission.

837

:

That's ominous as shit.

838

:

You will find about 20 gallons of gas in the shed behind this cabin.

839

:

And I turned around and look at fire guy.

840

:

holding two dairy cans like I think I think we got it

841

:

Alright, check in that one.

842

:

Pour it into the septic tank beside the cabin and ignite it.

843

:

You'd be happier if you didn't look inside.

844

:

Please make sure that the remains are kept from my children.

845

:

I am so sorry.

846

:

God, please forgive me.

847

:

Hmm.

848

:

Oh, that is more questions than answers.

849

:

Is there a septic tank out?

850

:

What's, what, what, what's, what's he talking about?

851

:

Yeah, that's kind of what I want to talk to you about.

852

:

We got septic tank, we've got some cut plumbing, so I don't think the septic tank is full

of waste.

853

:

I think it's full of something else.

854

:

And Clyde here is just giving us free rain to start some fires.

855

:

I am quite curious.

856

:

I do want to peek my head inside, but I think we should carry out his final wishes in his

honor.

857

:

know 100 % yeah for sure I hate being told what to do and if somebody says don't think of

the pink elephant the first thing I do is think of the pink elephant I can tell you

858

:

curiosity is gonna kill this cat someday for sure let's go check it out hold on let me let

me finish up uh this this chest though and I'll fold it up and I guess I'll leave it in

859

:

the chest I don't really want to keep this note

860

:

Yeah, you look in down below, you see a just covering other things, a big reel to reel

tape.

861

:

It's a recording of something on it is labeled 15, OGG 72 to 29, SEP 72.

862

:

So it looks like some sort of recording.

863

:

then handwritten on a white note is Saint Yig scale, the Redeemer.

864

:

Hmm.

865

:

You think that was Clyde's nickname back in the day?

866

:

Same.

867

:

that...

868

:

that goes hard as fuck man, yeah for sure, that'd be wild.

869

:

Okay, so you see a cardboard box and um you open it up and there is a neatly folded suit

that is covered in old, old dried blood.

870

:

um Below that you see a...

871

:

annotated doctor, doctoral dissertation that's titled Sky Devils archetypical figures in

Native American mythology.

872

:

uh Looks like it was rejected on first glance um based on the notes on the cover page.

873

:

um There are three tear gas grenades in there as well.

874

:

m There's a knife that is iron, looks old.

875

:

It would take some investigation to figure out how old or what the meaning of it is.

876

:

And then there's a, go ahead, sorry.

877

:

There's a leather pouch and when you open it up, there's some black hair in there.

878

:

There's small teeth that look human and some feathers.

879

:

What the actual fuck?

880

:

I mean, this is going in the fire pit for sure, right?

881

:

And I hold up the jacket and everything and yeah, I, okay, great.

882

:

starting like a burn pile and not burn pile over there.

883

:

Yeah, I could tell you something that we're not burning and I grabbed those three gas

grenades and I'm like with these guys for sure.

884

:

I mean, I'll take the handle of it and like hanging off off the back of my belt or

something for storage.

885

:

But this is all burning all hell for sure.

886

:

um The dissertation, I assume this is like a healthy many hours read like the whole second

half of Dune type.

887

:

Okay.

888

:

um

889

:

Quickly flipping through that, do we see any illustrations?

890

:

Do we see any pictures, photographs?

891

:

Anything of proof that he's trying to prove?

892

:

For lack of a better term.

893

:

go ahead and do you have any occult?

894

:

up.

895

:

I, yes, I have 20 % in a cult.

896

:

Yeah, give it a roll.

897

:

That would be an 85L

898

:

with some time you think you could probably get through this.

899

:

Maybe it's something you keep for yourself.

900

:

You don't turn in and you give it a read if you're interested in it.

901

:

um As you've started flipping through it though, ah you realize that it wasn't all the

dissertation.

902

:

Behind it is a sizable stack of paper that looks like financial um records.

903

:

uh

904

:

And it's just financial record after record and there's annotations and lines being drawn

from transactions to different group names.

905

:

um Yeah.

906

:

I can't make heads or tails of that.

907

:

That's just over Emmet's head.

908

:

Now this boring stuff.

909

:

You want to add this to the uh burn pile?

910

:

Burn?

911

:

maybe let me take a quick look.

912

:

I assume this would be a bureaucracy roll to see any, okay.

913

:

I'm definitely gonna do that.

914

:

I have a 40 and bureaucracy as we know, and I got a 13, so it did pretty good.

915

:

Yeah, you see that this is something called the Vintaja Corporation.

916

:

It looks like they're an Argentinian company and it looks like import-export transactions

with a thing that's dubbed K Group.

917

:

And as you're looking through it, this K Group looks like there's some World War II era

financial em

918

:

It's hard to say, they're financially related to it.

919

:

Like maybe they moved money, maybe they were investing money, but this group was

definitely on some sort of watch list and it looks like he was surveilling them.

920

:

And there's a paper that says the schkiel formula on it and it is completely blacked out

with Sharpie.

921

:

Like it's empty.

922

:

It was.

923

:

um completely redacted.

924

:

Have you ever heard of the the SKEEL formula before?

925

:

That's how you add up your taxes, right?

926

:

I don't know.

927

:

I don't handle this kind of stuff, but.

928

:

math is really a foreign subject for you as well, huh?

929

:

Yeah, we, you we got people for that.

930

:

I got my CPA and he does, you know, my skills formulas and my numbers and.

931

:

Let's have a contested rule to see if Barone falls asleep.

932

:

Mm-hmm.

933

:

Yeah, Z is just floating up in the air from her.

934

:

Yeah, I I for some reason I don't think that's what it's for, but I've also never heard of

it.

935

:

And apparently it's not something you could easily read about.

936

:

And I flashed the paper with all the the black um across the front.

937

:

Yeah, I don't think we're going to learn much from that piece of paper, but you know what

I am into is some good sci-fi movies, just like Dune.

938

:

um And I look around for a projector anywhere in the cabin, see if we could get these

reels spun up.

939

:

Yeah, there's no reel to reel machine here.

940

:

This would take some, um we take it back and turn it in investigation type thing.

941

:

So, or you can steal it and take it for yourself if you want to.

942

:

Yeah, there's a question.

943

:

um We really kind of didn't get, well, I guess we did get briefed on quote unquote

cleanup, but we didn't have any help or definition on what to take return, know, sift

944

:

through for information or just get rid of.

945

:

Is there any knee jerk like, hey, generally this might make sense to take versus not out

of this pile.

946

:

Yeah, so you know that um your guess is they would want everything, right?

947

:

You haven't been given instructions on um destroying things.

948

:

So your guess is that they would take everything and destroy it for you if it needed to be

destroyed.

949

:

So other than what um Clyde's note said, um he directly wants you to destroy something

obviously.

950

:

Got you.

951

:

Yeah.

952

:

So second thought on that burn pile.

953

:

Maybe we should put that on the back burner, if you will, and take this with us and I'll

pop everything back in the box and doing that fully thing with the top where you fold one

954

:

and the next one all the way around.

955

:

So it makes like it a cardboard anus in the top of the box for you.

956

:

And I'll start start packing it up.

957

:

Yeah, you pack it up or you throw it in the back of the pickup truck?

958

:

Yeah, I think that's probably the best place and God knows that love me a good tarp if

there's a tarp or anything back there to cover it to make it inconspicuous.

959

:

I would like to do that as well.

960

:

Yeah, you noticed there was a tarp in the shed, so you're able to grab a tarp and throw it

over the um back of the truck.

961

:

Yeah, I help Varone just load everything in the truck.

962

:

um Yeah, nothing I really want to keep for myself here.

963

:

I am quite interested in watching that reel to reel, but that's something for another

time.

964

:

And after we're done loaded up, I lead Varone over to the septic tank patch and he's like,

well, uh this is it.

965

:

This was his Clive's final dying wish.

966

:

uh

967

:

Said not to look inside, but I think we're both in agreement here.

968

:

Gotta at least peek, right?

969

:

100 % sons out guns out and she pulls out her pistol and she's like, I mean there's no son

but You have to say something right before right?

970

:

Yeah, wait, why'd you pull your gun out?

971

:

Are you expecting something alive still in there?

972

:

I mean, I don't know.

973

:

I've never really...

974

:

don't know...

975

:

I don't know what to expect, period.

976

:

So I think just being prepared is probably the way to go, especially with something that

you don't fucking know, fire guy.

977

:

Mm-hmm.

978

:

I mean, do we open the hatch and you drop a gas grenade in just in case?

979

:

that do we know if that's the tear gas?

980

:

Is that like damaging to documents to anything or just something organic?

981

:

Yeah, go ahead and roll your heavy or your demolition skill to see what you would know.

982

:

That would be a 70 for Emmet here.

983

:

And a 64.

984

:

Success.

985

:

when they first are ignited, but then the rest is just gas.

986

:

It can get a little warm.

987

:

So if it's directly on a piece of paper, it would catch.

988

:

The one thing you do notice investigating them is they're over 20 years old.

989

:

So you're like, maybe they work, maybe they don't, but they wouldn't necessarily damage

anything.

990

:

and also thinking that this is an old septic tank, there might be a good amount of

methane, even if it hasn't been used in a while.

991

:

So maybe we just open it up and shine some lights down there first and then assess the

situation and yeah, take the keys from Verone and see if the same padlock key works on

992

:

this one as well.

993

:

does not.

994

:

So uh back up plan, I take out my fire axe and try to chop at the chain.

995

:

Yeah, usually when you're striking something you would use your melee weapon skill.

996

:

So give me a roll.

997

:

You're very strong, so you're going to eventually succeed.

998

:

This is just to say how many times you hit it before you succeed.

999

:

So have a melee weapon skill and I have a skill on the item itself.

:

01:10:18,045 --> 01:10:19,357

I guess those are the same.

:

01:10:19,357 --> 01:10:22,170

Okay, cool.

:

01:10:22,592 --> 01:10:25,387

And I have an 80 with my axe.

:

01:10:25,387 --> 01:10:26,922

That is a 69.

:

01:10:26,922 --> 01:10:34,130

All right, you come down and you just split the lock right off the chain and you're able

to pull the chain off.

:

01:10:34,130 --> 01:10:43,821

You hear the echo of an empty tin tube coming from up as you knock it off.

:

01:10:43,821 --> 01:10:47,224

And then you hear a slight whimper.

