1 00:00:01,196 --> 00:00:02,133 you 2 00:00:03,906 --> 00:00:04,831 you 3 00:00:09,806 --> 00:00:14,926 Careful, you spill water on that and you might accidentally summon a Stormbond Fjall. 4 00:00:14,926 --> 00:00:17,935 Uh, no. 5 00:00:17,935 --> 00:00:19,349 Sorry, it's not magic. 6 00:00:19,349 --> 00:00:20,681 It's memetics. 7 00:00:20,846 --> 00:00:22,146 memetics. 8 00:00:22,366 --> 00:00:25,846 That's a ten dollar word for a two dollar room kid. 9 00:00:26,226 --> 00:00:29,385 The high ups think meme is a French maid. 10 00:00:29,506 --> 00:00:33,266 You're trying to explain algebra to a room full of gorillas. 11 00:00:33,991 --> 00:00:46,710 With respect sir, the data holds up that Anna Nairber wasn't just looking for relics, they were building a linguistic virus, a syntax if you look at it at the propagation curves in 12 00:00:46,710 --> 00:00:47,970 1944. 13 00:00:48,003 --> 00:00:48,844 believe you. 14 00:00:48,844 --> 00:00:50,164 I believe you. 15 00:00:50,565 --> 00:00:52,086 That's the problem. 16 00:00:52,227 --> 00:00:53,908 I believe you. 17 00:00:54,069 --> 00:00:59,394 But the guys upstairs, want satellite photos of T-72 tanks. 18 00:00:59,495 --> 00:01:01,936 They don't care about syntax. 19 00:01:01,997 --> 00:01:03,919 You're going to write a brilliant report. 20 00:01:03,919 --> 00:01:06,802 It's going to get filed next to the UFO sightings. 21 00:01:06,802 --> 00:01:11,128 And you're going to spend the next 20 years analyzing wheat fields in Ukraine. 22 00:01:11,128 --> 00:01:12,378 So what am I supposed to do? 23 00:01:12,378 --> 00:01:13,582 It's the truth. 24 00:01:13,858 --> 00:01:15,879 Find a different audience. 25 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,901 There are people. 26 00:01:17,901 --> 00:01:23,786 Private interests who pay a premium for men who can see the pattern in the noise. 27 00:01:24,014 --> 00:01:25,678 and wildlife mercenaries. 28 00:01:25,678 --> 00:01:29,761 uh Think bigger. 29 00:01:30,078 --> 00:01:33,725 A quiet little think tank called the Arminage Group. 30 00:01:33,805 --> 00:01:39,370 They handle the R &D, Subsidiary of March Tech. 31 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:46,117 Okay, and what does a defense contractor want with Nazi folklore? 32 00:01:46,626 --> 00:01:49,369 We have a project out in the Painted Desert. 33 00:01:49,410 --> 00:01:51,793 There's a team of biologists out there. 34 00:01:51,793 --> 00:01:57,020 Absolutely visionary stuff, But they are difficult. 35 00:01:57,221 --> 00:02:02,167 They deal with materials that don't follow the usual rules of biology. 36 00:02:02,208 --> 00:02:04,160 We're looking for a case manager. 37 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:05,919 Sounds like you mean a babysitter. 38 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,731 A translator. 39 00:02:08,113 --> 00:02:12,398 Someone who understands that sometimes a symbol isn't just a drawing. 40 00:02:12,398 --> 00:02:13,859 It's a circuit. 41 00:02:13,860 --> 00:02:18,486 You're wasting that brain here, Talk to them. 42 00:02:21,496 --> 00:02:22,970 Hey, wait. 43 00:02:23,174 --> 00:02:24,677 Who do I say sent me? 44 00:02:25,922 --> 00:02:26,926 Gavin Ross. 45 00:02:26,926 --> 00:02:27,942 you 46 00:02:36,866 --> 00:02:43,210 You get a night's rest, the sun starts coming through the window around 6 a.m. 47 00:02:43,210 --> 00:02:52,436 and before you know it, Barone, the door, softly nudges your leg as you're asleep and Karas comes in. 48 00:02:52,436 --> 00:02:55,898 Oh, we have a new person here. 49 00:02:57,099 --> 00:03:01,164 And he looks as rested as his jaundice Lee. 50 00:03:01,164 --> 00:03:11,723 gross skin can look and he steps past you and walks into the middle and notices the papers are on his desk were moved around a little bit. 51 00:03:11,723 --> 00:03:27,397 uh Kind of walks, does a quick like walk around and goes into the kitchen and pulls out a can of uh beans and puts it in a thing and turns on a butane stove and starts heating up a 52 00:03:27,397 --> 00:03:28,014 can. 53 00:03:28,014 --> 00:03:29,108 And he's like, 54 00:03:29,164 --> 00:03:31,516 I'm sure um you're hungry. 55 00:03:31,516 --> 00:03:36,899 And then he pulls out some more capsules and sets them next to like where he's cooking. 56 00:03:37,380 --> 00:03:38,711 But it's nice to meet you. 57 00:03:38,711 --> 00:03:40,578 I'm Julian Kross. 58 00:03:40,578 --> 00:03:43,918 Dell will just see the beans and he'll say, I hate it here. 59 00:03:43,918 --> 00:03:47,444 I'm like, did I just hear a can of beans opening? 60 00:03:47,444 --> 00:03:49,446 What kind of beans are you making? 61 00:03:50,146 --> 00:03:51,458 respect pins. 62 00:03:52,566 --> 00:03:53,706 favorite. 63 00:03:53,998 --> 00:03:56,693 uh But he holds out his hand to shake yours. 64 00:03:56,693 --> 00:03:58,821 says, uh, Julian Cross. 65 00:03:59,822 --> 00:04:01,433 Hi, uh I'm Ryan. 66 00:04:01,433 --> 00:04:02,725 It's nice to meet you. 67 00:04:02,725 --> 00:04:06,488 I've heard a lot about you from my fellow agents here. 68 00:04:06,602 --> 00:04:09,041 I appreciate you giving us a place to stay tonight. 69 00:04:09,041 --> 00:04:11,123 Of course. 70 00:04:11,123 --> 00:04:12,333 up my friend. 71 00:04:12,658 --> 00:04:25,772 I wouldn't leave him to die, so I'm sure you're hungry and you have questions, but please make yourselves comfortable. 72 00:04:25,772 --> 00:04:27,885 Yeah sure, mean I have two questions. 73 00:04:27,885 --> 00:04:30,489 um Do you have any of those liquid beans around? 74 00:04:30,489 --> 00:04:32,783 um Some coffee? 75 00:04:32,783 --> 00:04:34,174 Do you have coffee going? 76 00:04:34,764 --> 00:04:39,738 Yeah, he reaches up and pulls out like those little sticks of instant coffee. 77 00:04:39,738 --> 00:04:43,540 I'm sorry I don't drink them much, but this will have to do. 78 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:46,442 And he has another pan boiling some water. 79 00:04:47,266 --> 00:04:54,630 that I am underwhelmed but still alive so that's fine. 80 00:04:54,630 --> 00:04:55,570 That's fine. 81 00:04:55,570 --> 00:04:57,431 uh Second question. 82 00:04:57,431 --> 00:05:04,395 So with what you injected into me, how will I know if it worked or not? 83 00:05:04,395 --> 00:05:06,756 Will I crave metal for a while? 84 00:05:06,756 --> 00:05:08,176 Will I... 85 00:05:08,577 --> 00:05:09,547 Will it fall off? 86 00:05:09,547 --> 00:05:12,018 How do navigate that? 87 00:05:12,786 --> 00:05:18,009 Well, bicarbonate should work pretty quickly, um, within a day, so... 88 00:05:18,009 --> 00:05:19,521 I'm not... 89 00:05:20,385 --> 00:05:20,863 Yes. 90 00:05:20,863 --> 00:05:28,747 Well, I'm gonna go ahead and take one of those metal ground pills, because for some reason I still want it at the moment. 91 00:05:28,747 --> 00:05:35,870 We're gonna hope that falls right off and I'll go ahead and take one of the pills, grab a glass of water and start to swallow it down. 92 00:05:36,568 --> 00:05:40,181 Okay, we are welcome to it. 93 00:05:41,038 --> 00:05:42,549 um Out of everybody here. 94 00:05:42,549 --> 00:05:43,710 yeah, Ryan. 95 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:45,691 So we found our friend. 96 00:05:45,691 --> 00:05:46,272 He's here. 97 00:05:46,272 --> 00:05:46,832 He's alive. 98 00:05:46,832 --> 00:06:01,142 He's good uh You guys just met obviously don't know why I'm saying that uh Ryan here is uh the the part of our party that probably knows the most he's uh he's the brains of all the 99 00:06:01,142 --> 00:06:10,542 studies uh that That we've uh you know done up to date So if anybody can can help you out Ryan here is gonna be your guy 100 00:06:10,542 --> 00:06:13,037 What manner of help could you provide me? 101 00:06:13,068 --> 00:06:14,468 I'm not so sure. 102 00:06:14,468 --> 00:06:18,180 just depends on what information you're looking for. 103 00:06:18,180 --> 00:06:32,034 you know, I, along with Dell was the one that found Arthur Finch's writings and some drawings that I kind of remember as we thumbed through them. 104 00:06:32,034 --> 00:06:35,115 Yeah, but I don't know. 105 00:06:35,115 --> 00:06:38,644 guess it just depends on, you know, what kind of information you're after. 106 00:06:38,644 --> 00:06:40,215 Well, I'm after... 107 00:06:40,774 --> 00:06:42,177 I guess we would... 108 00:06:42,177 --> 00:06:45,379 It's really scientific, but there's a... 109 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,681 It's a ritual of sorts, but... 110 00:06:49,963 --> 00:06:52,475 The underpinnings are still scientific. 111 00:06:52,475 --> 00:06:53,505 It's a... 112 00:06:53,986 --> 00:06:55,445 dimensional... 113 00:06:56,648 --> 00:07:05,344 calling, I suppose, through reverberations of voice mixed with some of these symbols that Finch had been... 114 00:07:05,418 --> 00:07:07,241 sending me and I'd been collecting. 115 00:07:07,241 --> 00:07:09,304 And I was trying to finish the... 116 00:07:09,565 --> 00:07:11,453 the uh... 117 00:07:11,453 --> 00:07:15,414 I guess the symbols to complete my work. 118 00:07:15,476 --> 00:07:17,753 And what sort of work is that? 119 00:07:17,753 --> 00:07:22,646 what, eh what are you wanting to do with this information? 120 00:07:22,668 --> 00:07:37,996 My vessel, and he points to his body, is sufficiently prepared to move on from this world, and I believe I can do that with this song, for lack of a better term. 121 00:07:38,070 --> 00:07:47,759 Okay, so you're saying uh something will happen when you put these things together and are you talking about like that? 122 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:51,602 And I point over to the brain in the jar. 123 00:07:51,715 --> 00:07:52,475 I... 124 00:07:52,514 --> 00:07:53,245 I... 125 00:07:53,245 --> 00:07:54,881 My assumption is yes. 126 00:07:54,881 --> 00:07:58,036 So, I'm not, again, new territory, but... 127 00:07:58,036 --> 00:08:01,505 Is that how that brain ended up in that jar? 128 00:08:02,296 --> 00:08:11,852 That brain is ancient, I'm not sure, but I'm trying to find the architect of the jar and the one who puts the brains in it. 129 00:08:11,852 --> 00:08:15,834 That's what this song, I assume, brings to us. 130 00:08:16,794 --> 00:08:17,394 Mm-hmm. 131 00:08:17,394 --> 00:08:18,454 Okay. 132 00:08:18,515 --> 00:08:30,498 Well, I'm totally sure I'll be able to help you out with that, um if you want to show me, you know, what you have, maybe something will ring a bell. 133 00:08:30,498 --> 00:08:38,460 And I kind of look at them and give them like a a wink. 134 00:08:38,460 --> 00:08:45,722 Like I don't, you know, trying to communicate to him, like, I don't want to talk about this in front of these people, but maybe I can help you. 135 00:08:46,798 --> 00:08:48,398 with a private combo. 136 00:08:48,398 --> 00:08:49,398 Later. 137 00:08:49,774 --> 00:08:51,760 Well, I can show you what I have. 138 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:52,602 It's over here. 139 00:08:52,602 --> 00:08:57,274 And he goes to the desk to find his paper with symbols on it. 140 00:08:58,668 --> 00:09:11,003 So you did mention the architect and the reason why we exist is to keep humanity from exploring the horrors that are out there or experiencing them rather. 141 00:09:11,003 --> 00:09:14,134 em Is this architect dangerous? 142 00:09:14,134 --> 00:09:16,805 We know they created the verdant path. 143 00:09:16,906 --> 00:09:18,766 Gonna have to clean that up a little bit. 144 00:09:18,766 --> 00:09:28,322 uh But is this a danger to humanity as a whole or is this like a you give it what it wants and it goes away type thing? 145 00:09:28,322 --> 00:09:41,967 I assume their motivations are beyond us grasping and our tiny intellects, but um they have posed no danger to me. 146 00:09:42,728 --> 00:09:56,813 The verdant path were left to imbibe and take on the swamp and be changed, and they called upon it multiple times, unsuccessfully, but it was not an affront or anything. 147 00:09:57,114 --> 00:09:58,374 So I- uh 148 00:09:59,638 --> 00:10:04,328 I don't sense any danger in this, I just sense liberation. 149 00:10:05,166 --> 00:10:05,666 Interesting. 150 00:10:05,666 --> 00:10:17,593 So actually you just reminded me and Ryan you may be able to expand on this a little bit but you said that they called unsuccessfully but they called something somehow. 151 00:10:17,593 --> 00:10:25,727 Something flew over um Ryan here and into the swamp and they pulled it off into a I don't know further down into the swamp. 152 00:10:25,727 --> 00:10:27,658 Do you know what that was? 153 00:10:27,658 --> 00:10:29,600 I've never seen anything like that, but... 154 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:36,907 um It sounds like they've called, like you said, something, but it wasn't. 155 00:10:38,609 --> 00:10:39,869 The same... 156 00:10:40,331 --> 00:10:41,091 Yes. 157 00:10:41,091 --> 00:10:43,253 But let me show you what I have. 158 00:10:43,253 --> 00:10:44,314 um Please. 159 00:10:44,314 --> 00:10:47,968 em If you can, join me. 160 00:10:47,968 --> 00:10:52,302 He offers you to come outside. 161 00:10:52,302 --> 00:10:57,832 Okay, so I get off the couch and I like start crawling towards that door. 162 00:10:58,705 --> 00:11:00,130 You do one hit point? 163 00:11:00,130 --> 00:11:01,153 Yeah. 164 00:11:01,153 --> 00:11:05,195 Your one hit point would have, your one hit point would have like. 165 00:11:05,582 --> 00:11:12,262 limping towards the front door, hopping on one leg. 166 00:11:12,310 --> 00:11:20,516 If Ryan started to kind of like fib like that, uh I think I would get up and then just like give a swift kick to that limb. 167 00:11:20,516 --> 00:11:24,468 Like whatever one you were feigning dragging like, sorry. 168 00:11:24,974 --> 00:11:28,261 Roll your unarmed and then Ryan roll your dodge. 169 00:11:28,322 --> 00:11:30,992 Like we're not going for injury, but I do want it to hurt. 170 00:11:30,992 --> 00:11:33,120 Um, that was a 28. 171 00:11:34,072 --> 00:11:36,346 So what's up with all these people slapping me around? 172 00:11:36,346 --> 00:11:41,178 um I'm looking for 30 and I got 14. 173 00:11:41,592 --> 00:11:48,880 Yeah, so you are able to kick Ryan and it does hurt Ryan right in the leg, but it doesn't damage you. 174 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,452 It's not trying to do damage. 175 00:11:50,452 --> 00:11:53,184 What do you do after being kicked by Del? 176 00:11:53,934 --> 00:11:56,528 I just look at him and I'm like, what? 177 00:11:56,528 --> 00:11:57,154 Why? 178 00:11:57,373 --> 00:11:58,456 Why would you do that? 179 00:11:58,456 --> 00:12:04,670 Yeah, I mean, I think I was trying to make it look as though I was, you know, fumbling and stumbling. 180 00:12:05,972 --> 00:12:14,418 But it's really like, uh we got enough things to pay attention to on the outside of us. 181 00:12:14,418 --> 00:12:20,504 I ain't got patience or mental capacity for whatever shit you're pulling right now. 182 00:12:20,504 --> 00:12:24,017 Yeah, Khorras is like, okay. 183 00:12:24,017 --> 00:12:27,314 And he just continues to walk out past you. 184 00:12:27,314 --> 00:12:37,447 Um, he, you're staying inside a little bit, I'm guessing as you're talking, you've seen him go sit down cross-legged and start scrawling symbols into the mud around him. 185 00:12:37,447 --> 00:12:41,922 But go, what are you guys doing as you're having this conversation inside? 186 00:12:41,922 --> 00:12:50,168 I mean, I'm just getting mad and I'm like, Dell, if you want to get up and follow us, you're welcome to join us. 187 00:12:50,168 --> 00:12:51,188 Okay. 188 00:12:51,429 --> 00:12:52,549 How about that? 189 00:12:52,549 --> 00:12:54,030 You able to do that? 190 00:12:54,476 --> 00:12:55,778 Yeah, we're moving. 191 00:12:55,778 --> 00:13:06,279 Yeah, I'll grab the beans and I'll spoon some beans into a bowl, grab my coffee and kind of be the last one out the door type thing with my hands full like going through the 192 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:06,936 doorway. 193 00:13:06,936 --> 00:13:08,533 Always the peacekeeper. 194 00:13:09,688 --> 00:13:10,484 Yeah 195 00:13:10,518 --> 00:13:13,070 Hey man, don't fight on an empty stomach, that's what I say. 196 00:13:13,070 --> 00:13:17,733 You get onto the porch and you're standing there on the porch all together. 197 00:13:17,733 --> 00:13:24,597 Jordan is still really hard for you to walk, but you do feel you're able to push through it and step out there. 198 00:13:24,597 --> 00:13:34,343 And he starts singing this song, like the song you know, and he has scrawled these symbols all around him. 199 00:13:34,343 --> 00:13:39,976 Ryan, go ahead and roll either a natural or just roll a natural. 200 00:13:41,486 --> 00:13:43,926 Okay, I only have 16. 201 00:13:43,926 --> 00:13:47,392 I rolled a double of seven again! 202 00:13:47,392 --> 00:13:57,527 Ryan, you feel the unnatural tug of this ritual and there's something off. 203 00:13:57,527 --> 00:14:05,090 Like you sense that he is doing this exactly the way he should. 204 00:14:05,891 --> 00:14:11,633 Like you are seeing this almost as a mirror of what you did last night. 205 00:14:11,633 --> 00:14:13,496 He's not missing anything. 206 00:14:13,496 --> 00:14:14,997 same symbols. 207 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,217 Same symbols, you look around and there's just a... 208 00:14:20,217 --> 00:14:24,785 like a resonance to his chant that is compelling you. 209 00:14:24,785 --> 00:14:26,627 If you want to give into the... 210 00:14:26,949 --> 00:14:30,173 like this compelling feeling, just roll me a d6. 211 00:14:30,912 --> 00:14:32,491 you mean by give into it? 212 00:14:32,491 --> 00:14:34,232 What does thought entail? 213 00:14:34,232 --> 00:14:38,872 You feel the ritual pulling you in because you've done it before. 214 00:14:38,872 --> 00:14:40,806 This is morning, yes? 215 00:14:41,322 --> 00:14:42,470 it's daylight. 216 00:14:42,472 --> 00:14:48,096 So giving in to this means like taking over and doing this for him. 217 00:14:48,661 --> 00:14:49,750 sing along 218 00:14:49,750 --> 00:14:54,090 I don't think I will join. 219 00:14:54,090 --> 00:14:55,854 I will fight against it. 220 00:14:55,854 --> 00:14:57,614 What do I need to rule to do that? 221 00:14:58,175 --> 00:15:02,297 All right, looking for 80 or under 80, I guess. 222 00:15:03,830 --> 00:15:06,191 Yeah, you don't join in. 223 00:15:06,211 --> 00:15:09,712 You see him continuing to sing. 224 00:15:09,712 --> 00:15:12,131 I have to roll for him for a second. 225 00:15:14,553 --> 00:15:17,594 It is crescendoing. 226 00:15:17,594 --> 00:15:18,594 He's trying. 227 00:15:18,594 --> 00:15:31,498 He looks completely insane and is singing at the top of his lungs and there is a chord that he starts to strike as this is happening and 228 00:15:33,176 --> 00:15:36,659 Or can somebody roll me a D12 and just tell me the number? 229 00:15:37,452 --> 00:15:38,169 Yeah, definitely. 