:

01:10:48,887 --> 01:10:57,391

ump back and also pull out my:

:

01:10:57,391 --> 01:11:00,615

uh You heard that, right?

:

01:11:00,797 --> 01:11:02,358

Or that wasn't you?

:

01:11:03,177 --> 01:11:03,682

No.

:

01:11:03,682 --> 01:11:05,092

I would I whimper like that?

:

01:11:05,092 --> 01:11:06,993

No, definitely not.

:

01:11:07,434 --> 01:11:13,037

I did hear that though when I uh cock my GP-100, like that's why this is out.

:

01:11:13,438 --> 01:11:16,420

And I'll inch kind of forward a little bit.

:

01:11:16,420 --> 01:11:19,241

So we're both equidistant from the tank.

:

01:11:20,054 --> 01:11:23,400

Yeah, who's pulling it open?

:

01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:24,532

You Emmett or?

:

01:11:24,532 --> 01:11:30,941

uh Actually, I go prone so I could have my head right next to the door and be able to

shine in.

:

01:11:30,941 --> 01:11:35,848

was like, bro, can you get this and I'll get a draw on them.

:

01:11:36,081 --> 01:11:37,183

Yeah, I got it, teamwork.

:

01:11:37,183 --> 01:11:43,951

um And I will have pistol in one hand, the other hand is reaching to open it enough to see

in.

:

01:11:44,702 --> 01:11:55,668

you start slipping it open, you have your flashlight on, I'm assuming, and you see just

darkness at first and then your flashlight cuts in.

:

01:11:55,668 --> 01:11:59,230

looks like a underground crypt.

:

01:11:59,230 --> 01:12:04,753

The floor has a skim of dark water on it.

:

01:12:04,753 --> 01:12:06,463

There's no ladder or anything.

:

01:12:06,463 --> 01:12:10,135

It looks pretty deep down there, about 10 feet down.

:

01:12:10,316 --> 01:12:13,477

And as your flashlight

:

01:12:13,477 --> 01:12:19,305

hits one of the far corners from you, you see a shape.

:

01:12:19,627 --> 01:12:26,496

It's a woman laying down there nude in the corner and um her flesh.

:

01:12:26,865 --> 01:12:31,488

looks pretty gray, maybe from lack of the sunlight.

:

01:12:31,488 --> 01:12:34,550

There's not much meat left on her bones.

:

01:12:34,550 --> 01:12:42,414

She's sagging all over and she looks up at the light and her eyes look straight towards

you.

:

01:12:42,414 --> 01:12:53,392

She probably can't see you because the flashlight and she stands up and starts to, in a

hunched manner, walk toward the opening.

:

01:12:53,392 --> 01:12:58,932

And I just start saying, ma'am, ma'am, please stay right where you are.

:

01:12:58,932 --> 01:13:01,232

We need to assess the situation.

:

01:13:01,252 --> 01:13:02,812

you okay?

:

01:13:02,812 --> 01:13:03,952

Can you talk?

:

01:13:04,185 --> 01:13:10,970

Yeah, she looks up and she croaks, like, clears her throat.

:

01:13:10,970 --> 01:13:15,512

I, ah, please get me out of here.

:

01:13:15,713 --> 01:13:16,404

Help me.

:

01:13:16,404 --> 01:13:17,097

What is your name?

:

01:13:17,097 --> 01:13:17,660

What is your name?

:

01:13:17,660 --> 01:13:18,913

We're here to help.

:

01:13:19,237 --> 01:13:21,075

We just want to make sure everyone's safe.

:

01:13:21,075 --> 01:13:22,311

I'm Marlene.

:

01:13:22,580 --> 01:13:23,689

Marlene's my name.

:

01:13:23,689 --> 01:13:25,386

Get fucked, absolutely.

:

01:13:25,386 --> 01:13:26,967

um Go ahead.

:

01:13:26,967 --> 01:13:29,308

Oh, yeah.

:

01:13:29,308 --> 01:13:35,595

With that quick realization, both of you roll your sanities and.

:

01:13:35,595 --> 01:13:36,369

for sure.

:

01:13:36,369 --> 01:13:45,913

So rolling your sanity is when an agent encounters something that is strange, unnatural,

extremely violent, or they feel helpless in.

:

01:13:45,913 --> 01:13:59,578

This is both unnatural and helplessness, because you're looking at this like strange lady

uh naked in a septic tank and feels unnatural to you because the realization that Clyde's

:

01:13:59,578 --> 01:14:03,139

wife had a death certificate in his apartment, right?

:

01:14:03,139 --> 01:14:06,160

So losing sand is dangerous and

:

01:14:06,534 --> 01:14:10,025

You can project it onto a bond if you want.

:

01:14:10,025 --> 01:14:21,048

um That is a big part of the game is using your bonds and your most important

relationships to steal yourself to continue to do this job, right?

:

01:14:21,048 --> 01:14:25,889

So you would roll your SAN, which you have a current sanity score that you wanna roll

under.

:

01:14:25,889 --> 01:14:29,950

And when you lose SAN, that score goes down.

:

01:14:29,950 --> 01:14:34,552

So the more and more insane you go, the quicker it happens.

:

01:14:34,552 --> 01:14:36,070

It's a flywheel.

:

01:14:36,070 --> 01:14:42,045

So keeping your sanity up at the beginning is important if you want your agent to live

longer, right?

:

01:14:42,045 --> 01:14:47,769

That's why projecting is a good thing earlier, because it gives you life in this game.

:

01:14:47,769 --> 01:14:54,754

um Now, let's say you roll your San and lose, and then I just tell you to roll a D8.

:

01:14:54,754 --> 01:15:01,059

If you roll over a certain amount, but it's five in the rule book.

:

01:15:01,059 --> 01:15:02,960

So if you lose more than

:

01:15:03,068 --> 01:15:09,537

five sanity at once, you go temporarily insane and you choose a fight or flight response.

:

01:15:10,399 --> 01:15:11,081

Make sense?

:

01:15:11,081 --> 01:15:13,933

uh Yeah, the projecting.

:

01:15:14,341 --> 01:15:16,064

How does that work?

:

01:15:16,196 --> 01:15:17,126

question.

:

01:15:17,126 --> 01:15:27,071

So you would roll your SAN and then if you were to fail you would roll whatever your

failure dice is.

:

01:15:27,071 --> 01:15:37,235

That can be just a binary where it's zero or one so you lose one SAN or you lose no SAN or

you roll a D4, D6, D8 and on.

:

01:15:37,235 --> 01:15:41,658

Some people even have a D20 of SAN loss for extreme circumstances.

:

01:15:41,658 --> 01:15:42,306

Right?

:

01:15:42,306 --> 01:15:43,318

So

:

01:15:43,677 --> 01:15:48,670

you would say, oh, I wanna project before you roll that sand loss, right?

:

01:15:48,991 --> 01:15:54,014

So you don't know how much sanity you're gonna lose before you project.

:

01:15:54,205 --> 01:16:04,988

And projecting like story-wise, just means I lose a relationship with one of my bonds and

that would come back to bite me in the future.

:

01:16:04,988 --> 01:16:19,916

So what we would do is you would roll a D4, which would say how much you reduce that SAN

loss by and how much willpower, another uh thing on your character sheet, you lose at the

:

01:16:19,916 --> 01:16:21,417

same time, right?

:

01:16:21,417 --> 01:16:28,792

And then you subtract the amount that D4 is from both your willpower and the bond you're

projecting.

:

01:16:28,792 --> 01:16:29,596

So,

:

01:16:29,596 --> 01:16:33,983

Give me that D100 San loss or not lost, excuse me.

:

01:16:33,983 --> 01:16:37,379

Give me that D100 San roll and tell me if you fail.

:

01:16:37,379 --> 01:16:39,985

D100 sand loss, is all or nothing right now.

:

01:16:39,985 --> 01:16:45,096

uh I have a current sand of 15, I ruled a 34.

:

01:16:45,096 --> 01:16:45,943

All right.

:

01:16:46,875 --> 01:16:47,455

sweet.

:

01:16:47,455 --> 01:16:49,635

Let's see how Baron does.

:

01:16:49,675 --> 01:16:51,395

I got an 82.

:

01:16:51,395 --> 01:16:52,575

I failed San.

:

01:16:52,744 --> 01:16:57,816

Okay, so give me a D6 Sanloss, Barone.

:

01:16:59,337 --> 01:17:01,790

I think I am gonna project.

:

01:17:01,790 --> 01:17:02,931

Let's see how this goes.

:

01:17:02,931 --> 01:17:12,378

um I'd like to project onto Bradley, uh my therapist that I trust with everything that has

definitely seen my dark side.

:

01:17:12,659 --> 01:17:14,460

So let's start there.

:

01:17:14,900 --> 01:17:16,211

And I got a three.

:

01:17:16,248 --> 01:17:19,329

Okay, and then roll me a D4 for the projection.

:

01:17:21,077 --> 01:17:23,301

And the D4 is also a 3.

:

01:17:23,321 --> 01:17:29,717

Okay, so you take no sand loss, but you lose three willpower and you reduce that bond by

three.

:

01:17:29,717 --> 01:17:34,961

Now, when you're projecting on a bond, there is some bitterness, some upset at them.

:

01:17:34,961 --> 01:17:43,248

Like what, in this moment, what would you be thinking about your therapist to make you

sour the relationship a little bit?

:

01:17:43,248 --> 01:17:45,870

Like how would you be feeling about them in this moment?

:

01:17:46,581 --> 01:17:46,931

Yeah.

:

01:17:46,931 --> 01:17:52,581

So I think, uh, therapists arm with help arm people with like coping mechanisms, right?

:

01:17:52,581 --> 01:18:03,015

Um, and I think immediately I start leaning on one of those coping mechanisms for

something so, you know, crazy and disconnected or disconnecting like this.

:

01:18:03,015 --> 01:18:05,978

And my coping mechanisms just fail immediately.

:

01:18:05,978 --> 01:18:09,080

They're just a fucking straw man lit on fire.

:

01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:15,005

And I think my frustration with the time spent in these sessions just burns right up with

it.

:

01:18:15,022 --> 01:18:16,243

Yeah, absolutely.

:

01:18:16,243 --> 01:18:17,535

It is frustrating.

:

01:18:17,535 --> 01:18:25,012

You've gone to therapy for a few years, spent how much money you don't even know, and it

can't even get you through this moment.