230 00:15:38,169 --> 00:15:38,552 uh 231 00:15:38,552 --> 00:15:41,868 Five. 232 00:15:41,868 --> 00:15:49,372 He falls over and collapses and you see him go into a seizure and starts shaking. 233 00:15:49,372 --> 00:15:51,522 I'm jo- 234 00:15:51,522 --> 00:15:57,448 I'm dropping the beans or sitting on the banister and rushing down the stairs like that we need more out of this guy. 235 00:15:57,448 --> 00:15:58,429 He can't be going now. 236 00:15:58,429 --> 00:16:00,340 So I'm running straight for him. 237 00:16:00,696 --> 00:16:02,907 While he's seizing, he's speaking. 238 00:16:02,907 --> 00:16:06,068 He's saying, flesh, you think the flesh matters? 239 00:16:06,068 --> 00:16:08,089 The sack of what noise? 240 00:16:08,089 --> 00:16:12,401 The constant sloshing of blood, the shit, the pointless thoughts, prison of bone. 241 00:16:12,401 --> 00:16:15,882 I've spent my entire life listening to this goddamn rattle in my head. 242 00:16:15,882 --> 00:16:18,793 The chains, it's a fucking chain. 243 00:16:18,793 --> 00:16:20,294 But I found the key. 244 00:16:20,294 --> 00:16:25,036 And he's just going on and on as he's shaking on the ground. 245 00:16:25,036 --> 00:16:30,638 As this is happening, there is a frequency. 246 00:16:30,754 --> 00:16:43,651 almost a dismantled thought, a buzzing hymn that is sung in a language that is only the static of dying stars, a noise that is incomprehensible, that starts to nag at the back of 247 00:16:43,651 --> 00:16:45,902 your frontal lobe. 248 00:16:46,583 --> 00:16:58,850 And far above in the sky, you see first two and then a third shape of purple light start to descend. 249 00:16:58,932 --> 00:17:06,256 from the heavens and they get right next to where the cabin is. 250 00:17:06,256 --> 00:17:14,330 And you see some plates come out of all three of these lights now. 251 00:17:14,330 --> 00:17:20,884 Their limbs, a chaotic mess of claws and delicate weird filaments twitching and pointed random. 252 00:17:20,884 --> 00:17:24,916 They look completely different from each other yet very similar. 253 00:17:24,916 --> 00:17:28,812 And veins of sickly purple light bleed as their 254 00:17:28,812 --> 00:17:35,922 ripping through and you look up, all of you roll sand as this starts happening. 255 00:17:36,266 --> 00:17:37,627 Yep, absolutely. 256 00:17:37,627 --> 00:17:40,961 Guess I thought we were gonna Nick you're throwing us into chaos, man. 257 00:17:40,961 --> 00:17:44,616 I thought we were gonna get some time to prepare and it's gonna go so smoothly 258 00:17:44,616 --> 00:17:45,388 What mean? 259 00:17:45,388 --> 00:17:47,271 We got one hit point back. 260 00:17:47,271 --> 00:17:49,350 I got a 12. 261 00:17:50,510 --> 00:17:52,242 Yeah, I got, I was aiming for... 262 00:17:52,242 --> 00:17:55,045 Go for it. 263 00:17:55,045 --> 00:17:57,574 I was aiming for 55, I got a 30 success. 264 00:17:58,350 --> 00:18:00,014 CF43 success. 265 00:18:00,130 --> 00:18:09,353 Okay, all of you still lose one San for just seeing this and he starts to mutter and looks up at you, Barone. 266 00:18:09,353 --> 00:18:16,374 As you're shaking from seeing this, you hear him say, you think this is murder, you're a tithe, this is a gift. 267 00:18:16,374 --> 00:18:22,696 The gardeners have come, they've cutting from the vine and I'm gonna give you to them. 268 00:18:22,977 --> 00:18:25,237 You have to pay the butcher, you see. 269 00:18:25,817 --> 00:18:28,448 You have to get a look in the back room. 270 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:37,886 Double-crossing son of a bitch you absolutely and then I'll draw my gun and stand up Leaving him to lay on the ground you double cross us didn't you? 271 00:18:37,996 --> 00:18:42,110 You just hear him scream, take them they are the offering find it worthy. 272 00:18:42,551 --> 00:18:45,442 I have prepared them all. 273 00:18:45,442 --> 00:18:48,671 Okay, I'm gonna cock the gun and I'm gonna shoot him right in the chest. 274 00:18:49,484 --> 00:18:51,940 Yeah, you're a point blank range. 275 00:18:51,940 --> 00:18:55,470 You can roll firearms just to see if it jams or not, but- 276 00:18:55,470 --> 00:18:56,291 sure. 277 00:18:56,473 --> 00:18:59,886 Looking for 56 I got 82. 278 00:19:00,430 --> 00:19:12,032 eh It's still your it's a hundred percent the only way to fail is if you critically fail So yeah, so you shoot him in the chest roll a d6 for a pistol, I believe 279 00:19:12,302 --> 00:19:15,662 D12, my GP100 is a D12. 280 00:19:17,102 --> 00:19:18,162 Yeah man, I know. 281 00:19:18,162 --> 00:19:19,242 And an 8. 282 00:19:19,242 --> 00:19:20,514 Let's get that 8 in there. 283 00:19:20,514 --> 00:19:20,874 Pop. 284 00:19:20,874 --> 00:19:22,235 He starts to wriggle. 285 00:19:22,235 --> 00:19:39,103 You see him actually starting to shudder from the gunshot and these three things come through and sit there in this grim tapestry of madness and broad daylight. 286 00:19:39,463 --> 00:19:41,744 You have a dying man below you. 287 00:19:42,125 --> 00:19:43,756 Del, you have the highest decks. 288 00:19:43,756 --> 00:19:45,106 What are you doing? 289 00:19:45,198 --> 00:19:48,804 Still, my rifle is right next to the door. 290 00:19:48,804 --> 00:19:52,230 When walking out, you would have seen it propped up there, but I don't have it on me. 291 00:19:52,230 --> 00:19:53,122 That's where that would have been. 292 00:19:53,122 --> 00:19:57,219 I would not have taken it outside to talk to him about nature or whatever. 293 00:19:57,219 --> 00:19:59,562 So I just have my pistol on me right now. 294 00:19:59,656 --> 00:20:00,026 Hey. 295 00:20:00,026 --> 00:20:08,959 uh Yeah, I imagine all of our uh firearms are stashed on the porch where you had uh collected them. 296 00:20:08,959 --> 00:20:16,052 Can I get a bead on the posture of these beings coming through the portal? 297 00:20:16,052 --> 00:20:22,862 Does it look like they are ready to make good on Karas's words, or is there perhaps a different motive? 298 00:20:22,862 --> 00:20:24,014 It's really hard to tell. 299 00:20:24,014 --> 00:20:26,369 There's just no... 300 00:20:26,369 --> 00:20:27,842 nothing about them is human. 301 00:20:27,842 --> 00:20:30,837 So you have no bead on anything. 302 00:20:31,722 --> 00:20:32,875 Go ahead. 303 00:20:32,875 --> 00:20:33,745 Uh-uh. 304 00:20:34,171 --> 00:20:48,686 Yeah, there are only so many precautions that I know how to take and I will run to uh my rifle in the crook of the door and I will grab it and I will uh posture safety off, full 305 00:20:48,686 --> 00:20:57,064 auto engaged and at the first sign of hostility I will not cease to unload on the one nearest to me. 306 00:20:57,772 --> 00:20:59,354 Okay. 307 00:20:59,354 --> 00:21:01,242 What's your decks again, Barone? 308 00:21:01,304 --> 00:21:03,796 Dexterity is seventy- 309 00:21:03,796 --> 00:21:05,693 What's the raw number, sorry. 310 00:21:05,958 --> 00:21:07,262 So it's high, yeah. 311 00:21:08,152 --> 00:21:09,646 the O, the raw number 14. 312 00:21:09,646 --> 00:21:10,087 14. 313 00:21:10,087 --> 00:21:11,340 Okay, great. 314 00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:12,233 You have a turn. 315 00:21:12,233 --> 00:21:12,730 Okay. 316 00:21:12,730 --> 00:21:12,990 great. 317 00:21:12,990 --> 00:21:14,330 I have another turn. 318 00:21:15,590 --> 00:21:17,790 So that that shh. 319 00:21:17,790 --> 00:21:25,090 God, I wish I just had five minutes to ask him about the weapons for for majestic you son of a B. 320 00:21:25,270 --> 00:21:26,390 Okay. 321 00:21:26,830 --> 00:21:31,330 So that shot in is just as a withering. 322 00:21:31,330 --> 00:21:36,330 Waif of a human left that probably did him in pretty good. 323 00:21:36,370 --> 00:21:39,530 Oh, the ATVs are probably pretty close. 324 00:21:39,662 --> 00:21:42,473 uh They would be like kind of near the bottom of the stairs. 325 00:21:42,473 --> 00:21:56,988 I'm going to Starsky and Hutch over the ATV to the far side for some cover, turn around and take a shot at whatever one is most of whatever one's furthest out of the portal and 326 00:21:56,988 --> 00:21:58,169 the most danger. 327 00:21:58,169 --> 00:21:59,469 That's what I'm going for first. 328 00:21:59,469 --> 00:22:01,480 And I'd like to take a shot at it. 329 00:22:01,666 --> 00:22:09,716 You jump behind the four wheeler and shoot at the one that is right above where you and Karas were the one closest. 330 00:22:09,716 --> 00:22:12,038 Go ahead and roll your firearms. 331 00:22:12,664 --> 00:22:14,414 Gah, come on. 332 00:22:14,414 --> 00:22:16,358 91 failure. 333 00:22:16,430 --> 00:22:19,636 Okay, goes wide, just pop, right? 334 00:22:19,636 --> 00:22:23,742 Del, does that mean you're just shooting your shots or are you just waiting still? 335 00:22:24,140 --> 00:22:30,068 No, I understand that Barone considers them hostile, but I want to consider them hostile first. 336 00:22:30,411 --> 00:22:39,042 And the one that you shot at Barone phases out of existence quickly and then is right next to you um in a purple flash. 337 00:22:39,984 --> 00:22:41,550 Go ahead and roll your dodge. 338 00:22:41,550 --> 00:22:43,750 Oh no, okay. 339 00:22:43,750 --> 00:22:44,630 Yeah. 340 00:22:44,690 --> 00:22:46,470 Yeah All right dodge. 341 00:22:46,470 --> 00:22:48,890 We are looking for whoo pretty low. 342 00:22:48,890 --> 00:22:50,130 We're looking for 30. 343 00:22:50,130 --> 00:22:52,462 I got 23 did good success 344 00:22:52,462 --> 00:23:06,561 The shocking sensation just enters your body as one of the tentacles from around it wraps around you quickly and you feel um just an electricity power through you. 345 00:23:06,561 --> 00:23:10,074 Your whole body stunts and you are being held there. 346 00:23:10,074 --> 00:23:16,908 um It doesn't feel like you can move as this like weird current is going through your body. 347 00:23:17,230 --> 00:23:17,581 Okay. 348 00:23:17,581 --> 00:23:18,385 Okay. 349 00:23:18,518 --> 00:23:20,585 Agent Ryan, it is your turn. 350 00:23:21,450 --> 00:23:24,778 Do they seem to recognize me at all? 351 00:23:24,778 --> 00:23:29,276 Like, from my interaction with them last night? 352 00:23:29,466 --> 00:23:34,766 can't tell they're flying above you about 25 feet 353 00:23:34,912 --> 00:23:40,512 Okay, and is Cross dead at this point or is he like still alive? 354 00:23:40,758 --> 00:23:42,001 It's hard to tell. 355 00:23:42,565 --> 00:23:44,332 Everything's moving too fast. 356 00:23:44,332 --> 00:23:46,277 You have one thing you can do. 357 00:23:46,582 --> 00:24:00,694 Okay, I am going to, I'm gonna start chanting again. 358 00:24:00,694 --> 00:24:10,122 um The same chant that I did the night before to bring them here. 359 00:24:10,316 --> 00:24:11,308 Yeah. 360 00:24:11,653 --> 00:24:15,087 Yeah, go ahead and roll just power. 361 00:24:15,668 --> 00:24:18,840 Power 80 13 362 00:24:19,532 --> 00:24:23,024 Yeah, you pull their attention as they're chanting. 363 00:24:23,024 --> 00:24:28,796 The one holding Agent Barone shifts slightly and Barone, you come with it. 364 00:24:28,796 --> 00:24:34,359 You're being held up in the air and pulled towards and now you're facing Ryan. 365 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:39,691 Your eyes are wide open as this current is running through you and your muscles aren't working. 366 00:24:40,392 --> 00:24:45,518 Ryan, what are you doing as you're chanting and they've all basically honed in on you. 367 00:24:45,518 --> 00:24:48,078 I will start talking. 368 00:24:48,078 --> 00:24:54,178 I can start talking to them and say, I owe you payment and you can take him. 369 00:24:54,178 --> 00:24:58,476 And I point to Kuros on the ground. 370 00:24:58,476 --> 00:25:18,886 Yeah, um, you hear the record player setup that was in the cabin start to buzz and sizzle and zzzz uh 371 00:25:19,746 --> 00:25:20,687 No. 372 00:25:21,530 --> 00:25:26,038 If they're talking about Barone, no, no, that's not my pact. 373 00:25:26,038 --> 00:25:27,580 Your pact is this. 374 00:25:27,601 --> 00:25:30,025 And I'm like pointing at cross. 375 00:25:37,738 --> 00:25:45,438 kind of regals and wriggles out sloshes down towards Del 376 00:25:50,072 --> 00:25:59,477 So the pact that Khoroth had made was for two people and they're trying to take Del and Barone. 377 00:25:59,477 --> 00:26:01,020 Am I understanding this correctly? 378 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:02,742 Sorry, I'm a little confused. 379 00:26:07,392 --> 00:26:09,846 You have alleviated the pressure on yourself. 380 00:26:09,846 --> 00:26:16,826 You would have been Karas's third donation, but you're trading yourself for Karas. 381 00:26:16,826 --> 00:26:18,018 Is that what I'm understanding? 382 00:26:18,018 --> 00:26:19,849 Yeah, do you want to ask them a question? 383 00:26:20,238 --> 00:26:22,478 How many brains do you require? 384 00:26:23,042 --> 00:26:27,549 Julian Cross' deal with us was Fabrious for him. 385 00:26:27,610 --> 00:26:29,873 Brian's deal is one- 386 00:26:31,854 --> 00:26:33,400 I wish I could talk right now. 387 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,059 Go ahead and roll a power, Brian. 388 00:26:36,059 --> 00:26:36,259 Me? 389 00:26:36,259 --> 00:26:37,684 Or, Barone. 390 00:26:37,684 --> 00:26:38,606 Power times five. 391 00:26:38,606 --> 00:26:42,406 Yeah, Pow times five, looking for 55. 392 00:26:42,406 --> 00:26:44,486 I got 57 fail. 393 00:26:44,526 --> 00:26:46,875 Okay, yeah, still unable to talk, 394 00:26:47,886 --> 00:26:48,842 Make sense? 395 00:26:48,856 --> 00:26:52,318 Delph, anything you're trying to say in this moment? 396 00:26:52,820 --> 00:26:56,181 Is Ryan's communication in English? 397 00:26:57,014 --> 00:27:01,782 Yeah, he's speaking to the record player voice that's coming out of the cabin. 398 00:27:01,998 --> 00:27:06,244 Okay, but there's not some sort of extra-tractual translator happening there. 399 00:27:06,244 --> 00:27:14,336 um This thing is wriggling towards me intending on collecting payment, is that right? 400 00:27:14,336 --> 00:27:18,241 It hasn't stayed its hand just because this conversation has been happening? 401 00:27:18,306 --> 00:27:19,731 standing by you. 402 00:27:20,672 --> 00:27:22,363 I mean, the fuck it is. 403 00:27:22,363 --> 00:27:24,242 I'm going to fire on... 404 00:27:24,242 --> 00:27:33,129 I will start to strafe across the porch as it is moving towards me and I will fire on the one that is holding uh Barone. 405 00:27:33,129 --> 00:27:39,003 This is like maybe the culmination of all my trainings at once, In a... 406 00:27:39,003 --> 00:27:48,142 you imagine starting your career as a firearms, uh like a shooting range attendant and they have those... 407 00:27:48,142 --> 00:27:55,685 uh cardboard cutouts of the man with the hostage gun, you know, held in front of him and you got to shoot the outline around the hostage. 408 00:27:55,685 --> 00:27:59,867 And then I did that for real, taking people out in houses. 409 00:27:59,867 --> 00:28:09,166 And now I have like the biggest, fattest, juiciest target and I am just going to try and milk an upside down horseshoe around Barone's profile. 410 00:28:09,166 --> 00:28:13,106 Yeah, roll that firearms fully auto and then give me a lethal. 411 00:28:14,446 --> 00:28:18,046 77 for a critical success. 412 00:28:19,594 --> 00:28:20,155 Yeah. 413 00:28:20,155 --> 00:28:21,237 Right under it. 414 00:28:21,237 --> 00:28:24,562 All right, go ahead and let me see. 415 00:28:24,562 --> 00:28:26,235 Let me see what lethality. 416 00:28:26,235 --> 00:28:28,529 Does lethality matter on a critical success? 417 00:28:28,529 --> 00:28:29,262 Actually, you know what? 418 00:28:29,262 --> 00:28:30,463 Roll lethality twice. 419 00:28:30,463 --> 00:28:31,813 You get two shots. 420 00:28:32,075 --> 00:28:32,455 Okay. 421 00:28:32,455 --> 00:28:34,698 And then we'll take both that as damage. 422 00:28:35,030 --> 00:28:44,584 All right, that's a five and a one, so six points on the first, and that is a six and a one, so seven points on the second. 423 00:28:44,852 --> 00:28:47,869 Okay, so five and six. 424 00:28:48,814 --> 00:28:50,817 Eleven, sorry. 425 00:28:51,470 --> 00:28:54,570 No, sorry, six and seven, 13 points. 426 00:28:55,060 --> 00:28:57,171 Six and seven, 13 points. 427 00:28:57,171 --> 00:28:59,310 Yeah, you open up fire. 428 00:28:59,310 --> 00:29:02,014 It starts hitting this thing in random spots. 429 00:29:02,014 --> 00:29:09,418 Some of it you see like it phases out of existence as the bullet hits a spot and then goes through it. 430 00:29:09,418 --> 00:29:14,700 And other parts you see it hit it and take purchase and start. 431 00:29:15,281 --> 00:29:18,343 There's some weird viscous liquid that shoots out. 432 00:29:18,343 --> 00:29:22,585 It drops you Agent Barone with being struck by Dell's gunfire. 433 00:29:22,585 --> 00:29:24,814 um It is your turn, Agent Barone. 434 00:29:24,814 --> 00:29:29,785 Okay, so having seen that, could we see that it actually took damage? 435 00:29:29,785 --> 00:29:32,471 So some phased through some did take purchase. 436 00:29:32,471 --> 00:29:34,284 Are bullets effective? 437 00:29:35,278 --> 00:29:37,285 Seems like sometimes, yes. 438 00:29:38,382 --> 00:29:41,144 seems like sometimes yes. 439 00:29:41,485 --> 00:29:48,376 How long would it take me to get up to the stairs and get to the brain in the jar on the table? 440 00:29:48,376 --> 00:29:53,178 You could do that in a turn, but you would be in the cabin at the end of the turn. 441 00:29:53,178 --> 00:29:53,614 Yeah. 442 00:29:53,614 --> 00:30:02,777 Okay, so 13 points of damage is a lot of damage and it didn't seem to do a ton like this thing isn't falling over dead from 13 points of damage. 443 00:30:02,837 --> 00:30:05,317 It was a questionably effective. 444 00:30:05,458 --> 00:30:06,158 Okay. 445 00:30:06,158 --> 00:30:07,378 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 446 00:30:07,378 --> 00:30:11,439 I think I'm running for that brain. 447 00:30:11,439 --> 00:30:16,381 I think I'm running up the stairs gun in hand and sprinting straight for the brain. 448 00:30:16,601 --> 00:30:17,831 Del I have an idea cover me. 449 00:30:17,831 --> 00:30:20,662 I'm so sorry and I'm gonna disappear into the house. 450 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:28,826 You get into the house, you grab it, and you have the brain, and you're almost like a shuttle run. 451 00:30:28,826 --> 00:30:30,857 You're about to turn around and head back. 452 00:30:30,857 --> 00:30:35,341 Del, can you roll a unarm? 453 00:30:35,341 --> 00:30:36,982 Or sorry, roll a dodge. 454 00:30:37,004 --> 00:30:37,816 Yes, indeedy. 455 00:30:37,816 --> 00:30:40,502 Oh! 456 00:30:40,502 --> 00:30:41,714 Triple zeros! 457 00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:43,448 Is that a time for that to happen? 458 00:30:43,448 --> 00:30:44,780 Is that a good thing? 459 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,217 That is a critical failure, so... 460 00:30:47,217 --> 00:30:48,038 uh 461 00:30:48,792 --> 00:30:50,528 that's the wrong thing. 