:

01:18:25,012 --> 01:18:32,981

m But you still take no sand loss and you see the sting below you asking you to help it.

:

01:18:32,981 --> 01:18:34,273

How do you respond?

:

01:18:34,273 --> 01:18:37,216

My firefighter training kicks in.

:

01:18:37,216 --> 01:18:41,959

I've rescued people from burning buildings before, people in distress.

:

01:18:42,701 --> 01:18:49,526

seeing that this is just a frail old woman, we know who she is, even though we've never

met her before.

:

01:18:50,067 --> 01:18:56,352

I tell her to make her way to the hatch, make her way, we'll lift you out.

:

01:18:56,352 --> 01:18:59,505

Jerome, can you grab a blanket?

:

01:18:59,505 --> 01:19:02,197

Was there any bedding or clothing inside?

:

01:19:02,567 --> 01:19:06,339

We gotta warm her up and make sure she's okay.

:

01:19:07,593 --> 01:19:19,182

Yeah, sure take this and I'll just take my jacket off and kind of Toss it over to him did

well I wouldn't know if there was a ladder out in the garage, but I guess I would think

:

01:19:19,182 --> 01:19:24,627

that shed is that shade close Great, I'm going to when I toss my jacket.

:

01:19:24,627 --> 01:19:27,999

I think I'm gonna sprint to that shed looking for a ladder

:

01:19:28,007 --> 01:19:37,097

You get in there and there is a, looks like a septic tank type ladder that has been

customly welded.

:

01:19:37,097 --> 01:19:40,581

Looks like somebody was using it for this purpose.

:

01:19:40,581 --> 01:19:42,082

You're bringing it over.

:

01:19:42,649 --> 01:19:47,187

Yeah, I think I'll grab that and, you know, start making my way back pretty hastily.

:

01:19:47,187 --> 01:19:47,840

m

:

01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:52,811

About how deep is the septic tank, you know, from the standing water on the floor to the

hatch.

:

01:19:52,811 --> 01:19:53,393

10 feet.

:

01:19:53,393 --> 01:20:00,453

Yeah, I'm like, they're trying to like reach down and, you know, stay, stay on top and see

if she could reach, but can't quite make it.

:

01:20:00,453 --> 01:20:03,488

And yeah, as you come back to the ladders, you know, perfect, perfect.

:

01:20:03,488 --> 01:20:07,245

And I roll out of the way and let you shimmy the ladder down there.

:

01:20:07,245 --> 01:20:16,053

yeah, as she gets close to you, um any other thing you're trying to, are you looking at

her in any special way or saying anything to her?

:

01:20:16,053 --> 01:20:20,627

m And she is hunched over looking up at you.

:

01:20:20,627 --> 01:20:25,220

It looks like she hasn't used a lot of her limbs in a long time.

:

01:20:25,341 --> 01:20:32,547

She is quite emaciated, probably couldn't jump, but she looks up at you and is just wide

eyed.

:

01:20:32,547 --> 01:20:33,811

um

:

01:20:33,811 --> 01:20:40,896

um I'm just, I'm there like reassuring her as like, we're, here to help.

:

01:20:40,896 --> 01:20:41,806

We'll get you out of there.

:

01:20:41,806 --> 01:20:55,916

But I'm also trying to see if she has like restraint marks on her wrists or anything, if

there's anything more off or about her body than, you know, just being kind of curled up

:

01:20:55,916 --> 01:20:58,467

in the darkness for who knows how long.

:

01:20:58,652 --> 01:21:09,906

Yeah, give me a search since you're under duress and she's under duress to see if you can

um glean any details.

:

01:21:09,906 --> 01:21:11,657

That would be a 40.

:

01:21:11,657 --> 01:21:12,880

Roll to four.

:

01:21:14,490 --> 01:21:15,093

Success.

:

01:21:15,093 --> 01:21:20,845

Yeah, you are looking around and you see scratch marks on the walls of this thing.

:

01:21:20,966 --> 01:21:22,316

You look at her feet.

:

01:21:22,316 --> 01:21:26,808

They look bloated from being in this water and look water bogged.

:

01:21:26,908 --> 01:21:32,470

Her skin is quite, quite pale and almost bluish now that she's close.

:

01:21:33,091 --> 01:21:39,473

And she is half smiling up at you just waiting for you to grab her.

:

01:21:39,774 --> 01:21:45,016

You can kind of reach with your fingertips and touch her, but um you would definitely

:

01:21:45,016 --> 01:21:48,113

need that ladder or some other way to pull her out.

:

01:21:49,589 --> 01:21:55,627

Yeah, I think I'm going to go and try to try to help her up the ladder.

:

01:21:55,627 --> 01:21:58,841

You got things up here.

:

01:21:58,931 --> 01:22:00,616

Yeah, no, I'm good, I'm good.

:

01:22:00,616 --> 01:22:04,156

And I'll start maneuvering the ladder into place.

:

01:22:04,545 --> 01:22:12,884

oh I'll jump down into there m and then try to help her up the ladder as Barone helps her

up top.

:

01:22:13,406 --> 01:22:20,685

Yeah, she looks at you and now that you're down there, um she goes to the ladder.

:

01:22:20,685 --> 01:22:24,129

Barone, actually give you a second.

:

01:22:24,129 --> 01:22:26,821

Anything you want to do as he's trying to help her up?

:

01:22:27,751 --> 01:22:29,302

Yeah, maybe one of those.

:

01:22:29,302 --> 01:22:36,965

uh I'm not sure if human would do any good here or maybe like a quick scan.

:

01:22:36,965 --> 01:22:48,181

So you said like there's marks around like are they different shapes than I would expect a

fingers like from a human to be shaped or anything that like clearly this is a crazy

:

01:22:48,181 --> 01:22:53,393

situation, but anything that stands out as supernatural or off putting in that way.

:

01:22:54,336 --> 01:22:58,386

Yeah, give me human for her and then yeah.

:

01:22:58,386 --> 01:23:01,900

And then if you have a cold or a natural, give me that.

:

01:23:02,355 --> 01:23:18,412

sure, human definitely failed I got a 42 out of 10 and um then occult or unnatural,

unnatural zero occult I do not have listed so it's just the 10 and yeah same thing I did

:

01:23:18,412 --> 01:23:21,313

pretty good 19 but definitely not under a 10

:

01:23:21,557 --> 01:23:24,199

Yeah, yeah, nothing, nothing coming up for you.

:

01:23:24,199 --> 01:23:30,022

Emmett, as you're helping her up, she looks at you and she says, thank you.

:

01:23:30,022 --> 01:23:30,823

Thank you.

:

01:23:30,823 --> 01:23:32,974

It's been so miserable down here.

:

01:23:32,974 --> 01:23:34,255

I'm so weak.

:

01:23:34,255 --> 01:23:36,267

And she grabs the ladder.

:

01:23:36,267 --> 01:23:40,148

You put your hand on her and guide her up or how are you helping?

:

01:23:40,769 --> 01:23:43,309

Yeah, just make sure she could grab on all right.

:

01:23:43,309 --> 01:23:48,409

You said like her hands were kind of curled in a bit, but it looks like she's able to use

them.

:

01:23:48,409 --> 01:23:55,668

And I'm just there kind of spotting her from behind and giving her just a little push up,

making sure she doesn't fall back off the ladder.

:

01:23:55,668 --> 01:24:01,201

Yeah, you touch her, she is cold as ice as you're pushing her up.

:

01:24:01,262 --> 01:24:05,305

It's, you know, oddly cold and it's very cold down here.

:

01:24:05,305 --> 01:24:09,588

So you get your guesses, you know, like it's just really cold down here.

:

01:24:09,588 --> 01:24:15,552

But you push up and her skin is so emaciated and flabby.

:

01:24:15,552 --> 01:24:18,454

comes between your fingers in strange ways.

:

01:24:18,454 --> 01:24:24,778

um As she's climbing out, she's doing it slow and she's kind of like.

:

01:24:24,850 --> 01:24:25,602

She's excited.

:

01:24:25,602 --> 01:24:26,614

She's laughing a little bit.

:

01:24:26,614 --> 01:24:31,325

She's like, and she is getting to the top.

:

01:24:31,325 --> 01:24:33,369

Baron, are you helping her up at top?

:

01:24:34,099 --> 01:24:47,778

Yeah man, at this point in time I think I have a choice to either put my pistol away and

help this person or keep a pistol out and I think the wrong choice is to put it away but I

:

01:24:47,778 --> 01:24:53,191

think I'm going to put it away and try and help this poor, poor human out of the hole.

:

01:24:53,204 --> 01:24:58,367

Yeah, you um reach in and grab her and pull her out.

:

01:24:58,367 --> 01:25:05,301

She flops on the ground next to you, completely nude and is laying there for a second.

:

01:25:05,301 --> 01:25:18,268

Just looks dazed by the sky and um her, know, you would expect somebody to just be in pain

or something, but she's kind of like giggling still um as she flops around and she tries

:

01:25:18,268 --> 01:25:22,390

to stand up, but is having a tough time rolling over and getting up.

:

01:25:23,183 --> 01:25:32,859

don't you don't need to stand up don't you don't stand up you're fine i'll take my jacket

from the ground where i tossed it um next to fire guy um and kind of put it over her for

:

01:25:32,859 --> 01:25:38,447

some semblance of decency and maybe a smidge of warmth out here in the middle of nowhere

:

01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:42,752

And she's, thank you, thank you so much.

:

01:25:42,752 --> 01:25:46,624

um Please, I think I should stand.

:

01:25:46,624 --> 01:26:01,501

And um she keeps the jacket and then finally gets up um all the way after she stabilizes

herself and starts to kind of move around to get the cracks out of her bones.

:

01:26:03,156 --> 01:26:05,834

wiggling her fingers back and forth.

:

01:26:05,834 --> 01:26:08,600

Again, her eyes are all over the place.

:

01:26:08,622 --> 01:26:10,104

Emma, are you coming out?

:

01:26:11,457 --> 01:26:15,303

Um, I yell up, it's like, just make sure she's all right.

:

01:26:15,303 --> 01:26:21,394

And I'm just going to take a beat to kind of cast about and see, is there anything else

down here?

:

01:26:21,394 --> 01:26:23,677

Or is this just herself?

:

01:26:24,394 --> 01:26:28,072

Just her, give me an intelligence um times five.

:

01:26:28,072 --> 01:26:32,752

10 so looking for 50 as of 42.