462 00:30:50,851 --> 00:30:51,266 Yeah. 463 00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:53,395 That is, yep, yep. 464 00:30:53,528 --> 00:31:00,622 Del, as you shoot this other one, it reaches out with a tentacle and grabs you. 465 00:31:00,622 --> 00:31:05,145 This one has a claw to it and it almost looks like a laser, but it's solid. 466 00:31:05,145 --> 00:31:14,070 It is so thin and this black scalpel thing just comes out and strikes the top of your skull and starts to slice downward. 467 00:31:16,546 --> 00:31:29,512 but only does one damage to you right now, ah but it is starting to potentially split your entire skull open and you feel it humming throughout your whole body. 468 00:31:29,613 --> 00:31:40,128 In fact, your tear ducts are uncontrollable now and you're starting to uh cry as this thing is doing some impromptu brain surgery on you. 469 00:31:41,174 --> 00:31:52,140 Yeah, you know those little saws that they use in the surgical field where they don't whir all the way around, they're just bone saws and they vibrate back and forth? 470 00:31:52,220 --> 00:32:00,004 I imagine that is kind of like the paralyzing uh reverberation that I feel, right? 471 00:32:00,004 --> 00:32:10,500 Where it is capable of cutting only as deep as it wants, only the material that it wants, and like the execution of that is... 472 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:12,451 like truly terrible to behold. 473 00:32:12,451 --> 00:32:13,276 Yeah. 474 00:32:15,086 --> 00:32:18,489 We will see how much it can do. 475 00:32:19,291 --> 00:32:29,121 The third one floating right above Karasa's body unceremoniously goes down to him. 476 00:32:29,121 --> 00:32:38,250 You see a cylinder come out from this strange pocket that's floating around with it in purple light and it... 477 00:32:39,274 --> 00:32:42,166 uses that same scalpel to split the front of his face open. 478 00:32:42,166 --> 00:32:47,520 You see his eyeballs like fall out of his head and blood just starts to gush everywhere. 479 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:54,805 And it reaches in with a ginger claw and pulls out his brain with some of the brain stem attached. 480 00:32:54,805 --> 00:33:01,149 And another scalpel from another appendage cuts it at the spine and it goes into a jar. 481 00:33:01,149 --> 00:33:03,931 And this is happening lightning quick. 482 00:33:03,931 --> 00:33:08,640 And it fills with this viscous liquid that comes out of 483 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:15,016 One of these things mouths as it spits it into it and it locks the jar in front of you. 484 00:33:15,537 --> 00:33:17,268 Agent Ryan, it is your turn. 485 00:33:18,026 --> 00:33:19,232 insane. 486 00:33:19,682 --> 00:33:33,938 Fuck, okay, I am not wanting to try to reason with these beings anymore because they clearly are gonna take their payment no matter what. 487 00:33:33,938 --> 00:33:47,574 So I also will pull out my gun because I'm such a firearms expert and try to take a shot at the thing that's got, that has been attacking Del. 488 00:33:47,712 --> 00:33:48,410 Absolutely. 489 00:33:48,410 --> 00:33:49,251 Nice. 490 00:33:49,454 --> 00:33:51,434 Yeah, go ahead and roll the firearms. 491 00:33:51,954 --> 00:33:54,990 It's a large target, so you can add 20 % to it. 492 00:33:54,990 --> 00:33:56,230 Okay, thank you. 493 00:33:56,230 --> 00:33:57,830 I'm for 40 here. 494 00:33:57,830 --> 00:33:59,230 Oh God, 91. 495 00:33:59,874 --> 00:34:01,045 You fire, you miss. 496 00:34:01,045 --> 00:34:02,652 Dell, is your turn. 497 00:34:03,152 --> 00:34:05,094 do I have full agency? 498 00:34:05,094 --> 00:34:09,550 Okay, is there anything that is holding me in place? 499 00:34:09,550 --> 00:34:14,830 um The only thing that's holding you in place is one of its tentacles as it's trying to lift you up. 500 00:34:14,830 --> 00:34:28,805 Um, do the floorboards in Karas's porch look sturdy or as though they could be broken through? 501 00:34:28,805 --> 00:34:29,766 uh 502 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,062 Roll a lot. 503 00:34:33,147 --> 00:34:35,060 They look like they could be broken through. 504 00:34:35,094 --> 00:34:45,303 Okay, I am hoping that perhaps the tentacle is like doing more of like a grasping maneuver and is not prepared to hold my full weight. 505 00:34:45,303 --> 00:34:58,204 And just like that uh carnival game where you're meant to shoot the entire star out with the with 100 BBs, I'm going to do a 360 on full auto and then try to uh punch a hole 506 00:34:58,204 --> 00:35:03,238 through the floorboards under my feet and just thump down uh underneath into the crawl. 507 00:35:03,918 --> 00:35:13,542 80 firearms and point blank you're able to do that and drop through everyone you hear a crack as he falls through the porch. 508 00:35:13,542 --> 00:35:22,262 He's only about three feet down from this thing where the ground level was but you are down there now Dell. 509 00:35:22,262 --> 00:35:32,628 Yeah, my intent, sorry, my intent is to like fall prone on my back with the gun pointed up through the hole so that next turn I could just continue pumping lead. 510 00:35:34,402 --> 00:35:35,566 Agent Barona, 511 00:35:36,226 --> 00:35:39,439 God, so I'm trying to think like, what can I possibly do? 512 00:35:39,439 --> 00:35:40,099 What can I do? 513 00:35:40,099 --> 00:35:42,091 Okay, great. 514 00:35:42,091 --> 00:35:44,113 I am completing the shuttle run. 515 00:35:44,113 --> 00:35:49,786 have grabbed the jar and I'm running back towards the door. 516 00:35:49,786 --> 00:36:03,549 I think when I get to the door, so my backpack is probably right next to the door and I have taken everybody's guns and the grenades. 517 00:36:03,549 --> 00:36:05,710 Del, you have grenades, correct? 518 00:36:06,254 --> 00:36:07,968 I don't know what I would sleep with. 519 00:36:07,968 --> 00:36:11,385 you mean on my person or just in my, in my possessions? 520 00:36:12,064 --> 00:36:13,459 Around period. 521 00:36:13,459 --> 00:36:14,431 Would I? 522 00:36:14,431 --> 00:36:22,050 Around period and there would have been uh two bricks of c4 on the on the ATVs as well 523 00:36:22,050 --> 00:36:23,432 Yeah. 524 00:36:23,432 --> 00:36:27,475 There are both grenades and C4 in the ATVs. 525 00:36:28,778 --> 00:36:29,578 Yep. 526 00:36:30,086 --> 00:36:30,646 Shit. 527 00:36:30,646 --> 00:36:31,306 Okay. 528 00:36:31,306 --> 00:36:31,946 Um, all right. 529 00:36:31,946 --> 00:36:43,386 I think as I run and I get to the door, I'm going to throw the jar out there and say, I think you forgot this. 530 00:36:43,386 --> 00:36:50,566 And then swap out my GP 100 for the AR 15 that would be by the door. 531 00:36:50,826 --> 00:36:53,798 And when I throw that, 532 00:36:54,178 --> 00:36:55,281 Do they track it? 533 00:36:55,281 --> 00:36:57,567 Do the attention turn to it or do they ignore it? 534 00:36:57,567 --> 00:36:59,060 And it doesn't really matter. 535 00:36:59,726 --> 00:37:03,192 uh It's hard to tell in the heat of things, so... 536 00:37:03,192 --> 00:37:04,623 Yeah, yeah, yeah, fair. 537 00:37:04,623 --> 00:37:05,364 Okay, great. 538 00:37:05,364 --> 00:37:14,953 I think I throw it and then the one that had dealt is it next to like just outside the front door? 539 00:37:14,953 --> 00:37:16,544 Is it super close to me? 540 00:37:17,090 --> 00:37:21,998 Yeah, they're both right next to you, right next to the porch, the one that got you and the one that had Dell. 541 00:37:21,998 --> 00:37:27,098 Okay, so I'm not going to be able to scrape by and get down to the ATV in one turn. 542 00:37:27,098 --> 00:37:33,298 I think after I throw that, I'm going to pull the rifle up and fire at whatever's closest. 543 00:37:33,438 --> 00:37:34,658 Let's start there. 544 00:37:34,658 --> 00:37:35,838 at whatever's closest. 545 00:37:37,158 --> 00:37:38,338 Plus 20%. 546 00:37:38,338 --> 00:37:41,338 Firearms are looking for 76. 547 00:37:41,758 --> 00:37:44,818 We got a 55 crit success, finally. 548 00:37:45,230 --> 00:37:45,672 Amazing. 549 00:37:45,672 --> 00:37:49,109 Give me two lethalities and then we'll add them together for the damage. 550 00:37:49,398 --> 00:37:50,245 What timing? 551 00:37:50,245 --> 00:37:50,838 sure. 552 00:37:50,838 --> 00:37:52,021 Define lethality. 553 00:37:52,021 --> 00:37:53,400 I haven't had to roll that yet. 554 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,053 just under 10 % for the AR-15, I believe. 555 00:37:56,053 --> 00:38:01,119 So you roll twice and then if it's under 10%, you kill it. 556 00:38:01,119 --> 00:38:04,622 And if it's not, then we add the two numbers together. 557 00:38:05,326 --> 00:38:10,306 Okay, so am I rolling a D12 or 100? 558 00:38:10,434 --> 00:38:11,360 to a D100. 559 00:38:12,206 --> 00:38:21,696 100 got it so and I'm rolling twice I got a 55 again and then I got a 79 560 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:22,650 Okay. 561 00:38:23,392 --> 00:38:32,600 Okay, so you open up fire with air, you throw this thing as you're running, you grab your thing from the hip fire on the one that attacked you. 562 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:38,686 And it hits it in few spots, but then other spots like the bullets disappear. 563 00:38:38,686 --> 00:38:43,552 um But you see it lurch in the sky. 564 00:38:43,552 --> 00:38:54,155 and half of it falls out of this purple pocket that it's coming out of this dimensional thing and sloshes right onto the ground with a thud and falls over and splashes everywhere 565 00:38:54,155 --> 00:38:55,275 and it is... 566 00:38:55,702 --> 00:38:57,408 a mess of gore. 567 00:38:58,062 --> 00:38:58,942 Okay. 568 00:38:59,584 --> 00:39:01,126 All right, we're down to two. 569 00:39:01,126 --> 00:39:08,394 uh How many shots would that, just so I'm tracking my ammo correctly, how many shots would that have been? 570 00:39:08,418 --> 00:39:12,906 With full auto, basically you have about three turns till you have to reload. 571 00:39:13,248 --> 00:39:16,404 So after Dell's next turn, he will have to reload. 572 00:39:16,798 --> 00:39:20,182 Okay, sounds good. 573 00:39:20,182 --> 00:39:23,454 Okay, think I'll probably stop there. 574 00:39:23,454 --> 00:39:24,604 That feels like it. 575 00:39:24,604 --> 00:39:25,280 uh 576 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:25,841 That's a term. 577 00:39:25,841 --> 00:39:40,639 And so the one that was attacking Del turns to you and you see its carapace open up and some tentacles come out and they create like almost like a round hole and you hear this 578 00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:42,150 humming sound. 579 00:39:43,808 --> 00:39:49,960 Okay, and just this massive, strange feeling hits you. 580 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,501 Your stomach drops, but you're lifted off of the ground. 581 00:39:53,501 --> 00:39:59,123 Del, you're lifted up as well, and then dropped with the weight of... 582 00:39:59,403 --> 00:40:09,226 an incomprehensible weight as something has happened to the gravity, and the cabin behind you, Barone, just explodes into splinters. 583 00:40:09,566 --> 00:40:17,508 And it rolled above its lethality for that weapon, so it will do four points of damage to you, Barone. 584 00:40:17,508 --> 00:40:21,570 Also four for you, Okay. 585 00:40:21,770 --> 00:40:24,521 And Ryan, you're standing behind this thing. 586 00:40:24,521 --> 00:40:34,454 You've seen this cabin just be obliterated and the bodies of your two friends are thrown up in the air and slammed to the ground and they're laying there. 587 00:40:34,642 --> 00:40:38,824 There's dust everywhere as this thing starts to implode on itself. 588 00:40:38,824 --> 00:40:46,148 Killing this other one seems to have pissed them off in a way that you don't understand. 589 00:40:46,148 --> 00:40:51,850 The one above you tucks the brain away and then hovers down to you, Ryan. 590 00:40:51,987 --> 00:40:53,991 I'm not going back on my bargain. 591 00:40:53,991 --> 00:40:56,578 I don't want you to hurt my friends. 592 00:40:56,578 --> 00:41:01,720 I will deliver my payment to you in the time that we agreed. 593 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:06,432 There is just a massive shake. 594 00:41:06,432 --> 00:41:09,113 The earth shakes under you, Barone. 595 00:41:09,113 --> 00:41:12,615 You're laying there in the rubble of this building, so are you, Del. 596 00:41:12,615 --> 00:41:20,417 And you see two of these creatures go over to the third that's laying on the ground. 597 00:41:20,498 --> 00:41:31,159 Looks like they cut open some strange hole in reality and it slips through, almost like it's slipping into a sewer out of reality and they disappear. 598 00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:32,146 Damn. 599 00:41:33,698 --> 00:41:34,900 What on earth? 600 00:41:34,900 --> 00:41:37,475 uh he's okay, so they're gone. 601 00:41:37,475 --> 00:41:38,506 They're gone? 602 00:41:39,170 --> 00:41:39,935 Yes. 603 00:41:40,950 --> 00:41:43,952 Okay, I get up. 604 00:41:43,952 --> 00:41:47,864 m I guess I don't want to drop my gun per se. 605 00:41:47,864 --> 00:41:53,437 I will sling my gun and I'm sprinting to where Del fell into that hole. 606 00:41:53,478 --> 00:41:54,292 I'm headed to 607 00:41:54,292 --> 00:41:57,420 Same, I'm running over there too. 608 00:41:58,070 --> 00:42:16,206 As you reach over to the place where you saw Dell disappear into the hole, um you are greeted with a pin cushion of bloody splinters as the floorboards that had punched their 609 00:42:16,206 --> 00:42:25,454 way into the ground are now impaling through his gut and his chest as he has been slammed down onto their 610 00:42:26,799 --> 00:42:28,560 Yeah, I'm not gonna believe it. 611 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,863 uh Tears welling up in my eyes. 612 00:42:32,864 --> 00:42:35,746 Barone's gonna be like, Del, Del, hang in there, hang in there. 613 00:42:35,746 --> 00:42:37,568 Oh, fuck, fuck. 614 00:42:37,568 --> 00:42:45,245 And she's gonna take the cloths from her backpack and start like, I got you, don't worry, Del, don't worry. 615 00:42:45,245 --> 00:42:53,482 And then I'm gonna start um trying to plug his wounds and not accept that he is anything but alive. 616 00:42:53,486 --> 00:43:02,213 When you run over, you see the strange beginning of a scar on Del's forehead where that scalpel first almost entered. 617 00:43:02,294 --> 00:43:06,327 And you look down and you're working, right? 618 00:43:06,327 --> 00:43:08,159 Like this, this can't be happening. 619 00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:10,280 You are patching wounds. 620 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:22,250 You're putting things on there, but you, about 30 seconds into it, you look down and it's just such a mess that 621 00:43:22,626 --> 00:43:24,278 There's just no way he could have survived. 622 00:43:24,278 --> 00:43:28,191 There's organ failure, there's trauma all over his body. 623 00:43:28,292 --> 00:43:29,483 He's not even moving. 624 00:43:29,483 --> 00:43:30,593 There's no breath. 625 00:43:30,593 --> 00:43:35,659 You look at his eyes and they don't have the life that they had in them before. 626 00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:38,362 They seem vacant and empty. 627 00:43:38,766 --> 00:43:39,586 Okay? 628 00:43:39,908 --> 00:43:42,011 Fuck, fuck, fuck. 629 00:43:42,573 --> 00:43:46,220 God damn it, Ryan, and I'm gonna take my rifle and I'm gonna spin on Ryan and aim at him. 630 00:43:46,220 --> 00:43:47,758 What the fuck was that? 631 00:43:47,758 --> 00:43:51,178 They did not come because of me. 632 00:43:51,498 --> 00:43:53,338 This is not my doing. 633 00:43:53,804 --> 00:43:55,434 No, they said a deal, Ryan. 634 00:43:55,434 --> 00:43:57,483 You made a deal, Ryan. 635 00:43:58,144 --> 00:43:58,774 I did. 636 00:43:58,774 --> 00:44:00,038 I did make a deal. 637 00:44:00,038 --> 00:44:03,865 um And I still have two days to pay it. 638 00:44:03,865 --> 00:44:06,870 So they weren't coming from my payment. 639 00:44:07,342 --> 00:44:08,808 Payment for what, Ryan? 640 00:44:08,808 --> 00:44:15,172 They want a brain, so I have to deliver one to them within two days. 641 00:44:15,172 --> 00:44:21,874 Clearly, Keras had done the same thing and tried to sacrifice you all for that. 642 00:44:22,712 --> 00:44:24,410 That's what you were doing in the swab. 643 00:44:24,410 --> 00:44:25,173 You weren't injured. 644 00:44:25,173 --> 00:44:26,569 You weren't attacked. 645 00:44:26,569 --> 00:44:27,643 You were making a deal. 646 00:44:27,643 --> 00:44:28,636 ah 647 00:44:28,636 --> 00:44:29,258 yeah. 648 00:44:29,258 --> 00:44:30,602 Yeah, I was. 649 00:44:30,602 --> 00:44:35,447 I didn't know that that's what I was doing, but that was the end result of my actions. 650 00:44:35,447 --> 00:44:35,822 Yes. 651 00:44:35,822 --> 00:44:39,023 um I'll let my gun drop to my side. 652 00:44:39,442 --> 00:44:51,910 I don't know what to do with that information right now, but I'm alive and so are you and Dell is not any longer and this place needs to burn to the ground. 653 00:44:51,910 --> 00:44:55,153 Agent Ryan, you look over at Del's lifeless body. 654 00:44:55,153 --> 00:44:58,755 ah He was your confidant earlier. 655 00:44:58,755 --> 00:45:07,214 What are you thinking now that you see him down there and his dead eyes looking up at nothingness in the sky? 656 00:45:07,214 --> 00:45:08,765 I mean, obviously I feel horrible. 657 00:45:08,765 --> 00:45:16,641 The last interaction really that I had with him was him kicking me in the leg on the way out. 658 00:45:16,641 --> 00:45:28,249 So I had a lot of, you know, respect for him and it just hasn't fully hit me, I think, at this point. 659 00:45:28,574 --> 00:45:29,190 I... 660 00:45:31,086 --> 00:45:45,504 I a mixture of sadness and guilt and relief in a weird way that like I'm still alive um myself. 661 00:45:45,686 --> 00:45:46,516 Yeah. 662 00:45:47,342 --> 00:45:51,264 There's always that gnawing thought when somebody dies, right? 663 00:45:51,264 --> 00:45:58,669 Like that grief hits you, but then there's that little voice that's always saying, better them than me. 664 00:45:58,669 --> 00:46:00,769 And that's what you're left with. 665 00:46:22,752 --> 00:46:30,766 Agent Ryan and Agent Barone, are presumably standing above the corpse of Del. 666 00:46:30,766 --> 00:46:38,309 You see that he is a Swiss cheese display with splinters coming through his body all over. 667 00:46:38,309 --> 00:46:45,352 His face is intact but scarred, but the rest of his body is a bloody pulp of a mess. 668 00:46:46,433 --> 00:46:48,884 Can you both roll sanity for me? 669 00:46:50,566 --> 00:46:53,426 Okay, I'm looking for a 46. 670 00:46:53,426 --> 00:46:55,306 I got a 31, success. 671 00:46:56,302 --> 00:46:59,162 Current sanity is at 60. 672 00:47:00,902 --> 00:47:02,302 So... 673 00:47:02,302 --> 00:47:06,222 I got a... 674 00:47:06,222 --> 00:47:07,562 47. 