:

01:26:32,923 --> 01:26:35,115

Yeah, you look around, you see the scratch marks.

:

01:26:35,115 --> 01:26:38,879

You don't see or smell any defecation.

:

01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:45,065

You don't see any food or food wrappers, no plate.

:

01:26:45,065 --> 01:26:51,912

uh And the death certificate was two years old at this point.

:

01:26:51,912 --> 01:26:56,288

uh It strikes you as extremely odd.

:

01:26:56,288 --> 01:26:59,368

Yeah, that there's no other storage.

:

01:26:59,368 --> 01:27:06,599

Doesn't seem like I was using this for anything else, but just is quote unquote dead wife

down here.

:

01:27:06,599 --> 01:27:10,779

Yeah, I'm quite confused at this point.

:

01:27:10,779 --> 01:27:13,519

I don't know who in their right mind would do this.

:

01:27:13,519 --> 01:27:21,439

And I climbed back up to the top and yeah, see how she's doing.

:

01:27:22,137 --> 01:27:26,405

She says, uh thanks again.

:

01:27:26,405 --> 01:27:28,349

uh I've been in there for so long.

:

01:27:28,349 --> 01:27:29,843

um

:

01:27:29,843 --> 01:27:32,026

I'll be fine though, thank you, thank you.

:

01:27:32,988 --> 01:27:42,411

I I don't think you'll be fucking fine at all if I was stuffed in a hole by my husband,

ex-husband, whatever you want to call it, and just left there to die.

:

01:27:42,931 --> 01:27:44,788

One, I don't think I'd be standing.

:

01:27:44,788 --> 01:27:47,693

I'm kind of surprised at that.

:

01:27:48,033 --> 01:27:50,314

two, why?

:

01:27:50,314 --> 01:27:52,565

uh Why did he put you down there?

:

01:27:52,565 --> 01:27:53,735

How long have you been down there?

:

01:27:53,735 --> 01:27:56,732

It can't have been two years.

:

01:27:57,498 --> 01:27:58,737

I don't know.

:

01:27:58,737 --> 01:27:59,902

I don't know.

:

01:27:59,984 --> 01:28:02,809

Two years, is that how long I've gone?

:

01:28:04,164 --> 01:28:07,408

That's when you officially died.

:

01:28:07,689 --> 01:28:16,021

Do we remember what it said on like the cause of death on the death certificate?

:

01:28:16,021 --> 01:28:17,366

covers the gamut there.

:

01:28:17,366 --> 01:28:18,169

Yeah, right.

:

01:28:18,169 --> 01:28:21,179

A heart attack while taking a dump and smashing your head.

:

01:28:21,179 --> 01:28:21,963

know, same, same.

:

01:28:21,963 --> 01:28:27,328

Yes, yes, I don't know why he would do that, but he did.

:

01:28:27,328 --> 01:28:30,541

um But again, thank you so much.

:

01:28:30,541 --> 01:28:34,955

I owe you the world.

:

01:28:34,955 --> 01:28:38,758

I just need some food and I'll be fine.

:

01:28:38,758 --> 01:28:39,890

um

:

01:28:39,890 --> 01:28:42,601

Yeah, let's bring you in the cabin.

:

01:28:42,641 --> 01:28:45,683

It seems like you need some warmth, little bit of rest.

:

01:28:45,683 --> 01:28:48,644

I think we got some power bars in the truck.

:

01:28:48,644 --> 01:28:54,326

um Do you know why Clyde did this to you?

:

01:28:54,580 --> 01:28:57,448

Oh, by the way, he recently passed.

:

01:28:57,448 --> 01:28:59,029

I think you should know that.

:

01:28:59,029 --> 01:29:05,523

hope that's happy feeling, a sad feeling for you, but at least you know now.

:

01:29:05,523 --> 01:29:06,783

Thank you for telling me.

:

01:29:06,783 --> 01:29:11,345

um She gives no indication whether happy or sad about the news.

:

01:29:11,345 --> 01:29:13,756

um Really, I just need some food.

:

01:29:13,756 --> 01:29:14,966

I don't need any rest.

:

01:29:14,966 --> 01:29:23,009

um Your bars of power that you spoke of would be just fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine,

fine, fine, fine for me.

:

01:29:23,009 --> 01:29:29,682

I uh will, I will, yes, yes, just the food is all I need.

:

01:29:29,682 --> 01:29:35,143

Yeah, let's, we'll lead her over to the truck, grab a couple snacks for her.

:

01:29:35,143 --> 01:29:39,983

And as she, you know, tear, I'm sure tears into them.

:

01:29:40,043 --> 01:29:44,403

Do you, do you know why Clyde left you down there?

:

01:29:44,403 --> 01:29:54,543

Was he, he seemed, from what we read of his notes, he seemed kind of scared of what was in

this, the static tank.

:

01:29:54,556 --> 01:29:56,820

you lifts are scared of me.

:

01:29:56,820 --> 01:29:58,181

I'm nothing.

:

01:29:58,523 --> 01:30:01,166

I'm skin and bones.

:

01:30:01,748 --> 01:30:03,030

He must have been insane.

:

01:30:03,030 --> 01:30:04,243

He must have been crazy.

:

01:30:04,243 --> 01:30:07,263

When was the last time you've seen him?

:

01:30:07,263 --> 01:30:08,383

When did he come?

:

01:30:08,383 --> 01:30:09,663

Does he check on you?

:

01:30:09,663 --> 01:30:11,543

Does he leave you food?

:

01:30:12,442 --> 01:30:14,183

No, he did not leave me food.

:

01:30:14,183 --> 01:30:15,934

It's been some time since I've eaten.

:

01:30:15,934 --> 01:30:18,736

I'm so hungry, so hungry.

:

01:30:18,736 --> 01:30:31,803

But he would peek down once in a while and try to talk like it was old times and like I

was his Marlene.

:

01:30:32,003 --> 01:30:40,368

And he would regale me of stories and stories upon stories of what used to be with us.

:

01:30:40,754 --> 01:30:43,571

but he left me down there, he was afraid of me.

:

01:30:43,571 --> 01:30:47,250

And again, look at me, nothing to be afraid of.

:

01:30:47,250 --> 01:30:47,838

Amen.

:

01:30:47,838 --> 01:30:49,670

that is weird.

:

01:30:49,670 --> 01:30:57,566

A human can survive multiple weeks without food, definitely not years, and it's even less

than that without water.

:

01:30:57,566 --> 01:31:05,214

It's like it stays and you said he never came and I will grab my pistol out of its

holster.

:

01:31:05,214 --> 01:31:06,267

Are you doing that stealthily?

:

01:31:06,267 --> 01:31:09,784

Okay, go ahead and roll me stealth.

:

01:31:09,886 --> 01:31:15,179

And so I'm gonna roll her alertness and this will be our first contested roll.

:

01:31:15,179 --> 01:31:16,779

Okay, sounds good.

:

01:31:16,819 --> 01:31:22,476

I got a 93 out of 30, so that is a failure.

:

01:31:22,476 --> 01:31:25,439

Bro, she rolled a 100, no joke.

:

01:31:25,439 --> 01:31:28,402

she is, yeah, she's lost in the sauce.

:

01:31:28,402 --> 01:31:32,055

Your failure doesn't uh counteract her critical failure.

:

01:31:32,055 --> 01:31:34,728

So she misses you pulling your pistol.

:

01:31:34,728 --> 01:31:37,390

um She's looking towards the pickup truck.

:

01:31:37,390 --> 01:31:41,974

In fact, she's leaned over it a little bit while Emmett is grabbing those power bars.

:

01:31:41,975 --> 01:31:43,507

Do you give her the food, Emmett?

:

01:31:43,507 --> 01:31:44,727

Yes.

:

01:31:45,027 --> 01:31:47,504

Yeah, I want to make sure that she's all right.

:

01:31:47,504 --> 01:31:51,930

She's tearing them open and eating them uh ravenously.

:

01:31:51,951 --> 01:31:53,753

Her fingernails are quite long.

:

01:31:53,753 --> 01:31:59,421

You see her pinky one is completely torn off like she was scratching the walls and lost

it.

:

01:31:59,542 --> 01:32:03,358

And she just starts eating and eating and eating.

:

01:32:03,358 --> 01:32:09,538

um Yeah, I do a little sidebar with Barone and was like, hey, how do you want to handle

this?

:

01:32:09,538 --> 01:32:12,994

I mean, we can't take her to a hospital.

:

01:32:12,994 --> 01:32:14,487

I mean, do we just drop her off?

:

01:32:14,487 --> 01:32:17,453

No one should know that we were here.

:

01:32:17,453 --> 01:32:22,808

I mean, yeah, definitely nobody should know that we are here, but she shouldn't be alive,

my guy.

:

01:32:22,808 --> 01:32:30,065

That's not a uh time that a human can stay alive unless uh they're not.

:

01:32:30,065 --> 01:32:30,725

down there.

:

01:32:30,725 --> 01:32:34,605

I don't know if she might have some parasites or something.

:

01:32:34,605 --> 01:32:40,165

I mean drinking that stagnant water, but I mean there's definitely enough water to keep

her going.

:

01:32:40,165 --> 01:32:41,753

I don't know about the food though.

:

01:32:41,753 --> 01:32:43,307

I mean two years, fire guy?

:

01:32:43,307 --> 01:32:45,784

Nobody stays alive for two years unless you're...

:

01:32:45,784 --> 01:32:46,425

not...

:

01:32:46,425 --> 01:32:46,946

human.

:

01:32:46,946 --> 01:32:47,528

There's not...

:

01:32:47,528 --> 01:32:48,368

you...

:

01:32:48,611 --> 01:32:49,594

you don't.

:

01:32:49,594 --> 01:32:50,225

Not human.

:

01:32:50,225 --> 01:32:54,102

I mean, we saw all, they've been married for who knows how long.

:

01:32:54,102 --> 01:32:57,046

We saw all their family photos.

:

01:32:57,769 --> 01:32:58,368

Thank you.

:

01:32:58,368 --> 01:32:59,850

that's not actually Marlene.

:

01:32:59,850 --> 01:33:01,449

I'm actually Marlene.

:

01:33:02,376 --> 01:33:03,114

Yeah.

:

01:33:03,114 --> 01:33:06,272

um And I.

:

01:33:06,377 --> 01:33:07,458

Go sorry.

:

01:33:07,458 --> 01:33:11,261

So as you guys are whispering about this, I'm going to roll her alertness.

:

01:33:11,261 --> 01:33:12,954

um

:

01:33:12,954 --> 01:33:17,581

She succeeded and what is everybody's decks?

:

01:33:17,581 --> 01:33:20,197

Just the raw number, not the times five.

:

01:33:20,635 --> 01:33:21,555

14.

:

01:33:22,152 --> 01:33:29,092

Okay, so we are now in combat order as she knows that you are onto something.

:

01:33:29,092 --> 01:33:32,792

Her dex is 17, so she's going to go first.

:

01:33:32,852 --> 01:33:38,792

So, and then we would just go in the order of highest to lowest in the dexterity count,

okay?

:

01:33:38,832 --> 01:33:49,303

You are the closest to her, Emmett, and she unnaturally jumps straight onto your chest

with her claws out.

:

01:33:49,303 --> 01:33:50,813

Well, uh ma'am?

:

01:33:50,813 --> 01:33:51,714

Ma'am?

:

01:33:51,968 --> 01:34:04,705

You are unable to speak as she digs her claws into your shoulder blades like this and

starts to tear and go ahead and roll dodge to see if you can get out of this grass before

:

01:34:04,705 --> 01:34:05,767

taking damage.

:

01:34:05,767 --> 01:34:21,445

um dodge is 50 I feel like I'm quite surprised I was on her side this whole time trying to

almost protect her from barone I would say I don't know is there some sort of like penalty

:

01:34:21,506 --> 01:34:25,881

dice that I'm not expecting this whatsoever that I would roll with

:

01:34:26,030 --> 01:34:28,604

No, you're capable with your athletic score.

:

01:34:28,604 --> 01:34:30,786

So I think you would be able to throw this off.

:

01:34:30,786 --> 01:34:34,931

um If you were a dorky like accountant, then sure.

:

01:34:35,471 --> 01:34:36,372

Mm-hmm.

:

01:34:36,875 --> 01:34:38,459

That is a ten flat.

:

01:34:38,459 --> 01:34:42,162

All right, Tin, she rolled a 42 and hers is over.

:

01:34:42,162 --> 01:34:43,873

Hers is still higher.

:

01:34:43,873 --> 01:34:51,659

So in a contested roll, you take, if you both succeed, you take just the highest number of

the contested roll.

:

01:34:51,659 --> 01:34:52,979

Does that make sense?

:

01:34:54,310 --> 01:35:01,312

And so her claws dig into your shoulders and you will take D3 damage.

:

01:35:01,312 --> 01:35:04,413

I can roll that since D3s are hard to come by.

:

01:35:05,293 --> 01:35:19,737

You take one um damage as she starts to tear into your collarbone and you feel her

fingernails ripping on the actual bone itself as they've dug in.

:

01:35:19,737 --> 01:35:21,287

I believe you are next Emmett.

:

01:35:21,287 --> 01:35:22,458

She is on your chest.

:

01:35:22,458 --> 01:35:23,299

What are you doing?

:

01:35:23,299 --> 01:35:26,782

uh Actually, Barun is next with a dex of 14.

:

01:35:26,782 --> 01:35:29,004

Yep.

:

01:35:29,986 --> 01:35:30,847

I'm just yelling.

:

01:35:30,847 --> 01:35:35,651

I'm just flailing around with this little old lady on me.

:

01:35:36,414 --> 01:35:40,529

Yeah, no question that this is now an enemy and there's no words to say.

:

01:35:40,529 --> 01:35:46,866

think I take that GP100 that's in my hand, um aim and pop, pop.

:

01:35:47,128 --> 01:35:52,828

Okay, you are very close, so you get a 20 % to that.

:

01:35:52,828 --> 01:35:54,808

You just don't wanna critically fail.

:

01:35:55,286 --> 01:35:55,926

sure.

:

01:35:55,926 --> 01:35:57,126

I'm looking firearms.

:

01:35:57,126 --> 01:35:58,566

I have a base of 50.

:

01:35:58,566 --> 01:36:01,086

That'll be up to 70.

:

01:36:01,726 --> 01:36:04,586

And let's go a 71.

:

01:36:04,586 --> 01:36:05,966

Barely failed.

:

01:36:06,186 --> 01:36:07,326

Failed by one.

:

01:36:07,326 --> 01:36:08,546

Typical Barone.

:

01:36:08,546 --> 01:36:11,947

You fire and still hit her, okay?

:

01:36:11,947 --> 01:36:13,348

And it goes through her arm.

:

01:36:13,348 --> 01:36:14,839

Roll me the damage on that.

:

01:36:14,839 --> 01:36:25,114

But the ricochet hits the truck and then comes back and hits you, Emmett, in the shoulder

as she's on you.

:

01:36:25,114 --> 01:36:28,756

So Emmett, can you roll me a D4?

:

01:36:28,756 --> 01:36:32,138

And that's how much damage you'll take from that bullet shot in the shoulder.

:

01:36:32,138 --> 01:36:33,059

Go ahead, Bro.

:

01:36:33,059 --> 01:36:34,819

Roll your damage for her.

:

01:36:35,114 --> 01:36:41,226

Sure, with the GP100 I have damage of 1d12 and let's get a 10.

:

01:36:41,226 --> 01:36:42,186

Let's go.

:

01:36:42,186 --> 01:36:42,837

All right.

:

01:36:42,837 --> 01:36:49,739

So yeah, you shoot her through the throat and you see it rip out the other side.

:

01:36:49,739 --> 01:37:03,543

Her guttural scream turns into a sloppy like hissing um and her viscera and bile starts

coming out on your chest, Emmet.

:

01:37:03,543 --> 01:37:07,264

um And then how much did you take from that shoulder shot?

:

01:37:07,979 --> 01:37:09,405

It took three.

:

01:37:10,479 --> 01:37:11,539

Yeah.

:

01:37:11,810 --> 01:37:16,103

So that is gonna wound you significantly in that arm.

:

01:37:16,103 --> 01:37:23,139

So you will have a disadvantage to anything you do with that arm, including your dodge.

:

01:37:23,139 --> 01:37:23,991

It is your turn.

:

01:37:23,991 --> 01:37:28,971

Yeah, as she jumps on me, was like, bro, help, bro, bro, what are you doing?

:

01:37:28,971 --> 01:37:38,831

And then the shot goes out and I just feel like I don't even notice that it goes through

her neck and I just feel like, bro, and shot me as it don't, no, not like that, come on.

:

01:37:38,971 --> 01:37:40,631

God damn it, bro.

:

01:37:40,771 --> 01:37:45,271

I wanted, I mean, I don't feel like I can reach for my gun.

:

01:37:45,271 --> 01:37:47,271

Definitely can't reach for my ax right now.

:

01:37:47,271 --> 01:37:49,471

I just want to throw her off of me.

:

01:37:49,471 --> 01:37:51,971

I don't know if I could do some sort of like judo.

:

01:37:51,971 --> 01:37:54,131

Like I fall back to my.

:

01:37:54,236 --> 01:37:57,290

onto my back and try to like use the momentum thrower off.

:

01:37:57,290 --> 01:37:58,677

Yeah, you absolutely can.

:

01:37:58,677 --> 01:38:00,346

You just give me an unarmed.

:

01:38:00,346 --> 01:38:01,346

Okay.

:

01:38:01,887 --> 01:38:06,819

And will that be with a penalty dice because of the shoulder injury?

:

01:38:06,819 --> 01:38:09,110

Okay.

:

01:38:09,290 --> 01:38:11,151

Looking for an 80 then.

:

01:38:12,426 --> 01:38:13,973

And I rolled a 90.

:

01:38:13,973 --> 01:38:18,900

I'm still surprised.

:

01:38:18,900 --> 01:38:23,297

I do not know what's going on and I try to throw her off and just fall backwards.

:

01:38:23,297 --> 01:38:25,098

And now she's right on top of me.

:

01:38:25,244 --> 01:38:31,144

she is on top of you, but your back is on the hood of the pickup truck and she is

slashing.

:

01:38:31,144 --> 01:38:40,815

So she comes in and you see her mouth open up wide and unnaturally wide and her teeth are

coming straight for your face.

:

01:38:40,815 --> 01:38:46,006

Go ahead and roll a dodge and this will be at a 10 % disadvantage.

:

01:38:46,006 --> 01:38:49,586

Okay, then I'm looking for a 40 for that.

:

01:38:50,186 --> 01:38:51,686

And got a 75.

:

01:38:51,686 --> 01:38:54,667

I rolling hot all day until combat starts.

:

01:38:54,667 --> 01:38:58,507

She failed too and her role was a 72.

:

01:38:58,507 --> 01:39:08,807

So her mouth comes down and you're able to get one of your hands up to stop it from biting

you, but she does bite your hand as well.

:

01:39:08,807 --> 01:39:13,767

You don't take any damage, but she's locked into your hand with her mouth.

:

01:39:14,507 --> 01:39:15,258

Agent Barone.

:

01:39:15,258 --> 01:39:16,219

Agent Barone.

:

01:39:16,219 --> 01:39:17,460

uh fuck.

:

01:39:17,460 --> 01:39:23,225

I'm so sorry fire guy And then I'll uh re aim and take another shot this thing.

:

01:39:23,225 --> 01:39:29,529

I'm not getting anywhere near that I'm staying as within range, but not as close as

possible

:

01:39:29,529 --> 01:39:31,985

OK, so you're not going to walk up and point blanket.

:

01:39:31,985 --> 01:39:33,610

You're going to keep your distance.

:

01:39:33,610 --> 01:39:37,150

Dangit Nick, point blank was so so sweet.

:

01:39:38,130 --> 01:39:42,630

I am gonna do that.

:

01:39:42,630 --> 01:39:44,050

Yes, yep.

:

01:39:45,330 --> 01:39:49,070

How many steps forward do I have to take to get in point blank range again?

:

01:39:50,330 --> 01:39:51,270

Let's do it.

:

01:39:51,270 --> 01:39:52,970

That seems doable.

:

01:39:52,970 --> 01:39:53,736

Let's go please.

:

01:39:53,736 --> 01:39:56,786

cannot fail the shot, but roll me anyway.

:

01:39:56,786 --> 01:39:59,936

And then if it's a critical failure, then something bad happens too.

:

01:40:00,394 --> 01:40:02,714

It is not a critical failure.

:

01:40:02,934 --> 01:40:04,094

Yeah, right.