675 00:47:08,635 --> 00:47:12,080 So both of you succeeded your sanity rolls. 676 00:47:12,141 --> 00:47:15,916 Please both still roll me a d6 for sand loss. 677 00:47:17,152 --> 00:47:20,619 I lost the full six, which that that makes sense 678 00:47:20,974 --> 00:47:22,475 Do you want to project? 679 00:47:24,056 --> 00:47:26,228 Willpower 10 sanity. 680 00:47:26,228 --> 00:47:34,397 um What's my threshold to go like my first big threshold? 681 00:47:34,397 --> 00:47:36,259 Do you remember what number that was? 682 00:47:37,401 --> 00:47:38,462 The breaking point? 683 00:47:38,462 --> 00:47:41,225 Yeah, because my willpower is 11. 684 00:47:41,225 --> 00:47:42,956 So I would hit that at. 685 00:47:45,210 --> 00:47:47,518 Yeah, I'm definitely going to project. 686 00:47:47,601 --> 00:47:48,312 Okay. 687 00:47:48,312 --> 00:47:54,366 Yeah, go ahead and roll a D4 for the projection and we'll see if you go temporarily insane. 688 00:47:55,136 --> 00:47:57,065 Okay, one. 689 00:47:58,926 --> 00:48:02,765 Okay, so what is the order for Barone? 690 00:48:02,765 --> 00:48:05,583 Fight, flight, freeze. 691 00:48:05,583 --> 00:48:07,286 Which one would you do first? 692 00:48:08,492 --> 00:48:23,041 I think Freeze would probably be first because everything happening at once, learning of the betrayal from potentially Butterfield, knowing that we just got betrayed by somebody 693 00:48:23,041 --> 00:48:31,145 that I just poured my trust into because, you know, my belief that, you know, all life is sacred and nothing, you know, should be taken lightly. 694 00:48:31,145 --> 00:48:35,858 And then now losing Dell, I think I'm just gonna would completely lock up. 695 00:48:36,078 --> 00:48:41,644 Okay, freeze and then behind that would be fight or flee. 696 00:48:42,018 --> 00:48:43,782 I don't think there's anything to fight. 697 00:48:43,782 --> 00:48:48,855 think it would be flee, even though I definitely don't want to leave here without information. 698 00:48:48,855 --> 00:48:50,869 But fight, don't think would make sense. 699 00:48:50,869 --> 00:48:52,522 Or I'd be fighting Ryan. 700 00:48:53,752 --> 00:48:54,764 Exactly. 701 00:48:54,764 --> 00:48:59,604 All right, Christina, what was your D6 roll? 702 00:49:00,622 --> 00:49:02,674 I haven't done it yet, I'm gonna do it right now. 703 00:49:03,103 --> 00:49:03,925 Four. 704 00:49:04,718 --> 00:49:06,641 Okay, do you want to project? 705 00:49:07,758 --> 00:49:13,376 So if I don't, then I take another four off of my sanity, correct? 706 00:49:15,562 --> 00:49:18,248 And you go temporarily insane. 707 00:49:19,918 --> 00:49:21,978 sounds kind of fun. 708 00:49:24,198 --> 00:49:29,818 I will project onto... 709 00:49:29,818 --> 00:49:31,418 yeah, I'll project. 710 00:49:31,854 --> 00:49:33,139 Okay, roll your D4. 711 00:49:34,318 --> 00:49:35,922 94 712 00:49:38,318 --> 00:49:39,574 Three. 713 00:49:40,408 --> 00:49:41,158 Okay. 714 00:49:41,780 --> 00:49:51,114 So you're able to take three off of that sand loss and your willpower, which probably leaves you around one willpower and a bond of your choice, which bond? 715 00:49:53,518 --> 00:49:57,378 Wait, sorry, I lose three off of my willpower. 716 00:49:58,338 --> 00:49:59,878 Oh, okay. 717 00:50:01,078 --> 00:50:07,138 Okay, so I have a one willpower and then I take three off of my bond. 718 00:50:08,158 --> 00:50:08,798 Correct? 719 00:50:08,798 --> 00:50:16,418 Okay, my grandmother, my grandma whose birthday I missed. 720 00:50:17,592 --> 00:50:21,735 Yeah, are you feeling bitter about having missed that birthday or the fact that it- 721 00:50:22,146 --> 00:50:27,234 I was, but I have bigger things to feel right now. 722 00:50:27,534 --> 00:50:29,036 Okay, yeah. 723 00:50:29,157 --> 00:50:35,116 All right, Baron, I'm gonna go ahead and roll your D6 to see how you react to this temp insanity. 724 00:50:35,554 --> 00:50:36,625 Okay, great. 725 00:50:38,060 --> 00:50:41,166 You said second was flee or fight? 726 00:50:41,166 --> 00:50:43,093 was was flea 727 00:50:43,246 --> 00:50:44,006 Okay. 728 00:50:45,007 --> 00:50:59,678 Yeah, you're hit with an overwhelming sense of your own mortality and the fact that your entire worldview of feeling this optimism pointed towards humanity is being shaken to its 729 00:50:59,678 --> 00:51:01,159 core in this moment. 730 00:51:01,159 --> 00:51:02,500 You really just want to leave. 731 00:51:02,500 --> 00:51:04,862 It's up to you what you do. 732 00:51:04,862 --> 00:51:06,923 You can start packing up the four-wheeler. 733 00:51:06,923 --> 00:51:08,744 You can walk into the swamp. 734 00:51:08,744 --> 00:51:11,456 ah What do you think Barone would do? 735 00:51:12,366 --> 00:51:21,146 Unpacking her things 100 % is gonna be her mindset You know kind of a panic like oh no, everything's wrong. 736 00:51:21,146 --> 00:51:30,966 We need to get out of here We need to escape prepping to do so so Going in the house grabbing her While she had a rifle 737 00:51:31,704 --> 00:51:35,861 house is completely destroyed, the only thing left is that tunnel. 738 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:37,912 Okay, great. 739 00:51:37,912 --> 00:51:48,837 Yeah, just grabbing her belongings from around like her backpack that was probably in shambles somewhere in that huge mess of a house now, you know, some of the things and 740 00:51:48,837 --> 00:51:51,170 starts tossing them on the on the ATV. 741 00:51:52,140 --> 00:52:01,195 Agent Ryan, you see Barone frantically digging through rubble and trying to find stuff that she had in the house. 742 00:52:01,195 --> 00:52:03,456 You're not even sure anything's left in there. 743 00:52:03,456 --> 00:52:05,477 She doesn't seem in her right mind. 744 00:52:05,477 --> 00:52:08,628 Are you doing anything to try to calm her down? 745 00:52:12,048 --> 00:52:12,989 no. 746 00:52:12,989 --> 00:52:24,843 I think I'm just kind of pacing and letting her feel however, you know, she needs to feel and do what she feels like she needs to do. 747 00:52:25,046 --> 00:52:30,770 I think that I ask what she's, what she's looking for. 748 00:52:32,494 --> 00:52:33,856 What am I looking for, Ryan? 749 00:52:33,856 --> 00:52:35,709 uh Fuck me. 750 00:52:35,709 --> 00:52:39,223 don't- I don't- My- My things, my stuff, my... 751 00:52:39,584 --> 00:52:39,995 bag. 752 00:52:39,995 --> 00:52:40,625 Gels bag. 753 00:52:40,625 --> 00:52:42,408 We gotta- We gotta scram, man. 754 00:52:42,408 --> 00:52:43,840 We gotta get outta here. 755 00:52:45,696 --> 00:52:50,169 Yeah, I mean you think that that stuff needs to go with us? 756 00:52:52,395 --> 00:52:56,680 I don't like not being prepared and not having my things. 757 00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:05,600 Yeah, no, yes, yeah, and I'm just, you know, running around flipping over uh bricks trying to find my pieces of gear. 758 00:53:06,018 --> 00:53:15,018 Okay, then I try to help her a little bit, ah you know, by lifting up, you know, some piles of wood and looking around for stuff. 759 00:53:15,554 --> 00:53:25,188 Yeah, getting in there with her and showing her that she's not alone, can you roll me a persuade plus 20? 760 00:53:26,218 --> 00:53:32,138 Yeah, so my persuade is 24. 761 00:53:34,147 --> 00:53:37,366 and I rolled a 77. 762 00:53:39,466 --> 00:53:41,276 not very persuasive. 763 00:53:41,998 --> 00:53:42,898 from 764 00:53:44,526 --> 00:53:52,655 Can you tell me what happens when you start getting aggravated with Ryan as Ryan's trying to help you? 765 00:53:52,986 --> 00:53:56,079 I think you blame Ryan for what happened to Del. 766 00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,285 Ryan is right next to you and your blood is starting to boil. 767 00:54:01,285 --> 00:54:02,346 What do you do? 768 00:54:03,086 --> 00:54:14,009 Okay, um I think I go to pick up my bag, instead of putting it at the ATV, I'm just gonna chuck it right at his chest pretty much as hard as I can. 769 00:54:14,409 --> 00:54:20,561 Well, you know, Ryan, we wouldn't be fucking out here and obliterated in a thousand pieces if you didn't lie to us. 770 00:54:20,561 --> 00:54:25,113 If we had any fucking time to prepare whatsoever, Ryan, this would have been different. 771 00:54:25,113 --> 00:54:26,293 Del wouldn't be dead. 772 00:54:26,293 --> 00:54:27,383 We'd have the information. 773 00:54:27,383 --> 00:54:30,614 We would be leaving here without me in a fucking panic. 774 00:54:31,072 --> 00:54:34,062 Hey, I don't remember dragging you out here, okay? 775 00:54:34,062 --> 00:54:34,636 So... 776 00:54:34,636 --> 00:54:35,418 No, you didn't. 777 00:54:35,418 --> 00:54:37,404 You didn't drag me anywhere, Ryan. 778 00:54:37,404 --> 00:54:41,905 You didn't drag me to the meeting in the middle of the swamp with your super secret aliens. 779 00:54:41,927 --> 00:54:43,649 What the fuck was that about? 780 00:54:44,748 --> 00:54:45,500 I joined you. 781 00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:46,552 You were already out here. 782 00:54:46,552 --> 00:54:48,206 If you Did you d- 783 00:54:48,206 --> 00:54:48,906 You joined me. 784 00:54:48,906 --> 00:54:50,046 You joined me. 785 00:54:50,046 --> 00:54:50,346 Yeah. 786 00:54:50,346 --> 00:54:54,246 Like on a team, because teammates, I don't know, tell each other things. 787 00:54:54,246 --> 00:54:56,046 They don't keep secrets. 788 00:54:56,206 --> 00:54:59,026 Like, I have no trust in Butterfield. 