:

01:40:04,094 --> 01:40:08,418

No, it's it's a 65 under the 70 again

:

01:40:08,745 --> 01:40:09,782

Give me the damage.

:

01:40:09,782 --> 01:40:12,527

Oh, it's a ten again!

:

01:40:13,242 --> 01:40:14,735

Yeah!

:

01:40:14,735 --> 01:40:24,051

and fire um and Emmett, you just hear the sound of this massive report um echo through

your head.

:

01:40:24,051 --> 01:40:25,362

You feel the vibration.

:

01:40:25,362 --> 01:40:35,109

In fact, you see the flash from somewhere and parts of this woman's jaw fly off and onto

you.

:

01:40:35,109 --> 01:40:41,384

um onto your chest, but she is still struggling to get at you and raking towards you.

:

01:40:41,384 --> 01:40:42,700

It is your turn.

:

01:40:42,874 --> 01:40:46,566

Yeah, her teeth still kind of sunk into my hand.

:

01:40:47,237 --> 01:40:48,612

She doesn't have a jaw anymore.

:

01:40:48,612 --> 01:40:50,609

yeah, yeah, yeah.

:

01:40:50,609 --> 01:40:51,675

Your hand is free.

:

01:40:51,675 --> 01:40:53,706

Well, I'm a little more free.

:

01:40:53,706 --> 01:40:57,426

Yeah, I just, she's still on top of me.

:

01:40:57,426 --> 01:40:59,266

I'm on top of the hood of the car.

:

01:40:59,266 --> 01:41:02,586

And I just want to, I do have my combat knife.

:

01:41:02,586 --> 01:41:15,446

Yes, I think it me I am like struggling as she is, you know, bearing down on me and I'm

trying to lean to one side and reach for my boots and pull out the combat knife.

:

01:41:15,446 --> 01:41:16,662

And I'm

:

01:41:16,699 --> 01:41:22,942

I just want to put this into her temple and try to hit her off.

:

01:41:22,942 --> 01:41:23,833

gonna do two rolls.

:

01:41:23,833 --> 01:41:32,397

So give me athletics to see if you can reach it and bear through the pain in your shoulder

to grab it.

:

01:41:32,397 --> 01:41:37,599

And then if you can and you succeed that, then we'll do a melee roll.

:

01:41:37,918 --> 01:41:40,249

Alright, my athletics is 80.

:

01:41:40,249 --> 01:41:42,590

and got a 60 flat.

:

01:41:43,871 --> 01:41:55,756

Yeah, reach for my knife and I'm gonna, you know, try to use my momentum, do a little

torso twist and use all my force and punch this into the side of her head.

:

01:41:56,235 --> 01:42:03,820

Got another 80 flat, that is, um if it meets it beats or is that a success or failure?

:

01:42:03,820 --> 01:42:06,481

oh just barely.

:

01:42:07,075 --> 01:42:09,117

you know, this is happening breakneck fast.

:

01:42:09,117 --> 01:42:20,296

In fact, you were going for your knife when her mouth was on your hand and then you felt

the gunshot and hurt it and you were already pulling your knife and you jab it straight

:

01:42:20,296 --> 01:42:22,648

into the rest of what's left of her head.

:

01:42:22,648 --> 01:42:24,361

Go ahead and roll the damage on that.

:

01:42:24,361 --> 01:42:28,771

This is D6 plus 2 and also says armor piercing 3.

:

01:42:28,771 --> 01:42:35,789

I don't think she has any armor but just the skull armor that we all have.

:

01:42:36,451 --> 01:42:39,064

That is going to be a 2 plus 2 of 4.

:

01:42:39,064 --> 01:42:39,904

Great.

:

01:42:39,904 --> 01:42:51,149

You feel her entire body go slack as that knife enters where maybe there's a functional

brain, it's hard to say, and you're able to knock her off of you and she flops down to the

:

01:42:51,149 --> 01:42:51,829

ground.

:

01:42:51,829 --> 01:42:54,670

The body is twitching quite a bit still.

:

01:42:54,731 --> 01:42:55,851

What do you do now?

:

01:42:55,851 --> 01:42:57,893

We are out of the combat turn order.

:

01:42:57,893 --> 01:43:07,623

ths and then just pull out my:

and put two more into her head.

:

01:43:08,524 --> 01:43:17,212

I'm real shaken up and that's just my first instinct to make sure that this is no longer

moving, whatever this is in front of me.

:

01:43:17,212 --> 01:43:21,145

Yeah, the head is completely obliterated at this point.

:

01:43:21,145 --> 01:43:26,131

It's just a like mess of flesh and few recognizable parts.

:

01:43:26,392 --> 01:43:28,334

Some teeth here and there.

:

01:43:28,395 --> 01:43:32,659

The tongue is kind of flopping around um out of the neck hole.

:

01:43:32,659 --> 01:43:35,522

But yeah, it's completely obliterated.

:

01:43:35,522 --> 01:43:38,854

um It's over to you.

:

01:43:38,854 --> 01:43:39,250

and.

:

01:43:39,250 --> 01:43:44,030

All right, Barone, I will listen to you moving forward.

:

01:43:44,030 --> 01:43:49,310

I think you've had a couple more run-ins than I have with something like this.

:

01:43:49,690 --> 01:43:56,301

I think my firefighter training took over and I just want to help this like woman.

:

01:43:56,301 --> 01:43:59,861

But yeah, what do you make of this?

:

01:43:59,861 --> 01:44:01,901

And I'm just like double over.

:

01:44:02,134 --> 01:44:04,647

I've literally never seen a fucking single thing like this.

:

01:44:04,647 --> 01:44:10,888

This is absolutely insane, but no human being could have stayed alive in a hole like that

for- for two years.

:

01:44:10,888 --> 01:44:12,737

This- this doesn't- this doesn't make sense.

:

01:44:12,737 --> 01:44:13,719

That doesn't make sense.

:

01:44:13,719 --> 01:44:15,071

This isn't normal, right?

:

01:44:15,071 --> 01:44:15,931

Right?

:

01:44:16,761 --> 01:44:19,204

Yeah, you say human.

:

01:44:19,245 --> 01:44:20,386

I'm second-guessing that.

:

01:44:20,386 --> 01:44:24,753

I don't know if you saw her jaw, but it was more snake-like.

:

01:44:24,753 --> 01:44:27,596

I think she was trying to swallow me whole.

:

01:44:28,338 --> 01:44:30,709

It just unhinged and went right for me.

:

01:44:30,709 --> 01:44:44,460

teeth for days, 40, 50, she had none, she had none fire guy, they were supposed to be

inside, in the chest, they're big and ch- what, I, what the fuck was that?

:

01:44:44,460 --> 01:44:52,856

I don't know, but you know, think Clyde's suggestion of burning it all up is sounding

pretty good right now.

:

01:44:52,897 --> 01:44:54,533

And I...

:

01:44:54,533 --> 01:45:02,342

And I'll put my gun away and start um making for the two gas tanks, the gas canisters that

were put into the back of the truck.

:

01:45:03,243 --> 01:45:03,596

Yeah.

:

01:45:03,596 --> 01:45:09,371

Yeah, and I'll just grab her by the ankle and start dragging her back towards the septic

tank.

:

01:45:09,643 --> 01:45:10,700

Roll alertness.

:

01:45:10,700 --> 01:45:13,380

Me, both of us.

:

01:45:13,900 --> 01:45:18,860

Got a 50 for that and rolled an 8.

:

01:45:19,029 --> 01:45:25,007

Yeah, you feel the twitching still and her leg starts to like move a little bit.

:

01:45:25,330 --> 01:45:26,431

What do do?

:

01:45:27,943 --> 01:45:31,784

no, no, no, no, and I drop it and take a couple steps back.

:

01:45:31,784 --> 01:45:39,047

Uh, Bronn, I don't think she's done here, and I'm rooting around for my axe.

:

01:45:39,048 --> 01:45:44,918

I don't know if I left it over by the septic tank when I jumped in and I-

:

01:45:44,918 --> 01:45:46,440

faded luck rolls.

:

01:45:47,138 --> 01:45:47,937

Mmm.

:

01:45:47,937 --> 01:45:49,267

Feeling lucky today.

:

01:45:49,267 --> 01:45:55,811

Alright, yeah, you back up and step on your fire axe laying by the edge of the septic

tank.

:

01:45:56,412 --> 01:45:59,113

She's still wiggling and wobbling down there.

:

01:45:59,113 --> 01:46:00,213

What are you doing?

:

01:46:00,627 --> 01:46:10,332

Yeah, I want to just go limb by limb if I can and make sure that even if she's still

alive, there's not going to be much that she can do.

:

01:46:10,474 --> 01:46:12,808

You go limb by limb.

:

01:46:12,808 --> 01:46:18,879

Can you roll me sanity for violence as you're hacking apart this once female figure?

:

01:46:18,879 --> 01:46:20,758

That would be an 87 fail.

:

01:46:20,758 --> 01:46:24,367

roll me a D4 of sand loss.

:

01:46:24,367 --> 01:46:25,189

One.

:

01:46:25,536 --> 01:46:28,178

I will just hit that on my sanity.

:

01:46:28,178 --> 01:46:29,484

you are doing this.

:

01:46:29,484 --> 01:46:32,517

What about this is disturbing to you?

:

01:46:32,631 --> 01:46:44,801

Um, just having to, you know, still seeing this as a frail old woman, even though knowing

what she not knowing what she actually is, but you know, in my head that this is someone I

:

01:46:44,801 --> 01:46:45,931

was supposed to save.

:

01:46:45,931 --> 01:46:47,292

now I am.

:

01:46:47,713 --> 01:46:51,005

Whatever the complete opposite of that is doing it to her right now.

:

01:46:51,005 --> 01:47:00,141

Um, yeah, I've, I've used my ax on many things that I've not used it on a human body

before and the sounds, the sights.

:

01:47:00,732 --> 01:47:01,662

Yeah.

:

01:47:02,804 --> 01:47:03,705

Yeah.

:

01:47:03,705 --> 01:47:06,107

Yeah, you are hacking her to bits.

:

01:47:06,107 --> 01:47:15,534

It's like the old 80s movie, Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, as you dismember this corpse that

was trying to animate.

:

01:47:15,595 --> 01:47:19,037

And what do you do with these disparate pieces?

:

01:47:19,309 --> 01:47:24,631

uh Going back to the original plan, I'm just going to toss them one by one down to the

septic tank.

:

01:47:24,631 --> 01:47:28,003

uh Barone's coming with the gas from the truck.

:

01:47:28,003 --> 01:47:33,615

I'm going to go back to the shed and grab the rest that I can and start pouring.

:

01:47:33,615 --> 01:47:47,100

um I know the best way to make a gas trail, how far we need to stand back to stay safe and

make sure that anything and everything is not going to survive down there once we're done

:

01:47:47,100 --> 01:47:47,680

with it.

:

01:47:47,680 --> 01:47:57,033

Yeah, Barone, um you grab the gas cans and immediately turn around and you see um Flint

just.

:

01:47:57,108 --> 01:48:08,842

chopping away at this corpse in the distance in the dark you hear the hunk hunk you start

hearing it go through the bone and into the dirt below it so you hear like mud being

:

01:48:08,842 --> 01:48:19,906

squished at the same time as this body being torn apart and are you helping him drag all

these body parts into the hole too or keeping your distance

:

01:48:20,083 --> 01:48:22,835

No, I think we've chosen the divide and conquer route.

:

01:48:22,835 --> 01:48:30,650

I'm farmer carrying both of those jugs directly to the pit and filling it with that sweet

sweet burn liquid.

:

01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:33,762

Yeah, yeah, you're filling it up.

:

01:48:33,762 --> 01:48:36,294

There's an arm flies by you into the hole.

:

01:48:36,294 --> 01:48:44,291

There's a leg um part of a torso, another section of a torso um flaps down in there.

:

01:48:44,291 --> 01:48:47,583

The flesh hits the water mixes with the gasoline.

:

01:48:47,583 --> 01:48:50,631

uh You're prepared.

:

01:48:50,631 --> 01:48:58,241

handling the body, I still feel it twitching and moving like these disparate parts no

longer connected to the central nervous system?

:

01:48:58,241 --> 01:49:00,863

Are they twitching around still?

:

01:49:01,280 --> 01:49:02,464

absolutely.

:

01:49:02,925 --> 01:49:03,424

What?

:

01:49:03,424 --> 01:49:06,399

Yeah, and in fact you get, oh go ahead, sorry, yeah.

:

01:49:06,399 --> 01:49:13,257

oh yeah, make sure we douse each body part individually as well before it gets tossed in

there.

:

01:49:13,502 --> 01:49:20,655

Yeah, you get most of Marlene, for lack of a better term, into the pit.

:

01:49:20,955 --> 01:49:24,217

Let's see how thorough you can be in picking up these parts.

:

01:49:24,217 --> 01:49:30,020

Can you roll me a search to see if you can identify all of them?

:

01:49:30,020 --> 01:49:30,731

Both of you.

:

01:49:30,731 --> 01:49:36,441

search 40 and rolled a 65 fail

:

01:49:36,669 --> 01:49:39,990

I got, I was looking for 50, rolled 28, success.

:

01:49:39,990 --> 01:49:52,839

Okay, yeah, you feel like, know, Flint Emmett has done a good job, um but you're kind of

looking around with your flashlight and seeing like little bits of her here and there.

:

01:49:52,839 --> 01:49:55,021

And you're kind of doing the cleanup.

:

01:49:55,021 --> 01:50:01,596

You get an eyeball m that you can bring over, but you're able to get it all down there.

:

01:50:01,596 --> 01:50:08,035

Okay great, I'm going to make my way up to the shed um where before I probably wouldn't

have known.

:

01:50:08,035 --> 01:50:09,427

Well, I guess it was in the note.

:

01:50:09,427 --> 01:50:10,688

It is filled with gasoline.

:

01:50:10,688 --> 01:50:13,642

I will keep training down the rest.

:

01:50:13,642 --> 01:50:15,775

I will just bring more and more gas.

:

01:50:15,775 --> 01:50:17,087

I want to fuck this thing.

:

01:50:17,087 --> 01:50:19,810

I want to make sure it is absolutely obliterated.

:

01:50:20,167 --> 01:50:22,378

And you think that's what Clyde was trying to do.

:

01:50:22,378 --> 01:50:24,269

That there's so much gas here.

:

01:50:24,269 --> 01:50:25,320

It's overkill.

:

01:50:25,320 --> 01:50:28,441

It's more gas than you would need to do anything with this.

:

01:50:28,441 --> 01:50:31,663

um Yeah, you're able to fill it up.

:

01:50:31,663 --> 01:50:36,335

Every single part of this creature is floating in it.

:

01:50:36,335 --> 01:50:39,817

What are you just dropping a match in?

:

01:50:39,817 --> 01:50:43,869

You know, I'm assuming Emmett's doing the honors here.

:

01:50:44,354 --> 01:50:49,180

Yeah, I take the his handwritten note about all the gasoline and everything.

:

01:50:49,180 --> 01:50:51,828

I light that up and drop it down.

:

01:50:52,023 --> 01:50:54,014

Yeah, salute.

:

01:50:54,014 --> 01:50:59,735

And the note flutters down like a leaf as sparks come off of it.

:

01:50:59,735 --> 01:51:06,097

It illuminates the whole tank briefly and it hits the gas.

:

01:51:06,097 --> 01:51:07,357

And it's not an explosion.

:

01:51:07,357 --> 01:51:20,821

This isn't a unless you throw the hatch down, uh but some fire does start to spread and

then you feel the heat come up and hit you in the face from this hole and you watch it

:

01:51:20,821 --> 01:51:21,292

burn.

:

01:51:21,292 --> 01:51:35,532

Yeah, feeling that heat is something I'm quite used to and I just, you know, love getting

lost in the fire and knowing the powerful destructive nature of it.

:

01:51:35,612 --> 01:51:42,692

I feel a little easy now, still shaken up, still bleeding.

:

01:51:43,072 --> 01:51:50,303

And then I feel a twinge of pain in my shoulder and look towards Barone, knowing that she

shot me.

:

01:51:50,303 --> 01:51:51,013

Yeah.

:

01:51:51,013 --> 01:51:55,482

But uh I don't make her feel bad for it at this time.

:

01:51:55,482 --> 01:52:01,596

Yeah, I noticed you look at look at your shoulder and wince a little bit and look at me

and I'm like, oh yeah.

:

01:52:01,596 --> 01:52:05,979

uh Sorry about saving your life, fire guy.

:

01:52:05,979 --> 01:52:07,830

Jesus, lock it up.

:

01:52:08,416 --> 01:52:08,900

Yeah.

:

01:52:08,900 --> 01:52:16,243

right, I think we make a good team here and uh I'll let this one slide, but just don't

shoot me again.

:

01:52:16,243 --> 01:52:20,720

mean, if we're gonna be working together now, I think we need to have a little trust.

:

01:52:21,004 --> 01:52:23,196

I I'm not sure how long they'll keep us together.

:

01:52:23,196 --> 01:52:30,363

This, you know, this may be one thing or another, but yeah, I will try my hardest not to

get people around me killed.

:

01:52:30,363 --> 01:52:31,405

I can promise you that.

:

01:52:31,405 --> 01:52:33,046

And I hit him on the shoulder.

:

01:52:33,046 --> 01:52:35,678

Oh, shit, I forgot already.

:

01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:37,582

I'll tell you what, though.

:

01:52:37,582 --> 01:52:39,533

I don't think I'm ever going to sleep again.

:

01:52:39,533 --> 01:52:40,805

How do you feel about coffee?

:

01:52:40,805 --> 01:52:46,188

Yeah, let's get some food and a cup of joe.

:

01:52:46,188 --> 01:52:51,589

And I kick the um hatch shut on this object tank.

:

01:52:51,634 --> 01:52:55,217

it's a pit of fire and lava down there.

:

01:52:55,217 --> 01:53:01,612

And you get into the truck, you have the trunk of presumably what this organization was

looking for.

:

01:53:01,612 --> 01:53:04,265

You're a few days ahead of schedule.

:

01:53:04,265 --> 01:53:08,107

You get on the road and are driving back.

:

01:53:09,029 --> 01:53:13,392

the realization that you have destroyed something.

:

01:53:14,375 --> 01:53:22,028

completely unnatural and horrible for this reality you live in, bolsters your sanity.

:

01:53:22,028 --> 01:53:25,269

Give me a D8 and you can add that to your sanity.

:

01:53:25,269 --> 01:53:34,512

In Delta Green, if you come across the unnatural and destroy it without losing too much of

your marbles, you get sanity gain.

:

01:53:34,743 --> 01:53:35,694

Awesome.

:

01:53:35,694 --> 01:53:37,515

D8 of sanity.

:

01:53:38,396 --> 01:53:40,826

Well, I just replenished the one I have lost.

:

01:53:40,826 --> 01:53:41,921

There you go.

:

01:53:43,271 --> 01:53:45,093

I got a good old fiber.

:

01:53:45,122 --> 01:53:49,317

All right, and your max sanity is your max sanity.

:

01:53:49,317 --> 01:53:53,171

So you can go above what your last sanity was.

:

01:53:53,171 --> 01:53:57,917

You can gain more sanity than your starting point ah in Delta Green as well.

:

01:53:58,408 --> 01:53:58,838

What?

:

01:53:58,838 --> 01:53:59,338

Yeah.

:

01:53:59,338 --> 01:54:02,476

I guess it's so hard fought they're like, you know what?

:

01:54:02,599 --> 01:54:03,822

We'll throw you a bone here.

:

01:54:03,822 --> 01:54:04,795

You're like, great.

:

01:54:04,795 --> 01:54:05,531

Thank you.

:

01:54:05,531 --> 01:54:11,745

Yeah, yeah, and you're able to get some coffee, get some food.

:

01:54:11,745 --> 01:54:23,194

um You get to day three and Agent K is waiting for you at the bar.

:

01:54:23,194 --> 01:54:24,514

Do you turn in everything?

:

01:54:24,514 --> 01:54:26,346

Like have you picked through some of the stuff?

:

01:54:26,346 --> 01:54:27,708

What's going on?

:

01:54:27,708 --> 01:54:32,148

think we spend a little time trying to read through the dissertation.

:

01:54:32,148 --> 01:54:34,948

I don't know if we can get our hand on a reel to reel.

:

01:54:35,408 --> 01:54:40,828

But yeah, over coffee and flapjacks, we are just flipping through.

:

01:54:40,828 --> 01:54:47,028

We kind of divide and conquer the documents, trying to make heads or tails of it.

:

01:54:47,028 --> 01:54:49,648

And a lot of it's going over Emmett's head.