789 00:54:59,026 --> 00:55:03,386 Like, in this fucking picture, and I pull out the picture, in this picture, are you with him? 790 00:55:03,386 --> 00:55:04,966 Are you a traitor also? 791 00:55:04,966 --> 00:55:07,346 Is it Barone by herself? 792 00:55:07,346 --> 00:55:09,006 You tell me, Ryan. 793 00:55:10,067 --> 00:55:14,399 I I can't explain the Butterfield picture any more than you can. 794 00:55:15,862 --> 00:55:17,503 Okay, so you're... 795 00:55:18,025 --> 00:55:19,045 not... 796 00:55:19,427 --> 00:55:21,929 in league with Butterfield, so... 797 00:55:22,991 --> 00:55:24,182 There's three teams here. 798 00:55:24,182 --> 00:55:27,215 You're on your team, I'm on my team in Butterfield's. 799 00:55:27,377 --> 00:55:29,058 On his own, or...? 800 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:40,720 I didn't plan on this happening either, so I don't appreciate you blaming Del's death on me. 801 00:55:41,130 --> 00:55:49,219 I didn't know that Cross had similar interests. 802 00:55:49,219 --> 00:55:54,936 And if you do recall, I was alone when I decided. 803 00:55:54,936 --> 00:55:57,148 to explore my interests. 804 00:55:57,148 --> 00:56:05,637 I didn't drag you guys into anything and I don't appreciate being blamed, you know, for my friend's death. 805 00:56:05,637 --> 00:56:18,830 um I'm just as upset as you are about it and yeah, there was some things that I didn't tell you but ah surely you've kept a liar too in your life. 806 00:56:20,620 --> 00:56:28,413 And as she reels back just a little bit thinking like, she definitely didn't tell people when she was infected. 807 00:56:28,673 --> 00:56:30,674 And she nods. 808 00:56:31,295 --> 00:56:31,975 Right. 809 00:56:31,975 --> 00:56:32,935 Yeah. 810 00:56:33,235 --> 00:56:33,816 Maybe. 811 00:56:33,816 --> 00:56:35,356 But I'll tell you what, Ryan. 812 00:56:35,356 --> 00:56:40,478 uh You're not going anywhere without me for a very long time. 813 00:56:41,139 --> 00:56:42,519 You're all I have. 814 00:56:42,519 --> 00:56:45,701 But at the same time, I don't trust you, Ryan. 815 00:56:45,701 --> 00:56:46,661 So... 816 00:56:47,902 --> 00:56:49,012 There's that. 817 00:56:49,430 --> 00:56:51,566 And then I will go back to packing my stuff. 818 00:56:51,566 --> 00:56:55,988 But it's not entirely up to you either, so. 819 00:56:57,218 --> 00:56:59,179 both of you were only in alertness. 820 00:57:02,318 --> 00:57:05,740 Okay, I'm looking for 81 and I got a 21, success. 821 00:57:05,774 --> 00:57:10,834 45 on my side and I got an 86. 822 00:57:11,254 --> 00:57:24,930 You're explaining yourself and, Barone, out of the corner of your eye, you see just the faintest purple glow from the porch where Del's body is. 823 00:57:25,374 --> 00:57:31,358 You would have to walk over from where you're at inside the rubble to see what it was, but it does catch your eye. 824 00:57:32,770 --> 00:57:34,051 Yeah, absolutely. 825 00:57:34,051 --> 00:57:36,343 think anything is a danger right now. 826 00:57:36,343 --> 00:57:38,676 Do I have autonomy like back? 827 00:57:38,676 --> 00:57:40,940 Am I still in flight mode? 828 00:57:40,940 --> 00:57:47,126 So I rolled a secret roll that tells me how many rounds you're in that state and it was only three. 829 00:57:47,126 --> 00:57:50,944 So I would assume that was about three rounds of action. 830 00:57:51,630 --> 00:57:52,410 Okay. 831 00:57:52,951 --> 00:57:53,911 Great. 832 00:57:54,631 --> 00:57:55,672 This can wait, Ryan. 833 00:57:55,672 --> 00:58:09,238 And I'll grab my pistol and grab his shoulder and spin him towards it and walk towards it, prepped for what's coming, know, gun in hand, low ready, walking towards the thing. 834 00:58:10,392 --> 00:58:21,190 Yeah, you peer over some of the rubble into the hole in the ground where Dell had fell after blowing a hole in the porch. 835 00:58:21,190 --> 00:58:27,794 And you peer down and you see that Dell's face is completely split open. 836 00:58:28,855 --> 00:58:37,000 And there is a cavity where his mind and computer slash brain used to be. 837 00:58:37,060 --> 00:58:39,782 And his skull is a jar. 838 00:58:39,830 --> 00:58:45,920 in two halves and it's laying there slightly moving a little bit like it was just touched. 839 00:58:47,426 --> 00:58:50,945 Wait, his brain is missing out of his head? 840 00:58:52,110 --> 00:58:53,981 Del, can you roll me sanity? 841 00:58:55,006 --> 00:58:57,074 I thought we were free from this horse yet. 842 00:58:57,074 --> 00:58:59,746 Uh, 17. 843 00:58:59,946 --> 00:59:01,369 Keeping it together. 844 00:59:01,486 --> 00:59:05,486 Yeah, you only, you don't get a D20 of loss, you get a D12 of loss. 845 00:59:05,486 --> 00:59:07,026 Can you roll me a D12? 846 00:59:08,246 --> 00:59:09,126 Okay. 847 00:59:09,646 --> 00:59:23,626 So, Del, the last thing that registered in your sensory experience on Earth was falling and then just this strange lifting feeling and your stomach dropping and then oblivion. 848 00:59:23,946 --> 00:59:28,026 And you remember your automatic features still running. 849 00:59:28,026 --> 00:59:31,014 There was some breathing happening, some... 850 00:59:31,058 --> 00:59:34,041 sensory shock experienced. 851 00:59:34,041 --> 00:59:35,962 But now there's just unfeeling. 852 00:59:35,962 --> 00:59:45,130 You feel suspended, not in darkness, but in a thick insulated void that your human senses were never meant to process. 853 00:59:45,130 --> 00:59:54,358 There's no sound, there's only the phantom memory of loud reports and the crunching of gravel and Barone's panic breath over your body. 854 00:59:54,702 --> 00:59:57,794 The memory echoes, but your present is completely silent. 855 00:59:57,794 --> 01:00:07,152 No light, you have no eyes to gather photons, only an internal perpetual grayness that swallows all of your sensory experience. 856 01:00:07,813 --> 01:00:08,953 You're done. 857 01:00:09,474 --> 01:00:11,075 You have no body. 858 01:00:11,436 --> 01:00:14,718 This is at first a paralyzing terror. 859 01:00:14,718 --> 01:00:23,445 Dell, you are a man of action, defined by your ability to hold a rifle, embrace against an impact, and feel solid ground beneath your boots. 860 01:00:23,445 --> 01:00:24,652 That anchor's gone. 861 01:00:24,652 --> 01:00:34,240 Your consciousness registers the catastrophic absence of a central nervous system and you feel yourself going insane in this state. 862 01:00:35,222 --> 01:00:51,073 Yeah, I think, through the blackness that I cannot perceive, I imagine that there is a cold, smooth, cylindrical wall in front of me, some centimeters that I cannot perceive. 863 01:00:51,073 --> 01:01:04,722 And as I am listening desperately for anything that might pierce this void between sensation and, and know, I begin to just imagine 864 01:01:04,822 --> 01:01:07,785 my head tapping against that glass. 865 01:01:08,006 --> 01:01:09,026 Tink. 866 01:01:09,427 --> 01:01:10,447 Tink. 867 01:01:10,468 --> 01:01:10,868 Tink. 868 01:01:10,868 --> 01:01:18,056 A sound that I'm making for myself to fill the nothingness that would otherwise be there. 869 01:01:18,056 --> 01:01:20,198 Um. 870 01:01:21,698 --> 01:01:26,724 I think I can almost start to feel it on my frontal lobe, right? 871 01:01:26,724 --> 01:01:35,924 Just like a slow phantom bashing to try and cut out the nothingness. 872 01:01:37,068 --> 01:01:40,360 Yeah, that is all a subjective experience. 873 01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:53,087 You feel a prisoner in your own mind, basically a biological hard drive, nothing to um control or reach out with. 874 01:01:53,448 --> 01:01:57,760 I'm curious, what does Del's regret in this moment? 875 01:01:59,882 --> 01:02:00,878 if you can speak. 876 01:02:00,878 --> 01:02:01,528 you 877 01:02:01,528 --> 01:02:02,820 Biggest regret. 878 01:02:02,842 --> 01:02:04,745 I think, um... 879 01:02:06,798 --> 01:02:11,018 leaving things so flat-footed, maybe, right? 880 01:02:11,018 --> 01:02:16,078 Like, there wasn't a clear path forward that we had determined. 881 01:02:16,258 --> 01:02:22,898 There wasn't, ah-ha, clearly when we finish this, we will move on to blah, blah, blah. 882 01:02:22,898 --> 01:02:25,606 And so the idea that... 883 01:02:27,682 --> 01:02:37,070 With all those loose ends that we knew that we had, I can't even really imagine what way my friends would turn in my absence, right? 884 01:02:37,070 --> 01:02:49,260 It's like a mystery book that you'll never be able to finish and you just gotta hope that they, you know, that you're not yelling at your screen wishing that they wouldn't go into 885 01:02:49,260 --> 01:02:51,882 that basement or whatever it is, you know? 886 01:02:52,856 --> 01:02:57,567 You're left with that and at this point, time becomes meaningless. 887 01:02:57,567 --> 01:03:04,880 There's no sun, no feeling, no sense of how long has passed. 888 01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,550 Seconds might be hours, hours might be seconds. 889 01:03:07,550 --> 01:03:18,093 The only markers are fleeting, agonizing clarity of these memories as they flash through your head, potentially Ryan's betrayal, the smell of the swamp, frustration at Barone for 890 01:03:18,093 --> 01:03:20,194 not revealing her infection. 891 01:03:20,344 --> 01:03:28,577 These memories loop in sharp and agonizing detail, because really it's the only reality you have left that and your own regrets. 892 01:03:30,254 --> 01:03:32,414 Yeah, I mean... 893 01:03:32,414 --> 01:03:37,194 That sounds like plenty to fill a 10 second loop from now until infinity.