:

01:54:49,648 --> 01:54:55,548

Still just thinking back to Marlene and who or what she was.

:

01:54:56,000 --> 01:55:06,029

I argue in three days and a stack of hundred dollar bills uh that's in my jacket that I

definitely took back from this woman before we threw her into the pit.

:

01:55:06,029 --> 01:55:10,393

uh Okay, just connect those dots.

:

01:55:11,194 --> 01:55:14,668

would say it'd be pretty easy to get reel to reel in.

:

01:55:14,668 --> 01:55:19,162

Once you start digging in, there's no going back.

:

01:55:19,162 --> 01:55:20,554

I might as well know more.

:

01:55:20,554 --> 01:55:25,995

So I think we absolutely take that reel to reel, find a dark room somewhere and spin it

on.

:

01:55:26,036 --> 01:55:40,716

Yeah, um studying ah the dissertation will give you a plus 1 % to your unnatural, but

reduce your SAN by a D3.

:

01:55:40,716 --> 01:55:46,479

So if you're looking at that, give yourself one a natural and then reduce by a D3 of SAN.

:

01:55:46,740 --> 01:55:50,181

And the reel to reel is more interesting.

:

01:55:50,536 --> 01:55:55,031

You put it on and you're hearing, it's not a video, it's all audio.

:

01:55:55,412 --> 01:56:02,320

You hear, it looks like a pseudo Christian service involving snake handling.

:

01:56:03,122 --> 01:56:10,406

And the further and further you get into this sermon, this congregation of.

:

01:56:10,416 --> 01:56:13,947

insanity later because you just start hearing everybody cry.

:

01:56:13,947 --> 01:56:19,288

You can start picking out some chanting and some unnatural elements.

:

01:56:19,489 --> 01:56:23,529

And at the end, you hear two voices talking.

:

01:56:23,830 --> 01:56:31,832

They are discussing how to essentially bring someone back from the dead.

:

01:56:32,252 --> 01:56:38,394

They're talking about using bear fur, strange feathers from rare birds.

:

01:56:38,394 --> 01:56:39,888

uh

:

01:56:39,888 --> 01:56:47,456

infant teeth as a part of a ritual with snakes to have somebody live again.

:

01:56:48,218 --> 01:56:56,949

And you know, this probably had a big importance to Clyde, you're guessing, as um he lost

his wife a few years ago.

:

01:56:56,949 --> 01:56:59,335

Mm.

:

01:56:59,335 --> 01:57:03,888

Bron, you found the feathers and teeth and everything.

:

01:57:03,888 --> 01:57:05,462

We still have that, right?

:

01:57:05,462 --> 01:57:12,601

Yeah, it's not too far-fetched to uh follow the line there and figure out that Clyde

brought his wife back.

:

01:57:12,601 --> 01:57:16,205

What she actually turned into when she was back though...

:

01:57:17,388 --> 01:57:18,309

Who knows?

:

01:57:18,309 --> 01:57:20,318

Did it say any-

:

01:57:20,318 --> 01:57:21,349

snake.

:

01:57:22,677 --> 01:57:24,180

The whole child thing.

:

01:57:24,504 --> 01:57:36,221

and cold as ice i don't think that explains the teeth however that doesn't make any sense

but i don't think i care the whole it's no that's a big old no for me dog

:

01:57:37,215 --> 01:57:37,728

Yeah.

:

01:57:37,728 --> 01:57:39,922

Do know what they were doing with the snakes?

:

01:57:39,922 --> 01:57:44,170

Were they like using the venom or were they having the snakes bite them?

:

01:57:44,170 --> 01:57:45,594

Were they live snakes?

:

01:57:45,594 --> 01:57:50,304

Go ahead and roll humanent as you are listening to see our human

:

01:57:51,744 --> 01:57:57,269

CUMINT is only 10 and that is a 22.

:

01:57:57,269 --> 01:58:00,071

So that's a crit fail.

:

01:58:00,498 --> 01:58:01,513

It's hard to say.

:

01:58:01,513 --> 01:58:05,171

It was a chaotic sounding thing, so.

:

01:58:05,247 --> 01:58:06,105

Mm-hmm.

:

01:58:06,307 --> 01:58:07,507

Yeah, I got even worse than that.

:

01:58:07,507 --> 01:58:10,727

got 57 out of 10 fail as well.

:

01:58:11,298 --> 01:58:22,328

but you studied a dissertation and you got some puzzle piece to what was going on with

Clyde, um turning it all into K.

:

01:58:22,328 --> 01:58:36,126

um Yeah, I think before we turn it into K in in those papers we did have for nine

financial papers that mentioned the K group and Obviously we know that that Clyde was

:

01:58:36,126 --> 01:58:43,860

working for Well, I'm sorry was it explained that Clyde was working for Delta Green

specifically

:

01:58:44,678 --> 01:58:50,585

Nothing directly pointed it out, but he insinuated that he did some work for Delta Green.

:

01:58:50,585 --> 01:58:51,425

Yeah.

:

01:58:52,226 --> 01:58:53,178

Got you.

:

01:58:53,178 --> 01:59:05,658

Is there anything in here that can that can, you know, connect the dots of if Delta Green

was having him look into this or if this was just a man grieving, you know, hoping not to

:

01:59:05,658 --> 01:59:07,500

have to deal with the loss?

:

01:59:08,495 --> 01:59:21,051

Yeah, um the K group stuff seems unrelated to the loss, but the evidence thing, your

guesses could be lifted from any FBI evidence store room.

:

01:59:21,051 --> 01:59:22,692

So the reel to reel.

:

01:59:23,142 --> 01:59:24,942

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

:

01:59:24,942 --> 01:59:25,409

Okay.

:

01:59:25,409 --> 01:59:26,189

I mean...

:

01:59:26,189 --> 01:59:30,910

K group, is this like the letter K or is this like agent K or handler?

:

01:59:30,910 --> 01:59:32,454

K group, just the letter K.

:

01:59:32,454 --> 01:59:35,481

Some World War II era associations.

:

01:59:35,481 --> 01:59:39,149

ah If they're on a watch list, you're guessing probably Nazis.

:

01:59:39,904 --> 01:59:40,384

Yeah, 100%.

:

01:59:40,384 --> 01:59:43,006

Yeah, that makes sense.

:

01:59:43,067 --> 01:59:44,327

Okay, great.

:

01:59:45,128 --> 01:59:50,662

All right, well, I think I'm done with all of this bullshit and I would like it off my

lawn, please.

:

01:59:50,662 --> 01:59:53,014

And I will take that box.

:

01:59:53,014 --> 01:59:58,839

And I'm imagining we're back in the bar and I shifted across the bar to K.

:

01:59:58,859 --> 02:00:00,191

This is your problem now.

:

02:00:00,191 --> 02:00:03,874

these are the type of problems that um I enjoy.

:

02:00:03,874 --> 02:00:06,736

So I thank you for your work.

:

02:00:06,736 --> 02:00:08,778

Here's some more for a job well done.

:

02:00:08,778 --> 02:00:10,199

Another stack of a hundreds.

:

02:00:10,199 --> 02:00:16,063

um And he also passes you both pagers.

:

02:00:16,364 --> 02:00:22,148

He says, you might be getting a page from me or somebody else.

:

02:00:22,148 --> 02:00:24,790

um Be sure to call back quickly.

:

02:00:25,250 --> 02:00:26,293

And he

:

02:00:26,293 --> 02:00:37,806

unnaturally hefts that giant thing up under his arm and walks out into the streetlights

and walks across the street and gets into a car you haven't seen.

:

02:00:37,806 --> 02:00:45,492

a little smoother than expected and still got a lot of questions, but I don't know if I

want those answers.

:

02:00:46,734 --> 02:00:50,988

Baron, I think we're done here.

:

02:00:50,988 --> 02:00:54,040

It's been a pleasure.

:

02:00:55,173 --> 02:00:59,220

you don't want to sit down and get absolutely rip-roying drunk with me for a little bit?

:

02:00:59,220 --> 02:01:05,882

Now I need to make it back to Morgan and try to forget everything over the past three

days.

:

02:01:07,073 --> 02:01:13,601

I could I'll tell you what that some things you can't forget and I'm gonna drink so much

fucking coffee I can never sleep again.

:

02:01:13,601 --> 02:01:26,366

That's for sure and I'm I'm definitely not gonna be able to forget that I'm I'm staying

but if you're a if you're out fire guy, it was uh, it was nice knowing you and she holds

:

02:01:26,366 --> 02:01:27,558

her arms out for a hug

:

02:01:27,558 --> 02:01:34,179

Yeah, I didn't take you as much as a hugger, but yeah, why not?

:

02:01:34,179 --> 02:01:35,219

Why not?

:

02:01:35,219 --> 02:01:36,859

And you know, I'd come and hug you.

:

02:01:36,859 --> 02:01:40,899

I imagine your head comes down to like my sternum.

:

02:01:41,559 --> 02:01:44,459

And yeah, give you a nice squeeze.

:

02:01:44,739 --> 02:01:48,319

And as we release, I flick you a quarter.

:

02:01:48,319 --> 02:01:54,139

So you know, if you're going to be here a while, why not put on one of your Deathcore?

:

02:01:54,391 --> 02:01:55,952

bulge songs.

:

02:01:55,952 --> 02:01:56,854

Yeah, got it.

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I'll put one on just for you.

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uh Take care of yourself out there

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Will do.

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Just like every Delta Green operation, it ends in a hug

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Dead Letter Bureau - Delta Green
A Delta Green RPG Actual Play.

Think of it as a rated-R X-Files. Our horror podcast explores deep government conspiracies, terrifying Lovecraftian lore, and cosmic dread. Follow doomed federal agents as they fight a secret war against Unnatural forces, where the only question is if they'll lose their lives or just their minds.

New case files drop every other Tuesday.

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Nick Sayers

As the arbiter of the game's reality, Nick presents a world where the Unnatural is not just a monster to be fought, but a complex, indifferent force with its own ancient logic. His scenarios are built around deep, interconnected lore, weaving together threads of rogue government agencies, alien biology, and human folly. He guides his players through investigations that are as much about uncovering terrifying truths as they are about the psychological and moral erosion of the agents themselves, ensuring that every choice has weight and every victory comes at a profound cost. His focus is on crafting a deeply immersive and unsettling narrative experience, where the true horror is often found in the quiet moments just before the storm breaks.